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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Solomons Battle Cost Mounts Steadily:
WPB Slashes 1943 Farm Machine Output
But Provides Adequate Parts Supply;
Winter Helps Russ Defenders of Volga
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FARM IMPLEMENTS: I SOLOMONS •
20 Per Cent Slash \ BaUle Con Mount,
Farmers would not have new trac-
*orf °J new p,ows t0 hitch them to
in 1943, but they would have plenty
of repair parts to keep their present
machinery operating.
That was clear when the War Pro-
duction board issued its drastic or-
der slashing the production of 1943
Members of the Supreme Court ithe United States are shown paying their annual visit to the President at
the White House. Left to right Soliltor General Charles Fahey, Attorney General Francis Biddle, and Asso-
ciate Justices Robert H. Jackson, lfrank Murphy, William D. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, Stanley Reed, Hugo
L. Black Owen J. Roberts and ChielfJustice Harlan F. Stone. James Byrnes, the ninth justice, resigned to
become director of economlo stabiwtion. _
U. S. Troops i| Britain Train With Chemicals
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farm equipment to 20 per cent of
the 1940 thtal, but permitting repair
parts production to be 130 per cent
of 1940 operations.
Forecasting indu^__ . readjust-
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age areas.
Repair parts manufacture was
left to the big producers. This de-
cision represented a victory for
these companies which had held out
for retention in their own plants of
all the repair parts production, thus
preserving the identity of their spe-
cialized, trade-name implements. It
likewise represented a concession to
the department of agriculture which
had strenuously urged a heavy pro-
gram for repair parts manufacture,
while it opposed any new machinery
cut below 50 per cent of the 1940
output.
RUSSIAN FRONT
Ally Winter Comes
Winter was one ally that could
give the hard-pressed Russians im-
mediate help. For days past the
engagements surging around Stalin-
grad in the northeast and Mozdok
further south in the Caucasus had
been a race against time. Thus
when snow swept across the Don-
Volga steppes the Russians knew
their reinforcements had arrived
Significant was the German high
command’s communique
Guadalcanal with the only good
airfield within hundreds of miles
controls the southern Solomons, plus
a sizeable area in the South Pacific.
Whoever holds and uses that airfield
rules that area.
The efforts of the Japs to regain
the Guadalcanal airfield from its
American defenders thus had strate-
gic implications affecting the entire
southwest Pacific. If the Americans
held they could protect Allied sup-
ply lines, kiytn Lba- Lwn<>.A--«fi{rna{e(j
rn*'W»a cost of the battl
to both sides. As plane!, ____
land forces jockeyed for favorable
position, the United States reported
the loss of two destroyers, the
O’Brien and the Meredith. Ameri-
can planes retaliated by damaging
a Jap cruiser and a destroyer and
shooting down 12 enemy planes.
Meanwhile, west of the Solomons,
Allied bombers blasted enemy ships
in New Britain’s harbor of Rabaut
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New Anti-Sub Weaj on—the Sea Skimmer Blind—Fights Axis
LABOR DRAFT:
62,500,000 Needed
Drafting of men and women for
war work to meet the employment-
armed service demand of 62,500.000
persons is “inevitable,” Paul V. Mc-
Nutt, war manpower director, de-
clared in testifying before the sen-
ate military affairs committee.
McNutt listed three essentials
which forthcoming manpower legis-
lations must embrace: (1) Employ-
ers in any area must be required to
hire all workers through a central
bureau; (2) Methods of labor utili-
zation must be controlled to prevent
employers from “hoarding work-
ers’’; (3) Individuals must remain on
the job, or transfer to one more im-
portant to the war effort.
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and that the Russians had under- 43,000,000 Will Pay
taken strong, tank-led diversion at- More than 43,000.000 Americans
tacks against the north flank of the became subject to direct federal tax-
Nazi thrust into Stalingrad. ation when President Roosevelt
The strength of Marshal Timo- signed the new war-time tax bill
shenko’s relief assault from the which congress has spent 10 months
north was indicated in the commu- in compiling.
nique which said the Russian on- Designed to produce revenues of
slaughts had been undertaken with close to 25 billion dollars yearly, the
“fresh, strong infantry and tank new law extended the tax load to all
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SUBMARINE MENACE:
Will Get Worse’
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land,
chairman of the U. S. Maritime
commission, warned the nation that
“the submarine menace is going to
be progressively worse this winter.”
Speaking before the Investment
Bankers association, he said the
menace would grow, because of win-
ter’s bad weather and longer nights,
giving U-boats better opportunity for
concealment.
Americans making more than $624
a year. Through the President’s
prompt action in signing the bill,
65 million dollars worth of higher
excise taxes from liquor, travel,
telephone service, cigarettes, t<
grams and other items went into
feet November 1.
Payable next March
ord-breaking normal and
levies on 1942 individual and cor-
poration income.
A special 5 per cent Victory tax
on all income in excess of $12 a week
will be deducted from pay envelopes
after January 1.
Newest weapon to combat the sobn rin« menace is the sea-skimmer
sub-chaser, which hops the waves at 50 liJes per hour. It is armed with
four depth charges, which can be repla d by torpedoes. Except for the
engine and propeller, it is built entir< with non-strategic material__
plywood plastic—and can be molded out V A*® thousands in a short time.
As it is not driven by a water propellei4 cannot be detected by subma-
rines. Top photo shows the two-man iew at the guns. Bottom photo
shows the sub-chaser skimming over U water.
Rubber Director Sppks for Kayon
HIGHLIGHTS
in the week's news
BALTIMORE: American plane
production stands in sore need of a
“man with a stick” who will speed
production and prevent war costs
from becoming a “Frankenstein,”
according to Lieut. Col. Harold Ev-
ans Hartney, former chief of army
aircraft training and operations.
Now advisor to the army ferry com-
mand, Hartney declared we should
have a separate air command.
NEW YORK: A new chemical
compound which will be a universal
odor killer was announced here by
two chemists, Doctors James H
Dalbey and Walter H. Eddy. Tested
as an inhibitor, the new compound
has permitted no smell among hun-
dreds to escape. It is reported to
have completely eliminated the
scent of skunk and of putrefaction
odors.
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Charles A. Kime, a jig-builder in
a Burbank, Calif., aviation plant,
lost his sight in an accident. Now
he is back at work in the same fac-
tory, and is pictured here installing
rivet nuts for the de-icing boot on
the leading edge of P-38 empen-
nages.
Save Beet Crop ’
/Veto York Heartbeat:
Broadway Side-Show: Fred Allen-'
and several ether showfolks were
bending over'in a circle yesterday-—
at a 49th Street corner—when the
mayor's anti-gambling crusaders
swept down on them and started to-
lock them up . . . “Hold °" the"’
ejaculated Fred. “This rsn t a crap-
game. We’re saying good-by to a
drafted midget!”
Midtown Vignette: It happened
yesterday at a local draft board . . .
One of Broadway’s better known
playboys was summoned a second
time . . . They classified him 4t
months ago ... He went through
the examination again, jumping on
one foot 20 times—then the other
. . Bend over . . . Breathe fast
. . . Breathe siowiy, etc. . . .
When it was over, he chuckled con-
fidently and said: “Well, can I leave-
now, doc?” . . . “Just one moment,
was the reply, “raise your right
hand and repeat the following oath.
Manhattan Murals: The hard-
boiled hack inspector,on W. 52nd
Street—a woman! . . . The carts-
that peddle a hot dog sandwich and
a drink for 5c—in the Wall Street
sector—richest sector in the world*
The skyline of New York from:
a ferry docked in Jersey—looks like-
an old vaudeville “street scene
backdrop . . . Riverside Drive in>
the dimout—resembling a country
lane . . . The sign on the vegetable-
stand: “Please don’t squeeze me,
lady, until I’m yours!”
Midtown Horatio Alger: He was
the owner of a tiny luncheonette ii*
the 50s on Broadway . . . The land-
lord forced him out when he raised
the rent from $450 to $600 a month.
. That was two and a half years
ago—and the landlord couldn’t find'
another tenant until recently . . .
The little storekeeper took a lease on
another site at 47th Street, where
the Worth & Worth hat store used-
to be ... In less than a year—
along came the Pepsi-Cola people-
and decided that the location was-
ideal for their Service Men’s Can-
teen . . . They gave him a young
fortune to get out . . . He’s retired.
Bigtown Novelette: This actually
happened in San Francisco recently
. . . When Capt. Frederick C. Sher-
man (now a Rear Admiral) of the-
MB! ill-fated Lexington arrived there— 0
..■raj rSTr'lefoul
n.imh«iT ' t0 buy 8 new outfit and, while en
number of route to a naval tailor, he stopped at
a 5 & 10 to get some tooth paste,
tooth brush, shaving cream and so
on . . . The salesgal handed him
peveral small packages . . . “May
I have a rubber band to put around!
them?” he asked . . . The girl
scowled and indignantly asked:
Mister—don’t you know there’s a-
war on?”
Man About New York:
The cast of “This Is the Army”1
(350) dined with the President andT
Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House
• • • After they all were seated, Mrs.
President walked in, and they got
up . “Please don’t get up when-
ever I enter or leave the room
she said graciously. “You know,’I
have a reputation of being quite a
traveler!” . . . Capt. Dan Topping,
groom of Sonja Henie, has healed
the breach between her and Dennis
Scanlon, her former manager He
recently won his $75,000 suit against
her.
Newspaper editors hear that this
problem confronts Elmer Davis:
The German section of the OWT
short-wave division (New York
branch) is clashing over U. S. broad-
casts in the German tongue. They
include Socialist, Social-Democratic
Monarchist and Centrist propagan-
da each fighting their own personal
differences over the American short-
wave lanes. A few Trotskyites are
also on the staff . . It all messes
“pXhevBlg,n0dnea • • ’ °Tohids to
Shield No. 3989 of the gendarmes.
He straightened out, but flat, a West
49th Street hotel barber who charged
a sailor $5 for a haircut, shave,
The new robber director, William M. jfers, 1* shown as he appeared
before the senate agriculture committee of plan to snbstitnte rayon for
cotton in the manufacture of tires. Pbofshows, left to right (bottom
center), official reporter; Senators Norrl George, Smith (chairman),
McKeller. Bulow. Aiken: and William Ji
Here J. E. Smith, bank vice presi-
dent, and a bank employee are en-
gaged picking and topping beets as
volunteer laborers in the San Lo-
renzi, Calif., beet fields, to help save
the crop.
shine and shampoo.
The Magazines: The matter of
when there will be a second front is
something for the military and na-
val biggies to decide, I. F. Stone
reminds in The Nation. If the Presi-
dent over-ruled them, the same
voices who are now yelling for it
would be the first to scream “dic-
tator . . From G. Washington’s
.‘‘T'T1 n0W’ Collier’s "mind,
subscribers, every wartime Presi-
th? Td u!th Co"gress—and
them'^aU0” ^aS b 00med in sPhe of
Typewriter r1^T„3; g. w Mc_
Gill Political prejudice plus per-
sonal pique, prevents patriotic per-
formance G. B. Shriver: Re-
member that United begins with U
. . . Anon: A conference is a meet-
ing where people talk about the
things they should be doing . .
Kf j' ?e’s iust the crack-
Rni^h Lhebed°f my existence . . .
Ralph H. Smith: The three mo^t im
history- TheeVn 252*
p's‘°r.yA T',e day FDR took office
Tearl Harbor and Tomorrow.
—Buy War Bonds—
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