La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1944 Page: 7 of 9
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LA GRANGE JOURNAL
Thursday, January 6. 1944
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Allied Chiefs Map Invasion Strategy
As Axis Staggers From Heavy Blows;
American Troops Tighten Jap Noose
By Occupation of New Britain Island
(EDITOR'! NOTE: Whti opinions nrt expressed In Ihooo columns, they nro those of
Western Nowspnpsr Union’s isos analysts ul nst necessarily of this ntwspapar.)
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SCHARNHORST HERO—Admiral Sir Bruca Frasar (at extrema right)
walks dack of English flagship with Britain’s First Sea Lord A. V. Alexander
(left) and U. S. Admiral H. R. Stark before his home fleet sunk Germany’s
20,000-ton battleship Seharnhorst.
LABOR:
U. S. Runs Rails
Railroads fell into government
hands as President Roosevelt moved
quickly to avert strikes which threat-
ened to tie U. S. freight and passen-
ger transportation into a knot, and
return to private ownership was
promised after passage of the emer-
gency.
FDR acted when the brotherhoods
of conductors, switchmen and fire-
men and enginemen refused his of-
fer to arbitrate their dispute even
though two other brotherhoods, the
trainmen and engineers, accepted
the proposal and were awarded a
nine cents an hour wage increase
and a one-week vacation with pay.
Also accepting FDR’s arbitration
offer at the zero hour were 15 non-
operating unions representing 1,100,-
000 workers, who agreed to the gov-
ernment’s recent wage increase
from 10 cents an hour to the lowest
paid to 4 cents an hour to the highest
paid, but also asked for overtime
bayond 40 hours.
Steel Workers Back .
Answering an appeal of President
Roosevelt, 170,000 striking steel
workers trooped back to the nation’s
mills after a three-day walkout, in
protest over the War Labor board’s
refusal to promise payment of new
wage raises back to the date the
old contracts expired.
1 In appealing to the CIO’s United
Steel Workers of America, FDR did
so on the understanding that any
new pay boosts would date back to
the time the old pacts ended. If any
such back payments chewed into
steel company finances, FDR prom-
ised price revisions.
The steel workers’ demanded a 17
cents an hour raise over the present
78 cents an hour rate. If granted,
the increase would crack the War
Labor board’s so-called "Little
Steel’’ formula, limiting pay boosts
to 15 per cent over the January,
1941, levels.
AGRICULTURE:
CCC Spends More
{ Fulfilling commitments to farm-
ers to support higher prices of crops
and livestock products, the Commod-
ity Credit corporation increased its
loans and purchases to 3% billion
dollars for the fiscal year 1943.
In addition to stimulating produc-
tion, CCC said its expenditures as-
sisted OPA in maintaining price ceil-
ings, particularly for vegetable oils,
dairy products, poultry products and
meats.
Prices principally were supported
by loans to farmers on commodities
stored against civilian and military
requirements, and by lend-lease pur-
chases. Of 2 billion, 700 million
dollars worth of commodities CCC
bought, about lVfc billion dollars
were for lend-lease account.
Beans and Peas
Despite record production of beans
and peas in 1943, U. S. civilians
will receive a per capita supply in
1944 equal to the average for 1935-’39.
Of the 23,000,000 bags of beans and
6.800.000 bags of peas which will be
available in 1944, U. S. military serv-
ices will get 3,441,000 bags of beans
and 300,000 bags of peas.
U. S. Allies, liberated areas and
U. S. territories will receive 7,085,-
000 bags of beans and 3,512,000 bags
of peas, with Russia’s share approx-
imating 3,024,000 bags of beans and
723.000 bags of peas, and Great
Britain’s 872,000 bags of beans and
509,700 bags of peas.
Marshal Tedder
INVASION:
Eisenhower Chief
"We will win the European war
in 1944." <
With these words Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower assumed command of
the Allied forces
for the invasion
of the western
gate of Hitler’s
Fortress Europe.
As Eisenhower
went to work in
preparation for
the knockout
blow, he was aid-
ed by a staff
which assisted
Gen. Elsenhower him in driving the
„ Axis from North
Africa and Sicily,
and in invading
Italy.
As his deputy,
General Eisen-
hower has British
Air Chief Marshal
Arthur Tedder.
To U. S. Lieut.
Gen. Cal'! Spaatz
has gone the task
of strategic bomb-
ing of Nazi sup-
ply and commu-
nications centers. And in charge of
British ground forces is tough, swag-
gering Gen. Bernard Montgomery.
In the nation’s capital, Senator
Edwin Johnson (Colo.) said he was
informed U. S. troops will make up
73 per cent of the invasion forces.
Naval Action
Naval action featured the war in
Europe, with Germany’s 26,000-ton
battleship, the Seharnhorst, going to
the bottom off the North Cape of
Norway under the heavy salvo of
Britain’s home fleet commanded by
Adm. Sir Bruce A. Fraser.
Fighting in rain and mud, U. S.
and British forces continued to
punch holes in the Nazis’ winter
line in southern Italy, but advances
were slow against a fanatical enemy
battling to the last, and covering
his withdrawals with sheets of blaz-
ing fire from flame throwers.
The Seharnhorst sailed from her
hiding place in one of Norway’s
vaulting fjords to prey on an Allied
convoy bound for Russia and was
surprised by the British fleet. While
His Majesty’s cruisers shadowed the
Seharnhorst from one side, the 35,-
000-ton Duke of York and other units
moved up from the other. Caught
between two fires, the big German
battle-wagon was finished off by the
British cruiser Jamaica.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC:
Vise Closes
While the Tokyo radio bleated that
Japan’s No. 1 South Pacific base of
Rabaul must be held at all costs,
U. S. troops tightened their foot-
hold on the western end of New
Britain island on which it stands.
With Allied forces already ring-
ing Rabaul in by occupation of cen-
tral New Guinea to the west and the
Solomons to the east, the noose was
drawn still tighter by actual land-
ings on New Britain itself, first by
the U. S. Sixth army at Arawe and
second by U. S. marines on Cape
Gloucester.
Long a feeder point for Jap posi-
tions on New Guinea and the Solo-
mons, U. S. occupation of the north
and south shores of the western end
of New Britain tended to cripple
the elaborate barge routes which
the enemy set up to shuttle sup-
plies to their embattled troops.
FEDERAL PAYROLL: Number
of employees on the federal payroll
declined in October for the fourth
consecutive month, now standing at
2,952,013, as compared with 2,960,019
a month earlier.
FREIGHT CARS: New freight cars
on order on December I numbered
36,253, as compared with 28,108 on
the same date of 1942. Locomotives
also increased.
PENICILLIN: A chemical com-
pany in Terre Haute, Ind., is be-
ginning production of penicillin, the
new wonder drug that is derived
from a mold.
HAY: Race horse owners have
to pay so much for horse feed that
they are worried about hijackers.
It is reported from Florida that mo-
torcycle policemen guard trucks
loaded with hay, oats and carrots.
RUSSIA:
One-Two
Delivering a stiff one-two punch,
Russian armies struck at the Ger-
mans in the north and south, knock-
ing them off balance in both sectors.
Greatest surprise came in the
south, where Gen. Nicholas Vatutin’s
first Ukraine army struck below the
main battle line about the rail junc-
tion of Zhitomir, driving a deep dent
in the enemy’s positions before the
Nazis could rush up reserves.
To the north, the Reds continued
their pressure around Vitebsk, for-
mer anchor for the Germans’ Bal-
tic lines running up to Leningrad.
WAR PRODUCTION:
Pattern Changes
Principally because Allied armies
have swung from the defensive to
the offensive, the pattern of war
production in the U. S. has changed,
with emphasis on ships, planes,
heavy construction material and
signal equipment, and de-emphasis
on tanks, small arms and anti-air-
craft artillery.
Ships of all kinds are needed for
landing operations and supply; more
planes are required for covering ex-
panding fronts; heavy construction
material is a must for building op-
erational bases in occupied territo-
ries, and signal equipment has to be
furnished to round out the services’
growth.
On the other hand, shipbuilders’
demands for steel and the effective-
ness of anti-tank guns has led to a
cut in tank output. Peak production
has resulted in an overabundance
of small arms and munitions. Im-
probability of enemy air raids over
the U. S. and the increasing defen-
sive strength of our air force have
determined reductions in the anti-
aircraft artillery program.
WHISKY:
Control New Brands
The saddened lot of U. S. whisky
drinkers was made lighter with
OPA’s decision to slap price ceilings
on new brands making their debut
since March, 1942, when controls
were set over the old brands.
OPA set flat dollars and cents ceil-
ings plus federal taxes at proces-
sors’ levels for all bottled in bond,
straight whisky and blends of
straight whiskies estimated at >80
proof. Wholesalers and retailers
were allowed markups, plus state
taxes.
Similar ceilings have been sched-
uled for new brands of rum, brandy,
gin,, cordials and liqueurs, OPA
said.
CIO:
Political Action
Seeking to mobilize 14 million la-
bor votes, the CIO has organized a
political action committee, headed
by the Amalgamated Clothing Work-
ers’ chieftain, Sidney Hillman.
Declaring the object of the com-
mittee is to organize labor for ob-
taining effective representation in
government, Hillman said immedi-
ate aim "is to wrest control of the
congress from . . . die-hard Repub-
licans and anti-New Deal Democrats
who have defaulted in their duties
not alone to labor but to the whole
nation on home-front issues.”
Already engaged in joint or simi-
lar action with the AFL in many
states, the CIO committee is seeking
support of the railroad brotherhoods
and such farm groups as the Na-
tional Grange. Funds totaling $700,-
000 already have been raised.
News Oddities
When frightened thoroughbreds
could not be budged from their stalls
during a fire in Atlanta, Ga., re-
cently, the caretaker remembered
the old adage that a white mule can
lead horses from a burning building.
Haltering a white mule from a
nearby stable, the caretaker led the
animal into the burning building,
and, sure enough, the panicked,
neighing horses quieted down and
followed the white mule out.
• • U
Skidding on a hill during a sleet
storm near Methuen, Mass., a sand-
ing truck ripped through the side of
a house and came to a stop, with its
hood over the bed of a startled young
couple. No one was hurt.
HOGS:
New Floor Temporary
The government’s extension of the
"floor” price for hogs from 200 to
300 pounds is a temporary measure
designed to provide farmers with an
equitable market during the present
high tide of shipments, War Food
administration declared.
When the glqts are cleared, WFA
said, the government will again go
back to the 200 to 270 pound floor
range, but farmers will be notified
of the change.
Because of congestion, WFA said,
some farmers have been unable to
obtain permits for shipping hogs,
and they have hesitated to send their
animals to more distant markets
because of shrinkage losses and
higher transportation costs.
GOODS DISTRIBUTION
Communities that have been find-
ing difficulty in getting their share
of such scarce items as flashlights,
bobby pins, cooking utensils and
electric appliances can expect a
larger supply soon. The War Pro-
duction board has asked manufac-
turers and wholesalers to make vol-
untary changes in their allotment
schedules.
Shortages are particularly acute
in cities that have expanded in the
last year or two, because of an in-
flux of war workers.
Washington Digest/
'Realistic' Attitude Marks
Change in Allied Diplomacy
New Journey Into International Cooperation
Combines Idealism and Realism; Step
Away From Old Style Power Alliances.
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
By BAUKHAGE
Newt Analyit and Commentator.
WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, D. C.
What kind of a man is Stalin?
That question was put to President
Roosevelt at the White House press
and radio conference on the day of
his return to Washington from Eu-
rope. He was tanned, alert, cheer-
ful, still pulsing with the conscious-
ness of achievement. His answer,
which came without a second’s hesi-
tation, I thought, was significant.
Stalin, he said, was a realist, just
like himself.
I am not particularly interested in
the accuracy of that answer, either
as an analysis of Stalin o^ self-
analysis of the President. But to me
the fact that the President chose
realism as the outstanding and com-
mon characteristic of himself and
the man on whose word and deed
so much of the future depends, was,
I think, significant.
On the Whole, in the light of later
pronouncements, use of that term
seems a good omen rather than a
bad one. '
Mr. Roosevelt is committed to a
plan for the postwar world which
leans toward the ideal, rather than
toward the old style diplomatic
"realism” which is nothing but tooth-
and-claw tactics behind a laundered
facade of protocol. I think the
American people have shown plainly
that they are more interested in
stopping—or at least postponing—
wars than they are in the slogans of
the isolationists or the imperialists.
Granted that, the fact that Roose-
velt emphasizes the "realist” side
when he speaks, gives one a feeling
that he and Stalin and Churchill
have been able to reach some rough
agreements that are practical
enough to work, and yet are a little
less earthy than the old power alli-
ances, which always end in wars
and always will.
The Conference
I recall very well that crowded
news conference for which friend
and toe alike turned out to see what
the President looked like after his
trip. One hundred and seventy-nine
working press and radio correspond-
ents were there, not counting offi-
cials. The innocent expected some
hot, inside stuff; the cyhical hoped
the President would reveal errors
by concealing them; the average re-
porter knew it was going to be a
good story one way or the other.
Everyone was satisfied. Those who
yearned for the dramatic got the
story of the German plot which
didn’t come off. Those who were
looking for trouble were gratified
that he revealed no new concrete de-
velopments. The objective reporter
got his quota of news, for everything
a President says is that.
But the two remarks of the,Presi-
dent stood out in my mind—tne one
I mentioned (realism) and another,
made almost as soon as the last of
us had squeezed into the crowded
oval office, and they were, I believe,
most revealing as far as our future
foreign policy goes.
Those in the first row had time to
take in the President's cheerful and
informal appearance—the colored
shirt and the pull-over sweater
which he had worn on his trip—and
which, because of one meeting fol-
lowing another from the moment he
arrived at the White House, he still
wore. He had been on the job since
9:30 a. m.—it was then after four.
As soon as the signal that the
last reporter was in the room was
given, the President began to speak
of the success of the trip, and he
said that those who shared with him
in the hopes of a durable peace (he
referred to Russia, Britain, China}
were motivated by the determina-
tion that there would not be another
war while this generation lives.
I must admit that the words at
first struck me a little coldly—
“while this generation lives.” Not
much long-range optimism there, I
thought. But afterward and since
his later pronouncements, general
though they have been, I feel a lit-
tle better about it. It seems to me
that perhaps we are at last em-
barked upon an adventure in inter-
national cooperation with enough
idealism to keep our eyes on the
heavens anjl enough realism to keep
our feet on the ground. That is my
New Year’s hope and wish.
Best seller in Britain today is a
booklet on how to stretch a clothes
coupon. Called “Make Do and
Mend,” the booklet offers the Brit-
ish housewife a wealth of informa-
tion on how to utilize her old clothes
and household linen to the last
thread—by methods which would
have made her shudder in peace-
time. The booklet is one of the most
popular publications.
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Analysis of a
Reporter's Job
As I sit down to my typewriter,
I sometimes try to visualize the
people who will read what I write—
just as I try to visualize the little
groups gathered about the loud-
speaker when I talk to them.
Sometimes I shudder lest they ex-
aggerate the importance of the
things we reporters report.
I am not a bit different from the
anxious anonymous reporter who,
after the last war, still clad in his
khaki shirt, wearing the OD (it’s
"GI” now) tie and trench coat, who
came down to work and stumbled
around the various offices and meet-
ings getting his stories and writing
them under the eagle eye of the
copy desk.
The reason I am worried now is
because I hear so many people talk
about the things "the Washington
correspondent”* writes—or says on
the radio—as gospel. Well, most of
us try to report what we see and
hear. We don’t always know wheth-
er it is true or false. We just try
to tell you about it. Most of us label
what we know and what we think.
Some do not.
Sometimes when we talk with peo-
ple we think really ought to know,
we report what they say with a lit-
tle more confidence. If we can’t
quote the "Brass Hat” or the cabi-
net officer or the senator who told
us this or that we say "authoritative
quoters.” We are supposed to know
from experience whether what we
hear is sound fact or just wishful
thinking.
The longer we live, the better we
are able to judge between the real
people and the phonies. Most old-
timers in the government don’t try
to fool reporters because they know
they can only do that once. Maybe
twice.
You know the old Scotch proverb:
‘If he cheats you once, shame on
him; if he cheats you twice, shame
on you.”
Many people think that unless we
attack the party in power, we must
be in favor of it. That isn’t true.
We know, as the old bull said, "One
cow is much as another.” We know
that despite the different party re-
galia politicians display, they are
really pretty much alike once they
get into office—not as good as they
might be for the most part, seldom
as bad as the opposition paints them.
The Active Element
But the party in power is the ac-
tive element, it makes news because
it does things. The minority merely
objects. We report what is done.
Not because we approve or disap-
prove of what is done but because
that is a concrete act. The opposi-
tion can do little more than oppose.
That is negative. We know that if
the opposition were in power, it
might do the same thing, and the
party in power, which Would then
be the minority, would object.
That is hard for the partisan lay-
man to understand. We know that.
We have ideas, too, and the party in
power usually has some pretty good
ones which the minority has to ob-
ject to, merely on party grounds.
Not being of either party we, the
reporters, may also become parti-
sans not really of the party but of
some of the party’s ideas.
It is hard to make some people
believe that we are not partisan
when we are objective, easy to make
others believe we are not when we
are.
I have covered Republican and
Democratic regimes. I have cov-
ered one Democratic regime a long
time. I certainly hope, for the good
of the state, that I shall be able to
cover a regime of the Republican
party, not because I think it is per
se better or worse than the Demo-
cratic regime but because I think
a change is good for the republic.
When the next administration
comes in, I shall report what it does.
I shall lean, in spite of myself, to-
ward the constructive issues it pro-
mulgates. But that won’t, I hope,
make me a Republican any more
than my leanings toward the con-
structive side in this regime make
me a Democrat. I am neither. I
am, and hope to remain, a reporter.
But, as beauty lies in the eye of the
beholder, so truth often lies in the
ear of the listener.
RANCH FOR SALE
TEXAS RANCH OF 1#00 ACRES. 10 mllM
oI fence*, fair ranch house, two tenant
houacs, two creek*, a atone swimming
pool. 500 acre* in gra**, balance In moun-
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will pay for the land. The land boom ha*
not reached ua here. Oet yourself some
land near Austin while price* arc low.
Thl* property la only 13 mile* out on a
hard-paved road. WU1 take S23 per acre.
Small farm In part trade, about *3.000 In
cash, rest easy term*. OU, gas and min-
eral rights are Included In sale. Thl*
ranch can make you rich. Owner can get
you more land adjoining at about the same
price If a larger ranch Is wanted. Write
Owner. E. M. DEZENDORF___
AUSTIN TEXAS
RANCH FOR SALE
FOR LOW PRICE OF *19.000.00 we wUl
sell 1.000 acres combination farm and
ranch. 139 acres Irrigated and farmed, bal-
ance pasture. 4 room house on all weather
road. 7 mile* south of Eagle Pass. DAN W.
TAYLOR. Realtor. Box 1704. or telephone
3-6009. Corpus Christ!. Texas.
FARM FOR SALE
FOR SALE—Farm, 00 acres, plenty wa-
ter. fair Improvements, 3 ml. north on New
Austin highway. Also farming tools Includ-
ed. John O. Lueders. New Braunfels, Tex.
HELP WANTED
WANTED!—Men. women, boys, girls, any
age. to distribute or mail circulars. Sam-
ple and details 29c. R. W. PLUMB, Bex
304, Herkimer. N. Y.
Wood Samples
The largest collection of wood
samples in the world is in the
school of forestry of Yale univer-
sity. It contains 40,750 specimens
of 11,890 species of 2,800 genera
of 232 families of trees; also 19,500
microscopic slides.
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surer
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Doughnuts Invitations
Doughnuts serve as wedding in-
vitations in some parts of Mace-
donia. Families of the bride and
bridegroom have young boys dis-
tribute doughnuts to the towns-
people. *
Relief At Last
For Your Cough
Oreomulslan relieves promptly be-
cause It goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in-
flamed bronchial mucous mem-
branes. Tell your druggist to sell yon
a bottle of Creomulslon with the un-
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
War Dogs Tagged
Every army dog carries an iden-
tification card—A tattoo mark on
its left ear.
Millions have used —
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There** Rood reason why PAZO oint-
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to reduce swelling and check bleeding.
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Densely Populated
It is estimated that an acre c
meadowland contains 15,000,000 ii
sects. ^
AT FIRST
SIGN OF A
USE
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WNU—P
Two hundred Australian girls re-
cently attended the first meeting in
Melbourne of a club whose mem-
bership is limited to Australian girls
either married to or engaged to
American servicemen. The object is
to enable girls who may later be-
come neighbors in America to be-
come acquainted in Australia. They
feel they can be of mutual assistr
ance in solving new problems.
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