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GOLDEN VALLEY ~NEWS
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
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Nazis Pour Troops Into Anzio Region
As Battle for Italy Grows in Ferocity;
Senate Studies 'White- Collar' Income;
Aussie.U.S. Forces Join in Ne Guinea
~es DITOR'8 NOTE: When opinions ~are expressed in these columns, they are those of
(4rn NewspaPer Union's news analysts nnd not neeesearUy o! this newspaper.)
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
ROME
At,BAI40
ItalymFirst great armored battle of Italy raged near Anzio, where
Nazis strove to knock out Allied beachhead.
ITALY:
Major Battle
For the first time in the Italian
campaign, major Allied and Ger-
man armored forces met on level
ground to slug it out, as the great
battle for the Anzio beachhead be.
low Rome raged.
To the southeast, bloody mountain
~,hting continued, with the en-
trenched Nazis stubbornly resisting
advancing U. S. and French sol-
diers, crawling through fierce ma-
chine.gun and mortar fire to root
enemy units out of deeply dug de-
fenses.
Determined to fight a major battle
in Italy far below the Po river val-
ley in the north, the Nazis poured
thousands of troops in the Anzio
region, and action rose in tempo
after the enemy carefully probed
Allied lines for weak points.
Crowded into an area about 30
miles long and 12 miles inland, Al-
lied forces swung into the attacking
enemy at Close quarters, while their
air forces roamed over German po.
sittons and communication lines,
blasting troop concentrations and
supply deliveries.
MEAT PRODUCTION:
Record Levels
Keeping well in line with ~overn-
ment predictions of record meat
production for 1944, January sLaugh-
ter of bogs, cattle and sheep set
all-time marks for the month.
Partly because of liquidations due
to concern over the overall feed
situation for the year, 1,141,081 cat-
tie were butchered in January, along
with 7,839,352 hogs and 1,932,987
sheep.
Although the government estimat-
ed that meat production would rise
8 per cent in 1944 to a record 25,-
000,000,000 pounds, civilian alloca-
tions were set at the 1943 level of 151
pounds of meat per person for the
year, with the services, lend-lease
and other U. S. agencies obtaining
the increased output. Only if the
Latters' needs were cut, could civil-
Ians expect more meat, it was said.
DEMOBILIZATION:
Congressional P~an
Adequate financing of industry to
switch to civilian production, and
orderly disposal of war material to
prevent upsetting the markets, were
proposed by the senate's economic
policy and planning committee for
postwar America.
The committee's recommenda-
tions were embodied in a bill spon-
sored by Senators George (Ga,) and
Murray (Mont.), calling for govern-
ment purchase of all raw materials
or processed goods or extension of
advances, partial payments or loans
upon contract cancellations.
Regarding the nation's $15,000,-
000,000 investment in war plants,
the committee proposed their sale
to private interests, but not if their
use should over.expand production.
The number of aircraft, aluminum.
rubber, magnesium, ship, steel and
pipeline plants retained for postwar
ddense output ~hould depend upon
the scope of such a program, the
committee declared.
Precaution should be taken against
£oodtng the markets with war goods
and depressing prices and produc-
tion generally, the committee said.
and opportunity should be sought to
sell such material abroad. Organl-
zaticm of a demobilization board to
carry o,-,t the program was recom-
mended.
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HIGHLIGHTS •
SLED: ~The Russian army is us-
ing an improved sledge driven by
an a~e propeller for Its mobile
machine gun corps. A machine gun
is m~mted armor
SUBSIDIES:
Opposed in Congress
Although facing an expected pres-
idential veto, the senate moved to
Join the house in
outlawing govern-
ment subsidy pay-
ments to reduce re-
tail food costs.
Senate approval
of Sen. John Bank-
bead's anti-subsidy
bill was scheduled
after rejection of
Sen. Francis Main-
n e y' s amendment
calling for the ex- Sen. Bankhead
penditure of $1,500,-
000,000 for subsidies this year, and
Sen. Robert Taft's compromise pro-
posal that the program be limited to
$950,000,000.
Countering administration argu-
ments that abolition of subsidies
would threaten the
whole anti-inflation
program by leading
to demands for
wage raises to meet
higher retail food
costs, Senator Bank.
head (Ala.) said
that such subsidies
would only save
each family an av-
erage of II cents a
Sen. Taft day, and thls at a
time when incomes
and savings are at record levels.
OLD TOPIC:
White.Collar Wages
Popular as a topic ever since the
days of Charles Dickens' stringy
Bob Cratchit~ low wages for white.
collar workers now have come un.
der the consideration of a senate
labor committee.
Regardless of general salary in.
creases of 15 to 30 per cent for
clerical workers and salesmen sines
1941, current earnings of many
groups of non.manufacturing era.
ployees remain relatively low, A. F.
Hinrichs of the U. S. department of
labor said.
Although a survey in small towns
showed store clerks have received
boosts of 15 and 25 per cent and
bank tellers increases of 5 to 10 per
cent since 1941, straight time earn.
tugs of many groups remain less
than 50 cents an hour, Hlnrichs said.
This averages less than $24 for a 48.
hour week, and earnings are even
lower in some other occupations,
l-I~richs asserted.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC:
Gain in New Guinea
Joining hands near Saidor after
more than a month of fighting
through rugged jungle, Australian
and American forces prepared to
lunge northward toward remaining
Japanese positions on New Guinea's
eastern coast.
First Allied objective was the base
of Madang, feeder point for the
Japs' inland positions, then Wewak,
oft-pounded air base from which the
enemy has sent up. planes to harass
Aussie and U. S. forces operating
on New Guinea.
On New Britain island to the east
ot New Guinea, U. S. air forces con.
tinued to smack at the major Jap
air and supply base of Rabaul, and
at the port of Kavleng on New
Ireland to the northeast, also a cen-
ter of feeder operations for barges
stocking enemy strongholds in the
surrounding area.
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TOKENS: More ration tokens will
be needed than was at first thought,
OPA officials indicate. About 2,000,-
000,000 tokens should be ready for
release February 27, and the OPA
is having another 200,000,000 made
Status of Commonwealth
Worry to Mother Country
England Wants Closer Cohesion of Domain;
Lord Halifax's Statement Opens Con-
troversial Subject in Canada,
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, D. C.
One of the most beautiful build-
ings in Washington is the Pan-Amer-
Ican Union with palm-and-parakeet-
ed patio, its great lily pond with an
ancient Inca idol idly dreaming be-
side its waters.
But there is one valuable object
Wart in the cellar, swathed in pro-
tecting burlap and excelsior which
is not displayed. It is a chair which
matches a suite of 21 others which
stand around a great table in the
hall of the Americas, each of which
bears the seal of a Latin,American
republic.
The chair in the cellar has the
genial beaver, Canada's national pet,
carved upon it.
The news is that that chair is
threatening to burst out of its cere-
ments an.d walk on its four legs up
the cellar steps to its place at the
table.
Two men, more than any others,
are responsible for the restlessness
of this piece of furniture. One is
tall, gray, dynamic Leighton McCar-
thy, Canadian ambassador to the
United States. The other is Prime
Minister Mackenzie King.
There probably never has been a
time in history when the United
States and Great Britain have been
closer in thought and action, despite
their multifold points of difference in
peace time, than they are today.
But, paradoxically, it is some of the
points of difference that have
brought Canada nearer to the Unit-
ed States than Our Lady of the
Snows has ever been before. The
United States very nearly occupies
the position of an interpreter between
the mother country and the domain
on some points, but the great bond
between the Yanks and the Canucks
is probably the simple, common
sense fact that we look upon Canada
as Rudyard Kipling (who once al-
most became an American citizen)
wrote, (making Canada the speak-
er):
"Daughter am I in my mother's
house, but mistress in my own."
The "Tentative'
That is why so many people in
Canada or the States were NOT
surprised when the government in
Ottawa and the Canadian press re-
Jested politely but firmly what the
diplomats call a "tentative" put
forth by Lord Halifax, British am-
bassador to the United States a week
or so ago.
That is why so ma~ly people in the
United States and Canada who pon-
der such matters WERE surprised
that Lord Halifax, undoubtedly with
the advice and consent of that fre-
quent visitor at the White House,
Winston Churchill, broached the sug-
gestion at all. (The fact that Mr.
Churchill said emphatically that
Lord Halifax wa~s speaking for him-
self, not the British government,
merely proves--well, you know how
diplomacy works.)
Lord Halifax had said:
"But what is, I believe, both
desirable and necessary is that
in all the field of interests, com.
ann to every part of the Com.
monwealth~in foreign policy, in
defense, in economic affairs, in
colonial questions and in com-
munications-we should lqave
nothing undone to bring oar pen.
pie into closer unity of thought
and action. It may be that we
shall find it desirable to main.
fain and extend our present war.
time procedure of plann~ing and
consultation, which itself adapt-
ed and extended the methods we
practiced in time of peace. The
question admits of no easy an-
swer."
Now let me say at this point, if
there are any Fenians or their de-
scendants in my audience, who think
I am stirring up anti-British feeling.
or echoing the anglophobia of the
Colonel McCosmics, let them take
no comfort from me. I am report.
lag the attitude of a lot of good and
loyal subject~ of his Brittanic
Majesty whosa sons are dying for
king and country.
As the years passed, Mother Eng-
land voluntari~" loosed the apron
strings that bound her far-flung faro.
lly to her. Willingly she bowed to
Kipling's verdict and accepted the
statute of Westminster, giving the
dominions their autonomy. Now she
wonders about mat union which is
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BRIEFS . .
The death rate for the first six
months of 1943 wis 11.0 per 1,000
population h, the United States,
about 3.8 per cent higher than for
the corresponding period in 1942.
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With 450 millJ~ people to Support,
China has 210 million acres of cul-
tivated land. The United States with
IU ~people has 845 million
m o~ mltlvated land.
necessary for her strength. She
wants a closer cohesion of the Com-
monwealth. Lord Halifax made the
suggestion, not officially, and with
great restraint.
Earlier, Field Marshal Jan Smuts
of the Union of South Africa had
made a speech urging closer co.
operation of the smaller European
countries with the United Kingdom.
On the Monday following Lord
Halifax's speech, Prime Minister
Mackenzie King was questioned con-
cerning its meaning in the Canadian
house of commons.
King stated that he was sure the
speech had been misinterpreted,
that he had been assured that it was
not the official attitude of the British
government, but he also said it was
"unfortunate." He said further:
"With what is implied in the
argument employed by both
these eminent public men (Hali-
fax and Smuts), I am unable
to agree."
Then he made this statement:
"In meeting world issues of
security, employment and social
standards, we must join not only
with commonwealth countries
but with all like-minded states,
if our purposes and ideals are
to prevail. Our commitments
on these great issues must be
part of a general scheme, wheth-
er they be on a world basis or
regional in nature•
"We look forward, therefore,
to close collaboration in the in-
terests of peace not only inside
the British commonwealth, but
also with all friendly nations,
small as well as great,"
The Canadian press of all parties,
I am ~old by Canadian officials here,
showed a unanimity in supporting
the pri~ue minister seldom wit-
nessed in Canada.
This means that since Canadian in-
terests lie in this hemisphere to a
great extent, where hemlspherie
solidarity /s essential to the weffare
of all of the nations concerned, Jt
is sheer folly to keep a perfectly
goed piece of furniture in the base-
merit of the Pan-American Union
that belongs at its natural place at
the table, "Won't you sit down, Mr,
McCarthy?"
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Baals for
lndustrlal Cooperation
Quite aside from any diplomatic
considerations, plain business men
and others interested in hemispheric
solidarity are considering a basis
for Canadian-American industrial
cooperation.
The Institute of Pacific Relations
says that Alaska, the Yukon, Mac-
Kenzie Valley, northern British Co-
lumbia and Alberta constitute a vast
area of potential economic develop-
ment:
"Air routes to Alaska and the
nearest sources of supply for
military supplies, such as oil, lie
through or in the Canadian North-
west. As an air route, the future of
the Northwest is assured. Over it
lie the great circle or near great
circle routes, and the economic
routes between the densely populat.
ed regions of Asia and North Amer-
ica,
"There are mutual strategic and
economic benefits in Canadian-Amer-
ican partnership for postwar devel-
opment of the Pacific Northwest."
Exploitation of the natural re-
sources in this zone can be devel-
oped and is urged through a close
working partnership by the United
States and Canada. This would re-
quire the pooling of information• tech-
nical facilities and the investment
of private capital (not public funds).
This is the type of industrial cooper.
ation that has characterized the eco-
nomic history of the two countries
in the past. The comment continues:
"Already two great undertakings
in joint defense and joint develop-
meat are being carried out. Amer.
loans built the Alaskan highway;
Canadians built the bases for the
air route it parallels and serves.
The highway was an assurance of
the security of Alaska; the defense
of ALaska was an assurance of the
safety of Canada. The North Pacific
Planning project is a striking ex-
ample of international coopers.
finn and of ordinary common sense.
American and Canadian interests
in the Pacific Northwest are Joint
and inseparable, they can be made
to yield joint private profit."
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• by Baukhage
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The number ot women hired by
United States railroads increased~
138.6 per cent for the year ending
June 3Q, 1943,
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The latest poll of opinion by the
Swedish Gallup institute said that 84
per cent of the people questioned
wish Sweden to remain a monarchy,
6 per cent prefer a republid and
I0 per cent are undecHed.
Oh1 TlJ~.
ME FRONT,
WHEN we think of the type of
curtains used in Early Colo-
nial cottages, crisp frills and ruf-
fles usually come to mind. It is true
that ruffled curtains were used in
Colonial times but the curtains of
the first homes in the New World
were of the casement or sash vari-
ety. We must remember that as
late as the discovery of America
glass windows were rare. They
were of the casement type with tiny
diamond-shaped pieces held to-
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gether with lead. Simple straight
curtains to give privacy were the
next logical development.
Frills and larger panes of glass
came later but sash curtains were
also used with these new windows.
They are also being used with
good effect today for rooms where
an informal atmosphere is need-
ed. In the dinette shown here the
sash curtained windows are bor-
dered with a set of colorful plates.
NOTE--This l:th~ first of a series on
modern adaptations of period curtain fash-
ions. There is another interesting treat-
ment of a sash-curtained window in BOOK
1; and the method of lining casement
draw curtains is illustrated in BOOK 8
of the series of 10 booklets on sewing for
the home. Price of booklets is 15 cents
each• Order direct from.~
MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Bedford Hills New York
Drawer lO
Enclose 15 cents for each book de-
sired.
Name.............,,.................
Address .............................
ANOTHER Jr
A General Quiz • ?
The Questiom~
I, Mexico is a federal republic
of how many states?
2. What is the yearly salary of
a U. S. senator?
3. Which one of Shakespeare's
characters said: "How sharper
than a serpent's tooth it is to have
a thankless child"?
4. In weaving, the threads that
run the length of the goods are
called what?
5. How many pounds of candy
)er year does each man in our
fighting forces consume?
6. Who was the "Hoosier Poet"?
7. What is the ancient name for
Southern Greece?
8. Angora goats get their name
from a place in what country?
9. What is the young of an ele-
phant called?
10. How many highly polished
lewels are needed to keep the
mechanism of each of America's
battleships ticking?
The Answers
1. Twenty-eight.
2. $10,000.
3. King Lear.
4. Warp.
5. Procurement officers figure 18
pounds per man.
6. James Whitcomb Riley.
7. Peloponnesus.
8. Turkey.
9. Calf.
10. Over 5,000. Many are only
1/25th of an inch in diameter.
Battle Posts Below Deck
Few men on American battle-
ships ever see their vessel in
action because mosz battle stations
are below deck or under cover.
For instance, when the new US~
Iowa goes into her first encounter,
at least 2,200 of her 2,500 officers
and men will be able to follow
the fight only fhrough the descrip-
tion of its progress broadcast to
them over loud-speakers.
All.Brae "Honey Muffins"
$ tablespoons I cup Kellogg'$
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1½ cup honey 1 cup flou~
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1½ cup butter- powder
J mtl~ ~ teaspoon salt
| y, teaspoon soda
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Ironl "Protective" elements
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There are only two
this world--efficiency and
ficiency; and only two sorts
people--the efficient and the
efficient.--G. B. Shaw.
DRY
Better Maps of Mo~m
We have better maps of
parts, of the
we have of some areas in
Polar regions.
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