Your account does not include highlighter on images.
Searches Highlighted on Image
National Sponsors
| December 30, 1943 Golden Valley News |  |
|
©
Golden Valley News. All rights reserved. Upgrade to access Premium Tools
PAGE 2 (2 of 8 available) PREVIOUS NEXT Jumbo Image Save To Scrapbook Set Notifiers PDF JPG
December 30, 1943 |
|
|
Website © 2025. All content copyrighted. Copyright Information Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Request Content Removal | About / FAQ | Get Acrobat Reader 
|
GOLDEN VALLEY NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER
-- • m m
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Jap Defensive Positions in Pacific
Crumble Under New Allied Invasion;
Senate Studies Revised Tax Measure;
Government Acts to Halt ail Tie.Up
q|,
~DITOIg'S NO'I~Et When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of
stern Newspaper Union's news anal)st8 ~nd not neeeesnrUr of this newspaper.)
Released by Western New~a~er Union,
Goin' BackmBrought to the Ukraine Following its capture in 1941,
these German Farmers left with their possessions when Nazi armies feV
kck before the Reds' 1943 offensive.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC:
New Landing
One day after U. S, bombers had
dumped 850 tons of explosives on
Arawe on New Britain island, U. S,
warships moved shoreward to the
enemy base and pumped big shells
into the defenses, even as planes
returned to assist in the bombard-
ment.
After this terrific crescendo, U. S,
doughboys swarmed ashore to es-
tablish a beachhead on this strate-
gic island, center of Japanese ship-
ping for supplying its embattled
forces on New Guinea and Bougain-
vflle.
By landing on Arawe, U. S. forces
drove a wedge into Jap positions on
Cape Gloucester to the west and
Gasmata to the east, where the eue.
my has established airfields to help
cover the barge operations with
which he feeds supplies to his troops
in this area by traveling along the
Jun~le shorelines by night.
While the U. S. stormed Arawe,
heavy bombers continued to smack
the Marshalls, small Jap island hold-
ings in the central Pacific.
RAILROADS:
Strike Called
With 97.7 per cent of the operaS-
tug railroad union members voting
to strike to enforce their demands
for higher wages and with the walk-
out date set for December 30, the
government acted quickly to pre-
vent transportation interruption.
Said spokesmen for the $50•000
trainmen, firemen, enginemen, en-
gineers, conductors and switchmen
who have demanded a 80 per cent
wage increase with a minimum
boost of $3 doily: "It is-a strike
against inflation for the privileged
few and deflation for the many."
To meet the crisis which was pro-
voked by the unions' rejection of an
emergency board's award of a 32-
cents a day increase, the govern.
meat's national mediation board
summoned both union and rail offi.
cials to meet to settle differences.
Meanwhile, over 1,000,000 non-op-
erasing rail union members awatte~
final congressional action on a reso-
lution granting them an eight-cents.
an-hour pay boost over the U. S.
stabilization director's objection.
BRITAIN:
Miners Ask Raise
Seeking to boost average weekly
earnings from $18.60 for under-
gro~md employees to $24, and from
$18.40 for surface employees to $22.
Britain's Mine Workers federatior
planned to take their case to a gov-
ernment panel if employers rejected
their demands.
Because of possible coal shortages,
the government recently cut home
rations for the fuel by 20 pe¢ cent,
and It was anticipated that any
strike by the 690,000 miners might
result in further reductions.
Child Delinquency
Like the U. S., Britain has lti Ju-
venile delinquency, and most of it
Is Jttributed to lack of adequate su-
pervision because of parental occu-
pation In the war effort.
Juvenile delinquency has in.
creased froth the prewar rate of 4
per 1,000 to 9 per 1,000, principally
because thousands of fathers are in
the armed forces, one out of four
mothers are holding full time Jobs,
and inadequate rations compel faro.
tiles to eat at least one meal away
from home.
ITALY:
Action in Air
Connecting link between Germany
and Italy, Europe's historic Bren-
ner pass was pounded by waves of
U. S. bombers, seeking to disrupt
the rail lines feeding Nazi armies
to the south.
By striking at the pass, the bomb-
ers countered a successful Nazi air
raid on the southeastern Italian port
of Bari, in which 30 German planes
whizzed in at low level and sank
17 Allied cargo vessels lying at an-
chor in the harbor.
On the ground, U. S. and British
troops clambered forward over
mountainous country toward Rome
in sleety weather. Fighting bitterly
from strong defenses in the hills,
and throwing armored formations
into action on the level plains, the
Nazis succeeded in slowing Allied
advances.
CONGRESS:
Tax Bill
Tacking on an additional 144 rail.
llon dollars, the senate finance corn.
mittee approved a
new 2 billion, 284
million dollar mx
bill which, if passed
by congress, will
boost U. S. reve.
nues to 43 billion
dollars yearly.
Written under Sen.
Walter George's
chairmanship, th e
senate bill requires
payment of the 3
per cent Victory ta~ Sen. George
by everybody with
income over $624 a year, and raises
levies on amusements, travel, al.
coholic beverages, cosmetics, furs,
luggage, toilet articles and other
luxuries.
Also included in the bill was a
provision requiring labor organiza.
tlons and farm co-operatives to fi~
financial statements annually.
Wh ky
As the senate's liquor investigat. '
ing committee charged that big dis-
tilleries ". are using the war
emergency to get control of the wine
and beer industry," a federal grand
jury called on Hiram Walker & Sons.
Seagram & Sons, National Distillers
Products Corp. and Schenley to
present records of the companies'
stock organizations, including their
wineries and breweries, and theix
distribution and merchandising prac-
tices.
Subsidies
Action in the senate on the tan-
gled subsidy question became fur.
thor tangled with
the banking com-
mittee's recommen.
dation that consid.
eratlon of subsidies
be postponed for 60
days.
Previously, the
banking committee
had turned down
the proposal of Sen
John Bankhead
(Ala.) to abolish
aSh. Taft subsidies under
which the govern-
ment reduces consumers' retail
prices by paying processors the dif-
ference for their charges, and had
also tabooed the suggestion of Sen.
Robert Taft (Ohio) to limit subsidies
to a half billion annually instead of
one billion,
H ]
I G H L I G H T S • • • in the week's news
.i i j
FLU: Almost a thousand people HONESTY: A 43-year-old Brit~
died of influenza in Great Britain of American descent has been sen-
last week, the h/ghest since the epio tented by a London court to nine
demic began. In the previous week months' imprisonment for receiving
~0g stmcumbed, stolen goods. His name is Abraham
RUSSIA:
Drive in North
While Russian and German troops
slugged at each other in the central
and southern sectors, the Nazis re.
ported 100,000 Reds attacked to the
north, in what they said was a pre-
liminary move to a major winter
drive for the Baltic sea.
By driving to the Baltic, the Reds
would split the Germans' northern
armies from those of the south, and
also give them a base from which
to attack enemy shipping making use
of the sea to supply its armies in
the area.
In the Ukraine, both sides gave
ground grudgingly under heavy
blows. The Nazis pressed forward
toward picturesque and domed
Kiev, while the Reds pounded out
gains farther to the south in the
Dnieper bend.
• • •
As of December I, 176,045,000
pounds of butter were in cold stor.
age, and other stocks included 177,.
110,000 pounds of American cheese;
197,382,500 pounds of poultry; 376,-
072,000 pounds of pork; 183,096,000
pounds of beef; 31,074,000 pounds of
lamb and mutton, and 1,762,000
cases of eggs.
TRANSPORTATION: t
Parts Needed
Trucks, railroad equipment, busesI
and tires are wearing out and re-
placements must be made if the na-
tion's transportation system is to
carry record loads in 1944. the Tru-
man investigating committee as-
serted.
Particularly acute is the reduced
stock of truck parts, especially in
view of the longer use of vehicles
and greater demand for repairs, the
committee .said. Low inventories
further were aggravated by the gov-
ernment's scrap drive, in which
many cars were junked from which
parts might have been salvaged.
Railroads have been hampered by
lack of enough new rails and slow-
downs in locomotive production be-
cause of priority regulations, the
committee declared. Because of the
critical situation in lumber brought
about by military purchases, price
controls affecting operations and la-
bor shortages, ties available for rail-
roads will fall below needs in 1944.
the committee said.
S * •
On Septembor~ 30, 2,960,026 civil-
Ians were on the~ government pay-
roll, a drop of 32,121 from the pre-
vious month. It also was revealed
that 263,637 poraona were serving
without compensation or as $1-seyear
l~len.
CIVILIAN GOODS:
Study Output
Following the War Production
board'slnitial announcementxthat 15
per cent more civilian goods would
be manufactured during the first
three months of 1944 than in the last
quarter of this year, it was later re-
vealed that WPB was changing cer-
tain aspects of its program after a
survey of needs of 7,000 homes.
Studies have been made to de-
termine what quantity of electric
irons, washing machines, refrigera-
tors, trucks and automobiles can be
made. and what plants will be able
to produce the goods.
It was also revealed that the civil.
inn requirements agency of the WPB
will play an important role in deter-
mining policy when industry is freed
with reconversion. Although recon-
version is expected to create unem-
ployment, much hardship should be
relieved b~cause the shift will be
gradual and consumers' demands
should result in quick rehiring by
reconverted plants.
• * i¢
Taking advantage of the lowest
level of prices'for the year, corn
belt buyers purchased an almost
record volume of stackers and feed-
ers during November. in eight
states, In-shipments totaled 383,000
compared with the all-high of 391,000
in 1942.
ARMS OUTPUT:
Keeps Soaring
Despite a reduction in output of
ammunition, U. S. war production
in November soared above the pre-
vious record month of October, with
the present rate 550 per cent over
1941.
Declaring problems of manpower,
design changes and material short-
ages have been largely overcome,
the War Production board said gains
in terms of dollar value were record.
ed for aircraft, communication and
electronic equipment, shipbuilding,
guns and combat motor vehicles.
Ammunition output was down 2 per
cent, chiefly reflecting a 13 per cent
drop for small arms.
Indicative of the emphasis on pro-
duction of heavy bombers, average
air frame weight per plane in No-
vember was 8,130 pounds, compared
with 7,560 pounds during preceding
months. Output of aerial bombs in-
creased 11 per cent, reflecting the
intensification of the Allies' bomb,
lng operations on the world fronts.
INFLUENZA :
Cases of influenza in the nation
increased 500 per cent in the week
ended December 11, according to
U. S Public Health figures. Reports
for the week from every state de-
partment excepting Maine's showed
a total of 22,724 cases, five times as
many as in the week before.
Federal health service .omcials
stated that there was no particular
cause for Concern, as the new cases
are of the same mAld type of the
disease that has been prevalent since
the aptdemio began in the
By VIRGINIA VALE
]Released by Western Newspaper Union.
GINGER ROGERS' new
picture, "Tender Com-
rade," may not bring her an
Academy award, as "Kitty
Foyle" did, but RKO is doing
its best to swing that coveted
honor her way. "Tender Comrade"
will be shown at two theaters in Los
Angeles on December 29, though its
national release Is not scheduled till
GINGER ROGERS
March. This bit of maneuvering
makes it eligible for an Oscar this
year. Ginger plays a war bride who
takes a job in a plane factory while
her soldier husband is at the battle-
front.
A radio counterpart of filmdom's
Academy Awards is broadcasting's
newest wrinkle. Titled the "Radio
Hall of Fame," the hour-long broad-
cast is heard each Sunday over the
full Blue network, with the editors
of Variety magazine selecting the
topnotch acts from screen, stage, ra-
dio and the concert halls of the world
for presentation during that time.
The management of Washington,
D. C.'s Constitution Hall is regard.
ing Alec Templeton with something
akin to awe. The CBS "Carnival"
star broke all existing box-office ree.
ords when he appeared there in con-
cert. It was the first sell-out en-
gagement in seven years, and the
first time an artist has been asked
to return tn the same season.
----,Ve---
Dinah 8here's picture career,
coming hard an the heels of her
sensaUenal snecess in radle, is moo.
In8 ao fast that her films can't keep
up with her. Her first, "Thank Your
Lucky Stars," is now showing
throughout the country, her second
will be released in February, Just
as she's starting her fourth--mea~
while her popularity on the air In.
creases daily.
Don Ameche maintains that even
standing in line may prove to be
lucky for the standee. He was stand-
ing in a theater-ticket line in 1928
in Madison. Wis. The stock com-
pany's star met with an accident,
the manager recognized Don--and
put him into the role.
It looks as if "No Time for Love"
is going to be remembered along
with the other delightful comedies
that people laugh over years after
they've seen them. And the heroine
of those films is likely to be either
Jean Arthur or Claudette Colbert.
This time it's Claudette, playing a
photographer for a smart fashion
magazine, falling in love with a
husky lad (Fred MacMurray) who's
a sand hog.
Jane Withers, who's 17, has her
first important straight dramatic
role in 10 years In Samuel Gold-
wyn'a "The North Star." Though
she's made 80 pictures sh~ee her
screen debut, and starred in most
ef them, she h~l to pus a strle!
test, then another one, before she
was given the role; she's phtyed In
so many eemedlea timt Guldwyn
wasn't sure she could de B.
'ff-Iigher and Higher," RKO's
Stnatra pteture, will have a spectac-
ular opening; it will have its first
showing on New Year's eve in 50
RKO theaters in New York city,
Westchester and Newark. N. J. The
regular Broadway opening will come
later.
At the cutting OF the Command
Performance transcription for the
overseas audience, the Hoosier Hot
Shots, in Hollywood with the Nation.
al Barn Dance east for their Para-
mount picture, wrote their auto-
graphs in the books which Gracie
Fields was carrying. These auto-
graph books belong to war orphans
in the Gracie Fields orphanage in
England; the youngsters had sI~ecial.
ly asked for those names.
ODDS AND ENDS--Probably the
biggest surprise [or [anJ seeing the
Amos "n" Andy show [or the ftrst time is
the discovery that the stars look like an
eel/or what the well dressed man should
wear... Ben Grauer, who ~s on
the "South American Good NeiRhbor"
program, "lnlormetlon Please" end
"For This We Fight," played ia the
"Penrod" film ... When Irene
Dunn. e am~ C~v Grant headed the ~,s$.
• u tickets tot ~ Sa'eu Guild Pl~,srs
weekly broadcast ~ gom~ ~i~ mmd~
in edvtmce . . . Captur~ Germ~ fdms
Beml~ Mmmo.
recent
I-K-aathleen
Don'ts
Norris
for the New Year
BeU Syndlcate.--WNU Features.
m"
\
NEW
It is going to be one o/ the most amazing years ever poured out o[
big mysterious bag.
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
DON'T make things hard-
er for us all by going
into the new year with
a whole set of prejudices and
determinations, for it is going
to be one of the most amazing
years ever poured out of
Time's big mysterious bag. It
may well be the most impor-
tant in our life as a nation.
For 1944 may bring us
peace. And we have to face
tomorrow's peace with just as
much courage, sanity and
faith as we're facing today's
war.
You have faith in the war,
even though you don't under-
stand all about it. Have faith
in the peace, too. You won't
understand all about that,
either.
Don't forget that the ideals of our
great Allies are not our national
ideals; they never have been. When
Russia, England and Scandinavia
speak up at the Peace Table don't
be surprised if they surprise us, and
perhaps shock us. In Europe every
nation is close to a danger zone. We
don't know anything about danger
zones, for our nearest enemies are
thousands of miles away.
New Conditions in Europe.
Don't forget that their enemies are
right next door. Don't expect France
and Germany and Poland and the
Balkans to go back to any ante-war
status. They can't and they won't.
There will have to be new borders,
new regulations. And probably, in-
creased powers for some of the na-
tions that have been fighting for de-
cency, security and peace.
Don't begin to worry, and to write
letters to the papers, if some of the
very things for which we have been
fighting appear to be temporarily
forgotten, when the first treaties are
drafted. Perhaps they must be.
Perhaps those troublesome little
European states that are always
drawing greater powers into these
agonizing world catastrophes, must
be ruled and held in check for
awhile.
That isn't really the serious ques-
tion. The question is just what
terms will be offered to all the
smaller countries, and just how re-
sponsible are the offering powers. If
these terms promise all the cruelly
wrecked nations security from star-
vation, homelessness, war. then they
will be good terms.
And those good terms will be~ in.
finitely more important than any
question of borders, races, territo-
rial rights, mandatory powers and
all the other meaningless words that
made such an ethnic mess of Europe
after the last war,
Russia is conspicuously a peace-
loving country. Scandinavia contains
a group of the wisest.governed na-
tions of all. America boasts an
unprecedented unafraid friendship
with her neighbors; not in one hun.
dred years have Canada. Mexico,
the Argentine. the Central Ameri-
can powers or Brazil heard our guns.
China is too wise to believe in rapine
murder, aggression, war. Any peace
upon which these powers decide will
be a good peace, even though it
leaves much to be settled as years
ripen and perfect a better relation-
ship between the nations and ~ wiser
guardianship of the warlike elements
by the peaceful peoples.
Allies Need Outposts A~inst
Aggress|on.
Don't attempt to right all the
wrongs of the long years just at
first. Remember that there are cer-
tain island nations, like the Philip-
pines, for instance, that are infinitely
bettered, and admit it, by the con-
trolling interest eta stronger power.
l~ere are islands that must he
BE BRO~
IN 1944
The new year is going
confusing ]or
shortsighted peo pie,
opinion o/ Kathleen
Peace, i] it comes durin
is going to present new
lenges to us all. It is
be the broad.minded
uals with the ability to
logical results of
grams who are going to
most from 1944. She
many ot the problems
will accompany
the conflicting
which have made Euro
battleground for
ly 3,000 years. Di/ficulties
this will not be solved
with the signing of an
stice. They require
tolerance and faith.
helped justly and wisely,
will be made continually
of predatory nations. We
Allies will certainly have
inspection bases after the
that no steel mills anywhere
begin to work night and day
pare for the
So perhaps the most
"don't" of the New Year
be too quick to decide,
worry, over the peace
are broached this year, which
wise men and all
hope they may be. There
good men and wise men at
Table, and thank God
WANT to do right; down
and least important one of
will all intend to be fair:
that is a great hope.
Don't overlook another
for 1944. I mean the talk
cussion about the
tremendous armed forces
protection here and the safety
interests elsewhere. There
other way; there not
other way for many
come,
So if, like myself, you are
an who has winced away
tarism, don't be too
it. Keep an open mind.
not a belligerent nation, but
we keep a tremendous
in our great cities, so we
a natiunal police force
Twenty-five years ago I
vote. But if I had had
I would have used it
participation in the World
America Must Share
World Problems
But I see now that we
involved anyway.. So
to my original contention.
we can trust Russia,
China, the Scandinavia and
people to draft an honest
we must face our share of
bility for that peace, all
world. You and I would be
anxious if we heard that New
or Chicago had determined to
don all police protection•
pond upon the other .great
prevent vice and abuse.
we are somewhat in the
tion: peace has to be guarded
where, and it's
now on.
When that first Peat~
meets I hope our churches
thronged with men
morning until nl
them, thousands
all-day vigils, slipping ~
noon hour, stopphlg
home at night, filling
ing streets with streams
in the old medieval way,
that we believe