i Thursday, April 8th, 1043, —_— UNION PRESS.COURIER. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYS!S Allied Forces Continue Drive in Tunisia; { Pressure for Tough Labor Legislation | Halted by Continuation of Coal Parley; {Soggy Terrain Hampers Red Offensive (EDITOR'S NOTE; When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper { nion’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union, A British Bofors gun as it was pulled toward the front in Tunisia by & British army lorry. Note how the road is lined with German tank ‘debris. In foreground is a Nazi tank turret. This official British photo was | made after the Allies repulsed the Germans between Thala and the Kasserine Pass. | a "TUNISIA: | RUSSIA: | New General ‘F, ’ Ya ox’ Seeks Cover i All eyes are turned now on Gen- When Marshal Rommel threw | eral Spring in Russia. back the British eighth army in the | Spri ree : narrow coastal corridor of Tunisia, | 9 pring thaws along the entire y ¢ | 2,000-mile Russian front are not ex- it looked like the great struggle of | t 0 = the Mareth line might resolve into| PeC'ed to be severe because of the a bloody battle of attrition. But relatively mild winter. The degree of bogginess depends upon the in- then Gen, Bernard Montgomery sent | tensity of the spring rains. a strong armored column around ; f ; the southern anchor of the Mareth _ S088 terrain has been hampering line and it succeeded in swinging| the Red push on Smolensk. One back and trapping the Axis forces| column bearing down on the Nazi from the rear | base from the north is reported to have knifed through defensive posi- wm 21 avy y . Ths Jace J ean Dre tions below Bely. Two other col- Zron Bi on. an ear, | umns moving in from the east have pulled out his army from the : ts encounter sti si e. ins Mareth line. As the British took Free intered stiff resistance. Rains over Gabes and El Hamma, Rom- mel was withdrawing northward x . . toward the marshes and salt flats | Following the Nazi's successful strung out along the coastal plain. | counterattack in the Kharkov and Here Rommel io expected to con. | Belgorod areas along the southern <entrate his army of 80,000 men in! front, fighting in this sector has the few passable trails. | abated. Russian troops are said to : y | hold some positions on the western Threatening Rommel’s flank for { pank of the Donets river, gained almost 100 miles up the coastal | during their recent winter offensive. plain to the north, were two Amer- ican columns. One was poised at LABOR: ‘Maknassy and the other at Fondouk. : . i overlook roads leading to the| 1 ough Legislation nave turned the Swampy country into almost impassable quagmires. Should either of these forces break | tween the Appalachian soft coal op- through the Allies would cut the Axis | erators and the United Mine Work- armies in the south off from those ers union for a 30-day period stalled in the north. temporarily the pressure for some BASE: | of the toughest labor legislation to | be given consideration in congress For Offensive? in recent years. y . .., 1 Had the agreement not been When Herbert Morrison, British | react 8 home security minister, announced hed it had been freely predicted that the entire east and south coast | around Capitol Hill that stern steps of Great Britain to a depth of ten! to curb union activities would have : > : | been taken in both house and senate. miles was to become a restricted | one such measure which had been area,” military experts began speed- | panorted ready for a quick vote was ing up their predictions regarding | the Hobbs anti-racketeering bill. the Allied invasion of Europe. | Also the senate judiciary committee In fact, the official British an- | gave a unanimous indorsement to a nouncement declared that there w as | measure intended to empower the a possibility that this area might be | President to seize and operate any used as ‘‘a base for offensive opera- | mine or factory whenever a labor tions.” dispute halted production. This was Meanwhile, London sources were the anti-strike law first introduced busy issuing bits of information lead- | in November, 1941. ing friend and foe alike to believe | This measure had once been al- that as soon as the fighting was | Jowed to die because the White over in Tunisia, the invasion of the | House had asked the pressure be continent would begin. British, U. S | taken off. and Canadian land forces were! Lr ren IY AF massed together with air and sea! SKIP-YFAR TAX: power for this action, these reports | First Defeat indicated, and practically every mile ! : of coastline was said to be the first| In an action reflecting on hoth objective of the United Nations’ | Democratic and Republican leader- drive. | ship the house of representatives re- | jected the Ruml skip-a-year tax plan BERLIN: | and the administration’s collection- at-the-source plans. Blocks Busted Excited representatives directed One thousand tons of bombs were | the ways and means committee to showered on Berlin by 400 British | draw up a new bill that would put bombers in the 60th air raid of the | the Income taxpayers on a pay-as- war on the German capital. Twenty- | you-go basis. ; one ships failed to return. Representative Martin, Republi- The raid on Berlin followed an | Can leader, had expressed confidence equally heavy assault on the Nazi | that Republicans Jouid get across submarine base of St. Nazaire. Here, the Ruml plan to skip 1942 taxes and let them apply on 1943 income taxes. 1,000 tons of bombs also were re- Representative McCormack De es y *k, Dem- Yoried dropped on docks, hangars | ocratic leader, failed to keep major- and warehouses. One-quarter of the | ; J : city was aflame and seven huge | ity members in line for the admin- fires raged. | istration’s collection-at-the-source Continuing to pound Germany's | bills. He was in charge while Speak- vital industrial valley of the Ruhr, eto Raybura wos ii RAF bombers pounded the iron, steel plan tossed the controversy ba 3 foul gone Sg Yaior into the lap of the committee, Lead- 5 kd x ers predicted there will be no effort Krupp steel Yorks of Pasen, Bombs! £2 cuts until increased tax rates also were dropped on the engine are considered later in the year, manufacturing center of Duisberg, HIGHLIGHTS ... in the week's news SMALL FAMILIES: Out of th BUMS RUSHED: On a recent :35 million families in the U. S. in | night, only 629 vagrants applied for 11940, 85 per cent had two children | shelter in British institutions. This ‘or less. The birth rate of 1942 also | was the lowest figure in 100 years. fell below the World War I standard | 16,911 were housed during the peak despite the recent record level. of the depression of 1932. TAXES: Nearly 40 million income DRAFT: Only employment in es- tax returns have been filed, the treas- | sential industry is now considered 'ury reported, and income tax pay- | grounds for draft deferment. DNe- ments for March approximated | pendency is no longer regarded as $4,500,000,000. a factor, What it takes fo move a division I the amount of railroad equipment it ’ : : and Washington. Many passenger trains, many freight trains —all required to move just ane division. For a division takes all its equipment with it— tanks, jeeps, armored cars, supply trucks, berth tractors, anti-aircraft guns, many things. And its men, numbering about 12,000, need berths in which to sleep! ing int +44 Or arrive at your % What's more, when this division moves by rail, it moves as a unit—that is, trains fol- lowing one another a few minutes apart. Now, in terms of trains, those 75 taken ont of civilian service and put into military ser- BUY UNITED STATES WAR BONDS AND STAMPS ° EE ————————— Prdinly this one division by the many mov- is country and you can understand why ...you may have difficult getting a -.. or be obliged to stand in a coach YW 29,842 in the Armed Forces One of America’s Railroads . . . All United for Victory | like. Housekeepi soldiers. For the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD Serving the Nobion YX 26 have given their lives for their country F, like the eagle, you could look down on vice, are about equal to the number of pas- fact, demand for equipment is now so great senger trains running daily over the Penn- that on arriving at terminals cars must be | takes to move a single armored division, sylvania Railroad between two of the busiest put right back into service, so you may find here is what you would see... 75 trains. Places on the face of the globe—New York them not quite so spic and span as we would ng facilities are adequate but there’s not always time. But Americans ar e taking all this like good y know this is a war of 5 movement, and that movement begins right destination late. In here—in America, on the rasls. pi FARM LABOR: New Plans Shortly after he had been sum- : { moned to Washington as the nT rom the Pennsylvania State new food administrator, Chester C. alists el ea ok 2 College Agricultural Roosevelt, Secretary of Agriculture | Horses Need Feed. Claude Wickard and farm leaders As a rule, work horses in the spr- to discuss means of handling the ing should be liberally fed, say live- Evuling soivis 1 (vm Tabor, Lat. ialists at the Pennsylvania er, President Roosevelt declared |5t0CK Spec : . State Colege. Unless the strength of that while Davis was not yet to the animals is maintained by proper make known his plans, it was rather | feeding, they will tire quickly ana definite that a strongly persuasive |, unable 15 stand the heavy work program to get draft-age men in| they are called on to do in the fields, nonessential pursuits to shift to war | Produce Pulpwood. jobs, including agriculture. | Pennsylvania's wood-pulp manu- | First objective would now be to | facturers fear that they will be short | get former experienced workers | Sout 75,000 cords of wood this your, back into dairying. It is here that | Extension foresters of the Pennsyl- the farm labor situation is most crit- [vania State College suggest that 7,- ical. Employment offices through- | 500 farmers each cut ten cords oh out the country are now listing | bu1pwood on days unfavorable for names of dairy farmers needing | general farm work during the nex: help and county war boards are (2. months. urging men between 38-45 with dairy | Grow Good Hybrids. or farm experience to seek re- Extension agronomists at the Penn employment at these places. [ State College report that good hy- Conscientious objectors may be | brid corns generally require less la- released from camps to take farm |bor in harvesting and will yield more jobs; men now classified 4F now on {corn per acre than most open-pollin- ated varieties. This, they consider, is | important item in solving the | present farm labor problem. Have Equipment Ready. Poultrymen who will receive their baby chicks within a few days should have all operating parts of brooders! and equipment checked and the broo- de roperating for several days, re- mind poultry specialists of the Penn- 1 sylvania State College. Plant Tested Varieties. Demonstrations have determined | which of the available potato varie- | ties are best in Pennsylvania, Penn | State agronomists urge growers 9 | [get information on locally adapted | varietits from county agricultural ex- | tension agents. ( Use Protein Wisely, Because of the shortage of pro-| | tein foods and the great need for ? | livestock feeding, Penn State dairy § | Specialists suggest that the protein | {be made to go as far as possible in| the dairy cattle ration. | | | } CLAUDE WICKARD wre Wn - The mounting crisis in farm labor OPA WANTS THE FARMER TO LIMIT USE OF FOOD nonessential jobs will be urged to et into essenti: ork; otiv . | got renal oi! Seen Price Administrator Prentiss M.| dairy experience will be urged 2g Brown will put farm families on their | get back im : : 2 e meat, butter, es ain oat fine of work) and [A70 20% 32 use eet, Sutton if these n 0 rork co Z g é ericans, war ast 900k urs gounyy | The Office of Price Administration of ex erienced dairy w iy Names will urge farmers to market most of ! have per Se a ois W 3 their produce and to retain for them- fis will be urged to ret 1980 wort selves only an amount equivalent to It Snr 9 Youn, what they would be able to buy in It is predicted that these general Ration Book No. 2 | Dathads vin be used in solving the | With farm families accounting for | = nd pro em in all other lines of million persons, officials admitted srmmg mn addition to dairying. that failure of this honor program Also in the offing is the organiza- tion of a “Jand army” to help har- jeould result in a serious loophole in | (the entire rationing system. If every | vest the nation’s food crops this | member of a farm family ate, for ex- | year. English speaking workers {ample, two pounds of butter a week | from the Bahama islands and Ja- {yore than the average ration of four | maica may be brought in for work | ounces, the loss to the nation would | in the East and Mexicans may be run to at least 168 million pounds a used in the Southwest, ERED... year. Similarly an extra pound of WEEK FARM CALENDA jest a week over the ration of two | k and one-quarter pounds would mean | consumption of an extra 624 million | pounds of meat annually. Ne. —Buy bonds and stamps and Save! i a ——— —— LILLY GETS $8,000. State Treasurer G. 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