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It’s Possible but Slowness Of Tunisian Push Makes It Unlikely.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent T.ONDON, April 9.—Hitler can be beaten in 1943, but the odds are strongly against it, a synopsis of the

here showed today. This realistic view is based on the

perienice of Britain, the United States and Russia thus far against the Wehrmacht, an assessment of Germany's potential war material reserves and a factual analysis of the number of troops Hitler still has

vasion of Europe. Experts are inclined to think that the jokers in the woodpile may be allied air power and the Red Army’s recuperative power, but at the same time they point out that Nazi air power did not lick Britain—a much more compact target than vast axis Europe—and even the Russian offensive did not quite even the ‘score in 1942 or 1943 for the Nazis’ summer victories. Allied combat experience largely has been confined to Africa, where it is noteworthy that German Marshal Erwin Rommel’s strength sel-

divisions plus a fluctuating number of Italians. Despite this comparatively little strength, Rommel] has managed to maintain a field against the allies for five months against forces which uniformly were larger than his and it may be several months more before he is completely defeated. Maintains Ratio These figures are most revealing when placed beside the forces Germany has available for the defense of Europe. Best estimates indicate that’ Germany and Italy have between 300 and 325 divisions—probably 4,500,000 to. 6,000,000 fighting men. In addition, they have pos-

ing roughly 750,000 troops who probably are able to stand front-line combat, - plus considerable others lacking in equipment ahd experi-

If the Germans went to the full defensive, the eastern front prob-! ably could be held with. 150 Nazi divisions, plus a score of satellite divisions. © That would mean a withdrawal to the Dnieper line to shorten the front sufficiently so

sion per 10 miles could be maintained. The axis now has about 80 divisions stationed in Norway and the Balkans and it is presumed that regardless of where the allied “invasion hits, it would be necessary to continue this number of occupation troops. However, if the invasion hit either of those points, occupation troops could be drawn in for front-line fighting. It therefore is believed: that the axis has available something like 200 divisions—roughly 3,000,000 troops—which would be available for meeting the allied western threats. In view of the time it has taken to cope with Rommel’s small force, it is difficult to find optimism in predicting. greater speed and greater strength against the full ‘Wehrmacht,

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fore the house small business committee, together with Food Administrator Chester C. Davis. They agreed that there will be strong sentiment for imposition of price ceilings on live animals in view of the president's new order, and Brown believed such Yegulations might be issued. Brown said he personally was anxious to put ceilings on live

animal prices but that they would have to be approved by Davis.

Some Prices May Drop

Byrnes indicated that Davis would have considerable authority = to regulate food prices. Application of specific ceilings to fresh vegetables, he said, would be up to the food administrator, as would regulation of farm labor wages. : Byrnes said an effort will be made to reduce prices in a number of cases. This also will be undertaken by Price Administrator Brown, he said. Mr. Roosevelt characterized the entire program to combat inflation as a four-legged stool. The legs he enumerated were: 1. Control of wages. 2. Control of food prices. 3. Rationing. 4. Decrease of purchasing power through taxation and savings.

‘Hits Luxury Buying

The president said that because so many people had a great deal more cash in their pockets than they have ever had befpre, there was too much luxury buying. He said the administration's goal for the new fiscal year still stood at $16,000,000,000 in additional revenue. Congress received cautiously Mr. Roosevelt's sharply-worded warning

flation or face the consequences of & runaway inflation. Most congressmen wanted to study the executive order carefully before commenting. Immediate congressional reaction indicated that the president would get support from divergent groups for his objectives, but there were rumbling of possibly si’ ong opposition. S lites “Loopholes”

Senat. ason D. Smith (D.; 8S. C.), a lea...r of the farm bloc, said “I honestly don’t know what the president’s driving at.” «I notice the order provides a lot of loopholes permitting increases of both wages and prices in special cases,” he added. “Isn't the president breaking the stabilization line right there?” But Mr. Roosevelt, in a statement accompanying the executive order, made it unmistakably clear that he plans to fight it out with congress to assure continuance on an even more stringent basis of the anti-inflation program he set up last fall when he made Byrnes the director of economic stabilization. “I am exerting every power I possess to preserve our stabilization program,’ Mr. Roosevelt said. “I am sure the congress will co-op-erate.”

What the Order Provides

Specifically, Mr. Roosevelt's executive order provided: 1. Price Administrator Prentiss I. Brown and Food Administrator Chester .C. Davis are to have control over all prices and were instructed immediately to place ceiling prices “on all commodities affecting the cost of living.” Any further increase in ceiling prices was banned “except to the minimum extent required by law.” If congress wants the farmer to get more money for his crops, congress must provide for it with subsidy money.

Upholds Little Steel Formula

2. The war labor board was directed “to authorize no further increases in wages or salaries except such as are clearly necessary to correct substandards of living” and aside from ‘veasonable adjustments of wages and salaries in case of promotions, rec tions, merit increases, incentive or the like.” Mr. Roosevelt also specifically provided that the “little steel formula” of wage stabilization be re-

{ tained by the WLB as its primary

yardstick, labor demands for abandonment of the formula to the con-

to help hold the line against in-|°

A 3. War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V. McNutt was told

ployer of any new employee or the acceptance of employment by a new employee” except as authorized by WMC regulations. The purpose of this order, the president said, was to prevent job switching for higher wages “unless the change of employment would aid in the effective prosecution of the war.”

Byrnes’ Powers Restated

4. Federal, state and local governments were told that common carrier or public utility rates inconsistent with the economic stabilization program would be “disapproved and rate reductions effected.” , 5. The ‘broad powers of Byrnes were restated, particularly his authority “to stabilize the national economy, to maintain and increase production and to aid in the effective prosecution of the war.” The war labor board took the first step to implement the president’s order. It telegraphed all regional offices to approve no further wage increases unless clearly within the little steel formula.

Gives General Warning

President Roosevelt's statement was a general warning to all special groups such as the congressional farm bloc and labor that competition for higher prices and wages must end because the resulting conflict will “not: only cause inflation but will breed disunity at a time when unity is essential.” “The only way to hold the line,” he said, “is to stop trying to.find justifications for not holding the! line here and not holding it there | . . we cannot afford to take further | We,

chances in relaxing the line. have already taken too many.” That was regarded as a definite slap at recent demands by farm and labor groups—agriculture asking for improved price positions and labor asking for higher wages and for de-! pression of retail prices.

Senate Rebuke Seen One section of the president's

statement was a rebuke to the | senate for recent tactics on the vetoed Bankhead bill to exclude

farm benefit payments from the

that measure as a challenge, Noting that the bill had been sent back: to the committee and that it may! be brought out for consideration again weeks or months hence, Mr. Roosevelt said:

by a president and recommitted to a committee has ever become a! law. “I cannot wait to see whether) the committee at some future date will again report the bill to the senate. I cannot permit a continu-| ance of the upward spiral of i prices.” The price control provisions of his order were expansive, according to his own description. “All items affecting the cost of living are to be brought under con-! trol,” he said. “No further price increases are to be sanctioned un-' less imperatively required by law.” “There are to be no further increases in wage rates,” he said, “or salaries’

of living.”

At first glance, this statement seemed to be “a challenge and a! promise for John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers! who has been demanding a $2 daily increase for his members. It would appear to har the $2-a-day flat

rumors. that Lewis might accept a compromise on the so-called portal-to-portal issue. That would provide that miners be paid from the time they arrive at the mine head until they leave the mine head, instead of the pres-

paid from the time they reach the coal vein and until they leave .it. In some cases that would give the miners a wage increase comparable to their demands without mining any more coal. Such a compromise might be approved under the “substandard” provision of the new

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ATTACKS SHIFT

lzyum Blows Dwindle, and Balakleya Zone Flares

Into Action.

MOSCOW, April 9 (U, P.).—The red army has killed nearly 1000 enemy troops in repulsing a series of German attacks along a 30-mile stretch of the Donets river below Kharkov in the past 24 hours, the Soviets announced today. Some 750 of the enemy were slain in fighting south of Balakleya, where the Germans shifted the main weight of their Donets attacks iollowing repeated failures to dislodge the Soviets from their south bank bridgehead below Izyum, 27 miles to the southeast. Upwards of 1000 German infantrymen, supported by 12 tanks, moved against the Russian lines below Balakleya, 45 miles southeast of Kharkov, yesterday, but were thrown back in disorder by an intensive Russian artillery and mortar barrage. Taking advantage of the chaos, the Russians counter-attacked and pursued-the axis troops back to their original positions. Axis forces also launched smallscale attacks south of Izyum, but were repulsed with a loss of 200 men,

ELWOOD TEACHER DEAD ELWOOD, Ind. April 9 (U. P.)— Funeral services were arranged today for William F. Smith, 63, high school English teacher and former city school superintendent who died Jestarday.

GERMAN DONETS Pacific Lull Ended as Japs

Strike Frantically in South

WASHINGTON, April 9 (U. P). —The long lull on the Pacific battlefront has ended and both American and Japanese are exchanging increasingly powerful blows. Some authorities expressed belief today that increased air activity portends renewal of the Pacific struggle on a major scale. The- Japanese have initiated most of the aggressive moves in recent days, but certain quarters suggest that the enemy is doing so to prevent American interference with their efforts to strengthen the “armored” defense perimeter around Japan's stolen empire. Military sources at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Australia today Japanese air stren dering. the MacA had been increase cent in the first ti this year. The navy annouriced here today that another American bombing attack had been made on the enemy air base at Kahili in the northwestern Solomons, one of the places where enemy strength has been greatly reinforced.

Japs Seem Desperate

The Japanese have appeared almost frantic in their efforts to reinforce air, naval and ground strength at their ring of bases, especially in the southwest Pacific, since the recent conference of highranking Pacific military and naval officers here. And this, observers believe, indicates that the enemy fears a big American offensive. War Secretary Henry L. Stimson in his weekly press conference re-

in bases borur command about 80 per ee months of

‘ headquarters in| stimated that

view ofthe War said that the United States also has increased its air strength in those areas “and further increased are in prospect.” (A dispatch from Gen, Douglas MacArthur's headquarters quoted an authoritative source as estimate ing that there is a reserve of 10,000 combat planes in the United States over and above lend-lease commit-

fronts. Four of MacArthur's aids recently returned to Australia after

dispatch of more materials to the southwest Pacific. The war departe ment had no comment on the esti mate of the reserve combat planes),

Wednesday's 98-plane raid was one of the largest air assaults ate tempted by the Japanese since the marines first invaded the Solomons last Aug. 7. The Japanese in a communique said their planes sank a cruiser, a destroyer and 10 transports near Florida island in the Solomons Wednesday — presumably the ene gagement reported by Washington, The navy today corrected its fig« ure of 37 Japanese planes shot down in this encounter to 34. Although the navy did not say whether any American ships were hit by the raiding force, which ine cluded 50 bombers and 48 zeros, there appeared to be no signs of gloom around the nivy department, Only 7 American planes were lost. Planes under Gen. Douglas Mace Arthur's command continued thelr

catching 12 barges and a small ware ship off the Dutch New Guinea south coast, hitting three with

bombs and Ling the warship.

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