Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 12, Number 11, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 January 1942 — Page 3

WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Speed Up of U. S. War Production And Reports of Russian Victories Cheer Allied Nations, Although Axis Gains in Malaya and Philippines

(EDITOR’S NOTE—When opinion! nro expressed in these colnmns, the? nr* tbeee es the news analyst and net necessarily es this newspaper.) ________________ (Released by Western Newspaper Union.)

JESSE JONES—RFC administrator and secretary of commerce, pictured sitting on desk as he listens to Representative Dingell of Michigan charging that the army was building new production plants while many others were idle.

THE WAR: l p and Dotcn . The war had become an up and down, affair, with the Russians winning hll along their huge front, the British gaining victories in North Africa with the Germans on the run, and the Japanese generally in the ascendancy on the Philippine and Singapore fronts, but taking a continued whipping at the hands of the Chinese. Such was the situation as there was'no longer any question but that the large and well-equipped army of the United States was on the move to join battle actively in the war, though the detailed . whereabouts of that participation was still a closely guarded secret. Estimates of when the tide of the battle of the ABCD forces against the Japanese in the southwest Pacific* would change varied considerably. Some observers felt it would be weeks, others .months, some who were more pessimistic felt it would be a year before enough American pressure could be brought to bear to produce a definite change in the battle. But that victory would be won in the end, nobody seemed to doubt. They watched the United States moving troops and ships, producing faster and faster more powerful armaments, moving to put new soldiers and sailors into uniform, and could see but one result, eventual victory, perhaps in 1943. RUSSIA: Brightest Spot The Russian front continued to furnish the brightest picture from the Allied standpoint. Moscow had begun to report mass surrenders of German troops without fighting: The Reds also reported large masses of Nazi soldiers in rapid retreat to the southwest from the upper central front, abandoning much war material. The sieges of Sevastopol and Leningrad have definitely been broken, and their garrisons had swept out beyond the city borders to engage retreating Germans and to attempt to form junctions with other Russian troops.. The radio broadcasts picked up from Germany tacitly admitted the situation was serious. One described it as a "crisis, but one with which Adolf Hitler will know how to deal.” Hitler was believed to be planning some sort of major coup, but the nature of it could not be guessed at. He also was variously reported as facing tremendous internal sure as a result of his break with Von Brauchitsch. There also had been reports, that crack German reinforcements were being flown by gliders to the Russian front to attempt to bolster the cracking Nazi defenses. MAC \RTHIR: Tough Only fragmentary reports at wide intervals, test rnony to the increasing difficulties of communications, Were coming from the Philippines. Some military commentators saw hope for General Mac Arthur and his defending forces if they could hold out for three weeks more. * But this was admittedly problematical. How much in the way of supplies snd munitions the MacArthur arm : y had was one question. Another was how long these supplies and munitions would continue to get to him. Admittedly the Filipino-American troops had all the advantage of terrain and superior position. The Marivales mountain range, which they were defending, was lofty, provided much natural fortification, and tactically was the planned line of defense from the outset. This worked out as planned. .

Two government officials “on edge”?

By Edward C. Wayne

LEON HENDERSON—Price administrator, as he appeared before the senate committee on small business. He and representatives of the retail automobile trade are in search for means to cushion the economic shock which car dealers face.

MALAYA: ‘At .lirCosts' While the British were seriously being forced backward and ever backward in Malaya, losing the capital of the Federated Malay States, Kuala Lam pur. Sir Hr: r> Pownall. the commander in the'Singapore defense, made the statement that the British plan was divided into two general parts, first the slowing or stopping of the Japanese attack; second, the turning of the British to the offensive and driving the invaders out He said: *‘We are now engaged .'in the first of these activities.” Returning. British wounded, however, paid tribute to the fighting qualities of the Japs, and members of Commando groups said that when confronted with the cold steel the Japs would scramble up into tall trees, from which they would hurl grenades on the British ‘‘like monkeys with'explosive coconuts.” They were said to be adept at hiding in small places, and that at times furious fire would come from directions in which it did not seem possible * that soldiers could find cover. R.A.F. activity over the peninsula was constantly on the increase, however, and American-made bombers, some of them flown by Eagle fliers with the volunteer Chinese air force, w r ere bombing Japanese bases in Thailand and Indo-China from Burmese flying fields. The picture was not generally optimistic in Malaya, but it was regarded as far from hopeless, at least as present.. PRODUCTIOA: On Home Front All over the United States groups of workers w T ere getting together and adopting resolutions to speed up their effort, and some factories producing war materials were reporting as much as 70 per cent addbd output since the declaration of war. Ships of war w ere being launched and put into commission as rapidly as possible. The Liberty ships were going into the water at scores of shipyard ways. Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, received several large new gliders for test, gliders said to have a wingspread of 80 feet, probably capable of transporting soldiers in large numbers. Swiftly they had been put under test, their pilots from the new schools w'hich are training men to manage these motorless ships, which possibly may be towed in “trains” to be released over territory in which it is desired to land troops. In the invasion of Crete, Germany used hundreds of them, reportedly landing 15,000 troops that way, also large numbers of light field guns and ammunition. The newest glider training school is at Twenty-Nine Palms, Calif., turning out classes every four weeks, the students being already graduate pilots. The gliders were so large that in transporting them from factory to Wright field by trailer truck they had to be broken into two assemblies. PRICES: The price control bill finally was passed, but in such a form that it was said to have been a major defeat for the administration. Although the senate passed it 83 to 1, the farm-relief amendment passed only 55 to 31. As the bill went into conference it provided, according to opposition senators, such possible farm price raises that the cost of living could reasonably advance 25 per cent before the price control administrator could do anything about it.

THE KANKAKEE VALEEV I*OST

'Tin Ear’

TROY. N. Y.—Dr. Donald A. Wilbur of Rensselaer Polytechnic institute is shoun testing a sound detector hastily constructed in the institute's physics laboratory to determine how effectively such cheaply built devices might be adopted throughout the country by air raid spotters. A few boards, a phonograph horn. a microphone and a bat-tery-operated amplifier and ear phones are the ingredients of the del '( tor that can pick up the sound of bombers five to t('n miles distant .

DEFENSE: Reorganization President Roosevelt : ecogmzcd growing congressional dissatisfaction over the Civilian Defense team, comprised of Mayor La Guardi a and Mrs. Roosevelt, and while he did not take LaGuardias title of director away from him, he brought Dean James M. Landis- of the vard law' school dow r n to Washing ton to take actual charge. The house had made discreet representations to the President that Mayor LaGuardia, as head of the nation’s largest city, had plenty to do to see that New York's defense situation was cared for, and had no time to see to the country as a whole. They also hinted around that Mrs. Roosevelt' could only be considered a part-time executive, and that the OCD needed hard work and 8 full « They recbmmerided.it be put into the hands of the war department. President Roosevelt’s answer was Dean Landis,, but in the meantime the house voted an inquiry into the manner in w’hich the problem had been handled. Mayor LaGuardia. Mrs. Roosevelt and Paul V. McNutt had been summoned to testify. SHORTAGES: U. .S. Feels Finch One after another shortages or various commodities and manufactured products began to be felt, and the average . American began to feel the pinch of war as he never had felt it even at the height'of the last World war. Some of these shortages could be traced to lack of raw material from the south Pacific; others to the demands of the war upon industry, still others on both. First came the rubber shortage and, the consequent rationing ol tires, directly due to the Philippine situation; second was the abrupt ending of production of new passenger cars and commercial jtrucks. and the rationing of them. In line with this came difliculties in delivering .milk and; other commodities in larger cities and towns. The cut-off in sugar caused a price rise, and the government moved to buy in the major portion of the Cuban crop. In many cities this precipitated a panicky purchasing of .sugar, with the result that grocers started rationing it them selves. It also was reported that there soon would be instituted the rationing of spark plugs and batteries, probably of other manufactured goods associated with the auto in dustry.

MISCELLANY.

Santa Barbara, Calif.: Mickey Rooney, No. 1 film star, married a little-known 19-year-old movie actress, Ava Gardner from i North Carolina. New York: Joe Louis defeated Buddy Baer in a one-round knockout and then had announced, he would enlist in the army, not waiting fpr the draft. „ Rangoon, Burma: A Japanese a : raid threw three elephants into a panic and they stampeded, causing considerable confusion before they were recaptured. Rome: Italy had confiscated the entire filling station network of the Texas company within its borders, it had been announced. London: Britain was still further cutting its food ration as the demands began to flood in from the South Pacific campaign. Tokyo (by radio) : A 30 per cent tax increase has been necessary in Japan to finance the new war expenditures, it was announced. Berlin: Dispatches from Tokyo told of Seueo Oye, famous Jap polevaulter, being killed in action as he led a landing party on Luzon.

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