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THURSDAY. AUGUST 13, ioi THE BEAUFORT NEWS, BEAUFORT, N. C. PAGE TWO WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Red Communiques Admit Grave Peril As New Flank Attacks Harass Nazis; CIO President Proposes Peace Plan; Cargo Planes Get Qualified Approval (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinion! r expressed In those column, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily o( this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. One of Uncle Sam's newest weapons for the armored force, the Ml tank, is shown on special demonstration at Fort Knox, Ky. Here the 28 ton tank plows through a barn to demonstrate its ability to negotiate obstacles. It has a 75-mm. cannon in a revolving turret and a completely welded hull. RUSSIA: Flank Tactics While Moscow's official radio was telling the Germans in their own language that the United States and Russia had come to their agreement on the creation of the second front in 1942, Soviet troops were busy wiyi flank attacks on the Nazi forces all along the 300-mile Don river front. German drives had pushed far be yond Rostov, toward the Caucasus, but the Russians were claiming that their new flank attacks were netting a terrific toll of Nazi tanks and men. At Voronezh, northern anchor of the Don front, the Russians had been holding out doggedly while their col umns were being pushed back In the other sectors. If Germans In the homeland had been listening to the Russian radio tell of the coming of the second front, they heard too that their coun try would be confronted with 15,000, 000 men, 85,000 tanks, 100,000 guns, and 50,000 airplanes. But this was brave talk for even the official Rus sian communiques admitted the gravity of their nation's peril. Most feared was a Nazi break-through in the center of the Caucasus front. This would more than likely mean that the so-far orderly Russian re treat would stand a chance of being turned into a rout a result that would be disastrous for the cause of the United Nations. Soviet officials had other troubles, too. There were reports out of the Don valley that large rings of fifth columnists had been uncovered. Many of the spies in these groups were quickly executed as they were caught trying to co-operate with Nazi parachute troops who were dropping behind the Soviet main lines. Meanwhile, through England and the United States the cry was get ting louder for military officials to establish the much-discussed second front. From widely diversified groups and sections came the urg ing. There was considerable agita tion for this move for many people feared the United Nations would suf fer a most severe blow should Rus sia fail to last the year on the Euro pean side of the Ural mountains. ALEUTIANS: 10,000 Japs Breaking an official silence, a navy spokesman officially estimat ed that the Japanese have succeeded in putting "not more than 10,000" troops into the Aleutian island area and at the same time announced there was no evidence that the Pribilof island to the north had been occupied by the Nipponese. The statement came in answer to a report made by the Alaskan dele gate to congress, Anthony J. Dimond, that between 20,000 and 25,000 Jap troops were on the Aleu tians and that the Pribilofs had been occupied. Questioned about Dimond's re ports, the spokesman said that "we believe that not more than 10,000 Japanese are in the Aleutians, prob ably one-half ashore and one-half afloat." The Japs gained a foothold in the Aleutians on June 3. So far, the navy has confirmed the presence of Japs only on three of the islands: Attu, Agattu and Kiska, at the west ern end of the chain. The Pribilofs are in the Bering sea, and consist of four islands: St. Paul, St George, Otter and Waldrus. The latter two are small and uninhabited. PETRILLO SAYS 'NO': To Davis Plea "l cannot grant your request to cancel the notice that the AFM members will not play for transcrip tions or records." With those words, James C Petrillo, president of the American Federation of Musicians, refused a request by Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Information, to rescind his ban against the making of new phonograph records or radio transcriptions for commercial pur poses by union members. PEACE PLAN: For CIO-AFL A proposal that the Congress for Industrial Organization and the American Federation of Labor "ini tiate discussions regarding possible establishment of organic unity" was made by Philip Murray, CIO presi dent, in a letter to William Green, AFL chief. Peace proposals between the two organizations have been discussed for several months as a step toward speeding war production. In his letter, Murray proposed the estab lishment of a committee composed of representatives of both organiza tions, with an impartial arbitrator, to settle all jurisdictional disputes between the two groups. Murray named a committee of three to discuss the problem of "or ganic unity." He named himself, R. J. Thomas, president of the CIO United Automobile Workers, and Julius Emspak, secretary of the United Radio and Machine Workers union. BEEF: Two Varieties In butchershops from the Bronx to Boise there was considerable beef ing about beef. Beef was high. Beef was hard to get. What was the trouble? President Roosevelt told his press conference there were three main reasons for the current meat short age: (1) this is the off-season for beef; (2) people have more purchas ing power now, with which to buy better cuts of meat; and (3) around 4,000,000 men under arms are now eating much more meat than they ever ate on their own dinner tables at home. Meanwhile Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard reported that there may be some relief in the temporary beef shortage this fall when more cattle are brought in off the range. But other sources looked with dis favor on what effect this would have on the normal spring beef market. GIANT PLANES: From Shipyards There was a new answer to the shipping problems of the United Na tions looming on the horizon. It was an unofficial agreement from the War Production board to give the "green light" to plans of Henry K. Kaiser, West Coast shipbuilder, to build giant cargo and troop trans port planes in nine of the nation's shipyards. First hitch to be overcome in the suggested set-up was the granting of authority by military officials to re lease engines and other parts need ed in the building of aircraft for the army and navy. Donald Nelson, WPB head, ap peared to be willing to proceed with the plan if these materials could be obtained without hampering the war effort. This came as a surprise as WPB first voiced skepticism on the plan. Kaiser's idea calls for the conver sion of three shipyards on each coast to produce 5,000 flying boats a year. The ships would be of 100-ton de sign fashioned after the 70-ton fly ing boat Mars, now in active use. Support of Glenn Martin, Baltimore bomber builder, Tom Girdler, steel magnate and all others with knowl edge of production problems of plane building would be sought, ac cording to Kaiser. After Kaiser had discussed the idea with Nelson he appeared be fore a senate military subcommit tee to testify and Nelson later issued a statement stating that the WPB was willing to "co-operate to the limit in any practical way for in creasing the effectiveness of our . . . transportation systems." At the same time, James H. R. Cromwell, former U. S. minister to Canada, was proposing that Kaiser be made "czar of air transporta tion." He said: "If we can't get sup plies to the fronts by air transport we are going to lose this war." AIR MONSTERS: Things to Come Reading like a tale from the pen of Jules Verne, the story of two super-gigantic cargo planes was un folded in Washington by aviation en gineers. Senate committees heard the stories. Details of a huge plywood plane were disclosed by Dr. W. W. Christ mas, technical aviation engineer. The plywood carrier, weighing 1,120,000 pounds, would be both a cargo and battle plane. It would be a 60,000 horsepower, two hull plane with 400 foot wingspread and with wings 16 feet thick, with a speed of about 350 miles an hour. It would carry 3.000 men. It would carry a rack of torpedoes weighing 20,000 pounds. Dr. Christmas pointed out that the torpedoes would have a striking force of 19,000,000 pounds when dropped. "A battleship deck would be like wet paper when one of these bombs hit it," he said. The second plane was a revolu tionary type of amphibian flying cargo plane, which would be lifted and propelled by a combination of engines, helium gas and air tunnels. The engineers are Horace Chapman Young and Eric Langlands of the Aerodynamics Research corpora tion. A single wing combination cargo-fighter-carrier, the plane would have a flying deck of approximately 200 feet, from which 12 fighter planes could take off. It would carry enough helium gas to lift 36 tons and with its engines could lift 70 tons. Four tunnels would run through the wing. Engineers in these tunnels would create a semi- vacuum, whose suction would sup ply pulling power while the propel lers gave it thrusting power. Its speed would be about 200 miles an hour. LADIES: Of the Navy Waves is not a new word to U. S. navy men but in the future sailors will have to think twice be fore using it. For this is the name being given to the Navy's woman's auxiliary, counter-part of the army's WAAC. Now officially organized, the Waves plan to enlist 10,000. First call was for 1,000 women, prefera bly bachelor girls, to volunteer as officer candidates. Miss Mildred McAfee, 42, presi dent of Wellesley college, Wellesley, Mass., is being chosen head of the feminine navy unit and will hold the rank of lieutenant commander. While there appeared to be a pref erence for single girls, married women are not prohibited from vol unteering. Unmarried women will have to agree not to marry while in training a one-month period. Waves will be assigned to desk or administrative jobs to release men for active sea duty. Rationing Student John Leigh, gas station attendant in Washington, is pictured studying rationing rules. When Price Admin istrator Leon Henderson ran out of gas, Leigh refused to fill a can for him. Henderson later proved that such an act would not be a violation of the regulations, but his proof came too late. He already had been forced to take a taxi. MISCELLANY: COUSINS: Conklin Mann, New York genealogist who discovered last month that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are eighth cousins once removed, an nounced that he had found the Presi dent to be a sixth cousin once re moved of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur. MARKETING: U. S. farmers in the first half of 1942 marketed prod ucts totaling $5,773,000,000, accord ing to a department of agriculture estimate. This compares with $4,012, 000,000 for the same period in 1941. FATS: The Office of Price Ad ministration has set a ceiling of four cents a pound on waste kitchen fats now being sold by housewives to retail meat markets in the na tional salvage campaign. GASLESS: Pleasure driving is practically a thing of the past in Britain. As of August 1, gasoline is sold only to business and profession al automobiles, DEATH: Maj. Gen. Julius von Bernauth, German tank expert, was killed In action on the Russian front, it was announced on a Nazi broadcast. i !- - Tank Maintenance This sequence p , of photoeraphs I 4. "iSS Cr, "."Vi sLL thloler. y"& .?X 'fS nance tank main- ffffft y- ' tenance crew $7-J- ' . j - training for t- '-".j their job. Trapped in a I A v swampy hole ?v? -WV- i this medium P? J tank (at right) Jj--- 1 fz 4 awaits a salvage w-f, crew. The men l; Vl f s! are trained tin- L . s j der combat con- If a V I v J J Jif ions. f U . . t , i I P ' " $?Mr-;4 VICTORY I ylfl - Ar jhfarf'? 1 Wl ft i mxt cy H. ..... y.t r, t ,1 - fiWr "Here she comes, boyst" A ir MBS.V - yC If -if An ordnance maintenance officer directs repair of the tank in a camouflaged position in the "combat" zone. The machine shop on wheels carries the tools, machinery and spare parts needed for remir mm This tank track is rolled up soldier's job to do what the sign iT' - f. ', A wall of water is "crashed" V S k i h -m. , - dr -b motor truck powers the winch. Mm) Y Tanks arc powered by engines similar to ' 7 those used in aircraft. awaiting repairs. It's the ordnance says. 1 by this hard-hitting army tank. TV 17 i 1 i f A kj Ji DR IW PEAASON Washington, D. C. WAGE STABILIZATION You can write it down that the President will use his executive powers to keep wages in check rather than ask congress for any new legislation dealing with wage stablization. There are two reasons for this: (1) Wage control legislation would be sure to stir up another bitter congressional controversy, as bad or worse than the brawl over farm parity prices. It might even re quire months to get both houses to agree on a bill satisfactory to the administration. (2) The President believes that the policy proposed by the War Labor board's recent steel wage decision limiting wage increases to 15 per cent over scales prevailing on Janu ary 1, 1941 plus additional ration ing of consumer goods, will be suf ficient for the time being to brake inflation threats to the working man's pocketbook. Inside fact is that the War Labor board is contemplating only one fur ther step in its wage stabilization program, and this is not so much an anti-inlation move as a conces sion to certain labor groups and a contribution to the prosecution of the war. Wages in certain industries, in cluding shipyards and tool-and-die plants, are above the 15 per cent in crease ceiling set by the board. This raises the question shall wages in these industries be brought down to conform with scales in other war plants which pay below the ceiling? The answer is there will be no reduction in wages. The President has decided definitely against this. Instead, to prevent piracy and mi gration of workers away from vital war plants paying below the 15 per cent ceiling, the War Labor board Is planning to amend its wage policy to permit the payment of "premi um wages" (above the ceiling) in such plants. Note: One industry sure to be al lowed "premium wages" is aircraft, which has lost many workmen, by piracy and migration, to higher-paying shipyards. NEW ARMY FOOD To save shipping space, the arm is sending food overseas in dehy drated form. Experiments in taste preserving dehydration have been carried out and tested on a group of army cooks. At the Chicago depot of the quar termaster corps, the cooks sat down to a meal of dehydrated foods, prin cipal item on the menu being scram bled eggs made by adding water to a yellow powder. It has been discovered that one pound of dehydrated turnips will serve 28 persons, after water is added. BEHIND THE AIR CORPS This war will be won or lost in the air. But despite that fact the air forces will win or lose the war on the ground. In other words, the success of operations in the air de pends on ground crews, who out number air crews ten to one. Featured in the headlines and the newsreels every day are the pilots and machine gunners. But the un sung heroes of this war are the ground crews. - Real fact is that it takes only one man to pilot a fighter plane, but it takes eight or ten maintenance men to keep it in shape to fight. A four engine bomber requires a flying crew of nine, and a maintenance crew of 25. Often a ground crew will be assigned exclusively to one plane, and will become attached to it with the affection a stable boy has for a race horse. Chief of Staff General Marshall has revealed that the over-all strength of the air force is expected to reach 1,000,000 men by the end of 1942, and 2.000.000 by the end of next year. If the war is won in 1943, It will be won by these 2,000,000 men. But 1,800,000 of them will be "fight ing" on the ground. They are the overall-boys, the grease monkeys, the men who spend all day overhauling an engine which has been flying all night, the men who know what heat is like In the deserts of Africa, because they don't get up in the air for relief, as do the pilots. OVERSEAS CANDY The quartermaster corps if In the market to buy 2,500,000 pounds of hard candy: peppermint, orange, lemon, lime, anise, and cherry. The hard candy is being bought for overseas troops, as part of the regular field ration. Official expla nation is that candy is an excellent source of energy. AFRICAN CAMEL CSEWS They arc the mechanics, the ar morers, the metal workers, the welders yes, and they are the pick and shovel men who build the land ing fields in foreign posts, and re pair them after enemy bombers have passed over. They are also the cooks and the mess boys, the pay masters, the doctors, and the truck drivers. In short, they are the men who perform every duty that keeps a plane in the air. They do everything except replace he African camels. SUNDAY International U SCHOOl : LESSON B HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST D n Of Th Moody Bible Institute oj'chioli. (Released by Western Newspaper UnJoJft Lesson for August 16 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts lected and copyrighted by InternotiniJTi Council of Religious Education! useo nS permission. u " ISAAC PRACTICES PEACE ! LESSON TEXT Genesis 26:18-31 GOLDEN TEXT Blessed are' the peacemakers: for they shall be ciUed me uuuuicij ui uuu. maunew 9:9, To talk peace in a warring world seems almost futile, and so it is unless it be the peace of God. In t world largely dominated by th philosophy that might makes right, and in which men demand what they call their rights, taking them even by lawless and violent methods, it is increasingly difficult to proclaim the truth that patience and meek ness are not weakness, but are Christian virtues worth emulating. The story of Isaac is interesting from beginning to end. He was an ordinary man, one of the common people. He had come through va ried experiences of victory and de feat before the time of our lesson. Fearing a famine, and apparently not trusting God at the moment, he had gone down from the prom ised land to the country of the Philistines, there redigging the well which his father Abraham had dug. The result was that he pros pered. Ere long, however, envy on the part of his enemies taught Isaac that I. Peace In This World Is Tem porary (w. 18-21). Isaac had prospered, but he was till out of the promised land, and while he was in the land of Philistines he could expect no permanent peace. We are in the world. We long for peace, and would throw all our influence and service into the cause of bringing a righteous peace to the troubled peoples of the world. But let us not be misled by that desire into the support of unscrlptural and impossible peace programs. This world is a sinful world, and as long as that is true, there will be strife and war, that men (at James putt it) may have the gains thereof for their own pleasure. Our business in such a world is to preach the gospel of grace, win ning men to Christ, that they may become men of good-will. Isaac was such a man, willing to yield even what seemed to be his right, rather than cause contention. Undoubtedly there are times when one must defend his name and his possession, but all too often those who do "stand for their rights" have wrecked homes, churches, and nations, and have gained nothing but an empty victory. The peace of this world is tem porary. Is there then no real abid ing peace and joy? II. Abiding Joy Is Found In Fel lowship With God (w. 22-25). When Isaac came up into Canaan, the land which God had promised to him, he found real peace and an abiding joy in renewed fellow ship with God. Even so, the Chris tian man and woman who will step out of a spiritually destructive fel lowship with the ungodly world and come over wholeheartedly into the spiritual Canaan of full consecration and separate living, will find true peace and satisfying commu nion with God. . Our thought, however, has wider application one much needed today. There is to come a time when this world will have true and abiding peace which shall cover the earth like the waters cover the sea. When the One who has the right to reign, the Lord Jesus Christ, returns to take His throne, then, and not be fore, will there be true peace. We await that day with longing which grows more intense as men grow more violent in their hatred. But is there nothing more we can do? Yes, we learn from Isaac' experience that in. A Godly Life Is a Testimony to Warring Men (w. 26-31). These men were wicked men, even speaking falsehood in their claim of friendship toward Isaac (v. 29). Now that they perceived that God was continually blessing Isaac in apite of their repeated injustice toward him, they decided that it would be well to make a covenant of friendship with him. Even those who follow the way of war and ag gression cannot deny the effective ness of true Christian testimony. Observe also that by his patience and kindness Isaac ultimately made friends out of his enemies. "It is better to turn enemies into friends than to beat them, and have them enemies still." And so this man with the patient, self-sacrificing spirit brought peace not only to himself, but to those about him, be cause he believed and trusted God. "When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at eace with him" (Pro v. 16:7). What can we do to bring peace today? We can pray that God will help America and her allied cations to turn to Him in repentance of sin, and in a desire to so honor Hit name that He may be able to give His blessing. When Hezekiah spread be fore the Lord the threat of hi enemy, God undertook for him in a mighty way, because his heart waf right toward God (Isa. 87:14-20). Will be do less for us?
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