Current Events November 12, 1943; Post-War Planing:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 12, 1943:

Business and industry must em-bark immediately upon a bold and intelligent program of post-war planning that will provide between seven and 10 million more peace time jobs than in 1940, if private  initiative and enterprise are to continue to flourish and the United States is to have a dynamic economy of ever-expanding opportunity based upon increased productivity instead of an economy of fear and scarcity with resultant unemployment and government job doles. Paul G. Hoffman, president of the Studebaker corporation, told the newly-formed Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan at its first dinner meeting last night at the Whitcomb hotel in St. Joseph.

Signs from the South Pacific today pointed toward an imminent assault against the Japanese from three quarters—all aimed in the general direction of Tokyo.
American forces are in the final stages of preparations for a coordinated drive to slash off the southern and richest half of the enemy's conquered empire and at the same time gain new footholds for further strides toward .the Japanese mainland.

Loss of the destroyers Beatty in the Mediterranean as a result oaerial bombing was announced today by the Navy. The 1700-ton Beatty went down Nov. 6, but no details were given about the attack by German planes

Russian armies advancing on the approaches of Zhitomir today reacled the halfway mark from Stalingrad to Berlin in a sustained, nine months drive of 700 miles from that heap of Volga rubble to the western Ukraine.
They fought their way 60 miles west of Kiev to less than 30 miles from the last north-south, railway the Germans hold in Russia.

                                      The News Palladium
                             BENTON HARBOR, MICH., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1943

       MAKE POST WAR PLANS NOW--HOFFMAN
  Stage Set For Knockout Blows In Pacific

Tokyo Is Goal
Of  3-Way Drive
About To Start
'Our Time Has Come To
     Attack!' Declares
      Admiral Nimitz
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOVPER
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—(AP)—
Signs from the South Pacific today pointed toward an imminent assault against the Japanese from three quarters—all aimed in the general direction of Tokyo.
American forces are in the final stages of preparations for a coordinated drive to slash off the southern and richest half of the enemy's conquered empire and at the same time gain new footholds for further strides toward .the Japanese mainland.
In two areas other than the South Pacific-Australian zone of current operations Allied leaders have been massing their striking power for months. One of these potential theaters is the central Pacific under command of AdmiralChester W. Nimitz; the other is the India-Burma area under Britain's
commando expert, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten.
                                                                 Strategy Unfolds
Informed belief here is that Nimitz and Mountbatten will throw their forces into action in coordination
with major operations by General Douglas MacArthur in the south .This1 would bring 'maximumpressure to bear on the Japanese from three directions and minimize their ability to resist at every point. Some American authorities even believe the Japanese may be compelled to relinquish a few of their island positions without a fight as 'they gave up Kiska in the North Pacific after being outflanked by the American conquest of Attu
Island. They may have to do this in the General Pacific at least unless they are willing to leave some of their
garrisons in the Marshall and Gilbert islands to die of starvation after their supply ' lines are cut. American strategists have no intention of taking all the numerous positions which the Japanese hold there. The plan rather is to capture certain key islands with air base possibilities and leave the enemy
to his fate on the others.
The importance being attacked to air-borne strategy was under scored by yesterday's announcement that an air officer had been appointed commander of Marine forces in the South Pacific. He is Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger, an aviation officer well versed in amphibious and aerial warfare.

 More Jobs
Must Be Created
SiudebakerHeadBusiness And Industry
Face Greatest Test,
Economic Club Told
Business and industry must em-bark immediately upon a bold and intelligent program of post-war planning that will provide between seven and 10 million more peace time jobs than in 1940, if private  initiative and enterprise are to continue to flourish and the United States is to have a dynamic economy of ever-expanding opportunity based upon increased productivity instead of an economy of fear and scarcity with resultant unemployment and government job doles. Paul G. Hoffman, president of the Studebaker corporation, told the newly-formed Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan at its first dinner meeting last night at the Whitcomb hotel in St. Joseph.
                                                                           Must Plan Now
Government, business, labor and griculture must unite to this end chaos and confusion are to be avoided in the post-war period, and the freedoms for which we are fighting are not to be jeopardized asserted Mr. Hoffman, who is chairman of the Committee on Economic Development co-operating with the government in postwar planning.

U. 5. Destroyer
Sunk By Bombs
WASHINGTON. Nov. 12-(AP)
Loss of the destroyers Beatty in the Mediterranean as a result oaerial bombing was announced today by the Navy. The 1700-ton Beatty went down Nov. 6, but no details were given about the attack by German planes.
The sinking brings to 12 the number of naval vessels lost in the Mediterranean and to 129 all American naval losses since the war started.
                                                           Communique No. 482:
     "Mediterranean:
"I. The destroyer U. S. Beatt was sunk in the Mediterranean on November 6, 1943, as a result of enemy aircraft action. The next of kin of the casualties aboard the Beatty have been notified."
The Beatty was the fourth destroyer announced lost this week.
Mighty Red Offensive"
Rolls Toward Berlin
     Advance Line Within
        30 Miles Of Old
        Polish Border
BY RICHARD McMURRAY
(Associated Press War Editor)
Russian armies advancing on the approaches of Zhitomir today reacled the halfway mark from Stalingrad to Berlin in a sustained, nine months drive of 700 miles from that heap of Volga rubble to the western Ukraine.
They fought their way 60 miles west of Kiev to less than 30 miles from the last north-south, railway the Germans hold in Russia. A hundred towns fell. About 8,000 Germans died. The Kiev bulge was spreading west, northwest and southwest and the demoralized Germans appeared powerless to arrest it.
The Red army was within 28 miles of Zhitomir which lies 675 miles southeast of Berlin and 720 miles west of Stalingrad where the tide of the Russian war turned decisively last Feb. 3 when the Russians completed the liquidation of the German Sixth army of more than 300,000 men. Points in the Kiev bulge were about-80 miles from old Poland, but further north in the Nevel sector where other Russians were driving forward, Poland was only 20 to 30 miles away.
                                                 Russians Seek Final Decision
The Germans declared .that the Russians were trying to "force a turning point-of the entire war" in the battle west of Kiev and also spoke of a powerful Russian lunge in the Chernigov sector north of the Ukranian capital close to the Pripet marshes, which divide Garman armies of the north and south. Violent, inconclusive fighting continued in the sealed off Crimea