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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1943)
One Axis Leader Down—Two to Go The sudden political demise of Benito Mussolini makes him the first Axis dictator to fail under the military and Intellectual might of the Allied nations. Left: King Victor Emmanuel of Italy who accepted Mussolini’s resignation and appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio, center, as the new premier of Italy. Al though Badoglio announced that “the war continues,” as he proclaimed martial law, he was never a member of the official high ranking Italian fascist group which surrounded Mussolini. He has been known to have dis agreed with the former premier several times. Right: Benito Mussolini who took advantage of the unrest of World War I to create a dictatorship and now finds himself overthrown by similar forces in World War II. Get Sick on Land to Stop Sea-Sickness In a giant land, sea and air Invasion, Allied military leaders mnst consider and plan for every emergency— .including seasickness. To accumulate data on this subject, the army developed a sea-horse which gets soldiers as sick as they would be after several hours on rough water. As a result of these experiments, capsules to pre vent motion-sickness are given to invasion troops an hour and a half before embarkation. Left: Sergt. Arthur F. Nichols after a session in the sea-horse. Right: The contraption in action. U. S. Privates Round Up Some ‘Supermen’ These German prisoners include parachute troopers, vaunted super men of many campaigns. They were rounded up by a few ordinary soldiers in the invasion of Sicily. It appeared that the total number of such prisoners taken by the Allies would run into several thousands. Cigarettes for Defenders of China Chinese soldiers on their way to m battlefront are given cigarettes by a Chinese mother. These soldiers were part of the stubborn unit that resisted and finally routed a huge Japanese army along the upper Yangtze, the gateway to Chungking. These defenders accounted for over 40,000 casualties to the enemy, and conducted one of the most he roic victories of the war. High Scorer Allen Martini, youngest major in the Eighth U. S. army air force. He led the first American raid on Paris as pilot of the "Dry Martini," * Flying Fortress. F ormer F ootball Hero V ■ COCONUT PERIOD., As a former grid coach for Ford ham and one of Notre Dame’s Four Horsemen, Lieut. Comdr. Jim Crow ley is accustomed to posing with a football. In South Africa he uses a coconut despite the sign. ^ Yanks Meet ‘General Mud’ Near Mundal The capture of Rcndova island, a stepping stone to the Japanese air base at Munda, has brought American soldiers face to face with “Gen eral Mud”; Top: Marines carry .a generator through the mud in prepara tion for a barrage on Munda. Bottom: Two men set up an automatic rifle emplacement on Rendova. Americans controlled the island the same day they landed. A total of 191 Nipponese planes attempting to break up the landing were shot down. Allied Skirted Soldiers Meet _^ Uniformed women of America and Britain meet on an English road and like their male contemporaries on other battlefronts, they get along as well as old chums. These WACS were among the first contingent of American women to arrive in England. They were strolling and the English WRENS were bicycling when the meeting occurred. ‘Little Italy’ Rejoices at Benito’s Fall • New York’s “Little Italy’’ went wild with joy at the news of Musso lini’s sudden political demise. A jubilant family is shown on the fire escape balcony outside their flat. A picture of President Roosevelt hangs on the balcony railing. Italians throughout the country generally hailed Italy’s change of government. McSparlen U. S. Golf Champ by One Stroke Harold McSpaden is awarded the first prize check of $2,000 after he nosed out Oncal White for the title of American open golf champion at the Tam-O-Shanter country club near Chicago. The final round was played before a tense gallery as McSpaden won by one stroke. Left to right: White, George S. May, president of the club, and McSpaden. Davis in London Elmer Davis, director of the Bait ed States Office of War Information, seems interested in London’s traffic light system in this picture taken when he visited there recently. Da vis met Brendan Braken who holds a similar post in England. Guides Convoys Adm. Sir Max Horton of the Brit ish navy’s operations department poses in front of a map on which is charted the positions of convoys en route to England. This work is high ly confidential and a mistake might result in the death of many seamen and loss of ships and ammunition. Too Big’ The army rejected Mike Naymick, pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, with the explanation that he Is "too big." Mike towers to a height of 6 feet 8 inches and says the air np there is Just about the same as it is nearer the ground. Survives 500 Hits 4 Despite a hail of 500 bullets, an American plane returned to its base after a raid on Sicily. Staff Sergt. Henry B. Hicks examines the rudder sf the ship. IF YOU crochet you can make * lovely rugs for your home—if you are a knitter, you can use that skill on rugs, too! The round pin wheel rug is crocheted of just 4 balls of rug yarn in a dark color and 4 balls of light color. The knitted rug is a yard square and easy to make. • • * For complete crocheting instruction* for the Pinwheel Rug (Pattern No. 5376) and for knitting instructions for the Square Rug (Pattern No. 5296) send 15 cents and 1 cent postage in cob*, for each pattern, the pattern number, your name and ad dress. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is required in tilling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: HOME NEEDLEWORK 53$ So. WeUs SL Chicago Bride on Display For seven days after their mar riage, a Moroccan wife clad in her most gorgeous costumes, must sit alone in her husband’s home. Any woman may come in from the street and look at her. JUST DASH CZ_I Relative Values A wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.—Deaa Inge. ’ SNAPPY FACTS I ABOUT RUBBER The bails ef modern rubber usage is vulcanisation, a word that is derived from Vulcan, the Greek God of Fire. The cryptostegia vine yields about 17 drops -of rubber latex a day, a seven-year-old Hevea tree three to six pounds of rubber a year. Properly treated Hevea trees, when 10 years old, can give from 1000 to 1500 pounds of rubber per acre per year. About eleven pounds of rubber are used in making a small automobile tire. Lay rubber articles flat when storing, allowing them te as sume their natural position. Rubbar loses its life when un der a permanent strain.