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npEA towels as gay as your dishes are possible with this new transfer. Applique does the trick, with bright-colored pottery dishes providing the motifs. Add ed gaiety is achieved by placing the dishes on shelves above a strip of colorful shelf paper. There are seven of these appealing motifs for your tea towel comers; the eighth 1 design is a bowl of flowers for a panholder. • • • No. Z9501, 15 cents, is the hot iron transfer bringing all eight fiesta motifs. Welcome this set to your own kitchen, and make extra sets (the one pattern will stamp them) for gifts that excite com- ; plimentary comments. AUNT MARTHA 207W Westport Rd., Kansas City, Mo. Enclose 15 cents for each pattern desired. Pattern No. Name... Address . Indexing Names The latest system for indexing personal names enables a clerk to locate quickly even those that sound alike but are written differ ently, says Collier’s, such as Kelly with 14 spellings, Snyder with 29, and Burke which is also written Bork, Byrk, Bhourque and 36 oth er ways. Each entry is listed al phabetically under the first name in the section containing all sur names with the same chief conso nant oounaa. Hence, the card for Lily “Burke,” however spelled, would be filed in section Brk under Lily. Gems of Thought Be what your friends think you are; avoid being what your enemies say you are, go right forward and be happy.—Pom eroy. The soul of a philosopher runs away from his body and desires to be alone and by herself.— Plato. It is something to have an in fluence on the fortunes of man kind; it is greatly more to have an influence on their intellects. For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.—Luke 6:44. m i Records Phone Talks A new portable device picks up and records incoming and outgo ing telephone conversations with a sapphire stylus on roll film, one loading of which will take down 15 hours of talk. Recording by in duction, the machine does not re quire any physical connection with the telephone instrument or the wires, even being able to operate some distance from them. % sw* help prevent misj COLDS from developing Put a few drop9 of Va-tro-nol up each nostril at the very first sniffle or sneeze. Its quick action aids Nature’s defenses against colds. Follow VICKS US” VA-TRO-NOL For Victory BUY U. S. BONDS AND STAMPS WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Jap Defensive Positions in Pacific Crumble Under New Allied Invasion; Senate Studies Revised Tax Measure; Government Acts to Halt Rail Tie-Up (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those at Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily ot this newspaper.) —...i. .Released by Western Newspaper Union. Goin* Back—Brought to the Ukraine following it* capture in 1941, these German farmers left with their possessions when Nazi armies fell back before the Reds’ 1943 offensive. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: New Landing One day after U. S. bombers had dumped 350 tons of explosives on Arawe on New Britain island, U. S. warships moved shoreward to the enemy base and pumped big shells into the defenses, even as planes returned to assist in the bombard ment. After this terrific crescendo, U. S. doughboys swarmed ashore to es tablish a beachhead on this strate gic island, center of Japanese ship ping for supplying its embattled forces on New Guinea and Bougain ville. By landing on Arawe, U. S. forces drove a wedge into Jap positions on Cape Gloucester to the west and Gasmata to the east, where the ene my has established airfields to help cover the barge operations with which he feeds supplies to his troops in this area by traveling along the jungle shorelines by night. While the U. S. stormed Arawe, heavy bombers continued to smack the Marshalls, small Jap island hold ings in the central Pacific. RAILROADS: Strike Called With 97.7 per cent of the operat ing railroad union members voting to strike to enforce their demands for higher wages and with the walk out date set for December 30, the government acted quickly to pre vent transportation interruption. Said spokesmen for the 350,000 trainmen, firemen, enginemen, en gineers, conductors and switchmen who have demanded a 30 per cent wage increase with a minimum boost of $3 daily: “It is a strike against inflation for the privileged few and deflation for the many.” To meet the crisis which was pro voked by the unions' rejection of an emergency board’s award of a 32 cents a day increase, the govern ment’s national mediation board summoned both union and rail offi cials to meet to settle differences. Meanwhile, over 1,000,000 non-op erating rail union members awaited final congressional action on a reso lution granting them an eight-cents an-hour pay boost over the U. S. stabilization director’s objection. BRITAIN: Miners Ask Raise Seeking to boost average weekly earnings from $16.60 for under ground employees to $24, and from $13.40 for surface employees to $22, Britain’s Mine Workers federation planned to take their case to a gov ernment panel if employers rejected their demands. Because of possible coal shortages, the government recently cut home rations for the fuel by 20 per cent, and it was anticipated that any strike by the 690,000 miners might result in further reductions. Child Delinquency Like the U. S., Britain has its Ju venile delinquency, and most of it is attributed to lack of adequate su pervision because of parental occu pation in the war effort. Juvenile delinquency has in creased from the prewar rate of 4 per 1,000 to 9 per 1,000, principally because thousands of fathers are in the armed forces, one out of four mothers are holding full time jobs, and inadequate rations compel fam ilies to eat at least one meal away from home. ITALY: Action in Air Connecting link between Germany and Italy, Europe’s historic Bren ner pass was pounded by waves of U. S. bombers, seeking to disrupt #the rail lines feeding Nazi armies to the south. By striking at the pass, the bomb ers countered a successful Nazi air raid on the southeastern Italian port of Bari, in which 30 German planes whizzed in at low level and sank 17 Allied cargo vessels lying at an chor in the harbor. On the ground, U. S. and British troops clambered forward over mountainous country toward Rome in sleety weather. Fighting bitterly from strong defenses in the hills, and throwing armored formations into action on the level plains, the Nazis succeeded in slowing Allied advances. CONGRESS: Tax Bill Tacking on an additional 144 mil lion dollars, the senate finance com mittee approved a new 2 billion, 281 million dollar iax bill which, if passed by congress, will boost U. S. reve nues to 43 billion dollars yearly. Written under Sen Walter George’s chairmanship, the senate bill requires payment of the 3 per cent Victory tax by everybody with Sen. George income over a year, and raises levies on amusements, travel, al coholic beverages, cosmetics, furs, luggage, toilet articles and other luxuries. Also included in the bill was a provision requiring labor organiza tions and farm co-operatives to file financial statements annually. W hisky As the senate’s liquor investigat ing committee charged that big dis tilleries “. . . are using the war emergency to get control of the wine and beer industry,” a federal grand jury called on Hiram Walker & Sons, Seagram & Sons, National Distillers Products Corp. and Schenley to present records of the companies’ stock organizations, including their wineries and breweries, and their distribution and merchandising prac tices. Subsidies Action in the senate on the tan gled subsidy question became fur Sen. Taft ther tangled with the banking com mittee's recommen dation that consid eration of subsidies be postponed for 60 days. Previously, the banking committee had turned down the proposal of Sen John Bankhead <A!a.) to abolish subsidies under which the govern ment reduces consumers’ retail prices by paying processors the dif ference for their charges, and had also tabooed the suggestion of Sen. Robert Taft (Ohio) to limit subsidies to a half billion annually instead of one billion HIGHLIGHTS... in the week', newa FLU: Almost a thousand people died ot influenza in Great Britain last week, the highest since the epi demic began. In the previous week 709 succumbed. NURSES: Plans to conscript registered nurses for service with the armed forces have been dropped, Representative Bolton said, after a conference with war department of ficials. HONESTY: A 43-year-old Briton of American descent has been sen tenced by -a London court to nine months' imprisonment for receiving stolen goods. His name is Abraham Lincoln, and he claims to be a grand nephew of "Honest Abe.” Lincoln was charged with receiving a calcu lating machine which he knew was stolen from U. S. army headquar ters. RUSSIA: Drive in North While Russian and German troops slugged at each other in the central and southern sectors, the Nazis re ported 100.000 Reds attacked to the north, in what they said was a pre liminary move to a major winter drive for the Baltic sea. By driving to the Baltic, the Reds would split the Germans’ northern armies from those of the south, and also give them a base from which to attack enemy shipping making use of the sea to supply its armies in the area. In the Ukraine, both sides gave ground grudgingly under heavy blows. The Nazis pressed forward toward picturesque and domed Kiev, while the Reds pounded out gains farther to the south in the Dnieper bend. • • • As of December 1, 176,045.000 pounds of butter were in cold stor age, and other storks included 177, 110.000 pounds of American cheese; 197.382.000 pounds of poultry; 376, 072.000 pounds of pork; 183,096,000 pounds of beef; 31,074,000 pounds of lamb and mutton, and 1,762,000 cases of eggs. TRANSPORTATION: Parts Needed Trucks, railroad equipment, buses and tires are wearing out and re placements must be made if the na tion’s transportation system is to carry record loads in 1944, the Tru man investigating committee as serted. Particularly acute is the reduced stock of truck parts, especially in view of the longer use of vehicles and greater demand for repairs, the committee said. Low inventories further were aggravated by the gov ernment’s scrap drive, in which many cars were junked from which parts might have been salvaged. Railroads have been hampered by lack of enough new rails and slow downs in locomotive production be cause of priority regulations, the committee declared. Because of the critical situation in lumber brought about by military purchases, price controls affecting operations and la bor shortages, ties available for rail roads will fall below needs in 1944, the committee said. # * On September 30, 2,960,026 civil ians were on the government pay roll, a drop of 32,121 from the pre vious month. It also was revealed that 263,637 persons were serving without compensation or as $l-a-year men. CIVILIAN GOODS: Study Output Following the War Production board’s initial announcement that 15 per cent more civilian goods would be manufactured during the first three months of 1944 than in the last quarter of this year, it was later re vealed that WPB was changing cer tain aspects of its program after a survey of needs of 7,000 homes. Studies have been made to de termine what quantity of electric irons, washing machines, refrigera tors, trucks and automobiles can be made, and what plants will be able to produce the goods. It was also revealed that the civil ian requirements agency of the WPB will play an important role in deter mining policy when industry is faced with reconversion. Although recon version is expected to create unem ployment, much hardship should be relieved because the shift will be gradual, and consumers’ demands should result in quick rehiring by reconverted plants. • • • Taking advantage of the lowest level of prices for the year, corn belt buyers purchased an almost record volume of stockers and feed ers during November. In eight states, in-shlpmcnts totaled 383,000 compared with the ail-high of 391,000 In 1942. ARMS OUTPUT: Keeps Soaring Despite a reduction in output of ammunition, U. S. war production in November soared above the pre vious record month of October, with the present rate 550 per cent over 1841. Declaring problems of manpower, design changes and material short ages have been largely overcome, the War Production board said gains in terms of dollar value were record ed for aircraft, communication and electronic equipment, shipbuilding, guns and combat motor vehicles. Ammunition output was down 2 per cent, chiefly reflecting a 13 per cent drop for small arms Indicative of the emphasis on pro duction of heavy bombers, average air frame weight per plane in No vember was 8,130 pounds, compared with 7.560 pounds during preceding months Output of aerial bombs in creased 11 per cent, reflecting the intensification of the Allies’ bomb ing operations on the world fronts. INFLUENZA: Cases of influenza in the nation increased 500 per cent in the week ended December 11, according to U. S Public Health figures. Reports for the week from every state de partment excepting Maine’s shewed j a total of 23,724 cases, five times as many as in the week before. Federal health service officials stated that there was no particular cause for concern, as the new cases are of the same mild type of the disease that has been prevalent since 1 the epidemic began in the fall. 5650 T'HE cull around the top may be emphasized by an edging of contrasting color—with the button matching, the smartness of these slippers is assured. The sole may be crocheted with rug yarn. These slippers are pretty in rose with black soles and edging. ‘Fogie' Means Increase "Fogie” in army language means the 5 per cent increase in pay which all army personnel get for each three years of service. To obtain complete crocheting Instruc tion* for the Bedroom slippers (Pattern No. 5630) send 16 cents In coin, your name and address and the pattern num ber. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time Is required In filling orders for a few of the moit popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: HOME NEEDLEWORK 330 South Wells St. Chicago. Unarmed Combat One of our most beautiful film actresses, visiting a military hos pital, asked a soldier: "Did you kill a German?’’ The soldier said: "Yes." "With which hand?" asked the actress—and then kissed the hand. "And did you kill a German?" she asked the man in the next bed. "I sure did," he told her prompt ly. "I bit 'im to death!" CLASSIFIED department feathers wanted FEATHERS wanted, new or old 2">p or write to Sterling Feather Company, N. Rroadway. St. Louis. Missouri. OPPORTUNITY ONE GOOD INVESTMENT ipecUUand'T„tlme of Ujb°r- Write lor r<.n«ral n,. M A- I ARSON Central city . Nebraska. ••The Land Man- Since 1SK. Said the Optimist: If I have lost my ring I still have my finger. 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