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Yanks Set Pace in Paris Drive;
New Pacific Blows Loom as U. S.
Bombers Strike at Philippines
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Pacific-Top picture shows U. S. 5th air force bomber at right
•truck by Jap anti-aircraft fire above Kokai, Dutch New Guinea, while
bottom photo depict* its crash into the sea while accompanying plane
flies back home alone.
EUROPE:
Fronts A fire
The whole French battlefront
quivered to the clap and clatter of
gunfire as U. S. and British forces
pressed their twin offensives against
the German lines, with American
troops reported approximately 50
miles from Paris.
While mechanized columns speed
ed the U. S. advance upon the for
mer French capital from the west
British and Canadian forces were
making slower progress to the north
below Caen, where strong enemy
armored formations hacked away
to contain the onslaught while still
other large concentrations de
fended their exposed flank.
As the Allied drive on Paris rolled
on through good tank country, U. S.
forces in Brittany threw in all the
weight of their superior gun and
tank fire to reduce the coastal ports
of Brest, Lorient and St. Nazaire,
which would open up important sup
ply lines from the Atlantic ocean.
With every man, woman and child
in East Prussia mustered for civil
ian war service, and Russian forces
Tough German paratroopers,
who faced the American on
daught at St. I,o, developed a
deep respect for U. S. fighting
qualities.
According to one of their re
’ports, which fell Into American
hands, they declared: "Enemy
artillery Is distinguished by the
accuracy of Its (ire and ma
neuverability. Employment in
depth, changes of positions, self
propelled guns—during Infantry
attacks close to the front lines
—Is the doctrine followed. A
great number of observation
planes makes It possible ... to
fire effectively even on small tar
gets."
Speaking of D. 8. fire and phos
phorus bombs and high explosive
ammunition, the report revealed:
"They cause stomach trouble
and headaches. ..
lurching on the threshold of their
"holy soQ," Nazi armies fought bit
terly to hold off the Red forces ad
vancing on that Baltic province of
Germany.
Farther to the south, the Nazis
countered Russian advances upon
the former Polish capital of War
saw with equal stubbornness, with
the Reds seeking to relieve the stale
mate by switching their attack
from the front of the city to the
northeast tn an encirclement at
tempt
On the southern end of the long
eastern battlefront, the Russians
pushed within 75 miles of the Ger
man industrial province of Silesia,
while other Red forces moved with
in 27 miles of the Czecho-Slovak bor
der in the towering Carpathian
mountains, where the rugged ter
rain was suitable to Nazi defense.
As U. S. and British troops poised
for their assault on the enemy's
"Gothic Line" in the hills north of
the Amo river in Italy, Polish and
Italian units harassed the Germans
on the eastern or Adriatic end of
the battlefront
With the Allies girding for an all
out drive on the latest enemy moun
tain fortifications, their problems
of supply over earthy, choky roads
in the rugged country were relieved
by the restoration of the seaports of
Livorno, Civitavecchia and Piom
bino.
PACIFIC:
Hattie Plans
"It’s good to see you, Doug,” said
the President upon greeting General
MacArthur at Pearl Harbor, and
on that note did the nation's chief
executive open a three-day war con
ference with Pacific military and
naval leaders on the development
of new offensives for the uncondi
tional surrender of the Japanese.
Heralding things to come in the
Pacific theater, American Libera
tors raided the Philippines for the
first time in 27 months, striking at
airfields on Mindanao island, while
giant B-29s flew over Japan itself to
rain fire-bombs on the shipbuilding
center of Nagasaki, and attacked oil
refineries at Palembang in the East
Indies.
Completely restored ufter the at
tack of December 7, 1941, Pearl Har
bor was bristling with acres of
planes, tanks and other battle equip
ment as Mr. Roosevelt Inspected in
stallations during the conferences.
As a result of these developments,
the President said, Hawaii was no
longer an outpost of U. S. defense,
but "one of our rear areas."
WEATHER:
Rain Needed
As another heat wave struck parts
of the Middle West, drought con
ditions were intensified east of the
Mississippi river, with crop growth
faltering in many sections.
According to the weather bureau,
Kentucky may harvest only 50 per
cent of a com crop, while condition
of the grain was spotty in Illinois,
Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, due to
heat and moisture deficiency. In
southern Illinois, soybean growth
was poor to good, while extensive
failures of potatoes, pastures and
gardens were reported in Ohio.
West of the Mississippi, however,
com prospects were excellent, with
promise of a banner crop in Iowa
where the drought was broken in
the south, and a record harvest in
Nebraska, with one more good rain.
OIL:
Allied Accord
The withholding of raw materials
from prospective aggressor coun
tries to contribute to postwar peace
loomed as a result of an oil pact
signed between the U. S. and Great
Britain, which conditioned future
distribution of the product on super
vision of an international organiza
tion to maintain world security.
Calling for availability of oil to all
peaceable countries at fair prices
and the orderly development of re
U. 8.-British oil rontrrees Included
(left to rl»ht) Interior Secretary Ickea.
Undersecretary ot State Stettlnlus, and
Lord Beaverbroolc.
sources without competitive wastes,
the pact envisions the future organi
zation of an International oil com
mission to advise governments on
how they should pi educe and sell
the product.
Other provisions of the pact seek
to assure the recognition of the
principle of equal opportunity in ob
taining concessions.
HIGHLIGHTS •• • in lfc« ieeek't newt
CANNED FRUIT PRICES: Gov
ernment support prices on canned
peaches, pears, apricots, fruit cock
tail and fruit mix packed in 1944 will
be set at 86 4 per cent of the area
average ceiling prices for the in
dustry. or 86.4 per cent of the oan
ners’ gross civilian ceiling prices,
whichever is lower, according to an
announcement of the War Food ad
ministration.
APPLES: An average crop of ap
ples ts predicted for the year by
members of the International Apple
association. About 123 million bush
els will be harvested, according to
the association. Of these, 10 million
bushels will go to the armed forces,
and 36 million will be sent out as
lend-lease food. Maximum prices
have been set for the 1944 crop.
RATIONING:
New Values
In an effort to control consump
tion, OPA removed utility grades of
beef and lamb' from rationing, re
stored pork loins, hams and canned
fish to the lists, and increased the
point values of cheese.
OPA's removal of utility grades of
beef from rationing was prompted
by the large movement of such
classes of cattle to market, while
the elimination of points on lamb
was intended to spur the consump
tion of such meat.
Restoration of pork loins and ham
to rationing, on the other hand, re
sulted from a seasonal decline in
hog marketing. Canned fish was put
back on the lists because of short
supplies throughout the country.
Increases in point values of such
cheeses as Cheddar, colby, cream,
neufchatel, creamed cottage. Swiss,
Italian, Munster and limburger
were necessary to slow down their
movement into consumer channels.
WAR PRODUCTION:
Big Speedup
Army officials continued to stress
the need for an increase in the pro
duction of tanks, trucks, big guns
and ammunition in view of greater
demands from the flaming battle
fronts.
Latest army bigwig to call for
more production was Maj. Gen.
Lucius D. Clay, director of mate
rial for the army service forces, who
declared that schedules for the last
half of 1944 called for a 77 per cent
boost in output of aircraft bombs
over the first six months.
Production programs for heavy
artillery ammunition will be up 110
per cent; heavy artillery weapons,
23 per cent; light-heavy and heavy
weight trucks, 40 per cent; heavy
heavyweight trucks. 123 per cent,
and tanks, 50 per cent.
New Oddities
Hirlh of quadrupled to the second
wife of a 7S-year-old artisan of Amalfi,
Colombia, brought the number of his
children to 47. lie had 30 by his first
wife and now has hud 17 by the second.
Craving excitement, 19-year old Mary
Phillips of 7 rimsaran,
Wales, stowed away on
a landing barge which
took her to the bus
tling Normundy beach
head.
After spending two
iveeks on the beach
head amid the rumble
and roar of guns and
bombs. Miss Phillips
returned to Hritain,
M ary Phillips
none the worse for
wear.
V hen Sheriff Claude Sullivan of
Murphy, Idaho, derided to close his
store after suffering injuries in an autre
mobile accident, the tou>n which serves
as seat of Owyhee county was left with
only a billiard parlor as a place of busi
ness.
POSTWAR RELIEF:
Hot Issue
While the nation's production
hummed at top peak in the fevered
war effort, senators wrangled over
measures designed to afford relief
to millions of workers who may be
left unemployed in a postwar eco
nomic relapse.
Joined by southern Democrats,
the Republican minority waged a
successful fight against the Kilgore
Murray bill’s delegation of authority
to a federal work administrator, who
could deny the unemployed compen
sation if they refused to accept posi
tions offered them, which might in
volve moving their families to other
regions in some cases.
While the administration forces
gave way before the onslaught on
this provision, they put up a stiffer
fight for the payment of unemploy
ment compensation ranging up to
$35 a week, while the opposing coali
tion stuck by the George bill, which
would leave these disbursements up
to the individual states, where they
run from $15 to $22 a week. The
George bill also would place all fed
eral shipyard, arsenal and other
workers under state unemployment
compensation systems.
TIRE OUTPUT:
More Sought
In seeking to speed up the manu
facture of heavy tires to keep essen
tial military and civilian transporta
tion rolling, the War Production
board revealed that it would strive
to have CIO workers shift from pas
senger to truck tire production, and
also persuade them to go over their
own self-imposed quotas of output.
In attempting to arrange for a ;
shift of workers from one depart
ment to another, the WPB sought to
assure their seniority privileges to
protect them against later layoffs,
while the WPB proposed propor- j
tional pay boosts for increased out
put to counteract the employees’
alleged policy of limiting their work
to avoid rate cuts for more pro
duction.
land sales
Sales of farm land acquired by
the government should be limited to
those who need it for a home and
living, with first preference for for
mer owners, and second for war
veterans. Secretary of Agriculture
Claude Wickard told the house.
Surplus land, he said, should be
sold on the basis of its long time
earning capacity and not at current
inflated prices. Some 6,500.000 acres
have been acquired by the govern
ment, only 3,500,000 acres of which
is considered suitable for farming.
Washington Digest;
Capital Answers Urgent
Appeal for Farm Help
Political Bigwigs, War Workers, Service ■
Folk, Pitch In to Aid in Production of j
Orchard and Field Crops. I
By BAUKHAGE
Nmm AnalyU and Commentator.
WNU Service, Union Trust Building
Washington. D. C.
Washington, the town of bureau
crats, of desk-soldiers and sailors,
the place that tells you what to do
and "don’t do nothin' " itself but
*')es’ keeps rollin’ along.”
I know that's what you say about
us.
But when It comes to volunteering
for the emergency farm labor pro
gram-how about your national
capital?
Believe me, Washington is in there
pitching.
I use the figure of speech advised
ly for the man who rallied a corps
of volunteer farm help which will
probably amount to fifteen thousand
citizens of the District of Columbia
by the time the peach and apple
harvest is at its height, is an old
ball-player. Not so old at that for
Johnny Jones, formerly of the Phila
delphia Athletics, farm boy from
Coatsville, Pa., and now of the de
partment of agriculture extension
service, is practically fresh off the
diamond. He quit baseball in 1936
and is now back as near to the call
ing of his fathers as he could get.
Jones’ job is dealing with the
farm-help shortage and I interrupt
ed him while he was in batting for a
Woman marine digs postholes.
missing mimeographer because of
his own private manpower shortage.
He had just rolled off several thou
sand forms inviting government offi
cials, war-workers, simple citizens
and others in the District, to attend
his vacation camps which are al
ready rapidly filling.
We aren’t allowed to tell names of
the higher-ups who volunteer but
Jones has helpers who give their
Sundays, or longer periods, from
the White House staff, the offices of
cabinet members, senators and con
gressmen. If it weren’t an election
year he thinks he'd have quite a
showing of the senators themselves.
But what he takes most pride in is
the service folk. This includes the
girls, the WACs and the WAVES,
and the Marines and the SPARS,
as well as the sailors and soldiers
on duty here or convalescing
Telia It to Marinea
With Good Results
The other day a tobacco farmer
over the district line in Virginia
(Jones’ territory doesn’t run more
than 125 miles from the White
House) wanted to clear an acre of
thick timber needed for firewood—it
takes a lot of smoke to cure the
tobacco for your smokes. He
couldn't hire help locally. Jones
“told it to the Marines” (female)
and some 50 answered with action.
They cut the timber (trees of about
28 inches), sawed it into eight-foot
lengths, piled it up.
And soldiers and sailors seem glad
to take a week’s furlough to go out
and pitch hay, get in the wheat and
tobacco crops, or turn a hand to
any other little chore. They say
they consider it a great relief from
loafing around a hospital or guard
ing government buildings or doing
any other of the strictly military
jobs they have.
Even among the groups of girls,
Jones says you’ll find enough who
can run a tractor or hitch and drive
a team of horses. One group cleared
five and a half acres, cut the trees,
sawed them up, burned the brush.
And there is no shortage of civil
Jan help either. As elsewhere there
are the boys’ and girls’ camps which,
run all summer; there are other
vacation camps where grown-ups
stay a week, get a dollar and a half
a day expenses, and earn 35 cents
an hour, or at peach-picking as much
or more than $3.50 a day at 10 cents
a basket, if they are handy. Some
earn $10 a day at that rate but
they are old hands.
• • •
Postwar German
Underground Seen
There is nothing new to Europeans
about an "underground monument”
which might be defined as a group
of persons, united by an idea, which
persists as an opposition to a partic
ular government with the purpose of
eventually overthrowing that gov
ernment.
With the defeat of Germany it
can be taken for granted that two
German movements will begin to
burrow, perhaps retiring to "pre
viously prepared positions’’ in the
language of the communiques of a
retreating army. They are the Junk
ers and the Nazis.
At the present writing, for the
first time in history, military con
trol of Germany has been wrested
from the hands of the junker-gen
erals. They did their best to act
on their ancient adage: "We as a
caste, must always live to fight
another day.” A lost war to them is
an incident and considered merely a
temporary set-back on the road to
eventual world-domination. To that
end they planned a peace before
their ranks were too greatly weak
ened or their resources exhausted.
But the Nazis stepped in, wrecked
their plans. As a caste they will
probably be completely destroyed,
their estates and therefore their
means of livelihood removed. What
many people do not know is that
the German high command had their
own private funds, voted by the
government, which they managed
themselves for the benefit of the
army.
Whether the Nazis have obtained
this, remains to be seen. But in
any case, you may be sure the burn
ing patriotism of those junkers who
survive will keep an underground
organization alive.
And then comes the Nazis, with a
younger but equally fanatical loyal
ty to national socialism. Their un
derground organizations we know
are already prepared.
Meanwhile there is a strong sus
picion on the part of many persons
in Washington that a third breeding
place for totalitarian militarism is
being cultivated right here in the
Western hemisphere.
In the past weeks I have received
several letters and one telephone
call protesting against the action of
the state department in breaking re
lations with Argentina. So far as I
could tell the persons who communi
cated with me we' e perfectly honest.
They all stressed the known fact
that the chief characteristic of the
Argentina attitude is traditionally
“pro-Argentine,” nationalists. The
inference was that the government
was not anti-North American or pro
nazi-fascist, and should be let alone.
As a matter of fact, aside from
Argentine’s own aims there seems
to be evidence that the German
Nazis and perhaps some of the Ger
man Junkers are transferring their
wealth to Argentina.
There is not the slightest doubt
that the Buenos Aires government
has aided and abetted in the spread
of nazi-fascist propaganda and is
that, at this very moment looking
sympathetically on the activities of
Nazi agents within its borders. The
army has long been indoctrinated
with Prussian militarism through its
officers who have been trained in
Germany.
Unless the United States takes the
lead in applying sanctions in the
form of a strict embargo on Argen
tina, we may find ourselves with a
full-fledged war of aggression on our
hands right here in our own hemi- ■
sphere.
In the case of Argentina we may
be witnessing not only the growth of
a powerful military dictatorship but
one which will be used to nourish
and sustain the very forces which
we have spent our blood and wealth
to suppress in Europe—an "over
I ground” underground.
BRIEFS. . . by Baukhage
A German soldier captured tn
France had written the following in
his notebook: “Blessed are those
who retreat for they will see their
homeland again."
Production of 12.732 electric
ranges in the third quarter of 1944
has been authorized to three manu
facturers without interfering with
war work.
A new simple method for detecting
slow leaks in tires of automotive
vehicles so as to minimize the possi
bility of “flats” along the highway
is outlined in detail in a pamphlet
just issued by Office of Defense
Transportation.
• • •
German dentists have been or- j
dered to restrict their care of pa
tients "to urgent measures.”
A S ONE of the first, possibly the
** first, young couple to return
from active service on the fighting
fronts, Hollywood's Director Leslie
Fenton and his actress wife, Ann
Dvorak, are providing a pattern for
thousands of other couples who will
shortly be returning to pick up the
threads of their personal and profes
sional lives which they dropped
when they heard the call to duty.
Fenton and his wife departed for
England early in 1939. He served as
commander of a British PT boat
patrolling the English channel and
waters off tiie coast of Scotland,
Ann Dvorak and Leslie Fenton.
was wounded in the now historic
commando raid on the port of St.
Nazaire. He holds the distinguished
service cross, presented to him by
King George personally at Buck
ingham palace.
When Fenton departed for Eng
land he was directing at M-G-M. He i
had just finished production on
“Arouse and Beware,” starring Wal
lace Beery. His wife was playing in
a Warner’s picture. She could not ac
company him, but followed on the
next boat. She made arrangements '
for relatives to take over the run- j
ning and management of their pros- I
perous 40-acre San Fernando valley
walnut ranch, which they purchased
shortly after their marriage in 1931.
On arriving in England she enlisted
in the M. T. C., Britain’s mechanized
transport corps, and drove an ambu
lance under bomb fire during the
Nazi blitz.
Good Job Well Done
When Fenton was invalided out of
the service and ordered home, Ann, j
her patriotic duty in that phase of
the war effort ended, accompanied
him as nurse.
Producer Lester Cowan was about j
to film the Broadway stage success i
"Tomorrow the World,” with Fred
ric March and Betty Field. A story
Fenton understood and warmed to. '
Fenton signed to direct this produc- i i
tion.
Ann, her home in order and her
garden growing, signed with Repub
lic and is currently doing a starring
role in "Flame of the Barbary
Coast.”
Full Appreciation
“It’s almost like the war’s over,
coming back here,” they say, "after
living in England, and we don’t
mean this as any criticism, merely
observation. The war is so close in
England. For a long time it was
right overhead and at your front
door. No one knew what would hap
pen next.”
When Fenton first came to the
screen from the legitimate stage, he
played the neurotic young soldier
who went berserk in "What Price
Glory.” From this he gravitated
into sinister roles through the gang
ster era, which began with "Pub
lic Enemy No. 1,” with James Cag
ney; "The Hatchet Man,” with Ed
ward G. Robinson, and similar
underworld films.
He was given a part in "The
Strange Case of Molly Louvain,” op
posite Ann Dvorak, whom he’d
never met. They fell in love, and in
1931 they were married.
Change of Character
He and Ann went to Europe on
their honeymoon. There he played
romantic roles for a year in Euro
pean productions in London and Ber
lin.
When Fenton returned from this
trip he decided to forsake acting
and try directing. Ann meanwhile
went back to Warner’s and resumed
her contract.
Fenton retired to the obscurity of
a shorts director at M-G-M and after
a two-year apprenticeship was given
a contract to direct features, i -
"Stronger Than Desire,” with Wal- * V
ter Pidgcon, and “The Golden Fleec- 1
ing,” with Lew Ayres, were among
the productions he made.
He’ll continue directing and Ann
will continue acting.
"If any of the pictures we make
cheer up the troops or provide enter
tainment for the people actually in
the war effort we feel we’re doing
something."
4 Promise Is to Be Kept
C. B. De Mille's next, which is
"Rurales,” started 30 years ago. In
1915, Pancho Villa, who loved Mexi
co, and wanted us to do likewise,
tried to get C. B. to tell the story ;
on the screen. He offered to meet 1
C. B. at the border and remain his j
personal bodyguard, C. B. to name
his own salary. “Thanks for the
promise of safety,” wrote C. B.
“Dead I can do you no good; alive
I can make you a good picture.” j
But Villa lost out.
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1. What does the Statue of Lfb
erty hold in her left hand?
2. What inland bodies of water
are saltier than the oceans?
3. Who are the “Sea Squatters?"
4. In the Bible, who was the food
and grain administrator of a
great country during a period of
failing crops and widespread fam
ine?
5. A symphony usually has how
many movements?
6. The Grand Canyon of Colo
rado extends approximately how
many miles?
The Answers
1. A book.
2. Great Salt lake in Utah and
the Dead sea bordering Palestine.
3. Aviators forced down at sea
who are successful in inflating
rubber rafts and are rescued.
4. Joseph (Gen. 42:6).
5. Four.
6. About 280 miles.
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irritated skin well with
Mexsana, the soothing,
medicated powder. Cools
burn as it soothes itching.
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SNAPPY FACTS
ABOUT
RUBBER
Uiing a combination of natu
ral and cynthotic rubber in
tho post-war period may re
sult in automobile tires that
will establish new high marks
for longevity, according to a
B. f. Goodrich chemical tech
nician. Ho cites the big mile
age returned from Goodrich
synthetic tiros, made in 1940
and composed of both types
of rubber, as tho basis for
his predictions about post
war tires.
Another reason for tires for essen
tial transportation t At the begin
ning of last year, 65,168 school
buses were In service transporting
4,258,788 children over 1,383,091
miles of one-way route.
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And Your Strength and
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You may suffer nagging backache,
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Sometimes frequent end scanty urina
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the kidneys or bladder.
There should be do doubt that prompt
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