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Air Force Establishes Record "LU Audrey," veteran bomber of the famous 17. S. army 7th air force, has. made 1M missions, flown 343,Mfl miles and has dropped UMN pounds of bombs on Jap targets across the Paeiflc. The bomber will tour the United States combat crew training centers. Capt. Jim Braddock is shown shaking hands with the pilot, Lt. Francis Fouls of Pasadena, Calif. looses Leg but Not His Ambition ? ? ?. ? ? - ? Bert Shepard of Clinton, lod., wbo lost part of Us right let as a flying lieutenant in Europe, is shown here in a workout in spring train ing with the Washington Senators in College Park, Md. He is shown as he slides into flrst base. Prior to the war he played in the minor league clubs. Mine Detector Combats Crime Military police in shows ulif aa army mine detector, whose dito are usually oeadaad to tba batllsleM, In the search far a run bettered to have heaa used-in a morder. A rn was found but It was not the sue sought. This la hollered to be the drst tine the military mine detector has beea used la crime detection. The mine detector indicates the pres ence of metal. This 1mpreyed mine detector, developed during the present war, offers many postwar possibilities la addition to that of crime detector. Already plans are being formulated to utilise a modified (arm la a group to be organised for treasure hunting. Lest They Forget?This Is War Cyi. E. A. Naalt at Meadow Lake, Saskataea. Caaada, posts i dramatic lip aa the road to Calear, Germany, la reailad Alliod soldier aot to f rate raise with tha naa;. The American eommaad hat pbUito similar ardors, ha r tag teforaiatiaa that German afeuti are still workim oeCrrely la raaaaered territory. Boose mparts ham baaa roe aired a Naalt ealtiratiac li land ship W Allied serrieeaiaa to order to tarry 01 aadargmaad wash agaiast tha aiatod terras. Arrests am mads daily. V JP I Takes Hie Medicine Peeking from his coxy quarters at the Bronx zoo, Simian Sam takes his spring tonic. Above yon see the cheerful chimp doing his doty, down* ing the stnff to the last drop. After licking the spoon, he registers ex treme pleasure. General's Pet Mount Pistol slunc at hip, LL Gen. Dan I. Saltan, commanding general of India-Burma theater, rides'this sure- ; footed pack mole over a steep Jangle trail daring a front line visit to the Mars task force along the Banna road. This is a familiar picture of General 8altan. Succeeds Sen. Moses Wilson R. Young, <B). Lamore county farmer, who was iifslatcd by Governor daudahl to imsel the Uto Sea. J aha Mates, (D), who died recently. Young, strong lor inter national cooperation, will serre an til the IMS election. Arctic Rescue Head i Lt. Cat. Nmui D. Tnita, tWn, k?><Wlfc? Arctic acarch u< nun dlfWH cf the Ncrtt America* dirt*!? W ttw AAF ^ahr traarporl War Will Leave Few Helpless Veteran*' Aid Declare* Job Trainiag Will Bridge Wound Handicap*. CHICAGO.?Few, if any, service men discharged because of injuries received in battle face a hopeless future. Virtually every battle casu alty will have some ability left and it is the problem of the veterans' administration to discover this abil ity and develop it, C. E. Hostetler, vocational rehabilitation officer at Hines hospital, is quoted in the Chi cago Tribune: "The primary thing to remember is that every disabled veteran is an individual case. What we are able to do with a veteran depends upon his intelligence, occupational experi ence, interests, aptitudes, developed skills, and his disabilities. "With us it is first Important to know what a veteran can do with the abilities be has remaining. We must be in a position to utilize and develop fully those remaining abili ties. If the abilities he has lost creates a vocational handicap, we must develop skills with the remain ing abilities in such a way as to enable him to pursue an occupation comparable to that of a normal worker." Requirements Outlined. Veterans entitled to vocational (raining provided by the veterans' administration are those who have served in the military forces subse quent to December 6, 1941, and prior to termination of the present war. They must have honorable dis charges, a disability received in service or aggravated by service for which a pension is payable by law, a declaration of vocational handicap, and be in need of vocational rehabili tation to overcome the handicap. While pursuing the vocational training program the disabled vet eran receives $80 a month mainte nance if single, $10 additional for a wife, and $5 for each child. The government pays the cost of train ing, materials and tools. Arier selling up an euipiuyiucin objective for a disabled veteran, .Hostetler'said, it is necessary to con sider lost ability, remaining ability,' requirements of the jobs for which he is to be trained, type of facility to be used for training, and, most important of all, the attitude of the man who will employ the veteran after he has been trained. Hostetler said the attitude of em ployers toward employment of dis abled workers has undergone a vast change in recent years. He holds out as examples one employer who recently had 11,183 partly disabled persons on his pay roll, and another in Chicago who employs only a few able bodied men among the hun dreds in his plant. 'Human Engineering.' "The ctux of the situation in the employment of disabled persons," Hostetler said, "is training and placement. Employers more and more are studying the requirements of jobs and finding the men to fit the requirements, i "Untold sums have been spent in ! research to get greater and greater | productions from machines, but in human engineering?finding the job that suits the worker?the surface hardly has been scratched." An outstanding example of voca tional rehabilitation is found in the case of a young veteran who lost his eyes in a shrapnel burst at Casa Blanca. When this veteran arrived at the Hines facility he believed his future was hopeless. It was necessary first to make him realize he would have to face the realities of life. Then he was taught to take care of himself and to read braille. After a few months' train ing he was put to work in a Urge electrical manufacturing plant. He progressed from one assembly job to another -and today he is earning an excellent salary. Eisenhower Finds Out, But Gets It Hard Way PARIS. ? Waiting for his sedan to be pulled out of a mudhole some where in Belgium, General Eisen hower sloshed his way to a convoy. "What outfit is this?" he asked Second Lieut. Walter C. Savage of , Los Angeles. "That's secret information, sir," Savage replied. The general agreed, and asked, "Do you know who I am?" The lieutenant allowed he did. "Won't you tell me?" the general tried again. Savage hesitated and looked at newsmen near by. The Ave star general and the young lieutenant walked down the road. "Ike" got the information and the lieutenant got a pat on the back. Stars and Stripes, the army paper, related. 33 U. S. Seamen Perish as Torpedoed Tanker Sinks WASHINGTON ?The War Ship ping administration announced re cently that an enemy submarine | sank a large American tanker in the Arabian sea with the loss of 83 merchant seamen. The date was i not reported. i The Standard Ofl company of t California tanker H. D. Collier was transporting 101,000 barrels of high octane gasoline whan it was tor To Recover Prewar \ Sources of Rubber Immense Natural Resources Lie Ahead in Far East. NEW YORK.?As American force* ?weep the Japanese out of the Phil ippines, plans to recover our prewar sources of natural rubber begin to take shape. A few small rubber groves already have been retaken in island opera tions. Prospects of recapturing ma jor production areas well before Jo pan's final defeat are brightening. Large plantings await liberation an Mindanao's 37,000 square miles in southern Philippines. There are bigger plantations on Borneo, where invasion also would cut the Japanese off from a major source of oil. In the China-Burma-India theater our forces are nearing areas in Thai land and French Indo-China which in prewar years supplied around 100,000 tons a year, about the equiv alent of all we are able to squeeze now out of Ceylon, South America and Africa. Biggest goals from a rubber stand point, of course, are the Dutch East Indies?chiefly Sumatra and Java? and the Malay peninsula. Each of these sections in 1940 shipped out more than half a million tons of nat ural rubber. It may take several years to re store the plantations to full produc- 1 tivity, but considerable quantities may be captured when our troops land, the inc'ustry believes. They think now the groves are likely to be in better shape than pes simistic forecasts made early in the war indicated. I Jungle ingrowth can be whipped, , the experts believe, without too much trouble. Forward planning by former own ers in the area includes preparations to ship tools and processing equip ment into the rubber - producing areas to replace that probably de stroyed by the Japs. Jealous Jap Sniper Is Dead Shot at Bottles WITH THE MARINES. ? There was trouble brewing for Pic. Max Hanion Shaw of El Paso, Texas, and his buddies. They had found in a dugout several dead Japs and two cases of saki, untouched and undam aged. As a guard against thirst, the marines tenderly carried the pre cious bottles away to a hiding place. But as each bottle was placed on the ground, a mysterious rifle bullet would come from nowhere and smash the bottle, the Leatherneck says. At first the men thought it was some concealed marine having a little fun at their expense. But when they looked around, they discov ered that a Jap sniper was doing the damage. The sniper was soon dis patched. So was the saki. 2 Poodles Die in Fire Trying to Save Owner NEW YORK. ? Two poodles died in flames trying to save a 60-year old women who had befriended them," firemen said. Mrs. Ssuan De Fiore's pets were sleeping near her bed when she and her husband, Gioechiino, 62, re tired. He got up early and went to another part of the house. A few minutes later he heard the dogs barking, returned to find the bedroom in flames?a wall of fire blocking the way to his wife and the two barking poodles. Firemen found Mrs. De Fiore's body on the floor. Nearby were the dogs. Australia to Sell Less Food to United States CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA.?Act In! Prime Minister Francis E. Forde said there would be a re duction of Australian food supplies to the U. S. armed forces in 1945 due to the severe drouth, which has af fected cereals particularly. During 19(4 the Australian war minister said his country supplied U. S. armed forces under the recip rocal' lend-lease agreement with .food valued at 40,000,000 pounds (about $118,000,000) while this year's estimated value will be about 35, 000,000 pounds (about $112,000,000). Eight Reasons Not to Faint Seen in This Case BALTIMORE.?A man stood in a cigarette line for nearly an hour and fainted as he reached the counter and got his package. He was taken to a hospital where a patrolman, looking through his pockets for Identification, discovered eight packs of cigarettes. The fagged-out smok er explained that he had started "making the rounds" without eating any breakfast. Find Lost Cargo of Eleven Big Bombs KINGSTON. ENGLAND.?For four days U. S. army authorities and Scotland Yard searched for an American air force truck sto len outside a Red Cross service club. They found it abandoned, its cargo unmolested. The thief probably figured he had no use for 11 bombs weighing 500 pounds each. Kathleen Norris Says: About a Draft'of Mothers * BeD Syndicate.?WNU Features. ?v*\ I - ^ iffii * "J "Afur the telegram, the took to being downtown once or twice a week, fate in the bfur noon, and walking home with dad." By KATHLEEN NORRIS THFRF is a woman in my neighborhood who is a saint. The making of a saint is a simple matter. It consists of ordinary human material upon which spiritual graces are inter posed. Saints can be poor, old, illiterate, humble?or saints can be royal. Saint Elizabeth of Hungary was a queen. Saint Francis?one of the greatest? was a penniless beggar. Thousands of saints are never called saints at all, except in the hearts of their children, of the neigh bors who remember them for years, wondering perhaps where that effect of goodness, light, help, faith came from. This neighbor of mine has no idea that she is a saint. She lives so completely for other persons that I doubt if she ever thinks of herself at all. She is a big, broadly built wom an, standing up to her tall sons al most at their level, catching up grandchildren as if they were feath ers. She has had five children?four now, since the telegram came about Tom. Martha Howe took that blow quietly; nobody in the family felt any extra agony of grief because of mother's grief. Almost imme diately she could talk quietly of Tom, of his dearness, his fun, his athletic achievements, his passion ate longing to get into air service? in which he died. comforting Dad. Also, after the telegram, she took to being downtown once or. twice a week, late in the afternoon, drifting into the shoe store, and walking home with dad. Always there was the same loving care with his meals; gravy the way he liked it, little hard crisp doughnuts always on tap. Always there was cheerful gossip; indulgent laughter for Sarah's school interests, tender amusement over Julia's love affairs, deep concern for Frank's nursery and the grandchildren. For the 40 years since she was 16 Martha Howe has followed the simple path of saintliness with no idea of its importance. To her it meant patient, self-sacrificing care of an adored invalid father; early happy marriage and work and economies with a man she loved; tireless devotion to babies in the slow years of wet little shoes, lost little rubbers, croup, spilled milk, long wet afternoons. It meant moth erly inclusion of many other small , derelicts; "his mother's in the hos pital," or "they're having sickness over at Blakes," Martha would ex plain when small strangers swelled j the circle. I It meant the heaven of mother love for five growing boys and girls, l ? pionics and birthdays, sympathy in trouble, care in illness, endless trips upstairs and downstairs. It meant darning and mending late into the night; loyal defense in crises, pride . in school triumphs, prayer always ?all day;-every day, prayer. It meant baking cookies, smoothing beds, mending skates and dolls; wet weather, dry weather, cold dayi and hot, year out and in. Martha Howe, one of a million wives and mothers who are doing the same thing, never to be put into the litany of the saints, but a saint just the same. And how we are going to need them, in these days to cornel For it is only the children of such fathers and mothers, children raised in simple, loving homes, with strong principles of honor, with ? code and a rule behind them, who are going to save the world now. It must be these young hands that are raised against the fearful con ditions that will follow these wars, these young hearts that take up the burden. Same Simple Cure. All the peace conferences in the world, with their inevitable de lays, misunderstandings, evasions, omissions, will not accomplish what these domestic saints accomplish. The cure for the weary, poisoned, shattered world now is the same cure that was described for us 2,000 years ago; the leaven that a wom an hid in two measures of meal, until the whole was leavened. no, peace conlerences will not get us anywhere. It will be years before reliable authority is established any where in Europe, years before any man's word will be worth the taking. But in the simple homes of America there does lie a cure. In the upholding and rebuilding of what made us what we are, and will keep us safe in our own fine tradi tions. Home life, mother-and-father love, gardens and babies; spare bedrooms being made ready for com pany; Sunday dinners; dqd at the head of the table, mother coming in flushed and triumphant with the turkey. These family saints to absorb the terrible afterwash of these years ol hate and destruction, must only ex tend their mothering to take in a broken soldier or a sailor, to in clude a desolate little widow or a r child orphaned by war. They must only do what they have always done, reaching out toward loneliness and suffering and comforting it. If a hun dred of them do it, hundreds of lives will be that much brighter and safer. If a thousand, the whole world will feel the effects of it. If a mil lion women will reach out theii strong, experienced, loving hands to ward the individual needs of out postwar ex-sailors, ex-soldiers, ex service people generally, America's peacetime problem will be solved , with no governmental action at alL There is no other way. ? a a I t "Mother - and-father love, gmrdent bobies a * PEACE AT HOME Smmil. whrJesom'? family life depends upon the mo"hers. World peace will be possible only if there are harmonious, happy families everywhere. The grave issues of the distract postwar world will be solved, if at all, by love and sacrifice, courage and charity. These virtues begin at ' home. In this Miss Norris re lates the life story of one of these excellent women who spread happiness in her little circle. Home Work Clothes Designed for Comfort and Safety Homemakera ahouM ?- . ? ?--? ?- - garments carefully. A well-cut dress is comfortable, and permits the busy housewife to move freely as she works. Sleeves for work are comfortable and safe if they are short and mod erately wide. On chilly mornings a work jacket with three-quarter length sleeves, tapered to fit the low er arm, so they will not catch oo i other objects adds extra warmth. ' Blouse becks with pleats or gatb cia uiai provide wiain ior action are satisfactory only if the fullness is placed on both sides where it can respond to arm and shoulder move ment. A gored skirt should be cut wide enough at the bottom to permit the homemaker to walk, climb, and stoop easily, and yet be fitted close ly enough about the hips to stay in place. Too much fullness in a skirt may cause tripping on ladders or is climbing stairs.
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