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Heroic Job Done By Secret Force Feat* in Italy Clear the Way For Taking Rome and Invading France. NEW YORK.?The first compre hensive story of the now fabulous first special service force, which opened the way tor the conquest of ' Rome and cleared the way for the invasion of southern France, long veiled under one of the strictest pub licity blackouts of the European war, has just been made known, accord ing to the New York Times. The first exploit of the hundreds of specially trained Canadian and American fighting men in the force was the scaling of the 3,000-foot peak of La Defensa, south of Cassino, on a December night in 1943, paving the way for the Fifth army's march on Rome. The chapter of heroism closed nine months later, when they stormed the German-held islands of Port Cros and Levant and thus en abled the American Seventh army to invade France from the south. Because of its fighting prowess, imagination, organization and train ing, the force is without precedent in all military history, according to the Canadian wartime information board. Training b Varied. The force originally was assem bled in 1942 to invade German-held Norway?the venture later was abandoned?and every man was a volunteer and a potential leader. Not until the Canadian contingent of 47 officers and 700 men joined their American counterparts at Helena, Mont., did the two groups learn that they were to be organized, trained and sent into action as a mixed Canadian-United States force. Schooled in mountain warfare, air borne operations, commando tactics and all the "rough-and-tumble" of modern war, they became a corps of super-specialists in "knock 'em down-drag 'em out" fighting. They had hoped to test their train ing at Japanese-held Kiska, when they stormed ashore on the beaches in 1943, but the Japanese had fled. The real thing came three months later, in Italy. There the Fifth army had been stopped in its tracks bv a series of heavily fortified mountains, most formidable of which were the peaks of Camino and La Difensa. The SSF was ordered to scale La Difensa and wrest it from the vet eran Fifteenth Panzer Grenadier division, solidly entrenched on the top. The German commander had dis posed his troops to cover every ap proach to the top except one. This was a track "so narrow and steep that not even mules could use it" and so heavily mined that every foot of the way had to be explored with detectors. But the SSF men attacked, caught the enemy off bal ance, captured 14 machine-gun nests within four hours, and by dawn the heights were in Allied hands. Christmas Day Attack. Two weeks later the men were on the move again, assigned to wipe the enemy off Ridge 730, a trouble spot on Mt. Sammuere that was holding up the Allied advance. Just before dawn on Christmas day the force attacked, and in one hour of fierce hand-to-hand fighting drove the enemy from the ridge. Third, and most formidable of the German mountain strong points to fall to the SSF in Italy was Mt. Majo, key to all the territory north and south of its towering peaks and pivot for maneuvers in an attack on Cassino itself. Intervening strong points had to be stormed and cap tured. On New Year's Day, 1944, the force moved up in a blinding snow storm to a point close behind the forward Allied infantry lines. Two nights later it slipped through on its greatest venture of the campaign. One group, under command of Capt. D. P. Gallagher of Chicago, found itself at 3 a. m. within 30 yards of the summit of a German-held peak. For two hours his force of 59 men huddled in the bitter cold, waiting. iucu uicy Hiuu il'i uuiouaiy wim a grenade attack, and only a hand ful of the 100 Germans on the peak lived long enough even to surren der. Army Discloses Facts About New Helicopter PHILADELPHIA.?The army lift ed the lid for the public on its ex perimental helicopter, the XR-8, be ing built by the Kellett Aircraft cor poration in Philadelphia. The plane flies forward, backward, sideways, and remains motionless in the air. It flies to within inches of the edge of a building without striking it. President W. Wallace Kellett said the craft has been flying since Aug ust 7, 1944, but that it can't be put into practical everyday use imme diately. Grows Own 'Smokes' in Backyard Tobacco Patch L08 ANGELES.?S. C. Weiss nev er has to cajole druggists to sell him a stogie, because he grows his own in his backyard. Last December he planted some broadleaf tobacco seed, and by mid March he had his first smokes and expects another crop before the plants die. Tve smoked better ones," he says, "but the cigars from my patch are at least two-hitters." Germans Lagged on Synthetic Rubber Experts Say Foe Made Small Gains During War. WASHINGTON.? General aupert ority of American synthetic rubber over the German product has been established by United States technol ogists who advanced under fire with army units into Germany. The findings will be reported to the American rubber industry soon. Persons familiar with them said the United States techniques are superi or in so many respects that there is little likelihood of widespread adoption of the German successes. Petroleum experts who similarly hastened to wrecked oil refineries reported German methods "far less efficient" than those mmmnnlv nseH in the United States, the Petroleum Administration lor War announced. However, "many very interesting discoveries were made," said the PAW, "which should improve petro leum techniques and contribute to the defeat of Japan"?which was the objective of all the industrial missions into the Reich. Some of the rubber experts have returned to Washington and are re porting to the Rubber Reserve com pany and the War Production board. The insignificant progress in Ger man techniques since the start of the war drew surprised comments from the rubber mission, which makes up one section of the Tech nological Industrial Intelligence committee, set up at the request of the military high command. The standard German synthetic is so hard, for instance, that it must be pre-heated before being manu factured into tires or other goods. This slows fabrication by as much as 50 per cent in comparison with the general-purpose mass-produced American rubber, formerly called Buna S and now designated "GRS" ?government rubber, styrene type. Yafllr Mnwt llnitf? 1? ? ? Until Gun Burns Hands MANILA.?Marine Dauntless dive bombers smashed Jap resistance east of the Davao river, on Min danao, and made possible capture of Mandog Town by the 24th infantry division, General MacArthur's com munique reported recently. Fighting still was intense in hills near Davao City. Typical was the experience of a 34th infantry regiment patrol, which ran into an almost perfect trap. As the patrol, led by Sgt. Joseph W. Helwig, Ashland, Pa., reached a steep cliff along a river bank, a su perior force attacked from both flanks and the rear. Helwig set up a machine gun on the edge of the precipice and, while the Americans withdrew, he flred until the heated gun burned his hands. Wrapping his jacket around the barrel, the sergeant left the cliff and crossed the stream. He set up the machine gun again and fired a thousand rounds into attacking Nips. He was credited with killing at least 27. On Luzon, the 37th infantry divi sion battled with Japs in the Baga bag area as they pushed 9,000 yards closer to the Cagayan valley. They destroyed seven tanks and took 61 prisoners ? a large haul for bitter jungle fighting in this hill country. Britain's Winged Cat in 10-Foot Trial Flights LONDON.?Nobody has to believe it, but there's a winged cat in the city pound at Sheffield. Not just an ordinary winged cat but a cat with two sets of wings, fore and aft. And fellows who've seen it in ac tion swear over their beer that "Wingy" can soar 10 feet from a sitting start. The cat has a front pair of wings with a span of 14 inches from tip to tip, and a rear set measuring six inches. They're covered with black fur topside and ribbed below. Wingy is no novelty in Sheffield because there was another one around there about six years ago, ?j 4k:. ?~ii ? * *? ? cuju uuo uiu-giuwu win may uc au offspring that inherited his flying gear. More Shoes for Cmlians, Army Decreases Demands WASHINGTON. ? The army an nounced a reduction in shoe pro duction requirements for Septem ber. The output of combat boots will be reduced from 2,100,000, the July August production rate, to 1,900,000 and service shoes will be lowered from 700,000 to 350,000 pairs. This decreased schedule will be continued throughout the fourth quarter of the year, the army said, adding that announcement at this time of the downward trend will pro vide a 00-day period for the industry to prepare for increased civilian pro duction. Boys Admit Taking Potshots at Blimp SAN DIEGO.?Two Huntington Beach, Calif., boys, 13 and 14 years old, have admitted firing their rifle at a navy blimp, wounding the pilot, federal inves tigators announced. The boys, whose names were not disclosed, said they just "succumbed to the urge" and fired two rtiots at the blimp. - " * ' - , Fall Daytime Fashions Are Type American Women Love to Wear By CHERIE NICHOLAS IT WOULD seem this year that 1 American designers are breaking till previous records in creating the best looking clothes ever for smart all-around daytime wear. Made of sterling quality flannels, checks, gabardines, jerseys, homespun weaves and such, they have that thoroughbred look about them, yet styled as they are, with a sophisti cated simplicity that bespeaks "class," they are Just the type American women love to wear. College and career girls needs must have clothes that are as good looking as the best of 'em together with a practicality that assures de pendable wearableness. This fall you will be delighted with the smooth and distinctive styling given to even the simplest daytime suits and dresses. The fashions from New York Dress Institute collections, here pic tured, go to show what a treat is in "style," quality and serviceability. To the right see a co-ed's dream, by the co-ed's favorite designer, Claire McCardell. This suit illustrates three of this top-flight designer's im portant trends in her current collec tions. They are the fitted "frontier" jacket with quaint leg-o'-mutton sleeves, the new curve-line wrap around skirt with definite fullness, and thirdly, the frontier hip pockets, giving a new widened line to the hips. This three-piece combines stuning gray flannel with zephyr knit in gray, black and white check. The buttons are silver, decorated with heraldic emblems. The suit is , double stitched in black thread , around the edges and the arm holes. , The smartly styled dress to the eft tune* perfectly to the current hshion mood for classically simple slothes. It is outstanding because if the designer's novel and graceful nanipulation of the self-fabric in vay of the medieval-inspired "al noner" bag, ingeniously suspended torn the waistline. Centuries ago lags of this type were carried by ifficial dispensers of alms. In its nodernized version this bag fits nto the scheme of present-day fash on with high distinction. The deep irmhole sleeves lend a definite note if chic. The new "rave" this sea ion is to wear handsome gold or lilver jewelry with dresses of sophls icated simplicity. Ideal is this gray :repe gown as a background for mportant jewelry pieces. The diagonally closed bodice, the lew rounded shoulderline and fluid ileeve treatment are styling points hat combine to achieve the "new ook" for the neat daytime dress :entered in the picture. Black and white check wool in homespun selvedge edge of the fabric gives smart contrast. The extreme sim plicity of this dress is typical of the fashions that best-dressed wom en are selecting for praclcal day time wear. For smart day fashions, gay little dresses are being made of a multi colored narrow stripe Jersey, which also works up charmingly in attrac tive two-piece jacket-with-skirt cos tumes. Bold contrast achieved with using jersey in three or more col ors is played up in striking ways also. Vivid scarlet wool jackets with brass buttons are worn with neutral tweed skirts, or with sleek classroom dresses made of the now io-modlsh gray flanels. Released by Western Newspaper Union. With Sequin Accent - Suits for afternoon wear that take on beadwork and other glitter ac cent are in the news for this fall and winter. Black sequins, giving that gala look are used on the front of the jacket of the handsome black cocktail suit pictured. It is worth while keeping an eye on the suits that take on the glitter note. The idea is being carried out in unique ways for fall. Sometimes the glit ter is applied in a beadwork design to one shoulder that looks as im posing as an official decoration. A favorite use of beads or sequin em broidery is seen ea pockets, lapels and suit seeaea, ea this otherwise Cotton Dresses Tune To Early Fall Theme \ Women of smart fashion are i setting a precedent by wearing their pretty cotton dresses and suits j to the very last minute of summer and then on as long as warm weath er lingers. At the current moment, , best-dressed women are seen dining in fashionable hotels and restau rants looking their prettiest In their flower-fresh seersuckers that are as meticulously styled as if they were of crepe or sheer wooL Eye-catch ing are thg pink suits of linen-like weave with their big pearlized plastic tied-on buttons. Black suits of washable weaves are proving most wearable in the between-sea son period. They are tuned into the early fall picture via stunning new neckwear items and daahing acces sories such as a sequinned crepe dickey or a satin gilet in a striking color. Corselets With Quaint Peasant Look Are Chic Those little laced-up-the -front cor selets that look so quaintly peasant have become an important styling theme in present-day dress. Design ers are playing them up for tall in connection with the now-so-mod ish midriff treatments of which you will see more as the season advances. Dresses with elaborate Jeweled girdles, and richly embroi dered stomachers dons in the ren aissance way are part of the story. Hand Painted Girdles Hand painted girdles are a new "flnd" in the corset departments. The young girl that adores pretty things will hail this new fashion trend with delight Pussywillows, daisies, rosebuds and violets are gaily band painted an shell pink gir dles. Thus the humble girdle be comes a "tiling of beauty" as they turn prose into poetry. JAPANESE WARLORDS CONFER First Warlord. ? Hero are some American terms ot surrender. Let us reject them at once. Second Warlord. ? Why so fastT Wouldn't it be well to think them over? First Warlord.?If we start think ing at this point all is lost. Third Warlord. ? Are the terms really bad? First Warlord. ? I never realized Japan's position was so terrible until i read them. Fourth Warlord. ? Just what is the ultimatum? First Warlord. ? If we don't give up now we will get into troublel Second Warlord. ? That la the understatement of the war. ? Third Warlord.?Does it not mean that by rejecting the terms we will be leaping from the frying pan into the fire? Fourth Warlord (emphatically).? What Halsey is using on us it no frying panl How did we ever permit him to bring his fleet in so close? First Warlord.?It was easy I ? Fifth Warlord (entering with pa per).?Here's another one! Third Warlord.?Another what? Fifth Warhyd. ? Another daily communication from the Yankee air force announcing the batteries, the team signals and the program tor the day, play by play. Fourth Warlord. ? Where is our air force? First Warlord. ? It Is busy in its suicide campaign. Second Warlord. ? How is the suicide campaign going? First Warlord. ? Excellent. It is terrorizing everybody but the enemy. ? Fourth Warlord. ? Is it perhaps about time the honorable Japa nese faced facts, took stock and con sidered the prospect of losing the honorable Japanese shirt? First Warlord. ? Honorable Japa nese can get along without a shirt. Fourth Warlord. ? We may get a chance to prove it. Third Warlord. ? Let us be of brave hearts. Remember we have the Japanese honorable ancestors with us. rum nuwri. ? i naa ? dream about honorable ancestors last night I dreamed they were so overworked backing us up that they had inaugu rated a night shift. ALL. ? MAYBE THAT WAS NO DREAM! ? ? ? Help Wanted Ads For Wsr Time RESTAURANT CHEF: One who excels in making the worst of a bad situation preferred; must lack any desire to satisfy the customer and be a slave to the belief that any dish is appealing, provided it has a little succotash, string beans and creamed cheese on it. * LAUNDRY WORKERS: Bring own acids, tongs, sickles, hole punchers, ripping devices and button busters; good money and lots of fun. SALESMEN: No conception of salesmanship required; preference given to men and women who are not interested in selling any thing anyhow; we provide most com fortable chairs in town, also Rao tng Form. ? OFFICE BOY: One willing to start at $75 a week; $100 to $138 as soon as you remember to All the paste pots; use of the boss's office for crap games provided. Three hours for lunch. ? MAN TO MOW LAWN: $8 an hour and no criticism from employer; will give $3 an hour extra if you trim around the mlntbed; only those who never remove a rock from path of lawn mower need apply. , ? MISCELLANEOUS: Jobs of all kinds. Do you want big money? Do you wish to set ahead? Write todav. stating your lack of azperianca, giv ing details concerning your general lack of ability and naming the last three places where you exasperated the customers. ? ? ? Two people. one a railroad ticket ?? daw dirk, convicted of e black Markat tragic la Pullman ratarvatlonM is lima of war, kava kaan (bad $ 100 sal lie as a rear in prison with iwifwfi nut asau lie they em data ika koala m a /ha yro/fa, aecapa My daw iaihf iei aai |M eaai/art h tie desk lie they couldn't kava dana bamar If (bey had bam able la gal a lower far (be fudge. a a a "Eighteen Binien Tax Oat Peest bie"?Headline. Wanna bet? a a a , EATING OCT Remember whan the waiter used to come around, smile tolerantly and inquire if everything was okay? Now he stomps to the table In the manner of a Nazi with an ultima tum, slaps down a dinner check that looks like a federal budget estimate and almost demands "What's delay ing your exit? Concha know you're holding up new business?" SEWING CIRCLE NEEDLEWORK Gay Appliqued 'Flower Pot' Apron Canary Design to Embroider 5 0 07 I Flowery Apron HERE is an apron that will brighten any home chore. Make it of pink and white checked cotton?do the flower pot pocket in a pinkish-brown or a dusty pink. Applique the flowers onto the apron. ? , ? To obtain complete pattern and ap plique design for the Flower Pot Apron (Pattern No. 9007). small, medium and large sizes Included, send 16 cents in coin, your name, address and the pattern num ber. Canary Tea Towels A BRIGHT little canary en ** livens any kitchen. Use those ? by 6 transfer designs on tea towels, on cottage curtains, on tho corners of a breakfast or luncheon cloth. Besides yellow for the canary, red, green and blue are the other colors needed. ? as To obtain six transfer designs tor the Canary Towels (Pattern No. MM), color chart for working, illustrations of stltcbes used, send 16 cents in coin, your name, address and the pattern number. ^^ 5244 Dim to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is required In filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. ?SWING CIS CUE NSBDLSWOEK lift Sixth Ave. New York. N. T. Enclose IS cents tor Pattern UJLdfc dAi/^?/t5o iMib utfjl Vt kavt fwudtJj MV ?wv? ?JOT long (go, Russian armies were lined up on the Oder, fac ing dcsperite Nazi resistance before Berlin. On the 14th of February, nearly 4,000 bombers and fighters, part British, part American, flew to that vital sector and smashed at enemy strong points and concen trations. Some planes actually un loaded their bombs only 12 mile* in front of the Russian spearhead! That was CtmhhuJ Optrstiuu. In Burma, a British Admiral led tough U. S. Rangers, Tommies from all para of the Empire, Indian Ghurkas and Sikhs, Chines* foot soldiers, carrying weapons made in Bridgeport. All wore different uniforms. But all shared in their beans a single determination?to destroy the arch-destroyers, to con quer the common enemy. That is CemihuJ Optraritnj ? two words that affect the future of mankind. We have learned the lesson that to win this war we had to fight side Sside with out allies, regardless race, religion or politics. And now, with durable peace within out grasp, we cannot aban don that lesson. Unity, efficiency, fellowship, international coopera tion Mtut W mtinmj. Every American citizen, every man and woman in the nation, has a definite contribution to make toward teeing that a permanent in ternational body to maintain peace be made a gtmg ?m - We must add our strength to the surging movement toward unity among all men of rood-wil to every part of the globe. We mut pledge our unswerving support to that movement, give our statesmen and legislators the support they need to make it effective. We mast determine to makt thi ntasigrjjlsrt, even though tbe first step is oot as altogether perfect as we might wish. Will you play your part to this greatest of all Combined Opera tions? Will you take vour place to the tanks with your fellow men to the striving toward permanent peace? First, get and ktf yourself in formed about the fcihc pro posals for peece and interne dooal cooperation which am now before us. Bead end liaaeu to thi di SCUM ion J of thML Aak your Public library toe material on them. Secood, interact your frierade to them lain i~n? Get them Us cuaacd to any social, labor, hue inesa, religions or other aioana to which you belong. Third, eey what yon think lor or against?to writing, to your Congressman and Senators, to your nawapapar. Declare joac ?elf. Speak ap Work today for peace, dam m AiHrnn men line rnmnmnm CDiiaren mty ixtc ro?DQfTOW. f f f rufunif nivu 'TTT1T1T1I1 unwi
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