HEAVY FIGHTING
NEARS CAFF
FOR MORE MEN
Willi U. S. unities getting ready
t. swing the big punch in Europe
and the war against Japan being
stepped up in the Pacific, draft
board.- throughout the nation are
going over their lists with a fine
comb to supply the services with
needed manpower.
The authorized strength of the
army is 7,700,000 men, but at the
end of 1943 it had fallen 200,000
?short cit its schedule for that time,
due principally to many draft
boards' decisions to await the out
come of dads' draft legislation in
congress-.
In responding to orders from
Washington, D. C.. the local draft
boards are continuing to re-examine
their files with the intention of spar
ing as many fathers as possible,
while concentrating on childless
rr.en under 26, of which there are al
most a million deferred in agricul
ture ar.d industry.
Despite the Allies' devastating
aerial bombardment of Axis Europe,
authoritative U. S. and British
spokesmen look to bitter German
resistance and an extension of the
lighting into 1945. Nazi operations
in Russia have tended to shorten the
enemy's lines on the eastern front,
releasing crack and tried troops for
duty in the west, and the nature
of the Germans' operation in Italy
suggests that they are determined
on a bitter, last-ditch stand.
In the Pacific, the U S. air force
has teamed with the navy to blast
Japanese defensive outposts to
?nithereeas. ana doughboys and
/-jarines have swarmed over fanati
i ' opposition on the Gilberts. Mar
shal'; and Solomons. But we have
yet to meet the full force of the
Japanese army variously estimated
o.Ollf.'.UOO first line troops.
A brief glimpse of the overall Kit
uatton. :ierefore, gives one an un
eei'lJandiaS > i i the army's insi.stc'.ic
I--; a force. of 7.790.00U men. bo
sides rails for from 75.000 to 100.000
Wft i riwnth later for replacements
:? keep the field units at full com
bat strength.
In an effort t<j secure the needed
manpower, the President recom
mended that draft boards comb]
carefully through their list ot 5,000.- i
t'00 men deferred in industry and
agriculture, with emphasis on all j
childless men under 26.
According to the President, defer
ments in industry total over a mil
lion non-fathers, of whom 380,000'
are under 26. and deferments in
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I agriculture also melutic a miUipn
non-fathers, of whom 550.000 an*
under 2i>.
Declaring that "the over-age men.
the physically disqualified, the re
turned soldier, and the women of
the nation must be used more ef
fectively to replace the able-bodied
men in eritilal inddstry and agri
culture," the President said that
"agriculture and industry should
release the younger men who arc
physically qualified for military
service."
Because some industries have been
laying off men as a result of a cut
back in munitions production, it was
felt thai many would not have to
be replaced and large numbers of
fathers who otherwise might bo
called could be spared.
Pursuant to congress' action cas
ing for the creation of a special
medical board to study the possi
bilities of lowering physical stand
ards for the seryicc, such a board
appointed by the President reported
that standards could not be reduced
without impairing the efficiency of
the fighting forces, but that re-ex
amination of 3,357,000 4-Fs might,.re
sult in the induction of about 250.
000 for general service.
1 In arguing for maintenance of
present physical standards, army
spokesmen told the board thateven
under current norms the quality of
some men is lower than desirable.
From Pear! Harbor to October 31.
1943 spokesmen pointed out. 474,000
enlisted men were discharged for
physical or mental reasons, and of
those released in the second quarter
cf 1943. 44.6 per cent were suffering
Furloughs Here
Cpl. Claud* G. Miller, son of
Mr. and Mn- G. B. Miller, of
Vilas, has returned to his post at
Chanute Field. III., alter a 15-day
furlough with his parents and
friends. Cpl. Miller has been sta
tioned at Chanute Field for over
a year.
ilom neuropsychiatric disabilities.
These disabilities ? nervous mental
cases, constitute a problem, both in
induction stations and after being
mustered into service, and the Presi
dent's board recommended measures
for weeding them out before they j
don khaki.
! Instructions to local board to i
j comb through their lists of defer- j
; ments of men in defense work or in- ;
dustries supporting the war effort. |
: closely followed announcement that;
aU farm deferments would be close- j
Iv re- examined to determine essen- l
tial hands, with only those able to ;
produce 16 war units a year eligible ;
lor deferment.
Abundance of Irish
Potatoes Is Reported !
Raleigh ? Housewives wanting to
include more Irish potatoes in their
daily menus need have no fear of
a shortage now, Harry Westcott,
vegetable marketing specialist with
the state department of agriculture,
declared recently in urging a great
er use of potatoes in North Caro
lina.
"There are plenty of potatoes,''
said Westcott. The abundance ol
this product is due to the record
crop produced in the state last year
about 11,000,000 bushels ? and to the
unprecedented movement of a large
portion of the Maine potato crop
into this area. Westcott explained.
CARD OF THANKS
We want to thank our many
friends for the kindness shown us
during the sickness and death of
our companion and mother. May
Cod bless you all. ? W. R. Anderson
and Children.
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For the Red Cross will, to the utmost
of its power, get jroar letters in to them
and will pus their letters back to you.
And ereiy week, through the barbed
wire, straight from your generous heart,
if it is humanly possible, the Red Cjrop*
will send eleven pounds of the sort of
food you'd give to your boy if you still
had him safe at home . . . meat, cheesc,
sugar, prunes, chocolate bars. And real
American cigarettes and tobacco!
Yes, the Red Cross is on
the job for our prisoners
carrying comforts, pack
ages and hope. And, Mother
and Dad, you sre the Red
Cross ? the Red Cross is you.
You have given your sons.
GIVE TO THE
RED CROSS
You have done the extra work do
nated your blood and bought your
bonds. But here is one extra gift you will
gladly make. This is ?w time when you
witt dig deeper than ever before . . . dig
deeper and be proud.
For giving to the Red Cross has always
been a great proud habit of thirty million
American families . . . proud that they
cmmU give . . . proud of Red Cross that
made the giving worthwhile.
Now the need is greater
than evei. Now it is your own
sons the Red Cross serves. . .
Give . . . and give freely.
Know thatwberever he may
be ... in camp, abroad or
under the patient stars . . :
THIS AD IS CONTRIBUTED TO THE RED CROSS BY
EARL D. COOK
The RED CROSS is at his side
and fhe Red Cross is YOU !
ARE you lonely tonight? . . . Can you
drive out of your heart the agony of
waiting for htm to return?
Then stop a moment and think of the
lonelier ones . . . the prisoners of war . . .
condemned to wait it out in some alien
land . . . condemned to live on alien bread
. . . alone tonight under the stars . . . alone
and forgotten.
Forgotten?
No not while the Red Cross? yomr
Red Cross ? has the power so help.