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Washington, D. C. ARMY'S SIZE AND LABOR PROBLEMS Manpower Boss Paul McNutt has been sessioning with the Truman committee regarding certain prob lems which touch the lives of every one. They include size of the army, where we will get labor for farms, and whether the army shall be used in mines and industry. Senators on the committee were impressed both with the gravity of the problems McNutt placed before them, and his general views regard ing them. McNutt revealed that Undersec retary of War Patterson had been talking to him about a total armed force of 11,000,000 to 15,000,000 men. This included not merely the army, but the navy, the coast guard and the marine corps?everything except the merchant marine. However, McNutt pointed out that shipping facilities and submarine warfare seriously limited the num ber of troops which could be sent abroad and supplied. The figure he mentioned must remain a military secret, but he indicated that with Hitler's U-boats working overtime around North Africa, it was going to be difficult to maintain a very large army in North Africa. In addition to North Africa, he pointed to the problem of supplying other war fronts in the Pacific, to gether with Russia and England. As a result, McNutt doubted the feasibility of a world's record army now. He was all for giving the mili tary and navy what they wanted so long as it could be transported to the combat zones, but he opposed a huge army which would eat its head off at home, especially in view of the fact that morale deteriorates when an army is kept idle. At one time, McNutt said, a large army at home was considered nec essary to protect the United States. But now military experts felt this danger greatly lessened, though a certain number of reserves must be trained. Army and Industry. McNutt was asked a great many questions about farm labor, especial ly by Senator Truman of Missouri. He replied that the army had been unwilling to let men go home on furlough to help with the crops be cause this hurt morale. However, he said the army was working on a plan to send army units into farm areas, in battalions or companies, and have them help with farm work on an organized basis under army command. Though the matter was not dis cussed in detail, it seemed to be the unspoken feeling of the committee that too big an army going into in dustry and agriculture on an or ganized military basis might come close to developing a militarized sys tem in the U. S. A. similar to that against which we were fighting in Europe. Only one member of the commit tee, Senator Hatch of New Mexico, felt that the armed forces should be given free rein to go ahead and build up tremendous strength not subject to civilian check and super vision. Other committee members ex pressed the view that it was only natural for any military leader to want the army to be the biggest in the world; so a civilian check-rein by the White House or congress was necessary to balance farm labor and industry against armed strength. Finally it was decided that the most important problems to lick be fore increasing the army to world beating proportions was the subma rine and shipping. ? ? ? OFFICIALS SAVE GAS Some few Washington bigwigs are careless about gasoline rationing, but they are exceptions. Most Wash ington officialdom is scrupulously careful. The chief justice of the United States, for instance, is riding a truck. Chief Justice Stone has dis carded his private car as a means of getting to and from the Supreme court, and instead hitch-hikes in the delivery truck which runs etrands for the court. In addition. Stone is one of the walkingest members of the court. The White House uses 11 cars now, against 15 a year ago, and these in clude trucks for the White House mail, as well as cars for the Presi dent and staff.- White House Secre tary Marvin Mclntyre now rides to work in a Ford instead of a Packard. Vice President Henry Wallace last fall abandoned his 18-cylinder limou sine in favor of a humble five pas senger sedan. Every morning he walks the five miles from the Ward man Park hotel to the Capitol, and sides home in the evening. Speaker Sam Rayburn uses his of ficial car sparingly. He often walks from his apartment on DuPont Cir cle to Seventh street, where he takes a street car to the CapitoL Senator Thomas of Oklahoma gets to work on foot or by bus. The other day a Capitol clerk gave him a lift from a bus stop on 18th street. Milo Perkins, chief of the Board of Economic Warfare, shuns the use of bis official car in driving from home to office. Instead, he has joined a ear pool with six other BEW members who live in the same sec Don't Be Shocked?It's Horsemeat?and So Tender! i ??? In picture at left a butcher examinee hone carcasses hanging on hooks at Linden, N. J., which is about one hoar from New York, the only town in the New York area that supplies horse meat. At present most of the meat goes to flee soos, but human consumption is in the offing. A horse steak is shown at upper right. It is claimed that this meat tastes like beef filet once a person gets over his scruples. Lower right: The of ficial government approved stamp is applied to cuts of horsemeat at the Linden plant. : ? ?? ? - ? Battered Malta Still Stands?Stronger Than Ever Battered Malta, the stoat little British stronghold in the Mediterranean, took everything the Axis had to offer, and can still go abont its dally bnsiness. The enemy paid dearly for its almost dally attacks, how ever. At left is shown the shattered opera house In Malta. The people in the streets are British and Amer ican navy and merchantmen, soldiers and residents of the isle. Shown at right is a recent picture of Malta, the most bombed place in the world. Making Every Minute Count in Libya First aid is (Wen to British soldiers of General Montgomery's eighth army as other members of the infantry thrnst forward to dislodge a group of Nails on the road to Tripoli, for which General Rommel's dismembered Afrika Korps was heading. This photo was radioed direct from Cairo to New Tork. Cliff Dwellers on Guadalcanal Island These members of ? U. 8. marine corps mortar erew are making themselves at home in a sheltered gulch on Guadalcanal, between ses sions of making it hot for the Nips. They're called "cliff dwellers" because they buiH quarters In caves scooped out of the side af the guleh. 4Mr. Five by Five' After a national search, Clay Wo mack, 56-year-old defense worker, has tnrned op as Mr. Five by Five. He is Ave feet taU, and jut ive feet around the waist. He is pic tured with singer-actress Grace McDonald. Puss Listens In A little alley eat entered the bear inf room where the senate interstate commerce committee was boMtnc hearings on the American Federa tion of Music's ban on mnsie. Sena tor Ernest MeFarlaad of At is ana is shown petting it. Ill /(/SPECIAL ARTICLES \ ~ rBY THE LEADING \ 4mE """ '??Prow?MntMTdjgg With Montgomery, On Rommel's Heels By Chester Morrison i (WNU Faature?Through afacial arianiaoaaat I with Col liar't Weekly) Last August Wendell Willkie, visit ing in Egypt, made an astonishing statement about General Montgom ery's recent skirmishes with Rom mel's army west of Cairo. Willkie, in terms that seemed at the time to be extravagant, an nounced that the Axis armies in North Africa had been thoroughly beaten, that the threat to Egypt had been removed for all timet Mr. Willkie called it a victory "compar able to Nelson's at Abukir bay." To the correspondents who had covered the war in North Africa 1 since its beginning, it was less like a victory won than like a battle that had never been fought. They were disappointed, and among the people of Egypt there was only the accus tomed feeling of tenuous momentary security. Willkie, however, got his informa tion from a cocky little Irishman, who had taken over the British Eighth army two weeks before. A month later?at the end of Octo ber?Montgomery swung again, this time with power so tremendous that the German and Italian armies reeled and broke, reorganized clum sily and fled in what seemed like panic. They fled out of Egypt into Cyrenaica, fled back through their own mine fields, fled westward on the one main highway along the Mediterranean coast, fled along des ert tracks hub-deep in sand. And Montgomery stayed on their heels. Montgomery, in his tent or in his dugout, riding in his tank or his jeep in the field, talking of "my plan," with other generals putting his plan into effect. Now, without ques tion, the enemy was beaten. An Interview With Montgomery. I interviewed him one day at his headquarters in a cave. He was wearing a gray home-knit sweater with a silk scarf knotted about his throat, khaki pants, unscuffed brown calf desert boots and the jaunty black beret of the tank corps. The beret seemed somehow too large for his small gray head. There were no ribbons on his chest. None of these articles of clothing was strictly uniform, but uniform regulations were seldom closely observed in the field. Always cocky, he was cockier than ever that morning. His small, sharp blue eyes flicked over the corre spondents and his close-clipped gray mustache twitched. Suddenly?such was the magnetism of the little man himself?one noticed another figure standing beside and a little behind him. It was Coningham?chief of the RAF in the western desert?ordi narily a commanding figure; tall, heavy and solid, with a hawk nose of the kind which belongs to a man commanding the RAF in the field. Coningham wore the proper uniform with ribbons. 'Complete, Absolute Victory.' "It was a fine battle," Montgom ery began. Here was that past tense again?the same way Willkie had spoken two months earlier ? as though the battle was already over. "It was a fine battle," he repeated, and now he no longer could suppress the smile that had been making his mustache twitch. "Complete, abso lute victory," he snapped. "Boches finished. Finished! Completely smashed!" And it turned out that the enemy was smashed. Not completely smashed, not yet, but Montgomery has the knack of reading the fu ture. "He's like the conductor of a great orchestra," one of his most re spectful minor subordinates told me once. "He's always at least one bar of the score ahead of the play ers." While Montgomery fought on the ground, Coningham fought in the air. The RAF and its adjunct, the USAAF fought by day and by night, with fighters and bombers, and they achieved a triumph such as has nev er been achieved by any Allied air force in any other theater of war. It wiped out?in Coningham's own words, it annihilated?the Luftwaffe on the ground and in the air. Banked today along the sides of airfields which were German in October are piles of junk?junked German and Italian planes, wrecked before they could leave the ground. It was simply done, a simple thing to do, given the weapons with which to do it For the first time since the battle of North Africa began in 1940, Montgomery had them. In the battle of August and Sep tember?the battle so disappointing for the spectators?Montgomery had won a passive defensive victory. He massed his tanks, his anti-tank guns and his field guns in fixed positions. The enemy came, his panzer divi sions nosing eastward. The oncom ing panzers met the massed fire of Montgomery's positions, met it and fell back, and the battle was over. Released by Western Newspaper "Union. \A/ HILE dyed-in-the-wool Ameri * * can league followers probably agree that there never has been a good war, they are more likely to catch a glimpse of the silver lining than are fans of the National league. Because of the war the junior cir cuit may witness a close champion ship race instead of the customary parade headed by the New York Yankees. In the unlikely event you have forgotten, the Yankees won the series in 1936, '37, '38, '39 and '41. They won the American league crown in '42, but failed to meet the Cardinals' challenge. Even though the Yankees weren't good enough to win the series last year, they were good enough to lead the league with a nine-game margin. That is, they were nine games ahead of the Red Bex, who finished in second place. The rest of the clubs were so far behind they had to send up smoke signals to congratulate the champs. Improved Outlook ' Last fall the 1943 situation looked just as bleak?for the remaining seven clubs of the league. The armed services had claimed a good percentage of players from other clubs. The Yankees were figured to continue as usual, their roster list ing a high average of family men. But the war clouds continued to grow blacker and even the Yankee squad proved vul nerable. Tommy Henrich was called from the 1942 team. Phil Rizzuto fol lowed. Then Char ley Ruffing ? no longer in the prime of his youth, but a very valuable indi vidual?took his de parture. First Base man Buddy Hassett followed him. Red Rolfe left for a Htmim it) Red Ruffing coaching jod at Yale, where ne re ports himself completely satisfied. Probably the biggest blow to Joe McCarthy came when he beard he was losing Joe DiMaggio to the armed services. McCarthy was quot ed as saying "Whatever he does is his affair. I have nothing to say." A New York sports writer made the excellent point that McCarthy's war time commentary will scarcely out live Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Closer Race These factors point to a tighter race in the American league, which should do much to increase box of fice income. It is expected that the loss of big names will cause some decline in revenue. But that loss won't be as great as it would have been if the major leagues hadn't provided their full share of America's fighting men. The loss of some of the game's biggest stars probably won't be felt as much as some observers expect. The only real money names in base ball since Dizzy Dean are Bob Fel ler and DiMaggio. And none of the three compares to Babe Ruth as an attraction. ? For all his greatness DiMaggio wasn't altogether popular around New York. His repeated holdouts probably had something to do with that state of affairs. He listened to too many persons who weren't con nected with baseball, and the ad vice wasn't always the best. DiMaggio's greatest salary was $42,500?quite a bit less than the fabulous $80,000 Kuthian salary, ut course he didn't draw cash custom ers to the turnstiles the way Ruth did? but neither has any one else. His best year from the stand point of gate re ceipts came in 1941 when he hit safely in 56 consecutive games. There was a? much interest in loe DiMaffio mat rutting sire an as mere was in one of Ruth's home run binges. Feller has been in the navy for some time?but the fans still turn out to see his team play ball. That sports fans pay more atten tion to a close contest than they do to big names seems to ho proved by the sneeess hockey is enjoying this season. Some of the most fa mous names of the ice game have been lost to the armies and navies of Canada and the United States. Bat the fans have been breaking at tendance records merely because they like a good light. Despite the loss of men like Di Maggio and Feller, baseball likely will be able tekshuffle its way along during the coming season. SPORT SHORTS C Mary K. Browne, former national golf and tennis champion, is in Aus tralia as a Red Cross canteen di rector. C Man Mountain Dean, wrestler, is spending time on his Georgia farm since he was released by the army. He weighs 277 pounds?57 less than when he went into the army. C According to a yearbook of the United States Trotting association, 750 race meetings were held in America and Canada during 1042. Purses totaled $2,100,000. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT RAZOR BLADES KENT BLADES REGISTERED HOGS SOO Reflate red Berkshire#. Fall, spring, open. Bred silts. Tried sows. Bred to farrow Feb.-Mar.-Apr. Also weanling pigs.^ny six*. AGENTS WANTED Af eats?Sell Men's Latex Products. Large profits. Send $1 for samples, prices. Pear leu, MM WN Broadway, Kansas City, Urn. Gemt of Thought VOU may chisel a boy into * shape as you would a rock, or hammer him into it if he be a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you can not hammer a girl into any thing. She grows as a Sower does.?John Ruskin. Fight on, my men, Sir Andrew soya, A little I'm hurt, but yet not slain; /'U but lie down and bleed awhile. And then ril rise and light again. Do not expect others to sym pathize with yon unless yon sympathise with them. Sympa thy means "feelmg with." Not, for tomorrow and Us needs I pray, but keep me, guide me, hold me for today. When armored knights met, it was customary for each knight to raise the visor of his helmet as a means of identification. This ges ture has come down through all armies in the form of the salute. Traditional, too, is the Army man's preference for Camel Ciga rettes. In the Army, "^Javy, Ma rines, and Coast Guyd, actual sales records in that 'Service Stores show Camel is the favorite. 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