Washington, D. 0.
/ GERMAN UNDERGROUND
I SEETHES
According to uncensored dis
patches now reaching Washington,
active guerrilla warfare is flaring
up on a mounting scale behind the
German lines.
First real indication of an active
Fifth column in Germany came re
cently with accurate reports of
pitched battles inside Berlin, Bres
lau and Bremen. This new guerrilla
warfare differs from that of parti
san units inside France, Yugoslavia
and Greece in that few of the guer
rilla troops are Germans. The bulk
are Frenchmen and Russians who
were captured earlier in the war
and have been used as slave labor
in the reich.
All of these workers were
carefully guarded by Himmler
until recently. Most lived in big
cities and worked in large in
dustrial plants. In Berlin for
example, hundreds of thousands
of slave laborers have been
. housed in fenced off temporary
barracks in the heart of the city.
But recent powerful allied air
raids, have created such chaos
that thousands of foreign work
ers escaped from their en
closures and have hidden in the
bomb ruins.
• At night, the guerrillas prowl the
streets, capture Nazi sentries, steal
food and ammunition, commit ex*
tensive sabotage. They have been
joined by some German army de
serters, afraid to return to the front,
advices say.
Once Berlin is taken it is expected
that the several million slave labor
ers will flare into such revolt that
Germany—except in the mountain
ous south—will cave like an egg
shell.
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OVER-AGE SERVICEMEN
Greatest hardship on men in the
army probably is with enlisted men
over 38, now too old to become offi
cers but who can’t resign as officers
can.
Typical case of how this hard
ship works is that of Cpl. Alexander
C. Sioris, age 45, who has served in
the army three years, most of the
time overseas. Corporal Sioris is
not only a college graduate, but
holds a doctor’s degree. Twice he
was recommended for officers’
training school, but each time his
unit moved overseas and he had to
sail with his unit. Now he is too old
to be commissioned, too old for com
bat, yet under present army rules
must be kept on—doing menial jobs.
There are thousands of similar
cases. What the army needs is a
good overhauling of its manpower,
especially older men who have been
in the army a long time.
NEW MANPOWER PROGRAM
War Manpower Commission
Director Paul McNutt may put a
new program into effect very
soon in all light labor areas. This
would limit employers in non
essential or less essential indus
tries to a certain percentage of
the number of workers they em
ployed last year. This ceiling-em
ployee program has already been
tried out in Chicago and proven
successful. v
Chicago employers in non
essential and less essential in
dustries will be required to cut
the number of employees on the
payroll 10 per cent by March IS.
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SECRET RED WEAPONS
Die Russians are way ahead of
both the United States and Great
Britain in the use of rocket guns,
have employed them with devas
tating effect in the lightning .drive
through Poland, and particularly
in the offensive against the Nazis
in East Prussia.
One new and very important
weapon which Stalin unveiled in the
new drive is the 100-ton tanlc named
after himself. The Stalin tank is
superior to the German royal tiger
tank, and our own Sherman heavy
tank. It carries a 4.8-inch gun as
against the 3-inch gun carried on our
Sherman. So long as the ground re
mains hard, the Stalin tank is capa
ble of resisting any but the largest
point-blank German shells. On the
other hand, the mobile gun on the
Stalin tank can pierce most of the
German, secondary fortifications so
far encountered by the Russians, it
is said.. "*■
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WAR NOTES 's. ■.
C Germans are already trying to
escape from the threatened Nazi
homeland.- Reports from Lisbon,
Madrid, Stockholm and Berne re-'
veal hundreds of Germans trying to
crash the frontier to get out of Ger
many before the Allies take over.
47DB still hasn’t decided who he
will name as high commissioner of
the Philippines. WMC Director Paul
McNutt and Supreme Court Justice
Frank Murphy both are ready to
go. If Mufphy takes It, Roosevelt
wni nominate Judge Sam Boson
man to the Supreme court
C A significant new Slav treaty is
now being negotiated. It will bind
together foe Czechoslovak govern
ment and the Lublin-Polisb govern
ment in the first step toward, top
creation of an pastern European.:
Slavic ' aaiitoee nattreBT WifoJ
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Gen. StilweU Road Completed to Supply China
The greatest engineering feat In the annals of the United States army was the completion of the StilweU
road through Burma, by Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Peck, his American engineers and thousands of native labor
ers. Not only was the road constructed, air fields built, mountains and Jungles conquered, the monsoons
defeated, raging rivers bridged, but malaria was licked in solving the problem as General Peck and his men
slaved against time, nature and the Japanese, thousands of miles from home.
Ex-G.Ls Enter College for Postwar Training
m
While Industry Is still laying its careful plans for the day when swords may be beaten Into plowshares,
the government has already put into operation its machinery of reconversion for the men discharged from
the armed forces. Thousands of young men are being discharged monthly, and many of them, like those
shown above, have resumed their studies or are receiving training for new vocations** *
General Edcty Wins Decoration
MaJ. Gen. Manton S. Eddy, right, receives the Distinguished Service
medal from Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, for his leadership or the 12th
army corps in the drive across Prance. Ho is the officer who out
maneuvered German Field Marshal Von Kundstcdt on the Moselle river i
and led assault between Nancy and Meta.
The Lady* D’Artagnans Practice
The Ledy D’Artagnane of the TJnIveralty *f Penn«yrv*nI» Ioo*en up
their cwerd uni In preperetlen for forthcoming kuoo. The deellteto
here ere Heine Weeler, Emily Lon Better, Gerry Clpele, ell of Phil**
aUfUf, |eu Alice
Teotte.efThHedfiphie*
Gloncester, M. I, Irene OetaU*
gti&l- t. . £ % ’-^*.-0^ A> * H‘ y/ i- ^
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Assistant Chaplain
Believed to be the first women to
serve u e chaplain's assistant. Miss
Ethel Wilson of Harrogate, England,
will serve overseas. She has been,
assigned for an lfi-montta commis
sion in East Africa.
Admiral to Senator
Adm. Thomas C. Hart has taken
office in tbe V. 8. aenate by appoint
ment of, the governor of Connecticut.
He in aiuwn with kh wife and their
roundest daughter, Harriet , Taft
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Snapshots of Big Shots:
(This is what comas from
reading booksl)
U|» Allan Pm was a dollar-a*
year-man too.... He (pent 10 years
writing and rewriting “The Raven”
and got 10 bucks for it . . . The
original manuscript sold the last
time for $10,000. ... Poe paid $3
a month rent for his honeymoon cot
tage on Grand Concourse (in the
Bronx), which is now a New York
state historical shrine. If it hadn’t
been a grand neighborhood for
dandelions he and his bride would
have starved.
Marconi, son of an Italian father
and Irish mother, was 27 when he
invented radio, and even then there
were people who wanted to kill him.
. . . These cranks said electrical
proves were passing through their
bodies, destroying their nerves and
making it impossible for them to
sleep.
Barnum, who amid “there’s one
born every minute,’* was one
himself. He lost a fortune on a
bear’s grease hair tonic, was
swindled out of another selling il
lustrated bibles, trimmed again
on a fire extinguisher that
wouldn’t extinguish, went into
bankruptcy for half a million
making alarm clocks. ... With
out a dime to his name he wrote
a lecture on “How to Make
Money,” grossing $1,00® a night.
. . . And that’s how the famous
Barnum Ism was born.
Alexander Dumas, one-fourth
Negro, whose book, "The Three
Musketeers,” was a best seller for
almost 100 years, used to boast that
he had more than 500 children and
swore he would never marry. . . .
He changed his mind when a smart
sweetheart bought up all his debts
and gave him a choice between
marriage and jail. ... He wrote
novels on blue paper, poetry on yel
low, articles on red, and nothing
else would do. . . . He wrote more
than 1,200 volumes of plays, novels
and histories, made over 5 million
dollars and died broke, living off tile
charity of his son.
Woolworth started his five
and-dime stores on a capital of
$300, and his first three failed.
Thirty years later he was able
to pay $14,000,000 cash for the
building bearing his name, then
the world’s highest office build
ing.
George Gershwin sold his first
song for $3; nine years later a
Hollywood studio paid $50,000 just to
use "Rhapsody in Blue,” which he
wrote in his spare time, in a single
picture.
Sir Isaac Newton was so ab
sent-minded he once rammed his
niece’s fingers into his pipe....
Trying to fix himself a three
. minute egg, he boiled his watch
while watching the egg. . . .
When he went to fetch anything
he usually came back without
It. ... He was usually last in
his class at school. . . . He was
a woman hater and never mar
ried. ... He always claimed he
solved many of his mathemati
cal problems In his sleep.
Dr. Samuel Johnson continually
distorted his face by violent grim
aces. . . When walking in (he
street he touched every 'post he
passed and if he missed one he al
ways returned. He always made a
point of entering or leaving a door
on a certain foot, but his biograph
er, Boswell, wasn’t sure which one.
;. Lord Byron wu so emotional that
once a theatrical- performance put
him into convulsions. « . . In a fit
of temper he threw his watch into
the lire and hammered it to pieces
With the poker. ... He also fired a
pistol in the bedroom of his wife,
who left him after a year of mar
riage. ... Sp he went to Venice and
bought a harem.
liked to keep, his feet
in ice while working. . . . He once
wrote a full and perfect description
of the Swiss land and people — al
though he knew neither. . . . Cole
ridge, who wrote “Kubla Khan" un
der the influence of an opiate, could
remember only 64 lines when he
sufficiently recovered to write. . . .
wirtipHoM at times imagined himself
to ba a horse and neighed, trotted
««ii jumped like one. . . . Beau
Brummel,. the fashion plat* (who
taught the Prince cf Wales how to
dross), .died in rags in an insane
asylum.
Beethoven had a passion for
tag rent an two or three plaoes
at aooe, bet Mesart, who died
at H, starved and fresen,
never oeuld pay rant on one.
Chopin wafted oat on the biggest
leva of Ids life because ope didn’t
offer Mm a chair before she offered
one to others jn the room.... ft his
will <be ordered himself buried in
wMte do. - drees r ships and silkeo
knae breeches.,-- --- >. '•
McGOOFEY’S FIRSt
READER
This is a steer.
Where is the steer?
The steer is on the ranch.
Will the steer leave the ranch?
We hope so.
What are these things on the
steer’s head?
Homs.
Are they necessary?
Well,.you have to use something
in hamburgers!
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Oh, see the steer’s tail!
Yes, it is a long tail.
What is the tall good for?
If the war lasts long much longer
you will find out.
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The steer looks nervous.
You would look nervous, too, if you
were a steer.
What makes the steer nervous?
The Government, Chester Bowles,
the Black Market, the Rancher, the
Ultimate Consumer, etc.
Why do they make the steer nerv
ous?
The steer knows that he would get
better protection under the rules of
bullfighting.
• .
The steer looks round-shouldered.
Yes, and so would you if you were
in its place.
What makes the steer round-shoul
dered?
He gets that way standing under
the ceiling.
Does the steer have to stand un
der a ceiling?
Come, come* don’t you ever read
the papers?
Why'does the steer stand under a
celling? t
To get across the street
' What street?'
Pennsylvania avenue.
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Oh, look!
What's happened?
The eeiiing seems to be changing.
Yeah.
It seems to be going up?
It is going up about four dollars.
Why are they giving the steer a
new celling?
It seems there was agitation.
Who agitated?
The butcher, the OPA and the peo
ple who were tired of mutton and
pork.
Do people eat ceilings?
No; the beefstews only taste that
way.
Now that the celling la nigner win
the steer cease to be round-shoul
deredT
Round or flat you’ll be glad to get
it You can.depend on one thing.
What is that?
The consumer will become round
shouldered.
Why?
Looking lor a meat market where
ceilings make any difference.
(End of Lesson)
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THE CLOTHING INQUIRY
Washington is getting alter the
clothing situation. It is out to roll
back the prices o1 shirts, drawers,
rompers, suits, dresses and what
not .
It’s about time. It has been think
ing too much about beet and not
enough about shorts.
• * •
What is-important to the average
American, more hamburgers' or
more underwear?
•_
There hasn’t been as much el a
public howl ever the high costs of
dressing because the uneven distri
bution, hasn’t been so glafring. It is
not easy to ten when one man is
getting the best shirts. Or wheth
er Rrs. Beemlsh is able to boy the
choicest cuts of undies while Mrs.
Mooney hasn’t been able to get any
thing but the roughest lingerie in a
gear.. ...
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Unlike the situation in the meat
crisis, you have not been able in a
clothes Shortage to go down to Joe’s
place and get all the apparel you
wanted.
U down to your last pair of pants,
you couldn’t go to a smart restaurant
and get them in all styles and colors
at a price.
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We haven’t heard ef a "black
market." But It may oeme
It may take points to get a pair
at socks, a pair of pajamas or a vest
before long.
• • •
Mrs. Whitney said the shortage at
women in Alaska wag, accompanied
by ah "absence of other things—
there are no insects, no rodents, no
dust, no poison ivy.”—Newspaper
item.
cmsAenn
Is that putting it nicely?
General Homma of Japan says,
"It is assumed that the Japanese
Grand Fleet will now abandon its
passiveness.” What the general
means is “Come Out, Come Out,
Come Out Wherever You Are."
CLASSIFIED,
nEPARTMENT
agents wanted
High-Priced Timber ,
A South African wood, known
curiously as “stinkwood,” highly
prized because it permits a beau
tiful walnut-like finish to furniture
and other articles made of it, is
the highest priced timber in the
world. To preserve the trees the
government has closed the forest
where they grow for 200 years.
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WHEN CONSTIPATION mike* you foot
punk u the dickens, brines on stomach
upset, sour taste, fussy discomfort,
take Dr. Caldwell’s famous medicine
to quickly pull the trigger on lazy “in
nards” and help you fed bright and
chipper again.
DR. CALDWELL'S Is the wonderful sen
na laxative contained in good old Syrup
Pepsin to make it so easy to take.
MANY DOCTORS use pepsin prepara
tions in prescriptions to make the medi
cine more palatable and agreeable te
take. So be sure your laxative is con
tained in Syrup Pepsin.
INSIST ON DR. CALDWELL’S—the fa
vorite of millions for SO years, and feet
that wholesome relief from constipa
tion. Even finicky children love it.
CAUTION i Use only as directed.
DR. emus
SENNA IAXAT1VE
- SYRUP PEfSM
How To Relieve
Bronchitis
Creomulsion relieves promptly be
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
u> soothe and heal raw, tender, in
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un
derstanding you must like the way It
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
lor Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
STRAINS, SORENESS^
CUTS, BURNS
A fcvorit* household antiseptic dree*
lag and liniment foe 98 yean—Hanfordb
BALSAM Or MYRRH! It contain*
mHiimimnitnwIiMatlgMMiaimi
—•he of onr-uad and (trained muscles.
Take* the (tine and itch oat of bona,
scalds, insect bite*, oak and ivy poison
ing. wind and *on born, chafing and
chapped aUn. Its antiseptic action lee*
ena the danger of infection whenever the
akin b cot or broken.
Keep a bottle handy for the minor
of kitchen and nureery. At
your druggist—trial sis* bottle SSfj
household baa 65 f; economy aise |US
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Do Yoa Hate HOT FLASHES?
K you suffer fromhot flashes, feel
weak, nervous, a bit blue at times—
all due to the functional “middle
age” period peculiar to women—try
Lydia X. Plnkham's Vegetable Com
pound to relieve such symptoms.
Taken regularly—Plnkham’s Com
pound help* build up resistance
against such annoying symptoms.
Plnkham's Compound Is made
(specially for women—it helps na
ture ana that's the kind of medi
cine to buyl Follow, label directions.
LYDIA LPlNKHAII’SSSaSS
WNU—4 8—45