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Show TO II DODO Hungry and Ragged When the Afrika Korps cracked :wlde open and allied troops marched "into Tunis, Bizerte and smaller towns ;in the Tunisian coffin corner, it is re- corded that civilians went wild with delight. They kissed every dirty, r whiskery soldier they could reach; -they showered the conquerors with flowers; they broke out crude United .Nations flags they had made, at real Tisk of discovery and punishment, in anticipation of that happy moment. V Much of that happy excitement :Would have existed in any event, ',sihce the French are a volatile peo-rple, peo-rple, they don't ljke the Germans, they 'object to being kept in subjugation, -and they had a right to expect that the allied victory presaged an end to the long battle in which they had rbeen subjected to hardships and dangers. r: But the" Nazis, to some extent per-: per-: force, contributed to the depth of the. jubilation which the liberated Tunisians Tu-nisians felt. And the contrast be-rtween be-rtween what the Nazis did, perhaps from necessity, and what we were able to do, has long since penetrated by the grapevine telegraph to occupied occu-pied France, to Italy, to Norway, to the Low Countries to every place where, eventually, American troops : will go seeking such aid as local guerilla organizations can give. - In North Africa, before the Allies ;came, the Nazis had stripped the land of every resource, they could locate, and shipped out everything i; movable, leaving the people hungry, ? ragged and hopeless. The farmers i hid what food they could. Stores in towns closed because their shelves were empty. Mining communications., communica-tions., transportation and agricultural equipment broke down for lack of -replacement parts and fuel. The ' Nazis couldn't, if they would, look after such nonentities as conquered civilians. But no sooner had the Anglo-American forces landed and retaken part of North Africa than we began sending in food, clothing, medicines and other necessities of life. I- Great Britain shipped more than 350,000 tons of coal for railroads and industries, and some civilian sup-1 y pliesv We sent milk, wheat, flour, t sugar, 'tea, textiles, chemicals, seeds, medical supplies, spare parts for automobiles and agricultural imple-ments--all in addition to our own materiel shipments. We were moved by ordinary hu- inanity. But, incidentally, we have indicated - to other occupied lands, which soon we shall begin to liberate, liber-ate, the difference between both the will and the resources of democracy as contracted with those of totalitarianism. Wage Comparisons The War Labor Board reports that 4t has so handled wage increases' that these have not appreciably affected af-fected the cost of living. The Bulletin of the National Association Asso-ciation of Purchasing Agents finds that average wages in all maunf acquiring ac-quiring industries rose from $23. 19 in January, 1939, to $40.58 in January, 1943. ' . . -..Specifically, in that period the Average wage in the automobile industry in-dustry mounted from $31.59 to $55.85 or 77 per cent; in bituminous coal from $23.25 to $37.55, or 61 per cent;' in textiles from $16.72 to $26.80, or, 60 per cent.V . Civilians no' longer buy the pro-; ducts of automobile plants, so this, rise is -reflected only, in taxes, present pres-ent . arid . future. .Civilians buy little . bituminous coal, but this is a cost factor; in . all -. manufactured articles. ' Qyiliqns Ho buy textiles,; and wages have ,muqh to ..do with cost. ' It: would . be interesting to know how the VLB reached .its inclusion thatat has kept wage raises from affecting" af-fecting" materially the cost of living; PROVO (UTAH) Ji ( MUCH LONGER 00 1 i jS7 ( wSlV-W ((. . if iiWi m Qjr17. ( ESTIMATE AS iCJ I r CTN, I 1 WHAT'S XCUK A , 2-Ttr M U V gonna ENP I J J W C tt?2 xf-g X) CSTW V"T - : IN ' Afc ' . i . THE WASHINGTON m O MONDAY, MAY 24, 1943 Anti-Aircraft Fireworks Heard . By PETER EDJSON Daily Herald Wahington Correspondent PORT BLISS, Tex.- Twenty some miles from El Paso on what is .known as the Camp Hueco firing: range of the big Fort Bliss military reservation, the ArmjF Anti-aircraft Artillery Training Forces put on what are perhaps the most spectacular . F-ourtn 01 July fireworks exhibitions ever seen, whenever they conduct night firing practice. There are batteries of giant searchlights to pick up the targets in the clear night air, and from eight different firing positions, batteries of every kown anti-aircraft weapon send up magnificent showers of tracer bullets to arc across the sky and, sometimes, hit the radio-controled, miniature plane Which is the target. When a direct hit is scored and the little yellow winged, red fueslaged pilotless target plane is disabled, a parachute is released and the model Diane floats eently to earth. where its works may. be picked up and salvaged. Among the guns in the firing are the .30- and .50- caliber machine mach-ine guns, 37-mm, and the new AA-mm a mArifan Rofors anti aircraft guns, and finally the big I 00-mm. anti-aircrart batteries with their complicated range finding and fire direction apparatus appar-atus which will keep a number of guns on the target, firing them automatically and leaving for the gun crews only the work of reloading. re-loading. Gunning in the Dark-All Dark-All this anti-aircraft training is concluded with night firing, in which the crews must perform every operation without the air of light. So familiar must they be with their guns that they can service the gun in pitch darkness and without the air of even an occasional flashlight beam, which might give away their positions while putting the guns in readiness readi-ness for firing. Where the searchlights go through their drill in picking up night bombers, 40 of the big lamps ranging five feet and more in diameter, throw their beams 10 miles into the night sky. As the lights may be widely spaced over several miles of ground, when, this spectacle is viewed from a distance, dis-tance, it gives the impression of a tremendaus Japanese flag pattern, pat-tern, the rays of light converging in a blinding glare on the tiny plane caught in the center of this web of light., t The beams then extend ex-tend up And beyond, seeming to reach half way to the aenith, and filling a huge sector xf the horizon hori-zon with a light display that moves as the plane moves, rivaling the show of an Aurora Borealis. Then, when, you face about to watch the anti-aircraft firing, there is an equally spectacular show .Other searchlights have caught the targets to be fired on. Now it is a luminous "sock" tower across the sky behind a plane that is piloted.. Next it will be one of these model pilotless planes. weighting 125 pounds and . with only a 13 foot wing spread, launched from a catapult, powered power-ed by a miniature gasoline . engine, en-gine, controlled entirely 'from' the ground by radio. "Commence Fire I" it cumDs looo feet or more, and then, when it has reached a height at which its small dimen sions give me . proportions of a larger plane at greater altitude, the "commence fire" command is given and all hell breaks out as the 100 or more guns open up, the red tracers streaking up in little balls of fire, explosive shells burst ing all around the target, the self -destroying I shells that miss going thousands of vards miles beyond the target to burn out in futility. A.target may be hit in a matter of minutes, or, it make take half an houi or more to bring i aown, .... . ... ;; All such flrinjer Is . at - slow tar gets, more or less directly overhead. over-head. To simulate the 400-mile. HEALTH COLtJMN - Sound Nutritional Diet Surest Way To Infant Health By DR. THOMAS D. MASTERS Written for NEA o SERIAL STORY BY LORETTE COOPER THE STORYi Beth Carter, WAAC, i Major Brit Jaekon' "oae-man" , mtntt an taa tiay caraotfflaKel llaa4 in. taa Pacific -vrhere ht naff of taa Coast Artillery Ar-tillery Barraa-a Balloom battalion la aaaea. Information leaks are aaaaeeted. 8 aortly after taa nyte-xiona nyte-xiona XJta Daatea and aer companies. com-panies. Rick Moth, make a force lan dinar ia their aeaalaae aa Important Im-portant paver Is discovered missing-. "When Brit surprises the dubious du-bious two Into a confession, he Is suddenly attached, from behindj Beth is also seised aad both are unceremoniously thrown, lata the PT plane. It takes off. ALMOST FREE CHAPTER XII TJETH'S and Brit's heads were x close togetherV: " "You're wonderful " Brit said. "I would just think you were trying to be spiteful about Lata. I did think that, for a few seconds.' He stopped as another bump rolled them apart, then back together. 'I should have taken into account the possibility that they'd have someone else with them. It's such an obvious thing a Japanese, who can fly a plane, and who comes along to make certain the inter national double-crossers don't re- double-cross that I just didn't think of it" What will they do with us? Beth asked. "Take us to some Japanese base," Brit replied. "There's prop-: ably one within a few hours' flight." ' "But this plane . , . it's not Jap anese." "Anything can be Japanese. As a matter of fact, this is an obsolete seaplane, built in America. I don't think it dates back to the first around-the-world flight, but it goes . almost that far. The Japs undoubtedly dug it out with the Idea in mind that it wouldn't -ap- COpYRIGHT, 1943. NEA SERVICE. INC. pear to be a Jap ship, and it wouldn't look like a military ship. I got taken in, I'm afraid." "You did not." Beth defended. "You acted just as an officer should act You did everything that it appeared in your best judgment should be done. He smiled "Thanks for the en couragement. It helps ... a little. The thing now is to figure a way to get out of this mess." "We'll be missed." "In the morning," he countered. Besides, what good will that do? There isn't -a plane oh the island. . . They were -to come lata:. Even if there were; would it help the situation any 'for' one to follow fol-low us? That .would only throw more lives after ours." They lurched apart as the old plane took a particularly violent roll. When they rolled back to gether, they had been shaken around considerably. Beth's arms were bruised her bonds did riot allow her to brace herself, and she rolled at the will of the elements - The lurch had turned Brit so that he no longer faced her. She was looking into -the middle of his back. Her eyes saw the way the bonds pulled his wrists tightly together. . The plane lurched again. The bump was another hard one. Beth was thrown against Brit, and she thought for a moment her teeth had been knocked loose. "It's a rough ride, Lieutenant," Brit said. "Do you suppose . . . ?" Beth questioned. "What?" "Nothing." The idea that had come into Beth's mind was so bold that she dared hot utter it aloud. - "You started to say something," rvwa, few, Brit insisted. "What was it?" Beth lowered her voice until it was hardly audible. "Brit," she said, "can you hear me?" "Yes, why?" he replied. "Then start talking to me . . about anything. I have a plan. Only . . . keep talking." , He was silent a moment Then he humored her. "You know, I never wanted to call you Lieutenant from the first moment I saw you, Beth," he said. "I wanted to call you by your first name." . He paused. f "Keep talking," Beth- said. "It's nice to take orders from you," Brit said. t"You Know, l like you . . . " She rolled deliberately as close as she could. She tried with a su-perhuman su-perhuman effort to brace herself so that the bumpiness of the ride would not interfere With what she intended to do. BRIT JACKSON felt a tug on the tuiu uiav iiciu ins wiisu. almost mentioned it Then tho whole plan registered on his brain, too. , He held as steady as he could, and tried to extend his arms backward. back-ward. Beth grasped the cord between be-tween her teeth, and worked along it until she got to the knot She could not see, and though her teeth told her in general the conformation con-formation of the knot, she found it difficult to find any looped portion por-tion of the cord that she could pull free. Finally she grasped one of the loops. She held onto it tightly, and worked it a fraction of an inch loose. The man who tied that knot was the Japanese, and she had to admit that he knew' his cordage. Now she was making progress. One more vtug and the knot would be untied. Just as Beth was about to take another grip on the cord with her teeth and make that tug, she heard the compartment compart-ment door being opened. t (To Be Continued) The 1 normal, healthy infant should recover promptly from minor dietary upsets like vomiting, vomit-ing, diarrhea and colic. It should resist infections well, should eat with relish, should sleep much of the time during the first months and should not cry easily. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, it should gain on an average of four to six ounces (120 to 180 grams) per week throughout through-out the first year of life. Sound nutrition contributes greatly to the accomplishment of these ends. Although occasional minor variations occur in these requirements, re-quirements, normal growth and development demand the following nutritional essentials: Diet Essentials-First, Essentials-First, about 15 per cent of the bodv weieht of water a dav dur ing the first months of life. This j liquid is provided in milk of the L baby's food formula or is given as water between feedings. A scarcity scar-city of urinary output is the best indication for increasing the fluid intake. If offered water, the in fant almost always takes what he needs. Second, minerals which are usually sufficient in the milk, and the vegetables and cereals soon added to the infant's diet. Babies of low birth-weight occasionally need the iron of their ordinary milk food supplemented. Vitamin requirements center chiefly around vitamins A, C, and D. All babies should receive codliver oil or its equivalent in the winter months, particularly for A and D. The yellow and green vegetables of their enlarged diet a little later on furnish caro- lene, which is the percursor of vitamin A. Vitamin C is pro vided by orange and tomato juice. One ounce of the former or two of the latter in an equal amount of water is simple. Because of the factor of growth, infants require much more protein pro-tein than adults in proportion to their body weight. This protein is derived from milk until the fourth month. A . small amount of it is furnished by cereals and vegetables thereafter. Meatand eggs give the child considerable protein after the seventh or eighth month. Sterilization Advised Carbohydrates . usually come from malt or corn sugars, plus the carbohydrate's in the milk, and provide about 40 per cent of the infant's nourishment The residue of -calories are obtained from fats. The diet should be free from harmful bacteria. The sterilization of bottles and the boiling of milk and water have saved millions of lives. The feedings should be given at regular intervals, preferably pref-erably every four hours. Faithful adherence to a schedule simplifies the problem of infant feeding for both child and mother. A Daily Picture of What's uwiuy uu Ul finuua a H t -. ansy) f WASHINGTON Congressional leaders marvelled at Winston Churchill's frankness when they met with him in a closed-door session after his historic speech in the House of Representatives. Representa-tives. At the start he said with a grin: j "Aslcjtne anything you like. And don't be afraid to tc critical. The more critical your questions are, the better. If ifs within my power, I'll answer them." Congressmen took him at his word, peppered pep-pered him with questions for more than an hour. Some of Churchill's replies involved highly confidential con-fidential military information and cannot be repeated. re-peated. . However, he answered all questions straight from the shoulder. One important point he discussed, wnich has been aired so much in the press it is no longer a military secret, is Italy and the probability of internal revolt. The Prime Minister was optimistic about the prospect of an inside crack-up, crack-up, partly as a result of heavy air bombardments. bombard-ments. . He also emphasized the staggering effect that taking Italy out of the war would have on Germany and Japan, and pointed out that if Italy could be eliminated witliout too much time and sacrifice, it would greatly weaken Axis defenses Among other things, it would cause a collapse col-lapse of Italian armies in other areas, such as Russia and France and the Prime Minister revealed that Italy had around 120,000 troops in the Balkans alone. Because of his own scarcity scar-city of troops, Hitler could ill afford to lose these Italian troops on the other war fronts. an-hour plane streaking; across the front big rockets are fired from one side and in front, of the firing line! A mere white streak across the horizon, like a shooting star. they re gone in less than a minute 0- and of course the gunners never know whether they hit it or hot. But its' all good practice in this gaudiest pt 41 Roman candle, skyrocket pinwheeL star shell, flowerpot, fireworks pieces ever set off for a county, state or world's fair. All the rattlesnakes and coyotes in the area have long since gone away from there. Mutual Dell to Operate as Usual Mutual Dell .delightful M.I.A. summer home in American Fork canyon, will be accupied as usual this season by the Mutual girls of the Timpanogos, Alpine and Lehi stakes, in spite of food' rationing, ra-tioning, gasoline and tire restrictions restric-tions and the manpower shortage The schedule, not yet drawn up, may be modified somewhat be cause of the major labor crisis on the farms. Valve and clutch springs weaken when compressed too long or if the pedal is blocked to prevent clutch plates from sticking:. a 75 . : -r- Ycinks r "Mission Ov er Africa " Begins With a Jeep Ride ' . ? - ; - 1 i'v I Carol Johnson's North African Sketchbook f the- 'xisnuiinu ujuasxixnu Svcn Palermo by the lads of the p . S. Army Air Forces was the : biggest ail-American bombing raid h in history, but chances are the h flyers, who delivered it took it in their - stride as just another as- . fc signmest. ; Carol Johnson, NEAJ p arust sketching at an advanced f African air base, has caught p something of the " nonchalance f with which our airmen take their ynnr-nus-jrio Tn th sketch final instruction; pile into a tiny jeep like kids jallopying to a football ' game and are driven to their planes. '--' WHEN THE JEEP-BORNE crew's arrive, the ground crew has check- ed the ship thoroughly and has it i all bombed up for the. flight; The !?: : , flyers have a few moments before "f mmJLT If if Mi itra . . ' -1 - ' 1 wot 9 iZZC, ' rt -take-off time, in which-some dress f for the flight other relax, like the - r pair- at right of sktch below, who k 1 - are more concerned over moves in their chess game than with the life-risking task ahead of them. , TIIETKE OFF! j The planes have gathered in ;a ' group ; at - one end of the run-' run-' way and "with twin motors roaring take off in single file, zooming over the . observation tow- sr. wmmmm y.v - I . V" 9 : - I I Ofan .urn. ffrf mm WHEN THE ROLL. IS CALLED UP YONDER The Prime Minister prompted quite a chuckle when some one inquired about the hope expressed in his speech for a conference among himself, President Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Gneralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. Where would the meeting take place, Churchill was asked. "I don't know and I don't care," he replied. "I'm ready to go any place. I've been about everywhere on this earth, and when the roll wh'at's that expression of yours? when the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there, too." Arriving at the Capitol, Churchill informed Kenneth Romney, House Sergeant-at-arms, that his speech would be "rather long." "It may take an hour," he said. "Do you think that's too long? I don't want to wear out the Congress." "Don't worry about that Mr. Churchill," assured Romney. "Everybody is very anxious to hear you." Following the address, the Prime Minister again asked Romney, while walking over to the Senate side for luncheon, if the speech was too long. "I timed you 48 minutes," replied Romney. "We all enjoyed the speech immensely. I am sure no one thought it was too long." "My remarks read better than they sound," Churchill observed, pointing out that he had avoided oratorical effects in an effort to condense con-dense the speech. UNWANTED PASSENGERS After the Churchill party arrived in Washington, Wash-ington, British Information Service put out a press release which spoke of a pleasant voyage, making no mention of the fact that the ship was lousy. The name of the ship is censored, but Lady Beveridge does not consider the fact that there were vermin on board. She and Sir William, author of the famous Beveridge plan for social security, were not members of the official party, (her husband was invited by he Rockefeller Foundation to give them his views on pensions) but " that did not make them immune. Lady j Beveridge confesses that she looks like a plum putidin;. But anyway the vermin were better than submarines, and everybody was thankful. The Churchill party sets a new British record rec-ord for quantity as well as quality, numbering 90 It included everybody from the top planning experts of the War Office to Steward Long- xkiruux, uu o me ucn.ma.ji lo oir uuuiey Pound. That means Sir Dudley has brought along his soldier servant, or personal valet. But the Prime Minister has much more than a valet. He has a retinue of seven, including his personal physician. Lord Moran; his private secretary, Mr. Rowan; his personal assistant Commander Thompson; a clerical officer a valet and two detectives. One of the detectives is none other than the famous Inspector W. H. Thompson, who, when London police found a dead body in a 'trunk, solved the mystery and found the murderer. The Prime Minister and his retinue of seven stayed at the White House. But the other 82 members of the party were farmed out where-ever where-ever hotel space could be found for them. The Statlcr got most of them, the Mayflower May-flower a lot while 16 "wrens" (WRNS) were bunked at the Lee Sheraton. Their function is to decipher confidential cables. t MYSTERY OF BEAVERBROOK There has been a lot of speculation as to why Lord Beaverbrook came, since he is not a member of the official party. Some said he was charged with the secretjnission of patching up the rift between the Russians and the Poles Actually, "the Beaver" came for two "mysterious" reasons: his asthma and Averell Harriman, . Lend-Lease representative in London. Lon-don. - He and Harriman became great friends while on a mission to Moscow, and when Bever-brook Bever-brook heard Harriman was going with Churchill to Washington, he decided to come for the ride. Alsv Beaverbrook especially wanted to visit Kw New York asthma specialist Dr. Al Barach, who has been treating nim for three years and who has developed a helium treatment for the ailment "The Beaver? has found , that his asthma gets worse as a result of nervousness but that when he : keeps out of critical parliamentary parlia-mentary debates he is relatively well. - Another 'mysterious'' member of the ChurchiUparty is Lord CherwelL' His other name is Professor Frederick Lindemann, and he has done important researches on the quantum theory. But why did he come to Washington? The, answer is that His Lordship the Pro-A Sf80 by aUiematicaJ calculations once f igur-ed' igur-ed' out a means of getting a plane out of a tail-spin, tail-spin, and when challenged that this was merely theoreacal" he hopped Into a plane,' put it into a spin, and got it out again by application of his theory. He is now an adviser to the Royal Air Force and came to Washington to help dis-; CU3S plans for bombing Germany. Memb?rs the Churchill party of 90 range widely in rank, bat when they got to this coun- - i?;1!ye7"e from utIed gentlemen to servant displayed t the common touch of good appetite. On the train from seaport to Washington they . au ordered two types of food which are rarities " "ihuu reg meat ana ice cream. " ' (Copyright, 193, by. United Feature Y " - - Syndicate, Inc.) |