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Show THE Thursday, May 27, 1913 NEP1II. UTAH TI.MKS-NKW- By : Delos Wheeler Lovelace ARTHUR BRISBANE always that "a gorilla could whip both of them," even though the "both of them" included Gene and Jack Tunney Dempsey. Commander Tunney never agreed with Mr. Brisbane. The commander was always quite certain that Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey or himself could take care of any gorilla that ever adorned a jungle or WNU Vrz-- Vf XTEW YORK. It was a good, hop, skip and jump that carried the amphibious forces of Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner onto the ' Av ,.y-- Release. Russell UneU PhllC Leaders in New and Important Roles Who's News This Week Consolidated Features. Page Three . p. . - w. w ' St - - THE LETTERS OF j: U i ?jx Is- - Here's Sailor Who lands. North Quite Well Knows canal-Guadal- 5h'f His Turbulent Sea are - that much nearer Tokyo and the day of reckoning which the admiral has been helping to shape since Pearl Harbor. Turner has spent 19 years on the uneasy, untrustworthy bosom of the sea since he finished Annapolis in a zoo. 1908. He was married two years Grantland Rice We thought of this later, so his wife has been a navy the other night as widow almost half the time. He is we stopped In front of Gargantua's 57 old, has a DSM and was circus cage in "The World's Great- bornyears in Oregon. est Show." The last time we saw Four years ago the admiral Gargantua, about two years ago, his had a fine, close look at Tokyo 450 was announced at pounds. weight which may help on the cheerful On this last occasion his weight was day an American task force goes 600. given out at boiling past Boso peninsula. He was a cruiser captain then, and At the moment, we wondered just the cruiser had just borne home what would have happened if Tunall that was mortal of the late ney, Dempsey and Louis together Ambassador Hiroshi Saito, dead had entered his cage to throw right in the United States. The emand left hooks, plus straight jabs or right crosses. peror shook Turner's hand and undying friendship, expressed if Tunney has always insisted that but didn't add that his ringers you nailed a gorilla squarely on the were crossed against December jaw he couldn't take a punch and a 7, 1941. quick collapse would follow. That Already Turner has squared accould be true. But tangling up with counts His were the somewhat. e 600 pounds of and quickness plans on which our invasion of still leaves Gargan jungle ferocity was based. He bet that tua 1 to 3 in our book, or maybe Guadalcanal he would catch the Japanese napping 1 to 10. there and he did. The first convoy unloaded men,guns, supplies before Slow Courting the enemy sea force discovered what no So far there is early prospect was up. of any little Gargantuas arriving on Later, when we lost four cruisers, the scene. His mate is still in the the issue was but then next cage, where steel touches steel, we caught two bevies of Japanese but his trainer has been unable to warships with their sampans down detect any fondness on either side. and after that even Tojo agreed that "It may take another year," one Turner had called the turn. ItYsm Pit !l xvitV rf Si J ..3L...1.$, - ' y ni in.i forces in the European theater, f ft. imtm, Shown at left Is Lieut. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, new commander of the V. S. accessor to Lieut. Gen. Frank Andrews, who was killed in a plane crash In Iceland. Center: Leon Henderson, of Research Organization Servformer price administrator, who has returned to Washington as editor-in-chiice Business. Right: Maj. Gen. Omar Bradley, whe has replaced Lient. Gen. George S. Patton as commander of the American 2nd Corps in Tunisia. General Bradley is an infantry expert, and assumed command when Infantry could serve best in the Tunisian theater of war. Guns That Speak With Full Authority m,nwi"jimnu njuji injn mi umiiii inmi ir ii -- n ni;TrT-","i i 'I Sheridan still Class of Our younger his when In Sheridan, Jackson hell - for leather cavalry was easing Grant's work. Now in Russia, older than Sheridan, younger than Jackson, Konstantin Rokossovsky climbs to a full generalship over crumpled Nazi armies. Rokossovsky is just rounding 38. In the first weeks of the war he rose from colonel to major-genera- l. This because of a heady, stubborn defense that stalled the first Nazi blitz for a month back of Smolensk. Ten weeks later he set going Ruse and elsia's first bowed the Germans so solidly that Stalin moved him up a notch. In last year's bleak fighting before Moscow the Germans outnumbered Rokossovsky three to one. Just the same he was able to put 200 tanks, 29,000 enemy out of action in October alone. This year he broke the Nazis at Stalingrad. His employment of cavalry has been notable and once was inspired. This was when he rushed cossackt in massed raids behind the German rear, a disruptive triumph in thi great tradition begun by Greek Phil ip and Alexander and kept going b Parthian Surena, Roman Belisaniut and, to skip a lot of centuries anc a lot of good cavalrymen, Sheridan and Jeb Stuart, another boy wonder Rokossovsky is big, handsome, with a wide, full mouth, a broad, untroubled forehead and a right eye brow that cocks higher than the left, ' maybe in astonishment at his owt rise. -- Pound for Pound fighter in the circus, or anywhere else, is the The best pound-for-poun- d black leopard or black panther. Here is a much smaller animal that even a tiger will detour. Lightning-quicpowerful, the black leopard has only one real pleasure in life and that is to fight. "He is the only jungle animal who Is always looking for a fight," Frank Buck says. "Most animals only take the warpath for food. The black leopard takes the warpath for fun. And he is tough even for a tiger, who will outhim more weigh than Joe Louis will outweigh Beau Jack Armor Henry strong. k, I found it general- ly agreed among MUl'r jli'',r'rirviMti,i rnj circus trainers that Louis now Joe exist nothing ing on this earth. minus tanks or airplanes or machine guns, could handle a big, wild bull elephant. Here is one party that always gets a wide detour. So far as the United States is concerned, "Bring -- 'Em Back -- Alive" Buck not only rates the grizzly bear far above any U. S. animal contender, but he also gives him at least an even chance against the tiger and the lion. -- The grizzly is big, quick, powerful and both mean and smart. He is well protected, with a thick coat of hair around the throat barbed-wir- e counter-offensiv- I am more worried about you than if we were married, my dear, The ration news bothers me no end. Are you getting enough to eat? And are those places where you and used to go for those lovely steaks and chops open now? I never eat here In camp without worrying VtifOmdimt. StmmtummimA ' W.i.-... r,m..,..-fr.- 3l. ,r. i about you, and I was tempted to it fr 'nv wrap up a chop and mail it to you more Shewn at left Is our new 240 mm. howitzer, the M-- l, as described In the Field Artillery JonrnaL It la this noon. en two loads in 1918 travels It Its than more accurate even counterpart. and more and mobile powerful, backclamshell a this is and its by for is speeded Less emplacement, digging required high speed trailers. Well, bear up the best you can. ft run at the et. Right: Naval gun crew shown during training in the operation of a three-inc- h write me often and knit me a sweat towed from at sleeve Guns fire Calif. center In targets Point ft Montara, U. S. navy gunnery training er or two. I know how lonely you must feel, but duty Is duty. This is planes over the water. an war and I am going all out in it. No other course is thinkable. You are my pin-u- p man, and it Is the thought of what a nice boy you are that keeps my spirits up, flvM.-i- 't i f " T JF jm taB af if back aches from need of diuretic aid Functional kidney disturbance dueto need of diuretic aid may cause stabbing back- acne! May cause urinary How to be yet scanty and smarting Yo may lose sleep from "Retting up mehts" often may feel dizzy, nervous, "headachy." In such cases, vou want to Urmulatm kidnty scthm fast. So if there is nothing; systemtcally or organically wrong, try Gold Medal Capsules. They've been famous for prompt action for 30 years. Take care to use them only as directed. Accept no substitutes. 35 at your drug store. Keep the Battle Rolling With War Bends and Scrap anti-aircra- anti-aircra- all-o- Deadly Trio With High Comhat Record Vkli Ts rsfievo distress et MONTHLY Female Weakness . Plain 'Uncle Joe' Take care of yourself, ry too much about what may hold for me, and if want to bake me a cake All my love, don't wor the future you really go ahead. WHICH MAKES YCO CRANKY, NERVOUS! Lydla E. Ptnkham's Vegetable Com- ropound baa helped thousand to ller periodic pain, backache, head-aowith weak, nervous, cranky, due to functional blue feelings monthly disturbance. This la taa of to Its soothing- effect on ha nt - wobiaWs aeon eaOAira. htotant Plnkham'a Com- Taken regularly pound helps build up resistance against sucb annoying symptoms. Follow label directions. Worth, trying I SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER Arlene TO THE SPARS Twinkle, twinkle, little Spar, Pulling hard to win the war, Mastering the old is which. Learning which boat-enoar. an with Qualifying Always saying "hatch" for "door," Knowing downstairs Is "below," Saying to a man "I'll rowl" half-hitc- d i.J7- -' Learning all that matters most Of affairs along a coast. Marking what the service teaches As important at the beaches. f Twinkle, twinkle, little Spar, Finding what the few things are That a Coast Guard boy can do That a woman can't do, too. JEREMIAH could come back he IFwould get plenty of sympathy F. Patterson. As entanglements that defy claws from Robert son worried over his carelest or fangs. But after looking over p e o p 1 e's Gargantua again, it is still my belief that Messrs. Tunney, Dempsey and It beems a I esty plight, so Joe Louis combined would spend an Critic of National the underof extremely uncomfortable afternoon Pollyannism Is He secretary war worries or evening in his cage. I would like to suggest to Messrs. over too much optimism about this Tunney, Dempsey and Louis that if global muddle of ours. He talks gloomily of gasless fightthey invade Gargantua's lair they ing planes, because, he says, tough ride in on the Inside of a tank. Bill Jeffers tapped our oil supply so Game Time heavily to make rubber. Recently he said: "We .cannot be sure of vic One of baseball's leading experiWe must have an army ments should be to find the right tory in 1945. He said we time to start a came that will solt of at least 8,200,000." must put 'a legal curb on absentee the needs or desires of war worker without causing any absentee snarls. workers. Patterson has cause to be Cincinnati tried an 11:30 a. m. satisfied with his personal quite game on Monday and the result record. He quit a prosperous over showed an improved attendance law practice for a federal judgethe same Monday date in 1942. Apship, resigning this when be was asked to take hold under Secreparently there won't be any big crowds through the week from Montary of War Stimson three years day on through Friday. But there ago. can at least be an Improvement This is the second war that he has gotten into. He finished the last one a major, with a Distinguished Serv Changing Times ice cross and one wound stripe. He It was something of a Jolt to see also saw service on the Mexican the Yankees moving into May with- border. Now he bosses a new gen out a hitter among the first Sve in eration of our fighting men from the American league. Apparently heavy desk in Washington, but he the power that once belonged to the flies his own plane, and in a pinch big bats of Ruth, Gehrig. MeuseL ra'ght do active duty again for all Dickey and DIMaggio Is now trans- that he Is 52. ferred to pitching arms. Manager He is a trim 52, with a long, stubJo McCarthy, one of the most con- born upper lip, and the high narservative, will make no predictions, row forehead that suggests pcrcipi-ence- . but he will tell you he la satisfied. His intimates say he is That coming from McCarthy is a concise. burst of optimism. V' . InTO phys- - dermined her morale terribly, she says. Then there is Mrs. Druffle, another married enlistee, whe was doing splendidly at camp and was in line for promotion when she sud denly went all te pieces. It developed that it was due to news frem the neighbors that her husband. Geoffrey, was not taking the Pom' eranian out for walks regularly. JACKSON was only thirties when he was giving lessons to arthritic generals sent out from Washington. Phil was . POT Many of the girls feel the same way I do about it. Mrs. Willoughby, one of the married women at this camp, for example, says that all she wants to know is that her husband is looking after things at the heuse all right. She got word last week that he was eating out in cheap restaurants a lot instead of cooking himself op some good food at home, as instructed, and it un- '""T rwiww?wwwwr STONEWALL Russ Boy Wonder triFH tn You must remember, Terry, that you have always taken life comfortably. We girls have to get up at 5:30, drill hard and accept severe discipline. Some of us were talking about it only last night and there was much comment on just how much women should expect from men In modern war. ef ji vnn ,nnv - L fcaaJL.,. TTHE trouble about seeing both sides of a question is that both sides go for you for being on the other. It's true that you can do almost any tiling jcu desire to do; the trouble is making yourself desire to do it. It may not be possible to find me perrect gin, DUt tnere s a lot Qf fUn in the hun'inc. A compromise is what two peo- ,e arrjve at to their mutual satisfaction. The man who sits down to wait for Opportunity to appear should rtnsri VUOll niicVimn ir tllCn iVi'iiw mi4 lUkl XAl UUl a KUUU certainly got the rifht mo- uniform and were rejected for new world. 1 he old "akin ical reasons, and I think you should teTml After take it more philosophically. all, this is, more than ever before, a woman's war, and I am not sure it MFniriTFn Soothe itch of simple is the kind of struggle you should be in. Believe me, life in the army POWDER FOR iormerly Mexican HeatPowdorRelieve is tough and full of hardships, and FAMILY USE diaper rash, heat rash. you know very well how unaccustomed you are to such things. w'P. :: : T Dear Terry: It is nice getting your letter, but I wish you would not gripe so much about conditions at home. How can we gins ao our dcsi in war umesa we know that our husbands and sweethearts are contented and hap-- j py: ii you wani to Keep our morale up you men must do the best you can to keep the home tires burning while we are away at war. Tlknnw 5;-W'S- AI.L-OL- ARLENE cat-lik- trainer said, "to bring about their friendship, and it may take longer. There's also the chance that Gargantua might prefer his bachelor life on to the finish. We can't afford to take any such risk right now." Gargantua apparently has a disposition composed almost exclusively of vitriol and TNT. FhLPhillmr fJ' I V? "New York's 2,200 restaurants and hotels have made pledge not to raise prices above the April to 10 level and to have no dealing with black markets." News Item, Wanna bet? 144 This Is the "big three" of one of "the busiest American Spitfire outfits In North Africa. Primarily assigned to protect bombers raiding Axis bases, these pilots have a high combat record. Together they have accounted for 14 of the 3S enemy planes bagged by the squadron. They are, left to right, Lieut. S. Field, Lynn, Mass.; Capt. Norman McDonald, Framingbam. Mass.; and Sergt. James Butler of Urass aney, vaui. No Smiles and Heils for Der Fuehrer T 3 .mi... ii i in in ii Back home for a visit following Important conferences In washing-ton, and before returning- to the Job of commanding IT. S. forces la China, Burma and India, Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stilwcll (Uncle Joe to you) posed for this picture. American Mother, 43 Association. Elmer Twltchell, In fact, thinks that In keeping with the dental note the arize for fiction should have been announced as going te "Drag' on's Teeth" by Uppers Sinclair. i. i$M '4 "The Skin of Our Teeth" and "Dragon's Teeth" are two Pulitzer prize winners, and it strikes us that the awards must have been made this year by the American Dental . Uncle Sam has at last got aroun to breaking with Adm. George Robert, high commissioner of Martinique. This automatically releases the entire script for comic opera. Huh! s V Hounded Germans sit helpless In wheelchairs while nillcr congratu lates them during a Nazi celebration at a hospital In Berlin. Not long ago be promised them a glorious victory, and by the expression on their faces these men are probably wondering If this Is what he meant. Photo was copied from a German magazine. . slaManslawjitMti)- 'I V! 1 mstmklkktHSmmmssswkwsmkmkswmm Mrs. Alexander Thomson of New York, who was chosen by the Golden Rule foundation as the "American Mother of 1943." She has four sons; three are serving wltb the 17. S. over seas. "OPA Chief Prentiss Brown emphasized that the success of the program rests upon the American people. He called on them to refuse to pay prices above the ceilNews Item. ings established." AM right? A customer goes Into a market, finds ne attention paid to set prices and refuses to pay. What happens? The proprietor shrugs his shoulders. The customer notifies the Or A. Then he sits bsrk to await action. Rat tn the meantime bow does he eat? Whan oar present syntJiotla prog-rahas tnatarializaMi, B.F.Coodrich official predicts tho resultant rubber aurplM will cms on of tn naest orioua post-wmarkotias; to e)o with th problems. What hug stocks of synthetic and natural rubber wiU teat ths Ingenuity et manufactatrera and sales executive. A substitute for rubber adhesive tape 3 being sought. Thousands of pounds of this tape are being used to protect plastic airplane glass in transit to airplane factories. Ssventy-thre- e percent of the 140,000 workers ef 9 war ar In lO states ge te and plants from work by private automobiles. Nearly of the car used by these workers Have tires snore than half worn out, many ef them unfit for re capping. three-quarte- rs -- BIGoodrich WNU W 21-- 41 DONT LET CONSTIPATION SLOW YOU UP When bowels ars sluggish and yoa. feel irritable, headachy, do as millions th modem do -c- hew laxative. Simply chew chewing-gugo to bed, you bnr taking only In accordance with package without directions being dissleep turbed. Nnt morning gentle, thorough relief, helping you feel swell iiain. Try Tsstes food, i handy and economical. 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