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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER your Old Woolens Generous Treatment of Axis Prisoners in U. 5 Go Into New Rugs Improves Conditions for Captured Americans SBJPHWD ... ... ... He Is a nice kid Always laughing He worked for an or smiling ad agency before the war started, where they used to kid him a lot because he liked colorful cravats and No zoot suiter, more apparel Lucius Beebe . , . One day they nearly drove him out of the place because he turned up wearing a olored vest . . . Then came the draft, and he was among the very first accepted . . . After 17 months in action he showed up again . . . Now, wherever he goes, his old pals show him considerable respect, even though he wears purple On his chest. ... ... purple-c- ... His lifes ambition was to be a name bandleader . . . Studied alHe finalmost every instrument ly became one of the great arrangHe couldn't "front ers, instead for a band, it seems . . . Wasnt So he the type, the agents said was hired as head arranger for a well known orchestra . . . The leader of which was a front man because he looked it . . . The front man could never read a note of music, but he had a baton man's personality, whatever that is . . . Each performance the arranger stood backstage and saw the leader take the bows for his work . . . Not long ago the arranger (who knows nearly every instrument) was Inducted. Because of his musical background, by golly, he was made army bandleader, a commission due soon. The bandleaders front man was drafted a few weeks ago . . . You guessed it . . . Hes a private In the infantry still trying to keep In time I ... ... ... New York Novelette: She was a waitress in a small Midwest hotel . . . Because her feller played in the band . . . One day a stranger offered her a screen test chance . . . She spurned it . . . She wanted to be near her Joe hoping hed ask her All uvasudden to marry him her Josephus wrote one of those screwy nonsensical national anathemas which periodically sweep the So he upped and left for land The Big Burg . . . Leaving her behind, of course . . . Two months later she followed her broken heart In New York he bluntly told her that his plans did not include her. He said he was waiting for a movie agent who was bringing him a contract for Hollywood any moment and would she please leave? . . . She found herself staggering down the hall towards the elevators, where out stepped the guy who offered the screen test back home! He recognized her and had no trouble selling Hollywood to her right there . . . You anticipate me . . . Her Joe still is waiting for the same agent with his movie contract and wondering whatinell happened? ... ... ... Mark Quotation Marksmanship: Twain: Imagination was given to man to compensate bim for what he is not; and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is . . . Karen Cooper: In war, as in baseball; those who do the striking are against the men who are in there pitching . . . Louis Nizer: I dont like people who smoke a pipe of peace only for the purpose of cre. . . H. Whitating a smoke-scree- n man: Billions of Jack Frosts paratroopers descended upon New York . . . By giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free . . . Richard Todd: We can never lose our way if we remember Lincolns Gettysburg address . . . C. Carton: Speeches as long as a . . . Herald Tribrainy week-en- d une: Chennault Thom In Tokios Side, May Prove Dagger In Its Heart. You hear all kinds of explanations d on how the famed gatecrasher Men in Nazi Hands Well Fed and Housed Connolly" got that name . . . This is new to us . . . The current character, they say, is not the origid nal . . . The original, a vagabond, died about 30 years ago fellow (unable . . . That to crash the gate at a big fight in Chicago) climbed to the roof and threw a brick through the skylight It landed in the ring near the referee, who picked it up and called d cut: . Connollys card. hard-boile- One-Eye- ... Qne-Eye- d Washington, D. C, SHOE FIGHT By BARROW LYONS WNU Staff Correspondent In some 30,000 families throughout our land today the folks are thinking of some soldier from home who has fallen into enemy hands now a prisoner of war far away. When our troops make the great push against the mainland of Europe, there will be more boys taken prisoners. A hot fight is raging backstage between the WPB and the OPA over shoe leather. Inside fact is that die shoes you are wearing are interior not entirely because the best leather is rightfully being allocated to the armed forces. ' That is only part of the story. Another reason why your shoes are inferior and your shoe bill higher is that certain industry moguls In WPBs leather and shoe branch have been blocking a program to prolong the wear of civilian shoes ay the application of wax and oil treatments to soles. The process :osts only two or three cents a shoe, but many manufacturers dont like it because it isnt flossy enough. They say that consumers prefer shoes with a high, light polish on die sole, though they admit that this polish robs the sole of some of Its wearing quality. Bureau of Standards experts have testified at bearings of the senate committee, headed by West Virginias Sen. Harley that the use of oil (by actual test) prolongs the life of shoes 14 per cent, while soles treated with wax preparations last from 30 to 41 per cent longer. This has been corroborated by .eading industry spokesmen, including Paul C. Wolfer, a vice presi-Jeof the Douglas Shoe company, who is a consultant in the standards division of the OPA. Wolfer not x only urged general adoption of treatments but intimated that the government should crack down Dn the shoe industry and require it. In addition to cutting down the aations shoe bill, another factor Wolfer emphasized was wartime conservation of leather. So far, however, the OPA has made little progress in selling the idea to the WPB. Some manufacturers have adopted the sole treatments voluntarily, but only on a very limited scale. The big shoe companies, OPA claims, are antagonistic. In this, they have the potent backing of the WPBs leather and shoe branch, headed by Lawrence B. Sheppard, a vice president of the Hanover Shoe company. Before the Kilgore committee, Sheppard expounded at length on manufacturing difficulties . . . lack of conclusive tests, and other objections to a government order requiring the oil treatment of soles. His statement was effectively contradicted by other .witnesses, who brought out that tests had been adequate and that facilities for sole treatments could be installed throughout the country with little difficulty and at small cost. NOTE: The Kilgore committee has finally sent a hot note to Donald Nelson demanding that he issue an order to compel the general adoption of sole treatments by shoe companies. In the war prisoner camps within the United States, we hold some 175,000 enemy soldiers captured mostly on the battlefields of Africa, Sicily and Italy. Of these, 125,000 are Germans, 50,000 Italians. Only 116 are Japanese. Many protests have been made to army authorities, because of the good treatment given these prisoners. Lots of people dont understand why enemy prisoners' should be given the same comforts, the same medical attention, the same food as our own soldiers. But there is a reason so compelling, that none can complain when it is understood.1 It is not for the sake of the prisoners, but in the , interest of our own soldiers held by ant ami? n tittn the enemy. They are the real object The first German soldier to be taken prisoner in Iceland was Serof our forbearance and solicitude. geant Manfrak, who bailed out of his Junkers plane after it had been hit And, of course, our national honor U. S.) army, fighters. He is shown at intelligence headquarters, enis involved, for we agreed to give by joying the rations on the tray before him, despite a bandaged arm and prisoners the same food and care numerous bruises, as our own men under the Prisoners of War convention signed and ratiians who escaped from ' & branch fied at Geneva on July 27, 1929. camp at El Paso, fcart of theords, burg, N. M., camp, and one German Reciprocal Good Treatment. Reliable reports made to the army who got away at Crossville, Tenn, There has been complaint from Indicate that the good treatment we have accorded prisoners has won organized labor lately because we for our own men in German prison have used some of the war prisonDoughboys of the Seventh infantry camps conditions that are at least ers for tasks in lumber camps and division who captured Kwajalein as good as those under which Ger- on road work, where there was no and other islands of the Kwajalein American labor available. General atoll man soldiers live. during the invasion of the MarThese facts were revealed for the Gullion gives labor assurance that shall islands literally had to dig the first time to your correspondent by prisoners of war are not being put Japanese out of the ground. CoL to work on any job where civilian Syril E. Faine, infantry, of New Maj. Gen. Allen W. Gullion, provost labor is available in adequate sup- Straitsville, Ohio, who is now in the marshal general of the army, who has general supervision over prison ply. Prisoner of war labor is a United States, acted as deputy chief relieve the of staff of the division y ers of war. The actual guarding of temporary expedientof toman during the power. shortage He said the Japathe prisoners is a function of the existing campaign. The United States agreed at the c prison camp commander who is un- Geneva convention to return all nese defenders of the coral base had taken refuge in hunder the control of the commanding prisoners of war to their own coundreds of shell craters by the time general of the service command. tries at the conclusion of the war, the first waves of infantry hit the Censorship reveals that letters hence the fear of competition with shore on January 31 (February 1, from relatives and friends express free labor is groundless, the genPacific time). much gratitude and happiness over eral says. It was just like killing rats, he the way we are treating their men. Prisoners Cut Pulpwood. declared. The whole island was We are informed by the InterPrisoners have been in logging rubble, after the preliminary bombnational Red Cross that the Gerwhere American workers ing and shelling. The Japs had mans say that because of our good operations have left the woods to work in ship- crawled underground wherever they treatment of their soldiers, they and machine shops at much could, and the infantrymen had to are giving our men more liberties yards wages, he explains. They stop at every hole and fire down higher and better treatment, General Gul- have been useful in cutting and into it, or throw grenades into it The lion told your correspondent. logs needed critically pulp peeling Playing Possum. Geneva conventions required that for in civilian industry containers The were up to their each prisoner be given the same and for Japanese newsprint, of which there usual food as soldiers of the capturing tricks, went on Colonel nasty a is Prisoners have been shortage. power receive in base camps. Ac- used also in maintaining roads in Faine. Even after they were hopeobof Swiss to the reports cording some areas where other manual la- lessly defeated, they refused to give DESK ADMIRALS servers, the Germans are living up borers are very scarce. The tre- up. At one point in the action, an The navy is doing a magnificent American aid estabwas station to this provision; bur men in some mendous importance of road main- lished close to a instances are getting even a little tenance, in view of the pile of three ap- Job whenever it goes into action in heavy trafbetter food than the German sol- fic, is obvious. parently dead Japs. Only two of the Pacific, but members of the Truman committee are not convinced diers, although the German faciliPrisoners have ljeen used also in them, it turned out, were really that this is true of all the desk adThe at dead. of do bottom ours. the not with ties third, compare laundries. Nearly everyone today I think there can be only one has suffered inconveniences because the heap, pulled himself up after mirals or their flunkies in Washington. Among other things, they are answer to the complaint that we are of the shortage of laundry labor, playing possum for a long time and one fired casting a curious eye at the manner ineffectual at an shot treating the prisoners we take too and can understand this expedient. American officer. Other blew in which Adm. Ernie King and his Japs well. One gets it when one asks the The story of Japanese prisoners themselves staff preserve the myth of being at up with grenades. question: Is it better to yield to a is less happy. When a Japanese sea when actually they sit at desks on The the to landing Marshalls, very natural, vengeful impulse soldier is taken prisoner he is in Washington. take it out on our prisoners, or to ob- washed up he never wishes to re- Colonel Faine said, was preceded To make the myth more realistic, one of the most intensive bomserve our treaty agreements and pro- turn to Japan for he is disgraced by Admiral King lives most of the week bardments of war. the Both tect our own men? army forever in the eyes of his countryand navy planes participated, and on a yacht in the Potomac. It is Few Escape. men. a small yacht and his multitudinous deWe have in this country scarcely later, warships pounded the Jap There have been complaints also fenses. One on the airstrip Wotje staff has no room to live there with that the prisoners we hold have not more than a hundred Japanese pris- atoll was so chopped Colonel him. However, they draw extra pay up, General MacArthur has been sufficiently guarded; that too oners, and Faine said, that not only couldnt for the hazards of life at sea. many have escaped to become a only a few hundred more, accord- the Japs get a plane off it, but you So when payday arrives, the pay menace to the home population. ing to General Gullion. couldnt even have run a wheelbar- master carries a satchel down b General Gullion points to the facts. They are given the same food row along it. Admiral Kings yacht to pay off tin Of the 175,000 prisoners we now hold and accommodations as our own staff. The paymaster knows ful , Warfare. Amphibious in this country, about 100 have essoldiers, because we hope by acthe men are not on thi well that The aerial hammering kept up as caped, but all except three have cording such treatment to ameliohe goes througl However, yacht. invasion the armada, own our in and lot rate of are custody. been recaptured the 18,500 men containing this comes then back fron ritual, more than were in there our ships The only men at large are two Ital- - held by the Japanese. whole navy at the start of the war, the yacht to the navy department finds the men and give swept over the horizon. As the where he them their pay. inlandings started. Seventh division fantrymen who had received special STEEL-WAG- E DISPUTE amphibious training drove their own FEW JAP PRISONERS HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY U. S. g Will Davis, chair and ducks toward alligators man of the War Labor board, is havshore, and later ferried supplies back and forth from the mother ing a tough time selecting a panel to settle the vital question of wages ships. in the steel industry. He proposes The doughboys had relatively easy a panel of three, one representing JAPANESE 400 going when they first hit the beaches labor, one the steel industry, one advancing 1,300 yards on the first the public, with three alternates. r a O' day. On the second day, they began But though he has called up all to run into lines of pillboxes, against sorts of people and literally begged which they advanced with combat them to serve, their patriotism GERMANS 111,000 engineers right behind them. With seems deficient when it comes to flamethrowers, grenades, and other labor disputes. run rasa weapons, the infantrymen calmly Meanwhile, the steel companies, m hi 0t m m nn m h nn m m m a m to tm m w cleaned out each pillbox as they got faced with retroactive pay for whatto it. The engineers used 400 tons ever wage decision is finally handed ITALIANS two on of islands dynamite alone, 170,000 down, are getting restless. levelling everything on them. Kil-for- e, rfTL nt '& J fi3 light red DARK RED ry amo rose r- LIGHT- - MEOIUM DARK BLUE f BACKGROUND LI6HT AND DARK TAN these may be made into handsome aooked rugs that you will be proud to own. The square rug in the sketch was designed to fit in a smart dressing table corner. The rose- design in the chint2 skirt and window valance was and-ribb- :opied in making a border and renter flower for the rug. NOTE: This illustration is from BOOK which also gives directions for three jther rag rugs that you may make from things on hand, as well a Sirections for making slip covers and remodeling old furniture. To get copy of 3QOK 10 send 15 cents direct to: 10 y MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS New York Bedford Hills Enclose. Drawer 10 cents for Sewing Book 15 No. 10. .Name Address oil-wa- Yanks Had to Blast Japs Out of Holes On Marshalls six-da- mid-Pacifi- TEIEFACT Hard-workin- fitfitmtniint! K ')"'' 7 iiiimnnifimnnitKifi MERRY-GO-ROUN- . One-Eye- from-whic- PAXjSCN Red Cross Reports They tell you it actually happened. He was managing ediI dunno tor for a New York syndicate. Now with OWI . . . Several years ago a comic strip was submitted to him He liked it. Recommended It for syndication . . . The boss to whom he delivered it took it home . . . Next day he memod it wouldnt do. The kids he showed it to didnt care for it, he said . . . The young cartoonists were disappointed, of course . . . They finally got their strip started in a cheap comic weekly for practically nothing per week . . . Every year they brought it back to the m.e., who liked it, but he couldnt get it on his chain . . . The boss still didnt like it . . . Another syndicate made an offer, but the boys gave the m.e. another chance . . . They were turned down It now grosses $5,000 per week via royalties from newspapers, radio and gadget makers . . . The first lyndicat boss, who spurned it so tnany times, demanded to know what happened . . . The strip is the renowned Superman. SJOW is the time to use every i V scrap of old woolen goods that you have on hand. That old coat she moths got into ; the dress spots cannot be removed;, die trousers that are ragged at die knees all of the material iir Leader of this orchestra of Italian war prisoners in Bizerte, Tunisia, is Joseph Pellegrino from Passaic, N. J., a citizen of the United States. He happened to be visiting in Italy when that nation entered the war Despite his protests, he was Inducted into the Italian army, and he served unwillingly until he was captured by American troops during the North African campaign. Sometime after this pirture was taken, Pellegrino was accepted for induction into the U. S. army. TOniGHT Put each (1) shrinks swollen soothes membranes, (2) irritation, (3) relieves transient nasal congestion . . . and brings greater nostril. It breathing comfort. Follow the complete oth- er state, because the entire New Mexican National Guard, being able to speak Spanish, was sent to the Philippines and those who survived were captured there . . . FDR may have a hard time carrying the state. C, The Shortest Route to Japan is the slogan of the Korean Affairs institute, which has just openeo offices in Washington. It is urging use of Korean bases oniv 600 miles from Tokyo. 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