Show 4 'tiip WEEKLY v s It will take a lot of Yankee Doodle to make many American victories dopes realize we’ve got a pretty These scrappy army and navy keep on resisting good news When the flash came from the South Pacific that our forces had slapped the kimonas off the Japs they grumbled: ‘‘Great — if it’s true” Then they’d add ‘‘How can you tell until you get the Tokyo report?” Meaning they prefer to trust the enemy rather than Washington On the other hand they swallow rumors like candy Give them anything that looks bad for us and they polish it up and peddle it eaBut that can be stopped gerly Whenever you hear a jackass selling a rumor ask him ‘‘How do you know?” It’s a quicker smother-e- r than chloroform spoke NEWS- - a vn ittah 1913 PROPHECY i “Tough Year Ahead' ANALYSIS NOTE: (EDITOR’S Western Newspaper When lelos splnlsns s news r iprsssrd analysts and In not these column! they r those ol necessarily ol this newspaper) oul” MASCOTS GUINEA: MacArthur Milestone NEW but the capture of Buna followfall of Gona Gen Douglas MacArthur scored a significant military success in New Guinea For by regaining this territory from the Japs the Allied forces had accomplished their first step in the gigantic job of recapturing the vast territories Japan acquired in its three months’ through the South Pacific following Pearl Harbor That the first accomplishment was modest compared with what still lay ahead few strategists denied The Japs proved tenaciously irksome even after Buna's fall by landing small forces in the vicinity for snipIt had taken ing and guerrilla war more than five months to expel the Japs from the comparatively small slice of north central New Guinea they occupied after their first beachcapture of the With ing the heads Still in Jap hands in New Guinea were the ports of Lae and Salamaua several hundred miles up the coast Their capture would probably be the next milestone on MacArthur’s and r no one else” pEfl me Tropical rains whOi15 us” bog down had intervened to American and British the Tunisia Nazis a respite ground forces in fare giving the jr by Nazi in an aton their legions pinched by Russ armies in the Don river bend near Stalingrad and faced with critical difficulties in the Rzhev area northwest of Moscow But the Soviet armies had been ready for them and hadchecked the advances after the Germans made some initial gains The Germans had used all the tricks in their bag— dive bombers tanks and infantry assaults— to roll of back the Russians southwest Stalingrad but their efforts resulted in costly losses of men and equipment So effective were the Red operations in the Stalingrad area that despite the bitterness of the fighting workmen protected by the Red army had repaired an extensive mileage of railroad tracks and supply trains were able to move in for the first time in many months That the Germans were determined to hold strategic Rzhev at all costs was indicated by the large number of reserves they threw into waves of attacks on that front The sturdy Russians however absorbed these blows and prepared for further assaults of their own Heavy counterattacks had been expected tempt to lift the pressure march Southward m the Solomons the its persistent enemy had pursued tactics of trying to supply and reinforce its stranded troops on Guadalcanal And again the attempt was frustrated by forces American bombers drove off the enemy sinking either a destroyer or a cruiser from among 10 warships that tried to reach the island struction provisional restoration of commercial treaties Mr Hoover indicated that he an- ticipated peace in Europe before the enemy was defeated in Asia II I LONDON: G II L I G II T S of French sovereignty over Madagawas provided for m an agreement signed by British Foreign SecEden and Gen retary Anthony Charles de Gaulle leader of the The proviFighting French forces sional British military administration will end with the arrival of Gen commander-in-chie- f Gentilhomme of the Fighting French scar Jap His plight was pretty bad But still the kid he stood his ground And gave ’em all he had raw ring was just a No punch or blow was wrong No neutral corner referee No rules and not a gong! The III then three minutes rest towel wet and cold No seconds for a cool massage Not one barred punch or hold He’d had his fights when he had seen More than a single foe But not so many as he saw In this one that I know! IV They came by scores through jungle green And waited for no bell (But Barney had been rushed before And knew that system well) There was no time to dance or spar Before the tactics rough This was the truly finish fight Without the fancy stuff V The Jappies led with everything Wild rights and lefts they threw The kid with gun and hand grenades Gave back the "old The mist arose and figures danced Across the floor The kid was hurt and groggy but He’s been that way before VI FOOD ARBITRATOR: A dozen Armstrongs rushed him now Byrnes Gets Power And some MacLarnins too Stabilization Director James F (One at a time bad been enough Byrnes already had responsibility But now to spare in fulfilling his critical warthey seemed too few) But on the shoulders of time job With wounded buddies to prothis willing official were piled new tect when President Roosevelt powers Ilalf blinded by the blood vested him with the task of arbiThe kid he just threw everyttrating any disputes that might arise over the operation of Claude R hing The way a champion would! Office of War Food AdWickard’s ministration VII What those disputes might be nei- They heeled him with their Tommy guns ther the President nor Mr Byrnes And tore him half apart would disclose But Washington ob-They thumbed him with their hand grenades But couldn’t touch his heart They hitbithim foul and hit him low the kid but he They As in four hundred other fights Barked: “That’s all right with me!” ROMMEL: His Forces Split The Magazines: Harper’s offers a CAPITAL CHAFF adventure yarn in “A Long Way from Home” It’s Jacquelare C Maj Frank Capra’s firdt training Clarke's report on how the neutral film just finished for the army is ship carrying her to her bridegroom so good that every American should ift England was torpedoed by the see it either in or out of the army Nazi water rats The author is the The war department is now gal who was so comic as the maid trying to make up its mind whether in ‘‘Blithe Spirit” Her eight days to release it to the civilian public in an open boat with the Atlantic C For several days after the North Africa landing the Rockefeller ofgale juggling it are a flicker Herbert Hoover makes fice had 5000 to 10000 words cawith an outline Collier’s of how bled daily from Latin America in we’U have to feed Europe’s hungry the form of comment and praise of This material was when the savages have been tamed the new front then radioed by OWI to Europe banker But the Cleveland for 1943 be did predict it would “probably THE CHAMP our toughest war year both for dividual business men and corporC‘ Barney Ross once holder of two ring of the maations” championships now a memberrecommend-ehas been promoted and rines for Among Ayers' prognostications for for the Distinguished Service Cross 1943 were: ShelL a glorious exploit at Cuadidcanal shocked and wounded he killed many Japs Despite recent good war news we in all night fight while defending three be engaged still an “shall in probably active warfare a year from now” wounded buddies”— Official release by the National income in 1943 will be 15 Office ol War Information) An old to 20 per cent larger than the 112 A pug? that’s all?— billion for 1942 Cost of living up 10 10 Say mister stow that guff per cent in 1942 will advance 5 to Civilian employ- He battled where it really counts per cent more And showed a hero’s stuff ment of nonfarm workers will be up 3 to 5 per cenj Dollar volume of No floodlights beat above his head He heard no cheering din retail stores will be down 10 to 15 The holiday trade just He got no rest between the rounds per cent But he kept “coming in” closed will be the last big season for II the duration bullets clattered off his hat— forces Murray also put in some strong for presidential intervention Roosevelt however interrupted to say that the administration was doall to put over ihe repossible ing peal bill and he was too busy with the war to become involved in the controversy He added that the administration fouldn’t give up even if the fight in congress sfcre lost since Attorney General Biddle was preparing a case to test the validity of the poll tax in the courts Green and Murray accepted this alternative But in talks with friends the labor chiefs are not optimistic about favorable action in the courts Soldiers of Gen Montgomery’s British Eighth srmy can’t complain fearing that the Supreme court will that they are kept in ignorance of the news on their front and elsewhere dump the issue right back in the For the British commander has newspapers flown from Cairo to his men lap of congress at the front The newsboy here is Pvt Sam Ilayworthy who was a in Manchester before enlisting England newsboy ARMY Gen Leonard P Ayers first fame as an economic prophet he predicted the stock market No collapse or collapse of 1929 panic was in store in his forecast Brig made when NAZIS STIFFEN: Defenses in Russia licks Mascots are popular in the armed services Dogs are most common some units have adopted cats eagles goats mules horses prairie dogs and even kangaroo rats In fact on the morning report of the 355th Infantry Camp Carlson Colo appears the name of a certain sergeant who has never received a cent of pay since he joined the army yet he is one of the happiest and best liked members of the outfit The "sergeant” in this case is a white fox terrier a company masHe was in good standing until cot recently wore his chevrons proudly on his khaki jacket But one night he left the camp AWOL to chase prairie dogs and did not return in time for reveille Like any other soldier he had to Laval who Is notoriously greedy pay the penalty for misconduct In ratted for a smaller price than Be- a solemn ceremony attended by ofnito was promised The way it ficers he was "broken” his stripes looks now neither will get a thing were taken and the warrant away but when the Duce peddled himself was signed by the colonel as a slave to Der Fuehrer it looked s as though he would pick up a few NEW NEBRASKA SENATOR lira The Nazis were riding high Senator-elec- t Kenneth of They had smacked down the Low Nebraska who will fill theWherry faCountries and Norway and Den- mous shoes in the senate most those of mark When France succumbed Bein the senate was Norris George nito figured he could share the spoils once before many years ago without risking his skull So he deHe was then a law student and clared Look at him himself in a friend who was the son of now Laval didn't even have a visited a senator The senator took the two He went over to the Heel promise to meet Woodrow Wilson boys from Berlin when the frantic FuehAs at the senate rer didn’t have a thing to offer him happened to be tells the story on himself Wherry Maybe he betrayed the French peo- he shook hands with the President ple for the sheer pleasure of being a Louse His whole record stamps lence which there was an awfulsome- ( Then Wherry feeling him as a guy who really enjoys dothing must be said blurted out: a dirty trick ing somebody Tve heard a lot about you” He wished the senate floor might There are a lot of things you can and swallow him say about Laval— most of them bad open up —but until now nobody ever acLUCE GOES ROUND TIIE MRS cused him of being a chump And WORLD his declaration for a Nazi victory Mrs Clare Luce newly elected leaves him all the way out on a limb Maybe the habit of double- Republican congresswoman from be an additional will Connecticut become so has crossing people strong that he’s himself problem for the British embassy to Anyway he’s on the record as Ber- worry about Mrs Luce came back from a trip through Egypt and the lin's official and flunkey Far East with the feeling that someHe speaks the wordage Joe authors for him For two years thing was wrong with the old Brither views Undoubtedly he had to fake his sentiments and ish empire pretend to be working for his own had a lot to do with recent edination When he cut loose last week torials in her husband’s magazine his words didn’t surprise anybody Life criticizing the British In Egypt she found the Egyptians Benito However unless he's for- carrying signs in the streets saying can have one "We Want Rommel” In China she gotten how to chuckle at the expense of the boss When found severe criticism of the Britand she heard the fear exthe invincible Fascist legions got ish their schnoziolas rubbed m the Af- pressed by the head Chinese censor rican sand Berlin hustled Rommel that if China let too much news of in there to show Rome how to hum- India pass on to the United States ble the British That was the third Chinese supply shipments would be sneer Berlin had for Benito the oth- curtailed from India er two having been sneered in AEverywhere she tried to find an lbania and Greece But now that explanation for the fall of SingaRommel has turned tail and sprint- pore Finally one young English ofed for cover (a stunt believed to be ficer put it this way: "We just went cold” patented by the Fascist forces) Be"What do you mean by that?” nito must feel better It gives him "Well that's your part of the and the master a lot in common Our part is Eunext time they stage a huddle at world to defend We know that after the war the Brenner Pass Maybe that laugh rope is all Musso will get out of the war you’ll give all that part back to You can leave money Doodlings: in most hotel rooms and come back with a reasonable chance of finding it there But leave a razor blade and it’s a gone goose Are chambermaids growing beards — that they’ve got to go south with the blades? Please girls they’re gonna be hard to get The week's prize patsy was the songwriter who went to see his doc on what was The medico giving him the fidgets stung him $10 for advice to cut down on coffee One theater manhis house is ager said equipped with earphones for the hard of hearing and with smoked glasses for the Pulitzer Prize committee — to keep them from knowing too much about the candidates ttuvc rtni o a Darlan: ‘Free France and Then Retire’ MacArthur’s Victories in New Guinea First Milestone in Long Trek to Tokyo British Cut Rommel’s Forces in Two Portrait of a Man D C Washington Colyuming Blindfolded: POLL TAX AGAIN Styles in war books change First Despite the bitterest legislative foreign correspondents came back adininistra-lookeand authored tomes on how things battle of the year the has no intention of abandoning in the Old Country Next ca’s chances for staying out etc the battle for poll tax repeal in this savage controversy touch round Some said the war wouldn’t us some argued that we’d better will be fought out in the courts William Labor leaders Green and get something over our chin but fast Next came the books on those Phil Murray were given this priwho’d smelled powder— in Norway vate assurance by FDR hirnself Russia etc Now there’s when they called to urge the PresiEngland a third set 'These— Harold Denny dent to make a statement denounc- Frederick Occhsner Louis Lochner mg the filibuster and plctidlng for and others — all describe their expe- - passage of the bill Green was very emphatic that riences in the Axis clinks they were Roosevelt take a hand f into when the jammed came The way to go nuts is to ‘‘This issue has war implications read one of the latter and then re- Mr President” the AFL leader ar‘‘While our soldiers are fightread one of the earlier ones which gued counseled us not to worry that Hit- ing to protect the right to vote a ler wanted nothing from us— except minority of willful men in the senA good everything example of a ate is filibustering against it You if you “take it easy” book is The Cong could break the filibuster Record i Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel found himself in his toughest spot as the British eighth army JAMES F BYRNES commanded by Sir Bernard Montcut his fleeing Axis forces gomery in two m the Libyan desert threatservers pointed out that the complex ening thousands of enemy troops of adequately feeding the problem with capture or death Id a sudden flanking movement nation as well as the armed forces advanced British forces reached during wartime might result in jurMr isdictional clashes between Wadi Matratin 55 miles west of El and Donald M Nelson There Wickard Agheila on the Gulf of Sirte War Production chief the British spearhead slashed southMr ward cutting off Rommel’s army Byrnes revealed however One Nazi force continued to flee to that on the day President Roosevelt the west and the other was caught named Secretary of Agriculture Wickard as food administrator he between the British main army and handed Mr Byrnes a letter making the advanced elements It had been apparent that Rom- him the White House mediation mel had only been feinting in his agent defense of El Agheila But it was NAVY RECRUITING: just as apparent that Montgomery had outsmarted Rommel Extended Temporarily Even before this latest maneuver Navy marine and coast guard reRAF pilots strafed the German colcruiting offices were doing a land umns as they retreated from El Agbusiness For with the offheila Early advances necessarily office icial order to reopen enlistments in had to be cautious because Rommel had left his wake strewn with land these services until February thousands of men in the 18 to 37 age mines It appeared increasingly certain class flocked to the colors The decision to permit volunteerthat the main question was whether Rommel would succeed in getting ing temporarily in the three servhis men into Tunisia 475 miles west ices was made because arrangements to draft men for them could of El Agheila to join with the not be completed for a few weeks forces of Gen Walther Nehring Under the temporary volunteer plan a draft registrant had to volin the week's neivs unteer through his local selective service If the board apboard proved his application it waived exROME: Father Alesio Magni was amination by its physician and sent selected vicar general of the Jesuit the applicant directly to the recruitOrder to hold ollice until a new gen- ing office of the branch of service eral is elected it was reported here he selected If the volunteer were Father Magni was chosen by the rejected in his chosen service his late Father Count VVladimir draft status was the same as begeneral of the order before fore and he remained subject to his death recently in Vatican City duction for another service or for Father Magni's name was in a limited service He would then re sealed envelope left by Father sume the draft status he had befon Ledochowski volunteering No swift a No VIII The lights went out and all went black And when the kid came to He heard the “Winner and still champ!” — The sweetest words he knew told him of his greatest fight They And pledged the DSC was a little overweight And off my form” said he “I ADOLF My my to what heights Sweet Adolf is arisen But blgrer Hans flew higher And he’ll kites— git hissen — Robert Imershein Washington is now talking of applying the l2Sft00 income limit to investment incomes The people making $25000 a year from investments will kindly assemble in the broom closet! The skipper of an American submarine says his vessel surfaced so close to a big Japanese city that the crew watched the Sunday horse races and even made a pool on the winners We’ll wager that playing the ponies is one thing that makes diving easier under any conditions Max a Boxer dog has won silver wings as a parachute jumper in the United States army for repeated jumps from a plane with the 505th Parachute Infantry All honor to the pooch but we can't help wondering if it is all bravery or partly attributable to the fact he is not so high up that he can’t see another pooch below “The OPA formula for determin- ing oil requirements is: Floor area times degree days divided by K” Brazil's ultimatum "Nuts obviously was to to the Axis you” RHYMES FOR AN ANTI HOARDING DEVICE Make Der Fuehrer shout and shriek By buying only week to week Better yet make Goering gray Baying just from day to day Want On the all war to quickly end? ration rules depesd Want the war until you die? Pilo the hoarded products —But War Bonds— high? |