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C AXIS MORALE IS CRACKING Military reports that have leaked out of Germany In the past two or three weeks Indicate quite definitely that Nazi morale Is cr cracking These reports through channels which h cannot cannot cannot can can- not be revealed were quite definite even cven before Propaganda Minister Goebbels delivered his give giveaway give away speech warning that saboteurs on the home front would be beheaded Reports also are definite that the German army no longer has the reserves re reserves reserves re- re re- re serves no longer has the fighting backbone for a long war Resentment Resentment Resentment Resent Resent- ment against Hitler boils bolls beneath the surface in the German army German soldiers will keep on fighting fighting fight fight- ing InC and are toughly trained desperately desperately desperately des des- hitting adversaries But their heart Isn't in hi it anymore All these factors plus powerful wallops by the Allies have created an a atmosphere in which anything might happen It is an atmosphere not unlike that which existed in the autumn of 1918 There are those In high places who think the war in Europe might be over anytime this winter depending entirely on Nazi morale But in Asia the war Is moving at ata a snails snail's pace In Burma though the rains are already over nothing has happened happened Many observers rs think that nothing will happen until late this winter and that the real drive through Burma toward South China will be reserved for a year from now the now the fall of 1944 WILL ROGERS IN LONDON Congressman Will Rogers of California Cali Call fornia Cornia son of the cowboy humorist I came back from rom London singing the praises of British American-British cooperation oper co-oper- i anon in England I American troops which he described described de- de scribed as the new Army of Occupation Occupation Occupation pation live off the fat of the land and are treated royally by the British Brit Brit- ish There Is nothing too good for lor them Only trouble is they occasionally occasionally occasionally occa occa- I take a girl away from a British Tommy t I Wills Will's father lather was a frequent visitor visitor vis vis- t in London and everyone remembered remembered remembered re re- re- re him So it was like old home week for the young congressman congress congress- man from California 4 BRITISH IDLE OIL Maines Maine's eyed eagle Senator Brewster Brew BrewI I ster met Gen B. B B. B Somervell chief l lof of the army's service forces on the Pacific island of ol Fiji immediately tackled him on the laden dynamite Important all question of why the USA U.S.A. was supplying nearly 70 per percent percent percent cent of all Allied oil though we have only 25 per cent of the worlds world's oil reserves Right around the Persian Gulf Gull reminded Senator Brewster the British have oil refineries and limitless limitless limitless limit limit- less quantities of oil Why dont don't we get more oil all out of ol the Near East instead in instead instead in- in stead of ol hauling it all the way from Texas We are rushing refining equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment to Arabia as quickly as we can replied General Somervell Yes countered the senator from Maine but why use se precious shipping shipping shipping ship ship- ping space carting refining equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment half halt way around the world I when the British already have a refinery refinery refinery re re- finery at the Gull Gulf of ol Persia The i manager of the Persian Anglo-Persian oil company told us that his refinery I could produce 60 per cent more oil Why not put it to work instead of exhausting exhausting exhausting ex ex- our own oil reserves reserve Furthermore Brewster continued continued continued contin contin- the crude oil from Persian wells I is so good that it can be i pumped right into ships as bunker oil all without refining If U we dont don't get I busy and use it it well we'll wake up after the war to find the United States with no oil left and dependent on the British Empire CA CABOOSE SLEEPERS Corned Senator Ed Johnson of Colorado got his start as a railroad telegrapher still proudly carries a union card So he was well qualified to preside over the War Mobilization committee when A. A F F. F Whitney president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Railroad Rail Rail- ro road d Trainmen testified on manpower er and other railroad problems Whitney objected to the policy of some railroads In refusing to let train crews sleep In idle cabooses Trainmen away from home frequently frequent frequent- ly cant can't get hotel accommodations but railroad officials argue that it is unsanitary and also dangerous for them to sleep In cabs which sometimes have to be switched When I was a working trainman we always lived In our cabooses Whitney said not because rooms were not available at hotels but because It was more convenient the time I ha have ve slept in cabooses myself reminisced John- John son ROUND MERRY C. C American doughboys in Iran have found lound a good way to dodge U. U S. S military police and get out of camp campat at night They take advantage of ot the Mohammedan custom of veil veiling ng their women and slip on a n full full- length cover-all cover veil which Iranian women wear from head to toe Mil Mil- MilItary Military I been Instructed to police have I protect Iranian women and prevent I all flirting so they dont don't dare darc stop stopa a veiled figure to ask her or him sum j I Ito to lower the veil and see w whether eth r I an m American doughboy is behind it |