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C TURKEYS AND THE ARMY The army is beginning to wonder if it hasn't over-extended over itself on the business of turkeys It has ruled that civilians may not buy turkeys for their Thanksgiving or Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas dinners dinners or or for next Sundays Sunday's dinner for that matter until matter until the army has acquired 12 million pounds for the armed forces overseas That sounded all aU right until somebody somebody somebody some some- body in the quartermaster corps began began began be be- gan figuring out what you could do with 12 million pounds of turkeys For generous portions you can figure figure figure fig fig- ure that pounds of undressed turkey will feed men The number of men in the armed forces overseas including army navy navy navy na na- na- na vy and marines is around two mil mil- lion Allow each man a pound of I turkey for Thanksgiving and another I er for Christmas and you reach the I total of four million pounds But the amount reserved for this purpose is three times four million or 12 million pounds When certain food experts in the quartermaster corps realized this they started to do some fast tele tele- phoning When last heard from they still didn't know what two million million million mil mil- lion men would do with 12 million pounds of turkey turkey except except eat em NAZI PSYCHOLOGICAL V WARFARE ARF ARE Beware of false rumors about Germany The Germans masters of psychological warfare are watching watching watching watch watch- ing every opportunity to take advantage advantage advantage tage of American credulity They know that Americans are optimistic by nature and that we are prone to believe any story about miraculous victories or fortunate events Apparently it was this method of psychological warfare which prompted the reports that Hitler had been deposed in favor of military military military mili mili- tary authorities It has now been definitely established established established that no such event took place State department officials now say flatly that the whole thing was a false fals report from beginning to end It was so generally reported however however however how how- ever that they believe it must have been prompted by Germany The motive in such a case would have been to make Americans rush to the conclusion that Germany was tottering and the war was not far from finished This would have the effect of weakening our bond drives and similar efforts Note The Nazi news report of ot Hitler's ousting came via Spain ARMY'S FAVORITE FOODS Since the Truman committees committee's investigation investigation investigation in in- of food waste in the army the quartermaster corps has been as frugal as a Dutch house house- wife Elaborate studies have been made of what the soldiers eat and what they leave on the plate with the idea of cutting down the percentage percentage percentage per per- of garbage After watching the eating habits of soldiers at Chanute Field Ill the quartermaster corps gave each dish a rating according to its popularity ty Roast chicken and apple pie rated So did roast duck and roast ham But creamed ham rated only 55 dietician Mary I. I Barber Bar Bar- ber explains Not many men like messed up food Artemus Ward said When I eat hash I like to know what Im I'm eating It No matter what you may do to butter up spinach it remains spinach spinach spinach spin spin- ach and the soldiers gave it a ratan rating g of 4 41 1 It was just about the lowest of all NO TIRES FOR RUBBER CZAR Col Bradley Dewey who succeeded succeed succeed- ed Big Bill Jeffers as rubber director director tor says he wishes he could g get et his hands o on n a set of synthetic tires He is is now in charge of the program which promises to duce pr e 30 million synthetic tires by t. t the e end of next year but he is not able to try synthetic tires on his own car that I wish says Colonel Dewey OPA would let me have a se set of the new tires Id I'd like to try them out I understand they skid less than natural rubber Not that I drive at skidding speeds mind you but 1 Id I'd like to see what they would do Some of the taxi drivers driver out in Akron kron hav have new synthetic tires and the they hey swear by them But Bui Id I'd like to lo see what they would do for forme me Reason for Dewe Deweys Dewey's Y s inability to get got tires is that though he is in n c charge barge of the rge entire program program he is obliged to apply for tires OP OPA A through like other any citizen And since his present tires are reasonably reasonably reason reason- ably good he cant can't get synthetic any new tires m MERRY GO ROUND Q II A high minded air war department depart depart- moot ment official al says the length of war the depends on the winter If the weather weather is this favorable for flying the war i in n Europe be over before might next Q II Brig summer Gen Glen C C. 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