Show I T r GI oR W fA N Washington D. D C. C PRESIDENTS PRESIDENT'S HEALTH When congressional leaders called at the White House for the first legislative legislative legislative leg leg- I conference following the Presidents President's return from South Carolina Carolina Caro Caro- I caro-I lina he looked fit as a fiddle However However However How How- ever Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley popped the question that I II has had the capital worried because i I of those wild rumors about the Com Com- mander-in-Chief's mander health com I How do you feel asked the Kentuckian I Great replied Roosevelt He I II added that he had got in 12 hours of I I sleep a night and plenty of sun sun- sun sun-I I shine He was brown as a berry and I buoyant as ever However congressional congressional I leaders noted that his face I was a little thinner Admiral Ross T T. T McIntire the Presidents President's physician j i cian accepts responsibility for this J Roosevelt has knocked off 10 pounds under McIntire's orders He is still I five pounds overweight according to his physicians physician's standards but McIntire McIntire Mc Mc- Intire figures that this can be corrected corrected corrected cor cor- by proper dieting NAZI CHANNEL DEFENSES Of all aU the variegated defenses Hitler Hitler Hit Hit- ler Jer has conceived to block the Second Second Second Sec Sec- ond Front from rocket-guns rocket to flame on the Channel the Channel the one which the Allies are worried most about is the plain relatively old-fashioned old machine-gun machine nest I The Nazis have developed a new type of machine-gun machine nest tried it out i at Cassino and it was one reason I for our failure to advance I This pillbox is of very heavy concrete quite small extends only a foot or so above the ground and is extremely difficult difficult difficult cult to see from the air The pillbox usually houses two machine machine machine ma ma- chine guns hitched together so that one man can fire both One Nazi is in each pillbox so that if he is hit only one man is I lost But it takes almost a direct I bomb hit to knock him out so air pounding of them from overhead is not too effective These pillboxes buried in the mountains at Cassino were terrifically effective and more of them are reported lying in wait behind the shore along the coast of western Europe DISCHARGE BUTTONS With more than a million men now hon honorably discharged from the army for wounds health or age the question of honorable discharge buttons buttons buttons but but- tons becomes more and more im im- im- im It took the army some time to design a discharge button but now that it is designed men and officers have a hard time getting it it unbroken The buttons are made of plastic and when mailed to veterans usually arrive arrive arrive ar ar- rive in broken pieces One discharged air force captain got his discharge button all right in an envelope from Maj Jesse C. C Hicks assistant quartermaster Hill Dill Field Ogden Utah But there was no packing around it and it was in several pieces When he wrote back for a new button Major Hicks replied replied replied re re- re- re plied There are no provisions for replacing replacing replacing re re- re- re placing broken buttons Therefore we are unable to comply with your request Note Some Note Some of the boys think that with all the gold we have buried at Fort Knox we could spare some for those discharged STATE DEPARTMENT HARANGUE Dignified delightful British Ambassador Ambassador Am- Am Lord Halifax called on Undersecretary Undersecretary Undersecretary Un Un- of State some sometime sometime sometime time ago on a secret matter While they were closeted together Assistant Assistant Assistant Assist Assist- ant Secretary of State Adolf Berle diminutive and precocious joined I them Soon pitched high-pitched scolding voices came from office Callers Callers Call Call- ers in his anteroom could not help overhearing the harangue as it reverberated reverberated re re- re- re ed even through the heavy mahogany doors of the state depart depart- ment Finally Lord Halifax was ushered out Later came out followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed by Berle who looked a bit agitated Was I too tough with him asked Berle No said you were just right I HI felt said Berle with the theair theair theair air of a parent who has just delivered delivered de de- de- de livered a good spanking that it simply had to be done What it was all about was not di divulged divulged divulged di- di but Berle has been carrying on lon long g discussions and arguments s I with the he British regarding the future future fu fu- fu- fu ture air routes of the world v JEEP INVESTIGATION Government bureaucrats were taken taken taken tak tak- en for a sleigh ride behind closed doors when they attempted to justify justi justi- fy bud budget get requests for investigating ing ing jeeps during hearings on the supplemental national defense bill Engineering experts of the department depart depart- me ment nt of agriculture sprang the jeep scheme claiming that they needed to determine the value of the jeep for farm work as as a substitute for tractor power It was noted that the current tractor shortage might get worse after the war |