Show ie 7 9 l 1 G R ii D DW W Ei Washington D. D D C. C TURKEYS AND THE ARMY The army Is beginning to wonder U If it hasn't over extended itself Itsell on the business of turkeys It has ruled that civilians may not buy turkeys for their Thanksgiving or Christ Christ- Christmas Christmas mas dinners or for next Sundays Sunday's dinner for that until matter the army has acquired 12 million pounds for or the armed forces overseas That sounded all right until some some- somebody somebody body in the quartermaster corps be- be began began gan figuring out what you could do with 12 million pounds of turkeys For generous portions you can fig fig- figure figure ure that pounds of undressed turkey will feed men The number of mon in the armed forces overseas including army na- na navy navy vy and marines Is around two mil mil- lion Allow each man a pound of turkey for Thanksgiving and another er for Christmas and you reach the 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 mil mil- million lion men would do with 12 million pounds of turkey except eat em NAZI PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE Beware of false rumors about Germany The Germans masters of psychological warfare are arc watching watch watch- watching ing every opportunity to take 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 mili- mili military military tary authorities It has now been definitely established established that no such event took place State department officials now say flatly that the whole thing was a false falsa report from beginning to end It was so generally reported how how- however however 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 war was not far from finished This would have the effect of weakening our bond drives and similar efforts Note The Nazi news r report port of Hitler's ousting came via Spain ARMY'S FAVORITE FOODS Since the Truman committees committee's in- in investigation tion 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 per per- percentage percentage of garbage After watching the eating habits of soldiers at Chanute Field m. m the quartermaster corps gave I each dish a rating according to its popularity Roast chicken and apple pie rated So did roast duck and roast II ham But creamed ham rated only 55 dietician Mary I. I Bar Bar- Barber Barber 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 No matter what you may do to butter up spinach it remains spin spin- spinach spinach ach and the soldiers gave it a rating of 41 It was just about the lowest of all NO TIRES FOR RUBBER CZAR Col Bradley Dewey who succeed succeed- succeeded ed Big Bill Jeffers as rubber director director tor says he wishes he could get his hands on a set of synthetic tires He is now in charge of the program which promises to 30 million synthetic tires by the end of next year but he is not able to trY synthetic tires on his own car carI carI I wish says Colonel Dewey that OPA would let me have a 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 Id I'd like to see what they would do Some of the taxi drivers out in Akron have new synthetic tires and they swe swear r by them But Id I'd like to see what they would do for me Reason for Deweys Dewey's inability to get tires is that though he is in charge of the entire program he is obliged to apply for tires through OPA like any other citizen And since his present tires are reason reason- reasonably reasonably ably good he cant can't get any new synthetic tires e eMERRY MERRY GO ROUND u. u A high minded air war department depart depart- department ment official says the length of the war depends on the weather this winter If the weather is favorable for lor flying the war in Europe might be over before next summer II C. Brig Gen Glen C. C Jamison of the Thirteenth air force South Pa- Pa Pacific Pacific pays high tribute to Negro an who built t roads airfields and d living quarters In the the Solomons and New Hebrides using native nativa con con- construction materials and thus saving shipping fro a U U. S. S |