Show ap 0 D WR washington D C presidents HEALTH when congressional leaders called at the white house for the first legislative isla tive conference following the presidents return from south carolina he looked fit as a fiddle however senate majority leader alben barkley popped the question that has had the capital worried because of those wild rumors about the com mander in chiefs health 1 how do you feel asked the kentuckian great replied roosevelt he added that he had got in 12 hours of sleep a night and plenty of sunshine ile he was brown as a berry and buoyant as ever however congressional I 1 leaders noted that his face was a little thinner admiral ross T mcintire the presidents physician 1 accepts responsibility for thi this roos roosevelt evelt has knocked off 10 pounds I 1 under McInti res orders he is still five pounds overweight according to his physicians standards but mcintire figures that this can be corrected by proper di eting 0 0 0 NAZI CHANNEL DEFENSES of all the variegated defenses hitler has conceived to block the second front from rocket guns to flame on the channel the one which the allies are worried most about is the plain relatively old fashioned machine gun nest the nazis have developed a new type of machine gun nest tried it out at cassino and it was one reason for our failure to advance this pillbox is of very heavy concrete quite small extends only a foot or so above the ground and is extremely difficult to see from the air the pillbox usually houses two machine 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 lost but it takes almost a direct bomb hit to knock him out so air pounding of them from overhead is not too effective these pillboxes pill boxes 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 0 0 DISCHARGE BUTTONS with more than a million men now honorably discharged from the army for wounds health or age the question of honorable dis discharge charge buttons becomes more and more important por tant 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 unbroken the buttons are made of plastic and when mailed to veterans usually arrive in broken pieces one discharged air force captain got his discharge button all right in an envelope from maj jesse C hicks assistant quartermaster hill 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 there are no provisions for replacing broken buttons therefore I 1 we are unable to comply with your request 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 bas oas lord halifax called on undersecretary der secretary of state some time ago on a secret matter while they were closeted together assistant secretary of state adolf berle diminutive and precocious joined them soon high pitched scolding g voices came from office callers in his anteroom could not help overhearing the harangue as it reverberated ver berated even through the heavy mahogany doors of the state department finally lord halifax was ushered out later came out followed by berle who looked a bit agitated was I 1 too tough with him asked berle no said you were ju just st right 0 1 I felt said berle with the air of 0 a parent who has just delivered a good spanking that it simply had bad to be done what it was all about was not divulged but berle has been carrying on long discussions and arguments with the british regarding the future air routes of the world JEEP investigation government bureaucrats were taken for a sleigh ride behind closed doors when they attempted to justify budget requests quests te for investigating jeeps during hearings on the supplemental national defense bill engineering experts of the department of agriculture sprang the jeep scheme claiming that they needed to determine the value of the jeep for farm work as a substitute tor for tractor power it was noted that the current tractor shortage might get worse after the war |