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Show WWW i Washington, l. 0. Tl liKI.YS ANI 1 111". ARMY The army Is beginning U wonder If It hasn't over extended Itself on the business of turkeys. It has ruled that civilians may not buy turkeys for their Thanksgiving or Christmas Christ-mas dinners or for next Sunday's dinner, for that matteruntil the army has acquired 1- million pounds for the armed forces overseas. That sounded all right, until somebody some-body in (he quartermaster corps began be-gan figuring out what you could do with VI million pounds of turkeys. For generous portions, you can llg-ure llg-ure that 100 pounds of undressed turkey will feed 100 men. The number of men in the armed forces overseas, including army, navy, na-vy, and marines, is around two million. mil-lion. Allow each man a pound of turkey for Thanksgiving and another anoth-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 telephoning. tele-phoning. When last heard from, they still didn't know what two million mil-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 watching watch-ing every opportunity to take advantage advan-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 mili-tary authorities. It has now been definitely established estab-lished that no such event took place. State department officials now say flatly that the whole thing was a false report, from beginning to end. It was so generally reported, however, how-ever, that they believe it must have been prompted by Germany. The motive in such a ease would have I 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 Hitler's ousting came via Spain. ARMY'S FAVORITE FOODS Since the Truman committee's investigation in-vestigation of food waste in the army, the quartermaster corps has been as frugal as a Dutch housewife. house-wife. Elaborate studies have been made of what the soldiers eat and what they leave on the plate, wfth the idea of cutting down the percentage per-centage of garbage. j After watching the' eating habits of 16,000 soldiers at Chanute Field, HI., the quartermaster corps gave each dish a rating, according to its popularity. Roast chicken and apple pie rated 100. So did roast duck and roast ham. But creamed ham rated only 55. (QMC dietician Mary I. Bar-.ber Bar-.ber explains: "Not many men like messed up food. Artemus Ward said: 'When I eat hash, I like to know what I'm eating.' ") No matter what you may do to butter up spinach, it remains spinach spin-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 succeeded succeed-ed Big Bill Jeffers as rubber director, direc-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 produce 30 million synthetic tires by the end of next year, but he is not able to try synthetic tires on his own car. "I wish," says Colonel Dewey, "that OPA would let me have a set of the new tires. 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 I'd like to see what they would do. "Some of the taxi drivers out in Akron have new synthetic tires, and they swear by them. But I'd like to see what they would do for rue." Reason for 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 reasonably reason-ably good, he can't get any new svnthetic tires. MERRY GO ROUND C A high, air-minded war department depart-ment official says the length of the war depends on the weather this winter. If the weather is favorable for flying, the war in Europe might be over before next summer. C Brig. Gen. Glen C. Jamison, of the Thirteenth air force, South Pacific, Pa-cific, pays high tribute to Negro engineers who built roads, airfields, and living quarters in the Solomons and New Hebrides, using native construction con-struction materials and thus saving shipping from U. S. |
