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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION "- -l CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT FEATHERS WANTED FTSATHERS WANTED, NEW OR OLD Ship or write to Sterling Feather Company, 09 N. Broadway. St. Louis. MiBsoari. MISCELLANEOUS Birth Certificates. Citizenship. Naturaliza-tion, all you need know in one little book $1. 00. T. HAItKIS, Box 5101, Metro Los Sta.( Angeles (55), California, GRANDMA'S IDEA FOR COLDS' ACHES bne often used medicated mutton Buet now many mothers use Penetro, modern medication in a base contain-ing mutton suet. Rub on double action relieves colds' muscular aches, coughing. (1) vaporizes to comfort stuffy nose (2) outside, stimulates at spot where applied. Get Penetro. Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomulsion relieves promptly be-cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in-flamed bronchial mucous mem-branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un-derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you axe to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis mm. - II ' Due to an unusually large dtP.. current war conditions, slightly m is required in filling orders i the most popular pattern aumh' Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERND? 149 New Montgomery street San Francisco f Enclose 20 cents in coins i,,J pattern desired. Pattern No Sla Name Address I St.Joseph as For relief from the torture of simple Piles. PAZO ointment has been famous for more than thirljr years. Here's why: First. PAZO ointment soolhes Inflamed areas, relieves pain and itching. Second, PAZO oinlment lubricates hardened, dried parts helps prevent cracking and soreness. Third, PAZO ointment tends to reduce swelling and check bleeding. Fourth, It's easy to use. PAZO oint-ment's perforated Pile Pipe makes ap-plication simple, thorough. Your doctor can tell you about PAZO ointment. Body Moulding. VTOU'LL be delighted with the way this four-gor- e slip with its brassiere top fits your figure! You may finish it with a smart lace Tont and lace hem. The pattern includes panties to match. Pattern No. 1896 is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, IB, 20; 40 and 42. Correspond-ing bust measurements 30, 32. 34, 36, 38, 10 and 42. Size 14 (32) slip requires 2'i yards 36 or material, panties 1 yard. One lace motif plus 4 yards edging to trim set. Practical, Attractive. r0 YOU insist on utmost practi- - cality in your wartime fash-ions yet want them to be young and attractive, too? Then the jumper and blouse outfit is the so-lution to your probem! Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1887 is de-signed for sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48. Size 36 jumper requires 3V6 yards material; short sleeve blouse, 2 yards. WHITHulUSSn POPS i lu I ,.".,MIJtLl flR0lli k HnffiitiEvs if back aches from need of diuretic aid Functional kidney disturbance due to need of diuretic aid may cause stabbing back-ache! May cause urinary flow to be fre-quent, yet scanty and smarting You may lose sleep from "getting op nights" often, may feel dizzy, nervous, "headachy." In such cases, you want to stimulate kidney action Jast. So if there is nothing systemically or organically wrong, try Gold Medal Capsules. They've been fa-mous for prompt action for 30 years. Takt care to use them only as directed. Accept oo substitutes, 35 at your drug store. Good Housekeeping r I iA (MIKIIK- - Subscribe NOW for U. S. War E. i : ' DON'T LET CONSTIPATION SLOW YOU UP When bowels ere sluggish end you feel irritable, headachy, do as million! do chew the modem chewing-gu- laxative. Simply chew T before you go to bed, taking only in accordance with package directions sleep without being dis-turbed. Next morning gentle, thorough relief, helping you feel swell again. Try FEEN-A-MIN- Tastes good, is handy and economical. A generous family supply FEEN-A-MIMT- 'lo Invest in Liberty ft ft Buy War Bonds OF TEE L J rLJ-- v - : "The of tener you eat it the better you will TSr like it" has been heard countless times, ' Skk and it contains the vital elements to a Vs C balanced diet. . f Vitamin A, Vitamin B, Phosphorus and Calcium remain in "Cream of the West" C,, . in their natural state. ' ' Buy a package from your grocer and treat V V' 5 your famUy to a delicious cooked cereal. It has a flavor aU its own and is not rationed. MONTANA CEREAL CO. Bmingsj SURVEY SHOWS ilH HELPS BUILD STAMINA HELPS BUILD ACTUAL RESISTANCE TO COLDS Try g Scott's Emulsion ! Con-tains natural A & D Vitamins that help bring back energy and stamina if there is dietarv deficiency of these elements. Take it daily. All druggists I ? For Relieving Miseries of covered ViSs VnS utll?rsJhrstdis- - ease coughing spasms, W' bri,;. themo3twSelvusShUb- is cd. ingSwi!rel?,edy,S,r ing passages, And s colds- - or tightness. It promotes wrf-The foment n ; Often most of the misol the thrcTesffi15 on is one b Z"' it starts toST at time VapoRub ways at onc- e- strike. Try it I m WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Both Parties Study Election Trends; Higher Wage Scale Ends Coal Strike; Permit Plan May Regulate Marketing As Shipments Flood Packing Plants (EDITOR'S NOTE : When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are 'J"'"0.' Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily ol tills newspaper.; Peleased by Western Newspaper Union. . f , 1 1 V I ' 1 ' 1 t 1 - ' . " r" " Admiral William Halsey, left, and Gen. Douglas MacArthur map latest Allied war plans In South Pacific. Vice Admiral A. S. Carpenter is pic-tured behind General MacArthur. COAL STRIKE: Agreement Reached John L. Lewis' 460,000 soft and hard coal miners were ordered back to their jobs following agreement on new wage conditions between the United Mine Workers' steely chief and Secretary of the Interior Harold MANPOWER: Define Essential Industry At least 75 per cent of a company's business must be essential for em-ployees to be frozen into their jobs under War Manpower commission regulations. In plants with essential as well as nonessential production, only workers employed on the essential manufacturing can be frozen into their positions. Workers frozen in essential indus-try cannot transfer to other jobs without obtaining release from their employers, unless they can offer e that their skills are not being fully utilized in their occupations, or they are not being employed full time. RUSSIA: Near Rumania As German forces retreated In the southern Ukraine, they were only 100 miles from the prewar Rumanian border, while in the north, they fell back to within 45 miles of the old Latvian boundary. Kriyoi Rog remained the focal point in the southern Ukraine, with the Germans fighting bitterly to hold open an escape corridor for their troops threatened with encirclement in the great bend of the Dnieper river. With the Germans holding at Krivoi Rog, it appeared as though they were successful in moving most of their forces from the trap. Along the Black sea coast further south, Russian troops continued to pour over the bleak, barren Nogaisk plains, with German forces stream-ing westward toward the Rumanian border. As a result of recent move-ments, the battle front in Russia ran in almost a straight line from north to south, with the huge Dnieper river bulge eliminated. EUROPE: Food Plentiful With 1 billion bushels of bread cereals harvested and dairy herds at high levels, Europe's food stocks appear adequate for the next year on the basis of reports of European newspapers and Swedish correspond-ents. Only pig and poultry supplies are smaller. Because of the efficiency of Ger-many's rationing system, it was said, food will not contribute to any collapse of the Nazi home front. In- - J I F . j HOGS: Heavy Receipts With hog shipments flooding pack-ing centers and many slaughterers reported shifting receipts to less con-gested yards, there were rumors that the government may impose a permit system to regulate market-ing. During a recent three-da- y period, packers received 574,000 hogs, al-most 40,000 over the record October peak of the previous week. With packers in possession of from three to ten days' supplies, 250 to 270 pounders brought $14.40 in the Chi-cago yards, with weights below 180 pounds dropping from 15 cents to $1 under the $13.75 "floor." Although the government had worked out a permit system for marketing last year, it did not ap-ply it when heavy runs leveled off. According to experts, preference would be given to bigger hogs if the permit system were to be applied now. Meat Production Meat production for 1944 will total 24 billion pounds, the Bureau of Ag-ricultural Economics reported, but increased government needs will cut civilian allocations. More than 96 million hogs will be slaughtered in 1944, the BAE said, or three million more than this year. Because of smaller spring pig crops, however, next fall's marketings creased production of vegetable oils are supplementing the Germans' diet. On the other hand, Russia faces serious food shortages this win-ter, with conditions approaching famine in some areas. Should the war in Europe end sud-denly, big difficulty in feeding the populace would arise in moving the food from the farms to the cities, where plants made idle by cessation of war production would create se-vere problems of unemployment INSIDE JAPAN: Morale High Intensive propaganda has had its effect in Japan, with its 90 million Lewis (left) and Ickes. L. Ickes, acting on behalf of the government which again took over the pits when a serious strike threatened. Bypassing the War Labor board which had consented only to a wage increase of $1.12 daily, Lewis and Ickes worked out a formula boosting the bituminous miners' daily take to $1.50. Under the terms, the work day would be extended to ZVi hours, with miners compensated for the average of 45 minutes of under-ground travel time, but with their lunch time chopped from 30 to 15 minutes. Anthracite miners will receive 70 cents more daily, 37.8 cents more by sacrificing 15 minutes of their 30 minutes lunch time, and 32.2 cents more as a result of a previous WLB award. ITALY: Line Sags With Generals Clark and Mont-gomery bringing their full pressure to bear on the western and central sectors of the Germans' Massico ridge mountain line, the Nazis be-gan to slowly give ground. As they drew back along the west coast, they planted extensive mines and dynamited and blocked off roads, impeding the advance of pur-suing Allies. Smashing through during the night, British troops captured Iser-ni- a in the center. By so doing, Montgomery's Tommies cut the Nazis' forward east-we- supply road, forcing them to use other routes .behind the, mountains. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Smash Jap Squadron The battle to clear the enemy from the northern Solomons was on. U. S. troops were pouring ashore at Kekata bay on Bougainville is-land. In darkness and rain, recon-naissance reported the approach of a strong Jap naval squadron to re-sist the American landings. U. S. squadrons headed north for the fight. Ninety minutes of tense maneuver-ing was followed by two hours of fighting. Toll: One Jap cruiser and four destroyers sunk.- U. S. loss: Damage and casualties. Their footing secure, U. S. troops pressed inland on Bougainville. At the Japs' great base of Eabaul to the west, U. S. fliers dropped hun-dreds of bombs, with Allied head-quarters claiming 100,000 tons of enemy shipping sunk or damaged. people firm in their conviction that theirs is a holy war to smash the white man's economic domination of Asia. Early victories after Pearl Harbor heightened Japa-nese enthusiasm, and although over-burdened transpor-tation facilities have aggravated the gen-eral food shortage with black markets should drop below current levels. Despite record slaughterings in 1943, cattle on farms should number about 80 million head January 1. Because of the feed situation, total cattle fed jhould slide below 1943 levels in the corn belt and other areas, BAE said. Because of a shortage of ewes and labor, the 1944 lamb crop should be one to two million head smaller than this year, with slaughter also drop-ping. Butchering of sheep at 1943 levels would seriously deplete sup-plies by 1945. ELECTIONS: GOP Trend With the election of Republican Simeon 5. Willis as governor of Ken-tucky, the GOP swept through all re-cent elections to strengthen indica-tions of a swing in the political pen-dulum. In New York, Republican Joe R. Hanley amassed a majority of 348,-00- 0 votes to win the lieutenant-governorshi- p from Democrat Lieut. Gen. William N. Haskell. Should Governor Tom Dewey decide to make the presidential race in 1944, Party-ma- n Hanley will fill his shoes. Governor of New Jersey during World War I, Republican Walter Edge ran up a majority of 128,000 votes to win the office again during World War II, besting labor-backe- d Democrat Vincent Murphy. Republicans maintained their control of Philadelphia with the election of Republican Bernard Sam-uel for mayor over White House fa-vorite and Democrat William Bullitt by 64,000 votes. Said GOP National Chairman Har-rison Spangler: "The light of the New Deal has flickered out." Re-torted Democratic National Chair-man Frank C. Walker: "I read no national trend whatsoever in . . . the . . . results." i thriving, travelers Emperor say that the usually Hlrohito frugal populace has accepted added privations as one of the necessities of war. Financed by paper money issu-ance, Japan's war industries are booming, with everybody from em-ployer to worker prospering. Coolie wages alone have risen from about 34 cents to $2.30 a day. The Japs are heavy war bond buyers. As head of the Japanese religion Emperor Hirohito still commands awesome loyalty of the people with Premier Tojo cleverly playing upon this reverence to mobilize the state. WAR STOCKS FALL: Rumors of an early peace result-ing from the Moscow conference and victories on the Russian and Italian fronts, caused declines in war stocks, including rail-roads, and an upturn in peace stocks on the New York and other markets Steel, rubber, aircraft, and distilling issues dropped one to two points as did many low grade rail stocks' High class rails and many utili ties marked up small gains. In com modifies, wheat broke one to two cents a bushel, but recovered later DUCKS: haorrhedXthttr Wild Life & at Havana, 111., announced it estimated that 125 million ducks are heading south from Canadian feed ing grounds. The station bands a sample ber of ducks num. every year. When duck ,s killed the band is re turn J to the station by the hunter By thK means it is possible to estimate number of ducks shot the their average life span.anr.ualld I Record Debt for L. S. As of October 31, the direct fed-eral debt of the V. S. stood at approximately 165 billion dollars. Broken down, that represents a debt of $1,203 for every person in the country or $5,000 per family, on the basis of four members. Interest rates have fallen to an all-ti- low of less than 2 per cent, however. The present debt contrasts with the one of 55 billion which exist-ed before the war, when the in-terest rate averaged ZA per cent. Following World War I, the pub-lic debt reached 26 V4 billion dol-lars, with over 4 per cent interest. The present 165 billion dollar debt does not include over 4 bil-lion dollars of government guar-anteed obligations. Postwar Air Routes More than 100 companies have already made application to the Civil Aeronautics board for certif-icates or permits to derate a total of 350,000 miles of new domestic and foreign air routes after the war. Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. XTEW YORK. If John R. Deane could have kept on winning pro-motions as fast as he did in the first months of his career in the United States army Ma). Gen. Deane he would Slated to Go Far long ago At a Rapid Pace have had ? more ranks to conquer. He enlisted in the clos-ing hours of World War I, on Octo-ber 5, two days after the Germans asked President Wilson for an ar-mistice. He was made a second lieutenant on October 26, on the very day LudendorfT resigned his German command. Not that Lieu-tenant Deane had the field marshal worried. The two events just hap-pened to dovetail. By the next Feb-ruary it was First Lieutenant Deane. He lagged for a while after that. He waited 16 years for his majority. But he is a major general now, and his present job in Moscow, at the head of the American military commission which is supposed to blow all bottlenecks out of our lend-leas- e program there, is likely to move him still farther upward, and at a fast pace, too. Deane is a Californian. Better, he belongs to the toploftical inner circle of Californians who were born In San Francisco, that romantic cen-ter of fogs, d streets and' overcoated evenings. He belongs to the army's Inner circle, too, is a graduate of the Army War college, where only the smart officers go, and of the Command and General Staff school. Forty-seve- n now, in his 26 years of military life he has served in nine states, the Panama Canal Zone and China. Just before the Moscow trip he was secretary of the Combined Chiefs of Staff in Washington. That, too, is a job which goes only to the smart offi-cers. ANOTHER friendly gesture from President Carlos Arroyo del Rio of Ecuador pleases but does not sur-prise the United States. Now those Ecuador's Chief in small Another Friendly country who Gesture to U. S. i?nistototJheet fight may enlist in our armed forces with his approval. Under Dr. Arroyo's presiden-cy, Ecuador has sold us valua-ble rubber, has leased us invalu-able naval and air bases on the mainland and on the Galapagos islands. Dr. Arroyo has made us a state visit, too. In 1942, a tall, heavy man with a big nose, a receding pompadour,. . mus-tache, dignity, he visited Wash-ington, West Point and New York. His only son is being edu-cated here. The small republic sitting so cock-il- y astride the equator has had 22 presidents since 1897. Dr. Arroyo, elected in 1940, seems destined to fill out his four-yea- r term. Born in 1893 in Guayaquil, educated there, his personality smacks of this pro-gressive seaport, rather than that of ancient, dreamy Quito, high above in the mountains. He received his law degree at 20, practiced corporation law with solid success, taught in his alma mater, the University of Guayaquil, served many terms as deputy to the national legis-lature, was elected to the senate and finally presided over the en-tire congress. He refused to be candidate for president twice but luckily for us was willing in 1940. CPORTS writers who knew him when he was running the ath-letic show at West Point said then that Maj. Philip Bracken Fleming Maj. Fleming Has tul adminis. 3 Words to Ease trator, never A Tough Problem f a loss io the word needed to ease a bad situation. Now that he is a major general and Fed-eral Works administrator, he still has the needed word. Three, in fact! They are: "A billion dollars." That much money, the general reckons, will nicely cushion the Impact of postwar unemploy ment feared by so many. Re-publican voices offstage seem t groan that so much money ought to cushion anything, but the tact ful general pays them no never-mind. Fleming finished up with West Point 10 years ago. An army engi-neer, with a highly regarded knowl-edge of construction, he was draft-ed by Roosevelt, a fledgling presi-dent then, to head up the Public Works administration. He has done a passel of jobs since that time and has been called an ace New Deal trouble shooter. He has been FWA administrator for two years and before that wiped up a lot of spilled milk for the Wage-Hou- r administration. Major Fleming is just a little short of 60 years old now. His hair is graying, his mustache is gray, but his eyebrows are startlingly black, with a heavy, quiet face and a full mouth. He was born in the Middle West; Iowa, in fact, and was graduated from West Point in 1911. He married three years later. In 1940, when his wife, his son and his daughter all went for Willkie he said with that famous tact, "Everyone has a right to his own opinion," and proved it by voting, for the third time, for FDR. More Seven-Lea- f Clovers Recent botanical studies show that seven-lea- f clovers are three times as numerous as six-le-clovers. ' Small Business Up to the war, 90 per cent of America's 2,800,000 businesses em-ployed less than eight persons apiece. Our 111th War Counting its conflicts with dians, the United States ha; at war 111 times. Musso's Signature Letters containing Mussolini's autograph, once valued at $50 apiece, cannot be sold today for $5. HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week's news ENTERPRISE: A Michigan farm-er, Frank Barron of Delta county, had about given up hope of raising anything on an eight-acr- e patch that lay under water until midsummer. His county agent suggested that Canadian purple top rutabagas might mature before frost. Barron sowed two crops and has harvested five tons to the acre, worth $70 at $14 a ton. WAR BONDS: Fewer war bonds are being sold back to the govern-ment, officials of the New York Fed-eral Reserve bank say. Redemp-tions of all series were down about 11 per cent in October as compared with September. BALLPLAYER: Stan Musial, Cardinal outfielder, was named the most valuable player in the Nation-al league by the Baseball Writers association. Walker Cooper, also of the Cardinals, was voted second, and Bill Nicholson of the Cubs was third. Musial is batting champion of his league with .357. j REFRIGERATORS: New refrig- erators again may be made about the middle of next year, Office of Civilian Requirements officials say, after considering results of a survey showing the serious need in millions of homes. There is a demand right now for five million refrigerators and four million washing machines. Only about a million of each will be manu-factured at best next year. SEAPLANE: The world's largest flying boat, the Martin Mars, has successfully passed all tests and will be turned over to the navy for use as a "Flying Liberty Ship" between this country and distant fighting fronts. The huge air giant weighs 70 tons. ALUMINUM: The aluminum pro- duction program has passed its goal Arthur Bunker, director, announces! Output, he said, is now a million pounds over requirements, every three-mont- h period. The great step-u- p in production, he added, has cost about a billion dollars Industrial and Farming While the United States has be- come an mdustrial nation, the pro portion of its land devoid ing has increased from cent in 1850 to 55.7 per cc: Prisoner Labor Prisoner-of-wa- r labor is not avail-able in localities in which there are no prisoner-of-wa- r camps, inasmuch as war prisoners must be trans-ported from the camps to the work sites in the mornings and returned to their camps at night. |