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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
---WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS-
Reds Peril Gateway to Austria;
Japs Bolster Battered Forces;
Check Decline in Hog Prices
.Released by Western Newspaper Union.
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Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this
, they are those of
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Yugoslav Partisans carry wounded back to secret stronghold.
PACIFIC:
[EUROPE:
\Budapest Imperilled
i Once, like Paris, a center of Euro-
pean gaiety with colorful sidewalk
cafes enlivened by gypsy music,
Budapest became a fevered and
somber city as Russian armies ham-
mered toward the Hungarian capi-
tal.
! Having broken across the Tisza
river, some 50 miles to the east,
the Reds bore down on Budapest as
German and Hungarian armies
were hard pressed to hold broad
lines across the country’s rolling
plains, gateway to Austria.
Even as the Russians rolled for-
ward, thousands of Budapest’s
civilians were put to work in the
'erection of entrenchments and forti-
fications, and the Germans vowed
that they would make this city,
once one of Europe’s prettiest, into
another Warsaw, a battleground.
Sacred Soil9
As the Germans and Hungarians
dug in for a stand about Budapest,
the Nazis fought fiercely on the East
Prussian front to slow up the Rus-
sians’ advance across the “sacred
soil” of this historic home of the
Junkers.
As the Germans braced in East
Prussia along prepared lines some
20 miles inside the border, the Rus-
sians, following their traditional
military policy, shifted the weight
To prevent enemy agents from
obtaining vital military informa-
tion through contact with U. S.
troops, the army is rigidly enforc-
ing stiff regulations against
doughboys mixing with Ger-
man citizens.
Troops may not make any so-
cial calls at German homes. They
may not contact German girls.
Because of service by German
bartenders, they may not even
buy beer outside of mess bars.
Talking with German people is
an “unnecessary contact,” the
army has ruled, bringing fines of
from $25 to $65.
Enemy Girds
Still determined to hold on to the
Philippines despite the concentra
tion of U. S. strength behind the
forces of Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
the Japanese poured in air re-
inforcements for the showdown bat-
tle that will develop when the
Americans move onto the larger is-
lands.
Even as the Japs sought to bol-
ster ■their defenses, first severely
shaken by the U. S. navy’s major
triumph in the second sea battle of
the Philippines, General Mac-
Arthur’s ground forces on Leyte
Gen. MacArthur (left)
Krueger confer on Leyte.
and Lt.-Gen.
of their attacks northward toward
a narrow belt of Baltic seacoast
at Latvia, where some 100,000 Nazis
were reported cut off from the re
mainder of the enemy line in the
east.
Slicing into German positions in
this sector with overwhelming
numbers of troops, the Russians
threatened to chew the entrapped
Nazi armies to shreds before they
could be successfully evacuated by
sea.
Gain Port
Formerly forced to truck supplies
overland 400 miles from Cherbourg,
or from temporary beach harbors
along the channel coast, the Allies
materially improved their communi-
cation lines by gaining full control
of the great Belgian port of Ant-
werp.
Control was gained when Can-
adian and British troops cleared the
Germans from both sides of the
Schelde river leading inland to the
port. As the Allied attack devel-
oped, the Nazis pulled out the major
bulk of their 40,000 troops to pre-
vent being encircled from the rear.
As the Allies moved to improve
communications, the U. S. First
army resumed its offensive about
Aachen, driving through the once
picturesque, now splintered, fir, pine
and silver birch Hurtgen forest on
the road to the vital industrial
Rhineland.
pushed the enemy back to the moun-
tainous western portion of the is-
land.
Because of the terrain, difficulty
was encountered in the speedy erec-
tion of air fields on Leyte, but, as
construction progressed, increasing
numbers of fighter planes took off
from the new bases to join carrier-
borne aircraft in attacking shipping
seeking to reinforce the entrapped
enemy troops on the island.
With her back being pressed
closer and closer to the wall,
Japan’s Premier Koiso called for
greater war production, declaring
that many troops had died for lack
of munitions. Almost as Koiso spoke,
the enemy reported B-29s recon-
noitering over Tokyo.
CATTLE:
Record Marketing
With more than 40 per cent of
federally inspected beef, veal, pork
and lamb going to the government,
supplies of better grades of meat
remained in scarcity last month de-
spite record-breaking marketing of
cattle.
Shipments of cattle were 37 per
cent greater than for the 10-year
average for October, and receipts
of calves were 71 per cent greater.
Although showing substantial in-
creases over September, market-
ings of hogs and sheep were lower
than in October of 1943.
Due to the heavy slaughter of cat-
tle and calves, production of beef,
veal, lamb and pork amounted to
about iy2 billion pounds for Octo-
ber, 29 per cent greater than the 10-
year average for October.
Hog Prices
After an unsettled market had
lopped 75 million dollars off of the
value of the nation’s hog crop, high-
er bids by packers stemmed the
downward spiral of prices.
The packers’ action followed War
Food administration hints that the
government would cut subsidy pay-
ments, amounting to $1.30 per hun-
dredweight, if average prices for
good and choice gults and barrows
were allowed to drop below a $13.50
per hundredweight average. Lower
grade hogs, however, would not be
included.
As marketings increased during
the first week of November, packers
became more choosy in the . pur-
chase of hogs, declaring that during
the periods of lower receipts they
were compelled to pay ceiling prices
for many shipments just to keep
their plants busy.
POSTWAR AIR:
World Traffic
As representatives from Allied
and neutral nations met in Chicago
for the international civil aviation
conference, principal question aris-
ing was in what way could coun-
tries best cooperate in the develop-
ment of extensive postwar traffic.
At the opening session, three
methods were proposed. The U. S.
suggestion advocated a free devel-
opment between friendly and pro-
gressive states, with an internation-
al body which would merely consult
and advise on allocation of air
routes, rate fixing and regulation of
competition.
On the other hand, the British
called for the regulation of postwar
air traffic through a strong inter-
national authority, which, like the
U. S. civil aeronautics authority,
would assign routes and have a
voice in rate making.
Australia and New Zealand pre-
sented the extremist view of pool-
ing all aerial resources into an in-
ternational operating company.
WAR PRODUCTION:
V-E Cutbacks
One-third of all war contracts will
be terminated within three months
after the defeat of Germany, a War
Production board official announced,
with speedy settlements with manu-
facturers assuring smoother recon-
version.
To date, the government has let
325 billion dollars in war contracts,
it was revealed, with completions
totalling 240 billion dollars. After
cancellations, about 65 billion dol-
lars of contracts are now outstand-
ing, one-third, or about 20 billion
dollars worth, of which would be
terminated on V-E day.
Of 37,000 contracts valued at 9
billion dollars cancelled thus far,
28,000 have been settled for 340 mil-
lion dollars, WPB said.
V-E Shipping
Germany’s defeat will not lessen
the demand on the U. S. merchant
marine, the Office of War Informa-
tion reported, with military and re-
construction traffic continuing to and
from the continent, and more ship-
ping needed to transport increased
forces and supplies over vast dis-
tances in the Pacific.
Three times the amount of ship-
ping presently engaged for the Euro-
pean war may be required for the
Pacific conflict, it was said, and east-
ern ports will be used to relieve
some of the tremendous traffic that
will be imposed on those in the
west.
Presently, OWI revealed, no less
than 5,000,000 tons of shipping are
being used just to transport sup-
plies from overseas bases to fight-
ing fronts.
Washington Digest;
Robot Gives World Taste
Ot the War of Tomorrow
Destructive Power of New Weapon May Be
Turned Against Both Armies and
Civilians in Future Conflicts,
SEWING CIRCLE PATTERNS
Flattering Frock for Afternoon
‘Date’ Dress Is Slim* Graceful
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
Unusual Quads
WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, D. C.
By the time this reaches print, the
true story of the robot and the
whole story, including the last chap-
ter, may be revealed. Perhaps it
will be withheld until Germany is
on her knees and the heavy cen-
sorship which has descended over
the last, desperate blows of the cor-
nered animal can be lifted.
The part of the story which is now
being revealed is that of a menace
which dropped to a low in August
of this year, when only 4 out of
101 bombs aimed at London reached
their destination, began to rise
again after that until, at this writ-
ing, V-ls are falling on the Brit-
ish capital and vicinity three times
a week.
What is more, only the V-ls are
being mentioned. Although the V-2, a
rocket much larger than the V-l,
was described for a while, and a
more mysterious V-3 was men-
tioned some time ago, today no word
is spoken of either. What is men-
tioned is that war damages are be-
ing repaired in London by some 132,-
000 laborers. This total is 40 per
cent of Britain’s total building per-
sonnel. Only 40,000 men were em-
ployed for this work in 1941 dur-
ing the battle of Britain.
The attacks now going on, like all
of those since the Allies took over
the invasion coasts and captured the
launching sites, are made by robots
launched from the backs of planes
piloted by live pilots. It is general-
ly admitted that they will keep right
on coming as long as Germany is in
the war. The robot war isn’t over.
Londoners are still moving nightly
in the shadow of death.
The British Information service
has released a film which tells the
story of what happened when the
V-ls were coming over from the
launching platform. It is a terrible
human document. As one woman
correspondent who has just come
back from the front remarked:
‘That is worse than anything in
France.”
Broke Full Force
Of Attacks
A man who knows robots pretty
well from first-hand contact told me
involved as well as the loss of 450
British and American aircraft in-
cluding many heavy and medium
bombers, involving approximately
2,900 pilots and aircrews.
That is past history. The fu-
ture, as I say, is shrouded in mys-
tery. As for the present, the meth-
od of carrying the robots on the
backs of live-piloted planes makes it
possible for the enemy to approach
their targets from any direction. So
the attempt is made to stop the
thing at its source and so-called “in-
truder” planes try to linger over
the German airdromes where it is
known the pick-a-backs take off and
destroy them as they rise. Some are
destroyed there. For the rest, it is
an endless patrol of the North sea
and the Heligoland Bight, searching
the whole heavens for the planes
themselves or trying to spot the ro-
bots after they are launched and
dive-bomb them down or pick them
off with ack-ack, or hope they will
entangle themselves with the wires
from the captive balloons.
The robot has not yet said its
last word.
* *• *
Hits ‘Inconsistent*
Diplomacy of U. S.
Before we can get any sort ox
A Fashion
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ments when you’re seen in this
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international organization working, I ^’s simple but dressy enough with
the soft shoulder gathering with a
crisp touch of ruffling and decora-
tive buttons. Try it in the new
fall colors.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1229 is de-
signed for sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46
and 48. Size 36 (three-quarter sleeves)
requires 3% yards of 39-inch material;
short sleeves, 3% yards. For neck trim-
ming, 1 yard ruching.
In the first case of its kind known in
medical history, 30-year-old Mrs. Kath-
leen Hatcher Cirminello of Philadel-
phia, Pa., gave birth to quadruplets in I “if the flying bombs (V-ls) had been
two minutes in a caeserean operation, launched as the Germans planned to
Weighing from three to three and a haunch them, in the quantities in
quarter pounds, the quads—three girls which th were then abie to pro-
ami a boy—are the 10th set m the 1
^«l^IUCib"‘hS mer“,inl “ I Platforms already installed, they
Five feet and two inches tall, and would have been sent against Lon-
weighing 118 lbs., Mrs. Criminello is don at the rate of a thousand a
the wife of a financial analyst for the night, every night ”
Securities and Exchange Commission. That, of course, would have meant
A previous child died at birth. the annihilation of any city.
Placed in an incubator, the children
were tagged A, B, C and D. Said Mr. Briefly, the developments which
Cirminello: uMy wife went through the broke the German plan were these:
ordeal. I'll let her choose the names." | In April of 1943, British secret
we, the United States of America,
must have the confidence of the
other nations of the world.
We, “US,” have a pretty good
reputation, a “reservoir of good-
will,” as Wendell Willkie called it.
But we have also a few blots on
our escutcheon. And it might be well
for all of us to read a book which, al-
though I cannot agree with all its
conclusions, fascinates me.
It is called “Our Jungle Diplo-
macy,” and was written by a for-
mer member of the American for-
eign service, William Franklin
Sands, in collaboration with Joseph
M. Lalley. It made me think.
Mr. Sands’ thesis is that our diplo-
macy has been operating “in a
jungle of our own creation” and he
cites in detail certain specific ex- , . , .
amples to show where he believes H°w 1S temperature o a
our diplomacy has led. His findings | centigrade^ thermometer reduce
are startling: Japan’s annexation of
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FEED:
Outlook Good
Despite smaller supplies of con-
centrated feed for the 1944-’45 sea-
son, more will be available per ani-
mal unit, however, because of re-
duced livestock population, the de-
partment of agriculture reported.
Because of the record production
of corn and sorghums for 1944,
agents sent in vague reports of
German plans for some type of long-
range bombardment.
Intelligence service discovered a
new weapon being developed on the
Baltic Coast; the RAF made photo-
graphs.
Many pictures were taken and
finally a large factory was discovered
at Peenemuende, an island in the
Baltic, with a miniature airplane-
USDA said, the domestic supply of shaped thing on the ramp. Scien-
feed grains will approximate last tists deduced that the weapon was a
year’s at 130,500,000 tons. Stocks of | pilotless, jet-propelled plane
by-product feeds will be slightly
larger than last year. With de-
creased demands, moderate price
declines were anticipated.
According to USD A, local feed
Peenemuende and other manufac-
turing sites were destroyed.
By winter, 100 ramps were dis-
covered similar to the one at Peene-
muende all along the French coast.
Shoes Will Be Brighter Next Spring
Although civilian shoe production-
will not return to normal till after
the war, retailers will, feature
brighter lines next spring, surveys
of the national shoe fair in Chicago
revealed.
There will be an airier style, too,
with women’s shoes open at the toes
and heels, and “casuals,” for com-
fort wear, coming into greater
prominence in line with prewar
trends.
Biggest boon, however, is in the
government’s lifting of restrictions
on ~ the use of colors, with women
promised spring wear in green, lib-
erty red and blue jacket blue, and
men’s shoes in shades from army
russet to turf tan.
Two tones will be made again, it
was revealed, with differently col-
ored leather permitted for the upper
part of the shoe if soles are made of
/sdmC other composition.
grain supplies are smaller than last They were bombed, repaired, re
year in the east north central and bombed. By the following summer
the western states, but slightly
larger in other sections. Except for
the west north central and the west-
ern states, hay supplies are smaller.
CASUALTIES:
Total 487,692
With the army suffering the bulk
of the losses, U. S. battle casual-
ties on the far-flung fronts totaled
487,692.
Army casualties reached 417,121,
of which 80,666 were killed, 229,212
wounded, 53,622 missing and 53,621
made prisoners. After more than a
year of bitter fighting in Italy, where
Allied forces pressed their offensive
against strong Nazi fortifications,
U. S. losses were estimated at 90,000.
Latest navy compilations placed
casualties at 70,571, of which 28,231
were killed, 29,441 wounded, 9,42,7
missing and 4,478 made prisoner.
STAR STATE
Texas led all states in mineral
production in 1943 and was the only
state producing minerals valued in
excess of a billion dollars in that
year, the bureau of mines, depart-
ment of the interior, revealed.
With its mineral output valued at
$1,116,056,000 last year, the Lone
Star State retained for, the ninth
consecutive year its rank of first in
the United States in the value of
such products. The total represents
16.97 per cent of the national min-
eral production value.
Korea, he says, follows the pattern
laid down by the United States in
regard to Hawaii. Pearl Harbor, he
boldly traces back to Panama!
Mr. Sands has some rather jolt-
ing ideas on power politics. He says
that although the United States has
no consistent foreign policy, we
have, nevertheless, indulged in pow
er politics. But, he hastens to add,
power politics is not per se, un
wise or immoral. (It depends on the
power.)
But whatever has been the long-
range effect of our diplomatic con-
duct in South • America, Sands be
lieves that “the chief fruit of our
jungle diplomacy is the disastrous
war which we are now engaged.
I would not go so far as to say
that a less jungular diplomacy on
our part alone could, under existing
world conditions, have preserved the
peace in the face of a confirmed
aggressor, but I must admit that
our statesmanship has not acted as
much of a pacifier so far.
Sands quotes the famous saying
of the great military authority, von
Clausewitz, to the effect that “war
is the continuation of a nation’s poli-
cy by forcible means,” and then he
to Fahrenheit?
2. Who said: “Let us have faith
that right makes might”?
3. What was Julius Caesar’s first
name?
4. What state has no divorce
laws? .
5. Who were Shem, Ham and
Japheth?
6. Prior to our crossing, when
was the last successful cross-
Channel invasion made?
7. What is the last word in the
Bible?
8. How did the artesian well
come to be so called?
9. On what date did the Con-
stitution of the United States go
into effect? '
10. What 'two presidents of the
United States received the Nobel
peace prize?
7. Amen.
8. So called because such wells
were first sunk in Artois, France.
9. It was declared in effect the
first Wednesday of March, 1789,
which was the fourth.
10. Theodore Roosevelt and
Woodrow Wilson.
The Answers
Accident at Cornerstone
Laying Unnerved Hitler ¥
Few ominous experiences have^
caused the superstitious HitlerF*
more concern than the one that oc-'
curred when he was about to lay
the' cornerstone of a Munich art
gallery .on October 15," 1933, says
Collier’s. Alter the chairman had
stated that the ceremony was the
“sign and symbol of the future of
the Nazi movement,” Hitler
stepped forward and, in deliver-
ing the first blow on the stone,
broke the silver hammer in two.
Obviously extremely shocked
and upset, he resumed his seat
without uttering a single word.
1. Multiply by 9/5 and add 32.
2. Abraham Lincoln in an ad-
dress at Coopers Union, New
York, February 27, 1860.
3. Gaius.
4. South Carolina.
5. Sons of Noah.
6. Eight hundred seventy-eight
'■*’ "-’j v. .~ | years ago by William the Con-
says that since we had no policy to | Jueror> Sge Uncled in England
new ones had been completed.
Secret service pieced together a
description of the bomb. Defenses
(barrage balloons, etc.) were pre-
pared.
The first robot attack began at the
time of our invasion of Normandy.
In the first month only 40 per cent
of the bombs were brought down by
defense.
The defenses were changed; the
defense belt was moved to the coast
so the gunners could get an un-
interrupted view of the oncoming
robots. By July, 74 per cent of the
robots were . being brought down.
The RAF with speedier fighters
helped to get many.
The situation improved until Au-
gust. ...
All this is highly condensed and
only suggests the. tremendous work
extend, the war in the Pacific is an
extension of Japanese policy. Sands
says (and makes a very convincing
argument) that that point was clear
when the Japs took Korea 40 years
(.ago,
And then he comes to this striking
conclusion:
“Two courses were open to us . .
we might have prepared to chal-
lenge the rising power of Ja
pan . . or we might have adopted
a policy “of gradual retreat in the
Pacific and of genuine conciliation
in the Americas, which might
have enabled us to avoid the clash
of power politics in the Far East,
might have made our intentions
plain, and might have made our
moral position less equivocal in
Latin and Asiatic eyes.”
Read “Our Jungle Diplomacy” as
an astringent to inflated national
egotism, if for no other reason. It is
a refreshing mental menthol.
from Normandy.
Five-Pound Note Highest
In the past six months, Great
Britain has produced no notes of
a denomination higher than five
pounds or $20, while the United
States has issued about $900,000,-
000 worth of currency in $50, $100,
$500 and $1,000 bills.
BRIEFS. ..6y Baukhage
Some 11,000 practical farmers in
two-thirds of the nation’s counties,
•ooperating with the department of
agriculture extension service, are
checking land values and other
agricultural facts in preparation for
service as personal advisers to vet-
erans interested in farming.
Japanese papers now
only two pages a day.
number
The median level of education of
American soldiers in this war is the
second year of high school. In 1918
it was the sixth grade.
* * *
The Japanese have announced
that they are planning to manufac-
ture large quantities of “synthetic
beer” that will be shipped to the
fighting front to “comfort” Japa-
nese soldiers.
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