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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Italy’s Industrial Belt Feels Weight
Of Continued Allied Bombing Attacks;
Grain Crop Production Shows Decline;
U. S. Airmen Hit Both Ends of Pacific
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
______________ Released by Western Newspaper Union. ___________
ITALY:
Toe and Thigh
As the bulk of the German forces
streamed across Messina straits
from Sicily to the big toe of the
Italian boot, Allied bombers struck
at Italy’s industrial belt high on the
thigh of the leg-like peninsula.
As the final curtain was being
drawn on the Sicilian campaign,
suicidal German rearguards planted
themselves in the craggy island’s
hill tops and mountain sides, and
with mortar and machine gun fought
Entering Palermo with American
troops, Private Joseph Mole of
Jamestown, N. Y., found a 14-
pnonth-old abandoned waif named
'Josephine, seen in his arms. Relief
authorities took over her care.
Allied advances fiercely, as the bulk
of their forces were evacuated.
In those last hours, the German
rearguards’ position became more
precarious as daring units from
Gen. George S. Patton’s American
7th army landed behind their lines,
and aided by naval batteries and
dive bombers slashed their way
through bayonets to firmly entrench
themselves on shore.
Despite heavy anti-aircraft fire
which was said to have thrown up
a wall of steel, waves of Allied
bombers hit the important industrial
center of Milan. Terrific detona-
tions could be heard on the Swiss
border miles away as the bombers
pushed their way through the flak
to drop their incendiaries and block-
busters.
DRAFT:
Induction Order
Now that Selective Service of-
ficials have authorized the drafting
of fathers October 1, plans have
been drawn for induction according
to the importance of a man’s occu-
pation.
Under the new plan, a new classi-
fication known as “super-eligibility”
would be created, under which cer-
tain skilled jobs in direct war pro-
duction would place the employee
last in the draft list.
The plan also would extend the
list of non-essential jobs, holders of
which would be eligible for immedi-
ate call, regardless of number of
children. In this case, such men
would be given the opportunity to
switch to more essential industries.
Thus, those in non-essential oc-
cupations would be called first, be-
fore essential and “super-eligible”
employees. About 300,000 fathers
are to be drafted this year.
RUSSIA:
Fighting Unsurpassed
Russia’s resurging manpower
rolled like a tidal wave over the
endless Russian plains, and Germa-
ny’s stubborn armies gave under the
weight.
To the north, the Reds drove on
Smolensk from .two sides, leaving
the Nazis a 140-mile gap in which
to retreat along the corridor Na-
poleon Bonaparte used over a hun-
dred years ago to pull his ragged
and beaten army out of the country.
To the south, the Reds bore down
on Kharkov, like they bore down on
Orel, from three fronts, the north,
east and south. Possessed with no
natural fortifications, battered Khar-
kov, once the mighty “Pittsburgh”
of Russia, lay exposed on the bar-
ren plains to the Reds’ massed fire
power and troops.
BUSINESS:
Biggest Merger
Originally incorporated in New
York state in 1851, the Western Un-
ion Telegraph company, with a capi-
tal of $170,000, almost immediately
established a policy of purchasing
or consolidating with less formidable
competitors.
Biggest step in the policy loomed
recently when stockholders of the
Postal Telegraph company voted to
merge with Western Union, now
more than a $340,000,000 enterprise,
world-wide in operation. \
AGRICULTURE:
Below ’42
Total production of the five lead-
ing grain crops was set at 5,282,000,-
000 bushels for 1943, 700,000,000 less
than harvested last year, on the
basis of estimates of the depart-
ment of agriculture.
Because of favorable growing con-
ditions in July, the department
looked for a corn crop of 2,874,711,*
000 bushels against last year’s har-
vest of 3,175,154,000; a wheat crop of
834.894.000 against 981,327,000; an
oats crop of 1,189,546,000 against 1,-
244,255,000; a barley crop of 348,-
848.000 against 426,150,000, and a rye
crop of 33,314,000 against 57,341,000.
Combined production of the four
feed grains—corn, oats, rye and bar-
ley—was estimated at 111,000,000
tons below last year’s yield. Soy-
bean harvest was set at 200,328,000
bushels. .
Milk production held close to last
year’s level and egg output was at
a peak, except in the West.
PACIFIC:
Hit Both Ends
While American troops hermpned
in the last surviving band of Japa-
nese on New Georgia island in the
Solomons, U. S. airmen lifted their
Liberator bombers off of the Aleu-
tian runways and headed them for
the northern-most chain of islands
of the Japanese empire.
As the Liberators rumbled over
these islands, known as the Kuriles,
40 enemy fighter planes rose up in
defense. But the Americans opened
their bomb bays and death and de-
struction tumbled on the designated
target areas. Two Liberators were
shot down, but the others swung
their noses homeward to complete
the 1,000-mile trek.
Bad weather made the jungle on
New Georgia a stew, but neverthe-
People in the News
On March 8, 1942, Wiley M.
Creps of Chicago was killed in
action in the North Atlantic. Just
recently, his father revealed that
Creps was only 15 years old, hav-
ing altered the date on his birth
certificate to enter the service.
* * *
Seventeen-year-old Richard La-
jeskie of Passaic, N. J., got off
to a good start in the baseball
world. The New York Giants paid
From left to right, Dick Lajeski,
Mel Ott and Mr. Charles Lajeski.
the youthful shortstop $10,000 to
sign a contract, then shipped him
to Jersey City in the Internation-
al league for seasoning.
♦ * *
After 67-year-old Frank A. Wil-
helmi, Tacoma, Wash., paper ex-
ecutive, had sunk an eight foot
putt in a golf match, he swung
his arms over his head in joy.
Then he dropped dead of a heart
attack.
Latest addition to the U. S. fleet
is this new aircraft carrier, Bataan.
less U. S. Doughboys slogged
through the mire to complete en-
circlement of the remnants of the
Japanese force on the northwest
coast of the island.
ALLIED MEETING:
Politics and War
With Allied forces at the gates of
the European fortress, with Marshal
Pietro Badoglio’s military govern-
ment of Italy reportedly receptive to
peace terms, and with Russia hav-
ing indicated willingness to nego-
tiate with a “democratic” Germany
purged of Naziism, Prime Minister
Winston Churchill and President
Franklin D. Roosevelt came togeth-
er for their sixth personal meeting
of the war.
Flying to the North American con-
tinent with Churchill was a staff of
military -and naval chieftains, and
joining them for discussion were
ranking U. S. army and navy of-
ficers. The combination of these
staffs indicated further operations of
joint character, such as those in
North Africa and Sicily, where the
services of the two nations teamed
for effective action.
As Churchill and Roosevelt met,
Russia threw a bombshell into the
diplomatic picture by declaring that
Premier Joseph Stalin had not been
invited to the conference, and there-
fore neither he nor an accredited
Soviet representative would attend.
Russia’s diplomatic jockeying to
share in the dominion of Europe
after the war will be one of the
Allied leaders’ chief considerations.
GAS:
Ration Change
Reduction in the gas ration in the
Midwest and Southwest was planned
by the Office ofs
Price Adminis-
tration following
Petroleum Ad-
ministrator Har-
old L. Ickes’ re-
port of a critical
fuel shortage.
Formerly, ration-
ing had been im-
posed in the area
to limit driving
and conserve
tires.
According to the
plan, A, B and C
coupons will be
cut from four to three gallons. Many
holders of C cards will find their
gas allowances trimmed from a
maximum of 720 miles per month to
480. Preferred motorists like doc-
tors, ministers and certain war
workers will continue to receive un-
limited supplies according to need.
It was said increased movement
of oil to the East through the newly
completed “big-inch” pipe line
would draw from the affected area’s
supplies, contributing to any reduc-
tion in the gas ration there.
Harold Ickes
TAXES:
Who Pays
MISCELLANY:
SPORT OF KINGS: A group of
54 thoroughbred yearlings, off-
springs of such famous racing sires
as Blenhf im II and Sir Galahad III,
sold at an average price of $3,507 at
the Lexmgton, Ky., sales.
STAR: While flying over Europe
to take pictures for the aircraft gun-
nery school, Clark Gable’s plane
was hjo, 15 times, but returned to
hase, *
Of the total of 22 billion dollars
collected by fie U. S. treasury for
the fiscal year 1943 which ended
June 30, the states of New York and
Illinois contributed almost 28 per
cent.
The treasury’s figure showed that
the people in eight highly industrial-
ized states paid 59 per cent of the
government’s total revenue. Besides
New York and Illinois, these states
were Connecticut, Massachusetts,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Michigan.
By contrast, the treasury said
North and South Dakota, each with
a small population, paid about .08 of
the total revenue.
Of the revenue collected, more
than 10 billion dollars was in the
form of individual and corporation
income taxes.
LABOR:
Shun Lewis
Big, burly John L. Lewis found
the road back to the American Fed-
eration of La-
bor, from which
he once bolted
to form the
CIO, blocked.
Headed by
AFL President
William Green,
the union’s ex-
ecutive commit-
tee officially re
fused to accept
the United Mine
Workers’ appli-
cation for re-
entrance. Instead, the council said
that the matter would be referred
to the AFL annual convention.
In rejecting Lewis’ application
the council showed no disposition to
bargain with him. Whereas Lewis
had insisted that the UMW be ac-
cepted as presently composed, the
council called for dissolution of
.UMW’s District 50, which has been
unionizing various branches of la-
bor. Otherwise, the council said,
District 50’s activities might inter-
fere with established AFL unions.
MINERS:
Seven weeks after passage of the
Smith-Connally anti-strike bill, 30
coal miners, including officials of
various United Mine Workers locals,
stepped into federal court and asked
that the case be thrown out on con-
stitutional grounds.
The miners’ counsel declared that
the anti-strike law was in opposition
to the first amendment of the Con-
stitution guaranteeing freedom of
speech, and the 13th amendment to
the Constitution against involuntary
servitude.
William Green
Chicks for Victory
A variation of the Victory gardens blooming all over
America is the Victory chicken raising program being car-
ried out in thirty-five Los Angeles, California, elementary
schools. Here youngsters are growing chicks in brooders as
part of their regular school curriculum. The result is inter-
esting, practical educational material. The children raise
their chickens in a very business-like manner. They keep
account books in which they record what is paid for feed,
housing and other expenses. Income from disposal of the
feathered produce is also recorded.
Within a few weeks most of ,s
the students were able to dif-
ferentiate between the vari-
ous breeds—Plymouth Rock,
Rhode Island Red, Austrian
White, etc. Mechanically tal-
ented youngsters construct
necessary paraphernalia.
Artistic talent among the
young poultry raisers is uti-
lized in drawing the livestock
from life.
This is Judy, one of the young chicken raisers who has her own
flock of 15 hens at home. She gets enough eggs to feed her own fam-
ily and occasionally sells a dozen to the neighbors and spends her
profits on war stamps. She is pictured weighing'some of her eggs.
Left: Judy mixes her feed
composed of greens, mixed
grains, and growing mash. Be-
low: Her flock hurriedly re-
sponds to Judy’s call of “come
and get it.”
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Any chicks yet? Judy believes the best way to hatch young
chicks is under an old hen. She is checking the hen’s progress.
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'SJEW YORK.—One ancestor of
’ General Sir Henry Maitland
Wilson led the Light Brigade at
Balaclava. One rode at Waterloo, an-
_ „ „ other sailed
Queer Bedfellows, jjis fleet,
Good Commanders though un-
Come Out of Wars wiuingy’ in
to New
York in 1776. But here is Sir Henry
with the Russians, French and
Americans all on his side, and he
is cheerfully on theirs.
Wars make strange bedfellows.
They have also made a good com-
mander out of General Wilson. He
holds honors won in three wars, and
when he surmises that Hitler can-
not keep the Balkans without Italy
other good Allied commanders do
not disagree with so sound a tacti-
cian. Sir Henry will feel a four-
square satisfaction when the fuehrer
lets go. It was Nazis, pouring down
the Valley of the Vardar, who
wrecked his bold attempt to hold
Greece two years ago, and this Eng-
lish soldier must want to close the
door.
The general is 62, with a wife
waiting, and once the Germans
are down he probably will he
willing to close the military sec-
tion of his own book. There
aren’t many laurels left for the
general to win. He has the
Queen’s, the King’s medals,
with clasps, from the Boer war;
a DSO from 1914-1918, and al-
ready this conflict has seen him
made a Commander of the Bath,
Knight of the Grand Cross of the
British Empire, and a full gen-
eral. He left Eton for the South
African campaign. Now he is
back in Africa again, at Cairo,
commander in chief of the
Middle East.
In the British military hierarthy
General Wilson stands just a tick
below Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell.
As a chick struts (in circle) across the table, these young scien-
tific raisers record data on their flocks—how much for feed, how
many cockerels to raise for meat, how many pullets they will save
for eggs, and so on. Thus they learn the relation of arithmetic to
poultry farming. Their goal is chickens like the champion in lower
inset. Maybe the little chick has the same idea
Raising of chickens is under
the jurisdiction of the science
departments of the schools.
One brooder was made from
scrap lumber and wire. It is
heated by an electric bulb. As
the chicks are older tempera-
ture is reduced by using
smaller bulbs.
A few Parmenter Red pullets
are pictured inside their eco-
nomical brooder.
it
Who’s News
This Week
By
Delos Wheeler Lovelace
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Air Speed by Knots
The air - speed indicators in
many navy planes show the rate
of velocity in knots instead of
statute miles per hour. .
/^\NCE upon a time Ray Atherton
k-/ was a young romantic studying
architecture in Paris with a particu-
lar eye to the several attractions of
. the Left
Our Minister to Bank. But
Canada Holds 2 all that is
Other Ministries behfad ,hi.m
now and he
is at least a light-heavyweight diplo-
mat sturdily taking on his 60-year-
old shoulders three commissions,
any one of which would be a full
time job if we were back, as some-
one used to say, to normalcy.
Before the invasion of Den-
mark he was our minister there
and the title still holds, although
he has no duties. Similarly, he
is minister to the exiled Luxem-
burg government. Finally, he
is just settling down into the
busy office of minister to
Canada.
This is the sizeable post to which
he has risen in 27 years as a career
diplomat. After Harvard and Paris
and a spell at banking, he entered
the diplomatic service at 33. It was
a late start, but he moved at a fair
gait around Tokyo, Peking, Manila,
Athens, London, Stockholm and
finally Copenhagen. Before going to
Ottawa he served as our state de-
partment’s chief of the division of
European affairs. In spite of much
work and so long a career, his cheek
is smooth, his mustache a la Hem-
ingway, only grizzled, and if his air
of easy assurance isn’t youthful it
certainly is no more than middle-
aged.
O EPORTING on Rear Admiral
Alan G. Kirk when he was a
naval attache a London pressman
called him personable, discreet and
leanly aca-
Adm. Kirk Lean, a <jennc. Kirk
Bit Academic, but is the man
Discreet? Hardly! whose am-
phibious
force, Atlantic fleet, blasted away
under a cloudy moon for the Sicilian
invasion. This was about as dis-
creet and academic as Wild Bill
Hickok’s rootin’ tootin’ shootin’ in
the old West.
Home to tell about it all, Kirk
is unmistakably lean and maybe
even a mite academic. But he
belongs to the Ends of the Earth
club and that suggests a roman-
tic strain more in keeping with
the hell-bent job he cleaned up
on Mussolini’s murky, storm-
tossed lake.
Thirty-two years in the navy,
Kirk has got to some of the
earth’s ends, reckoning from
Annapolis; to China, and a fair
bit of Europe, at least. He has
spent 19 years at sea, and he
won for the vessels on which he
served trophies galore for battle
efficiency, gunnery, engineering
and communications.
Much of his best work, however,
has been done in this country. He
is an authority on gunnery and bal-
listics and even hback in the last
World war was kept on this side
doing experimental work. Before he
was chosen to top off the amphibi-
ous force operating out of North
Africa he was director of naval in-
telligence.
He is 55 years old and, in spite of
duty assignments, found time to take
correspondence lessons in strategy
and tactics and besides this he fin-
ished the Naval War college senior
course.
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