The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1943 Page: 2 of 8
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TRANSPORTATION: Joseph B.
Eastman, director of defense trans-
portation, has called upon taxicab
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immediately for mileage curtail-
ment in case of emergency. He
each American only 90 cents dur-
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but has saveu
now 2,494 local Chapters of the Na-
tional Foundation for Infantile ParaU
A little alley cat entered the hear-
ing room where the senate interstate
each citizen $180 during the same
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hearings on the American Federa-
tion of Music’s ban on music. Sena-
tor Ernest McFarland of Arizona is
shown petting it.
These members of a U. S. marine corps mortar crew are making
themselves at home in a sheltered gulch on Guadalcanal, between ses-
sions of making it hot for the Ntps. They’re called “cliff dwellers’’
because they built quarters in caves scooped out of the side of the gulch.
more vehicles to submit three plans:
For elimination of 10, 20 and 30 per
cent of all presently operated vehi-
cle miles 1
said. One of his examples: consum-
ers are paying only seven cents a
pound for sugar whereas they paid
25 cents during the last war.
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
New United Nations Attacks Predicted
As Leaders Determine Grand Strategy;
Frenchmen Reach ‘Military Agreement’;
‘Push Germans Out of Russia’: Stalin
_Released by Western Newspaper Union.-——
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL
"The. President, Prime Minister and the combined staffs having completed their
plans for the offensive campaigns of 1V43, have now separated in order to pul them
into active and concerted execution.” Official communique at Casablanca.
STRATEGY:
On a High Plane
When the initial surprise of one of
the war’s greatest stories — the
Roosevelt - Churchill “unconditional
surrender” meeting at Casablanca
in French Morocco—had died away,
the world waited expectantly for the
carrying out of the principles of
grand strategy laid down by Allied
military leaders.
The Roosevelt-Churchill rendez-
vous was the definite tip-off of big
things to come. The Allied leaders
made it clear that their countries
would dig to the bottom of their re-
sources—if necessary—in order to
carry out the extermination of Axis
war power as quickly as possible.
From a gleaming white villa near
Casablanca came the great news.
But only after complete secrecy had
officially ended. Correspondents re-
garded the meeting as one of the
best kept secrets of all time. Virtu-
ally the entire war staffs of both
nations participated in the dramatic
10-day discussions which ended with
a press conference. But the presi-
dential air voyage was shrouded in
such secrecy that even some cabi-
net members did not know Mr.
Roosevelt was out of town.
No one doubted but that further
important developments would stem
from the meeting. One of the most
widespread predictions is that the
North Africa-Mediterranean area
will soon be organized into a sepa-
rate theater of operations. Thus far
the United States forces in that area
have been part of the European the-
ater. Separation of Africa and the
Mediterranean Basin from the Euro-
pean theater might well be an im-
portant factor in the Allied offensive
campaigns of the year.
Frenchmen Meet
One of the most important
achievements of the conference was
the bringing about of a meeting be-
tween Gen. Charles de Gaulle and
Gen. Henri Giraud. Those leaders
of the Fighting French and French
Africa announced that they were in
complete agreement regarding the
liberation of their homeland. But it
was regrettably clear that any
merging of the two movements or
any political alliance between them
was far from being realized.
Offensives Will Tell
While the decisions made by mili-
tary leaders are secret, observers
indicated that concrete results
would become apparent with new
Allied offensives this spring.
The basic questions settled ap-
peared to be these:
1. The first great effort must be
to drive the Axis entirely from North
Africa and free the Mediterranean
supply line.
2. If he has not been chosen al-
ready, a supreme Allied command-
er in Europe will be named.
3. The anti-submarine warfare and
air war against Europe will be
stepped up.
4. Europe will be invaded in one of
three ways: Across the Mediterra-
nean, a frontal attack on the chan-
nel coast, or a conquest of Norway.
5. Aid to Russia and China will
be stepped up as much as possible.
Of immediate interest to the Unit-
ed Nations is the naming of a su-
preme military commander. The
name of Gen. George C. Marshall,
chief of staff of the American army,
is most frequently mentioned. Many
observers believed he had already
been decided upon to head the com-
mand.
HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the week’s
SAVING: Maintenance of the <"
Don’t Be Shocked—It’s Horsemeat—and So Tender!
In picture at left a butcher examines horse carcasses hanging on hooks at Linden, N. J., which is about one
hour from New York, the only town in the New York area that supplies horse meat. At present most of the
meat goes to five zoos, but human consumption is in the oiling. A horse steak is shown at upper right. It
is claimed that this meat tastes like beef filet once a person gets over his scruples. Lower right: The of-
ficial government approved stamp is applied to cuts of horsemeat at the Linden plant.
RALLYING CRY:
For Russians
“I declare my appreciation to the
command and to the gallant troops.
Forward to the routing of the Ger-
man invaders and their expulsion
over the boundaries of our mother-
land.” So declared Josef Stalin in
an order of the day broadcast by
the Moscow radio.
His words, urging the Russians to
throw the Nazis out of their country,
became the rallying cry of the Red
army as it pushed forward in the
big offensives aimed at Kursk,
Kharkov and Rostov. After the fall
of these strategic points there were
still miles of hard battling ahead,
but for the first time since the Nazis
started their invasion of Russia
there were definite signs that Sta-
lin's plea was not idle thinking.
For everywhere along the far-
flung front—from Leningrad to the
Caucasus—the Reds added momen-
tum to their drive. Russian military
quarters estimated that 40 per cent
of the Axis effectives had been
knocked out by the Red winter of-
fensive.
At the same time diplomatic cir-
cles revealed that United Nations
air and sea supply lines to Russia
were getting much better protec-
tion than a few months ago because
losses on these routes have dropped
sharply. One recent U. S. convoy
was reported to have reached Rus-
sia without loss of a single ship.
It was indicated that close U. S.-
British - Russian, co-operation was
making this possible.
FARM PICTURE:
Incentive Plan
Under terms of the new "incen-
tive” program as announced by Sec-
retary of Agriculture Claude Wick-
ard, U. S. producers stand to pick
up an extra 100 million dollars in
subsidy payments to be awarded
for meeting or exceeding greatly
expanded farm production goals.
Applicable to soybeans, grain sor-
ghums, peanuts, sweet potatoes, flax
and dried peas, the program would
pay growers of these crops extra
benefits for each acre on which they
exceed 90 per cent of their goal—
up to 110 per cent of that goal.
These are products which are badly
needed in the war effort to meet
deficiencies in vegetable oils and
proteins for animal feeding and hu-
man consumption.
Wickard stated further that add-
ed labor and materials will have to
be available to farmers if they are
to meet the goals of the program.
‘Land Army’
As a means to this end Secretary
Wickard and Manpower Commis-
sioner Paul V. McNutt released
their plans for the mobilization of a
volunteer land army of 3l£ million
.Jarm workers. These would be gath-
ered from ranks of women, the un-
employed, clerks, and nonwar work-
ers from cities and towns.
Aimed at relieving the expected
farm manpower crisis, which ex-
perts predict will reach its peak in
mid-summer, this land army would
be gathered by the joint activities
extension agents of the department
of agriculture and by the field of-
fices of the War Manpower com-
mission.
More than 12 million farm work-
ers will be needed at the height of
the farm season, said Wickard. He
pointed out that the total farm la-
bor force in December, 1942, was
8,900,000.
Battered Malta Still Stands—Stronger Than Ever
Battered Malta, the stout little British stronghold in the Mediterranean, took everything the Axis had to
offer, and can still go about its daily business. The enemy paid dearly for its almost daily attacks, how-
ever. At left is shown the shattered opera house in Malta. The people in the streets are British and Amer-
ican navy and merchantmen, soldiers and residents of the isle. Shown at right is a recent picture of Malta,
the most bombed place in the world.
Making Every Minute Count in Libya
4Mr. Five by Five’
First aid is given to British soldiers of General Montgomery’s eighth
army as other members of the infantry thrust forward to dislodge a group
of Nazis on the road to Tripoli, for which General Rommel’s dismembered
Afrika Korps was heading. This photo was radioed direct from Cairo
to New York.
Cliff Dwellers on Guadalcanal Island
has turned up as Mr. Five by Five.
He is five feet tall, and just five
feet around the waist. He is pic-
tured with singer-actress Grace
McDonald.
Puss Listens In
Scourging the Scourge
By Don W. Gudakunst, M. D.
Medical Director, National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis.
WALTER WINCHELL Am returned
from a tour of duty outside the U. S.
and will ioon resume writing his column
as usual.
The outlook in the battle against
infantile paralysis, like the outlook
in the war against the enemies of
democracy, is encouraging.
The fight goes on, propelled by the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis and by the dollars and
dimes of a fighting people who cele-
brate the birthday of the President
by dancing so that others may walk.
No cure has been found, but the
Sister Kenny treatments, taught to-
doctors and nurses all over the land
by the famous Australian nurse, here
since 1940, alleviate suffering and re-
duce crippling after-effects. It must
be emphasized, the Kenny method—
is NOT a cure, though it restores
about 80 per cent to normal life
and the other 20 per cent are gen-
erally helped.
It takes one nurse and two assist-
ants to treat 10 patients with the
Kenny method. The nurse can learn
her part in a week, but it takes the
physiotherapist months to master
the art of teaching paralyzed mus-
cles to work again.
The cotton rats used in polio virus
research come from southeastern-
United States. After trying to breed
them in captivity, scientists discov-
ered they would not mate unless they
smelled alike. So they were sprayed’
with creosote—and all raised fami-
lies.
Poliomyelitis, polio or infantile
paralysis—whatever you call it—is-
an old disease. A picture carved on
a tomb in Egypt 4,000 years ago, and
mummies from the Land of the
Pharaohs prove it.
Many persons have had poliomye-
litis, recovered and never knew they
had it. They are carriers. It is
estimated there are 50 to 1,000 “car-
riers” to every victim. “Carriers”
become nauseated but, fortunately
for them, the virus centers in the-
digestive system instead of in the
spinal cord nerves.
Poliomyelitis is taken from the
Greek—“polios” meaning “gray,”
plus “myllos” meaning “marrow,”
plus “itis.” Victims call one an-
other “polios.”
Each year there are in the United
States an average of 8,000 to 10,000*
victims of this disease. Many be-
come cripples beyond cure. The
greatest epidemic in this country
was in 1916—over 27,000 reported
cases.
Many children, badly crippled,
were not discovered until later.
Many died without the true cause of
their death being known. These
cases were in the East, near New
York, Philadelphia, Boston and New
Haven—cities where there are ex-
cellent doctors and plenty of hos-
pitals.
Maybe you are one of many people
who think all of the dimes and dol-
lars go to the Georgia Warm Springs
Foundation. They do not. Half of
the money goes to the counties which
contributed for local relief; the other
half is retained by the National
Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. It
is used when an epidemic strikes
and for research to try to find the
cause, the preventive and cure of th'o
disease.
Infantile paralysis strikes the rick
and the poor alike. Epidemics are
not always near great medical cen-
ters. The first cases discovered by
Nurse Kenny were children in fami-
lies who lived 10 miles from any
neighbor or telephones, telegraph
and improved roads. It was over
200 miles to the nearest doctor and
hospital. This was 30 years ago.
In 1942 there were two places in
the United States that were hard
hit; one was thickly settled, fairly
wealthy New Jersey, with plenty of
doctors, nurses and hospitals; the
other was Arkansas, where there
was but one hospital in all the State
willing to admit any case of infantile
paralysis in its acute stage. This
hospital could not begin to care for
the 100 children who applied for
treatment the first few weeks.
That is where the National Foun-
dation for Infantile Paralysis came
into the picture. It had money. It
knew where to secure nurses trained
in the Kenny method. Of that hun-
dred and more patients almost all
have now gone home restored to
health. Of the rest, all but a very
few will soon be walking, their con-
dition good.
costs about $1,800 to keep one
h a hospital for a year, under
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