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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
Telling of Britain’s Deadly ‘Mosquito’
Rationing Mixup
The carl of Athlone, governor general ol Canada (left) and the lion.
C. D. Howe, Canadian minister of munition!, and supply, listen as Geof-
frey de Haviland, test pilot and son of the famed plane designer, tells
them of the maneuverability of the “Mosquito" bomber, now In mass
production in Canada. The bomber, which is shown below, is said to be
(he fastest in the world.
Mystery Gun Given Test in Los Angeles
The OPA and the customs bureau
found themselves at loggerheads
over the 195 pounds of green coffee
bought by Mrs. Aubrey Ramm
at a customs sale in Seattle, for $18.
The OPA notified her there was
some question whether she could
take delivery of the coffee due to
rationing regulations against sale of
green coffee. The customs office
told her to take the coffee. But
Mrs. Ramm derided to leave it in
the warehouse until she hears from
the OPA again. Here she is looking
over her coffee purchase.
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Wallace Urges Post-War Federation;
Giraud’s Choice for North Africa Post
Bolsters French Unity Against Axis;
Russ Continue Ground-Gaining Drives
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‘Spirited’ Giraud
One of America’s newest weapons, an automatic, pneumatic gun,
capable, Its manufacturers claim, of firing 12,000 rounds a minute, was
demonstrated before army, navy and marine officials in Los Angeles. No
powder is used, there is no noise, no flash, and no recoil. The gun’s in-
ventor, W. B. Hale, is shown at the right.
Dons Roller Skates to Speed Paralysis Fight
Capt. Gerauid Wright, I7SN, of
Washington, D. C., who successfully
spirited Gen. Heart Giraud out of
France and transported him to Al-
giers via British submarine, Is
shown above. Captain Wright ar-
rived at Algiers with his important
passenger on the same day the
North African invasion started.
‘Doing’ India
Col. Merian C. Cooper (left) points to map of China and Burma ai
he makea report to Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war for air, lu
Washington. Colonel Cooper returned to the United States after serving
as chief of staff of Gen. Claire L. Chcnnault, commander of the China |
Air Task Force.
The quicker these greeting cards for the President’s birthday go out
the more time people will have to send their contributions to the White
House, says the office boy of the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly-
sis. To speed things up he has donned roller skates, which enable him
lo cover twice as much ground around the office as ordinarily. Celebra-
tions of every kind will be held throughout the country between January
15 and 30, when the President’s birthday climaxes the campaign.
Doughboys Palsy Walsy With Algerians
ner, cf Minnesota, and Sergt. T, Doo
little, of Mississippi, visit ruins o:
Kuth Minar, one of the oldest citici
of India. Miss Donncr is an army
civilian employe, while the ser
geant is one of many U. S. soldiers
stationed there.
Notch for 100th Ship
U. S. doughboys get along fine with the natives in whatever remote
part of the world the fortunes of war have carried them. This sound'
photo shows a group of United States soldiers entertaining several naliv( s
In Algeria, North Africa. They are shown passing out smokes to thegr
new friends.
WORLD FEDERATION:
Asked by Wallace
Ever since his “quart of milk a
day" speech forecasting bettered
conditions for the world's underpriv-
ileged. Vice President Henry A.
Wallace has been regarded as a No.
1 administration spokesman on post-
war reconstruction.
Thus his latest address proposing
a world council to preserve peace
and promote the general welfare aft-
er the war received close inspection
In world chancellories, for it was
taken as a major administration
statement of future plans.
Wallace’s recipe for international
organization after the war: “The
maximum of home rule that can be
maintained along with the minimum
of centralized authority that must
come into existence to give the nec-
essary protection.”
The vice president outlined a four-
fold objective for future peace: "To
preserve the liberty, equality, se-
curity and unity of the United Na-
tions—liberty in the political sense;
equality of opportunity in interna-
tional trade; security against war
and business depression due to in-
ternational causes; and unity of pur-
pose in promoting the general wel-
fare of the world.”
Concerning the treatment of de-
feated nations he advocated not only
military but “psychological dis-
armament.”
For the American people. Wallace
said, “the war is entering its grim-
mest phase” where we will learn for
the first time the meaning of war
privations. But. he added, Hitler's
“desperate bid for a Nazi world
order has reached and passed its
highest point."
4-WAY OFFENSIVE:
By Russ Armies
The Russians continued to prove
that while the summer might have
belonged to the invading Nazi hosts,
the winter was the season for Red
revival.
Four strong Soviet armies were
proving this in four separate drives
against the cold and weary Ger-
mans. These offensives sprung with
the purpose of destroying Nazi man-
power and equipment and weaken-
ing Hitler’s hold on the Eastern
front were centered on the Rzhev
sector, in the Stalingrad area, in
the reaches of the Middle Don and
in the central Caucasus.
The central Caucasus drive was
the newest on the Red schedule and
was started south of Nalchik, where
Nazi armored mountain units had
been trying unsuccessfully for weeks
to break through to the Georgian
military highway in Transcaucasia.
Most significant news came from
the Stalingrad area, however, for
Russian communiques rcporled the
capture of Kotelnikovski, key trans-
portation town anchoring a 200-mile
si retch of the Stnlingrad-Caucasus
railroad and a supply depot for the
Nazis' eastern operations. Here big
stores of Axis supplies were taken
over by the Reds From Kolelnlkov-
ski the Russians began a spearhead
drive toward Rostov.
Meanwhile the Red encirclement
of 22 German divisions trapped be-
fore Stalingrad V'as lightened by
Russ advances o’ from 37 to 58
miles from the southwest.
GIRAUD:
Assures Unity
Gen. Henri Giraud had been the
Allies’ original choice for the post
of high commissioner of North Af-
rica. Then the bullet of the 20-year-
old assassin that killed Adm. Jean
Darlqn made Giraud’s selection in-
evitable by the French imperial
council.
That the elevation of Giraud to the
slain Dacian's post had a unifying
effect was immediately manifest.
Not only did the French North Af-
rican civil and military forces rally
behind the new commissioner, but
Gen. Charles de Gaulle, leader of
the Fighting French, quickly
pledged his support of Giraud's re-
gime and urged the formation of a
temporary government to unite all
French elements.
While the murder of Darlan un-
deniably settled the controversy rag-
ing through the United Nations over
the North African alliance of the Al-
lies and the ex-Vichy collaboration-
ist, observers believed that before
his death Darlan had honestly re-
canted his former views and was
wholeheartedly leading his forces
for the liberation of France. And
they defended the wisdom of Gen-
eral Eisenhower's first alliance with
Darlan.
Tunisia Battlefront
Although tropical sunshine had
dried the surface of Tunisia's boggy
roads, the gumbo mud continued to
hamper free movement of either the
Allied or Axis forces. Principal
strategic key was the town of Med-
jez-ei-Bab. where General Dwight
Eisenhower’s army was endeavoring
to anchor its positions for the com-
ing all-out offensive against strongly
held Tunis and Bizerte. That these
positions could not be won without
fierce struggles was indicated by re-
ports that the Allied forces had
withdrawn from an advanced hill six
miles northeast of Medjez-el-Bab.
Air offensives continued against
Axis bases in Tunisia and Axis sup-
ply lines from Sicily and Italy with
Flying Fortresses battering Sousse,
Tunis and Bizerte.
French forces under General Gi-
raud had carried out aggressive ac-
tion along the “waist" of Tunisia,
taking the town of Pichon and ad-
vancing in a drive to prevent the ef-
fective junction of Marshal Rom-
mel's Libyan forces with those of
General Walther Nehring in Tunisia.
DRAFT:
250,000 Monthly
With fighting forces of 9,000,000
foreenst for the United States by the
CANNED RATIONING:
Little Panic Buying
Fears that a nation-wide scramble
of housewives to buy canned food-
stuffs would develop following offi-
cial disclosure that a point ration-
ing system would be Inaugurated in
February failed to materialize as re-
ports from retail grocers indicated
only isolated instances of panic buy-
ing.
Announcement of the ration plan
which covers more than 200 canned
food items made by Secretary of
Agriculture Claude R. Wickard had
been attacked by trade representa-
tives as “premature" and almost
certain to result in public hoarding
and unfair distribution of available
supplies.
Federal authorities defended the
advance announcement on the
ground that complicated controls
were necessary to administer the
program. They contended, too, that
if the public were not notified, ru-
mors might circulate and cause hys-
terical purchasing.
Grocers attributed the absence of
panic buying to two major reasons.
One was the government’s require-
ment that before a rationing book
could be issued, any hoarded goods
had to be declared and the equiva
lent number of rationing coupons
surrendered at the time of registra
tion. The other was that any case
of hoarding where false representa-
tion was made, might be punishable
by a maximum fine of $10,000 or one
year In prison or both.
CASUALTY LISTS:
Full Publicity Ahead
Confident that the American pub-
lic can "take bad news,” govern-
ment officials revealed that the ban
on nation-wide publication of war
casualty and prisoner lists had been
lifted.
The new policy, officials said,
would permit publication anywhere
and in their entirety, lists of men
killed, wounded, missing or taken
prisoner. Previously newspapers had
been restricted to publishing the
names of men whose next of kin
lived in their particular circulation
area, <
Explaining the new ruling, one
spokesman declared it had been de-
termined that the publication of cas-
ualty lists would not jeopardize na
tional security and moreover, "the
public has enough stamina and forti-
tude to take the bad news of long
casualty lists if the papers care to
publish them."
G-MEN:
Spring Neat Trap
Acting with all the detective-thrill-
sr technique for which they are fa
mous, G-men brought to a sudden
:nd the liberty of jail-breaking
Roger ("Terrible") Touhy and his
lesperate henchmen, in raids in Chi-
:ago that rivaled in excitement the
celebrated Dillinger case of nearly a
decade ago.
Safely in the FBI bag, whose
strings had been pulled by Chief J.
OUSEHOLD
m
A little salt added to the last
rinse water will prevent clothes
from freezing on the line.
• • •
To oil a door lock, dip key into
oil and turn several times in lock,
• • •
To stretch the fingers of wash-
able kid gloves when cleaning,
place a curling iron in each finger
and it will be easy to bring back
to the original size.
• • «
If a fruit pie runs out in the
oven, sprinkle salt over the spilled
juice and the oven will not become
filled with smoke.
• * •
When liquid glue has hardened
so as to be unfit for use, try soft-
ening it with a bit of hot vinegar,
just a little at a time.
end of 1943, draft officials estimated
that between 250,000 and 300,000 men
18 through 37 years old will be
called to the colors monthly this
year.
Approximately half of the 1943
draftees will represent the 18 and
19-ycar-olds. The remainder will
come from the ranks of childless
married men, since the pool of un-
married men available for military
service has been virtually exhaust-
ed.
Included in the 9,000,000 fighting
forces will be an army of 7,500,000;
a navy of 1,500,000; a marine corps
of 400,000 and coast guard enroll-
ments of 300,000,
H I G FI L I G II T S
in the week’s news
A. O. Pcgg, Calship official (Los
Angeles), proudly displays the 100-
notch broomstick. Each notch rep-
resents a ship that has successfully
completed a trial run.
WASHINGTON: The navy depart-
ment announced that dive bombers
from Guadalcanal had sunk a 3,000-
ton Japanese vessel near Wickham
island in the central Solomons, The
destruction of the ship raised the
number of Japanese vessels sunk in
the Solomons to 54. Wickham Island
Is within 120
alcanal. Tlf
by where Ju
al miles of Guad-
n anchorage near-
ve been active.
MOSCOW: As a reward for lead-
ing the recent successful break
through the German lines on the
Middle Don, Vassily Mikhailovich
Badanov was elevated to the rank of
lieutenant general of tank forces and
awarded the highest Russian mili-
tary decoration, the order of Suvo-
rov. General Badnnov's feat was
described as “unprecedented in
scope.”
J. EDGAR HOOVER
Edgar Hoover, were Roger Touhy,
Basil (“The Owl") Banghart and
three minor criminal members of the
band of seven that had escaped from
the Joliet, 111., penitentiary last Octo-
ber. Dead from G-man gunfire
were James O'Connor and St. Clair
Mclnerney, bank bandits and safe
crackers.
The capture and killing of the des-
peradoes climaxed one of the most
neatly laid traps in FBI history. The
gang, living in separate hideouts on
Chicago's North side, had been
shadowed for weeks. Hoover’s men
moved swiftly when they sprung the
trap.
TO JO:
‘Real War Starts'
Bland-visaged Gen. Hideki Tojo,
war minister, had no bland words
tor the Japanese people when he ap-
peared before the Nipponese diet to
report on the state of the war. In-
stead, he warned grimly that the
Allies were preparing to deliver
"counter - blows of great impor-
tance" and added that signs indi-
cated “the real war is starting from
now."
Tojo admitted that Jap forces in.
Burma, New Guinea and the Solo-
mons were on the defensive and
pointed out that the phase of sur-
prise Jap attacks and lightning suc-
cess was over. He mid, however,
that his armies in these areas were
“successfully frustrating enemy at-
tacks by counter-blows."
Before ending on a somber note
that "Japan Is engaged day and
night in providing against air raids,"
Tojo listed some of the plunders of
war his forces have acquired, add-
ing that transports had brought
home 1,800,000 tons of material.
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Continents of Salt
If all the salt were taken frr
the oceans it would make 4,500,0
cubic miles—14'/4 times the size
Europe above high-water mark.
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Honorable Labor
Labor is in no way disgraceful.
—Hesiod.
RHEUMATIC PAIR
Im4 Ml SmII Dijt—«•» ifltr It
rn’t put off getting- C-2223 to re-
lievo pain of muscular rheumatism
and other rheumatic pains. Buy
C-2223 today. 60c and $1. Caution:
Use only as directed. First bottle
purchase price back if not satisfied.
Get Your War Bonds ^
^ To Help Ax the Axis
SNAPPY FACTS
ABOUT
RUBBER
The average car owner drove
9/000 miles in 1941, clicked olV
at tha rata ol about 6,700 miles
• yaar In 1942 before gasoline
rationing was nationalised, es-
sential driving Is now gagged at
an avaraga of 5,000 miles annu-
ally and tha "A" ration!' g book
allows for 2,850 miles of driving
a year.
Don't always be content with an
"on the wheel" inspection. Hav#
your tires removed from the wheels,
spread end closely checked. You'll
be surprised what this Inspection
sometimes shows in the way of in-
ternal carcass Injuries. Catch them
la time and save mileage.
In 1941 a total new supply of
rubber amounting to 1,441,000
tons, 310,000 or 21% consisted
of reclaimed rubber.
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