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This map shows you what (he busy Japs have accomplished on the Aleutian Island of Kiska since they
occupied It last June. Despite repeated bombings by our air forces, the Nips have succeeded in installing
formidable military establishments on the Island with a view to future operations arainst Dutch Harbor, our
naval base in the Alaskan area, and against Alaska itself. Proximity of the major enemy base at Paramu-
shlro makes it possible for Kiska to be reinforced with comparative ease.
Enemy Weapons Compared at Aberdeen, Md.
The foreign material branch of the ordnance department of the C. 8. army has In its possession many
enemy weapons that they have brought to this country for comparison purposes with our own weapons. At
right Lieut. Edwin Davis holds a shell at the breech of the ‘‘mystery’’ 88-mm. anti-aircraft and anti-tank gun
that was talked about so much in the beginning of the war In Africa. Right: Colonel Jarrett holds a mortar
shell for the German Sl-mm. mortar, which almost compares with the American mortar In design.
Strangest Army Air Force Field
Royal Inspection
I Shang-RI-I.a field, perhaps strangest army air force Held in the nation,
has been opened at Glendale, Calif. Duplicating Held conditions in remote
operating areas, the odd Held offers practical knowledge of how planes
and engines may be changed and serviced under actual combat conditions.
Dispersal of ships and camouflaging of aircraft Is practical.
TS IT • A TJ _ J TVT
Capt. Joe Foss of the marine corps, who scored sensational air vic-
tories while serving on Guadalcanal, is shown reporting to his boss, Lieut.
Gen. Thomas Holcomb, commandant of the marine corps, In Washington.
Foss, who hails from Sioux Falls, S. I)., shot down 26 Jap planes to tic
Capt. Eddie Rlckenbackcr’s World War I record. Photo shows General
Holcomb and Captain Foss. l
inspecting the grenadier guards,
famed regiment of which she is colo-
nel. The princess wears the regi-
mental cap badge In her hat. She
was 17 years old on April 22.
Puzzler for Brown
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Strong Pressure From U. S. 2nd Army
Forces Axis to Last Tunisia Cover;
House Approves ‘Pay as You Go* Tax;
43 Nations to Discuss Food Problems
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Testifying before the Truman defense Investigating committee, Un-
dersecretary of War Robert Patterson, right, revealed that a truce had
been arranged in his feud with Rubber Administrator William Jeffers.
Long at odds over a battle for priorities for equipment for aviation gaso-
line and aynthetic rubber plants, Patterson and Jeffers were brought
together by Ferdinand Eberstadt, former WPB official, in a Washington
hotel room. They agreed to make s personal inspection of the gasoline
and rubber plants, working out arrangements for breaking bottlenecks
in either program.
Staff Sergt. John Brown at the
army airfield at Bainbrldge, Ga., is
puzzled. Although he’s been in the
army since 1919, he is getting a no-
tice from his draft board at Ever-
green, Ala. What worries him is
will he get that furlough to go home?
PAY AS YOU GO:
75% Forgiven
As the shadows lengthened on
Capitol Hill, 313 congressmen end-
ed a hectic day of debate by pass-
ing the Robertson-Forand pay-as-
you-go measure, forgiving 75 per
cent of the 1942 income taxes and
putting all taxpayers on a current
basis.
After rejecting the Ruml plan as
embodied in the Carlson bill, which
would have forgiven all taxes, and
voting to recommit the house ways
and means committee measure,
which would have applied 1941 rates
to 1942 incomes, the congressmen
acted on the Robertson-Forand pro-
posal.
Under the Robertson-Forand bill,
which went to the senate following
house action, all taxpayers would
be exempted from paying the 6
per cent normal and first surtax of
13 per cent on their 1942 Incomes.
Those with taxable income over the
13 per cent surtax, however, would
have to pay balance of the 1942
tax. In that case, their first two
payments this year would be ap-
plied against their remaining liabil-
ity, and if they still had a balance
outstanding, they could clean it up in
two later payments.
As to 1943 taxes, the Robertson-
Forand bill provides for a 20 per
cent withholding tax against wages
and salaries after exemptions have
been estimated. Of this amount, 3
per cent would be taken out for the
Victory tax, the tax being reduced
from 5 per cent.
TUNISIA:
Yanks Are Coming
Yielding to strong pressure from
the Second American army of Lieut.
Gen. George S. Patton, Mis troops
fell back to their last stronghold in
northern Tunisia, there to await the
final assault of the Allied forces.
Even as they were being regrouped
for the decisive battle, American
units pressed forward against their
fortified positions in the mountains.
The Axis took up their new posi-
tions along the last perimeter of
defenses ringing the great naval
base of Bizerte, after Yankee in-
fantry had cleaned them out of the
strategic hill country to the west.
Advancing under the cover of
heavy artillery, American troops
braved scathing machine gun and
mortar fire to crawl up the scraggly
slopes and ferret the enemy from
their entrenchments. Then they
swept into Mateur, strategic rail
and road junction 18 miles south of
Bizerte.
In the central sector, the Axis
maintained their massed armored
columns to stand off the British First
army along the level approaches to
the gateway of Tunis.
Meeting Place
Having finally agreed to get to-
gether, Generals Charles De Gaulle
and Henri Giraud, the anti-Axis
French leaders, were at odds as to
where to meet. Fearing public dem-
onstrations of De Gaullist sympathy
in North African cities where the
Fighting French chieftain is strong-
est, Giraud had been angling to hold
the meeting in some secluded loca-
tion. •
SUPREME COURT:
No Tax on Evpngelism
Reversing its stand of one year
ago, tiie United States Supreme
court ruled as invalid all forms of
licensing the spreading of the writ-
ten and spoken word.
Particularly, the court attacked
the collection of license fees by four
cities from Jehovah’s Witnesses for
distribution of its religious tracts.
Such foes, it said, were a violation
of the first .constitutional amend-
ment guaranteeing speech freedom.
RUSSIA:
Nazis Repulsed
Nazi attacks against Russian lines
around Novorosissk were repulsed
with losses, the Reds claimed, and
all of the enemy’s efforts to enlarge
its bridgehead in the vicinity were
checked.
While ground lighting flared, Rus-
sian airmen were active over the
Caucasian front, shooting down 54
Nazi planes in swirling dogfights
west of Krasnodar.
Minor artillery duels were report-
ed all along the rest of the huge
battle-line. The Nazis announced Al-
lied planes again raided East Prus-
sia, one being shot down.
NAVAL BATTLE:
Convoy Scattered
Happening upon a Jap convoy
northwest of the Aleutian islands, a
daring American naval task force
closed in for an attack even as
strong Japanese units bore down off
its flank.
After breaking up the convoy
which included three transports
headed for Attu and Kiska, the
American force, led by Rear Adm.
C. H. McMorrls, then wheeled to-
ward home, and with three destroy-
ers running interference, maneu-
vered clear of the enemy fleet.
Racing in close to hold off the Jap
fleet with torpedo fire, the destroy-
ers threw up smoke screens to cov-
er their withdrawal after the at-
tacks. Checked by the fire, the en-
emy stood by while the Americans
slipped through.
Despite the intense barrage of the
heavy Jap cruisers and destroyers
which fell within the proximity of
the American ships, the U. S. units
emerged with no material losses,
FOOD CONFERENCE:
43 Nations to Meet
Representatives from 43 nations
will meet at Hot Springs, Va., next
week for the Allied food conference.
The conference will revolve around
American proposals for achieving
more efficient production and wider
distribution of the world's food.
Plans also will be discussed for
restoration of agricultural produc-
tion in Europe after occupation by
Allied forces.
The conference will be wholly ex-
ploratory, it was said, with the dif-
ferent representatives laying the
conference recommendations before
their respective governments for in.
dividual adoption.
SUBS:
Japs Efficient
According to Allied spokesmen,
Japanese submarine activity In the
South Pacific has equaled that of
the Germans in the Atlantic.
In both cases, Allied naval lead-
ers said enemy U-boats have sunk
about 2 per cent of total shipping.
Using 2 per cent as a basis, the
Allies have lost 210,000 tons during
the five months of the Tunisian cam-
paign. No actual figures were given
for the Pacific theater.
The Japs put out a claim recently
that they had sunk a 12,000-ton tank-
er, a 12,000-ton troopship and an
8,000-ton freighter.
COAL TRUCE:
Time to Dicker
Following the establishment of a
15-dny truce in the bitter coni strike,
Secretary of the Ihterior Harold
Ickes ordered the nation's 3,8501
mines to shift to a six-day week or
suffer cnncel’ation of price increases
recently granted them to cover the |
expense of such operations.
Under the miners’ present con-1
tract, they are paid tlme-and-half
for all work over 85 hours on the
sixth day. The additional pay they I
receive under Ickes' order was said
not to need the approval of the War
Labor board.
Reached by the government with
the United Mine Workers’ chieftain,
John L. Lewis, the truce assures
continued coal production and op- j
portunity for additional negotiation
with the operators.
From the first, Lewis gave no In-
dication of backing down on his de-
mands for a $2 a day wage increase;
for time spent in the mines traveling
to and from the coal faces, and
unionization of minor bosses.
At the same time, Lewis continued
to hammer at the War Labor board's |
formula for limiting wage increases
to 15 per cent over 1941 levels.
Handbag Finder Takes
Out Own Former Los*
NEWARK, N. J.—The person who
found Mrs. Belle Bearison's hand-
bag once lost one .herself.
She would have been glad, she
said in an unsigned note to Mrs.
Bearlson, if only the handbag, not
to mention the $8 it contained had
been returned.
So, the writer said, she was tak-
ing $8 from the $25 in Mrs. Bearl-
ion’s bag and returning the rest.
Mrs. Bearison said it was all right
with her __
Long-Distance Fire
GUTHRIE, OKLA.—Excited voice
on the telephone; "The bus station's
on fire!” Firemen answered the call,
found no blaze, and finally learned:
It was a long-distance call from
Langston, several miles away. The
Langston bus station was destroyed.
Yep, It’s • Man’s World
CHANUTE, KAN.—The Tribune
has a girl for its sports writer. She
ended her column the other day:
"Fellows, despite all those pomades
and so on which sell as an aid to
chapped lips the best remedy found
yet is frequent applying of your
lipstick.”
INVASION:
Nazis to Hit England?
According to reports received i>.
Madrid from authoritative diplomat-
ic and military sources, Adolf Hit-
ler may try to invade England and
end the war after stabilizing the
Russian front.
Allied circles accepted the reports
with a goodly grain of salt, however.
There was a feeling that the rumors
may have been planted to confuse
Allied preparations for a second
front in Europe.
MYSTERY:
House on R Street
Everybody in Washington Is talk- I
ing about the house on R street. A
big, red, Georgian mansion, almost
as spacious as a hotel, it is the resi-
dence of one John Monroe, also
known as Monroe Kaplan, business |
man and manufacturers' represen-
tative.
“Sometimes the food's terrible," I
Monroe said in talking about the
now famous parties held in the
house, "but my guests don’t come
for food, but for interesting conver-1
sation.”
Topping the list of Monroe’s guests I
were Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox; Maj. Gon. Levin H. Campbell,
chief of army ordnance; Senator
Warren R. Austin of Vermont; and
Representative James H. Morrison
of Louisiana. Senator Styles Bridges
of New Hampshire was honored at
the house with a party celebrating |
his recovery from an illness.
Rubber Administrator William I
Jeffers said he had received many
invitations to break bread at the
hospitable house, but refused them
all. Jeffers said that Monroe was |
trying to promote an important man
in the United States senate for Pres
ident. *
CHINA:
Fight for Rail Line
Continuing in their reported cam-
paign to obtain full grasp of the rail-
road system of China to build up a
communication line from the Asiatic
mainland to Japan, select Nipponese
troops continued hammering at stra-
tegic Chinese positions.
While the Japs claimed to have
enciraled 20,000 Chinese troops along
the Peiping-Hankow railroad, the
Chinese asserted that their troops
repulsed persistent Jap attacks.
Japanese efforts to drop picked
troops behind Chinese lines by para-
chute failed, the Chinese said, when
their forces wiped out these units in
hard fighting. All along the Taiheng
mountains where the battle raged,
the Chinese held their ground in
hand-to-hand warfare.
In Washington, D. C.t the army
announced that Gen. Edgar E. Glenn
of the 14th air force in China was
wounded by bomb fragmentation
when Japanese bombers struck at
an American base.
Tires Bequeathed to Son
SALEM, N. J,—Mrs. Adaline E.
Stephenson bequeathed her automo-
bile tires to a son in her will filed
for probate.
A Marine Pays a Debt—
Donates a Pint of Blood
WASHINGTON.-Jack I. Nelson,
marine corps gunner, paid his
"debt” to the Red Cross—a pint of
blood. Nelson walked Into a Red
Cross blood donor center here with
the remark, "I owe you a pint.’’
Then he explained he had been
wounded during the Solomon Islands
campaign, received a blood trans-
fusion last August, and wanted to
repay the Red Cross.
Bloodthirsty Youngster
Sends Out Call for Cops
PUEBLO, COLO. — Zelma Fox,
four, has her own ideas on eliminat-
ing troublesome neighbors.
Seven times she called police to
report a young neighbor who had
struck her with a rock. On her final
call, Sergt. Roy Harper requested
what action she expected.
"At least 'lectrocute him."
London’s Wartime Train
Tickets Take a Trimming
LONDON. — London’s transporta-
tion system saved 600 tons of paper
during 1942 by reducing the size of
its tickets.
It salvaged an additional 600 tons
of old tickets and 300 tons of old
records for pulping, the London Pas-
senger Transport board said.
Hens Rate High
LOS ANGELES.—When Mrs. Vlr-
ginia Critchfleld filed for divorce
from Thomas L. Critchfleld she was
greatly concerned over 11 articles
of community property. They were
11 laying white leghorn hens.
CLASSIFIED
I—FOR SALE
TRAGEDY:
In Iceland
Tragedy on the bleak island of Ice-
land claimed the life of the eighth
American general to be killed or
missing in this war when Lieut. Gen.
Frank M. Andrews, commander of
all American forces in the Euro-
pean theater, crashed to his death.
With the general and sharing his
fate was Methodist Bishop Adna
Wright Leonard, on an inspection
tour of religious facilities in U. S.
military bases on behalf of 31
American Protestant denominations.
A former cavalry officer who
transferred to the air force during
the last World war, General An-
drews was foremost among the ear-
ly advocates for a strong American
sir arm. He was partly credited
with the development of the famous
Flying Fortress.
MISCELLANY:
19 HEAD registered Hereford cowa, IS ealvea
now, 15 registered Hereford bulb and
some herd bulb. Write G H Northing-
ton, Jr., Egypt, Texaa. K-21;
| I YEAR OLD Sorrel SUllion, Vt quarter and
Vj thoroughbred, 14% hands, 1100 pounds,
handies nicely after cattle, $500.00. Q. H.
Northington, Jr., Egypt, Texas. K-21
BULLS—45 Brshman-Hereford ertss—ons’a
to four's; 20 mules, three's and four's.
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2— WANTED TO BUY
FOR OVER 1$ YEARS we have paid more
for used cars, pick-ups, or your equity.
After seeing the rest, see Southern Used
Car Co., 3509 Harrbburg, Houston,
Texas, P-0450. K-21
WE ARE PAYING high for ears, pick-upa
and trucks; any make or model; bring
your papers; drive on our lot Cash Im-
mediately. Lester Motor Loan Co, 1610
Ntjjti^lain^HouBton^rexas^^^^lM!
3— HELP WANTED
NEED laborers, mill hands, woods craw,
truck drivera; permanent jobs; can pro-
vide living quarters; apply in peraon or
write Brown Lumber and Creoaoting
Company, at Sheldon, Texaa, near Houa-
ton. K-21
WANTED — Experienced automotive parts
men for counter. Apply or write Neu-
1608 Milam Street, Houaton,
K-2S
meyer a
Texaa.
STORMY: Stormy weather ac-
counted for some of the Allied losses
in the recent big Japanese bombing
raid on Port Darwin, Australia.
Strong winds developed during the
dog fights and forced some of the
fliers into the ocean.
VISITOR: Coming as a visitor,
with no hand out, Eduard Benes,
chief of the exiled Czechoslovak
government, will visit the U. S. in
May, confer with President Roose-
velt and make three speeches in
Chicago.
PROFITS: Profits of British ship-
builders constructing warships
reached 80 per cent in one instance,
with the average aggregating be-
tween 20 and 30 per cent.
ESCAPE: The entire crew of 42
of a medium-sized U. S. merchant
vessel recently survived torpedoing
in the North Atlantic. They took to
lifeboats in a calm sea.
MORE ROOM: Three types of
caskets have been lengthened three
Inches on order of WPB which took
the aotion after a storm of criticism
greetfd an earlier directive to limit
coffins to six feet.
| SALESGIRLS—16-40 years old. Experience
unnecessary. We offer permanent jobs
(now and after the war) with paid in-
surance and vacations 8. H. Kress A
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4—OPPORTUNITIES
GIRLS WANTED—Work for room, board*
while training. Josephine Hodge Beauty
School Reasonable rates. Enroll now.
8400 Travis, Houston, Texas. K-21
BEAUTY CULTURE linked with netlonel
defense morale. Enroll now I Operators
urgently needed No waiting. No educa-
tional requirements. Pay while learning.
Lydia Houston Beauty School — K-35050
1010 Elgin St., Houston, Texas. K-22
SINCLAIR BUSINESS SCHOOLr-Indlvtdual
instruction. Civil service, shorthand,
typewriting, bookkeeping; review course;
$25. 946 Arlington. Houston, Texas K-22
LEARN RADIO CODE AT HOME—Civil
Service, Airlines, Army, Navy, WAAC8,
WAVES Urgently needs men, boys and
women as radio code operators. Total
cost $1.00 week for approx. 20 weeks.
Start today. Mail $1.00 for your first
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5—LEATHER GOODS
SADDLES—$4$ and up; 1-day service on
saddle repairs; all kinds buggy and team]
harness carried in stock. Model Boot and!
Shoe Hospital, 418 W. 19th. Houston^
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