The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1943 Page: 7 of 12
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CURRENT COMMENT
U. S. Efficiency Amazed Sicilians
1-1 RNIE PYLE, United Press foreign
M correspondent, wrote this about
the Sicilian invasion:
“When I went ashore on the south
coast of Sicily about six hours after our
first assault troops had landed, the
beach already was thoroughly organiz-
ed.
y f- - “It was really an incredible scene,
incredible in that we’d done so much in
just a few hours. It actually looked as
though we’d been working three
months. Our shore troops and navy
.gunboats had knocked out the last of
enemy artillery on the hillsides shortly
after daylight. From then on that first
day was just a normal one of unlbading
ships on the beach as fast as possible.
The only interruptions were a half doz-
en or so lightning-like dive bombings.
“The American invading fleet was di-
vided into separate fleets and each in-
vaded a certain section of the coast and
operated entirely independently from
the others. The fleet I was with car-
ried infantry and was on the western
/ end of the invasion. Our designated
territory covered about fourteen miles
of beach front.
“Our fleet had hundreds of ships in
it, all the way from tiny subchasers up
to powerful cruisers. The bulk of it, of
course, was made up of scores of new
type landing craft carrying men, trucks,
tanks, supplies of all kinds.
“The Sicilian civilians looked on in
amazement at American Army effi-
ciency. Most of them were friendly
and smiled at us as we passed. Children
scampered around and soon learned to
make the Y sign for Victory with their
fingers.”
* * *
Another Use for Cotton
A method of stopping the brain and
other tissues from bleeding during op-
erations has been discovered. It is bas-
ed on the use of a new type of specially
treated cotton called oxidized cellulose.
Dr.. Virginia Frantz, of Columbia Uni-
versity, has shown experimentally that
oxidized cellulose is dissolved by blood
when left in the body, unlike ordinary
cotton soaked in thrombin. The ma-
| terial has stopped bleeding in thirty op-
erations. Not the thrombin, but the
oxidized cellulose stops the bleeding.
Cellulose oxidized with nitrogen diox-
ide, however, gives the surgeon a better
method for using the blood-clotting
thrombin to check hemorrhage.
* * *
First WACs Arrive in Britain
i * WACs by the hundreds—the first
feminine American expeditionary force
to Britain and representing every State
in the union—are in England hard at
work preparing to give the Eighth
USAAF a helping hand.
They will grease airplane motors, plot
weather maps, take over telephone
switchboards, etc. They will release
men clerks and stenographers for com-
bat. Self-sustaining, they brought
along their own cooks, bakers and
laundresses.
The women soldiers are red-heads,
blondes and brunettes varying in age
from girls in their 20s to women in their
40s—one a mother of six ancf also a
grandmother of six. They were given
a gala welcome by U. S. and British
Army men when they arrived at the
orientation center for short preliminary
training before going on duty.
There is no doubt that the WACs, as
they marched to and from mess and
participated in retreat, made a good im-
pression on their own county’s Army
and on the British.
* * *
Mexico’s New Volcano
Ezequiel Ordonez, mining geologist
and engineer, tells, in Mining and Metal-
lurgy, about the new volcano that was
born in Michoacan, Mexico, on February
20 this year. It sprang from a flat
plowed field, some 100 miles from the
Pacific Ocean and about 330 miles from
Mexico City.
Fifteen days before the volcano’s
eruption repeated earthquakes were felt
locally- On the afternoon of February
20, the owner of the land on which the
new volcano burst forth saw small col-
umn's of smoke rising from a small de-
pression in the middle of one of his
plowed fields. Soon flames■ were com-
ing from the smoke and large pieces of
rock and dust were thrown into the air.
By nightfall the explosions were felt in
near-by small towns and the great glow
of flames from the crater terrorized the
inhabitants.
Early next day the young volcano had
already thrown up a mound nearly 100
feet high, and its crater was steadily
growing in size by the piling up on its
sides of incandescent rocks and dark
sand. Stones several inches in diame-
ter were thrown as high as 1,800 feet.
There were terrific explosions at in-
tervals of about four seconds. On the
fourth day lava appeared and moved
along at the rate of about seven feet an
hour. The thickness of the lava sheet
was from fifteen to twenty feet.
The volcano began to slow down
about the middle of March, with a vio-
lent recurrence of activity toward the
end of the month, and again in the mid-
dle of April.
On June 1 the cone was about 900 feet
high and 3,000 feet across at its base.
Later, on June 9, a new eruption oc-
curred 500 feet to the west, with two
new lava flows.
Bombs on Europe
The aerial bombardment of Europe’s
industrial cities that began on a large,
night-after-night, day-after-day scale
last January has been pressed home
again with relentless fury. Royal Air
Force bombers battered Aachen’s fac-
tories, penetrated deep into southern
Germany, struck at the Peugeot Motor
Works at Montbeliard, France, near the
Swiss border, spanned the Alps to
smash at electrical plants in northern
Italy. The Support Command of the
American Air Forces, medium bombers
whose prime function is to support
ground troops, left the railroad area of
Abbeville France, in flames, and also
penetrated deep into Germany to shat-
ter an airplane factory at Oschersleben,
80 miles from Berlin.
The immediate purpose of the Allied
air attack was plain. It was to destroy
the plants in which German munitions
are manufactured, smash the rail lines
over which those munitions move to the
fronts. Perhaps the Allied intention
was to reduce German strength on the
active fightng fronts and pave the way
for invasion from the west. Perhaps
it went farther; there were many who
believed that under this smashing at-
tack the Axis’ internal economy must
collapse.
For Germany there could be but one
certainty. The attacks would continue
and grow stronger as the year advances
and the nights that shelter the RAF’s
bombers grow longer. The Luftwaffe,
fighting for its life in the east and the
south, would be forced to divert fighter
strength to the defense of the factories
from which come its strength in bomb-
ers, engines, fuel, etc. There would be
no surcease until the end.
* * *
Bond Buying Rush
Our soldiers, WACs and Army nurses
are buying so many war bonds, the
War Department has had to devise a
new sales system to keep up with the
rush. Their faith in the success of
their enterprise is a good tip for lay-
public investors.
* * *
Ideal Weight for Men
A new table of ideal weights for men
has been prepared by the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company. It applies to
all men of 25 or older.
There is no single set of best or ideal
weights for all men of a given height.
Body build, including the bony struc-
ture, width of shoulders, length of
trunk in relation to total height, and
'muscular development, result in weight
variations. The Metropolitan statisti-
cians have taken such factors into con-
sideration and compiled a table good for
three classes of body build (small, med-
Grass Root Reveries
By JOE GANDY
Winnsboro, Texas.
(Copyright, 1943, by the Southwest Magazine Co.)
jF August is as hot as July we are in
for a long spell of torrid weather.
(j '* Humidity is now blamed for the heat.
Before we discovered the word, humidi-
ty, old-timers used the word hades to
describe the heat. “Hot as hades,” was
a favorite expression of persons who
wanted to vent their feelings against
the weather.
O
Wife and I beat some of the July
heat by spending several days on the
banks of Coon Creek
uhder the shade of
old oak and hack-
berry trees. A poet
has truly said that
nothing is as lovely
as a tree. We enjoyed
the outing and the
V (simple things, such
as clear water flow-
ing over t beds of
gravel, birds singing,
white and yellow
daises, starry nights,
and cool breezes.
©
Shop windows
showed women’s furs
in July and August.
Shop windows never
show men’s over-
coats in July and August. Women are
strange and unpredictable critters (I
guess that’s why men love ’em) but
I can’t make sense out of women buy-
iV ftng furs while the thermometer is
around 100 in the shade/ Even the
sight of furs on a sizzling day is enough
to give one heat prostration.
A wife in Alabama beat her husband
to death with a feather duster, striking
him repeatedly on the head with the
handle end. Wives have killed hus-
bands with rolling pins, sad irons and
ice picks, but this is the first time a
feather duster has figured in a domes-
tic tragedy. Insurance companies say
the home is a dangerous place, that
ihore accidental deaths occur in the
“Shop windows showed women’s furs
in July and August.”
A
home than anywhere else. The Ameri-
can Safety Council is trying to do some-
thing about the accidental deaths but
nothing about deaths from violent do-
mestic quarrels. Since it takes two to
make a quarrel, the Greeks were right
when they said that silence is golden.
Once I quoted to wife what the Greeks
said about silence, and she replied that
I didn’t know what I was talking about,
that no woman can keep silent when' a
man deliberately gets on her nerves.
The bureaucrats in Washington have
been calling each other names. That is
bad for the war ef-
fort. So far we have
a united war front
and can keep it so if
only we have a unit-
ed home front. Dis-
sension here, wheth-
er political or other-
wise, is used against
us as propaganda by
the Japs and Ger-
mans.
O
Men who know say
it takes 2,000 gal-
lons of gasoline to
fly a Fortress from
Britain to the Ruhr.
I am patriotic, but
in order to save
enough gas for a
precision bomber’s trip from Britain to
the Ruhr I will have to keep my old f liv-
er in the garage ten years, five months,
three weeks and two days.
Persons who feel a bit short of neces-
sities might find comfort in the follow-
ing: Our ancestors got along without
sugar until the 13th century, without
coal until the 14th century, without but-
ter until the 15th century, without po-
tatoes until the 16th century, without
coffee until the 17th century, without
matches until the 18th century, and
without gasoline until the 19th century.
Yet our ancestors managed to live and
bq, healthy and happy without these so-
called necessities. The more we have
the more we want. The less we have the
less we want.
•
Many predict that after the war we
will have a perfect world, that all we
need to do is to press a button and the
thing will be done. I have seen mighty
forces move by merely pressing a but-
ton, but it took a lot of elbow grease and
time to get ready the mighty forces be-
hind the button before it was pressed.
•
Enumerators estimate that 300,000
babies will be born this year to U. S.
soldiers and defense workers’ wives
and that there is an alarming shortage
of safety pin material. No need for
alarm. Our pioneer mothers used mes-
quite thorns for safety pins and there
is now a big crop of thorns on the mes-
quite trees. Many babies, who later
became famous men in the councils of
our nation, had their three-cornered
pants fastened with mesquite thorns.
O
Tax gatherers are digging into
salaries and taking out gobs of money.
What they will take from me is in-
finitesimal, but what they will take
from the $10 a day worker is some-
thing for him to think about. One rea-
son for the salary tax, it is said, is be-
cause a lot of men drawing $10 a day
were not buying bonds and stamps and
were spending their money foolishly.
Wise is the man who will now invest his
earnings in war bonds and salt them
away until the war is over.
•
The Italians celebrated the downfall
of Mussolini with joyful shouts and
peace parades. He ruled Italy 21 years,
plunged his country into two bloody
wars and left it disrupted and impov-
erished. The Duce was an oratorical
windbag, an egotist, a braggart and a
bully. He came into power, like most
dictators, through crooked politics and
glittering promises. He made the
Italian people believe he would give
them an easy and abundant life with-
out their having to work for it.
Strange that nations fall for such piffle,
but they do and have been doing it since
biblical times.
—PAGE 3—
ium and large) at the different heights.
If you are 25 or 65 and if you have a
small frame and measure 5 feet 9
inches, you should weigh, in ordinary
street clothes, between 140 and 151
pounds. If you are of medium build
and the same height, your weight should
be between 149 and 160 pounds. With
a large frame at the same height, the
table alloyvs you 157 to 170 pounds. A
six-footer of large frame may weigh be-
tween 169 and 185 pounds, but only if
he is 6 feet 3 inches tall and his frame
is big may he safely tip the scales at
200.
* * *
The Anti-Submarine Campaign
The highly successful anti-submarine
campaign which has definitely brought
victory to the Allies in the Battle of the
Atlantic was the result of careful in-
tegration of defensive and offensive
weapons, the Navy reported.
In a few weeks the campaign enabled
the Allies to smash Germany’s only re-
maining offensive, the undersea drive,
on which the Axis powers pinned hopes
of staving off invasion of Western
Europe.
More and more Allied ships are reach-
ing Europe and the Mediterranean
without molestation. At the same time
the number of submarines being de-
stroyed is increasing monthly.
An important factor in the master
plan was the development of small
plane carriers, known as “baby flat
tops,” which would enable the Allies to
comb seas where the subs previously
considered themselves beyond air pa-
trol.
The production of escort vessels
smaller and faster than destroyers, was
begun early in the year as part of the
master plan. These vessels have given
an excellent performance, it was said.
Of the secret anti-submarine devices,
little is known and nothing can be writ-
ten. It is known, however, they are
playing a vital, if not the most impor-
tant role, in the victory.
Allied leaders are confident that subs
will never again be the menace they
were when they were taking a total of
about one million tons of shipping a
month or more than Allied shipyards
were then able to replace.
New Ship Tonnage Deliveries
American shipyards in the first six
months this year delivered more mer-
chant tonnage than in all of 1942, says
the United States Marine Commission.
The building of 168 vessels aggregat-
ing 1,676,500 deadweight tons in June
lifted the total output in the first half
of the year to 879 ships of 8,818,622
deadweight tons, against 747 vessels of
8,089,732 tons turned out in all of last
year.
- The production total in June fell be-
low the record for May, which was 175
vessels, aggregating 1,782,000 tons.
June’s figures, nevertheless, were above
the rate necessary to meet this year’s
goal of about 19,000,000 deadweight
tons.
Vessels delivered in June, the com-
mission reported, included 115 Liberty
ships of 10,500 deadweight tons each,
11 large, high-speed tankers, 3 small
tankers, 19 C-type cargo vessels, 2 ore
carriers, 6 sea-going tugs and 3 “special
types,” otherwise undescribed.
The California Shipbuilding Corpora-
tion at Wilmington, Calif., established
a record for any one yard by delivering
twenty Liberty ships in a month.
By A STAFF EDITOR
(Copyright, 1943, by the Southwest Magazine Co-*
Retail Trade for First Half of Year
Retail trade wound up the half year
with an increase that will probably run
from 12 to 14 per cent over the first six
months of 1942 for the country as a
whole. Distribution interests do not
appear to be too much concerned over
the effect of the withholding tax, but'
they are guided chiefly by experience
with the lump sum income levies.
For department stores the half year’s
results represent a gain in sales of 14
per cent over last year. The spread has
widened among sections of the country,
with the Southwest showing an increase
of 41 per cent, as reported by the Dallas
district.
* * *
18,000,000 Pairs of Old Hose Go to War
Kicking off their silk and nylon
sheers American women have respond-
ed nobly to Uncle Sam’s plea for old
Stockings to be reprocessed for war use.
To get statistical they have, since re-
tail stores first opened collection sta-
tions last November 16, kicked in with
nearly 18,000,000 pairs. And while a
pair of stockings is scarcely more pon-
derous than a butterfly’s wings, the
total amount salvaged came to 888,215
pounds of old silk and nylon—which can
swing a lot of weight in war.
Silk stockings, as you probaly know,
are reprocessed to make powder bags
for big guns like the ones that bespoke
bad news for the Japs in the Southwest
Pacific. Forty-eight pairs of all-silk
hose furnish enough reprocessed silk
for one 16-inch gun powder bag.
Nylons go into tough parachutes for
fighter pilots and into tightly wound
top-ropes, used by the air forces for
pulling gliders loaded with men and ma-
terial. And there are lots of other war
uses for silk and nylon.
The job of getting Miss and Mrs.
America’s old stockings out of bureau
drawers and rag-bags has been direct-
ed by defense Salvage Committees in
most communities. Retail stores from
coast to coast set up collection stations
where women leave their discarded hose
—carefully laundered first, of course.
From there they go to the Defense Sup-
plies Corporation and thence into war
material.
So far, reports the WPB salvage
planning section ,the collection has been
a distinct success. But, officials point
out, the drive must go on steadily, so
long as there is a single silk or nylon
stocking left in the country.
* * *
First Glider Train Spans the Atlantic
The first Atlantic crossing of an “air
train”—a big glider towed by a twin-
engined Douglas transport plane—has
been announced by the English Air
Ministry.
The 3,500-mile flight with vaccines
for Russia, and radio and aircraft mo-
tor parts, required 28 hours.
Authorities said the achievement by
the Royal Air Force transport command
was no “stunt,” but result of careful ex-
perimentation during which several oth-
er records were established.
The glider has an 84-foot wing span.
It was designed by Waco and built by a
New York manufacturer. Carrying two
and one-half tons of freight, it was
equipped for the flight with rubber
dingies and the usual ocean equipment
carried by bombers.
On the journey from Montreal to
Britain, Squadron Leader R. G. Seys,
the glider captain, *said conditions were
generally favorable except for strong
headwinds on the first part of the trip.
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Warren, David M. The Panhandle Herald (Panhandle, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1943, newspaper, August 6, 1943; Panhandle, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth874775/m1/7/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.