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Thursday, February 10, 1944
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THE CANTON HERALD
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Precedes Major Action on Marshalls;
Russians Surge Onward Toward Baltic;
Civilian Fat, Oil Allotments Decreased
The Magic Lanterns: "The Lodg-
er,” a classic among blood-curdlers
(based on the sinful Jack, the Rip-
per), loses none of its shudders in
its transfer to the screen . . . ‘‘High-
er and Higher” is a pleasant song-
During the same period, however,
there has been an increase of 22 per
total amount of life insurance out-
standing, the mortality rate has been
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Less Fats, Oils
Civilian allotments of fats and oils
in 1944 will average less than last
year, the War Food
Pacific with an inflated poncho or rain cape. Bottom right: Marines work frantically against the setting surf,
A whole day’s work depended upon their success in getting a tractor raised before dark.
Solomons—Marines plod through heavy mud during operations
against last big Jap base of Bougainville in Solomons.
Graceful curves of a modern bat.
tieship are emphasized in this pic-
ture of the USS Missouri taken just
before she was launched at the New
York navy yard.
Frank Starr Williams, husband of
Mrs. Adele Born Williams, who was
fatally shot by a mysterious gun-
woman in one of Chicago’s most
fashionable hotels.
missing, 41,533 wounded and 25,615
prisoners.
The navy reported 36,752 casual-
the total of 1942.
Warns Farmers
A 15 per dnt increase in land
prices since 1942 reflects a threaten-
ing speculative spree, Governor A.
G. Black of the Farm Credit ad-
ministration warned.
Declaring that farm land in the
Central West and parts of the South
was selling 20 to 30 per cent above
federal land bank appraisals, Gover-
nor Black said some buyers were
courting disaster if they could not
reduce mortgages to an amount that
could be carried by normal earn-
ings.
Spurringdemands, Governor Black
said, are a large number of city
people with large incomes, who have
been putting their money into farm
land.
about the unknown photographer who
has his back to the enemy?”
Left: Ruins and fires can be seen behind this German soldier who
was pictured in the Kiev area of the Russian front where the Nazis have
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At the end of 1943, Americans
could look beyond to postwar mar-
kets to more possible spending, fol-
lowing reduction of consumer in-
debtedness by 1 billion, 200 million
dollars during the last year because
of continued goods shortages.
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VETS’ AID
It is estimated that 300,000 beds
will be needed by 1949 to care for
veterans of this and previous wars.
As hospitalization is now open to all
men and women of the armed forces,
whether their disability is service-
connected or not, Brig. Gen. Frank
Hines, veterans’ administrator, ex-
pects to have training camp facili-
ties turned over to him for conver-
sion into hospital accommodations.
Few of the injuries and ailments
for which servicemen receive gov-
ernment care are battle casualties.
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FOOD SUPPLY:
World Prospects
With food production here at its
peak and overseas demands increas-
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ties, of whom 15,673 were killed,
' 8,811 missing, 7,985 wounded and
4,283 prisoners.
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Asia gives her a rich source of food-
stuffs, but their availability to the
homeland is restricted by the en- '
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Left: British troops of the Allied Fifth army are shown in their carriers rolling toward Rome after sud-
denly flanking German forces by landing on Italy’s west coast near the Eternal City. Right: Lieut. Gen. Mark
W. Clark, commander of the Fifth army, shakes hands with Admiral F. J. Lowry, chief of the naval forces
which participated in the landing. Only slight defensive action by the enemy was encountered and 160,000 Ger-
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country, shows crewmen of a German submarine transferring supplies
via a rubber boat. The supplies are going from a submarine supply
craft to a raiding submarine at sea. Early in the war there were reparts
of huge supply submarines which could provide fuel and provisions for
several subs and crews.
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gie Holliday tells of the chap who
took out a lovely looker, who was
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he sighed: "You’re very beautiful,
but so stupid!”
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famed Bacardi rum) is this. The
rum was originally owned by ten
brothers. Only two survive. Every
time one of the Bacardi brothers
passed on he was buried with a case
of the rum—“knowing the brothers
in Heaven were waiting for some!”
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LIFE INSURANCE:
Claims Mount
Deaths of men in military service
and the effects of stress and strain
on the civilian population have con-
PENICILLIN: When it becomes
plentiful enough, penicillin may re-
place sulfa drugs in dental practice.
LONG WAIT: Twenty-six years
afterward, a Bloomington, Ill., vet-
eran has been notified that he has
been awarded the Purple Heart. He
was wounded by shell fragments at
St. Mihiel, France, September 5,
1018. Since then he has undergone
13 operations._________________
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facture of 400,000 aluminum pres-
sure cookers during the first six
months of 1944.
Although 339,000 pressure canners
were made from carbon steel last
year, use of aluminum was banned
in January of 1942. Because of a
shortage of capacity for fabricating
aluminum, none will be available for
manufacture of other kitchen uten-
sils.
Under WPB plans, the new alumi-
num pressure cookers will not be
rationed and will be offered for sale
without restriction. Three-fifths of
U. S. families canned last year, it
has been estimated, with an average
per family of 165 jars or cans.
ALUMINUM: Stimulated by war
needs, production of aluminum has
reached enormous proportions com-
pared with prewar standards. Pro-
duction capacity is so great that the
light metal may be used as a sub-
stitute for steel. Aluminum parts
could be used in automobiles, farm
machinery, refrigerators, washing
machines, window sash, and sini-
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EUROPE:
Nutcracker Closing
The big Allied nutcracker in south-
ern Italy slowly closed on embattled
Nazi troops below Rome, while U. S.
and British bombers hammered
away at the enemy’s defense instal-
lations and supply centers in north-
western Europe.
Despite bitter German resistance,
U. S. and French forces chewed
deeper into the Nazis’ network of
pillboxes and barbed wire around
the mountain stronghold of Cassino,
about 40 miles south of the Allies’
invasion beaches near Rome. With
supplies pouring onto the sandy
beachheads, U. S. and British troops
organized their strength for sharp
thrusts at the enemy’s communica-
tion lines feeding their forces at
Cassino, but encountered bitter op-
position.
Although Berlin again came in for
a major share of Allied bombing in
northwestern Europe, the whole in-
vasion coast was peppered with ex-
plosives designed to cripple the long
string of concrete and steel defense
posts. Reports indicated that the
Germans were pulling seasoned
troops out of Russia to reinforce Jut-
land, the closest land approach to
Berlin.
and-dance film. It brings Prof. Si-
natra into focus. He’ll never get as
many girlish squeals for acting as
he gets for paper-dolling, but he gets
by okay. J. Haley, Michele Mor-
gan and the Hartmans help consid-
erably . . . “The Miracle of Mor-
gan’s Creek” is wild waggery, a di-
rect slap at Pop Dionne. Eduardo
Bracken is a pranky parent, and
Betty Hutton jumps out of her skin
from time to time . . . “Where Are
Your Children?” deals with juvenile
delinquency. It skips the preacher
angles ana assumes its audience is
more than eleven.
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creased rates on club dues, bowling
alleys and pool tables. The tax on
cosmetics would be raised to 20 per
cent.
Air mail rates would be raised to
8 cents, 3 cent stamps would be re-
quired on local mail deliveries, and
charges would be increased on
C.O.D., registered and insured mail,
and on money orders.
By abolishing the earned income
credit and deductions for payment
of federal excise taxes, the lawmak-
ers figured on raising 600 million in
additional income taxes. Another 500
million would be raised by increas-
ing the excess profits tax from 90
to 95 per cent.
RUSSIA:
Near Baltic
Churning deeply into Nazi lines,
Red troops pressed onto the borders
of the Baltic states of Estonia and
Latvia, while in the Ukraine 400
miles to the south, heavy fighting
continued in fluctuating counterat-
tacks.
Russians surged toward the nar-
row belts of land making up Estonia
and Latvia on the Baltic sea coasts
after rolling the Nazis back from
around Leningrad and seizing con-
trol of the large network of rail-
roads in the area, including the dou-
ble track running to Moscow.
Employing upwards of 250,000 men
the Reds hammered big dents in the
German lines, forcing enemy re-
treats with the threat of encircle-
ment from the rear.
Having given ground before Ger-
man counterattacks 80 miles from
the Rumanian border, the Reds
struck back both to the east and west
of this region, chewing into enemy
lines behind intense artillery and
tank fire.
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MID-PACIFIC:
Japs Crumbliafi
With stalwart U. S. doughboys
pounding at other positions in the
Marshalls from beachheads they es-
tablished in the very heart of the
islands, Jap forces slowly relin-
quished their grip on these mid-
Pacific strongholds menacing Allied
supply lines to the Philippines.
In attacking the Marshalls after
the greatest naval bombardment in
U. S. history, American troops were
put ashore on one of the most im-
portant of the islets making up the
group. From here, the doughboys
trained their guns on the biggest
air base and the best submarine
and seaplane station in the whole
island cluster.
With the memory of strong Jap
fortifications of Tarawa in the Gil-
berts still in mind, the U. S. spared
none of the firepower of its navy or
air force to smash at enemy instal-
lations in the Marshalls before
troops clambered ashore. But de-
spite the terrific battering, Jap units
took up the fight when doughboys
landed, again making it no picnic.
TAXES:
Latemakers Agree
Falling far short of the adminis- i
tration’s request for 10%2 billion dol-
lars in new taxes, a conference com-
mittee of senators and congressmen
agreed on raising 2 billion 300 mil-
lion, to bring 1944 revenue to about
44 billion dollars.
More than a billion dollars of the
new taxes would be collected on
higher levies for goods and services,
new rates amounting to 1 cent for
every 5 cents admission charge,
$9 per gallon of 100 proof liquor, $8
per barrel of beer, 20 per cent on
furs, jewelry and luggage, 15 per
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ments, each U. S. civilian will get
about 43.9 pounds of butter, lard,
shortenings and other oils and mar-
garine, compared with 46.5 pounds
last year, and 48.8 pounds in 1942.
Allotments for cooking oils and
vegetable oil shortenings will aver-
age 14.3 pounds per person as com-
pared with 16.4 pounds in 1943, and
13.9 pounds of lard as against 14.3
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a comic. He had wit and showman-
ship and a style of offhand clown-
ing that you hardly ever find in the
days of stun-the-peasants technique.
You remember him best from one
of the first Music Box Revues,
teamed up with the late Sam Ber-
nard. That was where Willie popu-
larized the word “nifty.” A couple
of seasons later he produced a show
for himself and Bernard, called
"Nifties.” It died, but nothing of
Collier's deserved to.
Another time Collier was a last
minute replacement—for Lew Fields
it seems. On his first entrance he
turned to the audience and exhibited
his shaking hands—and won the
house. Later, making an exit, he
was asked by the heavy where he
was going.
"Back to the dressing room,” re-
torted Willie, “and study my lines.”
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bara Nix: The minutes crawled by
like wounded men . . . Msgr. Ful-
ton J. Sheen: Peace without jus-
tice is like painting rouge on the
international cheek . . . J. M. Bar-
rie: In love-making, as in the other
arts, those do it best who cannot tell
how it is done . . . Paschal Boland:
Pride is a one-man parade . . .
Somerset Maugham: They simply
lived in one another’s pockets . . .
Joan Eden: She swallowed her tears
. . . Anon: It’s not the creed; it's
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Sallies in Our Alley: Benny Good-
man and a chap who just signed a
Hollywood contract were discussing
Movie Town . . . “How’s the weath-
er out there now?” asked the Broad-
wayite. "I'll be leaving for Holly-
wood shortly. What clothing should
I take along?” . . . “You might take
along,” said Benny, “a knife-proof
vest!” . . . Congressmaid Clare
Luce, at a party, was seated be-
tween playwright Frederick Lonsdale
and producer Gilbert Miller . . .
Lonsdale asked her: "If you had a
choice, kissing me or Miller, whom
would you choose?” . . . Clare hesi-
tated . . . "I’ll never,” said Lons-
dale, "forgive you for that pause!”
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have to go along on
. smaller supplies in
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gu—mmmnd Agriculture Claude
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maintain her pres-
Somerset Maugham’s first book
was “Liza of Lambeth” . . . Eng-
land's great book critic, Edmund
Gosse, whose opinions made or
broke a writer, wrote an ecstatic
notice about it . . . The next day
Maugham was on the road to fame
. . . Once he had six plays running
in London at the same time—all wal-
loping hits ... He followed through
with “Of Human Bondage” and many
other best-sellers . . . And critic
Gosse constantly met Maugham at
dinners and parties for twenty years
and always said: “Mr. Maugham,
that wonderful book of yours. How-
wise you are never to write another
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birth. The Matthes also have a
thriving young son, Ronald, 4.
PRESSURE COOKERS:
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Sallies in Our Alley: Over at The
Gamecock a movie actor said that
Hollywood "is wonderful to every-
one except people with smallpox”
. . . To which a cynic queried:
"You mean to tell me that a guy
with a flat wallet would be welcome
there?” . . . “No,” was the retort,
“in Hollywood a flat wallet is the
first sign of smallpox!” . . . D.
Lowe’s nifty: "When the Yanks take
Cassino, they’ll have to play with 51
cards as the Duce is missing.”
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