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THE CORRIGAN PRESS
This Is the Army
111y the Soldiers in Irving Berlin's
Show lor Army Emergency Belief.)
According to the pay rate for
American soldiers as compared with
the wages the average Jap soldier
gets, Uncle Sam considers the Amer-
ican private to be wortli 167 Japs . . .
Soldiers are flooding the Fifth Ave.
Public Library with requests for
books about Germany, Japan and
Italy—-especially the points of inter-
est in those countries. They're so
confident the U. S. will take over
they want to be prepared for a bit
of sightseeing.
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Corn Ceiling Aids Livestock Producers;
51 Billion Tax Bill Will Help Nation
Meet War Budget and Defeat Inflation;
U. S.-Britain Relinquish China Rights
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The Quartermasters Department
at Philadelphia has asked manufac-
turers of medallions and decorations
to bid on the manufacture of be-
tween 500,000 and one million deco-
rations to be worn by the soldiers of
the Army occupying Germany after
the present war . . . The U. S. Army
tells its men: “It is commonly sup-
posed that the first duty of a good
soldier is to die for his country. This
is a mistake. The first duty of a |
soldier is to make his enemies die I
for theirs."
The U. S. Army runs the largest
movie chain in the world—500 thea-
ters at camps throughout the coun-
try .. . The Army soon won’t have
any dish-breaking problems in its
mess halls. The Quartermaster Corps
has developed a new shatterproof
glass that will bounce like a golf
ball when dropped . . . One of the
Army's special services for its men
is providing members of the A.E.F.
with an opportunity to acquire an
education via correspondence
courses.
i
Building "Pee" roads in New Guinea is all part of the day’s work for
American aripy engineers. This particular road under construction near
Port Moresby, main Allied base in New Guinea, is so steep that the men
must hold on to ropes to keep from falling backward. The grade drops
about 65 degrees behind them.
WALTER WINCHEM, „ „„ ,
duty outside Continental U. S. During
absence, contributors will substitute.
•t of
bis
Our average soldier is more than
a half inch taller and nearly 10
pounds heavier than the men of 1917,
according to the war department. . .
Glider pilots are referred to as the
"G-Men of the Air” . . . The speed
limit for all Army vehicles is 30
miles per hour, regardless of the
BUDGET:
Asks 109 Billion
Plenty of headaches for Hitler and
Hirohito were inherent in the epochal
$109,000,000,000 total war budget for
the 1943-44 fiscal year which con-
gress was scanning studiously,
had been rising to a point where i Largest budget in world history, the
farmers found it more profitable to j total would devote $100,000,000,000 to
sell than to use the grain to feed j war activities, the remainder to do-
cattle, hogs and chickens. f mestic government expense and in-
Moving to stabilize corn prices, the j *erest on the national debt which by
OPA under instructions from Stabi- | 1944’ would reach $210,000,000,-
uuu.
CORN CEILINGS:
Spur Meat Production
Although Food Administrator
Claude Wickard had been steadily
urging farmers to increase meat,
dairy, poultry and egg production to
meet war demands, the price of corn
! NORTH AFRICA:
Mud Enemy No. 1
Mud and recurrent tropical rains
had continued to make anything but
air activity virtually impossible on
the Tunisian North Africa front.
While optimistic estimates predicted
better weather by early February,
other forecasts lengthened the rainy
season until March.
Biit a four-way threat to the nar-
rowing African coastal region still
in Axis hands was steadily develop-
ing as Allied aircraft attacked Ger-
man and Italian bases over a 600-
mile area.
From Tunisia a French column
was reported to have cut across into
Tripolitania some 300 miles below
Tripoli. Another French column
from the Lake Chad area was mov-
ing north. On the east the British
eighth army under Gen. Sir Bernard
Montgomery was pressing the rem-
nants of Marshal Rommel’s forces,
while in Tunisia the American, Brit-
ish and French forces were prepar-
ing for the time when the weather
would permit them to take the of-
fensive against Bizerte and Tunis,
remaining Axis strongholds on the
African Mediterranean coast.
SO. WESTERN PACIFIC:
New Guinea Strupple
The Japs were determined to give
up their remaining footholds in New
Guinea only at the same stubborn
cost at which they had yielded the
Gona-Buna area. It had taken near-
ly four months to wipe out the Jap
beachhead in this sector. Still in
Nipponese hands were Sanananda,
Lae, Salamaua and Madang. Clos-
est in was Sanananda and here a
GROUND
tw pearsot
Washington, D. C.
THE GENERAL’S TWO WIVES
There was much more than meets
the eye behind the departure of
Gen. Hsiung Shih-fei, head of the
Chinese military mission to Wash-
ington. It had its intriguing per-
sonal side, but also it went deep
into the vitals of our most difficult
war problem.
On the personal side, it happened
that General Hsiung had two wives,
which in China is a criterion of
pow’er and prestige. But it also
happened that Madame Chiang Kai-
shek, educated in the United States,
does not approve of two wives.
When in China, Madame Chiang
does not interfere with the military
appointments of her husband. But
in the United States, General Hsiung
is reported to believe that the situa-
tion might have been otherwise, and
that the U. S. A., big as it is, might
have been too small for both of
them.
• • •
FARM FIGHT •
A group of presidents of land
grant colleges, headed by President
H. C. “Curley” Byrd of the Uni-
versity of Maryland, called on Sec-
retary of Agriculture Wickard the
other day. Behind that call was one
of the most important fights which
Soldier li as Out to Win
Bet at Whatever the Cost
A soldier whose main trouble
was extreme talkativeness was on
escort duty with a corporal tak-
ing an important prisoner to head-
quarters.
Before starting, he had been told
that on no account was he to
speak; a bet of a carton of ciga-
rettes had been made that he
couldn’t keep silent until reaching
headquarters.
They went in single file, the sol-
dier quite mute.
On arriving at headquarters, the
corporal, without looking round,
said, “Well, Tommy, you've won."
"Yes,” replied Tommy, “but
you nearly had me when the pris-
oner escaped.”
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genuine St. Joseph I Quality Assured
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time. You can't buy aspirin that can do
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three - pronged Allied drive had | gCOme be,ore the prtS“nt COn'
Actually the land grant college
lization Director James F. Byrnes
imposed a ceiling at January 8th to
12th prices for 60 days, promising
permanent ceilings later. Declar-
ing that these ceiling prices were in
excess of 100 per cent of parity
civil speed limit. The Army wants when taking into consideration AAA “n‘77"Trne“^ketTbecause
its vehicles driven in a manner that benefit payments, officials said the i g mg ,n American pockets because
!“nV!n.1C‘*J.ttri7erl.17a mat I ceilings would establish price rela- °' war-boosted income and fewer
Plenty of wrinkles furrow’ed the
brows of fiscal experts as they con-
templated the stupendous budget.
The mere act of spending such sums
meant bringing nearer the specter
of inflation. With more money jin
will set an example for civilians . . .
The men who load the bombs on
Uncle Sam's planes refer to them
as “Bundles for Berlin."
As the result of a survey made
by the Quartermaster Corps, all gov-
ernment issues of Army trousers, in
the future, will be more roomy
around the seat ... A Negro pri-
vate, after being issued his Army
clothing at Fort Sill recently, was
asked about the fit of his new uni-
form. "Why, these duds fits fine,
sa’gint," he replied, "but do you
mind if I buys another pair of pants
for jitterbugging?"
Although the new steel helmet is
slightly heavier than the 1917 model,
the soldiers don't mind the extra
weight. They claim the new helmet
is a hair-restorer because it stimu-
lates the scalp by bouncing around
on the head.
During the Army’s recent maneu-
vers, the boys discovered lots of uses
for their new steel helmets. It makes
a good seat just outside the pup tent,
sort of a front stoop. It’s an excel-
lent container for the things a sol-
dier takes out of his pockets be-
fore going to sleep. It can be used
for taking baths. And it's the finest
outdoor washtub ever designed—it
holds at least two shirts and a couple
of pairs of socks.
tionships at which farmers would
find it profitable to feed, thus pre-
venting shortages of vitally needed
foods.
As observers had expected, the
government action produced reper-
cussions. Livestock feeders were
pleased, since grain prices were sta-
bilized; corn growers, whose profit
incentive for maintaining record
production was reduced, expressed
displeasure.
CHINESE FREEDOM:
Real but Deferred
China was too busy fighting Japs
to take time off to celebrate the
treaty by which Great Britain and
the United States abolished extrater-
ritorial rights. But this action meant
that once the Japs were ousted,
China would enjoy real and unquali-
fied freedom for the first time in a
century.
The agreements, subject to favor-
able U. S. senate action will do away
with political, military, commercial
and judicial preferences under which
Britain and America hold jurisdic-
tion over their own shipping in Chi-
nese ports, their own special law
courts in Shanghai, their internation-
al settlements and their right to
maintain troops in China.
Months, and perhaps years re-
Army Slang: Insects are “mech- ! mai"ed 7° complete the readjust-
anized freckles” ... A wastebasket
is known as "File 13,” and the nut
house is "Section Eight” . . . Nurses
are “Snow Whites,” and a letter
from the girl friend is a "sugar re-
port” . . . The guardhouse is the
“Cross-bar hotel," and woollen un-
derwear are “Superman drawers”
. . . The bugler is "Gabriel,” money
is "E Pluribus," and a garbage truck
is a "honeywagon."
A girl in Sebring, Fla., whose boy
friend is on duty in the Pacific war
zone, recently received a letter from
him. On opening the letter, the girl
found only a narrow slip of paper on
which was written: "Your boy friend
still loves you, but he talks too
much.” It was signed "Censor."
When Gen. Jimmy Doolittle recent-
ly made a breathtaking steep takeoff
with an observer, he turned around
ments, but the march for Chinese
freedom had begun.
NAVAL LOSSES:
U. S. Lists Names
"Reasons of military security" no
longer made secrecy necessary, so
the navy announced the names of
11 warships previously reported as
lost in three battles of the Solomons.
The list included the 20,000-ton air-
craft carrier Hornet and two of the
nation’s fastest and newest light
cruisers, the Juneau and Atlanta
and the heavy cruiser Northampton.
Likewise reported as sunk were
seven destroyers, the Cushing, Pres-
ton, Benham, Walke, Monssen, Laf-
fey and Barton.
Commanders of five of the ships
were listed as missing, while the
skippers of the other six, including
Rear Adm. Charles P. Mason of
the Hornet were reported safe.
?,n„d JSSXPlejL Grcates*losses were in the epic sea
the people down there thought we’d
crash" . . . The observer replied;
“Only 50 per cent up here thought
so.”
battle off Guadalcanal in November
when all seven destroyers and both
light cruisers were sunk. In this
battle 28 Jap ships were destroyed.
goods to buy because of necessary
war rationing the nation faced a
supreme economic test.
Antidote to the inflation threat was
President Roosevelt's dual-purpose
recommendation: Syphon off $16,-
000,000,000 in new taxes or forced
savings from national income; add
this to the present $35,000,000,000
tax bill and thus provide $51,000,-
000,000 which would pay about half
the war costs and be a potent check-
mate to inflation. And to enable
wage earners to meet the steadily
mounting bill, moves had been
speeded to provide pay-as-you-go
machinery for collecting the new
levies.
RUSSIA:
Decision at Rostov?
Military strategists eyed Rostov,
key communications city at the
mouth of the Don river. Here, they
felt, history would be written in
weeks to come that would deter-
mine whether Hitler’s Russian ad-
venture would be a complete rout or
merely disaster deferred.
Toward Rostov converged the re-
treating Nazi armies from the south,
east and north. Toward Rostov, too,
moved the advancing Russian ar-
mies whose successful winter offen-
sives had badly upset Nazi tactical
calculations. Here the struggle would
reach decisive stages.
Continued gains of the Russians
in the Caucasus south of Rostov—
gains which carried them beyond
the strategic rail city of Georgievsk
in incredibly short periods—suggest-
ed to some observers that the Ger-
man armies were retiring with vir-
tually no resistance to the Rostov
area. These observers pointed out
that at Rostov the Nazis might make
as bitterly stubborn a resistance as
the Reds had at Stalingrad north-
west on the Volga.
SUPREME COURT:
FDR Sets Record
George Washington had appointed
the original six members of the Su-
preme court and filled seven vacan-
cies during his two terms. Franklin
D. Roosevelt set a record for the
number named by one President
since Washington’s time when he
selected Judge Wiley B. Rutledge
as his eighth appointee to the tribu-
nal. ,
As the court is now constituted,
Owen J. Roberts, appointed by Pres-
ident Hoover, is the only justice on
the court not named by Roosevelt.
hemmed in the last survivors and
cut oil all hope of reinforcement.
The subjugation of remaining Lae,
Salamaua and Madang presented
another story. Their successful as-
sault meant overcoming the same
complex problems of supply that
impeded and delayed the offensive
against the Japanese at Buna and
Gona. And until these New Guinea
positions were wiped out, the United
Nations would be unable to launch
any offensive to extend Allied con-
trol on to New Britain.
Guadalcanal
In the Solomons, reinforced Amer-
ican troops were reported moving
against only spasmodic Jap resist-
ance. While the Americans had
been able to land additional forces
to augment their units on Guadal-
canal, reports persisted that the
Japs had been able also to strength-
en their positions.
Observers believed that if U. S.
army units in force had reinforced
and relieved the marine garrisons
on Guadalcanal, the next step would
be a concentrated move to push
American occupation further to the
north in the Solomons with the ulti-
mate goal of completely ejecting the
Japs.
RECIPROCAL TRADE:
Hull Girds for Fipht
Tennessee-bred Secretary of State
Cordell Hull who never backs away
from a fight prepared to wage a
vigorous battle to preserve his re-
ciprocal trade agreements from the
onslaughts of opposing congressmen.
Although the presidential authority
over reciprocal trade agreements
does not expire until June, a bill
to terminate them already had been
introduced by Representative Harold
Knutson of Minnesota and referred
C. S. troops in Australia have a hit
tune of their own titled, "The Aussie
and the Yanks Are Here.” It was
written by Pvt. Johnny Nauer of I
Michigan, while aboard his troopship 1
bound for Australia . . . Swimming
is a compulsory activity for recruits
at the Army Air Force training cen-
ter at Miami Beach, Florida . . ,
The shortest movie review ever
printed appeared recently in the Fort
Leavenworth Reception CenterNews.
The picture was a War Department
training film on "Sanitation.” The
comment was: "Good clean fun.”
HIGHLIGHTS
in the week's news
LONDON: Fresh eggs, as price-
less as thick sirloin steaks, returned
to the ordinary British consumer's
diet on at least a token basis, it was
announced officially here. Ordinary
consumers were scheduled to get one
fresh egg a month. Priority classes,
including nursing mothers, invalids
and infants will get a dozen a month.
Powdered egg rations remained a
dozen a person a month.
PARIS: Because he attempted to
oppose the Germans when they com-
pleted their occupation of France
last November, Maj. Gen. De Lattre
Tassigny was sentenced to 10 years
imprisonment by a special court, the
Vichy radio reported. General Tas-
signy was in command of the Mont-
pelier district and led his men in a
short and abortive revolt. At one
time he was a Tunisian commander.
CORDELL HULL
« . . Fights for treaties.
to the house ways and means com-
mittee.
In addition to considering this pro-
posal to terminate the agreements
now in effect between this country
and 25 others, the committee also
will have to pass on legislation to
extend the President’s authority to
make such agreements. Congres-
sional observers believe the exten-
sion proposal will be bitterly fought
by certain groups. Strongly cham
pioning the measures will be Secre-
tary Hull, who was their original
sponsor.
WOMEN WAR W ORKERS:
6.000. 000 by 1944
More than 30 per cent ol the na-
tion’s war production workers will
be women by the end of 1943 and
a proportionately larger number will
be employed in essential civilian
trades and services, it was predict-
ed by Paul V. McNutt, chairman of
the War Manpower commission.
Mr. McNutt estimated that 4,000.-
000 of the present 17,000,000 war
workers are women and forecast
6.000. 000 by the end of 1943.
presidents came to propose an agri-
cultural program which they think
will overcome the food shortages.
But behind this is a plan to put
control of the farm economy back
into the hands of the farm bureau
and the powerful farm lobbies. It
is 8 fight which probably will keep
up a running fire all during con-
gress
Background of the fight goes back
to early in the Roosevelt adminis-
tration when Henry Wallace, then
secretary of agriculture, delivered
a speech in which he criticized his
own agriculture department for
helping only the one-third upper-
crust farmers. The great mass of
the farmers, he said, the tenants,
the little farmers, and farm labor,
got no help from the government.
Wallace was referring to the fact
that the American Farm Bureau
federation, the Grange, the National
Co-operative Milk Producers, and
other organizations with powprful
lobbies in Washington, had always
influenced farm policies and domi
nated the agriculture department.
Working hand in glove with them
have been the land grant colleges,
the state commissioners of agricul-
ture, the county agents, and the farm
extension services.
These groups controlled agricul-
ture locally, even when Washington
was supplying a majority of the
funds.
• • •
HITLER OR JAPAN?
Another factor, however, goes
much deeper and is one reason be-
hind reports that Gen. Joseph Stil-
well may return as head of the
U. S. military mission to China.
This factor is the Chinese argu-
ment that Japan is a greater ene-
my than Hitler, coupled with the
fear that after we have defeated
Hitler, we will make peace with
Japan at the expense of China.
This fear is one which cannot be
laughed off easily. In fact, it will
take a lot of persuading to dispe.
Chinese worries. They know that
a lot of the career gentlemen, pow-
erful in the state department, have
contended that Japan should have
her place in the sun. They know
that some of the state department
clique tacitly favored Japanese oc-
cupation of Manchuria, while the
British almost openly supported it.
The realistic Chinese, therefore,
argue that after Hitler is defeated
Japan is more than likely to pro-
pose a compromise (as she got Ted-
dy Roosevelt to do to end the Russo-
Japanese war) whereby Japan gets
a slice of China and the world gets
a rest from war.
The realistic Chinese also know
that they could make peace with
Japan tomorrow by giving her sev-
eral treaty ports and a slice of the
North. In fact, the Japs probably
would like nothing better than a
peace which would permit them to
withdraw half a million men from
China and use them against us in
the Pacific.
Finally Chiang Kai-shek has his
own troubles with his generals,
many of them pliable to Jap wiles,
especially "silver bullets," which
the Japs claim is the easiest way to
win wars.
So Chiang needs something to
show to keep his generals in line—
either more arms, which he is not
getting; or a treaty from the United
States pledging we will fight to the
end until China is absolutely free.
Instead of such a pledge, Chiang
has a military mission headed by a
man whom the Chinese don't like_
General Stilwell. Joe Stilwell comes
from the old school which didn’t par-
ticularly like the Chinese, and the
Chinese make no bones about the
fact that they don't like him.
He insists on doing all his busi-
ness direct with the generalissimo,
talking to him only.
As a result, Willkie was given a
message to take back to Roosevelt
to get General Stilwell out of the
picture.
The problem of what to send a
service man has been solved by the
men themselves. Tobacco tops the
list of gifts service men prefer
from the folks back home, accord-
ing to numerous surveys. If you
have a friend or relative in the
armed forces—Army, Navy, Ma-
rines, or Coast Guard— who smokes'
a pipe, or rolls-his-own, a pound of
his favorite tobacco is very much
in order. A big favorite with many
service men is Prince Albert, the
world's largest-selling smoking to-
bacco. Local dealers now are fea-
turing Prince Albert in the pound
can for the men in the service.—
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