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REFUGIO TIMELY REMARKS
And Now It’s the ‘WAGS’
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“WACCS,” “WAVES”—and now the “WAGS.” For your information, the “WAGS” are the dogs inducted
for duty in the U. S. army, where they will be trained as sentries, messengers, airplane spotters and light pack
carriers. The course lasts four weeks. At the left you see Col. T. B. Apgar, commanding officer, quarter-
master depot, Front Royal, Va., inspecting a lineup of new arrivals. At the right dogs are being weighed
in as they are given their “physical.”
‘The Wings of West Point’ Is Opened
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^ Planes roar over the heads of cadets from West Point Military academy after Stewart Field was official-
fly opened as “The Wings of West Point.” West Point cadets who will enter the air service will receive their
flying instruction at Stewart Field, but will live in the barracks at West Point with their non-flying classmates.
At right, Instructor Lieut. J. Rogers is surrounded by cadet students as he gives a few tips on cockpit pro-
cedure.
German Troops Cross Don River
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Aleuts Evacuate
This photo, obtained from an enemy source, shows German soldiers
taking part in Von Bock’s offensive aimed at the Caucasian oil fields,
crossing the Don river on rubber boats. In the foreground soldiers who
have previously crossed the stream await their comrades. Grozny, the
immediate objective, in addition to possessing a rich oil pool, has been
a storage depot for more than a million barrels of East Caucasus oil.
Arf! Arf! A Bite for Me, Please!
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Bobo, a German police dog, is shown with a hungry gleam in his eye
as Dr. W. C. Soden cuts into his meal at the City Business club’s lunch-
eon in Philadelphia. Bobo is being trained for service in the U. S. coast
guard. Lieutenant Creighton of the coast guard (left) related to persons
attending the luncheon how the dogs are being trained for war work.
Destination unknown, native Aleuts
were evacuated from the war zones.
This Aleut mother and boy watch
operations at the dock of an un-
named Alaskan port. Sealing op-
erations brought good pay.
Giant’s Ace in Hole
Ace (“Doc”) Adams, New York
Giant’s relief pitcher, grins at you
here. He has had a good season,
answering 48 calls to the mound
when his hurling buddies have
failed. “Doc” has a big hand.
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Battle of Egypt Gains New Momentum
As British, U. S. Planes Blast Rommel;
Jap War Minister Given New Power;
Total Farm Crop Reaches Record High
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
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Japan’s great pincer movement, which was aimed at Hawaii, ap-
peared to be effective until the United States marines took Jap bases in
the Solomons, thus breaking the lower prong. This failure has been em-
phasized further by Japanese defeats in Milne bay, on the tip of New
Guinea.
DESERT WAR:
With Tanks, Planes
As British and German tanks con-
tinued their bitter struggle on a 20-
mile desert front in Egypt, Amer-
ican bombers joined the Royal Air
force in carrying out almost continu-
ous operations against Nazi concen-
trations.
Reinforced and rested after a two
months’ halt, Marshal Erwin Rom-
mel’s army started its advance in
the rolling, rocky area between the
Ruweisat ridge in the center and
Himeimat peak, on the southern
wing near the Qattara depression.
Rommel’s major effort was at the
southern hinge of the British line,
where troops were taking the brunt
of the attack. War bulletins issued
jointly by the headquarters and the
RAF, said U. S. army air force
planes participated in extensive op-
erations over the entire area where
the Nazis were trying to smash
toward Alexandria, the Nile and the
Suez canal.
Dispatches from the front not-
ed that the moon was favorable for
night fighting and that the weather
was much cooler than the 100 de-
gree temperature during the early
summer.
TOGO TO TOJO:
Fourth Portfolio
When Japanese Foreign Minister
Sh.igenori Togo resigned his position
for “personal reasons,” the Japa-
nese cabinet virtually eliminated the
one strong man regarded as being
opposed to hostilities against Rus-
sia. Togo negotiated the Moscow-
Tokyo neutrality pact.
Togo’s post was taken over by
Gen. Eiki Tojo, who now holds four
portfolios in the cabinet—premier,
war minister, minister of home af-
fairs and foreign minister. The
“strong man” of Japan, Tojo was a
Premier Tojo Minister Togo
staunch advocate of the Axis pact
and of Japan’s “new order” in the
Orient. His present four posts con-
centrate in one man almost abso-
lute powers over his people.
Anticipating close scrutiny by of-
ficial Russian sources, Tojo declared
that his assumption of the foreign
ministry “will not result in any way
in an alteration of Japan’s foreign
policy.” However, Togo’s resigna-
tion, plus Tojo’s decision to take
over the foreign portfolio, was wide-
ly interpreted as presaging a sneak
attack on Russia. Information
reaching Chunking said that 100,000
Japanese troops—totaling five divi-
sions—had been sent north from the
China theater of war.
Supporting this theory, Lieut. Gen.
Joseph W. Stilwell, United States
commander in chief in India, China
and Burma, announced that there
is a “good chance” the Japs would
attack Siberia.
HOT SPOT:
In South Pacific
Frustrated by hard-hitting United
Nations forces at Milne bay, the Jap
busied himself by pounding away
elsewhere on the island of New
Guinea, vital stepping stone to Aus-
tralia. Port Moresby via Kokoda
was the Jap objective.
Though the tempo of the fighting
had increased there were strong in-
dications that the trap set by Gen-
eral Mac Arthur’s forces at Milne
bay had effected huge losses on the
enemy’s air power. Particularly
was the Jap fighter plane force
smashed. At least 30 of the Zero
fighters had been destroyed in the
Milne bay encounter and while the
Japs could ferry additional planes
through a chain of islands it ap-
peared that the United Nations had
won the first round in the struggle.
Communiques lacked reports of
Zero bombing and strafing expedi-
tions but the United Nations were
not assuming that Japan’s air power
had been permanently disabled.
NAZIS GAIN:
In Caucasus
Gloomy news came from the Rus>
sian front as the unexpected Red
offensive northwest of Moscow failed
for the most part in bringing relief
to beleaguered Stalingrad.
Despite Soviet counterattacks on
the Moscow-Rzhev front, the Nazis
still were able to pour large scale
reserves of troops, tanks and air-
craft into the advance on Stalingrad.
Hungarian and Rumanian divisions
joined the assault on the vital Volga
river city.
German troops had reached a zone
in the Caucasus northwest of Novo-
rossisk, Soviet Black sea naval base,
a Russian communique acknowl-
edged.
The Red army had withstood a
constant hammering northwest of
Stalingrad and had delivered strong
blows against the enemy’s flank.
South of Krasnodar, in the Cauca-
sus, the Russians said their troops
were annihilating a trapped enemy.
NATION’S CROPS:
Reach Record High
The greatest supply of food in his-
tory will come from the nation’s
farms this year. Department of ag-
riculture reports indicate that crops
are the greatest on record for this
time of year.
America is producing the biggest
corn crop in 10 years, the largest
wheat crop since 1915 and the great-
est oat crop since 1925. Corn crop
estimates place the total at 2,753,-
696.000 bushels as compared with
2.673.000. 000 bushels in 1941. Oats
are expected to reach 1,332,000,000
bushels as compared with 1,176,-
000,000 last year. The department
estimates wheat production at 955,-
000,000 bushels as compared with
946.000. 000 bushels in 1941.
Sugar cane production is estimat-
ed at 7,379,000 tons; sugar beet pro-
duction, 12,967,000 tons; cottonseed,
5.800.000 tons; flaxseed, 42,000,000
bushels; soy beans, 186,000,000 bush-
els; peanuts, 2,800,000,000 pounds;
barley, 417,000,000 bushels; rye, 60,-
000,000 bushels; rice, 74,000,000
bushels.
HIGHLIGHTS • • • in the week’s news
ARMY: The duke of Windsor has
announced the formation of a
Bahamas defense force, the first
full-time military unit in the island
in more than a century.
BIGGEST: Roosevelt base in
California—which the navy terms
the largest operating base in the
world—has been commissioned on
land reclaimed from Los Angeles
harbor.
REPLACED: Dr. Hu Shih, Chi-
nese ambassador to the United
States for the past 12 years, has
been recalled by his government and
will be succeeded by Wei Tao Ming,
former ambassador to Vichy.
CONSPIRATOR: Convicted of con-
spiracy to serve Germany as a spy,
Herbert K. F. Bahr was sentenced
to serve 30 years in prison by a fed-
eral judge in New Jersey.
WHERE’S OUR NAVY?:
Secretary Knox Reports
In his first press conference in al-
most five months Secretary of the
Navy Frank Knox came up with
some information on activities in the
U. S. navy.
He pointed out that all officers
over 57 years of age were being sub-
jected to a rigid physical examina-
tion as part of the navy’s effort to
weed out all officers except those in
perfect condition.
While he doesn’t believe the sub-
marine menace off the Atlantic
coast to be solved he did say that
he believed the decline in sinkings
could partly be credited to the fact
that “we’ve made it tough for
them.” U-boats, he said, have shift-
ed their activity to other sectors.
Other naval developments of in-
terest revealed at the conference
were (1) the ship-building program
is ahead of schedule in all catego-
ries; (2) naval air officers will be
promoted faster than others to
“completely answer” criticism that
the air arm of the navy has not
been getting a good break in im-
portant high command decisions;
(3) the attack on the Solomons was
the “largest amphibious operation
we ever undertook” and was suc-
cessful in obtaining all immediate
objectives; (4) in the Aleutian is-
lands, the record “speaks for itself.”
(Here Secretary Knox was no doubt
referring to the record of 19 enemy
ships sunk or damaged since the
Japs seized the westernmost tip of
the island chain.)
MEXICAN WAR CHIEF:
Cardenas Gets Job
Mexico’s increased participation
in the war effort was emphasized
when President Manuel Avila Ca-
macho appointed his predecessor in
the presidency, Gen. Lazaro Car-
denas, as minister of national de-
fense.
The appointment of Cardenas,
who succeeds Gen. Pablo Valenzue-
la, was looked upon as the initial
move toward expansion of the army,
navy and air force. Early reports
predicted that the navy as well as
the army and air force, would be
GEN. LAZARO CARDENAS
Minister of National Defense.
put under the defense ministry, thus
making him second in command.
In his annual message to con-
gress, President Camacho declared
that Mexico is in the war until “a
peace worthy of our living it” has
been achieved. He added that Mex-
ico will not make a separate armis-
tice or peace.
DRAFT:
Puzzle
Selective Service Director Brig.
Gen. Lewis Hershey had informed
state draft officials to regulate
quotas to individual boards so that
married men would not be drafted
in one locality before those in an-
other. Then came the next prob-
lem: When would married men be
called? When would it be necessary
to take youths of 18 and 19 years
of' age into the army?
Efforts were being made to force
a congressional vote on the latter
issue before the November elec-
tions but most observers thought
this unlikely. That such a vote
would come soon after these elec-
tions appeared certain however.
Chariman Andrew Jackson May
(Dem., Ky.) of the house military
affairs committee declared that
when and if married men with chil-
dren are called the war would be
about 18 months older, or they might
not be taken at all. He released
figures which he said were furnished
by the national selective service
headquarters indicating a nine mil-
lion man pool available in advance
of drafting registrants with depend-
ent wives and children.
FUEL OIL:
To Be Rationed
Fears of midwest petroleum dis-
tributors were realized when Don-
ald M. Nelson, chairman of the War
Production board, confirmed reports
that fuel oil will be rationed and
that rationing may be imposed upon
some midwestern states as well as
the East.
Rationing would be extended to
the Midwest in order to make addi-
tional railroad tank cars available
to supply the eastern market.
At his press conference President
Roosevelt mentioned 25 per cent as
the likely amount of curtailment in
some areas. Those areas were not
specified.
Initial reports indicated that a ba-
sic ration would permit heating to
an average temperature of approxi-
mately 68 degrees, with additional
rations to be issued on the basis of
need. Full details of the plan will be
ironed out by WPB officials.
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Kerosene will soften boots and
shoes that have been hardened by
water and will render them as
pliant as new.
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Honey on cottage cheese, a dish
centuries old, is being revived to-
day.
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Denatured alcohol will remove
the stain made on tablecloths by
colored candles.
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The old family coffee pot can be
kept sweet by occasionally boiling
in it a strong solution of borax.
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A teaspoon of vinegar beaten
into boiled frosting when flavor-
ing is added will keep it from be-
ing brittle when cut.
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Soap jelly may be used for
shampooing upholstery or small
rugs; for washing painted furni-
ture, woodwork and walls, for lin-
gerie washing and hair shampoos.
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Put a little water, milk or cream
into fudge frosting that thickens
too quickly, stirring until it has
the right consistency.
NEW EFFECTIVE HAY FEVER
RELIEF
Hay fever, which annually
causes more sneezes, more in-
flamed noses and more red,
streaming eyes than any other
scourge, may have its final big
fling this September, all because
a Pennsylvania electrical engineer
was served a dish of corn meal
mush which was entirely too salty.
The engineer, sneezing, and
with all other hay fever mani-
festations, stopped at a hotel
where he was served a dish of
mush which he considered send-
ing back as it was much too salty.
Finally he ate it, however; the
hay fever attack lessened, ul-
timately ceased. Next day he had
three meals, all oversalted, and
experienced his most comfortable
time in years in the “hay fever
season.”
His analytical mind quickly
grasped the possibility that the
saline substance in his food was
responsible for his relief.
About this time, Dr. E. E. Sel-
leck, a graduate of Columbia Uni-
versity, met the engineer, made
notes, and when he returned to
his home, began experiments. To-
day Dr. Selleck declares he has
found a certain means of relief
for hay fever and is supported in
his contention by other medical
experts, and a nationally known
chemical manufacturing concern,
the Hollings-Smith Company, at
Orangeburg, New York, has tak-
en over making the remedy, which
is called Nakamo Bell.
Describing the experiments,
Dr. Selleck said, “After I was
sure I had found a means of
quickly relieving hay fever
through the chloride group, I
tested it in the most practical
way I knew. I held a three day
clinic, to which many hay fever
sufferers responded, from ages
ranging from 10 to 60 years. Each
person was given two tablets with
a little water. Some relief came
to all within ten minutes. Reports
on these cases during the ensu-
ing weeks showed practically a
complete cessation of symptoms.”
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