THURSDAY, JAN. 13, 1944
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Russian Generals Visit Allied 8tli Army
Major General V asiliev Is pictured saluting as his party of Soviet gen-
erals drives away in a jeep after a visit to Gen. Bernard L. M ontgom
ery's 8th Army com m and. V asiliev was named as the com m ander who
directed the cam paign which cut off the German arm ies in the C rim ea.
Railroad President Becomes Colonel
Ralph Budd, left, president of the Burlington railroad, as he w as sworn
into the arm y as a colonel of transportation. He w as placed in charge
of all railroads in the central western region when the arm y seized the
railroads as a strike threatened to disrupt service. Left to right are:
Budd, Col. D. A, Hart, MaJ. A. Hillman, and Maj. G. E . Van T assel.
Marshall Inspects Oahu Jungle Fighters
Furlough Fun
McKinley Park, a luxury hotel in
Alaska, has been taken over by the
arm y and is used as a recreation
center for wom en war departm ent
em ployees and soldiers stationed
there. M argaret Mylius is helped to
her feet by Lieut. Anselm Tibbs Jr.
as they walk to the skating pond.
Mediterranean Chief
Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, who
w as nam ed suprem e com m ander in
the M editerranean theater of war
succeeding General Eisenhow er of
the United States. Wilson form erly
was the British com m ander in chief
of the Middle East.
FD’s Son, Grandson
Gen. George C. M arshall, U. S. army chief of staff, and Lieut John
Ferguson (left) of the infantry, watch a w ell trained jungle fighter
sh a barbed wire obstacle with a fast lunge. Lieutenant FergBson, an ,n'
ictor in jungle fighting, w as the first married m an to be drafted from
Antonio, Texas.
Lieut. Franklin R oosevelt Jr.
shows his son, Franklin 3d, age 5
one of his grandfather’s boat mod
els. This picture w as m ade at P res
ident R oosevelt’s Hyde Park home
Washington, D. C.
LITTLE PIGS GO TO MARKET
Agriculture officials are staring
with bulging eyes at the telegram s
received from the livestock m arkets.
The number of hogs killed in a sin
gle day has passed the figure of
300,000, and is still going up.
Novem ber has already set an all-
tim e record in hog slaughter of
6,900,000 (federally inspected). De
cem ber will go still higher. Cattle
slaughter also set a record in No
vem ber, but is now tapering off. Not
so with hogs.
Nothing like this has ever hap
pened in the history of the world.
Nature, plus a low ceiling price on
corn and the delay in putting a ceil
ing price on hogs, is now scatter
ing pork all over the landscape. This
will continue through January, Feb
ruary, and into the month of March.
In spite of the pork flood, however,
there is no surplus, and officials in
sist that there must be no “ holiday”
from rationing. OPA and War Food
administration agree on this. They
have had many differences in the
past, but they stand together on the
m atter of red points.
F act is, they have debated rem ov
ing pork from rationing, but ran
into so much prospective grief that
they gave it up. For if housew ives |
could buy pork without stam ps, they ,
would use their stam ps for beef and
butter, which are still short. Or if
OPA tied the points to the product,
making separate stam ps for pork,
others for beef, and others for but
ter, etc., there would be outcries
from different groups, such as Jew
ish people, who ban pork.
Conclusion is that the ration books
m ust be left alone, and the only way
to solve the bounty problem is to
m ake federal purchases heavier and
m ove them more rapidly.
Army purchases of beef w ere ex
trem ely heavy in the beef months
of Septem ber through Novem ber. To
day, Lend Lease purchases of pork
are growing heavy and will hold up
through the "hog run” now flooding
the market.
But this does not alw ays take the
m eat out of storage. Lend Lease
shipm ents to Russia can be made
only when Russia is ready to eat
the pork, since they have no storage
space. Britain, on the other hand,
can store pork, and is taking ship
m ents faster than the rate of use.
With livestock production high,
and submarine sinkings low, more
beef and pork are getting to Allied
fighting forces overseas than ever
before.
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MORE STRIKES AHEAD
There are a lot m ore strikes in
the country than the public is aware
of. The government has abandoned
the policy of regular announcements
of the number of strikes and the
number of man-hours lost. Thus the
strikes do not get into the news
papers.
But here are som e figures which
reveal that the no-strike pledge of
labor organizations is not very ef
fective.
In November alone, there w ere 120
strikes. The Decem ber figure will
be only slightly lower. In the week
before Christmas, 91,000 m an-days
w ere lost in plants engaged in war
production. Two days before Christ
m as, 21,000 people w ere out on
strike, and a number of critical
item s were behind schedule.
Som e of the strikes have no rela
tion to w ages. Take for exam ple
the strike which Washington officials
refer to as “ the Baltim ore back
house strike.” The Western Electric
plants at Baltimore are producing
such highly important item s as m a
rine cables and radar wire. But
w’hite workers went on strike be
cause white and colored workers did
not have separate toilet facilities.
The war department w as obliged
to step in last week and take over
the plants—solely because of toilet
trouble. Workers began com ing back
slow ly, but four days after the plants
w ere taken over, over half the
workers were still out.
Unfortunately, there is every prob
ability that strikes will increase,
rather than decrease in the future.
N ext in line demanding w age in
creases will be aircraft, steel and
shipyard workers. John L. L ew is’
victory broke the line, has stim u
lated dem ands for increases in many
industries.
After the President yielded to
Lewis, George Harrison, railroad
brotherhoods chief, visited the White
House and said: “ For Gawd's sake,
you give it to your enem ies, why
not to your friends?”
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
<L President Rios of Chile recently
told newsm en he expected to visit
the United States. This plan is new
set aside, due to the grave situation
in Argentina and Bolivia.
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NOT MUCH CONFIDENCE
A group of basic school students
in the Signal Corps RTC at Camp
Crowder had been listening for an
hour to an instructor sing the praises
of the army gas mask. He had told
them that of all the equipment is
sued to a soldier, his gas mask
would prove the most valuable.
“Now,” he said impressively, sum
ming it all up, "when a soldier goes
into battle, what is the best protec
tion the army can give him?”
Replied a voice from the rear
row: “Life insurance!”
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Old Lady—That seems like an aw
ful small piece of meat to give to
a lion.
Keeper—It may seem like a small
piece to you, but not to the lion.
Wishful Thinking?
Joe—How’s your wife today?
Bill—Well, not so good, I'm afraid.
I wish she'd get well, or something.
Light Occupation
Joe—What’s the easiest work you
can think of?
Bill—How about brakeman on a
canal boat?
Hunting Epigram
The life of a rabbit is like all of
us; simply hare today and gun to
morrow!
Well-Known Bird!
Chicken—What are you but a
quack!
Duck—You aren’t so smart! What
if you’ve got a comb, you haven’t
any hair!
As She Is Spoke
Limey—It’s terrible the way you
Americans murder the king's Eng
lish!
Yankee—You slobbered a bibful,
all right!
Real Trouble
Housewife—How come you left
your last employers?
Maid—1 couldn't stand the way
they quarreled. When it wasn’t him
and me, it was her and me I