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With confidence In our armed forces—with
the un bounding determination of onr People
we will gain the inevitable triumph—so help
ns Roosevelt’s War Message.
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 13, 1944,
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
■e alone that hath the Bible need not
stray;
But he that hath and will not give,
The lamp of life to all who live,
Himself shall lose the way.—Selected.
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Pedestrianways
The County Commission does not see its
way clear to accept responsibility for acci
dents which might happen on a sidewalk on
Mercer avenue, which would be on the At
lantic Coast Line right of way, and so the
project is abandoned for the present.
School children, therefore, who traverse this
route will continue to endure varying condi
tions which range from mud to dust, as in
the past, afld like it if they can. We hold
no brief for the county or for the railroad, but
It would seem that an arrangement could be
reached which would be equally advantageous,
or burdeneseme, as the case might be, for
both.
However that may be, and we are not pre
pared to argue for or against either side,
there is one safety project the county could
undertake wh'ch would materially reduce the
hazard of accidents along highways. It is to
construct pedestrianways on highway rights of
wav and so rel eve persons afcot of the neces
sity of walking on the pavement or plowing
through weeds, mud, dust and trash at the
sice.
Too many pedestrians lose their lives on
highways for any county to fail to provide
such means of safety as it can. Certainly New
Hanover county, which is shaping its course
to assume leadership in the postwar world,
cannot hope to reach its goal unless it does
actually lead in safety, and one of the best
ways to do this is to make the going safe for
pedestrians who travel its highways.
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Ford’s Challenge
Henry Ford who revolutionized the automo
oile industry when he produced his Model T
still holds the same view that he had then, to
wit, the low-priced car is the most direct way
to the people's pocketbook and consequently
:he best means of piling up profits.
With his grandson serving him as spokes
-nan. we are told that the Ford factories in
tend to have two million automobiles a year
-oiling off assembly lines within eighteen
nonths after VE-day which will be marketed
it the prewar level of the cheapest model
?ord.
In the words of Henry the Seccnd it will
it “a full-sized, high-grade auton obile with
ill the built-in conveniences of the regular
nodels,” gnd average up to thirty miles per
<allon of gasoline. This will be in addition
o the regular models which wil be sod at
iast 10 per cent higher than in urewar days,
lut will still meet all demands of drivers for
ifficiency and comfort.
There is a challenge to other automoble man
ifacturers who will have to compete with
im. The Ford record for fulfilling forecasts
s too well known to permit a supposition
ow that Henry the Second has claimed too
nucn for postwar production. With a cheap
r-than-prewar Ford on the market, other
nanufacturers will have to step lively to keep
aee with the Fords, which is a promising out
lok for the thousands of drivers who will
e shopping around for new cars as soon as
ley are available.
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Change In Draft Call
Reduced to first principles, General Her
ley's comment on the prospect of changes in
le draft status of many thousand men indi
ces that deferments heretofore secured foi
Dung men eligible for combat duty because
ley were in war industrial service will be
rrtailed.
It is obvious that with the war nearing an
1-out effort in Europe with the hope of ad
dnistering a decisive defeat to the Germans
>eedily, replacements must be available- ir
rprecedented numbers, and the only way r6
acements can be obtained in the numbers
:quired is to summon all men within the
•aft age to the colors and replace those taker
om essental war work with others incapable
front-line service but still able to perform
ell at work bench or on assembly lines.
General Hershey declares that within a mat
r of months a 10 to 20 per cent increase ir.
e call on draft boards will be forthcoming,
levitably this will mean a great change ii
e status of many workers. If a thorough jot
is to be done, it will bring about a change in
union domination of many war plants, where
all too frequently two men are doing the work
of one with approval of the administration at
Washington and at unnecessary cost to the
taxpayers who must meet the payrolls.
-V
Miss Perkins Confesses
Secretary of Labor Perkins, silent for a
long time, finally finds her tongue to say
there should be a powerful Labor Department
after the war. She probably did not mean it,
but her declaration is in effect a confession
of her own failure as head of the department.
She declares the Labor Department of the
future should include work now done by the
War Labor Board and the National Labor Re
lations Board, and adds: “Various functions
relating to labor matters now scattered
through many agencies of the government,
should be consolidated in the U. S. Depart
ment of Labor. .
When the Labor Department was created
the intention was that it should handle all
matters relating to labor all the various
functions” which JLss Perkins complains are
now scattered through many agencies of the
government. It was not until she proved in
capable of directing the “various functions ’
of the department that it was found expedient
to divide them among many agencies of the
government. That this was done is clear proof
of her incompentence.
Therefore, if she is correct in saying there
should be a powerful Department of Labor
after the war, and she certainly is correct in
so saying, and in view of the dismal failure
she has made of her administration of the
department, the only reasonable and fair
course open to her is to resign and insist
that President Roosevelt accept her resigna
tinn.
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Listening To Music
^aron Copeland wrote a book "On What to
Listen for in Music." It is full of sage advice
and, we might add in a spicy vein, peppery
comment. He finds the orchestra the "most
interesting combination of instruments compos
ers have yet evolved."
And. in listening to an orchestra, he adds,
"it is wise to keep in mind the four principal
sections and their relative importance.” That
is to say, the symphony orchestra being divid
ed into four parts, which is one up on Gaul,
and exactly like a choir, it is unfair to tune
the ear to one alone and ignore the others.
Ht adds: "Don't concentrate on the string
section alone, just because they are seated
up front nearest you. Try to free yourself of
bad orchestral listening habits. The main thing
you can do in listening to the orchestra, aside
from enjoying the sheer beauty of the sound
itself, is to extricate the principal melodic
material from its surrounding and supporting
elements. The melodic line generally passes
from one section to another or from one in
strument to another, and you must always
be mentally alert if you expect to be able to
follow its peregrinations. The composer helps
by careful balancing of his instrumental sonori
ties: the conductor helps by realizing those
balances, adjusting individual conditions to the
composer’s intention. But none can be of any
help if you are not prepared to disengage the
melodic material from its accompanying web
of sound.
With this disposed of. as are all good lessons
well learned, the question in Wilmington is to
get an orchestra to listen to.
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Tokyo Evacuation
The Berlin radio may be on or off the beam
but at any rate it announces the evacuation of
Tokyo with 20,000 moving out on Tuesday. Es
sential workers, and defense forces, it adds,
together with members of certain professions
including medicine, will be prevented from go
ing, but other civilians, especially the aged
and children, are to be sent elsewhere as a re
sult of the increasing damage and'deaths from
American bombings.
If Berlin is on the beam this is interesting
informat'on. It means that B-29s have been
doing a bigger and better job than news dis
patches have revealed. If it is off the beam,
as to the cause but not as to the fact of
evacuation, it may mean that the recent earth
quake played havor in the Japanese capital,
With news sources so limited in Japan it is
still impossible to learn much about this tem
blor, but from the seismological records in this
country it is apparent that it was of a violent
type, and may have hit Tokyo in the ribs,
causing damage so great that the city is prac
tically uninhabitable save for workers in war
industries and civilian defense forces manning
__I)
There is still another possible explanation.
The Germans have suffered gravely from Al
lied air raids, with the capital itself all but
blasted out of existence. As a means of di
verting attention from Germany’s losses from
raids the radio announcement of Tokyo’s
evacuation may have eminated from the fertile
if bestial brain of Herr Goebbels.
-V
Foolish Talk
Rep. Clare Boothe Luce said in Paris the
other day she thinks the United States has
been “very lucky’’ in its military leaders.
The lady has uttered many strange words
since she entered the political arena, but none
so strange as this. It might be supposed that
America’s military leaders had been chosen
by drawing straws, with fortunate results, or
someone had cast the dice for them and hit a
natural.
^ The fact is “luck’’ has had nothing to do
with the selection of our military leadership.
The men who are directing our war participa
tion have been trained for their job and have
reached their posts of responsibility not only
because cf this training but for their exception
al talent and ability for putting into practice
the theory of successfully making war for
which they had been trained.
If Mrs. Luce must travel the war zone in
Europe for some unexplained and incompre
hensible reason, when she ought to be attend
ing the sessions of Congress to which she was
elected and for which she is drawing taxpay
ers’ money, she at least should curb her pre
disposition for foolish talk. If she makes more
breaks like this one she’ll make the United
States the laughing stock of its Allies.
Fair Enough
(Editors note.—The Star and the News
accept no responsibility for the personal
views of Mr. Pegler, and often disagree
with them as much as many of his read
ers. His articles serve the good purpose
of making people think.)
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
(Copyright, 1944, by King Features Syndicate.)
NEW YORK,—In all our excitement over
the cigarette shortage, the most practical and
beneficial solution has been completely ig
nored. That is to cut them out entirely. In
stead, rationing nas ueen suggcsicu aim me
voluntary curtailment of individual quotas and
so firmly are the people held in the grip of
this narcotic addiction that we have gone at
the problem with an obviously false assump
tion that the lack of them impairs the ef
ficiency of war workers in the factories, of
soldiers and of men and women who work
with the brain rather than the hand.
This impairment is real in the sense that
smokers become worried and, some of us,
almost frantic when cigarettes are not to be
had or supplies dwindle. In that situation, as
we heard last week, people actually take time
off from their jobs to hunt from store to
store or stand in line and, in that immediate
sense, war production probably would suffer.
The actual cause of the impairment, how
ever, is not the shortage of cigarettes but
the cigarette habit itself through which the
American people consume every day tons of
dangerous poisons and constantly reduce our
normal efficiency. No honest physician can say
that cigarettes are good for any person in
any circumstances. No honest doctor can deny
that they are harmful in many ways fer there
is much scientific literature, never disputed,
to show that they impose strains on the heart
and circulatory system and cause irritations
in the throat which invite infections.
A few years ago, as an excuse for another
new' deal attack on the American newspapers,
one of the more noisy Washington bureau
crats accused the press of stifling or minimiz
ing a report condemning cigarettes on ap
proximately these grounds. It must be ad
mitted that the document received small at
tention but me insinuation that this editorial
judgment was dictated by consideration of the
advertising revenue from cigarette companies
d.d not logically follow. The story might have
been played across the top of page one with
out diminishing cigarette sales by as much
as a single pack in the entire country be
cause the habit is so strong as to be almost
incurable as I realize at this moment with
a cigarette burning in the tray on the desk.
The competition between cigarette compan
ies depends on individual taste. They have
no problem of creating a general market.
And newspaper editorial judgment in such a
situation is based on a practical, if forlorn,
acceptance of the fact that any paper or
chain of papers which should crusade against
cigarettes would accomplish no good and
would only invite derision and get it in good
measure. Nor is it necessary for cigarette
companies to give away samples to the young
to catch them in the toils of the vice. The
young, as they reached their advanced teens,
take naturally to smoking in such overwhelm
ing proportion that the few boys and girls
who stand off the habit are regarded as ec
centrics rather than as normal youngsters who
prefer to stay normal. Whether this inevitable
drift into the unhappy state of addiction is a
matter of emulation or an effect of heredity
is less important than the fact that it is in
evitable. It is apparent that a majority of
each new generation are doomed to be cig
arette smokers and. judging by the statistics
on consumption, the proportion grows year
by year.
The attitude of doctors in general is puzzling
here. The best that any reputable scientific
man can say of cigarette addiction is that
an occasional cigarette, of itself, does so little
harm that it may be smoked without any
thought of the consequences. The minute quan
tity of poison in one cigarette or one a day
would cause no inconvenience to any normally
healthy person. But all medical men know
that there is, practically, no such thing as
one cigarette or one a day. Smokers consume
twenty or more or none at all, as all medical
men know, and the effects of such quantities
cannot be denied. They are definitely bad
and many of them irreparable. Yet few smok
ers are flatly ordered to quit the habit cold
unti’ they have so far impaired their health
that to continue might be fatal.
Oddly, strong as a habit is, patients who
are put on warning that they must break ii
off sharp or die, usually are able to do sc
with no great inconvenience. Let the doctor
warn a patient that he has a dangerous heart
condition aggravated by cigarettes or an ir
ritation which might be malignant and the
victim has no trouble quitting.
Smokers, by the way, are, as a class the
most inconsiderate of all human beings, in
cluding their vice to the distress of those
who do not smoke in all manner of places
where, by good manners, smoking should be
t—u;AA\ rpamnahlv "nnlifp malp wVin tVia\>
take some pride in his consideration of women,
will remove his hat when entering an elevator
in a hotel where women are fellow passengers,
but continue to blow fumes from a cigarette,
pipe or cigar, unconscious that he is inflict
ing real distress on innocent victims. They
smoke in railroad cars sitting right under
“No Smoking’’ signs to the distress of scores
of others and ignoring the facilities of cars
reserved for smokers. They light up in dining
cars and, of course, in all restaurants and in
the stifling tunnels of Grand Central as the
people leave the cars and inch their way in
close jams up the ramps to the open air oi
the waiting rooms
In this wgr, we have lost important produc
tion because factory regulations, dictated by
safety and efficiency, forbade smoking and
the smokers, unable to restrain themselves,
walked out. Many miners have lost their lives
through explosions caused by smokers -wh<
smuggled matches and cigarettes below
ground concealed in their shoes and caps.
Altogether, it is a vice with no compensat
ine good effe«, the abolition of which, how
“TURNING POINT OF THE WAR” |j
WITH THE AEF
They March—Ten Paces Apart
By KENNETH L. DIXON
IN GERMANY. Dec. 6.—(Delay
ed)—(IP—As seen from a ditch, the
two tall trees made a perfect pic
ture frame through which the col
umn slowly advanced.
Ten paces apart, Company A
w-as moving into the combat line.
The men walked upward along a
gradually ricing ridge, entering the
picture one by one. Each drab,
muddy outline held the scene a
moment as it topped the crest. It
seemed suspended there against the
gray, smoky sky just before it
stumbled on
All along the rainswept slope, the
wet earth seemed to boil with
muddy mortar bubbles bursting
and splashing around the men. Now
and then as a man fell, a missing
tooth appeared in this moving
"picket fence.”
Sharp through the rumbling un
dertones of the frontline fighting
came the whispering, warning siz
zle of mortar after mortar, each
seeming to shriek "sshhh! sshhh!>'
—Bidding the war be still until it
spoke. And as each whooshing whis
tle died, somehow a split second’s
synthetic silence was wrought as
each ear and eye and nerve await
ed the coming blast.
Through it all the doughboys
walked slowly, grim, strained—
ten paces apart.
Sometimes when a shell landed
too close they hit the dirt, but most
ly they just kept moving. Twice
men were hit. The column pause*!
briefly. Then it flowed forward
again with sticky reluctance, like
heavy motor oil on a cold morning.
The dead of the company up
ahead still lay where they had fall
en. The pathway was narrow and
mines were thick on both sides.
Heavy-footed doughboys stepped
carefully over the bodies of men
they’d swapped cigarets with just
a few hours before.
Some turned their eyes aside.
Some stared, fearful and with mag
netized fascination, at the torn bod
ies. Strangely there seemed to be
no wounded on the slope. Only the
walking and the dead
With faces pale and tight under
the beards and dirt, the soldiers
neither hurried nor lagged as shells
fell about them. Still there was no
straggling.___
There was a complete absence of
human sound No one shouted or
ders, cried out or talked. They just
pushed on toward an invisible ene
my. Their job was to concentrate
powerfully on putting one foot
ahead of the other regardless of
what happened.
Watching them do it made you
begin to tremble and you weren’t
sure why. These men displayed no
heroics, no hate, no enthusiasms,
no crusading zeal.
There seemed to be nothing what
soever to help spur them on. But
they marched. Their steps seemed
to drum into your brain. These men
didn’t want to go forward. That
was heartbreakingly clear in every
line of their flinching forms.
It was even more clear that they
would not stop short of that inferno
beyond them.
With the resignation of the damn
ed, thei,r forward motion had be
come grimly irresistible. And you
knew that if they fell other would
knew that if they fell others would
going.
Reluctant heroes — ten paces
apart.
JAPANESE CHIEF
PRAYS AT SHRINE
FOR WAR VICTORY
By The Associated Press
The Japanese agency Domei said
in a Tokyo radio broadcast today
that Premier Kuniaki Koiso visit
ed Nippon's famous Ise shrine
and offered special prayer for vic
tory in the battle of Leyte.
Domei quoted the premier as
saying the Ley.e battle "will de
cide the fate of the greater East
Asia war.” He added "we will
certainly win the war. I, Koiso,
will march ahead toward the suc
cessful consummation of the war
and reaffirm my faith in our ulti
mate victory.”
The broadcast, recorded by the
Federal Communications Commis
sion, said the premier visited the
shrine to pray on the anniversary
of Emperor Hirohito's 1942 trip
to Ise, at Ujiyamada, almost 200
miles southwest of Tokyo.
$1,408,000,000 Mark
Reached In E Bonds
WASHINGTON, Dep. 12. — (£>) —
Gradually - improving series E
bond sales in the Sixth War Loan
reached $1,408,000,000 today.
Robert W Coyne, field director
of the Treasury’s war finance di
vision, told reporters, “I feel very
good over the prospect of making
the $2,500,000,000 E bond quota.”
He said there is no section now
that doesn’t think it will reach its
goal in E bonds, which are the
government securities held by
more ‘’Americans than all other
types of securities combined.
ever would cause violence in the
streets and serious economic trou
bles in Virginia, the Carolinas and
Georgia, in the United States Trea
sury and in the wide field of em
ployment, all of which indicates
the extent to which we live by the
grace of a great national weakness.
The Literary Guidepost
BY JOHN SELBY
“The Bible and the Common
Reader,” by Mary Ellen Chase
(MacMillan; 2.50).
One of the most popular Smith
College courses is given by Mary
Ellen Chase, and is a study of the
King James version of the Bible,
and its influence on other English
literature. Smith girls grow star
ry-eyed over it; also, Miss Chase
has learned much from it.
She has learned that the com-!
mon reader knows almost noth
ing about the Bible as a work of
literature, as a singularly perfect
expression of the world in a re
duced version, fitted to one small
people. So she has written “The
Bible and the Common Reader”
out of her experience. It is a re
markably useful book for any
reader, because it really does
show him what is great about the
Bible (leaving aside all its re
ligious significance and contro-|
versial interpretations) and why j
these things are great.
For me the most fascinating j
material of all is in the second
chapter, which tells about the
translations leading up to the I
House Moves To Guard
Citizenship Of Vets’
Babies Born Overseas
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. — UP) —
Tbe House passed a bill today to
safeguard the American citizen
ship of children born to servicemen
of minor age as the result of mar
riage overseas.
The bill provides that children
born of An American father over
18 years old shall be United States
citizens. The present legal mini
mum is 21 years.
Rep. Dickstein (D-NY) told the
House more than 14,000 service
men under 21 have married Aus
tralian girls-and declared: “This
bill is to protect the citizenship of
children bom of tlgpce marriages.”
King James version. All the Eng
lish translators owe much to a
certain William Tyndale, whose
translation in the first quarter of
the 16th century was one base for
all those that followed. Wycliffe’s
manuscript translation from St.
Jerome’s Latin Vulgate had im
portance. Miss Chase says, but its
influence was circumscribed be
cause it was not printed. Tyndale
was hounded out of England,
nublished his New Testament and
the Pentateuch from ‘he Old Testa
ment, and finally died at the stake
in Belgium.
Miss Chase considers the King
James version incomparable, and
its composition a miracle. It. owes
much to Tyndale, to ‘he Geneva
Bible, the Bishon’s Bible, and all
the others, but these sources and
the intelligent scholarshm of the 54
translators do not explain the qual
ity of their work. It is this wonder
ful transliteration that makes it
possible to enjoy the drama, poetry
historical wrintinv, biosraphv_-'ll
the incomparable content of this
timeless book. The body of Miss
Chase’s book explains the location
of the stories, and evaluates them.
Magnuson Will Fill
Bone’s Senate Term
OLYMPIA. Wash., Dec 12. —(JP)
—Republican Gov. Arthur B Lang
lie appointed U. S. Rep. Warren
G. Magnuson. Democrat, today to
serve the unexpired term of U. S.
Senator Homer T. Bone, (D-Wash)
who resigned November 13 to take
a Federal judgeship.
Magnuson was elected Novem
ber 7 to succeed Bone and would
have taken office as senator next
January in any event.
Langlie said the appointment
was “based entirely upon the pos
sibility” that his State would bene
fit through putting Magnuson
ahead of other new senators in
seniority for committee appoint
ments.
He said “an appointment of a
worthy Republican would be an
>mpty honor” at this time.
Interpreting
The War
By KIRKE L. SIMPsov
Associate,! Press War Analvst
len days short of the •
oU.ice, the Allied wir,^ offens -I
n the west has sul st nti n*
eached its first objective- ’
tvery indication. the .' 7
)attles lie ahead.
Formidable river barro-,
Ihine, the Meuse and mV v 5
till guard all critical gatewa, ’
he Rhine-Ruhr valley ,
leart of Nazidom in the no/;
In the south, where conver jn«
American armies are ’
iowu on the vital S ;
source of Nazi war materiel V' ..
;he forefield of Germany s Vf.
’ried Line defenses west 'of V
Rhine yet have been reached .
closely approached. Onl\ • V , '
Karlsruhe corner in ; h e cer'm'i
Rhine valley southward m
Swiss border does the f >e apno -
defintely in process of fallr a
Dack behind the Rhine .*
Obviously, the real test of a*f.
man ability to wear down Allied
power short of the Rhine ot-l.v •, ,
is beginning. At one point ft‘V
Aachen area, advance forces st !
nearly 20 miles deep into Gem V.'
out still miles or more fr, n
Cologne with its multiple Kk ,
crossings. The 300-mile span sep
arating Allied troops in HoUi.-Vt 5
from Berlin has siood unchanged i
for weeks.
Below the Moselle. Third Armv
troops, which took the
stride, are at grips with the outer
layers of the labyrinthian Sieg
fried Line defense system that lies
behind that river. And on the
southern face of the Soar basin
perimeter between the Saar and
the Rhine, Third and Seventh .V.
my troops only now are approach
ing German frontiers well guard
ed in depth.
There seems no reason to doubt
that clearance of the last Nazi jn.
vader from French soil will be
accomplished soon. From t h e
Karlsrhue corner to the Swiss fron
tier, German rearguards are fight
ing only to achieve escape behind
the Rhine with minimum los or.
There is little prospect of furth
er major action in that upper
Rhine sector once the Nazi with
drawal east of the river is com
pleted. It should mean probably
shifting of forces northward to
more critical sectors for both
sides.
Up to now, every reported Nazi
move in the north including the
present retreat behind the Roer.
where Allied forces have gained
a substantial footing on the west
bank of the flooded stream, points
to a die-hard defense foot-by-foot
of the whole west Rhineland.
It is there that, aided by winer
weather cramping Allied air sup
port of attacking troops, the foe
obviously has staked everything on
exhausting Allied will or capacity
to drive to or beyond the Rhine
this winter.
With the seasonal change there
will be no probable weather im
provement to bring Allied air pur
er into more sustained and effect
ive play in support of ground for
ces.
Daily Prayer
FOR UPLIFTED EYES
War woes, war burdens, war sep
arations, war restrictions bear
heavily upon our spirits, 0 great
Overruler of Life, and we forget
eternal truth in our engrossment
in time's cares. Our thoughts are
too often small and worrisome,
and we fail to reckon with t
eternal serenity of Thy nature. We
confess this si nand cry for Thy
pardon. Forbid. O patient Fat
that we should grovel in earthli
ness when Thou meanest us to be
I free and soaring spirits, dwol1
j in the high atmosphere of Thy
oeace. God give us uplifted rye-,
■‘'or contemplation of Thee and Thy
sure truth. Our heln is fron the
! Lord, and we would look only !ri
Thee. In Thee is succor and solace,
for our dear ones in service and
I for ourselves. Visit us. we pic d.
| with a clear conscious’1?-of ’!
;presence and power. Purfy a: d
exalt our spirits in this hour of ri- -
J nerate need, and redeem u
Thy salvation. Amen. —W.TE.
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Chinese General Fan if
Escanes Jno Prison
CHUNGKING, Dec. 12, -'■■T'
Gen. Fang Hsien-chueh, comn
er of China’s IOth Army, who '
taken prisoner when Hcngyn
after a 47 days siege last An:. ,
has arrived here safely v.
era! of his staff officers sf a
dramatic escane from the -Up3'
nese, it was announced too ;..
Fang called on Genera
Chiang Kai-shek yes erday t
port on the battle of Hengy-m ;
describe his escape, dc-t; m n'
which have not been made p:; c'
SO WHAT, HIROHITO?
Japs Say U. S. Will Suffer
Cigaretless Christmas
By The Associated Press
The Japanese-controlled S. a
pore radio said Tuesd a
“rich” America will have a
poor Christmas because of
cigaret and sugar short a?'
The broadcast, reported . y ' !''
pictures Americans as expo: < L'
ing cigaretless days and a
“girls who used to smoke a
are now obliged to resort to 1 •v'
ing gum.”
-V
In a B-29 Superfortress :
are, not including duplicate •
40,450 different kinds of P“- ,,
More than a million rivets ■ '■
the huge warship together. ,