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Pennsylvania Amish Smallpox Epidemic Spreads to Children Two New Cases Found In Neighboring County; 1,200 Vaccinated B» th» Associated Press. LEWISTOWN, Pa., Dec. 26.—Phy sicians lighting an outbreak of smallpox among Amish farmers in the Kishacoquillas Valley intensified a vaccination program today after they reported the disease, previously confined to adults, had spread to children. Seven children have contracted the disease, along with 20 adults previously reported. Two of them live just beyond the valley in Hunt ingdon County, whereas the disease had been confined to Mifflin County previously. All the new victims were of pre-school age and unvaccinated. Dr. H. E. Miller of Belleville, prin cipal community in the area which has been quarantined and placed under State guard, said he and two other physicians already had vac cinated 1,200 men, women and chil dren, and hoped to reach 1,000 more in a few days. Vaccine Rushed to Area. A thousand more tubes of vaccine have been ordered by special mail from Philadelphia, while doctors make the available supply do double duty in order to vaccinate as many as possible in the shortest time. State health officials are giving as sistance in the vaccination program. Dr. S. J. Dickey of the State De partment of Health said no reports had been received from other areas visited by a woman from Ohio, who is suspected to having carried the disease to an Amish wedding party attended by 235 guests. The woman aince has returned home. The Amish farmers have been hard hit financially. Most of them are dairymen, and the operator of one Belleville creamery said he was forced to turn back 200.000 pounds of milk a day. He said the farmers were using it to feed pigs. Several war plants in the area faced a prospect of being forced to close aoon if supplies and employes remain blocked off by the quaran tine. Outbreak in Ohio. Dr. R. H. Markwith, Ohio health director, said at Cofumbus an out break in the Buckeye State might be traced to the Pennsylvania com munity. An Amish minister’s wife who visited the Mifflin County settlement became ill with smallpox upon re turning to Ohio last month, he as serted. The woman was In good health when she left Ohio. Dr. Markwith declared, and might have contracted the disease in Pennsylvania. Three other members of the Ohio com munity subsequently became ill with the disease. I Conditions in Dublin Altered Greatly by War Great changes have been wrought In Dublin, Eire, since the war started. Bicycles are as popular as ever, automobiles scarce. Tire visi tor sees peat and wood fires, none of coal. Those who use gas for lighting are doomed to a winter of candles, as the gas is turned off early in the evening. The streets are still elec trically lighted, but illumination is subdued. The cupboards are be ginning to look bare. The stores are well stocked, but prices are , high, and some foods, bacon for ' example, are getting extremely scarce. The bakeries still have plenty of frosted cakes and pastries, and crowds patronize the cafes for cof fee on Saturday mornings as much as in pre-war days. Parade Hails Arrival Of U. S. Troops Auckland, New Zealand, has been particularly zealous in welcoming Americans on their arrival and in 1 entertaining them afterwards. A great parade was held, with Ameri- ; cans at the head, outside the Town Hall. Thousands of citizens lined the streets. Maj. J. A. Allum has welcomed ! every officer of rank on arrival and has entertained senior officers at dinner with local guests. Tlie.se of ficial welcomes have been supple mented by an unusual amount of private hospitality. United States Army nurses have been billeted with private families. These nurses made a gift of S2.350 to the city, and it helped to finance ft nursery. I Researchers to Develop New Army Rations By thy Associated Press. The appointment of a Subsistence Research Projects Board to develop new food products and rations for the Army was announced today by the War Department. Col. George F. Doriot, QMC, was named chairman, and Col. Paul P. Logan. QMC, vice chairman and military adviser. Other members: are Col. Rohland H. Isker, QMC, j head of the Subsistence Research! Laboratory, Chicago; Prof. Bernard E. Procter. Massachusetts Institute j of Technology. Boston; Dr. Ancil B. Keys. University of Minnesota; Ger- ! aid A. Fitzgerald. Dover, Del., and j Miss Mary I. Barber of Battle Creek,! Mich., special consultant to the Sec- ] retary of War. Police Academy to Hear Child Delinquency Talks Lectures on District juvenile de linquency problems will be added to the curriculum of the Police Acad emy, Maj. Edward J. Kelly, superin tendent of police, announced yes terday. To familiarize Washington police with latest methods in handling the problem. Dr. Leonard M. Dub of the University of Chicago will speak on the subject when the next academy class convenes January 4, Maj. Kelly said. Dr. Dub is in Washington at the present time conducting neurological examinations of selective service registrants. Miss Genevieve Ga bower of the Juvenile Court will also lecture before the Policy Academy. Her lectures will include "Facts About Juvenile Delinquency.” "Child J Guidance” and “Mental Diseases.” PARTY GIVEN HOMELESS MEN—Gifts of socks and candy, distributed by (left to right) Miss Eleanor Steele, Miss Lorriane Dyer and Mrs. Harvey V. Prentice, were part of an entertainment given for 200 homeless men at the Gospel Mission Home yesterday. Dinner was served about 190 of the men at noon._ —Star staff Photo> Lf. Frazier Curtis, 24, Dies in Plane Crash After Gunner Bails Out Army Flyer Was Son Of Former Assistant ? Secretary of Treasury Lt. Frazier Curtis, 24-year-old son of James F. Curtis, former Assistant j Secretary of the Treasury, and Mrs. I Laura Curtis Gross, crashed to his j death at Meridian, Miss., Wednesday after keeping his plane high enough ] for his gunner to bail out, friends here learned last night. The youthful pilot, who was study ing to be a lawyer before he en listed in the Army Air Corps in July, 1941, is next to the youngest of four sons and daughters of the socially prominent Washington family. His mother, who is now married to a vice president of the Bethle hem Steel Corp.. was a leader in Washington society from her debu tante days here, and was once men tioned for District Commissioner. She was founder of the exclusive 1925 F Street Club. According to friends. Lt. Curtis | met- his death while returning from a dive-bombing demonstration at Fort Sill, Okla., to his home base at Waycross, Ga. Lt. Curtis' plane i and five others in the squadron had just taken off from the Meridian1 Field when the Curtis plane ran into | trouble. Lt. Curtis fought to maintain i enough altitude for his gunner to i jump to safety. By the time the pilot was able to set the controls and jump himself, however, the j plane had lost too much altitude. The parachute did not open in time. Lt Curtis was due to go on fur- | lough when he returned to his base. He was to have met his mother in New York for Christmas. Since her marriage to the steel executive in 1938. Mrs. Gross has been living in Bethlehem. Pa. Her home at 1925 F street N.W., where she lived until her children grew up, was long a society meeting place When she decided to move to New York, the home was turned into a club. Those who had been guests at the Curtis home became members of the club, which in 1935 was incorporated as a permanent organization. Lt. Curtis’ older brother. James1 Curtis, jr., who was in business in ! New York, is now also in the Army : Air Forces. His older sister, Mrs. I George H. Bostwick, is the wife of ‘ the noted polo player. "Pete” Bost wick. He is also survived by a younger sister. Miss Pauline Curtis, j Lt. Curtis was graduated “cum i laude” from Harvard University in 1940. Before his enlistment he at- ! tended Yale Law School. He re- ; ceived his flight training at Parks Air College, St. Louis; Randolph Field. Tex.; Arlington Field, Tex.,! and Savannah, Ga. I Murray Assails Nazis For Massacre of Jews By thp Associated Pros. Philip Murray, president of the CIO, yesterday condemned “the massacre of Jews and of civilians of all nationalities where the Nazi war machine has entered” and i pledged redoubled efforts for vie-1 torv. “In answer to this mass horror now being inflicted on our brothers and sisters in Europe, we pledge, in the name of humanity, to redouble our work for the utter destruction of Nazism and all its legions of death throughout the Axis,” Mr. Murray’s statement said. “We renew our pledge of devotion to the cause of complete United Nations victory. We reaffirm our pledge of unity with the workers and the plain people of all nations, including the occupied nations, in the common struggle for freedom and for life itself." War Plant Guard Dies From Stab Wounds By the Associated Press. GREENCASTLE. Pa., Dec. 26.— Charles Kilgore, 39. a guard at a defense plant, was stabbed to death Christmas Day, it was disclosed to day. State Policeman J. A. Walsh of Chambersburg said* Mr- Kilgore worked until midnight Christmas eve and returned home, where there was a Christmas gathering. He said Mr. Kilgore apparently was stabbed between 3 and 4 a.m. and was taken immediately to a Hagers town (Md.) hospital for treatment. He returned to his home a few hours later. Policeman Walsh said Mr. Kilgore’s wife found him dead in bed about 11 a m. Christmas Day. S. D. Shull. Franklin County coroner, said an autopsy showed death resulted from a stab wound which punctured the jugular vein. Sixth Robbery In Two Years Irks Druggist Harry K. Babbitt, owner of Bab bitt's Drug Store at 1106 P street N.W., said today he was "plenty tired" of having his establishment broken into by thieves. On opening the store this morning after being closed Christmas Day, Mr. Babbitt found four cash regi sters and a safe rifled and more than $300 stolen. He said it was the sixth time the store has been robbed in little more than two years. Four months ago the place was entered and more than $1,000 taken. “This time," said Mr. Babbitt, “they got in through a basement window on Eleventh street.* He said the loss was not covered by insurance. Russian 'Continued From First Page ' Caucasus offensive, brought victory after a flank attack. The war bulletin said the ’Ger mans had transformed the town into a powerful defense center. “The battle continued through out the night," the midday com munique said. “The Germans stub bornly defended the approaches to the vilage and each street and each house. 300 Germans Killed. “The guardsmen made a detour and broke the enemy’s resistance in the flank. Three hundred Ger mans were killed. Our men cap tured six German tanks, 21 guns. 14 tractors, 28 machine guns, 600 rifles and large quantities of cart ridge shells and mines.” More counterattacks in the Velikie Luki sector of the central front west of Moscow were re ported repulsed with the killing of 200 Germans. An advance of 15 miles in the strategic Kotelnikovski sector southwest of Stalingrad, the recap ture of scores of additional villages in the middle Don drive, a three day push of from 15 to 18 miles in the Caucasus southeast of Nalchik, and continued successes on the Velikie Luki-Rzhev battlefields west of Moscow were recounted in the latest series of Soviet communiques. Soviet sources did not cite com parative figures, but said that Rus sia now has regained more territory than was won by Soviet troops in the entire winter offensive last year. Middle Don Toll 106,000. In the middle Don drive alone 14, 500 Germans were reported killed or captured in yesterday's fighting, bringing the toll in that offensive to 106.700, counted as 57,000 slain and 49,700 taken prisoner. The advance southeast of Stalin grad followed a 13-day battle during which tiie Russian communiques daily spoke of Axis troops making bitter tank-supported counterat tacks, with temporary successes, in an attempt to avoid encirclement. The late communiques said that eight villages were taken in the 15 mile push and that during the fort night of fighting in that area the Axis had lost 9,000 men, 300 tanks, 268 planes and 160 guns. The official Soviet war bulletins also listed 2,000 Axis troops slain in the Nalchik area since December 22 and more than 1,000 killed in two days’ battling west of Rzhev. Two other facets of the Soviet winter offensive that was launched in the Stalingrad district November 19 and has branched out in many directions relate to the equipment losses of the Nazis and to guerrilla action. Today’s early communiques listed for the Kotelnikovski action the destruction of 300 Axis tanks and 268 planes. In the middle Don drive, which began December 15, the Rus sians counted 172 Axis tanks cap tured and 133 destroyed, 107 planes brought down, 1,877 guns captured and 351 destroyed, and 1,177 motor cycles, 64.000 rifles, 97 ammunition dumps and 82 wireless stations cap tured. Guerrillas Active. In the Caucasus battles 36 tanks were reported destroyed and 32 cap tured. In the two-day fighting near Rzhev 49 tanks and armored trucks were declared to have been taken. Par west, in the Ukraine, to whose reoovery Premier Joseph Stalin has pledged the Red Army in a special message, guerrillas were credited with 70 sorties in which they wrecked 51 trains in the Chernigov Province west of Kharkov, killing more than 5.000 Axis troops. Guerrilla action presaged the Caucasus drive and guerrilla units still are working northwest of Tuapse, in the Western Caucasus. Within Stalingrad hand-to-hand fighting continued and northwest of the city Russian artillery pounded German positions, the Russians said. Adolf, Benito and Hirohtto—the three blind mice. Make them run with War bends. Airmen in Solomons Blast 24 Jap Planes Ai Munda Base U. S. Flyers Usher in Yuletide by Pounding At Enemy Barges Bj the Associated Press. American airmen in the Solomon* ushered in the Yuletide by blasting 24 Japanese planes at Munda, knock ing out aircraft batteries there and pounding barges attempting to land reinforcements and supplies. Two raids were carried out on the day before Christmas, the Navy said in a communique yesterday, by planes operating from Guadalcanal, 170 miles from the new Jap air base at Munda on New Georgia Island. Fourteen enemy planes were shot down and 10 destroyed on the ground in the first raid, without damage to our own planes. “Weak” anti-air craft fire met the Americans but was quickly silenced by strafing, the Navy said. On a return trip, the American* bombed the barges and the airfield, the latter from “low altitude in the absence of any enemy resistance.” The Navy acknowledged that four of the barges succeeded in landing. Destruction of the 24 plane* brought Jap losses at Munda to 30 or more planes in a series of raids over 14 days, against the known loss of two American planes. Fuel Oil (Continued From First Page.) armed forces in the kind of war we fight. In the 17 Eastern States are supplies are very strictly lim ited. “No one who uses heating oil should therefore assume that be cause the mechanics of the ration ing system are flexible that there is any comparable flexibility in the oil supply. We may set the dates of the coupon validation forward. We may make a number of special provisions for meeting emergencies so far as the mechanics of the ra tioning system are concerned, but none of these things produce more oil. In fact, some of them are. in effect, a means of borrowing against the future, and that future is not bright. “So when the coupon date is set forward as it has been in the 30 rationed States, I hope no one in terprets that to mean that we have suddenly discovered new supplies of oil. Every consumer of home heating oil should know that he is getting, under the rationing system, the very most which is currently available, through the existing supply and distribution system. No one can give him any assurance that he will get any more than he has now been alloted bv his War Price and Rationing Board. And no one can give him any assur ance as to the future. “I, therefore, appeal most sin cerely to every consumer of home heating fuel oil to use the absolute minimum of the supplies which he gets with his coupons.” Baltimore Mayor Urged To Request Water Loan Bjr the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Dec. 26—Engi neering consultants of the city ad vised Mayor Howard W. Jackson to ask the City Council to approve a $6,000,000 loan under the emer gency powers of the city charter for use in augmenting the water supply of the municipality. City voters defeated a proposed $32,000,000 water loan in the gen eral election last November. Butterflies Over Britain Swarms of white butterflies ex tending for several miles were seen over England recently. Rommel Is Whipped Completely by Allies, Gen. Andrews Says American Commander In Middle East Hails British Organization <The following dispatch from Deicitt Mackenzie, written in Cairo after his visit to the Afri can battle front, was delayed in transmission. Since it was filed Mr. Mackenzie has resumed his tour of the Eastern war zones and is now in Palestine.) By DEWITT MACKENZIE. CAIRO. Dec. 22 (Delayed).—Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, com mander in chief of American forces in the Middle East, assures me that while it will take hard fighting to oust the Axis from Africa, Field Marshal Gen. Erwin Rommel has been so thoroughly whipped he no longer is a menace to Egypt and the Suez Canal. Now, opinions on war are a piaster a dozen these days — and that's 4 cents. However, I repeat Gen. Andrews’ estimate because this famous fighting man, among Uncle Sam’s most distinguished soldiers, exhibits a solidarity that Inspires confidence in his views. I'm not the only one who feels that way, for I understand he has created a most favorable impres sion since he assumed command here a few weeks ago. Picture Encouraging. “Everything in the general pic ture is very encouraging,” he told me in his quiet but direct and posi tive way. “Rommel has been given a hard trouncing. He never again can come back into Egypt. I couldn't even Imagine it. He has been licked.” I asked Gen. Andrews how long he thought it would take to finish the job by driving the Germans into the sea. He shook his head. "I wouldn’t want to make that prediction. Rommel must be anni hilated—made to stand and fight— or rendered impotent by having his supplies cut off. “He waits until you get all set to strike him and then pulls out. He's clever at it, but he’s playing a dan gerous game. Let him slip once and the Allies will get him. Battle of Supplies. "We can render the Axis helpless both in this theater and in Tunisia by cutting off their resources from the continent. This is a battle of supplies, and we must blockade the Axis so they can’t carry on. We can do it because we have superiority in the air and on the sea.” I caught Gen. Andrews at his headquarters just as he arrived from a two-hour conference with the Brit ish War Council. He obviously was tired, for it W'as the end of a long day. He looked, however, every inch a soldier. Those three silver stars on his square shoulder set off to advantage his handsome shock of iron gray hair. Presumably he still had the conference on his mind, for he remarked: "The British have a wonderful organization here In Egypt.” I jumped at that opening head first. "Tell me how we are getting along with our Allies here.” I said. "Do Americans and British like each other? Are we developing a friend ship which promises well for that vital post-war co-operation? Now if those questions embarrass you at all let's just forget them altogether, because I don’t write propaganda for anybody. I’m looking for a can did opinion.” , Get Along Fine. "I'm glad to answer.” he returned, "because I like the British, and the two forces are getting along fine to gether. “We are getting to know each other. Our Allies like plain talk and so do we. and that’s all to the good. The British have fine qualities. They’re brave and they’re thorough. I'm a great admirer of the British organization. There’s lots we can learn from them.” I was glad to get. this estimate from Gen. Andrews, because it has been my observation here and in Britain that the two forces are mak ing an honest effort not only to un derstand each other, but to cultivate friendship. There certainly seems to be a much more cordial spirit ex i hibited on both sides than there was i in the last war. Veterans Sent Home. The commander and I fell to dis cussing the development of our air force in this theater. One point brought out was that the diversity of fighting, involving as it does not only operation against sea commu nications, but work over desert and all other types of terrain, is a won derful school for air warriors. Gen. Andrews said that in due course veteran officers would be sent home for instructional purposes. Thus our young recruits will get the benefit of the wealth of experience gained here. I asked how far our forces would be developed in this theater. “That depends on the future.” he said. “Our mission is clear cut—to drive the Axis out of Africa." Baboons Raid Farms Deprived of their normal food supply by mountain fires, baboons raided farms and gardens near Capetown, South Africa. Potato growers were the chief sufferers, and many garden plots were de stroyed. Gardeners asked the authorities for protection. Are You Giving Information That Men Would Die to Get?' On battle fronts every day men risk their lives to discover the location and strength of the military units of the enemy. Yet at home too many of us are presenting the enemy with information of the same military value, the Office of Censor ship says in a statement. This is the information newspapers and individuals are asked not to tell: The names of ships upon which sailors serve. The troop units in which soldiers serve overseas. There is no objection to revealing that Pvt. John Jones is in Australia or that Seaman Tom Brown saw action in the Atlantic, but there is military information which endangers the lives of American fighting men in stating that Pvt. John Jones, “Company C, 600th Infantry,” is in Australia, or Seaman Tom Brown, “aboard the U. S. S. Wisconsin,” is in the Atlantic. The Office of Censorship says: "We ask editors not to publish these troop identifications, and we ask parents and relatives not to reveal them. Don’t give the enemy anything that may lengthen the war!" CONTROLLED JUMP—A United States Marine paratrooper dangles from a cable after making a controlled leap from a 250-foot tower. Conditions similar to those in an actual jump are experienced. —Marine Corps Photo. -—-I Mrs. Jennie D. B. Moton Funeral Rites Tomorrow Bj the Associated Pre»«. HAMPTON, Va., Dec. 26.—Funeral services for Mrs. Jennie D. Booth Moton, widow of Dr. Robert Russa Moton, former president of Tuskegee Institute, will be held at Memorial Church at Hampton Institute to morrow. She died Wednesday at the Dixie Hospital after an illness of five weeks. Mrs. Moton was a special field rep resentative of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. In that capacity she traveled throughout nine Southern States, working with white and colored farming groups to better agricultural conditions in the region. Last October she was ap pointed consultant in home nursing Tor the Red Cross. She was a former president of the National Federa tion of Colored Women’s Clubs. Burial will be in the historic Hampton Institute Cemetery, beside the grave of Dr. Moton. who was commandant at the Virginia school for several years before he succeeded Booker T. Washington as president of Tuskegee Institute in 1916. He was president, emeritus of Tuskegee at the time of his death in 1940. Africa 'Continued From First Page.) Tunisia saw some action in light clashes with the enemy. Allies Raid Airdrome. Grounded enemy planes were de stroyed in an Allied air raid on an airdrome at Hon. following bomb ings of Crete, Naples and Taranto December 23. Bad weather curtailed flights in the Medjez-el-Bab region, but Allied air patrols strafed ground targets and were credited in a French com munique with successful support of the units that drove off Axis ground attacks in an area west of Kairouan, 63 miles south of Medjez-el-Bab. The French in this sector are within 40 miles of Sousse. Eastern Tunisian port toward which they are driving. Fighting in the Pont-du-Fahs sector, about 25 miles from Tunis, was limited to skirmishing. Rubber 'Continued From First Page.) Gillette said, adding that “the amount of rubber available after a year’s time is so small as to bring about concern.” "The first thing we want to de termine is the demand for alcohol for all purposes and whether WPB officials, in estimating the demand, have envisioned adequately the needs for synthetic rubber produc tion and projected plants to assure that supply,” he said. Expansion to Be Queried. Senator Gillette related that Fraser M. Moffat, former group chief of the WPB’s chemical branch, told the committee in April that an estimated need of 365.000, 000 gallons of industrial alcohol in 1943 included 36,000,000 gallons for rubber. This, Senator Gillette said, represented substantially the same amount of rubber as would be ob tained from petroleum. With nearly nine months having elapsed. Senator Gillette continued, “it is time to inquire what their estimates are now, and what pro duction of alcohol is anticipated from expanded distillery produc tion.” He said Fred Willkie. manager of Seagram's, Inc., Louisville. Ky„ and a brother of Wendell Willkie. would be among those invited to testify on the problems confront ing alcohol manufacturers. Judge Uses Roasted Rye As Substitute for Coffee By the Associated Press. SOUTH BEND, Ind.—Judge J. Elmer Peak of Superior Court sipped a cup of coffee he brewed himself, and called in newspapermen. •Taste it,” he said. -It’s just about as good as coffee served on most tables. At least, it beats the recipe of President Roosevelt and Mayor La Guardia. who recommended using coffee grounds a second time." The recipe? One part coffee, one part roasted rye grain. General Tells of Welcome j For Troops in New Zealand By the Associated Press. The welcome given United States \ Army troops when they arrived in j New Zealand was one the Americans will remember for a long time. Brig. Gen. Ludwig S. Conelly said yes terday. Gen. Conelly, whose home is at Bedford. Ohio, was with the first American task force to reach New Zealand and returned only recently from the South Pacific. Four New Zealand Army bands were on the docks at Auckland when the American transports came in, he said, and the thousands ef New Zealanders on hand to greet the troops stood at attention as they played “The Star Spangled Banner.” Gen. Conchy said that before he returned to this country, J. A. C. Al lum, Mayor of Auckland, wrote to him expressing "my extreme grati fication that the citizens of Auck land have had the pleasure of re ceiving and associating with your self, the officers and men of the United States forces. “I must take this opportunity also of referring to the excellent conduct of the United States forces stationed in this part of New Zealand.” Airmen <Continued Prom First Page 1 it the gateway to the Sahara. The Niger River flows through the town, making it sort of an oasis. We are approximately 1.600 miles due east of the Atlantic. The town is very small. Gao offers no form of entertain ment at all. They had dancing be fore the war, but now there is no one to dance. At 9 o'clock every body goes to bed. Short days and long nights. There are very few whites here, the majority in the army. No white women except a few who are married. Very bad climate for women and children. The food situation here is plenty short. Worse here than anywhere we have been. Plenty of meat but shortage of vegetables and every thing else. Most all of the food is shipped in by truck from towns closer to the sea. Ice is rationed— can you imagine. Everything is rationed. The government controls everything. And I hear the French in Africa have to send supplies to France. Evidently they don’t have a damned thing there. July 8—Lt. Young: Today I am 23 years old. A birthday now has very little importance. God grant that I have many more and may they be under happier circumstances than this. Sales Surpass $3,900,000 The real estate firm of Boss * Phelps recently reported their sales for the year surpassed *3.900,000 in value. Many of the transactions were for property in Chevy Chase. Cleveland Park. Georgetown. Amer ican University Park and in nearby county developments. Army Removes Hills, Turns Rivers to Build Base in Andreanofs Airfield Ready in 12 Days for Raids on Japanese at Kiska By WILLIAM L. WORDEN. Associated Press Correspondent. AN ARMY BASE IN THE AN DREANOF ISLANDS, Dec. 10 (De layed.)—After a hundred days and a bombing, this looks like a different island. When "the first wave of trpops pushing United States Army and air bases closer to the Japanese occupied Western Aleutians came ashore on this treeless, grassy is land shortly after the first of Sep tember, I came with them. There was literally nothing here. One abandoned trapper s shack hud dled in a cove, but, except for thr.t, there was no sign that any other human had visited the seashore, the meadows of belt-high grass or the fog-shrouded mountains. There were no paths, no trails, nothing but tundra and grass and sand. Today, the hills by which we set out courses across country in Sep tember have suffered one of two fates—they either are civilized or gone, literally gone. If a hill suited the Army, huts were built on it, guns mounted on its crest, tents pitched on its sides If a hill was in the Army’s way, the Army moved the hill. Frequently it was simpler than going around. Streams Turned Around. Streams which interfered with military activities have been turned around and made to run the other way. (What will happen to the con fused salmon who returns next year to the river mouth he remembers is not clear, because the new mouth is now a couple of miles away and on another ocean bay.) For 10 days in September, an overturned canvas boat being made to do for quarters brought envious glances from lieutenants and colo nels alike. It was as roomy as the average cave built in a single night, and considerably more dry. Today, the officer who does not sleep in a winterized tent with a coal stove—or a sound building with oil heat and electric lights— either has absolutely no influence or is assigned to the far suburbs of this 100 per cent military city. Where there were no trails, there is now a network of usable roads, not paved too smooth, but roads nonetheless to get men from beaches to camps, from camps to possible fighting areas. Airfield Ready in Four Days. The airfield was a dream from the beginning. Four days after the landing-, a plane touched its wheels to the new field. A bare 12 days later, it was the starting jjofcst for an integrated raid which began ruining the Japanese air force and land installations at Ktska. t Today, this field is living up to i its early promise. Fleets of planes take off from what was a tide flat j in October. The grassy hills hide i the nerve centers of an aerial s.vs . tern which is threatening to starve | out what invading Japs are not ! lulled by its bombs. In September, a comparatively few fnen for days were at the mercy of any Japanese planes which might have come across -the hills. None came in those critical periods when munitions and equipment piled on the beaches offered ideal targets for almost any kind eff a plane and only a few guns werp prepared to resist aerial attack. When a plane did come, w-eeks later, it was too late. A few bombs were dropped, a few soldiers, weary with months of training and building, got their first view of an enemy aircraft. But no damage was done, no personnel either injured or killed. Construction Booms. Today, in the welter of construc tion which still goes on. night and day, across the snowy island, even the craters left by those bombs are obliterated under new roads, air fields, gun emplacements and living quarters. Cargo moves across docks now ; where in September men unloaded ! barges in waist-deep water. Ships ; come and go unchallenged in wa i ters where 100 days ago no ship was 1 believed safe without a destroyer at ! its side. On shore, men who stood in line for field rations in those first days of occupation stand in line now for books from the post library. And, among both officers and men, there is now as definite a social demarca tion as in any frontier town. The men who came in September are the old settlers, and each of them is ready at any opportunity to tell tall tales of how it was in "the old days.” New Tomato Evolved Evolved by Basil Krone of Mel bourne. fruit packing expert of the Victorian Department of Agricul ture, a particular tomato needed for the troops is an all-Australian variety. He calls it the Tatura Dwarf Globe tomato, and considers it best for canning purposes. Wages Lure Miners Away High wages paid by the guayule industry in Mexico have attracted so many miners that the mines have a labor shortage. Weather Report (Furnished by the United States Weather Bureau.) District of Columbian-Little change in temperature tonight; gentlt to moderate winds. Maryland and Virginia—Little change in temperature tonight. Report for Last 24 Houra. Temperature. Yesterday— Decrera. 4 p.m._ 42 8 pm _ 41 Midnight _ 40 Today— 4 a m._ 30 Sam, __ 30 Noon _ 41 Record for Last 24 Honrs. (Prom noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 42. at 4 D m. Year ago. 54 Lowest. 28. at 3:30 a.m. Year ago. 40. Record Temperaterea This Year. Highest. 00. on July 10. Lowest. 1. on December 21. Hamidity for Last 24 Hears. (Prom noon yesterday to noon today.) Highest. 100 per cent, at 2:30 a m. Loweat, 92 per cent, at 2:30 p.m. Tide Tablet. (Purnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. Tomorrow. High_11:22 a.m. 12:03 p.m. Low _ 5:54 a.m. 6:28 a.m. High__ 11:36 p.m. 12:18 a.m. Low _ 6:53 p.m. 6:29 p.m. The Son and Maea. Rites. Sets. Sun, today__ 8:25 6:51 Sin. tomorrow_ 8:36 5:52 Moon, today__. 9:42 p.m. 10:37 a.m. Automobile lights' mutt be turned on one-half hour after sjjnget^ Potomae and Shenandoah elear at Har pers ftrry. potomae clear at Great PaUa. p-——i— Precipitation. Monthly precipitation In tnehe* In thp Capital tcurrent month to date): Month. 1942. Avi. Record January _2.47 .1.5 5 7 8.1 M7 February _3.0.1 .1.27 8.84 ’84 March_5 no .1.75 8 84 '91 April_1_ 0.54 .1.27 9 1.1 89 May _3.91 .1.70 lo 89 ’89 June _ 6 15 4.1.1 10 94 00 July _ 5 40 4 71 10 83 «8 August _ 9 49 4 01 14 41 -28 September _ 2 87 .1 24 17 45 '34 October. _ 8.33 2.R4 8 81 37 November_ 2.10 2.17 8 89 89 December _ 1.78 3.32 7.58 ’01 Army Officers Primp For Arrival of Wax By the Anociated Press. CAMP ROBERTS. Calif—Pvt. Norman Bailey of Duluth, Miiin., telephoned headquarters to report arrival of a shipment of wax. Word spread quickly. Officers flocked to their barracks, straight ened ties, collars, caps. Then they learned that it waa floor polish—not WAACS—that ar rived. ;