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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-12-31
Between Fights in Solomons

What wise man, two years
ago, would have predicted
that the lonely Solomon is
lands, strewn in the path OF
the route to Australia, would
today be a showdown battle
ground of the United States
and Japanese forces?
U. S. marines took a vital
airfeld from the Japs on Au-
gust 7-8, on Guadalcanal is
land, in the Solomons. Since
that time the Japs have
spent lots of money, men and
ships trying to take it back.
To keep it has cost Uncle
Sam much in money, men
and ships. But Old Glory is
firmly planted on Guadal-
canal, and on other islands
of the Solomon group.
These pictures give you in
innate close-ups of life as it
goes for our boys in these
embattled islands.
In picture at top a marine re-
moves his ,chiskers during a luH
in the fighting near the front
lines on Cuadalcanal. Right:
Chou call for Jungle fighters. 4
lunch of soup, meat and bread
is served up to the marine troops
near the front lines.
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-. III you'd seen the boys"
American people when he told by
radio the story of his miraculous
rescue following % days in a rubber
raft after being forced down in the
Pacific with members of a planes
crew on a military mission.
speaking as a private citizen"
the famous hero added. Il plead for
additional effort. an about, total eff
fort, to the end that we may in
crease production of planes, ships,
guns, ammunition and all supplies
that u fighting men must have in
greater abundance"
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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-12-31
Venezuela Aids Lovers

All the world loves a lover, says
the proverb, but it has remained
for Venezuela to do something
about it. In that South Ameri-
can country, the authorities per-
NIT love letters to 60 through the
post at half rate, provided they
are sent in bright red envelopes.
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RICKENBACKER:
Shame and Infamy'

Il know that if those of US who
r raising cries of objections to be-
ing rationed could visit the boys as
I did, you would realize the utter
shame and infamy of your position"
This was part of the sermon Capt.
Eddie Rickenbacker delivered to the
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Reds Middle Don Drive Toward ostov
Perils Huge Nazi Armies in Caucasus;
French Pace Allied Tunisia Offensive;
Wavell's Burma Campaign Aids China

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ITALIAN UNREST

Those who expect the bombing of
Italy to cause a revolt of the people
are badly mistaken. The bombing
may knock out her industrial pro-
ductiveness and cripple her fleet and
shipping. but will not cause a popu-
lar revolt.
Reasons for this are two: |. Nazi
troops have such a stranglehold on
Italy that no revolt could gain head
way; 2. There are no leaders left
to head a revolt.
Italo Balbo was an opponent of
collaboration with Germany. He led
a spectacular flight of planes to the
United States, and was an admirer
of this country. But he differed with
Mussolini on African policy. con-
tending that Libya could not be
defended. Balbo died in what was
officially reported as an airplane
"accident."
Pietro Badoglio was skeptical
about the Greek campaign, told
M%ussolini he wouldn't undertake it
without ten divisions and four
months preparation. Mussolini or
dered him to take one month and
four divisions. Badoglio is popular
among the Italian people. but too
old to lead.
Rodolfo GRAHAM was also skep-
teal about the defense Of Libya,
though largely responsible for pre-
pairing its defenses. Much younger,
he has broken with Mussolini and
is under surveillance. possibly under
arrest.
People Hate Mussolini.
Yet the sentiment of the people,
especially in southern Italy, is such
that they would welcome deliverance
from Mussolini and Hitler. U. S.
diplomats, waiting for release from
internment after Pearl Harbor we're
told secretly by Italians: I'VE will
not forget"
There are many things they will
not forget, including the ludicrous
behavior OF Mussolini. who conceals
his badness and his wen by
removing his hat before a camera;
the wild behavior of his daughter,
Edda Ciano; and the lavish enter
soup-to-nuts banquets while the peo-
pie eat a few ounces of rationed
bread.
AS yet there has been no bombing
of Rome, but some indication of
what might happen was given early
in the war when the French sent
planes over Rome for four nights.
The people poured out of the city
on everything that had wheels. in
Guiding push carts. bicycles and
baby carriages. Yet the French had
dropped nothing more harmful than
leaflets.
1t is reported that when Allied
bombers come over the city, the
people kneel at the altar of their
patron saint, San Gennaro, and with
Mussolini in mind, say: Dear San
Gennaro, tell them he's not here
he's in Rome!"
LET THE NAILS KNOW
Many an army official is over
cautious about speaking for publica.
ton these days, but not Lieut.. Gen.
Hap Arnold, commander of the
army air forces.
Disclosing that U. S. fliers are
being turned out Of nrehiphf schools
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Pleasing Actions

Next to the consciousness of do
ing a good action, that of doing q
civil one is the most pleasing
Chesterfield.
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LET THE NAILS N O

Many an army official is over
cautious about speaking for publica.
ton these days, but not Lieut.. Gen.
Hap Arnold, commander of the
army air forces.
Disclosing that U. S. f1iers are
being turned out of preflight schools
at the rate of $1,000 a year, Arnold
was asked if the figures could be
quoted.
why not?" he chuckled. 1T won't
do any harm. Might do a lot of
good. It'll show the Germans how
many we've got!"
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GERMAN DEATH RATE
Diplomatic dispatches from Eu-
rope report that the German death
rate is going up and the birth rate
is going down.
Also the number of German SOL
diers killed or permanently disabled
since the war began now totals
1000, 600. This estimate made be-
fore the Russian counteroffensive be-
gan, and before the British turned
back Rommel in Egypt. Obviously,
therefore, the total is now well above
1000, 900.
This does not include prisoners nor
men suffering minor wounds. II
these were included. the total casu-
atty figure would be, according to
accepted military ratios. more than
twice the basic figure, or approx
mately 5000, 600.
Meanwhile, exact figures on the
German birth rate have been re-
ceived. These indicate the usual
wartime downward trend of births,
despite Hitler's frantic efforts to
make procreation popular.
The birth rate was 2O.5 in 1899
per thousand, 2O.4 in 1910, 1873 in
1941. but for the first three months
of 1912 took a drop to only 1873.
Neutral diplomatic sources report
that business men in Germany are
beginning to foresee defeat. But
the people as a whole will not be
aware of approaching defeat, and
their morale will not crack, until
the German army suffers a major
military reverse. The heavy casual
ties, now comparable to the total
suffered in the First World war, are
not enough in themselves to cause
popular revolt, as long as the Ger
man armies successfully dominate
Europe.
But when Rommel is cleaned out
of Africa. and when that news seeps
into the German consciousness, we
can look for popular discomfort,
plus burning distrust of the Nazi mill
tary machine.
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BRIEFS:

REPAIRS: Whether flown by the
Royal Air force or by their own
crews, American planes in England
will be maintained and repaired by
the United States air force from
now on. The move is designed to
increase efficiency and speed.
INCREASE: The Australian gov
eminent has decided to increase the
pay of service men in the new
budget. The increase is expected
to consist of additional allowance
for dependents.
CONFISCATED: The government
has coniscated 20 Italian and Ger
man ships, including a German YES
sci caught in the Caribbean last
year masquerading as an American
ship. Included also are those ships
damaged by their. crews while
in American ports in March, 1941,
as part of a general sabotage plan.
WEDDING: Dark-haired Diana
Barrymore, actress-daughter of the
late John Barrymore, and Bramwell
Fletcher, stage star, have applied
for a marriage license and an
nounced they would be married
within q few weeks
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NEXT JAP MOVE:
Fools Paradise

%. say we are living in a
FOOLS paradise. It is only absolute
fear that will awaken the people to
a realization of what they must face
in the immediate future"
With those words Premier Mitch
ell Hepburn of Ontario emphasized
the peril which faces the United
Nations-particularly Great Britain
and the United States.
Hepburn predicted that Japan's
next major move would be an at
tack on Dutch Harbor in the Aleu-
tan islands. From Dutch Harbor
long range bombers could attack the
United States production centers on
the West coast and considerable
distance inland.
"Untold difficulties may be in
store for Britain because Of the des-
perate situation of the Russian
army, the premier said. Nazi SUBJ
jugation of the entire Mediterranean
area twill mean Germany will &C.
cupy the whole of France and take
the French fleet"
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OPEN LETTER.:
To the Japs

"Tokyo papers please copy"
It didn't actually read that way
but the idea was the same, for the
open letter by Mohandas K. Gandhi
which appeared in his magazine,
Harlan, was aimed directly at the
Japanese. And if Tokyo bothered to
read it, this is what they learned:
MAKE no mistake about the fact
that you (meaning Japan will be
sadly disillusioned if you believe you
will receive willing welcome from
India"
Further, the Japs were told that
they had "been gravely misin-
formed that we have chosen this
particular moment to embarrass the
Allies when your attack is imminent.
If we wanted to turn Britain's diff
ficulty into our opportunity, we
should have done it as soon as the
war broke out"
Also for the benefit Of the Japa-
nese, the Indian leader outlined the
aims Of his All-India Congress par
ty with respect to their objective Of
independence, as preparation "to re-
sist all militarist and imperialist
ambition, whether it be British i'm
perialism, German Naziism, or
your pattern"
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PRODUCTIONS:
Greater Increases

While the Joint War Production
Committee of the u. S. and Canada
was reporting that the annual rate
Of munitions production in the U. S.
for the second quarter Of 1912 was
nearly four times that Of 1941, it
was also announced that Canadian
production was almost three times
the 1941 rate, and even greater in
creases are scheduled.
A report covering the first half
year of the boards activity in CO.
ordinating joint production outlined
steps taken to increase war output
by eliminating Implications, increas-
ing the number Of common type
weapons, arranging more rapid ex-
change Of supplies, breaking trans
portation bottlenecks, eliminating
tariff and other barriers and pro-
noting full exchange Of information
on production methods and designs.
Technical subcommittee main
tain constant contacts with those in
charge Of production in each country.
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SHIPPINC:
Highest Level

One week last month merchant
ship sinkings rose to the highest
level since the beginning Of the war
and also greatly exceeded new con-
struction."
This brought from the War Ship
ping administration limit on ship
ping space to "cargo essential to the
prosecution of the war;" This action
was expected to increase substan-
tally the cargo space for the United
Nations military requirements.
VISA also reported 'the several
different fleets of the United Nations
are combining their operations as
compliments to each other for war
purposes" with the Combined Ship
ping Adjustment board directing
shipping in the various pools.
A definite shortage of trained sea-
men is reported because Of the tire
mendous wartime expansion of our
merchant shipping"
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SYNTHETIC RUBBER:
Congress Takes a Hand

In a congressional effort to solve
the synthetic rubber production tam
gle, members Of the house and sem
ate passed the Gillette bill creating
the Rubber Supply agency, which
would control that portion of the
program dealing with agricultural
or forest products.
Rubber production from petro-
leum would remain under direction
Of the War Production board. I'm
der provisions Of the bill all author
ity over synthetic rubber plants
using agricultural commodities as
raw material would be taken away
from Donald M. Nelson, WPB chair
man.
In its final form, the bill requires
WPB, the army, navy or any other
agency to deliver critical materials
for use in constructing or operating
alcohol rubber plants upon certifca-
ton from the director Of the Rub
Der Supply agency, and grants the
agency blanket priority lover all
deliveries of similar articles or ma
terials for private account"
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ARMY HOUR
is SOLDIERS BOON

Science has added greatly to the
frightfulness of war, but science has
also offered some compensations. I
well remember in 1918 how our boys
in France were hungry for word,
q voice from the homeland. They
would listen intently to the lightest,
most -inconsequential chatter if ex-
pressed in the English they liked,
the American kind. I thought of
that hunger of 1918 as I listened to
the army hour on the radio. It in
cluded many typical American
songs rendered by feminine or
mixed choruses. That hour goes to
our soldier boys wherever they may
be on the far-fung fronts throughout
the world. It is but one of the com.
pensations science has offered to
ameliorate the frightfulness Of war
to those who fight the battles. 1t
provides each day the word, the
voice, from the homeland.
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DISTRIBUTION PROBLEM
is OUR GREATEST
PAL SOL

DISTRIBUTION PROBLEM
is OUR GREATEST
THE WAR has added to our
knowledge of production, but pro-
duction is but portion of the an
swer to our peace-time, as well as
our wartime problem. The greater
problem is that of distribution. II
the war can show us a solution to
the problem of distribution, all the
world will profit from that knowl-
edge in the peace time that is to
come.
Since World War I, America has
produced great SURPRISES Of food
products that have gone to waste
during years when millions were
starving--all because we lacked
knowledge of distribution. We could
ship to China, for example, but
did not know how to find market
in China. Finding or creating
market, with methods that will ar
range for a purchase price, are all
part Of distribution.
The world needs not less produc-
ton, but more consumption. There
is no reason for the destruction
of American wheat or Brazilian
coffee when they are needed by mil
lions who are hungry. The need
is for men, statesmen and econo-
mists, with the brains necessary for
the solution of the distribution prob
lem. America has such men. When
they have been used and have
solved the problem that comes to
us as the greatest creditor nation,
they will have provided use for
all the vast production Of this ma
ton and of the world, and the best
assurance Of maintaining world
peace.
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CASUALTIES:
In II. S. Forces

From the Office Of War Informa-
ton came the latest check-up Of to-
tai casualties in the U. S. armed
forces to date.
This report showed these casual
ties to be 44,143, including killed,
wounded, and missing Of the army,
navy, marine corps, coast guard and
Philippine Scouts, exclusive of 1922
known navy prisoners Of and casual
ties Of the Philippine Commonwealth
army.
Here is the breakdown by the vari-
Gus branches of the service:
~ U. S. army-killed, 902;
wounded, Lab; missing, 17,452.
(2) Philippine Scouts-killed, 479;
wounded, 754; missing, 1900.
(3) U. S. navy-killed, 3,420;
wounded, 1851; missing, 1872.
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WAGES:
ShoU Increase

Figures released by Frances Per-
kins, secretary of labor, disclosed
that the average hourly earnings Of
workers in manufacturing industries
rose Id per cent from April to May,
and the May average Of 1871 cents
per hour was 14.5 per cent higher
than a year ago. The increase was
held due to overtime, expansion of
working forces in high wage scale
industries and to wage-rate in
creases.
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THIS STANDS BETWEEN US
AND AXIS SLAVERY

THEY WE'RE just two kids.
Neither had as yet passed his 18th
birthday. AS the friend who intro
duced me said, "they are not dry
behind the ears" But they were.
They had matured in the grim battle
of the Coral sea. They had been on
the Lexington. One was a member
of the crew Of a bomber plane.
The other was member of gun
crew. One had been slightly wound.
ed by a Jap machine gun bullet.
Both had gone overheard at the Or
der to abandon ship and had foated
about for an hour or more before
being picked up. They were back in
the States for rest period and both
were tired of the enforced idle
ness. They wanted to be up and at
the Japs again. The only thing
they told me of the fight and final
sinking of the Lexington was Of the
free ice cream that was passed out
just before the order to abandon
ship was given. They represent that
young America which the Japs
and the Huns and the Wops cannot
lick. They and their kind stand be-
tween us and slavery.
AMERICA IS ONE OF BUT few
nations that has never known a
dictator. As a people we have
never felt the lash of the dictator's
whip since, as colonists Of the Eng
lish king, our ancestors threw the
tea into Boston bay. It would be
hard to imagine Americans counte-
nancing dictatorial government 9TH
er than in war time, and even then
we demand the right of criticism,
and to pass judgment on the gov.
eminent we create.
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
at Washington tells congress where
an annual saving, amounting to
$16.03 for each man, woman and
child in America, can be made
without in any way affecting the war
expenditures, or the effectiveness Of
the peace-time operations of the
government. The total is the tidy
sum of $2,O85, 200, 900. But does con-
gress want to save?
.
THE FIRST OF LAST JANUARY
there were in the United States 421,-
473 business establishments engaged
in selling or servicing automobiles,
with over 100000 employees and
with over one billion dollars a year
in payrolls. When we add to these
figures the number of people en-
ployed in building automobiles, we
can have some idea of what the
automobile industry, creation Of
only about 10 years, means to the
nation. It was a product of the
American system of free competi-
ton.
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ECYPT'S WAR:
Nazis Dig In

A lull in the desert war saw Ger
man troops digging in on the front
rs miles west Of Alexandria, from
Ell Alamein to the Quattara de-
preston. sy
A communique from Cairo an
nounced that heavy British and
United States bombers continued to
sweep across the Mediterranean to
attack Crete and that another force
struck at Tobruk again.
Light bombers continued to ham,
mer Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's
sea. and air bases, troop and vehicle
concentrations. Additional informa-
ton said that fires and explosions
occurred when the big bombers
struck at airdromes in Canada and
Tympakion in Crete.
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RUSSIA:
Desperate Battles

Bridging the lower Don river, Nazi
troops continued to press on in their
steady drive into the Caucasus. Rus
sian infantrymen, battling desper-
ately from the southern bank Of the
Don, 100 miles east of Rostov, threw
tons Of explosives at the Nazis, but
two German spearheads were es-
tablished.
A Soviet bulletin announced that
nine pontoon bridges were smashed,
throwing Nazi troops and equipment
into the Don. But new reserves
were ready to take the place of the
drowned men, whose bodies were
left to float down the river.
Despite German successes at Ros-
TOW, Soviet troops made the Nazis
pay dearly for their gains. In part.
a Russian communique announced
that "One small group of Soviet in
fantry alone in one day with anti
tank guns, machine guns and in
cendiary bottles destroyed nine Ger
man tanks and killed hundreds Of
Hitlerites."
The communique said that the
Red army still was fighting stub
bornly at Novocherkassk and at
Tsimlyansk.
!. Soviet airmen were credited with
destroying 299 German planes dur
ing the week. Russian losses for
the same period We're placed at 1877.
i ~ y.
In one sector Of the front Russian
soldiers were said to have wiped out
more than four Nazi regiments in
three weeks fighting, capturing
large military stores, including 400
machine guns, $50 automatic rifles,
As mortars and 10000 shells. In
addition, they destroyed 1913 tanks.
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call from President Roosevelt representatives Of
labor capital meet Washington discuss ntnaon
rights w. Wiherow president National Association
Philip Murray president Of the CLIO; Erik Johnson
william president the
Walter
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sCHARACTER' LOANS

CHARACTER LOANS
/ mentioned in one Of my columns
the state banks of Holland, which
make loans on a character basis,
and Mr.. Harry r. Langdon of New
York city has written to tell me
about the Municipal Credit union to
which $4,000 government employees
belong in New York city.
The interest rate paid to investors
has been lowered, and at the same
time the interest paid on loans by
employees has been decreased, and
the present interest rate Is the low
est in the country. This credit union
has passed the $4,000, 900 mark, and
in a magazine called The Bridge,
which is the official publication Of
the Credit Union National Associa-
ton, Inc, there is an account Of Is
years of service to government en-
ployees.
These credit unions are growing
all over the country, but they do
not serve quite the same purpose
since they are open only to certain
groups of employees, and cannot be
used by the average citizen in
community.
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segments containing either six or
eight pieces, so you have your
choice of working with small
pieces or ones which are a bit
larger.
The quilt size is the same In either
case-an ample SO by 90. Turn spare
moments into useful moments by piecing
the Double Wedding Ring; prints, plain
color and white or pastel are required.
The pattern No. 1881 La IS cents. Send
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS

German Spearheads Across Don River
Are Established After Heavy Losses;
Nazis Dig In Along Egyptian Front;
Gandhi to Japs: You're Not Welcome
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