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Bradley beam., 1944-08-12
ROAD TO TOKYO

The island of Guam fell into American hands leaving battered and dazed remnant of what was once an Imperial Japanese garri- son. The remaining Japs have been corralled in death trap on the islands northeastern extremity and face annihilation by our troops. The conquest of Guam, 225 square
 GUAM. First occupied by the
 U. S. in 1898, and before the war
 had population of 23,OOO.
 About half the soil is arabic, but
 only about 3O,OOO acres were
 cultivated. Rice, sugar, tobacco,
 hemp coffee and melons are
 raised and exported principally
 to the United States. The gov
 ernor of Guam Gan official of the
 U. s. Navy) is the military com
 mandant of the island. He cOm-
 pines executive with legislative
 powers. United States currency
 is official legal tender.
 miles, has been accomplished by the US. Marines and the Navy in less than three weeks. For all practical purposes the Battle of the Marian as is in it's mopping up stages bringing U. s. Naval forces con- stantly closer to the homeland of the Japanese Emperor and the in- evitable destruction of his Empire.
Bradley beam., 1944-08-12
Forty-Two Millions (ontinned from Page One

asked of applicants for the care. The application form, which the wife gets from her doctor, the local Red Cross, or the State or local health office, serves solely to identify her as the wife of a man in one of the four lowest pay grades or of an Army aviation cadet.
 The Children's Bureau and the State health agencies join in urg- ing the women to apply for this care just as soon as they know they are pregnant. If they are placed under a doctors care early, the chances of a safe delivery of the baby are much greater than if they wait.
 The care is the main concern of Uncle Sam. Sometimes the stork bill runs high when complications set in. Uncle Sam takes care of the bills. Likewise, if an operation is needed by the baby, as some times happens, or if sickness oc- CUTS during the first year, family worries are frightened at least as far as wondering how the doctors care is to be had and the bills met.
 So, if your wife is going to have baby, or if she has a baby who is less than a year old, the Chil- dren's Bureau says let her know about Uncle Sam's interest in the newcomer. Tell her to ask either her doctor, the Red Cross, or the State or local health office about the program If still further infor- nation is needed, inquiries should be addressed to the State health agency.
Bradley beam., 1944-08-12
ROAD TO BERLIN-via ITALY

General Mark Clark's Fifth Ar my captured Mount Grille west of the upper Arno Valley in the di- rection of Bibbiena. This capture was made despite five separate counter attacks by the Nazi forces indicating the value of this partic- ular sector. The fighting has moved from the vicinity of Florence to a sector due north of Arrezzo. On other sectors, patrol activities by
Bradley beam., 1944-08-12
He Talks Too Much
Russia is already broken and will never rise again."
 Hitler, 8 October, 1941.


 ''Our Army has been formed not to wage wars of aggression but to guard and protect our people. . it is not to deprive other peoples of their freedom, but to protect our own German freedom. That is why the army is here."
 -Hitler's speech, 13 September, 1885 in Nuremberg.
 . .
 q am insulted by the persistent assertion that I want war. Am l fool? War! It would settle mo- thing. II have restored to our peO- pie the idea of it's honor. want to give it once again the joy of liv- ing"
 Hitler, in an interview, 10 Mo- vember 1888.
 "A majority can never replace a man. A majority always represents both stupidity and cowardice."
 Hitler in 'Mein Kampf.'
Bradley beam., 1944-08-12

FIRE AT No. 2! It's the Japanese "Oscar," low-wing, single engine fighter. It has a short, blunt nose and the fuselage tapers sharply aft of the wing. The wing has a straight leading edge, tapered trail ing edge and rounded tips. Both edges of the tailplane taper to rounded tips. It has a single fin and rudder.
Bradley beam., 1944-08-12
z WEEKLY CREMATION CHAT
NOT YET
 BUT SOON


 From all sources and from all front the news is good and a new and interesting note has been add ed by the announcement that the staid and highly reputable Lloyds of London is wagering odds of 8 to 5 that the European war will be over in October.
 On five fronts the Nazis are taking beating and there appears to be cry little that they can do to circum- vent the cataslysm awaiting them. Combined operations under General Eisenhower and his great team, Tedder, Montgomery, Bradley and others, have begun what looks like the big push into Paris-and Ber- lin. In the Italian Theater, the AL lied Command under General Alex ander and General Clark have pushed their way up the Italian peninsula until they are striking at the German Gothic Line." The Great Russian Armies roll on and on and are fighting on German soil. No entrenchments and no concerted movement of the German Werh- macht seem able to stop the Red juggernaut. The memorable push of this avalanche of troops has been a powerful psychological defeat as we'll as military loss to the Ger man High Communicated day as they edge closer to the German capital there is greater and grow ing disunity in the fabric of the German military machine.
 On the diplomatic front the cleo ton of Baron von Mannerheim to replace Premier Ryti of Finland and the reports that the Germans have withdrawn their divisions from this area indicate the possi- bility of Finland's early withdrawal from the war. Also, the break with Turkey, aside from it's military im- plications, must seriously affect the home population of the Reich who see their satellite friends with drawing, to leave them isolated and alone as they were in 1918.
 The gigantic aerial attacks, un- abated and constant, are reminders to the German Command that their own once mighty Luftwaffe is now a thing of the past. Reports have come in that only occasional sorties are flown and these without any great effect to the deployment of the Allied troops.
 All of these factors, combined, are taking their toll within the structure and policy of the German High Command. That they realize the end is drawing near is appar- ent from the events which have transpired during the past two weeks. Hitler is desperately trying to reassert his leadership in what appears to be two clamps of mili- tary operations-the Nazi com mand and the German Junker gen. erals. That this makes for internal 'disunity at the front and at home is evidenced by the continuation of the housekeeping purge conducted by the chief of the Gestapo, Hein- rich Himmler.
 All of which augurs we'll for the future-the near future, when com- plete and total victory will be ours. NOT YET-BUT SOON..
Bradley beam., 1944-08-12

NOT AT No. I! It's the U. s. Navy's EAU "Corsair," low-wing, single seat fighter powered with a single radial engine. The outer sections of the inverted gull-type wings taper slightly to rounded tips. It has rounded fuselage and a tapered tailplane. The fin and rudder set forward of the eleva- tors.
Bradley beam., 1944-08-12
CANDLES BETTER THAN SPAM

Italy-Technical Sergeant Henry Kablun, the only CT Eskimo in It. ally, likes Army food OK, but he prefers the candles he used to eat back home in Alaska to K rations and Spam.
 "The only real good eating can dle is one made from beef fat" says Kablun. That's the greatest delicacy in the world except for seal blubber and the insides of a reindeer's stomach"
Bradley beam., 1944-08-12
The War Fronts

both armies were reported. Air craft in this theatre launched se- ries of attacks on rail yards and bridges in Northern Italy and were also reported to have made sorties on military objectives in Yugosla- via and on enemy shipping in the Adriatic. The BEG reported from Zurich that the Nazi commander in Italy, Marshall Kesselring had been wounded and replaced by the Ita- lian, Marshall Rudolfo Graziani.
 ROAD TO BERLIN-via RUSSIA ], A series of determined Nazi counter-attacks slowed down but did not stop the powerful Red arm ies on the Eastern front. Corfinu- ing it's drive, the forces under Gen. eral Chernyakovsky increased it's threat to the two German armies cut off in the Baltic region by wid- ening the corridor cut across Latvia to the Gulf of Riga to deprive the enemy of land contact with East Prussia. Some seven hundred local ities were reported to have fallen into the hands of the advancing army. In the sector around Warsaw the Russian forces are renewing their offensive after powerful ar tillery and air preparation. South east of Warsaw they continued widening their bridgeheads across the Vistula west of Sandomirez. The threat to East Prussia seems to be of gravest concern to the Germans as they have rushed thou sands of workers to bolster the de- lenses on a seventy mile front. All types of labor battalions are being called; old and young, professional men, clerks, and other formerly privileged workers.
Bradley beam., 1944-08-12
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YOU'LL he of greater help to your unit if you always act and move intelligently and take full advantage of cover er.l concealment when approaching an enemy position.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-02-24
Red Cross Head Is
Guest of Hill Club

Locust Grove The Women's
club met last Tuesday, February
Is at the home of Irene Stafford
with Mildred Heberlein assisting
the all day meeting. Mrs. EVA
Brown of Richland and chairman
of the Benton County Red Cross
project gave an interesting talk
regarding her work. Layettes for
the Navy mothers were presented
to various members to be COM
pleted in the near future. With
one quilt completed, the club
plans to make another to be tied
at the next meeting. Mildred
Heberlein extended an invitation
to her home for the meeting of
March l for another all day meet
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gene Pruett were
overnight guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lyle Simmelink Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edith Smith were
Tuesday evening dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Hanson.
A box-social given by the
grange last Wednesday evening.
Only few members attended and
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-02-24

The matter of the soldier vote
bill still has Congress in snarl.
The question isn't whether or not
the soldiers should or not be al
lowed to vote, but rather how it
shall be done. One theory is that
it shall be handled by single
federal ballot bearing the names
of the presidential candidates. The
other is that it shall be handled
by the several states with bal
lots that give, in addition to the
president, the governor and other
officers. The proponents of the
latter plan are resisting what they
feel is an infringement against
state rights by the national gov
eminent. Owing to the time ele-
ment, the distance involved, the
getting of the ballots to the sold
iers and back in time to get them
counted, the matter presents a
real problem, however it is ham
died.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-02-24
Have you a
hidden talent?

If YOU'D LIKE TO find OUT
what your special aptitude is
and put il to work to help win
this war-take hte opportunity
the WAC offers you!
Join the WAC and let Army
experts help you discover the
type Of work you can do best.
Let the Army train you to do
one Of 23s vital jobs. Learn a
skill that will be useful to you
long after the war is over! IF
you already have a skill the
Army can use il tool
. Get full details at your near
est q. s. Army Recruiting Sta
tion tYour local post office will
give you the address). or write:
The Adjutant General. Room
AIS. Munitions Building. Wash
ington. p. G.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-02-24

one guest, Wallace Bateman. Mrs.
VIM. Shaughnessy and Wallace
Desallier furnished excellent mu-
sic, Budd Larkin actioned the
boxes, and despite the small num-
Der present lot of fun was i'm
mensely enjoyed.
Mrs. Eugene Tyrrel spent last
week visiting in Burbank with
her daughter Mrs. Chestre Wash
burn.
Miss Donna Jacobs was a guest
Wednesday and Thursday of Miss
Florence May Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Larkin and
Shirley Ann were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Krat-
ger.
Henry Smith and children, Ar
lene and Wayne were business
visitors in Prosser Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Edwards en-
tertained Sunday with a family
reunion dinner honoring her son,
Walter. Guests from Horse Hea-
ven were Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert
Edwards and Mr.. and Mrs. Guy
Lyons and families.
The Locust Grove grange held
its regular meeting last Friday
evening. The new candidates were
voted on and given the obliga-
ton. Due to poor attendance
little business was attended. Later
the candidates were taken to the
Valley grange where the Finley
degree team put on the third
and fourth degrees.
Mrs. Henry Smith, Mrs. Ralph
Nicoson, Mrs. Gilbert Edwards,
Mrs. Clara Root and Mrs. Mar
garethe Anderson were guests last
Thursday of the Western Horse
Heaven Women's club held at the
home of Mrs. Judy Perrault.
Cpl. Walter Edwards of Kelly
Field, Texas, and Miss Geraldine
Walker are house guests this week
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Edwards.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Smith were
guests Sunday at the Ray Kratzer
and BERTHE Tyrren homes.
Mrs. Clara Root and Mrs. Mar
garethe Anderson We're Walla
Walla visitors last Friday.
Wayne Smith was an overnight
guest last Thursday of Norman
Wilder in Kennewick.
Cpl. Walter Edwards and Miss
Geraldine Walker were dinner
guests Monday of Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy Lyons.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-02-24

The Ford Motor company ex-
hibited recently the first automo-
bile with plastic body. The car,
an experimental model, was made
by hand and consisted of plastic
panels mounted on a welded steel
frame. The plastic body will re-
duce the weight of the car by one
third, and is claimed to be superior
to steel in every way but tensile
strength or resistance to pull. It
is not expected that plastic bodies
will become practicable for sew
eral years because of the cost of
production. A break in a plastic
car body may be patched by
merely cementing another piece of
plastic into the hole.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-02-24

The pressure for economy in
government is going to make it.
self felt after the war. There
will remain an immense debt with
heavy interest RECRUITMENT which
will require heavy taxes for years
to come. People don't mind dig
ging deep for taxes to support
the war, but they will balk if after
the war, the government extrava-
gance continues and dissipates tax
money that should be used to pay
the debt.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-02-24

There is a feeling that the in
flation brakes were applied too
late. There was disposition on
the part of the administration to
permit little initiation with the
idea that it could be headed off
before it got out of hand. Con-
trolling initiation is like controlling
flood waters. Once flood waters
break over the dixie there is little
that can be done. Once initiation
gets under way it is next to inn
possible to stop it.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-02-24

A local man, with an irritating
smugness, says that he does not
understand why his wife who
showed such good judgment in the
selection of a husband could have
such poor judgment in the selec-
ton of Christmas necktie.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-02-24

Already some war plants have
closed and dismissed their work
ers. This does not mean that the
war is over or anything like it.
It simply means that what is con-
sidered an ample supply of the
particular item made by these
plants has been produced and pro-
duction is called off until more
is needed.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-02-24

Nature favored the japs in this
war. That section of the Pacific
is dotted with thousands of islands
many of them covered with jun
giles, mountains and swamps af-
fording the easiest type of country
to defend, and the most difficult
to clear of defenders. Our troops
there are learning the jungle tao
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-02-24

WILDER La Roe, Jr., member of
the District Parole Board of Wash
ington, DC, holds that liquor is
a prolific cause of crime" in the
District of Columbia.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-02-24

No strikes, no lockouts, no time
and half for overtime is the rule
among the newspaper editors, who,,
because of the scarcity of help,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-02-24
AN APPEAL TO WAGE FARMERS

Robert Citizens Committee Industrial
duplicate Wisconsin led Act
reporting the Wisconsin Bill Attorney Padw the
1889 equally
does the State Of Oregon The Wisconsin State Federation Of Labor myself
most outstanding and liberal legislation in the country Among this legislation was
After the National Labor Relations Act declared obtained
Labor Relations Act but in the last election reaeony majority elected the
State Act and the Of the State Labor Relations
Relations Act which the most have read This
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-02-24

tics and the island by island cam
paign is picking up. It is a mat
ter of cleaning the rats out of one
hole at time.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-02-24

have taken over the mechanical
duties of the back end of the shop
in addition to the editorial and Of
flee duties.
Evening star., 1944-09-06
Agreement Is Sought
On Reconversion Bill.

House and Senate conferees
buckled down today to the job of
reaching agreement on remaining
reconversion legislation, with par
ticular emphasis on postwar aid for
the unemployed.
Conferees on the surplus property
disposal bill late yesterday wrote in
a prohibition against the gift of
war-accumulated goods to educa-
tional and public health institu-
tions
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of
Utah declared it was a complete
victory" for House advocates of
policy of giving away nothing
at all"
The legislators also agreed on
language giving Federal agencies
the first chance at properties de-
clared surplus and available for
disposal
The biggest difficulty appears to
lie in reaching agreement on post
war unemployment compensation.
One conferee said privately that
House members in closed-door con-s
ference meetings were standing firm
against Senate provisions for re-
training of war workers, payment of
transportation costs of war workers
back home or to new jobs and the
blanketing of 3,500,0o0 Federal en-
ployes under jobless insurance pro-
lection. q
I'VE are deadlocked on these
points," he asserted.
Evening star., 1944-09-06
1900 Big Bombers
Built in 1914 as Rate
Risesio 1900 Monthly

By the Associated Press.
Upward Of 1900 four-ensine
heavy bombers came from Amer
lean factories in the first eight
months Of 1914.
Brushing aside the secrecy Of
heavy bomber output, the War Pro-
duction Board disclosed today that
production reached 900 month In
May, ls43, exceeded 1900 by Janu-
ary, 1914, and has been at q rate Of
1900 q month since June.
The figures were the first for
heavy bombers since January when
1t was announced that production
exceeded 1000. Actually, 1t now Is
disclosed, the output for that month
was more than 1900.
Calling the heavy bomber produc-
ton remarkable" the WPB recalled
that 500 . month once was regarded
Is impossible.
Revised schedules for September
call for 1884 planes OF all types, Just
under the 1889 actually delivered
In August. For the last five months
Of this year there will be q cut
back Of 5 per cent in production.
This will increase to Q per cent in
the first half Of 1945 and Is per
cent in the second half.
Germany's defeat would cut back
production still further. In the
meantime, WPB said, schedules must
be met to Offset the large invasion
losses, which have exceeded 5000
since D-day.
While August production fell IS
per cent behind schedule, OIL the
line production was substantially on
schedule. Some planes were lost"
to August production because they
were not accepted until after modi-
flcations for combat duty. Formerly
planes were counted when they
came from the assembly line.
Evening star., 1944-09-06
DemobiIizution
Continued From First Page)

were surplus overseas will be used
in deciding which are nonessental
to the new military needs of the
Army and entitled to a release.
Values Withhold.
The value of the point credits
the department said, will be an
nounced after the cessation of hos
tilities in Europe. How much weight
Is given to each factor will deter
mine each soldiers score"
AS an example of how the partial
rehabilitation system will work, the
department cited four divisions in
Europe, one of which might become
surplus. The top fourth of the
men-based on their scores" and
military necessity-would be put in
the surplus division while those in
that division who were to be retain
ed for fighting would be shifted to
the other three divisions.
In the United States, the men In
the surplus units will 60 into a
surplus pool which will include
men from all overseas theaters and
surplus men from the United States.
Men will be sent back to civilian
life on the basis Of their scores" :"
Must Have Requirements.
No man in a unit that remains In
service can be sent home until a
qualified replacement Is available
under the plan. On the other hand,
any man who has been declared
nonessential under the plan but
wishes to remain In the Army will
not be forced out" If he has a
satisfactory record and can be use
fully employed.
Onicers will be released as they
can be spared, with military neces-
sity determining which are non-
essential.
WACS will be released under the
same formula as soldiers except
that WACS whose husbands already
have been released will be dis
charged upon application.
Discharging from the service will
be done through 1S separation CEN
ters, five of which already are In
operation.
Avoid Unfairness.
Explaining why it had chosen the
point system instead of demobiliz-
ing by units, the War Department
said the unit method would operate
with great unfairneSS to many in
dividuals who have had long and
arduous service but are not as
| signed to one of the units declared
surplus"
IF only units in Europe were con-
sidered, the department con-
tended this basis of expediency
would work unfairly to units long
in the Pacific or at outpost bases in
the American theater. It would op-
crate unfairly to men who have
seen extended combat service both
in Europe and the Pacific and have
been returned to this country for
reassignment. 1t would release men
only recently assigned as replace
ments to units long in combat and
would discriminate against veterans
OF many campaigns in units not
selected for return.
consequently. 1t was determined
that the fairest method to effect
partial rehabilitation would be
through the selection of men as in
dividuals. rather. than by units, with
the selection governed by thoroughly
i'm na rtio1 Stord erdeo
Evening star., 1944-09-06
Volunteer Typists Needed

Volunteer typists are needed to
help with work in the motor trans
port, baby escort service, family
advisory service, mothers aide and
ambulance service of the American
Women's Voluntary Services, it was
announced today. Persons interested
are asked to apply at the AWVS
headquarters, 1920 Twenty-second
street NV. or call Dupont 147S.