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THE KERENS TRIBUNE
-WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS-
Report Germans Realign Forces;
US.Seizes Tokyo Stepping-Stone;
Curb Nighteries to Save Fuel
Released by Western Newspaper Union.,
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Arrow in aerial photo of Iwo Jima, with smoke from bomb hits still
curdling over island, gives birds-eye view of latest locale of Allied as-
saint ill Pacific,
EUROPE:
Nazi Moves
Long decried as the "forgotten
front," Italy came back into the
news again with reports that the
Nazis were slowly pulling out of the
northern part of the country to re-
inforce their main eastern and west-
ern lines and take up shorter de-
fenses on the southern approaches
to the Reich.
Following Russian revelations of
the appearance of German troops
formerly stationed in Italy on the
Nazis' sagging eastern front, neutral
reports told of the movement of no
less than four enemy divisions from
the country through the Brenner
Pass into Austria. Despite the re-
ports of the weakening of their
Italian defenses, however, the Ger-
mans fiercely contested the Eighth
army's push along the Adriatic, us-
ing a new rocket, four feet long and
holding 80 pounds of explosives.
Amid the talk of German re-
inforcement of their eastern front,
Nazi defenses perceptibly stiffened
in this sector, though yet to be put
to the supreme test as Marshal
Konev's First Ukranian army drew
up on a line to join Marshal Zhu-
kov's First White Russian army for
grand assault on Berlin.
As the -Russians girded for the
all-out smash on the German capi-
tal, cagey Zhukov and Konev,
keeping an eye on their exposed
flanks to the north and south,
launched repeated attacks against
Nazi forces in these sectors to pre-
vent a drive upon their rear.
On the western front, Allied ef-
forts were divided between the Brit-
ish and Canadians' drive on the
Ruhr valley at the northern end of
the Siegfried line, and the U. S.
Third army's steady drive on the
Rhine below Aachen.
Russ General Falls
Latest of the prominent generals
to be killed in highly mobile World
War II, requiring
the presence of
commanders close
to the front lines to
keep up with the
battle, was 37-year-
o!d Russian Ivan
Cherniakho vsky,
who fell while di-
recting the drive on
East Prussia.
Youngest Russian
general and army
group commander,
Cherniakhovsky, a
tank expert, was considered one of
the Soviet's outstanding military
strategists.
General
Cherniakhovsky
PACIFIC:
Bloody Battle
To thousands of gallant Leather-
necks Storming Iwo Jima's beaches,
it was Tarawa all over again, as
Maj. Gen. Harry Schmidt's Fifth
marine corps pushed up rocky cliffs
inland in the facet of bitter opposi-
tion to tighten their hold on this
little stepping - stone to Tokyo and
threat to the U. S. super-fortress
base in the Marianas, 800 miles to
the south.
Losses were heavy on both sides
as the Japs, first staggered by the
terrific bombardment of both U. S.
naval and air units, recovered from
the initial shock to fight back
viciously from such natural hide-
outs as caves as waves of marines
hit the beaches on the southeast end
of the island.
Due to become another epic of
the bloody Pacific war, the invasion
of Iwo Jima followed hard upon the
mighty U. S. aerial strike against
Tokyo, in which the planes from
a powerful carrier fleet destroyed
over 500 Jap aircraft, sank over a
dozen ships and battered vital war
plants.
HOME FRONT:
Nighteries Curbed.
With , the war' taking critical
turns In both Europe and the
Pacific, and with the tight coal
situation calling for its economical
use, War Mobilization Director
Byrnes ordered a midnight curfew
on saloons, night clubs, dance halls,
sports arenas and other places of
entertainment to save on fuel gen-
erating electricity.
Although War Mobilizer Byrnes,
himself, has no power to punish
violators, he could bring pressure
to bear against offenders by having
the War Production board shut ofi
their electricity; the War Manpower
commission revoke their right to
hire people; the Office of Defense
Transportation prohibit deliveries oi
material to them, and the OPA
recall their rationing privileges.
The night club order was the
latest in a series including freezing
of civilian production at current lev-
els on December 16; cfosing of
race tracks and limitation on num-
ber of employees non-essential firms
can hire on December 23; return of
most meats and vegetables to ra-
tioning over the Christmas week-
end; review of farm deferments for
the 18 to 25 age group, January 3,
and the forbidding, of outdoor ad-
vertising and decorative lighting
February 1.
LIVESTOCK:
Numbers Drop
. Pointing up the tight meat situa-
tion fen" civilians, the U. S. depart-
ment of agriculture's estimate of
livestock on farms as of January 1,
1945, showed a sharp drop over the
same date the preceding year.
At the same time, the USDA's sur-
vey revealed the largest supply of
feed on hand per livestock unit in 20
years, with the amount per head 27
per cent over 1944.
Down 22,000,000 to a total of
60,600,000, the number of hogs
showed the largest drop, the USDA
said, with a decrease of 3,824,000
head of sheep to a total of 47,945,000
recording the next biggest slip.
Down only 604,000 to 81,760,000, the
number of cattle showed the least
decline, being but 1 per cent below
the all-time 1944 peak.
Meanwhile, the American Meat In-
stitute, estimating that civilian meat
supplies will be about 38 per cent
less during the first quarter of this
year compared with the same period
in 1944, said there probably would
be a still sharper drop from ApriJ
to June.
PRICE SUPPORT:
New Tack
In a program which may establish
a precedent for the future handling
of the government's price-support for
farm products, the War Food admin-
istration announced that it would
purchase dry edible peas during
1945 only on plantings from acre-
age allotted the individual operator.
In the event of a general adoption
of WFA's program, the government
would bear a powerful weapon
against overproduction resulting
from surpassing goals, thus influ-
encing the restriction of output to
reasonable levels.
In the case of edible dry peas, it
Was said, WFA's program not only
seeks to avoid an accumulation of
excessively large stocks of peas, but
also to encourage the shift of acre-
age formerly seeded to the plant tf
other crops.
Frogs Wrestle
Gen. Stilwell Road Completed to Supply China
Ex-G.I.s Enter College for Postwar Training
Diplomacy
Only ruffle in the Allied confer-
ence in the Crimean and Mediter-
ranean regions was Gen. Charles de
Gaulle's refusal to accept President
Roosevelt's invitation for a meeting
in Algiers, indicating French pique
at FDR's inability to visit Paris and
at reports that it was principally be-
cause of the U. S. that France was
excluded from the Big Three talks.
Despite the diplomatic unpleasan-
tries, however, the French were
busy exchanging views with U. S.,
British and Russian officials on the
Yalta decisions, and were also said
to be preparing to participate in the
United Nations pending postwar se-
curity conference at San Francisco
in April.
Considered a key to the stability
of western Europe, once-humbled
France, rising proudly under De
Gaulle's aggressive leadership, was
said to be angling for extensive oc-
cupational rights in postwar Ger-
many, including Austria.
PARALYSIS FUND
Collecting'$5,452,593 during its fis-
cal year ending May 31, 1944, the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis authorized grants and ap-
propriations totaling $1,828,859 for
the period for research, education
and training of physical therapists,
Basil O'Connor, president, said.
During the year, the foundation
also established a special fund of
$2,000,000 for epidemics and other
emergencies, and $739,860 was used
during the country's second worst
outbreak of polio last summer.
CLOTHING:
Price Roll-Back
Implementing plans for rolling
back clothing prices, which OPAd-
ministrator Bowles had called a dan-
gerous inflationary element, OPA
established retail price ceilings on a
list of cotton items for which manu-
facturers will receive fabric priori-
ties.
Under OPA ceilings to be tagged
on garments, men's regular sized
shorts would range from 49 cents
to $1.30 each; men's business
shorts, $1.80 to $3.70; women's regu-
lar sized house dresses, $1.95 to
$3.70; slips, 85 cents to $1.30; in-
fants' and toddlers' pajamas, $1.05
to $2.70; rompers, $1.05 to $2.40;
girls' school dresses, $1.65 to $3.40;
boys' wash suits, $1.30 to $2.70, and
boys' shirts and blouses. $1.05 to
$1.35.
Under the program, In which
the output of cheaper clothes is ex-
pected to account for a great por-
tion of the reduction in the nation's
apparel bill, the War Production
board is to channel 75 per cent of
all civilian fabric to low and popu-
larly priced garments.
Ready for Clean Sweep
While the military services
and industry geared to war could
use sixty million new brooms in
1945, America's broomcorn
farmers in 1944 greatly in-
creased their planting and
reaped their biggest crop in 20
years, says a National Geo-
graphic Society bulletin. If han-
dles can be turned to match the
big broomcorn harvest, 1945
may see a broom boom to match
years of the industry's heyday.
While goggle-eyed spectator looks on,
Naturalist Marjorie Terhune's pet frogs,
Jijnmyi and Joe,1wrestle in indoor lily-
pond at Park Ridge, N. J., with each
seeking to throw his opponent into tht
water.
DRAFT:
New Deferments
Even while congress moved to in-
vestigate the farm draft to deter-
mine whether local boards were not
strictly adhering to the Tydings
amendment in considering individu-
al cases, Selective Service an-
nounced that a substantial number
of key men under 30 stood to be de-
ferred in essential industry.
In making the announcement, Se-
lective Service revealed that re-
sponsibility for deferring the under
30 group would be divided between
government agency offices in the
different regions and in Washing-
ton, D. C., so that a closer check
could be kept upon individual cases
to assure retention of such key per-
sonnel as engineers, supervisors and
foremen.
While industry is still laying its careful plans for the day when swords may be beaten into plowshares
t e government has already put into operation its machinery of reconversion for the men discharged from
the armed forces. Thousands of young men are being discharged monthly, and many of them, like those
s own above, have resumed their studies or are receiving training for new vocations.
General Eddy Wins Decoration Assistant Chaplain
Pushed by Representative Lemke
(N. D.), the proposed congressional
investigation would look into the al-
leged induction of essential farm
workers for whom replacements
cannot be found, thus rotating agri-
cultural production and imposing ad-
ditional hardships on already sorely
pressed farm operators.
PAN-AMERICA:
Good Neighbors Meet
Talk of a dramatic declaration of
war by Argentina on Germany filled
the air as delegates to the inter-
American conference met in Mexico
City for a discussion of economic
and political relations of the western
hemisphere in the postwar world.
The possibility of an Argentine
declaration of war followed Ger-
many's threat to deny its diplomats
safe passage home because of Brit-
ain's refusal to afford similar privi-
leges to Nazi officials now in Lis-
bon, Portugal, on the final leg of
their journey from the South Amer-
ican country.
In discussing economic problem^
at Mexico City, South American na-
tions sought to prevent a wholesale
collapse of their prosperity built
upon wartime exports to the U. S.
after the cessation of hostilities. In
political matters, the Latin nations
sough* an adequate voice in any
postwar organization to preserve
peace so to prevent its complete
dominance "by the greater states.
BRIEFS...
According to the Wai department,
the army in 1944 spent kt^ut three
times the amount laid aside lor G.I.
sports equipment in 1943. The aimy
also set up a special command to
carry out the new sports programs.
• ♦ *
Cigarettes for U. S. Smokers
last year were estimated at 220
billion as compared with 258 bil-
lion the year before. About 110
billion went to the armed forces
(WNU Service!
Snapshots of Big Shots:
(This is what comes from
reading books!)
Edgar Allan Poe was a dollar-a-i
year-man too. ... He spent 10 years
writing and rewriting "The Raven'")
and got 10 bucks for it. . . . The!
original manuscript sold the last;
time for $10,000. . . . Poe paid $3!
a month rent for his honeymoon cot-|
tage on Grand Concourse (in thej
Bronx), which is now a New York
state historical shrine. If it hadn't
been a grand neighborhood for
dandelions he and his bride woulc$
have starved.
The greatest engineering feat in the annals of the United States army was the completion of the Stilwell
road through Burma, by Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Peck, his American engineers and thousands of native labor-
ers. Not only was the road constructed, air fields built, mountains and jungles conquered, the monsoons
defeated, raging rivers bridged, but malaria was licked in solving the problem as General Peck and his men
slaved against tune, nature and the Japanese, thousands of miles from home.
Marconi, son of an Italian father,
and Irish mother, was 27 when he
invented radio, and even then there*
were people who wanted to kill him. j
. . . These cranks said electrical
waves were passing through their]
bodies, destroying their nerves an®
making it impossible for them to>
sleep.
Maj. Gen. Manton S. Eddy, right, receives the foistinguished Service
medal from Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, for his leadership of the 12th
army corps in the drive across France. He is the officer who out-
maneuvered German Field Marshal Von Rundstedt on the Moselle river
and led assault between Nancy and Metz.
Believed to be the first woman to
serve as a chaplain's assistant, Miss
Ethel Wilson of Harrogate, England,
will serve overseas. She has been
assigned for an 18-month commis>
sion in East Africa.
The Lady D'Artagnans Practice Admiral to Senator
Barnum, who said "there's one
born every minute," was one
himself. He lost a fortune on a
bear's grease hair tonic, was
swindled out of another selling il-
lustrated bibles, trimmed again
on a fire extinguisher that
wouldn't extinguish, went into
bankruptcy for half a million
making alarm clocks. . . . With-
out a dime to his name he wrote
a lecture on "How to Make
Money," grossing $1,000 a night.
. . And that's how the famous ]
Barnumism was born.
Alexander Dumas, one-fourth^
Negro, whose book, "The Three-
Musketeers," was a best seller for
almost 100 years, used to boast that
he had more than 500 children and'
swore he would never marry. . . .
He changed his mind when a smart
sweetheart bought up all his debts;
and gave him a choice between?
marriage and jail. ... He wrote
novels on blue paper, poetry on yel-
low, articles on red, and nothing::
else would do. . . . He wrote more-
than 1,200 volumes of plays, novels-,
and histories, made over 5 million*
dollars and died broke, living off the-
charity of his son.
Woolworth started his five-
and-dime stores on a capital of <\
$300, and his first three^feilei..
Thirty years later he was able
to pay $14,000,000 cash for the
building bearing his name, then
the world's highest office build-
ing.
George Gershwin sold his first,
song for $5; nine years later a&
Hollywood studio paid $50,000 just to
use "Rhapsody in Blue," which he
wrote in his spare tiipe, in a single';
picture.
Sir IsaaG Newton was so ab-
sent-minded he once rammed his
niece's fingers into his pipe. . . .
Trying to fix himself a three-
minute egg, he boiled his watch
while watching the egg. . . .
When he went to fetch anything
he usually came back without,
it. ... He was usually last in
his class at school. . . . He was
a woman hater and never mar-
ried. ... He always claimed he
solved many of his mathemati*
cal problems in his sleep.
Dr. Samuel Johnson continually-
distorted his face by violent grim-
aces. . . . When walking in the
street he touched every post * he
passed and if he missed one he al-
ways returned. He always made a*,
point of entering or leaving a door-
on a certain foot, but his biograph-
er, Boswell, wasn't sure which one
Lord Byron was so emotional that:
once a theatrical performance put:
him into convulsions. ... In a fit;
of temper he threw his watch into»S
the fire and hammered it to pieces;
with the poker. ... He also fired a,
pistol in the bedroom of his wife,,
who left him after a year of mar-
riage. ... So he went to Venice an<J'
bought a harem.
Schiller liked to keep his feet
In ice while working. ... He once
wrote a full and perfect description)
of the Swiss land and people — al-
though he knew neither. . . . Cole-
ridge, who wrote "Kubla Khan" un-
der the influence of an opiate, could!
remember only 54 lines when he
sufficiently recovered to write. . . .
Richelieu at times imagined himself
to be a horse and neighed, trotted
and jumped like one. . .• . Beau
Brummel, the fashion plate (who.
taught the Prince of Wales how to*
dress), died in rags in an insane
asylum.
Beethoven had a passion for
moving and sometimes was pay-
ing rent on two or three places
at once, but Mozart, who died
at 35, starved and frozen,
never could pay rent on one.
The Lady D'Artagnans of the University of Pennsylvania loosen up
their sword arms in preparation for forthcoming season. The duellists
here are Elaine Wexler, Emily Lou Butler, Gerry Cipola, all of Phila-
delphia, Jean Alice Brenna, Gloucester, N. J., Irene Quinlan and Arlene
YcaUs of Philadelphia.
Adm. Thomas C. Hart has taken
office in the U. S. senate by appoint-
ment of the governor of Connecticut.
He is shown with his wife and their
youngest daughter, Harriet Taft
Hart.
Chopin walked out on the biggest
love of his life because she didn't
offer him a chair before she offered
one to others in the room. ... In his
will he ordered himself buried iaj
white tie, dress shoes and silkegf
knee breeches.
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