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SECTIOM 2 st i -9 PAGE 1 Refugees1 mm To Shift U. EFXIBLIC AM SUNDAY SEPT. tfGO. N. Sept 22 aP)--One of the first EncTDF19lonsoons Brings New Phase To Burma Fighting By RICHARD TOMPKINS (Associated Press Staff Writer) ANOTHER monsoon season is nearing its end in Burma.

It means the Allied campaign to clear the jungles of Japs and open up the overland supply route to China is getting back to good old terra firma. Not that the regiments of rain riding in on the southwest wind from the Indian ocean have prevented important gains already. It was good weather for amphibious "ducks" and even planes defied the worst of flying weather to bring in supplies. But now, as the dry season advances, mechanized equip dons cu' lan refugees arrived at Tar Relocation Author- Ontario emergency ref month for the rSi. rni-nrip? ubs.

and still is. WRAsays. were broi retuge under a deiinite agree JrtSt they would return, and! Jul fcJfiflf them are looKine iorwara VWliiv end to this European r'ciedy end 10 inis European PWMthat they may regain their ment wm roll faster on the heels of the emperor's sons. Already the Ledo-Burma route is reaching into the mountains beyond Mvitkvina in fi-Tthe WRA says, is particular's, of the Yugoslavs, whose hoe pscaned some of fr ARIZONA HiGH SCHOOLS AR6 Mortality the vicinity of the Yunnan frontier testation of the other coun-Wr 363 form tho largest ot China. nvj Ir HOT AND HEAWy LOOK UK THERE AAV BE PLEHTX The chief iniDortanee of Burma.

EKT SATURDAY among the 17 differ- Of Infants OF DENT TH bofE BliCKCT fill II II A which is about the size of Texas, lies in its geographical position. It is a corridor and the only one just iwter Typifies Group I BEFORE TH SEASON'S oeft. their attitude is tyni- to embattled China. i In 1019 the calm resignation ot Dr. Ruhvarger.

32 years old. Is AVDHE PEEPOL ARE Tti nretty wife, Zdenka, 19, fATT( The Japanese were in complete XJL control of Burma in 1942. All ef- CHANCES, i 3EIM6 URGED par onu TO EAT i forts to oust the invaders failed. I WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 Joseph W.

Stihvell admitted IMore babies are being born in theithat the Allies took "a hell of a United States and fewer of them! beating." jare dying. A(jm. Lord Loujs Mountbatten. sssigned'to ihe refugees their capabilities thus. isr th themselves busy 10 or to dav in essential services, Despite serious dislocation in southeast Asia commander, dis-American family life caused by the! closed recently that AJlied plans for war, the U.

S. Children Bureau large-scale landing operations in BAT t. 7 Burma in 1943 were chaneed be WevM'53Athers have nothing to do. rjZrt has been some agitation SVoatside employment, but the 'tefelrtjhis resisted this under the inter) iiington-originated policy that mierf a Dublic board- says infant mortality in the United States has decreased by more than 11 per cent in the past three years. cause of the need for landing craft to im-ade Italy and France.

UP ON THfS TME CHfhtG- Mountbatten and Stilwell were At the same time, there has been evKjIC'idBse for people to go out to I SET MALARA A HOUR. TH Hundred Employed ja phenomenal increase in the num-jordered to carry on with what they Iber of live births annually. had left. They decided to drive the However, Dr. Martha M.

Eliot of out of Northeast Burma, the children's bureau warns againstj The imagination of the world jrelaxing efforts to bring about stilliwas captured by a small force of jfurther reductions in the infant! British and Indian troops under the mortality rate. She says: I late Maj. Gen. Orde Wingate. The WRONG OUA a4 on jresent, about 100 refugees TlAfflPtoyed in maintaining the 1 services mree in me office, four on re- THERE'S 5t five on welfare, 24 on opera-j "The accumulated effects of war BSE11 nJte men lne CROP OF ErA conditions may well be reflected in w'ln some "laians, a risinsr curve if efforts to crotect h.

Burmese soldiers. Piuicti -Thin rfitc T' CAMMCAf IS A SUCCESS, UMcludmg plumbing ana gar-Cisposal, 27 on health service, Seommunity activities (library, cl-jon rooms, playground wb internal security and nine intants irom all the well-known r. "MiC? you'll cer wtNb op dangers are not redoubled." "i uuhucm; iciiipies myinicai creatures, half lion and half dragon. Flown In By U. S.

Planes The already legendary soldiers She says that although the infant mortality rate for 1943, according to provisional figures, was the low toes aJso are entirely siai-tbe dining rooms and are com-km charge of a Kosher kitch- oi ionune were iimvn in by Amerr est on record for the nation, the )' 1 Irate of improvement in saving the I 1 i 1 3 tmg 200. The WRA did not taste that some of the ref u-- underfed for months, would ican planes; set to work cutting communications of Japanese divisions facing Stilwell and wrecking everything of military value. In the meantime, American and Chinese troops were learninz the IN FACT, uvea ui imams nas wuwra uuvvii. Nation Put On Guard "This fact should put the whole nation on guard," she says. "If in the next few years, as present re- (P ALL he iy typical American diet had to tactics Daniel Boone used in the HE 8ltTlivi5(CM iilterea to provide uai iuii- pons lnuicaie, mere is a lauia i i td OTHER FOLKS on youR eo; cou bread, rather man nite, taore milk was added.

REPORTED R6HTJN6 rifH nfhf, arnHr JS SSn taan- Guadalcanal and New Guinea finni'-n1 rrt lZ 1 iraininjf that would fit them for tions. all the more will need to beiMi ri, a i START TATIAI' 'EAV Sdwol Problem Solved i Wittenberg, a Czech who tdone to make increasingly ef fee- tnan Waiting for the end of the jtive our knowledge of how to savemonsoon linfantS' lives." i Cnma ttMminor ilincrlo Vioof MERE'S I is run a coal mine, set the XOU'LL HAFTA-Af SELP IM THE RALAU ISLANDS THE ARIZONA TRAINED OAe 2OZN ONIONS for solution of the major (tiffl of education for the 162 uut oi every l.uutj naoies water, it was "Uncle Joe i alive in 1941, 45 died during their ANP a Bottle of Stilwell's idea that the only way iTittenberg was busy on this first year. The number dropped to ZEPHYR BREATH i even before the ret usees to get tne Japanese out or Jiurma was to kill them. To that end the troops were trained to outfight the M') in la-iz ana just unaeru in itor the first six months of 1944 cM American soil August 4. AIOUTH WILDCAT Division we provisional figures show a rate of 39 enemy in the kind of jungle war IW.

pj. the -War Relocation Author-officials' began educational WASH- per thousand. fare he had made his own. The birth rate for 1943 was high- Equipment was lightened. Troops pr than at nnv timo siwi.

1994 and learned to use the machete, handi- USED TO $EE OM TH' STtetTf of those to be taught. even in actual numbers it reached! e.st weapon for chopping paths largest problem was Wi- ine principle was iaiu that buying should be done Kgh Oswego merchants, on a PIIKIA REAb ABOUT 10b basis, as a relief project, THAT BURGLAR WWO kersnts based on local figures. Stmt Operate On Quotas made te THESE "CLEAN BREATH" PRODUCTS OU6HTA BE A9VE To CLEAM URf PASTE THIS Jwgo stores wanted to co-Vtt, but were operating on through the jungle and swishing off a Japanese head or two; they had to know how to swim, to use native boats or build their own rafts, and move across country with or without trails. Fighting Made Modern Thus, while American and British bombers were hacking at the Japanese supply lines. Allied jungle troops were penetrating the thick undergrowth, scaling mountains, crossing torrential streams, recon-noitering for the large-scale operations to come.

all-time high ot more than 3,000,000. Dr. Mar.iorie Goorh. of the bu-'reau's statistical staff, says that jwhen corrections are made for incomplete registration the total number of births may reach 3,200,000. Steady Growth Continues The census bureau points out that idown through the years the steady growth of America has progressed despite wars, financial panics, epidemics and disasters, In fact, this bureau reports, there JiVi SWlPiNC ARIZONA 6RrK OH THAT Pautk jnsMthat, as the WRA spokes-: it, Tf they sold all theirj aoo dresses to the iwonlfl leave the Oswegoans Aatiny.

We had to aDDeal to! 1 HI PAL! I kjrtbert and manufacturers to vat their quotas, and so every-i ihas been no marked railing ott in PRESUm) jejot in initial grant. 2k thing that is helping the to remain calm is a taste of trnment. i ws determined, when hey Aerial movement of whole armies and a system of supplying these armies and outflanked troops by air something the Japanese had not believed possible was the modern warfare established in the 1944 North Burma fighting. With air superiority, encirclement was no problem. Indeed, isolated groups were established de 'the gains noted by 10-year periods I until the span between 1930-1940.

(Then for the first time since the 'census immediately following the close of the Civil War, this country i failed to add at least 10.000,000 new 'names to the rolls through births immigration. Increase was This was only a 7.2 per to, give them a direct leaf democracy in action. To send, a general advisory com- 01 10 was set un. hpartert ieoa Levi, a Yugoslav lawyer. hairman.

Dr. Ernst Wolff. ffLAST WK L-3 VME GOT AM KONORAR.V MEMBERSHIP iH TH ASSOCtfiiTtOtJ CF LETTER GRRER (OfA(6oSH UIB'RS 'frii rney MPitE AN AMUL MISTAKE THERE liberately behind enemy lines, and. 'cent gain over the previous decen nial census and the lowest train, inias one correspondent Dut it. the fca novelist, once was a scriot MAlt ftff in Fredi Baum, uigosiav and brother of Mrs.

Birger, is official interpreter. terms of percentage, ever recorded Allied command "cultured these in census history. jair-fed cancers within the military Miss Katharine Lenroot, chief of body of the enemy." the children's bureau, says thel The Burma campaigns were the marked decline in death rates ofjfirst in which air supply was the babies during their first year coin- only transport for the duration of reiugees' relatives this proved both a problem and ssmg. Pictures and other pub-7 brought eifts and attention the operation. icides with the extension of maternal land child health programs in the WE ALWAYS i morale-building nature to the states.

I Credit Is Shared iwih. cut telephone calls Japanese Frustrated Aerial movement frustrated the Japanese incursion into Manipur and Assam. Troop carriers turned CARRY OUR. THtVJtS as lar as California and some OMnore visitors on the first Credit for the decline, she points RABBIT house" day proved an up- out, does not. lie in any one quarter, the tide bv moving the personnel Public health workers may take a of the Fifth Indian Division 230 share of it for seeing to improved jf uuiuence.

won sUU are admitted, but miles from the Arakan front to the beleaguered Imphal plain in 36 LETTERS BIGHT PAST MAIL Bones, wTHcur REMESA9ERIMG to DROP 'EM IN) wist name definite persons 1th in sanitation in war-congested areas, lit is through them that mothers have stored up knowledge of pre hours. This emergency movement included mules, mountain guns, mor- natal and infant care, of the tun iu ace. refugees' movements, mean- still are restricted to the fort and, on timed passes. Cm'T THINK OP eso ior snopping. Wider uKtATtR.

HONOR. I Blind War Veterans Learn To Meet World "PDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of two stories on government help for blinded war veterans. By FRANK CAREY (Associated Press Science Writer) WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 The armed forces and the veterans ad- cffnrt in sot blinHed servirempn vnvueges, on a restricted any come later. AtrapiM luui i 6anwhile.

various wel- gencies, the Friends Service Mttee (Ouakpr) a Knitatian and others have organized a thaw Beihg a AaENBR. OF- TH LETTER CARRIERS. THEIRS (ANb THE "AIL CLERKS') fS A LlFe OF $AL SERVtCe WHICH li so FINE THAT USE bEPEAlb i helps with such projects as mg transportation for somejsafely on the road back to useful lives. -u Until a lew weens o(u, unknown from army centers for the blind at Valley Forge General Hospital, B'nth and nihor Phoenixville. and Dibble Gen-, renter 101 damentais ot proper and sale ieed-jtars.

miantry equipment, muni- iiig, and of immunization against! tions and temporary supplies. known preventable diseases. Everything from fodder to chick- I Physicians and hospitals, she says, en broth was flown eggs for field lalso should be given credit forjhospitals, petroleum products, ifinding ways to continue to give; cigarettes, mail, rations, vitamin care to mothers and infants in thejtablets. There were 8,000 trips into iface of grave shortages of person-jthe Imphal area. So regular were nel and serious crowding in "grocery runs" that the troons pitals.

jcut off on the ground were able i Miss Lenroot said the war-emer-ito take the offensive. igencr maternity and iafant cardj Troop carriers and gliders under i program has provided care for some: Col. Philip Cochran were the servicemen's wives and vans" used by the Chindits Pies during the 16 months of its op- under Wingate in the Irrawaddy 'eration. and Mogaung valleys, 150 miles be- I Dr. Katherine Bain, specialist in, hind the Japanese lines.

'child development for the children'sl sick Relieved Quickly bureau declares that contrary tOj A vear before on Wingate-S jun. (general. belief, the best place to beige raid 1he safet of lhe main born is in a big city. Poor sanitation force made jt neCessary to leave no longer a major problem mounded and sick soldiers in the jmost of them. Though crowding still junge.

Tnis vear the grasshopper exists, it has been counterbalanced. panes are going in to bring back some other factors such as saferjcasualties a matter of minutes. and water supply, and theiGround forces who had groused quantity and quality of medical about the "soft" life of airmen care, she says. changed their tune to a paean of i Hospitals Are Help admiration when thev saw weary "Not only has improved sanita-Pilots nose tneir b'S ships through tion over the vears cut down the dangerous monsoon air. 16 hours iinfant mortality rate." she day in some cases, to keep the increased hospitalization ol fund troops supplied, among i Kowioe- them Merrills Marauders.

Mb" Vrt, eral Hospital, Menlo Park cent TV'" rUCt.t I There, hell be given a steppea- from the navy's Hospital Annrox- ON IT LIKE THE sun rising Vfcy time cue- see Jtional facilities, and a bulle-and PTOem has been worked Naval Pontioi mate 100 have been discharged UWWtteranhpH rf 225 hlir iour'lout of 225 blinded since Pearl Har- lAkKINC ANYONE C6ULBE v'C A MAIL COU LECTOR. fm ibor. aw Cf Me Posted, "fee onp-timo one-time EWry A SfKCKFULL OF LETTERS tup Box, AN STOP tw newspapermen Training at these institutions nas Plans for a news- been quite extensive, but would be entirely in'menO authorities decided the men bfcLwHh European politics needed something more to give Jatthe refugees' own re- them maximum confidence up training in "social readjustment," but the accent will be finding out what the man is best fitted to do in life. He'll be given "sample" training in such things as stenography, typing, general tasks, metal and woodworking, operation of small concession-type stores and specialized farm jobs. Shortly before a man is ready for discharge, the veterans administration will inform its regional office in the area of the man's home.

THINK OF THE THOUSANDS OF THAT fS BEiHG JONE THOUSANDS OF TOUJNS uE CAN'T HELP FEELiNG THAT MAtt CARRieZS fine PRETTy hToSav It (competition in a sighted world, i New Center Opened In Julv. a rehabilitation center pctahlished at a former boys Writing CLOSE TO BtiNC school at Avon, Conn, -iLu the "Old Farm Convalescent Hos A training officer will be assigned to the man's case and will outline his training from there on, provid- Kg HANDY LETTER WRIT- lives. Today 69 per cent of all births i lie ciuuei are an oiurueeis who stepped forward in the South- pital." The navy says its recorded the man as requested it. Of U. ffn nt orl ctnn.

Family Is Considered )S model forms for all eaj crrespondence. busi-S flf -Cvyers the gen- VeteranHeads Palau Invasion By JLEIF ERICKSON ABOARD JOINT EXPEDITION json. "So it wasn't like an am-invasion. Halsey had to find a new pHals." -lef and American iunele-traiS iphibious operation as we know it amphibious boss. Looking around Premature births, according 1o ain thVraii tn in this war.

for the man, Halsey "saw Wilkinson the children's bureau, seem to be i LcmJ nd "But once we were ashore, the'in the office next to his. 'responsible for more infant deaths ilazard0US Mexican garrison gave us a very Quiet, Soft Spoken S.I intnfai dVor In amnion to fighting the iun- bnsk time." r- total deaths of and unavoidabie futh foyi. Wilkinson succeeded 'H'011 now, 13 under one year of age and elsewhere on the ground, 'RirhaSlv Ser salty-faced, to the Marauders killed 2.000 Japa- i ill on. Duncma- of blindness are fewer than those of the army. For the time being at least, navy and marine blinded will continue to be centered at Philadelphia Naval Hospital.

However, the navy says the program of nrevocational rehabilitation there is being intensified. tu mt.rm for a blinded man correct styles of dminw pr.0Pr salutations and nnal A sPecial section on A veterans' representative also will prepare the man's family for his home-coming, relatives will be warned against being over-sympathetic, and they'll be taught to do things that will spare the blind man embarrassment. For example, they'll be taught to set his dinner plate the way he has been accustomed to having it set will still under military care. The plate is considered to be the face of a clock with the potatoes at 2 rovo; with wftnt oflicials and digni- 48 SUhPaYitfhCeitaenrdihneK Z7cT RaS'a luSrugSit in th ilZ Sc1 Piin'lof a sea commander. But he isinew and effective drugs at campaign.

Msurprisinglv quiet in both the vol-lfor the treatment of Burma Called Toughest both the vol-: for the treatment of pneumonia. napps mr tin ihe me he enters a hospital 'e forme TTif ihic u-flv: uitcn ccJild; will ine iieasuiy ibittiiui. A hnnv FHcn Rr kh fnrp ARY FORCE FLAGSHIP OFF PALAU, Sept. 23 (AP) Big. redheaded Vice-Adm.

Theodore Stark Wilkinson. Third Fleet amphibious commander directing the invasion of Palau, won the Congressional Medal of Honor as an ensign in his first amphibious action 30 years 'will, i rpi uiiie aim ai itr ul ilia rucctii. iiitr uiuutrLL i euntaa in i cuutiiif, 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 'i-i uiiie aim ui Jiia icclii. iiitr ui ujucll ui sun-too in icuutiiif, told the house ot com- The admiral grows quieter and'ant Mortality from respiratory BSSA REPUBLIC. At an army or navy he will be given a psychological "lift" by a consultant, who will endeavor to convince him that there is much that the blind can do.

Itralization of the Japanese strong-jcalmer as the situation confrontingies very gooa, sas tne holds of Rabaul on New Britain and him gets tighter and tougher. He children bureau an naa JHpait R.lvr,,. o'clock, the meat at 6, the peas Kavieng on New. Ireland. He isarely use, profanity.

iintesVina Id sea seT rant which the milHarvco be put amphibious boss in Halsey new; Wilkinson almost literally was tha 000 babies died in he'arfare such as troops are now Third Fleet striking team. horn into a navy career. His.m0'ea" ago. That Was at Vera Cruz in April, 1914, during an informal but hot-leaded unpleasantness with Mexico. Imnsl ni lne uiniu unit If the blind veteran is to receive perhaps the toughest warfare ArvMi in Miirn rni V.

Ensign Wilkinson led a company of other injuries.) the man will gradually be taught to dress, to shave. (wose herewith FIFTEEN PDert in coin carefully ftHSrnvPTaE.f,r) for a ropy -of LETTER WRITER. We" acad ApN Srvafrtl! lfrmalin isiana, he was radii.itpri in'ul ai n'nn- i Gene Vilkinson-s landing action ex-from Lou ciril Ctilu-ftll ii-TnLt OX i iperience at Vera Cruz had nothing ii 1 OnO ot on-li rrf irtt ir l-i5c? rlovt nn until 'nnini'inr) rf i- industrial training, the veterans representative will contact an industrialist. If the man is to receive education, that too will be arranged. Blind men with no other disa at t11 tn Hn with vhanirifr his nresent ft taiea nis account wun ine oaia- aKn Hist incMicheH him- battleship division in August.

1942. Inese and marked the first instAll- to eat, to get around both indoors and outdoors and to develop his sense of touch. He'll be taught the fundamentals of Braille, the use. of the Braille ampnioious commanu Annapolis bv organizing the Wilkinson is quick and paid for the "hell of a beat- self at Annapolis by organizing the lie aiiiiiiicii sava nc a on ten-'witn crean ana siow wun censure. the Allies took in 1942.

bilities are entitled to pension pay- academy first intercollegiate fi nis team. The admiral still i phibious commander because is an wnen me aumnai was avdiueui me generals vj iNorin isurma watch, andjments up to $190 a month under nnrl I 1 availability and circumstance enthusiastic and competent tennis the Distinguished Service Medal campaign score typevviJiei national rpsrnlar romnensation laws. I the latter months of 1942, Wilkin sailors in the landing force sent ashore in whaleboats from the battleship Florida to seize the Vera Cruz customs house. The action, undertaken without official declaration of hostilities, lasted two days and constituted Wilkinson's full experience in amphibious warfare until he became South Pacific amphibious commander under Adm. William F.

Halsey in July. 1943. Mexicans Surprised "The Mexican garrison was surprised, and we weren't shot at player. At fleet headquarters he! for the South Pacific landing opera-! 10,000 square miles of territory to -uch wvinF in ordrj The Veterans' administration also taSKS, -ui-i a r. anthnr ypri tn nrnvirle ErUlde dogs son was a rear admiral commanding pvprv ral.p fhanre he hns.

tions that "culminated in breaking rerantured. Gty battleship division In Januarv, n. the last remaining stronghold of! More than 20,000 Japanese killed. il943. he was sent to New Caledonia Headed Battleship Division Japanese in the British Solo- No, as the monsoon abates, the to become deputy South Pacific when the Japanese struck at mon Islands." Wilkinson toJd his Chindits.

the Marauders and those (commander under Halsey. His as- pearl Harbor. Admiral Wilkinson staff thev had earned him the other indomitable forces, includ- signment was as an organizer. vvas director of naval He said they really did the ing the bulldozers, will move more When Turner was called to the in Washington. He stayed at that' work, but he got the citation.

tswiftly to their goal. As 01 en surgical' or rrcdieallas well as mechanical and treatment is completed, the manitronic" equipment to blind veter-wfll be given a further prevwa-Jans. Unofficially it is stated that Uonal training right at the hospital idogs will be furnished to any vet-it he is in the naw center. Ifieran who requests one and would he's an army man, he'll be trans- be helped by one. A to ashington.

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