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Tg Nine Wednesday, March 21, 1943 THE AUSTIN STATESMAN Wehrmacht Ripe US Troops Anxious to Close in for Kill Four Negro WACs Face Discharge FORT DEVENS, March 21. (UP) Four negro WACS, including one from Conroe, Texas, Wednesday faced dishonorable discharge from service and one year -u i i an.i.a SlA jr. if flflfiniimiif it Jia.nn u. At Jt, by an overwhelming air and land assault as soon as weather and circumstances permit a coordinated operation across the Rhine and nonstop to Berlin. In the second place, the average American soldier has reluctantly reconciled himself to the fact that he'll see action in the Pacific and he feels that the sooner the European war ends, the sooner he'll get a crack at the Japs and go home.

Coming here to central field headquarters from which Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley directly commands the First, Third and Fifteenth armies and exercises administrative control over the Ninth, I find a marked confirmation of the viewpoint held by the braeshats and civilians in Paris and elsewhere that the climax of the European war is coming in sight although the final round is certain to entail violent battles and much bloodshed. Officers and men from various sectors of the Rhine front concur in the belief that during the past few weeks a striking change has taken place in the mental attitude of allied combat soldiers and that morale is the highest since the sweep across France.

On the other hand, German morale is low. Although exhorting Yanks Can't German city, Third army tankmen transportation to amusement Without knowledge of how to say "Gee and Haw" in German, these Yanks aren't making out so well with harnessed vehicle in Trier. Finding horses, wagon and trappings ready Spaatz and Doolittle 'Allied Bombing Pushed Red Advance7 us more supplies and we will end it as soon as 1 1 By JAMES POWERS NEW YORK, March 21. (INS) Allied bombing of Germany deserves much of the credit for the speed of tlie Russian advance in easternj Europe, a leading American airman said Wednesday after a three and a half months tour of the Eurbpean war theater. "After seeing in Western Europe the complete devastation wrought by our bombers, it is not hard to understand why the Russians found transportation and bchind-the-lines organization completely disrupted," said Albert I.

Lodwick, special consultant to the war department and head of the Lodwick aeronautics school, Lakeland, Fla. Lodwick said the Importance of US strategic and tactical bombing has not been properly understood in America and paid tribute to the work of Lt. Gen. Carl Spaatz and Lt Gen. James Doolittle for their bombing of German industry and transportation.

"Strategic and tactical bombing," he said, "is like kicking over the bucket of milk and killing the cow the strategic bomber tries to kill the cow and then if any milk has cscaped destruction the tactical bombers go after that." Including the bombing carried out by Li. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, commander of the Mediterranean air force, US heavy bombers have re ar mmnM. too: F.t PIERRE J.

Hl'SS WITH US 12TH ARMY GROUP ON WESTERN FRONT, March 21. i INS) American troops along the Rhine front were doubly anxious Wednesday for a final assault against the German forces In the Vat In the first place, nearly everybody from top-ranking officers down to the saddest sack is convinced that the wehrmacht Is ripe for the kill and can be cut to pieces Austin Office 913 Littlefield Bldg. TEL. 2-2408 San Antonio Machine Supply Co. Wmmm at" i i' tifie way to dry OP pimple and acne itth overnight.

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Enjoy Schenley feSlARVHlSKEt.l BliNDED WW There Are Two S-e-x-e-s, But Don't Let Enemy Hear at hard labor. They were convicted by a nine- member courtmartial on charges of disobeying a superior officer, as the outgrowth of a sitdown strike at Lovell general hospital here. Pvt. Mary E. Green, 21, of Con-roe, had testified that authorities at the hospital discriminated against the negro WACS in favor of white members of the corps.

She aald she refused heavy work and participated in thw strike because she was pregnant. Decision of the court, comprised of two white WACS, two negro captains and five other officers, is subject to review by Maj. Gen. Sherman Mile of the First aervioe command whose back-to-work order was disobeyed by the negroes. When the decisions wag announced, Pvt.

Anna G. Morrison, 20, of Richmond, broke down and had to be aided from the room. The verdict was received calmly by her three co-defendants, Pvts. Johnnie Murphy, 20, of Rankin, Alice Young, 23, of Washington ar1 the Texas woman. Franco Moves To Jump Japs LONDON.

March 21. (INS) Despite the discouragement given him by the democratic powers, Generalissimo Francisco Frnnco seems determined to break relations and declare war with Japan, diplomatic observers declared today in London. These observers called attention to the fact that the overt act on which Spanish agitation against the Japs is based occurred more thnn two years ago. Whether the Falangist leaders protested to Tokyo at that time is not known in England but it is stressed only that for many months after the Manila incident in which Spanish nationals were killed or crippled by the Japanese, Madrid carried on friendly relations with the Quisling Filipino government Whether Spain Intended to cash In on the loot when victory would be in the grasp of the axis, or she was too weak at the time to protest Is a matter of conjecture. However Franco's latest move in permitting a press and radio campaign against the Japanese is interpreted in London as being too belated to be sincere.

It is believed that with the rising power of emigre Spanish republicans through the sympathy shown them by democratic powers, Franco is finding it expedient to make some move which will stave off internal revolution and curry favor with the United States. Regardless of the effect Franco's threat against Japan would have in the United States and Latin America, it was pointed out that both Britain and Russia view the Spanish leader's moves with "logical coolness" and will oppose any attempt of the falangist regime to crash into the San Francisco conference in April or participate in any peacetime meeting affecting the united nations. Portugal's position against Japan is regarded in a different light as she is a weak power and was unable to do anything save protest when the Japanese overran Timor. However diplomats consider it unlikely that Portugal will ally herself with Spain in a declaration of war against Japan. Battle on Peak Won Iwo Jima NEW YORK, March 21.

(INS) A 45-minute point-blank battle atop Mount Surbachi decided the battle of Iwo Jima on the fourth day after the marine landings, Lt. Gen. Alexander A. Vandergrift, marine corps commandant, said Wednesday. After telling how a marine regiment fought its way up the peak for two days, through volcanic caves, pillboxes, bunkers and gun emplacements, the general related: "On the third day, as one platoon neared the top, the men ran into a maze of barbed wire entanglements.

Four hidden pillboxes opened up. If the men had turned to withdraw none could have escaped. But they stayed to fight and for 45 minutes a point-blank battle raged." Before the pillboxes were finally silenced, he said, 17 of the 46 men in the unit were casualties. But they planted Old Glory on the peak the next day and from that moment no one doubted the outcome of the historic battle for the island. The death rate from childhood diseases has been reduced 93 per cent during the last 20 years scalet fever claiming 90 per cent fewer victims, whooping cough and measles 80 per cent fewer, diphtheria 96 per cent fewer and tuberculosis and pneumonia claiming 75 per cent fewer.

everyone under penalty of death to stand fast, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels seems to be slipping. Even the German civilians over here shake their heads and grudgingly remark that Berlin sounds aB if it were preparing an alibi in advance for failure to stem any forthcoming major allied Rhine crossing. Qualified military opinion en our side is convinced that once we are over the Rhine in a big way, then the breakthrough into the heart of Germany is Inevitable and "nothing this side of hell can save the Wehrmacht from cracking." Favorite argument of optimists forecasting an early end of the war is that history proves that no nation ever has been able to carry on after the fall of its capital. Conservatives, however, point out that Germany had 10 years to prepare for this war and systematically looted European stocks which the nazis have only begun to tap. They say that Germany is still capable of springing surprises, and therefore the European war should not be written off until the last organized Wehrmacht unit has been chased down and beaten Into submission.

mama chin herself while the Borscht is on the boil and practice the bicycle ride while baby pounds its ear. Another military secret the conferees learned is that little boys have a higher "morbidity rate" than little girls. Among the stern questions which they set out to answer were these: "What are the basic motives in the lives of girls and women? "What relation does physical fitness have to fulfillment of these motives? "What plans can be formulated to stimulate parents to bring up their daughters with a love for exercise? "Do play skills help girls to achieve status? "Would a richer, more vigorous play life for girls be one tool which society could use to help offset the high degree of emotional instability among women?" Conferees were told that girls admitted to the WACS and WAVES "have poor posture, are low in endurance and are lacking in strength." Represented at the conference were the WACS, WAVES, SPARS, women marines, selective service, public health service, federal security agency and United States education office. Jim Farley Would Cut Tariff Down NEW YORK, March 21. (INS) Reconsideration of the nation's tariff policies to allow increased imports was urged Wednesday by James A.

Farley, former democratic national chairman and now an executive of the Coca Cola Export corporation. Increased imports are essential if the United States is to increase its exports, Farley told the Foreign Commerce club Tuesday night. Stressing the importance of foreign trade as a factor in postwar prosperity and peace, he declared that "the modern position of the United States in the world makes it necessary that we reconsider many of the tariff policies of the past." GLASSES BETTER VISION for mora loecMafnl living! If yon need (lassea, yoa naed them now. Every day of delay ia robbing you of the auccegi that ahould ho your. When you know the comfort and aatiflfartion of correct vinlon.

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Despite the terrific bombing of Germany, Lodwick warned that the capture of great cities like Berlin would not mean the end of the war. "I saw in coal mine In captured portions of Germany how the nazis were making the V-l bombs there far beneath the ground and safe from allied bombardment," he said "Just as they were using the Paris subway for war production. "The Germans have plenty of fight left in them. We will have to fight them house to house before we eventually beat them Everyone here asks when the war will end. Over there on the battle fronts where they are fighting yard by yard and mile by mile they don't ask that question.

"The farther one gets from the battlefronts the more optimism one finds regarding the end of the war. All the boys over there say is "Give Revolt broke out in IATSE ranks Tuesday and while Walsh moved promptly to restore discipline, it remained to be seen whether he had the situation under control. Approximately 75 members of IATSE local 44 refused at Warner Brothers to perform work ordinarily done by striking carpenters. The studio sent them home and later a spokesman at Walsh's headquarters said they had been "canned" for not taking orders. "They'll do as they are told or they are out on their ears," he asserted.

After leaving the Warner lot the local 44 rebels held a mass meeting at which they were addressed by Herbert Sorrell, president of the rival conference of studio unions. Sorrell appealed to them not to perform strike-breaking work, arguing that "you will be back here at work with the men you scabbed on long after your international officials have gone back East." At a still later meeting members of local 44 decided to report for work, but to refuse any duties other than their regular work as property men. The decision confirmed the stand taken earlier in the day in the refusal to work at Warners. It challenged, within the ranks of his own union, Walsh's program of breaking the strike by replacing the strikers with IATSE men. Without carpenters to build new sets the studios cannot remain in operation for long.

It was expected that a showdown on whether the IATSE leader could recruit enough carpenters for the work would come Wednesday. AUSTIN'S "WHICH IS WHICH" to go in ancient change mode of of buddies. HOLLYWOOD, March 21. (INS) Richrd Walsh, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, faced a test Wednesday on his promise to supply sufficient labor to keep Hollywood's major film studios running despite the current jurisdictional strike by affiliates of the conference of studio unions. OPA Seeks More Probers CHICAGO, March 21.

(INS) The Chicago office of price administration appealed for more investigators Wednesday after staging what it termed the nation's biggest drive on the black market in meat. Homer Clay, chief enforcement officer of the OPA in the Chicago area, issued this warning, to the black market operators: "Our efforts in Tuesday's opening drive might be called our D-day in the war against the meat black market. Far from being a one-day gesture, they are to be continued, and intensified, until this black market is broken." Criminal actions were to be started Wednesday against several alleged violators uncovered in Tuesday's series of surprise raids. In the raids, 30 investigators donned butehers' white aprons and invaded the wholesale market seizing and inspecting truckloads of meat Of 30 truckloads inspected. Clay said.

12 involved OPA violations. He estimated that 40 per cent of Chicago's daily meat supply is handled in violation of one to five OPA regulations, all resulting in overceiling prices. Clay said the raids developed that tons of meat are being diverted daily to New York, possibly through black market operators. Dr. Terman N.

Bundesen, head of the Chicago health department, announced that In a separate action he had ordered the seizure of 1,800 pounds of Kosher meat that had been inspected neither by federal officers nor by the city. "We will watch carefully the ceiling prices paid by the jobber and charged by the retailer during this campaign," Clay said. "We know that some of the smaller packers are paying over-ceiling prices for livestock and that this, of course, is passed on down the line to jobber, retailer and By MARTHA KEARNEY WASHINGTON, March" 21. (INS) If your mammy done told you there are two (2) sexes don't talk; the enemy may be listening. In the federal security agency's book that comes under the head of security stuff.

In fact reporters were ousted from the "physical fitness for women" conference just as Dr. Margaret Mead of the national research council was giving tongue on that very subject "There are two sexes and we simply must recognize the fact," Dr. Mead declared earnestly. "Any society which takes one sex as a pattern is doomed." At that point reporters got the honorable heave-ho. They were told that cop representatives of army and navy, selective service and other government agencies "simply won't talk before the press" for "security reasons." The pattern of the conference seemed to be to get the gals out of the kitchen and on to the parallel bars.

The physical fitness conference plans to have Eighth Army Gains in Italy ROME, March 21. () Eighth army troops in the Adriatic sector improved their positions northwest of Ravenna with a local advance in the Mezzano area Tuesday. Otherwise activity along the Italian front was limited to patrol operations, allied headquarters said Wednesday. Increased activity of Italian patriots in German-held northern Italy was reported and a 15th army group communique quoted a captured enemy officer as saying the nazis often were forced to use a whole regiment to combat partisan attacks on supply dumps and troop movements. Osage, Iowa BLENDED WHISKEY 8B PROOF.

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