The White Falcon - 09.01.1943, Blaðsíða 1

Vol. 111.
Saturday, January 9, 19k3.
No. 16.
‘Victory’
Congress
Meets
in his welcoming address to
the newly gathered “Victory Con-
gress,” President Roosevelt de-
clared that the Axis powers lost
all hope of winning the war in
1942 and the New Year will find
them being engulfed under a gi-
gantic wave of United Nations
power.
Point by point, the Chief Exe-
cutive reviewed the Allies’ posi-
tion, and found hope gleaming
brightly from the picture, despite
the sacrifice and hardships still
looming in the future. He said,
with a tone of icy finality for
the Axis aggressors: “I do not
need to tell you that our enemies
did not win the war in 1942.”
Out of his long report to the
lawmakers and the Nation, the
President added these facts and
conclusions: “Japan is losing ra-
pidly to us in the teeter-totter
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Soldier-Inventor Creates Gadget
To Improve Army Radio Reception
A lieutenant who eliminates
gadgets as fast as T/4G. Lau-
rence E. Orne thinks them up
keeps him in a perpetual stew.
But Orne, with one Signal Corps
patent already to his credit, is
hard at work on communica-
tions apparatus refinements at a
local Signal Corps workshop.
Since his yohth, Orne, now 25,
has always tinkered with elec-
trical devices, but this Melrose,
Mass., Signal Corpsman hit the
He Loves ’Em All
A prospective groom beam-
ed at Deputy Recorder Cathe-
rine Shea in St. Joseph, Mo.,
and exclaimed: “I’d like a
marriage license, but leave
the bride’s name-space blank!”
When questioned about his
unusual request, he said he
wanted to “ask several wo-
men before making a choice.”
(P.S. He didn’t get the certi-
ficate.)
The sharpies at home have nothing on this local Air Corps-
man, S/Sgt. Frank Green, who shuffled through his wardrobe
until he gathered a “GI zoot-suit.” The twisted bathrobe and
regulation coveralls are legit for Servicemen, but that dainty
under-sized key chain is a relic of “better days.” (Air Force
Photo).
jackpot a few years ago when
the Army accepted his design
for an audio frequency ampli-
fier which Orne says greatly
improved previous methods
for aircraft and submarine de-
tection. Before he enlisted,
months before Pearl Harbor,
Orne absorbed learning at Frank-
lin Union Technical Institute,
‘Victory Tax*
Nicks Soldiers
For 5% Of Pay
With certain exceptions, every
American citizen earning $12 a
week or more will have five per
cent of his total earnings de-
ducted from his pay under pro-
visions of the new “Victory
Tax,” which became effective
Jan. 1.
This is the first time the Fe-
deral government ever has sanc-
tioned a “with-holding tax” —
deducting its share of earnings
before pay envelopes or checks
are handed to employees. A
partial refund at the end of 1943
will be offered in either of two
ways: Tax payers will be given
a non-interest-paying govern-
ment bond, payable one year aft-
er the close of the -war; or they
will be allowed to take the re-
fund in the form of credit on
1944 regular incoirte-tax returns.
Privates are the only soldiers
who will be exempt from the
tax. But soldiers in the taxable
bracket will not have the money
deducted from their pay now.
They will be required to pay it
later.
A married man may claim re-
fund by bond or by credit on
income tax for 40 per cent of
the total amount he has paid,
plus two per cent more for1 each
dependent, with the maximum
claim being $1,000. A single man
may claim credit for 25 per cent
of the tax, up to a maximum
of $500.
CA Wins Opener
In ’43 Campaign
Capt. John P. Gocttl’s Coast
Artillery unit didn’t spend
its money on gifts during the
season, but instead turned in the
first 100 per cent score of 1943
in the Bond drive.
It was the third consecutive
week that a Coast Artillery unit
led the field.
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology and Tufts College.
Orne’s most recent develop-
ment is a device to adapt Brit-
ish and American design tele-
type transmitters for satisfactory
T/4G. Laurence E. Orne
use on the same circuit, a pro-
cess which previously had too
many “bugs” to be practical. “I
expect to continue in research
work after the war,” Orne says,
“but I don’t believe I’ll try to
specialize in any one field; com-
munications alone is too big a
sphere for a single person to
make much of a splurge now.”
Russians
Advance
Steadily
Panic-stricken German propa-
gandists are employing every
possible subterfuge to keep true
accounts of the chain of Russian
victories from reaching the Axis
masses. In fact, Nazi Propaganda
Minister Goebbels is reported to
have formulated an “exchange of
wounded” with Italy, Rumania,
Hungary and Finland to prevent
Axis soldiers from describing the
Soviet’s successes to their re-
latives.
The first signs of alarm were
noted when Goebbels “forgot” to
tell the German people that Ve-
likiye Luki, vital Russian town,
had been recaptured by the Red
Army with serious losses to the
retreating Axis horde. Goebbels
also denied neutral correspon-
dents the right to visit the battle-
front.
New fury has been noted in
the Russian sweep up and down
the 2,000-mile front, and import-
ant gains have been added to the
Soviet’s soaring list of conquests,
especially on the Middle Don
front and in the Central Cauca-
sus. The Germans have offered
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War Dept. Purchases
100,000 New Magazines
The War Department announc-
ed that it has purchased 100,000
magazine subscriptions for dist-
ribution to troops overseas, and
revealed through a survey by the
Special Service Division that pic-
ture magazines have the great-
est appeal. ■
An analysis was made to deter-
mine what kind of reading has
the greatest appeal. It resulted
in the division of the Army per-
sonnel into three educational
groups: grade school, high school,
and those having some college
training.
The proportion of men in each
group showed that 44 percent of
the soldiers prefer magazines, in
comparison to 16 percent who
read books.
“Best-seller” books, , includ-
ing fiction and non-fiction top
the field, with technical, histor-
ical and geographical books fol-
lowing closely.
A further break-down of the
survey’s figures disclose that lit-
erary tastes of the groups are
similar. But only 13 percent in
the grade school classification
used the facilities of the
7,500,000 book library whereas
47 percent in the higher bracket
availed themselves of the books.
Army Raises
Allowances
Under legislation recently sign-
ed by the President, the Army
uniform allowance has been upp-
ed from $150 to $250 to bring the
Army gratuity in line with that
of the other Services and to pro-
vide for I lie payments loNational
Guard and warrant officers.
Any officer on active duty April
3, 1939, or thereafter, in company
grades, and entitled to the pay
of any of the first three periods
at the time of acceptance for ac-
tive duty, and temporary or per-
manent warrant officers on duty,
at that time dr appointed there-.
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