Daily Post - 12.12.1943, Blaðsíða 2

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SUNÐAY POST
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Editor: S. Benediktsson.
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Sunday, Dec. 12, 1943
Facts. . Oddities
. . QnotatiODS
Among the languages being
taught in U.S. colleges to pre-
pare men for military or civilian
abroad are Amoy, Annamese,
Fanti, Haussa, Kurdish, Mand-
arin, Pánjabi, Pushtu, Swahili
and Thai.
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Hybrid corn ,now raised in
large quantities in the United
States, gives a better yield
than regular varieties, has stur-
dier stalks and root systems,
and possess higher disease
resistance.
Chile is producing in quanti-
ties the following medicinal and
spice plants: pyrethrum, fenug-
reek, coriander, white mustard,
borage, poppy, saffron, oatsrue,
marjoram, sage, ratany root and
soapbark.
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“The freeing of Mediterran-
ean, which we started last fall,
will lead directly to resumpt-
ion of our complete control of
the waters of the eastern Ind-
ian Ocean and the Bay of Ben-
gal. Thus, we shall be enabled
to strike the Japanese on an-
other of their highly vulner-
able flanks.” — President
Roosevelt in message to Cong-
ress, September 17, 1943.
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The k' r • of Ayrshire cattle
is in ; e . .ií iistern Scotland in
the counry of Ayr.
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A light anti-aircraft battery
uses enough ammunition in one
minute of intensive firing to
fill a three-ton truck.
SAVED BY HIS TOES
A, R. Bartholomew, Flying
Fortress gunner, has a story
which should interest his
grandchildren. During raid ov-
er Regensburg, Germany, the
door of the bell turret which
he occupie1 was shot off and
he fell out. His toes caught in
the range pedal of his gun,
leaving him dangling head
News From America
to play, Donald M. Nelson
WPB chief, said. October air-
craft production of 8,362 planes
broke all records, increasing 10
percent over September. An
average of 270 planes was pro-
duced daily. Calling the gains
encouraging, Nelson attributed
the rising war production partly
to the experience gained by
management and labor.
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RICHMOND, CALIF: Ship-
building time at a Henry Kais-
shipyard created a new world’s
record recently. The yard
built, launched and delivered
a seaworthy vessel at the in-
credible speed of 10 minutes.
The ship, named the USS
Doodleburg, is a flat-bottomed
skiff, 8 feet from stem to stern!
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WASHINGTON: The Com-
bined Production and Resourc-
es Board announced the for-
mation of a committee to deal
with production and distribut-
ion of rubber tubes and tires in
the United States, Canada and
the United Kingdom. The com-
mittee will be composed of re-
presentatives of the three
nations.
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WASHINGTON: More than
19,000 officers and seamen
serving on United States mer-
chant ships have been awarded
the Merchant Marine Combat
Bar authorized by Congress
last May. The bar is awarded
to men for active service on a
ship that has been in combat
action with the enemy while
delivering war cargoes. Since
Pearl Harbor, nearly 4,800
merchant seamen have been
listed as dead or missing in
action, while 547 are known to
be prisoners of war.
NEW YORK: John Slater,..
vice president of American
Export Airlines estimated that
not more than 103 jplanes
would be needed in the post-
war period to transport as
many passengers as were hand—
led in pacetime by all steam-
ship lines to and from U.S_
ports.
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WASHINGTON: The War-
Food administration announc—
ed that Lend-lease shipments^
to Great Britain in the year
which began last October wilL
include 620,000 tons of meat,
335,000 tons of grain, 27,000
tons of dried eggs, 254,000 tons
of fats and oils, and 254,000
World News
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WASHINGTON: The State
department announced that
John G Winant, American am-
bassador to Great Britain, has
been appointed U.S. represent-
ative on the European advisory
commission set up under the
pact drafted at the Moscow
conference of foreign ministers.
The commission will deal with
problems affecting the political
future of Europe.
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NEW HAVEN, CONN: The
arrest and threatened deportat-
ion of the University of Oslo
students and faculty by German
authorities has brought a world-
wide chorus of protest and den-
unciation from the ranks of
educators. Charles Seymour,
president of Yale University
declared: “If this onslaught
upon intellectual freedom of
brave people of the highest
civilization is carried out it
will bring upon Germany the
moral condemnation of all fut-
ure genarations in every
nation.”
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WASHINGTON: Nearly
100,000 wives and babies of
enlisted men in the four lowest
pay g*rades have been authoriz-
ed to receive benefits under the
federal program for maternity
and infant care. Under the pro-
gram, the wife of any service
man in the 4th, 5th, 6th and
7th pay grades in the armed
forces is entitled to receive
complete medical, hospital and
nursing care during the mater-
nity period without cost. Babi-
es also are entitled to free
medical care during their first
year.
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WASHINGTON: The 16th
monthly production of the
WBE, covering the period
through the end of October,
showed the higest monthly in-
crease since April. Shipbuilding
ii'icreased 5 percent, ammunit-
ion output 11 percent, communi
cations and electrical equip-
ment 9 percent and guns 1 per,
cent. Producion of only one of
! the major armament groups —
combat and motor vehicles de-
clined, and that was according
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down while several Nazi fight-
er planes swirled around. “I
don’t know how I did it,” says
Bartholomew, “but I literally
lifted mýself back into the tur-
red by my toes.”
A broadcast from Stockholm
this afternoon reported that
the Nazis have already deport-
ed 700 Norwegian students from
Oslo. These University stud-
ents were deported yesterday,
along with about 200 Norweg-
ian workers. Nazi arrests of
Norwegians continue. The Ger-
mans have taken the alumni
list of the University of Oslo
and are making wholesal ar-
rests of the school’s graduates.
A few of the Norwegian gradu-
ates have escaped to Sweden.
The Nazis say that they in-
tend to take the students to
Germany where they will be
given an opportunity to con-
tinue their political education
— under, of course, the guid-
ance of the enlightened Nazi
super race. In addition to this
“education,” the students will
also be given military train-
ing.
Protests of this latest Nazi
outrage is coming from all
parts of the world. The Swed-
ish Newspaper Social Demo-
kraten, in answer to the curb
German reply to the Swedish
protest that what the Germans
did with Norwegian students
was none of Swedish business,.
said that the welfare of the
students of the all nations, and
particulary those of the Scand-
inavian countries, was Swed-
en’s business. The future of the
Scandinavian contries was irt.
hands of its students, said the-
paper, and as a safeguard for-
that future the students of Nor-
way and all German-occupied
contries must be free to pursue-
their studies in complete aca-
demic freedom. The paper de-
scribed the German deportation
of Oslo students and teachers
as a “severe burden” on the
relations between Sweden and.
Germany.
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A join statement, issued by
President oosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill yesterday,
stated that fewer ships were
sunk by German submarines ir>
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