Stokes: Ace in the hole
By Thomas L. Stokes
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Pyle gets no rest on front porch
San Francisco, California (UP) –
Ernie Pyle, columnist and war correspondent, said today that he was going to cover the Pacific War “not because I want to, but just because something inside me says I’ve got to.”
The 112-pound correspondent said that although friends think he looks very well, he was unable to rest during the three and a half months he spent at his Albuquerque, New Mexico, home after covering the war in Africa, Italy and France.
“It was no rest – not even a total of a half day sunning myself alone on the front porch,” Mr. Pyle said.
Cadet nurse assumes role in Pyle’s movie
Hollywood, California (UP) –
Beulah Tyler, the girl whose face smiles from Cadet Nurse Corps recruitment posters, arrived from Alexandria, Virginia, today to play the role of an Army nurse in Story of G.I. Joe, the motion picture based on columnist Ernie Pyle’s book.
Miss Tyler, a junior cadet nurse at Alexandria Hospital school of nursing, and the only authentic nurse in the picture, was selected for her role by producer Lester Cowan.
She is using her vacation time to aid nurse recruitment by appearing in the film and plans to become a Navy nurse after graduation.
Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
I hope that news story about the dogs in Illinois eating up all the soybean auto license plates will be a good lesson for the scientists.
When science starts something no one, including the scientists, knows where it is going to finish. I understand it was a determined alchemist who was trying to turn lead into gold when he accidentally discovered gunpowder. And now where are we?
And I think Thomas A. Edison would have thought twice about inventing the phonograph if he had realized he would be known as the “father of the jukebox.”
Personally, the more I hear about the soybean the more it frightens me. Why, it could become a vegetable Frankenstein. It seems you can make anything from soup to steamships with it. You can eat the soybean, live in it, wear it, and make jokes out of it.
Already science knows how to make mechanical men. Maybe someday we’ll have a soybean husband. But the day I’m looking forward to is when some scientist figures out how to make a scientist out of soybeans. It will serve him right.
Steel prices raised from $2-$5 a ton
Increase is first since 1939
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Senator takes issue with tax relief plan
Corporate, income cut at same time urged
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Forrestal: Time No. 1 hope of our enemies
Need for military research stressed
By Henry J. Taylor, Scripps-Howard special writer
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U.S. Navy Department (January 11, 1945)
CINCPAC Communiqué No. 229
On January 8 (West Longitude Date), Army Liberators of the Strategic Air Force, Pacific Ocean Areas, bombed air installations on Iwo Jima in the Volcanos.
Suribachi on Paramushiru in the Kurils was bombed by Liberators of the 11th Army Air Force on January 9. The enemy offered no opposition to the attack.
Corsairs of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing attacked enemy installations on Babelthuap in the Palaus on the same date.
Meager anti-aircraft fire was encountered by 4th MarAirWing fighters in an attack on gun positions and the power plant on Nauru on January 9.
Fighters of the 4th MarAirWing also carried out neutralizing attacks on enemy-held bases in the Marshalls on January 8 and 9.
Völkischer Beobachter (January 12, 1945)
Frontlage schuf Schiffsmangel bei den Westmächten –
Revision der Quebec-Pläne erforderlich
Von unserem Berichterstatter in Schweden
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Die Kämpfe auf den Philippinen
Tokio, 11. Jänner –
Zur Schlacht um die Philippinen wird gemeldet, dass nach den Ergebnissen von Erkundungsflügen der japanischen Luftwaffe die Hauptmacht des Gegners nach wie vor noch in den Gewässern westlich Lingayen liegt.
Auch ein zweiter Verband hält sich ebenfalls angesichts der wuchtigen Angriffe der japanischen Luftwaffe zurück und stößt nicht nach Norden vor. Ein dritter Flottenverband liegt westlich der Insel Panay; er wird ebenfalls durch die energischen Angriffe der japanischen Flugzeuge am Manövrieren verhindert und stößt nicht nach Norden vor. Der amerikanische Brückenkopf bleibt auch am dritten Tage nach der Landung noch recht unsicher. Die bisher gelandeten Truppen liegen unter dem pausenlosen Feuer der japanischen Batterien. Ein feindlicher Truppenteil, der 38 Boote zu landen versuchte, wurde vollständig vernichtet.
Vier US-Transporter wurden von japanischen Unterseebooten am 5. Jänner in den Gewässern der Mindanao-Insel versenkt, meldet Domei am Donnerstagnachmittag.