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THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C. Who’s News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features.—WNU Release. "M EW YORK.—LitUe bespectacled ' Henry Pu-yi, puppet emperor of the Jap-bolstered realm of Manchu- kuo, passed his 38th birthday in what _ v f , the Tokyo Ten Year* Is for Him a Phenomenal Run as Emperor radio de scribes as the “best of health,’’and it begins to look as if the historians would credit him with at least a decade in office. He’ll reach the 10th milepost early in March. His two previous tries were much briefer. Son of Prince Chun Wang, yonnger brother of Kwang Sung, former Mancha emperor of the Chinese, Henry first found him self in the role of ruler when he was only four years old. The throne was that of all China that time. The Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi was his backer then, and she smuggled the frail boy into the palace and into office one dark night. Her coup held good until China became a republic in 1912. Then Henry lost his job. He regained it fleetingly in 1917, but then the Chinese said “no” for keeps. Things weren’t too bad for him, though, even after that. He still had the palace to live in and a nice fat Income to live on. When Marshal Feng seized Peking, now Peiping, all that ended. That was in 1924 and Henry fled straight to the Japs. Both Henry and his beautiful wife once learned to converse in English. If anyone has ever told him that the first 10 years are the hardest, he probably is skep tical today. Or maybe the Japs haven’t let him know about what happened in the Marshalls. IN THE last great war comforting statistics came alive among Americans newly arrived in France to do their share in the heavy fight- c • t m. ing of the Survival Chances summer and Of Wounded Havt autumn of Been Upped 4% N ° °" e bothered to trace their source, at least no one known in this corner. Everyone was glad to take them, as-was, because of their reassuring conclusion that, even though you were wounded, the chances were 93 out of 100 that you would live to flash your wound stripe back home. Now here is practically the same percentage on the official word of Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, surgeon general, of the army. He says that in the last war 7.4 per cent of our wounded died. He mentions the figure to emphasize how much better off the wounded are in this war. Only 3 per cent die now. The general has commanded the army’s doctors since last June. He reached that ultimate goal of all commissions in his corps after 30 years of service. Fifty-six now, born a Marylander, he was graduated from the State University of Mary- land and made a first lieutenant in 1913. Like most good doctors he follows the advice he gives all pa tients and controls his weight. His special field is surgery with a particular leaning toward orthopedics. And he should .be a handy man to have around these times since many of the 97 who survive out of every hun dred wounded will be greatly helped by operative reconstruc tion of hurt Joints and bones and tendons. • 'T'HE Reds destroy Old Russia’s -*■ myths, but a thousand years from now new ones will crop up, and one maybe will center upon the lively, ., , _ hard-drink- Already Peasants i ng Marshal Vow That Budenny Semeon Mi- Is Supernatural chailovich Budenny, who certainly does not lessen his chance of immortality by presenting to Stalingrad the historic sword sent by Britain’s King George. It seems to be a little more than human in him to have risen from a cavalry sergeant major under the czar, sur viving all the purges of the revolu tion to become one of the Soviet’s best loved national heroes. Budenny is 68 now, a stocky, black-eyed comrade whose sto ries are endless and whose enor mous moustaches spread under his broad nose like wings. He is a Don Cossack and in the dawn of the revolution his war cry was, “Proletarians! To Horse!” Born a peasant he I fought the Japs in his youth and j had grown into an old profes sional soldier when the Bolshe vists came along. He Joined them. His wife also joined them; but when she accidentally killed herself while cleaning a rifle, he swore that believer again would marry a sol- dieP. So he took an actress for his second wife, but she is a helpmeet, too, and tutored him through the j Moscow Military academy from i which he graduated with honors 13 • years ago. Besides the people’s approval he has official honors galore, among them the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Star (received four times), and at least one town has been named for him. Monastery-Fortress Bombed by Allies; Nazis Talk Left: Benedictine abbey on Mount Cassino which was bombed by U. S. Flying Fortresses. This monastery, which was founded in 529 A. D., had been used as a fortress by enemy troops which were firing down on our men, according to Allied explanations of the bombing. Leaflets were showered on the monastery a day before the bombardment warning the monks and any Italian refugees there to leave. President Roosevelt said that the bombing and shelling of the ancient abbey was justified. Right: German prisoners taken in fight ing on the Rapido river in Italy answer questions asked by United States intelligence officer. Stilwell Pledges China Based Land, Air Offensive Left: These men are typical of the Chinese fighters trained by Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stilwell. They were photographed after they had scored a victory over the Japs and are sitting in a former Jap trench. Center inset: General Stilwell as he walked up to a Burma jungle fighting line. Right: Lieut. Col. Newman Burns and Capt. Arthur Draper (right), hold a flag found on the body of a Jap. Red Crosses No Protection at Anzio To Boxers at War This is an American field hospital. Its mercy role is plainly sym bolized by red crosses on white backgrounds easily seen from ‘ground or air. Yet several of these hospitals were bombed by Germans in the beachhead area south of Rome. This particular hospital is near Nettuno. Several American nurses have been killed in attacks on such hospitals. James J. Walker presents the Ed ward J. Neil Memorial awarded for 1943 by the boxing writers’ associa tion to 4,135 boxers, living and dead, who answered the nation’s call to arms. A1 Buck, president of the box ing association, receives the plaque. Charles James Deering coos for his sister after he was delivered at home by his father and grandmother by telephone directions from Dr. Henry F. Heller of Des Plaines, HI. A blizzard isolated the country home and it was impossible for the physician to get there. Charles was born shortly before dawn. Timothy (“Tiny”) Baskin, 6 feet 714 inches, complains he’s “just a civilian.” He was rejected, although he reduced from 350 to 212 pounds and had his arches lifted. Weather Stations In Greenland By Bernt Balchen (WNU Ft*nxr'o-^Tbrougb special arrangement witb Collier'* Weekly) War in the Arctic is a lonely war. It is not a big show like Russia or Italy; there are no vast armies, no major campaigns, no epic battles. Events are far apart and small. A trawler halts in a hidden cove. A group of men in green German army tunics set up their equipment on the barren beach. A passing dog-sled driver is ambushed and shot. And between these events is nothing but the waiting and the silence. Evidently the driver of the sled never heard the command to halt. The wind off Greenland’s Icecap was sharp, the flying snow crystals stung his face as the team of huskies trot ted ahead of him; he pulled his parka hood tighter over his head against the cold. With two other members of the Greenland Sledge Patrol, he Was hurrying back to Eskimonaes after an uneventful two weeks’ reconnais sance to the north. There had been no sign of enemy installations along the coast. Nothing aroused his sus picions as he led the way over the shore ice toward the deserted trap per’s cabin at Sandodden where they planned to spend the night. First Man Killed by Enemy. The first shot, fired from the door of the cabin, struck his lead dog; the animal dropped in its traces, kicking once or twice convulsively. Before the driver realized what had happened, his second dog leaped into the air and doubled over, biting at a spreading red stain on its white fur. Instinctively he stooped to grab his rifle from the bottom of the sled; a bullet drilled him through the temple, and he fell face forward onto the snow. That shot, by a Nasi trooper, marked our first fatal conflict with the enemy in Greenland; it was the initial contact with an armed Ger man invasion force anywhere in the Western hemisphere. You did not know—the facts could not be re vealed until now—that the Nazis had actually established a foothold on this side of the Atlantic. You did not know, all last year, that their planes were flying within bombing distance of the shores of North America. Their submarines, refueling in Greenland’s silent fiords, were striking at will at our convoys to England and Murmansk. Their well-equipped weather station, on the island’s undefended east coast, was in daily radio communication direct with Berlin. Perhaps you did not even know there was a war in Greenland. It was a secret war, waged in semi darkness north of the Arctic Circle, on a remote battlefield perpetually locked undej 10,000 feet of solid ice. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT WANTED TO BUY Want to bay good farms and saw timber. 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It surpassed all other temples in costliness and splendor. DON’T LET CONSTIPATION SLOW YOU UP • When bowels are sluggish and yon feel irritable, headachy, do as millions do — chew FEEN-A-MINT, the modern chewing-gum laxative. Simply chew FEEN-A-MINT before you go to bed, taking only in accordance with package directions — sleep without being dis-> turbed. Next morning gentle, thorough relief, helping you feel swell again. Try 1 ^ 2EN-A-MINT. Tastes good, is handy ad economical. A generous family supply FEEN-A-MINT "16* Threads in Greenbacks The threads in our paper money, formerly made of silk, are now made of dyed cotton. How To Relieve Bronchitis Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, in flamed bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un derstanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, BronchiHs Hun Was First Cordell Hull was the first cabi net member ever to address a joint meeting of congress. ‘Carrying On’ at 50 Below. The weapons were not tommy guns and tanks; the real heroes of this war were nameless enlisted men working in air force ground crews at 50 below zero, or standing guard on coast guard cutters fighting through the pack ice, or living all winter long in isolated weather sta tions along the Icecap, buried under 18 feet of snow. Once each day they would tunnel to the surface to take their wind and temperature readings; the rest of the time there was nothing to do but wait. Look at your map, and you will see that Greenland sits at the top of the globe, the nearest land mass to the North Pole. From this frozen island in the Are- tie there flow winds and currents that set up the storm fronts for all the North Atlantic, for England, for Norway, for the continent itself. Greenland holds the key to tomor row’s weather in Europe. Every bombing raid we make over Germany depends on our long-range forecasts from the Arctic. The tim ing, indeed the very success, of our coming invasion may hinge on the fact that we—and not the Nazis— have Greenland today. The Germans knew the importance of Greenland. From the outset of the war, Nazi weather planes had been patrolling its coast; it was ad vance information from Greenland that enabled the trapped Scharn- horst and Gneisenau to slip out of harbor, under cover of heavy fog, and pass unmolested within 15 miles of the Dover coast. Spying ‘Scientists.’ For a quarter century, alleged German scientific expeditions had actually been studying the Arctic with an eye to its future military use; their so-called good-will flights across the Atlantic, by way of Green land, had amassed invaluable me teorological data. We likewise knew that Greenland was an important frontier. Long before oar formal entry into the glo bal struggle, we realized that it would be an essential springboard for any Nazi air-and-sea assault on the North American continent. V YOU WOMEN WHO SUFFER FROM ^ HOT RASHES If you suffer from hot flashes, weak, nervous, cranky feelings, are a bit blue at times—due to the functional “middle-age" period peculiar to women—try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to relieve suen symptoms. Taken regularly—Pinkham’s Compound helps build up resistance against such distress. It helps nature! Also a fine stomachic tonic. Fol low label directions. LYDIA E. 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