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TEXAS BOR N—Linda Darnell, native of Texas, poses in a
costume she will wear in a forthcoming movie.
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IN OFFENSIVE
By HAL BOYLE
IN AN AMERICAN GUNPIT
IN GERMANY, Nov. 17.—(API
Sixteen big “Attu” thunder
mouthed American artillery units,
hurled more than 50,000 pounds
of shells into German positions
today, as the First U. S. Army
opened the greatest attack since
the fall of Aachen, it has been re
ported.
The 240-mm. howitzers threw
more tons of metal than any oth
er single weapon. With vast
booms, like measured strikes on
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a tremendous gong it sent shells
ni a 14-mile arc, crashing enemy
artillery emplacements.
Heedless of the noise of the
blasts, the grinning gun-crew fed
oil dripping shells into the jaw
of the 32-ton howitzer, like eager,
nervous automatons.
This is the third day of the
present seige.
GOV. DONELL
WINS BY SMALL
MAJORITY
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Nov.
17.—(AP)—Nobody thought it
possible but Governor Forrest
Donell got himself elected by an
even smaller margin than that
which won him the governorship
four years ago.
Donell is a republican, and sur
vived the democratic landslide
which squeezed the governor’s
chair by 3,016 votes. Forty votes
was his margin over Attorney
General Roy McKittrick in the
race for the senate job, which is
now held by Bennett Clark, who
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McKittrick.
The democratic vote in the city
of St. Louis cut into his lead but
failed to wipe it out.
BOOKS GO
TO WAR
WASHINGTON, D. C.—In an
swer to the demand for some
thing to read aboard hospital j
ships, in Red Cross tents near the
front and even in foxholes the |
American Red Cross has sent 2,- |
832,826 books and pamphlets over- j
seas for the armed forces since i
July 1, 1943 it was revealed re- ’
cently at national headquarters.
Nearly a million off-sale per
iodicals have gone overseas
through Red Cross channels
since March, and 85,000 pocket
size books are being shipped to
the South and Southwest Pacific,
alone.
The demand for reading mate
rial is especially great in advance
outposts, along front line opera
tions in Italy, and in isolated areas
of the South Pacific and China
Burma-India command.
Reading material supplied by
the Army and Navy to service
: men is supplemented by Ameri
can Red Cross contributions of
I books and magazines. To troops
j who have almost forgotten the
face of civilization, magazines,
i pamphlets and literature from
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| MADISON, WIS. —Howard Eu
j gene Wilkinson will be a veteran of
; education when he is old enough to
start to school in earnest. He’s
four months old now and attends
classes every school day. The rea
son: The Dane county school board,
unable to secure a teacher because
all the eligible candidates are in
the armed forces, persuaded How
ard’s mother, Mrs. Vincent Wilkin
son, a school teacher before her
marriage, to accept the position of
teacher of the Vermont Township
school.
The older girls of the school help
care for Howard, and when school
is out his father calls for him and
mother with the c/ir. At home,
mother can help milk, get the eve
ning meal for three and do her oth
‘■V necessary farmer housewife’s
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