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GENE TIERNEY — 20th Century-Fox Player, is "Whiizer" White's choice for the pin-up girl for December.
by Redwood dust, which Is Infectious to people who are allergic to it.
We have built a huge new street around the "lake," all bombed buildings for the picture "A Bell for Adano." It was here JOE WEISS broke his finger In two places while loading rock.
FRANK L. JOHNSON checks in the
hospital for a general check-up and probably won't be back till after the first of the year.
TOMMY MORRISSEY, JR., writes that he is safe and sound on Ascension Island.
All the servicemen from the Construction Dept, will receive $10 checks for Christmas. This idea was fostered by head
man Morrissey last year and was heartily endorsed by the men.
FRANK DRAEGER sends us pin-up pictures of the native girls.
"Terrible Terry" STUART looking over a Santa Rosa location.
BILL SCHLOSSER has annexed 5 acres of San Fernando (cess-pool) Valley.
CHARLES BARRES pinch-hitted for BILLIE EULL while the latter was on his vacation.
MEL BLACK back from Utah without any deer meat — what meat he did get was very dear.
EARL SHATTUCK not content with getting rid of laryngitis, broke his knee cap and Is now In the General Hospital.
We can't send you all Individual cards but If you read this you will know the whole gang sends you their heartiest wishes for a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year.
NUMBER ONE KILLER
By ROBERT CARSE
Lieutenant, U.S.M.S.
Up Inside the Arctic Circle at Murmansk where we fought the Nazis day and night, the men of my convoy learned from the valiant Russian people that there is absolutely no difference between those at the front and those behind It. The safety of one, we found, depends upon the safety of all, and the health of a nation as a whole Is as vital In war as arms.
Returning to the United States on leave from active service, I have been Informed that tuberculosis Is still the Number One Killer during the most productive years of life, from 15 to 45, among those on the home front. In very simple terms — terms that every American should know and understand — tuberculosis took approximately 145,000 lives in the first 31 months after Pearl Harbor. Deaths among the armed forces for this same period, according to a recent estimate, were about fifty-seven thousand.
One out of every 100 men entering the armed services examined for tuberculosis was disqualified because of this disease in some stage. Thirty out of every 100 men disqualified for tuberculosis had a disease in a clinically active form. Figures from mass X-ray surveys among industrial workers Indicate that a somewhat higher percentage of active cases is found, because more of the persons engaged are In the older age groups.
This Is the condition existing on the American home front in the year of the great assault upon Europe, In the year when every man and woman who is active and fit Is desperately needed, and the demands of the armed services are daily stripping Industry more and more to fill our fighting ranks.
Here Is nothing but a sheer and crimi