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(Buggsy was an electrician. Is Chester Gould writing the real world now?)
Russian troops, including ski troops and Cossacks cavalry are reported today to have broken thru the German lines at Kharkov, great industrial center of the Ukraine. The Kuibyshev radio reported the Nazis in retreat on both flanks of the city's outer defenses as Red Army forces push them thru a snowstorm of blizzard proportions. Between Kharkov and Kursk, 120 miles to the north, the Soviets made an advance of 15 miles and the German command is said to have thrown thousands of reserves into the lines in an attempt to stop the drive by hastily-organized counterattacks. The Moscow Communist Party newspaper Pravda reports today that in its advance to the Donets River, the Red Army found hordes of unburied German dead frozen in the streets of towns.
Two members of a Senate committee investigating national defense contracts today called for new taxes on excess profits instead of a flat limitation in order to prevent "outrageous and unconscionable" profiteering by defense contractors. Chairman Harry S. Truman (D-Mo.) and Senator Owen Brewster (R-Me.) agreed that placing a limit on profits under war contracts would not accomplish that goal, and that only under taxation would all contractors be certain to receive equal treatment. "I would be in favor," declared Senator Brewster, "of finding a fair method to determine normal corporation profits, and then to take away 80 percent of everything above that."
(Social media in action, 1942.)
The performer billed for years as "The One Man Vaudeville Show" has retired due to ill health after a 35-year-career. Comedian Joe Cook, whose career took him from the tank towns of Indiana to Broadway stardom, is suffering from Parkinson's Disease, a form of paralysis which has affected his left hand and arm. Cook, a talented singer, dancer, musician, tightrope walker, juggler, and pantomimist, whose best-known gag was to debate himself over whether he would imitate two or four Hawaiians, formerly owned a fabulous estate called Sleepless Hollow at Lake Hoptacong, New Jersey, but sold that propertly last year and now resides in Jackson Heights. His son, Joe Cook Jr., is an Air Corps cadet in Florida.
(I once planted corn in a window box, and it didn't work out too well...)
A 25-year-old Schenck Avenue man faces a Federal prison term after his conviction on charges of draft evasion. Ralph O. Robinson, a recent graduate of Teachers' College at Columbia University had claimed to be a conscientious objector, but his claim was disallowed by Local Board #232, and Robinson refused to report for induction into the Army as directed. He was ordered remanded for sentencing on February 11th.
(Beefcake!)
(The thing with Jo's constant berating of George is that she is absolutely right.)
(I wonder if they have candy stores in Boomville?)