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^. Baseball Unaffected by Army Draft The sandlotters?future major players, show the stuff that has made baseball America's own and greatest ball game. The salts may be large, the weight and strength lacking, bnt the skill and pep cannot be surpassed by any professional team. Members of boy clnbs do their part in keeping youngsters off the street. Final 'Master Race' Roundup ? ? ? A Nad*, Nads, Nads, everywhere, bow prisoners of Allied armies, no loafer the "Master Race" of the world, they were to conquer. Photo rhin- the Rdir roundup, typical of all parts of Europe, where Germany was still before her unconditional surrender. We Are Coining?You're Next, Japs! \JAP r \m r ^ You're W*T-f r inn Wt U the lint! Montfomery FUft poster plenned to shift the at tradea of war workers to the blf task ahead la the Pieifle, and to eaeoor , ace them to stay oa the )eh. The distribatioa of these posters was one of the first steps takea by the war department to emphasize that there aaaat he no letdown in prodaction as a result of the end of war la Europe. End of World's Greatest Conflict Oil. Ga. dutat lodl, Germaa dM at *a?, with tack 4 I3? italar, the ImukdI under which all nawSk, teiaiM fee neat brill iaat'sad derartatiag war It the hiatal Allied Prosecutor Above, Justice Kobert H. Jackson, D. S. Supreme eonrt, recently ap pointed as chief of consul, for the United States, in charges of atroci ties. Below: Admiral Karl Doenitx, who, at time of surrender, was lead ing German government and must account to Allies at trials. v " Right-Hand Bower Photo shofrs Edward D. McKin, 49, ot Omaha, Neb., newly appoint ed by President Truman to bo his chief administrative' asststant. He was a former insurance executive, and had known Truman during his senatorial years. Liberty Lights Up Lid; Liberty presenb a danlin ?rare, 11 riyi of MOuct rarroua the national monument for the in time ainee December 7, 1M1, tt day of Infamy. The sUtoe on Bet loei bland in New York harbor wi flooded on V-E Day with npi lamps. Modern Tom Thumb ? ? M Whim km, MtipM ?f ?h flwmrik *7 ??ipUym af i il U. B. gnataf service la 8u Ji ?y river caayse, Utah. wrlghtat ? 1M penb, stands three leet big*. Magnet Puzzle Still Unsolved Scientists Fail to Fathom a Secret They've Studied For 3,000 Years. NEW YORK. ? The common mes ne t Is still a mystery. For more than 3,000 years people have pon dered the question, what is magnet ism? But no one has ever given the answer. Today magnets have countless ap plications. They've gone to war, in airplanes, in tanks, in motors ot all kinds, in secret fighting equipment whose nature cannot be told. Chil dren have been fascinated by them for centuries. Scientists have used them to experiment. Because of re cent developments, their future promises to bring us many new products for home and industry. Yet no one can explain their essen tial nature. At General Electric, a leading magnet producer, one magnet made in a special assembly has been re corded as lifting 4,450 times its own weight, says the Chicago Tribune. Engineers have called this the most powerful magnet in the world. Has Many Possibilities. Because of the rapid progress made in perfecting permanent mag nets for wartime applications, ex perts predicted that in postwar days many new products will be intro duced, using them as the core of their mechanism. They foresaw such commercial possibilities as a coffee maker that automatically turns down the heat when the cof fee is done, letting it stay warm 4but not allowing it to Income over cooked, an electric flatiron that au tomatically switches off the juice when the iron is even momentarily out of use, a magnetic wire re corder, an ingenious device that can record 66 minutes of continuous speech on a spool of wire no larger than a doughnut, and many more time savers and conveniences. Asserting that permanent magnets have not yet reached their full ma turity, research engineers said that much remains to be learned about them, though more progress has been made in their development in the last decade than In the previous 300 years. They attributed this re markable advancement to the in troduction of new alloys which have magnetic properties more powerful as well as more resistant to out side sources of demagnetization. Permanent magnets are those that will retain their magnetic prop erties indefinitely. Probably their oldest and most familiar useful form is the compass needle. According to legend, the Chinese Emperor Hoang Ti used a magnet in this form to guide his chariot in 2800 B. C. New Allays Available. From this simple beginning per manent magnets have been devel oped to such an extent that, during World War II their use has enabled fighting men to replace bulky, heavy equipment with portable models of reduced size and weight, has made possible hundreds of devices for air planes, and has also permitted an increase in the sensitivity of many measuring and electrical communi cation instruments. "Ten years ago there were four materials out of which permanent man?(s warp rnmmfinlv fash ioned, said the engineers. "Today at least 10 alloys, each ot which shows astounding properties, are available." Permanent magnets are used most extensively in the fields of com munication and measurement, but they have also found a great many additional and varied applications. In the home they are frequently em ployed in such timesaving devices as electric toasters, coffee percola tors, ironing machines, and electric refrigerators. Hearing aids and telephones, as well as many latches and locks, make" use of them. Prob ably their biggest single application g Is in radio receivers, where much ol d the success of improved quality ol it sound and tone is the result of im ie proved magnets. In industry, I- where magnets are used in both is control and power equipment, they ir are found in ignition magnetos, many small motors, meters and in struments and numerous other de vices. Surprise in Greetings From Mysterious East SEATTLE. ? A tall, dark anc handsome gentleman, weighted witt gold braid of an Indian official, ap proached Lt. Gertrude A. Hum ling an army nurse home from a tour o - duty in the Orient. Atwitter, she waited for him ti request the honor of the dance in i soft and deliriously accented voice He said: "Hi-ya, babel I used to be a bell hop in America." Jailed German Mayor Leaps to His Death SCHWEINFURT, GERMANY. ? The oberburgomeister, who was also the chief & S. (Elite guard) official in the city, killed himself by Jumping out of a win ly, dow of a schoolhouse where he fct was held under guard. His name ?a | was not dlecloaed. ?ly | & & troops had. hanged 11 sol | diers caught trying to surrender. ?* Fleeing Foes Kill Ailing Prisoners Frightful Atrocities Laid to Panicky Germans. WITH FOURTH ARMORED DI VISION, GERMANY. - A blond youth lay lifeless on a stretcher in a German prison camp, a hole through his neck. He was an Ameri can flier. Huddled grotesquely around him were bodies at 30 other prisoners, all killed because Nazi SS guards thought them too sick to move when this 3rd army tank division ap-~ proached the horror camp. t The blond boy, who had no identi fication tag, was the oaly American. | The other inmates of the camp were ' Poles, Russians, French, German Jews and German political prison ers. All had been tortured and beat en when malnutrition rendered them ; too weak to labor tbr their captors. A pitiful handful of prisoners who ; contrived to remain behind "be- . cause we wanted the world to know < about this place" said the blond ; youth had told them he was an j American flier. In a small woodshed nearby were 1 more than 50 naked hulks that had ' once been men. They were stacked to the roof and lime covered their bodies. The prisoners told American offi cers who saw the death camp that SS guards, hearing the rumble of American tanks in the distance, be- j noma nnoaou on<4 mnrnhoH auiav 1 those prisoners who could walk. Others were put in trucks; but those who tfefe toO sick to be moved were shot. The prisoners who escaped ? by hiding under their cots or slipping into the woods until the grim cara van had disappeared ? said some 2,000 other prisoners were burled in a huge pit a mile from the camp. The guards took a detail of 54 camp inmates to dig up the bodies before they left, one prisoner said, apparently in hopes of destroying the evidence against them. But they gave up when American 3rd army tanks drew closer. The bodies they left behind in cluded that of a 16-year-old boy who had been working on underground installations since March 12. The in stallations were intended to serve as a communications center for the German high command. B-29 Bombardier Almost Bombs Kobe With Self 21st BOMBER COMMAND HDQ., GUAM. ? Bombardier Lt. Arnold B. Schnell almost bombed Kobe with Lt. Arnold B. Schnell. The Schnellville, Ind., crew mem ber of a B-29 on the Kobe strike was trying to close the bomb bay doors of his superfort by hand. The wind sucked his parachute from the plane. The chute opened with a jerk but Schnell managed to cling with one leg and one arm to the bomb rack at the edge of the aper ture while he hacked the shrouds un til he was free. After the bomber returned to base, the 'chute was found entangled on a bomb bay door. Schnell is keeping it as a souvenir. Bluejacket's Nap Results In Catnap Catastrophe WASHINGTON. - The nav^r tells this story on one of its own blue jackets: A gunner's mate, home on leave, was sitting with his cat before an old-fashioned stove. His wife had to go out and visit some relatives, and warned him to keep his eye on the fire. She went out. The gunner's mate fell asleep. The fire in the stove died out. The wife returned. She took one look at her husband snoring before the dead fire and 1 screamed "Fire!" The husband leapt to attention, tore open the door of the stove, rammed in the cat, slammed the 1 door and cried: "Number one gun ? ready1" Doughboys Pay Extra 10 Bucks to Own Aid Men WITH THE UNITED STATES - NINTH ARMORED DIVISION IN ? GERMANY.?The first doughboys to crocs the Rhine are not waiting for congress to vote ertra combat pay for frontline medical men. They are dividing up among themselves ' to take care of their own aid men. 1 "They take care of us so we'll i take care of them," say doughboys - of the 77th armored battalion. , Wearers of the combat infantry f man's blue badge get $10 a month more pay than soldiers in rear ? areas, but it does not include the i medics, who take equal risks. Doughboys of the 77th battalion pool enough money so that every - aid man in the medical detachment gets an extra 10 bucks. German Prisoners to Eat Only Livers, Hearts Now NEW YORK. ? Capt. Robert McFadden of the food service branch of the quartermaster gen eral's office said recently that freak meat- for enemy prisoners of wai henceforth would be restricted U hearts, livers and kidneys. Speakirq at a conference of army post fooc supervisors, McFadden said then also would be more extensive uai at substitutes for foods now scam Kathleen Norris Says: The Disappointing Homecoming Ball Syndicate. ? WNU Features. D^uGLAS ftvANz-w/ "He thinks there is too much fussing in the way I Ana does things; flowers on the table and beauty parlor every week and taking Jane to dancing school?what the heck Jn?? nil that mnttpr nnvfmv " By KATHLEEN NORMS A and Robert Adams were married five years ago. They had a little daughter two years old when Bob went off for navy duty in March, 1943. Now, after more than a year's service he is home again, to stay, and has taken up his life where he left off, as a junior member of his uncle's law firm in a small town. Lina wrote Bob constant and af fectionate letters while he was away, sent clippings and snapshots and presents every week. She was lonely; she loved the memory of their marriage, their home,. their perfect companionship. And of course, as so many mothers and wives are doing, she idealized the thought of Robert; he was perfect. Every night she and little Jane 1 looked at his picture and said, "? "Goodnight, Daddy. Come home ' safe to Mummy and Jane." Robert got a great reception when he -finally did come back, but almost immediately things began ! to go wrong and they haven't straightened out yet. Both husband and wife write me their respective feelings. Robert says that he hasn't changed at all; he never did like meeting people and going places, he never was especially fond of kids. If Lina would let him alone he'd be all right. He doesn't sleep any too well, and he hates arguing. He thinks there is too much fussing in the way Lina does things; flowers on the table and beauty parlor every week and taking Jane to dancing school?what the heck does all that matter, anyway. 'Moses by the Hoar.' Lina's letter says, in part: "He used to be sunny, easily amused, ready to fit into my plans. He simply used to adore Jane. Now he never notices her, and of course, at the age of four, she hasn't sense enough to be friendly with him in spite of it. He muses by the hour, staring at the floor; not hearing me, apparently, if I speak, and not answering if he does hear. He won't go anywhere, and even with clients he has a sort of "what's-the-dif ference - anyway' attitude that doesn't help him in business. "The other night," Lina's letter goes on, "I had a dish he likes for dinner and he said to me briefly and shortly, 'Good.' This encouraged me to say that there ought to be a mixed green salad with it, but that I had hunted all over for chives, chicory and cress without success. 'So you hunted all over for chives, chicory and cress, did you?' he said in a dreadful voice. And he got up and slammed out of the house. He came back late and apologized in a sort of grudging .way, and I cried all night. I'm so sorry for him, and yet I feel that I can't stand this. "Yesterday I asked him if he simply didn't like me, I seem to ir ritate him so, and he answered that I could draw any conclusion I liked. I asked him if he would like me to go to my mother for awhile, and he said that he had seen that coming, and knew 1 was crazy to get away. "Do you think this shows actual derangement, or is it another worn V S?iMf ? A, /Imt hy tkt km... - BATTLE NEUROSIS Robert has come home, dis charged honorably, after a year's active duty in the navy. Like so many other veterans, he seems constantly moody and depressed. He is cold to his pretty wife, and unappreciative of her efforts to please him and to help him fit into the old ways of life. His little daughter doesn't interest him, nor his law practice, nor anything that used to delight him. Robert is suffering from the well-known effects of the terrible strain and horror of war. Only time will cure him. in, or is it my fault? We're both vriting you, and we want a fair mswer. Who is right and who is vrong?" ? ? ? My dear Lina and Bob, my an swer is that neither is wrong. The leep and bitter wrong is when the sons of men turn to world war as i preliminary to establishing world peace. It is as stupid a solution of international differences as was the }ld custom of men and women go ing in cheerful groups to a pest aouse to have smallpox all together and so immunize themselves. But the smallpox inoculation affected only a few persons, and this war is touching us all. Love Lives On T kr,lin.,n ?u:_ .... & ucucvc uiav uuwci uus FiCO" ent trouble your old love and com panionship live on. But Robert? as was inevitable, has come back with a mind and soul and heart scarred by the terrible realities of modern warfare. He has seen the men beside whom he worked, the men who were his companions, blown to pieces^ maimed, drowned, frozen, hungry, exhausted. He has gone for months ? not days, not weeks, but months, without those common luxuries Lina has taken for granted; a warm house, a good reading light, quiet meals, the blessed security of America. When he sees Lina concerned for p hair do, for Jane's dancing slippers, for the Hollandaise sauce and the fresh Sowers, a sort of madness at the insane contrast comes over him, and he can hardly breathe the air of home. Lina, on her side, is justified, too. She believed that all he wanted, when he went away, was for her to keep the home fires burning, go on with her nursing twice a week, keep up with her Red Cross work, scrupu lously watch for tin and fat and paper salvages, obey the food and fuel laws?all these she has done. She hasn't complained of loneliness or dullness or food shortages. -She expected praise and she didn't get it. Give time and patience to your problem, Lina and Bob. It can be solved by a determination to under stand and help each other. There will be a million more like it for the women of Ameriqa to handle. Render this last aid to your govern ment; that you lift just one of these difficulties from the great total, that you lessen just by so much the fear ful crisis of postwar days. ' * ???????? V Keeping Eggs Fresh Do not wash eggs until you are ready to use them. An egg shell has a protective film which helps to keep bacteria and odors from get ting through the pores. Washing re moves that film, and the egg then spoils rapidly. To wipe off soiled spots on eggs, use a rough, dry cloth. Keep eggs in a refrigerator or other cold place to hold their freshness. Because eggs absorb odors readily, store them away from ^stronfrinnaHing foods such as '
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