NAJ .\fjp OR£W PEARSON
Washington, D. C.
GERMAN UNDERGROUND
SEETHES
According to uncensored dis
patches now reaching Washington,
active guerrilla warfare is flaring
up on a mounting scale behind the ,
German lines.
First real indication of an active
Fifth column in Germany came re
cently with accurate reports of
pitched battles inside Berlin, Bres
lau and Bremen. Tins new guerrilla
warfare dillers from that of parti- ;
san units inside France, Yugoslavia
and Greece in that few of the guer
rilla troops are Germans. The bulk
are Frenchmen and Russians who
were captured earlier in the war
and have been used as slave labor
in the resell.
All of these workers were
carefully guarded by Himmler
until recently. Most lived in big
cities and worked in large in
dustrial plants. In Berlin for
example, hundreds of thousands
of slave laborers have been
housed in fenced off temporary
barracks in the heart of the city.
But recent powerful allied air
raids have created such chaos
that thousands of foreign work
ers escaped from their en
closures and have hidden in the
bomb ruins.
At night, the guerrillas pv wl the
streets, capture Nazi sentries, steal
food and ammunition, commit ex
tensive sabotage. They have been
joined by some German army de
serters, afraid to return to the front,
advices say.
Once Berlin is taken it is expected
that the several nnilion slave lain r
ers will Hare into such revolt that
Germany—txeept in the mountain
ous south—will cave like an egg
shell.
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OVER-ACE SERVICEMI:N
Greatest hardship on mi n in the
army probably is with enlisted nun
over .'*B, n w too old to become otli
cers but who can't resign as otlicers
can.
Typical case of how this hard
ship works is that of Cpl. Alexander
C. Sioris, age 45, who has served in
the army three years, most of the
time overseas. Corporal Sioris is
rot only a college graduate, but
holds a doctor's degree. Twice he
was recommended for otlicers'
training school, but each time his
unit moved overseas and he had to
sail with his unit. Now he is too old
to be commissioned, too old f r com
bat, yet under present army ru'es
must be kept on—doing menial jobs.
There are thousands of similar
cases. What the army needs is a
good overhauling of its manpower,
especially older men who havj been
in the army a long time.
NEW MANPOWER PROGRAM
War Manpower Commission
Director Paul McNutt may put a
new program into effect very
soon in all light labor areas. This
would limit employers in non
essential or less essential indus
tries to a certain percentage of
the number of workers they em
ployed last year. This ceiling-em
ployee program has already been
tried out in Chicago and proven
successful.
Chicago employers in non
essential and less essential in
dustries will be required to cut
the number of employees on the
payroll 10 per cent by March 15.
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SECRET RED WEAPONS
The Russians are way ahead of
both the United States and Great
Britain in the use of rocket guns,
have employed them with devas
tating effect in the lightning drive
through Poland, and particularly
in the offensive against the Nazis
in East Prussia.
One new and very important
weapon which Stalin unveiled in the
new drive is the 100-ton tank named
after himself. The Stalin tank is
superior to the German royal tiger
tank, and our own Sherman heavy
tank. It carries a 4.8-inch gun as
against the 3-inch gun carried on our
Sherman. So long as the ground re
mains hard, the Stalin tank is capa
ble of resisting any but the largest
point-blank German shells. On the
other hand, the mobile gun on the
Stalin tank can pierce most of the
German secondary fortifications so
far encountered by the Russians, it
is said.
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WAR NOTES
ft Germans are already trying to
escape from the threatened Nazi
homeland. Reports from Lisbon,
Madrid, Stockholm and Berne re
veal hundreds of Germans trying to
crash the frontier to get out of Ger
many before the Allies take over,
ft FDR still hasn't decided who he
will name as high commissioner of
the Philippines. WMC Director Paul
McNutt and Supreme Court Justice
Frank Murphy both are ready to
go. If Murphy takes it, Roosevelt
will nominate Judge Sam Rosen
man to the Supreme court,
ft A significant new Slav treaty is
now being negotiated. It will bind
together the Czechoslovak govern
ment and the Lublin-Polish govern
ment in the first step toward the
creation of an eastern European
Slavic alliance naturally with
Moscow's blessing.
When *l>ig Three' 1 W rote History
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Center, a view of the palace in Yalta, Russian Crimea, where Presi
dent Roosevelt, I'linie Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin held their
latest conference. I.ower, shows the conference in session with the
••Big Three" and their advisers. I'pper, the "Big Three" during the
Crimea conference which resulted in the writing of future world's history.
l iberator Views Hospital Ruins
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General of the Army Douglas Mac Arthur looks over the ruins that
once constituted the hospital on Clark field. Luzon. Philippines. The
hospital was completely wrecked by retreating Japs. The general stated
that it was one of the worst cases of destruction he had ever seen, and
he has seen some of the worst of two world wars.
Gas Pipelines Laid in France
A pumping station, one of many set up along the pipeline carrying
vital fuel oil in France. Cpper photo shows station carefully camouflaged
against air observation. Lower left, ship-to-shore line for unloading petro
leum from ships. Lower right, American engineers have laid this gasoline
pipeline in France, five miles inland.
Must Go Down to the Sea Again
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j A typical hardy coastguardsman, left, who will match his skill and
i strength against the unconquerable sea. He is shown on lookout. Right,
I Coastguardsman Carl P. Martin, Benton, 111., all wrapped up to man a
| spray gun on ship's superstructure while still at sea. Repair work must
go on at sea and not in dry docks except in rare cases.
THE DAXM'KY RKPOKTFR. DWlil'ltV. N. TIH KSDAV. MARCH 1. I'M".
Welcome I liberators
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Filipino guerrillas march in the
streets of San Fernando, after the
town had been liberated by the vie
torious American forces. They shout
"V for Victory" and '•Welcome,
Americans" as they carry the Stars
and Stripes aloft during parade.
Saves Dog in Drain
Police Officer George Spriggs of
San .Marino, Calif., lifts "Jiggs" and
his owne*, Itichard Nelson, G, out
of storm drain after boy had spent
three hours in it with the dog. which
had fallen in. A neighbor saw the
pair and called for aid.
Tiltlcn Plays Again
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"Big Bill" Tilden, known to tennis
fans for his powerful overhead
smash, goes for a high one as he
practices for his match to be held at
the 71st regiment armory, New Vork
City, for the benefit of the "Gros
singer Canteen by Mail."
Baseball's Magnate
I Jordan Lewis, 16, who, as owner
, of one share of Chicago Cubs' stock,
i attended his first stockholders' meet
t ing and gave some very definite
ideas on how to run a league club.
Snapshots of Big Shots:
(This is uhat comes from
readinn bonks!)
Edgar Allan Poe was a dollar-a
year-man too. ... He spent 10 years
writing and rewriting "The Raven"
and got 10 bucks for it. . . . The
original manuscript sold the last
time for SIO,OOO. . . . Poe paid S3
a month rent for his honeymoon cot
tage on Grand Concourse (in the
Bronx), which is now a New York
state historical shrine. If it hadn't
been a grand neighborhood for
dandelions he and his bride would
have starved.
Marconi, son of an Italian father
and Irish mother, was 27 when he |
invented radio, and even then there
were people who wanted to kill him.
. . . These cranks said electrical
waves were passing through their
bodies, destroying their nerves and
making it impossible for them to
sleep.
Barnum, who said "there's one
born every minute," was one
himself. He lost a fortune on a
bear's grease hair tonic, was
swindled out of another selling il
lustrated bibles, trimmed again
on a fire extinguisher that !
wouldn't extinguish, went into
bankruptcy for half a million
making alarm clocks. . . . With
out a dime to his name lie wrote
a lecture on "How to Make
Money," grossing SI,OOO a night.
. . . And that's how the famous
Barnumism was born.
Alexander Dumas, one-fourth
Negro, whose book, "The Three ;
Musketeers," was a best seller for
almost 100 years, used to boast that j
he had more than 500 children and
swore he would never marry. . . . !
He changed his mind when a smart
sweetheart bought up all his debts i
and gave him a choice between .
marriage and jail. ... He wrote
novels on blue paper, poetry on yel- 1
low, articles on red, and nothing
else would do. . . . He wrote more
than 1,200 volumes of plays, novels
and histories, made over 5 million
dollars and died broke, living oil the
charity of his son.
Woolworth started his five
and-dime stores on a capital of
S3OO, and his first three failed.
Thirty years later he was able
to pay $14,000,000 cash for the
building bearing his name, then
the world's highest office build
ing.
George Gershwin sold his first
song for $5; nine years later a
Hollywood studio paid $50,000 just to
use "Rhapsody in Blue," which he
wrote in his spare time, in a single
picture.
Sir Isaac Newton was so ab
sent-minded he once rammed his
niece's fingers into his pipe. . . .
Trying to fix himself a three
minute egg, he boiled his watch
while watching the egg. . . .
When he went to fetch anything
he usually came back without
it. . . . lie was usually last in
his class at school. ... He was
a woman hater and never mar
ried. ... He always claimed he
solved many of his mathemati
cal problems in his sleep.
Dr. Samuel Johnson continually
distorted his face by violent grim
aces. . . . When walking in the
street he touched every post he
passed and if he missed one he al
ways returned. He always made a
point of entering or leaving a door
on a certain foot, but his biograph
er, Boswell, wasn't sure which one.
Lord Byron was so emotional that
' once a theatrical performance put
him into convulsions. ... In a fit
1 of temper he threw his watch into
the fire and hammered it to pieces
with the poker. ... He also fired a
pistol in the bedroom of his wife,
who left him after a year of mar
riage. ... So he went to Venice and
bought a harem.
Schiller liked to keep his feet
in ice while working. ... He once
wrote a full and perfect description
j of the Swiss land and people al
though he knew neither. . . . Cole
ridge, who wrote "Kubla Khan" un
der the influence of an opiate, could
| remember only 54 lines when he
I sufficiently recovered to write. . . .
Richelieu at times imagined himself
to be a horse and neighed, trotted
i and jumped like one. . . . Beau
Brummel, the fashion plate (who
taught the Prince of Wales how to
dress), died In rags in an insane
1 asylum.
Beethoven had a passion for
moving and sometimes was pay
ing rent on two or three places
at once, but Mozart, who died
at 35, starved and frozen,
never could pay rent on one.
Chopin walked out on the biggest
love of his life because she didn'l
offer him a chair before she offered
one to others in the room. ... In hit
will he ordered himself buried in
white tie, dress shoes and silken
knee breeches.
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