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[|fepeciAL ARTICL?.s\ |jrBY THE LEADING Japan's Resources By Max Hill (WMU Feature?Through special arrangement with Tbo Americas Magazine.) We hear a lot about Hitler's For tress of Europe, but seldom about Japan's larger, and vastly richer, fortress of Asia. Yet, if you could shuffle the lands of the earth around as you do pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, you would find that Hitler's empire could be tucked away in far less than half of the area that Japan now rules. Emperor Hirohito's domain is larger than continental United States, and he has more than he can use of many vital war materials which are so scarce here that our scientists are on day and night shifts trying to find practical substitutes. It is the richest natural area in the world, and its resources transformed Japan overnight from a poor rela tion among the world powers into an empire that spreads from the cold of the northern Pacific to the tropical heat of the Indian ocean below the equator. And a determined enemy Is welding this conquered region into a war machine that, given time, will dwarf the military might the other end of the Axis has at its com mand. The areas which Japan either cap tured or Just walked into and took over, amount to some S,100,MM square miles and contain fabnlons quantities of war materials. All of It was taken in the first few months of the war, and since that time we have been able to recapture not much more than 20,000 square miles. Germany does have one important advantage over her Pacific ally: She is looting a continent which already was industrial; Japan's conquests, for the most part, were in an area predominantly agricultural and primitive. Japan must fight a war steadily growing more serious for her, and at the same time build the war plants to handle the plenty that is there for the taking. She is some what like the burglar trying to tote off more than he can carry. Plenty of Oil. As to resources, let's take oil first, as one of Japan's most necessary raw materials. Before the war, Ja pan stored up millions of gallons of the oil she bought from us and from the Netherlands East Indies. Then she struck, and you may be sure she didn't start out empty-handed. To kyo's radio boasts that she now has approximately 70 per cent of the In dies oil wells back in production. The Indies produce less than one twenty-fifth of the oil flowing from American wells, about 2,5M,OOS,OM gallons each year. But Burma has oil wells, too, and I am told by sources I know are reliable that the Japanese program for this year Is to store 42,MM,000 gallons of oil, Just put it away for the future. Even so, they are at work at home, taking 2,500,000 barrels of oil each year from the Manchukuo shale fields, extracting oil from coal, experi menting with oil from sardines for glycerine, and with oil from soya beans, boiling pine-tree stumps for another type of oil, and?most im portant of all?building synthetic oil plants. , The synthetic plants, which are scattered throughout the empire, are the big question mark in Japan's oil production. Some of them use German patents; others a process invented by the Japanese them selves. We have never been able to locate all of them or find out how much they are producing. Rubber, Tin and Quinine. Oil is only the beginning of the riches of the Indies. This great re gion also produces one-thinl of the world's natural rubber; one-fifth of the tin; 90 per cent of the quinine, so valuable in tropical fighting; and extensive deposits of nickel, bauxite (from which aluminum is made), manganese, gold, and silver. I,But Japan can f>ut all of these ricbeJ in a side pocket and forget them, with the exception of the nick el on the island of Celebes, and look with greedy eyes on the rest of the conquered area. Including the Indies, this empire produces 98.8 per cent of the world's natural rubber and 80 per cent of the world's tin. Two million tons of ore high in iron content are dug out of the Malaya mines each year, \ and the Japanese are now supposed to be busy on a plant to smelt thia ore near Singapore. We read frequently of the difficul ties Japan has with her shipping, but you never hear any mention of the American tonnage it takes to bring tin from Bolivia, halfway down the west coast of South Amer ica, and inland, a much longer haul Sun the Japanese have. the eaemy has 88 per cent of the world's tin; we have about 15 per emit, which is what Bolivia pre daeee and by agreemeat we have to spHt most of that with Eagtead. ???*?!??? ear used tin saasT Military Chiefs Confer in S. Pacific I A great deal ot military authority was represented in this post in the South Pacific as Gen. George C. Marshall, U. S. chief of staff, visited Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Left to right are: Lieut. Gen. George C. Kenney, Maj. Gen. S. J. Chamberlain (holding coat), Lieut. Gen. Walter Kreuger, Marshall, and MacArthur. 1944 Death Trap Set for Nazis i * Many sided trap which is expected to smash the German military machine and culminate with an Allied march on Berlin. From every 1 direction men and planes will swarm toward this city which is already said to be a smoldering ruin. From Russia, the Balkans, Corsica, Italy, and from England will come the final crushing blows. Tuning Up for New Britain Attack MaJ. Gen. William Rnpertus, tJ. 8. M. C., who commanded the marine units that attacked the twin Japanese airfields behind Cape Gloucester, New Britain, is shown (left) coaching a Leatherneck fan crew daring preparations for that action. Soon after this attack marines were re ported to be advancing in the face of stubborn enemy resistance. Assorted Cutlery for Combat Troops Servicemen stationed in the Sooth Pacific display assorted cutlery esed hi funjle warfare peculiar to that theater. This assortment ranges from sprtnj-blade penknives to machetes. The men are Pvt. John D. McAuHffe, Ceastfuardsman Charles A. Herman, Ceesimardsman Charles la. Alleo and P?t. William E. Veraee. Record Catch W x. ,v:? '?''^ggi Wallace McMillan of Winnipeg, Manitoba, president of the Tyee clnb of British Colombia, poses with the monster salmon he canght recently. It Is 53 inches long, with a girth of 30 inches, and weighs 60V4 pounds. This is a record catch. New Combat Shoe After months of tests daring com bat conditions the quartermaster corps has developed a new combat boot which is expected to replace the leggings worn by ground forces and paratroopers' boots. Private Paul L. Gable tries on the new shoe. Old style is at left. She Cooks Too T-~-,...VTV.'T" ~ j Ellea Laura North, IB, Holly dale, Calif., who was selected queen of the Great Western rodeo by a board of cattlemen. She has won many ridinf cups and ribbons. She also plays the accordion and is reported to be a toed cook. -? Waterpower Damage This pie tare, taken en the eeeaa front at Red end* Bench, Calif., shnws how tides and pounding Waves have tuned the concrete walkway late a series ef broken blocks. ^ I Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features?WNU Release. NEW YORK.?For this new year of pell-mell war traffic the In terstate Commerce commission has elected to its chairmanship Wiiliam J. Patter Took Railroading son, who By Mail as a Call knows the Boy: Head. ICC ??*?? tion system and its problems In war or peace from the ground up. He began studying them nearly half a century ago as a call boy. Patterson became an ICC member in 1939, but he has been on its payroll for 30 years. He was hired as an inspector of ap pliances in 1914 when there was a considerable stir abont safety. The job expanded until a score of years later it turned into the assistant directorship of the commission's bureau of safety. Next Patterson went onto the mechanical advisory committee of the federal coordinator of transportation. Finally member ship on the commission itself came from President Roosevelt. Patterson made his first connec tion with a railroad in Neenah, Wis. He was born there, where the Fox Indians used to hunt and do a lot of fighting, only seven years after the town was founded. A little while as a call boy made him want a better job. Correspondence courses were new then, and well recommended for kids who couldn't get other schooling, so he studied air brake and train operation by mail. That started him up the railroad ladder and finally he became a conductor. At the peak of his rise he married, fathered a son, a daughter. Later he switched to the ICC. He is 63 now. ? U ITLER'S legions fall back and *?1 the little kings whose little countries lie just beyond the smoke of battle turn more boldly toward _ _ _ Hitler's ene Gen. RoyceTalkt mies. Maj. Of Oil, Transport Gen. Ralph *???., W.M.r military commission sit down to 10 sheep served on heaped up rice by shrewd warwise Ibn Saud, master of the best of Arabia. The talk, after chins are wiped, Is of oil and transport privileges. But once, at least, the general certainly asked about the weather. An airplane pi lot who has flown his own ships more than a million miles, he is always a little worried about wind and clouds and rain. Royce is American command er in the Middle East, big, wide jawed, with his military eap usu ally cocked at a Beattie angle. He gets on with kings. A while back Egypt's Farouk piloted him on an aerial sightseeing trip, though Royce could have piloted Farouk even more skill fully. He was one of the first 30 army officers to qualify as fliers and in the last war led a squadron of fighting planes in France. In this war he began by fighting the Japs in the Philippines and won a DSC and the DFC there to add to the Croix de Guerre he earned a quarter of a century ago. Con vinced that Germany can be beaten from the air, he has commanded in the Middle East since Septem ber. Like most of the army's top .men he went to West Point. ??? A THIN, tireless Englishman ** helps make the fliers of the Eighth air force safer than Milton's "helmed cherubims . . . seen in guttering Of a Long Line of ranks with Tailore, Thie Son wings dis Mahtl Sletl Vert# more than the Americans' heads with steel. They fly cap-a-pie. WeU, nearly! If they aren't armed from head to foot they wear, besides a helmet, an armored vest. And it turned blows like Lancelot's shield. This war makes less and less sense. It uses every Invention of history's most mechanized age, but the best protection for its- cham pions is copied from the days of old when knights were bold. A dozen years ago Leonard Barrett of the elassle Wilkinson Sword company tinkered np an armored vest. Vests eame easy to him. His father, grand and great grandfathers were tailors. Some were sold. In the Battle of Britain, to wives and sweet hearts wanting extra protection for their airmen. Nearly two years ago Brig. Gen. Malcolm Grow, Eighth air force surgeon, heard of the dandy device. Scot land Yard helped Mm run down the maker and shortly Barratt was working until all hours. The latest vests include a thigh protector. Their flexibiUty is the result of overlapping plates, one, two and three ply. One ply stopo Ught flak. Three ply stops even revolver bullets close up. Each smaU plate is sewn into an individu al pocket on the canvas back. The whole yields to every blow, then readjusts itself as links adjust them-* selves in a chain. Helmets are a development later than the vests?steel slats over leather modeled on a block to fit any need. They close down over the eyebrows, aroun^ the ears. THE FUEHRER AND AMERICAN MOVIES Adolf Hitler, It develops, is a rab id movie fan and especially likes to get American films for some strange reason, and have them run off for him at Berchtesgaden. When the Drottningholm, prisoner ship, was returning from Scotland, the Nazis confiscated a batch of them for the Fuehrer. They included Dis ney's "Bambi," Betty Grable in "Coney Island" and the films "Crash Dive" and "Cairo." < ? ' He had better be careful how far he goes. If he goes in for our double-features he will get that breakdown, after all. ? Of course it is just possible that Hitler doesn't really like American films. He may merely take them to Berchtesgaden so he can spend an evening booing. ? Still, Adolf is the type who would be a movie fanatic. He likes dark ness, bad air, blatant credit lines, Donald Duck, Popeye, the Dracula sort of thing and a chance to argue with ushers. ? Scene in the Chancellery. Adolf (to Goering)?Well, did we seize any American films this weekf Goering?Fuehrer, our forces to the north won another tremendous victory. They seized "I Dood It," "Lassie Comes Home" and "The Gang's All Here." On the west, we took "Buffalo Bill," "Looney Toons" and "Wintertime." Adolf (shuddering ?Ach, give 'em back that last one! It gives me the creeps. Any word from Rom mel? Goering?He almost got "Always a Bridesmaid" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" but had to retreat at the last moment. Adolf?How is Kesselring doing? Goering?I have a wire from him that he has brought up reserves and is within ten miles of a new Carmen Miranda vehicle. Adolf?Anything new on the Rus sian front? Goering?The situation there is pretty clouded. Adolf?I remember when every thing on that front was in techni color. # ? ? ? Goering?There are reports that in the Minsk sector we are threatening "Mission to Moscow" and "North Star." Adolf (fiercely)?They don't even exist any more. The Warner Bro thers have been exterminated, not to rise again for a thousand years. Goering?Here's a message from our U-boats. Adolf?Yes, yes, what is it? Goering ? They, have torpedoed "Yankee Doodle," "Victory Through Air Power" and "Salute to the Ma rines." ? ? ? The radio program of the year is the one just put on the air by Variety, the show-world magazine. What an idea! It .takes outstanding performances of the week in the amusement business and puts on a Sunday night program. To us the best thing about it is that it intro duces new talent, picking up able entertainers who haven't had the breaks and sweeping them into na tional fame overnight. ? ? ? Prepared Although my husband's gone to war, He's just as safe now as before. He had some first-rate inside tips To make fast work of nasty "Nips." He's just as safe as he can be, FOR HE'S LEARNED SELF-DE FENSE FROM ME! Romayn Allen ? ? ? 1 A new weather forecaster has been named for New York and promises an improvement in gen eral conditions. ? ? * Ima Dodo went to see "Sahara" last night and says she coughed all day from the sand in her nose and throat. ? ? ? Baseball is to get a livelier ball next season. One thing the Teheran and Cairo conferees have Just real ised is that more home rans, say what yon may, are one of the main essentials to a bright new world. ? ? ? Elmer Twitchell hears that the re volt in Bolivia was caused by the fact that President Penaranda for got to send a Christmas card to Major VillarroroeL ? ? ? What this country needs Is a cigar maker with a good five-cent can science. ? ? ? Can Ion Remember Away back when you could dis pose of many Christmas problems by merely going to the bank and saying: "Ten $5 gold pieces,please"? ? . Away back in prohibition days when prices were reasonable? And when you said, "Oh, I'm not ??ktng for liquor back, I'd be satisfied with light wines and beers"? - ? - When you could say, 'TO take a cigar this time" and get it? Uncle Pkll^S -%* Envy no man, for you knn? his weaknesses and shorteomii?? Those good old days wer. days we did not have much ^ didn't want much. ?uch-*M Unlike a woman, no man will stand pam because of his clnth; but he will stand discomfort Viewing some of the loui received at Christmas present, ? diet insomnia is in for an increase Golf does decrease a man-, weight-but it also increases^! conceit. tui Nom Drops In Milfes /T Arid Indigestion IMavad Is 5 ariantM or double money SscS Wfl?ttnmarh add etom painful -Trffnr^ **Jgft "S- b?barflSgjSBfc pg?mp? tt>w fartd?t-meting medicines koowofv symptomatic ryljef medicines like thoseidbTiu^ ggZTjlol&ti,.. K. ^sinssss M ?? r""r? ?' 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