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lllMmtjjftm ORSW PEARSON Washington, D. C. BOMBING MPS WITH B-29s The plan of continuously bombing Japan from Saipan promises to be etle of the most important strategies of the war. But like all difficult in novations, it already has evolved some serious kinks which must be ironed out. They include: crew fatigue, main tenance problems, weather condi tions and home front production of plant s to replace those lost in action. Upon these factors depend the fre quency with which we can keep up the rain of bombs on Japan. The bombing of Japan from Sai pan represents a gruelling experi ence for the crews involved, and al lowances must be niiide to provide necessary rest periods. If anv of the crews participating n the Thanks giving Day raid tried it ..tain three days later, it would be only natural to expect that tin ir operational ability would be proved reduced because of the weainig >:T. .1 of the earlier 3.000-mile tlig.'.t It has also been : lund that infor mation on weather over Japan is still not entirely accurate. But reconnaissance photos taken after the first two raids .ltd show severe damage to a major aircraft plant outside i f Tokyo, also > iTective shattering of several water front areas which are jampacked with Tokyo tratlie. Other Obstacles to Raids. Officials have also learned that the B 2!) still has certain defects which may require modification in future production. Those primarily concern the safety . f air crows and should be remedied before bombing of Japan can be curried out on a day-to-day basis. Air corps officials -till reiterate that the air phase of the war against Japan is nearing its climax, but dmit that several more months will pass before the air drive can be really stepped up to its peak. One major hope is that Co r.eral Mac Arthur's forces will be able to secure severa' bas. s in the P"i!ip pines so rh.it the B-2!»s can operate f rom there, thus smashing at the south of .Japan almost at will. Because of the B 2's' v;.st -•.•>. it is almost itrp.i. - ihle to eonct 1 them under camouflage, with the result that Japanese planes -till operating from scores of fields m the Philip oines coulii bomb B 2i's at will if •Hey wen- bast d on Levte r: w. • • * It ('SSI A AND JAPAN Now that Stalin has put the Japa nose on notice? for war. railing fhem an nation, ar.othor ,-hapter regarding Jimmy Doolittle's raid on T kvo can be told. After dr pping its bomb load on Tokyo, one of the planes developed a leak in its gas line Aware that ne could r.ot make friendly Chinese territorv. the pilot set his course for Soviet Siberia, figuring he might barely be able to reach dry land. Internment, lie figured, was better than execution. When the fuel gave out, he had no idea where he was, but landed on the best flat stretch he could find. ■As the crew of the plane piled out. a column of tanks appeared over a nearby hill. The airmen climbed back into their plane and prepared to make a fight for it. but finally saw the Soviet red star on the leading tank and got out of the plane again. The pilot walked forward to talk with the Soviet major who jumped out of the leading tank. Using Eng lish, gestures, and one or two words of Russian, the pilot tried to ex plain how he happened to be there. Finally, the Russian officer stopped him. Tn fairly good English, he said: "Yes. we know all about the bomb ing of Tokyo And we knew one plane was in trouble and might be head ing this way. We came out to see if we could find you." The bomber crew started to climb into the tanks when suddenly an other column of tanks appeared from the opposite direction. A Jap officer came running toward the Russians, shouting, "This is Japanese ter ritory. We demand the surrender of the Americans." The Russian major immediately dug out his maps, insisting he was •n Soviet soil. The argument raged in German for several minutes, un til finally the Jap angrily stalked off, ardering his tanks to fire. This was unswered by a volley from the Rus sian tanks, both aiming at the sky. The Russian tanks then drove on, leaving the airplane behind. They had been going at a fast clip for about half an hour, when the Russian major turned to the Ameri can pilot and said: "I now welcome you to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics." TH'. border had just been crossed. • • • CAPITAL CHAFF Mrs. Melvyn Douglas will soon be in congress, elected from California. • The railway brotherhoods, whose 400,000 members are affiliated with neither the AFL nor the CIO. are hurned up over the appointment of Utomas Cashen of the AFL switch men's union to the War Mobiliza tion and Reconversion board's la bor panel. Although Cashen's AFL union is in the transportation field, the brotherhoods feel that one of their own members should have been appointed to the labor panel. TTIF! IV\NBI t RY REPORTER. 1) XNRT'RY. N. f.. TIU'RSIVW. 1)K( EM HER 21. 1944 Health Champions and 4-H Club Hog Winner At left, four national health champions, selected at the 23rd 4-FI Club congress, held at Chicago. L. to R.: Lucille l.atza. of Letcher, S. I).; Hubert Tolbert. 18, Paul's Valley, Okla.; Elizabeth Laughner, 18, Lee tonia. Ohio: am. vie Ramey, 15, Redwood Falls, .Minn. At right, Raymond Taylor of Kentland, Ind., and "Prince," Chester White Barrow, ruled supreme champion. Thev Toil Daily Below Ground for Free China Chinese, forced below the surface of the earth by the incessant bombing raids of Japanese airmen, are working tirelessly to produce the munitions of war so sorely needed by their armies in the field. This enor mous urdergound arsenal has been hewn out of the solid rock foundation of a mountain in southwestern China. Here are electrically lighted rock caverns, connected by arched tunnels lined with cement. Nazis Repaid I>\ U. S. Artillery Heavy artillery, part of the U. S. First army commanded by Lieut, flen. Courtney 11. Hodges, contributes its share in repaying Germany for the wrecked cities of Europe. Photo shows the effect of complete saturation nf American artillery of the town of Durviss, Germany, one of the border cities laid to ruins. Gave Lives That Gobs Might Live j3p3£ The army's Distinguished Service cross has been conferred post humously on four Men of God, who gave their courage and their own life Jackets to others aboard the sinking troop transport Dorchester. The chaplains went down with the ship. Two of them, shown, are L. to R., First Lieut. Alexander D. Goodc and First Lieut. George L. Fox, ! Army Got Navy Goat Midshipman Bruce Winner U shown holding His Royal Goatsbi) Bill IX, before the West Pointeri won the traditional game by a 2) to 7 score. Nurses French Boy , ■ - Pvt. Walton Trohon, Caplan, La., member of the Third army, playi nurse and washes face of orphanel French hoy, somewhere near ih# German border, in France. Notes of an Innocent Bystander: The Magic Lanterns: "Meet Me in St. Louis" bulges with enough pleasant amusement to provide a month of daydreams. Set in the 23- skidoo era, the warm humor and infectious ditties inspire the spirit to show its dimples. Delightful Mar garet O'Brien steals the picture and your heart. ... A song-and-dan cinema, "Something for the Boys," comes in on a buek-and-wing and lands gently on the eyes and ears. As in all musicals, the plot plays second fiddle—sometimes it seems that it isn't even in the orchestra. I . . . The March of Time's latest concerns China—a nation of great tragedies, great heroism, great hopes. . . . The script of "Blonde Fever" gets lost in a jungle of cliches—and no one misses it. . . . j Those who dreamed up a dullo- I drama like "The Last Ride" should \ be in the Hall of Fame—sweeping it. The Paragraph of the Week: | L. 11. K.'s rolyuni in the N. Y. ! Times previewed history with this dialogue: "One more ques tion, Daddy. What finally be came of this terrible Hitler?" . . . "For a long lime, niy child, nobody knew. There were sto ries. He was hiding in Spain. Japan, Argentina. Fire. You took your choice. Then, in 1960. a rug collector named Donner blitz died of indigestion in Chi cago. That uas Hitler. He had been living there sixteen years." . . . "But didn't anyone guess. Daddy?" . . , "No. you see, ex cept for changing his name and shaving off his mustache, he went right on being himself, damning itussia, Kngl.ind. de mocracy, the Gov't at Washing ton, and the IVS.A. in general. So the neighbors took him for just an ordinary crackpot and never gave him a second thought." The book stores will shortly re ceive an extraordinary hook called "Axis Kule in Occupied Europe." It is by Kapha el Lemkin. It is published by the Carnegie Endow ment for International Peace. . . . Book oracles state it is really the last word on what the Nazis have done to The Old Country. The Writ ers' War Board (staffed with intel lectuals, authors, editors, et al) is unable to name a "more important volume in its field." . . . The au thor of the bonk has created a word —"genocide" to define the calculat ed destruction by the Germans of national and racial groups. . . . Buy two copies. One to read over and over again and the other to bang on the head of any supporter of a Nazi soft-peace. The Private Papers Of a Cub Reporter: Sufferers from the cigarette short age would like to know just why it is that night clubs are enjoying near ly all the ciggie biz. This is how come. . . . The night clubs are in this enviable position because they've always charged a dime to 15 cents over the retail shop prices, and, of course, they still are permit ted (by the OPA) to charge the same tariff as before the "ceilings" went into effect. . . . Then, besides get ting 10c and 15c more per pack, the cigarette gals ore invariably tipped an average of 25c for each pack. This, too, goes to the concessionaire. ' ... As a result, getting 50c per pack for cigarettes (for which re tail stores charge 17c) the conces ' sionaires are able to pay a good deal more for cigs than the retail ers. That explains why all the night • spots are doing a terrific ciggie biz. Our Macon editor relays this let- I ter from Dr. W. B. Burke. His son | James is with our State Dep't. Jim ; auth'd "My Father in China." . i Dr. Burke spent 50 years in China. 1 . . . The letter in part: "The whis pering campaign in China against I the Generalissimo and his wife is j largely the work of pro-Jap sth col umnists. Unfortunately some of our | correspondents over there have got i ten some of the reports in the papers I over here. ... At first the Gen i eralissimo thought he would ignore I them. Then he realized the rumors were directed more against China than against himself. Therefore he felt that he had to bring these sto ries into the light. As to the report he had been unfaithful to his wife he declared his relations with his wife had been without stain, abso lutely pure. I can understand the object of tile Japanese, but it is hard to get the workings of our American correspondents' mind. This is for publication." The Wireless: A radiorator offered this bit of irony: The British re moved handcuffs from Fascist Mos ley, but jailed Gandhi who only de sires freedom for India. . . . The March of Time again proves that the headlines are writing the most ex plosive dramatic scripts. The MOT makes dreamed-up mike-believing seem more irksome than static. 1 Nothing more ludicrous than com mershills nowadays urging listeners to buy ciggies. You're told why you should buy a certain.brand— instead of where. Yii *ST '*/, W't/j 5 SMMM Well, Wooden He? Jasper—What kind of stockings does Charlie McCarthy wearf Joan—l dunno. You tell me. Jasper—Nail-on. 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