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In Europe EdiUoa THE WAWESTILLE BIOUNTAINEER iDne Bay Nearer World Peace : t r . ft 1 :i: Us on liazi Tiirociues en American rusuc in. German primes .-ik v.iinin !- ,-h l' ... .. hat with 't.wl Corps atrocity ol '- ,,,,-niniJ Con- "". " mains disrlo- Hit LUii"' !.tunt-Uc war corres- , ,,. ,s seen by Red "ii,;",'.lll other officials rW ,l u,!i lie whether ';' ,, channeled into :r"; . uuottlc intcr " , s,,.n.,ii and punish or results merely ;':!".'. demands for rctali- " ,. u'ar nriso- ,1111.-1 r . iM ,1,.,! Nai atrocity ,,,,( -o many it-1 vvc re many of r i.....t,4 War r,.ti well dissipated ''(i1.'..,v This suspicion ! ' ,. ,r,. u hen Ameri .,,s week begin 'j tvnis lilms which .' ,M ,0iicnee after se ;, luilijniies of Nazi con- ,,i ,ii- and punishment r. .niinni'i-s. who have ,! ,i in continues to Cniii.iii war prisoners ,,.;, ,n soldiers are found :linl , .iih j it ion in German Mlllv 1 he Slate and War .111' .iain 1 -Mating 1 .,,l,i.. denying that i ers arc Dcing cou- (! leiii'i.itinc strict ad i 1 in Ceneva Conven er icl- HisiRiiaifd .r, made in and out of 1 he (imernmcnt Is ... ,:i iiciarinK for the ;.iini..i,,iieiii of the wir hi .; Secretary of Stale snd that the State hi ii.ul delegated several siniie ollicials on the Hiiherl l. Murphy, pollll- 1 in Cen. Dwight D. 1 h.r (icrinany, to work lUm Hies, winie two more II 'i ue here shortly to lit inns at various 1 :jK n.il ol World War I, (liniians were indicted iiiniii.iis .Mter two years i;iIk niceties and inac- h-t had been whittled I. .mil these were tried h h a Ccrnian court. I i this eircumstance, Uliw L'nianucl Ccllcr (D) York has proposed cstab- ii .1 eongrcssional K inimnitice to see that lied Nations War Crimes on (airies out its func- ' and ell'ectively. rcssincn Astounded le 1111v policy in this -isl.inl Secrctarv nf War lit m has disclosed that iitlicers are already cn 1 gathering evidence luminals and that i"i dealing with the "i lesser elements '' "l.tmlKod German war 'eady in being, al- "' "'i'lls have yet heen 1 lnl I lie extent of Gor- 1,11 Congressmen and f'H'iKans have asked for 'civ replies on how far ner net is t0 be extended: annul" tK. lowor rant- "'"mi of the Gestapo "(I "ill tin- orders nf Vil "' -"I'-i niliated brutality ' along with his "" 111: the higher '"' 'l-iU Ulehirlf Krmw I1'" t'M lllsl;.,,,. I.. '"''d with holn II. I !,. II,., I- ., 8 " n-rman 1111811 1 kd I'residcnt von "i'11 .i(liniltm, liiiixt. aoinet. ""' vlll,'d iiubJic will " Nai capabill ""I 'lieir indica- ,l "lOI'OHL'll lllllvt l.n Ik. ' .lll ,,,,, -....I "no 1 ue rc- "'l'i";iin . is question Hadioeasting " iarc Boothe ' i ticul, said re- '" ""'i'- many Ger so"ic of the '"' AHied countries 1 s l I ll.it a,. "MS lll.ln " oilier greatly "' "'re sheer propa- '"11 one iw,e-.. 11, , , """H among win be able to ,, Nin examples of ""nil's will, I, uu own ""' """- than 3,000 - "b .nc norrors yiM.,1,1 crematories, UUl1 and no... x ' edited into 500 ft:- ,i r"MCCl Wm. wiU 1 ' l"cct, convincing W - zi Icaders did Mai,. 1 rlure and star- PIiey against their J' ;. aUh0"gh not cus- n Al'ar PriSOn of us,,,,; ,he whole in-1 ' Wnishment of ir ' trtment of; Amcncan prison1 ''r'lX' Palo r . -! ! i:ain"51h 10 siting reUef V a,titde of the A1 I n fulfil,? "Lthe. Aeri- a 'nerny prisoners." U. S. Mobilization Of All Resources Turned War?s Tide The Axis' declaration of war gainst the U. S. was the signal tor the complete industrial and agricul tural mobilization of the country, re sulting in an unprecedented produc tion of goods and food that not only has fed the sinews of our own fight ing 'machine, but helped maintain those of our Allies as well. Succeeding the Office of Produc tion Management set up earlier in the defense program, the War Pro duction board came into its own with the U. S. entrance injto the war, with leadership vested in Donald Nelson, and personnel consisting of the na tion's most expert industrialists and technicians. To put all of the nation's vital re sources and manpower at the com mand of the war effort, civilian pro duction, particularly in the heavy Industries using steel, aluminum, alloys,- etc., was sharply curtailed, with priority system established to slloeate the supply of necessary materials. , . Aircraft Production High. .At the same time, both privalr Industry and the government invest ed to the construction and expansion of production facilities, with the air craft and shipbuilding manufacto ries showing the most phenomenal growth due to the development of thS airplane as a vital bombard ment and protective weapon, and the necessity for hauling vast quan tities of supplies across wain reutet. With industry mobilized, liiir ras first allowed to follow wartime employment opportunities, but uheu more workers were needed, the War Manpower commission sought to steer help into vital production by drawing up a list of essential occu pations entitling draft registrants to deferment consideration. Matching industry's sensational production achievement, the nation's farmers, short of help with workers leeklng more lucrative employment In war industries and drafted for service, and short of machinery be cause of restrictions on output, man aged to raise record crops and keep the country,, the services and urn Allies well nourished. Reflecting the outstanding produc tion record of the farmer, around 1,000,000,000 bushels of corn were raised in 1942, '43 and '44; over 100,000,000 head of hogs were fed ituring'l43 and '44, and 1944 wheat harvest was set at over 1,000,000,00(1 bushels. " ! Congress Declares War on Axis I nPHi ir iri , -V--- - Ml IWUIIIi.i I " C Vi i 11 ill mi vmmmmutwmmmmmmmmmmmim Nazi Built Jet Planes In Streamlined Cave . t t " ' '"' ' s- fresldent Roosevelt addressed a Joint session cdiui, -v. ,,-i.nn fr a declaration of war against the Japanese. Declare- I Mill I'l 11.11 mi t.ciniany followed swiftly. Firsi-in-First Out Is Urged For Demobilization of Army KAHLA, Germany This is the story of a mountain which labor ed and brought forth dozens of the latest jet planes for the Luft walfe. It is Mount Walpersborg. situat ed a few miles from this towu, which, in turn, is 15 miles south of .Tena. It shows what the Ger mans could have done in building virtually impregnable air control if they had not started so late. The whole plant shows the in genuity of a Kubc Goldberg. Plane components were built inside the mountain, assembled in concrete hangars at the base, hauled 'up the sides by conveyor to the top where the ridge, having been shaved oft. makes a 7.500-foot runway, from which the planes took olT lor their lighter fields. The setup rather reminds one of a super aircraft carrier H.000 feet long, because of this sequence of operations. It was just before D-l)ay that Allied bombing of the German aircraft industry had re duced the Luftwaffe so'inueh that the Allies had necessary air su periority for the momentous blow at Normandy. Plants Vunerable Despite their urgani.in talent, the Germans had permitted, air craft Industry work at centers that were dcli'iiitely vunerable to bomb ing. The Allies took full advau- w -iii-i i, in", ii -(ii....- ( -,,!. S.-ti. HIM. " . liisl-in- ;i I"1'. 'in!, 1 lor ilcinohili,. '"!! " ' " "as proposed by I 1 .liil-.ii-.iin i)i (if S vll-l-l llllllll), tri m hum I, i , ., . ! 1 ' M -i ' ' h, II -Ills. II',. men nut dueled II Dunkirk Withdraw al Was Masterpiece Of Military Darin; oven h 1 W ( 1 1 1 i 1 1 ! work. .1 Iheneeiv Sell.il, 111. (lie .11 suaile I adol'l In a " nil will 11,! eonipl 1 Ii ller. oiie e! soon a' CIKIS. fat her i tan i" mail "I ni'er lem. I lie 1, know 1 lor 1:011m llle'd l.e, e.u - .mo lir Realising that the small British force in' France and Belgium in the spring of 1940 could not hope to stem the swift German advance thai v. .1 ; crushing French resistance, tie Brit ish, commanders ordered a reheat to the channel ports. On May 20, 1840,vUnita of the British expedition ary force began moving towards Ostend and Zeebrugge. Belgian and French troops screened the with drawal. Bjr tlie 23rd, German annou-d umhs bd thrust through t" (he I'l'j'i nel eoist, bemmuig m the Fviii;t,. FreAch and Belgian troops." Uu Hi 28th, the Belgians surrendered, and tSe British and a few French unit:, hid io fall lack to the neighboi hend oi 'Dunkirk, a medium-sized i hau nel port. By the 50th it was (ib-vimr: th 'I there was nothing for the Bi itr-h t,, do but to try to gpt home In l i r land, which would soon be 11 1 dan fer. So, abandoning their luaw equipment, the 300.000 mm ef iin BEF hastened to the waterfront .m l began embarking in any Mn ttirv could find. So began the epic v. ill. 4MI Hiinlflpl, Ceaotant Bombardinciil. Under constant bombardinrni and strafing from the German air fou r . S -well as submarines and t'r: liv ers, the British piled into any :eil of craft that would float. Men came back to England in rowboais, fen-y-boats, private yachts, collapsible-., and fishing boats, and of course, tmopships and naval vessels. Many of these craft had been ob tained from private citizens' wh risked. their lives and crafts to s.ui their vessels through the choppy channel. 5h Royal navy and Royal Air force did their best to protect the thousands of boats in the channel. Fortunately fog hampered the Nazi planes somewhat, but the boats that reached the English coast had been under almost constant attack for hours. The Germans, knowing thai Britain would be almost defenseless it the men who were in the boats were destroyed, made extreme ef forts to kill as many as possible. Because of the stout British de fense, and the fact that so many miscellaneous craft were dispatched to evacuate the BEF, the Germans tailed, - AH during the 30th and 31st boats and ships streamed back and forth across the channel, and by the first cf June the most remarkable with drawal in history had been accom plished. Only a tew thousand of the BET were captured by the Nazis. Most of the sorely needed force was jaiejT returned to England.lfi -ml I he pin ill i ( ' i in announced " ii program for do- ' it.ii priorities is ! iteil and contains . .' 1 I I ' 1 1 1 -ss 1 : il no ilii I ial ion lie ' ' Miould (in n I he in 1 t'e same order it in- llio ( 'oloradoan as "l '' : .iniple enough for 'i niiilei'staud; there ' . . 1 ! 1 n , 1 1 1 1 1 of paper ! I I'llieve the G. l.'s - ill he lor it. It's fair." .loiin.-,iii said he hasn'l i I . 1 1 w ; 1 trying to pcr lie ':u nepaitnienl to 1- I I I'-i ) formula." As, In- added, he probably '('mile legislal ion to ac 1 the purpose 'di 'at ion is Coini; to be . 'i liiggesl problems as the ii;;iilnm in Kurope . -.aid "Kvc-ry mother and ('(mi:: to be asking 'When l" eiiine lmine?' Every man is goinu lo get sacks uu 1 lie -ubjccl. tbe hi st ii-first-out "Sys it'ii oi the foxholes would il away tlioir prospects back to civilian life. If dialled Hirer or four Uir.K'd have .issiiranee a none I lir Hi st out and u ihiIiIh I have to figure out ol point factors, for which Hie al':e-. Ii.im'U I been announced Tl held said lli.-it a m . 1 Smalm- .IhIiumiu to hear hal the about I ! I -IV h, lhe the a I. ,1 Ii it i il n I ie iai l incut has wilh v.ilue ol each laelor It iiiiioinieiiig Ihc iirograin ' 1- based on survry.s said he'd like soldiers think mil one more hide 'v-lt.l ,ef TO TAth . . We'veg6ttfi'peltibf Mussolini 'and Hitler: let's keep the Axis trio together! Get Tojo and his mob I join' thetr"coropenions!ATbeonlyway is to purltol 'gether harder than everffTto keep our brave boys upplied for ; Victory! Comply Jwithevery wartime ( regulation'cbeerfully, and JbuyVyarBonds.with a - vengeajicejfM,. , ' BURNETTE'S CAFE The lies! Of Good Food All The Time tage of this with precision daylight mass attacks. It is important to note what the Allies had found in the way of vunerability of German Industry to air attack. Source materials and parts were too far Behind the lines and were too scattered for the Allies to effectively attack them. If a final or assembly stage was bombed, output on the as sembly lines could not be reduced appreciably because they could be quickly set up in any sort of shed like building aud in the open in emergencies. Thus a new bombing technique was discovered it was to hit an industry just below the top. In final, large, component assembly factories U where most lasting damage could be done. The Ger mans, in their new dispersal of aviation building plans, also took note of this fundamental. Thus it should be noled that while great workshops inside Walpersbcrg Mountain were building motors, wings, fuselages, and other plane parts, final assembly was done out side, because even if the hangars were bombed, the work would not halt. Eventually, enough more of the mountain could have been dug out to permit even the final as sembly to have been done under ground. German thoroughness again was shown in the construc tion of even temporary hangars with three-foot reinforced concrete roofs able to withstand all bombs except, possibly, the 20.000-pound sumbarinc-pen busters, which were used only after these hang ars had been completed. Mountain I'.aslly Tunneled Another important basic fact which examination of this plant brought forth is the nature of the mountain fs a distinct key to the extent and success of future Ger man underground operations, par ticularly in the national redoubt, now the target of Allied advancing armies in southern Germany. For Mount Walpersbcrg is sandstone so soft that the Germans have quarried it for years as a source of mere sand. When the Germans were look ing around for underground air excavated mountain immediately labor was put to work by the thous ands to Increase the size of the underground cavities while other workers cleaned off the top for the bright idea of taking off from the roof. As there was a sharp drop in terrain from the end of the runway on a relatively short run, similar to aircraft-carrier ope ration. It is pointed out that where either sandstone or limestone mountains are encountered the Nazis will have been able to build extensive underground works. This plant still was not finished, although begun a year ago. It was. however, producing 30 planes a month. When finished, it would have doubled this, according to estimates of United States spe cialists. Uy conveyor belt operat ed at an angle somewhat more than 30 degrees, running 500 feet to the runway on the top, crews and supplies were being carried on the same platforms as the planes. Canllioard Stiffening A Irsiher bag that has be ruine limp may need nothing more than nr- cardboard stiffening be tween the lining and the lesther. Cardboard that is tough and doea not break sasdy is satisfactory. After the almost incredible dirty dealing innocent peoples have suffered at the hands of the Japs, the Yanks are coming through for the pay-off! And that means, 'dead or alive" !T. unconditional surrender! Help by backing our boys every way yoti can. , The very lives of our men depend on the War Bonds you buy!, ,u, SUMS TIRE & BATTERY GO. El) SIMS, Owner It's Great To Be An American The price of victory has come high I : : the price of peace will be even higher, because Japan must be completely defeat ed. Those of us on the home front still have a gigantic task to perform an obligation to pay to every man and woman in uniform. We must keep up the fight until PEACE. Everyone Has k Pari In This War-Let's Do Our Part Keep Up The Fight For Peace Ul'Y iWOKK WAK HONIXS C. E. RAY'S SONS UUY WAK 130NDS AM) KEEP THEM
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