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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION ' Pennsylvania Turnpike Aids 'Flight Strip' Boom Super-Highwa- y Serves as Ideal Emergency Landing Field for Planes; Postwar Ad-vances to Emphasize Need for Runways. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator, WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. ' The great bomber was in trouble. The pilot knew it. One engine was ' coughing like Camille in the last act. He looked down. Below him lay sleepy Somerset country, Pennsyl-vania. On the far horizon was a smoky blur he knew was Pittsburgh. He had been following the long, brown ribbon, wide and straight as a string for many hundreds of yards before it gently curved with hardly a grade the Pennsylvania Turn-pike. The pilot picked a wide green field beside this highway, dropped down, made his landing and his repairs. A quick call to the state police and the road was ready, for it is a de-fense highway now, a vital part of the arteries of transportation of war supplies. But here was a new use for this wild dream that has be-come a stern reality. Traffic was stopped, the great bomber taxied out of the field and onto the highway. The pavement made a perfect runway. The straight-wa- y was of sufficient length, the cuts were low and the wing-sprea- d passed over all appurte-nances. The good ship rose and was on its way. This was no flight of the imagina-tion. It was a real flight which took place and was described a little over a year ago by Representative Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, one of Washington's con-gressmen. And so a super-highwa- y becomes an adjunct of what is to be Amer-ica's super airways. More than 35 planes, Mr. Randolph tells me, have taken advantage of this emergency landing highway. New Chapter Opens And so a new chapter opens in American roadbuilding. A new rea-son for the development of the coun- - have talked "flight strips" for years know, what the development of these runways will mean. As Fred Schiepfe, special en-gineering consultant to the adminis-trator of the Federal Works agency, says: "The congress, the state high-way departments, and the contrac-tors are pulling together toward the end that the projects will be built in the shortest possible time." About Poached Eggs And the Awe of a Kitchen Only recently, when my wife was away for some time, did I learn to poach an egg, and in so doing, at last lost my awe of the kitchen. It was my early training that gave me that awe. Neither my grandmother nor my mother would permit "men in the kitchen" unless they had spe-cific masculine business there. "No, you sit down in the corner and read the paper to me. I can dry the dishes quicker without you helping. And there won't be any streaks on the cups." Of course, there were times when a man's presence was permitted. Naturally, when he was allowed to eat there or when the kindling had to be brought in or the coal hod filled. But even then, only when Milana, the young Scandinavian giantess who was the hired girl, was otherwise en-gaged. When I was quite small, I was al-lowed to play in the kitchen when traffic was light. But that was a special privilege. The bare scrubbed floor was excellent for tops. And, of course, was that much nearer the cookies, and if I was present during the early stages of cake-bakin-there were the odd pieces of sweet dough that I loved, and sometimes, a chance to "lick the pan" which was not as unsanitary a practice as it sounds. It really meant a chance to scrape out the dish after the frost- - inc hart hppn mivprl tryside that is to come after the war must come if we are to meet the demands of tomorrow's transporta-tion, of tomorrow's demand for pub-lic works to take up the slack after the war until industry can absorb the returned soldier and the jobless warplant worker, In spite of the many pressing war needs, congress is more awake to-day to the needs of the air and the collary developments on the ground than it ever has been before. Today, a Pennsylvanian, trans-ported to Washington, cons the press and listens to the radio each day (he is retired from an active busi-ness life in which he has amassed a modest fortune) for word of some new benefit that child of his, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, has given to the country. He is Walter Jones. The Turnpike was a peacetime ven-ture. He obtained funds from the $29,250,000 federal grant and the Reconstruction Finance corporation purchased bonds amounting to $40,800,000. The first issue was over-subscribed by the public by 60 per cent. The Turnpike is a toll road and the first year of operation, the revenue was nearly three million dollars. No wonder. It was an engineer's dream come true and a motorist's, too. As near a curveless, gradeless, intersectionless, straightaway that one could wish. When war came with the overtaxed railways, it was a Godsend for it opened a veritable Volga of trucking from Pittsburgh, its western terminal, to Harrisburg. Dual Purpose "I feel confident," says Represen-tative Randolph, "twenty years will liquidate the RFC loan." So much for that highway which may well be the father of many. It has served another purpose. The emergency plane landing merely symbolizes what can be done by the highway for the plane. The answer is the "flight strip" for which congress appropriated ten million dollars as experimentation. What is a "flight strip"? Official-ly defined, it is "an area of land with clear approaches located to an adjacent highway for use as an aux-iliary landing area for aircraft." The war advantage of this, new institution is obvious. We know what to expect in the increased number of planes after the war. We know the limitation in matter of space of the airports. We can guess what the men who But there were bitter memories of cake-bakin- g time, too, the stimu-lant for which added to my respect for the kitchen. Once, coming back from school, I leapt into the room and started to stamp the crisp snow from my rubbers. There was (oh culpa meat) a cake in the oven. It fell and soon my pride followed for I was placed in a most embarrass-ing position a horizontal position I might add. Other Reasons There were many reasons why my love of the kitchen was mingled with a respect that has not quite gone even though the graceful curves of the range whose covers could glow like a summer sun and whose isin-glass eyes beamed so cheerfully, has long since gone. The kitchen table with its white oilcloth, with only a few scars at one end another why men weren't allowed in these sacred precincts "Now who has been cut-ting bread without the breadboard again?" I am not, of course, describing the' spacious room of the farmhouse when I talk about my kitchen mem-ories for I lived "in town" although the orchard began just beyond the back fence and fields, an easy walk beyond the place where the side-walk became two parallel planks with a space between (perilous to maneuver on a bicycle) and then ended in a pathway. No, mine was not the spacious kitchen where half a dozen could eat at once. But it took care of the family with a little crowding on Sun-day nights around the remnants of last night's baked beans and the oth-er delicious leftovers. Souvenir Calendar We had room for the little rag rug under the rocker by the window and the Journal's bright "souvenir" cal-endar adorned the wall that "annu-al gift" of the newsboy is about the only thing left in today's white kitch-en where you can't tell the sink from the gas stove or the cabinet or the ice box. That and the dotted swiss curtains in my kitchen. But you may break, you may shat-ter my dream if you will, when you open one shiny door, the scent of the spices cling about it still. I have lost my awe of the kitchen but lov-ing memories linger and latterly it has, in a measure, increased my t. At long last, no one to stop me, I have learned to poach an egg. Paint Sap Bucket, Lead-fre- e paint should be rusty sap buckets, and ik"'' should be allowed to ' buckets for about four WeL" h door room temperature. WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Parity Vote Heralds Farm Price Rise; Allies' North Africa Strength Grows As Yanks Erase Rommel's Advance; RAF Raids Strafe Nazi U-Bo- at Nests (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily 01 this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union. ' I' , saws. - . , fcjr , , EASTERN FRONT: Russians Roll On All along the eastern front the Russians had continued a series or blasting offensives. Each offensive was a battle unit in itself, but added to all the others it formed a pattern moving west-ward that was inexorably across the map toward the Dnieper river. Military observers were asking whether the German defenses on the Dnieper line were as strong as the anchors the Axis had lost further east in the Don and Donets river basins. If sufficient time had not been available to strengthen this secondary line, then the Nazis faced a crisis more serious than anything that yet confronted them. In the upper Ukraine the Red armies had moved steadily forward toward the Moscow-Kie- v on a wide front railway, their offensive based on a triangle formed by recaptured Sumy, Lebedin and Akhtyrka. To the south the Germans had fought violently in an effort to halt the Russ maneuver for enveloping the remainder of the Donets basrn from which hundreds of thousands of Axis forces were seeking to retire in some semblance of order. SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: To Have and to Hold Three activities had continued to occupy the attention of American and other Allied forces in the Pacific war theater. These were 1 To hold the territorial gains they had al-ready exacted from the Japs; 2 To destroy enemy aircraft installations, dock facilities and ships in nearby occupied territory; 3 To. gather strength and momentum for further full-sca- land and sea blows at the Japs. In unremitting "softening up'' tac-tics, heavy American bombers in at-tacks on the Jap base of Rabaul in New Britain scored hits on two Jap-anese warships, drove a third onto a reef and damaged a 10,000-to- n cargo vessel. U. S. planes scored hits on a Jap barge at Rekata bay in the northern Solomons and strafed enemy positions at Munda. Indications appeared that the Brit-ish drive against the Japs in Burma was gathering steam preparatory to a major movement to retake Burma and open the supply road to China. The strength of the British was indi-cated by the fact a Jap effort to raid Assam airfield resulted in the loss of 30 planes. TURKEY: Watches and Waits A watchful waiting policy based on a determination to stay out of the war if possible but to enter the fight if necessary was enunciated by President Ismet Inonu of Turkey. Inonu pointed out that the final deci-sion might not be in Turkish hands. Calling all Turks to intensify their preparedness against any eventual- - On their way to continue the offensive against the Japs at Salamana in New Guinea, Australian troops pass through a group of Americans who had been in action earlier. This photo was made after the successful close of the Papuan peninsula campaign against the Japs. , I 2d TUNISIA: Rommel Pays Dearly The miles that Marshal Rommel had originally advanced against American forces in Tunisia had cost the "Desert Fox" dearly. For not only had most of that gain been lost in retreat, but the Axis offensive had been converted into a first-clas- s Axis setback, with heavy casualties. Pell mell through the Kasserine pass Rommel's Afrika Korps tank forces had retreated to the south-west under powerful Allied gun and aircraft attack. Seasoned observers termed Rommel's maneuver, a typ-ical Axis action. The Axis had found the American forces overextended and trying to man un-tenable positions. The Axis had struck hard. When the American high command met this offensive with a more powerful counteroffen-siv- e, the Axis ran for cover. Thus Rommel's first major bid to cut Allied communications lines had been thwarted. As the Allied fortunes in Central Tunisia thus turned brightly upward, reports disclosed that General Sir Bernard Montgomery's British eighth army had been on the move in North Africa and had struck with augmented power in southeastern Tunisia. Smashing with tanks into the Mareth line, General Montgom-ery had seriously threatened Rom-mel's rear. HITLER BOASTS: Nazis Not Yet Beaten Adolf Hitler's absences at key Nazi party gatherings had caused speculation as to his health and rea-sons for remaining under cover. But wherever he was, his remote-contro- l message to the German people via a Munich proclamation was as harsh and fanatical as if der fuehrer had delivered it personally. Ominous to the people of occupied Europe was Hitler's declaration that "we shall not scruple about foreign lives when such hard sacrifices are exacted from our own lives." Germany's future and the future of Europe, he said, will be decided on the Eastern front. He boasted that enemies who believed they almost had Germany down would be "ter-ribly disappointed." "No matter how great the coali-tion of our enemies may be," his proclamation added, "it is smaller in power than the strength of the alliance of our peoples." 4,403 NEW SHIPS: To Help Beat Axis Funds for the construction of 4,403 ships for the Maritime commission were approved when the house ap-propriations committee reported an appropriation bill providing $6,298,-530,43- The current shipbuilding program to thwart the Axis submarine peril and provide transoceanic facilities for men and supplies has been mapped through 1943, according to Admiral Emory Land, director of the Maritime commission. The schedule called for construction of 2,242 ships of which 554 were deliv-ered before January 1, 1943. In ad-dition, he said, it was proposed to extend the program to provide for 2,161 additional ships to be contract-ed for during 1943. FARM PRICES: Wickard vs. Senate When Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard requested con-gress for a "clear mandate" to pro-ceed with his 1943 farm production program, he asked for sanction to attempt the difficult feat of increas-ing farm prices without raising prices to consumers. The "clear mandate" was appropriation by con-gress of $100,000,000 for incentive payments. But the senate farm bloc had ideas of its own about solving the farm income riddle. Legislation provid-ing higher ceilings on prices of some farm commodities passed the senate by a 78-- 2 vote. Under the terms of the new act, the government no longer would deduct benefit pay-ments from ceilings. How much this measure if finally approved by all branches of the gov-ernment would add to the food bills of consumers was a question neither the department of agriculture nor the OPA was prepared to answer im-mediately, because of technical fac-tors involved. OPA officials, however, expressed the view that Increases in living costs would be considerable. AIR OFFENSIVE: Allies Harass Europe Although Allied land operation of-fensives against Hitler-hel- d Europe were still in the blueprint stage, the offensive by air continued to gather momentum. Wilhelmshaven, the major Nazi naval base, and Lorient, the vast Axis submarine base on the French coast, were repeated targets. The RAF celebrated its 16th raid on Wilhelmshaven by bombing key ob-jectives without the loss of a single plane. In one of the raids on Lorient Allied fliers dropped more than 1,000 tons of explosives. In a summary of operations, an RAF spokesman revealed that 100,-00- 0 tons of bombs had been dropped on German objectives to date in the war and that 2,000 daylight sorties had been made by the bomber com-mand in 1942 alone. CAFE RATIONING: Streamlines Bill-of-Far- e Diners-ou- t in restaurants and ho-tels faced slimmer helpings on their plates and a streamlined reducing the variety of foods of-fered, as enforcement of the food administration's rationing orders for commercial eating establishments was undertaken. Aimed primarily at food waste, the orders governing restaurants, hotels and other institutions did, however, provide a larger propor-tionate allotment of canned and pro-cessed foods than individual house-holders were permitted to have. Be-cause allotments were based on the number of persons served in Decem-ber rather than on the amount of rationed foods actually served, small cafes and stands would get a pro-portionately larger share of canned and processed foods than places that serve for the most part complete meals. Restaurant and hotel allowances were set at a minimum rate of 13 per cent larger than those for house-holds. PRESIDENT INONU ... 'decision not Turkey's' ities, President Inonu declared: "We are grieved by and suffer from the global disaster. We shall do our ut-most not to be entangled in it nor contaminated by it, but we know that it is not entirely within our power to stay out of the war." Turkey has spent more for defense in the last four years than at any time in her history, he declared. 4 TO 1 RECORD: For U. S. Airmen Americans learned with pride that their fighting airmen had destroyed four enemy planes for every one of their own knocked out of the skies in 1942. An official tabulation covering complete operations for the last year showed that army, navy and marine fliers shot down at least 2,587 of their foes. This total did not include hundreds of planes listed as prob-ably destroyed. Aircraft losses by al American armed services last year totaled 609. Some of the fliers were shot down by ft fire, others simply did not return from combat missions for reasons unknown. A majority of the 609 losses, however, resulted from actual combat with enemy air-men. 4TH FDR TERM? As informed observers were pre-dicting that the war would still be in progress in 1944, politicos were prophesying that the Democrats would draft President Roosevelt for a fourth term. In the van for the "fourth term for Roosevelt" movement were Gover-nor Neely of Maryland and Congress- man Adolph J. Sabath of Illinois Dean of the house, Sabath said he had discussed the proposition with the President and told him "he owes it to the country to run again." LEND-LEAS- E It had become increasingly clear in congressional circles that final passage of the measure extendine the lend-leas- e act until July, 1944 was a foregone conclusion. 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The largest fish found in rivers is the sturgeon, whicn re" '5' a length of more than 12 eM weight of 400 to 500 pounds Placing Confidence Never put any confidence i answers of a man who is say "I don't know" occasional '; BRIEFS ... 6y Baukhage Eating out to beat rationing won't help, says OPA, because restaurant supplies are being cut about in half. American fighting men serving outside the country now can say it with flowers! Three dollars per or-der is cabled to the Red Cross and the Red Cross selects and delivers the flowers to Madame. No longer "out of sight, out of mind." . Oklahoma's extension forester Is urging farm woodland owners to cut fuel during their spare time. He figures that if 50,000 farmers each cut five cords of wood, using only Inferior and dead trees, they will release 5,000 freight cars that ordi-narily haul coal to move munitions and men. Twenty-fiv- e times as much wool was baled last year as the year be-fore, when baling instead of bagging wool was demonstrated at wool con-centration points in the West. About 25,000 books have been sent from Sweden to prisoners of war held in camps in Germany. They are distributed through the Red Cross and the YMCA. Indications are that both hog and cattle slaughter this year will sur-pass that of last year, while sup-plies of fed lambs this winter and spring will equal the 1942 crop. Uncle Sam's fighting men are re-ceiving more letters than they are sending. Postal officials disclosed during hearings on the post office appropriation bill that for every let-ter sent out of .service camps, two are sent in, and on the basis of selected tests in army camps, the average soldier sends out 4.6 pieces of first-clas- s mail weekly. USDA foresters advise farmers to line up definite markets before cut-ting their timber, practice selective cutting, and allow no clear cutting. HIGHLIGHTS " the week's news WASHINGTON: More than 3,000,-00- 0 babies were born in the United States last year, the census bureau estimated. This was the largest number of births in any year in the nation's history. The previous rec-ord was in 1921 when 2,950,000 were born. The 1942 record compared with an estimated total births of 2,715,000 in 1941 and 2,550,000 in 1940. Officials estimated fewer 1943 births. LONDON: Blunt warning was served on the German people that "Britain has enough stocks of death dealing gas to destroy the entire population of Germany, civilian as well as military." This warning was given by Reginald Purbrick, a mem-ber of the house of parliament, in a request that the prime minister ap-prise the Nazis of British prepared-ness. The warning was in answer to a speech by Propaganda Minister Goebbels in which he said the Ger-mans intended to wage total war "beyond any extent which can be Imagined." NEW YORK: Unless certain mer-chandisers cease encouraging mail-ing of an excessive number of par-cel post packages to the overseas navy personnel, the mailing privi-leges may be restricted, according to a navy statement. While army personnel abroad must obtain prior permission from commanding of-ficers to receive parcel post pack-ages, navy men do not. LIVERPOOL: International con-trol of the three C's currency, com-modities and commerce through the creation of a "world political association" was envisioned in a postwar political and economic plan charted by Minister of Home Secur-ity Herbert Morrison. Morrison de-clared that Britain, the United States, Russia and China as wield-er- s of the "sword of world justice and sovereignty" after the war must mobilize the free people to create a world political association. Such an association, he said, should implement a positive policy. |