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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION Robot Gives World Taste Of the War of Tomorrow Destructive Power of New Weapon May Be Turned Against Both Armies and Civilians in Future Conflicts. r By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. involved as well as the loss of 450 British and American aircraft in-cluding many heavy and medium bombers, involving approximately 2,900 pilots and aircrews. That is past history. The fu-ture, as I say, is shrouded in mys-tery. As for the present, the meth-od of carrying the robots on the backs of planes makes it possible for the enemy to approach their targets from any direction. So the attempt is made to stop the thing at its source and "in-truder" planes try to linger over the German airdromes where it is known the take off and destroy them as they rise. Some are destroyed there. For the rest, it is an endless patrol of the North sea and the Heligoland Bight, searching the whole heavens for the planes themselves or trying to spot the ro-bots after they are launched and dive-bom- b them down or pick them off with ack-ac- or hope they will entangle themselves with the wires from the captive balloons. The robot has not yet said its last word. Hits 'Inconsistent' Diplomacy of U. S. Before we can get any sort of International organization working, we, the United States of America, must have the confidence of the other nations of the world. We, "US," have a pretty good reputation, a "reservoir of good-will," as Wendell Willkie called it. But we have also a few blots on our escutcheon. And it might be well for all of us to read a book which, al-though I cannot agree with all its conclusions, fascinates me. It is called "Our Jungle Diplo-macy," and was written by a for-mer member of the American for-eign service, William Franklin Sands, in collaboration with Joseph M. Lalley. It made me think. Mr. Sands' thesis is that our diplo-macy has been operating "in a jungle of our own creation" and he cites in detail certain specific ex-amples to show where he believes our diplomacy has led. His findings are startling: Japan's annexation of Korea, he says, follows the pattern laid down by the United States in regard to Hawaii. Pearl Harbor, he boldly traces back to Panama! Mr. Sands has some rather jolt-ing ideas on power politics. He says that although the United States has no consistent foreign policy, we have, nevertheless, indulged in pow-er politics. But, he hastens to add, power politics is not per se, un-wise or immoral. (It depends on the power. ) But whatever has been the long-rang- e effect of our diplomatic con-duct in South America, Sands be-lieves that "the' chief fruit of our junglediplomacy is the disastrous war in which we are now engaged." I would not go so far as to sav VNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. By the time this reaches print, the true story of the robot and the whole story, including the last chap-ter, may be revealed. Perhaps it will be withheld until Germany is on her knees and the heavy cen-sorship which has descended over the last, desperate blows of the cor-nered animal can be lifted. The part of the story which is now being revealed is that of a menace which dropped to a low in August of this year, when only 4 out of 101 bombs aimed at London reached their destination, began to rise again after that until, at this writ-ing, V-l-s are falling on the Brit-ish capital and vicinity three times a week. What is more, only the V-- are being mentioned. Although the V-- a rocket much larger than the V-- l, was described for a while, and a more mysterious V-- 3 was men-tioned some time ago, today no word is spoken of either. What is men-tioned is that war damages are be-ing repaired in London by some 132,-00- 0 laborers. This total is 40 per cent of Britain's total building per-sonnel. Only 40,000 men were em-ployed for this work in 1941 dur-ing the battle of Britain. The attacks now going on, like all of those since the Allies took over the invasion coasts and captured the launching sites, are made by robots launched from the backs of planes piloted by live pilots. It is general-ly admitted that they will keep right on coming as long as Germany is in the war. The robot war isn't over. Londoners are still moving nightly In the shadow of death. The British Information service has released a film which tells the story of what happened when the V-- ls were coming over from the launching platform. It is a terrible human document. As one woman correspondent who has just come back from the front remarked: "That is worse than anything in France." Broke Fall Force Of Attacks A man who knows robots pretty well from first-han- d contact told me "If the flying bombs (V-l- had been launched as the Germans planned to launch them, In the quantities in which they were then able to pro-duce them, and from the launching platforms already installed, they would have been sent against Lon-don at the rate of a thousand a night, every night." That, of course, would have meant the annihilation of any city. Briefly, the developments which broke the German plan were these: In April of 1943, British secret agents sent in YaSue reports of German plans for some type of long-rang- e bombardment. Intelligence service discovered a new 'weapon being developed on the Baltic coast; the RAF made photo- - that a less jungular diplomacy on our part alone could, under existing world conditions, have preserved the peace in the face of a confirmed aggressor, but I must admit that our statesmanship has not acted as much of a pacifier so far. Sands quotes the famous saying of the great military authority, von Clausewitz, to the effect that "war is the continuation of a nation's poli-cy by forcible means," and then he says that since we had no policy to extend, the war in the Pacific is an extension of Japanese policy. Sands says (and makes a very convincing argument) that that point was clear when the Japs took Korea 40 years ago. And then he comes to this striking conclusion: "Two courses were open to us . . . we might have prepared to chal-lenge the rising power of Ja-pan . . .," or we might have adopted a pol'cy "of gradual retreat in the Pacific and of genuine conciliation in the Americas, which might have enabled us to avoid the clash of power politics in the Far East, might have made our intentions plain, and might have made our moral position less equivocal in Latin and Asiatic eyes." Read "Our Jungle Diplomacy" as an astringent to inflated national egotism, if for no other reason. It is a refreshing mental menthol. graphs. Many pictures were taken and finally a large factory was discovered at Peenemuende, an island in the Baltic, with a miniature airplane-shape- d thing on the ramp. Scien-tists deduced that the weapon was a pilotless, plane. Peenemuende and other manufac-turing sites were destroyed. By winter, 100 ramps were dis-covered similar to the one at Peene-muende all along the French coast. They were bombed, repaired, By the following summer new ones had been completed. Secret service pieced together a description of the bomb. Defenses (barrage balloons, etc.) were pre-pared. The first robot attack began at the time of our invasion of Normandy. In the first month only 40 per cent of the bombs were brought dowrffby defense. The defenses were changed; the defense belt was moved to the coast so the gunners could get an un-interrupted view of the oncoming robots. By July, 74 per cent of the robots were being brought down. The RAF with speedier fighters helped to get many. The situation improved until Au-gust. . . . All this is highly condensed and only suggests the tremendous work r-- WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Reds Peril Gateway to Austria; Japs Bolster Battered Forces; Ckeck Decline in Hog Prices O''"" by Western Newspaper Union. (EDITOR'S NOTE: When pinions are expressed In these colnmns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) wiw-o'-Ty- l try-"- " ff tv nt ti- - . - I i x yi j Yugoslav Partisans carry wounded back 10 secret stronghold. PACIFIC: Enemy Girds Still determined to hold on to the Philippines despite the concentra-tion of U. S. strength behind the forces of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the Japanese poured in air re-- , inforcements for the showdown bat-tle that will develop when the Americans move onto the larger is-lands. Even as the Japs sought to bol-ster their defenses, first severely shaken by the U. S. navy's major triumph in the second sea battle of the Philippines, General ground forces on Leyte POSTWAR AIR: World Traffic As representatives from Allied and neutral nations met in Chisago for the International civil aviation conference, principal question aris-ing was in what way could coun-tries best cooperate in the develop-ment of extensive postwar traffic. At the opening session, three methods were proposed. The U. S. suggestion advocated a free devel-opment between friendly and pro-gressive states, with an internation-al body which would merely consult and advise on allocation of air routes, rate fixing and regulation of competition. On the other hand, the British called for the regulation of postwar air traffic through a strong inter-national authority, which, like the U. S. civil aeronautics authority, would assign routes and have a voice in rate making. Australia and New Zealand pre-sented the extremist view of pool-ing all aerial resources into an in-ternational operating company. WAR PRODUCTION: V-- E Cutbacks One-thir- d of all war contracts will be terminated within three months after the defeat of Germany, a War Production board official announced, with speedy settlements with manu-facturers assuring smoother recon-version. To date, the government has let 325 billion dollars in war contracts, it was revealed, with completions totalling 240 billion dollars. After cancellations, about 65 billion dol-lars of contracts are now outstand-ing, one-thir- or about 20 billion dollars worth, of which would be terminated on V-- day. Of 37,000 contracts valued at 9 billion dollars cancelled thus far, 28,000 have been settled for 340 mil-lion dollars, WPB said. V-- E Shipping Germany's defeat will not lessen the demand on the U. S. merchant marine, the Office of War Informa-tion reported, with military and re-construction traffic continuing to and from the continent, and more ship-ping needed to transport increased forces and supplies over vast dis-tances in the Pacific. Three times the amount of ship-ping presently engaged for the Euro-pean war may be required for the Pacific conflict, it was said, and east-ern ports will be used to relieve some of the tremendous traffic that will be imposed on those in the west. Presently, OWI revealed, no less than 5,000,000 tons of shipping are being used just to transport sup-plies from overseas bases to fight-ing fronts. Unusual Quads In the first case of its kind known in medical history, Mrs. Kath-leen Hatcher Cirminello of Philadel-phia, Pa., gave birth to quadruplets in two minutes in a caeserean operation. Weighing from three to three and a quarter pounds, the quads three girls and a boy are the 10th set in the V. S., such births averaging one in 658,503 cases. Five feet and two inches tall, and weighing 118 lbs., Mrs. Criminello is the wife of a financial analyst for the Securities and Exchange Commission. A previous child died at birth. Placed in an incubator, the children were lagged A, B, C and D. Said Mr. Cirminello: "My wife went through tht ordeal. I'll let her choose the names." FEED: Outlook Good Despite smaller supplies of con-centrated feed for the 1944-'4- 5 sea-son, more will be available per ani-mal unit, however, because of re-duced livestock population, the de-partment of agriculture reported. Because of the record production of corn and sorghums for 1944, USDA said, the domestic supply oi feed grains will approximate last year's at 130,500,000 tons. Stocks oi feeds will be slightly larger than last year. With de-creased demands, moderate declines were price anticipated. According to USDA, local feed grain supplies are smaller than last year in the east north central and the Western states, but slightly larger in other sections. Except for the west north central and the west-ern states, hay supplies are smaller. CASUALTIES: Total 487,692 With the army suffering the bulk of the losses, U. S. battle casual, ties on the g fronts totaled 487,692. Army casualties reached 417,121 of which 80,666 were killed 229 212 wounded, 53,622 missing and 53'621 made prisoners.. After more than a year of bitter fighting in Italy, where Allied forces pressed their offensive against strong Nazi fortifications U. S. losses were estimated at 90,00o! Latest navy compilations placed casualties at 70.571, of which 28 231 were killed, 29.441 wounderi n'aoi EUROPE: Budapest Imperilled Once, like Paris, a center of Euro-pean gaiety with colorful sidewalk cafes enlivened by gypsy music, Budapest became a fevered and somber city as Russian armies ham-mered toward the Hungarian capi-tal. Having broken across the Tisza river, some 50 miles to the east, the Reds bore down on Budapest as German and Hungarian armies were hard pressed . to hold broad lines across the country's rolling plains, gateway to Austria. Even as the Russians rolled for-ward, thousands of Budapest's civilians were put to work in the erection of entrenchments and forti-fications, and the Germans vowed that they would make this city, once one of Europe's prettiest, into another Warsaw, a battleground. 'Sacred Soil' As the Germans and Hungarians dug in for a stand about Budapest, the Nazis fought fiercely on the East Prussian front to slow up the Rus-sians' advance across the "sacred soil" of this historic home of the Junkers As the Germans graced in East Prussia along prepared lines some 20 miles inside the border, the Rus-sians, following their traditional military policy, shifted the weight To prevent enemy agents from obtaining vital military informa-tion through contact with V. S. troops, the army is rigidly enforc-ing stiff regulations against doughboys mixing with Ger-man citizens. Troops may not make any so-cial calls at German homes. They may not contact German girls. Because of service by German bartenders, they may not even buy beer outside of mess bars. Talking witl German people is an "unnecessary contact," the army has ruled, bringing fines of from $25 to $65. Gen. MacArthnr (left) and Krneger confer on Leyte. pushed the enemy back to the moun-tainous western portion of the is-land. Because of the terrain, difficulty was encountered in the speedy erec-tion of air fields on Leyte, but, as construction progressed, increasing numbers of fighter planes took off from the new bases to join carrier-born- e aircraft in attacking shipping seeking to reinforce the entrapped enemy troops on the island. With her back being pressed closer and closer to the wall, Japan's Premier Koiso called for greater war production, declaring that many troops had died for lack of munitions. Almost as Koiso spoke, the enemy reported recon-noiterin- g over Tokyo. CATTLE: Record Marketing With more than 40 per cent of federally inspected beef, veal, pork and lamb going to the government, supplies of better grades of meat remained in scarcity last month de-spite record-breakin- g marketing of cattle. Shipments of cattle were 37 per cent greater than for the average- for October, and receipts of calves were 71 per cent greater. Although showing substantial in-creases over September, market-ings of hogs and sheep were lower than in October of 1943. Due to the heavy slaughter of cat-tle and calves, production of beef, veal, Iamb and pork amounted to about lhi billion pounds for Octo-ber, 29 per cent greater than the average for October. Hog Prices After an unsettled market had lopped 75 million dollars off of the value of the nation's hog crop, high-er bids by packers stemmed the downward spiral of prices. The packers' action followed War Food administration hints that the government would cut subsidy pay-ments, amounting to $1.30 per hun-dredweight, if average prices for good and choice gults and barrows were allowed to drop below a $13.50 per hundredweight average. Lower grade hogs, however, would not be included. As marketings increased during the first week of November, packers became more choosy in the pur- chase of hogs, declaring that during the periods of lower receipts they were compelled to pay ceiling prices for many shipments just to keep their plants busy. of their attacks northward toward a narrow belt of Baltic seacoast at Latvia, where some 100,000 Nazis were reported cut off from the re-mainder of the enemy line in the east. Slicing into German positions in this sector with overwhelming numbers of troops, the Russians threatened to chew the entrapped Nazi armies to shreds before they could be successfully evacuated by sea- - Gain Port Formerly forced to truck supplies overland 400 miles from Cherbourg, or from temporary beach harbors along the channel coast, the Allies materially improved their communi-cation lines by gaining full control of the great Belgian port of Ant-werp. Control was gained when Can-adian and British troops cleared the Germans from both sides of the Schelde river leading inland to the port. As the Allied attack devel-oped, the Nazis pulled out the major bulk of their 40,000 troops to pre-vent being encircled from the rear. As the Allies moved to improve communications, the U. S. First army resumed its offensive about Aachen, driving through the once picturesque, now splintered, fir, pine and silver birch Hurtgen forest on the road to the vital industrial Rhineland. missing and 4,478 made prisoner'. STAR STATE Texas led all states in mineral production in 1943 and was the only state producing minerals valued in excess of a billion dollars in thai year, the bureau of mines, depart- ment of the interior, revealed. With its mineral output valued ai $1,116,056,000 last year, the Lone Star State retained for the ninth consecutive year its rank of first in the United States in the value ol such products. The total represent, 16.97 per cent of the national min- eral production value. 30 Tons of Barnacles on Ship Cuts Its Speed 25 In war or peace, the tiny barnacles always are enemies to ships. Layers of them, weighing as much as 30 tons, may attach themselves to a 10,000-to- n vessel and reduce its speed by 25 per cent. They alio cause such vibra-tion that certain instruments be-comes useless. A new product keeps the antifouling paints loose from the body of ships so the ani-mals cannot fasten themselves to the metal. uity Dweller May Be Citian Cityite or Even a Laker Names identifying persons . nhabitants of American citie lave no definite principles govern ng their formation, says Collier's" Tot example, persons living b Kansas City are known as Kan-la- s Citians, those living in Jersey :ity are Jersey Cityites, and those Jalt Lake City as Salt Lakers. 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The median level of education of American soldiers in this war is the second year of high school. In 1918 it was the sixth grade. V The Japanese have announced that they are planning to manufac-ture large quantities of "synthetic beer" that will be shipped to the fighting front to "comfort" Japa- nese soldiers. Shoes Will Be Brighter Next Spring I Although civilian shoe production will not return to normal till after the war, retailers will feature brighter lines next spring, surveys of the national shoe fair in Chicago revealed. There will be an airier style, too, with women's shoes open at the toes and heels, and "casuals," for com-fort wear, coming into greater prominence in line with prewar trends. i Biggest boon, however, is in the government's lifting of restrictions on the use of colors, with women promised spring wear in green ' lib erty red and blue jacket blue and men's shoes in shades from army russet to turf tan. Two tones will be made again it was revealed, with differently col- ored leather permitted for the upper part of the shoe if soles are made of some other composition. |