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Show THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM. UTAH Transform Axis Stronghold Into an Allied Base Twb UP s 1 U;t? " After surrender of Pantelleria, a aeries of patrols was organized to search for stray enemy units and snipers. At upper left three British fighters pick their way through a battered street. At upper right a bull-dozer clears away rubble as the island is turned Into a base for use against the Axis. Italian soldiers, marines, and sailors stand in line (bottom) waiting for transportation from the former Axis stronghold. 'When Will War End?' Nation's No. 1 Question Ruhr Valley Bombings Seen as Concrete Evidence of Germany's Inevitable Defeat; Aviation Expert Revises Estimate. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. Today Washington, deep as it is in the problems of the moment on the borne front and along the seething globe-scattere- d sectors where our men are fighting is more deeply conscious of the future than ever before in history. And that feeling is clearly reflected in every town, city and cross-road- s in the country. The letters I receive express this Interest in tomorrow, the many polls on post-wa- r problems and the plans to solve them echo that interest, the comment of leaders, the organiza-tion of clubs and forums and com-mittees to discuss them, add up distances such as from New York to Chicago. "By 1946, it is expected that 70 per cent of the passenger travel, now relying on railroad pullmans, will go by air about 20,000,000 pas-sengers a year. "Exclusive of certain military air-dromes, there will be about 865 major airports in the United States by the end of this year, all with paved runways of 3,500 feet or more, capable of handling the largest planes, where fewer than 100 exist-ed in 1940. In addition to these, there are well over 2,000 smaller fields. "To operate these planes and air-Dor- ts after the war. there orill he the 3,000,000 and trained pilots, navigators, radiomen, airport engineers, traffic controllers and oth-ers who will be In the air forces by the end of this year." The OWI predicts post-wa- r flights of 11 hours from Washington to Paris and London; 7 hours from Washington to Mexico City; 16 from Washington to Moscow; 18 from Washington to Cairo or Buenos Aires and 22 hours from Washington to Tokyo (if Tokyo is still on the map). I quote these statements to show how tremendously the world we are living in today differs from the world we lived in before Pearl Ha-rbora change which must affect all phases of life tomorrow. Already, as far as the military go, the earth has shrunk from the comparative size of an orange to the size of a marble. When the war is over and we have had time to adapt what we have learned in the field of aviation to peaceful transportation, it will shrink to the size of a pea. When we shift our war effort to peace-time production, it will shrink still further. Utopian Plan Aviation is only one phase of the achievement the war has forced upon us; there are great plans burst-ing to become realities, many that seem so Utopian that the cynics scoff a world organization to en-force peace and achieve freedom from fear; world which will increase production and facili-tate distribution to the point where there will be at least an approxi-mation of freedom from want to tick off only two of the four free-doms for which we are supposed to be fighting. Discouraged at our inability to realize within our own vast bor-ders all of the dreams of our found-ing fathers, we cannot believe that the high aims for unity embracing the whole world can be anything but pure fantasy. But if we can shrink the globe from orange to marble, a feat that would have been considered utterly incredible to our own grandfathers, must we say that we cannot build a world unity and a world understanding greater than anything heretofore conceived? It took a dreamer to put the first wings on man the laboratory and the machine shop did the rest. With the widespread will to a bet-ter future providing the psychologi-cal inspiration, who knows but that the energy which has made the prosecution of global war possible can be transmuted into a framework upon which global peace can be built? w me largest ana neaiwiesi curi-osity that the nation has ever seen. The political parties recognize this and the Republicans are busy work-ing on a constructive foreign-polic- y plank for their 1944 platform to meet the administration's post-wa- r plans. As the people look toward tomor-row, the first thing they ask is: "When will the war end?" You can't get an official prognostication on that subject and, personally, I would hesitate even to make a guess. But this week, there came to my notice two remarks, one from the German propaganda minister and one from the president of an American avia-tion corporation which I want to place figuratively in parallel col-umns not only side by side with each other but in balance with pre-vious remarks of both men. GoebbeW Viewpoint Some time ago, Herr Goebbels poke of "the Ruhr," that little in-dustrial area including the historic center of Germany's munitions manufacture, the Krupp works of Essen. Goebbels was on record as say-ing that the destiny of the Ruhr was the destiny of Germany itself. And then only a few days ago, a broadcaster from Berlin admitted that ihe "havoc" wrought by the Allied bombers in that area was "in-credible." , The other gentleman whom I wish to quote is R. S. Damon, president of the Republic Aviation corpora-tion, which builds those famous P-4- 7 Thunderbolts," the fighters which have done such an efficient job of protecting our bombers over Eu-rope. Some time ago Damon predicted that Germany would be knocked out of the war by 1944. But Mr. Damon has now revised that estimate. He ays: "Unpreparedness may have cost us many early rounds but now it appears possible that Germany will have been removed from the lists by the end of 1943. I believe this to be true because no nation, not even Hitler's Germany, can suffer ' the rate of attrition which is now being inflicted on the Nazis and sur-vive for long. The aerial combat box scores are now so definitely in our favor and our constantly in-creasing production of fine aircraft and well-traine- d airmen precludes any possibility of those scores being reduced unless by a miracle, and the days of Hitler's miracles have ceased to be. Our air forces are now systematically and liberally pulver-izing the industrial centers of Ger-many and without her industries, Germany cannot fight or even ex-- ut It's a smaller globe, after alL As we begin to think in global terms, we have to adjust our views of geography. For Instance, sup-pose someone should tell you that the important port of Siberia, for which the Japs yearn but do not dare attack, the port of Vladivostok, were a hundred and fifty miles south of the poetic city of Venice with its streets of water? Of course, you would know better but could you say how much better? Or if someone said flatly to you: "You can't tell me what South American countries a line running straight south from Savannah, Ga., would pass through," you would feel you could at least guess and get one right No. No. Naples Is 150 miles north of Vladivostok. You can't name any South Ameri-can country south of Savannah, Ga., because the western coastline of South America is east of such a point Guess again. Mind you, I do not underwrite this prophecy but I think it is worth re-cording because both men have re-vised their views in the direction of a shorter war Goebbels would nev-er have dwelt on the importance of the Ruhr In the beginning if he knew he would have to admit the degree of its destruction Damon, after similar consideration, reduces the time he believes it will take to knock Germany out Aviation' t Growth In both cases, we have a tribute to the tremendous growth of Ameri-can combatant airpower. Now let us look 'at the parallel growth in airpower. We turn to no less an authority than the Office of War Information: "By 1945, it is expected that trans-port planes in the class will be flying in quan-tity, carrying loads of 15 tons at a speed of 250 miles per hour over Washington, D. C. GOOD NEIGHBOR Many a state department official wishes we could fix up Argentina as neatly as Comrade Stalin thinks we can. When Willkie was in Moscow, Stalin raised a question about Ar-gentina, describing it as the Axis source of information about ship movements. He couldn't understand why such a condition should be al-lowed to exist. "If you have so much power," Stalin told Willkie, "why don't you clean up the Argentine government, or take over the country do some-thing to turn the Axis out of there?" Willkie found it somewhat difficult to explain that the Good Neighbor policy would prevent such interfer-ence, in time of war as in time of peace. NOTE: State department experts expect that, despite the new Argen-tine government's reactionary atti-tude on domestic questions, it will be driven to break relations with the Axis, in order to get lend-leas- e supplies from the United States. This U what T.ntin epnprals want most. HUMANE BOMBING Strange as it may seem, the Unit-ed States air forces are planning the humane bombing of Germany. They want to avoid killing people and destroying build-ings. They want to bring the war to a merciful ending. High ranking officers of the air forces are urging that we conduct our bombing operations in such a way that unnecessary destruction of enemy life and property shall be held to a minimum. This is part of their thesis in favor of precision, or "pin-point- " bombing, as contrasted with the "area" bombing of the RAF. The precision bombing, carried on in daylight, is able to pick out the pre-cise military target, and destroy that without laying waste to an entire city, or killing helpless civilians. These air forces officers speak of the post-wa- r attitude of nations to-ward each other, emphasizing that careless bombing would intensify the hatreds of war, and make it more difficult to build a peaceful world. Somebody will have to rebuild the broken cities of Europe. World ties ae now so close that no great areas of destruction can be allowed to re-main; rebuilding will have to be done, and only the victors will have the power to do the work. Therefore, say these exponents of precision bombing, let us have no indiscriminate bombing, but only a precision Job, which spares the life and property of the enemy as much as possible. CHURCHILL THE PROPHET Students of air power have dug up an old statement of Winston Church-- ! ill's, written in 1917, which reveals an amazing foresight in the possi-bilities and limitations of aerial bombing. As everybody knows, the Nazi blitz against England, intended to ' terrorize the people, failed in its ob-jective. On the other hand, the more scientific bombing of the con-tinent by the RAF and AAF stra-tegic bombing is now expected to bring Hitler to his knees. Churchill seemed to foresee both of these developments when he said in a paper on Air Power, written in 1917, that nothing we know about warfare can lead us to believe that bombing for terror alone can cause such a morale collapse as to force a major nation to sue for peace. Churchill emphasized that air power must single out and attack transportation, factories, and other enemy installations, upon which the enemy war-makin- g ability depends. England's survived of the blitz gives dramatic support to the first part of that statement, and Allied air power is now proving the eec-- . ond part INSTALLMENT BUYING Business is usually about squawking government regulation, but here is one case where merchants want it continued after the war. They want to cherish and preserve Regulation W. This is the regulation requiring heavy down payments on consumer purchases. For example, the down payment on a $200 refrigerator you could get one would be about $60, compared with three or four dollars before the war. Wartime purpose of this regulation Is to curb buying and thus reduce in-flation. But retail merchants like it for other reasons. It saves them bookkeeping expenses, avoids the nuisance of dunning, and provides cash. CAPITOL CHAFF Most carefully guarded targets to all Germany are the synthetic'gas-2.- ,' nd ynthetic oil works of Blechhammer and Bruex. If they could be knocked out Germany would be pretty well out of the war. u. b. airmen are itching to get at tnem. . The Japanese embassy and grounds are being carefully cared for by the neutral Spanish embassy, e Manpower shortage ha, caused substitution of women for men at the switchboard of the FBL 1 Brmsh Eighth;' (By Georgt fire, fir,, k g the eastward Bri$ Army. !,,$ V d a hall betag quite comC season. But i comfortable than degrees. Inthed b New York American fliers m nta" wear lights comfort, but the k heavy woolen Man dozen flannel dm, out the heat." p.. fortable. The Boche and GI ious observers ol s regards renders freaupnt uraii. .. m mi of poisoning the y I Ply. which is.Drohi ment, they pollute treat by killing i ( goat and tossing the well. Makes water Bt for human or don, but doesn't pern the spring. Severa; the Eighth Army'i ; ifter Rommel this water we had; we 4 Ing the nose, retain ments and then di the-shi- p act. But m, lust enough moisture When forced to abam heads of wine at Tobr Italians paused just pour a gallon of gas barrel So we used radiators of our it drank the water orig tor the radiators. Mail deliveries to there vary, in my oi from one week to Through the U. S. An have received ainm New York to Tripoli Through the regular ria Cairo and the a letup, a Christmas Sherman Billingslei to me in July. It conl te neckties t Arab offered to ad Dr a camel and 100 b Zlub matches, which Dut in the blue. In T the stork is consider favorable omen, Shen books were highly h and valuable article) our dealings with the! feg and Berber sheiks, exchange was one bod for one egg, one booi for one scrawny chicta 9f matches for one n Certain Bedouia W the famous Indian Gbui gomery's Eighth Ann? their knives from the less the blade draws K pose the naked blades! Ing" it makes the wea? Bo when a Bedouin or bis knife out to shoi cuts his own finger to Of blood before retuE iheath. In New Tork wbenn to give a guy a brusH him her name iJ gives him the phone Aquarium as ners. Alexandria, under be itances, she gives has number of the EOT62 racks and tells his Yamenlck Talata (M or 'W The Arab In ft Africa is dirty bejw lief. The Bedouin of ever, is meticulously he may die of old having had t desert Arab wb -- times daily with toft " least seven time J cleanse himself thoff; each of the seven prayers to Allah Throughout N.rth f mon tongue ii Arji f differ so widely WJ region can't undertJJ of other regions. l8 the same erate Arabs lea Koran. So. wb ways talk to a write they can , scratching tracings Ordinary dry most valued arte" ( tween the troops the Arabs. A po bout $6 to Egypt Libya- - Cj ltania. Sugar is r; choice: hasheesh law) m the African Dese of exchange , teen cup of fl" more soldiers P Africa, the ra cup of tea, one w French Girls Help Stage 4Soutli Sea Scandals' V , .fr .... I . iT n "i v In Biiiiiii amiuMMMM a mmit kMiteaMtaiMwiiiJ " Servicemen In the South Seas pooled their talents, added some local Fighting French girls and put on a show entitled "South Sea Scandals." At left is the opening with Corp. George Donlevy. Gordon H. Pflee-ge- r, Fleet Musician USMC (center) is featured in an imitation of the thorough work of the censors. At right the girls of the show are pictured getting ready for a performance. Seized by FBI in Spy Hunt N I : A xl f; V" .. mi I,- - Mm, These two men have been arrested as spies by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Erwin Harry De Spretter (left) had been making gun sights for our armed forces. De admitted guilt in connection with send-ing information to Germany. Ernest Frederick Lehmits (right) was known as a highly efficient air raid warden. He is accused of informing Germany of U. S. convoy movements. Hurdles to Health f""" n ii iiinasMin 'fmh Mlil "' Wounded American soldiers now take special exercises In hospital gymnasiums to rehabilitate their in-- jured limbs and muscles. Private Ralph Johnson is assisted over these foot-hig-h hurdles by Sergt. D. D. Gilbert. They are hospitalized ove seas. Food Administrator - -- " 1, Judge Marvin Jones, second ta command to Economic Stabilizer James Byrnes, is sworn in as wai food administrator by Chief Justic4 Fighters Put on Their Armor i-- s a43r. fir J J K$ Members of a crew of a Flying Fortress are shown helping'each other don their armored flying vests at a United States bomber station in England. Made of tough manganese steel, these vests protect the airmen from flak shrapnel and fragments of cannon shells. A quick pull on a rip cord causes the vest to fall away from the body. BRIEFS ... by Baukhage Tokyo propagandists have added India to the growing list of coun-tries they are seeking to dazzle with promises of Japanese-styl- e "in-dependence," the Office of War In-formation says on the basis of To-kyo broadcasts exploiting the re-ported arrival in Japan of Subhas Chandra Bose, outlawed Indian ex-tremist now very active in the Axis camp. j Commemorative lights in Polish cemeteries must be extinguished during blackouts, according to an article in a German-languag- e paper In Poland reported to the office ol war information. Iron and scrap collections in Rhode Island average about 3,000 tons a week, or more than 9 pounds I per capita. |