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Show THE LEW SUN. LEHI. UTAH 'Bombs' Steel Center In Imaginary Flight 'Briefed' at Army Air Force School for Raid on Yawata; Follows Course Over Huge, Realistic Map. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst and Commentator, WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. How would you like to bomb the Yawata steel works in a flying fortress? for-tress? I did It without moving from my classroom seat In Orlando, Fla., in one of the courses I attended at the army air force school of applied tactics. tac-tics. It is part of the "post graduate" gradu-ate" instruction of the high officers of the army and it really is a realistic realis-tic "briefing." When I had finished that demonstration, as it is called, I actually felt as if I had been on that bombing mission which started at an unnamed base in China and flew straight to a target, which is as clearly pictured in my mind as if I had made the trip. I'll try to reenact It for you. First, Imagine a great map stretching across the room In which you are sitting with two black lines on it The lower line runs, with a few slight deviations, straight to the target in Japan. Then there Is a short leg running north and the second sec-ond line, a little above the other, running run-ning back to the base. This is the course we took. "Now, men," says the officer standing with a pointer In his hand, "you are going to bomb the steel works at Yawata. Daylight precision bombing and naturally you'll meet a little more opposition. But you know the importance of steel. I don't need to talk about that. You have been selected for your record last time. Keep up that record. "As you know this is the first , time for the new stagger formation. You've practiced it I won't go into that We have just 45 minutes , to check the whole plan. We start at 650 and the first ship goes down the runway at 700." (Military clocks theoretically run 24 hours. If the number is above 12, subtract 12. For Instance 1630 is 4:30 in the afternoon 1630 minus , 12 equals 4:30.) Then came some directions about "assembly" (where this group joins the formation) which I won't go into here since space isn't adequate, but anyhow the assembly point is Chengtu. Level Off For Bomb Run "We must be at Chengtu at 800. Climb at 190 miles an hour to this point here (the pointer taps .the , map) ... to 1,500 feet and level off. 200 miles per hour . . , this junction junc-tion (another tap) 940; then swing on course ... 91 degrees . . . (the pointer swishes put ' along the black line) to the toast "Here is your second climb . , , 1212 ... 190 miles per hour . . . 300 feet a minute ... to bombing altitude, at check point of island at 1245 (the pointer touches a little island off the Jap coast) ... it will look like an inverted pyramid . . . then level off to the IP." (That is the point of entry which must be definitely established, for the flight from there on is directly to the target tar-get and careful synchronization with the other planes must be made.) "Show a yellow-bellow flare so we'll know you've reached the IP ... if dark, toggle four-and-a-half over the bomb run, then to the rally point, 14 miles north of target "If you are crippled going over the target try to cut short your turn. . . ." I'll explain that: you see normally normal-ly the planes would go north from the target and then turn at a right angte to the assembly point. Then another right angle back toward home, so if a plane had been hit and couldn't last long, it must try to catch up with the others and make known its condition. If the plane lajs behind it may be located by the group leader who will make continuous con-tinuous s-turns, looping back, trying t locate any stragglers. Meanwhile Mean-while (as I forgot to explain) there is a friendly submarine loafing somewhere within radio call for two purposes. First, to try to locate any plane that has been forced down Into the water; second, to pick up Information concerning any enemy hips which the planes may have spotted so the sub can go over and take a poke at them. I cannot in this space give you a fraction of the detail of this brief BARBS The "work or else" bill bogged down in the senate. Perhaps because be-cause the senate is already overworked. over-worked. . On January 8, General Yamashita said: "Japanese forces are ready to destroy the enemy with one stroke should he choose to land on Luzon." Some prophets .are without honor utside of ' their own country. I ' r-r- ing, which pointed out on the mat every hazard, every advantage, every ev-ery varying condition. Special areas were blown up in large size: as a lake serving as a landmark where the planes start their ocean jump, a peculiarly shaped river where they reach land again. Sketches are furnished by meteorologists, showing show-ing just the types of clouds they will encounter, some "full of rocks" (covering mountain peaks) which are to be avoided. The known location and number of enemy fighter planes is marked, as1 are the antiaircraft guns, and the temperature and wind velocity at various levels. Target's There, Then Gone As to the target itself, large scale aerial pictures were shown which looked very much as the actual terrain would look to the pilot and bombardier. Also, a map of the whole city. Then a map of the target area, then photos of the target tar-get area, taken from an angle, as it will look when the plane approaches ap-proaches it from a distance, and another as it will look when it is directly below the important moment mo-ment .That last statement "directly below" be-low" is misleading, as I found out What you see when you look through the glass walls of the bomber's "nose" and what you see when you look through the bombsight are two quite different pictures. What you see when you look through the bomb-sight bomb-sight is the area (far ahead of where your plane is) upon which the bomb will hit if released at that precise instant. Naturally, at the speed at which a plane travels, the inertia of the bombs carries them far ahead as they fall. This Is disconcerting to the lay man. I looked through the glass of the nose and picked me out a little Florida lake upon which I decided to drop my imaginary bomb. Then I looked into the sight and there was no lake there! Too late! If I had released my bombs then, they would have hit far beyond the distant dis-tant shore although the plane hadn't even reached the near shore, yet. But to return to my synthetic flight. I find it impossible to recount it with half the realism with which it was presented to me as my eyes followed that moving pointer from base to assembly point to "bomb line" (where the planes cross into enemy occupied terrain) on to the target itself, with the looping tracks that bounded it and then back, north and west again, over water and land, lake and mountain, on the long trek home. After the briefing was finished four men in uniform took seats on the platform. They were men with stars on their service ribbons and some purple hearts, too. Men of many missions just such as the one described, or they would not have been chosen as instructors in this post graduate university of the air. And they acted out with startling conviction the briefing of a returned crew. One, his nerves on razor edge from what he had gone through, another an-other a little dazed, as if he had had a few drinks too many, another solemn, sol-emn, wide-eyed, another jumpy, loquacious, lo-quacious, controversial, all true-to-life types, we were told. Carefully and tactfully the officer checked their conflicting statements until finally all were molded into a reasonable and rational report . "How many enemy fighters . . . here?" "Oh, 80, easy," said the Jumpy one. "How many do you say?" (to the fellow in the half -daze). "Well, a lot of 'em, I dion't count" "Enough anyhow. And you didn't warn us about the others here," says the slap-happy one as be jumps up and jabs the map. Finally it settles down to about 50. This estimate will be checked as other crews are checked and an accurate estimate Is obtained. The same careful and studied analysis analy-sis of data on troop concentrations observed, movements along highways, high-ways, convoys, new landing strips, as well as the damage done to the target by Baukhage Some French banks hold the phoney German "reichmarks" as part of their assets. Well, it might help the paper shortage anyhow. They are talking of using silver to make ball bearings for automobiles. automo-biles. They ought to go pretty well with some of the guilded youth if there are any left over when the war prosperity ends. WEEKLY NEWS Report Germans Realign Forces; US.Seizes Tokyo Stepping-Stone; Curb Nighteries to Save Fuel Released by Western (EDITOR'S NOTE: Whea splnlsns are expressed In these eelumas, the; are these el Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and net necessarily of this newspaper.) I W-ft 7 JAW Arrow in aerial phote of Iwo Jlma, with smoke from bomb hits still curdling over island, gives birds-eye view of latest locale of Allies! assault as-sault in Pacific. EUROPE: Nazi Moves Long decried as the "forgotten front," Italy came back into the news again with reports that the Nazis were slowly pulling out of the northern part of the country to reinforce re-inforce their main eastern and western west-ern lines and take up shorter defenses de-fenses on the southern approaches to the Reich. Following Russian revelations of the appearance of German troops formerly stationed in Italy on the Nazis' sagging eastern front neutral reports told of the movement of no less than four enemy divisions from the country through the Brenner Pass into Austria. Despite the reports re-ports of the weakening of their Italian defenses, however, the Germans Ger-mans fiercely contested the Eighth army's push along the Adriatic, using us-ing a new rocket four feet long and holding 80 pounds of explosives. Amid the talk of German reinforcement re-inforcement of their eastern front Nazi defenses perceptibly stiffened in this sector, though yet to be put to the supreme test as Marshal Konev's First Ukranian army drew up on a line to join Marshal Zhu-kov's Zhu-kov's First WhKe Russian army for the grand assault on Berlin. As the Russians girded for the all-out smash on the German capital, capi-tal, cagey Zhukov and Konev, keeping an eye on their exposed flanks to the north and south, launched repeated attacks against Nazi forces in these sectors to prevent pre-vent a drive upon their rear. On the western front. Allied efforts ef-forts 'were divided between the British Brit-ish and Canadians' drive on the Ruhr valley at the northern end of the Siegfried line, and the U. S. Third army's steady drive on the Rhine below Aachen. Russ General Falls Latest of the prominent generals to be killed in highly mobile World War II, requiring the presence of commanders close to the front lines to keep up with the battle, was 37-year-eld Russian Ivan Cherniakhovsky, who fell while directing di-recting the drive on East Prussia. Youngest Russian general and army group commander. General Cnernlakhevtky Cherniakhovsky, a tank expert, was considered one of the Soviet's outstanding military strategists. Diplomacy Only ruffle in the Allied conference confer-ence in the Crimean and Mediterranean Mediter-ranean regions was Gen. Charles de Gaulle's refusal to accept President Roosevelt's invitation for a meeting in Algiers, indicating Frencn pique at FDR's inability to visit Paris and at reports that it was principally because be-cause of the U. S. that France was excluded from the Big Three talks. Despite the diplomatic unpleasan-tries, unpleasan-tries, however, the French were busy exchanging views with U. S-, British and Russian officials on the Yalta decisions, and were also said to be preparing to participate in the United Nations pending postwar security se-curity conference at San Francisco In April. Considered a key to the stability of western Europe, once-humbled France, rising proudly under De Gaulle's aggressive leadership, was said to be angling for extensive occupational oc-cupational rights In postwar Germany, Ger-many, including Austria. PARALYSIS FUND Collecting $5,452,593 during Its fiscal fis-cal year ending May 31, 1944. the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis authorized grants and appropriations ap-propriations totaling $1,828,859 for the period for research, education and training of physical therapists, Basil O'Connor, president said. During the year, the foundation also established a special fund of $2,000,000 for epidemics and other emergencies, and $739,860 was used during the country's second worst outbreak of polio last summer. V; 9 1 3 ANALYSIS Newspaper Union. V V Biriftar PACIFIC: Bloody Battle To thousands of gallant Leathernecks Leather-necks storming Iwo Jima's beaches, it was Tarawa all over again, as Maj. Gen. Harry Schmidt's Fifth marine corps pushed up rocky cliffs inland in the face of bitter opposition opposi-tion to tighten their hold on this little stepping - stone to Tokyo and threat to the U. S. super-fortress base in the Marianas, 800 miles to the south. Losses were heavy on both sides as the Japs, first staggered by the terrific bombardment of both U. S. naval and air units, recovered from the initial shock to fight back viciously from such natural hideouts hide-outs as caves as waves of marines hit the beaches on the southeast end of the island. Due to become another epic of the bloody Pacific war, the invasion of Iwo Jima followed hard upon the mighty U. S. aerial strike abainst Tokyo, in which the planes from a powerful carrier fleet destroyed over 500 Jap aircraft, sank over a dozen ships and battered vital war plants. HOME FRONT: Nighteries Curbed With the war taking critical turns in both Europe and the Pacific, and with the tight coal situation calling for its economical us. War vMol)ilization Director Byrnes ordered a midnight curfew on saloons, night clubs, dance halls, sports arenas and other places of entertainment to save on fuel gen erating electricity. Although War Mobilizer Byrnes, himself, has no power to punish violators, he could bring pressure to bear against offenders by having the War Production board shut off their electricity; the War Manpower commission revoke their right to hire people; the Office of Defense Transportation prohibit deliveries of material to them, and the OPA I recall their rationing privileges. The night club order was the latest in a series including freezing of civilian production at current lev els on December 16; closing of race tracks and limitation on num ber of employees non-essential firms can hire on December 23; return of most meats and vegetables to ra tioning over the Christmas week- end; review of farm deferments for the 18 to 25 age group, January 3, and the forbidding of outdoor ad vertising and decorative lighting, February 1. CLOTHING: Price Roll-Bach Implementing plans for rolling back clothing prices, which OPAd-ministrator OPAd-ministrator Bowles had called a dangerous dan-gerous inflationary element OPA established retail price ceilings on a list of cotton items for which manufacturers manu-facturers will receive fabric priori ties. Under OPA ceilings to be tagged on garments, men's regular sized shorts would range from 49 cents to $1.30 each; men's business shorts, $1.80 to $3.70; women's regular regu-lar sized house dresses, $1.95 to $3.70; slips, 85 cents to $1.30; in fants' and toddlers' pajamas, $1.05 to $2.70; rompers, $1.05 to $2.40; girls' school dresses, $1.65 to $3.40; boys' wash suits, $1.30 to $2.70, and boys' shirts and blouses. $1.05 to $1.35. Under the program, in which the output of cheaper clothes is ex pected to account for a great por tion of the reduction in the nation's apparel bill, the War Production board is to channel 75 per cent of all civilian fabric to low and popu larly priced garment. Ready for Clean Sweep While the military services and industry geared io war eould use sixty million new brooms in 1945, America's broomcorn farmers in 1944 greatly Increased In-creased their planting and reaped their biggest crop in 20 years, says a National Geographic Geo-graphic Society bulletin. If hav dies can be turned to match tie big broomconri harvest 195 may see a broom boom to match year of the industrv's heyday. LIVESTOCK: Numbers Drop Pnintinff tin the ticht meat situa tion for civilians, the U. S. department depart-ment of agriculture's estimate of livestock on farms as of January 1, 1945. showed a sharp drop over the same date its preceding year. At the same time, the USDA's sur vey revealed the largest supply of feed on hand oer livestock unit in 20 years, with the amount per head 27 per cent over 1944. Down 22,000,000 to a total of 60,600,000, the number of bogs showed the largest drop, the USDA said, with a decrease of 3.824,000 head of sheep to a total of 47,945,000 recording the next biggest sup. Down only 604,000 to 81.760,000, the number of cattle showed the least decline, being but 1 per cent below the all-time 1944 peak. Meanwhile, the American Meat In stitute, estimating that civilian meat supplies will be about 38 per cent less during the first quarter of this year compared with the same period in 1944, said there probably wouia be a still sharper drop irom Apia to June. PRICE SUPPORT: New Tack In a program which may establish a precedent for the future handling of the government's price-support for farm products, the War Food administration admin-istration announced that it would purchase dry edible peas during 1945 only on plantings from acreage acre-age allotted the individual operator. In the event of a general adoption of WFA's program, the government would bear a powerful weapon against overproduotion resulting from surpassing goals, thus influencing influ-encing the restriction of output to reasonable levels. In the case of edible dry' peas, it was said, WFA's program not only seeks to avoid an accumulation of excessively large stocks of peas, but also to encourage the shift of acreage acre-age formerly seeded to the plant to other crops. Frogs Wrestle While goggle-eyed spectator looks on, Naturalist Marjorie Terhune's pet frogs, Jimmy and Joe, wrestle in indoor lily pond at Park Ridge, N. J., with each seeking to throw his opponent into the water. DRAFT: f Neva Deferments Even while congress moved to investigate in-vestigate the farm draft to determine deter-mine whether local boards were not strictly adhering to the Tydings amendment in considering individual individu-al cases, Selective Service announced an-nounced that a substantial number of key men under 30 stood to be deferred de-ferred in essential industry. In making the announcement, Selective Se-lective Service revealed that responsibility re-sponsibility for deferring the under 30 group would be divided between government agency offices in the different regions and in Washington, Washing-ton, D. C, so that a closer check could be kept upon individual cases to assure retention of such key personnel per-sonnel as engineers, supervisors and foremen. Pushed by Representative Lemke (N. D.), the proposed congressional investigation would look into the alleged al-leged induction .of essential farm workers for whom replacements cannot be found, thus rotating agricultural agri-cultural production and imposing additional ad-ditional hardships on already sorely pressed farm operators. PAN-AMERICA: Good Neighbors Meet Talk of a dramatic declaration of war by Argentina on Germany filled the air as delegates to the inter-American inter-American conference met In Mexico City for a discussion of economic and political relations of the western hemisphere in the postwar world. The possibility of an Argentine declaration of war followed Germany's Ger-many's threat to deny its diplomats safe passage home because of Britain's Brit-ain's refusal to afford similar privi-leges privi-leges to Nazi officials now in Lisbon, Lis-bon, Portugal, on the final leg of their journey from the South American Amer-ican country. In discussing economic problems at Mexico City. South American na-tions na-tions sought to prevent a wholesale collapse of their prosperity built upon wartime exports to the U. S. after the cessation of hostilities. In political matters, the Latin nations sought an adequate voice in any postwar organization to preserve peace so as to prevent Its complete dominance by the greater states. BRIEFS... According to the war department the army In 1944 spent about three times the amount laid aside for G.L sports equipment in 1943. The army also set up a special command to carry out the new sports programs. Cigarettes for C. 8. Smokers last year were estimated at 120 billion as compared with z5K D. lion the year before ,hout lie billion went ta the - -- 'nrces 111, U l,rm sV7"- I I Sna pshots of Big Shots : (This is what comes from reading books!) Edgar Allan Poe was a dollar-a-year-man too. ... He spent 10 years writing and rewriting "The Raven" and got 10 bucks for It . . . The original manuscript sold the last time for $10,000. ... Poe paid $3 a month rent for his honeymoon cottage cot-tage on Grand Concourse (in the Bronx), which is now a New York state historical shrine. If it hadn't been a grand neighborhood for dandelions he and his bride would have starved. Marconi, son of an Italian father and Irish mother, was 27 when he Invented radio, and even then there were people who wanted to kill him. . . . These cranks said electrical waves were passing through their bodies, destroying their nerves and making it impossible for them to sleep. Barnum, who said "there's one born every minute," was one himself. He lost a fortune on a bear's grease hair tonic, was swindled out of another selling Illustrated Il-lustrated bibles, trimmed again on a fire extinguisher that wouldn't extinguish, went into bankruptcy for half a million making alarm clocks. . . . Without With-out a dime to bis name be wrote a lecture on "How to Make Money," grossing $1,000 a night. . . . And that's how the famous Barnumism was born. Alexander Dumas, . one-fourth Negro, whose book, "The Three Musketeers," was a best seller for almost 100 years, used to boast that he had more than 500 children and swore he would never marry. . . . He changed his mind when a smart sweetheart bought up all his debts and gave him a choice between marriage and jail. ... He wrote novels on blue paper, poetry on yellow, yel-low, articles on red, and nothing else would do. . . . He wrote more than 1,200 volumes of plays, novels and histories, made over 5 million dollars and died broke, living off the charity of his son. Woolworth started his five-and-dime stores on a capital of $300, and his first three failed. Thirty years later he was able to pay $14,000,000 cash" for the bnilding bearing his name, then the world's highest office building. build-ing. George Gershwin sold his first song for $5; nine years later a Hollywood studio paid $50,000 just to use "Rhapsody in Blue," which he wrote in his spare time, in a single picture. Sir Isaao Newton was so absent-minded he once rammed his niece's fingers into his pipe. . . . Trying to fix himself a three-minute three-minute egg, he boiled his watch while watching the egg. . . . When he went to fetch anything he jisually came back without it. ... He was usually last in his class at school. ... He was a woman hater and never married. mar-ried. ... He always claimed he solved many of his mathematical mathemati-cal problems in his sleep. Dr. Samuel Johnson continually distorted his face by violent grimaces. grim-aces. . . . When walking In the street he touched every post he passed and if he missed one he always al-ways returned. He always made a point of entering or leaving a door on a certain foot, but his biographer, biograph-er, Boswell, wasn't sure which one. Lord Byron was so emotional that once a theatrical performance put him into convulsions. ... In a fit of temper he threw his watch into the fire and hammered It to pieces with the poker He also fired a pistol in the bedroom of his wife, who left him after a year of mar' riage. ... So he went to Venice and bought a harem. Schiller liked to keep his feet m ice while working. ... He once wrote a full and perfect description of the Swiss land and people although al-though he knew neither. . . . Cole-ridge, Cole-ridge, who wrote "Kubla Khan" un-der un-der the influence of an opiate, could remember only 54 lines when he sufficiently recovered to write Richelieu at times imagined himself to be a horse and neighed, trotted and jumped like one. . . . 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Pancake Batter Did you ever trv adding W cups of chopped apple to a mtoS of pancake hatter? It is very eating and probably more digest ble. filasa Straws To clean elas straws use p!p cleaners. Keep a package on ham ana your straws will be on 'Bush Telegraph' of Afric Still Mystery to WW The famous "bush telegraph" the Afriran wilHs. the D31' drums that beat out myste" messages, has always been ap lem to the white man. A so tist stated recently: "I do not I lieve any white man will eve able to understand this druro- lhe drum system is not a Morse code, but as natural as Negro's instinct. It is a rny; like the black man's speech, one wora nas many mea"-- cordintr tn nrnni inflation. "There is nn thoueht whicn.f not be expressed with the a the drums, no message so into " that it cannot be beaten out t skillful operator. M "Warring tribes tempera ',, get their quarrels in order to important" tidinsrs across and international frontiers. 1 'Talking drums' are usea nounce native weddings3 important local events." . A Post HMhKM Ce,cai if |