Show OR W ON Washington D. D 0 C. C GERMAN IAN UNDERGROUND SEETHES According to uncensored dispatches dispatches dispatches dis dis- patches now reaching Washington active guerrilla warfare is flaring up on a mounting scale behind the German lines First real n of ot an active Fifth Filth column In Germany came re re- recently with accurate reports of pitched battles inside Berlin Breslau Breslau Bres Bres- lau and Bremen This new guerrilla warfare differs from that of partisan parti part san units inside France Yugoslavia and Greece in that few of the guerrilla guerrilla guerrilla guer guer- rilla troops are Germans The bulk are Frenchmen and Russians who were captured earlier in the war I and have been used as slave labor laborIn I In the reach All AU of these workers were were- carefully guarded by Himmler until recently Most lived in big cities and worked in large lare-c In Industrial industrial industrial in- in plants In Berlin for example hundreds of thousands of slave laborers have been housed in fenced off temporary barracks in the heart of ot the city But recent powerful allied aWed air raids have hae created such chaos that thousands of ot foreign workers work work- workers ers escaped from their enclosures enclosures enclosures en en- closures and have hidden in tho the bomb ruins At night the guerrillas prowl the streets capture Nazi sentries steal food and ammunition commit extensive ex ex- sabotage They have been Joined by some German army deserters deserters deserters de de- afraid to return to the front advices say Once Berlin is taken it Is expected that the several million slave laborers labor labor- ers en will flare fiare into such revolt that Germany except Germany except In the mountainous mountain mountain- ous south will south will cave like an egg egg- shell OVER-AGE OVER SERVICEMEN Greatest hardship on men in the army anny probably Is with enlisted men over 38 38 now too old to become officers officers om cers but who cant can't resign as officers can Typical case of ot how this hardship hardship hard hard- ship works is that of Alexander C. C age 45 who has served inthe in inthe the he army three years most of ot the time Ime overseas Corporal Is not only a college graduate but holds a doctors doctor's degree Twice he was recommended for or officers' officers training school but each time his unit moved overseas and he had to sail with his unit Now he is too old oldo to o be commissioned too old for combat com com- bat jat yet under present army rules must be kept on doing on-doing doing menial jobs There are thousands of similar cases What the army anny needs is a good overhauling of ot its manpower especially older men who have been in n the army anny a long time NEW MANPOWER PROGRAM War Manpower Commission Director Paul McNutt may put a anew anew anew new program into effect very soon In all light labor areas This would limit employers in nonessential nonessential non- non essential or less essential industries industries industries indus indus- tries to a certain percentage of ot the number of workers they employed employed em em- last year This em ceiling program has already been tried out in Chicago and proven successful Chicago employers in nonessential non non- essential and less essential in industries industries in in- will ill be required to cut the number of ot employees on the payroll 10 per cent by March 15 SECRET RED WEAPONS The Russians are way ahead of both the United States and Great Britain in the use of rocket guns have employed them with devastating devastating devastating devas devas- tating effect in the lightning drive through Poland and particularly in the offensive against the Nazis in East Prussia One new and very important weapon which Stalin unveiled in the new drive is the ton lOO-ton tank named after himself The Stalin tank is superior to the German royal tiger tank and our own Sherman heavy tank It carries a inch gun as against the inch 3 gun carried on our Sherman So long as the ground remains remains re re- mains hard the Stalin tank is capable capable capa capa- ble of ot resisting any but the largest point-blank point German shells On the theother theother theother other hand the mobile gun on the Stalin tank can pierce most of ot the German secondary fortifications so far encountered by the Russians It Itis itis itis is said WAR WAIt NOTES C. C t Germans are already trying to escape from the threatened Nazi homeland Reports from Lisbon Madrid Stockholm and Berne reveal reveal re re- re veal hundreds of Germans trying to crash the frontier to get out of Germany Germany Ger Ger- many before the Allies take over still hasn't decided who he will name as high commissioner of the Philippines Director Paul McNutt and Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy both are ready to togo go If U Murphy takes it it Roosevelt will nominate Judge Sam Rosen Rosen- man to the Supreme court I C. C t A significant new Slav treaty IsI is isnow isnow I now being negotiated It will bind together the Czechoslovak government government govern govern- ment and the Polish Lublin-Polish government govern ment in the first step toward the creation of an eastern European Slavic alliance naturally with I Moscow's blessing |