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Show Washington, D. C. GOOP BOMBS' HIT JAPAN WASHINGTON. The inside story of how the army and navy are burning burn-ing up Japan's main cities, block by block, may now be revealed at least In part The two greatest contributions to the burning of Japan are the B-29 and a new, still somewhat mysterious mysteri-ous fire-bomb known as the "goop bomb." Just how the "goop bomb" got its name isn't known. However, it's the most terrible fire spreader spread-er in the world. Part of its secret is an oily mush developed by petroleum petro-leum chemists. This makes the contents con-tents of the bombs stick In gluelike gobs to anything it hits, making it almost impossible for Japanese fire fighters to scrape it loose. However, what really made the bomb the most terrible In the world waa experiments carried car-ried out by some of Henry Kai ser's West coast scientists, iney found Kaiser had a surplus of fast burning, white-hot magnesium magne-sium production on his hands, and they also knew one of the greatest difficulties in making magnesium Is its high explosive content. So they experimented with mixing magnesium dust in the oil of the bomb. This magnesium dust lights up In a searing blaze as soon as it comes In contact with air. Result Is the hottest fire ever known. Most Important effect of the "goop bomb" is that no known fire-fighting equipment can douse its flames. Water Wa-ter only adds to the blaze; as do any of the other specialized fire-fighting fire-fighting chemicals. All the Japs do now against the "goop bomb" is to try to confine the area In which It burns, not put it out. This Is one reason for Increasing Increas-ing optimism about an early end of the Jap war. www CONTINUED CENSORSHIP With the European war over, everyone ev-eryone expected press censorship to ease up. In some respects, however, how-ever, especially in the Pacific, it is getting tougher. Not only are newspapers barred from even speculating regarding certain International phases of the Pacific war, but the navy for some weird reason hushed up the bombing of the airplane carrier Franklin from April 26, when she got to New York, to May 17, when the disaster dis-aster finally was announced. There were obvious reasons for keeping the news quiet while the ship was en route through the Panama canaL But once it passed the canal and was safely tied up in New York, all danger was past however, the navy till Invoked censorship. AMERICA'S NO. ONE HEEL Former OPA Administrator Leon Henderson is a sad man these days. Every time he picks up the newspapers, news-papers, he reads story after story telling how Washington has given some manufacturer permission to produce again. Henderson recalls how he gained the reputation of being "America's No. 1 heel," by cutting down the American civilian consumption to almost al-most zero. "If I could only change all that," moons Henderson. "If the President would only give me a Job for one week Just one short week In which I could give the people back some of the things I took away from them. Then folks wouldn't think I'm such a bad guy after all." DIPLOMATIC CHAFF C South Africa's prime minister Jan Christian SmuU seldom speaks but when he does, every one listens. C. Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's foreign minister, has been the most effective go-between in conciliating Russian-western differences. C Sen. Glenn Taylor of Idaho has used only five gallons of gas since arriving in Washington an example which could be emulated by a lot of other bigwigs. C Secret service is on the trail of a counterfeiting ring which has circulated cir-culated hundreds of thousands of spurious one dollar bills. . . . They all bear the same serial number, are considered one of the cleverest Jobs recently pulled. C One reason General Elsenhower and his staff have been so upset about congressmen visiting the battle bat-tle zones is that when the Germans counterattacked last December, the Nazis sent a powerful paratroop force to take the little town of Cernay. Had they landed one week earlier to the hour, they would have captured the entire house military affairs committee delegation delega-tion then in France. C Correspondents refer to Secretary of State Stcttlnius as "Junior." C Wives of some conference delegates dele-gates are having a field day buying clothes. , . . One woman marched into the hat section of a department store, grabbed up 40 chapeaux wit-out wit-out even trying them all on. C The navy department has done a bang up Job convincing delegates of America's military might . . , The navy takes delegates on blimp rides, boat rides, and airplane tours of West coast navy Installations showing show-ing them America's striking power first hand. |