| Show A U 0 W 1 washington ninne D 0 AIR PRISONERS IN GERMANY th the fate of ainer american fliers on the tUe to raid III has r raised a t the ae question what happens to airmen who h go 90 down over europe here halt 1 is the answer from an officer of 0 the U S bomber command mand in england if filers bail out and get down safely p over ever france mom belgium or occupied a id europe ur a their chances ances of getting back ack t to a england are pretty good they he become a e pr prisoners ot f war but ut in the a course of exchanging prisoners they may soon get back to base b ase if they bail out over germany there S not much chance of getting back but so far as we adnew know the treatment of air prisoners is to that of other prisoners and varies according ordin to rank g there js one a incident Iott eier that damns the german record the story of paddy fiucane most people P Is suppose that the famous RAP RAF see ace lost his life because his spitfire crashed into the channel after be being hit over france the truth is though this has never been published that as fiucane was falling he was strafed by ge german machine gunfire ind and he was as already dead when he hit th the a water thus a new meaning ones comes t to fiucane a famous phrase q this his is it chaps TOUGH JOB W when ch you sift down all the hullabaloo ba about elmer davis and his office of war information the out only Y valid criticism you can make against the drawling he hoosier is that he is a working too hard the last two weeks when he went on the air he was a so exhausted he had a stand by alongside ready to take up his bis script if he collapsed davis worl works far into the night tries to read all that his volum voluminous mois office produces sees almost everyone who wants to see him but given a tough situation bas basically he has done a good job senators sena like M montana antana I 1 a wheeler and a nevada a mccarran whose acid digestive systems are always poisoning their political outlook make a wry face at davis but wheeler and mccarran are always demanding more mom facts and inside aide feet fact is that davis has hem been fighting their battle in keeping the american public informed most of davis fight is getting news squeezing it a out ut of gov government rement bureaus which do don t w want to g give making si sit t the army ad Y and an navy n avy tra release e a se facts which show up their mistakes rowing g with jeffers because his estimates on tires are too lv when davis stepped down from his well paying radio job to correlate gova government information everyone cai envied bhim him his job thought he had a sortie but the job of digging news accurate news unpleasant news out cut of the government is not soft and it II I 1 is rat not popular pe P we I 1 davis a v I 1 is a good ne newsman rha being such he is not popular never will be in some quarters note davis did his best to release I 1 ease th the e story on an bombing tokyo lung long ago several times mace he urged the white hue house th that at the american houg pu public bf ic sh should ld know ow the facts ea ear r her 1111 whim when the japs released a pc ture lure afu ofu of U S fliers supposedly captured in the tokyo raid davis wanted it to point out the truth namely that eg these ese were naval fliers not doojin tle the a they had been captured in a naval battle this e explanation was broadcast to foreign countries by but davis through no fault of his was not permitted to tell folks at home FOBS congressman As commander in chief the president has supreme powers power in the conduct of the war but he is just another aaa citizen on the books ot of the hyde park N Y rationing board at a recent white house meeting the president was telling three congressmen gessman gess men gale republican of minnesota he 1 I jackson democrat of washington and it man manasco a democrat of alabama Ald bama am a about b out the red tape tap I 1 involved 1 in buying meat and groceries on his trips home to hyde park 1 I hav have a my problems with fellows po point rationing the same as you yo u fellows he grinn grinned it why don dont t you write e your con gressman 9 suggested agge baltad republican representative gale the president reflected briefly then the threw up his hands and it roared with laughter oh no he exclaimed not that the man who represents the hyde park district I 1 in c congress is H hamilton fish one of th the most ditrio vitriolic n w vituperative foes the president has in congress M merrt ERRY GO 60 ROUND fl 41 A III high gh ranking army officer just back from a U S tour mak makes this observation high morale may he be to lowered w cried by too much talk of postwar planning which makes the boya think the show i is almost almost over I 1 fi if the japs jall were still stil in their w washington a h amb emb embassy say they could id set at the their ir clocks by 1 lanky amy will clayt clayton eat astute to deputy to jesse jones who ax walks three mil miles e to work every morning he pas passes s the defunct top jap embassy precisely at eight |
