Show 1 t 0 W washington D 0 MAGNETIC TORPEDO here Is one reason why we needed the azores so badly as an antl anti sub marine base the U boats boata not only have n new ew devices but also a new strategy and may converge around the bottleneck to the mediterranean between the azores and gibraltar DEVICES latest nazi torpedoes are superior to the former type which exploded only on contact new torpedoes are exploded 0 1 on cori contact tact 2 by magnetic attraction on coming close to the steel hull 3 by the vibration of the engines of the ship under attack this makes it possible for the submarine to succeed in its mission much more frequently than before A torpedo Is much less likely to miss iss since missing actual contact with the target does not now mean as previously pr evious ly that it misses the target STRATEGY I 1 convoys have now discovered that nazi subs are hunting in packs of sufficient number to employ the same sort of naval strategy which large units ol of naval vessels are able to use A group of submarines will surface surface on one ona side of the convoy and thus decoy the escort vessels in that direction meantime another group of submarines on the other side ot of the convoy will approach within easy efting range an and d discharge their torpedoes observers believe however that the main artery of commerce from the united states stales to the european theater of war the north atlantic run Is still so BO well guarded that the submarine menace is licked so far as that run is concerned it is feared however that the nazis will now strike at another vulnerable point namely the straits of gibraltar br altar since these straits must be passed by all allied merchant shipping supplying the mediterranean theater of war including north africa sicily sardinia corsica italy and the adriatic not to mention all the we shipping now passing through the mediterranean bound tor for the straits of suez and india Indi athis this area Is due for a concentrated submarine attack A VISIT WITH STALIN secretary hull might have got some gome interesting pointers pointer tor for hla his moscow trip from cuban ambassador concheso Conc Cone beso only latin american diplomat who has met stalin brilliant senor senoi concheso is both cuban ambassador to the USA and cuban minister to soviet russia recent he be came back from a visit to the soviet capital during which he be presented his credentials to foreign minister bolotoff Mo lotoff and e expressed x the polite hope that he might mig h t also call upon stalin knowing chilt tha t stalin was one of the busiest men inthe world how however evir concheso did not press the point and actually did not expect to see him so he almost fell out of his billet ballet seat one night aher someone tapped him on the shoulder abid told him that stalin would see eee him in 20 minutes how stalin knew the cuban diplomat was enjoying the famous moscow ballet Conc concheso beso did not know however he was told that amok a motor would call for him at the theater in 15 minutes and he should be ready concheso consulted a british diplomat also present at the ballet who told him that the inari man who had tapped him on the shoulder was the russian chief of protocol so he had better be ready it was may but zero weather in moscow however ambassador Conc concheso beso did not find it cold in the kremlin churchill wore a zipper suit when he be called on stalin and mrs hull has been worrying on behalf of her husband about the cold in the kremlin only two officers guarded stalin one officer met the Cu cuban banat at the entrance of the building and escorted him to sta uns office there he was met by another officer who took hun him the rest of the way there was no pomp or ceremony GENIAL JOSEPH stalin himself was not fierce but kindly and genial gendal ills his eyes according to ambassador concheso are deep and penetrating but with wrinkles of humor in the corners the soviet premier seemed surprisingly singly well posted on cuban problems knew something about I 1 its labor laws and its economic questions es however he was not fa familiar m war with cuban U S relations relation an and d seemed to think that cuba was still politically dependent on the USA the ambassador explained that the platt amendment had bad been abrogated and cuba now mow enjoyed complete freedom CAPITAL CHAFF fl capt ralph ingersoll Inger BOll drafted away from his editorship of the newspaper newspaper PM ws was de detailed t tied by the army to help lp pilot ot t the five flying senators on part of their warzone war zone trip it is reported that ingersoll Is being queried by the war department as to who leaked certain information to the senators gov matt neeley of west virginia former U S senator will run for the house of representatives in the first west virginia congressional district |