Show 6 0 U 0 D W ON washington D 0 GOOP BOMBS HIT JAPAN washington the inside story of how the army and navy are burning up japans main cities block by block macnow 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 bus fire bomb known as the goop bomb just how the goop bomb got its name known HO however wever its the most terrible fire spreader in the world part ol of its secret Is an oily ally mush developed by petro ileum chemists this makes the contents of the bombs stick in elike gobs to anything it hits making it almost impossible for or japanese firefighters to scrape it loose however what really made the bomb the most terrible in the world was experiments carried out by some of henry kal kai sers west coast scientists they found kaiser had bad a surplus of fa fast burning white hot magnest slum um production on an his hands bands 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 it in a searing blaze as soon as it comes in contact with air result Is the hottest fire ever known most important effect ol of the goop bomb Is that no known firefighting fire fighting equipment can douse its flames water only adds to the blaze as do any ol of the other specialized firefighting chemicals AU 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 or increasing optimism about an early end of the jap war CONTINUED censorship with the european war var over everyone expected press censorship to ease up in some respects however 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 lor for some weird reason hushed up the bombing bombin of the airplane carrier franklin from april 28 26 when she got to new york to may 17 when the disaster 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 hlll still invoked censorship censor snip AMERICAS NO ONE HEEL former OPA administrator leon henderson Is a sad man these days every time he picks up the newspapers he reads story alter after story telling how washington has given some manufacturer permission to produce again henderson recalls how he gained the reputation of being americas no 1 heel by cutting down the american civilian consumption to al most zero if I 1 could only change all that moans henderson if the president would only give me a job tor for one week just one short week in which I 1 could give the people back some of the things I 1 took away from them then folks think im such a bad guy after all 11 diplomatic CHAFF south prime minister jan christian smuts seldom speaks but when he does every one listens 41 jan masaryk czechoslovakian foreign minister has been the most effective go between in conciliating russian western differences 41 alsen 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 L secret service Is on the trail of a counterfeiting ring which has circulated 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 L one reason general eisenhower Elsen hower and his staff have been so upset about congressmen visiting the battle battie zones Is that when the germans counterattacked counter attacked 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 milli military tary affairs committee delegation then in france 41 fl correspondents reler refer to secretary of 0 state as junior fl L wives of some conference delegates are having a field day buying clothes one woman corhan marched into the hat bat section of a department store grabbed up 40 chapeaux wit out even trying them oil all on ail the navy department has done c r bang up job convincing delegates ot of americas military might the navy takes delegates on blimp rides boat rides a and nd airplane tours ot of west coast navy installations showing them americas striking power first arst hand |