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Show li3 Washington, I). (1. ;j:i:im an iinii:ugimhini St i:nn:s Aocordiiiu to uuoonsored (II patches now ifiu-liinu Viisllni;loii, lu'livo Kurnillu wmduo Is HnriiiH up on n mounting scale behind tlia Gorman linos. First real liullojitlon of an active Fifth column In Germany t'linifl recently re-cently with accurate reports ol pitched buttlos lisld Horlin, llres- . and nrenien. This now uorrilla warfare dilt'ors from that of parti- ' sail units Inside Franoo, Yugoslavia and Gfoooo in that fow of the (jucr- j rilla troops are Germans. The built are Fronohmon and Russians who , were capturod earlier in the war nnd have boon used as slave labor lu the relch. All of those workers were carefully guarded by lllmmler until recently. Most lived In Mr cities and worked In Urge Industrial In-dustrial plants. lu Berlin for example, hundreds of thousands of slave laborers have been housed In fenced off temporary barracks in the heart of the city. But recent powerful allied lr raids have created such chaos that thousands of foreign workers work-ers escaped from their enclosures en-closures and have hidden In the bomb ruins. At night, the guerrillas prowl the streets, capture Narf sentries, steal food and ammunition, commit ex- 1 tensive sabotage. They have been Joined by some German army de- i serters, afraid to return to the front, advices say. Once Berlin Is taken it is expected ( that the several million slave labor- ; ers will flare into such revolt that Germany except in the mountainous mountain-ous south will cave like an eggshell. egg-shell. OVER-AGE SERVICEMEN Greatest hardship on men In the army probably is with enlisted men over 38. now too old to become ofn-jcers ofn-jcers but who can't resign as officers 'can. I Typical case of how this hardship hard-ship works is that of Cpl. Alexander C. Sioris, age 45, who has served in the army three years, most of the ime overseas. Corporal Sioris is not only a college graduate, but holds a doctor's degree. Twice he jwas recommended for officers' training school, but each time his I unit moved overseas and he had to sail with his unit. Now he is too old ;to he commissioned, too old for combat, com-bat, yet under present army rules !must be kept on doing menial Jobs. I There are thousands of similar (cases. What the army needs is a ! good overhauling of its manpower, ! especially older men who have been in the army a long time. NEW MANPOWER PROGRAM War Manpower Commission Director Paul McNutt may put a new program into effect very I soon in all light labor areas. This ' would limit employers in nonessential non-essential or less essential Industries Indus-tries to a certain percentage of the number of workers they employed em-ployed last year. This ceiling-employee program has already been tried out in Chicago and proven successful. Chicago employers In non-; non-; essential and less essential in-I in-I dustries will be required to cut I the number of 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 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 100-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 4.8-inch gun as against the 3-inch gun carried on our Sherman. So long as the ground remains re-mains hard, the Stalin tank is capable capa-ble of resisting any but the largest point-blank German shells. On the other hand, the mobile gun on the Stalin tank can pierce most of the German secondary fortifications so far encountered by the Russians, it is said. WAR NOTES ft Germans are already trying to escape from the threatened Nazi homeland. Reports from Lisbon, Madrid, Stockholm and Berne reveal re-veal hundreds of Germans trying to crash the frontier to get out of Germany Ger-many before the Allies take over. C.FDR still hasn't decided who he will name as high commissioner of the Philippines. WMC Director Paul McNutt and Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy both are ready to go. If Murphy takes it, Roosevelt will nominate Judge Sam Rosen-man Rosen-man to the Supreme court. C. A significant new Slav treaty is now being negotiated. It will bind together the Czechoslovak government govern-ment and the Lublin-Polish government govern-ment in the first step toward the i creation of an eastern European Slavic alliance naturally with Moscow's blessing. |