Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-30
NEWS
BEHIND
The NEWS
By Paul
Malon

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30-The
w NaziS moved some of their
government offices out of Berlin
IN preparation for this latest of
Raj air attacks.
A few went 10 Vienna, and
others TO the Dresden area. But
the war ministry and the bulk
of German industry remained TO
take the terrific rain Of destruc-
tlOn.
How decisive the Allied bitz
Will prove To be in a strictly
military way was not guesSable
during the initial series of at
tackS, but the psychological
effect of the whole Allied air
bombing campaign Is evident in
the peculiar line taken by the
German radio.
Concealing the extent of the
damage, the Hitler spokesman
kept constantly shouting TO the
people I'VE will not capitulate,"
and one gauleiter publicly
broadcast a declaration that any
ShirkerS on the home front were
lousy dasheS." only possible
translation OF an unprintable
word, the use of which betrays
the overweight effects of these
nightly attacks.
But even more significant was
the radio announcement that a
women'S gestapo had been Gre
ated TO stop grumbling among
the people Innkepers have been
ordered also 10 suppress whis-
pered conversations in their
places. The mayor of a Berlin
suburb was among several who
have suffered executions for lis
tening TO foreign radio broad
casts in the last few weeks.
WAR SECRETARY STIM-
w SONS expressed optimism
on the war in the Pacific
where the promised major Of
fensive has been launched on all
fronts-was founded on the un-
expected ease with which we
took the Gilbert Islands. Our
planes found weak Japanese air
resistance there and in the
Marshall Islands which we have
been bombing in preparation
for capture.
One aircraft carrier division
reported an almost unbelievable
score of as to 4 in plane casual
ties of one phase of the Gilbert
fight. The ratio throughout the
whole Pacific area has been
running about z TO | against
the JapS in air combat, and in
creaSeS to 10 to ! if YOU con-
slider the number of Jap planes
destroyed on the ground.
But the basic conception of
future progress Sumson appar-
rently had in mind forecasts
early advances 10 the Marshalls,
from which Wake Island can be
made untenantable $4,000 miles
from Tokyo). In addition, the
fall of Rabaul will bring Truk,
the main Jap air base in the
Pacific, within bombing range
of our next attack.
Cleaning out the ground
forces may be a more arduous
problem. but at least the adj
vance Jap air bases soon may
be thrown back hundreds of
miles from our best lines Of
communication TO Australia. 1t
is still long way to Tokyo.
CTRANGEST of all legal phe-
~ nomena is the developing
effect of Justice Felix Frank
furter's Supreme Court decision
last March, allowing a confessed
Tennessee mountain moonshine
murderer TO escape from his
conviction.
The courts around the Dis
trict of Columbia now have
ruled out confessions in about
three cases, one of which in
voloved a murder charge on the
same inexplicable ground Frank
furter laid down in his decision;
namely, that the prisoner had
been kept too long by the police
court before he was presented
to the magistrate.
In the Tennessee rnOuntaineer
case, one of five McNabb broth
ey;s confeSSedeon a Friday morn
ing. but, owing 10 some detailed
protest among the brothers, the
confession was not presented
until 2 a, m. Enthusiastically
Ia hours after having been
made. Frankfurter construed
this TO be "ap unreasonable
time. No doubts were cast on
the validity of the confession,
which had been accepted by the
lower courts.
A bill is now being pushed in
Congress to overrule the SUI
preme Court and will be car
ried through.
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