The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-04-10
Observations
Tokyo in For Hot
Time if Fire Bombs
do Their Work
BY Helen Essary

by felen ESSary
Americas plans TO use FIRE
bombs in greater numbers than
explosive missiles indicates that
Tokyo is in for a hot time in
Tore ways than one.
The next time Yank flyers raid
Tokyo the city will be showered
With thousands OF devastating fire
bombs which may put a big dent in
the Pacific enemy's ability to check
Allied offensive sweeps.
However, military experts warn
= r this does not mean the So
called paper buildings of Japan
will be wiped out in one great
raid. Tokyo and other cities un-
doubtedly have been taking procau-
lions 10 check the spread of flames
in event of an .ncendiary raid.
Credit for the fire bombs used by
the Allies goes 10 experts in the
. Army's chemical warfare service
The devices arc clever modern
counterparts OF one OF the oldest
an most effective weapons OF war
crude fire balls used by ancient
armies.
THE STEAMROLLER AID
vance OF the Russian Armies into
the Balkans presents Hitler with
one Of his greatest military prob
lens.
It has become militarily neces-
sary for the Germans TO occupy
Hungary. Rumania and Slovakia
with troops. but some OF these IN
doubtedly have had to he with
drawn from numbers held in re-
serve to face the Allied invasion
from the west
In addition. as German troops
march into the Balkans, underly-
ing ill.will toward Nazism doubt
less becomes more intense among
the occupied populations.
Thus. every move made by the
German high command 10 bolster
their eastern front creates new
unrest and uses up more sorely
needed troops with which TO face
the western invasion
ALTHOUGH LIEUT.. Comdr.
HAROLD STASSEN, now serving
on Admiral William F. Halseys
stan in the South Pacific, has an
nounced himself as available for
the COP. presidential nomination,
political observers figure that he
has slight chance Of success,
The veteran party leaders con-
slider Stassen, who is in his thir-
ties, as too young and feel that he
could not carry the pivotal eastern
states; that he is not yet ripe
as a White House hopeful
The young former Minnesota gov
ernors principal chance lies in
/ , possibility OF serious dead
lock az Chicago.
Il is doubtful, observers say. that
Stassen would accent second place
on the ticket
IT DOESN TAKE THE BLACK
N RKET BOYS long to catch on
10 a new thing.
OPA reports that the only un-
toward event during the early days
OF ration tokens was the disclos-
uTe at Baltimore. Nd, that one
grocery executive had been offered
1000 tokens for So An immedi-
ate probe was started
There have been remarkably
few complaints on the new sys-
tenn, however, from housewives
and merchants once it got operat-
ing. Chain stores are gathering
information now on the program 10
see just how IT is working out.
CAPITOL OBSERVERS BE
LlEVE that James Caesar Petrillo.
president OF the American Fedora.
tion OF Musicians. overreached him.
self in banning the amateur. non
profit-music camp musicians from
the airvayes.
Congress is itching for an all
out investigation Of the hard-boll.
ed union chiefs. operations.
Then, too. a War Labor Board
panel has recommended that Petril-
10 be ordered TO lift the ban on
production OF commercial records
which, he claimed. deprive must
clans of their livelihood
The Senate Interstate Commerce
committee may probe the actiyi-
ties Of the A. F. NJ. following tes-
timony by Dr. Joseph Maddy, presi-
dent Of the National Music Camp
at Interlochen, Mich that Petrillo
had banned the camps orchestra
from the radio networks.