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SiebenbuÌˆrgisch-Amerikanisches Volksblatt. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1917-1971, 1945-08-23

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Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
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A delightful way 70 'src-stylc" roughcd-up.
dull compIexion-quickly! Just spread
cool coat of Ponds Vanishing Cream whitely
over your facial but your eyes.
Leave this refreshing Mask on for one full
minute. ''Keratolytic" action of the Cream
loosens tiny dead skin fakes and tight-stuck
dirt particles Dissolves them!
"As soon as tissue off the Mask, I can see
the difference in my skin" /" Mrs. Stlnm says.
You'll see the Improvement in your
complexion. too! It'll look brighter, clearer.
lighter. And feel thrillingly softer and smoother.
Your makeup will go On pe.yfocslyi
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04

Daughter Of Alice Roosevclt
Longworth. lovely young PauIina
Longworth Sturm Is the grand
daughter Of Theodore Roosevelt.
She is devoted TO Ponds. I'm
especially fond Of the minute
Mask with Ponds Vanishing
Cream, because I'm outdoors
lot--and wind and sum do roughen
and coarsen my skin If I'm not
careful" Mrs. Sturm says. But
the Mask is a grand complexion
'fix-up'l 1t makes my skin feel :.
softer and fresher right away!''
Detroit evening times., 1945-11-04
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IDEAL POWDER BASE-no greasy drying, For quick
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Evening star., 1945-04-08
Hawaii's Gift to Americas Sweet Tooth

the search for newer and better varie-
ties Every year thousands of new
seedlings are bred at the stations test
as 32-8560 and 32-1O63-have proved to
be highly successful and superior to
H 100 under certain conditions.
Diseases such as the root rot are not
the only enemies which the experiment
station scientists have to be on constant
guard against. In fact, the station has
won its chief acclaim in the scientific
world for its outstanding work in COM
batting foreign insect pests, some of
which threatened the industry with de-
struction on more than one occasion.
Insect Enemies
Scientists from the experiment station
have literally explored the world for nat
ural enemies to combat these pests For
example, the sugar cane leaf hopper, one
of the most insidious of the canes
enemies, was finally defeated by para
sites brought in from Australia, Fiji,
China and Formosa. The parasite de-
stroyed the hopper by laying its eggs
in the hopper's eggs.
The cane borer-a beetle which lays
its eggs in the cane stalks-was harder
to combat, but the technique used was
the same. After years of effort which
took one of the stations scientists to
China, the Malay States, Java, New
Guinea and Australia, among other
places, fly was found which effec-
lively dealt with the borer.
These techniques developed by the
scientists. coupled with their methods
of scientific farming, have made Hawaii
one of the worlds greatest and most
progressive sugar producing areas.
Nearly million tons of the sweet stuff
come every year from the fields Of
Hawaii to the kitchens and factories Of
the mainland.
Evening star., 1945-04-08
Army's Global Souvenir
Hunt Helps Improve Arms

longer handle and the blade folded fiat
against the handle when not in use.
Ouartermaster experts took the German
shovel apart, then improved 1t.
Ersatz Materials
Relative superiority or inferiority OF
equipment is not the only thing DEM
onstrated at Aberdeen and other centers.
The discovery of ersatz or substitute
materials in equipment is good index
of the enemy's economic condition and
his supply of certain critical raw ma
terials. Sometimes it offers an idea how
United States equipment can be made
with similar substitutions.
In addition, samples of enemy equip
ment are needed to teach American
servicemen how to utilize it if need be.
In the heat of fighting, the experts
say ability to use the enemys weapons
against him often has helped turn the
battle Much enemy equipment already
has been furnished to troop units and
schools for training purposes.
The Armys ordnance professional
souvenir hunters were trained at Aber-
deem, given intense instruction by in
telligence and indoctrinated in the latest
trends in ordnance development by
branches of the technical division Spe-
cial ordnance officers also are sent to
active theaters of operations to make on
the-spot engineering analyses.
Less professional but equally avid in
his souvenir hunting is the individual
American CT, who has been picking up
everything from parachutes to piccolos
on the various war fronts. But unlike
the Army, the GI is limited by rules
designed to protect him, the ship
his homeward- bound souvenir will
travel on and the ultimate recipient AS
Yank, the Army magazine, summed it
up. You can't take it with you if it's
loaded or looted"
Evening star., 1945-04-08

the spring of last year, Germany's mair
almost exclusive reliance against Allie
air power has been placed on antiair-
craft artillery, which has increased 500
per cent during that period, and on
smoke.
Careful estimates based upon photo7
graphic reconnaissance place the num-
ber of large caliber artillery pieces, the
standard German 88-mm. and larger,
in the antiaircraft network at more than
10000, which is believed to be more than
are assigned to all the German ground
forces along the western front.
In one industrial center in the Leipzig
area, there is concentrated more anti
aircraft artillery than in all of Berlin
1t is commonly known to fight crews
of the Raj and 9th Air Forces as FLAX
Happy Alley"
Bombing at Peak
In the first three weeks of last
months air offensive, Allied planes
dropped twice the tonnage of bombs on
Germany as the Luftwaffe dropped
over England since the start of the
war. and so effectively that. for ex-
ample, oil production was cut below
$4,000 tons, less than 9 per cent OF
year ago. Only one plant, the Zeitz
refinery near Leipzig, was believed to
be operating at anywhere near capacity
and that was bombed March 80 with
results not yet announced.
doned attempts at camouf1age and now
resort mainly to smoke for obscuring
targets, but production and transpor-
tation of smoke on the scale required
by the March raids has proved so
difficult that reconnaissance pilots re-
Gently got clear picture of a large
factory in South Germany for the first
time in more than six months.
1000 Photographs Daily
Most of the results noted abov, ave
been cleaned from the average Of 1000
photographs processed daily by the 9Th
Air Force Photographic Intelligence
Section headed by Maj. Franklin NJ
Jepson, who left last week after
hurried trip to Army Air Force head
quarters with Maj. Gen. Orville A.
Anderson, executive officer, TO make
first-hand report. Maj. Jepson knows
as much about the Nazi war potential.
perhaps, as any man on this side of the
shifting war front.
The Luftwaffe was at its peak in
the latter part of 1943," he recalled.
when they had developed their two
engined, rocket-firing fighter that shot
down SO bombers in our Schweinfurt-
Regensburg raid in August. That rep
resented about Is per cent loss, and
on another raid in October losses were
almost as high.
Evening star., 1945-04-08

H 1O9" means less than nothing to
he American housewife, but without it
her precious sugar ration would prob
ably be somewhat simmer than it is.
Those mysterious looking symbols
stand for hardy, yielding sugar
cane which was developed after many
years Of painstaking research by the
scientists of the experiment station of
the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Associa-
ton.
Out in our mid-Pacific Territory of
Hawaii the station celebrated its 50th
anniversary last week, and in terms of
more sugar for mainland coffee cups
it's an event of some significance here,
too.
Before the development of H 109-
that's simply the scientists designation
for the type-most Hawaiian sugar
farms grew cane commonly referred
to as the "Lahaina" variety.
Mysterious Disease
Imported from the French island of
Tahiti it served the Hawaiian sugar
farmers faithfully for nearly 100 years
Then, with dramatic suddenness, it fell
prey to mysterious disease which
caused its roots to rot
Unless something could be done with
out much delay, the whole industry
mainstay of Hawaiis economy-faced
ruin.
Scientists of the experiment station
went to work. Without outside assist
ance-the station was and still is a
private enterprise, operated by the
Territorys "a sugar farms-the biolo-
gists and botanists ana pathologists and
all the other experts began the almost
insuperable task of developing a new
variety immune to the new and deadly
scourge.
Working night and day against enor-
Evening star., 1945-04-08
BY Arlene Wolf,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

The United States Army is on a global
souvenir hunt.
Like its individual GIs, who have
been on MISUNDERSTANDING binge ever
since the war started the Army is doing
souvenir hunting of its own-but not for
sentiment.
Souvenirs-captured enemy guns, ma
teriel and clothing-provide handy
yardstick against which American equip
ment can be measured and possibly al
tered. That's why Army Service Forces
intelligence teams have been sent to
every major theater Of operations. They
pick up anything from a gasoline can
to a gun, examine it, send home re-
port and then crate the souvenir for
shipment to the proving and testing
grounds at Aberdeen, Md, and other
centers.
A single team in Europe which COW
cred 5000 miles in two months picked
up, sorted, catalogued and packed more
than 500 items of Nazi clothing and
equipment.
Aberdeen's Collection
All this adds up to a 15OO-item,
4OOO-ton collection at Aberdeen, where
the parking place for enemy trucks,
tanks and large artillery alone takes up
acres. Smaller items are stored in
museum. All in all, Aberdeen officials
believe they have tested and examined
practically every enemy weapon used in
World War II.
Sometimes the enemy equipment is in:
ferior sometimes it has characteristics
which can be adapted to the advantage
of Yank fighting men, German fold
ing shovel was the basis of new Ameri-
can intrenching tool.
Yanks overseas had found the Ger
man article superior, because it had
Evening star., 1945-04-08
Welfare Work Listed

In nearly every city. apparently, the
clubs find some particular useful charity
on which they specialize. The Phila.
delphia tent" for instance. has given
$400 1000 during the last decade to the
fight against infantile paralysis The
Minneapolis group last year gave $4,000
to the Elizabeth Kenny Institute for the
treatment of poliomyelitis.
In Atlanta, the Variety Club has given
large sums to support social agencies
working to rehabilitate delinquent girls.
The Los Angeles group is helping to
support a hospital for asthmatic children.
The Baltimore tent" maintains camp
for crippled children and helps to sup
port the Philburn Home for foundlings
and wayward children. Boston MAIN
tains a large summer camp for boys.
In st. Louis last year 5000 babies were
cared for at nursery for servicemen's
wives at Union Station.
Secretary Hull Wins Award
Each year all the Variety Clubs of
the country unite in making an award
to some outstanding American, the
honor being based on his or her unself.
ish work for humanity. Last year
Cordell Hull, recently retired Secretary
Of State, was selected because of his II
years of devotion to the cause of inter-
national peace. Among others to re.
ceive this honor have been Sister Eliza
beth Kenny for her fight against
poliomyelitis and to Father E. j. FIan.
agan, founder of Boys Town.
And so the child abandoned by .
"broken-hearted mother" 16 years ago
in that Pittsburgh movie house has
been the inspiration of literally millions
Of good deeds for other children.
Evening star., 1945-04-08

smoke which Allied bombers had no in
tention of bombing.
Not knowing what the target for the
day or night was, the Germans played
safe by smoking out" all centers worth
bombing along the line of flight reported
by the air-raid warning system. The
chemicals required are not critical, but
the problem of maintaining adequate
supplies for protection against round
the-clock bombing raids in all parts
of the country is heavy drain on trans
portation facilities aside from the man
power difficulty, he pointed out.
The Final Phase
1t is too early to forsee whether the
March air offensive, representing the
matured strength of the Allied air arm,
will ever be surpassed or even equaled.
It's force during what appears 10 De
the final phase of the war against
Germany has been directed mainly Of
late toward communications in an ever
shrinking target area. However, as 1t
contributes to the final decision its very
magnitude raises a question that will
probably have to remain unanswered.
Could air power alone have brought
1t about?
Circumstances have decreed that this
war be fought by the land. sea and air
team. The Douhet theory that air alone
was enough to bring victory for sew
eral years has been held to be disproved.
Still there are those who believe that
it has not been disproved at all because
it has never been tried.
The Douhet theory reduced to SIM
plest terms was to fight defensive war
on land and sea while taking the often
sive in the air. Huge air fleets, after
wiping out the enemy air force we're
to halt mobilization, cripple industrial
production and prevent communications
from functioning. Then. unmolested,
they were to roam at will through the
skies, depriving the enemy of the will
to resist by removing its strongest ele-
ment, hope of victory.
The Allied air forces are just at the
point now where they can roam at will
on bombing missions over Germany,
disrupting communications and produc.
ton, normal life even, in numbers large
enough to deprive the population Of all
hope. Or to pose the question in another
way, what if Hitler had been able to
put 1000 planes in the air. as the
Allies did last month, instead Of the
$50 he threw into the battle of Brit
ain in September. 1910. He certainly
would have gained the air supremacy
he needed for a landing across the
Channel, but would the landing have
been necessary? Could he have used that
supremacy to bomb England all day and
all night, week after week, month after
month, if necessary. until there could
be no hope of respite without suing for
peace? That will remain one of the
unanswered questions of this war.
Evening star., 1945-04-08

nous difficulties, the scientists crossed
and recrossed hundreds of varieties. FL
nally one delicate seeding emerged
which had the qualities they were seek
ing. This was H 100.
Cold statistics attest to their success.
Before long more than 100000 acres
were planted to the new variety-con-
siderably more than one third of Ha-
waits total sugar acreage.
1t proved itself to be not only resist
ant to the root disease but a higher
yielding plant than any previous
ly known varieties.
A Boon to the Industry
Scientists conservatively estimate that
that tiny seeding has been worth $780,
900 900 to the Hawaiian sugar industry.
The development of H 109 did not end
Evening star., 1945-04-08
BV Ben H. PearSe.

BY Ben H. Pearse.
The month of March, 1945. may be
known among historians of this war for
the crossing of the Rhine or perhaps the
beginning of the final Russian assault
on Berlin-What might be described as
the opening scene of the last act.
To many students of military affairs,
however, it will be more than a
coincidence that last month marked the
elimination of Allied air power, the
month in which on several occasions
more than 5000, and at another time
as many as 1000 planes, not counting
those on the eastern front, took the air
against Germany.
Moreover these tremendous air con-
centrations few wherever they wished,
whenever they wished. in whatever num-
bers it was estimated was necessary to
carry out their missions. Effective oppo-
sition from the German Luftwaffe long
since having been smashed, their only
deterrent was antiaircraft artillery, an
unprecedented amount of which was
hastily massed against them but which
caused amazingly small losses 1t was
a situation airmen had dreamed of for
25 years.
Without attempting to minimize the
effectiveness or the Importance of the
ground forces, its progress is obvious and
can be easily followed on a map; the
landing in Normandy. the race across
Northern France, the temporary setback
last December, and the resumption of
the offensive, crossing of the Rhine and
dash for Berlin.
Progress Not Easily Followed
With the air forces, that is not so
easy. Offensives are reflected only in a
change of the number of planes reported
over the Reich in the daily communique.
The names of the same cities, rail CEN
ters, industrial areas and marshaling
repetitious and the story of days air
operations may be almost overlooked
because of monotony.
Yet offensives there were, and set
backs. too, as important in the strategic
scheme to defeat Germany as the Nor
mandy landing, the break-through at
St. Lo or the crossing of the Rhine.
While their course may easier be charted
on the calendar than the map, the eli
max of last month has brought forth
some rather startling facts.
Between 1,75oOOO and 100000 men
and women have been tied down inside
the Reich to defense against attack by
the strategic air forces in Europe alone,
that is, the 9th Air Force in England.
the 18th Air Force in Italy and the Royal
Air Force (excluding the 9th Air Force
and the Russian Air Force which stress
tactical operations.
Since the defeat of the Luftwaffe in