The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-07
Axis Patents And Properties Aid Tanks On Global Fronts
By s. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff COrrespondent

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 Washington, May T.--T:4a next time you need aoouG super fort resses bombing the Mikado's Num- Der One war factory-Nagoya-or his foremost seaports-Yokahama and Osaka-you can rest assured that our bombardiers are not ly- ing their explosive eggs in casual nests.
 Thanks to the Japan Products Company, Inc, our bombing crews have an intimate knowledge of the detailed layout of these cities. gained, among other ways, from maps seized by the Alien Property Custodian when he took over that Japanese concern after Pearl Har- bor.
 Pre-invasion bombing of Japan, and quite probably the landings that are yet to come, have been guided also by books and maps taken from the offices of Mitsui and Company, Ltd, and by books and pamphlets from the book stores of Kosha-do.
 Allied fliers bombing Turin had the benefit of a scale model of the Fiat automobile plant, found by the Custodian's representatives in records of the Fiat Societa Ano- mimo And in the mass of material used by Intelligence to guide bombers, strafers, armored forces and plain doughboys, streaking to- u-ord pnr1it, large-scale photographs and other pictorial material from the pub licity files of Hitler's railroad travel agency in this country.
 TAKE CONTROL
 These are among incidental bene- fits that accrued when the Custo- dian's office intervened in every enterprise in which enemy aliens or persons subjugated by the Axis had any significant interest.
 In addition to more than 12O,0OC copyrights, 1000 trademarks and some 46,OOO patents, the Custodi- ans office has taken over either control or substantial interest ir 259 enemy dominated businesses that are being liquidated, and ir 128 businesses that are being op- erated as going concerns. Most o1 the latter are being made to con- tribute to our war production, ano from the former every available advantage has been seized-as fol instance, two Japanese character typewriters found in the offices ot the Pacific Trading Company that were sped by plane to Genera. Macarthur the day after the Custo- dian turned them over to the Army
 Among the 128 companies stil. being operated are some whose names. or the trade-names of theil products. have been house holo words in this country. Such are Bosch, Agfa-Ansco. Leica, Zeiss Plexiglas. Others are virtually un- known outside their own fields Some have long been recognized as affiliates of German industries, but others have concealed such ties SC sklllfully that their very managers did not learn until after Pear Harbor, for whom they really were working.
 WE GET PLEXIGLASS
 Rohm & Haas, for example, wa. partly-oWned by German com pany which was in a cartel tha had rights to what is known a. plexiglas. That is a shatter-proo synthetic, lighter and more trans. parent than glass, capable of be. ing formed to any shape without awkward seams and joints, whict has made possible the glass houses that give our plane crew. maximum visibility with minimum exposure to either the elements ol enemy missiles.
 American Bosch is the moderr version of the Bosch MagnetC Company that was seized in World War I, sold to residents of tht United States, and by 1880 hac .. found its way back into German hands. Although Swedish interest were supposed to own IT per cen of the stock, the Custodian's in vestigators found that the actua beneficial owner was the shy, re tiring firm of Robert Bosch A. G Of Stuttgart, Germany.
 General Analine & Film Go. wa supposed to be owned by the In ternationale Gesell schaft fue Chemische Unternehmungen A. G of Switzerland, but investigation disclosed that this was a neutra front for the notorious German Chemical trust, I. G. Farbenindus trie. The Custodian took over g per cent of the firms stock and ac quired with it. among other indi rect interests, half the stock of tn Winthrop Chemical Company, mak CTS of Atabrine