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Air Forces at Remagen
By MAJ. George Fieldine Eliot

AS We watch the progress of our
ground forces in the great battle along
the Rhine. we realize that it is the ad-
vance of the infantry, supported by the
other arms, which is decisive. But we
should not forget that the other arms
make major contributions to victory,
even though the infantry is still the
queen of battles. We should not for
get, in particular, that though air
power is not the sole key to victory-as
many had believed-it is still indispen-
sable at every stage of the battle, and
no considerable ground success can be
won without it against an enemy who
Is not likewise without it.
II we examine the fight for the
bridgehead Of Remagen, for example,
we may see just what air power is do
ing to enable Gen. Hodges men to ex-
pand that bridgehead and convert it
into SECURE base for further and ex-
tensive offensive operations.
The great need at the moment is for
more depth. Up to this time (Monday
noon, while the bridgehead extends
something like 10 miles along the east
bank of the Rhine from Honnef to the
vicinity of Honningen, it does not ex-
tend eastward from the Rhine more
than 4 miles. Assuming the depth
to be 4 miles opposite Remagen, how
ever. this is only little over 1000 yards.
That means that the Remagen bridge
and the other crossings which we have
established presumably by pontoon
bridges at Rheinbreitbach and possibly
of enemy artillery. The establishment
ST hy;I Inc nI,aA
the stage of complete security until it
is deep enough to prevent the enemy
from directing observed artillery fire
at the crossing points. This requires
depth of at least 10000 yards, or be-
tween II and 10 miles.
So the immediate task Of the ground
troops is to push out from the Rhine in
to the hills and get more room.
Now let us see what the air forces are
doing to help.
First, of course, we must take note Of
the immediate protection Of the bridge
and the other crossings from enemy
air attacks, which have been thrown in
with vicious desperation but with no re-
suits, because Of the eternally vigilant
fighter patrols over the crossings
Next, as to the ground situation
ground commanders will not wish to
push into the hills until they are pretty
sure they can stay there. Their task
Is to get troops over to the east bank
Of the Rhine in the bridgehead area
faster than the Germans can move
troops to that area by road and rail.
The air part Of our Job Is to keep the
Germans from doing Just that.
The air forces are working accord
ing TO : well-made plan. . can be
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-13
Captured BRIDGES

The capture of the Remagen
Bridge across the Rhine by the
daring American company under
Lieutenant Emmett Burrows is said
to have altered the course of the
war in Europe and shortened its
duration. If this be so, there is at
least rough parallel between the
closing stages of this war and the
last days of the Confederacy.
On April 2, 1865, General Robert E.
Lee withdrew his battered Army of
Northern Virginia from the works
around Petersburg. He planned a
withdrawal to Danville, where he
hoped to effect junction with the
Confederate forces in North Carolina
under General Joe E. Johnston.
That done, or so the plan went, the
combined forces would first destroy
the Union Army that General Sher-
man was bringing up from the south,
and then turn north again to deal
with the relentlessly pursuing troops
under General Grant. That, to re-
peat, was the plan-the last des-
perate hope of the South. Failure
became inevitable when an order for
the destruction OF a bridge across
the Appomattox was not executed.
For flve days Lees ragged, starving
army carried out a fighting retreat,
the commander striving to keep the
Appomattox between his troops and
the pursuing Federal infantry. But
then, on April 7, the final blow fell.
Orders had been issued for the de-
struction of bridge near Farmville.
IT this had been done the Army of
Northern Virginia would have en-
joyed at least temporary security
north of the Appomattox. But the
pursuit was too vigorous, and, though
the bridge was set afire, Federal
troops commanded by General F. C.
Barlow came up in time to put out
the flames and cross the river.
That sealed the fate of the Army
OF Northern Virginia, and two days
later General Lee surrendered. The
end will not come so quickly this
time, but there is good reason to
hope that the last-minute seizure
OF the Remagen Bridge has appre-
ciably fastened the end OF the
greatest war In Europes history.
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Tomorrow Drones

The stillest of all days, but planes up
soaring
Whore blue Is blue no more; no soind
Is talking;
No bird sings; only motors easpin1,
roaring
Over the trail my soul and ere
,Ddlking. a
/ say my soul. for tDlat lifts heart and
eyes?
Lifts them from blood and dust
beyond flesh pain
To something far aboUe the planes mem
skies?
Lifts them to see q grandeur coma
again?
Come as the grass returns, as straIlofrs
flying,
AZ June-deep bloom, as dreams that
youth has knotDn.
Despite the grodns and hmping, Dailins,
crying,
zee the earth alipe, tsn beauty
0r0irn.
I ses. hear. but blackness quilts NJ
being:
TOMORROW dronss. It, shadop blots
my seefBg.
CULLEN JONES'
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Preparing Public Sentiment

Lieutenant General Brehon Somer-
veil, commanding the Army Service
Forces, gave the country a pretty
good idea, in a radio address last
week, of the physical proportions of
the job for the ASST in redeploying
our armies, after Germany is knocked
out of the war, for the war against
Japan.
He referred to this problem as "by
all odds the most difficult the War
Department has yet had to face" AS
to its physical proportions, he men
toned the inventory of millions OF
tons of supplies, some of which must
be rewarehoused. some designated
for occupational troops in Germany,
some sent in advance of troops to
stations in the Orient. New port
facilities and staging areas will be
necessary, new reception centers es-
tablished. Camps now operating at
a. fraction of capacity will be re-
opened for receiving and fur
Laughing troops brought back from
Europe before re-equipping them for
service in the Orient. Some troops
and supplies will go direct to the
East, not stopping in the United
States.
Past performances of the Army
Service Forces indicate that the
physical job will be performed with
the remarkable efficiency which has
characterized the services of supply.
But another and very delicate and
difficult job must be done by the War
Department in preparing the people,
as we'll as the troops, for the emo
tional strains which will accompany
the selection of the men, now in the
service, for carrying on the war
against Japan. Some of the men in
Europe will stay there with the army
Of occupation. Some will be brought
back to the United States for brief
rest and re-equipment before sailing
for the Orient. Some may be dis
charged. Some may go direct from
European to Pacific battle stations.
The War Department has been
working on this problem and has
devised point" system. under
which consideration will be given to
arbitrary factors, such as soldiers
family status, length and character
OF service. etc. in selecting, as equi-
tably as possible, those who will
carry on the war against Japan. The
important thing, however, is to OBJ
tain public understanding of the
nature of that problem which will,
in turn, assure the War Department
of the necessary public support of
whatever it finds necessary to do
Without that support. and under
pressure from Congress as we'll as
influential groups of citizens, the
War Department may find it hard to
do what popular sentiment demands
and at the same time meet the nee
essary military requirements of the
still unfinished war against Japan.
One difficulty now is that Ger
many is yet to be licked, and dis
cussion of what is to happen after
that is considered premature, cross
ing a troublesome bridge before we
come to it. On the other hand, most
citizens are intelligent enough to
understand that We day is merely
the beginning of another phase of
war still to be finished The more
the War Department takes the pub
lie into it's confidence in making
known what to expect after We day.
the easier it may be to win public
support for the steps that must then
be taken.
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reached, and after more than i've
years OF strain and heavy losses,
Germany clearly has case OF per-
nicious military anemia for which
there is simply no cure. Sooner or
later the collapse must come, and
there is some reason to hope that
it will come on day that is now
not too far off.
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that assistance-which is imperative
cannot be limitless and govern
ments abroad will be wise to give
due allowance to that reality. The
situation boils down to two basic
facts: First, that there is a shipping
strain, and second, that our national
resources are far from inexhaustible.
Under such conditions control body
like the interagency committee
seems not only sound but altogether
indispensable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-13

Japan's latest secret weapon seems
to be an invisible navy.
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that the japanese Navy is hiding be-
cause 1t is afraid to fight seems a
rather tar-fetched conclusion. Nothing
could be more stupid than for the
grand fleet to come out in the Pacific,
or in the South Seas for that matter,
and engage q superior enemy with no
chance whatever Of success. 1t Is OBJ
vious, then, that the Japanese will fight
for the strategic necessities, which are
to hold the Sea of Japan, Korea, Man
churia and Port Arthur.
1t is quite within the range of posi-
bility that the final land battle will not
be in Japan at all, but in Manchuria,
where one can imagine the Japanese
caught between Russian army adj
vancing slowly from the north and an
American army moving up from the
south
The last position the Japanese are
likely to hold is Port Arthur itself. It
must be remembered that the Rus
slams, with garrison of hardly more
than 10000. held the place for eight
months, and its final capture cost the
japanese ultimate casualties Of nearly
two and half times the number in
the garrison holding the fortress. 1t
barely is possible that if the Japanese
elected to hold it, and had modern de-
lenses, the place might remain in enemy
hands months after the armies else
where had been defeated.
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No Terror Raids
BY David Laurence
q the st. Louis Star-Times.

Reproduction RIGHTS Reserved.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-19
HURLEY'S PLATITUDES

At the Kremlin Hurley said some
thing to the effect that he hoped
Stain believed China must not be
split up; to which Stain, of course,
agreed
Then he asked in effect: You
are for a unified China, aren't
you, Marshall Again Stain, of
course, agreed.
There followed some other ques-
lions on innocuous points, and the
interview was over. Ambassador
Hartman left by plane immedi-
ately for Washington, very much
annoyed that Hurley failed to take
up any real issues with Stain.
Stain had agreed only to obvious
and general platitudes about China
But when Hartman arrived in
Washington, he found Hurley had
already cabled the State Depart
ment that Stain had endorsed his
program for China. Hartman
promptly advised the State Depart
ment that this was not the case
However, Hurley's telegram some
how or other found its way to the
Chinese Embassy in Washington,
which cabled it to Chungking,
where the Chang Kai-Shek Gov
eminent gleefully spread the word
that Stain had agreed to its pro-
gram. Naturally, Chiang's program
calls for minimum of cooperation
with the Northern Chinese-in fact
less than none.
So now Chang Kai-Shek is much
less compromising and the problem
of getting the two factions together
is right back where it was when
Gen. Vinegar Joe" Stilwell de-
manded that the Generahssimo CO.
operate and was fired for his pains
Meanwhile. Stain may come out
with full recognition Of the Nor
thern Chinese any minute.
Note-The State Department is
also upset over the fact that Mrs.
Hurley has accepted q bracelet said
to be worth around $4,000 from
the Chinese Ambassador in Wash
ington. Naturally, this is interpreted
in Chinese circles as putting him
squarely in the Chang Kai-Shek
camp and diminishes his usefulness
as an impartial negotiator
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skoWlsss RuNwAY-rhis arshise
NY ALLAN J. FUNCH
~enfr5I Press CORRESPONDENT

=
BUFFALO, N. Y. - Engineers
laced with the problem of huge
airports forced out Of operations
because of heavy SHOWS and ice
today came up with a novel sug-
gestion for snow melting lines be-
meath runways and taxing strips.
During the past December and
january, airports in many states
were closed down for days at a
stretch due to heavy SHOWS, drifts
and ice ruts.
One large metropolitan airport
with 100000 worth of snow re-
moval equipment and with the
help of county road crews and
Army Air Forces personnel, never
theless had to cancel more than
500 flights over a five-day period
because its runways were snow
bound. This airport operated on an
emergency basis for almost q
month.
Naturally, such suspension OF
business means hundreds of thou
sands of dollars lost, so it is no
wonder the industry is taking note
of an airport at Buffalo where a
1312-.nch snowfall was handled
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without so much as lifting q shovel.
Instead of moving snow after it
has fallen, at the Buffalo airport
there are a series of underground
ow-melting lines beneath the
runways. Hot water wrought iron
pipe grids beneath the runwaya
raise the surface temperature of
the strips to 20 or IS degrees,
melting the snow as it falls and
evaporating the moisture.
The system functions only dur
ing those hours when snow is fall
ing and. according to engineers,
operates at a nominal cost.
Bunalo's Experiment
Airport officials, designers and
maintenance engineers throughout
the country have watched the Buff
falo experiment. They believe that
airports in the future will require
one-inch to one and one-quarter-
inch wrought iron pipe lines.
These lines would be spaced
about a yard apart, and formed in
to grids OF Approximately 1000
foot circuits. laid beneath the sur
face of runways to form an eff
fective SNOW removal machine"
Steam from the airport's boiler
house could be fed into small un-
Gerernund heat exchaneer in each
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-19

Music Hall in New York refused to
play the newsreel of Nazi prisoner
atrocities. Too gruesome, was the
complaint. The Hays Office also
withheld its approval on docu-
mentary film of atrocities because
it repeated too many gruesome
scenes" The Hays Office
prefers jazz. Incidentally,
Will Hays will be out of his job
in autumn, when Eric Johnston
of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce
takes over.
Senator Happy Chandler of Ken
lucky, newly elected baseball car,
may stay in the Senate for few
more months, meanwhile working
at his new ball job but not ac-
cepting salary for it. Friends are
advising him to. emulate the late
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands,
who remained on the bench nine
months after becoming baseball po-
tentate Secretary of Commerce
Wallace is having a hard time
bouncing the surplus guards from
the doors of the Commerce De-
partment. His Cabinet colleagues
Ickes, Biddle, Walker and Perkins
relieved the manpower shortage
long ago by getting rid Of wartime
guards, but Admiral Land of the
Maritime Commission is worried
sick for fear someone will steal
some red tape from his office He
shares the Commerce Department
with Wallace.
Copyright, 1915, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
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circuit for conversion into hot
water to be circulated by a pump.
With the temperature raised TO
10 or as degrees. experience has
shown, the heaviest snowfall mel.s
quickly and the cushion of warm
air Immediately over the runway
surface rapidly absorbs the water
and vaporizes it, The result is
dry runway with little mainte-
nance or labor expense.
Sharpest rem, in.ag argument
against the system, engineers say.
is the expense of original installa
ton. Advocates of the plan, how
ever, point out that long run use
of the lines may actually be cheap
err than snow removal by other
methods.
These proponents of the system
point out that the actual cost OF
snow removal at an airport sew
ing an area having million pop
ulation runs about 100000 aiiru-
ally, including yearly charge Tor
equipment, labor and revenue lost
by Cancelled flights.
The underground snow-meiting
system, they estimate, could be III
stalled for $750,000 to $1,000, 900,
depending on the size OF the air.
] port.
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from cold-storage eggs and cold
storage drumsticks, are the ships
executive officer, 1t. 81. g. Robert
l.. Doane, of Essex, Conn.,; and the
engineer, Thomas Avant, warrant
officer, of Miami, Fla.
"Sure they are all going to live,
and it's a cinch this is one flock
that will never fly the COOP" as
serted Doane, brushing aside pessi-
mistic comments of crew members
who pointed out the hazards of
typhoon, tropical disease, and en-
envy bombardment. "Only thing
we have to worry about is chicken
pox-and we are going to vaccinate
them."
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insesi Destroyer
Preserves filsioyy

AMHERST, Mass. -DDT, the hot
shct insecticide. is not only making
his. cry-it's preserving it.
Entomclogists at Massachusetts
State C2l!ege got a frantic call that
moths were raising what
in The upholstery CT deluxe mod
Ell" colonial stage coach owned by the
Amherst Historical Society. The
Scientists produced a gallon jug OF
DDT-and the insects were blitzed
IN short order.
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It's A GIFT

NEW YORK Bundles given
United National Clothing Collection
workers here have included:
IA full set of ration books.
"a girls best skirt. Workers
round it in time for her big date
that night.
3-The family laundry, confused
with used clothing by a small boy
who returned saying, Mama will
be mad at me-"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-19
Speeding
OuiIaWed

BATON ROUGE, La.-Every mo-
tcrist in Baton Rouge undoubtedly
would be subject to S25 fine if the
city resumed enforcement of a re-
Gently dug-up city ordinance of 1910.
1t limits speed on the main street to
eight miles an hour and requires
that every "autocar" be equipped
with a horn or gong measuring at
least four inches across.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-19

On his way back to Chungking
from Washington last month,
Hurley stopped in Moscow where
he called on Stain. 1t was "a very
important interview for the pur-
pose of keeping Stain in line. re-
garding China, preventing him from
boiling the traces, renouncing
Chang Kai-Shek and coming out
100 per cent for the Northern Chi
nese. U. S. Ambassador Averell
Hartman went with Hurley to
make the. call
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-19
DOUGLAS
NEWS
BONNET HOME ON VISIT

Alfred Bennett returned home this
week after several months travelling
through Alaska bases in connection
with his electrical engineering. His
travels took him into the Arctic
Circle as well as most of the interior.
He also visited Homer, where he
visited with the Arthur GRADER fam
lily who are both teaching there and
like their new country very we'll.
During the last two weeks Bonnet
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By Stephen E. McCallum, RM/3c
Gu. S. Coast Guard

ABOARD A COAST GUARD
MANNED FREIGHT SUPPL
SHIP (Speciai. = Strickly fresh
eggs and killed-t order chicken at
sea that is the vision of two
Coast Guard officers aboard this
vessel plying South Sea waters.
And it is a dream that soon may
become a reality, for they have
bought dozen 3-day-old chicks
from Japanese-American farmer
and plan to raise them in a coop
built under the wings of the bridge.
The two officers, long suffering
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Of services will be the Rev. Robert
Treat and the Rev. Edward Budde
Mrs. L. S. Grant will give several
vocal selections. The graduation
exercises will be held Tuesday, May
"a at p. m.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-19
TO KALIspELL, MONTANA

Miss Della Poor left on the Prin-
cess Louise for Kalispell, Montana,
after completing her school term
here. She will join her mother and
family there, after 15-month visit
with relations in Douglas. Miss Poor
was a Freshman.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-19
CAPITOL CHAFF

Able Judge Lou Schwellenbach of
Washington State was definitely
offered the job Of Secretary OF
Labor by Truman but went home
to talk it over with his wife. Dave
Beck. Transfers Union boss on the
West Coast, is the chief man who
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-19

has been stationed at CCrdova, and
after week or SO visit here, will go
to Haines All of Bonnett's travels
are by plane. His equipment totals
over 500 pounds.
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FROM SEATTLE

Mrs. Emmett Anderson returned
yesterday by plane from Seattle
after spending two weeks visiting
there. She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Gust Wahto of Douglas
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-19
JACK HASH VISITS

Jack Hash stopped briefly in
Douglas yesterday and visited old
friends at the school, Hash is in
the service in the Merchant Marine
and was a student in the Douglas
schools last year
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-19
JUSTICE JACKSON GETS MAD

Justice Bob jackson is all
steamed up over his job of War
Criminals Prosecutor, has taken a
six months leave from the SUI
preme Court and is ready to retire
from the court if his blackrobed
colleagues don't like his taking time
off to prosecute the Nazis Be-
lieve it or not, but Radio City
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-19
BAccALAUREATE SUNDAY

Baccalaureate services for the
Senior Glass will be held Sunday
afternoon at o'clock in the Douglas
High School study hall In charge
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-19
3 No. 2 cans kidney beans

No beans = y franklin
lor3 sdredk idneyb ean
II. butter marga IA
greer onion
q
the butter margarine Saute onions pepper celery
anurer Add tomato paste and the wine and cook slowly Tor
Arrange pea
casserole Pour beans Bake in moderate
about Serve with Parmesan style cheese
desired
kidney overnight in water Drain Cook
for hours until tender
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-19
WRIGHT VISITS

Frank Wright. of Sitka, is a
guest at the Baranof Hotel.
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WHITMORE IN TOWN

r. H. Whitmore, of Gustavus, is
a guest at the Baranof Hotel
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CAROL TERRELL HERE

Carol M. Terrell, of Portland,
has arrived in Juneau and is a
guest at the GaStineau Hotel.
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HARDING HERE

Warren Harding, of the U. S.
Weather Bureau at Bethel, has
arrived in Juneau and is a guest
at the Gastineau.
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LOUISE MILLER HERE

Louis W. Miller, of Ketchikan,
is registered at the Baranof
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Washington
Merry
Go-Round

CONTINUED from Page One)
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BUY WAR BONDS
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WICK IN JUNEAU

c. C. Wick, of Seattle, is a guest
at the Baranof Hotel