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MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1943
With confidence in our armed
forces — with the unbounding de
termination of our people—we will
gain the inevitable triumph — so
help us God.
—Roosevelt’s War Message
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu
tion of the war to complete Vic
tory.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Could ye not watch with me one hour?
Matthew 26:40.
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In Flight
Are the Japanese, bred in the belief that
death for the Emperoi guarantees a ticket to
paradise, changing their minds? Or are the
troops who fled Bairoko on New Georgia
different from the common herd?
We can’t answer, of course, but it is note
worthy that the flight on New Georgia fol
lows closely on the heels of that from Kiska,
and both are a reversal of the course taken
by other Japanese on Attu and at Munda,
who chose death to escape or capture.
It may be that as the campaign in the
southwest Pacific continues and the power
of Allied attack is more emphatically borne
home, we will read of more enemy flights,
more Japanese commands turning tail, but it
would be unsound and possibly unsafe to be
lieve that Tokyo has changed its order to its
armed forces and is now recommending flight
when odds are heavy instead of battle to the
death.
The comforting thought on the Kiska and
the Bairoko evacuations is that while the
Japanese started the war in the Pacific fana
tically convinced that success would be theirs,
soldiers in the ranks are gradually acquiring
a fear of death. The person who fears death
is not capable of making the best fight against
it.
I
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Denmark’s Plight
The Danish people, resentful of Germany’s
easy invasion of their land and confiscation
of their resources, have recently thrown off
their early restraint and engaged in sabotage
and open revolt which have cost many Ger
mans and Danes their lives and destroyed
much property utilized by the Germans. In
retaliation, dispatches say that the Germans
have taken over and may even incarcerate
King Christian. Their purpose seems to be
to set up a Quisling government and deprive
the native population of the few privileges
they have thus far enjoyed under the prod
ding of 70,000 German troops quartered in
their cities.
It is not difficult to understand the emo
tions that have led the Danes to revolt, but
it is regretable that their patience gave out
so soon. Their defiance of the conquerors is
* too precipitate. What it will cost them cun
only be surmised. But the price they must
pay will be high.
Despite recent progress in the war against
the Axis, the German armies and the vicious
geslapo are still powerful. Denmark can
gain nothing through open opposition to eith
er. Communication with the outside world
has been severed, an indication that the Ger
mans have no intention of letting the policy
they intend to pursue in the benighted little
land becoming known beyond the frontiers.
It is not improbable that the sacking of Den
mark’s cities will top all other similar ex
ploits by the ruthless Germans. The great
pity of it is that nothing can be done f» stop
it, unless the Allies are prepared to throw
a great invasion force into the land, and it
is not apparent #iat they are. Certainly in
vasion of Denmark at this time would be trq,
»
mendously costly, although the Danish coast
offers one of the best points of invasion be
cause the Germans have not fortified it as
heavily as other points and because of the
short distance en route to Germany.
What effect the German policy toward Den
mark may have upon the schedules of invasion
drafted by the United Nations is not to be
foreseen, but with a global victory to be won
it is hardly probable that any change can
be made in them at this time. The Danes
would have been wiser to bide their time
more patiently, but that is a hard thing to
do with tn enemy’s guns at their backs and
enemy thieves stealing the food out of their
months.
-V
Attack Via The
Mediterranean
With the taking of Sicily, the eyes of the
Allied world are fastened on the northern
Mediterranean shores as probable bridge
heads of invasion.
Many of us glibly talk of the approaching
attack on Fortress Europe by the Mediterra
nean route with little or no knowledge of
the lay of the land along the Mediterranean’s
more than 3,500 miles of varied coastline.
It appears appropriate to look at the map
of the area, if only to appreciate the obstacles
that stand in the way of invasion.
There is no picnic ahead for Allied expedi
tionary forces, via the Mediterranean, despite
the bombing of strategic centers.
The shores of France, Italy, Yugoslavia,
Albania, and Greece stretch between Spain
and Turkey. Axis authorities have cleared for
action the entire French Mediterranean front.
They have set up “defense walls” along the
coasts of the Balkan states and Italy. Certain
islands, such as Italy’s eastern outpost. Cas
telrosso, are reported evacuated, while oth
ers, like Greece's Crete, are reinforced. To
make the best use of natural island defenses,
Japanese experts in that field have been im
ported.
Italy, centerpiece in Europe's southern
front, has the longest coast to defend. As
estimated in offshore sailing distance, it meas
ures roughly 1.800 miles—some six times the
length of France’s Mediterranean shore, and
more than four times as long as the coast
of Yugoslavia. Albania has the shortest sea
front—about 170 miles: Greece, with the most
broken coastline, has roughly 900 miles.
The water gaps that separate the Allies
in North Africa and Sicily from their various
south-European goals include five diverse arms
of the Mediterranean—the Ligurian. Tyrrhen
ian, Adriatic, Ionian, arid Aegean seas.
Each nation along the south-E'uropean “in
vasion coast” presents its own problems of
difficult or relatively easy sea approaches; of
island stepping stones or hazards: of varied
population density, different languages and
degrees of Axis sympathy.
Especially significant is the question of com
munications, considered both in the light of
enemy facilities for bringing up defense re
inforcements, and of advance lines for the
invaders moving on from established foot
holds. Unlike northern and western Europe,
with closely-woven systems of highways and
railways, the southern areas of the continent
lack extended communication links. The Bal
kan nations particularly are weak in trans
port facilities, although a few new military
roads have been built by the Axis occupying
forces. An important one is the all-weather
highway reported now completed from Bul
garia to Adriatic ports of Yugoslavia and Al
bania. *
The coast of France offers striking variety
for landing activities. Its western shores,
curving around the great Gulf of Lion, are
low’ and marshy, with sandy beaches sur
rounding many small salt lagoons. Along the
eastern half of the coast, beyond Marseille,
on the contrary, mountain passes push close
to the sea in bold precipitous walls.
Italy, too, offers sharp contrasts. The coas
tal region of the Gulf of Genoa is high and
rugged, like neighboring France. Farther
south, the western coast flattens out here and
there into sandy and marshy coastal plains.
The southwest "toe” of Italy, made up of
the mountainous province of Calabria, is still
another story of massive obstruction, while
the heel of the boot is flat and rolling with
little to provide natural defense positions.
Across the narrow Adriatic Sea from Italy,
the Yugoslav coast rises in formidable and
picturesque mountain ranges. All along this
shore, where rocky offshoots of the ranges
have been drowned and corroded by the sea,
a tortuous series of gulfs, channels, islands
and peninsulas has been formed.
Again, the Albanian front presents contrast
in a fringe of swampy plains, although back
in the interior loom wild and inaccessible
mountains. Equally mountainous Greece is
nearly everywhere steep-shored, and is flank
ed by islands whose destiny as nests of oppo
sition or steppingston’es to the continent is yet
undisclosed.
The question as to the geographic softness
of the south European front is therefore de
nied by the map, as it shows up many haz
ards. It indicates, rather than a “soft under
belly,” a spiny backbone of mountains rais
ed across southern Europe from the Spanish
Pyrenees to the Greek Rhodopes.
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Equal Rights
On the Senate calendar and pending before
the House Judiciary Committee is a constitu
tional amendment, known as the Equal Right
Amendment, which reads: “Equality of rights
under the law shall not be denied or abridged
by the United States or by any state on ac
count of sex.”
On the twenty-third anniversary of women’s
suffrage, two women’s groups took occasion
to voice their differences of opinion on it.
Alice Paul, chairman of the National Woman’s
party, sponsor of the amendment, declared:
For us in the United States, with the
tool of equal suffrage in our hands, the
end of the long and hard-fought struggle
for equality is already in sight. With
the passage of the Equal Rights Amend
ment, equality for women will become the
birthright of future generations.
A contrary view was voiced by Margaret
Wells, president of the National League of
Women Voters, who 3aid:
It makes an unnecessary and frivolous
demand upon the attention of members of
Congress at a time when the fate of our
country and the world demands their at
tention. It proposes to clutter up the
Constitution with an unnecessary declara
tion of doubtful meaning 23 years after
women have won equality with the rest of
the electorate. . . Any recognition women
wish to earn, they may now achieve
through their equal rights as citizens of
the United States as provided in the 19th
Amendment to the Constitution.
As Adam learned in Eden that it doesn’t
pay to argue with a woman, we suggest that
the women be permitted to settle this dis
pute among themselves and the issue be left
for announcement in the brave new world we
hope for later on.
tr
Fair Enough
(Editor*! Note.—The Star and the News aceepts no
responsibility for the personal views of Mr. Pegler,
and often disagree with them as much as many of
his readers. His article* serve the good purpose of
making people think.
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
NE?W YORK.—When a dressed-up, carriage
trade Republican goes to his knees between
the car tracks on Main street at high noon
and comes up rolling his eyes and his tongue
to confess to the neighbors that he has lived
in error but now aims to get right with the
Lord, why friends, that ain’t just only news.
Friends, that there is history and history
happened this week when Mr. Clarence Bud
dington Kelland came out with his personal
plan for the brave new world of the future
before the National Republican club.
Hallelujah!
I had a preview of Mr. Kelland’s plan sev
eral days before, a long, hard-reading script
that led off with a search of his soul and a
purge of his innards that purified him of ail
prejudice, preconception, rancor, meanness
and bile. I laid it down at the end of this
preamble however with the thought that Mr.
K. was being comic but wasn’t at his best.
For I have known Mr. Kelland these many
years in his role of jester as president and
toastmaster of the Dutch Treat club and could
not picture this acid little imp, two pounds
lighter than a nickel’s worth of nothing and
with a Mr. Punch profile, as the author of a
world-plan.
Ray Clapper, however, now' salutes him and,
w’ith an implied amen, ^says he had always
had him rated as an isolationist. That’s noth
ing. I have known him as a humorist. It
isn’t so hard to take an isolationist seriously
but to pay respectful attention to the Mr. K.
of the Dutch Treat club you first have to tear
him all down, throw him away and build
you a new character. So I got out his text
again and studied it through, all the while
watching for the gags and gimmicks with
which he used to lacerate the vanity of the
Dutch Treat’s guests of honor and his fellow
members at the confidential luncheons under
our venerable and dustry cheese-cloth rose,
and concluded that our Mr. K. was not the
novelist being precious nor the wit being
funny but an American, and a Republican at
that, offering to go walking into the future
with Britain, China and even Stalin; but in
sisting, for the first time in any such dis
cussion, that, instead of renouncing all bene
fits from the war in the name of pure ama
teurism, this time we maintain our fighting
strength and hold the defensive outposts now
in our possession. All p"e ,'ious proposals that
I know of had piously repudiated such de
signs as unworthy of a breed thrice-armed be
cause our cause is just and, as though, in
growing great, we had never acquired an acre
by force or pressure or a subject without the
written consent of the same. Mr. Kelland
wants us to turn pro and he makes his plan
solid and specific by contrast with the shape
less dreams of men without the candor to say
what they mean about Bermuda and other
European outposts near our shores, nor even
to mean it if challenged.
He may not trust Russia but he yields to
the practical fact that Russia will have to be
dealt in on the receivership of the smashed
up nations and treated as an associate or, in
time, met as an enemy. He bows to a con
viction that the United States, as one of the
four great victorious powers of the world, can
remain great and hope to avoid further world
wars only by loyal collaboration with the
other three.
Now this Mr. K. has been suspected of hav
ing somber moods several times in the past.
Usually at the annual Dutch Treat show,
somewhere after the intermission, some his
toric patriot, such as Nathan Hale or Paul
Revere, would appear in a green spotlight
and declaim a Fourth of July oration by Mi.
K. about the founding fathers, the sacred
heritage and the elusive joys of honest toil
at loom or plow. But by that time the guests
and members would be strayed all over the
Waldorf and calling up La Guardia to ask
him why he didn’t stay on the job and earn
his pay and we gave Bud the benefit of the
d°Then a few years back, he threw in with
the punch-drunk regular Republicans in ear
nest ageing men so badly mauled with epi
thets and shocks that they still thought Hord
ing was president; and still we filmed that
our Bud was just studying amusing types
and would come up with material for a novel
I am now forced to believe, however that
lie has a streak of senator in him all the
time, for our little chairman has given the
Republicans a much more talkable and salable
program than the Atlantic Charter and all the
speeches of Henry Wallace and the columns of
Mrs R It is something that people can un
derstand. debate and accept or reject in whole
^ in nart on its merits, and it doesn t promise
food off our tables and shoes off our feet for
ever to peoples the world over who outnumber
USMy0 senseeof humor may be numb, but if
M? K is jesting now the gag eludes me.
It will become a victory which not only dis
arms our enemies but discredits what they
practiced and believed.—Archibald MacLeish,
librarian of'Congress.
NO. 1 ON THE HIT PARADE
Raymond Clapper Says:
Many Successful Men
Fail In U. S. Capital
By RAYMOND CLAPPER
WASHINGTON. — You could al
most stand on the proposition that
a man who has made a success in
his business or profession takes a
50-50 chance of being discredited
and publicly humiliated when he
accepts a responsible post at
Washington.
That is a terrible thing to say
But far worse than the saying of
it is the sad fact that it is substan
tially true.
Many names will come to your
mind. When Elmer Davis came to
Washington only a year ago he
was one of the most respected of
all radio commentators. He had
worked hard for years to win the
confidence of people' in his integri
ty, judgment and ability as an an
alyst of events. After having ach
ieved notable success by a life
time of work, Mr. Davis was draft
ed to become chief of OWI.
Now, a year later, Davis is
bruised, discouraged, held up to
savage attack in Congress and in
the press. And his chief who
brought him here, gives him the
rough brushoff, and leaves him
standing alone and exposed to ev
ery political brickbat.
Doesn't Mr. Roosevelt know that
he is the real target of these
brickbats? Yet men like Davis
must stand out in front and take
them — and with no ijrotection,
no support, no thanks from the
chief they serve. You would not
find a better man to head OWI.
but that would never be suspected
from the treatment Davis re
ceives.
Davis means nothing to me. But
he ought to mean something to
the government.
That is only a handy illustration
of the careless and callous waste
of good braips and ability by this
Administration — far less excusa
ble than waste in dollars.
Where is the reputation of Wil
liam S. Knudsen, who spent a
lifetime to achieve supreme suc
cess in automobile production? Or
of Donald Nelson, a crack business
executive? Or dozens of others you
could name who have been pulled
through the Washington knothole?
To turn to another type, the men
who hoped to make careers of pub
lic service, men like Leon Hen
derson and Milo Perkins. Both are
men of exceptional ability, excep
tionally devoted to public service.
Both were kicked out as sacrificial
goats by the President for whom
they would have laid down their
lives. Wallace is. getting it, too.
In many countries, and in this
country in the past, it has been
considered an honor to work in
public office. One who worked
with reasonable ability and indus
try could at least feel that he was
serving usefully, and that he hold
a respected place in the commu
nity. Now it seems as if all of the
dignity has gone out of public
service here.
No one familiar with politics ex
pects democracies to be grateful.
That is not the trouble here. It is
not the public that is doing it. Sin
cere, hard-working, loyal men here
are being knifed by men around
them, men above and below them,
men in the next office, mep down
the hall, men they are sitting with
in conference every day.
There is the smell of decadence
over this place, and a stifling mias
ma of court intrigue. When a name
is mentioned, does the big man in
the White House smile or frown?
Who is in the dog house this morn
ing? Dozens of able men wake up
every morning wondering where
they stand. In an administration
that has made social security its
watchword, there is less individu
al security among appointed offi
cials than I have seen in a quar
ter of a century as a newpaper re
porter here.
In a uniform you are reasonably
safe. You may be shelved, but it
will be done quietly and without
subjecting you to public humilia
tion. The real, heroes are the ones
who come here to work in civilian
capacity. If they attract any at
tention at all, it is likely to be un
favorable attention. The chief rec
ognition they can expect is the
leather medal and the boot.
Efficient public servants never
were more needed. Government
will be more difficult now than
ever before. But unless good men
have behind them a number of
southern Democrats in Congress,
they might as well keep their
trunks packed. An election is com
ing on and everyone is apt to be
judged by the number of votes he
swings.
-V
Daily Prayer
FOR WAR'S CHILDREN
Upon our hearts, O Father of us
all. lies heavily the burden of war’s
children — suffering, homeless,
fatherless ones in Nazi-conquered
lands: and all who. in the United
Nations, are deorived of th» ten
der care of parents. As Jesus
loved little children, and had
compassion upon them, so would
we bear them in dear remem
brance and care. We bring to Thee
the boys and girls, who, by the ex
igencies of war, are depi'ived of
home training; and subject to
new temptations and hardships.
Make soft our heai-ts within us
that we each may fulfill to the
utmost our duty toward these in
heritors of a new woi-ld. Without
fit children from today we cannot
have fit men and women for to
morrow, with its long hard taks of
a remade world. Speed the day of
complete victory, O Lord God of
Hosts, that we may be in time to
salvage our priceless youth. And
Thine shall be the glory, as Thine
is the Power. $men.—W. T. E.
The Literary Guidepost
By JOHN SELBY
"Battle Hymn of China,” by Agnes
Smedley (Knopf; $3.50)
Up to this moment, Agnes Smed
ley’s ‘“Battle Hymn of China” is
the finest job of reporting China to
the world I have read. The book
is very long, and the amount and
variety of the material it contains
is almost bewildering. But this is
no disadvantage when the trend of
the whole is easily grasped.
Miss Smedley’s book is unified
and often ennobled by the fact
that through all its course the
author sees China and her strug
gles through the eyes of the under
dog. Possibly she comes as close
to understanding the tangle of
Chinese politics as any Occidental:
she not only lived in China for 12
years of her recent career, but
she also fought for China. Four
years were spent with the nation
al and guerilla armies at the front.
She has done everything from at
tending banquets to burying the
dead, and although she spent much
time with the generals, she
spent much more with the troops
themselves. She froze with them,
caught their plentiful diseases,
tried to teach and to cure. Her
story is no Vincent Sheean Wagon
t
Lit journey from one notable to
another. Miss Smedley’s trips were
made on foot, slogging down the
rutty roads of China through Jap
anese held country where a light
ed cigarette might, and often did,
mean death.
For me the most important thing
“Battle Hymn of China” brought
was some understanding of the
tortuous couise of Chiang Kai
shek. Now he is the symbol of
Chinese resistance to the western
world, but when Miss Smedley
first knew him, he was in China
the symbol of reaction and not
above ordering the national army,
so-called, to fire upon Chinese
“communist” armies and hold
their fire against the Japs. The
picture was very complicated only
a few years back and Miss Smed
ley clarifies it remarkably well.
By a strange adjustment, the
thousands of Chinese executed as
“communists” whether they were
communists or not have been
justified. The Chinese armies de
scended from the' old so-called
“red” troops are proving, Miss
Smedley writes, the bulwark of
the Chines^ nation. This is a book
that shows the real China under
a very bright light
Manpower Shortage May
Keep Householders Cold
Tank Truck Drivers Lacking
In Fuel Transport Companies
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. — UP) —
Manpower shortages may do more
than fuel oil rationing to keep
householders cold this winter, the
Office of Defense Transportation
said today.
Local distributors of fuel oil
face serious shortages of tank
truck drivers and mechanics to
keep their trucks in shape, ODT
reported in urging all such dis
tributors to seek War Manpower
Commission designation as “locally
needed’’ industries at once.
It is customary in the industry
for tank truck drivers and me
chanics to seek other work in the
slack summer months, ODT offi
cials said. This year, many of
them went into wav production
work, and “if cold weather finds
local deliverers unable to restaff
their fleets, cold homes will re
sult.”
Designation of an industry as
“locally needed” does not make
its employes immune to the draft,
but does open the way for local
draft boards to defer such em
ployes if it is decided their efforts
are important to the local war ef
fort.
-V
French Farmers Told
To Store Foodstuffs
NEW YORK, Aug. 29—UP)—An ap
peal to farmers of occupied
France to store food for the “dif
ficult period” tnal may follow Al
lied invasion of Europe was
broadcast today by Radio France
at Algiers.
An invasion would lead the Ger
mans to increase their demands
on France, and military operations
likely would prevent the Allies
from bringing food to the French
people for a while, said the broad
cast recorded by U. S. govern
ment monitors.
It also urged farmers to make
arrangements to- take food to city
markets at the proper time to pre
vent famine and help the popu
lace in “the great fight for nation
al liberation.”
-V
The lobster swims backward.
So, when caught, it is easy for
him to blame it all on Nature.
Interpreting
The War
BY HAMILTON W. far0n
The underground, expected .
mately to play a maj^ r
crushmg the Axis, shows ** I
seethmg throughout occupied jJ
From every quarter come -
indications of the growing anv;W
of the enslaved nations to cast «
German oppression and to -ai,i" '
venge for their sufferin'" ,1
Axis domination.
The signal for the uprising
promised fighting patriots 0f P ~
quered lands when time is riDP
coordinated action - apparent
has not gone out from Allied sour
ces. Instead the actions are who J
spontaneous outpourings (Jf n I
up hatred.
That spontaneity mav be
harmful than helpful in the i
run, if the signal has not
given. Small and localized action
against the Germans, -sabota-e
guerrilla warfare all can be cm
ried out by individuals or -
bands. But a general movemer
timed too soon, could have the "•
feet of causing only temporary d i
ficulties for the invaders ' ard
harm to the underground throu'
revealing its leaders.
Such disclosure of patriot ]ead
ers and plans already has bee
sought on occasions by Genr.w
An example was the Germs
broadcast directed toward -r
Balkans recently which asserted
that Allied troops had landed V,
the mainland of Italy and wMe
advancing up the boot. Strategics
believe the inaccurate broacc., •
was principally an attempt to
force the underground leader,. t0
move into the open. The
failed.
In Denmark, which well rrav be
the scene of one thrust in ; f
eventual invasion of continental
Europe, destruction and violence
surging through occupied countries
has reached a peak. There. r4tier
than longer submit to the itrcife
patriots are burning and blmmj
up their industries, and Dsr.-a
sailors have scuttled most of
tiny Danish fleet, Stockholm re
ports.
Some possibilities exist t lat the
uprisings there may have b en de
liberately provoked in anoth t Na
zi attempt not only to iorce lead
ers into the open, but as a fish
ing expedition in an effort to gain
an indication of invasion plans.
That possibility was seen by mil
itary observers in discussion ol
the German decree of martial law
in Denmark—“could it be invasion
jitters?”
Unrest is growing across the
Kattegat in neutral Sweden whmi,
is at odds with Germany over lie
sinking of Swedish merchant ships.
In France the Gestapo is report
ed to have arrested—in effect ■
naped—the former president. Al
bert LeBrun, who could have been
engaged in activities aiding Fit
patriots against the Axis. Tn.o
cause of his arrest, however, was
not disclosed in meager informa
tion from Swiss sources.
Bulgaria, Axis partner in the
war against Russia, is reported
an uproar since the sudden der,"
of King Boris. Some observe!'
here feel that he was assassins:,
after quarreling with Hitler a
refusing to send Bulgarian trot::
to the Russian front.
Bulgaria was the first of Gf
many’s satellites to collap-r
the last war. Word now ofr- ■'
demonstrations indicate a '
situation may be building t;: A
ing the way for assault up -■
many from the rear. A»
event Bulgaria should split
the Axis it would require
many to use more troops, : er -■
on fighting fronts, for Par,i>lD.:
of the Balkans, where many Bui
gar units now are employee. (
Two more threats to the • -
are vaguely pictured m *e m
from southern Europe- ^
ly shown is the possibility of -
er action by the valiant Cheti-.
With American air bases - ^
ly it is wholly possible that v
may fly over i Czc
dropping materials c
other supplies to the m '
women waging Surr
against Germany from the m •
tain retreats of their home
The other shaping threat
Hungary, whence have cm
confirmed reports that - -
of Hungary now have om.
aim in the war—peace.
You’re
Telling Me
t„ll
“Who said this was a_
world?” grumbled Grandip-.
Jenkins today, as he discove.
he was still 50 miles from h
with an empty gas tank
one ration coupon left.
; i t
The sneak always fisu'j.
Jap strategy of war. . _
bor — sneak attack. h
sneak retreat.
; i »
Poor Pa—the summei
offensive may be over. '
fur coat campaign is abou
Sin’ ! - -
“Why,” asks a read* • ■ ]
Nazi flag colored, red.
black?” That's easy - ,e a,j
shame, white with
black with despair.
! ! 1 baVc.
U. S. troops use a shrr.er ■ .,f
net—but that shouldn't P«' ‘ lhe
Axis from eventually Sc.
point.
Ill ..
When cornered by a moose. —^
a Maine game warden, h ‘ ar.d
into the air and yell at ■ ■■
he will run away. An“ ‘th!j
doesn’t-why, just show him
clipping.