The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 9, 1945, Page 6

S Agence ARP SETUP, DETECTION DEVICES DEPTH CHARGES, MINES ~ Tas | | i | This is the day for which we/pages of newspapers and first jhave been waiting—the day for|place in the worried thoughts of which the people of the United|the nation, : ; Nations’ have been fighting, suf- )fering and dying. Adolph Hitler’s| howeve: awhells IMPROVED CONVOY TACTICS AP Features Sketches show some of the principal weapons of the Reich and counterdevices which played a major part in overcoming them. . ———— | booby traps, to halt the pulver- izing ‘long-range bombing with WASHINGTON, D. C., May 9.—Germany’s success was respon- rockets, flying bombs and “sil-| sible for her defeat. ver fire”. t Because she did not have the resources to wage toa long a war’ Silver fire, a flaming mass of succersfully, the “blitzkrieg” idea incorporating a much-heralded phosphorous discs, was dropped arsenal of “secret weapons” was adopted. Actually the only thing on bomber formations by enemy secret wos which weapons were —— planes. Glider bombs controlled going to be used next. Aerial ; by radio and rockets fired by blitz, dive ~ bombers, panzers, oe ; enemy planes were also used. parachute troops, magnetic tor- TODAY'S | The corer sain. xe elapse pedoes, rocket » “silver fire” : jer. We knoc! lown the ene- and flying Gale Were simply ___ANNIVERSARIES my planes by arming bombers with longer-range guns and by tactical surprises. Fj Se : The Reich strategy anticipated 1797 Walter Colton, naval Providing long-distance fighters. @ fast sweep through all Europe chaplain, publisher of California’s Rockets made a come-back, before the United States and first’ paper, builder “her first despite their inaccuracy com- Great Britain could mobilize full schoolhouse and first.to publicly pared to orthodox shells, _be- strength. It failed because it announce gold discovery to East, Cause lack. of recoil made them was too ambitious. born Vermont: Died’ Jam: 22, 1851. @ natural’ for launching from air-| Germany's strategy had rough-' 1800—John‘ Brown, famed.abo- Plans or by: infantry. ty three main parts: clever litionist, born; Ti ton, Conn.| Nazi mines’ and ,booby traps propaganda, a sudden attack and Died on the sca: , ‘at Charles- were; murderously:, ingenious. @ mop-up designed to crush ton, Va., Dec. 2, 1859. The ‘Germans wited the bodies seeds of future revolt. z | 1825—George Davidson, Pacific’ of dead, both Allied: and their Significantly, the turning Coast geodesist; U. 8. ‘Coast and,own, hid death .in ; doorknoks, came when Hitler's troops Geodetic scientist ;for 50*,years, | Stairways, faucets, toilet handles, finished their sweep across the born England. Died Dec. 2,'1941. | wine bottles, whistles, radio’ continent from Poland by lick-| 1826—Charles H.<Cramp, Phil-|and apple. trees. img France. His warlords were adelphia shipbuilder, promoter of: _ Nazi.sea warfare was waged not ready to fellow up Dunkirk the mechant marine, born there.' almost exclusively: by a huge with an invasion of Britain, for Diced June:6,.1943; + f {fleet of submarines, many using they had not anticipated sweep-' 1850. -— Edward ‘Weston, famed ; Magnetic or “sonic torpedoes de- tng success so quickly. | Newark, NJ. electrician, inyen- | Signed. to blast at the nearest The Luftwaffe hammered and | tor.,and- manuf 52 boen: in | 48s. Of metal or throbbing pro- By ROBERT M. FARRINGTON AP Features Writer Wested England in familiar |England.“Died Aug.’20, 1936. * |Peller.. The British discharged paitern—but there were , no; floating magnetic mines by fly- plows te enable ground troops to, guns above the. cabs. Because | ing over them with a huge steel follow up jit had to follow a:certain path to | hoop slung below a plane. Battle Lesson Difficult plant its bombs, a path that| Airplanes found and destroy- ‘The breathing spell proved ¢ould be anticipated by a cool-|€4 hidden subs. When we had wufficient tire for the Allied €tved gunner, the Stuka became enough warships for convoy war machine to get under w: a clay pigeon. work, the submarine menac Next for the Allies came the|, Our machine guns, though 5 Siete: oa job of learning how to beat the! little mentioned in the head- enemy's weapons. The lesson|'ines, became truly _ terrible was not simple weapons because of improved ; The formula for halting an| firepower and sighting devices. | eeriel blitz was painfully work-|!" the hands of masters, they | ed out in blood and broken cit-|bave stopped tanks, planes, | ies. Barrage balloons and anti- | Ships and submarines as well as | sireraft defense, though improv- | oops. ed tremendously, were | not| Parachute troops, another sur- enough, so the RAF met the| Prise, were ineffective against Laftwatfe out over the Channel. | *t¥ong ground resistance. Fur- The powerful battery of ma-|ther drawbacks: they could not chine guns in British wings blast-| get through a heavy screen of ed the swastika planes from the| fighter planes en route to their ‘ky—-underlining the military| target; in broken or wooded sxiom: “You're got to meet fire-| Country they could not land un- power with firepower.” injured nor locate their equip- ‘The job was not one of having te invent new weapons but of getting enovgh basic guns as- sembled at the right time and place-—the oldest military head- ache in the world, Dive-bombers, tanks and pan- wr divisions crushed France and sent the U. S. public into a dizzy, clamoring for similar weapons. Actually all France needed was more powerful anti- tamk guns and greater mobility for her famed “75” field piece. Later, desperate Russians, fighting with ‘Molotov cocktails’ (gasoline-filled bottles), TNT and grenades probed tank weak- nesses, ment and food; once on ‘the gadgets, radar and sound instru- ments, was responsible for ruin- ing the Nazi “superman” myth. Full details must still be secret. Our anti-aircraft guns, some- times used as anti-tank weapons too, reached miles into the sky to bring down Nazi planes. Me-} chanical ‘-brains” sat in the mid- dle of a group of A-A, calculat- ing height, speed, direction, windage and a half dozen other | factors. Bag of Tricks | _ When the long retreat to Ber- | lin finally began, the Germans dipped deep into their bag of} We developed the tank-de-|k* They tried to ee stroyer, essentially a standard yest with ant cannon on a fast truck. The { T-Ds waited in ambush and vopped out at sure-death range. Capping the tank-mashers, came the tnvonka, a two-man contraption for firing a powerful rocket which enabled our intans try to convert any tank intof scrap metal Machine Guns Deadly Another German surprise, the Stuka dive-bomber, was king until we learned t© murder it with heavy caliber machine guns and kick-sighting anti-aircraft. Trucks were easy meat until we mounted fast-swiveling’ machine STRAND THEATER TOM CONWAY in “Falcon In Hollywood” Coming: “The Sullivans” MONROE THEATER IDA LUPINO in “IN OUR TIME” Comjng: “Higher ani Higher” i wt Here’s something really new family will love it. New in flavor! New in texture! New in quality! All the delightful, favigorating flavor of freshly- squeezed Orange juice blended and smoothly frozen With fine dairy products; Healthful— nourishing—and swper-delicious! Your entire faded and was never again a major threat. Emphasis On Bombers In the air, emphasis shifted to big, heavily armed and ar- mored bombers. Fundamentally, this was the same thing as had happened in the evolution of artillery guns—an increase in range and size. Constantly, one type of weap- on has had to be improved to meet the threat of another. In American arms, anti-aircraft range has been increased over 100 percent; tank speed, 700 per- cent; bomb size, well over 300; ‘individual soldier’s firepower, over 250. Walker Stone, editor, Scripps- Howard -Newspaper Alliance, born Okemah, ‘Okla., 41 years ago. RATIONING FOODS Book 4, Blue H2-M2 through June 2; N2-S2_ through June 30; T2-X2 through July 31; Y2 - Z2- Al - Cl through August 31. Red Y5. Z5 A2-D2 through June 2; E2-J2 through June 30; K2-P2 through July 31: Q2-U2 through August 31. Ration Board Office, —— STATEMENT ON V-E DAY By CLAUDE PEPPER, Senator From Florida | Nazi empire has died in the year |6 of jreign, foreshadowing the re-es- |tablishment of democratic, insti- {tutions throughout the length and \breadth of the European Contin- ent and throughout the world. It is a day of rejoicing, and it 1s a day of re-dedication, for |peace-loving mankind. Rejoicing, \lor the victory won; re-dedica- i i still to be achieved in the Pacific, ing peace. For let us not forget, in our jbe defeated. Let us not permit in our determination to produce and fight for total military vic- tory against Japan. |fore the Nazi poison is finally eliminated. German industries, | which have been turning out the weapons which have killed so many thousadns of our young men and those of our Allies, |must be dismantled and dispersed until there is no harm left in |them. Their General Staff must jbe liquidated until not a trace remains. Reparations in kind {must be exacted for the devasta- |tion the Nazi armies have | wrought. And finally, every Ger- man, whether officer or enlisted jrsan, Nazi official or ordinary civilian, who has played any part jin committing the _unspeakable Nazi atrocities must receive grim |punishment for his acts from the jmilitary tribunals of the Allied Armies. These things were pledged the world by our late great President | Roosevelt and by Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill at the Crimea Conference last Feb-j ruary, and pledged with new, force today by} the peace-loving peoples of the world. Victory could not have Allies and unity among all peo- ;ple at home. The building of a firm peace and prosperity for all in the days ahead will need the} same unshakable united deter- mination that we gave to the prosecution of the war. On this TIMETABLE Airplane Stamps 1, 2 and 3. Book 3, good indefinitely. SUGAR Stamp 35. Book 4, through June 2; No. 36 through August 31. FUEL Old period, 4 and 5: new pe- riod, 1, 5. GASOLINE 15A through June 21 Post Office Building in the sherbet line: SHERBETS ‘TUNE IN THE JOAN DAVIS-SEALTEST VILLAGE STORE PROGRAM, WITH JACK HALEY, THURSDAYS, Scuithern Dairivd. and JERSEY Seallesl 9:0 P.M, WioD | its boasted thousand-year tion, for the winning of victories and the establishment of a last- rejoicing, that Japan is still a ferocious, ruthless power still to ‘ourselves the slightest let-down craft equipment of World War I.!Gen James H. Doolittle of Tokyo Much remains to be done be- “Beer Barrel Polka.’ they must be re-| | been ours without unity among the! COMPLACENT U.S. | JOLTED FROM PEACE ATLANTA,—J, E. Shields look-} LOS Al ed out into his backyard one McMullin, morning‘ recently to see his large! given 430 Chinaberry tree festooned with child suffering men’s clothing. Detectives sent} stream disease to the scene found the bulk offiut feeling any the clothing in the top of the} ever. j tree and used long fishing poles to fish it out. Laundry marks| were checked but no Atlan‘a! laundry uses the mark found. The AP Features It was in September, 1939, that war news took over the front September 1 of that year, war seemed far, far haste ohio prior er only explanation forthcoming A. lieutenant, colonel named] 48 that the clothing belonged to Lewis B. Hershey was finishing a| 8°Me airplane passenger and fell four-year chore—p g a sitn-| from th¢ plane, the oe ple, peace time selective service) 48 it tumbled to the gr system which he was destined to'{i5naj, the Cincinnati Reds and head. : ae St. Louis Cards were battling for Army officials, complaining that} ine-doubles honor of having their there was not a single fully or-lp ing kicked out in the World ganized division in the United| series, States Army, urged passage of a)” Gen, George C. Marshall was dill to raise “Army peace time] chief of staff then, but Gen. strength to 250,000. i . Eisenhower was a lieu- There was a brief stir after Sen. rete Dae back from an ‘as- D. Worth Clark (D. Idaho) re- signment in the we | turned from the’ Panama Canal)\pore he had'learned to fly. saying soldiers down there had to} Lt. Gen. Mark Clark was a ma- use obsolete guns and antiair-|ior at Fort Lewis, Wash., and Lt. | Americans whistled “Over the : sh jor in the Rainbow,” strained the upper reg- bats sey see : ister with ‘Sunrise Serenade,” or} “Gen, Douglas MacArthur was @ bowled around the ballroom tol retired chief of staff serving’ as field marshal of the . Philippine | Army. “Grapes of Wrath,” a book about the Oakies that John Stein- beck wrote, was rousing Califor- nians’ wrath. “Inside Asia” was top non-fic-} tion, even though what was going; on inside Europe was to affect the! American way of life more imme- diately. | The New York Yankees were, coasting’ ‘to’ another’. ‘Anterican League pennant, and in the Na- ' great day I am confident that all Americans will renew their pledge $f unqualified support to President Truman, who has un- |falteringly picked. up the torch {of leadership from the hand of |President Roosevelt, to the San |Francisco Conference where the foundations of our future peace jare being laid, and to our Armed! 3S ‘Forces in the Pacific until final! Pensi-Cola Company. Long Island City. N.Y. victory is won. | Franchised Bottlers: Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Key West | Missinc today are some of the luxuries—even some of the necessities to which the average American has been long accustomed. We must practice self-denial in many ways almost daily. But there is one thing that is still available to all of us... still unra- tioned. It’s busline service. 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