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27 THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES, SUNDAY, AUG. 6, 1944 Wheat AAore Can Hitler Do the World? THE COURSE OF THE WAR By Max Werner Hifler's Defense Program Is Futile FUEHRER, FACING DEFEAT, THREATENS TO DESTROY EUROPE 17 miles away, where the Maquis 4. fr tical item, namely the decision to rush to the front all the military forces available in the rear, putting into their places formations hastily called to the colors. Germany is compelled to throw into battle literally her last soldier.

However, the German High Command will not be able to find any vast reserves for the emergency. But with the battle of Europe nearing its climax the amount of German losses undoubtedly outweighs the wehrmacht's supplementation with reserves. The size of the wehrmacht will steadily diminish. Meanwhile the German army cannot expect marvels from the total mobilization which has its fixed timetable. The deployment of the new wave of the military effort is determined by the time necessary for the training of troops, reorganization of production and achieving of standard output for new types of weapons.

A total war mobilization in the third reich was already declared after the Stalingrad disaster in January, 1943 and it is timely to remember that, according to the official calculations of the German ministry of economy, full results were to be expected by November, 1943, that is to say 10 months later. But after these 10 months had passed, the situation of the wehrmacht had not improved, but deteriorated. It was then, in November, 1943, that it lost its most important sector of defense on the Dnieper river. It took the Soviet Union, with all its super human effort, fully 17 months from the German aggression to Stalingrad, to complete total mobilization and to proceed to the first great offensive. Thus even the most optimistic German timetable can hardly envisage results from the new super-mobilization before June 1945 a poor consolation for the wehrmacht being bled white and in desperate retreat.

The new weapons with which Gpebbels threatens the Allies are a special case. In all probability these are not 7 TWILIGHT OF THE GODS Hitler, a devotee of Wagnerian opera, may ro down (o a crashing defeat killing all he can in the manner of the melodramatic character he adores. but eight of 800 inhabitants. Women and children were driven into a church and locked in with a case of explosives. An hour later the charge went off.

The village was destroyed, the Nazis said, because its natives had a firearms dump. Later a German official stated the village was destroyed "in error." The atrocity was intended for Ora-dour-sur-Vayres, a larger place, the massacre, found only a handful of survivors all fear-crazod children roaming the woods. Thus the Nazis revenged the deaths of 30 German soldiers in a battle with Greek resistance groups near the village. ORADOUR SUR GLANE, French Lidice by mistake! Again on June 10, 1944, German SS troops slaughtered all THE BOMBAY PLAN The new German war plan is not accommodated to the pace of the Battle of Europe. The unsurpassed Russian blitz is overrunning German defenses in the east, while in the west and in the south the wehrmacht must expect new blows.

The Turkish break with Germany will endanger the Third Reich in the whole southeast, opening new avenues for invasion. The decision of the war may be reached on the Central vis-tula and somewhere between Normandy and Paris. War planning today means the planning of this summer's campaign and even more than that the planning of just the current battle. In this situation every week and even every day count because the military scene may be changed suddenly. But Hitler is trying to counter the avalanche approaching the German frontiers with a peculiar, long-range war plan drawn to the scale of protracted war and long term strategy.

This Hitlerism defense program, based as it is on the total super-mobilization and Introduction of new super weapons, will fail. The weakest link of the German military system is still its leadership. It is exposing the wehrmacht to slaughter and defeats. It has no plan for the present campaign. It is not the loss of territory which is decisive for German defeat in the east, but the manner in which the territory was lost, the disorderly retreat with its tremendous, irreparable losses in jnen and war material.

The wehrmacht is melting on the eastern front, its power of resistance is decreasing. The main problem of German defense is the immediate regrouping and stabilization of the front but Hitler is substituting the battle-plan for he does not possess a broad plan calculated to bring results in 1945 rather than in August 1944. But now it is too late for German strategy to think and act in long term calculations. The new plan of total mobilization has only one prac AMPHIBIAN PLANE By TRUDI McCULLOUGII AP Features Writer NEW YORK "They must be using her to scare the Japanese," Columbia aircraft workers who make the J2F-6 used to crack. Until a month ago the builders of this ugly duckling amphibian, whose motor roar is amplified frighteningly by echoing against the hollow pontoon, didn't know what they were making her for.

They simply knew that Navy and Coast Guard pilots flew the noisy Ducks away from the Long Island plant's apron as fast as they could be put there. Early last month a telegram of congratulation from the bureau of aeronautics conferred glamor on the short winged, long-snouted Duck for the first time. Because she can go where other planes can't, take off amid 10-foot waves or from a carrier deck, sit down in a narrow lagoon, channel or creek and doesn't nose aver in the water, the Duck has become the "rescuing angel" to many a wrecked pilot in the Pacific. ALL AROUND WORKHORSE That is the Duck's most spectacular function but, as a general workhorse, she has become to the Navy what the jeep is to the Army. She's used for reconnaissance, fitted with the latest photographic and radio equipment, and is invaluable for making water landings at the rim of islands where no airstrip has been constructed.

She hauls personnel and light cargo, tows gunnery targets, has gone on bombardment attacks in the South Seas and scouted for submarines in the Atlantic. Security prohibits any details on her armament, but the Duck depends DEMOCRACY AT WORK The on INDIA'S 15-YEAR PROGRAM TO AID INDUSTRY, AGRICULTURE AND LIVING PROVES A RESCUING ANGEL FOR ti i A tactical weapons, that is to say, at least the larger part of them are not designed for combat. Thus they will not strengthen the German army on the battlefield. The Third Reich is unable to compete with the U. coalition in the main tactical weapons, in artillery, tanks and planes.

This the Nazis have confessed. The wehrmacht cannot count on any weapon which could enhance its chances for defense and counter offensive. The technological thought of the wehrmacht obviously was working in the field of the tricky, adventurous and psychologically impressive weapons which belong, roughly speaking, in the class of super-long-range engines of great destructive fire power. Obviously none of these weapons can change the desperate strategic situation of the wehrmacht. These weapons can have terrific nuisance value, they can wreck havoc, but they cannot win battles, they cannot even master the battlefield.

I disagree completely with Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times who several times has admitted the hypothetical possibility that new German weapons could turn the tide of the war and prevent the German defeat. No technical tricks can change a strategic issue clearly determined by the relationship of power and the innumerable battles won by the anti-Hitler armies and lost by the Germans. In a military sense the alleged German super-weapons are sub-weapons, devices of inferior tactical efficiency. Being beaten on the battlefield with modern combat technology the brains of the wehrmacht now are turning toward a kind of technical escapism, machines a la H. G.

Wells. Where the German generals failed the technical wizards will fail, too. But of course quick and smashing blows especially in the west on the coast are the best preventive means against the blind vengeance attempts of the doomed enemy. '''J has a very shallow draft and can land in a few feet of water. She is in use in Alaska and on every front in the Pacific.

The bureau of aeronautics telegram chronicled one of the Pacific exploits. A Navy pilot had been forced down off Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides islands. In seas so high a heavy patrol plane had to turn down the assignment, Maj. Ronald Campbell, took off in a Duck. Status first we had a little difficulty but we quickly adjusted ourselves.

I have learned a great deal about negroes by working along with them." "Of course we didn't pick negro staff members indiscriminately," says Roth. "White or negro, we judged them on their ability and efficiency and the ablest got the jobs. "Our greatest obstacle was to realize that the negro when he first comes here doesn't have as much professional training as the white. As you know, there are very few institutions where negroes can train for a hospital profession. But with a little helpfulness and sympathy, that is overcome.

Famous Boston Cod Gives Way to Rosefish BOSTON (U.R) The sacred cod, which made Massachusetts ports famous the world over, has been replaced in point of popularity and production, according to officials of the office of the coordinator of fisheries. The rosefish already leads all other fish caught in New England waters. Ten years ago it ranked 130th in production value, but today it is number seven in the nation. 'Millions of Americans are eating rosefish without knowing what it is, as the fish is sold under the trade names, ocean perch, tedfish and rosefish. JQ)S By RICHARD TOMPKINS AP Features Writer NEW YORK "We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us a world in flames!" So spoke Adolf Hitler in 1932 to his closest associates, according to Dr.

Hermann Rauschning, former president of the Danzig Senate and an intimate of Hitler until he broke with the Nazis in 1935. "Our conversation then dealt with details of a future gas and bacterial war," Rauschning writes in prefacing the Hitler quotation. And now, as the terror of defeat grips Hitler, the Berlin Radio has said: "Before the peril can reach the heart of our beloved country, we will turn this continent into a maelstrom of destruction where only one cry is heard the cry for blood And now is at stake." Is this an actual threat in an effort to soften the Allies, with the hope of forcing a negotiated Deace? Does Hitler believe he can atler the Allied demand for unconditional surrender? What frightful inhumanities could he bring upon the world, that he has not already inflicted in view of his new preoccupation with spill ing blood at home? Here are some of the deeds already done. Are they to be the pattern for what is left on Nazi-held central Europe? imrF- fin June 16. 1942.

the Czechoslovak village was erased by the gestapo. All males over 17 approximately zuu were killed; all. women about 200 were sent to concentration camps; oil nhilrtrpn ahout 120 were placed in so-called reform schools Germany, tvery nouse burned. The Nazi explanation was that arms were stored in the village; an illegal radio station operated there; that the inhabitants provided aid to those who made an attack on the Nazi "protector" Heydrich. No trial was held.

DISTOMO, THE GREEK LI- STRANDED FLIERS 7 "With waves breaking over his top wing," the telegram said, "Maj. Campbell landed, picked up the pilot, and taxied nine miles to the lee of an island where in calmer waters he could take off. The rescue plane was badly warped and sprung by the buffeting, but landed with rescuer and rescued intact." Another Duck rescue pilot is Lt. Col. Joseph N.

Renner. Then a Marine major on Guadalcanal, Renner flew his Duck (one of Aleutian Area By LLOYD TITLING AN ALEUTIAN BASE. (U.R) Aleutian-stationed troops curse the fog, the rain, the howling winds and bleakness of north Pacific islands but Army medical officers report the area is among the healthiest in the world with the rate of illness lower than in any other war theater. "There were no diseases on the island before the troops arrived and anything the men are suffering now has either been brought in the last two years or is something they contracted before leaving the United States." Maj. Henry W.

Thompson of the Army Medical corps declared. Coughs and colds are the most prevalent cause of illness, Thompson said, but the blame for even those can be fixed on "outside" causes contracting cold germs from new arrivals or before leaving the mainland. The base hospital's isolation ward has been the least used building on the island and is often empty. Also, the per capita incidence of venereal disease here is the lowest among U. S.

troops anywhere, partly because they have no opportunity to contact infected women and because persons infected before arrival are isolated and treated immediately. Although williwaws and fog as thick as smoke may be unpleasant, medical officers credited the weather for the lack of disease. Insect and water-borne disease have been unknown in the 1 iL had clashed with German troops. KIEV: More than 195 000 Sn. viet citizens were "tortured, shot, or Doisoned in murder vans" dur ing the occupation of Kiev, a commission investigating destruction of the ancient city reported on Feb.

28, 1944. Before evacuating Kiev the Germans demolished the whole center of the city and destroyed 1,742 communal dwellings and 3,600 private houses. BORKI, on the Warsaw-Minsk railroad: All the inhabitants of the village were executed and the village burned for the derail ment of a train on another line. the Polish Telegraph Agency said on March 18, 1944. OSWIECIM: The Polish minis try of Information renortprt nn March 21 that more than 500,000, mostly Jews, had been put to death at a concentration camp at Oswiecim.

southwest of Krakow. Three crematories had been erected inside the camp to dispose of 10,000 bodies a day. ROVNO: More than 102.000 civilians and prisoners of war were murdered in the Rovno region of pre-war Poland, a Soviet extraordinary commission for investigation of German, atrocities charged on May 7. Many were forced to dig their own graves. BUDAPEST: The Hungarian government asserts that 1.000 Jews will be condemned to death every time the Allies raid Budapest, Radio France in Algiers said on May 10.

secretary of State Hull de clared July 14 that the number of massacred Jews in Hungary was already great and "the entire Jewish community in Hungary which numbered nearly 1,000,000 was threatened with extermination." DRESDEN: Forty-seven British and Allied air officers were shot to death after a mass escape two months ago from a prison camp near Dresden, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden disclosed on May 19. How will India pay? Here are the planned sources of finance: Hoarded wealth, $900 millions. Balances in England, $3 billions. Sales abroad, $1.8 billions. Foreign borrowing, $2.1 billions.

Savings, $12 billions. "Created money," $10.2 billions. That "created money" Item is money which, it is planned, the government will issue to pay for both labor and plants. It could be inflationary, but the Bombay planners urge that a rigid price control system be enforced during the period. The sum is important only in relation to the national income of India, and $10.2 billions of "created money" would be somewhere between five and six per cent of the income, an amount which cannot be considered dangerously inflationary.

Shroff believes the Bombay Plan will progress whether or not India gets autonomy, but it would be on a lesser scale if not, he says, because the "hoarded wealth" will come out only if India gets a purely national government that would "inspire confidence." However, he is convinced that both British government and business men want to find a way to end British government domination of India. latter recently appropriating $5,000,000 for the use of local governments in post-war plans. The $10,000,000 will be distributed as follows: First each county will be allocated $10,000 regardless of population for drawing plans, and $6,000 for site purchase. The balance of both funds will then be allocated among the county areas on a population basis. Second, the total amount available to each county will vary wherein the percentage of funds each county area gets is reallocated on a city-county basis smaller in metropolitan areas and larger in rural counties.

TOO MUCH DIRECTION BOSTON (U.R) When firemen arrived at his home to extinguish a blaze, Michael Di Cicco put himself out to be nice to them and direct their activities. But it didn' pay. The following day in municipal court Di Cicco was fined $70 for causing "chaotic conditions'' at the lira. Queer carts like this are the main type of transportation in Colombo, India, on the island, of Ceylon. Long caravans are seen on country roads and city streets.

With the Bombay plan this outmoded transportation would be replaced with modern vehicles and the inhabitants' economic conditions Improved. (Acme riioto.) WORKHORSE The versatile J2F-6, manufactured by Columbia Aircraft has become to the Navy what the jeep Is to the Army. Fliers say there is no job too tough for it from the Aleutians to the Jap-infested atolls. DICE: On June 10, 1944, the Nazis slaughtered more than 1,000 residents, including babies in arms, then burned the village. The population was herded into the village 'square, facing machine-guns.

The Nazis opened fire and when all had fallen the troopers went about pistoling those still alive and stamping the life from babies whom parents sought to protect with their own bodies. The Red Cross, four days after two on Henderson field) on 20 rescue missions, saved the lives of five airmen. On one occasion, escorted by F4F's, Lt. Col. Renner set out in a tropical squall.

His destination was a point flanked on every side by Japanese bases, and only lu miles from the key Santa Isabel base. He brought back the marooned Marine pilot and gunner safely. Again Renner went out after a Marine lieutenant stranded on a coral strip bound on one side by waves too high even for the Duck. On the other side was a narrow inlet about 70 yards wide. Renner stalled the Duck in, and, while the Marine swam toward the plane, he taxied fast to keep off the reefs.

Renner took off cross-wind in only 200 yards of inlet, scarcely enough for the heavily loaded Duck to become airborne. She breasted five slam ming waves, bouncing higher and higher until she got flying speed. NOT A NEW TLANE Althoueh the Duck is iust being heard from, she is not a new plane. Her predecessor, the Grumman J2F was a Coast Guard patrol ship. Columbia aircraft got ready xo make a new model in the summer of 1942.

The company had been formed only two years before. It began by subcontracting, making parts for Link trainers, tanks for Grumman. hoDed someday to make trainers and scout planes. The Navy wanted liucks ana Columbia turned out its first one in August 1943. Production has increased steadily every month.

From Lt. Col. Renner in the Pacific came the word, "one of the most necessary little ships the Navy has. We need all we can get." Healthiest Aleutians and there has been a complete absence of malaria, typhoid and dengue fever which has plagued U. S.

troops elsewhere in the Pacific. To overcome the lack of sunshine, a contributing factor in such diseases as pneumonia and tuberculosis, the Army has constructed several solariums where soldiers receive ultra-violet ray treatment in daily one or two minute doses. Brig. Gen. Harry Thompson, post commander, believes the even temperature of the Aleutians has been a major reason for the health condition of the troops here.

He pointed out that the maximum was 17 degrees, with the average difference between minimum and maximum about eight degrees. The lack of sharp temperature fluctuations common to the United States eliminates one of the major causes for colds and similar illness, he said. NOTABLE GUESTS BOSTON (U.R) While searching for material for the paper salvage drive, the Hotel Ven-dome came across its first register begun in 1880 and discovered the signatures of Presidents Martin Van Buren and Ulysses S. Grant, as well as Thomas A. Edison, Oscar Wilde, Adm.

Robert F. Pparv. Harriet Rperher Stowe. Julia Ward Howe and Sarah Bernhardt. Ah By SIGRID ARNE NEW YORK (JP) The first practical steps of a plan to revolutionize the economy of India are being discussed here between New York bankers and leading Indian financiers.

It's the "Bombay Plan," calculated to double the country's agricultural production and multiply its industrial output five times in 15 years at a cost of 000,000. The United States comes into the picture because India, both private industrialists and the government, would like a series of American loans, to total about on and one-half billion dollars, with which to buy American machinery. The Bombay Plan was developed by industrialists led by four partners of the House of Tata, an organization which owns a variety of manufacturing, chemical, mining and financial concerns and which is responsible for much of India's current industrial production. India's government has adopted the plan and has appointed Sir Ardoshir Dalai, a Tata partner, to the viceroy council as minister of planning and reconstruction. Another partner, A.

D. Shroff, who now is in New York talking with bankers and manufacturers, says the plan offers "a splendid opportunity for the United States to enter the Indian market. The only fly in the ointment Is our difficulty in getting American dollars to pay." Shroff explains that India had a peace-time net income from sales abroad, exceeding her purchases abroad; that she owes nothing outside her own country; and that she currently has a balance in the Bank of England equal to $3,000,000,000 American which, though blocked now, will eventually be freed. India expects to continue to sell jute, magnesium and pig Iron to the United States; and tea, hides, cotton, oil cakes and magnesium chloride to other nations. She may step up surar sales In the Far and Middle East, and she hopes to take some of Japan's cotton plere goods markets, perhaps in eventual competition with China.

But her main objective is to increase production for consumption at home, raising her living standards. The Bombay Plan lists in de tail the increases that are sought, and the approximate costs. It pays respects to Russia's five year plans, but says India hopes to avoid making her people go without comforts for several years while huge industrial plants are completed. Instead, India will try to get small industries busy on clothes and household goods even while the big plants are being built. The number of people in agri culture would be reduced even while modern methods double the actual amount of food produced; and greater numbers would work in industry, In orders to get bet ter balanced production.

Here how some of the sched ules work out: 1. In a nation which suffers famines (the last, around Bengal, saw 700,000 persons die of starvation) supporters of the plan hope to raise enough food to provide a 2,600 calorie average daily diet. They hope to step up per acre yield bv throwing "pocket hand kerchief farms together into Hospital Gives Whites, Negroes Equal 2. They want to produce 30 yards of cotton goods a year per person. The average has been 16.1 yards, as compared with a world average of 42 yards.

3. The plan includes a large hospital dispensary program, water sanitation, wholesale vaccination, and training of doctors and nurses. India now has only one doctor for each 9,000 persons, and one nurse for each 86,000. For the United Kingdom, the ratio Is one doctor per 776 persons, one nurse per 435 persons.) 4. The plan calls for erasing adult illiteracy by a three to six months course which would cost only $1.20 a person.

Schools, of at least five grades at first, would be opened for children. The plan places great emphasis, on education, since the people must be able to read and write to understand the reforms. India is now 86 per cent illiterate. 5. These are the basic industries which would get attention: power, mining and metallurgy, engineering, chemicals, armaments, transport, and cement.

6. These are the consumer goods industries which will get first attention: textiles, glass, leather, paper, tobacco and oil. Post-War Plans In California Get State Aid CHICAGO (U.R) California has made $10,000,000 available to its city and county governments to aid in drawing up blueprints for post-war planning projects and for the purchase of project sites. Local officials believe this state aid to be given on an outright-grant, local-matching basis will result in the development of plans for projects totaling between $200,000,000 and $250,000,000. In making this money available, California becomes the third state to assume some financial responsibility for helping cities and counties solve problems involving unusually heavy local expenditures in preparing for the future, the American Municipal association reported.

The othpr states tare New York and Michigan, the its maneuverability for its own defense. CARRIES CREW OF THREE Powered by a Wright improved "Cyclone," the biplane can stay aloft for seven or eight hours. When she goes on a rescue or photographic mission, the Duck takes off five or ten minutes in advance of a fighter escort to equalize the speed variability. She carries a crew of three but has carried as many as seven. She to 1938.

In 1941 the city-wide citizens' committee on Harlem was formed and it was as a result of negotiations with this committee that Sydenham officials adopted the inter-racial policy last December. Today Sydenham boasts of a well balanced, co operative, smooth running organization, with no trace of resentment or prejudice. There are two negroes among the 12 internes; 31 negro nurses and 25 white. There are 178 doctors, of whom 23 are negroes. Six of the 23 trustees are negroes.

"It is democracy at work," says Benjamin H. Roth, president of the 52-year-old hospital. Free wards and private wards alike hold white and negro patients. In the maternity ward, negro and white mothers talk warmly about their new children. In the men's ward, men of the two races play cards or chat easily.

On the children's floor, the youngsters play together, or yell lustily for the nurses. Hospital officials say there hos been no loss of white patients although, as the hospital is in the Harlem area, about 80 per cent of the patients are negro. White and negro members of the staff work side by side; they eat together in a common dining room and the internes room together while they are at the hospital. As one nurse remarked, "at By FRANCES LONG NEW YORK. (JP) Last December, Sydenham hospital, in Harlem, gave the negro doctor, nurse and patient equal footing with the white.

Within seven months, this inter-racial experiment has become established policy. The background for the action was the need for a voluntary hospital staffed and managed to the needs of the community serves. Harlem, the negro section of Manhattan island, has more people than the state of Delaware; if it were a separate city, it would be the eighteenth largest in the nation. Infant mortality in Harlem was 82 per cent greater than in any other area of New York; tuberculosis mortality was 63 per cent greater. The five voluntary hospitals in the area barred nerroes from staff affiliation; they would not permit a negro pa-tient to occupy a private room.

There was a sanitorlum owned and operated by negro physicians but Its facilities were inadequate for adaptation as a voluntary hospital. Intermittent efforts had been made over a period of 45 years to fill the ned for a voluntary hospital in Harlem which would afford staff affiliation for quali-fide negro physicians and service for their patients. The present effort dates back.