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THE STARS AND STRIPESRocket Guns?An Allied Dream9 Berlin Hints; Swiss Writer Debunks IdeaThe Gex'man rocket gun, which the press has hinted is the main target ofAllied raids on the Pas de .Calais coast of France recently, was pooh-poohed by both the German propaganda machine and a Swiss explosives expert, according to press dispatches.Said a military commentator in Berlin; “Rumors about a German secret weapon, such as new types of rockets, lack in all probability all foundation.”The Swiss scientist, Dr. Alfred Stettbacher, writing in a Bernenewspaper, called secret weapons and rocket shells nothing but a nerve war to scare credulous laymen.5’No rocket gun, he said, could ftre 120 miles or could use 12-ton shells.“Rocket shells have been used by the Germans, but against Allied bomber formations only. And then their explosive charge weighed a paltry 221b., and their shooting distance hardly exceeded a mile and a quarter,” he wrote.’“It is surprising how even trained scientists should fall for such fairy tales a's .uranium bombs, which are to destroy ail living beings within an area of 200 miles.’’Army MusicalStay ExtendedFriday, Jan. 14, 1944.The End of a Jap Sniper-Plar.et Photo.An American marine, sheltering in a shell hole during the fierce fighting m which the Yanks captured the Jap base at Tarawa in the booth Pacific, takes aim at an enemy sniper amid the shattered beach defenses. Arrow points to the object which may be _the Jap sniper.News From HomeIndictment Charges Chase Bank With Plot In SalfiS Of DiamAtirlcNEW YORK. Jan. 14 — Winthroo Aldrich, chairman of the Board of Chase National Bank, which was indicted yesterday by a Federal grand jury on charges of “ conspiring and engaging in the illegal saleDemocrats Lose Margin In House After 13 YearsWASHINGTON. Jan. 14 (AP—Air Base ShiftsoP en JapTroopLines To AttackEnemy Forced To LeaveSection Of Coastline On New GuineaALLIED HQ., New Guinea, Jan 14 Movmg swiftly in the wake ol the Aihed land advance in tile Southwest Pacific. Gen. MacArthur nas shifted nis air .bases forward, and is now hitting the Japanese along vital supply and troop lines.Within the last week the Fifth Air Force has struck 24 heavy blows at enemy bases along the northeast coast of New Guinea, operating from new bases north of the towering Owen Stanley mountains.The intensity of these . attacks has apparently convinced the Jaoanese that their hold in this sector is doomed, for they are evacuating frorn ~!?e coastal area between Sio and Saidor in New Guinea, where Australian and American ground forces are closing the gap in a squeeze play,At the same time Army bombers and fighters of the 13th Air Force, operating from new airfjelds on Bougainville, have continued their relentless hammering of Jap bases in eastern New Britain and on NewIreland,U.S. aircraft carriers; prowling waters north- of the Solomons, also moved 500 miles deeper into Jan. territory with strategic attacks on New Ireland shipping.Air bases have been carved out of the jungle in the area around Lae. New Guinea, from which bombing missions are made daily, eliminating4 L -
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