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THE STARS AND STRIPESRocket Guns?An Allied Dream, Berlin Hints; Swiss Writer Debunks IdeaTine German rocket gun, which, the press has hinted is the main target of Allied 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 Siettbacher, 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 fire 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 as uranium bombs, which are to destroy all living beings within an area of 200 miles.”Army MusicalStay ExtendedFriday, Jan. 14, 1944.The End of a Jap Sniper(Continued,-from D-age 1.)rr — : .••—Planet 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 BankWith Plot In SalftS Of DiamnnrleNEW 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 sale and export of industrial diamonds in violation of the Trading with the !Democrats Lose Margin In House After 13 YearsWASHINGTON. Jan. 14 (AP— —For the first time since 1931, the Democrats have no majorityAir Base ShiftsoP en Jap TroopLines To AttackEnemy Forced To Leave Section Of Coastline On New GuineaADD I ED HQ., New Guinea, Jan 14 Moving swiftly in the wake ol the Aihed land advance in the Southwest Pacific. Gen. MacArthurnas shifted ais air .bases forward, andalongis now hitting the Japanese 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, operatingfrom 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 frojTi coastal area between Sioand Saidor in New Guinea, where Australian and American groundforces 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 onBougainville, 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, eliminating the hazardous bad weather flying across the mountain ranges.
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Fri, Jan 14, 1944
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