U. S. NEWS REVIEW

[Music] some of the most important strategic fighting in the Battle of the Pacific is being done by Australian troops from a Dutch Portuguese island of Timor like the Philippines it was captured by the Jets more than a year ago the world has learned from reports of the Jets themselves that American and Filipino troops are still resisting in the hills of the Philippines on this island of Timor a band of Australians isolated from the mainland when the jet force moved in fought on for ten months before contact was reestablished they would do into the jungle and set up an unconventional headquarters friendly natives help the Australians in every way they helped find food when army rations gave out early in the fight the Australians were grateful for an occasional feast of deer meat or even water buffalo grateful even for a baby crocodile that the natives brought in coconut milk was always safe and fresh to drink keeping Queen was not easy in the jungle but with the help of the natives they rigged up this ingenious show of F typical of these tough resourceful troops were kept in Baldwin former schoolmaster private weekly who accounted for 47 jets his cells with two brothers jolly and span Sadler they planned hit-and-run raids on neighboring Japanese occupied villages they had no heavy artillery and whittling supplies of ammunition but they had plenty of guts they disrupted [ __ ] lines of communication blew up bridges set fires to catch strike the [ __ ] patrol they learned and played every tricks of guerrilla warfare the burst of fire from their sinuses the first indication the enemy had is their presence their native allies with spears and flaming torches routed the last of the Jets the score of many such expeditions was 600 dead Jets with a loss of only 17 more failures without a radio to reach the mainland the menu they could not go on indefinitely that ammunition would eventually be exhausted they picked up scraps of wire odd pieces of tin melted solder out of old gear at night they went through the [ __ ] lines and stole the generator and battery out of a car with these odds and ends they both have crazy contraptions that really work after many heartbreaking attempts they finally got a signal through the Darwin when the mainland listening post heard the first feeble flesh from Timor it was received with great excitement and then was suspicious all stations were ordered off the air to prevent interference the troops had been presumed lost and the message that came through sounded like a typical [ __ ] trick to lure more Australian soldiers into a trap but the men of the force were known personally to the single officer so to test the authenticity of the message they tapped out the question to prove your identity give Christian name of Jack's bhajans wife answer immediately quickly the reply was sent out the single word that was to bring them cheese and munition and the admiration and wonder of the whole world and so the relief flames came dropping surprised and mailed to the man who had muttered from home in 10 months giant major Ludlow commanding officer of this unfeasible unit Frank has been for their decision to remain and finish the fight in the words of their own tough corporal Jones they will stay until they can say pack up your gear they're not needed here this island has run out of jet at its proving ground at Aberdeen Maryland the Army is getting in the scrap new weapons for old are coming from museums in army warehouses these tenets caliber shells the guns now obsolete way 2,400 pounds of piece two of them will make an 8-inch howitzer these old-time utensils of war which modern battle tactics have rendered useless and now mobilized captured enemy tanks and guns of the last war are taken from the public parks and squares of the nations and dumped into the army melting pot scrap is needed to keep our blast furnace is operating on a 24-hour schedule this 1921 model which never saw service at the front will yet be used the relics of a still old of water garnet cannonballs molded for the battles of Gettysburg and Bull Run are prepared for the battles of Rome Berlin and Tokyo these railway mortars were built to reduce the German fortifications of 1918 today the mortars yield a train load of scrap antique collectors items these tractors trucks and half-tracks are only dead weight at present but each has a scrap for a new tank or truck this german tractor which caused $85,000 to build is now worth its weight and scrap and not before anti-aircraft guns tanks of every size shape and nationality American one built too late for the last war German French and British at the ratio of half a pound of scrap to a pound of steel each will build one twice its size torches reduce the guns to scrap proportions their muzzles hold a prophecy of fire of a different kind [Music] this was the largest of the German field pieces which battered the four to be gauge in the early days of August 1914 cutting it down to melting size eight four ton trucks will be its contribution to the cause of the United Nations the value of scrap is obvious when we understand the tremendous saving and effects in the manufacture of steel in making ninety thousand tons of steel one hundred twenty one thousand tons of raw material is saved with the use of scrap forty five thousand tons of ore fifty four thousand tons of coal twenty two thousand tons of limestone the saving in manpower transportation that furnace capacity is equally impressive the time element is cut in half scrap is vital the Army is salvaging its own it needs yours too [Music] May 13 1930 3 in Nazi Germany 25,000 books outlawed by guess there were burned on that day the innumerable classics of literature went up in the flame of the new order in England Nazi fire bomb raid threatened similar damage to England's literary treasures steps had to be taken to preserve at least a record of the most important documents in books from possible destruction to accomplish this the English enough photographing them on microfilm ordinary motion picture film is used but a whole page of a book can be copied on one flame of film nary of about one square in an entire book can be photographed on a single small roll of film the process is similar to the one developed by our government with microfilm the millions of letters being sent abroad to the men in the armed services by v-mail thousands of layer books Shakespearean portfolios and rare documents have been recorded in this way and shipped to safety in America here they are received and permanently housed in the Library of Congress in Washington DC for study by our students on arrival each film is checked and stamped by the library for reference and studies the film is put on a large viewer which enlarges each photographs page to it may be easily read a description of each microfilm the book is placed in a card catalog the original film is then filed away in safety in the basement of the Library of Congress here they will remain for the study and enjoyment of future generations of free people [Music] working longer hours and with increased deals the men of Canada's fishing industry this year will do much to ease wartime food shortages in the United States depth of production during the herring season has resolved in the greatest hall in 16 years net 1,600 feet long costing six thousand dollars each must be kept in perfect condition enroute to the fishing grounds they are checked and repaired a hole that will let the school escape means a money loss to each crew member and the severe drop in the national food supplies Canada's famous herring fleets taken over by a Norwegian fisherman sails into deep bay British Columbia to carry on the job formerly handled by Japanese a sounding device helps locate the catch and the fisherman can tell to within 10 tonnes how many herring are below and often which way they're running on the basis of the estimate the weight capacity of the net is determined a half mile of nets known as a purse seine is laid from the stern of the Western Ranger one edge is held at the top of the water bike or float the rest of the net drops to a depth of 210 feet as soon as the net is in position completely surrounding the school a job of pulling it in his begun the bottom of the net has been drawn together to make a gigantic bag this is called cursing the net must be hauled in very slowly otherwise the great weight of millions of herring will rip it to tatters this is a 500-ton catch part of a record haul of 1 million tons of Harry this is fooled by the ton vitamins for the home front and the fighting front the herring are bailed from the first scene in a huge scoop net operated by a power wing guided into the school of fish the scoop net is hauled up and over the same boat then dump this load into the hold of a pack boat sailing takes from three to four hours and is the longest phase of the entire fishing operation this particular catch is unusual in that all the fishing boats were able to place their nests in this one small bay although these are noted as fine fishing grounds herring have never before been seen here in such large numbers [Music] trailing a wake of thousands of freaking seagull the pack boats pull away from the fishing grounds loaded from keel to deck with food for tomorrow's dinner fails [Music] on November 19 1942 a special Moscow communique picks out a single event in the vast wave of the Russian counter-attack 5,000 Nazis killed many times that number wounded in a battle at the approaches who are gonna keep sir in the central Caucasus the mountains lie apart the Caucasus from the Caspian to the Black Sea over them the road lifts from or to Nikita in the north the people eat sea in the south up over that road the trucks pour oil from Baku and arms from the Persian Gulf into the body of Russia down over that road the Germans hope to fall on the Baku oil the cotton and manganese and the red tangerines of the Black Sea coast this is a skirmish on the high margin of the battle among the soundless peaks of the tallest mountains in Europe the Germans are alpine truth Austrian Corp of Aryan the Russians are cover sirs or Georgians or cap Ardennes cunning in their own mountains they have the indomitable pride of Mountaineers everywhere Kentuckians or Scotch Highlanders the Germans warm up in dark files at the bottom of a snowy valley they assemble a modern feel t but some of their guns are old mountain howitzers on the wagon wheel carriages of World War days this is the most personal kind of war each man must know the mountains and know his enemies each man is the hunter and the hunted the Russians roped together slide forward in the crevasses their automatic weapons echo and a movement in the snow against the fat powering splendor of the mountains the enemy can be seen only when he moves the Russians keep inching forward they flatten out along the crag nests in the rock the German sharpshooters with the sunburst device on their caps pump away steadily a Russian is wounded he's Freddy goes down the rock they companion edges out under fire and drags him to cover the old German holitzer [ __ ] like a goat and still the Russians come on hunting the enemy out of each pulled in the mountains above the Ortona keep the road closing the range from peak to peak the last German patrol fought without shelter in the cup of a tiny Valley they run one of them is hit he stumbles away and falls the others surrender the Russians move in as the clouds come down on their heads the clouds and silence of their own mountains [Music] [Music] [Music]