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Home My WebLink AboutThe Seaforth News, 1945-03-01, Page 3RAILROADS RESCUED BY ARMY ENGINEERS JAPS FAIL I'N ATTEMPTS TO KILL SEALS Allied bombing effort has been heavily concentrated on ene- my rail trarsporc, to prevent the Germans from bringing up troops and supplies, Because we need rail 'lines, too, repairs must be made quickly and effectively as soon as our forces capture rail- road objectives smashed by our own aviation and by Nazi demob. tion squads. Thi; series of paintings is symbolic of the work Army Engineers are doing in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany today. 1. Two of four spans of a huge concrete railroad bridge were demolished' by retreating Germans at Pompey, France,' thus de- stroying a vital link in an essential railroad needed to supply troops assaulting the German Wett. Wall. Men and equipment have already begun repairs. 2. The workhorse of the Army Engineers — the bulldozer -- is on the job. Rock and earth to be used as foundation for a new wooden pier, under construction nearby, is being "bulldozed" level. 3. To speed bridge construction and to meet stern .deadlines, various units work simultaneously on different phases of the re- construction job. Here one group builds a timber trestle, and a pneumatic drill operator worka in, foreground. After bulldozers finish dumping earth and stone into the raging river below, a huge crane will be brought up, to lift giant metal beams into place. Pneumatic drill teams will fasten sections of the beam together while prefabricatedpier is lowered onto foundation. 4. Trains roll again over the completed bridge. In a few short days, Army Engineers using the best and. biggest equipment in the world, have nullified the work of expert German demolitionists. AND THAT'S DIGGING, BROTHER This wasarigintel level ofgroond Palm trees in the photo above are monuments to the achievement of Air Forces engineers in building air bases on Saipan Island. Trees, standing on what was once the surface of the ground, have been left high and dry by removal of millions of tons of coral rock for roads and airstrips. They now carry electric wires 75 feet above the quarry floor. Note size of man, indicated by arrow. VICTOR AND VANQUISHED The dramatically composed photo above shows Sia German prisoners carrying the body of an Allied soldicr 'back from the fighting lines. U. S. MATCH SHORTAGE? NO WONDER! Procto above may provide a clue for the current U.'S. match abort - age. The 'seaplane model was made from 30,000 matchsticks by Joe Ruiai. of New York 'City, who exhibited it at the annual American Hobby .Show there. It took him two yearn N complete, Thanks a million to 'all those who Want anal For Sole Ads, 1 week 25c' STACKED ARMS CAPTURED BY BRITISH British Tommie examines rifles that En;lisn took from ELAS forces during fight in Athens. In accordance with pact made 'by ELAS EAM and Premier Gen. Nicholas hlastirt.s, forces have agreed to stank guns within 14 days. ELAS forces will t -main .sstodian of weapons for the Greek Government, BIRTHPLACE OF LIBERTY Tares U. S Soldiers in Colmar, France, gaze at monument to Auguste bartholdi who created Statue of Liberty. Bartholdi was born in this recently liberated town. One of the. Jap motives in landing on Attu was a plan to wipe out the seal herds on the lonely and barren Pribilof Islands. Their ef- forts failed, and a healthy herd of 2,000,000 seals still supplies Amer- ican fur industry with skins to be finished into fine furs by a highly secret process, One of the United States Government's most valuable possessions, the fabulous seal skin business worth approximately $100,000,000 to the U. S. Treasury with its secret formula for processing, has been rescued from Jap trickery and armed attempts to take it. Announcement of this victory comes from U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service with the revelation that the herd, depleted by Jap raids, has been restored to 8,000,000 seals. Also revealed for the first time is the Jap at- tempt ttempt to steal the jealously guarded secret processing formula just be- fore Pearl Harbor. . The Fonke Fur Company of St. Louis, Mo., uses the formula in trust for the Government. More than 00 per cent of all seal skins in the world used for milady's fur coats O are handled by this company. The the natives and prepared for the exists: process is one of the most carefully wurst. guarded industrial secrets that Sneak Attacks Shortly before Pearl Harbor of- No invasion of the islands was ficials of the company got a request 'attempted but Jap fishermen were • from the Japanese Government to known to have lurked off -shore let a party of rising runners inspect killing as many of the valuable the plant., With no apparent reason seals as they could. Seriously de- to suspect an ulterior motive, per- pleted years before by exploitation mission was granted and other Jap sneak attacks on the More than a dozen Nips showed herds, this valuable source of up to make the tour, and things wealth was threatened with extinc- looked entirely above board until tion. une of the guides noticed they were U. S. Fish and Wildlife went to all busily snapping pictures with work, however, to recreate the tiny, but powerful, cameras. The herd. Now it is able to announce party was halted immediately, in that it has been restored to 8,000, - time so that not enough of the pro- 000 healthy 'seals with the threat cess was revealed to do the visitors of extinction passed. At the peak any guod. The whole incident was there were 4,000,000 seals when the turned over to the State Depart IT. S Government got the islands ment but before any action could frum Russia in 1807. This year, be taken the big shooting started sales of the valuable fur, popular at Pearl Harbor. for its appearance and wearing qua- BefFled in attempts to steal the lities, will net the Government $10,= process the Japs then tried to get 000,000 Only the fur from 4 -year - the seals themselves. Practically old males is used. Skins from the all the seals in the world live on old bulls are too badly scarred two tiny barren islands in the Tier from fights. ing Sea called the Pribilof Islands. Not enough of the young males When the Japs moved into nearby are killed to halt the 'growth -of the Attu the Government evacuated herd: WOMAN IN WHITE Barbara Stimson, above, American woman surgeon and a cousin of U. S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, is a major in the British Royal Army Medical Corps. One of 12 American women who volun- teered to gu to Britain in 1942 to help over -taxed medical personnel treat blitz casualties, she is now Sta- tioned at the 104th British Gen- eral Hospital, in Rome. NEW USE FOR IT Yank drinks' ice cold beer from his helmet in town of Polo„ Luzon. Jape were brewing beverages when American soldiers arrived. DID YOU KNOW that Maxwell House Coffee is roasted evenly through and through by the 're- markable"Radiant Roast" Process? You will enjoy this delicious, fragrant ,, coffee. Your grocer has it, You Will Enjoy ' Staying Al' The ST. 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