Zurich Herald, 1946-01-03, Page 7THEY DON'T WANT TO GO HOME
Informed of their forthcoming transfer to. Russian -occupied sector of Germany, many Nazi soldiers in-
terned at Renneslatt. Camp in Sweden chose death rather than face that fate. Swedish policemen were
called out to stop suicides and escort Nazis to border.
,Allies' Greatest
Hoax Of War
Strips Of Tinfoil Dropped By
Allied Planes Jammed Nazi
"Radio Communications
Where was the German Luft-
waffe on the night before the
European invasion?
The question has been asked but
not answered, many a time since
that day, June 6, 19.4, when a tre-
mendous Allied fleet put ashore in
Normandy—the greatest invasion
force in all history, writes a corre-
spondent of the Christian Science
Monitor. The men who manned the
ships and the soldiers who waded
ashore each thought it a very im-
portant question.
There were Luftwaffe units in
the area, and the query still per-
sists, 'What were they doing, and
where were they?
The answer given to the public
recently for the first time, hands a
i well-deserved accolade to a small,
little-known, but extremely hard-
working group of airmen.
From planes loaded with 9c1 n4
Planes Loaded With "Window"
From air stations in the Midlands
and north of ??nglaad on that
never -to -he -forgotten night, 30 air-
craft took off into the fast-growing
darkness loaded with "window."
"Window" .is the code name applied
to a thin metallic strip of foil, the
same kind of tinfoil used on chew-
ing gum anad candy wrappers be-
fore .the war. This foil was cut
into thio strips and packaged, sever-
al thousand strips to a bundle
weighing two ounces. "Chaff" when
thrown from a plane has the same
effect on a radar scope as the plane
itself. A number of these loosed
successively in the air causes the
real targets to become indis-
tinguishable, and the effect can best
be likened to an electrical smoke
screen,
Feint Successful
These 30 planes rendezvoused
over the coast of England, across
from Calais. Flying at an altitude
an air -borne mission toward France,
they threw out their "chaff." The
, scopes of the German radar warn-
ing net registered a great fleet of
*craft coming, and the Luftwaffe
Was ordered to intercept.
The Royal Air Force planes
elre1ed the area in which the Ger-
man fighters were waiting, and with
Apecial transmitters jammed ground
(air radio communications, keeping
the Germans in the air until out of
gas, preventing their diversion to
the actual invasion point. Allied
planes flew over naval vessels,
dropping "chaff" which gave the
sante effect on German scopes as a
co-ordinated naval invasion armada.
All this was carried on around the
Calais area, while the real invasion
force went somewhere etsel
Thus it was that a successful
feint was made through the use of
radar countermeasures and the first
phase of the greatest invasion feat
in military history was on its way
without mishap.
Industrial Use
of Atomic Energy
Prediction that the first peace-
time use of atomic energy would
be either for a big power station
or for boilers of a large ship made
by Sir George Paget Thomson,
chairman of a group of British
natural scientists appointed in 1040
to develop atomic fission.
"Gradually tate new power•• will
spread to other purposes," Sir
George said. "But the internal
combustion engine will long re-
main the most suitable prince
.mover for small powers.
Ultimately, large-scale irrigation
of deserts suggests itself, but
these are Matters of the distant fu-
ture."'
Match sticks arc treated with
ammonium phosphate to prevent
lingering embers afterthe flame
has been blown out,
WHAT SCIENCE
IS DOING
New Drug from Whey
Canadian fam-nters will soon be
playing an important part in the
control of such diseases as typhoid
and dysentry. Milk sugar extract-
ed from whey and fed to the
penicillium mould from which
penicillin is refined, will be used
to produce the new wonder drug,
Canadian Drug Manufacturers
streptomycin.
are understood to be planning full
scale . production of streptomycin
in the near future. This drug is
outstandingly effective against dis-
eases caused by gram negative
bacteria, comparatively few of
which are suppressed by penicillin.
Production of both drugs in
Canada has been made possible
by the- Dominion Department of
Agriculture's organizing the cot -
lection of whey from cheese fac-
tories in parts of Eastern Ontario
and Quebec. Transported, in tank
trucks to a condensery in New
York State, the whey is processed
into milk sugar and whey powder.
Most of this milk sugar and some
of the whey powder returns to
Canada. the sugar for use in drugs
and baby foods and the powder
for enhancing the vitamin content
of livestock feeds.
Tens of millions of pounds of
Canadian ;