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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 ;