Zurich Herald, 1945-03-01, Page 7RAILROADS RESCUED BY ARMY ENGINEERS
Allied bombing effort has been heavily concentrated on ene-
my rail transport, 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 demoli-
tion squads. This series of paintings is symbolic of the work Ary
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 West 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 works 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 prefabricated pier 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
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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 shores six German
prisoners carrying the body of an Allied soldier back from the
fighting lines.
U. S. MATCH SHORTAGE? NO WONDER!
I�1ro.o above may provide a clue far the current U. S. match shat -
age, The seaplane modal was made from 30,000 matchsticks by joe
Ruisd of New York City, who exhibited it at the annual American
Hobby Show there. It took hind two years to ponplete.
STACKED ARMS CAPTURED BY BRITISH
British Tommie examines rifles that Jam lisp took from ELAS
forces during fight in :?<thens. In accordance with pact made by
ELAS EAM and Premier Gen. Nicholas Plastires, forces have
agreed"'to stack guns within 14 days. ELAS forces will remain
cr stodian of weapons for the Greek Govenumnt.
BIRTHPLACE OF LIBERTY
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Three U, S Soldiers in Colmar, France,,gaze at monument to
Auguste Bartholdi who created Statue of Liberty. Battholdi was
born in this recently liberated town.
.ZAPS FAIL IN 'ATTEMPTS TO KILL SEALS
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 3,000,000 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 3,000,000 seals. Also revealed for the first time is the Jap at-
tempt to steal the jealously guarded secret processing formula just be-
fore Pearl Harbor.
The Fouke Fur Company of St. Louis, Mo., uses the formula in
trust for the Government. More than 90 per cent of all seal skins in the
world used for milady's fur coats 4
are handled by this company. The the natives and prepared for the
process is one of the most carefully wurst.
guarded industrial secrets that Sneak Attacks
exists.
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 sunners 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.
one of the guides noticed they were U. S. Fish and Wildlife went to
all busily snapping pictures with work, however, to recreate the
they, but powerful, cameras. The herd. Now it is able to announce
party was halted immediately, in that it has been restored to 3,000, -
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,' good. The whole incident was there were 4,000,000 seals when the
turf1 d over to the State Depart- IT S Government got the islands
me.nt but before any action could frons. Russia in 1507. This year,
he taken the big shooting started sales of the valuable fur, popular
at Pearl Harlaor. for its appearance and wearing qua-
Bafrled 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 Ber- from fights.
ing Sea called the Pribilof Islands. Not enough of the young males
When the Japs moved into nearare 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.
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helmet in town of Polo, Luzon.
Japs were brewing beverages when
American soldiers arrived.
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