The White Falcon - 01.01.1944, Side 3

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British Psychiatrist Praises
U.S. Army’s Medical System
Muster Out
May Take
2t-3 Years
The huge United States war
machine will be demobilized over
a two- to three-year period so as
to slow the transition to peace
production and greatly ease re-
employment difficulties, accord-
ing to the results of a survey
by Brookings Institute.
“It is assumed that Germany
will be defeated by the end of
1944 and Japan a year later, the
survey said. In conclusion the
report stated, “Approximately
17,000,000 people will face demo-
bilization during the first two
and a half years after the end
of the European war, 9,500,000
from the armed forces, about
1,500,000 from war agencies and
almost 7,000,000 from the muni-
tions industries.
Incidentally, Draft Director
Hershey announced this week
that the Army will require an-
other two million men by July 1.
New Allied
Shell Rips
Gas Tanks
American manufacturers are
now producing a new type of
incendiary ammunition for 50-
caliber machine guns mounted
on Allied planes that is said to
be the most devastating ever pro-
duced for aerial warfare.
The new bullets even explode
the self-sealing gas tanks, passing
into them and igniting the fuel.
They spread a sheet of fire many
feet in diameter and cause en-
emy planes to burst into fire on
impact. Recently Army fliers rak-
ed a Jap freighter with these
incendiaries and it burst into
flame fom end to end.
Details of the new bullet re-
main a military secret. The am-
munition. is made in a secret area
where all workers have to wear
a special uniform for quick
identification, and it is tested on
underground ranges where no
visitors are allowed.
Because of its sky-blue tip, the
new bullet is nicknamed the
“hlue goose.”
Brig. John R. Rees, consulting
psychiatrist of the British Army,
thinks that the American Army
method of psychiatric examina-
tion is far superior to any other
system “used anywhere in the
world.”
British Sink
Three More Big
Nazi Warships
Right on the heels of the sink-
ing of the German battleship,
Scharnhorst, With its crew of
almost 2,000 men, the British re-
vealed that English warships
have sunk three more Nazi de-
stroyers and badly damaged
others.
An enemy flotilla was inter-
cepted in the Bay of Biscay, off
| the western coast of France,
when the British sea dogs struck
their latest and most devastating
blow to Nazi naval strength.
A lone Nazi blockade runner
was also attacked and sent to
the bottom by British coastal
command bombers.
It was apparent that the main
body of the German destroyer
flotilla had come from Bordeaux
or another channel port to en-
sure the safe arrival of the Nazi
blockade runner because it car-
ried a cargo of high priority sup-
plies for Hitler’s European Fort-
ress. The German ship was com-
ing from either Japan or South
America, according to the Brit-
ish admiralty report.
Pension Doesn’t
Cancel Benefits
The War Department issued a
reminder this week that in case
of death, a soldier’s beneficiary
i is guaranteed every cent of the
insurance benefits, as well as a
pension.
Before July, 1942, it was true
that sometimes a person entitled
to a pension as the result of a
soldier’s death couldn’t collect
all the benefits if the soldier had
$10,000 worth of National Service
Life Insurance.
But it’s different now—Con-
gress removed the limitation and
full payment of insurance and
pension is guaranteed.
During a recent inspection of
military hospitals and induction
centers in the States, Brig. Rees
observed that the United States
could afford to reject more men
than the British “because we
haven’t the luxurious supply of
manpower you have.”
He had high praise for the Am-
erican system of rejecting known
homosexuals and bisexuals from
the armed forces and regretted
that it was sometimes impossible
for the British to do this.
“Proper selection of men is the
primary step to hold at a minim-
um emotional disorders, which
are an enormously serious prob-
lem in every army,” he said.
“Prevention of trouble is more
valuable than treatment later. I
have been surprised at the reli-
ability of your medical investiga-
tions and of the systems you use
to adapt them to army life.”
U.S. Educators
Adopt Army
Teaching Plan
Proof that the Army’s training
methods really pay off came this
week in the announcement that
City College of New York is
adopting the Army way of teach-
ing foreign languages.
Not only will the Army
teaching methods be followed
for the first time in the college’s
civilian classes, but a large part
of the manuals written by the
Army and used by soldier traine-
es will also be used.
University officials say that
the results of the Army’s system
have been outstanding. The
Army’s method of teaching for-
eign languages puts the emphasis
on ordinary conversation and
not on involved mechanics of
grammar.
Chiefs Named
For Invasion
By Allies
General Eisenhower, and Brit-
ish Air Chief Marshal Tedder,
newly appointed Allied second
front commanders, announced
this week that they had complet-
ed all details for the coming giant
invasion against the western wall
of Hitler’s European Fortress.
Their scheme was approved
after the historic Cairo meeting
between Roosevelt, Churchill and
Stalin and already vast armies
with large loads of equipment
are readying things for the com-
ing “zero hour.”
It was revealed that the two
Mediterranean commanders talk-
ed for hours in the gardens of
Cairo’s luxurious Mena House
Hotel and also in the great con-
ference rooms. Finally they laid
their plans before the distin-
guished gathering. All available
commanders involved were call-
ed immediately. So important
were the discussions and so press-
ing was the desire to finish the
German war as quickly as pos-
sible that, when President Roose-
velt, Prime Minister Churchill
and Marshal Stalin left the con-
ference, Eisenhower and Tedder,
stayed behind, for weeks, to
work out the very smallest de-
tails.
In London, No. 10 Downing St.,
announced the appointment of
Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay as
Allied Naval Commander-in-
Chief under Gen. Eisenhower,
and Air Chief Marshal Sir Traf-
ford Leigh-Mallory as Allied Air
Commander-in-Chief.
From Algiers came the report
that Gen. Jean Delattre De Tas-
signy has been named to com-
mand all French Forces which
will participate in the long a-
waited crack at Western Europe.
De Tassigny will have a first
class French fighting machine
at his command and he will act
under Gen. Eisenhower.
Here is the prettiest New Year’s Day smile we could find in
the files! The donor is pretty Joan Leslie of Hollywood. Pretty
enough to start any year with, huh?