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Page 14 Eugene Register-Guard, Thursday, Jan. 13, 1944 What If Reds Reach Berlin Before Allies Get There? By DEWITT MACKENZIE Associated Press War Analyst The breezy news-stand attend ant at my small suburban railway station, with whom I confer each morning on the status of the war, asked me whether the naro-anv. ing Russians are likely to reach Berlin ahead of the Anglo-American allies and, If so, how that's going to affect post-war problems. He was asking a question which 1 lot of folk are debating, especial ly since the Hitlerite line has been slashed in two at the old Polish border west of Kiev, 2nd the nazi forces In the Dnieper-bend trap again are In sore straits. Well, what's the answer? First off, it's fairly obvious that if the German front should suffer' a wholesale collapse, the Muscovites might indeed be marching down Unter den Linden before an Anglo-American army could ar rive. If the Germans are able to con tinue the skillful withdrawal which they have maintained for more than 700 miles at the ex treme depth, then they will make a final defense in the fortifications on .their own borders. Should this happen, it will take the combined striking-power of both Russian and Anglo-American armies to administer an early coup de grace. This presumably would bring all the allies into Berlin at the same time. Here one is bound to take note of the perhaps far-fetched con tingency of the Anglo-American allies being unable to stage an in vasion of western Europe before the red forces have had time to drive the nazis back to the Ger man border and breach the de fenses. ' Such a situation could scarcely arise if the American and British home-fronts remain stead fast. However, it must be emphasized that, at this juncture of the prep arations for the invasion, prob ably more depends on the effort of the Anglo-Americans home fronts than on the military. That is to say, the fighting machine likely is pretty well set for action so far as manpower is concerned and developments now hinge largely on production of essential OH CIRCULATORS and FURNACES CLEANED and REPAIRED Phone 4190-W Vincent Prunty equipment by the home-fronts. But let's get back to the ques tion of what happens if the Rus sians should reach the German capital ahead of their allies. Would the victorious Muscovites be in clined to impose their own condi tions irrespective of the wishes of Britain and America? It's important in answering this to record that the allied confer ences of Moscow and Tehran ap pear to have brought the Russians into full partnership with the Un ited States and England. Frankly, prior to those parleys Moscow had been holding aloof, and the under standing among the big three was far from perfect. Now these three dominant powers are in an accord which appears to insure all-out collabor ation in prosecuting the war. It also provides a degree of friendly trustfulness which should enable solution of post-war differences which are bound to arise. That doesn't mean that we aren't going to encounter some pretty stiff heart-burnings, but there's ground for hope that with a reasonable degree of give-and-take the prob lems will be solved. Euppenhelmer Clothes Th Man's Shop BYROM & KNEELAND SI East 10th Materials Urged To Aid Transport WASHINGTON (U.PJ A house nnval Dffnirn KilhpnmmlttAA tin. recommended Immediate allocs-! tion of materials at the expense. it necessary, of plane,, tank and armaments production for man ufacture of equipment to alleviate a critical situation in the trans portation industry. The subcommittee, investigat ing congested areas, made its recommendations in a report on the Puget Sound region. In dis cussing transportation, however, it enlarged the scope of its pro posals to include the entire nation. "Certainly," the report said, "the transportation system of this country is so vitally an integral part of our war machine, its proper maintenance contributes more to the final victory than, will a few planes or tanks." Before the year, the report said. transportation leaders repelled all attempts to get them to augment their rolling stock. "They now realize that the lean years of the past blinded their vision of the future.' the subcom mittee said. "But this realization has come too late, for the WPB ZEMACOL Guaranteed gellei From Foben Oak Penny-Wise Drug 40 K. Broadway 789 W. 6th SteaksSizzle' At Butte Club By HARRY L. CARLSON BUTTE, Mont. 0J.B You can still get a steak in Butte, Mont. a rare, sizzling, tender steak 13 inches long, half a foot wide and two full inches thick. We're not trying to earn a com plimentary pass to the Liars' club. We know there's rationing. But we invite you doubting steak gour mets to a modest little club direct ly across from the largest copper mine in the world, order a T-Bone, a tenderloin or a New York cut, and see for yourselves. Or ask any steak fiend who has visited this fabulous mining city, "the richest hill on earth." To those epicures of a tender, oozing slab of beef, the Rocky Mountain club is the first place in America for better living. The Rocky Mountain is no glit tering Hollywood nightspot. Built facing the 5000-foot deep Leonard copper mine, this steak-shrine is just a small, white-stucco place with booths and a dance floor in side, backed up by a long bar. so you're in and you order a steak. Comes first the hors d'oeuvres Russian caviar, crab cocktail, a huge salad topped with French Roquefort dressing, celery, anchovies, pickled beets, and other rare foods sufficient to fill the table. Then French bread sticks, spaghetti, ravioli. As you loosen your belt, a waiter labors your way under a tray . . ... - j i uvaitug uio ining you oraerea that mammoth hunk of beef. Then along comes Teddy. He's the owner. Big "Teddy", Trapar ish. Teddy canu to Butte 40 years ago from a little village in Jugo slavia. His start parallels those of many more famous but none more colorful successful Ameri cans. At 19, he worked for a dollar a day in a Butte cafe. Since then, Teddy has made and lost three fortunes. Rationing has Invaded the Rocky Mountain too. Instead of two ateakes to a couple, Teddy serves only one. "Sometimes steaks come bsck unfinished any way," he says wistfully, still un convinced thst a normal person's capacity has a capacity, He buys his own steaks on the hoot from the choicest cattle Montana stockgrowers offer. He fattens them on rich, specially grown grass and then corrals them on his own feed mixture for 30 days. How ha treats the cuts be fore serving them is Teddy's sec ret, but he admits it's a 80-day process. Any of the dinners, incidentally, costs only $1.50. '' - Life and Business in Italy Go On Amid Ruin and Apathy has barred action to relieve this situation in an overemphasis on the manufacture of planes, tanks, ships, and armaments." The ice cream freezer was in vented by Mrs. Nancy Johnson of Philadelphia, and bore patent number 3254. By HENRY J. TAYLOK NEA Correspondent NAPLES In this thoroughly bombed and shelled city of Na ples, now a No. 1 fighting base, the only thing unwarlike is the Italian people. It is always amazing how quickly civilian populations read just themselves as soon as actual fighting has passed. And here you would think the demolition were no more deepseated than it a hurricane or other ill wind had passed through. As usual, silver-belled Neapoll tan donkeys jingle along under loads of straw or in front of carts. All glass is gone from the great arcade, and from domes large girders hang like limp spaghetti. But such things have not dimin ished the numbers of sidewalk vermouth drinkers. White-belted, plume-hatted Neapolitan police men direct the new traffic from their same old stands. The opera ran throughout the war hereabout, and it's running now. You can't buy a seat for the next three weeks. Business Brisk 'Stores you'd expect to be empty are not empty at all; they're do ing a land-office business with the allied military. issued lire which are flowing into town, Prices are high because, as in Spain, this part of Italy is In a stage of currency inflation rather than a period of actual quantita tive scarcity such as is commonly believed at home. Unreal as this may sound, there is not even an actual shortage of looq. The real Bottleneck is high prices due to currency abuse, plus poor transportation. And even then, except for bread in which there is a severe but temporary shortage the city people are the only ones who are really hit. Pigs. cattle and sheep are in the fields. ana ine crops nave peen good. Amazed by Traffic The traffic amazes all Neapoll tans, what with the ceaseless stream of giant American trucks, lorries,' ambulances, motorcycle squadrons, field kitchens, squad cars and everything else that America has put on wheels. But the meaning ef all this seems lost to the people here. For tnem, the war is over and they make it annoyingly clear that they do not care who fights who from here on. That fact strikes you on au sides. As you drive north toward the front through village after vil lage, so bomb-shattered and artillery-blasted that their close packed stone houses are a mass of rocky ruins, this disconcerting apathy pf the Italian people still shows itself in every way as it does in the city of Naples. Bridged Volturno Bloodiest and most strategically vital was the crossing of the Vol turno. There the high, arched, Ro' i. I man bridge is in ruins, Its back I broken and lying In the stream, i Beside the bases of the Roman arches, our engineers built a pon toon bridge, where you'd think no men could build anything and still live under the fire of the fixed German guns. Yet right at this spot, along the banks, the Italians already are plowing with oxen, furrowing through the fresh tank tracks in the blood-enriched earth. They also &ve selling their orans";, walnuts and cognac to Americans on the march. These things no longer are being done happily, as when we first landed in Sicily; and also not sadly; but in apathy a complete apathy which goes down to the roots of post- No BHtz-Weinhard in the refrigerator? It has happened to you. It can happen to your dealer, too! But Blitz-Weinhard's unvarying quality, its 87-year tradition of excellence, makes it always worth waiting for. If you can't get Blitz-Weinhard at your dealers today, try again tomorrow! BUTZ-WEINHARD CO. PORTLAND. ORISON .m ,iMrri I 1 i t k " ij ' V - a a ii , -i - CS J" I . -.W Keep asking tor ii by namo 'si DBG EX war Italy today. Junior Chamber Week Stressed by Snell SALEM, Jan. 13. Gover nor Snell, asking observance of the annual "Junior Chamber of Commerce Week," which opens Friday, praised the war activities of the U. S. junior chamber of commerce. He said the organization collect ed 300,000 tons of scrap metal, sold $700,000,000 in war bonds and took part in many other activities. BEETLE'S LEGS IDLE The Australian scarab beetle has legs, but does not use them. It turns on its back and propels Its body along by contracting its skin. 'Jet-Planes' Too Speedy? LONDON U. The possi bility that jet-propelled planes will be so fast they will flash by even before wey are nearo, was suggested here by. some British aviation expert as creating a ma jor Droblem of "too much speed" in the ultimate development of the new Anglo-American fighter plane. Operating at its most desirable efficiency aerodynamic special ists theorized the jet plane easily would surpass the TOO mile an hour speed of sound, thereby re quiring entirely different stream' lining since, at super-sonic speeds, a plane must slice instead of float through the air. That, they said, presents the toughest problem: can the stream lining pf the wings, ruseiage, and tail structure be changed at the critical moment a plane attains the speed of sound? Some experts think the problem cannot be solv ed. Regardless of this question, however, it generally Is agreed that jet propulsion would not lose its efficiency as the plane reach ed the stratosphere, but instead might become even more efficient since the temperature would be so low that the motor would re quire less compression. Other advantages of the jet plane would be reduction of the problem of pilot visibility in a single-seater craft, better distri bution of guns and armor, and elimination of the cumbersome landing fear which is required in present planes to allow clearance for the propellers. It is emphasized that jet-pro-nulslon should be carefully dis tinguished from rocket-propulsion, although both operate on the principle of throwing gases More Jams and Jellies Forecast in Stores WASHINGTON. (U.B Jams and jellies will be appearing on grocery store shelves in larger quantities soon, the War Food Ad ministration said. 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