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...picture of Burmese scorched earth, too. "Absolutely devastated. . . . Every town in the path of the Japanese Army completely destroyed [by sabotage]. There is hardly one brick left standing upon another in the whole of Burma." Author of this devastation was a Royal Dutch-Shell petroleum engineer named Walter Leslie Forster. He had done such a job of smashing that "experts believe some of the oil wells will never produce oil again and it will be a long time before the Japs get any oil from the rest. At Rangoon we did what we could to destroy dock facilities. I doubt...
...Saboteur Forster, 39, is a burly, hook nosed Yorkshireman who spent four weeks planning his Burmese masterpiece and nearly three years waiting for such a chance. Ever since the war's outbreak he had been in oil-rich hot spots, scheming their destruction: in Rumania's oilfields, where the Gestapo nabbed him (but had to release him because Rumania was neutral); in Iraq, when pro-Nazi Rashid Ali El-Gailani took over; in the Dutch East Indies, where he made mistakes he learned not to make a second time...
...Burmese job Forster kept just ahead of the enemy. Under his direction, 20,000,000 lb. of machinery were blown into scrap, 600 oil wells became useless and generators, transformers and instrument panels were sledge-hammered into pulp. Sir Reginald called Engineer Forster "the greatest saboteur in history...
...pressure of the accelerated program, the 1944 Crimson Executives filled their posts Monday night instead of in the fall as originally planned. The incoming Executives are: Dan H. Fenn, Jr., President; J. Robert Moskin, Managing Editor; Edwin J. Sommer, Business Manager; Thomas S. Kuhn, Editorial Chairman; William H. Forster, Photographic Chairman; Douglas A. Brown, Executive Editor; Lewis M. Krohn, Advertising Manger; and Burton E. Van Vort, Sports Editor. The following men took over posts not on the Executive Board; Joseph B. Smith and Charles W. Young, Assistant Editorial Chairmen; and Edward M. Casey, Local Advertising Manager...
John M. Ferry, New York City; Emil B. Fleischaker, New York City; Francis L. Forster, Jr., Providence, R. L.; Bernard D. Frank, Boston; Nathan H. Garrick, Jr., Boston; Charles S. Glesson, Wareham; Landis Gores, Cincinnati, Ohio; James G. Hays, Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich.; Thomas L. Higginson, Marshall, Va.; Richard A. Hirschfield, Chicago, Ill.; John W. Hughes, Lake Forest, Ill.; Arthur C. Hyman, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.; David B. Ingram, Mansfield; Edward F. Kilroy, Roslindale; George J. Kyte, Jr., West Hartford, Conn.; Paul A. Lamothe, Arlington; Sheldon L. Land Cambridge; Jamen D. Lyach, Lowell...