Word: southeasterners
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From their caves in the Haute-Savoie the guerilla maquis of southeastern France struck their hardest blows. They raided Grenoble, wrecked the rail junction at Bellegarde. In Marseilles, great port on the alerted, invasion-jittery Mediterranean, the Germans used tanks to quell demonstrators. The Nazis denied reports that Paris was seething. The capital, they said, was so calm that its curfew had been extended from midnight to 1 a.m. But they spoke of arresting hundreds of "Communists" and two shopkeepers who were ready to sell British flags for the day of liberation. Everywhere resistance groups, now designated...
...Plan. The first step - -the beachhead - of the "final stage" went off smoothly. At Biak, largest of the is lands in the Schouten group, it was clear dawn. Offshore, the invasion task force under Rear Admiral William M. Fechteler hove to before the rock-pointed sandy beach at the southeastern heel of the island. From cruisers and destroyers poured a 19-minute barrage...
...Maquis, about 600 strong, were entrenched on the Plateau des Glières, a tableland in southeastern France near the Swiss border. To wipe them out, the Germans massed an estimated 12,000 men, much artillery, squadrons of planes, planned to open with an artillery barrage. The French fooled them...
...Moonlight and Warmer " The official weather report said : "Moonlight and warmer." Was the U.S. Weather Bureau - after 75 years of cautious clichés - suffering a sudden May-madness? Dispatched to find out, Washington reporters met slight, affable Donald C. Cameron, 39, new chief forecaster for the Southeastern U.S. No whimsical amateur, but a Bureau veteran of 22 years, Weatherman Cameron knew exactly what he was about. He explained:"My idea is to humanize the forecasts. . . . People don't give a damn what degree of temperature is expected. The average person doesn't know what humidity is. They...
...ancient hope of U.S. geologists: that the great Gulf oil strata of Texas and Louisiana sweep eastward clear to the Atlantic and northward along the coastline, perhaps all the way up to Maryland. It will be years before that hope is finally confirmed or disproved. But meanwhile the southeastern boom fosters a nearer-term political purpose for the rugged individualists of the U.S. oil industry. As Oil Czar Ickes backs his unpopular Arabian pipeline (TIME, Feb. 14, et seq.) with dire warnings that the U.S. "cannot oil another war," the industry can use every new oil strike at home...