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unable to make a stand in Egypt.

AXIS ARMY DRIVEN "10 LIBYAN BORDER

Germans Fear Rommel Is

Italians to Give Up When British Can Find ‘A Little Time.

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being taken prisoner, as happened before to Gen. (Ludwig)

Cruewell and now to Gen. (R

That was a sweeping suggestion to be made by any axis

radio, whose broadcasts are supervision and used almost entirely for propaganda. I was considered pessible, however, that Germany might be

evercenfidence by suggesting the capture of her “desert fox.” The British eommunique seemed to confirm reports that the broken axis armies, apparently without air protection of any kind, would be

. Observers considered it even doubtful that Rommel would be able te make a definite stand even at Halfaya should he escape being pinned down on the Egyptian coast by the charging allied forces. Allied air forces were harrassing the axis legions as they fled. They were engaged in almost continuous low-level bombing and strafing attacks on the jammed roads and desert trails, taking a terrific toll in men and machines. “Particularly successful strafing: was carried out at a point west of Matruh where heavy casualties were inflicted on vehicles and troops,” the communique said. The communique disclosed that remnants of the axis tank force had attempted to stem the British advance - at Fuka, 65 miles west of Alamein, but were overcome after a vigorous attack by the allied] ground forces which drove them westward.

Italian Units Trapped

Front dispatches indicated that three days of full retreat had converted the onece-proud co-ordinated fighting machine of the Germans

| Chairman William H. Davis em-

ties,

Prisoner; 75,000 Abandoned

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under stringent government

WLB FROWNS ON PAY INCREASES

“Tough Policy’ Adopted in Freezing Scales as of Sept. 15, Davis Says.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (U. P.).| —The war laber beard today laid down a “pretty damn tough” policy for freezing virtually all wages and

Two smiles and a dozen ‘mums. houses that opened today. The smiles belong to Georgeanna Holl (left), 1008 E. Palmer st., and Betty Ray, 1612 S. East st. students at Manual high school

Tis the annual chrysanthemum show in the Garfield park green-

The show will continue through Nov. 15.

salaries up to $5000 at levels prevailing an Sept. 13. Increases will be provided only in exceptional cases which Board

phasized likely will he few and far between. In detailing the program to a press conference, Mr. Davis said: “If the ladies present will excuse my language, I'll say our policy is going 10 be pretty damn tough when it comes to granting in-| creases.” He said pay raises for persons with salaries and wages up to $5000 —those over which the board has contiol—would be authorized only to “correct maladjustments or inequalities, to eliminate substandards of living, to eorrect gross inequalior to aid in the effective prosecution of the war.”

$25,000 Rule Amended

and Italians into a few directionless groups each trying to save itself by! semehow reaching the Libyan!

Meanwhile, the treasury relaxed somewhat its order limiting 1942 salaries to $25,000—a move of spe-

EGYPT VICTORY

Started Germans on Road to Defeat.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard ‘Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Nev. T7.—Those who believe in portents will see special significance in the axis de- | feat in North Africa.

For in the first world war the first real turn

OMEN SEEN IN |

Desert Fighting In 1917 |

i cast about for new seureces ef revenue,

WASHINGTON

A Weekly Sizeup by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

(Continued from Page One) limit, probably will kill or alter it, Chairman George insists it will cost the government money, will increase administrative expenses, and vielates income-tax principle of levying on incomes in direct relation to

their size. 2 a =» 2 8 #1

Fight Looms on Housing

PRIVATE BUILDING GROUPS continue to press for congressional inquiry inte allocation of war housing between private and public spensorship. House public buildings and grounds committee called off hearings when WPB relented and lifted order fornidding issuance of pref-, erence certificates te private industry. Private builders still think there's a cateh, suspeet emphasis is to be on government-financed housing. u ” ” " n o Gasaline—parden, “mileage”’—rationing will mean most states must Gas-tax losses te states are estimated at $30,000,000 a manth, on basis of what has already happened in the rationed east. 2 2 8 8 ® 8

[South Pacific (all dates east longi-

YANKS ADVANCE]

Army Troops Extend Hold Near Airfield; Jap Plane Attack Fails. .

IN SOLOMONS|

WASHINGTON, Nov, 7 (U. P.)~— American forces defending vital Henderson airfield on Guadalcanal island have advanced several miles to the east, while ether Ameriean units have repulsed enemy attaeks to the west of the field. A communique issued by the navy today revealed that the sueeessful eastward advance—earried out by army troops—oceurred Friday, Solomons time. | “Only light enemy resistance” was eneeuntered during the eastward march, the eemmunique said. It taek the Ameriean troops several miles beyond the lines they held before the Japanese recently landed ground forces east of the airfield. The movement apparently was to prevent the enemy from getting

drive against the field, with columns

Clouds Hide Zeros.

A new air attack on American positions was made by a force of 27 enemy aircraft and escort fighters on Thursday. Cleuds prevented American planes from engaging the attackers but “our airfield and installations were nat damaged.” The text of taday's cemmunique:

tude) : “1 On Nov. 5: “(a) A force of 27 enemy aircraft, composed of bombers and escorting fighters, attacked our positions on Guadalcanal island. Although clouds prevented air contact with the attacking enemy planes, our arifield and installations were not! damaged. : “(b) U. S. aircraft maintained a continuous patrol over enemy posi-| tions bombing and strafing troeps concentrations. (C) During the night of Nov. 5-6, U. S. marines repulsed light attaeks | against our western flank. In the] vieinity of Paint Crug.

Expect Fleet to Return

border, |cial interest to high-salaried HollyObservers here said there was no wood stars, and others, who may indication that British forces had have planned on retiring for the gotten behind the fleeing axis forces|rest of this year. to cut off their retreat, but added! It amended an earlier ruling that that such a feat appeared imminent. 1942 salaries above $25,000 net must

While the allied land and air NOt exceed these of 1941 in order to it was rich in oil,

|| railway of Da-

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ca, but it was the gateway to the Nile, to the Persian gulf, to India and the Orient. And without which

forces battered the enemy back Permit an increase in instances Wars cannot be waged cross the desert where the higher figure was stipu-| ’ 8 + heavy bombers o.oo in bona fide contracts entered this area better than young Wins-| into before Oct. 4, 1942. The orig- ton Churchill, Britain's first lord inal regulations were announced on of the admiralty. . ' that day. in daylight yesterday, | * The communique said hits ; were adopted unanimously by public, in-| Constantinople made on a tanker at Benghazi and dustry and labor members. a merchant vessel at Tobruk. Thus! states: |

swept far ahead of the advancing, columns and bembed Benghazi and! Tobruk, axis supply ports in Libya,

the allied pilots maintained their!

effective blockade of Rommel’s sup- national war labor board by con-|

Ply lines, cuffing .off. his materials 8ress and by the president is clear.

Nobody knew the importance of

And the key to |it, as he saw it, was the Dardawas) nelles.

Force the straits and take and the entire It' course of the war would be changed. | e . . . . | Thus the Anzacs stormed Galli- | The policy directive given the, ol in 1915, only to meet with a defeat which for sheer tragedy was | not to be duplicated until 25 years

The labor hoard policy

DETROIT QUESTIONS what will happen to production if repair | men aren't kept on job to keep furnaces, refrigerators, washing ma- | chines running. (Harry Hopkins is on record as saying there’ll be al- | most no manpower for this). Production men fear their skilled me- | chanics will stay away from work to keep homes livable, when domestic | breakdowns threaten.

NEW DEALERS have an explanation of why the demonstrative Chinese gave Wendell Willkie such a tumultuous reception in many cities: They theught he was Roosevelt. ranging from Boulogne to Cher-

GENOA, BIG ITALIAN [is i AN built Douglas * Boston bombers J |Talded the German-held airfield at

Caen, France

Other planes of the bomber comImand attacked enemy Shipping in

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attacked targets in a wide area

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was bombed Oct. 22 and 23, when Dutch harbors.

Simultaneously, American-|-

2. On Nov. 6: “VU. S. army troops crossed Malimbiu river, a few miles south of Keli point, on the north ceast of Guaedalcanal. Only light enemy resistance was encounterde.” Today’s communique made no mention of naval fighting but the U. S. fleet was prepared for the expected return of the Japanese fleet which recently withdrew from the Solomons area. In a communique yesterday the navy revealed that on Nov. 4-5 the Japanese launched counter attacks at Guadalcanal but were repulsed.

Text of Communique

Yesterday's communique follows: “South Pacific (all dates east longitude) : ‘ “1. During the night of Nov. 4-5: “(A) Japanese troops launched several strong counter-attacks west of the Matanikau river on Guadalcanal island. These attacks

those forces into shape for a pincers|§

advancing from both east and west.|§

Mrs, Bess Stout, R. N., lifts “little Gus”—weight about two pounds—

out of an incubator at

St. Vincent's hospital. # # 8

He's St. Vincent's Darling; Putting on Needed Weight

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he'll be out of the incubator around the first of the year. But he’ll have his own Christmas

MRS. KNIGHT AGAIN IN RENO FOR DIVORCE

NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (U. P.).— Mrs. Dorothy Knight was in Reno today to divorce Richard Knight, the attorney best known for standing on his head in the crowded Metropolitan Opera house. Before she left New York Mrs. Knight told friends that while she regretted the step they had found their marriage would not work. Once before Mrs. Knight went to Reno but a reconciliation brought her back. Knight recently was released after serving 90 days in the workhouse for writing abusive letters to judges, lawyers and bankers involved in the settlement of the estate of Mrs. Knight's father.

| decoration in his incubator. The

| decoration, in fact, is already in. When “little Gus” was put inte the incubator, the tiny light bulb furnishing illumination inside was {found to give off too much heat, 1t might have killed him. Nurses . immediately called: the hospital engineer, Gus Naab, and told him to bring up the tiniest light bulb he could find. He rushed in with a Christmas tree-lignt bulb and took such an in= terest in the tiny baby that nurses began calling the child “little Gus.” From what Mrs. Peyton has said to nurses it looks as though the name may stick. )

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at a time when he was pinched for Under that directive, the board will gasoline and:ammunition, (act on the presumption that wage

There was no enemy air activity ot ¢% Prevaing on Sept. 15, 1942,

later, at Dunkerque. Even so, 2S! widespread destruction was admit- | "The air ministry said three Brit-

‘Churchill saw it, the effort had by the Italian radio. |ish planes were missing from the been justified. in- daylight activities.

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against U. S. forces in the area were repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy. “(B) Our air forces strafed enemy . troops” during continous air patrols which were maintained over

reported yesterday, the communique said. Two allied planes were lost in| Approvals te Be Few lc'uding Stirlings and Lancasters yesterday's operations. it. said, but The board will grant wage in-| Nor was Churchill the only Brit- which carry up to seven tons of creases over the level prevailing on jsher who felt that way about the bombs, battered Genoa in another

three pilots previously reported! . ; missing were found to be safe. Sept. 15, 1942, only in exceptional! piddle East. Before the end of “cascade raid.” They flew through

Planes Surprise Axis

A large Italian aircraft of unidentified type was shot down in the Mediterranean north of Malta during Thursday night, the official announcement added.

cases and in accordance with the 1915 Gen. Townshend was ordered

following paragraph of executive order No. 9250 of Oct. 3, 1942: | “ “Fhe naticnal war lahor beard shall not approve any increases in| the wage rates prevailing in Sept. 15, 1942, unless such inerease is|

necessary to correct maladjust-

to take Baghdad from the Persian to and from Italy, but over Genoa, conditions were described as good. |

gulf, but his forces were so small that they were invested at Kut-El-|

‘difficult weather conditions going:

MOSCOW, Nov, 7 (U. P.).—The The bombers were said to have Red army, enceuraged by Premier

Amara and compelled to surrender lighted their targets with huge fires Joseph Stalin’s promise of an early

after 143 days of siege.

istarted by incendiary bombs.

It | offensive against a weakening foe,

Coming as it did on top of Galli-|was believed that they had satur-| hurled the Germans from fortified

(enemy lines. ALL y All THRUSTS! “2, There has been no ehange in ' WW EW ur eastern positions in the vieinity

of Koli point.” . Col. Knox told reporters the ratio of Japanese losses in land action, previously reported as very heavy in comparison to our own, was be-

ing maintained. Asked what the loss ratio has been, an aid responded for Col. Knox that it was four or five to one.

RAIL SHOP WORKERS SOUGHT BY ARMY

An urgent appeal for railroad

poli, this new disaster was a ter-|ated the ground defenses, putting | points in Stalingrad and blasted rific blow to British prestige and most of the anti-aircraft batteries| them with armored trains in the : . . - out of acti Nalchik area of the Caucasus tahordes in flight toward the Libyan In February, 1917, there- out of action. da border west of Matruh yesterday | fective prosecution of the war.” (fore, Gen. Maude led a better-| Home Front May Fall Th G ere pin fternoon, The allied bomber : : : red column against Baghdad ight's rai ; | Toe Guimans were pinned down | a he allied bombers have! Mr. Davis emphasized that in- PT¢P@ 8 g | Last pight’s raid was timed to or retreating everywhere and sufferbeen operating a remarkably short creases would be authorized “very, 31d succeeded where Townshend t.jxe a telling blow at Italian’ :

; . oY | . Atl ing continual big losses, as Stalin en front of their advancing very sparingly and then only if it js had failed. ‘morale on the home front while jssued an order of the day on the und troops.

(conclusively shown that they are| But while Gen. Maude’s victory genjto Mussolini's armies, left in 5th anniversary of the Russian The =llied planes caught the essential to the prosecution of the boosted morale, the occupation of the jurch by their German allies, revolution, telling his army that it

Powerful allied aerial formations

ments or inequalities, to eliminate bombed the German-headed axis ;

substandards of living, to correct|'**" gross inequities, or to aid in the ef- morale.

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“Charing Cross” when it was held Front | dispatches said the British and! American fliers completely surprised the enemy by “appearing! from a direction other than the east.”

U. S. Tanks Lauded

The allies had seized axis air bases Bela at FPuka and Daba, east ef Matruh, but this was tae first! indicatiop that they had already passed west of Matruh, which is the western terminus of a railroad from Alexandria. Powerful American-built General Shermans were characterized in front dispatches from United Press correspondent Richard D. McMillan as “the best tank built in this war and much superior to the German Mark -IV specials.” The American machines were in the spearhead of the allied forces that battered Remmel to his knees, it wos revealed,

ARMY PROBES CRASH

ST. LOUIS, Nev. 7 (U. P.).—An army board teday began investiga‘tion of the erash of a Martin B26A medium bomber while taking

yesterday, resulting in the death of Corp. C. L. Linn, Walnut, Iawa,

war.”

Each claim for ‘exceptional Baghdad did not advance allied gore being systematically annihi-| nag put 8,000,000 of the Soviet's

treatment, he said, will be examined strategy appreciably. Hence a real |gteq or captured en the Egyptian enemies out of action.

carefully.

GATES TALKED AS MARTIN SUCCESSOR

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to favor the creation of a joint comniittee of the house and senate to give congress “a greater -voice in the conduct of the war.” He emphasized he did not mean! that congress should attempt to, influence military operations but added: ’ “The congress represents the people. This is a peagple’s war and we should know what's going on.” Asked whether he felt President Roosevelt had consulted frequently enough with minority leaders in the house and senate, Mr Martin said he believed he had beer at the | White House on enly one or two] aceasions since Pearl Harber. Mr. Martin reiterated his belief that nen-war gevernment expenditures should be. “decidedly reduced”

and cut drastically.” He alse suge gested that each eof the hause appropriations subcommittees might employ a trained auditer to assist

in passing on fiscal questions.

and injury te two lieutenants.

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and said he believed the people;on through Syria. would “insist on them being eui Bulgaria caved in, and ene month

blow at Turkey and Germany Wwas|fpont.

prepared in Egypt. First under)

Stalingrad, which Stalin said the It was recalled that when Gen. Germans had meant to take last

. 3 | Gen. Sir Archibald Murray, then gi. Archibald P. Wavell drove the July 25, fought fiercely in its 76th under Gen. Edmund Allenby, the|jtalians back to Benghazi in 1940, day of siege.

| British hit the Turks and drove pe said that Italy had been on the;

them eastward across the Sinai desert into Palestine. Fr

capture Gaza on Nov. 6, Jerusalem was surrendered to the.

the Dead sea. Beginning of the End

All these victories were permanent. And they had a very definite effect on Germany, though at the time they attracted nothing like their share of attention. In July and August, 1918, Marshal Foch began to rain blows on! the Germans in France. At the] same time he ordered offensives in the Balkans and in the Middle East. The Freneh, Serbs . and other allies attacked narthward) from Salonika while Allenby pushed On Sept. 30

later an armistice was signed with Turkey. Now the handwriting was on the wall. For a long time the morale of Austria-Hungary had been for from good. With the collapse of Turkey and Bulgaria, it gave way

Marriage Ban for WAVES

WASHINGTON, Nev. 7 (U. P.).— ‘The navy has made a slight con_gession¢to romance. Rear Admiral Randall Jacobs, ‘chief of naval personnel, has ruled that WAVES can marry—previded they don’t marry naval men. They ean piele their husbands from the ay, marines or coast guard, how-

If a “Ripple” (enlisted WAVE)

es ‘a gob or a WAVE officer|

es a naval officer, she dees at the priee of being dismissed. new ruling said nothin, about

what would happen if an army genleral falls for a cute little “Ripple” or a WAVE “admiral” falls for a buck private, Co Henceforth, therefore, the army, the marines and the coast guard will be open hunting grounds for the WAVES. WAVES who want to get married and remain WAVES will have to mareh te the altar with men of those services—or civilians, of course.

wives of servicemen cannet jein the WAVES; nor ean WAVES marry during their indoe :

But an early ruling still stands—

altogether. On Oct. 31 she ran up | her . flag of truce, and on Nov. 11 the war was over. But the rout had begun in Egypt.

Indiana, will speak.

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| The Germans have lost a total

verge of quitting the war. lof at ‘least 2000 men killed in Gen, Sir Harold R. L. G. Alex- | Stalingrad during the last 24 hours. Northwest of Stalingrad Soviet in heavy barrages de-

1917. on the run in the western desert stroyed eight enemy earthen and

again, and observers believed the timber forts, silenced three artillery

British on Dec. 10 while the Arabs time might be opportune for crush-| and two mortar batteries and disof the Hedjaz were still further jng the Italian home front to such! persed and partly wiped out a softening up the enemy east of an extent they might quit their axis battalion (1000 men) of infantry.

partners completely. An Italian communique breadeast by Radio Rome admitted “netable damage” in the central and eastern sections of Genoa, which it said were hit particularly hard. If said 20 persons had been reported killed and 50 injured. The R. A. F. flight to Italy followed a smashing daylight raid yesterday on Osnabruck, the great industrial center in northwest Germany, and widespread daylight raids over other areas of Germany, France and the Low Countries.

Use Clouds as Caver The air ministry said the giant

'WAAC’S RECRUITING "MUSICIANS FOR BAND

The local WAAC recruiting office in room 411, Federal bldg. has received word from the War Department io seek additicnal musicians for the WAAE second training center band to be activated soon, The musicians sought to complete the 24-piece band are: one saxaphone, one sousaphone, twe trombones, two French horns, one cor= net, one baritone, two 8-flat clari-’ nets and one cymbals.

shop ‘mechanics for the army has been issued by recruiting offices here, 429 Federal building.” Those qualified in the various

crafts should report to Lieut. Paul White between 8 a. m. and 12! (noon) tomerrcw at reeruiting offices in the Federal building. Those! accepted will be assigned te the 753d engineers battalion at Bucyrus, O.

STATE NAVY CLUBS TO MEET NOV. 15

Indiana Squadran, Navy Clubs of Ameriea, will hold its annual reunion at the Indiana World War Memorial on Nov. 13. An extensive program will be formulated fer the coming year at the meeting at which large delegations from the various clubs of the state are expected.

CHEMIST TO SPEAK Dr. A. N. Stevens, analytical

chemist at Eli Lilly & "Ce. will speak on “Unscrewing the Inserutas: ble” at the meeting of the Seientech club at neon Monday in Beard |

of Trade building.

Lancaster bombers whieh attacked Osnabruck, used a law cleud bank as a cover. It said Wellington bombers raided “a pert in nerthwest Germany,” shooting down one of three Messerschmitt-109 fighters! that attacked them as they were] returning home. Two hundred. Spitfire fighters were reported over France yester- | day noon. American pilots were in-

cluded in that raiding party that!

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