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| AMERICAN TROOPS CAPTURE ORAN: OLLAPSE OF CASABLANCA NEA
18-19 TRAINING
CLAUSE LOSES IN CONFERENCE
Provision Opposed by Mili-
tary Leaders Still Faces Senate Fight.
"WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (U. PJ). —House and senate conferees agreed unanimously today to eliminate from the 18-and-19-year-old draft bill a senate provision requiring a year’s training before they can be
assigned to combat duty outside the
United States. Conforming to the wishes - of President Roosevelt and his military leaders—who urged elimination of
this “restriction” on the draft of ‘teen age soldiers—the senate con-
. ferees agreed to abandon this
amendment which the senate had adopted. | Agreement also was reached on other differences in the bill. House leaders said the legislation might be taken up in the lower chamber by unanimous consent today.
Senate Acts Thursday
.Senate concurrence also is reQuired, and the elimination of the training period still faces a legislative hurdle when the upper chamber considers the legislation, prob-; ably Thursday. In general, house conferees accepted senate language in the bill, with some modifications and with
the exception of the year’s training|
provision. Conferees agreed on language under which 18 and 19-year-old youths and unmarried men in the older age bracket, must be called before married men are drafted.
Defer Farm Workers
A senate amendment providing for deferment of persons “necessary to and regularly engaged in” agriculture was accepted. The selective service system will determine any individual's status in agriculture under this provision. A senate, provision exempting from the draft registrants over 45 was accepted with a revision permitting such persons to volunteer. Under the compromise bill, 18 and 19-year-old high school pupils who are called for service during the last half of the academic year may be deferred on their own request until the end of the school year. No such deferment, however, is provided for college students.
ARMY PATROL BOAT BUILT BY PRISONERS
~~ WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (U. P.) — justice department announced today that the first boat to be built entirely by federal prisoners for war - use will be launched from the yards of the McNeil Island penitentiary on Puget sound Saturday. James V. Bennett, federal bureau of prisons director, said the motor ‘patrol boat was built for the army and had been designated the “Q86.” Of wood construction and powered by a Diesel engine, the 65foot craft is of a type regularly used for patrol work along the west coast. ;
SHIP VICTIMS LANDED A BRITISH WEST INDIAN PORT, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—Forty-nine survivors of a torpedoed ship have been landed here after- spending several days at sea, authorities announced today. One person was reported to have died at sea.
STUDY U. S. HOLDINGS
Ww GTON, Nov. 10° (U. P.). ~The Chinese ambassador, Dr. Wei Tao-Ming, conferred with Secretary of State Cordell Hull today ding proposed relinquaishme of American extra-territorial rights in China,
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Continent of Conflict—Allies Make Africa a Second Front Base
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east, west and south can squeeze the axis out of Libya and use the desert front as a base for attacks on Italy, Crete and the Nazi-held Balkans. Meanwhile, Anglo-American units may extend their occupation of French Africa to include Dakar and the vast area south of the Sahara.
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Mass Staff Resignations Face New County Officers
By NOBLE REED The impending personnel crisis in local government became more acute today with the resignation of some key workers and announce-
ment thdt the county clerk’s staff: G. O. P. appointees before Jan. 1.
County Clerk Charles R. Ettinger, Democrat, who leaves office Dec. 31, said his depleted staff will have to work full speed until the end of
FORD SPEEDS UP TANK PRODUCTION
Brings Big 3 of Auto Firms Into Mass Output.
DETROIT, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—The Ford Motor Co. today revealed it
* jwas turning out 32-ton M-4 medium
tanks on “more than one” assembly lines, thus bringing the.last member of the automotive industry’s “big three’ into mass production of this vital weapon for the united nations. Conversion of the automotive industry’s mechanical wizardry to the mass production of land battle wagons started when Chrysler Corp. opened its tank arsenal, gained headway with General Motors’ entry into the field, and is now practically complete with Ford's entry info the field. ; Among Ford's production capacity devoted to tanks is a complete factory Ior the manufacture of nonbuckling armor. plate by a' process that eliminates the use of consider-
able equipment but sharply reduces
.|records and work are complete and
{stay on- for a few weeks and have
“will not have time” to train new
his term to complete 1942 records. “I'm going to see that my ‘office
balanced before I leave and this will prevent my staff from taking any time out to help train their successors,” he said. The only solution to the threatened breakdown in the clerk’s office, which handles $2,500,000 annually, most of it in petty cash, would be ‘a compromise with present key workers to stay in their jobs temporarily when A. Jack Tilson, new Republican clerk, takes office. 35 Plan to Leave - However, most of the 35. deputy clerks, some of them handling specialized work, have indicated they will have new jobs, befter paying ones, to go to immediately after their boss closes shop. : “I will see to it personally that ever§ one in my office gets a new job, equal to or better than the one he had,” Mr. Ettinger said. “The only way Mr. Tilson can get his new workers trained is to induce some of my key workers to
his new appointees work without pay until .they learn the records.”
Mr. Tilson said he had intended)’ oon, Suid 3e henuieded
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A high wind roared through Indianapolis and Marion county early today, ripping up trees and tearing down wires in scattered portions of the area and dropping the mercury from what had been an all-time high here yesterday. Police headquarters was kept busy
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swering an avalanche of calls from residents reporting damage. Much colder weather was predicted for today and the weather bureau said the mercury would slide (Continued on Page ‘Four)
ICKES - WARNS EAST TO REDUCE GAS USE
‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (u. Pp
the clerk's
ployees who previously worked In
‘Indiana and
for Thursday, Friday and Saturday} of ‘this week. It has been postponed until Nov. 18, 19 and 20. Regional OPA officials’ would not say how long the extension would be, but it was stated unofficially that it might be some time between
Dec. T and Dec. 14.
The reason for the postponement is that some of the states do not have the necessary equipment for “A” ‘book registration, it was announced.
The postponement covers only Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky, but it was reported that if other regions develop equipment “hottle-necks” rationing might’ be delayed in those areas. Indiana, however, was “all set”
: for the registration and rationing
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The arrangements will have to be
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WAGE INCREASE DENIED
WASHINGTON, ‘Nov. 10 (wu. P)—| ..{The ‘war labor board has denied {4000 . Have workers employed by 41
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Postpone Gas Rationing in
3 Other States
Gasoline rationing in Indiana and three adjoining states has been postponed from Nov. 22 to a date to be announced in a few days. : The delay was announced today by the regional office of price administration at Cleveland which said the registration of motorists for basic “A” books also has Jbeen postponed. The registration at schools throughout the state originally was set
On the War Fronts
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ALLIED HQS., NORTH . AFRICA —American offensive nears full - control of Algerian coast, mops up in Morocco, heads toward Tunisia to strike at Rommel’s rear; resistance strongest at Oran and Casablanca but ' casualties are light; Gen. Henri Giraud, French war hero, joins allies and is expected to have charge of French Africa.’
CAIRO—British eighth army presses pursuit of Afrika Korps; fighting “reported in Sidi Barrani and Sollum areas.
LONDON—Ttalian cruiser sunk by British ‘ submarine off Sicily; 47 German submarines announced sunk or damaged in past three weeks; R. A. F. bombs. Hamburg.
BERLIN — British battleship of ‘Queen Elizabeth ° class claimed sunk.
VICHY—Naval battles reported in ~ Mediterranean and off African ‘Atlantic coast. :
|that the British victory in Egypt
TUNISIA
Jean Bart, a blazing hulk in
Italian mainland.
military headquarters in the
was expected. momentaxily, . ‘A London report said
ations. ‘Tunisia at great speed. begin systematic bombing of
that area.’ American forces contin
ROMMEL ROUTED, SAYS CHURCHILL
‘Largely Destroyed as ‘a Fighting Force,” He Tells Cheering Commons.
LONDON, Nov. 10 (. P.).— Prime Minister Winston Churchill said today that Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps “has been defeated, has been routed, and has been very largely destroyed as a fighting force.” He told the house of commons
was “remarkable and definite.” “The Germans,” he said, “have received that measure of fire and steel which they have: so often meted out to others. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end—but is it perhaps the end of the beginning.” Commons cheered loudly. . He paid tribute to United States forces operating in the Middle East, saying that “the Americans rendered powerful and invaluable service in the air.” Churchill referred to Fresident Roosevelt as the “guthor of the Mediterranean offensive.”
CAIRO, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—The victorious 8th army, hotly pursuing the weary remnants of Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps into Libya, fought a German rear guard yester-
just inside the Egyptian border, the Middle Eastern command announced today. Front line dispatches indicated that the bulk of the 20,000 to 25,000 men Rommel had left had retreated into Libya through Hellfire Pass.
FDR STARTS STUDY OF SPENDING IN 1944
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (U. P.). —While you're still trying to figure where the money to pay the heavy
day near Sidi Barrani and Sollum, |
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U. S. BOMBING; LAVAL TEETERS
Petain Takes Supreme Command of French " Forces; Darlan, a Prisoner, Is ‘Entertained’ by U. S.
BULLETINS ~~ ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Nov. 10 (5 P. M.) (U. P.).—Lieut. Gen. Dwight Eisen. hower announced late today that American troops had occupied Oran, last major Algerian center of French resistance, and had left the 35,000-ton French battleship,
a blow which crushed French
naval resistance at Casablanca.
BERN, Switzerland, Nov. 10 (U. P.).—Rumors cir. culated today that Benito Mussolini is alarmed by the possibility of an allied attack on Italy and is conferring shortly with Adolf Hitler on means of Protecting the
By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent
French reports late today said that American. oops have occupied Oran, second city of Algeria, and established.
heart of the city.
The fall of Casablanca, chief city of French Morocco, RE
at the great “French naval base
at Bizerte might at any mong! be added to the area of ope The United States offensive was moving toward It was understood that the United States soon would
Tunisia since there has been
no reply to President Roosevelt's Tequest for transit through
ued their landings at Port
Lyautey and severed telephone and telegraph communicas tions between the entire protectorate and the Spanish zone,
American troops marched into Oran at 9 a. m. after U. S. tanks had broken French resistance and almost at the same time that Marshal Petain at Vichy was assuming supreme command of the French armed forces. In the face of evidence that the government of Pierre Laval was tote tering at Vichy, Petain called on his commanders in North Africa, | including Vice Premier and A Jean Darlan, to “resist the sors.” i Darlan, it was revealed, is & prisoner of the American forces and is “being entertained” by an Amers ican general in Algiers. In Morocco, where resistance gene erally was stiffer than ea heavy fighting was reported
dispatch, French dissident troops, described as de Gaullists, were said to be fighting the regular Fremch garrison inside Casablanca. The city was reported also to be under ine ternational naval and air bombarde ment and pounding by U. S. tanks, which moved into the suburbs. : Rabat, capital of Morocco, ape peared to be close to capitulati and Goy. Gen. Auguste Nogus had fled the city for some undisclosed interior point, possibly Meknes. Axis Partners May Meet Frantic efforts were under way by Vichy and the axis to counteract the fast-moving allied operation, = While Marshal Henri Philip Petain was assuming the supreme command of all French armed forces, Laval was reported attempt ing to negotiate a full peace wit ermany, probably preparatory an effort to take France openly in the war as a-Nazi ally. : One rumor circulated that Laval, Adolf Hitler and Bento Musso might hold a joint conference o ways and means. There was spreading naval both in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. The British admiralty 2pO) that a British submarine had pedoed an Itallan cruiser nor Sicily and A. V. Alexander vealed that 40 Nazi been sunk or
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