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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1942

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PROBERS URGE

48-HOUR WEEK

Senate Group Critical of - McNutt Manpower Commission.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (U. P.).|

~The senate: committee investigat- _ ing “the war’ program, recommend“ing against compulsory’ manpower legislation, today pronosed length-

“ening the work week to-48 hours.

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In a report filed with the senate, the committee also: Criticized the war manpower commission headed by Paul V. McNutt for failing to evolve a basic national manpower policy or program in seven months of existence. Proposed immediate abolition. of voluntary enlistments in the armed services. Called for one official to be responsible for determining military and production manpower requirements. Some of these recommendations were similar to those made in the WMC's report to President Roosevelt which was published earlier this It also suggested over-all eontrol of manpower problems. The committee did not make clear

whether it intended overtime to be

paid for hours worked in excess of the present 40-hour straight-time maximum, or for hours worked in excess of 48. Chairman Harry S. Truman (D. Mo.) said, however, (Continued on Page Four)

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Twin Secretaries af Stout

The Same in All Respects

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It’s just two of a kind and they're

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Marcella and’ Charlotte Smith, identical ad inseparable daughters

of Mr. and Mrs. O. 8.

‘Smith; 2300 E. Garfield dr., are causing consid-

erable confusion at the field. Officers have to think twice before giv-

7,500,000 ARMY HELD

CONSERVATIVE’ GOAL Stimson Says Force Is Needed ‘to Finish War. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (U. P.).—

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today that "the successful oc-

cupation of ‘French North Africa °

proved “the high qualitative character of American troops,” but the country still ‘has before it the task of raising and training an army “of sufficient size to finish the war.” The North African operation, Stimson said-at a press conference;

“throws helpful light on the ques-|

tion of the size of our army—on the accusation of some that we are raising too large an army.” Asserting that plans to bring 7,-

500,000 into the army by the end of 1943 have been “calculated against everything we can anticipate,” the secretary said the figure}

was “conservative.”

FDR Asks Days

WASHINGTON; Nov. 12 (U. P.) —

President Roosevelt today asked the

American people to observe Thanksgiving day and New Year's day in prayer for divine guidance through the dark days of war. Unprecedentedly, the president made a joint proclamation for the Thanksgiving and New Year’s holidays. Its language was-marked by gravity and realization of “our dependence upon Almighty God.” “In giving thanks for the greatest harvest in the history of our nation,” Mr. Roosevelt said -in his proclamation, “we who plant and reap can well resolve that in the year to come we will do all in our power to pass that milestone; for by our labors in: the fields we can share some part. of the sacrifice with our, brothers and sons who wear the uniform of the United States.” ag ot 4 Cites Washington Words 4

- The president noted that Thanksgiving and New Year's day this year find “our. republic and the nations joined with it waging a battle on many fronts for the preservation of liberty.” Recalled the reverent words of | George ‘Washington, “Almighty God, ‘we make ‘our . earnest prayer that Thou wilt: keep the United States In . Thy holy protection.” . Mr. Roosevelt included in his

Proglanation

of Prayer

After recommending to the nation the classic 23d psalm, the president said: “Inspired with ‘faith - and courage by these words, let us turn again to the work that confronts us in this time of national emergency; in the armed services and the merchant marine; in factories and offices; on farms and in the mines; on highways, railways and airways; in other places of public

-| service to the nation, and in our

Tomes.” : Precedent. Is Set Mr. Roosevelt last year declared Jan. 1 as a day of prayer. He and Prime Minister Winston Churchill went to George Washington's historic old Episcopal church in Alexandria to seek God’s help in their battle against “the powers of darkness.” Mr. Roosevelt since has received many requests from religious leaders and other members of the American public for other days. of prayer. Throughout the nation this year ‘Thanksgiving will ‘be observed on the old-style last Thursday of November, Mr. Roosevelt having abandoned his experiment of having it a week earlier.

BUSINESS LEADER DEAD SEYMOUR, Ind., Nov. 12 (U. P.). —Ralph Williams, 50, prominent Seymour business man and operator of a large automobile gone supy firm,

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ing oraers, and they they're never sure... - The girls celebiagid their 20th birthdays recently, Marcella 15 minutes ahead of Charlotte. Friends say the only noticeable difference is that Charlotte is a trifle more talkative, “The girls like and. wear the same clothes, hair styles, and studied the They have “dated” twins but don’t make a practice of it.. They both like music, movies, jitterbugging and working at an army post.

WAR PLANT BUILDING

MEN BACK AT WORK

Idle on Armistice Day in Pay Dispute.

Some 5000 construction workers were back on their jobs at several

large defense projects today after fan Armistice day “holiday,” which they took in a dispute over the pay-

ment of time-and-one-half.

~The projects affected were Alliso’ s, the Fall creek ordnance plant

Curtiss-Wright, The unions reportled to have taken the “holiday” were] carpenters, cement finishers, common laborers, bricklayers and hod

On Thanksgiving, New Year's ze"

were reported to have remained on|.

The electricipns and steamfitters their jobs.

NOGUES IN VICHY? VICHY, Nov. 12° (French . broadcast recorded by U. P. in New York) .— Gov. Gen. Auguste Nogues of Morocco has returned to Vichy by plane, it was announced today. He conferred immediately with Marshal Henri Philippe Petain concerning the situation in Morocco. -

MEXICO FEELS QUAKE

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 12 (U. P.). —A violent earthquake was registered last night in the state of Oxaca. A slight shock was felt in Mexico City,

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ALLISON PLANS SWITCH T0 TWO 10-HOUR SHIFTS

Scarcity of Causes Change From 3

Shorter ‘Turns.’

By JOHN W. LOVE Times Special Writer The growing pressures on manpower just behind the fighting fronts and the manpower and womanpower farther back in the fac-

tories may be felt by any visitor to the great Allison airplane engine factories here. Training is being stepped up in the courses for the ground crews of the air forces, members of which come in here from all over the world, and similar methods are being used in training people for work in the fast-expanding Allisen plants. It’s all one picture, even though it seems to be printed on two sides of a page-—the growing need for instructors in the field and the shortage of supervisors and foremen in the works. The latter is such that with the opening of another big plant, Allison is expecting to give up its three shifts of eight hours each six days a week and go over to two shifts of 10 hours for six days. The announcement of the proposéd revision of the working week was made today by F. C. Kroeger, plant manager and a vice president of General Motors. Allison is the G. M. subsidiary which makes the

pursuit. planes, _ No “effective: date :

was given: for this increase in the (Continued on Page 16)

‘Semi-Zoot’

Bradshaw Effects . a Compromise in Suit Dispute.

A QUARREL between a 15-. year-old boy and his foster parents over his request to wear a “zoot suit” became so intense today that it reached the juvenile court for -a compromise peace treaty. The parents who care for the child as a ward of the court brought him before Judge Wilfred Bradshaw explaining that they had “reached the end of the rope” in trying to prevent the boy from wearing a “zoot suit.” After a half-hour’s hearing, during which the parents contended they could not possibly tolerate such clothes in their home, Judge Bradshaw effected a compromise, “The parents agreed to permit the boy to wear what we agreed ron as a ‘semi-zoot’,” Judge Brad-

“It was not clear to the court just what a ‘semi-zoot suit’ would be but the parents of the boy seemed to understand and all left the court in apparent agreement.” A zoot suit, for the benefit of the uninitiated, hag a long, skirted coat with trousers having a balloon effect at the knees and tight around thé ankles.

Supervisors:

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Modoc loc Amok

Hoosier. Saf: Safari Is Hunting Elephant In Sycamores.

WABASH, Ind., Nov, 12 (U. P.). —A gentle but stubborn female elephant named' Modoc made the banks of the Wabash look like a Hollywood “Tarzan” set today, as the fleeing pachyderm led the pursing safari a mérry chase through six miles of river-bottom fields. The hunt reached its 20th hour, as pursuers became. mud- -logged and tired. Authorities were trying to gain perniission to bring an airplane from Marion to. spot the animal whenever she loses her posse. The country’s first elephanthunting expedition—minus the customary - pith helmets — had Modoc ‘snagged with gaff hooks three times today, but she shook loose, once throwing two men off a bridge into the Wabash river for a dousing. » » #

MODOC made her break for freedom with the aid of a couple of sister pachyderms. The three elephants, owned by Terrell Jacobs, Peru, Ind., a lion tamer, were scheduled to appear at a matinee and evening pertormance of the Great American Circus at the Wabash high: school gymnasium. They were : being lined up for the final act of the afternoon’ show when barking dogs caused them to .bolt. “Empress” and “Judy” were captured only a few blocks away from school, but Modoc lumbered through backyards and disappeared into the basement ‘garage (Continued on Page Four)

| DUE IN JANUARY

Many Married Men Face Call Due to. Delay in Passing Bill.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (U. P.)— A reliable selective service source said today that virtually’ no 18 or 19-year-old draft registrant would be drafted before sometime in January, and that congressional delay in enacting the pending ‘teen-age draft bill would result in the induction of hundreds of thousands of married men without children. The senate is expected to complete congressional action on the draft bill this afternoon by yielding on its original demand for a year of training for teen-age draftees. Selective service officials had depended upon: congress to pass ‘the bill - earlier than has been done, especially after President ~Roosevelt’s appeal for power to draft the youths. Originally they expected that only a few married men with-

‘out children would be drafted before

spring. Induction of many married men during ‘November and December, will be necessary, a selective service official said, because it will take 30 to 40 days. to classify and examine the teen-age boys for induc- | tion. ; Selective service officials told the senate military affairs committee during. hearings that only by quick passage could mass induction of married men without children be avoided. ihe

Dainty Ballerina ‘Bellows!

Orders to

By RICHARD LEWIS Blond Catherine Littlefield, last year’s premiere ballerina and ballet mistress of the Chicago civic opera company, was demonstrating that even petite ballerfnas who sometimes glide like swans and fly like seagulls, can bellow like directors Especially when they are directing an ice show. Particularly when

Sonja’ s Skaters

it’s the Sonja Henie ice show, circa |

1943, and specifically when it is a &

brand new ice show. * There she was perched. precari-

ously on a folding chair atop a

rough-and-ready platform on the i

shore of the coliseum’s glacier, bel lowing into the mike of a public address system. - It was the mike that created the

28 pellowing effect. Even 50, it was a | mighty fine bellow for a small ‘ballerina. The loudspeakers were aimed

direetly at a mob of, :Snlenved the ic “he

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U. S. GENERAL MADE ‘SPYING TRIP-TO AFRICA.

Met Secretly With French To Get Data Needed for

BERLIN CLAIMS VICHY'S FLE TT

Allies’ Coming.

By C. R. CUNNINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Nov. 12—Maj. Gen. Mark W. Clark, deputy com-mander-in-chief of the allied African expedition, “spied-out” French Africa, it was revealed today, in a | daring adventure which led to ttre | 76-hour capitulation of French North African forces. The exploit of Gen. Clark, who today was promoted to lieutenant general, consisted of a secret expedition to North Africa well in advance of the invasion and a return with complete plans of all French military installations in North Africa, disposition of troops, data on what French leaders could be counted on as friendly, the numbers, type and equipment of. garrisons, and even an arrangement to have the airfields outside Algiers delivered to the American air force the moment landings began.

Traveled 15,000 miles

The story -of the undertaking, which involved 15,000 miles of travel between London, Washington and North Africa—during which every conveyance from a submarine to an aifplane was SS

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‘quarters in Algiers. This Oppenheim intrigue was.initiated by French North Africans who sensed the value of an allied

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Nov. 12 (U. P.). —When Maj. Gen. new Lieut. * Gen. Mark W. Clark and his party completed their “spying” in North Africa, they made their way to their boats. The boats upset and they went overboard. They saved all their documents, but Gen. Clark lost his pants. That wasn’t all. There was $18,000 in them.

occupation to the eventual freedom of France. They sought a conference with an American general. Gen. Clark was assigned to the task. How Gen. Clark and his party got to Algiers is a military secret but at one point of their journey they were aided by a sort of Paul Revere technique. - Somewhere along the coast they were instructed to:look for a light shining from a window of an isolated house. If was there that they were scheduled to confer with French military and civil leaders— a conference which almost ended in capture. Waited 24 Hours

When they - arrived, the light wasn’t there. The members of the party thought. they had been led into a trap. For ‘more than 24 hours they waited. Finally, late ome night, a light pierced the darkness from the proper direction. “The house was filled with French military officers in uniform although they had come to the place in civilian clothes,” Gen. Clark said. “We conferred all day and all night until we had gathered all the information we wanted.” Suspicious Arab servants, however, had decided to go to the Vichy police, who were under axis control. In the nick of time the American and French officers received word that police were on their way to the house. “I never saw such excitement in my life,” Gen. Clark said. “Maps disappeared like lightning. A French general in military uniform changed into civilian clothes in one minute flat. I last saw him going out a window. They were

going in .all directions.”

~ Gen, Clark and his staff gathered their papers and equipment and in an empty wine cellar. Up-

[| stairs they could hear the owner of

house talking to the police. “If the police came down,” he re-

| lated, “I was undecided whether to p shoot them or bribe them.”

But after the party had hidden

2 an hour the police departed.

The members of the mission gatheffects together and

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Reports French Leaders Setting Up Counter Government in Africa; Nazis Bombed in Tunis.

LONDON, Nov. 12.—A powerful allied land, sea air force today moved toward a showdewn with the axis in Tunisia, bulwarked by the British 1st army—an esti mated force of 150,000 picked fighting men. The advancing British and American troops appearall to have two main goals. One was Bizerte, powerful Fre naval base at the straits of Sicily. The other was a drive across the waist of Tunsia straight for Tripoli. g Fighting French sources maintained that the French fleet had steamed out of Toulon to join the allies in the African offensive. Vichy maintained that the fleet still was at Toluon, its home base. Without question, a battle of tremendous proportions was shaping up at Tunisia where Adolf Hitler has landed air-borne troops. ) il U. S. Columns Within 50 to 100 Miles of Tunisia Mobile columns of American troops were placed, in 3 some reports, within 50 to 100 miles of the Tunisian border. British troops were swarming ashore to bolster the AE HCAn SHRINE TOTce, esses snes A Rome communique’ indicated that a fighter plan battle had occurred north of Cape Bone and that the American advance may be proceeding even more rapidly” than scheduled. : - Brig. Gen. James A. Doolittle’s American air fleet and royal air force planes operating from Malta were pacing the American-British advance and the R. A. F. already had brought axis concentrations in Tunisia under attack. At sea the powerful fleet of Sir Andrew Browne Cune ninghafn was believed steaming forward, possibly with fresh reinforcements, to challenge any Italian naval effort to. intervene in the crucial struggle. Nazis Report New Fleet at Gibraltar A report of German origin claimed that three allied aircraft carriers, two battleships, four cruisers, 14 destroyers and more than 40 transports had assembled at Gibraltar— possibly representing a massing of allied naval reso which had been strung out along the lengthy Morocco and Algerian coasts. German bombers and submarines, attacking the Amer ican-British invasion fleet off the North African coast, hav sunk five transports and damaged 16 merchantmen and nin: warships, including two “aircraft carriers and two cruiser a German communique asserted. In North Africa, the communique said, German an Italian troops were engaged in fierce fighting with strong enemy tank forces on the Libyan-Egyptian frontier

Briton Commands Algeria in Africa E How much of the British 1st army already was ashore in Africa was a military secret. However, the appointmeni of Lieut. Gen. K. A. N. Anderson, 1st army commander, as commander-in-chief of allied forces in Algeria was taken te indicate that the whole force is being thrown in to back up the initial American asasult troops. This is the army which fought the Germans in north ern France and Belgium, eventually being evacuated through Dunkirk. It is regarded as the cream of Britain’s figh force, having been fully reorganized, all losses repls and its armored strength brough® back to par after Dunki Twin American columns, one driving east along Mediterranean coast and the other cutting to the south with the apparent intention of striking directly a Tunisia at Tripolitania, were reported advancing rapidly. The initial blow in the Tunisia battle, a Cario com nique revealed, was struck Tuesday when a force of 1 motored British bombers, presumably from Malta, attac : (Continued on Page Three) :

On the War Fronts |

* November. 12, 1942

ALLIED HOS, FRENCH NORTH; LONDON-—German troo AFRICA—American forces from ing occupation of Vichy, Algeria drive toward Tunisia; U.| yiony says French fleet still S. occupation of Algeria and Mo- . . into rocco virtually complete. Toulon; Italians move ) _ sica.

CAIRO—British bombers believed : a based on Malta attack Nazi air-|CAIRO—Main British forces p suing el reported neari

drome near Tunis, firing 19 i Mabe el planes on ground and damaging forces out 23 axis planes,

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