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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1942
These dramatic pictures of the allied invasion of French North Africa are the first to reach America. In the photo above, cabled from London by the British Newsreels Association to Acme News Pictures in New York and telephotoed to the Indianapolis Times, an allied land-
ing boat pushes up on the Shore near Oran, French Algeria.
Anglo - American Army of 200,000 Men Enters French Protectorate; Report
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By EDWARD
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W. BEATTIE
; United Press Staff Correspondent . LONDON, Nov. 14.—Great fleets of allied planes struck at axis forces in Tunisia and their invasion base in Italy from all directions today as a vast American and British army was reported to have crossed the Tunisian border. The allies reportedly were flying a gigantic division of
parachute troops to Tunisia.
British press reports said the great allied army, per-
haps numbering upwards of
divisions and a great umbrella of planes, had poured into
Tunisia at dawn. Aiding = doughty = French garrisons at Tunis and the important naval base at Bizerte, believed fo have been holding out against axis invaders for almost a week, British planes based on Britain, the island fortress of | Malta and possibly Italian Libya, and American planes from French North Africa, blasted German and Italian troops in ¢ Tunisia and Genoa, the Italian port
which is the source of their supplies and reinforcements.
No British Planey Lost
The air ministry reported that major damage had been inflicted upon Genoa’s harbor facilities. The attack was driver home in perfect flying weather, the ministry said, and no British planes were lost despite reinforced antiaircraft defenses and a considerable number of German night fighters, one of which was shot down in’ flames. Large numbers of 4000 pound and 1000 pound bombs were dropped, particularly on the Ansaldo plant
which manufactures warship en-|
gines and other arms. “A very large fire was started in the target area, the ministry said. ~The Rome radio, quoting an ‘Italian unique, said that “considerable damage” was caused by
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On the War Fronts
(Nov. 14, 1942)
LONDON-Allied planes pound axisheld airfields in Tunisia,
ALLIED HQS., NORTH AFRICA— French Tunisian garrisons .reported fighting Nazi “protectors.”
CAIRO — R. A. F. destroys seven axis planes bound for Sicily, damages others; British 8th army pursues Rommel.
LONDON ~ British planes blast Genoa,
ANKARA—Axis sources term American operations in North Africa “great misfortune.”
MOSCOW—Russians hold off Germans at Stalingrad,
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HQS.—Flying fortresses hit Japanese warships in northern Solomons.
TOKYO — Imperial headquarters claim six American cruisers and destroyer sunk in the Guadalcanal area.
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BOILER EXPLOSION
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. Nov. 14 (U. P.).~Two crew members were killed
‘and a third seriously injured today]
when the boiler of a speeding westbound “oil special” freight train of the Pennsylvania railroad exploded ‘near Cresson, Pa. The dead were A. H. Schroedel, ah, of Pittsburgh, and Joseph A. Ward of Altoona, Pa: J. P. Hogan of Edgewood, Pa., fires man, at first was reported to ‘have his life in the blast, was pulled from the and taken to Altoona hospital, where his condition was reported serious.
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This picture shows boats of the huge united nations fleet swinging into formation as they neared Oran. Gunners on the boat in the fore ground are shown manning their anti-aircraft gun in readiness against attacks from any quarter, : Military-politico arrangements carried out before the invasion began cleared the path for the American sweep into Alge
| STAN Weekly ‘Sireup by the - Wathington ‘Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers
WASHIN GTON, Nov. 14. — Next thing to hit ¥ you will be forced savings. It’s coming in 1943. It will feel like a pay cut—a stiff one—and it will come on top of 5 per cent victory tax deductions starting Jan. 1. Moreover, new high income taxes on 1942 income must be paid next year out of what’s left. Bonds you'll get for your savings won't be cashable till the war is over; don't count on them to get you out of immediate financial
embarrassments.
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Forced-savings drive comes from congress. Morgenthau still prefers spending taxes. That's one reason why forced savings will pass. Another possibility (though support comes only from Republicans So far}: Combination sales tax and forced savings. You'd be given receipts for what you paid in sales taxes; these could be converted
“into war bonds.
Treasury worries about tax delinquencies next year; after March you may have to show tax receipt to qualify for various privileges. = ® = ” ” 8
‘End of the Beginning’
WAR ISN'T over yet—isn't near over. : Civilian sacrifice to maintain armies overseas, keep them victorious, Is just starting. More and more men will be sent; it will take ships and more ships (less for bringing us coffee, sugar); it will take
‘prodigious amounts of oil and gasoline (colder houses, less driving
for us.) Real second-front offensive will increase need for high-octane gas to point where it may interfere with present butadiene-making program. Milifary needs for rubber—if this happens—may take the rest of our tires. No private automobiles operate in England.
Men who drafted oil, gasoline, rubber programs for coming year definitely were not told about African campaign, didn’t figure it into their calculations. * 2 2
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War department will fight any plan to keep army below 7,500,000 level it says must be reached in 1943. It. figures axis forces have that many men already under arms in Europe; Japan has another million and a half or two millions. # % ”
New Weapons on the Way \
TIP FROM TOP SCIENTISTS: Look for revoluntionary changes in warfare unless fighting ends in next 12 or 18 months. If it does, it will be decided by weapons we now have. If it goes on three or four years, present weapons will be modified, new ones perfected. Sections of many industrial’ laboratories are so hush-hush even important officials can't get near them. Top war men are cheered by
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» = ” ” 7 2 ADMINISTRATION may try to high-pressure through congress its bill giving president power to suspend all laws restraining free movement of goods, persons, information, into the United States. It’s the widest grant of powers ever proposed in our history, cone gressional veterans say. 3 House ways and means committee will meet on it Nov. 23, will be urged to act, since administration apparently thinks" changes will be slim in the new congress. If the committee turns thumbs down, youll hear no more from this congress; members will quietly slip off ing If it decides to go ahead, last $7el Battie of this battling congress is in prospect, -
Martin. and Rayburn Square Off
SPEAKER SAM RAYSURN and Bepublens Leader Joo Mastin circle each other like two wrestlers looking for & hold. size of Republican representation on committees ‘the Martin wants enough Republicans appointed : so
have: 3 majorly. of only one on Sach
Perkins Drops Minimum to 16 for War Work on Plea Of Military Chiefs.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (U.P). —Secretary of . Labor Frances Perkins today ordered lowering the minimum age for women employed in war industries from 18 years to 16 years. She acted ot the request of the war and navy departments and maritime commission.
They ihformed her that continued inclusion in war contracts of a proyision that no woman under 18 be/ employed would “impair seriously ro conduct of government business by retarding essential production and interfering with the successful prosecution of the war in which the United States is engaged and which requires the complete tion of the human and natio resources of the nation.”
= Limited to 8 Hours
Miss Perkins, under the WalshHealey public contracts act, had
issued an order Sept. 21 providing|
for inclusion in war contracts a stipulation that no woman under 18 be employed by a contractor in the manufacture or production or furnishing of any of the materials, supplies, - articles, or eq t- included in such contract. : In lowering . the age to 16, she made . the following provisions: 1. No girl under 16 shall be employed. 2. No girl under 18 shall be employed for more than eight hours in any one day, or between the hours of 10 p. m. and 6 a. m., or in any way contrary to state laws governing hours of work. - Bars Hazardous Work 3. No girl under 18 years shall be employed in any operation or occupation which, under the fair labor standards act or under any state law or/ administrative Sling. is determined to be hazardous in
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“THE PEOPLE of Britain are scared stiff that the United States will turn isolationist and repeat its League of Nations mistake after this war,” Helen Kirkpatrick, London correspondent of The Chicago Daily News and The Indiana polis Times, said here
And the end of the war, she predicts, may come as early as the end of : next year, or early in 1944, “If we get the
breaks in Africa Helen and get onto Kirkpatrick
the continent, we should be able to knock Germany out by that time,” she said. Like a lot of her London colleagues, She sees the African front not as the second front but as the beginning of one. “But it's a good one,” she de~ clared. Miss Kirkpatrick was in Indianapolis to speak af Town Hall. “I hope this war isn’t too short,” she said quite franidy, “for war (Continued on Page Two)
U, S.-JAP FLEETS CLASH IN SOLOMONS
Our Navy Reports.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (U. P). —The ‘United States and Japanese navies are engaged in a continuing battle in the Solomons and “both sides have suffered losses,” the navy announced today. The fight started Thursday night (island time) after American warships had shelied enemy positions on Guadalcanal for 10 hours in a&
daylight attack on Thursday. A navy communique described the
gagements” and again as-a “battle,” but gave no. indication of ¢ its
the third successive attack on the enemy’s Buinfaisi naval base in the northern ' Solomons scored direct
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RESCUED FROM
RAFT IN PACIFI
Companion Died and Was Buried at Sea But All Others Are Accounted for After 3-Week Search.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (U. P.).—Capt. Eddie V, Rickenbacker, the indestructible man of aviation, has been
{rescued from the Pacific after one of the greatest sea-air
hunts in modern history, the navy announced today. ; Three weeks after the world was informed that the flying ace of world war I was missing somewhere south of Hawaii, a navy Catalina flying boat found the 52-year-old flier floating with two comrades in a life raft. A The rescue was made about 600 miles north of Samoa. Rickenbacker, survivor of scores of adventures in which death seemed just around the corner, was in sufficiently good* condition to be able to report {o his rescuers that one of his crew men—Sergt. Alexander Kaczmarczqk—died several days ago and was buried at sea.
Others Are Found on Isalnd : . With the iron-man captain were Col. Hans C. Adamson and Pvt. John F. Bartek and on a small isiand in the same general area, a naval search plane located Lieut. James C. Whitaker, Lieut. John D. De Angelus and Staff Sergt. James | Reynolds, other members of the crew of Rickenbacker’ plane. With the rescue of Capt. William T. Cherry Jr., previa ously announced this week, all Rickenbacker’s crew are now accounted for. The navy said both Rickenbacker and Adameoh webe i in J good condition but that Pvt. Bartek’s state was serious. The private is expected to recover, however. Rickenbacker and his crew flying a U. S. army bombes on a mission for Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Lieut. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the army air forces, were last heard from on Oct. 21 when they radioed they. had enough gasoline for only another hour of flight. Te They were flying south from Oahu to a destination in the South Pacific at the time. On Oct. 23 the navy revealed that the plane was missing. Seach for the survivors had been under way ever since—a search unequaled since Amelia Earhart disappeared in the same general area years ago in time of peace. Miss Earhart, flying around the world, left Lae, New Guinea, July 1, 1937. At 2:30, p. m. that day she radioes that si’ had one hour’s fuel supply left, that she was out of sight {! land and that her position was “doubtful.” was last word the world ever had from her. An in sive naval sea and air search was futile.
Another Chapter i in Great Legend
The Rickenbacker rescue was another chapter in As an automo!