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North African Tell

The North African invasion cost only 350 American lives until the

- French surrendered. Wounded and

missing brought total casualties up to ly ‘1600. 3 The fight for the Sicilian beach head during the 12 days from July 10-22, of this year saw 501 U. 8. fighting men killed. - With wounded snd missing the total was about Total marine casualties in the battle of Guadalcanal came to 3676 —five less than in. the Gilbert island battles. Army. tsoops who replaced ‘marines on Guadalcanal suffered 2023 casualties before the

Japanese were driven fiom the sland.

Even the grand-scale, 14-day battle for the beachhead at Salerno in Italy cost only 521 more dead

than the Gilberts campaign.

Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. said the high losses at Tarawa were caused in part by a sudden shifting of the wind which lowered the water’

“5 over thie” reels wr made 5. 1 for the landing boats to get ashore.

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But the pronouncement contained a sober note of warning that Japan cannot be beaten without a Mong, hard struggle. . The purpose of the military discussions obviously was designed to

.7ico-ordinate the military -resotirces

and strategy of the three countries —now being applied in widely separated zones of activity. ~* At present, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is in command in China; Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the Australia-Southwest Pacific area; Adm. Chester W, Nimitz in the Central and North Pacific and Lord Louis Mountbatten in the Southeast Asia sector. . Although conferences, such as those just concluded, can determine plans of strategy for the widely dispersed . Pacific-Asiatic battlefronts, it is believed that as the areas of command come closer to each other in the approach toward

* These are the “future military against Japan” mapped at the North Africa conference of the three allied leaders, America’s President Roosevelt, Britain's Prime. Minister Churchill and China's Chiang Kai-shek. Quotations from the official communique on the meeting are shown along with the Jap-held Pacific and Far East areas to which Lhey refer.

| Japan it may be necessary to cre- India area and chief of staff to sources, is believed to be the key ate an over-all allied high command | Chiang Kai-shek, suggested thatto eventual defeat of Japan. Until for the Pacific and Asia. {final details were worked out for that great reservoir of manpower the long-awaited allied drive to oust/can be equipped with the tools of war, American sea and air power

The presence at the conference of Mountbatten and Lt. Gen. Jos- the Japanese from Burma and open will continue to occupy the Japanese in the Pacific.

eph Stilwell, commander of Amer- the overland routes to China. ican forces in the China-Burma-| China, with its vast manpower rei a

17R, 0. T. G. CADETS T0 BE COMMISSIONED

Commissions to 17 R. O. T. C. cadet-officers at Washington high school will be presented by Maj. Floyd W. Carlisle at ceremonies in the school auditorium tomorrow morning. Cadets to receive warrants are | Cadet, Major Frank S.. Johnson, Cipts. Donwmd Wade, Willis Smith,

william Thornbrough, John Schrei-

ner and Alan “Pisch a! = : x ischer, -Adjutant | TY . - Wade --MeWethy, - 1st Lis. on CITY RAILWAYS ASKS Borgmann, Hardy Hicks, Robert | i Ludlow, Don Pyles and Robert Re : T Di LAY ler and 2d Lts. David Wallace, Attorneys for Indianapolis RailHarvey Gates, Earl Reuter, Richard; ways, Inc, today asked the state] Miller ig Dyer Rinchio; : | Pube service commission not to . @G. Gingery principal, will] RR . speak, and Cadet Major Johnson | ¢¢ 8 formal hearing ‘on the rate will preside, reduction case involving the utility » ” » before Feb, 1, ; Miss Anna Mae Mohr, Junior at| Will H. Thompson, one of the ' Washington high school, is extra- company's attorneys, is scheduled to |eurricalar secretary for the Wash« take his wife who is tn health; lington high school clubs this year. ito Arizona this month. PSC Chair-

man George Beamer sald the com{mission would rule tomorrow on the request.

KILLS CHILDREN, SELF

NEW YORK, Dec.2 (U.P) —Mrs. Mary Tomlinson, 34, and her two small, pajama-clad sons plunged to death from a 15th floor window of a midtown hotel today, concluding an unhappy life in which her first

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Municipal Law Officers, “ Meeting in Chicago, Take Action.

CHICAGO; Dee. 2 (U, P)~The National Institute of Municipal Law Officers meeting here today advoented establishing “ a uniform system of handling traffic ordinance enforcement.” . In normal times nearly 7,000,000 persons are cited for traffic violations, the institute's trafic court committee reported. These violations are keyed indirectly to the 3,000,000 trafic accidents which oc curred annually prior to the war. “Few persons employ counsel to represent them in traffic courts and

“many of the leaders of the bar

would consider it a disgrace to be

_lseen_in a. traffio court,” the com-| mittee sald. Te . “T= “This results in the public's think-

ing of courts in which traffic offenses are tried as ‘courts’ and members of the bar thinking of them as places to be avoided.” Meanwhile, Walter CG. Krapohl, city attorney of Flint, Mich, told the institute that “mandatory laws require the federal government to tear down and remove all prefabricated war houses immediately after the war is over” He estimated that 78 per cent of | the entire housing program was [constructed by private enterprise | with only 22 per cent constructed by {publicly financed construction,

‘ONE INJURED HERE IN CAR-TRAIN WRECK One man was injured today when lan automobile: and locomotive col{lided at the New York Central allroad crossing on, Leota st,

| "James Eaton,

{1s in the Methodist. hospital with a expected to attend and an invitation | student died He was a passenger in has been extended to all members of Walter Bond sald she died of a

{ back injury.

| the car which was driven by James [the parish and husband was killed in North Africa | Méredith, 303 S. State ave. The loco- repatriates and her second husband was beyond motive, which was coming from the

Americans still confined in JapanL oe enemy-haid territory in the Far Among the first to leave tHe ves-! sel when she docked was the Rev, Edwin Mary, member of the United Christian Missionary society with headquarters at 222 Downey ave, Another missionary of the same soclety aboard was the Rev. Lois Anna Ely. The five priests who were former Side side residents are the Rev. Fr. Theodoric Kernel, the Rev, Fr. Rudolph Hornberger, the Rev, My, Stephen Bensman, the Rev. Fr. Odo Schmalz and the Rev, Valerian Schott.

Describes Last Night i

Father Kernel, on arrival in New| York, described the last night aboard the QGripsholm. He said that. about 8 p.m. Tuesday. when the vessel was nearing New York, the passengers observed the lights of the coast guard cutters and that three hours later they saw the first lights on shore, “We stood for hours on deck {looking at the lights we. had been | waiting so long to see,” he sald. The five priests, with 10 other {Franciscans who returned with them, will be guests at the Sacred | Heart parish home-coming,

Ceremony Set There will be a ceremony in the church at 7:30 p. m, with Bishop | Joseph E. Ritter participating, then [a program in the school auditorium lat which the five local priests will} | speak. | Arrangements for the program are {in charge of the Rev. Fr. Norbert (Schmalz, now stationed in Chicago) dand a brother. of Father Odo

42, of 1110 Bates st, (Schmalz. More than 30 priests are tory of Brazil's city schools that a

friends of the,

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roundhouse, was in ehaege of George. were aboard the, Gripsholm were the

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tingville; Chester Earl Travis, Mary" Hall Travis, Miss Evangel Mary Travis, Jonathan Travis, Ivan Travis, Travis, all of Morocco.

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ARSON CHARGED AT . NOTRE DAME FIRES

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dee. 3 (U. PY =Deputy State Fire Marshal Fred W. Kleis said today investiga=

tions showed that an arsonist has

been responsible for a recent outs break of fires in buildings at the University of Notre Dame, Three fires have broken out in the same group of buildings within the last two weeks, two of them causing He said evie dence indicated the same person started the two serious fires, One caused $11,000 damage to the administrative building and another blaze resulted to $15,000 damages in the adjoining Ave Maria printing shop and storage building. =

SCHOOL GIRL FOUND DEAD

BRAZIL, Ind; Dec. 2 (U, PJ) Edna May Dutell, 17-year-old high school senior, was found dead in her seat yesterday, when her come mercial class filled out of the room for the next class period, : + It was the first time In the his.

in class. Coroner

heart attack.

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