Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 37, Number 48, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 14 September 1942 — Page 7

WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS * United Nations Rout Japanese Forces To Score Major Milne Bay Victory; Soviet Bombers Blast German Cities; Offensive Nets Air Bases for Chinese (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, the; are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Released by Western Newspaper Union.

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These Italian prisoners were captured on the North African front by New Zealand and Indian forces. Almost all prisoners taken were from Pavia and Brescia footslogger divisions. Reports from the front indicate a mutual feeling of dislike between the Italian and German troops and officers. German troops are said to have refused to salute Italian officers.

TRAPPED JAPS: Outguessed, Outfought ‘‘Milne bay area is rapidly being cleared of the enemy,. . . His losses have been heavy ... All his heavy supplies and equipment, including tanks, were lost.” This happy communique from General MacArthur's headquarters in Australia made it clear that the Japanese were smashed in their Milne bay thrust and that Port Moresby was saved for the fourth time. The Japs were outguessed and were caught in a carefully prepared trap. The communique said, in part: “The operation represents another phase in the pattern of the enemy’s plans to capture Port Moresby . His latest effort was to turn the right flank by a surprise attack at Milne bay. The move was anticipated, however, and prepared for with great care. With complete secrecy the position was occupied by our forces and converted into a strong point. Solomons American forces in the Solomons continued to consolidate their positions in the newly won outpost in preparation for their next move, which may be a blow at Jap bases in the northwest Solomons, or, if the enemy renews land and sea attacks, defensive action. Two waves of Jap planes attacked U. S. troops and installations on Guadalcanal island, where a large enemy airport fell to invading American marines. The position of the marines has grown strong enough for the navy to announce that only “mopping up” operations were in progress. The navy also announced further strengthening of positions on six Solomon islands in American hands —Guadalcanal, Tulagi, Florida, Tanambogo, Makambo, and Gavutu..THE GOOD EARTH: Recaptured by China The' recapture of Chuhsien and ajrport cities in eastern China, marked one of the greatest victories of the war for Chinese soldiers. In a few weeks of fighting the Chinese counterattack virtually wiped out Japanese gains of the May and June campaign in the Chekiang and Kiangsi sector. Best news to America is the fact that both towns are within 700 miles of the Japanese mainland, and may soon base United States bombers for attacks on the enemy at home. Among Chinese officials there was little tendency to look upon recent gains as a clear victory resulting from superior offensive power. Belief was expressed that the Japs had overextended themselves.

HIGHLIGHTS « • * in the week's news

TRAINING: Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somervell, commanding general of the Services of Supply, U. S. army, called upon schools and colleges to become pre-induction training centers for the armed services. His prediction was that some colleges may be required to devote all facilities for such purpose. OBDURATE: Despite British broadcasts to the contrary, the German high command in a recent communique claimed that an Allied operational order seized during the raid on Dieppe showed the raid was intended to be the opening of a second front in Europe. ACTION: Back to Washington came Brig. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, former secretary of war. He had been wounded three times in Pacific naval action. He had been assigned to get supplies through the Jap blockade when Gen. Douglas MacArthur was in the Philippines.

WARNING: Attention, Nazis Something new had been added to Moscow’s reports of the war with Nazi Germany. It was the story of increasing aif raids by the Red bombers on German cities. Even Berlin was the victim of these attacks. And Berlin admitted it; too. But the Nazis claimed that the Russians had come in high and scattered their bombs at random with little regard for military objectives. This was old stuff from the Nazis, and the world wondered. In addition to Berlin, the Moscow radio announced that Koenigsberg, Danzig, Stettin, plus many other cities had been bombed in the steppedup air program,. German citizens were warned that as the nights grew longer, the bombings would ° increase. See-Saw All this helped to divert attention from, the bitter land fighting along the eastern front. Around Stalingrad the battle had see-sawed for days. <Jerman forces had admitted that Soviet troops had pushed through counter-attacks with terrific pressure but claimed at the same time that these had been crushed after heavy battling. In the fighting northwest of Moscow, Marshal Gregory Zhukov’s Soviet forces were reported to be continuing their large scale counter-of-fensive by hurling the Nazis across a “strategic water barrier” at one point, recapturing several villages and following the foe westward. MEATLESS DAYS: And Shipping Space When President Roosevelt issued his statement on “meatless days” he brought the effect of war on the home front closer than it had ever been to the nation’s dining table. For while sugar rationing had come, coffee was scarce, food prices were up, there was really no actual shortage of any food commodity for the housewife to worry about. But “meatless days” were something else again. It wasn’t about a meat shortage though that the President talked about in his statement on the subject. He said that conservation of meat through a meatless day each week would be calculated to save shipping space in overseas hauls rather than to alleviate any U. S. shortage. In such a system U. S. meat would largely-replace Argentine, Australian and New Zealand beef and mutton as food for fighters and civilians in Great Britain and on other fighting fronts. Ships now hauling supplies from Buenos Aires, Wellington and Sydney would be replaced by ones traveling the shorte route.

ESCAPE: Os the more than 1,000 officers and men interned when the German pocket battleship Graf Spee was scuttled in Montevideo, more than 100 have escaped internment in Argentina, Juan Antonio Solari, chairman of a senate committee investigating anti-Argentine activities, said. DEATH: Dr. Belisario Porras, 85, three times president of the Republic of Panama, is dead of a chronic respiratory ailment. He was one-time minister to the United States and represented his country at The Hague conference and in the League of Nations. POTATOES: Germany’s 1942 potato crop, according to Nazi spokesmen, is a record one. Admitting that there were no potatoes to be had in Berlin last winter, authorities are promising the population nine pounds of potatoes per person, per week.

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U..S BOMBERS: In l :;crt Action As a prelude to the actual reopening of the Egyptian desert offensive, British and Axis forces sparred daily by raiding each other’s supply and patrol lines via the air route. U. S. bombers were aiding the British in these attacks. While German Marshal Erwin Rommel was still “digging in” around El Alamein and cpnsolidating his position before the Nazi drive toward Alexandria and Cairo, the British navy was striving desperately to cut his supply lines in the Mediterranean. RAF and U. S. planes, meanwhile, were striking hard at Nazi bases at Tobruk and El Daba. Both cities have vital Axis-held airports. As the tempo of this new desert battle increased British, and American planes also attacked enemy encampments, tank .concentrations and armored units, behind Rommel’s front lines. $ <o> RAF bombers and torpedo-carry-ing planes set two Axis ships afire and hit at least one other in an attack off the coast of Libya, and set fire to an oil tanker in the Mediterranean. CRUSH JAPAN: Grew fFarns A “crushing defeat” of the Japanese militarists is the only thing that will assure future peace in the Pacific area, Joseph C. Grew, former American ambassador to Japan, told the nation upon his return to Washington. Grew, who returned from Japan on the exchange ship Gripsholm, said: “We shall crush the Japanese machine and caste system in due course, but if we Americans think that, collectively and individually, we can continue to lead our normal lives, leaving the spirit of selfsacrifice to our soldiers and sailors, letting the intensification of our production program take care of itself, we shall unquestionably risk the, danger of a stalemate in this war of ours with Japan.” He pointed out that Japanese can surmount economic hardship and that force alone will defeat them. “Let’s put it in a nutshell,” he said. “There is not sufficient room in the area of the Pacific ocean for a peaceful America, for any and all of the peace-loving United Nations and swashbuckling Japan.” KAISER: Record-Breaker Ten-thousand freighters launched within 18 days after their keels are laid. That was the goal announced by Henry J. Kaiser, master shipbuilder of the Pacific coast, when he spoke just before the record-breaking Liberty freighter, John Fitch was

jpF 'Vi! JSt ' Is HENRY KAISER Back to Washington. launched only 24 days after keel laying. This launching broke by two days the record established in one of Kaiser’s Oregon yards when construction time was reduced from 35 to 26 days. It was at the John Fitch launching ceremonies that Kaiser disclosed he would again present to the government plans for building huge cargo planes. A few weeks previously he had made his first proposal to Washington and obtained authority to present specific plans for the plane construction program. V-MAIL: Saves Space Throughout the nation, some 45,000 postoffices and rural letter carriers are equipped to furnish free forms on which to write soldiers overseas by V-mail. By this process, V-mail letters written on special forms, are photpgraphed, reduced to micro-film and sent overseas by air. Upon arrival the letter on the film is developed and full-sized letters are printed and delivered to the soldiers. Army officials are urging friends and parents of the boys overseas to increase their use of V-mail, thus saving, valuable cargo space on supply ships. AIR OFFENSIVE: , Hits Nazi War Plants The Allied air offensive against German war factories and seaports continued in strength as British long-range bombers, probably numbering at least 650, lashed out at southern and southwestern Germany for two consecutive nights. From London came word of a successful raid on Rotterdam, during which tons of bombs were dropped in the Dutch port and dockyards by Flying Fortresses of the United States army air force.

HP HIS seems to be a good spot in which to pay additional tribute to a fellow by the name of Carl Owen Hubbell, a pitcher for Mel Ott’s New York Giants. After taking in all the testimony available from Mel Ott, his fellow Giants and his opponents from the National and American league, Carl Hubbell comes closer to being: “The perfect ball player” than any one we’ve ever known. There is, of course, no such word as “perfection” in the human layout. It is the closest approach to perfection that one must consider. “Here is what Carl Hubbell has,” Mel Ott told me. “Just check against it—” — “Skill, courage, brains, modesty, humility, loyalty, stamina, the will to win, concentration, physical fitness—loo per cent of which qualities he has at every start.” This happens to be a fair collection of worthwhile ingredients in an age where such features as “modesty,” “humility,” “loyalty,” “stamina” and “concentration” are often well below par. Skill, courage and brains combined in one system are rare enough. But these qualities are usually accompanied by arrogance, over-con-fidence, physical unfitness and spotty concentration. About Carl Hubbell Lon Warneke, the tobacco chewer from Mt. Ida, Ark., ohe of the best pitchers in the game, said recently that Hubbell was the greatest pitcher he had ever seen. “That tells only half the story,” Mel Ott said. “Carl Hubbell is the CARL HUBBELL most remarkable man I’ve ever known in baseball.” “When he started this season with the Giants back in April he was 39 years old. He had been a star pitcher for 20 years. We kicked away one game after another back of him. He never had a complaint. He had lost six of his first seven starts. He took all the blame. But in place of losing heart he kept working just as hard and then won his next six straight starts.” “It doesn’t make any difference how many errors you make back of Carl. He takes the blame. He never has an alibi or an excuse. It took him five years through seven different towns to reach the Giants in 1928, but this never slowed him down. He has been their star ever since he arrived.” “Carl has won 19 games in a row. He fanned five of the greatest hitters the American league ever knew in succession. He has won four of his six World Series starts. He won 116 games in five years for the Giants, a remarkable record with only a fair hitting ball club. But that’s only a small part of the real Carl Hubbell.” Still Learning “Hubbell, after 20 years, is still learning. When he sits on the bench he watches every batter that comes to the plate. He watches every pitcher to see just what he has. He works just as hard when he isn’t pitching as he does bi the box. The greatest pitcher of them all, he takes nothing for granted. During a game, even when he is on the bench, he overlooks nothing. He rarely says a word. “His whole heart and soul are in that ball game—and that’s after 20 years of competition. He is just as keen to win now—l think even keener—than he was at his prime. “And through it all he is the most modest man I ever knew. If Carl won 40 consecutive games, if he broke every pitching record, he would still be the same quiet, loyal, modest fellow trying to learn—and giving all the credit to the team." I talked with several of the Giants about Hubbell. “He is under one tough handicap,” a Giant veteran said, “When Carl pitches we all are so keen to win for him that we tighten up. We. know there’s no one like him. We’d break a leg and an arm to win for him. So at times we get over anxious, try too hard, and lose games he should have won. But you can make six errors back of Hub and you’ll never hear a squawk. When he loses he is the one who takes the blame. When he wins—it’s the team that did it”

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