Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 38, Number 4, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 6 November 1942 — Page 7

WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS _ Heavy Fighting in Guadalcanal Battle Changes Entire Jap Pacific Strategy; British Offensive Is Aimed at Libya; Coffee Rationing Begins November 28 (EDITOR’S NOTE; When opinion* ar* expressed in these eolnmns, they those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.! - Released by Western Newspaper Union. ——————————

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After a raid on Japanese positions, the first thing U. S. air fighters do in New Guinea is to amble over to the grass hut (called "Sloppy Joe’s”) near the Port Moresby airfield for a cnp of hot tea and a snack. The temperature, obviously, was way up when this picture was taken.

GUADALCANAL: Full Scale Fight News of full scale fighting on Guadalcanal island came to an apprehensive America as U. S. soldiers and marines bore the brunt of continued Japanese attacks. The enemy bolstered its push with fresh reinforcements, landing them on the northwestern end of the island. The Japs opened their big attack by laying down a heavy artillery barrage and then using tanks and troops against the Americans’ defense lines. In the first two days of fighting, United States forces repulsed five tank attacks with artillery. The navy communique did not mention American tanks. Prior to sending their ground forces into action, the foe smashed at Henderson field—with costly results for themselves. The Japs sent over 16 bombers escorted by 20 Zero fighters. Grumman Wildcats, piloted by marines, shot down all of the fighters, one of the bombers and damaged three additional bombers. Japanese shipping in the Solomons area was the target of American pilots. The fliers chalked up two Jap cruisers and One destroyer damaged, another cruiser probably damaged and one heavy cruiser or battleship possibly damaged. Three attacks were made by Douglas dive bombers on a force of cruisers and destroyers north of Florida island—l 3 miles north of Guadalcanal. The navy communique said one enemy -cruiser was damaged by bombs and the force withdrew. Cooperation Meanwhile, from General MacArthur’s headquarters in Australia came word of continuing Allied bombing raids on Jap bases north of the Solomons. Approximately 100,009 tons of shipping were destroyed or damaged in three nights of bombing at Rabaul, New Britain. Other Allied bombers attacked Kavieng, New Ireland, scoring direct hits on Jap fuel dumps and installations. Fires were visible for 90 miles. Medium bombers were in action over Dutch Timor, north of Australia, where they bombed grounded aircraft on the airdrome at Koepang, starting numerous fires. RUSSIA: Relief Army At points the battle line in Stalingrad had been driven to within 600 yards of the Volga as the struggle for that vital city reached its climax. While the Soviet reports told of beating off constant Nazi attacks, these same communiques admitted that the Germans gained important streets and buildings in other sections of the stricken city. To the northwest, the Soviet "relief army’’ battled forward. After one advance this force found 3,000 German troops dead and dying in trenches and dugouts. In one inhabited locality 600 Rumanians were killed and many captured. Germany’s final, all-out drive for the city of Stalingrad itself was just part of the news from Russia, however, for in the Mozdok area'of the Caucasus the Nazi advance had been slowed to a standstill; on the Black sea Russian marines were throwing back a strong Nazi drive southeast of Novorossisk; and on the Voronezh sector of the upper Don two German platoons were slaughtered trying to cross a water barrier. (Believed to be the Don river.)

HIGHLIGHTS • • • in the week's news

RATIO: The Japs are losing ten of their fighter pilots to one of ours in the Solomons, according to marine corps aviators in the southwest Pacific. • • • NEWS: Because almost every New Guinea village has a phonograph, Australian officials are planning a recorded news service for the natives.

COFFEE: One Cup a Day Coffee will be rationed throughout the nation beginning November 28 On the basis of one pound each five weeks for all persons over 15 years of age, under an order issued by the Office of Price Administration. On the basis of 35 to 40 cups per pound, the ration means slightly more than a cup a day a person. So that merchants can stock their shelves, retail sales of coffee will be frozen at midnight, November 21. First of the rationed coffee will be purchased on the last stamp in the sugar ration book, stamp No. 28. Following rationed coffee will be issued by working backward through the sugar stamp book, using stamps No. 28 to 19, in sequence. Eligibility will be determined by the age shown on the sugar book. RAF BOMBERS: Over Italy Long-range RAF bombers struck 750 miles across France and Switzerland to ravage sections of northern Italy and to smash the port of Genoa in the heaviest raids of the war on Hitler’s henchmen. Targets included the great Genoa-Milan-Turin industrial triangle, site of Italy’s principal aircraft and shipbuilding works. The day before, RAF planes left Genoa flaming under two-ton “block buster” bombs. The British air ministry announced that many large fires were set at Genoa, and the raid drew the almost unheard of admission from Rome radio that the bombers caused heavy damage. While the bombers also attacked other points, they concentrated their incendiaries and heavy explosives on Genoa, Italy’s chief port. The reason for the heaviest attack on Genoa was obvious. That port city is a vital supply terminal for Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in Africa. It is also the site of aircraft parts and munition works. NORTH AFRICA: Libya Bound When the British launched the “biggest battle” of Egypt, military experts knew that the objective was to crush the Africa Corps of Nazi General Rommel and drive the Axis forces deep into Libya, there to crush and destroy it. While it was easy to arrive at this fact it was a more difficult task to determine whether or not this represented the much sought "Second Front.” While the first reports of this new offensive by the British and other United Nations forces revealed that the Germans were being shoved back by the quick thrusts of air and land power nobody was underestimating the tremendous task ahead. To nullify the German Africa Corps and to open more the Mediterranean sea lanes is a big job. But it appeared that the British attack had been well prepared and long planned. It had been made possible only because huge quantities of supplies had been poured into Egypt from America. These came through byway of the big U. S. base in Eritrea, on the Red sea. U. S. planes were co-operating with the British but no large numbers of American ground troops were reported in this acti n. And it was in the air that the United Nations first showed their strongest power. For once Rommel did not rule the skies.

DRAFT: More than 11,000,000 men had been conscripted into the Chinese army up to the end of August, Gen. Ho Yingch’in, chief, of staff, has revealed. • o' * OVERTIME: The senate civil service committee approved a bill to pay federal workers time and one-half for all time in excess of 44 hours a week.

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TANK, PLANE GOAL: Emphasis) Shifted Disclosing that the year's numerical production for planes and tanks would not be met, President Roosevelt attributed the situation to a shift in emphasis to heavier, harder-hit-ting models dictated -by battle experience. In his message to congress last January, the President said he had ordered steps taken to “increase our production rate of airplanes so rapidly that in this year, 1942, we shall produce 60,000 planes.” This, he explained, contemplated not the production of 60,000 planes but the attainment of a 60,000-planes-a-year production rate. He told his press conference that the changeover from the M-3 to the M-4 tank meant that the numerical goal (of 45,000 tanks) would not be reached but that the full amount of steel and materials called for in the initial program would still be used in the manufacture of fighting machines through enlarged units. THICKER SOX: And Faster Mail" "Hello, Eleanor." This was the greeting the President’s wife was given as she hustled about the British isles on her visits to American troops stationed there. She had left Buckingham palace and the royalty in it behind and started her tour of inspection at the Washington club, main gathering place for U. S. servicemen on leave in London. Here she told the soldiers and sailors that she had already learned they would like to have thicker socks. She promised to see what she could do about it. Then the men told her that they would like some kind of a speed-up in the delivery of mail from home. This too, would get her attention, said the First Lady. Said she: "I came here to learn just such things and I hope you will tell me more.” That was her idea, to learn as much about conditions among the AEF' as she could. Most people who know Mrs. Roosevelt sensed that she was coming home with a good store of information on this subject. . HONG KONG: Docks Bombed Hong Kong’s comparatively peaceful days came to a sudden end aS United States bombers blasted the Japanese-occupied city in the first Allied raid on the British crown colony since the Japs occupied it last Christmas day. The U. S. planes unloaded tons of explosives on the great Kowloon dock area, shooting down 10 enemy fighters and probably destroying five others. One American bomber failed to return to its base and one fighter was reported to have made a forced landing in Chinese territory. Shortly before the Hong Kong raid, Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault’s China air task force smashed a vast Japanese operated coal mining area around Linsi, in northeast China. Not a single plane was lost in this, one of the longest bombing raids of the war. The bombers destroyed the huge power plant, which was the main target, and put the Linsi mine and five others in the Kailan area out of commission. WORLD WAR ACE: Down in Pacific The ominous word "overdue” brought news to the world that Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker and the crew of a heavy military plane were missing ■. > SH \ Was f UM CAPT. EDDIE RICKENBACKER End of a secret mission. in a Pacific flight between Oahu and another unspecified island. Rickenbacker, ace of the first World war with 21 enemy planes and four balloons to his credit, was in the Pacific on an aerial inspection tour for Lieut. Gen. H. H. Arnold, army air force commander. His visit was a military secret until the war department announced he was missing. Searchers continued to hope that Rickenbacker and the seven army officers and enlisted men. accompanying him would be found floating on life rafts that the plane carried. Aviators in the Pacific war have been picked up from similar rafts weeks after their planes have gone down. Captain Rickenbacker recently returned from England, where he made a special study for the secretary of war of army air force personnel and equipment operating in the active European theater of operation.

rpORTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD, 210- " pound hard-rock Jack Dempsey was putting in another busy day. Now a lieutenant in the coast guard at Manhattan Beach, the ex-heavy-weight champion is directing the conditioning of several thousand men, who need this conditioning badly. I spent the day with Lieutenant Jack, and I’ve never , seen a busier man at work. From seven-thirty in the morning until nightfall he and his staff of instructors handle 3,000 recruits every day. The wind was whipping in from the ocean as Jack moved from group to group, speeding up their work, giving out encouragement, helping his assistants on the job. “They are great fellow’s.” Jack said, “but they need this badly. More than anyone might believe. Do you know that out of 3,000 men here more than 5 2,500 never boxed, wrestled, or played any game to speak of? You’d be surprised how many couldn’t even chin themselves once—just once. When they came .here they didn’t know how to hold their hands —nor how to stand. Look at ’em now.” The Dempsey Program It was put up to Dempsey to work out this program and he’s done a great job. We moved from group to group — IQO- fighters here, 100 wrestling close by, a jujitsu class, a calisthenics class. “What’s this?” I asked Jack. “That’s our kicking squad,” he said. "We teach ’em how to kick [ ' * ' x •> r LIEUTENANT DEMPSEY the enemy and how to keep from being kicked. “Nothing fancy here. It’s all rough-and-ready, hard work, toughening up. No frills. And they eat it up. These kids are great. They average around 22 years and most of them never had a chance for any form of athletics before. They find out what it does for them in just a few weeks. Building Confidence "What we are working bn beyond fitness,” Jack said, “is speed and poise. But more than all, confidence in themselves. “When they first come here they have no confidence at all. In about three weeks they are different fellows — heads-up, come-and-try-to-take-me fellows.” Jack moves around—“ Hey, keep punching — keep punching — keep those hands up— what’s the trouble —one in the stomach? Well, take a little rest. Then go and get him.” You would be more than surprised to see the difference between firstweek classes and fourth-wcek classes. The improvement in speed, ski I, toughness and stamina is amazing. Each group gets two hours a day of this in addition to coast guard duties, and that leaves little time for any resting spots. Putting in eight or nine hours a day, Dempsey at 210 looks as fit as he did at Maumee Bay 23 years ago. As fast? That’s something else that belongs only to youth. About Louis and Conn I asked Jack what he thought about the heavyweight situation. “After another year in the army,” Dempsey said, “neither Louts nor Conn can expect to be near the old fighting form. Louis isn’t a kid any longer. A year’s layoff, or a longer layoff, is sure to s tell heavily on his speed, his timing and his reflexes. “I laid off at times too long myself. I know what it means to see a punch coming, but seeing it too late —or rather, not being able to call on my reflexes in time—is something else. “If Louis and Conn remain in the army two years, it will be a miracle if either ever can come back to championship form. Both are great fighters and great fellows. But army training is entirely different from the speed and the sharpness you need in the ring. “And there’s that thing they call co-ordination. After a long layoff they just don’t gel any more—there’s no team play between them. “Joe and Billy may be better than anything left after the war, but they won’t be the Louis and the Conn we saw in their big fight”

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