Syracuse-Wawasee Journal, Volume 38, Number 9, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 11 December 1942 — Page 9

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In this modern war-of-movement the amount of action which formerly took weeks or months is condensed into days. This is a decisive factor which has greatly increased the responsibility of the signal corps of the United States army in providing a commander with the channels of communication through which he receives information and directs the action of his troops. These pictures will acquaint you with some of the phases of signal corps duty. 1 Above: Signal Corps men operate a mobile unit at the First Army maneuvers in the Carolinas.

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Signal man, Private Harry Kimble of Easton, Pa., is shown operating a field telephone during exercises of the 18th infantry.

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The intelligent face of this young S. S. T. is typical of the new American army. He is receiving a message tn code.

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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Soviet Pushes Offensive Against Nazis As Italians Contemplate Allied Threat Os Stepped-Up War Against Them; Tunisia Battle Climaxes African Drive (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) _____________ Released by Western Newspaper Union. _______ ——

* 8SBU:. **< 11 a jEoH* J& fl lr> ssw /aiibsi * j lAz , Pwi-wy 19Bi r j- MuLUirf m L KJQH h>HI CSv 1 SR fPWH The liberated French supplied the refreshments and a toast was raised to an American alliance when a lieutenant with the Yankee invasion forces brought word to the Foreign Legion barracks in Safi, Morocco, that the troops there were no longer prisoners. Thus ended another phase of the Allies’ North African campaign.

TUNISIA: Allied Wedge Axis forces in Tunisia stood with their backs to the sea as Lieut; Gen. K. A. N. Anderson’s British first army thrust a wedge between enemy strongholds in Tunisia by capturing the town of Djedeida, which controls road and rail communications between Tunis and the Bizerte naval base. Thus by severing communications between Tunis and Bizerte, the Allies virtually had isolated the Axis positions, leaving only a coastal road open. ‘ The German-controlled Paris radio said that fighting was taking place in the Mateur region and indicated that the British are preparing for a general offensive by deploying forces in that sector. Axis forces fell back, following futile counterattacks, within the semicircular defense line around Tunis and Bizerte. According to the Morocco radio. Allied paratroopers attacked Axis positions near Mateur and other Allied forces stabbed at the defenders of Tunis. Defeat of the Axis in Tunisia would leave Allied troops free to move south into Tripobtania and attack Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Africa corps from the rear while General Montgomery’s British eighth army attacked from the east. That such plans were contemplated was indicated by the fact that for four straight days General Montgomery's headquarters had “nothing to report.’’ It looked as though Montgomery was delaying an assault on pommel at El Agheila and merely holding off until the trap was sprung. TRAGEDY: Strikes Boston Not since the 1903 Iroquois theater fire in Chicago had so many people been burned or suffocated to death as perished in the disaster which struck the Cocoanut Grove night club that Saturday night in Boston. An incomplete toll by the police first set the number of dead at 477 with the belief that it might rise above 500. At the time this count was made 212 persons were receiving hospital treatment for their burns and injuries. As hysterical parents and friends were engaged in the difficult task of identifying the bodies of those killed, Stanley Tomaszewski, a 16-year-old high school boy and part-time employee of the club, told his story of how the blaze began. He said that after a patron had unscrewed a light bulb he attempted to replace it and when he lighted a match to see better, the flame ignited.some of the decorations. Swiftly the flames spread and the 750 patrons rushed frantically for the exits. Many were killed as they were trampled beneath rioting hundreds seeking escape. Only about 100 of the total 750 in the building escaped unhurt. Many of the persons killed were servicemen and football fans celebrating college victories of. that afternoon. Buck Jones, well-known western star of the movies, was among the persons who had packed the smart club. As all available medical help was rushed to the scene, the Red Cross released supplies of blood plasma which was used in extreme cases in efforts to keep the death toll down. NAZI SHIP: Trapped in Pacific In a double-edged announcement from Allied headquarters in Australia came word that two destroyers attempting to reinforce Japanese units at Buna were believed sunk by Allied bombers, while far to the west an 8,000-ton German auxiliary ship was trapped and 78 Germans captured. The announcement was the first mention of Nazi shipping in this area for months.

WARNING: To Italians In a world broadcast on the eve of his 68th birthday, Prime Minister Winston Churchill proclaimed that American and British forces in North Africa expected to J ‘expel the enemy before long’’ and warned the 40,000.000 people of Italy to overthrow their dictator arid sue for peace. After the conclusion of the Mediterranean campaign, Churchill said, Africa will serve the purpose for which Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is preparing it--as a springboard from which large scale operations on the continent of Europe can. be undertaken. The route for this attack, he indicated, lay through Italy. “Our operations in French Africa should enable us to bring the weight of the war home to the Italian Fascist state in a manner not hitherto dreamed of by its guilty leaders, or still less, by the unfortunate people Mussolini has led, exploited and disgraced.” Although the Churchill talk was optimistic, he warned that the war is likely to be a long one and that bloody and bitter years lie ahead. He refused to predict whether the war in Europe will be over before that in the Pacific, but said that if such was the case all fighting forces of the United Nations would automatically come to the aid of the United States, China and Britain’s own kin in Australia and New Zea land. Turin Smashed In the heaviest raid of the war on Italy, hundreds of British bombers smashed the city of Turin with fourton bombs, probably knocking it out of the Italian war effort. As if foreshadowing Prime Minister. Churchill’s warning to the Italian people, the bombing destroyed great areas of the city. The super block-busters and fire from 100,000 incendiaries pulverized huge sections of the city. Turin is Italy’s biggest industrial city, “the home of the Fiat engine works, The Caproni bomber planes and many other important factories. RUSSIA: An Answer On the cpld steppes before Stalingrad and in the blustery valleys of the Caucasus, the Russian armies gave an answer to a question that military experts had been asking ever since Hitler’s troops had driven deep into Soviet territory. It was the question: “Has Hitler destroyed the Russian army?” And the answer was an emphatic “No.” This year’s Russian winter offensive began first in Stalingrad itself, where the Germans had been fought to a. standstill. Then it spread quickly as Soviet forces struck simultaneously from the north and south knifing through Nazi defenses on both flanks and thrusting spearheads far across the Don river Three hundred thousand German troops were thus encircled. These were the bulk of the enemy detachments laying siege tq Stalingrad. As the first week of the offensive ended, Russian reports credited their army with taking a toll of 250,000 Axis soldiers killed, wounded or captured. . Also in the Caucasus to the south and around Leningrad in the north the Russian rpight began to tell. Even Berlin admitted that the Russians were “counterattacking.” But the biggest threat to Nazi prestige was the Russian campaign in the Rzhev-Veliki Luki area west of Moscow. Here a strong action pushed toward the Latvian border and threatened to cut Hitler’s northern and southern fighting flanks. What puzzled the experts was how Stalin had been able to conserve so much of his power while the Germans had been pounding him hard all summer. Most vital question now was whether or not the strong Russian offensive could maintain its momentum long enough to drive the Germans back.

FIGHTING DOLLARS: Tops in Financing When President Roosevelt launched the nine billion dollar “Victory Loan” drive by purchasing a SI,OOO bond from Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau he set in motion the greatest financing prograrri in all history. This money is needed by the government to meet obligations stemming from the war effort and the President urged that everyone turn his idle money into “fighting dollars” by buying some of these bonds. Pointing out that while over 23 million Americans were already buying war bonds through payroll deduction plans, there still were many who could get in on this newest plan of building up government income. While the new borrowing campaign is being handled largely by the nation’s banks, all wage earners and Corporations are being urged to buy these latest securities of all types. Beginning at SSOO the bonds are available to all investors and it is hoped that half the amount needed will be raised outside banks. AIR STRENGTH: Asia Evidence Heavy United Nations air raids were raining destruction on Jap bases and'supply centers in Burma. Thailand and Indo-China as the growing strength of this arm of activity against the enemy became increasingly evident. This most recent surge of air strength began with a terrific pounding of Jap railway yards at Mandalay and reached its apex when a U. S. group of bombers and fighters shot down at least 23 planes in one day during operations against the great Pearl river base in China. In that raid tons of explosives were dropped on the Pearl river estuary, sinking two medium sized freighters and upwards es 100 barges. In addition many docks and warehouses were set ablaze. SUICIDE FLEET: Scuttled by French So that France ‘‘might at least be spared the supreme shame of seeing her ships become the ships of the enemy,” French sailors destroyed 60-odd ships at Toulon, removing the last visible asset of the Vichy government. The words were those of Charles de Gaulle, leader of the -Fighting French. The sentiment was that of all the Allied nations. Word of the suicide of France’s home fleet disclosed that many French officers and dynamite crews went down with their vessels in wild dawn battles with German boarding * -lag’; 1“ ‘ i A ADMIRAL LABORDE IFas given orders. parties attempting to halt the scut- ! tling of the vessels. I Warships now Tittering the bottom ■ of Toulon harbor include three battleships, four heavy and three light cruisers, one seaplane tender, 25 destroyers and 23 submarines. Two submarines escaped and a third struck a mine dropped by a Nazi plane as it attempted to flee. i London sources accepted the scuttling as evidence that Adm. Jean Darlan has been secretly playing the Allied game. Fighting French sources said that Adm. Jean Abrial, new Vichy naval secretary, undoubtedly gave Adm., de la Borde orders to scuttle the ships. BRIEFS: LIMIT— A limit of 14 days to all army furloughs during the holiday season was announced by Secretary of War Stimson. Because of the increasing strain on U. S. railway facilities between December 12 and January 12 leaves will be granted to no more than 10 per cent of the enlisted strength of each army post. DOUBLED — OPA officials announced in Washington that twice as many passenger car tires would be "available for rationing in December as compared to la%t month HOSIERY — Price Administrator Leon Henderson has set specific maximum retail prices on women's silk hose at from 35 cents to $1.65. depending on quality and type. GUEST — Upon completion of medical treatment in the U. S., Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the Chinese generalissimo, was to be the guest of President and Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House. Her trip to this country was kept a secret until she arrived at her destination. CHRISTMAS— “On the birthday of the Prince of Peace we can and should rest from the production of the weapons of war.” With those words, Donald M. Nelson, WPB chairman, announced that Christmas will be observed as a full holi day in the nation’s war plarits.

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