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Salom. Oregon. Friday Morning, November 6. 1942
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No. 153
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May
A
A?
Coalition
Offered
Coneressi
Called Solution;
McNary One" to
I Interpret Ballot
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5-P)
; A leading senate republican,
: V a n d e n b e r g of Michigan,
Thursday proposed a republican-Democratic
victory coalition
with "politics and new deal
ism" out for the duration as
the solution to war-time prob
lems arising from the close party
alignments in house and . senate
His idea Is that congress should
now create a "unified committee
on war -cooperation.' The , ad
ministration "should deal more
openly with congress including
- the republican leadership and
with the country. The election,
he added, had demonstrated pop
ular dissatisfaction with the con
duct of the war.
Meanwhile, the ' house heard
demands that the ware-hour
law and national labor relation
act be repealed, .while a seaate
colloquy found a prominent re
publican and a leading demo
crat agreeing that Tuesday's
many democratic j; losses could
not be' attributed to any lack
of unity on the war front.
Senator Connally (D-Tex)
' arose, he said, to make it clear
that the reverses of the adminis
: tration party could! not be inter
preted : by - the propagandists of
Berlin and Tokyo as any "re
.. pudiatlon of our war purposes.
i He "v attributed . them to public
. i impatience with . the prosecution
r of the war and resentment against
Washington bureaucracy. Actual
ly," he said, the voters had "reg
istered a more desperate will to
carry this war to triumph and vic
tory." . .'v.' ;J-;-.y .
Senator McNary of Oregon,
the republican floor leader,
agreed that "no issue of patriot-
Ism of unity" was-raised in the
campaign, and added that' the
administration had committed
"enough, mistakes; and errors"
to Justify the people ia calling
' it to account.
The democrats' defeat, he said,
represented revolts against wastes
in expenditures i which "astound-
ed, abashed and shocked" him and
against " unnecessary employment
by the government of people who
should be home working at real
war efforts." J ' . ; , ;
Vice President Wallace, leaving
a conference with President Roo
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SneU Totals
Grow as Late
Returns Come
PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. S.-i&i
In the wake of -ft republican land
slide In Oregon's general election,
Governor-elect Earl Snell's vote
: drawing prowess j continued to
mount Thursday night as returns
trickled in from joutlying pre-
Jtll3tCts ' '' J- Jr : ''"j-T '' "-a
US i Sen. Charles' I McNary;
longtinie GOP, standby for over
whelming victories, gave ra ore
ground-: as his mai orlty was
eclipsed increasingly, by Snell's,
Complete returns fro 1752 of
Vtae state's 177t preciaeta fare
Saell tlM8 ever- Democrat
Jjew Wallace's C5.733. McNary
bad 21t9 to J,4e for his
fluaisirafls opponent, Walter W.
Thltbeck.. r. T v; " " j
" Political observers were , the
Bere-impressed by SnelPs victory
because Wallace bad been , rated a
stronger adversary t than j Whit
beck, i
. In congressional 1 contests I republicans-
continued J to shew d
, dsiTe margins. ' I : ; --V i
. .I the first district Rep. James
W. M it had 48,827 to 27,021 for
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Americans Held r
In Norway Camp .
STOCKHOLM, Nov. ' &)
I American . citizens f arrested in
Norway have been interned in a
camp near Oslo, but soon will be
sent to Germany reliable reports
reaching here said Thursday.
The Americans, mostly of Nor
wegian descent, were believed to
number 'severe hundred. ' Arrest ;
Cf Americans In Norway was first
reported October 18 .,-
Reelected, Gives jrning
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Veteran Sen. Charles L. McNary
nority leader of the US senate, made one-half of a bi-partisan
warning Thursday that administration reverses in Tuesday's elec
tion represented a revolt against
public funds." McNary, reelected by a large majority for another
term, declared if the administration needed the warning and used
greater caution in spending war funds "the election-will have been
a grand victory for the American people." He asserted some of
the revolt could be attributed to the withholding of vital war news
from the people, some to the "ever-increasing numbers of , com
missions and esars." fie denounced commissions "fooling-, toying.
playing and boon-doggling with rubber, oil, gasoline and other
problems." He also called plans for a draft of manpower for war
Jobs "dictatorial." See stories below and In column one, page one.
McNary Calls Required
Work
Dtafi
Ban of 40-Hour Urged
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5-P-The idea of compulsory mobili
zation of civilian manpower drew strong opposition Thursday
from Sen. Charles L. McNary of
who calle dit "the most dictatorial thing ever conceived by the
American mind."
Referring to various suggestions in the capital and elsewhere
that workers be directed into es
sential war jobs, McNary said in
the senate.
."Democracy was founded upon
respect for the home and the
hearth. The taking of a man
from one section to another ar
bitrarily will be resented."
- Testifying before I the seaate
military committee, Rear Ad.
Emory S. Land, chairman of
the maritime commission, said
he favored solving the man
power problem on a voluntary
basis but if that failed weaRd
favor compulsion.
Otherwise, both Land and an
other witness. Secretary of Agri
culture wicicara, were . noncom
mittal on proposed national
vice legislation. -
: tsom agreed merely - that, ... as
Land put it, JMwe havent too
much time to make up our minds."
.Wickard said v he - was - not - sure
he understood pending manpower
bills thoroughly enough to pro
nounce on them, except that they
would give broad powers to the
President Land said he thought
he -lacked "enough knowledge to
mako a - definite r " recommenda-
Asked by Senator HU1 (D-Ala),
author of one manpower bill, if
he thought the problem could be
worked out satisfactorily on '
voluntary basis, Admiral and
said, T am an optimist and I hope
so, although I have some doubts."
J- Senator ODaaiel (D-Tex);
.meanwhile, introdaced a bill la
the , senate to suspend the 4-
hoar week law f or the duration
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Fires Lighted
IriSteelMillS
rONTANA;' Calif, NovT
-Mrs. Henry J. Kaiser, jr., Thurs
day lighted the fires in the first
vi ewe ovens, in me new
$S3,000,000 Kaiser steel mill here.
There was no ceremony, speech
making or flare, . however,' . be
cause, George D. Ramsey, super
intendent of production, explain
ed, "We haven't time for speech
es and we cant get in the work
men's way." - - , "
Fires will be started in the sec
ond battery of 45 coke ovens
within a week, the first step to
ward operation of the Pacific
coast's first steel mill. Ramsey
said the blast furnace will be in
operation turning out pig iron be
fore the first et the year, .
to,
(above) of Salem, republican ml
bureaucracy and the "wastage of
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Oregon, ; the republican leader,
Year Training
Draws Fire
Of Stimson
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 JP)
The senate's proposed require
ment of a full year's training be
fore drafted 18 and 19-year-olds
may be sent to a fighting front
was vigorously assailed Thursday
by War Secretary Stimson as a
product of "pre-war mentality"
which would "put shackles on the
war effort.'
With this proviso attached, the
war secretary told his press con
ference sharply, the low lowering
the draft; age promised no bene
fit and could result in actual peril
to , victory ;. , "f .
Adopted 39 to 81 by the' senate,
the year's training provision has
yet to be acted on by the house.
- Stimson announced orders had
been issued for creation of five
additional.-'; infantry divisions,
rounding out the program expand
ing the ground forces- this year to
some four score divisions of . all
types
Stimson's criticism, of the train
ing amendment j reinforced - that
already voiced by Gen. George C
Marshall, chief, of staff. Under
Secretary of War Robert P. PatH
town and Other army spokesmen!
The war, secretary asserted the
f tion i iraisedextrenie dffi
culties, contained numerous ab-
surdities" ; and was made , unne
cessary by the army's approved
methods of training. . -,
He said it would force the army
to play Safe, segregate the young
er man and batld divisions ready
to go to the front out of older
men with; dependents. - - A. '
Result Astounds
r - i
flliV en lanUltlate
r OMAHA, Nov. S. - (ff) - The
republican landslide . in Tues
day's election not only swept
Rep. - Charles McLaughlin (D
Neb) to defeat but Swept How
ard Buffet, his successful re-
, pabllcan opponent, off his feat.
Representative-elect Buffet!,
a young Omaha securities deal-
- er, fumbled in Ids, pocket for
pencil and paper when asked
for a statement, and admitted:
"All I fixed up was one con
ceding my defeat.1- v
n
Assault -Pressed
-;:
At: Japs
' Pincers Threat :
To; Isle Forces;-.
Yanks Advance
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWEH
r WASHINGTON, Nov. - 5-(P)
Violent fighting flamed in a
new sector of battle-ravaged
Guadalcanal Thursday night as
American troops, already heav
ily and successfully engaged on
their western flank, sought to
crush the eastern arm of a Jap
anese ptneers move before -it
could be pormidably strengthened.
The extent of American suc
cesses to the west was shown in. a
navy communique announcing
this latest development. The
communique said that in the
western sector 350 Japanese were
killed on November 3, and three
enemy field pieces, a- dozen 37
mm. light artillery guns and 30
machine guns were captured.
Meanwhile both naval ships
and army aircraft had struck
new blows against the enemy's
western threat to the strategic
American airfield on the Solo
mons Island, bombing and shell
ing supply dumps and troop
concentrations on the north
coast of Guadalcanal in the Vi
cinity of Knkumbena. - . -The
airfield is the focal point
of all operation's on Guadalcanal
island both American , and Jap
anese, and the directions east and
west are ' determined from ' its
center t - T '
in afltonvious extort 10 .myerr
some American strengtKlrom
their main "forces to the west, he
Japanese threw a force of troops
on. to the island -east of the field
on the flight of November 2-3.
The marines had started their
counter-offensive to the west
against the enemy's jungle-protected
troops 1 on November 1, and
had gained two miles in the ini
tial actions.
Thursday's communique said
that on the night of November 3
4, the Japs again effected land
ings to the east, in the vicinity of
Koli Point, about six miles from
the airfield. 'Apparently it was
about the time these latest land
ing operations were being com
pleted that marine units of the
army-marine forces defending the
field made their assault in the
east, for the communique's first
reference was a statement that
they suffered an "Initial re
pulse" at dawn on November 4.
Recovering from this attack
they again attacked and the
communique reported that they
are now "pressing their at
tacks on these enemy troops.
Considerable significance was
attached !bere to the outburst of
fighting on the American east
flank. It showed the seriousness
of the Japanese threat ' at that
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Knox Praises
2-Ocean Fight
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. S.-yT)-Secretary
of the Navy Knox said
Thursday the US navy,; fighting
In two oceans the greatest naval
war the world has ever known,
"has never acquitted itself so su
premely." -r iC'M-fctt' 7V''
Interviewed -following a mass
christening, of six new ocean-go
ing tank transports at the Phila
delphia -navy yard, Knox said:
' "I am satisfied and proud of the
performance of our navy."
.The secretary .complimented the
Waves with ."I love 'em. I think
they're - Wonderful, and they're
very serious young ladies." ;
In response to i question . be
said , the nvy r had i announced all
sinkings bot be added he felt the
public was not yet "fully aware of
the need for withholding infor
mation from the enemy. He said
premature '. news releases ' might
cost thousands of lives.
; "Every? news release must first
consider military. security. That
Is the on 1 y consideration, "be
said. Ui'-'.-z' -? . - v
Ecuador IleatLs Visit
QUITO, Ecuador, Nov. S (JPl
President Arroyo . Del - Iao of
Ecuador and bis party will begin
their trip to Washington Monday,
November 18, it was announced
officially .Thursday, f His first stop
will be Tat Bogota Colombia,
where be will remain three days.
Coming Home
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Li. Carl Parker Gles, Salem' hero
of the Philippine air ; flghts,
" decorated for distinguished ac-
' tioa there,' la due home today
his parents, Mr. and Mrs.1 pari
. A. Gles, said Thursday. Arriv
ing In Stockton, Califs Wednes-
1 day from Aastralia, Gles, ; Sa-
r lem high school graduate; 'and
' former Willamette university
student, called his parents. He
1 was evidently unable to secure
the plane transportation f he
soaght, they said after be had
failed to arrive here Thursday.
. He Is to have 10 days at home,
they understood. ;
Family Men's
ShiftUrged j
: -Delaying of Draft
- Sought by Move
To War Work
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 f fiP)
The selective service system: is
seeking to include large numbers
of men with-dependents to shift
from eiyu. occupations , ,to ' war.
supporting occupations by - off er
ring ; them, the prospect of longer
deferment from the draft. 1 j.
, Officials at headquarters! here
said they had laid down the policy
that men in class 3-A " (deferred
because of dependents) who : en
gage in an activity supporting, the
war effort should be transferred
to 3-B (deferred because of, the
nature of their work), whether or
not their particular jobs are listed
as "essential" in their line of work.
Such men would thus have a
doable-deferment status. How
ever, officials emphasized that
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W McAllister
Near Certain
For Speaker
PORTLAND, Nov. 5-(P)-Prom
a meeting of most Multnomah
county state representatives' here
Thursday came virtual assurance
of the election of William! Mc
Allister of Jackson county as
speaker Of the house for 1943i, .
Delegates said Herman Chind
gren of Clackamas county had
three pledged votes,' John Steel
hammer of Marion three, McAl
lister 24, plus two I others with
reservation of a right to with
draw. Stanhope pier of Multno
mah during the meeting ' an
nounced his support for McAllis
ter which brought the letter's pos
sible total with his own vote to
28.' , - - ,k - f1 "
Robert Duniway moved the
delegation pledge its support as a
unit but no vote was taken. v- -1
Reps. Frank : Deich, Leo Smith
and John Hall were named to in
terview the candidates and check
their- pledges of support, I f "-
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'. John- Steelhammer announced
here . Thursday . afternoon -he was
dropping out 'of the" speakership
contest in favor of McAllister J for
whom be- would vote for the-pbsi-
Carlton MiU
CARLTON, Nov.. 5.-Jtvr Ire
destroyed the L. ; H. . L. Lumber
company -mill. Thursday for -the
second time in two years. i I
Company officials estimated the
loss at $75,000, which was cov
ered partially by insurance.' The
mill had a capacity of 400,000
board feet a month and employed
123 men.' L -(. --V"' ?. , i ; f
McLnnnviHe and Yamhill tTe
departments joined the Carlton
force in fighting the blaze ar.d
succeeded in caving the fuelttcJ,
planer. and-teller room.. ; ' '
- The mill was destroyed by fire
July 3, IS 13, and was rebuilt and
placed in eperation early tlus
year. .; -.,
Destroys
Men Told to Wim& One
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All -of Axis in
Soviets Stand;
Germans Raid
Britain Coast
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"Waves of Attacking
Nazi Troops Cut
Down on Volga
By EDDIE GILMORE s
MOSCOW, Fridayi Nov. 6
( AP) Wave after wave of
attacking Germans faltered
and , died in ; the rabble heaps
of t Stalingrad Thursday, and
the red army also held firm
and gained ground in the bat
tle of the Caucasus, the Sov
iets announced early Friday.
Thus far the Germans have lost
more than 100,000 men killed, 800
tanks and 1000 planes in their fu
tile effort to subdue the Volga
river city, the Moscow radio said
in quoting a letter from the Sta
lingrad garrison addressed to Pre
mier Joseph Stalin.
The midnight communique told
how the enemy continued "throw
ing in his reserves" Thursday in
repeated attacks, but said every
assault was repulsed and heavy
losses inflicted on the nazis. ',
Eight hundred more Germans
were wiped out northwest of Sta
lingrad, and five enemy block
houses were destroyed, by red ar
tillery, the Russians said. J j
In ;the- Caucasus southeast of
Nalchik en j the approaches to
the Georgian military highway
across the Caucasian mountains.
the communique said, the red
army wiped out a party of tank
borne German tommy-gunners
who had 'penetrated behind the
Russian lines. More than' 70S
other nazis also were killed in
the same area, and four tanks
and many motor vehicles were
destroyed, it added.
Northeast of Tuapse on the
the Black sea coast the Russians
said their troops "forged ahead
somewhat," annihilating an ene
my battalion and occupying an
other height. !
The communique also -mentioned
a new sector east of Novr
orossisk where a Russian' group
surrounded -a farm occupied by
60 Germans and wiped them out
to the last man. No fighting has
been mentioned in this area for
weeks since tha Russians aban
doned Novorossisk in their retreat
along the coast toward Tuapse.
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US Foresters
To Survey
Lumber Jobs
PORTLAND, Ore .Nov.
The Pacific coast lumber commis
sion announced Thursday night
that it has selected the US forest
service to make a survey which
will 'determine whether, or not, all
jobs, in the northwest lumber in
dustry should" be classified and a
standard, pay L rate for each, es?
tablished. f ,-':Z ;;.-V'j.vH
Chairman : Ben H. Kizer dis
closed the) survey plan after tes
timony ; had been completed In
four consolidated cases involving
wage disputes in 177 , Douglas fir
opera tions"in Oregon and '.Wash
ington Some 70,000 tuabef .and
sawmill workers, with; both the
ATL and. ClOJrepTesented, would
be; affected.: '" O -Vt ''i-' -'
.The CIO ; representatives , urged
classification during the . bearing
hr which the CIO asked boosting
the nunimum wage from 82 Hi
cents an hour to 95 and the ATL
urged a $1.03 minimum. T
" KSzer" said" the survey " would
be started immediately - by-the
forest service's. Portland experi
ment' station, staff" and Jwould be
completed in two or three months.
A. committee ; of employers and
employes will serve in a con
sulting capacity, to the foresters,
be said. .- ' " - ;
Diniout ' -t .
Friday's sunset Bi 9.
Saturday's sunrise S a. m.
- TVeather: lVednesday's
-1 emp4-' S3, ' zniaw 43. . River
Thursday L8 ft. By army, re
jest, weather forecasts are
. wi'JLLcIJ and temperature daUt
.- delayed --,.,; .";
Britisb Tanks Hit Rear
.Guards; Airmen Ccmtinue'
Incessant Bomb-Loosing
" y By EDWARD KENNEDY
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CAIRO, ; Nov. 5-P)-British tanks pursued a broken and
bleeding axis desert army across -the sands of .western Egypt
Thursday night as the British commander told f his men they
already had achieved a complete victory and ordered them on to
"wipe put all the axis forces in 'North Africa."
dispatch filed at 9:55 a.m. this morning from Li. Gen. B.
L. Montgomery's field headquarters in the desert quoted the
general as saying it was "now; the armor's turn to destroy the
eneniy completely" after royal artillery arid infantry had shat
tered the 40-mile axis Alamein line. L w i " 1
" " The general egrlier had been quoted as saying in an order of the
day published in the Eighth army's newspaper, that "complete1 vic
tory is almost in sight," and other dispaches received late Thursday
night said the axis flight was more precipitate today than ever.
Allied Plane Shuttle Bomba j ' I ; '
American, RAF, and -South African airmen maintained a deadly
shuttle service ahead of the charging British tank forces, bombing
the retreating enemy all day. : v. j i ' v - I
Little or no aerial opposition was encountered as the axis defi
nitely showed tjgns of panic and demoralization. . 1 ' '
Wrecked, axis transports 'and tanks were bowled over and afire
both on the Mediterranean coastal road and on the beaches where
the enemy apparently was trying to disperse his equipment in order
to escape the deadly rain of aerial explosives, these dispatches said.
A large 'mixed force of heavy bomberr alsO1 streaked across the'
Mediterranean Wednesday night to pound Maleme airdrome on the '
island of Crete a site used by the Germans in their aerial ferry
service to send reinforcements to Marshal Rommel. - ; ....
Enemy Planes Keep Out of Way - 1 ' ! V
rAUied fighter pilots reported, a scarcity of enemy opposition but
one fighters-bomber squadron encountered and shot down four Mes
serschmitt 190s this morning. Anpther axis plane plummeted Into the
-sea -hTt;a second action-f; f--.K ''-:J;4 'f'-:' ';!' !''".
J General Montgomery told Associated Press Correspondent Frank
L. Martin that the axis forces had received a decisive -thrashing at the -,
hands of the Eighth army, and praised the effective teamwork of allied
army and air forces. The airmen especially had played a major part 1
in smashing the enemy's morale, he said. ! ':
Over a 40-mile front littered with hundreds of wrecked enemy
tanks, nlane and mnnosts. the British- Eiehth armv and its homeless
allies Fighting Frenchmen, Greeks and Poles drove relentlessly for
ward on the heels of Marshal Erwin Rommel's exhausted columns
withdrawing hastily toward Fuka,. 62 miles west of . the shattered
Alamein dine. ' . . l. '
The allied formations themselves had fought 13 gruelling days.
but with victory so nearly In their
them on with this new order ol the
t call on all trooos! to keen
for a single moment. We have a chance to put the whole panzer army
in the! bag; and we will do so. I congratulate all troops on what has
been achieved. Complete victory is almost in sight"
Axis Fuel Supply Disrupted. ; ; 11 '
Front: despatches said the retreating axis armored detachments
or what is left of them Were short of fuel, thanks to the steady
rear-line battering of their supply depots by j American and allied
airmen. (A Reuters dispatch said not . a single axis tanker had been
able to cross the Mediterranean in the last six weeks.)
' There were also accumulating signs that , the German African
corps, the backbone of the axis invasion, was outstepping its Italian .
counterpart in the flight. The advancing British discovered that axis
rear-guards were, mostly Italians, that most of the screen of tho
rear-guard weapons were of Italian make Marshal Rommel, these,
dispatches indicated, clearly was trying to save his own tattered
formations and leaving the. Italians to fend for themselves in a
"jackrabbit war? where meat commanders appeared to be left on
their own because of demoralized communication and leadership.
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Advance Fastest Along Coasts ; ! ll
The ; British announced Wednesday that General Von Stumme,
second in command to Rommel, had been killed, and that Gen. RJtter
Von Thoma, third of the topflight axis leaden, was in captivity.
The tidal wave across the desert was Irregular, most of the speed
being made along the Mediterranean-coastal road. Far to the south,
. At. . - A 11 J t f
uc uic cu(Civi uie iaiMii ucucmhsii, uuiami cuciiit tiuuys wnv
being mopped, up with little trouble, dispatches said. There was also
a cteadv .eastward trickle of axis nrtsonera which alreadv has nassed
the 9000 tnax';.u.:A - "At.
a truce to burr their dead. The advancing British Ignored thl annsr-
ent "breather device" and pushed on ahead. - , ; : i V . j
-.-' -Allied airmen reported desert roads and trails were'packed tight
with -retreating axis vehicles, 1 and their bombs tore huge gaps ia
these concentrations. Fighter planes also strafed axis troops scurry
ing a way from the roads. - . ,-' .
US Bombers; Strike Supplies v
Gen. Charles De Gaulle, the Fighting French leader, sent a-mess-age
to Gen. Sir Harold Alexander. British commander-in-chief In the
middle east, saying, "the French
led to' victory some 01 Its forces by the side of the British."
While aU the allied air forces spread continued destruction down
the .long, weaving lines of retreating motor , convoys and armored
vehicles, US heavy bombers reached out to plaster Bengasi, Rommel's
main rearward supply port - j ; - - . ...
-X They hit four ships for sure and , probably a fifth, reducing by
that much the Gerrnan marshal's chances of supplying his defense.
''.- In-the air -US fighters-got at least' four more enemy planes dur
ing Wednesday's dogfights. No American plane was lost. -
Rom Admiti Serer& Loise
- f - (Axis.hlh commands said their desert arraiea bad fallen back to
fxsrw Unea"- or prepared second positions. Rome, fclacin? tha fl-'.t-
ing between El Alamein and Fuka,
-severei)-' -,' :-.r , " '. f
Fourteen hours after issuing the . special victory communique,
which announced destruction or capture of more than 2S3 enemy
tanks, 270 guns, 'capture of more than COCO prisoners and death cr
capture of Rommel's highest commanders, the British GHQ tali
Thursday in a regular communiJue:' -: -
1 "The - Eighth army continued to advance over the whole front
yesterday. J : . ; - -.: 1
"Ik the south, the enemy is still holding cut ia a f;w I.-o!at: 1
positions
Flanking to Allied Advantage
- "In the north, he has a screen of anti-tank guns and tanks v k!i
is withdrawing before our advancing forces."
"Battle front dispatches, necessarily retarded by ere-' : I c -munications
lines, told a graphic story of 'the Initial tx'i !
- They quoted, too, the prediction cf one Eri'u 'i c . r: "C
the. enemy is pushed off this narrow frcr.t v.hlch t ' 1 1 -Canking,
there wi!l b- no place for hundrc Ji t r ,. 1 , 1 I
where he cannot te' outflanked."
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grasp Gen. Montgomery spurred
dav: " i i f
un the nressure and not to relax
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army-will never forget you have
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admitted: "Our losses have been
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