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Battle Won;
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Defended By RICHARD I TURNER
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17
( AP) President Roosevelt
Tuesday night hailed Ameri
can successes in Africa and
the far Pacific as an apparent
"turning point of this war,"
but added a warning that
there was time only1 for work
ing and fighting, none for
exultation.
Earlier he had described the re
cent naval battle in the Solomon
islands as a major victory for; the
allied cause. Tuesday night, ; ad
dressing the Herald-Tribune- for
um by radio, he singled out one
participant in that battle for : a
here's praise Rear Adnv Daniel
X Callaghan.
Admiral Callaghan, before he
was killed in action, sailed ' his
cruiser, the San Francisco, direct
ly into the guns 'of the Japanese
armada and spread devastation
.among it, the president revealed.
The San Francisco, still afloat,' has
been recommended for decoration
for outstanding service, the first
thip of the war to be so honored.
In addition to these thing.
Mr. Roosevelt stoutly defended
- the administration's policy of
wtthhelsing- news of naval
leases until it is clear that the
enemy already has possession of
the- Information and indicated
that long-range social reforms
have been shelved for the time
being. ;v j.
In ttime of peace, he - said,
"every variety of problem and is
sue is an interesting subject for
public discussion. But in time of
war the ; American people know
that the one all-important job be
fore them is fighting and working
to win. :: j
"Therefore, of necessity, while
long-range social and economic
problems are by no means forgot
ten, they are a little like books
which for the moment we have
Mid aside in oraer inai we migm
get out the old atlas to learn: the
geography of the battle areas.
He said he had made "a con
stant effort as commander-in-chief
to keep politics oat of this
war.". However, he added, , his
"foot slipped once."
Ten days before election day,
an American aircraft carrier was
torpedoed in the Pacific. , '
No one knew whether the Jap
anese were aware -that she had
gone down. Such, information, he
said, has a definite bearing on
future battle plans.
; At the time the American car
rier "was sunk, he . continued, a
clamor was being raised in j the
press and elsewhere against j the
suppression , of new s from 1 the
fighting fronts. V
"Here came my mistake, i Mr.
Roosevelt continued. "I yielded
to the clamor. I did so partly in
realization of the certainty that if
the news of the sinking were given
out two or three weeks later it
would be publicly ; charged that
the news had been suppressed by
me until after the election. I
"Shortly thereaft protests
came from the admirals in com
mand in the h southwest Pacific
and at our great base in Hawaii
on the ground that, in all proba
bility, the Japanese navy had no
information of the sinking and
that handing them the informa
tion on a silver .platter- although
wewere careful not to reveal the
name of this carrier- gave them
a military advantage which they
would otherwise not have had.
Mr. Roosevelt said that "a ai
gantie - Job" P lies ahead with
battle lines streachlag from Kis
ka In the Aleutians to Mur
mansk, from Tunisia to Guadal
canal. " -The lines will grow longer as
our forces advance, he said.
Eleanor Back
At Capital
WASHINGTON; N O V.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt re
turned to the White House Tues
day after an arduous war-time
visit to England where she was
the guest of , King George and
Queen Elizabeth. -' i i
The first lady had no Immediate
comment but the White -House
said she would hold a press Con
ference at 11 ajn., eastern War
time Wednesday. i ,,
Gasol
i ne
Signup
Schools Used in
Ration Program;
East's Gas Cut
Gasoline rationing registra
tion for Marion county motor
ists,' as for 3,500,000 owners of
passenger automobiles in five
western states, begins this aft
ernoon and continues through
Friday. Actual rationing of
gasoline is scheduled to com
mence here December 1.
I Marion county war price and
rationing board officials and per
sonnel have urged registrants to
obtain application blanks from
service stations and fill them out
correctly before taking them to
elementary schoolhouses designat
ed as registration points through
out the county to get ration books.
Officials said arrangements had
been completed to care for mo
torists in the "A" book class. Only
those books, entitling . drivers to
go approximately 240inuesJ per
month are to be distributed this
week. Persons who think they
are entitled to more may ask for
an application for "supplemental
rationing," take it home to fill out
and then mail it to their local war
price and rationing boards. Mean
while, they can get "A" books.
While registered owners of
cars do not need to appear for
the registration personally, who-
- ever acts In their stead must
have the recistered owner's sig
nature, on the application, the
ear's registration certificate, the
: number of its federal se stamp
and the serial - numbers , of the
five tires retained for each ve
hicle. Salem, Woodburn and Silverton
rationing district are to conduct
their registration from 4 to 9 p.
m. today, Thursday and Friday;
Stayton district, registering the
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Kaiser Asks
Inventions
Open to All.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 W)
New inventions would be made
available to all war production in
dustries under a plan laid before
a senate committee Tuesday by
shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser.
Asserting the time had come to
adopt "revolutionary" methods to
assure maximum production, Kai
ser said that compensation for the
inventions should be withheld for
the war's duration.
The portly, bespectacled Cali
f ornian, responding to questions by
Senator Mead (D-NY) also advo
cated a lifting of trade barriers
which he said prevented a full
distribution of production in
peacetime.
This should be accomplished, he
declared, by a non-political fed
eral agency directed to coordinate,
analyze, j develop and distribute
new ideas and inventions "to each
and every industry engaged in the
war effort.'
"In shipbuilding, he told a mil
itary affairs subcommittee, "new
methods in sub-assembly and pre
fabrication have introduced many
new developments in technique
e.nd hundreds of new ideas are be
ing introduced weekly.
His own research developments,
he declared, have been made
available to other industries by a
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'Rick' Rides
Plane's Wing
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17-P)
Capt. Edward V. . RkJcenbacker.
lost in the southwest Pacific when
his plane was forced down OctoU
ber 21 and , rescued three weeks
later, rode the wing of the rescue,
plane while it taxied 40 miles on
the ocean surface to its base, the
war department disclosed Tues
day, ; . '
. A t department announcement
said that although Rickenbacker
still needs at least two weeks In
a hospital to complete his : re
covery from the Ion exrjosure at
sea, he -already has expressed his
desire to complete the mission to
which he was assigned by Secre
tary of War Stimson a tour of in
spection of -aviation facilities in
the southwest Pacific. - - .
Today
Jc Admit
Ving 12,
Ang 5
NEW I OK K,! Nov. IS flp)
Japanese imperial headquarters
announced Wednesday the loss
of one Japanese battleship, the
damaging of another, the loss ef
one cruiser and three destroy
ers and damaging ef seven Jap-w
anese transports in the third
Solomons' naval battle.
It said the Japanese also lost
32 planes which dived into the
.enemy and nine ether planes
had failed to return.
This marked the first Jap
anese report of . the loss of a
batUeship.
The US navy already had an
nounced two; days ago that
American naval forees In the
Solomons In' the j most recent
battle sank a battleship aad
damaged another, j .
NEW YORK, Nov.
Japanese imperial headquarters
in an announcement broadcast
Wednesday by the: Tokyo radio
asserted that Japanese forces
"in the third Solomons' naval
battle from November 12 to No
vember 14" sank eight cruisers
and four or five destroyers and
heavily damaged two battle
ships, three cruisers and three
or f our destroyers.:
The US navy already has an
nounced that the only US naval
vessels reported .sunk in actions
Nove. 13, 14 and 15 were two
light cruisers and six destroyers
while details of an engagment
during the night of November
14-15 were yet to be received
Greater Enemy
Loss Foreseen
- ,'. "' ' "
Cleanup Operations -
"Not IxVjt jTbld?; Two
More Deaths' Known
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17-OP)
An upward revision of Japanese
naval losses in the ! sea battle of
Guadalcanal was predicted con
fidently Tuesday by naval author
ities who emphasized that the an
nounced total of 23 ships sunk and
7 damaged was based on incom
plete reports from the south Pa
cific war zone. f
Yet to be heard from, it was
said, are the cleanup operations by
American planes and surface units
which may have discovered and
finished off crippled units of the
NEW YORK. Nov. ll.-(JP)-Tbe
Tokyo radio claimed In a
broadcast Tuesday night that
the 35,f0-ton North Carolina,
America's new $7.tt0,m super-battleship,
and the 33,404
ton Idaho "fled after receiving
terrific damage at the hands of
the Japanese navy la th Sol
omons islands last- Saturday
night. ;f r
The agency Dome! quoted
"authoritative i quarters" totals
effect, and said that the Jap
anese Imperial headquarters on
Wednesday afternoon Tokyo
time would Issue j a commun
ique showing that j "the Japan
ese naval victory was se overwhelming-
that US' attempts at
a e a u n t e r-offensive in ; the
South Pacific h i thing of the
past.- '''P'---:i
enemy's fleeing fleet. There was
also a night engagement of No
vember 14-15 of which nothing
has been reported except that it
was fought. P";;
President Roosevelt, at a press
conference Tuesday, 'described the
shattering of the Japanese ar
mada as a major victory, and re
vealed that Rear A dm. Daniel J.
Callahan, his former naval aide
who was killed in ; the struggle.
performed the daring feat of tak
ing a 10,000-ton cruiser up against
a 25,000-ton Japanese battleship
at point blank range.
Such American cruisers are
equipped 'with only eight-inch
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McNary Denies
Court Rumors : S
PORTLAND, OreJ Nov. 17-P)
Sen. Charles 1 McNary (R-Ore.)
denied rumors Tuesday that he
would leave the senate for ap
pointment to the federal supreme
court. . :
In a letter to A. B. Crittenden,
Portland, McNary wrote, "My
place is here in: the senate, I was
a candidate in good faith and will
remain here because I am in a po
sition to do more for my country
and state than : I would be as a
member of the court
Spain -Calls
!
Troops
Reinforcement
Seen Bar to
Nazi Threat
MADRID, Nov. 17-P-All
three Spanish military services
were authorized Tuesday to or
der a partial mobilization.
The army, air, and havy min
isters, it was explained, are be
ing allowed to call up the neces
sary numbers oft troops to re
inforce units under their respec
tive commands. j
(The Berlin radio earlier had
announced such si step was, Im
pending, interpreting It to mean
that Spain was anxious ever the
British - American Invasion: of
north Africa rather than the
fact that German troops now
stand all along that country's
northern frontier! with France. '
(The Berlin radio broadcast a
Madrid dispatch saying the
mobilization order "is intended to
reassure the Spanish people with
regard to tension created by the
Anglo-American invasion of
French, north Africa, and demon
strate to the world that Spain Is
fully determined ito defend its
position under all circumstances.
(The Spanish decree, Berlin
said, pointed out that no foreign
power would be permitted to en
ter Spanish territory.
(When the allied expedition was
under way President Roosevelt
sent a message to Gen. Francisco
Franco, Spain's nationalist lead
er, assuring him that the cam
paign was . in no w a y directed
against Spanish territory. A simi-
ibb message, aiso was sent 10 rv
tugaL .... . .Pi,-
(Both nations replied to the
president in notes expressing, sat
isfaction with American . assur
ances.) .j .
NEW YORK, Nov. 11-iP)
Gen. FrancLibo Franco's partial
mobilisation of the Spanish
army was Interpreted by Euro
pean observers Tuesday night
as a definite warning that Spain
is not going to allow any Ger
man Invasion without a fight.
General Franco, who was re
ported to have1 refused to join the
axis when France fell despite do
mestic and axis pressure, probably
would refuse to let the Germans
through at this late date, and
Spain's 500,000-man army may
now be doubled or tripled with the
mobilization order! these Euro
pean dispatches said.
Survey Set,
Recreation I
Groups9 Need
A committee of jfive, including
Chairman Tom Armstrong, is to
be named from Salem's city de
fense recreation committee to con
duct a survey to determine the
needs and resources of already
going organizations caring for
recreational requirements during
the wartime emergency.
Decision to form such a com
mittee from the mayor's defense
recreatio commission of 14 mem
bers was. reached when the com
mission, represented .by six mem
bers, met with depresentatives of
USO, Salem Art and Recrea,tion
center, Salem Hostess league and
United Hospitality association
Tuesday night at the chamber of
commerce. . Armstrong s a 1 id ; he
would name it shortly. " P; A
Only by conducting such a sur
vey can the full possibilities of a
planned recreation program be
determined, and only through one
properly organized committee can
money from the federal govern
ment be secured under the Lan
ham act to assist with such ac
tivities, r Harrison " E." Devereaux,
state works projects field adminis
trator, told the group. , ,P
That there is a need, for en
larging the city!! now-growing
recreational program was the con
census of opinion of the group
at the Tuesday night session called
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Assault Charged
Jack Nelson, East . Salem, was
arrested and held in Marion coun
ty jail Tuesday night charged with
assault and battery. The arrest
was made by Deputy Sheriff Den
ver Young on a Silverton justice
court warrant on a complaint by
Mrs. Nelson. .P
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Press Telesnai.
At High Cost
Fighting Fierce in
Leningrad Area;
Soviets Gain
MOSCOW, Wednesday, Nov.
1 8. iiP) German troops at a cost
of 1000 casualties gained slightly
in a Stalingrad factory district
Tuesday while far to the north in
the Leningrad siege area the na
zis and Russians -were engaged
in violent street fighting" on the
outskirts of a town the Soviets re
cently recaptured, it was announ
ced early Wednesday.
The Russians, seized a town on
the Volkhov front east of Lenin
grad' several ; days ago, and the
Germans h a v e e n attacking
heavily ever since the . midnight
communique disclosed.
After repelling six attacks all
day Tuesday : the Germans
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Darlan Choice
Reasons May
Be Sensation
LONDON, Nov. 17. - (yp) - The
reasons why Lt-Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower recognized Admiral
Jean Darlan as the French leader
of North Africa probably, will be
disclosed in Washington rather
than London, it was- said Tuesday
night, and the . disclosure may
provide a sensation.
Explanation of the incident,
said the Press association's dip-
Momatie correspondent, "may well
be of sensational interest.
But it is not likely that the full
story will be told until the mil
itary decision has been reached
in Tunisia, he said. It was indi
cated that military considerations
of first importance ; lie back of
present American. collaboration
with the Frenchman who for
many months, in Vichy collabora
ted .with the nazis.
: Meanwhile the Eitenh ower
Darlan agreement stirred up a
lively discussion in the house of
commons, -W h e r e Laborite ' Sir
Percy - Harris demanded a fuller
explanation. : - ' .
(In Washington, Tuesday Pres
ident Roosevelt emphasized the
United States army's dealings
with Darlan were "only, a "tem
porary i expedient,- Intended to
save both lives and time in car
rying the attach to the axis.
(In. a formal statement read at
a press conference, ' the president
said i no permanent arrangement
would be made with Darlan "in
view of the history of the past
two years.) j - - : v
Most Day Rooms ; .
Said Promised .
Organizations and communities
of Marion county have pledged to
provide, auxiliary furnishings for
three-fourths of the Camp Adair
day rooms ' which : are Marion
county's quota,' , Mrs. Chester F.
Luther, chairman of the Marion
county committee for the Camp
Adair camp and hospital council,
told committee members at a spe
cial meeting Tuesday night. .
StUl on the "unknown" list, she
said, were several organizations
whose publicity chairmen have
reported to newspapers that they
are Undertaking the furnishing
project .but whose officers have
never notified any member of the
committee. Such notification, it
was said, would be welcome. -
Germans
Attach in Stalingrad Area
in an attack somewhere In the Stalingrad sector. Note man perched on
official! Russian pietare transmitted
Patton
IJuJdiAllHis
4 1'
IhMorocco
By WES GALLAGHER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN
NORTH AFRICA, Nov. 17
OTV-America's two-gun general.
MaJ.-Gen. George S. Patton, jr.,
swept in GHQ Tuesday and re-
, ported with gusto to IA. Gen.
Dwight D. Elsenhower en the
good fortunes of war.
t ills bald pate shining and his
service revolvers swinging f ronv,
b e h hips. General Fatten
stepped from a plane which had
- been I escorted here by several
: pursuit ships. He was In -command
of the operations en the
African Atlantic eoast.
"I guess I most he one ef
4Gedr favorite. people," ; he said.
Wheni - we arrived off t the
coast, he went on, "I found the
French had put en aU their navi
gation lights to guide some ships
front Dakar: Into the (Casa
blanca) harbor.
p fThey r" shewed tss exactly
where we wanted to go.
Only Monday, General Elsen
bewer disclosed that a landing
boat I Into - which Fattoa was
ahevt to step had been des
troyed by a Vichy shell.
Fatten also told how a new
American 105-mm. self-propelled
ran had blown a bole in
a fort near Lyaten, Morocco, so
- infantry could rush In wtlh gre
nades and capture it.
.- flti was a real nice fight
. he said, "it was Teal coordina
tion between arms.
Patton said American tanks had
proven their worth in every in
stancei being far superior to any
thing encountered in French north
AfricaP . -
' r "Some outstanding feats of brav
ery; were performed by American
stretcher bearers who time and
time againr went into machine gun
fire toi bring hi our wounded, he
addedj " -
He related how a companion of
his first world days. Col. H. H.
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Troops Nearer
Port of Buna;
Planes Strike
AIXIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Wednesday, Nov. 8
Gf-Ground troops under personal
command of Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur, who is in the field, have
moved: closer toward the Jap-held
port of Buna in northeast New
Guinea while in the air allied
bombers ranged far. to strike, new
blows; including hits on a large"
merchantman, the high command
announced Wednesday.
' The T ground troops, ' comprising
Says
Australians and Americans, last
werelreported within 30 miles by
mountain, trail and probably clos
er in cases where they were trans
ported by air. The- communique
s t a tie d : succinctly the - advance
"continues while planes con
stantyl attack the retreating ene-
my.M:p! v:.:--p,H!'-;--T:--
V A raid by heavy bombers on
shipping in the harbor of RabauL
New : Britain island, northeast of
New Guinea, ' set ablaze the large
merchantman Tuesday night, At
Buiiv In the Solomons northwest
of Guadalcanal, medium bombers
Tuesday night started fires and
explosions on the airdrome and
destroyed three enemy aircraft.
The Japs, aroused by the allied
pincer on Buna, sent its fliers to
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by radio from MoscowAssoclated
British! Slice
Lib)iiGap
Three Allied Forces'
May Pounce oil ,
p Rommel Anny
CAIRO, Nov. j n-tifj-The Brit
ish eighth army has captured Der
na and El Mechili,' narrowing the
enemy-held gap jof Libya and Tun
isia to 900 miles, but pursuit . of
the disorganized axis army was
stowed today by bad weather and
sharp rear-guar actions. , ." . .
The surviving Germans:' and
Italians, in north Africa in effect
were hemmed in-bv three ere t
allied forces, 'at least iwo of which
were closing the jaws of a trap.
-The eighth, army was moving
west despite-short stands of axis
suicide - groups i which had the
choice only of fighting rear-guard
actions or surrendering. ;
The British (First army and
American troops were moving east
from Algeria into Tunisia. (The
Germans said ..US troops were
bombed at the southern boundary
of Tunisia and Algeria, which is
only 290 miles from Tripoli and
900 miles from El Mechili.)
Yet a third formidable force
was known to be deplayed la the
. Lake Chad region 1400 miles
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Grange! Calls
Farm parity
Plan Obsolete
WENATCHEE, Wask, Nov. 17
6?V-The 76th ' a h n a a 1 national
grange convention contended in
resolution it adopted Tuesday that
the parity formula by which farm
prices are determined was obso
lete and defective. '
. The grangers asked congress to
take immediate fteps to correct it
In addition, this resolution asked
congress to take prompt action
to determine what part of the na
uonal income should "justly be
long to' agriculture and other seg
ments of our population and pro
vide methods for equitably relat
ing it to various commodities.
The grange's ! parity -resolution
was termed a partial report from
11 resolutions on the complex par
ity and price ceiling problems
submitted to the agriculture com
mittee. . - .
The grange - insisted 5 that - the
cost of , all. farm. labor, 'including
that of family members, be in
cluded in the index of farm costs
used ' in determining parity,", and
that current price levels, rather
than those of 30 years ago, be
used." f " ' . j--
National Master Albert S. Goss
described parity ; as "a measuring
stick , to determine equitable val
ues -. . . AU the grange asks for
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Rainfall 4 Inches-p:
In 5 Days; Here ;
Rainfall in Salem totalled over
four Inches in the past five days.
J. T. Hopp, in Charge of the US
weather bureau at the Salem air
port, reported Tuesday night The
second day of the heavy precip
itation, Saturday,' not only showed
1.44 inches of rain but a wind
which' reached at least 40 miles
in velocity. ,
Daily rainfall, recorded at 11:30
p. m, was .78 inch Friday, .41
inch Sunday,' .73 inch Monday and
,72 inch Tuesday, Total was 4.08
inch, -. -
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Baku
Seeks
Peace
'Chute Troops '
Reported in
Tunisia Gains w
- By ibe : Associated Press -
LONDON. Nov. l7 B 1ft
American transport planea :
were scattering: British part
chute, troops deep in Tunisia
Tuesday night In advance of ,
a major enveloping movement
by the revitalized B r 1 1 i s h
First army of Flanders and
United States flying columns.
The word at ; allied headauar-
ters was' that advanced French
patrols were contactingGerman
reconnaissance groups. These lat
ter appeared to be operating out
of Bizerte, which Berlin said was
definitely in the hands of axis
forces.
From the Atlantic coast, a Sun
day dispatch out of Monrovia, Li-P
beria, gave the first hint that the
strategic Vichy naval base of Da
kar had begun; negotiations look
ing toward capitulation to Ameri
can-British forces, p
" The dispatch said a m i 1 1 1 a r y
mission from Dakah was enroute
to allied-occupied north Africa.
From all accounts It appeared
that the real battle when it oc
curs may decide control of the
Mediterranean, and the fate of
the axis armies in both Tunisia
and Libya, was about to open.
The British parachutists -mushrooming
into Tunisia were report
ed to , have, reached their objec
tives without ojaosition. The
transport planes 'wHich dropped
them were , escorted by US fighter
aircraft P.;pP' ... ;
P Offleial enemy advices daring
' the day . lent snpport to the be
lief that the combined allied
forces are operating In both I
northern ; and seathera ; eolnmns 1
in an effort to trap the Germans
and Italians hi Tunisia and close
the road to TripolL 1
Still under the same code ot
strict secrecy which covered the
start of the north African opera
tions, Lt Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-,
bower's headquarters disclosed
nothing of the allied a d v a n c e
movement or; of the strength of
forces still pouring into allied-held
north African ports.' P
But an allied enveloping ma
neuver, hinted almost a. week ag
by the reported movement of U3
forces southeastward1 from Algiers
was indicated strongly by a, Ber
lin high command . communique
which said: "
Marching enemy columns on
the coastal road east of Bone (la
the Algerian - Tunisian frontiet
frontier country) and in the south
ern border district of Tunisia suf
fered heavy : losses from our l air
attacks." . .
Circumspect allied communi
ques and official statements have
betrayed little ,or nothing of the
strategy of Gen. Kenneths A. N."
Anderson, British 'commander of
the combined forces striking east
ward' into Tunisia. '', r . ;' j-h
They have, however, indicated
a earefal regard: for the prob
lem ef supply involved In pene
tration. f these arid lands, and!
en Monday It was disclosed that
. additional ; American mobile
troops had reinforced the east
ward posh. '.
Axis communiques during the
day said little to dispute the flat '
allied announcement that the Brit
ish fleet holds full control of the
western Mediterannean and its
approaches.
Jittery Gerrhans
Fire on Italians " f
NEW Y ORK, Nov. 17.-- 1
German garrisons on Sicily, jit
tery over the prospects of Anglo
American attacks, fired on and
killed 27 Italian fishermen two
days ago, ; the British radio de
clared Tuesday in a broadcast
heard here by CBS.
The announcers said nazi sen
tries evidently mistook a party of
fishermen retumin at nicht for
an allied commando raid. As the
boats, neared shore, the Germans
cpened fire. '
Rommel in Tunisia ?
LONDON, Wednesday, Nov. 18
(P)-Reuters reported from ad
vanced headquarters in north Af
rica Wednesday that German Field
Marshal Rommel is now in Tun
isia. - ! ; ' ''