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Amarican army and nary
air forcas, aquippad with tha
most modarn armor. d weap
ona,' ara landing tonight on
tha Mediterranean and Atlan
tic coasts pi Franch African
colonias in tha opening of the
long heralded second front
against tha axis, the White
House announced.
The White House and the
war department announced
tha landing operations simul
- taneously shortly after 9 P
m. The invasion of Africa evi
dently is on a tremendous
scale. It la commanded by
Lieut. Gen. Dwlgbt David
Eisenhower, commander of
United States forces In the
European theatre.
The White House also Issued
the text of a broadcast message
by Mr. Roosevelt to the French
people informing them in their
own language of the purpose of
the expedition and assuring that
the allies seek no territory and
have no intention of interfering
with friendly French author!
ties in Africa.
Seek Nasi Rout
The announcements did not
precisely locate the American
landings. But it appeared pos
sible that the maneuver could
develop into the western end of
a pincers strategy designed to
crush German Field Marshal Er
win Rommel'a axis legions once
and for all in North Africa.'
The White House said the In
vasion was undertaken to:
1. Prevent axis military oc
cupation of any part of northern
or western Africa.
2. To deny the axis any Afri
can springboard from which to
launch an attack against the
Americas.
3. To provide second front as
sistance to "our heroic allies in
Russia."
"the landing of this American
army is being assisted by the
British navy and air forces and
It will, in the immediate future,
be reinforced by a considerable
number of divisions of the Brit
ish army," the White House an
nouncement said.
"This expedition will develop
Into a major effort by the allied
nations and there is every ex
pectation that it will be success
ful in repelling the planned Ger
man and Italian Invasion of Af
rica and prove the first historic
step in the liberation and restor
ation of France
French Assured
The statement emphasized
that the "French government")
as well as the French people had
been informed of the United Na
tions' intentions to move into
French Colonial Africa but there
was no intimation that Vichy
had agreed to the high strategy.
This story of an AmeVlcan in
vasion of Africa from the Med
iterranean and the Atlantic Is be
ing pounded at a jittery Europe
tonight as a foretaste of what is
to come as the United Nations'
offensive gains momentum and
the axis begins to bend and
break.
Europe has been nervous for
some days. Even from Berlin
there have been reports of the
movement of tremendous con
veys Into the Mediterranean and
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Tokyo, Sunday, Not.
(Japanese broadcast racordad
by United Pratt. San Fran
cisco) Tokyo radio said to
day Japanese naval units have
panatratad tha Atlantic ocaan
to Join Carman's U-boats in
smashing alli.d saa communi
cations. FRENCH FLEET IS
Leaders Prepared For Move
Warship at Dakar
Land Force Weak.
London, Sunday, Not. 8
CUR! A United States army
spokesman., declared, .tonight:
that the invasion of French
African colonies Is "the start
of the real American war in
tha European theatre of oper
ations." "Tha action far overshad-,
ows any American action in
this hemisphere previously."
the spokesman said.
"It will be carried out with
the utmost vigor. It marks a
turning point from tha train
ing period to actual fighting."
There was no Immediate word
as to the reaction of the French
forces in the African colonies.
However, it was not doubted
that resistance would be encoun
tered. The French African gover
nors and commanders have been
engaged in almost constant con
sultation and preparation for
such a move for more than a
month and they are in a position
to dispose powerful forces.
The chief French concentra
tions are believed to be at Dakar.
the strategic Senegal port on the
west African port, at Casablanca
on the Northwest Moroccan
coast, at Oran and Algiers in Al
geria and at Bizerte in Tunisia.
It is believed that France has
about 100,000 men, many of
them native troops and not too
well equipped, in Africa. Their
air force has been estimated at
500 planes but this may be an
overestimate. The French are
known to have few tanks and
probably not too ample supplies
of munitions. For nearly two
years they have been largely
dependent upon skimpy supplies
of oil and gasoline from the
United States.
A major factor was expected
to be the action of the French
fleet which is now divided in
two fairly equal parts between
the metropolitan French base of
Toulon and various African
points.
The largest French African
naval concentration is at Dakar
which has the large, but dam
aged 33,000-ton battleship Riche
lieu, believed to be in position to
be fired as a fixed fortification
In addition there are three
cruisers known to be at Dakar,
the Glotre, Montcalm and Geor
ges Leygues, three destroyers,
the Fantasque, Malin and Terri
ble, about 12 submarines, the
supply ship Jules Verne, three
mine sweepers, 10 Corvettes and
some light units.
this ::od news for the United
Nations is accompanied by un
interrupted successes of the Brit
ish Eighth army in Libya where
Rommel seems to be on the run,
and fast.
Vichy consistently has oppos
ed the use of its territor.-. colo
nial or otherwise, as bases
against the axis.
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Italians Surrender.
Cairo, Not. 7 (U.R Lieut
Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery
ordered his eighth army tonight
to finish the job of "removing
the Germans from North Afri
ca" as it pressed hot on the
heels of the wrecked Afrika
korps now striving to brace
for a stand on the Libyan
frontier.
Cairo, Nov. 7. U.R The Im
perial 8th army hurled armored
forces, motorized infantry and
swarms of planes tonight at the
remnants of Marshal Erwin
Rommel's .. once proud Afrika
korps possibly only 2S.0JJ0. out
of an original 140,000 now try-'
ing to brace for a stand at Hal
faya (Hellfire) pass on the Lib
yan frontier, 240 miles west of
the Alamein battleground.
Near Frontier
The main body of the Imperi
al forces was reported to be well
west of Mersa Matruh, 110 miles
west of Alamein, and advance
striking forces were believed to
be 'as far as 200 miles west of
Alamein or close to the Egyp
tian-Libyan frontier, 240 miles
west of Alamein.
How many men Rommel had
left in the Haliaya area could
not be established. Already 20,
000 prisoners have been counted
in British hands. Rommel's de
sert casualties were estimated at
something like another 20.000
and 73.000 Italian troops had
been left far behind the swirl
ing battleground, ready to sur
render when the British can
find time and men to round
them up.
Rommel entered the desert
battle with a maximum of 140,
000 troops in the forward area.
Unless he has been able to rush
up reinforcements from the rear
in large numbers, it was doubted
that he had more than a divi
sion or two left to attempt an-
oiner stand at Haliaya.
It appeared possible tonight
that the bruised and beaten Axis
forces might not even attempt
to stand at Halfaya but would
instead continue their headlong
flight as deeply as possible Into
Libya In an effort to open up a
gap between themselves and the
pursuing 8th army
Block Retreat
Lieut. Gen. Bernard L. Mont-
gomery has ordered that every
attempt be made to cut off Rom
mel s retreat and it was believed
he may have sent a hard-hitting.
laft-moving column swinging
wiae across the desert to cut In
behind Rommel in Libya and
block further retreat by the Axis
or an attempt to bring up rein-
lorcements from the west.
The picture given tonight by
couriers from the western de
sert was one of the utter destruc
tion of the Afrika korps. The
battlefield was strewn with
tanks and wreckage and corpses.
they said.
The plight of Rommel's Italian
allies was more desperate even
than that of his own fighting
units.
No less than five Italian divi
sions had been put out of action,
four of them at the extreme
south of the Alamein line and
fifth a little further northward.
Los Angeles, Nov. 7 (U.PJ
The famed Japanese Zero fight
lng plane may be Just a copy of
a 1939 American model, accord
lng to an article appearing In
the November Issue of Western
Flying magazine.
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1942
Medford Lawyer Speaker
William M. McAllister (right). Medford. was assured election
as speaker of tha 1943 house of representatives when 57
pledges came in Thursday. Herman H. Chlndgren, Molalla.
who lost out in the speaker race, congratulated McAllister and
pledged his support
Washington,. Nov. 7. (U.PJ
French Africa, which American
forces entered tonight, com
prises the biggest part of the
great northwest shoulder of
Africa which thrusts out into
the Atlantic.
"The vast territory of Moroc
co, Algeria, Tunisia and French
West Africa, has an area of
more than 2,800,000 square
miles or almost that of con
tinental United States," the Na
tional Geographic society point
ed out
The total population of more
than 30,000,000 represents a
considerable reservoir of man
power with such essentials as
wheat, wool and leather.
Today, Frances overseas re
sources of farm and pasture are
still significant in a warring
world short of many of the basic
human requirements of food
and clothing. French North
Afiica particularly, with its
somewhat limited but intensely
cultivated agricultural and graz
ing regions, is a heavy producer
of grains, vegetables, many
fruits, hides, wool and cotton.
Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
all have mineral resources. In
creasingly developed. Including
phosphates, iron, coal, lead.
zinc and petroleum.
'On the Atlantic side, the
French west African port of Da
kar is not only the closest Afri
can base to the Americas but It
overlooks the sea lanes alone
which travel many of Great
Britain's economic and military
necessities.
T
New York. Nov. 7 (U.PJ
First word of the American land
ing In French Africa to be car
ried by the axis radio was a brief
flash by the Nazi Transocean
news agency shortly before 11
p- m., EWT., which merely
quoted the announcement from
Washington.
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NEAR RED BLUFF
Red Bluff, Calif.. Nov. 7.
(U.PJ The brutal sex murder of
Mrs. Ada Weisman Johnson, 50,
of Berkeley, Calif., whose mu
tilated body was found in
ditch south of Red Bluff, was
being investigated tonight by
sheriff's officers.
Coroner V. V. Desrosler said
an autopsy disclosed the woman
had been criminally attacked
and beaten to death early this
morning, several hours before
her body was discovered by
truckdriver. A heavy rar had
been driven off the pavement
and footprints indicated the
driver had thrown the body In
to the ditch.
Mrs. Johnson was believed to
have been enroute to Berkeley
from Medford, Ore., where she
had visited her son, Pvt. Jack
Johnson, at Camp White.
Camp White headquarters
said last night that Pvt. Jack
Johnson, son of the murdered
woman, was with the Service
Command unit, medical detach
ment, and had left by train for
Red Bluff when notified of hli
mother's death.
Whether Mrs. Johnson had
been visiting her son at Camp
White, and was enroute back to
Berkeley, was not immediately
learned, and no other details
were available, headquarters an
nounced. F
Portland, Ore., Nov. 7- (U.PJ
Although the state of Washing
ton has found It necessary to ra
tion liquor, Oregon supplies are
ample, and no need for rationing
exists, Oregon Liquor Control
commission officials said tonight
Officials admitted that a buy
ing spree by Oregonian in fear
of rationing might make the
move necessary, however.
"Records of stocks on hand
and consumption, plus allowance
for increase, show there will be
plenty of liquor, although drink
ers may have to change some of
their brands," one commission
member declared.
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Forces Cooperating.
Allied Forces Headquarters In
North Africa, Sunday, Nov. 8
(U.PJ American troops by the
scores of thousands opened their
African offensive today with the
world's greatest naval armada
in the Vanguard.
The Americans and British
have landed in great force on the
coast of North Africa.
It is the opening of offensive
action in the European theatre
by Yankee Doughboys who are
slogging into action on this side
of the Atlantic for the first time
since 1917-18.
The operation, which was
launched under the cover of huge
fleets of naval warships and air
planes, was described as the
largest single American offensive
action in history.
American land, air and aea
forces with the cooperation of
British naval and air forces and
a small number of British In
fantry are carrying out landings
in Franch West and North
Africa. . . .
. Tha operation Is 'iiider (he
command of Lieut. Gen, Dwlght
Eisenhower, American com
mander in chief in the European
theatre.
American troops have landed
simultaneously in numerous
areas of Africa.
However, beyond the terse
communique issued by Eisen
hower there was no news up to
2:30 a. m. (9:30 p. m. EWT) as
to how the operation actually
was proceeding.
There was nothing to indicate
at the moment that any factor
was holding up the Americans
in their move to take control of
vital areas.
This is an American show
with British cooperation-
NORTHERN PAPUA
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General MacArthur's Head
quarters, Australia, Sunday,
Nov. 8 (U.PJ A large number
of American troops, transported
by air from Australia during the
last month, have penetrated
central-northern Papua, on the
New Guinea front, to the vicin
ity of Buna, a communique said
today.
Allied forces now control all
of Papua except the Japanese-
held beachhead in the Buna
Gona area.
Inland, Australian ground for
ces maintained constant pres
sure on Japanese positions near
Oivi, where fighting was con
tinued for several days.
Australian jungle fighters ex
ecuted local encircling move
ments to dislodge Japanese on
the defensive, the communique
said.
"Supported by allied air for
ces which conducted a ground
strafing attack, units from Milne
Bay now have completed clear
ing the remnants of hostile for
ces from the islands to the north
and have occupied adjacent stra
tegic points," the announcement
said.
NEW AIRCRAFT HEAD
Los Angeles, Nov. 7 (U.PJ
I. 8. Randall, Transcontinental
at Western Airlines executive,
has been named general mana
ger of the aircraft war produc
tion council of East Coast Air
frame Manufacturers, counter
part of the council operating on
the1 west coast, lt was announced
today.
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Washington. Nov. 7 OJ.PJ
The war department announced
tonight that United States army.
navy and air forces had started
landing operations during the
hours of darkness tonight at nu
merous points on the shores of
Franch North Africa.
Text of war department com
munique No. 232: .
North Africa:
"1, United States army, navy
and airforces started landing op
erations during the hours of
darkness tonight at numerous
points on the shores of French
North Africa. The operation was
made necessary by the increas
ing Axis menace to this terri
tory. Steps have been taken to
give the French people, by radio
and leaflets, early Information
of the landings. These combined
operations of United States were
supported by units of the Royal
Navy and Royal Air Force.
'2. Lt. Gen. Dwlght D. Elsen
hower of the U. S. army Is com
mander-in-chief of the allied
force."
Air. War to. Italy For Third
Straight Night Sub Nest
Ablaze.
London, Nov. 7 (U.PJ Amer
ican and British planes plastered
the port area of Brest today in
a raid on the German-held coast
after the Royal Air Force had
struck powerfully at Italy last
night, heavily bombing Genoa
and leaving the key port aglow
with flames visible for 120 miles.
Air raid alarms sounded in
Switzerland and tonight, indi
cating that the RAF for the sec
ond straight night was taking
the air war to Italy in a smash
ing drive against Italian war in
dustryand morale.
American flying fortresses and
liberators escorted by allied
fighters attacked the German
docks and submarine pens at
Brest with heavy bombs In an
afternoon sortie from which all
bombers returned, a joint Brit
ish and United States com
munique revealed.
From dawn to dusk RAF
fighters ranged the continental
coast from Belgium to the Cher
bourg peninsula, strewing havoc
through German airdromes, com
munication systems, and power
plants.
The daylight offensive dove
tailed with the return of the four
motored British bombers from
Genoa.
Text of F. D. R's
Washington, Nov, 7 (U.PJ In
connection with current military
operations In French North Af
rica, the president has broadcast
by radio to the French people
the following message In French:
"My friends, who suffer day
and night, under the crushing
yoke of the Nazis, I speak to
you as one who was with your
army and navy In France In
1918. I have held all my life
the deepest friendship for the
French people for the entire
French people. I retain and
cherish the friendship of hun
dreds of French people in France
and outside of France. I know
your farms, your villages, and
your cities. I know your sol
dlers, professors, and workmen
I know what a precious heri-
tage of the French people are
your homes, your culture, and
the principles of democracy In
France, I salute again and re-
Iterate my faith In liberty,
equality, and fraternity. No two
nations exist which are more
united by historic and mutually
friendly ties than the people of
Franca and the United States.
"Americans, with the assist-!
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NAZIS FORCES IN
Hitler Loses in Key Sectors
of Southern Front;
Flanks Pounded.
Moscow, Nov. 7 (U.PJ Tha
Red army blasted German siege
troops out of their crumoling
fortifications in and on both
sides of Stalingrad today, and
its armored trains shattered a
tank-led Nazi shock force in the
Nalchik area of the central Cau
casus. ,
Aa Riss!a celebrated the 25th
anniversary of the Soviet rev
olution with assurances of Im
pending Red army offensives
and eventual victory, Adolf
Hitler's Invasion forces were
reported stopped tn their track
or losing ground on every key
sector of the front,
For the second time In 48
h ' jrt the Russians scored im
p.essive successes In the fac
tory area of Stalingrad, driving
the Germans from two strong.
ly fortified points, while artil
lery swept the enemy positions
northwest and south of the city,
smashing entrenchments and
gun emplacements.
To the south the German
spearhead aimed at the Grozny
oil fields and the Georgian mill
tary highway had. been. -stalled
for four days, and two Nazi
regiments of 6,000 men with a
tank escort were hurled back
with heavy losses.
The Red army command re.
vealed that lt had shifted ar
mored trains to the main battle
zone southeast of Nalchik. Two
of them destroyed 10 German
tanks and scattered two com
panies of troops In a protracted
battle emphasizing the setback
the Nazis had suffered after a
trnmphant surge within striking
distance of the key town of
Ordzhonokidze.
As the Stalingrad defense
garrison slowly developed the
initiative lt seized after the vir
tual collapse of the German
onslaught, supporting armies cut
deeper into the enemy flanks
above and below the city,
Russia observed the 25th an
niversary of her revolution with
Increasing reports of Red army
successes in all key sectors of
the southern front These tend
ed to bear out Soviet assertions
that the German offensive had
been wrecked and the tide of
battle soon would be flowing
the other way.
Riverside, Cal., Nov, 7 (U.PJ
Creditors of King C. Gillette,
Jr., safety-razor heir, tonight
were forced to admit that Gil
lette's bankruptcy-hearing state
ment that "I haven't got a dime"
appeared well-founded.
Word to France
ance of the United Nations, ara
striving for their own safe fu
ture as well as the restoration
of the Ideals, the liberties, and
the democracy of all those who
have lived under the tricolor.
"We come among you to re
pulse the cruel invaders who
would remove forever your
rights of self government, your
rights to religious freedom, and
your rights to live your own
lives In peace and security. .
"We come among you solely
to defeat and rout your enemies.
Have faith In our words. Wa
do not want to cause you any
harm. '
"We assure you that once tha
menace of Germany and Italy
Is removed from you, we shall
quit your territory at once.
"I am appealing to your real
Ism,, to your self-interest and
national Ideals.
"Do not obstruct, I beg of
you, this great purpose.
"Help us where you are able,
my friends, and we shall sea
again tha glorious way when
liberty and peace shall reign
again nn Aarth.
"Viva La Franca eterneUel"
RED ARMY ROUTS