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Schmidt United Press Staff Correspondent AJacclo, Corsica, Sept. 17 (Delayed) (U.R) Dark-skinned Moroccan Fusiliers landed at this island capital one hour after midnight today in a naval operation supporting the landing of French shock troops four days ago. Neither force encountered any opposition here. . ' News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington. Sept. 21 Trou- le is rearing again on the in- 'ernatlonal police force idea. Senator Hatch construes the Ball - Burton Hatch-Hill biU (which Vice President Wal lace indorsed' as calling for an intemation al police force acting under orders of an In tema t io n a 1 body. Powerful j mi rial ttaUost Foreign Rela tions Chairman Connally says there can be no such force and no such surrender of sovereign ty. The man whose views count more State Secretary Hull has announced only that the "means" of international action Jo keep the peace is being dis cussed (which may be signifi cant In view of the fact that his now resigned assistant Mr Walles promised an interna tional police force). ET us sift the argument for facts and analyze the resi due. Fact No. 1 is the term "in ternational police force" and is obviously a misnomer. What ev eryone means is not internation al policemen sauntering around the world with night sticks, but an international army and navy ready to do battle. When you call the argument by its right name, you also can measure accurately the extent to which some sort of super- ( Continued on Page Bis) Sales in tha Third Victory Lean drhra to data S1,651,901 I accompanied the second force. At a place within sight of Napoleon's birthplace, I watched French officers hurrying the tough Moroccan mountain forces down the gangplanks. Wild Enthusiasm u. Crowds of Corsicans sesticu- lated in wild enthusiasm at the waterfront, and the streets were decked with French, American, British and Russian emblems. The dry brush on the hillsides on both sides of the harbor en trance were aflame where Ger man planes had dropped incen diary bombs. But the Germans stayed away from the town. The warships which carried the Moroccans had to dodge one German U-boat's torpedo and were spotted by at least three enemy reconnaissance patrols. The naval units which carried out the shock troop landing were a submarine which arrived at Ajaccio at dawn on Sept. 13, followed by destroyers at mid night. It was the first Invasion of French European soil and the first all-French operation by the recreated French army and navy in Africa. RIGID CURFEW IS Stockholm, Sept. 21 (U.R) German occupation authorities were reported today to have im posed an 8 p. m. to 9 a. m. cur few on Copenhagen so rigid that it prohibited inhabitants from opening windows facing streets or remaining in doorways, gar dens or on rooftops. (A Stockholm newspaper dis patch reported by the Office of War Information said a Nazi military court at Horsens, Den mark, had sentenced a Danish business man to a year for "laughing at German soldiers doing military drill" and two other Danes to similar sentences for "tearing down a martial law notice" and "insulting a Danish volunteer.") Largest fish ever caught in ; Florida water was a whale-shark ; harpooned in 1912 by Capt I Charles Thompson. It was 33 i feet long and weighed more than 126,000 pounds, RETREATING NAZIS TRY DEMOLITION TO DELAY OPPONENTS Attempt to Counterattack Near Salerno is Slammed ', Back With Heavy Losses. By Reynolds Packard United Press Correspondent (Representing Combined ' U. S. Press) With American Fifth Army. Italy, Sept. 21 (U.R) A big al lied push which started 24 hours ago was well under way today and several more Italian towns all of them of strategic im portance had fallen into Amer ican and British hands. The Germans, as they were shoved back along the entire Salerno front below Naples, be gan resorting to the demolition tactics they used in retreating before the Eighth army in the toe of the Italian boot. The en emy had mined areas irora which they were retreating in a systematic manner, blowing up bridges and roads in an ef fort to break contact with the swiftly-moving Fifth army and retard its progress. Counter Fails ' The Germans tried to counter attack near Salerno yesterday but were slammed back with heavy losses by allied assault forces. . : - .- The - allied -drive -was . pro gressing with steamroller' effec tiveness. Areas which have been a rather confused no man's land have been mopped up and con solidated. The beachhead which has been secured for several days has become a great spring board for offensive operations. Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Sept. 21 (U.R) Allied forces broadening their Mediter ranean offensive have seized three strategic Dodecanese is lands, taken Sardinia, driven the Germans back In Corsica and are battling toward . the Naples plain after capturing Eboli on the Italian mainland front. Cairo, Sept. 21 (U.R) British troops have been on the Italian Dodecanese Islands of Cos. Leros, and Samos in the eastern Mediterranean off the Turkish coast for several days and are using their strategic air bases, It was announced today. Churchill Gives Heartening War Review In Answer to Critics of Italian Handling London, Sept. 21 U.R Prime Minister Winston Churchill told commons today that tha United Nations were hammering their way toward complete aerial domination of Germany, that the Nasi U boats have taken an unprece dented licking, and that Benito Mussolini escaped only be cause his Italian guards failed to obey orders to shoot him if necessary. Churchill replied to critics of the Allied handling of Italy, hinted that the Italians might declare war against Germany, and said that the Italian capitu lation might be followed by the collapse or surrender of other German satellites. Successes Reviewed Strongly defending the mili tary and political handling of defeated Italy, Churchill . re viewed a period of outstanding Allied successes in which not a single Allied merchantman was sunk in the north Atlantic for four months ending September 18, and not an Allied ship was sunk by U-boats anywhere in the world for the first two weeks in September. But, Churchill warned, the en emy apparently has re-equipped submarines with new weapons of novel character and they are now returning to the battle of the Atlantic In a new phase of fight ing for which the Allies are pre pared. One attack on a convoy now is ir. progress, but only by Eagles Hall Robbed Before War Bulletins London, Sept. 21 (U.R) American Marauder medium bombers opened a new series of allied air attacks on Axis Europe today with a raid on the Tills airdrome at Beau vaii, 35 miles north of Paris. Strong formations of other bombers also swept across Dover straits toward north France on offensive missions. One formation took nearly a half hour to cross the English southeast coast Washington. Sept. 21 (U.R) Japanese planes have carried out their third attack in six days on Guadalcanal, Ameri can base in the Solomons, the navy announced today. RAID JAP ROUTE TO L E By United Press The Allied campaign in the southwest Pacific appeared to day to nave entered a new phase with bombing planes delivering heavy raids along the route to ward the major Japanese base at Rabaul. "Gen Douglas Mac Arthur's 'communique-, reported .that- Lib-' eratorg - and - Flying oFrtresses dropped 94 tons of bombs on Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 135 miles above newly-captured Lae, New Guinea, setting off big fires and wrecking five enemy planes. Capture of Lae put Allied troops in possession .of airfields 400 miles southwest' of Rabaul, which is the hub for the enemy's outpost positions. Other planes bombarded the New Guinea coastline in the Finsch harbor area 88 miles above Lae while the troops mopped up enemy pockets In the area. A spokesman said one Japanese regiment of 2,250 men of those caught in the Lae Salamaua pocket had lost at least 1,453 In casualties during the coastal drive. The castle bean weed, some times known as bladder pod and coffee bean, is harmful to live stock and should be mowed to prevent it going to seed. MO EARLY PEACE London, Sept. 21 (U.R) Prime Minister Winston Churchill, hoping for a meet ing this year with Premier Jo sef V. Stalin and President Roosevelt, declared today that the "time is coming" for mass Invasion of Europe on a sec ond front, but strongly warned against optimistic hopes for an early ending of the war. negligence can the Allies fail to beat the U-boat in the long run. Churchill in a speech so ong that a luncheon recess was taken at 1:30 p. m, said that "com plete strategic air domination of Germany Is not necessarily be yond our reach even in 1044 with consequences which must certainly be profound." Strikes at Critics The prime minister struck back at critics who had said there was unwarrantd delay and fumbling in regard to the capitu lation of Italy, giving the Ger mans a chance to seize that coun trycharges which Churchill emphatically denied. Reviewing briefly the Italian developments, he disclosed that the original plan was for an American air-borne division to land in Rome, for the govern ment of Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio to hand over ousted Premier Benito Mussolini and for BsdogUo to make peaca- Sams Valley Family Joins i 'i 1 l A ' aaaaaaaaweilMi I r?"t i n .ffiimrifflttiiMfri liii.itfinwltrtnTr in'-irttt 'Pop" Patten, champion dad week at the Portland navy recruiting station to welcome another family into the bluejacket ransk. Above he is shown assisting the Lucas brothers from Sams Valley, near here, making out their enlistment papers. The brothers are, from left, Elmer, 20, Bill, 23, and Clarence, 18. Bill's wife, Virginia, also is in the navy, having enlisted in the WAVES last week. The Lucas boys' parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Lucas of Sams Valley. - Willkie is Willing if GOP Seeks Liberal Objectives Washington, Sept. 21 U.R Wendell L..Wlllkiefls announce 1944 republican presidential nomination is on the nation's newsstands today betweenthe slick paper covers of Look, a magazine with publishing roots deep in the fertile Mississippi valley. In it he offers himself as the G.O.P. nominee or as a worker in the ranks if the republican party will "drive heart and soul for liberal objectives." There was no surprise here In Wlllkle's ambition again to be the republican nominee. But there was much interest in the spectacular prominence given him in the magazine which is published by the Cowles family, which also Is a major factor in mid-west politics, newspapers and radio. It is In the mid-west that Willkie finds, also, some of his most bitter opposition. That is led by another published, Col. Robert R. McCormick, of Chi cago. The Look splash was re garded as the opening of Win The suggestion that 40 days of time and the lives of many Al lied soldiers were lost needless ly is "as il-founded in fact as it is wounding to those bereaved. he said. "There was never one moment lost. The timing of the attack was fixed without refer ence to the attitude of the Ital ian government." The sole limiting factor, he said,, was preparation of land ing craft. Even then, Churchill said, the Invasion date was advanced from Sentember 18 to September 9. Because of secrecy designed to deceive tha Germans regarding Badogllo's intentions, Churchill said, it was impossible to hand Mussolini over to the Allies at once but careful plans were laid to prevent him from being res cued by the Nazis. Carlbln.rl Balked The plans, he acknowledged. did not prepare for the large at tack by Nazi parachute and glider troops which descended on the Gran Sasso hotel, north of Rome, where Mussolini was held, but the ousted premier was rescued only because the Italian cariblneri guarding him failed to carry out their orders to shout Mussolini rather than permit his escape or rescue. Churchill addressed a crowd ed chamber in one of the most eagerly-awaited sessions of his career. He was applauded loud- ly by members who had been sharp-shooting at tha Italian sit of the navy with eight sons in kle's campaign .. . . ., Loolt Is ulf by Gardner Cowles, Jr.; president, and John Cpwler, chairman of the board, sons of an Iowa publishing dynasty with bedrock founda tions In Des Moines and Minne apolis. What Willkie proposed in Look is to conduct a liberal re vival meeting within the repub lican party. He said the GOP could win next year but "must first win victory within itself" through action of the "progres sive and courageous party mem bers" in re-establishing : the party's "great liberal traditions." Willkie called for "a rebirth of enterprise a real enterprise,'? and added, "we must distinguish between enterprise and private ownership." About 5000 members of Brit ain's Land Army Women belong to the Timber Corps, engaged in cutting and finishing timber for use in. the mines. uation for some days. . The prime minister empha sized that the Mediterranean campaign never had been con sidered as a substitute for a di rect attack on western Europe which would establish the sec ond front demanded by Russia. But his review of the m-ofound effects of Allied aerial warfare against Germany was not ex pected to quiet the advocates of a second front In Franco, es pecially since the prime minis ter revealed a tremendous vic tory at sea which cleared the path from .America for ships, men and supplies. Italy 1S43 Objective Churchill referred to "almost unbroken successes by land, sea and air" during the last year and revealed that last May he and President Roosevelt decided that the principal objective was knocking Italy out of the war this year. "No one, in attempting to set a time limit for the task, would have expected that it would have been so rapidly achieved," he said. The prime minister asserted that "there has been an enor mous diversion of German ener gy from the war fronts and the effective power of the enemy has been noticeably crippled by It." ' "The complete strategic air domination of Germany by An- glo-American air forces is not necessarily beyond our reach Fire, Officers Told En Masse I the service, was on hand last LAST SECTION OF DESNA DEFENSES London; Sept. 21. (U.R) Rus sian assault forces crumpling the last section of the German de tenses based on the Desna have burst across the river 80 miles above Kiev and captured the railroad Junction of Chernigov in three days of fierce fighting, Moscow announced today. Premier-Marshal ' Josef Stalin hailed the capture of Chernigov in an order of tha day, describ ing it as the most important center of German resistance on the lower reaches of the Desna. The fall of Chernigov laid open the Red army way to the Dnieper river, only 30 miles to the west, and drove a wedge through the main line of Ger man defenses between . Gomel and Kiev. The toppling of the German defense bastion heightened the Red army threat to the Dnieper river line. even In 1944 with consequences, if attempted, which can not be measured but must certainly be profound," he said. "The RAF at present Is main taining in action nearly 80 per cent more aircraft than Ger many. In addition, the United States air force Is already in action on a great scale-" 4 io Plane Edge He estimated that the increase in available Allied planes now exceeds the German supply by more than 4 to 1. "This opens the possibility of saturating German defenses on the ground and in the air," he explained. "If the growth con tlnues, we should with very small loss be In a position where the actual methodical destruction of every available building of the enemy would be possible." He said that the Russian air force is now in many ways su perior to that of Germany. "We must expect that the ter rlble foe we are smiting so heav ily will make frenzied efforts to retaliate," he warned. Churchill reported that the Germans are using a new type of aerial bombing on Allied shipping. He described It as "sort of a rocket-assisted glider which Is released from consid erable height and apparently is guided towards the target by the parent aircraft. "It might ba that the Germans are developing other weapons on novel lines," he said. LODGE QUARTERS ,F City and State Police Inves tigate Source of Fire Adjoining Places Unhurt. City and state police are to day investigating source of tha fire which last night burned tha Eagles' hall at 42 N- Front street, causing an unestlmated amount of damage to it and business con cerns on the first floor of the building. Fire Chief Roy Elliott reported today that officials of the lodge stated that the club room had been robbed of an un disclosed amount of money Just before 8:40 p. m., when the fire broke out in that room, located at the rear of the building. Volunteer firemen turned out to aid In fighting the blaze, which was not completely extinguished " until 11 o'clock. No members of the lodge had been in the hall since Sunday evening, lodge of ficials said, adding that the money taken was hidden in a box in the ,club room, ' Damage Confined Damage was confined to tha Eagles' rooms and stores lmme- ' dlately beneath. Actual flnsuv,. clal- loss has not yet been esti mated, but dwnage to the lodge rooms was expensive! ffhe club -room was1 comoletetv demol ished, the roof and walls being caved in and furnlshlnsa burned. Parts of the ceiling and walla in the Aerie lodge room collapsed, and water covered the rioor. The ladles' club room, nn the front of the buiding, suffered ' least damage to the ceiling and walls, but was ravaged by fir ana water inrougnout. water Damage - . Lloyd's barber shon and Clan. ence Ead'a second-hand furniture store below were both damaged, ' niamiy Dy tne water which poured down from the second noor where firemen had alv two-and-one-half-lnch hoses in use continuously. Wind. thrt. ened for a time to spread tha urn io omor nearby buildings. Supplies and equipment were moved from the army first aid station next door to the S. P. lot across the street, but were later moved back when the fire was Drought under control withnnt damage to the station. Officials of the Easles lodm stated today that Insurance cov ered at least a part of the loss. Allied HeadminrtAr fiitti. west Pacific, Sept. 21 (U.R) uen. uougias MacArthur issued a statement tonight saying that 'Island hopping ... is not my idea of how to end the Pacific war." MacArthur said t h t it "makes little dlffemnra I or others wield the weapon" wnicn aeieata Japan. MacArthur's statement was In reDlV to rennrta treats th TTntA States and England implying mai nis roie in tne war would be progressively curtailed and re duced to a secondary role. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTER A comely WAC pausing to stare at the fruit display in a grocery window with tha ex clamation, "I'm so hungry, I want to eat everything I sea." Neva Samuels trying without success to extract payment at so much per word for news she gives out. Harry (call ma "Rugged") Morris returning from the Cali fornia forests with unshaven beard, a buck deer and blood in his eye for one reporter, , ;
