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By FRANK JENKINS
A FASCINATING possibility
enter tlio newa today.
The dormant moy bo ABAN
DONING TUNISIA.
DRITISH fighter plones
w down tlx Italian trar
hoot
transport
planet loaded with GERMAN
totdler GOING NORTH.
An allied tpokesman In Lon
don tayt this MIGHT mean the
Germant are pulling out of
northern Africa.
TWO possible explanations of
A thlt decidedly unusual In
cident are offered In today't dis
patches: 1. These shot-down planet may
have carried reinforcements that
were ORDERED BACK at toon
- at It'wat reallted that a stand
In Tunisia would be futllo
3. The shot-down Germans
may have been demolition tech
nlclant tent to Tunisia especially
to destroy equipment that might
be of value to the British and
Americans.
At any rate. It aeemt odd that
Germans should be - GOING
AWAY FROM AFRICA when
every German it needed it a
ttand It to be made there.
- -
"yOBRUK Is abandoned by the
fleeing Germans today with
out a fight.
The German radio tells "with
satisfaction", of the destruction
of ell materials here that might
have been of value to the allies.
It is the first time since the
war began that the Germans
have doscrlbed as an ACHIEVE
MENT the destruction of mater
ials ' left behind by retreating
German armies.
nOMMEL, hotly pursued, Is still
fleeing westward along the
Medilcrronean.
A British-American army esti
mated at around 150,000 is ex
pected to enter Tunisia FROM
THE WEST today.
It It Imped that It may be able
to push on eastward to cut off
Rommel's filght and trap him.
There is no Intimation so far
of a successful German stand
anywhere In Africa. -
THE whereabouts of the French
fleet remains a mystery.
BUT Darlan, Its former com-
mandcr-ln chief, now in Africa,
apparently on our tide, broad
casts to (he commanders of the
French warships, speaking to
them s hit former comrades and
asking them to move their ships
to-northern Africa. .
I)OInO Home tall guessing, it
" look as If the scum French
(Laval and tucb) have been gang
ing up in Vichy for months,
while the pntdotlc French have
been GETTING OUT into Africa
in preparation, for what is now
happening. Darlan (on the basis
of what we know so far) appar
ently decided to join the patriotic
French.
It looked that way when he
permitted himself to be captured
when he might easily have got
out on a plane.
A NKARA (Turkey) soys today
the Germans are speedily oc
cupying the Greek coast in
force, and that German troops
are pouring into Yugoslavia.
That-might mean two things:
1. That Germany anticipates
an allied invasion by way of
Greece and Is preparing for it..
2. That German troops are be
ing concentrated CLOSE TO
ITALY to handle the Italians if
they attempt a revolt.
. Ankara adds that German
troops are leaving Russia In
large numbers, but this is a bit
hard to believe. If Hitler Is be
ing forced to pull hig battle
worn soldiers out of the Russian
lines to meet an expected assault
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Pines
Teen Age Draft
Waits Signature
By Roosevelt
WASHINGTON. Nov. 13 VP)
The 'teen ago draft bill awaited
President Roosevelt's signature
toduy. Prompt approval would
mean that some IB and 10 year
old youths may be called to the
army by Christmas.
About 800,000 youngsters out
of a total of approximately
1,500,000 available 18 and 10
year olds are expected to be
called up thlt winter, deferring
the tamo number of married men
and men with families. Ma).
Gen, Lewis B. Hcrshoy hat esti
mated that his selective servico
organization will "lose" possibly
500.000 of the 1,500,000 to the
army, navy and marine corpt
through voluntary enlistment.
The group Uablo to service
lakes In all youtht who had
passed their eighteenth birthdays
on the last registration date,
June 30. v
The senate debated nearly five
hours yesterday before adopting
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Ineffective ' Use - Of
" Labor-: Resources'?.
"Charged -
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 VP)
Demands for suspension of the
40-hour week rose to a new pitch
in congress today amid charges
that the nation's labor resources
were not being used efficiently.
Senator Byrd (D-Va.) told re
porters ho believed the problem
of speeding supplies to a large
American expeditionary force
in North Africa had tremendous
ly. Increased the need of obtain
ing the maximum production he
felt could be reached only by
lengthening tho work week.
42-Hour Average
: ."The time has come when we
must press the fighting stronger
and atronger every minute,"
Byrd declared. "We hove to
utilizo the manpower strength
of the country to the fullest ex
tent and wo are not doing that
with the 40-hour week."
Asserting that the average
work week In war industries ap
peared to be only about 42 hours,
Byrd said he thought the length
of the war could be cut consid
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80-Hour Launching
Record Achieved
SAN FRANCISCO, Novl 13
(ft) Another unbelievably fast
ship construction record was set
on San Francisco bay today
when the Pacific Bridge com
pany launched the 8000-ton
freighter Samuel Very, 80 hours
after the keel was laid.
This shattered Henry J. Kai
ser's, record, set yesterday at his
Richmond No. 2 yard, of 111 J
hours for tho larger cargo car
rier, Robert E.Peary.
Comic Opera
In North
By WILLIAM H STONEMAN '
U. S. .Correspondent ' with the
ABME. F. In Africa
(Distributed By The Atsoclated
Press)
SOMEWHERE IN. ALGERIA,
Nov. 12 (Delayed) Comic opera
intruded into tho great allied ex
pedition to North Africa Sunday
morning, the opening day of the
campaign, west of Algiers at the
small suburb of El Blar. '
A small army of American
boys who never had heard a gun
go off In anger 'before tangled
with a bunch of Frenchmen in
what is now known as the battle
of El Blar.
There was nothing funny
about the shooting; Jtake it from
DEMliSgjo
Down
US DESTROYER,
2 OTHER SHIPS
HITfJTTLE
Solomons Land Battle
, Quiet; MacArthur ,
Advances
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 VP)
The destruction of 30 enemy
planes which attacked a forma
tion of 'American surface ships
bombarding Japanese shore posi
tions on Guadalcanal island In
the Solomons November 12 was
announced today by the navy.
The U. S. heavy cruiser San
Francisco was damaged, when-a
burning disabled Japanese plane
crashed on her deck, killing- 30
of her crew, the navy laid. The
destroyer Buchanan was hit by
a five-inch shell from a Japanese
shore battery, it added, and five
of her crew was killed.
No Casualty Report
The navy communique also re
ported that the 200-ton gunboat
Erie, damaged yesterday by an
enemy submarine attack, was
beached, off the southern coast
of Curaco,-'. Dutch . colony ..In
South Inenci.?.'!!.'.'-'.''.
No report of casualties on the
Erie has been received. ;';
. .The Solomons action, the navy
said, began with the bombard
ment of enemy shore- positions
west of the American airbase on
Guadalcanal at dawn Thursday
(late Wednesday here). The
heavy fire from the United
States ehlps silenced some of
the enemy artillery and started
large fires.
Fighters Bag 16
The bombardment was Inter
rupted in mid-afternoon when
23 Japanese torpedo bombers,
escorted by eight Zero fighters
attacked tho American ships.
:. Twenty-eight "Grumman Wild
cat fighters, interceptlng'the en
emy air formation, shot down 18
of the Japanese bombers and
five of tho Zeros, while the ships'
anti-aircraft fire brought down
nine other planes, accounting for
all but one of the formation and
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Fred Pope Jr.
Sworn in to
County Court
Fred L. Pope, Jr., became a
member of the Klamath county
court Friday.. -
Pope, appointed to the court
to succeed Commissioner Jack
Benner, resigned, was sworn in
by Circuit Judge David R. Van
denberg. He immediately went
into session with County Judge
U. E. Reeder and County Com
missioner John Reber. The new
members of the court visited the
county's lumber producing op
eration near Worden in the
afternoon,
The new commissioner was
elected to the court at the gen
eral election, but- ordinarily
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Adds Its Bit
African Battle
this correspondent that it was
pretty nasty.
The comedy was provided by
our French civilian friends and
by those strangest of all people,
the Arabs.'
French snipers and machine
gunners had established them
selves in a barracks just- west
of the Algiers suburb earlier in
tho day and the battle happened
when , our boys decided it was
time to stop fooling around.
Fire from 25-pound mortars
and machine-guns drove the
French out of the barracks and
back into the town.
. I found our boys sneaking
from tree to lamp post, ducking
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Excess Tire Flood Exhausts Government Forms
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H. A. Eiell, Klamath motorist. It here - shown turning In an excess tire at the Railway Exprest
office. In order to qualify for mileage rationing. Manager George Gray of Railway Express is In
tha background. Klamath people have responded to extensively to the call for tires that the ex
prett office hat run out of government forms, and cannot accept tirea for a few dayt until new
onet arrive. Notice will be given in the paper when the forms are here and more excess tires
can be accepted. ,:' ' . !'
Reds Defend Lines
Against Superior
Forces ;
MOSCOW, Nov. 13 m
Repeated German attacks,
which Red Star characterized
as the beginning of a new nazi
offensive, were hurled at the
defenders of Stalingrad yester
day but the Russians declared
today that all the assaults had
been repulsed with heavy nazi
losses. i , .
The red army organ said the
Germans had thrown over
whelmingly superior forces into
the battle and the midday com
munique of the Soviet informa
tion bureau described the fight
ing as fierce. .
The official bulletin, how
ever, did not go so far as to
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South Minneapolis
Ranger Was First
Yank in Algiers
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, Nov. 13
(P) The 4irst American soldier
to enter Algiers probably was
Marvin H. Anderson, strapping,
pleasant-faced ranger of South
Minneapolis. . ,
Anderson came ashore at Sldi
Ferruch, engaged briefly in its
bloodless occupation and then at
5 a. m. Sunday was detailed to
drive two pro-allied French of
ficers into Algiers. '
While his mates, were fighting
west of the city Anderson caught
up on his sleep ate well and
surveyed the cityirom a win
dow. Monday morning he tired
of thia life of luxury and, taking
advantage of the-armistice,, re
joined, his unit. . . v . i , .
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Rommel Abandons Tobruk to British;
Nazi Withdrawal From Tunisia Hinted
By The Associated Press
Racing for safety, . Rommel
abandoned the historic siege port
of Tobruk td the ' British this
mopiing, too hard-pressed to put
up a fight,. with fully 600 airline
miles of desert trail, between him
and Tripoli. This was the first
indication-that the axis may- be
yielding the last of North Africa
without a struggle. - . - . ,
'As Lieut.-Gen... Eisenhower's
westward race and the British
American thrust . eastward from
French North . Africa - swiftly
closed around the remnants of
the axis'- forces, the British an
nounced that RAF fighters had
shot down six big Italian troop
carrying planes "flying north,
probably from " Tunisia," ' and
filled with German troops.
: This meant possibly that' the
Germans hastily were pulling
War Bulletin
ON THE FRENCH FRONT
IER, Nov. 13 () -While axis
troops expanded their lodge
ments today across what was
the Vichy free tone, French
worriet at to food tuppliet
increated.
Cutting of supply linet to
African colonies aorott the
Mediterranean wat declared
In tome quarters to threaten
franc with the lot of Greece.
, Havas announced that nail
troops had arrived at Mont
politer, near the seashore 80
mllet west of Marseille,
LONDON, Nov.1 13 (VP)
The Moscow radio said today ,
that Adolf Hitler had dit
mltsed Albert Kesselrlng,
commander of the axit 'air
force in the Mediterranean,
for failure to tip off the
German high command on tha
American and British offen
sive in North Africa.
LONDON, Nov. 13 (P) Re
.ports reached London tonight
: (Continued; on Page Two)
out of Tunisia, the last buffer be
tween the allies in the west and
Tripoli, ' the capital and.' final
citadel, .of Italian Libya.
(An allied headquarters spokes
man 'in London said he did not
know definitely that the six de
stroyed transport planes shot
down presumably by long-range
British fighters from Malta
meant a precipitous axis exit
from Tunisia, but "I hope it does
mean that."
(Other sources speculated that
Buffer Ration
Seen as Supply
Hits 10-Year Low
By FRANKLIN MULLIN !
CHICAGO, Nov. 13 (P) With
prices held at ceilings, produce
dealers today watched the na
tion's butter supply dwindle to
the smallest proportions for this
time of year since 1932, while
government officials took steps
which market experts said sug
gested some sort of rationing to
consumers was imminent.
' Normally, an advance in. but
ter price, trade interests said,
would provide all the necessary
check .on consumption. But
with prices at major markets
holding at ceiling levels in' re
cent' weeks, this ' natural . eco
nomic brake on butter eating is
not effective. Butter grading 92
score has been quoted at 45!
cents a pound here since the 60-
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News Index V I
City Briefs .; J.......,Page 5
Church News ..Page 7
Courthouse Records ...Page 3
Comics and Story .. ...Page 8
Editorial : ;.Page 4
Midland Empire News ..Page 3, 5
Our Men in Service - Page 3
Pattern i :.Jage 5
Sports
...Page 6.
Break-Through
To Nazi Pori
Of Escape Seen
By The Associated Press
LONDON. Nov. 13 A -powerful atrikintr force of
Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's combined British
American army swept toward' Tunisia today in strength
which suggested that it might break on through and beat
Field Marshal Rommel to Tripoli, the last major port of
escape left after his headlong flight west of Tobruk. .
Bright with prospects of continued allied . successes,
this was the pattern of developments:
' ' ' " ' French' Africa Adjusts
1 American assault troops leading the new British
first army were expected to cross the Tunisian frontier
today, coming within 400 airline miles of the Great Libyan
port of, Tripoli,, with little prospect of any resistance in
Tunisia that they cannot handle.
2 French North Africa was adjusting quickly to its
new role as a vast American-British offensive base and
the : German-controlled Vichy radio ; said . Gen. Auguste
Nogues, former French commissioner general of Morocco,
had joined Admiral Jean Darlan in allied Councils at
AEF-occupied Algiers. " i ' ' f - ' '
: War End in '44
- - -8 An allied spokesman declared here that "consider
able numbers" of the German 1940 armistice commission
in-North "Af rica had been captured by the United States
iorces and presumably were considered prisoners of war.
4 -Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, nremier of
the Union of South Africa, declared that the spectacular
British-American, campaign made possible a great allied
offensive year in 1943 which might end the war in 1944.
An allied spokesman- said , preliminary and partial reports
show that United States casualties In the North African opera
tion have been extremely light." ...... ' T
Observers here estimated that an American assault force which
landed yesterday, at Bone, 60 miles west' of Tunisian border,
should cross that frontier .easily today,' leading the way for Lieut.
Gen, JS,, A; N. .Anderson'a British first army. -;. . i
..sAS: :. T?:-Hlgh' Prlj.jfi''-n':":;
The Berlin radio broadcast a Vichy -communique- which said
United; States, planes had bombed the Tunis airport. The Vichy
radio said Tunis had alarms last night. from 8:15 to-10:30 p.
and this morning from,2 to 4 a. m., and from 6:10 to VAS a. m.
. The. axis already has paid considerably for. Its attempt to In
terfere, with .the northwest African operation. ; An allied spokes
man said that allied counter-action to German air attacks against
the North African expedition had been extremely effective, and
that "between 40 and 50 per cent of their air ".effort has been
destroyed."-"-'- -'. ''!.; ;
' i - - - '. .- Tunis Alarm-"Z!,. - .'. " ' - ' ; '.
Ground action within Tunisia, axis-infiltrated French protector
ate, was apparently a possibility this Friday the 13th. - ;-.
Tunis, -the capital, was under an air raid alarm for two hours
and 15 minutes last night and anti-aircraft guns were in action as
raiders struck at an airdrome, the' nazi-controlled Vichy radio
said.- This followed up an attack lay Malta-based RAF bombers
in which 38 axis planes were reported wrecked.
the troops shot down might have
been technicians sent to Tunisia
solely ., to destroy . equipment
which might help the allies.) . ;
" Hot. on. Rommel's heels, 1 the
eighth army picked- up axis
stragglers in the-El- Adem area;
just inland from the Mediter
ranean south of Tobruk, and al
lied planes hounded the retreat,
hitting road transport beyond
Tobruk and sinking sever
al supply-laden barges moving
westward Jn the Mediterranean.
- Allied air forces had a field
day yesterday.- Not one. enemy
fighter protected . the enemy
truck column, leaving the Amer
ican . and British fliers a clear
field to do heavy damage.
Despite the vast scope of their
air operations, including the as
sault on . the : transport. . planes
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PARIS SILENT ...
LONDON, Nov. 13 (IP) "The
Paris radio went off the air at
8 o'clock tonight, indicating that
RAF' bombers might be. over
France.' " -.' '
Costa Ricans " Repulse"
' Nazi Sub's Landing Try
- SAN JOSE, Costa- Rica, Nov.
3 (JP)A German submarine
prowling close . to the Panama
Canal was "repulsed" in a sharp
exchange of gunfire with Costa
Rican coastal defenses in an ap
parent attempt to . put ashore
crewmen to forage or desper
ately needed food and supplies,
it was officially ; announced, to
day. '"- 1 '"
. The U-boat made two attacks
with its deck gunnery and machine-guns,
firing at an un
specified point on the coast.: -,
Costa Rican military forces re
plied with gun fire Immediate
ly, and said they '"repulsed" the
attack.'
Axis ' radio broadcasts ' said
both Marshal Petain and Plena
Laval had indicated an inten
tion to remain in office- and
continue: Vichy's "collaboration
policy. -A dispatch to tbvBasler
Arbeiter, Zeitung, Swiss news
paper, said the Havas (French)
news agency had been taken
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Rep. Maas Charges':
Organization Lack; -Investigation
Eyed .
WASHINGTON. Nov. 13 IjP)
Accusing Representative Maas
(R;Minn.) of having "rendered .
aid and comfort to the enemy"
in a speech 'broadcast last night.
Representative Vincent (D-Ky.)
called today for a congressional
investigation of Maas' "serious
charges."
In a letter to Chairman Vin
son (D-Ga.) of the naval affairs
committee, the Kentuckian said
he was astounded by some of
the statements made by Maas,
who' charged lack of .organiza
tion in the armed forces.
Rep.. Martin of Massachusetts,
the' minority leader in the house,
called for Immediate action by
congress to remedy the. situa
tion, described, by, Maas. "
Two of the submarine crew
were reported wounded. v
This was the third announced
enemy attempt to obtain food
for. submarines in Costa Rlca...
X Military, and naval authorities
have increased their land and sea
patrols in the past few weeks.
Costa Rica, a tiny republle
bordering Panama on the north,
was the first American nation
to declare war on the axis after
Pearl Harbor, beating even the
United States to the counter
punch.. .
The port of Llmon on the At
lantic side lies only 200 airline
miles -from - the Panama Canal.
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