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TT look. Ilka a big battle la
shaping up for , Blierte and
Tunis. .
: The Germans yesterday tried
blitz tactics, but lulled to brenk
through the ring of steel the Bi
les are drawing around these
wo key point. Today they seem
to be settling down to a ToyruK
like defense.
. (Like Tobruk because they are
uppllad from the sea.)
Their problems will be to get
In reinforcements and supplies
from across the Sicilian strait.
The Miles' problem will be to
PREVENT supplies and rein
forcemenla from reaching thorn
In sufficient volume. . - .
. - :.-.
'TODAY'S " dispatches mention
t much -activity by British
submarines' In the Mediterran
ean, with several axis ships sunk.
Every axis ship that can bo
lopped will weaken the defend
ing Germans by Just that much.
... Mention continues of Gormun
iu
upplle arriving by air.
0A
PTER ignoring Rommel for
' days, the Berlin radio today
announces that his African
Corps has escaped entrapment
by the British at Bengasi ami
- aftar receiving reinforcement of
guns and tanks is now "deployed
In full fighting strength In thor
oughly prepared and strongly
-fortified positions of conslder-
' . ablo depth."
Probably just west of El Ag
heila. where the coastal route Is
. narrowed by a salt sink similar
to the Quattara depression
where the British army modo Its
. successful stand before Alexan
dria., '
TOMMEL has olrendy relrcnt
n ed 700 miles and It Is 400
miles on to Tripoli. When ho
gave tip Bengasi without a
fight ' he abandoned his last
chance to escape by sea and evi
dently alms to fight It out.
THI-IE Italian .arsenal city of
J' Turin lost night was given
-Its hardest bombing of tho war.
The 'bombers came clear from
England, a round trip of 1300
miles,. Two-ton "block-buster"
.bombs were used, ond heavy
damage seems to have ' been
done.
, The British radio says King
Victor Emanuel pf Italy recently
.-visited the bombed Italian cities
of Genoa and Milan and was
greeted with cries of "Pcaccl"
by the Itallon people. . .
The governor of Genoa was
deposed as a result.
, .
nUMORS ara multiplying that
! . the Italians ore getting
-heartily weBry of, the war' and
would like to quit. The trouble
Is the Germans won't let them.
.'Italy now is little different from
the other conquered small nu-
.'tlons, ., i ' .
,'T AVAL, In a radio speech In
'-'.'Vichy, advocates a French
,'alllance with Gormany as Eu
,'rope's ."solo hope of peace." Ho
:sayg he Is certain of a Gorman
victory..:
.: What ho REALLY, means Is
that nn alliance with Gormany
is the only way now to SAVE
LAVAL'S SKIN. '
:' Their . skins, rather than their
'country are tho chiof, consider
ation pf the scum politicians
'who haye brought France to her
present sad state.
AeRMAN. GENERAL HITTER
V VON TIIOMA, captured In
frlea and brought to London, Is
said to have talked to tho effect
.that "Hitler has ruined tho war
I machine built up by n great gen
eral staff."' .;-.
Von Thorns belongs to Ger
many's professional soldier class,
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aps lash
Allied Generals
Swim for Ii
After Sinkings
By MURLIN SPENCER
WITH ALLIED FORCES
NEAH BUNA". New Guinco, Nov.
10 (Delayed) (VP) Tho officer
at headquarters who writes the
communiques used a hulf dozen
words Wednesday to tell how
Japanese bombers, sank two al
lied trawlers off tlic Buna coast
al area, but he didn't mention
that two allied generals were
aboard the trawlers and had to
swim to shore.
One general watched the
bombers swooping In for their
attack and called for a rifle. He
blazed away until he was forced
to leave the sinking craft. The
other also took tho attack with
fine disdain and remained at a
commundlng post.
Both officers had to swim
nearly a holf mile to shore with
the men and both refused any
help, ,'nslstlng that others need
ed it more. Their names are still
a military secret. . . .v t- ,
Lieut. W. H. Tlwckston bit An
derson, S. C, telling of the, ex
perience, said that "as soon as
ono man reached shore, he
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JEFFERS CALLED
IITOEXPLI
Appeal to FDR Seen
To Delay Gas
Ration
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 W)
Rubber Administrator William
Jeffers today convinced a con
gressional committee, opposing
nationwide rationing of gasoline,
that he meant no reflection on
members of congress by his re
mark that the opposition was fi
nanced "by people who should
know bolter."
Ho spent two hours In an ex
ecutive session of a subcommit
tee representing the antl-ratlon-Ing
bloc, and at its conclusion,
Rep. Jed Johnson (D-Okla.) said
that the members wero satis
fled. ;
However, Johnson reported
that "we got no assurance out
of him that he would agrae to
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Germans Claim
Annihilation of
Sabotage Troops
BERLIN (FROM GERMAN
BROADCASTS, Nov. 21 (AP)
Two British planes towing troop
filled gliders landed In south
ern Norway for purposes pf
sabotage and all the occupants
were annihilated, the. German
high command said today.
"On tho night of November
10-20 two British bombers, each
towing a glider, flew over South
Norway," Ihe communique said.
"One bomber and both gild
ers wero forced to land. Sabo
tage troops on board were at
tacked ''and exterminated.
Laiesi Football Results
GEORGIA DEFEATED, 27-13
COLUMBUS, Ga., Nov. 21 (AP) An inspired Auburn
football team led by fleet Monk Gafford and hard hitting
Jim Reynolds, whipped previously unbeaten Georgia to
day, 27-13, in a thundering. upset. ,'. . ,
BOSTON COLLEGE WINS, 37-0 . ..
BOSTON; Nov.. 21 (AP) Unbeaten Boston 'College
was fairly well shackled today by soggy going arid by, a
spirited Boston University, defense for three periods, but
the Eagles broke loose in. the last frame to roll up a 37-0
decision before a crowd of about 10,000 at Fenway park-.
First: Stanford 6, California 0.
First: W.S.C. .0, Second Air
Force 0. . ..',.'
First: Washington 0, UCLA. 7.
' Second:1 Oregon State 20, Uni
versity , of Oregon 0.
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American T r o o p s on
Guadalcanal Ex
tend Hold
By DEAN BCHEDLER
SOMEWHERE IN NEW
GUINEA, Nov. -21 (AP) Jap
anese fprccs trapped in a nar
row coastal strip in the Buna
Gona district of New Guinea
were reported lighting back des
perately today as American and
Australian ground troops moved
In relentlessly to drive them
into tho. sea or force their ,ca-
pltUUtlon.- ! :
; One United - States force was
within. a.,mile:of Buna, and en
gaged . hoavy,: fighting anil . an
other was attempting to-wrest
a landing field on tho outskirts
of the vlllag? from the defend
ing Japanese. This second unit
reported that It had met heavy
machine-gun fire within 800
yards of the field. -,.:.
Bad Weather
Japanese; fighter planes enters
d the fighting near .Buns, -yes-terday
and seven Zeros strafed
allied' troops already under at
tack from light : artillery and
mortars. , Allied observers said
the Buna area also, had been
reinforced with ' anti-aircraft
guns.. ..' ;
Bad weather prevented allied
air units from giving the ground
troops the aerial support which
they have had In the difficult
; (Continued on. Page Two)
$7.05 Loan to
Support Grower
Price of Spuds
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 (A)
The agriculture department an
nounced today that it stood
ready to support grower prices
of potatoes by making loans at
rates averaging $1.05 per hun
dred pounds for No. 1, bulk, un
graded lots stored in approved
warehouses by cooperative assoc
iations of producers or potato
dealers.
This rate, the' department
said, was equivalent to $1.30 per
hundred pounds, or 78 cents a
bushel for No. 1 late crop pota
toes, FOB shipping point. ,
Other grades will bo support
ed at rates reflecting normal
price differentials. Officials said
tho' prices were in line with
those tho department said last
March 11 would support', if such
support was deemed necessary
to Insure formers fair returns.
While potatoes have been sell
ing at prices considerably above
the support levels, officials said
markets had shown . signs of
weakening, Hence, today's ac
tion wos taken as a stabilizing
move, ' ' ;
The department said it would
buy potatoes at the - support
price as well as make loans oh
them. . . '
N ON TRAPPED
ENEMY
FLIRC
PINAL SCORES . : '
, Nebraska 0, Iowa Navy. 46,
Dartmouth 26, Columbia, 13.
Northwestern 20,;Notre'Dama
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Florida 7, Georgia Tech' 20. '
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hera-recently In this covered
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ma'ntf to drive through. The covered wagon was equipped much Uka -a trailer house with' beds,
stove, table and seats. They averaged 18 to 23 mues a day. They
gasoline or tire troubles and no trouble with speed cops. One
hurry. The picture above was taker by H. H. Ogle when the
Greenspringt highway. '
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Nazis Struggle to Re
pair Lines Souths
Of Nalchik -
MOSCOW Nov. 21 (P) Suc
cessfully storming height at
Stalingrad in the Caucasus, the
Russians were reported showing
fresh strength today in their
bloody give-and-take with the
German' invaders.
' During the night a red army
unit dislodged the enemy from
a strongly fortified height south
east of Nalchik in the mid-Caucasus
and killed 300 Germans,
the midday communique said.
In the Mozdok sector to' the
northeast of Nalchik another
soviet unit was credited with
killing 100 foemen in a small
scale attack such as the Rus
sians . have been launching in
increasing numbers for several
days.
Nails Repair Lines
: The red army lines In Stalin
grad were reported to have
stood up under all German as
saults since a gap made by a re
cent breakthrough into a work
ers' settlement was filled in and
tho enemy ejected.
Tho German command, de
feated In its Caucasian drive on
Ordzhonikidze apparently was
struggling to -repair its broken
lines southeast of Nalchik and
recapture positions . lost to the
Russian tounterblows. ,
Similar accounts of German
repulses came from northeast
of Tuapse, the active sector
aleng the Black sea front.
On the central front west of
Moscow, 620 German officers
and men were declared wiped
out In a heavy exchange of ar
tillery, rifle and machine-gun
fire. .
Brigadier-General
Has Close Shave .
In African War
' CAIRO, Nov. 21 (AP) Brlg.
Gen. Patrick Tlmberlake, chief
of the U. S. army air force
bomber ... command in the middle
east, narrowly missed being shot
down by axis fighters when he
was returning from one of the
longest .bombing flights of the
war, It was disclosed today. V'
More than 70 bullet' and can
non shell holes were counted In
the plane in- which he was a
passenger. : Part of its rudder
was destroyed and made Jem
pdrorlly useless and an engine
Went dead but was restarted.
Two crewmen were wounded
but 'the general escaned unhurt
Way to Travel in 1942
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Marihes on Guqtfafcanaf. fl
vneerea ay v ic tory, look i
For New Isles to Conquer
PEARL HARBOR, T. H., Nov.
21 (AP) The United States
marines on Guadalcanal, cheer
ed by the navy's great triumph
over the Japanese fleet ' last
weekend, are looking for mPre
Islands 'to conquer.
Lieut. DeWitt Peterkln, first
American naval officer tP ar
rive here from the Solomons
since the navy's victory Novem;
ber 14-15, said he believed some
10,000 Japanese have been kill
ed on Guadalcanal.
. "The marines and other forces
felt better after last weekend's
big naval battle than anytime
since I was there," said Peter
kin, of New York, an assistant
Crisis Passed '
For Over 400 1
Poison Cases
SALEM, Nov. 21 (A3) xne
crisis appears to have passed
for the more than 400 Oregon
state hospital patients who were
poisoned Wednesday night by
an egg dish containing sodium
fluoride. . . -
Their recovery seems assured,
Dr. J. C. Evans, superintendent,
announced shortly before noop
today.
Forty-seven patients died, the
last on Thursday. ''
" The heroic woman attendant,
Mrs. Allie Wassell, who was
credited with preventing deaths
in her ward when she sensed
an odd taste to the scrambled
eggs, also is improving steadily,
Dr. Evans said. She lay critical
ly ill for two days as the result
of the sample of the eggs she
ate before she ordered her
charges to eat no more. None of
her 63 patients died and only
a few became seriously ill. .
A tedious oral, examination
of approximately ' 30 patients
and 10 employes was yielding
"some progress toward solution
of the case" as it continued to
day, Capt. Walter Lansing of
the state police reported.
.''I am working on the theory
now that the poison got Into
the kitchen the day the scram
bled eggs were served to the
five wards involved," Lansing
said. "We have determined also
that the last .time officially-approved
use of. the. roach poison
(w hie h contained the' sodium
fluoride) was made was about a
week prior to October 18." -'
Lansing also reported that his
laboratory aides had determined
that the scrambled eggs con
taihed much more of the poison
than was necessary to constitute
a-fatal dose. ' .
and Nolan, 4, passed through
report an enjoyable trip with no
M. P. told thtm not to get In a
party reached Long Prairie, on
to ' the J. P. . Morgan partners
before he entered the service.
"They feel that they- have
been through ; everything, ; and
have taken everything the Japs
could give. They're optimistic
and already are: talking about
the next move westward.'.' .
Peterkin,' attached to an air
squadron, arrived - on Guadal
canal late ' in- August and left
there November 16." His squad
ron sank 13 Jap ships and prob
ably sank a fourteenth.
r He praised the spirit of com
radeship among the army, navy
and marne. corps fighters on
Guadalcanal.
Most of" the action against
Japanese land forces on the
Island ; has . been in , the deep
vales and .on ; the ridges of the
west front. ' .
"The , marines could, catch
bunches of Japs; 300 at a time,
In the vales and wipe them out.
Killing a thousand in one night
in one sector is not unusual.
We killed' a hell of a lot. I
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Six, Killed In
Bomber Crack-Up
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.,
Nov. 21 (AP) The army today
announced that two officers and
a crew of four were killed in
the crash, yesterday of a light
army bomber . taking off from
Morrison field headquarters of
the army air transport com
mand's arr)bbean wing.
The dead included:
The engineer, Corp. James
Beeson' of Bakersfield, Calif.
British Doer Rommel's
Heels; Nazis Deny Trap
CAIRO, Nov. 21 Racing
westward at a speed unequaled
in: modern desert warfare, the
British 8th army today hurled
its . forward elements against
Marshal Rommel's rearguard at
Agedabia, some 70 miles from
the narrow El. Aghella defile.
The British,, apparently mak
ing .a supreme, effort to keep
Rommel ' from ' organizing a de
fense at Agheila, pressed ' on
without pause at the heels of. the
enemy after triumphantly hoist
ing the union jack over Bengasi
yesterday for the third time-in
this war. ' .--..
Already the eighth army was
half way to ' Tunisia from Its
starting point at El Alamein In
Egypt, and -more than half way
to Tripoli.
. Contact was . established with
Nazis Pin Hope
On Defense of
Bizerfe, Tunis
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Nov. 21 Allied armored forces streaming-
into Tunisia closed with German forces, today in the open
ing phases of a full-scale assault on a Tobruk-like arc
of defenses within, which the axis has been herded with'
its back to the sea, around. Bizerte And Tunis.
United States, British and fighting' French troopa al
ready were reported by North -African radio stations to'
hold all of Tunisa except those two bridgeheads, which .
the axis, with air-borne reinforcements, is defending be
hind barricades hastily Hung
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Three Planes Fail to
Return From; Heavy
Assault
LONDON, Nov. 21 (AP) -The
arsenal city of Turin was r at
tacked last night by RAP bomb
ers In a raid which an authori
tative British source termed the
"heaviest yet made on Italy." .
Of the scores of Stirlings,
Halifaxes,- Lancasters and Wel
lingtons assigned to- the; mission,
three failed to return.
The others made ; the 1500
mile round trip successfully in
another of the mass attacks that
are proving- an conomtcal'-w8Y
to tear at the industrial vitals
of the axis. '.: . .
The . attack was heavy and
concentrated but . dense smoke
from many fires made observa
tion of the results difficult.'' .-
Clear weather gave the- tar
gets sharp outlines,- however;
and an Italian communique -itself
said the British, attacking
in waves, . ''dropped Incendiary
bombs in great quantities, main
ly in the central district of the
town."
The Italians said the British
inflicted damage . and spread
fires and listed casualties at 29
dead and 120 wounded.
The London Daily Sketch has
reported that General Ridel,
anti-aircraft defense, chief for
Germany. Is being sent to Italy
at the request of Premier Mus
solini to reorganize Italian de
fenses against British raids. :
The writer ..of... this . news
paper's "Inside Information", col
. (Continued on . Page Two) .
Final Tunnel of
Alaska Railroad
Cut Thursday
SEATTLE, Nov. 21 (SV-The
final tunnel in the portage Junc
tion cut-off of the Alaska rail
road was cut through Thursday,
according to a report received
here by the army engineers'-office.
The report said the cut-off,- put
through in record time, would
save shipping time and costs to
the interior of Alaska. -
Col. Otto F. Ohlson of the
railway and Col. Benjamin B.
Talley -of the engineer corps
shook hands through the first
hole cut In the final wall of rock
in the last tunnel. ' .
the axis rearguard at Agedabia,
on the coastal road 100 miles
south of Bengasi, by one of Gen
eral Sir Bernard L. Montgom
ery's forces which made a bee
line across the Libyan hump.
Other 8th army forces followed
the longer route around the
hump and marched into Bengasi.
Supporting the two-way allied
drive against the axis in Libya
and Tunisia, Malta-based bomb
ers yesterday bombed Catania,
Augusta and Cosimo airdromes
in Sicily and struck new blows
against axis shipping In the Med
iterranean, Flying from Malta to the sup
port of American and : British
troops closing in on Bizerte and
Tunis in Tunisia, British bomb
ers also attacked a large axis ves-
- (Continued on Page Two)
out anout 30 miles in a semtr :
'circle about each port.
ed that the struggle would grow
' in ferecity hourly and axis re-
pons moicaiea mat me enemy
already v,as throwing all the air
8nd submarine resources at its
the closing circle of allied steel
and choke off its supplies.,. .'
- Nasi Decision .,.- r
Reuters said British . forces
had captured their first axis pri
soners within Tunisia and. that
in one clash British . parachute
troops also bad destroyed six
enemy armored cars. , : .
The situation apparently was
revolving about a German 'de-
cision to pin axis resistance to a
strong defense of Tunis and Bi
zerte but there still was no off 1-.
dal Indication that the axis forc
es in Libya had been effectively
isolated from those in Tunisia -by
strong British or American
forces reaching the Mediterran
ean south of. those places.'
: Initial Encounter , , '
An allied force from the Chad
area deep in - Central iAfrlca, :
however.'again was reported by
the :.- Brazzaville radio, to ba
thrusting north in an effort to
cut off Marshal Rommel's: Una "
of retreat between El Aghella
and Tripoli. -, -.
:A German broadcast reported
Initial major encounters between
the axis-and the atlies In' Tunisia
-first disclosed yesterday In al
lied d i s p a t c h e s. The Berlin
radio, however claimed that 12
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Yank Bombers
Unload Trouble
On Lungling Japs
WITH AMERICAN FORCES
IN CHINA, Nov. ' 20 (Delayed)
(iP) Fighter-escorted American
medium bombers, striking down
the'. Burma road from Free
China,; unloaded three ions oi
explosives today . on the Japa
nese army base at Lungling,
starting several fires and in
flicting heavy damage.
The mission was led by Lieut.
Col. Herbert (Butch) Morgan of.
Freedom, Pa., and was, aimed
chiefly at a large munitions
dump and barracks;
After' two rUns" over -the
target the bombers had caused
fires which billowed smoke so
dense that the crews were un
able to assess full results. - A big
cache, of .munitions, however,
was believed hit. ..- . '
Commdr. Hubbard ,
Killed in Action
In the Solomons
- NEW YORK, Nov. 21 0PH-.
Commander Joseph Charles Hub
bard, 42, who served for three
years as damage control officer
of the heavy- cruiser San Fran
cisco, has been killed in action
in the Solomons, his brother,
William Hubbard, said today, -
Mrs. Hubbard, who is living
with her two children at her
parents' home in , Urbana, O.,
said that while she had received
two letters from the commander
written October 27 with the. ad.-'
dress "U. S. S. San Francisco,- ,
the navy did not Indicate that
he was killed aboard the cruiser.
Rear Admiral Daniel J.' Cal
laglian and several of his officer
lost;their lives aboard the ship,
.which, did valiant duty, in 'th
recent rout of the Japanese ar
mada off Guadalcanal. . :- '
News Index
City Briefs Page 8
Comics and Story ... ;.Page 10
Editorial :....1...i.......Page 4
Markets, Financial .......Page 11
Pattern Page 3
Society , ...Page B, 9, 7, 8
Sports Page ' 9