Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Vol. I no. 80, wednesday August 4, 1943 . Army daily newspaper for troops in Algiers area one franc army plans to Call dads october 1st Mcnutt says War needs More men to Speed Victory italian workers urged to move a Hinch on. Aug 3 a proper i Harbor lathers aged 18-37 will the drafted without distinction regarding tile number or Ages of Dei Dent children starting oct i a War manpower commissioner i a Aid. Paul v Mcnutt announced today i the statement came As a sur  in View of recent indications t that wholesale drafting of fathers i ought the delayed until Jan. I. But Mcnutt explained that the armed j c a rce it and War prod us Ion factories cannot be adequately manned except by calling the fathers. Tile 6.500.000 pre Peart Harbor Withers now classified As 3-a, will in placed in the i a category. De i ferments will be Given Only to rattlers who Are key men in agn culture or essential Industry or fathers whose induction would London. Aug 3-five United left Wing parties have asked workers to leave cities in Northern Italy. Reports reaching Here said today. The communists the italian socialists. The action party the Liberal reconstruction party and the Christian democratic party All called on factory workers and their families to leave Industrial centers Likely to become military targets of the resumed Allied air offensive. Hundreds of thousands of citizens of Turin. Milan and other Industrial centers have a1 yanks Spike san Stefano mine Fields All treacherous tricks Are used in foes Retreat allies Roll past key nazi Points refugees reported fleeing Berlin by set Jack Moisie stars Ana stripes stat writer with american troops in ready followed this advice reports North Central Sicily jul y 31 delayed a the yanks came Plesti raid damage big nazi Oil sources heavily blasted London. Aug 3 the evacuation of Berlin has begun according to reports from Stockholm. Big resisted today. Stockhold said that on August 2 special trains Aud busses left Down from the Hills today and took Berlin packed with refugees. Over the Little coastal town of san or Goebbels has issued a leaflet Stefano. With its important Road urging All who need not stay in leading Inland to Nicoma which the City to leave at once a american hands leaflet has been posted in Berlin once the germans had been my a a boxes driven out of their defences to the West the occupation of this bitter.  a contested spot became Only a mat Churchill tells commons Sicily Battle details cause extreme hardship to their families local draft boards will tic Jermme both conditions Mcnutt declared. Draft boards will make intensified efforts to till quotas from a ther classifications before calling to fathers he added. All deferred classifications Are being combed to Bitt out those who Are now eligible for military services. Already in army service Are 370,000 fathers with de indent children Mcnutt a to ted ter of reaching it tile Retreat inc enemy had pulled out a1 the treacherous tricks in his Bac of demolitions to slow Down our Advance along the Highway and nature had done her let est to confuse us in the rugged ridges. But that Pioneer spirit that the schoolbooks always to k about did t end with munds fight still raging americans stage general Advance Naples area hammered tactical Force is Active in Sicily Allied Force Headquarters. Aug. 3�?the Axis got a taste of the threatened Allied air a of elusive Over Italy yesterday when for the second time in a Row bombers attacked the railway communications at Naples. While the ground forces stepped by the Tempo of their attack a Long the entire 60 mile sicilian front bombers and fighters of the tactical air Force kept up heavy pressure on enemy installations and communications in North East Sicily. The strategically important town of drano 18 Miles Northwest of Catania was attacked for several hours yesterday by Saaf a 20 Bostons. B-25 Mitchells and 6aaf Baltimore. Hits were scored on Roods and buildings at ran Dazzo 27 Miles Northwest of Catania. Both drano and Randazzo Are key Points in the enemy de Cairo. Aug. 3�?preliminary re a karts of the damage done during i your Granddad. Sundays mass Daylight raid on remained for o company of the important Plesti Oil Fields in a Quot infantry battalion commanded Rumania reveal that one Large two to. Col. Irving o Schaefer of refinery was destroyed and six i Montrose col., which had fought Washington. Aug. 3 amen damaged by a Strong Force of lib Days without rations and can forces have advanced to with aerators which dropped 600,000, on one night of rest. To in  Yards of the japanese air of explosives and thousands of in i rap Dan trom the mountains Field and base at Munda Allied Cen diaries on the target area. I ,1� 5? by Cam Pacific Headquarters announced today. In yesterdays fighting in Jungle swamps surrounding the stubbornly defended enemy position the japs were pushed Back from 500 to 1.200 Yards in a general adva Nee. Twenty seven tons of bombs were dumped on Munda a gun positions and dump areas in sup a it it of ground fighting. In triese air operations 30 intercepting fighters were driven off with loss of two Allied planes. Allied bombers also set fire to a japanese destroyer off new Britain a coast to the North while other bombers struck a Tanker and set lire to an enemy transport in the Northern Solomons Oil the Munda base. In other Daylight attacks. Allied heavy bombers dropped 84 tons of demolition and fragmentation bombs on enemy positions at Salamata in new Guinea. Lightning fighters without loss to themselves shot Down la Jap zeros trying to intercept bombers the Pacific communique said. I. ,. In ready for a fight but the last top Astro roil aug refinery larg 0f the germans lied tied by mule est Plant of its kind in Europe isome two hours before the civilian w us heavily damaged by Large pres run Amon re muted after delayed action bombs ripped there were unburied German apart the plants pumping station dead still on the outskirts of town on the pipeline which carries Oil As mute evidence of the savagery to the Danul get River. The credit of War Minier refinery the newest in but even More a trim were the Plesti and the Only one product Svanks who had  hed through ing too High octane aviation fuel the minefields flanking either sir was completely covered with bombs of the blown he a across the and numerous in the Plant. Tires were started dry River san of the town. Stefano lust West in  to direct hits were scored on vital the town through this dearth installations at Starra roman or Dpn of Antt personnel is and the Columbia refineries the to company commanders Aquilia Plant one of rumanian Banago operations a few 9nd four Large refineries was also hard f be ot�1ors hit. Allies hit Reich Industrial cities London aug. 3�?hamburg, now Germany a most bombed City Faugh it again last night from the Paf it was the eighth attack on the once great German let Ort by Raf and Saaf planes in the last to Days. A danish worker who left the City after recent raids said. A a Hamburg has ceased to  the size of the latest raid was not disclosed but the air ministry said 30 Raf planes failed to return. The re was a look of bitterness on the k non and men Wurr or in Ltd p by it Tho struts of san St no a a hat i have a evil a soon on f o a it % d f a n v in on it a t four i met w Orp pop rip . Of Longmont pm a a of Rev in pc re a Ruev Rin in no to not a of n a of on Camp. Thuv and pvt Edgar continued on Page it Allied Force Headquarters. Aug. 3�?the allies All out drive yesterday rolled it ast key German centers in the Northeast Corner of Sicily it was announced this yesterday and exposed the last a ditch defences of the Axis to further and final blows the big Puli has netted a 10-mile gain along a Broad front and wrenched the in Imir Tant communications centers of Regalbuto Century and Troina from the German grip. It was prime minister Winston Churchill in a statement to the House of commons who revealed details of the Allied successes or. Churchill told the commons that the concerted new drive opened late sunday and next Day was a in full Battle a a in optimistic mood lie expressed full satisfaction with Allied efforts to shake the germans out of their last sicilian strongholds. The Advance past Troina Regalbuto and Cen Turpie gave the allies further control of the two parallel East West roads in the Central sector of the front. Troina some ten to 15 Miles Southeast of Certani the last previously announced outpost of the american Advance fell to 1 . 7th army forces. Whether the americans had captured or bypassed the town which lies on tile More northerly of the two parallel roads was not revealed. Canadian troops captured the strategic communications Center of Regalbuto on the other East West Road of which More than half is now under Allied control. The British 78th division which played a prominent part in the tunisian Campaign but whose presence in Sicily had not previously been disclosed. Took cent Ripe to Miles to the Southeast. The 51st highlanders. The prime minister said Are operating on the canadians right indicating a Broad Advance in that general area it was announced that a a a substantial Bridgehead had been established just North of the Dit Taino River probably in the Catenanova sector. Domestic scene not As bad As painted says Elmer  american medium bomb sense towards which Allied forces ers hit at German airfields in by pal. Paul s. Green stars and stripes staff writer in the Central sector Are driving Northern Fiance while British bombing attacks Pip  bombers and fighters attacked during the Day on the docks at Milazzo and Messina where fires were left burning. Bombers crossed the Straits to the italian Mainland and hit the ferry terminus and Reggio. Malta based Raf Beau fighters ran into four enemy schooners off tile coast of Greece yesterday. They left one boat sinking and another smoking. Escorting enemy destroy prs and two mine sweepers were riddled with machine gun and Cannon fire and one italian plane was shot Down. Shipping along the coast occupied territories. Of the . Merchantmen go to British London aug. 3 the United states will Transfer 200 merchant ships to the British Flag prime minister Winston Churchill told the h jus of commons today. The action was taken to make full use of British Crews he said. Gray haired Elmer Davis Wear i tons at no time has it done any ing his usual Bow tie and sgt eak i thing to interfere with the War ing with the familiar Hoosier machine. Drawl told press correspondents he had no comments on Ulp Here yesterday that the Domestic j resignation of Benito Mussolini situation in the states was a slate he lad ,.ldv Lef Wash Good Deal better than it  in ton a the u a look from press Rej ports. The director of the office of War info i to government news chief mation who came Here from Lon Evad a and p diction on How Long Don after leaving the . Two the War would last it maintained weeks ago explained that Bot ii the Are Many unpredictable tac people and Congress were solidly tors would make any estimate behind the War Effort. Only a wild guess. The euro Jean War wont be Over until the Ger soviet troops throwing min their Quot there no  he pm Man armies have suffered greater attack ill their in new i phase Zed of the in Versai will defeats than in Tunisia and Sicily reports said today. Yesterday s in knew a. Of the fop1 to give up he explained reminding his listen fighting tightened the around the germans Only Way a11 advances followed bitter fighting Over Rocky terrain As difficult As any the allies have end Hir War. To their Des literate defense the germans it was reported relied heavily on widespread demolitions blowing up All roads and Bridges behind them. In the fierce Hill fighting the infantry bore the Brunt of the attack. Close in encounters which a continued on Page if russians press Orel life line London aug. 3�?a decisive Battle is raging before Orel with plane dive record set everything necessary for the win pincers Njong of War in wj10ie out Southwest of Ord. And the ers that the 200 nazi divisions in Russia must be licked before the the picture at Home is not As la War will be Over. Political disinter russian Bridgehead North and go Lious As role news reports have Gration within Germany has be pictured it. Actually it is a picture gun he revealed but that is not of a country producing such a War enough a military defeat must of South of the City Are now much wider. On the South the red army is pushing up the Oka Valley and is reported to be by passing the German Strong Point of Kormi while the escape corridor West of Orel has been narrowed to 30 Miles under soviet pressure. Machine As no one believed possible three years ago. That is the reality behind the press  or. Though Congress has a a done a great Deal of work on civilian agencies including cutting of appropriators. A a the United states is reconciled to a Long  or. Davis added Davis pointed out that a1 j noting the fighting in the Pacific will keep on after the euro it Ean phase is Over. This will a doubt continued on Page 4 London a for a a Independent flight research in which he attained a Speed faster than that of sound it col. Cass s. Hough of Plymouth. Mich., has been awarded the american distinguished service Cross. The technical director of the 8th fighter command last september took a p-38 lightning up to 43.-000 feet and made a 25,000 feet Power dive believed to be the longest vertical dive in aviation history. In february. 1943, he dived a p-47 Thunderbolt from 39.000 to 18.000 feet. Although speeds attained in both cases Are military secrets it was stated that he travelled faster than the Speed of sound or 759 Miles per hour