Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Page 4 a he stars and stripes daily Lafayette re floated Salvage operation restores vessel buddies 50, too francs Richer when lottery number pops up Nab translator As German spy new York aug. 8�?the  s. Lafayette formerly the luxury liner Normandie was partly righted yesterday As the worlds largest Marine Salvage operation reached its Climax. After a fire at her pier feb. To. 1042, the Lafayette Lay on her Side in tile Hudson River while engineers and divers worked on her.1 preliminary work was completed to that conclusion after making july 22 and pumps started to a thorough study of the lottery \ which is state con trolled and run throughout. A sgt. Lenten and Cpl. Keshie. After Reading the piece in the j Star and stripes decided to take j a fling. But let them Tell it from i the beginning. While we read about the lottery j ship which will replace 28 Ordin j in 1 he stars and stripes Quot writes Ary transports when it is placed in service the huge task had another significance a it was a training school for Navy divers under conditions As difficult As could be found anywhere. Men who Learned their lessons on the Lafayette have already been sent to All parts of the world together with Equi tip ent developed on the Job. Because a sgt. Lee r. Leu zen has the stars and stripes with his Coffee every morning he and his buddy Cpl. John n. Keshie Are 50,000 francs Richer this morning. Here s How it happened. In one of the recent issues of the newspaper appeared a Story on the algerian lottery. It was an attempt to explain the mechanism of this popular North african institution and while it in no Way endorsed it. The article did Point out that the lottery was a strictly on the  the writer of the article came on tuesday the numbers were posted. We found that our number was posted among the first live. Don t think we weren t excited though because we wound up with third Money which gave us one tenth of 500.000 francs or 50.-000 you la agree that for five Days of sweating it out it paid off Well. At least you can figure for every one franc 151 came  a sgt. Lenzen concluded his letter with the following testimonial we can now say that strictly on the level is strictly on the level i we Are All for it and hoj get to be Able to play it again soon a Washington the arrest As a spy of Roberto Lanas Vallecilla a translator for the coordinator of j inter american affairs by Fri agents had All the elements of an old fashioned melodrama. He was charged with sending three letters in invisible Ink to a Gernan agent in Lisbon discussing aircraft production and shipments. If found guilty he faces a sentence of death. An additional Story Book touch to the Case was ins offer of 450 dollars a month to a Beautiful new York Model if she would help the nazis the department of jus ice said. The Model refused. Monday August 9, 1943 panic crips nazi capital fleeing berliners expect a Hamburg Drain Ute Hull slowly since too Raff tid draining would have made the ship Rise suddenly and break Lier Back yesterday the Lafayette was floating almost at an even keel As the pumping continued to restore her to Normal position. In addition to reclaiming the Milan Turin Genoa hit nazi lines continued from Page of did t know much a on Don. Auk. A rap the Ariole a ter the effects of decided to Purchase  when la of proc a Rita a iwo 1 Ion we men a Strong Force of fore the drawing we pooled our i Enzen. We about it. But heart and we some tickets on francs and bought 30 tickets the tim this seemed like a lot francs to spend on something were new at. Well. On  he continued. The drawing was held and at of we mortar Battle continued from Page of attacked Milan. Turin and Genoa last night. Tile raid was the first on North Italy by British based bombers since the raid on Turin july 12 Only two planes did not return from the operation it was announced. Two thirds of Italy s Industrial production was entered in the three cities which were the targets for the latest Raf attack they Are not firing lie in their Slit trendiest. They Are very thirsty for shrapnel has punctured their water cans. About noon the platoon of mortars commanded by it. S p Coin Namaki of Norfolk va., gets a fire Mission and this time it s High explosive not smoke. Stand by for your fire command. Shouts it. Comninaki As he receives the data from the radio operator. The fire data is coming in from the observer a tie 12 rings deflection left 200, Elevation 820�?� there is More of the same talk Corning out of the radio but this time it is in a foreign Tongue the German fire commands from the other Hill Are being picked up. Ask that German Bastard where he sat so we can get Hun a a snarls 19-year-old pfc. William j Thomas of Wilkes Barre pa., the youngest Man in the outfit. Now the mortars Are ready to i lire. The shells slide Down the tubes with a spine tint fling sensation the propelling explosion comes a Brief second later. They whistle through the air headed Tori tile enemy. Tile kick of the explo-1 Sion sends the mortar base would rattle Only Luck. Spatter of dirt and rocks cover your sweaty body and off your helmet that is. Dirt and rocks if you were some of the men weren to. This went on for 30 minutes and then we were Able to throw some hot stuff Back at them. Our mortars set fire to the 700-foot Hill just As they had set our 300-foot Lull on fire. The a Battle of the mortars soon was covered by a smudge of smoke. We took advantage of the cover to change our position. I guess the enemy did too. And then the Quot feel ing out began All Over again that is the Way they Are fighting in Sicily these Days. Allies bomb con it it Tea rum Page h Jap naval continued term Page i Deeier into the ground up a hell of a dust. The icy let go about 20 90 seconds. Perhaps it dust that the German observer saw perhaps it was the muzzle blast anyway the mortar men i lad just swabbed out the tubes and were settled Down to a sweaty cigarette when a whistle came our Way. It died and a second later tile thing hit. The germans were mor Taring our mortar positions it was a Lucky hit that first one. It struck a pile of ammunition and in a minute there was a roaring fire a billowing Cloud of White smoke and then our own exploding shells began going of All around us. The germans knowing they had struck something were letting us have a Volley one was striking every ten Yards around us. You a hear the scream if the scream passed Over your prone Bode you knew tile shot was Long. But there weren to Many Long ones. Mostly you a hear the scream and then it would die. And then a round full blast would Rock your ears and a declared in Washington. A a things have come rather slow in the Pacific but that was due to the Lack of Means but now we have reached a situation where Gen. Macarthur is coordinating the Advance in the Solomons with the Advance plate in new Guinea a he added and stirs j the capture of Munda was i hailed by observers As a major Vic Sheils in tory. The heavily fortified Bas was was the Hie first major objective to fall to i tile United nations since their of i Tensive on tile 680-mile Solomon Island front began june 30. Once the Airfield has been repaired the americans will have an excellent air base More than too Miles Northwest of Henderson Field and one which will gravely threaten remaining japanese positions in the Centra Solomons. Indian girl joins women marines Butte. My Twenty four year old Minnie spotted Wolf enlisted recently into the Marine Cordis worn m s Reserve As its first full blooded Indian member Minnie drove a truck Cut Fence a it its. Rounded up and broke horses on Lier fathers ranch before she joined up. The spotted wolves Are members of the Blackfoot tribe. Of Messina also received heavy punishment irom Allied bombers and lighters. Increasingly the axes has been using the Bettae. Near mess a to land Small Craft and the fitters and la it Ember hit them continuously. A Sebel ferry an . A Barge and a launch were destroyed by aircraft of the tactical air Force which flew More than 50 missions i or saturday. During the Dav Saaf a Jtb attacked the Croton Landing grounds in Southern Italy where three Large explosions were deserved by returning Bombe Ere a relays of a-36 invaders. A Zug Bostons. B-25 Mitchells and a end Saaf Bostons St rated loads and bombed enemy positions around Adreno Randazzo and Bronte. They caused havoc on enemy road4 particularly around Randazzo where returning Pilot report that the highways Are of plete v Blore of a a to trat in for the third night in sue es-r��?T1 on Mig. 7-8 ref and ref wellingtons made night to us ting patrols Over the Messina Bee hot s i they also bombed the Mainland leaches near Cape Barbi n he hollow above the big or of i a a important military installation wer it it set ablaze sending in smoke p mile and a half High the fir Wigt still by nine at Dawn last week s All out attack n italian Mam land com mum to Ous Lias virtual la immobilized t h e whole of it ii is   a i was Chain it was revealed reconnaissance and Pijor prisoners captured in Cid. Piaf there a it ver Quot mme Truff a cd my to Southern univ via the in i i railway line the Axis i barter making limited use of the jollies Interior route but rail junctions along that line have also been heavily bombed by Allied aviation the italian rail picture is one of stagnation and ruins. With the capture 0f Catania the allies now con he Large Oer Hini network o lipids in Sicily sit a ted of Miles in the Southwest of can i l. The Chain consists of the main Zerbini Field and the 15 satellite Aird Romes built around it. Troma and British troops advancing t rom Brome seals the Fate of i Anas , which is already under Hearvy Allied air bombardment. Occupation of Randazzo would bring the collapse of the panzers resisting the 7th army fiercely in the far North in the area West of san Fratello. The combined Allied troops could sweep Down the in a it rant North South Road leading from Randazzo to Capo Dorlando on tile Northern coast. Tins would nit off tile nazis battling around san Pratelli which is less than 15 Miles trom Capo d Orlando leading to the surrender or Antu i i la lion of the enemy i along the East coast above Caj Lama. Tile Road chosen by some i German troops in their flight from he City 8t to army units moved Forward against weak opposition. They were aided by British naval vessels which shelled the coast City of Taormina. 25 Miles North of Catania once the British forces reach Taormina they could fan out Westward to meet Allied trolls fighter j pushing East from Randazzo which risk a would bring the entire it. Etna Region under Allied control. Progress of 7th army units in the North has been slowed considerably by the rugged terrain which characterizes the rest of the territory still in enemy hands. This leads military observers to expect j tile rest of the Campaign to be fought principally by artillery and infantry with Armor used mainly Jas a Supina ting Arm. Meanwhile an interesting Side j Light was provided by the occupation by a combined . Naval and military Force of the tiny Island of Ustina about 40 Miles North of Palermo on aug. 5. Us Tica lies about 140 Miles South of Naples and represents the farthest Northern joint yank forces have penetrated from North Africa. Ustina is about two and a half Miles Long and one mile wide. Tile too italian soldiers and sailors captured on the Island revealed All the germans had left on july la. The civil population numbering about . Was destitute and without water while Many were ill with malaria. London aug. 8�?despite or. Paul Joseph Goebbels frantic propaganda efforts to bolster Axis morale. Germany is today losing the War of nerves. Rex arts from Stockholm reveal that Leat lets drop Jed on Bertin by the Raf. Warned civilians that must exp a act the same late As Hamburg. Panic broke out in the German casual As streams of frightened berliners Leit the City by train bicycle and on toot. From Sweden also came the re it on that hundreds of trains and ships Are transporting germans trom bombed areas to Poland and the Baltic countries. London reports that Oil saturday night or. Goebbels officially ordered the partial evacuation of Berlin stating that children old people and women not fit for War factories Are to tend Homes elsewhere. Goebbels warned that rap attacks on the City were imminent and would probably begin within tin month. His statement published by the nazi pair Quot Voel Kischer Bobach i ter. Told germans that they were passing through a Quot decisive  of the  he cited the Gigantic Battles waged against the russian in the East the beige offensive of the Anglo Amel leans in Sicily and what he called the Quot brutal air terror launched by Britain against the German Homeland itself. I asking the people to stand up to i the test of nerves As Britain did in 1940, or Goebbels told the germans like the British we must stand up to it As our time has  he admitted that the German let eople have been calling for More action by the Luftwaffe. But All he could say was Quot for Hie time being we Are not in a position to reply by concentrated counterattacks we must therefore reply by defense  Italy siege continued from Page of respect of i Taivy a True in p la Dio from ii of London lifts ban on daily worker London aug. 8�?the Export ban on the communist newspaper daily worker was lifted today. Tomorrow copies May again be sent abroad. The Bap was a posed in May 1940 and in january of the following year. The Home Secretary suppressed the paper on the grounds that it was antagonistic to the War it fort. When Russia came into the War. The newspaper applied tor permission to Start printing again and in August last Vear. This permission was granted the daily worker then applied for the lifting of that Export ban. And that request was supported by a number of Trade unions. Lil Abner by Al Capp and the to  meanwhile the Bidoglio Cabinet continued to try to appease Hie popular clamor for peace by removing Furt Iier fascist institutions. During tile weekend after announcing tile abrogation of a series i of fascist Laws. Radio Rome said i that All funds belonging to former fascist organizations had been j . Fourteen former High 1 fascists including the party Secretary Carlo Scorza have been i charged with fraud by tile Rome tribunal. The tact that Italy a expenditure on the War Lias brought tile country a finances into a chaotic state was admitted by the new finance minister at the last meeting of the Sadoglio Cabinet. His Rei it Ort broadcast by radio Rome said the enormous increase in War expenditures was so serious that Quot the value of the lira May be reduced to  the minister said that tile situation had been getting worse for years and that the fascist government had concealed the fact from the Public by not pub list i my an annual budget. 1 Post a Pius Xii was heard by Italy a people last night urging let each. Broadcast my to Italy the Vatican radio said that the Poi had asked that players should be said for peace. Tile pot it eds message added Quot most particularly we exhort the people of Italy to promote Public prayer for Hie fulfilment of their wishes and ours of. Thanh so cd a avs he Pum to clutch of met grizzly aaa As beware Wili. Marine weds wave san Pedro. Cal pie John v Bossa sumo. Who is credited with killing sixty japs on Guadalcanal is on a honeymoon with his Navy Bride. Yeoman 2 cd Christine falter of the Waves. Alert today trial Alert a been scheduled today Between la and 11 30 the end of the practice Alert be marked by a two minute Siren Illust