Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Page 4 the stars and stripes daily or. Pugh due on War tour Church dignitary to visit Africa artillery drops a calling card the Rev. Or. William Barrow Pugh of Philadelphia new chairman of the protestant general commission on army and Navy chaplains is expected in North Africa about sept. 5 when he will Start a series of visits with service men and chaplains in this theater. A is continuing the global tour of american military Camps of his predecessor methodist Bishop Adna Vav. Leonard who died May 3 in the Ireland plane crash that also Al led it Gen. Prank Andrews. The Rev or. Pugh will be accompanied Here by methodist chaplain col it George f. Rixey. Ranking protestant chaplain in the army and Dep try chief of chaplains. The Puri it Ose of or. Hughes trip is to promote the protestant of a lurches support of service men. The general commission is the Liaison body Between 31 protestant denominations and tile armed services or Pugh is stated clerk or Oiler exp utile. Of the presbyter lad Church in the United states. He was a chaplain in the last War. H has to o sons in military service. After visiting Camus in Ireland nn1 Grea Britain. Or. Pugh will come to North Africa. A possible visit to front line Camus in Sicily a will depend on the military Situa tion it was said yesterday. R a tinting from this theater he i i go to the meddle fast. India China and the Southwest Pacific before returning to the United states thursday August 12, i943 coast plane plants Short factory worker problem spiralling Washington. Auk. Ii West coast air plane plants Are not on ii thousands of workers Short of their needs hut Are lose them faster than they can hire replace ments. It was announced by won vice chairman Joseph d Keenan those quitting include workers who enter the army or other armed service return to farms to get draft deferments just walk out to look for other jobs and women who shift lobs or return Home he j said. In almost every single Plant on the West coast the separations a workers leaving Are greater than the  Keenan reported pants Are running 3.000 to to too Short of their requirements to maintain heavy production or cd Hies. The official added the labor shortage and problem is not confined West coast he said in the Ford War id nits in the p a hired 3.078 worker turnover to tile it a Tho a Detroit in july and in tin same month lost 3.0ll in emf Wake of in Iii is flaming Railroad vented Axis supplies Oil a a y 4 \ a the american Advance toward offal on Sicily Northern roast  forces Styc a it Quot it a it it a a a fun Rye for is. Artillery  the smashed up fret of i Tram from follow. The ital Retreat a army pictorial service move Materiel Waco husbands Aren t dependents plan sharpened in War College Washington a officers of each of the armed forces will study the Complex coordinated operations of modern warfare Iii a new eight week course at the army and Navy staff College. In the first group of students Are 12 naval and Marine officers from tile rank of lieutenant colonel arid up and 18 army and air fore officers All majors or higher. They have already completed eight weeks at various service schools for the army Navy and air forces. Their new studies Are devoted to intensive instruction in the application and use of their knowledge in joint or coordinated operations an army Navy join announcement said. Commodore e. J. Poy of Little Rock. Ark., is acting commandant. Ultimately a High ranking army officer will be brought from an Active theater to take command. No Wark. N. J. Husbands of was dont rate As dependents the army ruled in refusing an unemployed Texas husband an allotment based on his wife s service Brig. Gen. N h. Gilbert director of tile office of dependency benefits said tilt if the texan were a dependent child Mother brother or sister he could get an allowance beginning sept. I when Hie was become a part of the Anny but inasmuch As he was Only a husband flip answer is a a not bomb victim St cols baby to a sudden shiver in Adolfs spine poles report new atrocities conference continued from Page in tack on the Mohne and Edar Darns in Germany. Rile conference Between the government dignitaries will be an Anglo american one president Roosevelt said since russian representatives probably would not attend he added that this did no to mean that he and or. Churchill Youkin t be very glad to see them. Tile exuberant or. Churchill whose Mother was an american last came to Washington in Mav when he was a guest at the White House. His other meeting this year with the president was Iii Casablanca in january when the entire combined military chiefs of staff gathered in the French Morocco City for their historic ten Day session. London the entire population of s i villages in the Lublin District of Poland were carried off to be killed by the germans in mass executions of 21.000 people in reprisal for the derailment of a Tram carrying less than a score of German troops the polish ministry of the Interior said today. The m i n is t by announcement demoted Maria Mae Halowsky. One of its numbers who received the news to Iron i polish underground channels. Some of the children she said were kicked to death. Only cattle were Leit to roam the Fields around tile deserted villages. Albany. Ore., aug., la a i woman who a. Injured when the Jaii anese bombed Pearl Harbor has been accused of kidnapping nine Day old Judith Gurney from a local Hospital last week. I the baby was found alive and healthy alter Lier abduction by mrs. Katherine Wright who tooled her husband by feigning Greg Nancy and presenting tile baby As her own after taking it from the Hospital. Her husband sgt. Jesse Wright attributed his wife a action to a mental quirk resulting from the brain concussion she suffered when a bomb hit Hickam Field and uni nitration building where she was working. Held in 5,000 Dollar Bond. Mrs. Wright confessed that she had stolen the child because she a a just had to have a baby and said that silo had lost two babies. Stockholm a an indication that the War of nerves has readied Adoli Hitler himself is expressed in an order issued by tile German commissar for housing which warned that All areas in the neighbourhood of Berchtesgaden hiders country Retreat have been dosed to evacuees from bombed cities. In contrast to Goebbels As 1 srances that All evacuation measures Are Well in hand the German radio in its Home service last night said a a hundreds of thousands have been driven out to wander die Countryside looking for an  Washington a in >r<1 May rid movement of More than 3.300,000 toils monthly is regulated i through a Stock controls hem of the army service forces the wit department revealed the monthly tonnage supervised is almost As great As the tonnage of All passenger automobiles produced in the United sates in an average prewar year. More than 700.000 items flow in i a balanced Supply to tile world wide fronts the articles ranging from tanks and Cannon to shoelaces and spoons die department said. Randazzo continued from Page it few War prisoners attempt to escape Naaf i continued from Page la on die part of Allied medium bombers yes nation warned on optimism Wash Angton a Navy secret Ary Frank Knox and Secretary of state Cordell Hull yesterday both warned the nation against Over optimism Over recent european political developments and the Progress of the War. In Portland. Me., speaking at Al Navy training base Knox labelled As a a foolish optimism the belief that die War will end this  Hull at a press conference meantime Aid that die duration of the fighting should not be  of activity heavy and ter Day since tile Allied invasion of Sicily began a  ago the Naaf has destroyed 432 enemy aircraft tor a loss of 181. It was revealed Here today Iii a report of die air activities since d Day. Latest re jams Snow that 999 Axis aircraft have fallen into the hands of Allied forces which have captured sicilian airfields. Of these 234 were me 109 s. Although Many of the Axis planes were damaged a surprisingly Large number had been abandoned in serviceable condition. Dallas  of War Are Content wit ii their plight it was reported by the 8ih service command Winch controls prisoner of War Camps in Oklahoma Louisiana new Mexico Arkansas and Texas. Only is of the 30.000 Axis soldiers interned in die Southwest have tried to Escaje and every attempt Lins failed die command announced. Mist of die prisoners trying to get away had hoped to Cross the Border into Mexico. Holding Cut Between the Volcano and die deep Blue sea. Other units could sweep around North of it. Etna to Cut Oil enemy troops harassing the bin in who Are Ligating Pineir Way up tile  coast. American 7th army units along the Northern coast have consolidated their position alter tile successful sea raid Nom Terrenova. Their forces Are swinging into action at the Mouth of the Ros Manno River three mile Horn i Bania Agata preparing to push j toward Capo d Orlando. I meanwhile die British i turned from its attacks on Hoehler appointed new Relief chief Elmer Davis Home Washington Germany cannot be knocked out of the War by bombing alone. Own chief Elmer Davis said on his return from great Britain and North Africa a a a file War will not be Over until the mass of the German army has been  he declared us Abner Washington Fred ii. Hoehler. Former direct or of North african rehabilitation has been named chief of the London regional office for the office of foreign Relief rehabilitation operations the state department announced he Sui it revised operations from january until july in Tunisia Algeria and French Morocco. When the principal need for Relief diminished in Tunisia lie was summoned to Washington by Herbert h Lehman foreign Relief director. Checks Ahll give up Tbs t our thur of ome fault is. Cousin gone fault. A tar Why bother bout Ohe. Fault by Al Capp Tass what a Allos says Wuu r of a has one Ltd fault thet accuse wrecks Mah life thet ale us Shames Moo ciliates am i Sor aces me Why bother t discuss it f Navy Sicily i to such tile italian Mainland tor die first time in leu Uay. On die night of aug. 9-Io. A lot be of bluish cruisers and destroyers bombed die shipbuilding and repair Yard at Castellamare i Swabia Iii tile Gulf of Naples. On die same night another naval Force in funded railway Bridges at Capo Vaticano Sutti of die Gulf of Bania Eufenia and afloat 35 Miles Northeast of Messina. In the latest count of prisoners taken during the Campaign it was revealed Diat tile total Allied bag now numbers at least 125.000, most or them italians. About three quarters were captured by americans. Observers noted a definitely pessimistic attitude among the germans taken in the past Lew Days. Recognizing their defeat Iii Sicily As inevitable Uliey express fears of uprisings and reprisals among die embittered inhabitants of nazi occupied nations. This accounts for tile Desi iteration wit ii which they Are fighting and tor their High losses. Prisoners Are reported to agree that crack nazi units Uke the Hermann Goering division Are showing tremendous looses. In some cases companies of 200 men have been whittled Down to 20, All of them dog tired from the month Long Strugg in Krebs inducted new York Richard Krebs who wrote tile Best seller a a out of the night under the pen name of Jan Valtin will be inducted into the army aug. 27. A native of Germany Krebs volunteered for service a year ago but ran into trouble with immigration authorities after publication of his Book. He was eventually i eased and released