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Publication: Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes Monday, August 30, 1943

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   Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Page 4 the Stahl and snorts daily new Georgia Battle ends Allied units enter Bai Roko Harbor Damrosch terms Jive eccentric thanks for Allied Pacific Headquarters. Aug. 29�?collapse of the last enemy resistance on new Georgia Island was announced in today s communique. Allied troops entered Bautko Harbor last Jap Strong Poi it on the Island without serious resistance. They found Large stores of ammunition and supplies the japs had abandoned in their Hasty be parture. The new Georgia Campa in ended alter less than two months of fighting a Brief period compared with the six Mont Lis required to Coni pie e the Guadalcanal in West. The japs fled to Kolom Bajara where they Are shut in Between Allied forces on new Georgia Island on the South and veda Lavella on the North. Nazis seize continued j rom Page let be the i it Eop e have watched with growing resentment their Economy being ruined and their Industry exploited by the nazi War machine. The Opportunity of the danish underground movement came during the last few weeks the speaker said when Sweden cancelled its tragic agreements with the germans forcing them to switch trails a it it of troops to and from Norway to the danish transport system. The germans demanded that danish saboteurs should be handed Over to them which meant the death penalty unknown to danish Law for Many years. The combination of this outrage to the danish sense of Justice and an Opportunity to take a vital part in their norwegian Brothers fight against the nazis was said to be the signal for which the danish people have been waiting. Negro admitted Chicago judge Jame Watson of the new York City municipal court is the first negro to be admitted to the american bar association in Many years. He was elected at the associations annual convention which adopt it a Resolution that race Creed and color should not be determining factors in membership. Bar Harbor. Maine Jive is music without a past present or future or. Walter Damrosch Dean of american Comox users said Here. He added Quot there is no cause for alarm Over Jive which he dismissed As Quot merely an exaggeration of tile eccentric in music and  p-38 s steal continued from Page i Japan s future eyed by Crew Washington. Aug. 29 the question of japans future after the War was discussed last night by Joseph grew United slates ambassador to Tokyo Din my the a in years who preceded Pearl Harbor. Common sense said or. Grew dictated that Japan should lie disarmed and denied certain strategic islands apart from being forced to give Back the territories she had seized. Effective Steps would have to be taken to rid the japanese permanently of the cult of militarism grew said. This would mean a reorientation of their Domestic life and Outlook through a process of re education from the kindergarten to the University. Quot i believe a grew Declarer Quot that the great majority of japanese will Welcome this re education but Only skilled hands should be permitted to Deal with the problem on which so much in the shaping of the postwar world will  resembling their objective. This was fairly dangerous because they had to Fly close to the ground to see How Low they could go. Luckily nobody slipped up. It was Early morning when the lightnings took off. Leading tile groups was the Man in Complete charge of the Oji ration Tho Nad nursed it from the Start a it. Col. George m Macnicol of Memphis Tenn. Over roof tops As the p-38�?Ts raced along they passed several towns surrounding the airfields. They sgt cd Over roof tops and Cut in and out of chimneys. Two Large smokestacks suddenly loomed up. They were flying lower than the top of tile stacks but they All swerved just in time. None of the towns had been alerted. People Mere strolling up and Down the Avenue when the planes zoom d. The pilots said j Many of them looked up and waved. But that Mas enough sightseeing. Now Down to business. They Mere Over the airfields. They breathed More easily when they saw enemy ships lined up just waiting to be pounded upon. Good a it was a Complete Surprise just As they had planned. The p-38 s at More than 300 Miles an hour and As Low Asio feet off the ground let them have it. It was just too bad for those planes most of them Ju-38 s. Tile Little fighters swooped Down in a Jar fact coordination and their machine guns chattered a song of destruction. Enemy personnel ran for their lives As the jul s collapsed All around them. They  defend themselves. The Surprise Mas too Complete. Rocks thrown Quot we were met by Small arms fire and rocks Quot was the May one flier expressed it. A a rocks against 300 Miles an hour streaks of  flight officer Urban f. S rail. Of Scranton pa., realized a tighter pilots dream. He Drew four of tile big nazi ships lined up All in a Tom with just e no ugly space separating them. He hedge hopped one after another and sent them All up in flames. He had the bes score of the Day for planes destroyed. The s leaks of lightning hit not Only planes but also a few of the following locomotives trucks boats trains Power lines storage i tanks gun emplacements Bridges and troops also. I the pilots came Back from the raid in a highly jubilant mood. I a a everybody had the time of his life Quot col. Macnicol exclaimed. Quot this is the kind of Hie fighter Pilous love. Escort work gets kind of Dull sometimes. This m As the finest exhibition of flying i be Ever  like most Topnotch pilots col. Macnicol is a pretty modest Guy. He said about 50 percent of the missions Success was due to Luck but theres somebody who does no to think so. That somebody is it. Gen. Carl a. Spaatz. The general was so impressed wit ii col. Mac Nicolas work that he grabbed a d f. C. From his pocket and pinned in on the flyer right there and then. It Cev. Cart a. %t7, thanks French employees of i or atelier industries de la air Plant for their work on a specially equipped plane presented to the general in a ceremony recently at air Force general depot no. 2. At Gen spa tip Rishi is of. Jacques Martin director of the . Plant. French craftsmen and technicians designed the Interior of the plane Quot Yar Bird  the Plant operates in conjunction with the Naaf service commands general depot. A Saaf photo Chalmers Union Bors death action refused continued j rom Page Oriel Washington aug. 29�?a United mine workers request for a new collective bargaining election in the Springfield 111., Plant of the Allis Chalmers manufacturing company has been turned Down by the National labor relations Board. A no government Agency should allow itself to be influenced by any pressure brought through St likes or threats of strikes Quot the Bourd said in a strongly worded statement the decision referred to a strike vote obtained by District 50. Ump on aug. 4 when 1,005 Allis Chal mers employees voted yes and 836 voted no on the question Quot do you wish to permit an interruption of War production in wartime As a result of this dispute Quot the request entered around a collect Ive bargaining elect Ion which had been won by a Cho af-1 Ilia in and had resulted in a court net Between the Cio and the company. The Board emphasized that its decision does not. Deprive the employees of the Opportunity to choose District 50 As their representative when the present Cio contract expires next april Jap Power dream becomes Nightmare san Francisco Japan a projected Conquest of America is turning Quot from a Golden dream to a Black Nightmare Quot u s. Vice adm. Jilin w. Greenslade commandant of the Western sea Frontier and the 12th Nival District told the Commonwealth cub. He predicted that the japanese command must place a sizeable Force off flip it triple islands to counter potential or actual Allied sea and air operations. Garian affairs and even dictated tile appointment of new ministers. Premier Filo for instance was accepted in Balkan political circles As a Hitler appointee. Boris came to Power As a Young Man in 1918 after his father Ferdinand was forced to abdicate in the face of uprisings resulting from the surrender of Bulgaria to the allies in the first world War. Ferdinand. A German Prince retired to Berlin to live out his years in social rounds. Boris at first ruled More in name than in fact and it was not until the deepening crisis of the 1930 s that he began to assume More and More it Ower. The smallest and most poorly developed country in the Balkans Bulgaria was Early forced into the orbit of German economic Power As wielded by the bartering or. Hjalmar Seh acht. The nazi minister of economics. In March 1934. He met Hiler for the first time and soon after Boris Power supported by the nazis began to increase. So far Bulgaria has been one of the least Hurt countries of world War ii. Of late there have been hints that Boris was trying i to get out of the War by concluding a separate peace. With Berlin exercising a stronger hand in Sofia through the puppet Filo. However. It seems hardly Likely that such a Small country could get out of the War Al tip. Handy Man Lodge grass. Mont. A this town is about ready to go out of business now that b. A. Zimmerman has enlisted in the see bees he was cite councilman school Board member Oil company manager. Draft Board clerk assistant 1 fire chief. Lit Abner by Al Capp the Only Way t find out Quot of a Gal leaves a Kitten shaped lipstick Mark is t Glt kissed by nor. Match Ehly gr0mn-,/oh. A to i eid it wipp painful  a reckon am Hainet the kissable Type Zzz Bui a knows a someone who Isz in  the most kissable cuss in tarnation Zzz a promised no. Vah r reveal a a his s pc Petak promised Nel vah t a no favors o him but now a gotta monday August 33. 1 Raf blasts Nuremberg berliners nerves said still tingling London. Aug. 29 a Royal air Force bombers penetrated deep into the Reich Over tile weekend to smash at Nuremberg second largest City in Bavaria which houses key War industries and a network of Railroad installations. Objectives in the Ruhr also were bombed in Large sweeps which Cost 33 aircraft the air ministry announced. The raid on the Nuremberg Arsenal was the second attack in 17 nights. Fifteen Hundred tons of bombs were dropped in the previous raid on aug. 19. When Raf losses were 16 bombers. It was estimated then that 25.000 people were killed in tile attack. Nuremberg the famous town that turned toys to arms is the traditional Home of the main nazi party rallies. Its battering has a symbolical value at the moment when the party a Rule is suffering such rebated and dangerous shocks that tile German press is openly discussing Hie deterioration of party effectiveness. Stockholm reports meantime told of the vast material and morale damage to Berlin accomplished by last weeks violent Raf raid although there Mas no general panic morale of berliners suit or cd badly Eye witnesses said four Days after the attack people s Banda were still to eluding my voices were still unbalanced Well qualified observers declared. Widespread apathy Mas summed up in the Berlin phrase it is no  though there were no jew Lilica demonstrations against the nazi regime Many scathing remarks about the inability of authoring were made out eni. Terror of bombs a it almost completely destroyed thirst Lor reprisals and the former deep Lear it toe consequences of defeats. Raf cameramen have brought Back pie lures showing that bombers did a lot of damage in their recent raids on the Ruhr towns of Remscheid and Muehlheim. The former town before the raid was turning out Large numbers of machine and precision tools. Ninety percent of the built up arca in the City Scenter was blasted by High explosives or ravaged by fire. In Muelheim the main rail station was wiped out and 59 buildings in the heavily concentrated factory area Mere badly knocked out. Allied talks conc inned from Page Onei of momentous changes in Germany s War  and a mauve i deceleration in relations Between Berlin and lie Axis Salem is it Mas  to tile Heads of state thai Germany is now using its Strate c Reserve of military  estimated at at i Bina Tely 0 to too men. Hie question of Why Russia Bai hoi attended the Allied Conie revues Mas Sluth subject of Cornu it. A dispatch in pm. New York daily newspaper said that marshal Joseph Stalin has agreed to soviet participation in a new three Power conference with the United s ates and Britain at an undetermined Ouie. The British and american ambassadors Urie Anomie j of toe Cie is Ion by v. M. Molotov commissar for foreign affairs pm add in. The report was unconfirmed by official sources in London and a Ashington although it is a Mell known Hope of Roosevelt an i Churchill that such a Sweeting c i be arranged. Vice adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten has left Washington Atter conferring Mith High ranking u. S 1 army and Navy officials in his capacity As supreme Allied commander in Southeast Asia. His destination was unannounced but lie probably will return to Lon on before departing for the far East an own broadcast said that the i pm commander will work closely wit ii it. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell commander of the Allied forces Iii in Ira China and Burma la exact staff relationship Between the to men has not yet been announced by official sources. It should happen Long be cd. Ca  a i rat put out All the lights and Power aboard ships being completed at a shipbuilding Dock when lie bit through an electric cab a Short circuiting a transformer. The Cable also Short circuited   
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