Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Page 2 no e stars Ani smirks weekly saturday september 4, 1943 Eleanor pays Call Fco aft 11 ii i ii i Lim Iii 11 ii i m City a Baria boor in an Effort to get into the Jem parked theater. Later rile paid a vat to a Large sheep ranch. The Vina lady did not neglect the hospitals. She walked through the with stopping to talc to Moat of the patients cracking jokes a Ria want along. To a Marine who wan there be Cense a forgot of Maria and drove an the righthand Side of the Road rile add Quot i certainly do sympathize with that. It was the same in England. After a Church service in the Hospital mrs. Roosevelt assured the congregation of convalescent sailors and marines that they were not forgotten Back Home. Sire de-1 slivered a personal message from the president praising them far the great work they have been doing. I it mrs employees in the War foe-1 tories stopped their work Long i enough to ghee her a round of i Cheera when she visited them they were fining explosives nm-1 Ning lathes and turning out Peri i Slon ports. I whoa visiting a Large red Criesi Dok mrs. Roosevelt joined in the i fan with the soldiers by writing i her name on a slip of paper and pinning it to a Large map on the i Wah to show where rile came from. While there she talked to a Large Mailer of Gandab Gygi and told Al i Taw anecdotes of her Trovela. She i said that while fat Twig Cam pad-1 Fie Point g Serviceman stared at i her for several Long is fates and la Hon Page v then apologized by saying Quot excuse me hrs. Roosevelt but you re the first White woman Rve seen in eight  she stopped Long enough to pay particular tribute to the nurses and red oui welfare workers she had met on an unnamed Island in the Pacific. A very woman at Home owes a debt Cir gratitude to Tho american women out there she said. Quot they Are not living Calabria a poor itself pickings Bota for Italy \ tammany dumps judge under fire auntie accused of racketeer ties new Tork a District attorney Frank Bogan dropped a Bot Po-1 Toto in the Lap of tic Anany Hall this week and before it had cooled Aff them results were achieved a magistrate Thomas Moreho Wal no longer tammany a or the re pub Tan party a candidate for the i exalted poet of Jadv of the Atole by atm court i Bert stand for of years the i Secretary of the Angony Hall re-1 signed a Beer teary to the state i athletic commission. I it All started when Hogan i charged that Aux tics  was engineered of ex-convict-1 racketeer flank a. Corte a Hogan hacked up the charge by Venord i logs of topped Telephone convenor i Hana Between a Are Ito and  stand Aho was charged with Daulys Contact with the Slot machine op-1 Bate isolated Region ahead of invaders Eleanor Roosevelt Taa Nany asked Auretio to gait the race when he refused the Mew York county Daman till organisation repudiated the Hall s endorsement and placed an Quot Independent integrity to the arid. The republicans Are expected to do like Tae Quot a Irun the policy of non partisanship in court elections. Very comfortably but every one of them is  his. Roosevelt Aho made a radio address which was broadcast nationally. In the broadcast she emphasised the need for my Nanri women of the United nations to exert their Energy to help solve postwar reconstruction anti other problems. When the first lady new zealand this week she find a warm Welcome awaiting Ber in Australia. Prime minister Curtin has informed president Roosevelt that the australian people Are looking Forward to tile Opportunity of meeting mrs. Roosevelt with the greatest satisfaction adding that Quot on arrival rite win be assured of a Heartfelt Welcome. The Peninsula of Calabria the toe of Daly to which the operation Ai this moment is confined had a population of 1,896,80 in 1941, but undoubtedly Many of the civilians have since been evacuated. The most thickly populated parts of the Peninsula Are in the narrow valleys leading in foam the a Mast and at the Extrema end of the toe. There is an average of 799 people to a Square mile slightly under the average for the whale of Italy but considerably higher than in Sicily. The principal towns Are Reggio do Calabria <129,283 Popula a Tom it Croton ,533 and the Inland town of Catanzaro <49,-841. Most of the people live from the Soti. Bread and pasta such As Spaghetti form their chief diet. Fruit and vegetables Are generally plentiful. Meat is Seldom eaten. The country is still influenced by its original greek settlers who remained for some 500 years and there Are several albanian settlements the geographical position of the Peninsula has always Iso continued from tap ii Ary or a a that Stander rib Bon of steel runs so percent of an hairs railway braille to percent of its Oil. And 80 percent of its Iron. To soften we the toe of Italy planes of the Haaf ran thousands of sorties during the past week while at Canberra the capital of Australia mrs. Roosevelt will be the guest of governor general lord Gowrie. The remainder of her tour will be largely informal. She will visit red Cross activities and women a War organisations. Mrs. Roosevelt is paying Ber own Way on the trip. Land for returning veterans proposed lated it even from the italian influence. Calabria has the lowest Standard of education in Italy and is notorious for its High degree of illiteracy. The children must work in the held with their parents or All will starve. Greatest enemy to the people of _ Calabria is malaria. Their Mode of life their habits and their history has been influenced by it. The Story of the South of Italy is the Story of malaria another trouble is earthquakes. The upheaval of 1783-87 produced 215 lakes that now Breed the Mosquito. A longitudinal spine of mountains the Serra terminates in the rugged peaks of Aspromonte Over 6,000 feet High. The Peculiar Relief of Calabria produces great contrasts in climate and vegetation. Much of the East coast is Bare while the West coast where the allies attacked enjoys the typical intensive cultivation of the most favored Mediterranean shores. Mulberries Lemons oranges Tam Serines grapes and olives Are produced on these lower slopes. The Uplands produce Grain inc mating wheat Rye Barley Beans and potatoes. Below the tree Belt Rice Cotton Licorie Saffron and tobacco Are cultivated. The big Industry is agriculture. There is some lumbering a Little mining of Rock Salt and Sulphur. Sheep and Golfo Gram in the Washington returning soldiers of this War should have an Opportunity to boy land now being used to military establishments rep. James h. Frierson of Florida chairman of the Public lands Ommittee said week. The representative said he would pro i rough Mountain pastures. Pose this move to Congress. Pet a calabrian Industry is mainly Coon s committee recently Beld linked to agriculture. Important scaring in six Western states to industries Are the preparation investigate Federal ownership Ai Tai Citrus fruit products the extrac-400 million acres of which the i Ion and refining of Olive Oil the army was Wing Lien to 20 million j spinning of natural silk from losers. Colly bred cocoons against the vital spot. At the same time Britain mightiest warships the Nelson and the Rodney shelled the coast. Artillery pieces also fired from the bastion of Kelly across the narrow stretch of wafer which is the Strait of Messina. The barrage reached its Zenith at a hour today. The first assault Waves took 30 minutes to Cross the Atrip of water. Severs fighting must be expected it was emphasized Here. The calabrian Peninsula is one of the most desolate and rugged spots of country in Italy. The terrain is even rougher than the Northeast Corner of sic Fly. It is featured by a succession of Hills  deep ravines intervening. Two mountains Rise More than a Jolo feet. The Uplands Are heavily timbered giving the Best possible cover for defensive Battle. The areas of Calabria i incidentally is about one twentieth of the whole italian kingdom with a population of almost 2,000,-000 persons. Invasion Points on How Many Points along the coast British and Canadian troops landed was not known. Communications for the advancing Allied forces Are bound to be bad. Roads and railways do not have an uninterrupted course and hundreds of Rivers run across the Moon gains at right angles to the sea. In the few Days before the invaders swept across the Straits at least Tun commando raids crossed the Straits to probe defences reconnoitre and in general to be a Damn  these raids were a hit and run affair and not the Advance Force for the actual invasion. One commentator Here said a a a the forces under Gen. Eisenhower a command now have been welded into a tremendous and flexible machine to destroy the enemy in Italy. The Battles Are being fought no farther from Rome than an overnight train ride  As the world yearned to know the extent of the opposition Many questions were left to be answered later. One of them was How mud i strength Hitler was willing to risk in Southern Italy. A second question was whether the italians would resist bitterly. Preparation scenes scene of preparations led up to the moment when the first wave of the italian bound expedition got under Way. For Day past vast numbers of men and Teli ids Piave been in Edem cd a to the debarkation ports. Unseasonable and violent storms swept the beaches and embarkation areas and Bridges and roads were washed away. Sometimes traffic would necessarily be halted for Boers. Meanwhile the invasion barges that same Mosquito Fleet which made the Landing in Sicily stole up the coast to take the army on Board. The Lui Kwaii virtually washed out of the air in Southern Italy to meet any of the 500 sorties that showered the italian toe with deadly explosives last wednesday made a desperate Effort to smash the threatening Force. It came Over Only to be met by a solid Wall of flak that glittered and flashed in tile evening gloom. Came today s first hint of Dawn and the invasion Fleet was under Way. They were escorted and sup Lior Ted by a Force of cruisers monitors destroyers and gunboats of the Royal Navy according to a communique issued at 1010 this morning. Swarms of Allied fighter planes gave them the All important protective cover. Just before the invasion barges reached the italian beaches strafing planes came Over to ensure the clearance of enemy infantry or machine gun nests. But there were still guns in those Hills and they still had to be dealt with when the landings were made. The British and Canadian troops were confident As they assembled for their final briefing. Two weeks of rest had Given them the great steadiness needed for the task ahead. Bach morning they awoke almost in full View of the italian coastal defenders. Occasionally from those defenders came the lob of an enemy Shell As has occurred every Day since those eight and 14-Inch guns first fired into Messina the Day it fell. Just before the take off Gen. Eisenhower flew to the Assembly areas far a final checkup with the invasion leaders Gen. Harold Alexander Deputy Field commander of All Allied ground troops and head of the 15th army group. Gen. Be hard Montgomery commander of the heroic 8th army was als on hand. Raid on Berlin sets vast fires Nuremberg and ruin Abo Allied targets London a Berlin Nuremberg and the Ruhr Valley were bathed in Allied bombs during the week of daily forays Over the Reich and occupied territory by British based rap and 8th Saaf planes. By far the most spectacular was tuesday nights 45-minute attack an Berlin during which another nazi innovation worked in reverse. Instead of trying co catch tile raiders in Searchlight beams the germans dropped flares from a great height. This according to returning British crewmen lighted up the German night lighters As Well As the raiders and several German aircraft were quickly brought Down when they came into the Brilliant tight huge fires were started by the bombs some visible for 70 Miles. Nuremberg. Bavarian a second largest City and Home of several vital industries was pasted on sunday while the Ruhr Valley was bombed despite Cloudy weather an tuesday. Thursday night hurricanes knocked out the lock Gates of Hollands Bush canal linking the East and West estuaries of the Scheldt River through which considerable nazi shipping had been moving to and from Antwerp in comparative safety. On thursday evening the fighter command announced tile largest bombing operation of the year was carried out Over Northern France. The 8th Saaf shot Down a record total of 631 enemy fighters during August it was announced by Headquarters of the european theater of operations. At the same time the Raf announced its bomber command had dropped 96,000 tons of bombs on Germany during the fourth year of the War. This is nearly double the total weight of bombs dropped during the three previous j years. Pm drama critic barred by Shubert new York a Louis Kronen Berger pm a  critic has been barred from ail Shubert Heaters because he was Quot unfair unjust and cruel in reviews. The Shubert Brothers Lee and j. J., once gave Walter Winchell the same treatment. Kronenberger says hell buy gallery seats henceforth and doubts whether Shubert can Stop him