Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Page 8the stars and stripes week saturday september 18, 1943 curler indicted on fraud charges it happened it Home a a Ojua  espionage and the Fri Wjk Mea the a Iii of the Federal Bureau of investigation were grinding fast this week As two German spits went on trial and six others awaited their turn in court. Ernest Frederick Lehmitz and Erwin Harry Des Oretter Staten Island air raid wardens accused o. Sending messages to Germany revealing . Troop transport movements have pleaded guilty to Fri charges. One of their spy notes written in invisible Ink read Quot guns tanks 18,000 troops from it Dix in Convoy for Australia and new zealand. Booked for a mid september hearing the six newest additions to the of big a mopping a operations on the Home front include a genuine countess a fake countess an obstetrician a social worker a Sailor and a 60-year-old Boardinghouse keeper All believed members in one of the thadiest spy rings of a time. Most of the details were closely guarded by the Fri which claimed the Case in do storybook Reading it is so fantastic. Hints of invisible Ink spy schools in Budapest and cables to the waterland have slipped out and a tie in was reported with the Case of the nazi saboteurs who landed of Long Island last june and were executed a month later. Food and drink. For too years Young southerners attending Citadel South Carolinas famed military school have eaten Hominy grits for breakfast. So for that matter has practically every self respecting southerner from Plantation owner to tenant Farmer. This month War rationing in particular the shortage of uj3. Com stocks struck at tradition and grits went off the menu. Also involved in the com shortage was whisky which is now so highly prize that Chicago truckers have lost thousands of dollars Worth to hijackers. To protect whisky bearing trucks Chicago police have put roving patois on routes leading in and out of the City. Washington sept. 17 a rep James m. Curley Massachusetts Democrat and five other persons were indicted by a Federal grand jury yesterday on 21 counts charging mail fraud. Curley a member of the democratic National committee is a former governor of Massachusetts and mayor of Boston. The fraud charges grew out of an alleged War contract brokerage Racket. Among the other defendants were Donald Wakefield Smith former member of the National labor relations Board and James Barton Underwood now said to be serving with greek forces at Cairo. Allied armies near Junction continued from Page la head our warships hugged close to the Shoreline and supplemented our artillery by knocking out machine gun nests and troop concentrations and tanks plenty of tanks. And the air forces pitched in with every plane that could Fly going on one strafing bombing Mission after another More than 2,000 sorties in a single Day. They were using every Type fighter and bomber in close support of the infantry. All during this despite heavy artillery fire More and More troops and supplies were pouring in night and Day without stopping. The germans who already had thrown in their 15th and 16th Panzer divisions plus the Sicily tested Hermann Goering hurriedly pulled in elements of the 29th motorized division and rushed up their prize Mark via a Tiger tanks period of a Man s service such pay and their a a Multi mortared a. A. I i j a it i Aamli re in Washington continue prom Page one from Washington. The War department announced that 110,000 of approximately 141,000 Axis War prisoners Are now hard at York on farms in the United states. Prisoners have been used to Harvest peanuts in Georgia and South Carolina tomatoes in Indiana com in Iowa. They have also worked on a variety of non agricultural jobs including the construction of a dam for flood control in Oklahoma. In spite of All other shortages the Home front is now producing 25 percent More babies than in prewar years. To meet the new emergency vie War production Board has authorised an increase of 60,000 in baby Carriage production 80,000 in strollers and walkers and a stepped up drafted to meet the demands of Allied strategy for winning the War and that a a whoever initiates a men to pile up during the War and Are legally due six months after the close of the conflict. Both sen. Burton k. Wheeler of Montana and rep. Andrew May chairman of the House military affairs committee have introduced Bills prohibiting the general drafting of fathers but it is almost certain Liat neither Bill stands a Chance of getting by screaming  it was a desperate Effort of counterattack after counterattack. Line never broke under the unceasing pounding of the overwhelming troop strength superiority of the germans the Allied line Bent but never broke. There was never any sign of any a a rout to the sea a or a a another Dunkirk about which the germans since most congressmen have said blared so loudly and so often Over that they would follow the advice of the army and Navy on the draft Issue. High army and Navy officials. Including undersecretary of War Robert Patterson and Admiral e. J. King warned a Senate committee hives Ligating manpower last week that Many fathers must be production of baby Scales nipples and diapers. Newt not it an eight7alarm fire swept through the Broad Street station of change in the High commands troop estimate must assume the the considered judgment of our military  their radio and in their newspapers. In the see saw fighting practically always on the defensive Allied troops gave some ground. But then bolstered by fresh Well experienced troops Allied forces regrouped for their own offensive. There was no More a a holding our  this time we were doing the hardest punching and the germans fell Back. During All this the British 8th army swept up fast along the entire 30-mile Width of the calabrian Peninsula racing along the coast Road northwards towards the Salerno Bridgehead to bite at the German flank and relieve some of the the Pennsylvania Railroad in Philadelphia destroying cars and equip grave responsibility of ignoring ment and creating damage estimated at 250,000 Quot dollars. Pedes 1,1 grrr a Quot trials in downtown Baltimore were startled As 22,000 dollars Worth of five and ten Dollar Bills rained Down on them. They came from the eighth Story office of Abraham Watner who had the Bills on his desk when the wind blew them out the window. In new Haven conn., Peter m. Kennedy vice chairman of the new Haven War Price germans still hold the continent and rationing Board was arrested As a fifth suspect in a conspiracy of Europe including the greater to flood the East with counterfeit ration coupons. Eighteen miners part of Italy and the ground _ were trapped 5,000 feet underground by an explosion in a Harlan ky., troops of the germans and Jap badges Road demolitions and their Coal mine and All attempts to reach them have thus far been Hunsuc anese Are still in excess of those i own i0�?Tng Supply line. It was the Cess Ful. Georgia a penal system Long a subject for Strong criticism of the United  Montgomery tactic Learned the the nazis there were reports of Street fighting and riots and Small pitched Battles Between the germans and their former Axis partners. The slow smouldering hate that each had for the other had finally blistered and broke. And. In fighting against the Hun in Taranto it was an italian Soldier who said a a now that we have something to fight for you will see How Well we can really  from Brindisi the British troops branched out to meet their other Section of soldiers that had come up along the coast Road on the Adriatic sea to take Bari vital communications Center and one of the three finest ports in Southern Italy. Our troops there now hold a firm line from Bari to Taranto and Are pounding steadily at the Small pocket of enemy resistance in the Gioja arca Midway Between the two towns. The entire italian Heel is now in our hands Complete with these three vital ports and with a Large number of modern airfields with Concrete All weather runways All in excellent condition. Able to accommodate our heaviest bombers these Fields will be first class Takeoff places for operations in the near future. Need reserves if the germans stick to Salerno they will have the Strong British 8th hitting them within a few Days. For a Strong stand they must Call Down an Ever increasing amount of troops and supplies from the North. In that Case the big Battle of Italy May Well take place around Naples but the germans can Retreat northwards and try to dig in against the full scale Allied offensive which is sure to come soon. Whatever they do the allies Are proceeding a a according to  supplies Are coming in As fast As they can be unloaded. Commenting on the rapid inflow one colonel at the Public hearing or. Pat terrific pressure from the 5th isaid a the Supply situation is sex Terson warned that a a vastly larger army 11�? military operations lie ahead. The throughout their 200-Imle push the British 8th met Little or no resistance. The Only things that slowed them up were blown up has been investigated by the speaker of the House and the Senate president of Georgia a legislature. In a special report to gov. Ellis Amah they recommended a Complete overhaul. After a tour of penal institutions in other Southern states they reported that a a All the states fare family  a a no other country a or. Patterson said a a excuses men from Arm we visited have a better prison system generally than does  from Broadway to Hollywood. Frank Sinatra the Singer who is making the women of America forget their name rank and serial number has disturbed Jack Haley end Michele Morgan who were supposed to be the stars of a a higher and higher but Are now merely also rans in the movies publicity winnings. Wallace Beery its rumoured will be the next screen Star to pull a Charlie Chaplin and marry an 18-year-old Beauty. Tommy Manville a number seven sunny Ainsworth Cost 75.000 dollars which military leaders also pointed out last week that there Are plenty of a a men now fighting this War who Cellenti. There is plenty of everything particularly ammunition. Well Wear out the barrels of our guns before Well use up All the ammunition brought  with the steady arrival of fresh troops the morale of Allied soldiers is High. Iii a tour of the front lines it. Gen. Mark Clark found the men in Good spirits determined hard Way in Libya that he a a must curl his Tail up behind him a that before anything he must have his to see this through. Supplies so that he could have something to hit with. Always ahead of the onrushing de service merely As fathers and British 8th were the last elements we have More than 6,000.000 fathers who have been deferred for this reason  it. Gen. Joseph i. Mcnarney of German troops in Southern Italy. They were being pulled up to shove in against the Salerno Bridgehead in a desperate Eifort to blot Cut the beachhead fight in Paris area hit after Brief Lull London sept. 17�?following a Deputy chief of staff said if the army docs not get the 7,700,000 time to face the British coining up men needed by the end of this i from the South. This Allied Mili. F ,. A i bomb is about Par for the course. The musicians Union is planning a j year Quot we won t be Able to keep i tary strategy had diverted All of Fiah pm Nunn tinier from demand for a 15 percent boost in wages. New York night spots have our time table for actual target the German troops northwards 8 a 1 ? the. Engaged Arthur Garfield Hays to fight it. The movie capital is dates. I categorically state that if j with this thrust through Center on nazi occupied countries mapping a three hour Christmas broadcast to . Troops All Over the men Are not furnished we will at a Erinio. All of Southern Italy a a. The world. Bing Crosby has signed a new contract with Paramount not be Able to carry out War plans was in our hands without guaranteeing 3,000,00# dollars for a seven year period. He will make two pictures a year for Paramount with the privilege of doing one annually at another studio. Judy Garland has written a new song called �?�1 fell and broke my heart.�?�. Eligible for a try at Broadway or Hollywood like All her predecessors is 19-Ycar-old Jean Bartel who As miss California has just won the miss America Beauty pageant in quantic City. The Lull ended wednesday when As now set us Quot smuggle. There would Beno drawn american flying fortresses and it was retarded As Likely that Cut stand on the High Hilly ground. Liberators and Raf. Canadian and the pre Idem i hts Ted into the in the excellent defensive terrain american fighters in late evening the president mum step into the of Ual an Boot sorties hit important aircraft and repair plants in the Paris area and controversy with a request for National service legislation a a Means of mobilizing the entire nation behind War work. The War troops fan out then blasted airfields throughout As for the italian Heel. Allied i Northern France naval forces sailed into the great j an a acc on airfields in North governors asked to recruit was Washington sept. 17�?general George c. Marshall army in. Manpower commission is reported j naval base unopposed. Troops of it in find  prank a and Hub scion chances to have already prepared a Bih the 5th corps quickly fanned out a a southwestern France and 9 along this line More agreeable to North and Northeast to take Over us boat pens and docks at la a Field museum name labor and management than the the important naval base of Brin in we san Fence came the Fri museum name present selective service act. J Disi while other troops mopped up following night. Thirty five Ger 1 Man planes were downed during the Days activities and 13 heavy the proposed Bill would give the elements of a German paratroop Chicago sent. 17�?the Field War manpower commission control i division several Miles Inland it fit Hopr of our Maimau Nuj museum of natural history will Over women men Over 38 and was in this sector that italian 1 bombers and tune fighters of our chief of staff has asked ail state i be renamed the Chicago museum those physically handicapped or troops firing their own guns i Cornland Are missing governors to head campaigns to of natural history Stanley Field service. Meanwhile the nations fought Side by Side with Allied sol j no official explanation for the recruit volunteers for the women i president said Here today at sex draft boards have temporarily halt Diers against the retreating Ger interruption of bombing activities army corps a a equal to total Battle erases marking the museums de the draft for two weeks in or j mans. The italians were implicitly was Given but some observers casualties of tile army to Date a i Golden anniversary he said the Der to make an inventory of All following the Sadoglio Struc i thought bad weather might have the most recent total of Battle Chance had been suggested by registrants. Lists Are being Check tons. J been responsible for keeping our casualties was 70,000. Wac strength j marshal Field third grandson of cd and rechecked for possible mis is now approximately 65,000. The founder. I takes in classification. In Northern and Central Italy a1 i planes grounded the Early part of most in Complete military hands of 1 this week. Terry and the pirates by Milt Caniff