Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Rage athe stars and stripes weekly saturday september 25, 1943 % i happened jul Home  Tangier s use by nazis draws fire at Franco after the War. The folks Back Home this week were stepping up their efforts to plan a workable postwar world. The House of representatives i passed a Resolution favouring a participation in Quot International a London sept. 24 j a Sec Quot Chinery Quot after the War. Some of the gears for this machinery i. I118. We were already being ground. In harpers Perry w. Va., educators helped that great Britain is Dis representing the United nations spoke out for a program of world i a affied with Spain conduct As Dpi Enship urged that nazi tenets be removed from German text a Neutral. Spain has been told or. Books that nazi infected minds be re educated to the scientific e<3en said that Britain takes a truth that human differences Are determined More by cultural than grave View of the use of Tangier biological factors ,. There were other signs of postwar planning across from Gibraltar in North Alin los Angeles the registrar of the . Land office said that 300,000 Rica As a nazi base for anti Brit acres of government land East of the Imperial Valley would be thrown activities open to homesteaders after the War with returning veterans getting Tangier after world War i was the first crack at it. In Omaha neb., the director of the Cartier made an International zone with lean legions National defense committee said that the legion which Spain a consent and governed by is now holding its Silver Jubilee convention would insist upon trials consuls representing eight euro of Quot All War criminals a with extra attention to Hitler Tojo and the Pean nations. In 1940, however the Man who fell out of his Balcony. Spanish took full charge of the Coom amt abhor zone with the British reserving i Ops Ana Ito  right to protest unfriendly a Phi prize of the week was Stephen Weinberg 50-year-old founder Mons. This weeks Strong protest of a school for draft dodgers. The Federal grand jury has indicted was the first that has been. Made. A. Up charges of conspiracy. Mayor Laguardian a War on Gam great Britain also protested or. A let in �1 to Calm it the Aqueduct race track in a quiet Eden announced against the Span ii the to fun St a a a while the nations us Blue division serving with the  a Iii i i g g out of business. Prisoners at Joliet germans against the soviet Union and Stateville penitentiaries were doing their share to help the nations War Effort. Making a maximum of four dollars a month the prisoners have already bought 22,000 dollars Worth of War Bonds and 3,000 convicts have volunteered As blood donors. The prisoners also tend a 530-acre Victory Garden. For Good conduct 23 prisoners have been allowed to join the armed forces. Food and drink. Macarthur men reach Finch Haven Airfield Clark offensive continued from Page i russian drive continued from Page it l stand crash into the City from All Black marketeers Back Home who penetrated the meat ration sides eng system by Selling livestock at sky High prices got an answer from the attack on Kiev on the t in opa last week. For the first time the opa set ceilings on live other hand appeared to be a Stock beginning with live hogs which fully equipped and grunting frontal assault although there must now sell for 14 dollars and 75 cents per hundredweight or less was a possibility that out flanking rationing a at Long last caught in with the Moonshiner according movements might develop North Federal tax investigator in Columbia s. C. With unconcealed and South of the City across the Relief reports bootleggers need ration Stamps to get sugar t Dnieper River. Soviet armies sentient their Mash. No ration Stamps no Moonshine. I heading Southwest from Konotop Tamm am /v--.#., and Bachmach were joining / the mown and country. Units that swept across the us Grade schools in Brookfield and Berwyn 111., have cloned Down rain Ian Plains from Kharkov to As infantile paralysis spread through the Chicago area. The total begin the final assault on Kiev. Number of cases�?739�?surpasses those reported in the worst previous the greatest City of the Ukraine epidemic in 1917in Niagara Falls Silver Dollar tavern patrons Aud the third largest City of were startled when Frank Martin Railroad Engineer backed his train Russia. Through the front window. Quot i must have misjudged a he said since the russians began their Quot a in Iii j my a i us swill a a. I Jiaa Mic  Ulm a Ravenna Ohio Radford a. Point pleasant w. Va., and Kings offensive More than two months nov a nth Annoma Rykr Bury ind., became ghost towns when War contracts were cancelled because of changing War needs. Facing the National housing administration whose usual worry is providing houses is the disposition of 2,975 temporary housing units in these towns All empty seven War workers Are now sitting on a life raft in the Willamette Protea a the Ciu rens of Oregon to subscribe their quota in the third War loan drive. While spectators ate hotdogs and ice Crean on the Shore the rafters were still trying to Spear a fish. From the capital. The vib. Fleet is now the mightiest surface Armada in history the Navy department said. The . Now has 14,072 vessels in its Fleet 13 times As Many As it had three years ago. War production says la. Gen. Brehon b. Somervell is still behind schedule. By the end of this year he states ordnance production must Rise 33 percent above present Levels Gas Marks and chemical warfare supplies 62 percent signal equipment 95 percent. Gen. John j Pershing celebrated his 83rd birthday this week by having lunch with his former aide Gen. George c. Marshall. The birthrate among the wives of servicemen has exceeded a a All expectations a rep the Clarence Cannon Missouri Democrat told the House. An additional 20,030,000 dollars will be needed to maintain the government s maternity and child care program. From Broadway to Hollywood. Beman Macfadden celebrating his 75th birthday stood on his head for the press. He says he Hopes to live to be 112. Lorais Defee the burlesque Queen has Given six sex husbands to the armed  to the army one to the Navy and one to the United states marines a a. Frank Crummit radio Star. Composer and former vaudeville actor died of a heart attack. Werner Janssen whom Hitler ousted from the Reich nine years ago for refusing to eliminate Mendelssohn third symphony from his program is now building bombers for Douglas aircraft. Charlie Mccarthy a sidekick. Edgar Bergen will be introducing a new Dummy soon one with a mexican accent named Pepito. Lois Andrews who married George Jesse three years ago when she was 16, has asked a divorce decree. The difference in their Ages she said a a always seemed to make him unreasonably  ago their i Ogress across the pains the forests and the swamps of the Eastern front has been an unparalleled Victory March which took in its stride some of the most heavily fortified strongholds in the world. Orel Belgorod Kharkov Stalin Tagan Rog and Bryansk have All  Stalingrad As nails in tee coffin of Adolf Hitler. No Lebensraum but Smolensk and Kiev Are even Mort significant. Soviet capture of those two bases would dose the lid entirely on German dreams for Lebensraum in Eastern Surope. Tile armies of the soviet Union were rapidly lowering that lid As the week ended. Smolensk has Long been the wehrmacht a Headquarters Tor the operations in Russia. When the nazis were repulsed in the very shadows of the Kremlin in 1941, they retired the 223 Miles to Smolensk for a temporary entrenchment to wait for Spring and the launching of tile final Blitzkrieg against the russians two years later the nazis seem about to yield Smolensk and their footsteps May follow the bloody Trail blazed by Napoleons Defeated grand army in 1012. The loss of Smolensk would supplies poured in this week to reinforce the already solidly secure Bridgehead. In the Southern half of the Bridgehead in the american sector troops were steadily punch no Forward taking town after town. After a series of Short skirmishes general Clarks soldiers swept through Battipaglia 19 Miles Bland and then took Mont Corvino. Several Days later they went on to capture Campagna and Eboli sum Arther East. In this area the germans used Small tank units to support their infantry but usually lulled out without much resistance a caving thick minefields and Road and Bridge demolitions behind but before the americans captured the Mountain stronghold of Acerno six Miles Northeast of Mont Corvino they had to subject it to an All Day shelling. Only then did the tenacious germans decide to leave. Evacuate fast in the instep of the italian Boot there was no such German tenacity. From the whole area stretching across from the Adriatic and Mediterranean nazi troops were evacuating fast. The roads running North were clogged with enemy vehicles and our air Force had a Field Day destroying hundreds of them. Most important gain in this area was the capture of Potenza. Vital Junction Point of five roads in the heart of Southern Italy. The germans still have a Small triangular wedge indenting southwards near Bari on the Adriatic. But this too is being rapidly evacuated. After that the allies will have a fairly straight line running from Bari almost due West from Salerno. In the Taranto area above the italian Heel British 5th corps troops walked into Gioja Midway Between Taranto and Bari. Two Days later a Small Advance patrol heading up the coast Road surprised a unit of retreating germans killed 60 of them destroyed three armoured ears and captured a Large i umber of prisoners. Advance British troops Are now in Altamura 45 Miles Northwest of Taranto. The 5th corps also occupies Matera. 1200 feet High which offers a Good View of enemy lines in the Northwest. Take six islands Allied South Pacific Headquarters sept. 24�?Allied troops which landed in Force six Miles North of Finch Haven on the northeastern new Guinea coast yesterday reached the North end of the Airfield and were shelling the base with artillery fire an official communique reported. Jap resistance was being rapidly reduced. It was also revealed that Allied aircraft covering the opera on and naval ack ack batteries shot Down 40 Jap planes out of 50 which tried to halt the landings. Not one ship was damaged nor one passenger injured it was stated. The allies lost three planes. As northeastern new Guinea slipped swiftly from japanese lands Tokyo was probably study no details of the new attack technique which the allies had used at lae and Salamata and now were using against Finch Haven. Airborne troops landed wednesday at Kai pit and outflanked Finch Haven 60 Miles Northwest of fallen Liae to be reinforced in Masse the next Day by the seaborne attack North of Finch Haven. Two weeks ago it had been an airborne blow at lae following seaborne landings at Salamata which caught the japs Flat footed. This a a leapfrog tactic had swept away the Guadalcanal tenacity of Tojo i warriors and threatened to overwhelm new Guinea in Short order. Crowing Naaf continued from Page it the allies also have taken Over a ring of six islands in the Gulf of Naples. Ischia largest of the group is at the Guiff a Mouth North of Capri. Large numbers of German prisoners have been Stream no towards tile beaches waiting for evac1 a Tion. Outside of a Large number who were in the Stalingrad fighting Many it the prisoners were either inexperienced youngsters or citizens of German occupied Colin Pope still contacts his . Representative Washington sept. 24�?the sages being received from the Vai National Catholic welfare Confer ican seemed a a pretty Well veiled enc Here and the most Rev. Am and lacked their usual spontaneity Leto Cicognani the Popes personal j they denied that the Vatican representative to the United states j had actually been overrun by the today reported that they were still nazis As reported from Switzer wrench from he germans their j tries indicating that the Wehr last stronghold in Central Russia nacht is beginning to feel the on/1 Annh i a Tate Al Vai Ivor new us i a in communication with the Vatican despite the German occupation of Rome. Spokesmen at the welfare conference said the Mes land but did not deny that Catholic americans were generally worried Over the Popes personal safety. And Send them fleeing across the Plains of White Russia toward Poland and the Privet marshes. The scores of divisions besieging Leningrad might Well be Cut off from escape and russians second City again would be freed from the threat of German seizure and 300 Miles to the South the German  of Kiev looked in vain for help to resist the powerful soviet onslaught which was sweeping like a tidal wave manpower Pinch More strongly than Ever. German forces Are also beginning to feel the effect of aired air superiority in Central Ila y. Sporadic German dive bombing of the Salerno Harbor and strafing of the beaches became More and More infrequent until in the Las few Days. Allied planes have failed to spot a single enemy aircraft. British and american pm Anes Are Over cities end villages sweeping continuing their constant close faster even than had the germans support of rho around troops with the summer Ana fall of 1941. 1 All types of fighters and bombers. Terry and the pirates Mainland. Last night at Pisa san Giusto Ai drome near leghorn wellingtons destroyed several German transports on the ground and set fire to hangars administration buildings and Barracks. Pin Point bombing of enemy Strong poin s in support of our ground forces and the smashing of roads railroads and Bridges in the Naples Salerno area w Ere the Naaf a main jobs on the italian main and. Enemy air opposition continued to be almost negligible. Bringing the a a Large Force of liberators from England to operate under Naaf direction gave added weight to a general belief that a great part of tile Winter Aerial offensive against Germany May be carried out from Allied Aird Romes on the Mediterranean. It has been pointed out that the Many Good Fields in lower Italy Are within easy bombing Range of Central and Eastern Germany and the Balkans. In addition the weather in Italy would permit from 15 to 20 Days of operations per month whereas in England operational Days during the Winter would be about one third of that number. Air Force officers reviewing the operations in the Battle of Salerno stressed that the air Effort in support of the hard pressed ground forces on sept. 13-14 was the efficiency Peak of a plan of concerted action which has been in the Progress of development since the tunisian Campaign. It. Gen. Carl Spaatz commanding general of the Naaf said at a press conference last week a we feel proud to be part of a great working Trio of ground naval and air forces whose operations have been thoroughly coordinated and integrated As a Complete unit. We feel the teamwork so established cannot be  by Milt Caniff