Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Pac 8the stars and stripes weekly saturday october 2, 1943 ii happened jul Home St a own la j4a4aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa# aaa aaa4 Stalin and the War Bond drive. Premier Joseph Stalin a jury Man an insurance agent and seven men on a raft were headliners last week in the drive to push the third War loan drive Over the top in its 15 billion Dollar goal. A message from Russia s Premier was read at a War Bond rally in Washington. Urging americans to buy Mere Bonds to help bring Victory Quot Over the enemy in the shortest possible time a Stalin said that Russia was using american planes tanks and guns with great effect. Returning the compliment citizens of Newton mass., holding a rally in their High school auditorium bought 1,300 dollars in War Bonds to be presented to Premier Stalin and the russian people and in Abbeville la., a member or the Parish police jury and an insurance say in bought 25 Dollar Bonds in Stalin s name and cabled the news to Moscow. While these events were taking place the seven War workers on a raft in the Willamette River near Portland ore., continued to do Batik with the state of Oregon. Oregon had still not raised its Bond quota and the rafters who have been sitting it out in protest on their life raft were Down to their last chocolate ration. The men were still holding out and so was Oregon which had Only raised 62 percent of its quota As the Campaign moved into its last week. Optimum. E a Between the wild Public elation and the official sober Ness Over the surrender of Italy was a wide Gulf which this week was being effectively narrowed. Always optimistic the american people saw an Early end to the War in Italy s capitulation a vision that official Washington was Quick to temper. This week military leaders called a conference of Industrial and newspaper officials and listed some of the obstacles still facing the United nations i although German military leaders have abandoned Hope of winning the War German morale was still far from broken 2 the possibility of an Early collapse of Germany or Japan is Remote 3 japanese Power Quot in Many ways is steadily increasing Quot 4 the German combat strength has tripled in the four years since the invasion of Poland 5 the defeat of Japan will Call for devastating attacks on her Home islands 6 when the United nations Start hitting the enemy a main defences Quot our losses May Well be so heavy that they will be Felt in every Village and town in the United  senator return a a a Back from their 40,000 mile tour of the worlds Battlefront three senators held a press conference this week in which they joined the military experts in predicting a Long Road ahead. Sen. Richard b. Russell Georgia Democrat As spokesman for the group said that americans were underestimating the strength of Japan that Germany cannot be whipped by air Power alone that Victory is still a Long Way off that there was no room for overconfidence or complacency even though Allied armies Are on the March. His statement was endorsed by senators James m. Mead new York Democrat and Ralph o. Brewster Maine Republican who also reported i that every commanding officer fighting the japanese wants More equipment to throw against the enemy but Quot Recognises that the War in Europe ought to get priority Quot 2 the japanese have doubled their shipbuilding and Are turning out More planes and ships than americans have been led to believe 3 the administration should act now to get postwar rights for private commercial aviation at airports built by the . While the lend lease balance is overwhelmingly in our favor. Newt notes a a a the first All soybean meal was served this week in Dearborn mich., by a soybean chemist of the Carver laboratories to a group of women reporters. The menu included soybean milk cheese crackers bread cutlet custard and ice Cream. Searching for the sources of Chicago s worst infantile paralysis epidemic in history a Yale University scientist reported that the City a sewage contained the virus of the disease and was enc of the biggest causes of the epidemic. The office of Price administration has cancelled the Steep rent increases in flew York City and Frozen rent Levels As of last March ithe Stevens hotel the world s largest has been purchased from the army by Arnold Kirkeby a Chicago hotel operator for,251,000 dollars. It had been used As an air Force training Center since last March. The Southeastern greyhound lines have applied for authority to operate 29 helicopter mail and passenger routes in the South and Are planning to convert the Flat tops of their bus terminals into Landing Fields. In Long Beach. Cal a sgt. John m. Westervelt celebrated his 75th birthday and 45th year in the army this week. The army a oldest enlisted Man sgt. Westervelt is in charge of the Mai room at the 6th ferrying group of the air transport command. Fourteen miners were killed and nine others injured in a Coal mine explosion near Forrestville a. Cutting out the middleman Farmers Are driving 60 Miles into Portland ore., to sell their produce directly to the consumer. Scores of retailers in Portland have been cited by the opa for overcharging. As the week ended however no one had yet Cut out the middleman in the Barber business of Seattle where haircuts now reportedly Cost one Dollar each. From Broadway to Hollywood. A. Gypsy Rose Lee whose versatile talents Are Well known has just turned playwright. Her play the naked Genius Quot is booked for a Broadway showing soon. Quot Lifeboat a Alfred Hitchcock a latest drama for 26th Century Fox will feature Tallulah Bankhead. Orson Welles who once startled the nation with a make believe invasion from Mars is now married to Rita Hayworth who will reportedly Star in his next picture. Among Hollywood a recent film releases Are Quot holy Matrimony Quot starring Monty Woolley and Gracie Fields Quot watch on the Rhine Quot with Bette Davis and Paul Lukas and Quot this is the army Quot from the stage show of the same Jiame. German horror tale related by survivors Moscow the russian Village of to Manovich near Chernigow will rank with the czech Village of Lidice in the annals of German bestiality according to a correspondent who interviewed the handful of survivors. Angered by the refusal of the people to withdraw with the German army As the soviets advanced the nazi commander rounded up the entire population and divided it into three groups men women and children. The men were cold blood edly Bayon eted to death. The children were hurled into a huge Bonfire the correspondent reported. One boy was tied to the Tail of an officers horse Ard dragged across a Field before the nazi emptied his revolver into the child. Then came the women a turn. They were stripped beaten with Birch rods attacked then shot. Before the nazis pulled out arson squads set fire to 384 houses in the Village. British boxers win in tunisian bouts a series of weekly boxing bouts Between american and British fighters is now being staged at a . Hospital somewhere in Tunisia. The second card of the series was held on sept. 23 and resulted in the British taking seven out of eight bouts. The one american Victory of the evening was scored by Cpl. Jack Smith. 135, who Kafoed Bob Barber a British army lightweight in the second round of a scheduled three Rounder. A american scrappers who feel hat they can do better against the British boys and who would Ike to help keep the boxing series going should get in touch with a sgt. Wiliam a. Vickers Apo 763. Writers killed continued from Page i 5th army takes Naples continued from Page i in their reserves in a desperate attempt to sweep the Allied troops Back into the sea. It was the constant i pouring of fresh fighting troops plus excellent naval and air support that turned the tide for the 5th army giving them the strength to hit Back hard and push Forward slowly but surely. From the beaches the British and american soldiers fought up to the rising ground into the twisting narrow Mountain passes deep into the High ground North Northeast and Northwest of Salerno. Coupled with the threat of the fast upcoming British 8th army on the Adriatic coast the 5th army forced the germans to swing Back their whole line using Salerno As a Pivot. Then this week 5th army troops started smashing Forward Fougias capture it continued from Page ii of fire. Those two enemy tanks were finished but a third still waited. Quot now it started to Advance Down the Road toward us. It was about 400 Yards away when i and the other american correspondents crossed the Road to a protecting Bend. Fifteen seconds later an enemy Shell thundered into the area where we had been standing the Mark Iii Lead been zeroing in on us. Two britishers and one australian who had remained there were  Austin was considered to have had one of the Best military backgrounds of All British correspondents. He landed in North Africa last november and spent almost his entire time at the front. At the outbreak of the War he was a Wing commander with Raf Public relations but resigned to return to the daily Herald. A retiring Scot he was the author of two War books. Representing All australian morning papers Munday had been abroad two and a half years in Burma and with the 8th army in the Western desert and Tunisia. Sale was a Veteran reporter and flew on the historic Raf Berlin raid last january. He was formerly aviation editor of the London daily Telegraph. The four men who were killed or wounded and Frank Gillard of bbl were the Only British newsmen to land with the British of the 5th army. Austin Munday and Sale were the first correspondents to be killed in this theater. Mile round trip from Foggia and flying fortresses already have flown that distance to bomb Bolzano in Northern Italy. B-24s now operating under Naaf direction flew a 2,400-mile round trip to bomb the Plesti oilfields in Rumania and that Range from Foggia would easily cover All of Germany and any targets in occupied Europe. The principal Field in the Foggia system Foggia Gino Lisa has a number of buildings and hangars and other excellent equipment including night Landing facilities. The satellites vary in size from Landing strips 1,000 Yards Long and too Yards wide to Fields 1,700 Yards by 450 Yards. The first Allied officers to reach Foggia said the germans had burned All the planes they were not Able to Fly away and that what buildings had not been bombed by Allied planes were wrecked by the germans. There has been no word yet that Allied planes Are operating from the Foggia Fields but this May be due in part to the bad weather in Italy this week. Japs fall Back continued from Page i lied troops dropped behind lae North of Salamata and demoralized both bases into Quick defeats the same technique these writers say May be worked shortly by an Allied attack on weak or Padang while Finsch Haven is on its last legs. Heavy Allied air blows at both weak and Padang this week partially substantiated these views. Hub of Jap air Power on the Island. Weak was hit twice with hundreds of tons of bombs. At least 50 parked aircraft were wrecked on the ground seven merchant ships of a newly arrived Convoy were sunk in the Harbor and the largest Jap ammunition dump on the Island was blown up in the twin blow. At least 16 Jap fighters were knocked Down at a loss of three Allied planes. Near Padang 70 Miles South of weak encampments were plastered with too tons of explosives tuesday. The strategic importance of these More Northern bases was obvious while the capture of Finsch Haven would give the allies a Short water route across the Vitiaz Straits to Jap held new Britain and powerful Rabaul the elimination of Padang and weak on Finsch Haven a flank would be essential before any operations could be carried out against the japs across the narrow Waters. More quickly taking Strong Point after Strong Point in the Tough Mountain terrain. In the More northeastern Salerno sector where the terrain was less difficult and the German resistance less stubborn the 5th army push went Forward More quickly. Allied troops drove a triangular wedge la Miles deep into the Back swinging German hinge As they took Cassano 21 Miles Northeast of Salerno. Pinch off town the Triangle became a rectangle when the 5th army divisions widened the Point of the spearhead of the wedge by taking Over lion a Small town nine Miles directly East of Cassano. Then in the lower right hand Comer of the wedge Allied soldiers secured their position by pinching off the town of Castelnuovo seven Miles Southeast of lion. But in the High Hills just North of Salerno things went a Little More slowly. The germans were taking fullest advantage of the wonderful defensive fighting country. By scattering a Small rearguard Force behind the cover of crags and Cliffs the germans were Able to stall Allied Progress temporarily. The allies had a terrific Supply problem a everything had to be brought up by pack mule. Still despite the stiff German resistance and their Superior positions British and american troops never stopped coming until they finally swept through the Small much bought Over town of Sala squeezing out the remnants of German troops from the last fringes of High ground nine Miles Northwest of Salerno. Road control from Sala general Clarks troops had Complete observation of the Road Rushing Down into the Plain up to Nocera important Road and mail Center eight Miles Northwest of Salerno and Only 20 Miles from the outskirts of Naples. But the germans had similar observation. The germans were entrenched on the hilltops near the Mouth of the Sorrento Peninsula on the Allied left flank several Miles Southwest of Nocera. Before they could control Nocera and the Road to Naples the 5ui army first had to Knock the germans off the hilltops and mop up their entire left flank. So they did just that. In an All out sweep All along the line the Allied soldiers pushed the germans completely out of the Hills on their flank and kept going until they took Castellammare a vital shipyard and naval base on the Southern Shore of the Gulf of Naples. After that they advanced several More Miles to Pompeii. 13 air Miles from Naples. Simultaneously other Allied units arched into Nocera. 8tii stretched olt on the Eastern coast of the italian Boot. Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery s 8th army was this week stretched out from the Taranto Bari line on top of the italian Heel Way up past the Fanto River 25 Miles from Bari along the Adriatic coast. From Here the 8th army made several Sharp thrusts against slight opposition pushing past Margherita i Savoia. There was no stopping Here and the very next morning a Strong Mobile armoured Force punched right into Foggia. Field marshal Kesselring this week was having other worries too. He was having  in Hills deep behind the German lines in Italy italian soldiers and civilians organized into Small guerrilla bands and were Here and there sabotaging German communications and transportation. Terry and the pirates by Milt Caniff