Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1943, Oran, Oran                               Monday july 19, 1943the stars and stripes pass 4 bombers hit Many area London july 18 a medium bombers of the new support command of the eighth Saaf have made their first Large scale raid with Railroad Yards at Abbeville in Northern prance As their target it was announced today. The bombers flew with fighter escort at medium rather than Low altitudes. This represented a change in tactics which proved successful for. Although heavy flak was encountered Over the target no planes were Ost. Plying fortresses successfully attacked Amsterdam saturday. Hits were seen in the target area and the unescorted planes shot Down at least 50 enemy interceptors. For a toss of Only two of our bombers. Meanwhile in coordination with the sicilian Campaign. Heavy bombers of the rap attacked transformers and switching stations in Northern Italy for two consecutive nights said an air Hii Nistra communique. Much of the italian Rajdl Way system is electrified and the attack was designed to interfere with the lines along which supplies and reinforcements from Germany and Northern Italy must go to reach Sicily the communique added. Strong red continued rom Pape 1 tack was one of the most dramatic scenes the russian German front has Ever witnessed front line observers reported. Masses of soviet bomb is dropped huge loads of bombs on run Sites end nor tar batteries. For hours. A Ong Range artillery pounded its pre arranged targets in the defense line before Orel a defense line on which the germans have Beer building for 18 months calculating to hold it against any attack. That line is now in ruins the Corr it Oon dents wrote. The russian Advance of nearly 40 Miles in four Days has Oen featured by a concentration of american general Sherman tanks and British Churchill tanks the germans regard the Orel attack As diversionary while they Advance in the Belgorod sector an official Gengan commentator old. But they be Cognize that the russians strength is by Iso Means exhausted and it is possible for Fem to Start a a still greater Milf offensive at other Points on the Eastern front. On the Bali Home hews h by of Astoria  fishing boat Kincheloe returned with a catch that included one Buck Deer found swimming in the Columbia River. Hauled in with a net the Deer was too tired to put up a fight. Saginaw  b. Mershon Lumberman philanthropist and sportsman died at the age of i. He had been mayor and Alderman of Saginaw and had served As a member of the state forestry Board and state tax commission. Chicago the Fri has entered the investigation of Chis ago s half a million Dollar Strongbox burglary. Big time gangsters and gamblers were reported to have Deposit boxes at Portage Park safety Deposit company which was looted last weekend. Beverly Hills  Montes who came to the american screen from the dominican Republic was married to Jean Pierre aum Wood. The actor Charles Boyer was Best Man. New York Fri men rounding up 81 draft dodgers called at the Home of one where the Mother sorrowfully told agents she had not seen her son for More than a year. Nevertheless they made a search and notified the Mother that they were about to effect a family reunion. They had found her missing son under the bed. Now sinking japs two to one yanks near continued from Pope 1 Washington july 18�?"we Are sinking two ships for each one the japanese can build Quot the maritime commission announced today in revealing the United states pm Raf pounds Sicily ships Allied Force Headquarters july 18�?rap torpedo carrying aircraft of the coastal air Force yesterday had one of its most successful Days since the sicilian Campaign opened. Hammering at Axis sea borne Supply lines the planes scored hits on a 9,000-ten cargo vessel and a 5,000-ton Tanker and set a 1,000-ton Tanker ablaze with Cannon fire. Two Axis convoys were attacked. The cargo vessel was sighted steaming North off the tip of Corsica while the Tanker Convoy was heading eastbound apparently for Sardinia. Torpedo carrying Beau fighters and others armed with Cannon were sent to attack. Coming in Low they launched their misses. The cargo vessel slowly settled with torpedoes in her Stem and amidships Quot the tar fkr is were protected by two flak ships and two Small escort  really it the big Tanker Quot Pilot officer Lee Heide of Vancouver b. A said Quot at least three of us shred hits and the ship blew sky  300,000 More people us  the Bah makes not difference when it comes Toad mining winsome Margaret fluid dry. Note the legs on the want chair. Six Allied planes. The Jap ships were a Light Cruiser two destroyers a submarine Chaser a Tanker and two cargo ships. H i in the last fortnight in the Bat diced More tonnage in one month Tje for the Solomons the japanese livid Sci Iii u. S. Than Jap shipyards have built have it at least 17 More ships. M since the beginning of the War. The latest score of 49 enemy planes brings the total destroyed since the end of last month up to 305, to the loss of 63 Allied planes. In new Guinea american and j.6 of their was snips arid australian troops have captured ships totalling 2,224.000 Bubo and Are pushing on towards Salamata according to the Allied since the outbreak of the War Quot the commission said Quot the japanese have been Able to produce Only tons of shipping. The u. Grandson of i son gets commission port Washington my. A Woodrow Wilson Sayre grandson of former president Woodrow Wilson. Has been commissioned a second lieutenant at the graduation exercises of the adjutant general a depart Mei. Here. His Mother was the late mrs Jesse Wilson Sayre daughter of president Wilson and his father Francis b. Bayre was u. S. High commissioner to the Philippines at the Tim of the japanese invasion. Pm s Donee held at most Agoney Friday a dance for the enlisted men at most Ganem was held Friday evening july 16 at the naval of leers club. More than 200 its attended. Highlight of the evening was the Arrew coast artillery band under the Baton of sergeant Rando which featured three Novelty numbers. Ted Siorek played several accordion numbers followed by piano specialities rendered by Lew Alvarez. Quot. Responsible for the. Evenings Success were the following committees refreshment committee chief Petty officer Jim Kyrios Louis her below re 2-c, j. Flynn Mel a e. Hovey so 2-c, l. Wai Berg. So 2-c, and j. Clough so 3-c. Dance committee. J. Page. B 2-c. Mickey Wallrath my 2-c, Lew Alvarez f la j. Flynn Mel Covo i production increased greatly Washington july 18 a tremendous increases in american naval production were revealed today by senator Homer t. Bone of Washington a member of the Senate naval affairs committee. Quot nearly four times As Many torpedo bombers were turned out last month As in june 1942. He announced. Quot dive bomber production has multiplied six and a half times and fighter plane production More than three and a half times. Navy shipbuilding programs show corresponding  South Pacific Headquarters communique. Advance patrols were meeting Little resistance As they moved northwards and were last reported nine Miles South of Sai Amaua. Another Force is pushing toward Komi Tum Strong Jap position six Miles South of Salamata. In the aleutians it was reported Large Craft of the Navy bombarded Kiska for the fifth time this month. A Washington july 18�?there were 30o.oc0 More people living in the u. S. During the first year of War than the year before despite the Large numbers of troops sent abroad the census bureaus announced today. Last december the estimated population of the country was 133.949,529. Pre War output of locomotives trebled Washington july 18�?the United states has trebled the prewar output of locomotives it was announced Tot Fay. The bulk of new locomotives Are destined for military operations on the continent. The roving reporter continued from Page 2 Sions of their newly acquired soil and its inhabitants by saying Quot hell this is just As bad As  in Southern Sicily on our first morning in Sicily i stopped to Chat with the Crew of a big howitzer which had just got its gun Moil Bride Mote held for slaying Harrisburg  l. Dug in and Camo flagged. The in Mccabe. Forty nine years old a Vasion was Only a few hours old. Former War Plant worker from but in our part of the territory Mounds Al has been held without it was nearly Over. This gun Crew Aptil in connection with the slant was digging Foxholes. The ground ing of his mail order Bride whose was Nard and very Tough rigging body was found last Christmas in a he boys were mad at the ital an abandoned mine near Eldorado ians. Quot we did t even get to fire Mccabe says he has not seen a shot Quot one of them said in Dis de. Damon y 2-c, c. Thompson mrs. Margaret Mccabe forty two. Gust. Another one said Quot they re y 3-c, and ted Siorek so 2-c/ since she left him last september gangplank  whatever that transportation committee a c. And ended their matrimonial Agency Means. Mize. My la c. B. Burt f la Romance Mccabe obtained a i their and t. Townsend s la. Vorce last november. Aug tue a  the disappointment of lots of soldiers. Ing the Day As though they a found Gola. Others said they a found watermelons too. But i could t fird any. I hitched a ride and Drey Ini the City of Licata with maj. Charles Monnier of Dixon Lincis. Sgt. Earl Glass of go fax Illinois and sgt. Jaspar Toarmina of 94 Starr Street Brooklyn they were All engineers going to straighten up the port., Toarmina was driving and the other two held Tommy guns at ready Locking for snipers Toarmina himself was so Busy watching for snipers that he ran right into a Shell Hole in the Middle of the Street and almost upset the jeep. Toarmina is of sicilian descent in fact his father was born in a Eagle Eye sergeant cracks Rifle Mark fort Benning  Eye is the title Hung on staff sergeant j. Lehner. Firing routine demonstration before an oct class. Lehner scored 2c9 out of a possible 210 with a Browning automatic Rifle. The score is believed Best in the history of the army end tops previous records of 206 it two months ago by tech Ergeant Grafton close Friend of Lehner. General drops hint to All driving experts our troops had men through wnt_20 my a West Lucata. Such keen and exhaustive training they were worked up to a violent pitch and it was an awful letdown to find nothing to take it out on. Only killed three talked with one Ranger who and for All he knows his grandmother is still living there. The sergeant can speak Good italian he talked to the local people Oil the streets. They told him they were sick of being starved and brow beaten by the germans and the reason they put up such it had been through Dieppe Arrew poor show in our sector was that More compensation for War widows Washington. D. , Tion raising compensation for widows and children of men killed in War has been signed by president Roosevelt under the new Law widows will receive fifty dollars a month. Widows with one Chud will receive sixty five dollars and thirteen dollars for each additional child. H s Pasteur Institute to receive vaccines Washington. July 18 the american red Gross has announced that the Pasteur Institute of soon will receive the first dollars and lab these formerly bag Handi the Institute in Brig. Gen. J. V. Dillon Provost marshal general of Nat Ousa is the latest to add his word of indignation Over the action of a hit and run jeep Driver whose car struck  seriously injured an air forces lieutenant in Algiers on the night of july 5. Gen. Dillon who had a lot to say on the subject of driving wants the hit and run Driver and his companion to know that they Are no less than saboteurs. Both men belie. 3d to be american soldiers failed to lend assistance to the co Pilot of a b-25 who is now in a Hospital suffering great pain from a broken Pelvis. He May not be Able to walk for the next 10 months. Quot if the Driver had assisted the victim the Case would have been tragic enough Quot the general said. Quot but the fact that he and his companion made no Effort to lend a hand makes them successful accomplices to Adolf hitlers fighter pilots who failed to shoot Down this american Dyer on his numerous combat  Gen. Dulon said that no traffic Accident is so revolting As a Quot hit and run Quot incident. He said that although Quot hit and runs Quot Are pot populated North african centers and issued a general warning to prospective Quot saboteurs to be aware of the consequences of such temporary to it rides. The reason the Quot hit and run Quot jeep jumped a curb to strike its victim May have been that its steering mechanism a tampered with in a half hearted attempt to immobilize the vehicle and that Quot Joy riders borrowed the car ignorant of its defect. Gen. Dillon further warned Drivers Cfall government cars and Quot jeep experts in particular # to take it easy on the Overly congested streets of crowded North african cities. Hils amp old there is no excuse f or Madcap driving. In most cases there is no particular hurry certainly not enough to endanger life and limb of Soldier and civilian pedestrian in an Effort to save and Al Huettar and he said this was by far the easiest of All. He said it left him jumpy and nervous to get trained up razor Edge and then have your Job fizzle out. He Only got to kill three italians the poor fellow and he was sore a a boil at the whole show. This Range was sgt. Mure whited a Friendly Biond fellow of medium size from Middlesboro by. He has been overseas a year and a half. Back Home he has a wife and five year old daughter. He used to run his uncles bar Back in Middlesboro and says when the War is Over he going Back and drink the oar dry and then just Settle Down behind it for the rest of his life. Thev did no to want. It fight. They ram the germans had lots of wheat locked up in granaries in Licata and they hoped we would unlock it Ano give it to them. Prisoner before the Sun was two hours nigh our troops had built prisoner of War Camps out of barbed wire on the rolling hillsides and All Day Long groups of soldiers and civilians were me Ched up the Road to the several Camps. At the first Camp i came to about 200 italian soldiers and the same number of civilians were sitting on the ground inside the wire. There were on it two germans. Both were officers and they sat apart Down in one Comer disdainful of sgt. Whited and his command a off 0ne pan ing officer were in the first wave to hit Shore. A machine gun Pillbox was shooting at them anti they made for it up the Hill about a couple of minutes. Gen Dillon mile away. Quot three of Eaid. Particularly. Gen Dillon wants All Drivers to realize that a they Are As bad As hitlers snipers if they injure or immobilize american fighting men in careless accidents. Right now however his main concern is in the state of the Al whited says three went to them got away Quot but the other . A a  since the invading soldiers of our sections had t much battling off and his legs were covered with mercuric Rome. Where head been scratched. The civilians even brought their goats into the prisons cages with them. After being investigated those who were harmless would be turned Loose. Many of the italian troops were sent Back to Africa on our empty returning convoys. The italian prisoners seemed anything but downhearted. They munched at biscuits and asked to talk about they looked around Giersz Quot hit and run Drivers con to see what this new country had their american Gar is for Mitch science. He directed that a Mes of or. And you d never guesses. As usual the area immediately uncommon in the United 8tates, Sage be directed to the criminally the most commented upon Cus became fun of stories about Pris they Are particularly in american careless Driver of the car through covery among the soldiers that owners who had lived 20 years in affairs in that they Are cowardly t medium of the stars and first Day. No it Wasny to senoritas new York and who ame up Grin and indecent. Strides. Or Beer or it. Etna. It was that end asking How things were Gen. Dillon mentioned a wave Thotis it they found Fields of Ripe tomatoes in dear old to Bush. Sos Eumes it temporary thefts Quot of govern Quot How do you feel today or. An. Did the eat them. I heard the War seer. Too ridiculous to be ment vehicles in Algiers and other i once a at least two dozen speak o it Dur True