Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1943, Oran, Oran Pm Fly 4 the stars and stripes 17. 1943new revisions in draft rules pop will enter if not vital Home Washington aug. 10-gov-emment control Over the whole labor situation was tightened today in sweeping revisions of the War manpower commission and selective service regulations by manpower chief Paul v. Mcnutt. The new rules limit Job transfers to an established list of 149 virtually draft proof critical occupations and lengthen the list of non Referable occupations. If these Steps fail to relieve the manpower shortage it was reported that the administration probably will favor legislation permitting the government to order workers to accept jobs where they can do the most for the War Effort the time has come when Quot every worker must justify himself in terms of construction to the War Effort a Mcnutt declared. The new orders set the pattern for the drafting of fathers. Family men doing the least for the War Effort will be called first Ard local boards Are instructed to give greater consideration to occupational deferments and to determine what immediate effect the induction of a worker would have Oil production. New additions to the non defer Able list included men engaged in the manufacture of alcoholic beverages pet shop workers and pm Matteotti Khier arrest refuted Melbourne a taste a As any officer whose Warne cannot be disc looked for Leo Aduf raisins said today that report of the arrest of supposedly the hitter in the organised Morder of italian socialist Leader Matteotti fee 1924, was not Trae. He stated that he himself had killed Domini in Doma daring the Retreat from Beng sri in april 1941. The officer explain d that he was i charge of 400 italian prisoners who were await ing trial for espionage and Morder of British a abject. When told he was to be taken to Obruk Domini rushed to the door a Klad Ftfe me Al mag res we a 119� new York a former actor maj. Raymond Massey will receive a medical discharge from the Canadian army after eight months service. He served with the Royal Canadian artillery from 1914 through 1919 and was wounded in 1916. His moot famous stage and screen role was As Abe Taiwo a it in minute. Detroit citizens received realistic air rail training Here when 70 civil air patrol planes dropped 100,000 paper bombs on Detroit and neighbouring towns during a practice attack. The misuse canted streamers indicating various types of bombs and air wardens went into action sets record Over 1918 sinking m3 Plo yees of social political fraternal and business clubs. The wac also ruled Quot the status of idleness is to be treated As a non Referable bombers wend rang Basic materials reduced in Ruhr London British bombers with their extended Range will attacking centers concerned with later stages of German War production As distinct from Basic industries an official of the ministry of economic warfare forecast today. He added Quot the bombing of the Ruhr has reduced of Basic material Nuremberg and Mannheim two Good examples of Industrial centers that turn out Basic materials into finished front line equipment. Quot the output of consumer goods is barely keeping up Pace with the air raid damage and with civilian requirement of raid victims. Most germans cannot buy new clothes at All. Even army clothing is being affected. Quot Germany is giving up the unequal struggle with clothes rations and has suspended adult clothing cards due to shortage of textiles and leather. Textile producing centers have been largely destroyed with considerable loss of stocks while the collection of clothing and old shoes has now gone on too Long to secure reasonable return Washington aug. 14�?increasing Allied Success against the German a boat War was noted for May june and july when 90 of the undersea raiders were sunk it was announced today in a joint statement by president Roosevelt and Ertme minister Churchill in the three months move u boats were sunk than during the whole of 1918 when at the Peak of the German sub Campaign 82 a boats were destroyed. The combined communique gave other details of the successful Effort to extend Allied Supply lines to the far Corners of the Earth at the same time a As new Battle fonts were opened. R _. _ new ships built this year exceeded All sinking by 8 million tons. Of the 2,500 ships of All kinds involved in the landings on Sicily Only 80.000 tons were lost. It was reported. July was said to have been the most successful month of the War at sea because imports were High shipping losses moderate and a boat sinking heavy. Although a boats have shown a marked decline in effectiveness the communique pointed out. That it must be remembered that the enemy still has Large a boat reserves completed and under construction. Quot it is necessary therefore to prepare for intensification of the Battle both at sea and in shipyards and to use our shipping with the utmost Economy to strengthen and Speed the general offensive of the United nations the joint Roosevelt Churchill statement concluded. A Ancor canal zone when a draft notice from Tulsa okla., Jesse d. Walker an Engineer working for the army notified authorities he was quitting his Job. The army refused to release a top so he sued to be drafted in Tulsa. The court ruled he could return but said it enforce the ruling. Walker was still up in the air concerning his induction status but at last reports he was still working for the army. Louisville the basis of Early returns j. Lyter Donaldson who has the support of the state administration appeared to have won the democratic nomination for governor Over three other candidates. /. ,/.� a Atlanta Annabelle Greet is the youngest person in the history of the United states qualified to vote in a primary or general a election she registered on her 18th birthday under the newly adopted amendment to the Georgia Constitution cutting minimum voting age to in. V. A a. Montreal Canada either ear Carroll has lost his touch with the women or a Montreal theater owner suddenly went Blind a court suit Here indicated. The famous showman was made defendant in a suit which charged his chorus girls were hot Quot the most Beautiful girls in the world Quot but were without any Beauty or Glamor whatsoever. Theater operator Joseph Desautele said he lost Money on the Caff Oil troupe that played his show House. Rushville Wilkie favors Cleveland for the 1944 Republican convention but will approve any City except Chicago where opposition to his Post War policies is Strong he told Republican National committeemen with whom he conferred Here last week. Brooklyn not Only the dodgers Are Daffy in Brooklyn a trolley car showed when it went out of control on the Pulton Street line. The brakes failed and the car hit a moving Van a Light truck and a Coupe before a pedestrian ran alongside and disconnected the Rouey pole from the Power Jine. Eleven persons were treated for Shock and four others Jap air Force takes beating allies Sot 48 rising Sun Croft Southwest Pacific a ukr Headquarters turn. M a the punch drunk Jap air Fane Ahomed another a it a mint a meat to Day. Gen. Doug tet Mac Arthurs noon communique reported when Allied planes knocked 48 enemy aircraft from the sky in a series o interceptions in which Only Uve Allied a were hospitalised with cuts and fractures. Newark n. of Waco a done to rate As dependents the army ruled in refusing an unemployed Texas husband an allotment based on his wife a service. Brig. Gen n. H. Gilbert director of the office of dependency benefits said that if the texan were a dependent child Mother brother or sister he could get an allowance beginning sept. 1 when the Waco a become a part of the army but in is much As he was Only a husband the answer is thirty four enemy planes shot Down Over Telia Lave a where Only to it Allied Era were lost tor the Day s engagements. Twenty two fighter planes and 12 dive bombers were lost by the enemy. Seven of the number were downed Over the Kali til Ai drome when our fighters caught an enemy formation returning to its base and then heavily strafed Many planes left on the Field. Southwest of lae 14 japanese planes were victims of Allied marksmanship in an engage Metal which Cost americans Only three planes. Allied heavy bombers dropped 91 tons of explosives old the Konia Tum area of Salamata destroyed 10 enemy barges and attacked enemy installations at Talas a and Wafi Noa damaged or destroyed five enemy Barge near Sio. In new Georgia ground forces were dosing in on the japanese Center of resistance near Zeita Village from the North and South the communique Naaf rips Raf feeds int to hungry nazis herewith a new York times editorial of aug. Ii the Raf revealed yesterday that the total weight of by trips dropped on Germany since the hag ruling of the War now has readmit Uwi tons. That is about Throe pounds of int for every resident in hit lers Reich. There is no German living who can now believe in the old tradition that it is possible for Germany to go through the War without experiencing the destruction and horror of War in German Soli. Raf1 has How Vaast Traag them mighty lessons. Yesterday s figures offer the basis for some instructive comparisons. But it is the figures for 1948 that Tell the Moat significant part of the Story. Up to january of this year the score was almost exactly even 07,700 tons dropped on Germany and 69,000 on a retain. But since january the Raf has unloaded 68,000 tons on Germany while Only 2,000 tons have fallen on Britain a ratio of Over 84 the a Loving reporter continued from Page 2. Experience proposed by anybody. He is past 50 and not used to a rough Fife yet he went after it As though he d been doing it forever. Although he kept his column going from Over Here he did t come to write frontline columns. He came to Europe to get a Heo full of firsthand background All the Way from the War offices of London to the Foxholes of Sicily. As he says hell be sitting in Washington for the nest year writing about the War from the King viewpoint and if he knows from personal experience just hour it s done at the front he thinks he can write much More fairly and intelligently than otherwise. Travelling with Ray did Tern to engr for my u reaffirmed my longtime belief that he the America s soundest newspaper Tator and 2 a a Nade hindering Axi sabotage grows within fortress London aug. 16 a according to reports received from Switzerland patriots in the Southern sector of France near the Spanish Border have been hindering recent movements of German troops there. The sabotage included serious interference with the operations of the Railroad line running from Paris to Lyons. Another swis3 source Quot la Tribune de said that similar interference had been effected by italian Yout is who were said to have attacked the italian Garrison of novel near Saint pm Golphe. Supplies arms and ammunition were captured and in the fracas an officer and a Soldier were killed and two other cd idlers were wounded. In Belgium a collaborationist newspaper has admitted that ail is not Well Between the occupier and his people. The paper reported that in some distances the local belgian police Are working with the efforts of the population Quot against the aggressor a the newspaper deplored the Quot situation asking Why the police should take it upon a themselves to interpret the decrees of the Day. And on the other ride of the Atlantic the United Stales paid tribe Tente Anotte a Riemed stamp dedicating the new Issue. A Quot c. Continued from pipe 1 Low them. The marshalling Yards were devastated by the explosions of 4000-Pound blockbusters. Wellingtons attacked other rail Points to the South Ard at the Capri marshalling Yards they found that fires started by american Daylight bombings were stir burning. Port founded pattern bombing by Saaf b-26 marauders yesterday had dealt the damage to Capri West coast italian port in the Gulf of Policas Tro which the wellingtons saw. Escorted by p-36 lightnings the medium bombers wrecked rail facilities and started a urge fire i i an of a tank. American Mitchells attacked the freight Yards and rail junctions at Simbari tear the East coast of the italian ankle hitting and setting afire numerous railway cars. Bomber Crews believed that one great explosion they witnessed was caused by a hit on an ammunition train. Lightnings bombed and strafed railway and Road Bridges at peril i Stalletti South of Bianco on the East coast of the toe of Italy bombs struck the tracks at the Southern end of a Railroad Tunnel and other explosives larded on the nearby Highway. Bianco and Marina i Brau Saleone were other rail Points in this Region to Bear the weigh of ugh tiring attacks. Meanwhile the Straits of my Baa were not being neglected As Light and medium Bombera attacked nazi air Power is now crippled air Force chief loads superiority somewhere itt Sicily. Aug. 12 delayed a German air Power has been crippled and the allies will continue to have tremendous air superiority to the end of the War with this superiority. Steadily increasing air marshal sir Arthur Coningham chief of the tactical air Force told correspondents Here today. Quot from the first Day of the sicilian Campaign we exercised absolute domination of the whole air Quot he said. Quot the Litif Teaffe is a beaten Force. German aircraft Are still very Good but the Luftwaffe losses have been said Coningham. The morale of German air Crews is becoming unsteady however and their fighting spirit is diminishing he said. For its part in winning air superiority the air chief found words of Praise for the crying fortress. He said Quot there is no doubt that As a weapon it has proved to be an absolute killer. I have seen at first hand the devastating effect of its bombing. As a result of fortress raids the sicilian airfields were just about wiped out Quot american scientists honoured by soviet Quot we americans Are proud to Reno or a with this stamp a gnat to Octie nation which the sharing a a War a up a domination and will share in the to Beatton Small Craft and troop concentrations. Allied observers pointed out the difficulty in laying bombs on Rig sagging enemy boats Niia can make the dash to the Mainland 1 of Tittle As is minutes but the air forces have destroyed a considerable too tax at us enemy s ferry Fleck. An pile of the terrific umbrella of Aak the Axis throws the Straits they Washington three can scientists were Given a reception at the soviet "i1&Quot a a a recognising their honorary member hip in the Academy of Suteu tilt of the 8ovfet Union. They Ore professor Ernest o. 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