Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1943, Oran, Oran Page 4 4 4 a k.1--------� a a a nor Fitwi a i a Pacific offensive yanks land on renova nazi Allied planes tangle Over Italy Allied Force head que ter3, nov. 14�?in the biggest sky Battles fought Over the front lines since the landings at Salerno Allied fighter planes yesterday destroyed nine of than co enemy aircraft encountered Over the 5th army front while both German and Allied fighter bomb is were More than ordinarily a live. A a v a. In one engagement. Raf spitfires knocked out four Messer-8<ihmitts. Two of which were accounted for by one British Pilot without a shot being fired. The Pilot jumped the two enemy planes which immediately went in to a dive with the spitfire Oil their tills. The spit pulled out of its dive when the. Strain became to great but the German plants had gone too far and crashed into the Hills. 1 a enemy planes bombed american front line positions in the Volturno River Valley just South of Venafro and below the Garig Hano River on the West coast. American a-36 invaders bombed enemy gun positions Northwest of Mignano. In direct support of Tho hard fighting Allied troops in this sector. And at other Points along the line. B-25 Mitchells and lighter bomb ers continued their attacks on the enemy across the Adriatic in Yugoslavia and Arlaria. The Oil refinery at Berat. In South Central Albania and nearby Lucove Ai drome were bombed by Mitchells which caused three explosions in the refinery Ai 4 several fires in the dispersal areas around the Field. _ p-40�?Ts, escorted by spitfires Straf and. Officials of de the main Landing ground at Telephone laboratories Mostar in Yugoslavia and destroy titrated an electrical gun director mass. De three locomotives at Puzen was conceived in the dreams a Southwest of Mostar. Bad weather 0� a leu physicist. Maj. Gen. L. Hartford Conn. A employ has kept Allied heavy bombers in Campbell jr., chief of the Nunt. As sect Petary to rep. Clare the ground for the last two Days. Army ordnance department said Jjo Otoe Luce was ruled an essential afterwards that the anti aircraft occupation by the Connecticut one of the Best action pictures to come from the Battle fronts is this picture of the first wave of american troops Landing on Bendova Island off new Georgia in the South Pacific. Heavy artillery is Tabush cd later on the Island pounded the japanese Airfield on Monda and helped pave the Way to the Conquest of the vital Baia new a director to me Brief Hollywood asks inquiry on overseas movies new York a Hollywood has asked the army to investigate that its gifts of new films to in the Mediterranean tie East areas Are not the troops the new York time do flared last week j charges that films shown in the Mediterranean and Middle East were for. The most part old oar were brought Back to the states by comedians Jack Benny and Al Jolson who toured the extensively this summer reports have been received from other Heaters. The film Industry is said to be a a genuinely shocked by the reports. Since february 1942, the Industry through its War activities committee has Given free of charge More tharc6,630 prints of 90-minute programs. Most of them Hollywood says were Brand new pictures and some were donated even before their release at Home. The programs printed on 16-tnm film for convenient use in portable projectors Are made up either of one feature running about 90 minutes or a briefer picture and shorts to add up to the same 16 Jap planes sum1t, n. . S. Army of gun director was Quot one of the greatest advances Ever made in the Art of gunfire the directors have been used in action in the South Pacific the aleutians and in Sicily according to Harvey Fletcher director of physical research for the laboratories. Maj. Gen. Alexander Vandegrift commander of the marines at Guadalcanal reported to general Campbell that his forces using the device bowled Down planes at the rate of one to every 90 rounds of ammunition. A at one time 12 out of 16 Jap planes flying at 14,600 feet were shot Down using Only so shots. The rate in the first world War was one hit and not always knocked Down for every 17,000 rounds of ammunition used a the ordnance chief said. The inventor is or. David f. Lafayette Helena Mont. A montanans latin american students Are bought More War Bonds per Cap studying to be pilots at Purdue Ita than the residents of any other University in a course sponsored state the Treasury department by the civil aeronautics adminis reported after the recent third traction. Sixty seven South Amer War loan drive. The state bought leans Are receiving instruction in an average of 38.13 dollars Worth the Bell aircraft and engine mechanics in of Bonds for every Man woman Demon a training school at Springfield and child. The District of Columbia was second with 37.19 dollars and Northern California was third with an even 37 dollars. Charleston s. Nunzio Cammarata 19, was identified at the naval Hospital Here As the Sailor saved at Salerno by naval it. Franklin d. Roosevelt or. It. Roosevelt applied a Tourniquet to Sailor Cammarata a leg when it was blown off by a German bomb and carried the Sailor from a destroyers Bridge to another ship. A he a a swell Guy a came Marata said. Minneapolis Minn. A an Early blizzard sweeping across the North Central states killed at least eight persons five of them in Minnesota. Duluth reported 19 inches of Snow and Sioux City Iowa had 18. Residents of Northern Minnesota feared the blizzard might become As. Severe As the one on armistice Day 1940, when 131 persons were killed and temperatures dropped to six below Zero by selective sender Headquarters in the Case of Albert p. Morano of Greenwich. He was deferred from the draft for a up to six months a rep. Luce a Secretary is 36, married and the father of a ten year old son. Running time. Once the inc mistry turns Over the films to the army Here in new York it assumes no further responsibility for their distribution Anri has no Way of known what happens to them. It has now asked the army to please find out. What has particularly grieved the Industry is the report that soldiers overseas Are shown so Many old movies. Hollywood says that it intended old films to be shown in transports Only and that its aim. Was to show 106 percent new films to soldiers who have arrived overseas. Price control act faces test Washington a test of the constitutionality of the emergency Price control and stabilization act seemed assured today when the supreme court agreed to review two cases. One is that of two Boston butchers convicted by a Massachusetts Federal District court on charges ceiling Price regulating. The other is anti inflation suit brought by economic stabilization director Fred m. Vinson and the opa against the District of Columbia utilities Parkinson who said that he commission and the Washington dreamed he was a member of a Gas and Light company. Dutch anti aircraft gun Crew Williams the run Uhrhan Ron i. N a i a j wjfj5l� the Brt Ngin Down Oman tunes in my a charge Washington sen. Ralph o. Brewster r., Mehas proposed that sen. Tom conally d. Tex author of the recently passed Senate Post War Resolution accompany president Roosevelt to the next meeting of Allied leaders to a a avoid emphasis to views of senators at Youngstown Ohio a the election of Ralph w. O. Neill democratic candidate for mayor of Youngstown by six votes has been certified to the Ohio Secretary of state by the Mahoning county Board of elections. Arthur h. Curley faces new tended that the commission Vio droves with an electrical gun con lated the Price control act when tool mechanism. He began work it authorized the Utility company on just such a control and today ask tor a recount. To up its rates by. Some 200,000 dollars a year. They called it a direct violation of the nation s wartime Economy and the National stabilization program. It was exhibited ordnance men. By the army Washington a the government will seek a new mail fraud indictment against rep. James w. Curley d. Mas former mayor of Boston and former governor of Christmas shoppers Aid proposed for business after War Hollywood a mrs. Shirley Nassau has dropped her paternity suit against actor Errol Flynn and Massachusetts and five other men. Replaced it with a new one de attorney general Francis Biddle manding Only a reasonable sum announced. A previous indictment you can still Send a car ism amps for the support of her three year returned in an investigation of a present Home. Its not too late. Eld daughter Marilyn. She filed a a War contracts brokerage Racket buy a War Bond. The Sutt after the Superior was dismissed in Federal court on the Treasury department in court in los Angeles had sustained the ground that the grand jury Washington will Send the War Pidus demurrer against her or Nad been improperly Impan eled. In addition to Curley the defend Washington a creation of a Ond which you buy overseas 41 i Baal suit machinery under which the gov Reed to any person you name be St so i"1 lend 0ney for Christmas. Tracy Calif. 860 your 111 11 officer or Stop at prisoners of War were arrested if the War Bond division 1st floor near Hoe wearing the uniforms Barrasse by the wart has been proposed by attorney general Francis Biddle. Or. Middle told a Senate Mill dents in the first indictment were Marshall j. Fitzgerald a Washington attorney Donald Wakefield Smith former member of the Nali l Abner it. Feio Oie torn a Senate mud my am Nir at Kern tary affairs subcommittee that his �55 War proposal would relieve private in Mist wifi Temprise of any financial pressure Chi Otmas. In reconversion which might arise while awaiting settlement of final of claims tinker War contracts or subcontracts and permit the procurement agencies to proceed with greater care in making final settlements knowing that any delay would not mock reconversion of firm to peacetime production. Mine cavas in Bat school continues a Pittston houses icily 250 feet from the Garfield Public school were wrecked parts of a Coal mine caved classes began As usual the Day. Police guarded the area to warn Tiu Uther might be More he. Lbs. 8ales Are for Cash Only of United states army sergeants tonal labor relations Board and when you buy a Bond be sure they spoke excellent English and James g. Fuller now serving five to Mark it a a Christmas on a had escaped from a train. Police years for mall fraud James bar left. Chief Sal Jinn to said he had not ton Underwood now in the greek Bond for found out where or How the Ger air Force and Bertryn Hall Dallas mans had obtained the uniforms. Texas. Ickes challenges Congress Power Washington a challenging congressional authority to void executive appointments Secretary of the Interior Harold l. Wickes said he had deliberately renamed or. Robert Morss Lovett to a Virgin islands government Post. He said he hoped to Force a court test of legislation preventing appropriation of funds for or. Lovetts salary after november 15. After or. Lovett and two employees of the Federal communications commission had been accused of subversive activities by the Dies committee. Congress voted last july to withhold Money for their salaries. The salary ban was in the form of a rider on an appropriations Bill. President Roosevelt signed the. Bill but Only after he had denounced the practice of attaching riders to important legislation. At that time the president said he. Regarded the action by Congress As an invasion of the executive departments prerogatives. Secretary Ickes appeared before the House insular affairs Corn Mittee yesterday to explain his reappointment of or. Lovett. The Secretary described the rider As Quot in american legislation and he criticized the committee for calling him. We tired to death of wasting Public funds and time he declared Quot in appearing before fruitless and useless committees of by Al Capp
