Altoona Mirror (Newspaper) - December 11, 1942, Altoona, Pennsylvania I Tht Circulation of the Altoona Mirror Yesterday VOL 58 NO 154 FACTS ABOUT BLAIR COUNTY The total reported by the county treasurer in the year 6 1880 were PHONE 7171 ALTOONA PA FRIDAY EVENING DECEMBER 11 1942 THIRTY-SIX THREE CENTS ALLIES ON OFFENSIVE IN AFRICA Open Ferocious Attack on Nazi Supply Columns YOUTHS I n YOUTHS BEGIN REGISTRATION IN CITY BLAIR Men Who At- tain 18th Birthdays In Last Half of Year Must Sign Young men who became IS years jl nf age in July and August of this year today began registering with the selective service boards in their respective districts j This marks the first step in registration of the youths who have I T I reached or will have reached their birthdays in the last half ol j this year j In the period starting today and continuing to next Friday Dec IS it is required of the young who were bnrn on or after July 1 FIND GAS W CLIFFORD HOME CRUISER HIT BY TORPEDO Second Group Those who were born on or after r Sept 1 1024 but not afler Oct 11 w II register the ave and ending Thursday Dec 24 j his ship the U S S Erie a cruiser the Dutch West Indies William i Clifford aged 22 son of and Mrs Herbert I Smales of lie is still a ed Stales navy it his life career IS JUSTIFIED STALINGRAD REDS STRIKE EAST Ty KS Ht THROWN BACK D r i v i n g Must Cease Oil Heating Is Also on Way Out il a passioned as any he has made t Staff WASHINGTON D C Dee j The senate committee investigating the war reporting that nat on wide gasoline rationing is who ill forty years of congressional m debate told a farewell audience 1 TV last night that tlie American face a bitter contest with forces more in and power than they are in a real peace to follow the war The veteran senator who leaves the next after bis defeat in the at a dinner given fur hy Senator Joseph F lo a of government ately to Stabilize Front and Halt Soviets rationing is abundantly justified and that fuel oil ing in the east must grow more and more stringent today called for j elimination of pleasure driving and warned that compulsory conversion of oil burners lo coal nmy he j necessary j The committee headed by Ky S MOSCOW Dec plane squadrons led by opened a had come to say goodbye The man who wants to nuke money in this war nr fhe supply columns and troop con- ferocious attack on German who wants to gain from it is flic enemy of the real peace we make if il is to last he said We have them In light all over the tor Harry S D Mo in- fr congress e orr victim of one period commencing Saturday Dee J Germa fr 26 and ending Thursday Dec 31 hc the oil and rubber j lems last month when western j gressmen revolted against gasoline rationing in their areas Its report j The report on rubber in September and tlie recent of William as rubber tor have confirmed the Cation of this last that the rubber situation was ex- and that every sible measure of conservation ALTOONA AND BLAIR MEN TO BE today in an attempt to reduce the weight of in- enemy counter- attacks northwest of Regrouping their forces the Germans were throwing lar troops special units j auxiliaries into their trying desperately to stabilizes r I the front and stop the lent offensive of the j which threatened encirclement i and destruction of their forces i piece ay Nazis Use Reserves H was not believed that the Americans British and French About Ready to Smash Re- sistance BULLETIN LONDON Dec German lank columns have been thrown back in a sharp battle near El Bab twenty miles southwest of bourba an allied com- revealed today and in other forward areas of Tunisia allied i patrols are on the sive in the Middl mid a For the duration of the present ror me 01 lie present ar those young men who were and beached a laging Driving Out five service quota for Blair county 1 bad obtained mi Pleasure driving should pass out il was learned The group outside but Hint they were coast cruiser for the duration When leffers j eludes from four n spite a born on or after Jan 1 1925 shall hc s the registered on the day they attain tion t ks fn nt I -1 t I UJL the 13th anniversary of the dav of their birth If such anniversary falls on a Sunday or a legal day their registrations must be fled on the day following Sunday advises the Alnc only a miracle ca ber essential keep our military 1 Tyrone p Altoona people that hoards and 255 from the two the j ly boards at Hollidaysburg J machine that any j The group will include 1 breakdown such as ordinarily j olds who registered last 30 i plane carried aboard sis is ieven lives were tost six of the anticipated might mean the dead being officers of the craft sis of our military and civilian the years 01 am quarters were above the economy it is time or remainder will comprise men tanks while the seventh was lea to stop look and listen with collateral dependents or mar possible and on the Stalingrad front Today's noon communique re- remaining single mcn left on rolls under 48 years of age ami i an for r a holiday Few This Morning j ror several days There were few registrants re- j the gasoline and oil had his fellow crewmen two city ported by local boards this consumed ing as was expected due to j Cliff three groupings of the eligible approximately ig of fuel oil iu the east f without children systematic bombardment of rw page 31 column young men in the different periods to used in saving valuable cks to the shore the ship's boats KILLED RAILROAD WHILE the beginning of the selective Cross cmd lm by j ice program in the nation The Within a short time after all of I last registration on June 30 ered young men who already were 18 or 19 and those who had be- come 20 since tile preceding tration the survivors had gained the shore column B to tor the groups leaving next month the seven-day period between time of and their departure for j New Cumberland reception ter is effective it was also pointed out Quotas by the various f A H I and on which the li mcn be called for their sical examinations at the Altoona i that the Russians back enemy on two seniors northwest of grad killed about German troops and destroyed seven tanks Russian artillery continued a I WASHINGTON D C j Dec enemy These American nurses among lint first Id arrive I tank Columns which east are given a royal welcome by a British officer fn a n bo loots as though he might he I Allied lines to 3 in seme desert i point near El Bab in Tunisia yesterday after- noon were forced back by i vigorous REPULSE JAPS Id AXIS HAS LOST HEW GUINEA FIGHT WAR bourba from whence the first column apparently AMERICAN TROOPS I ROOSEVELT SAYS induction station was instantly at 12.15 Altoona hoard No I D COULTER IS NAMED CHAIRMAN OF RATION StalT GENERAL M a c A R T II V R S WASHINGTON Dec President Roosevelt disclosing that Advanced along the i forces overseas will mini- HEADQUARTERS AUSTRALIA i forces overseas will Dec holding the bor more by the end lied salient between Buna and s month told congress today Buna mission on the New Guinea front have repulsed another major Japanese attempt to wipe them out it was reported today Australians who cleaned Die enemy out of the village of j were advancing along the bench river It was believed the other timt the axis powers have column came from the at least lost the r nr vl tive of One The president's statement was in Of the axis points seventeen tho three months ended today of El Bab asserting that axis had e or the time be- Battle Intensified it we must do all we can to nge and the extent of Inc fire Two The United States war de the Altoona consolidated war price force continued to days after the shij o'clock noon today while picking men Jan 13 communique them from regaining it and rationing in Dm Japanese air strip near Eima board No Tbc report tbat lend-lease that th scale of fighting intensified of heavy CAN'T BE in Hie annex in j l UU picking coal from lie tracks and OF NAMES is registering the youths i I at its offices while also auxiliary places have been at the Williamsburg Roaring Spring burg and Cove High schools at the Duncansville school The No 2 county board located al postoffice in Tyrone has vided for he young mcn of to register at the high school there and the youths to register at the school in that The standard registration hours a m to S p in excepting Saturday when noon is the closing hour In the Future TVy O C Dec new phase in tho and Italy unfolded today with an declaration that the United States is looking forward to the day when it can help Albania drive the Italian invaders troll her borders Secretary of Slate Cordell Hull in statement applauding the efforts it Albanian guer- illa bands said fhe restoration a free Albania is inherent to the declarations of the tic Charter Attorney Patrick E O'Leary of ary o Altoona recently appointed chief enforcement attorney in the toona district OPA anil Paul M deputy under Leon Henderson arc not related and have never When hey do they're likely she was warned by the whistles of an eastbound freight train and she stepped from the No 3 track to the No 2 westbound track right in thf path of the two locomotives The engines were stopped after striking the woman whose Dec nrn U JIS Oil TV J Moser chairman of board No seconded by 1 S Martin chairman Japanese anti-aircraft positions of board No 4 and by unanimous and vote of all local board members meler mortars brought hi T present at the session from Australia Under Mr Coulter's Don United Press staff ship the new consolidated board at tho front be as board in u written 1 and will set up a system to the last hopeless The j enable the public to handle its 1 forces Penetrated i allied positions in the barlly torn the jirms headland both i longer legs being severed A track crew in working hours abolition of Ja l agencies and a ig longer hoard members will each specialize in one phase of Die program ami working nearby gathered nn page HI column 1 V S f or i 11 c u irt described the allied ast Sunday hut Were i occupied French north obliged to withdraw Monday the greatest single over- j following strong counter- attacks by allied armored units w TO HI TODAY l Dec armies the program opening at Libya and Tunisia are about ready to open a double offensive to 4 IU o'clock Ibis afternoon the winter their secretaries will do of Jaffa temple Anc ient J smash axis resistance and occupy thus facilitating the business of the ban on liquor the to he leary of each other WASHINGTON D C Dec 11 Arabic Order Nobles of the Continued on column 6 Coroner Chester C Rothrock to Shrine will be held during the Members of the new combined west of the Coburn Mg on the main line Adolf You'll Wonder If V S Is So SHIP TOST yet the time is again i hand when another outpouring of 1 j the coins near future With the Christmas rush ll: memorial services Delhi in the Drills by the uniformed will feature the evening j in Tin Some one had better lell in Adolf that the next lime he sounds off about weak and if u the Hull statement piped by crate democracy he had wave radio into Albania as well AS other conquered countries is the latest step in the psychological warfare to weaken the morale of the ian people Prime Minister ston Churchill has warned but they will be bombed into defeat unless hey revolt from Mussolini's rule Assistant of State A A Berle jr has lo Italians lo throw oft their fascist yoke A fortnight ago Hull ing At B conference in concerning future of expressed sympathy for and people whose country vvus invaded by Italy it ought to he the high duty nt every Albanian Hull then to shoot sight every Italian he may find in the try consider the Battling Earths With about fifty more families like that of Mr and Mrs William Barth sr of R D 3 box B Altoona a certain might just as well retire lo Ills vulture's nest and brood about the futility of it all Herewith for reproduce the of a fighting American ily typical of many others Tlie family consists of Mr and Mrs five sons and three daughters Four of Ibe arc wearing army o d al own request not that of the tive service board The rest of the children arc doing their bit in very definitely concrete ways Private First Class Arthur H where he served for two the naval auxiliary session of the public Person in the Solomons ing pennies are asked to rasl jOnly men of the crew are in at the banks at in jo Railroads Mast Do Bigger With Less Equipment on his return and honorable dis- i called for duty Feb 13 1911 served at Camp Camp Mel Fort livers Vn I Camp Murrav r t I I Man he left for Alaska where he is now serving in lime of mm W ci r n in in a Clair K i i more in mvi Ala Bee m ISIS or iM 1 executive lie the war or the Association of American bourd has been for declared today that lily to secure new freigh l r i i every unit nf the nation's cars and MM new locomotives s would resume able railroad equipment must do October Man as soon as rains Ji wnl bigger job in i In of Allied and axis commands massed 1 roads demands are It be he slid ro 1 strength in Tunisia today for a liable met demand thai ae showdown in which AlonS the east roast i being met and traffic is i f OKI me ucing nice anu traffic is May 19.11 went to Paratroops and German ils far as Germans ing nf southeast shippers I swiftly and safely with no Acw Cumberland thence o Camn forces held leading roles were reported bringing in large i board here the task will be the serious delays Shelby Miss ihen lo parachutist forces were troops by glider trans- in railroad Indio Calif where he is now reported operating deep in D battalion Corporal U Han en 7 but il ran be done by company B T territory dynamiting roads j These were in heavier speeding war i j bridges and installations within ten being landed all along the const and unloading assembly that at destination points j is being I icn illi l h miles of Tunis The mission of i and at some inland A i mission oti as souin points A troops was to hamper Germin Patch hy C It United commi today Earlier George H Sharer dent of the National Association war i of Shippers Advisory Boards told freight trans- hampered by have 1 failure nf WPB to release construe to Camp T i t LV Camp Va communications and soften up Use slaff it 500.000 fewer freight lion and that Barth enlisted May 6 went he is a member of company C engineers battalion A I O No Aug S wen i lo cw to thence to New York and is now stationed thence to Panama S axis positions in preparation for a headquarters disclosed trial fewer major allied assault from Slider probably were de- defense positions in HID hills west signed lo tbc advance or of erican paratroops socking to cut be minimum requirements in motives Ilian in nnd only a rars and is ex- fcw more cars and actually lobe authorized for 1943 locomotives wove Meantime er lean paratroops SOCK me to cut i mn Vichy reports said that llm allies coastal communications in al lhc in j lor Harold U at were receiving important new re- the ton said the only way the j o can be relieved is important new re- the Area -i im- iu the arc i The Americans under command can relieved is and there was thai 1.1 will per cent the and the oil as every indication that on 3 4 I reight business and 40 per cent I or M S war production board in an to uve of tin and for war of many of and fnr Ian iu 1943 foods from he larder fnr and many of fish uHs cream anil fats A ft IT such ties lo kv canned for only It learned however that an is bring fnr parkins instead of ttn containers aho drastically slashed of CM foods fnr miltan in for civilian of milk Hacon anil meats fruit fnr oom various juices white chile con loaf vienna nil and and foods
