Piqua Daily Call, The (Newspaper) - November 12, 1942, Piqua, Ohio THE PIQUA DAILY CALL WEATHER Stowly rising today er tonight YEAR No 23 PIQUA OHIO THURSDAY NOVEMBER is Nearing NORTH AFRICA IS FINALLY LIBERATED ALLIES NAZIS AFTER PRIZE AT TOULON 1 Eighth Army Nears Deadly Pursuit of Nazi Troops V Atr BY LEON KAY STAFF CORRESPONDENT Cairo Nov 12 Brit- ish Eighth Army neared today In of the shreds of Marshal Erwin and an Imperial headquarters that Allied planes shot down 23 Ails aircraft yesterday including at least six big troop transports Earlier reports American British said shot down 22 Axis planes yesterday most completely destroying Rommel had air in -a desperate effort slow the advance It was not made clear whether AMERICAN FORCES ON THE WAY TO TUNISIA Drive Forward to Sector Where British Air Army Has Already Delivered a Powerful Blow to Nazi Aviation S Occupation of Morocco and Algeria Is Virtually Complete Today the 23 reported in the communique and those mentioned in the front reports were duplications During yesterday the retreating enemy air forces were caught up by of our armies and brought to the communique said BY HARRISON Staff Correspondent American forces drove forward Tunisia today where the British air army already had dealt powerful blow to the Nazi air YOUNG REGISTRANTS WILL NOT BE GIVEN CALL UNTIL IN 1943 Result Is To Be That ried Men Without dren Will Be Called Washington Nov 12 A Selective Service source aid today that virtually no 18 or draft registrants would drafted before sometime in and that congressional elay In enacting the pending ge draft would result in the of hundreds of thousands f married men without children The Senate is expected to com- lete congressional action on the Concluded on Page Five 700 Go Back to Work Columbus O Nov 12 00 men who walked out Tuesday In labor dispute returned to their tt at the Buckeye Steel Castings today under an arranged by James Wilson I S labor conciliator HE KNOCKED EM DOWN Cairo Nov lz nra Lyman u Middleditch Highlands N J whose tion of four In one makes him the most successful States lighter pilot In the Middle East today wore the Dis- Service Cross tor heroism lie was one of 81 American officers and enlisted men In the battle against Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps decorated yesterday by Mat Gen Frank M Andrews commanding V s Air Forces in the Middle East forces which Adolf Hitler has dis- patched hastily to the French col- ony The n S occupation al French Morocco and Algeria was virtually the Allies miles of coast line and un- parallelled bases from which to at- tack the soft underside of the Axis The German occupation of Vichy France also was nearly complete Racing columns of Nazi troops and smaller Italian forces had taken over most state lie objectives in south France and Italians were a- shore on the French Island of Cor- sica The French fleet according to Concluded on Page Six WEEK IN NATION PROPOSED Washington Nov 12 Senate committee Investigating the war program recommending against compulsory Manpower legislation today proposed lengthening of the work week to 48 hours In a report filed with the Senate the committee Criticized the War Manpower Commission headed by Paul V Nutt for falling to evolve a basic policy or gram in seven months of existence Proposed immediate abolition of voluntary enlistments in the armed services Called for one official to be for determining military and production manpower ments EXECUTED ON AXIS Cairo Nov 12 U S com- reported today that the American Air Force in the Middle East had carried out a series of sweeping attack on Axis positions from Benghazi harbor deep in Libya to the Axis base at Candia Crete Injuries Are East Liverpool O Nov 12 Mrs Margaret Cordray 81 of Con- go w Va died yesterday of In- juries received in a fall at her home CITY OF DOVER Dover O 12 chants today wrote a check for the War Department to build a bomber which will be named City of Dover Re- sponse to the bomber drive far exceeded a goal of As the phia war drive went over the op leaders of the two com- announced tion of a permanent welfare organization ELEPHANT HUNT IN INDIANA ON Wabash Ind Nov 12 safari of police led by a lion tamer trekked along the banks of the Wa- bash today searching for a wayward elephant named Modoc Modoc a four-year-old female described as fled from town yesterday after ing into a home and ft drug store through gardens yards fences and streets She made her break for freedom with two bull elephant companions The three elephants owned by Terrell Jacobs Peru Ind a lion tamer were scheduled to appear at a matinee and evening performance of the Great American Circus at Wabash high school gymnasium They were being lined up for the SOCIAL ECONOMIC CHANGES DISLIKED BY OF C Organization However Pledges Unswerving Support to President Roosevelt Columbus o Nov 12 Ohio Chamber of Commerce pledged unswerving support to President Roosevelt in the ment's conduct of the war but op- posed making the emergency an excuse for needless social and eco- nomic changes Members attending the annual meeting lutions which will guide activities of the organization Governor Bricker U S Senator E Tydings of Ralph Bradford general manager of he U S Chamber of Commerce arid Ralph W business of News Week will address a special banquet tonight to honor on Page Five ACCUSED OFFICER GIVEN DISMISSAL San Francisco Nov 12 Cmdr Maurice N who was tried by a general court-martial on charges of accepting a auto- mobile for facilitating the ment of film singer Tony Martin has been dismissed from the navy discharge was announced by the Navy Department at ington yesterday He was the first s naval officer to face general court-martial in the current war Officials In Appeal Bridgeport O Nov 2 of and societies appealed to their membership of at least 1500 in Belmont county today to make blood donations to Wood banks for can soldiers before Christmas C H Bauman Dies Fremont O Nov 12 ence H Bauman 60 formerly well known Sandusky county meat er died at his home In Detroit Twenty-three Axis aircraft were destroyed In combat At least six them were large transport ners Allied figHters and ers attacked dense Axis transport concentrations without on Page Four on Page DISMISSED SCHOOL OFFICIAL IS OUT Canton O Nov 13 R Traschel dismissed principal ol Genoa high school whose discharge led to a student strike today lost his fight for statement by the Perry board of education Common Pleas Judge Joseph L Floyd ruled that the board of cation had discretionary power to refuse his reinstatement He was fired for charges of an alleged af fair with a woman teacher Bomb Casablanca London Nov Rome said today that Aita planes had bombed port lations at Casablanca which yesterday to the Americana To Erect Honor Roll Bandusky O Nov 12 leaders have plans to list names of 2.000 Erie county serving In the armed forces on an honor roll to be erected on the courthouse lawn Auto Kills Ohioan O Nov 12 An automobile killed Frank P 70 last night when it struck him and dragged him feet Police held the driver for Investigation ENEMY IS REPULSED IN AREAS British and American Forces to Tunisia to Crush Gathering Axis Forces BY C K U P start Correspondent Allied Headquarters in French North Africa Nov 12 and American forces with a ful and Allied French North rica at their backs raced toward Tunisia today to crush Axis forces Hitler had rushed there by Jr The liberation of north Africa was complete Admiral Jean cois Darlan having ordered Vichy forces at 7 a m yesterday to lay down their anns after 16 hours of resistance Now the Americans were Concluded on Page Six GERMANS MUST FALL BACK IN RUSSIA OR FREEZE ON STEPPES Hove Choice of ing to Milder Climate or Die from Intense Cold BV HENRY SHAPIRO V P Staff Correspondent Moscow Nov 12 ter has crushed German hopes of taking Stalingrad and the exhausted Nails now have the choice of to death on the steppes or retreating 40 miles beyond the Don river where the weather is battlefront dispatches said day The Soviet noon communique re- ported the smashing ol enemy at- Concluded on Page Six OFFENSIVE LOST BY NAZI LEADER BY LOUIS F KEEMLE ol the United Press War Desk Reg U S Tat Office The military and political tion of the United Nations in Europe has undergone such a profound change in one week that there is good reason to think the turning point of the war has come That isn't to say there is not R long hard fight ahead Nevertheless our course fa clear now Hitler has lost offensive Concluded on Page Ten POWERFUL ALLIED FORCE MOVES FORWARD TOWARD SECTOR WHERE GERMANS MAY BE GIVEN BATTLE NEW BLOWS STRUCK AT JAP FORGES IN AREA American Airmen Blast Enemy on Solomons and rines Forge On BY SAND OR S KLEIN Staff Correspondent NOT merican Airmen have struck new blows at the Japanese at both ends of the Pacific battle the Solomons and in the Aleutians While U s Marines supported by army planes continued their of- fensive east and west of the airfield on Guadalcanal Island other army were raiding Attu and Islands In the Aleutians destroying enemy planes and damaging enemy cargo ships Last night's communique ed the first mention of action in Concluded on Page Five TO REMAIN IN PORT london Nov 12 broadcast an official an- today that the French fleet would remain In port at under German protection after ils ers had assured the Nails that they would defend themselves against aggression The Vichy announcement with assertions of Allied sources that the French fleet appeared still lo be bound at TouTon and Marseilles with every indication that it remain at anchor There vas no Indication that the fleet had answered Allied appeals to join the United tions In the fight against the Axis Marriage fs Brief Akron O Nov 12 01 Mrs Ar- deth married two months today received word that her husband Lieut J Donald of the Army Air Force plunged to hts death In the bean In a plane crash Increase Refused Washington Nov War Labor Board acting for the first time under the wage policy adopted last week yesterday ed a wage increase agreement be- tween the Manufacturing Co O anil the cal Workers Union Estimated Force of Picked Fighting Men Including Veterans of the Battle of France Pre- pared for Engagement Mobile Columns Join in Race for the Tunisian Doolittle and English Fleets Pace the Advance Today BY EDWARD W BE ATT IE United Press Staff Correspondent London Nov 12 powerful Allied land sco and air force today moved faward a showdown with rhe Axis in Tunisia bulwarked by the British First Army estimated force of picked fighting men Including veterans of the Battle of France Mobile American columns already had started the race for the Tunisian frontier and some reports placed the Allied spearhead within 50 to 100 miles of the border BRITISH BACKING UP AMERICANS British troops it was indicated were swarming ashore to bolster the initial American striking force Brig Gen James A Doolittle's American air fleet and Royal Air Force planes operating from Malta were pacing the advance and the RAF already had brought Axis con- centrations in Tunisia under attack At sea the powerful fleet of Sir Andrew Browne was believed steaming forward possibly with fresh reinforcements to challenge any Italian naval fort to intervene in the crucial struggle A report of German origin claimed that three Allied corners two battleships four cruisers 14 ers and more than 40 transports hod assembled at representing a mossing naval resources which had been strung out along the lengthy Morocco and Algerian coasts How much of the British First Army already was ashore was a secret However the appointment of Lieut Gen K A N Anderson First Army commander as commander-in-chief of Allied forces in Algeria was taken to indicate that the whole force is being thrown in to bock up the initial American assault troops Concluded on Page Ten t I FIRST HAND SURVEY WAS MADE Allied Headquarters in North Africo Nov 12 Gen Dwight D Eisenhower revealed today that his deputy commander Maj Gen Mark W Clack made a daring first-hand survey of the French African situation before the American offensive was launched CAREFUL PLANNING BROUGHT VICTORY Washington Nov 12 occupation of north Africa was due to long and careful planning be- tween all branches of the American and British services and the able support of British and American naval forces Secretary of War Henry L declared today IS RUMORED London Nov 12 The Vichy radio today broadcast a DNB German agency dispatch saying it was rumored that Admiral Jean Francois Darian Gen Charles Auguste Nogues and Gen Henri Honore Giraud were frying to form a in North Africa R A F ARMADA NAZI MOTOR WORKS 1 less than I avoid flak R A F faster arma d each bomber carrying nearly nine of U France on a mission of n for factories iVere building motors tor the Nazis
