Piqua Daily Call, The (Newspaper) - December 8, 1942, Piqua, Ohio WAR THE PIQUA CALL YEAR No 44 WEATHER Continued cold to night OHIO TUESDAY DECEMBER PRICE FOUR CENTS Scurry Away After Transport Is Hit 1 I i i i I azis Trapped in Snow to Cossacks By M S HANDLER Staff Correspondent Moscow Dec tard swept the Stalingrad tle front today while ing Russian Cossacks dashed the snow cutting down from German units down in the deep drifts Despite the driving storm fight ing was heavy and artillery duels continued day and night The big shells threw up great of snow amid struggling masses of men and machines Russian sapper crews into the German minefields were having difficulty cleaning away en- emy obstacles front dispatches said Mines anil tank traps were buried PAIN'S POSITION IS CAUSING SPECULATION of the Country in Future Is Believed to Be Revealed Shortly Franco to Make Public Address Today and Interest Is Aroused Over What He May Say Position of Country Is Strategic deep under the snow and operations were slowed somewhat by bad weather conditions and impassable snow banks Tlie German resistance was fening the entire and the Nazi commanders their thin clad men into fierce and re- Concluded on Pa BY HARRISON SALISBURY IT P StaB Correspondent Axis and the Allies were ked in rising battle in Tunisia y with spotlight turning rd Spain's strategic OF WRITER COMPLETED TODAY Editor's is the and final Installment of the iary of John A United ress staff correspondent whose assignment to turned at to be the American Africa In tills installment arris tells of the landing of merican troops and the Initial to get a foothold at BY A P STAFF a a big troop ship anchored off sprawling village zew A blood-red African sun es up through the hills in the t The beaches have been cleared Ohio Roads Clear Up O Dec 8 ids were generally clear with a i scattered icy spots which have n cindered the highway nt reported today tude toward the spreading battle her might be position at subject to further clarification was seen in announcement that Gen Francisco Franco would make a lic address today The German radio said that co's declaration would be of erable importance The Spanish ambassadors to both Berlin and Vichy have returned home for the occasion Interest in Spain's position has been heightened by a growing be- lief in London that Adolf Hitler might counter the Allied initiative in Africa by a swoop through Spain to attack Gibraltar the Allied bastion guarding the ply line inlo Hie Mediterranean on which the offensive In north Africa is dependent Spain thus far has hewed to a course of strict neutrality Four Seals the western gateway to the terranean The possibility that Spain's Concluded on Page Seven SYMPATHIZERS OF Manzanar Cal Axis sympathizers Dec were 8 re- rence of the Pearl Harbor ARE LOST Washington Dcc 8 of tbe forces and the merchant marine for the first year of war totaled The Office of War Information announcing the figures on the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor allack said the total included the missing in- In neutral countries and of the Army Navy marine corps coast guard chant marine and Philippine Scouts FRANCO USES THE WORDS OF HITLER Declares That Spain Be- longs to the European World Before gists London Dec 8 Gen by phase employed UJ Adolf Hitler to describe his concept of the Nazi order in Europe Broadcast reports of Franco's ad- dress before the new Falangist party council in Madrid quoted him as asserting that Spain's policy has its own characteristics but that we Spaniards do not belong to a world which is other than Euro- pean Tlie Spanish leader asserted that on Page Seven Bryce Is Councilman sary riot between pro-Allied and elements among the 000 interned Japanese About 30 wives and children of the 125 persons attached to the non-Japanese administrative also were removed from the camp for protection The roundup of Axis sympathizers began after an outbreak Sunday night when one Japanese was killed and nine were wounded location eci ninth councilman to succeed Mayor John Q Carey who ed at Ei NEW BLOW AT ENEMY PROBABLE May Be Thrown Into New Retreat for Tripoli if Plan Succeeds By EDWARD W BEATTIE Staff Correspondent London Dec grand Allied assault from the east on he Axis position in Africa it appeared today may hit the Germans and Italians while the Tunisia fighting still is in the hard skirmishing stage The British Eighth army in the opinion of London observers ably has completed preparations tor the breakthrough attack at El eila whiich Is expected to throw Marshal Rommel Into a new retreat for Tripoli As the Eighth Army attack de- it was said the British First Army with its American and French elements under Lieut Gen K A can be expected to move forward to pinch the Axis from the west For the moment reports from rica made plain the Allies in on the defensive as Victory goes to her head One thing to do with war savings stamps is to paste them in a book until you have enough to buy a bond But Aim ford wears them as a tion on her Seven TO BE CONSIDERED A NATIONAL POOL Manpower Needs for Army and Navy and In- dustry to Be Quickly Estimated BY V P Staff Correspondent Washington Dec 8 War Manpower Chief Paul V McNutt met the joint chiefs of staff of trc Army and Navy today to determine their basic manpower needs as a prelude to an immediate attack on the overall manpower problem Once Army and Navy needs are determined the availability of ers for war industries will be known and the program ol placing them where they can most will begin McNutt promised yesterday that action would be swift and said that from now on the total population s being considered as a irom which the needs of on Page Seven IOWA LAWYER GETS THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF Harrison E Spongier is Named As Compromise Candidate at St Louis BY C U P STAFF St Louis Mo Dec s son E Iowa lawyer nnd chairman of the Re- publican National Committee un- his today with a con- statement thai there is a trend against the which will a can president In W-U if It continues He attributed last month's Re- publican election gains to an cumulation of 10 years of the New and ence with private enterprise Spongier was elected as a mise candidate y after deUL Willkie put enough pressure Concluded on Seven 21 MORE JAPANESE PLANES SHOT DOWN Losses in Aircraft on New Guinea Front Increase MacArthur Reports Gen MacArthur's Australia Dcc S Allied air forces had destroyed 21 more CHURCHILL GIVES WARNING TO JAPS London Dec 8 ister Winston Churchill warned the Japanese today that the United hell anese planes on the New front today as methodical tions went on for a final assault the enemy garrisons in the Buna area As far as ground fighting Is con- cerned said a spokesman for Gen AGREEMENT INCLUDES PART OF BIG FRENCH CRAFT of French West Africa and General Eisenhower in Definite Pact Today Which Also Gives Use of West African Airdromes to the United Notions in Prosecution of War Against Axis BY C R CUNNINGHAM United Press Stiff Correspondent Allied North African Dec 8 sizable portion of the French fleet and the French marine the cause of the United Nations day as Pierre Boisson of French Weit came to o definite agreement with Lieut Gen Dwight D Eisenhower Allied commander in chief The agreement turned the strategic port of Dakar on the western bulge of Africa closest to South America with its dominance of the South Atlantic oyer to the United Nations for naval uses West African airdromes were in- cluded of French warships and merchant ships in Dakar harbor was not known here but they were be- to include the ton battleship Richelieu com- m 1940 three ton cruisers Gloire calm and Georges three ton destroyers Fantasque Malin and Terrible 12 submarines three mine sweepers 10 other light a large number of merchant ships Eisenhower in announcing the agreement said the details ing the future employment of these formidable fighting and chant fleets would be worked out in conferences at Dakar An United military mission was leaving for Dakar nt once to work out these plans readiness to collaborate with the United Nations which he proclaimed early in the north rican campaign was sealed formally by Eisenhower in a special an- TOLL OF SHIPPING BY AXIS SUBS 592 REVALS New Torpedoing With Probable Loss of Life Boosts Estimate Tuesday An East Coast Port Dec 8 The toll of merchant shipping hy Axis submarines In eastern waters of the Western Hemisphere ed an unofficial count of today with disclosure by Navy ol a j new torpedoing and the apparent loss of 135 lives I Three other United Mattel's chant vessels also were reported sunk but these were not Included In the total The ships one a I and the others United j States vessels went clown off the i The American said French West Africa would permit the United Nations to Its fields for he transit of Allied planes from the United States and its port Allied shipping Interned facilities He said i Concluded on Page Seven Occluded or GASOLINE HOARDER IS ARRESTED TODAY Euclid O Dec 8 Eu- clid Solicitor Paul Torbet sued s warrant for the arrest of Carson alleged owner of an or en- two tanks buried in a tennis court i cral Douglas MacArthur this j und containing enough gasoline to I nt been a day up there Just supply the owner ol a basic A i 1 I book I JAPS BLASTED Washington Dec 8 of tic Frank Knox said today that before the out- break of war Japanese merchant was approximately tons ami that between and tons have been sunk since war Discussing the nf this he It is obvious that Japan like England Is an island empire and depends on water-borne trans- port not only for home purposes for supplying ils military forces abroad Knot's figures did not lake into account any new shipping buill by the Japanese since the outbreak nf war Similar Italy and California are alike In many ways besides general size While California's area is half again as much as Italy's bofh are 700 miles long The two grow are ly agricultural and mountain regions as well as swept beaches California's in- are in the south ever while Italy's are in the fat northern area Italy's tion is and is 971 Italians born in ACCESS TO DAKAR MAY PROVE ASSET RV F KEEMLE of the United Tress War Desk Reg U S Pat Office If the battle North Africa Is as long drawn out as it appears likely to be Allied access to Dakar and French West Africa will prove a valuable asset The Allies have obtained use of airfields and an excellent pore only miles from Natal Brazil They have gotten the use of merchant shipping tied up In the port and probably the services of the French warships there The latter is definitely Implied In the statement of Lieut Gen Dwight on Page Seven Spongier Is 0 K Columbus O Dec 8 Don 1 C Power secretary to Governor sain today We are very well pleased with the selection of Harrison K Sparkler as chairman of Republican National Com- mey n t Skelton Dies O Dec 8 George dredge barge for the United States Army Engineers In charge of Lake Erie harbors died yesterday at the home of his son after a year's Illness territories in fighters British Far Eastern T SB runway I shot bv Al Ve President and Wise Is Chaplain Toledo o Dec roll A Wise of Mass has been named chaplain at the Toledo State hospital It was an- I today and LIST mm 15 French Warships at Toulon Taken by Nazis Ohio Youth Is Wounded Mansfield O Dec 8 Navy Department has Mrs Pearl that her son Sheldon 21 was wounded in action witti naval forces in the Sioux Indian Dies Dec 8 French warships including lour under construction and five tankers fell undamaged Into Germans hands at Toulon despite the dramatic scuttling operations ot Nov 27 Secretary of Navy Frank Knox taid today Fifty other warships and one merchant vessel were aged or unaccounted for after being previously afloat in the harbor he added Knox's disclosures were made sible by Aerial reconnaissance over Toulon after the smoke had cleared and thunder of explosions had died away following the French V tempt The secretary a surviving ship ihr Vichy radio the had been exaggerated On Nov 27 the Vichy radio said that on Page Seven Toledo O Dec 8 showmin Sioux Indian formerly known as Chief Hed Dog and of many automotive ccv Father Falter Killed O Ore 3 ol a lain with tbe American soldiers in Morocco has seen killed the tary In Vork ced today CAPITALIST LIBERAL WORLD DOOMED Madrid Dec 8 Francisco Franco told people of Spam today that the and liberal world is doomed ond that the war's end will soon bring a final solution to all great problems CLEVELAND CONTRACTOR IS PENALIZED Washington Dec 8 UPI The War Production Board today penalized Rudolph Khol Cleveland con- tractor for beginning construction without WPB Alk STRUGGLE IS BIG FACTOR Washington Dcc S air struggle oping over will determine air superiority in the Mediterranean and the whole European theater of war Lieut Gen Henry H Arnold said today ARMY NAVY ARE NOT AFFECTED Washington Dec 8 of the Navy Frank Knox said today the new manpower order svill not affect he size of the Navy or Us 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