13 Nov 1942
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1942
Page
1
Navy communique cites sinking of three Japanese cruisers and five destroyers with one U S destroyer sunk and several ships damaged during October 11 night clash near Savo Island off Guadalcanal. Tom Yarbrough reports aboard a U S cruiser.
The teenage draft bill awaits President Roosevelt's signature and could enable 18 and 19-year-olds to be called to service by Christmas. About 800,000 of the 1.5 million eligible youths are expected to be drafted this winter, with the same number of married men and men with families deferred. Maj. Gen. Hershey projects up to 500,000 of the 1,300,000 may enlist in the Army, Navy or Marines. The measure would allow deferments for high school students 18 or 19 called up late in the school year and requires consent for those past their 5th birthdays. college deferments are not provided.
A powerful Eisenhower led British American force advanced toward Tunisia with hopes to outpace Rommel to Tripoli. Air and sea operations sank tankers and transports while Tobruk was gutted, and Axis garrisons fled westward. Allied assessments cited strong prospects for further Tunisian breakthrough.
The piece describes the British Eighth Army reversing Tobruk's defeat, aided by fresh units and American support. Churchill and Roosevelt pledge aid as US tanks and 105 mm guns join a desert offensive. Rommel retreats toward El Alamein while Allied forces press along the North African coast.
Washington on November 13 reports the War Department rescued a crew member from the missing plane last heard from over Hawaiian waters. Officials say it raises hope that other survivors may be on life rafts nearby as search efforts expand south of Honolulu for Captain Ed die Rickenbacker, missing since October 21.
An official but unpublished program projects about ten percent of the population, all able-bodied men ages eighteen to forty-five, in uniform. The Army would grow to eleven million and the Navy to two million, with no fixed date for maximal call up. The plan marks a shift from a seven and a half million target to a broad mobilization, seen as essential for both war and peace. The move challenges critics who favored five million as sufficient and aims to position the country as a principal arsenal of weapons rather than a frontline manpower source.
Former AP Rome bureau chief reports from Washington that Italy faces its first invasion threat and counts on defenses against American and British troops. Morale near new low after Allied occupation of French North Africa and RAF bombing of Sardinia. Rome radio urges courage amid propaganda broadcasts.
Berlin reports sinking of a British cruiser and destroyer plus five transports with 18 other Allied ships damaged by U boat and air attacks off the Moroccan coast and Bougie. Western Mediterranean U boats allegedly sink a transport and torpedo two more vessels, while occupation of southern France nears completion. Soviet front activity described as repulsed attacks and minor advances near Stalingrad.
On the French frontier civilians face disrupted routes as Axis forces expand in the Vichy zone. Dispatches report restricted traffic from Lyon to Paris and Marseille, with roads reserved for German use, while Nazi troops reach Montpellier near Marseille.
New York reports Franco's regime moves from pro Axis toward strict neutrality following Allied gains in the Mediterranean. Sources say Generalissimo Francisco Franco seeks a middle course as Vichy territories vanish and Gibraltar looms. Iberian pact assurances loom, with fears Hitler may violate Spanish neutrality and trigger wider UN commitments.
William H. Stoneman reports from Algeria on November 12 describing American troops firing from Garands and 25 pound mortars at a French garrison near El Biar. Arabs and French civilians watched from sidewalks as the battle unfolded in a surprised, almost festive scene with locals invited into a cafe for wine during a lull.
Moscow reports renewed German attacks on Stalingrad repelled with heavy losses. Red Star notes fierce fighting as eight Red Army defenders repulse three German assaults and a whole German company. 60 Nazis killed. Northwest of Stalingrad, Russians claim 150 Nazis wiped out. Izvestia cites a damaging Soviet air raid on Maikop in the Caucasus with about 80 German planes using the airfield. Artillery stop near Tuapse prevents a river crossing.
New York report on U S Army landing in North Africa details vast scale of equipment. Unders Secretary Patterson cites 700000 different items landed including railroad locomotives and bridges. He notes heavy shipping and supplies per man and emphasizes no decisive victory yet in the Mediterranean theater.
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