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Show THE DESERET NEWS Salt Lake City, UtaJi iiaGERMAtiaCOHIROUERPURKBai DARDANELLES, in Saturday, November 7, 1942 Ger would operation favy units bast would threaten Cyprus pnJ Cairo, turn !th help for TURKISH Marshal Rommel's Aft iha Korps. Caucas- BYPASSING Germans could us, strike for .Middle Eottt oil rendexvous and In JK Zap '' Indio. at Cauco i real barrier in German drive south ward, would be possible from h?re. V ' S UPPERCUT sus, Cl ia&. l E2X k!V " B .TURKEY, three years e neutral but tied to both the United Nations and AxTTFypacts and alliances, BEHIND African battle lines: Gen. MAN POWER shortage continued to plague Washington's war plan- KOKODA, apanes(Tinland base in New Guinea, fell to Australians R. L.Maxwell,.who started month ago. Here is a scene saw war coming closer, expressed fear of an attack. Map shows how nation, under German domina-tiokeeps U. S.. ners. Congressmen studied proposals for a national service bill to assign in climax of counter-offensivwould be a springboard for operations against Allies civilian workers to essential tasks, keep them there for the duration. along the jungle trail to Kokoda, with wrecked Jap tanks at sjdl. supplies rolling. n, e At Home: Praise The Lord War On ' Whodunnit Wheels the northern coast of A LONG France, a freight train puffed toward the .little town of Suddenly, out of the clouds swooped a squadron of Berck-Sur-Me- r. American pursuit planes. They swarmed toward the freight train with cannons barking, and from the boiler of the locomotive arose clouds of steam, while the train rolled slowly to a halt.'. . . In the record of the weeks operations against the Axis, the raid caught small interest. But in the overall plan of the United Nations implacable drive against the German war mav chine, it was another important blow. For the locomotive stands high on the list of military objectives in raids on the Third Reich, where railroads a few years ago were neglected and money was lavished on spectacular highways for automobile and truck travel. Now, after three years of war, Adolf Hitler has found the locomotive less expendable, in many respects, than his millions of soldiers and his thousands of tanks and planes. Times Have Changed In the early phases of the conflict, German soldiers and supplies rolled In occuswiftly over pied countries. Hitler seized the best of the railway stock, turned it over to the army and left the rest most of rt in poor condition for the movement of necessary civilian freight. Then Hitler struck into Russia, and as the Russians fell back thev destroyed tracks and equipment, leaving Geimany with the problem of extended communications and no ade; quatn- - railroad stock from which to " draw. So the British have coupled their attacks on war factories in Germany and occupied countries with constant blows on rail centers in these areas. Raiders would prefer to drop their bombs on fat targets, like locomotive repair shops and loundliouses, but a single train proceeding along the countryside is always a prize for the g Hurricanes, Havocs and Bostons. Losses 2 to 1 British sources have estimated that in two years, the destruction of 'railway equipment has been twice the production capacity of Germany and France combined. The British call it a good month when they destroy 50 locomotives; even if the vehicles could be repaired by 'reboilering, the crush of war production in Germany makes Jhis virtually impossible. .Armor-platin- g of the trains would ' help solve the problem. Again, valuable steel cannot be diverted from war materials. The earnestness with which bombers seek out rail centers is shown by the capitulation of the past two years operations over Germahy, Cologne, rail junction as well as war has be ?.p production nerve-spo- t, visited 104 times; Bremen 97, Hamburg 91, Duisburg 56, Duesseldorf 47 e and Essen British have even developed a technique for attacks on single trains. When one is spotted by pursuit ships, it is followed until It enters a tunnel. As the train emerges at the other end, it is pounced upon and the. locomotive boiler riddled with cannon fire. A dual purpose is served; not only is the locomotive put out of commission, but traffic on the line isuheld up until the tunnel can be Reared. One of the war's best stories is how Catholic Chaplain William Maguire, stationed on a U-- . S. ship in Pearl Harbor, left his altar during the Dec. 7 attack by the Japanese, ran to a gun tation a'nd "in the unholy roar of that torrent of bombs . . . shouted his now famous words, I just got one of thm; praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. The story has only one-flasays Chaplain Maguire. It isn't tiue. Last week, while a lot of the nation hummed,, whistled, played or lisof the simtened to the ple little song, the chaplain disclaimed: (1) Manning a gun station; (2) Engaging in any activity from which chaplains are banned by the Geneva convention. Further, he said, w'hile he may have exhorted sailors on that day to keep the explosives moving, he doesnt recall his exact expresw, dum-de-du- sion. From Pearl Harbor came another story, that the phiase actually was uttered by Chaplain Howell Foigy, 34, of Haddonfield, N. J., under eucum-stance- s similar to those ascribed to Chaplain Maguire excepting the participation in the gun operations. Whatever the source, Praise the Lord, etc., boomed along as the No. 1 pep song of --the war, its catchiness making up for what it may lack ip fighting sentiment and martial tempo. and a, spokesman for the National Coffee Association said the mayor, was strictly by ear. playing ght as -- well have- - advised shivering New Yorkers to mix a sprinkling of coal with dead ashes and expect a roaring lire,- - said the , He-mi- Commented another expert: Of course, you can make 2,0(10 bowls of chicken soup from one and still call it chicken chicken soup. Important news blossomed out on Page One of the London Sun- day Observer for the fyst time hisin the paper's tory. The paper announced adoption of the modern- - format for economy as well as convenience. .Go home and put on a dress and 'come back and testify, Judge, Elmer D. Davies told a woman witness in a Nashville, Tenp , court. The woman departed, changed her slacks for more feminine attire, letumed, and the wheels of justice rolled agaih. alarm-clock An shortage created a new business for Mr.- -. Beaulah Claughcr in Kansas.. City. She advertised that for 50 cents a week, shq'd awaken clients by telephone up to a limit of 10 calls a week No Repeater In the majority of America's commercial aviation disasters, the hopes of determining the cause perished with those aboard the plane rarely was theie a survivor to tell what happened, and why. Exception was the crash of a North-- , west Airlines ship last fall at Moorhead, Minn. Fourteen persons died; the lone survivor was the pilot, Capt. Clarence Bates, later able to tell investigators of icing conditions, the plane s actions, its final dive. Last week on? rear and one dav HE nation-"was- " still distressed later a Army bomber falrocketed into tered after its take-of- f, ruins on the St. Paul airport. Killed line cruisers and the aircraft earwere men aboard, a ner Wasp in the Solomons when a ladio engineer and the pilot Cap- -' Elmer Davis, boss of the Office of Bates. Clarence tain War Information, spoke reassur- Pacific T test-flyin- g all-thr- In 1 ingly. Short Expense Account John X Citizen, also known variously as The Little Fellow, The Man in the Street, and the Backbone of Democracy, sauntered forth last week to find out how much theyd boosted the installment pgjments on this war he's . buying. At the corner drug store he bought a n nickel cigars and discovered they now cost him six cents apiece under the new excise tax rise. A package of cigarets cost an additional penny. He stopped at his neighborhood liquor store, and instead of $2 5(1 for a bottle of whisky, he paid $2 90. He also learned that the levy on wines had been boosted, and he paid 30 of 25, Tor the" highball he sipped at his favorite tavern. At the photography shop he bought a new for his cameia and paid a $2 50 tax (it would have been $1 two weeks ago) and on $f vvorth of films he paid 15 cents tax instead of the foi mcr 10 i cuts e He made a telephone call costing S2 (new tax, 40 rents; old tax, 20 cents) and at the lailroad station he was advised that a $10 raTlioad ticket would cost, henceforth, $11 instead of $10 50. The new tax program thus came to John Gtizen with a wallop, but he pa'd willingly for the ,most part, knowing that his conti tbution to the $495,000 000 annual increase would help build mole ships planes, tanks No one explained to John how, w ith the incieased taxes, he also would he able to meet Congress new levy of moie than $400 on his $4 000 income. Simplest explanation was that John will buy fewer rigais. fewer pottles of whisky, fewer gadgets for hi cameia half-doze- - rrnts.-ytnstea- long-distanc- manufacture these materials of which he is short. Baltimore, Qlenn L. Martin revealed that his huge Martin Mais. a 140,000-poun- d m;dgrt next to Kaiser's dream ships, is being converted from a mighty battleship to an equally mighty air freight car. ' In New Orleans. Andrew J. Higgins, --in 1827-2suffered such territory mass production boat builder, whose and losses that her deprestige ship contracts kept him and Washington wallowing around velopment was set back many in great circles, disclosed he too was years. She fought the British and going to build laige cargo planes. French again in 1854, and lost (hat campaign. She sided with Germany m the World War, and although she successfully defended the Dardanelles, she fared badly at the peace conRebounding Elephant A decade ago Americans in the ference. For the last three years, while the midst of unemplov ment, foreclosures and depiessmn, turned thumbs down new Woild War boiled around her, neutral. She elected Turkey managed Republican . Fianklin D Roosevelt president and signed a treaty with Britain, an amity gave him a Deinocratic Congress with pact with Germany, accepted Russia's which to rariy out his New Deal pledge of aid in the event Turkey was attacked by Germany, accepted Amert prngiam. Last week, in the midst of another lean help. emus,- - otci s ' spoke again, piepaied The Jitters to send to Washington the nearest Last week, Turkey showed signs of national thing to a Fiom' President Ismet war legislature the country has seen in Inonujitters. came the solemn pronounce10 jcais ment: stands in danger of Republicans weie jubilant: they attack. Turkey of the aimful choicest an grabbed contests in the nation. Laymen grabbed their newspapers' In New' Yoik, Thomas E. Dewey and their maps, scanned both to see breoed to the governoiship in the what development might have -wake the primary battle between prompted In o flus declaration, and FDR and his James A. from which direction the attack might Farley, stepped out in fiont in the come. race for GOP presidential consideraTo the northeast, the Germans were tion in 1944 smashing with renewed vigor at the . Republicans raptuied governorships Caucasus, and many observers felt m Michigan, California and Connecthat Russia had leached another crititicut, hut saw another pai ty man, cal stage in its defenses. The weather Julius (The Just) Heil lose to a Wis- was on Russia s side, but the Germans consin Piogiessive, Oiland S. Loomis. weie hitting Jiard. apparently in an Senate fatalities included Oklaeffort to clean'up that'eampaign, push homa s Democratic, prohibition-boostinon through to the oil country to the Josh Lee, and Nebraska's Indesout.i. Attack From Africa? pendent. George W Non is. who sought to extend his 30 jears in the Acioss the MeditcrrancaiYTthe Brit-gfSenate with Piesidcnt Roosevelts .pod Gcimans woe fighting inblessing. tensely for the upper hand in North Other highlights Africa. New York's GOP representative, Assuming that Turkey might fear Hamilton Fish, attacked by Demoor attack either frm crats and denied even the support from the British, observers tried to of his own party leaders, was rebalance the facts and came to the elected in. Pi evident Roosevelt's own conclusion that Britains sole gain in a violation of Turkeys neutrality district. Handsome Clatc Boothe Luce, would be the hope of reinforcing the Caucasus. playwright - author, won her first Russians at the Germany, on the other hand, might political race election as a Congressbreak through the Caucasus, swing woman frdm Connecticut. Iowa, NewJetscy. Delaware and through Tuikey and Syria and head South Dakota joined Oklahoma and for Suez. This would be particularly Nebraska in' electing Republican sen- expedient if Field Marshal Rommels forces suffered serious losses in Libya. ators over Democratic incumbents. 9, Politics office-holdei- lend-leas- party-balance- low-flyin- 18-1- B -- rt Fathrr-and-SorTWe- The t T 44.-Th- ' d nmng In e g lend-leas- -- ta-sta- -- Up to noon today, said he, . .... Tempest In A Coffee Pot when I last talked to Navy repKilled: In action in Egypt. Peter resentatives, all With coffee rationing just around sinkings of major the corner, busy little Mayor Fiorello Wood, second son of Lord Halifax, U. S. naval vessels have been reS. LaGuardia took to the radio for one British ambassador to U. of his informal talks to Manhattan's Frozen: By U. S. and Canada, the ported. Three days later the Navy anmillion. production of paper. and paper prod- nounced the loss of another aircraft Coffee rationing, said the mayor, ucts, including newsprint, at the aver- carrier the fourth since the start of will not be difficult. And to make the age of the past six months. the war in an action that took place Doctor, Doctor! Bought: By the governmfnt, Henry two days before Davis spoke. million-tire Dea year plant at Ford's The carrier had been Since the stall of the war Congiess seveiely troit, for shipment to Russia as part damaged in the action, the Navy said has taken nflieial notice of the short e of and finally was abandoned 'with small age of men for the mai it ime-se- i agreements. v ice, Divorced: At Reno, Robert Harold loss of life. Explaining Ins eailier the (aims, the factories, some branches of toe armed forces But last week, Iekes, 28. foster son of U. S. Secretary statement, Davis expicssed the opinof the Interior, by instructor ion that the Navy had not received Congiess was told that the shmtage word of thd carrier's loss- until after thieatens the health of the nation. Marcelle Levcne Iekes. Fb.W5(, ' of the argument was the Died: Artie McGovern, 51, veteran he had spoken. Communication dif- Acuities, he pointed out, often hold up Army and Navy's heavy enrollment of E1 of transmission D( rcpoits from battle doctors. The situation, witnesses told arras. a Senate labor subcommittee, is leavNew York. A later joint Statement by Davis ing many communities without adeTaken: By the Army and Navy for and Navy Secretary Knox' boie this quate medical service. trainees use, sw'ank Florida hotels out, repoi ted , that the Navy had Small communities arc, hit hardest. Hollywood Beach (600 rooms) and learned of the sinking only a few There, the subcommittee heard, paMiami Biltmore (400 rooms). hours before it gave the announcetriotism and the picssure of public Convicted: In - Denver,' Theodore ment to the public. opinion arc the 'moving foice for Edward Coneys, 59, ghost slayer To critics of the Navy's pnliev of, wholesale enlistments by doctors. forcharged with killing a Thec6mmitteo mulled over the withholding word of battle developmmer the in victims attic friend, in living Kansnt City Star Fay ents,-the Army and Navy Journal problem, indicated it would be per10 Life. for months. Sentence: "To Match Our Sweetenin 9 spoke sharply. Such withholding, said mitted to rest until the old Classified: Charles A- - Lindbergh, the Journal, may --on -- occasion curb draft bill sidetracked by the jear election allotment go further, he advised (having dependents, engaged in es- the fury of enemy attacks that might is disposed of But there was every sprinkling some fresh coffee on top sential industry) by a New" Jersey work to our own disadvantage if indication that the tangled manpower of the old grounds, for a very good drajt board. in the reAmerican losses become known at the prohlem was moving steadily toward cup of coffee for the evening. serves, Lindbergh now is a technical time they are incurred clarification7"by national service legisw-Yorkers w'ho want a wallop advisor at Henry Ford's bomber faclation that will put merlin But the public, mercurial in its in their coffee howded in derision, tory. to war nows, got a lift a few jobs, keep thdm there for the days later when the Navy reported duration. Monday, Nov, 9 more than a dozen Jap warships and (through Mid-Western- er merchantmen sunk or damaged in Flying Freighters Coming Mid-Ea- st Nov. 15). the Solomons, along w ith scores- - of Amct lean Education Week Genius bottleneck in Even better was the report our war is the only (through Nov. 14). Production Genius effort, in 1940, when the United States was technically at peace planes. that in ground fighting, the Marines Hen rv . BACK committed to a v , ..Southern Medical Association ; policy of aiding the nations fighting the Axis, had driven the Japs "back from botlv- - Arm Navy government ammdu meets at Richmond, Va. (through Lt. Colonel Russell Lamonte Maxwell's action station was a.deskinSontc'st?d Henderson amfieldnd jjad trial- - leaders.- - Then he- - promised to 13f. ' ? cbu'ple of miles, break the bottleneck, Washington ,the departments! export control.'The job called for a circling April, Wednesday, Nov. 11 The Japs continued to land rein1944, on his calendar for the "unveiling tough kind of diplomacy to see that shipments of raw war mate- forcements despite' the Navys earlier of Armistice Day. his projected mass production of rials to our potential enemies were held to a minimum. Red Cross observance (through statement that Nipponese fleet units the o (140 largest tons) ships Nov. 30). Then Americas non belligerency had retired and Knox cautioned in the world. bubble blewr up, and as the nation nicians from the U. against too much optimism, assuring How would he do it? Kaiser offered orhis he S., Thursday, Nov. 12 put settled down to the problem of total the nation that the Japs would come this blueprint to other war manufacgenius to work. In an in- back. Start of registration for gasowar, the ample figure of the former ganizing turers: finitesimal fraction of the time the line rationing, except in' east Every manufacturer who export control boss now Major Genfinds himself Short of raw materials took to build the pyramids, Honorable (through Nov. 14). - ' eral Maxwell turned up in another Egyptians Jap should immediately find a method-dhe' put up warehouses, assembly of To tough job, halfway around the world. plants, stories the Jap soldiers many repair shops and factories; Supply Man No. 1 for ships, facilities for anci aft. fanatical willingness to die in combat, Today, Gen. Maxwells action sta- highways and railroads for the trans- American troops.. during the week tion is in bustling Cairo, and upon put of these materials to the war added loports of Japanese treachery, in battle. - -- how well he has done his new job zones. area Solomons came the the From sucof much the was British American task The may depend $ Sign On Liberia complicated cess or failure in the newxslugging last summer when Marshal Rommel taleof how 28 out of 30 Marine far-oOne day last week 'in tlie men died when they accommatch on the Egyptian desertS set the British back on their heels, Republic of Liberia, the president Sidelines observers have Seamed captured Tobruk and great stocks of panied a Japanese officer, bearing a signed an executive order making that desert warfare dependrdo a high supplies and equipment. That the flag of truce, to a.camp where he said American money .legal tender to the degree on the amount, and excellence, British initiative could be resumed so his .company wished to surrender. Hidden machine guns ffisii'ed down extent of $20. . of equipment. Generals map their soon is a tribute to the ability of Maxthe men as they appYoached; tw.o The news vould have been of no strategy like admirals at sea, withwell and his crew of workerj. , interest to Americans, except that a holding their blows until they believe jumped into the sea and escaped. Veteran Army told of other instances day or two before, a British news they can outhit the enemy t every Maxwell .is 'a ' typical" 'American where Japs used flags of truce, someagency announced without other con- point, him from any he of hasnt been out times unsuccessfully, to lure troops Army officer; firmation, that U. S, white and negro position. service since he entered West into ambush; how they baited booby soldiers had been stationed in' the Now the British have struck, hurl- 'the 1908. He made the customary traps (concealed explosives) with the, African west coast republic since July. ing everything into a massive effort to Point in bodies of their owm dead. It was the second recent report of drive the Germans and Italians out of tours of Army schools of .higher learnindustrial col-- i Another new wrinkle came from American troop landings in Africa Egypt. Maxwells task is to keep ing the war college, and became an the Pacific area. Unable to bag a and added to thd possibility of wideAmerican equipment ,and supplies lege, and outstanding artilleryman. single U. S. Flying Fortress in two spread Allied 'blows against AxiSj rolling to the British lines. , Th?n his interest turned to months of aerial vyarfare, the Japs dominated territory there. 4 . Faster Than Pharaoh and, from there, to the prob- tried to bomb the bombers with small Dakar, west Africas hot spot, conuldMid-dl- e lems of supply and economic warfare. Maxwell, amiable, charges dropped from Zero fighters tinued to evacuate women and chil-- , cutter flying a thousand febt over the Fort(born Oakdale, 411.) Aggressive, and, St red-tadren while the French West African went Westerner into primitive Eritrea shortly on the job, he s a congenial companion, resses. The Navy said no Fortresses governor,' Pierre Boisson, said' Dakar -J ica decided to establish spent his leisure time on domestic as hitron the contrary, the would resist attack ''with all means. there-a- n CoaKTew in Washington PoC Hutten m plutadelphia EHquirr arensal - for the democra-- - signment m the garden. pf his. pleaS --x2eros were' easy targets for the bomb er gum. . TTorlif fealurMCieSWith the heljr'ofscpres of tech- - ant home in nearby Virginia. iAH mijhf Kmrwd,-Wl- gt fWbats In A Name?JL .Higher Mathematics" super-highways. . Turkey On The Fence Washington: Men, Money Signs Of The Times ' o j) ans Blitzers Blitzed- - - . It was bhtzkiieg. Japanese style, when the soldiers of Nippon drove up Tand over the Owen Stanley mountains in New Guinea a few weeks ago, struck within 32 miles of the strategic A1 lied base at Port Moresby. .Allied defenders under General MacArthur --throttled the Douglas drive, took time to group their forces, then started an offensive toward the mountain gap through the Japs had filtered. Slowly, the .Japanese fell back, retreated toward their main inland base at Kokoda. But last' week, they had lost even Kolida, leaving only their principal Cora!- - Sea bases of Buna, Lae and Salamaua. Hard-hittin- g Australian troops, aided by American bombers and fighters, accomplished The tnck. drv-doc- News Views In Cartoon: Home And Abroad ff Ihc-Marine- s er staff-scho- x. ortf-fiance- 52-ye- ar pe after-Amer- bad-been- -- .''I ' 'Alexander In Philadelphia Bulletin Danse El Alamein . |