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trvvarthy Pierre Laval in the Vichy cabinet (London reported that intimates of General Charles de Gaulle leader of the Fighting French said the general would declare his willingness to cooperate with General Giraud as head of FrenchNorth d was-accorde- Africa) ts L11 w 11-1- 13-1- to Philippines and Tokyo 3 India—While awaiting Japanese invasion that did not come India continued arguing with England and herself Gandhi's psealve resistance flared into violent resistance to British Allied troop concentrations materiel pools and shipments of men and materiel to China grew Possibilities for '43—India may be assembly point for proposed Invasion of Burma) — The 4 Pearl Harbor-Midwa- y United States entered the war at Pearl Harbor spent much of 1942 salvaging the wreckage of her Pacific fleet In the Battle of Midway beginning June 4 a Japanese invasion fleet was stnashed Possibilities for '43 — Repaired and strengthened these Pacific bases on Raids on axis Norways shores may clip convoy sub-pla- ne attacks 11 Russia—For 10 months of 1942 this was the first and only European land front Russia early drove the nazis back but gave ground before the nazi drives Sevasspring and summer topol fell July 1 Stalingrad withstood a siege andDecember counterattacks trapped nazi troops before the wreclted with red ascity simultaneous saults on the Smolensk northern in 1942 five-mon- th front Possibilities for '43—Giant Russian offensive may roll qn into Gerrna fly 12 Northwestern Europe—The first A E F since 1918 landed in Ireland January 26 American Mr outposts will concentrate on pushforCe was building in England ing allied sea and air units west- alongside expeditionary f or ce ward on the offensive when R A F launched its 1000- 5 Alaska-:-Ja- p "diversionary" bomber raids at Cologne May 30 bombing of Dutch Harbor June 3 Commando raids stepped up to the became an invasion June 12 of the o raid Aleutian islands Six months later on Dieppe August 19 American Jana still held the outermost air force entered air battles over islands America's Alaskan posiand occupied France In tion was bolstered by the opening Germany summer were pounding nazi the November 20 of the Akan high- bases hard before and after Hitway ler occupied unoccupied France Possibilities for '43—Heightened November 11 Sabotage spread in aerial and naval attacks supported occupied countries by Alcan highway reinforcements Possibilities for '43—Two milmay blast Japs out of Aleutians lion men line English channel coast build two new Pacific air routes— waiting orders to invade Europe supplies to Russia bombers to Ja- probably In a nutcracker move pan timed with attacks from north 6 North Atlantic—This front Africa Systematic bombing- of an axis nazi industries opened January 14 when and unrest and submarine torpedoed the-firship sabotage are in the cards In U S coastal waters Oil tanker shinkings caused gasoline and fuel oil shortages on the Atlantic seaSubmarines landed nazi board spies June 27 on Long Island and full-sca- le Five successors to Darien were mentioned in London: General Giraud who escaped from the Germans in this and the last war and then escaped by plane and submarine from Vichy to assume control of the French forces He preferred military leadership to politics but the death of Darien may change his plans General Jean Marie Bergeret former aviation secretary in the French cabinet and close associate of Darlan who declared Darlan was the victim of An assassin inspired by those who did not pardon him for having taken up arms on the side of the allies against Ger- Florida S shipPossibilities for '43-- 11 many" General Auguste Nogues gover- yard workers who put more than nor of French Morocco which put eight million tons of new shipping upZ the most serious opposition to to sea in 1942 hope 1943's produeU S landing forces tion will exceed rate of sinking's Pierre Boisson governor geperal new patrol ships will ease sub of French West Africa who deliv- menace 7 The second ered that vast territory and vital North Africa Dakar without a shot at Darlan's front started here November 7 when U S troops invaded French urging Yves Chatel governor of Al- Morocco and Algeria won Darlan and Dakar by diplomacy gained geria The German radio making be- another victory in the scuttling of lated propaganda of the murder the French fleet at Toulon l'sloffered the amazing explanation ovember 27 Preface to this was that the killing was plotted at 10 British stand July 6 at El AlaRommel's drive on Downing street—home of Prime mein haltingand their counterofMinister Churchill — to spite Alexandria: fensive begun October 24 routing President Roosevelt "The French traitor Admiral Rommel there and again at Tu-El Darlan has died a death con- Agnella December 13 While venient to the British" Dr Joseph nisian fighting raged U S and &Niel planes pummeled Italy Goebbels' mouthpiece said Possibilities for '43 — fired shots the pistol Ironically In the palace corridor removed leaders talk of Africa as a apringo of r f invasion board Europe perhaps the greatest obstacle to Possibilities are Greece the Balthe union of all forces fighting kans l l i French Italy Jugoslavia for French freedbm The Fight- coast subSouth Atlantic Spain de of General Charles ing Freoch with decline marine attacks may n Dar-IaGaulle have never accepted sea as high commissioner of allied use of cakar's air andlines bases African shorter supply French Africa S troops 8 Central Africa—U landed in Liberia the Gold Coast Belgian Congo built way stations Issued every mornint Entered at the for the U and Russia as aeeond office Salt at Lake Dolt City and India air ferry forwarded class matter under act of Eaten S 1879Utah—Idaho Ne- Planes and guns that helped lick Suherriotion rates: Rommel vada Wvominn daily and Sundae month SI in S12: elsewhere ranger-command- st 5a!t 1tkt Uribitnt - advanre 05: year S daily Lad Sunday month 1125 '' ' ADAC ASCAR Skating General Gets Black Eye AN ALASKAN ARMY BASE General 25 (IP) — Major Charles H Corlett has a black eye and his staff is proud of it The general acquired the shiner honorably Seeking recreation for troops at the post he commands he arranged that ice on a small lake be swept clean of snow Then he bullied supply organizations into supplying portable lighting equipment Bo the natural rink could be used at night Hisinfluence also helped get skates for men who did not have them To show their gratitude members Of the command insisted that the general open the rink himself It had been quite a while since the general skated and he never did see the post at the edge of the Dec awapw--s- S — e 4741 i et ' t A 1 7 1-- '' 1 7' 4' y ef N-- 4101k - i t : 21(:?:100'"I'': f— Bombers Deal Lashio Smashing Blow sea-air-la- Dar Ian Slayer I J World War II in review as 1942 draws to a close 1 Western Pacific—For most of 1942 this was a one-wa- y war with Japan expanding steadily and the allies giving ground Manila January 1 Singapore February 15 Bataan April 9 Corregidor May 6 Burma in May Tokyo' felt Jimmy Doolittle's bombs April 18 U S Flying Tigers paced Chinese infantrymen who hastened enemy's planned withdrawal from eastern China to bolster New Guinea and Solomon for Atlantic antisubmarine opera-frontons this area probably will play Possibilities for '43—If the flow a secondary role once north Afrira of supplies across the Pacific via 9 Caribbean Sea—Submarines India and the new Burma road moved south to the Caribbean and &Med to China permits bombers created havoc after finding t h e from Shangri-- I a may carry the waters farther north too hot Axis war to Japan's mainland General submarine shelled oil refinery at back Stilwell may march into Aruba February 19 another needBurma ing supplies was driven off Costa 2 Solomons-NeGuinea — The Rica's shores in November U S Solomons islands and part of New rushed air bases to protect PanGuinea fell to Japs early in the ama canal landed Possibilities for '43—Agreement year' Then the marines and TuAugust 8 on Guadalcanal with Martinique leaders following 2 On October strong Jap Darlan's lagi switch in Africa should naval units were driven from the eliminate possibility of sub bases 5 U S there Solomons: November navy smashed the Jap fleet there 10 En route to Murmansk — General MacArthur moved up from American and allied merchant seaAustralia to Port Moresby cap- men one of the war's bittured Kokoda November 3 Gona terestfought year-roun- d battles he r e December 9 Buna December 14 axis submarines and dive against Possibilities for '43—Japs may bombers Losses were hut lose their grasp on this area Com- enough got through to heavy Ruskeep pletion of allied offensives may sia fighting drive north to open a Possibilities for 143—Shipbuildthe island stepping stone route ing should help this battle too '1' s : at li-- NEWARK N J Dec 23 tri— Hamilton Osborne noted author and authority on copyright law died at his home 213 Highland avenue Friday after a long illness He was 69 Osborne was author of five novels and about 500 short stories He was counsel for the Author's League of America and the Dramatists' guild His novels were "The Red Mouse" a best seller in 1909 "The Running Fight" 1910 "The Blue Catspaw" 1911and "The "The BoomBuckle" 1914 Vo'illiarn igti N1457: " Vichy Reports Chronological Table Lists Dar Ian Death' War Events of 1942 Top Pleases Berlin By Associated Press termined they believe ever national responsibility may be attached to the killing Some thought Dar lan's death would clear the atmosphere easing the path of the De Gaul lists and eliminate confusion among Frenchmen who approved Darien However these private sources much depends upon suggested identification of the assassin Some foresaw that the act could serve equally to increase bitterness among the camps 4 of divided Frenchmen e?-- LAND s by what- - ' "jig 110 1::::: ' - y 2 - :) ‘'' VLY dol -- 4 OUTHX FOCI( Ocean - s:' Late IFamous Author Succumbs at 69 Dec ' 25 DENVER "The 'United States never has because had and never will have on hand should complain the enough rubber to run the country Christmas mail was late! Peter for more than a year Blyth was wounded in the Argonne Firestone 24 years ago His purple heart "Henry Ford: Hat-veand I have been considering what decoration came Thursday erang" 1915 ::z : - stated: - ' I U it 4:::: :e")H-t-N- - in i : ' - ' 111 two-minu- te W '- 717 dope17) 1 : tzP)---Th- e S's ' ' mmw Alf biurion °Celli a f-- : ea iii ORANGE N J Dec 25 UP)—The late Thomas Alva Edison was a prophet as well as a great inventor his son Governor Charles Edison learned Friday A magazine article quoting the inventor as predicting the war and the rubber shortage was received by the governor from a at home" friend The article written in 1927 Award Arrives 7"Hl0 - ber supply "Don't make any mistake about that war It will come We may run along for a good tnany years without it but sooher or later nations of Europe and Asia will combine against the United States The first thing they will do will be to cut off our rubber supply "So the thing for us to do is to find a source of rubber- for war emergency purposes so that we can produce it quickly right here WEST Q1 ttod - : diP England Chief Sly looked more like a sieve than a bomber when she fluttered to earth Two of her four engines were dead the aileron jammed the fuselage was full of holes and there was a gash in the LONDON Dec 25 tail fin near the rudder post "so radio quoted Paul Vichy could big you jump through it Schmidt headFriday of the press foreign vith your eyes shut" section of the German foreign office as saying that news of the 'Reasonably Good' The other Fortress Rose O'Day assassination of Admiral Dar lan Was in reasonably good shape ex- was met with great welcome in cept for a collection of wounds one Berlin When two allies such as Amerof which caused the landing gear ica and Britain can only settle to drag political differences by murThey were in formation when their we cannot help but rejoice" der attacked by enemy fighters as the channel Chief Schmidt was quoted as saying they crossed Focke-Wulf in a Sly got one BERN Dec 25 In—Frenchmen battle but the real action in this neutral clearing house of was still to come Both Fortresses planted their the war appeared confused Friday bombs on a Romilly airfield by the assassination of Admiral watched them flower into smoke Darien but said privately that the and destruction then headed for implications were many The ofhome ficial Vichy reaction will be de- - ' : - ''1:i15:11 AilantL rz solomoN:: ::'?::::':!1- I ' : :' w- f7--- erarrordpoli it' - onrl 4 7"Hl0 HAWAII 3 Ar ) t i f- ' 'iJ tptraiPPINES 1t - et ' - - - - t ' 'JAPAN I ' - t ''''''4:°:cAMERICA-k t - :::::: ::4:--- i CN ''''':msti'?:-'- or--- ‘: : ' :::::::: Lrt—Two Flying Fortresses were badly chewed by bullets and shells but they still were good enough to I knock down 11 German fighters In a fancy double play and both returned to tell the tale Details of the encounter which occurred during last Sunday's assault upon RomillySur-shattering Seine France were disclosed Friday by the Eighth U S air I orce headquarters One of the Fortresses Chief Sly made an emergency landing on a strange airport in the south of lf ill e- r ::-- 25 d ' ' - --)- N t- Rose O'Day was flying in number one position with Chief Sly back in number two Rose piloted by Captain Kenneth K Wallick of Wrightsville Pa slowed when the damaged landing gear dropped and Chiefs pilot Lieutenant Bruce Barton of Greenville S C eased his throttles and dropped back to cover his lagging pal That was the moment when r cloud of Focke-Wus swarmed in for what'-lookelike easy pickings Bombardier Lieutenant J H Lindley Jr of Gatesville Texas admitted it was pretty hot inside them Dripped Sweat 'Ice Wail forming on the windows and nose of the ship but I was dripping sweat" he said The Chief quivering frore stem to staggered stern as cannon shell blasted through the rudder fin It stunned the tail gunner Staff Sergeant Brune C StanOhio sayk of Cleveland and probably saved his life During a moment of unconsciousnesS he slumped backward and a steam of machine gun bullets ripped through the space he normally occupied while working the gun Recovering quickly Stanszyk returned to his post The top turret gunner Technical Sergeant Richard L Hare of Grand Falls Texas was having' a busy time too He got two the hard way His turret jammed and he was able to move only to the left Germans were coming from the right so Hare had to swing the turret in a circle to his guns to complete bear He got the bring leading German in his sights and shot him out of the sky Then he had to make another complete circle to the right to follow the second F-as it A little dizzy from all the passed whirling around he got the enemy craft nevertheless nose O'Day was having trouble too From All Sides The Germans came in from all sides above and below Her guns sent five of the enemy reeling earthward out of control Singles were credited to Bombardier First Lieutenant John Hawkins of Houston Texas Technical Sergeant Jarvis Hall of Dallas Texas Technical Sergeant Daniel Goldstein of Brooklyn Sergeant Vito Pug liese of Cooperstown N Y and Sergeant Delbert Staffans of Stockton The plane's copilot was Lieutenant Edwin L Bailey of Tyler Texas Navigator Lieutenant Rob4 H Bannock of San Francisco and assstant engineer StaffSergeant Bernard A Steelharn Indianapolia Besides the two Germans racked tip by Hare the Chiefs other four victims were credited to Second Lieutenant Paul C Burnett of Marshall Texas the navgator Staff Sergeant Myron C Larsen of Cleveland Ohio: Staff Sergeant J H Mitchell of Mahafey Pa and Sergeant Lester Snook Everett Mass The Chiefs copilot was Second Lieutenant Arthur J Reynolds of Carnal' Wash who served in the Royal Canadian air force 10 months before transferring to the 1: S air forces :rNyt-- ''iLrsi::21- - x:-:--- - i' t Ships Pull Double Play on Enemy - - ICELAND TWO U S - yEA T - this country would do in case of a war which would cut off our rub- IInventor Saw !Rubber Lack - C 7' ' Nazi Fighters By Reiman Morin LONDON Dec A s' December 26 19 gakt 7t1bunt aIt i) C Saturday Morning 1 '''' i JIMPOI111 4 t 'N's-4 V i i 4 I 1 1 i :i : 1 i t By J Reilly O'Sullivan WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN CHINA Dec 22 (Delayed) (P) — American bombers have struck a telling one-tw- o punch at Lashio the Japanese-hel- d eastern Burma city where the railroad from Rangoon joins the Burma road The blows fell so fast that we still were flying home this moonlit Tuesday night when the plane's radio picked up an American news broadcast of the first raid Sunday First Since October This was the first night raid ordered by Brigadier General Claire L Chennault commander of the United States air task force in China since the bombardment of Hong Kong last October 25 The Japanese apparently had no warning until they heard the bombers only about 15 miles—a few moments' flying time—away from the targets and their warehouses and air base installations soon were sparkling in the darkness with fire and explosion Strings of incendiaries started fires across the big warehouse concentration in the center of the town from which the enemy sends supplies up the Burma road to his China front and tons of fragmentation bombs blasted the barracks housing troops on one of Japan's largest Burma air bases Return Safely An antiaircraft barrage sprang up suddenly northeast of Lashio but no night fighters took off and all Our bombers returned safely Colonel Lieutenant William Baiye of Independence Mo commanded the mission which took off shortly after dinner when a brilliant round moon poked up Over the mountain peaks He was accompanied by Lieutenant Colonel Clinton Vincent of Natchez Miss chief of operations of the China air task force himself a fighter and bomber pilot- who summed it up as a "damned good show The bombs hit right in the target areas" 2 :: t Eve - 741 -- rY k odayP a nd 4 1:4 it cmfg IMAW101111Mmo i - - - 16 i '1i:''' - A ko- 41 t ' ' - ‘ - : - '''' r - bss N 0 is I 11 ay This r n re r W 1 - i Ir I I ) ligromosmoomm - 3 3 4 t it MANI1 - t ( I )4 'I $) L ' : -- ' 1 - ss ' - A 1 ' - :2-'1''- - We Hope to Be Able to Sup- r ho Really Man ply Every Needs Clothes With Hart - Schaffner & Marx Suits and Topcoats Dar lan Death Complicates Task in Africa It has been 'a hard struggle to meet the unusual demapd but W e have been successful so far and hope to i)e able to fill all real needs until spring arrives (Continued from Pare One) ity of planes and flying fields against sabotage the assurance to American French and British soldiers on the Tunisian front that behind them all is well President Roosevelt who Thursday night denounced the slaying of Darien as a cowardly "murder in the first degree" issued no further statement Friday The state department also was silent At Fighting French headquarters here satisfaction was expressed that General Henri Honore Giraud had taken over temporary control in north Africa pending election of Darlan's sucA spokesman voiced the cessor view that if Giraud could be perauaded to take on the political responsibility involved he might well succeed in establishing a united front of Frenchmen against the axis He added however that it still remained to be seen whether the other French leaders in Africa would agree among themselves to Giraud and whether Giraud would abandon his previously expressed preference for a 'purely military post scope We were rationed to start the season but Hart Schaffner Marx diverted some clothing to us from big eastern eitics where the demand was not quite Fo argent so that until now we have been able to fit and to please practically every man who came to us It is going to be another hard struggle to have the right Clothes for everybody during the next two months but ve believe we will be able to make it if the dtmand can be kept within reasonable bounds Veteran Newsman Dies in Chicago Ice Chicago Tribune Service CHICAGO Dec 2—Edward S Beck former managing editor and British Officers Bring assistant editor in chief of the Chicago Tribune died Friday night Ancient Joke to Life In Passavant hospital Mr Beck LONDON Dec 25 (New York had been ill for several months Timesl—A joke probably as old as He was 74 years old A the Roman legions came true when Mr Beck the officers and sergeants of a nearlya half a century member of the Tribune's British unit stationed in Newbury was stole in on their sleeping men Fri- editor111 staff for 45 years He had years day morning and woke them up been managing editor 26 editor when he became assistant with cups of tea The reactions of the men are In chief in 1937 He retired last January for Possibilities '43—Important reliably reported as "varied" national in The Store Hours a In to 6p 10 ' A erlf Chicago 171 t At clope - 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