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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
WEEKLY MEWS ANALYSIS_
Strong Allied Forces Solidify Gains
As Violent Fighting Rages in Tunisia;
Russ Shatter Nazi Stalingrad Lines;
Japs Lose Strongholds in New Guinea
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
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TUNISIA:
Rising Tide
The tide of battle was rising
even higher against the battered
Axis forces in Africa. Veteran Brit-
ish soldiers, familiar with the Nazi
type of warfare, inflicted heavy
damage on a German armored col-
umn in Tunisia while French allies
battered down two German assaults
on their positions.
A communique from Allied force
headquarters in North Africa an-
nounced that French patrols are
operating “far to the rear of Axis
advance positions” and that Amer-
ican Flying Fortress and pursuit
planes shot down or destroyed nine
German planes in a raid on the
Tunis airport. Even as the advance
guards were testing the enemy’s
strength, a continuous flow of guns
and tanks made its way eastward
for the decisive blqw.
However, a spokesman at Allied
headquarters voiced a warning that
the Germans are well entrenched
in the Tunisian cities of Tunis and
Bizerte “with large air forces and
there will be severe fighting before
they are ousted.” He said that
Allied action around Bizerte is
“growing heavier.” The Allied
forces had driven two strong
wedges across Tunisia, reaching the
the Mediterranean at two points.
Rommel*s Race
Mobile armored units of the Brit-
ish eighth army were reported 35
miles from El Agheila, which of-
fered Marshal Erwin Rommel’s tat-
tered Africa Corps its best chance
to make a stand. But Rommel knew
he would find no rest from Allied
bombs.
Bad weather prevented Allied air-
men from maintaining their deadly
attacks on the retreating Germans.
A British military commentator
pointed out that “If the Axis armies
still are planning to make a fight of
it, it certainly will be at El Ag-
heila ...” He said there was con-
siderable evidence that the Axis
forces were close to exhaustion aft-
er fleeing across North Africa at
such a fast clip. But he added that
Rommel apparently had received
some tanks which had been left at
rear line repair stations.
LAVAL SCHEMES:
For Axis Alliance
Climaxing a long series of moves
by the Vichy government, Dictator
Pierre Laval revealed that his
French government is seeking an
•open alliance with Germany as “the
sole guarantee for peace in Eu-
rope.”
In his first speech since being in-
vested with full political powers by
Marshal Henri Petain, Laval said
that “It is in the interests of France
and peace in the future that we are
seeking with Germany a reconcilia-
tion and an entente. It is to try to
save our territory and our empire
thatwe are following this policy...”
Laval, the Quisling of France, rid-
iculed Allied promises to return the
DICTATOR LAVAL
“In the interests of France.”
seized portions of the French em-
pire in the future, pointing to the
British possession of French Can-
ada and parts of the West Indies
long ago.
“On the other side of the world,”
Laval continued, “Japan, an old na-
tion by its history and a young one
by its dynamism, has just taken
from Britain and the United States
immense territories, treasures and
raw materials.
“It is with complete independence
of action we are choosing this
course. I am convinced Germany
will be victorious.”
METEOROLOGY:
Offered 18-19-Year Olds
A new program offering training
leading to commissions as meteoro-
logical officers in the army air
forces, particularly to the 18-19 age
groups was announced in Chicago
by the University Meteorological
committee, representing five univer-
sities.
To be eligible, a man must be
between 18 and 30 years of age with
a high school diploma or its equiva-
lent.
OFFENSIVE:
Russia Moves
For weeks there had been little
important news from Stalingrad ex-
cept that the Soviet forces were
holding their positions within that
stronghold city. Then a special
communique from Moscow told of
the beginning of the Russian drive
which was to rip open two wide
gaps in the Nazi lines ringing the
city and then push the Germans
steadily westward, away from the
Don river.
First reports of this struggle said
that 15,000 Germans had been killed
in its opening phases and that the
Nazis had retreated 40 to 50 miles.
Also 13,000 prisoners were taken,
said the Russians, while even Ger-
man sources were admitting that
their troops had been forced to take
new strategic positions further away
from the Don.
This latest campaign began just
three months after the Nazis began
their siege of Stalingrad and during
that time they had often claimed it
for their own. Now the Russians
had the initiative and for the first
time were meeting the Germans on
a basis of near-equality of manpow-
er and equipment. Front line dis-
patches said that these forces were
taking the enemy’s full measure by
outfighting and outgeneraling him in
all sectors.
This Russian victory was looked
upon as one of great importance by
military strategists, many of whom
claimed it would have a direct bear-
ing on the whole outcome of the
war. For most, however, it was too
early to make such a claim definite-
ly. A more complete report of the
Nazi losses had to be heard from a
neutral source before such reason-
ing could be accepted.
One thing was clearly evident:
the Russians had been taking ad-
vantage of the long lull in the fight-
ing by carefully preparing their op-
erations. Further, this campaign
was timed to harass the Germans
just as the British and American
forces were blasting their full
strength at Tunis and Bizerte in thq
North African theater.
NEW GUINEA:
Japs Lose Destroyer
The battle in New Guinea had
been hard. Despite the loss of a
destroyer, the Japs had succeeded
in landing additional troops under
cover of darkness. But that didn’t
prevent the Allies from closing in on
all sides of the enemy positions at
Buna.
Dispatches from the battlefield re-
ported that the Jap destroyer and
two smaller craft were sunk by
medium bombers. Other medium
bombers supported ground troops by
bombing and strafing the enemy.
Some Australian units managed to
get into Buna itself for a short
time, inflicting heavy damage be-
fore retiring. American forces were
said to be threatening the Japanese
from three sides, apparently sever-
ing the enemy communications to
Gona, 12 miles northwest. U. S.
dive bombers blasted the Jap air-
drome at Buna with more than 100
allied aerial sorties in one day,
aimed at softening up the enemy
base for a knockout blow.
The destroyer sunk in late action
was the third warship the Japs have
lost at Buna. Previously when a
reinforcing Jap fleet appeared and
attempted to land help, Allied
bombers sank a cruiser and a de-
stroyer, forcing a third destroyer to
flee.
From Washington came word that
an additional American destroyer
had been sunk in the great naval
battle of the Solomons in mid-
November. This brought the total
of American losses in the action,
which smashed a Jap invasion
armada, to two light cruisers and
seven destroyers. The Japs lost 28
ships, 16 of them warships and 12
transports.
BRIEFS:
SILENCE: December 7, 1942,
first anniversary of Pearl Harbor,
will come and go without any spe-
cial message from President Roose-
velt. A White House announcement
said that the President will not de-
liver an address on that day, “nor
take official notice of that anni-
versary.” Rather it is felt that De-
cember 7 should be observed “as a
day of silence in remembrance of
a great infamy.”
♦ * *
BASES: President Arroyo Del
Rio of Ecuador revealed that his
country was the first in South Amer-
ica to give military bases to the
United States on that continent.
* * *
DUKES: As a projected Austrian
volunteer unit of the U. S. army
began its development three of the
royal archdukes were reported to
have offered their services. They
are brothers of Archduke Otto, pre-
tender to the throne, who is presi-
dent of a military committee or-
ganizing the unit.
Cranky Tank
Corp. Bernard J. Kessel, Brook-
lyn, N. Y., was one of the crew of a
General Grant tank which went on a
rampage, ramming and destroying
75-mm. guns and 50 motor vehicles
in Oran after being separated from
their unit. They penetrated the city
hours before other Allied units en-
tered, emerging without undue mis-
hap. Such stories reflect the morale
of U. S. troops now fighting the Axis
in North Africa.
COMPULSORY LOANS:
Congress May Decide
Legislation in the new session ot
congress will be topped by a plan
for compulsory loans to the govern-
ment, Sen. Walter F. George (D.,
Ga.), chairman of the senate finance
committee, said in an interview.
George commented that congress
should take the initiative if the
treasury and other agencies are not
ready with a program shortly after
the first of the year.
Various estimates of the amount
covered by such a program range
up to 15 billion dollars a year. Re-
ports indicate it would involve such
pronounced increases in levies as
to take "almost 30 per cent of the
income from citizens in the low in-
come brackets.
As far as possible, George said,
he intended to see that taxation did
not become unbearable for individu-
als and corporations. He pointed out
that the legislation might involve
some readjustments of present high
tax rates to compensate for the ex-
pected compulsory savings demand
BRITISH CABINET:
Shake-Up
In an unexpected shake-up, Sir
Stafford Cripps stepped down from
the British seven-man war cabinet
to become minister of aircraft pro-
duction. Capt. Anthony Eden took
over Cripps’ leadership in the house
of commons while Herbert Morri-
son, minister of home security, re-
placed Cripps in the war cabinet.
Just why Cripps left the cabinet
was not immediately made clear but
for some time he is known to have
disliked certain phases of the war
effort and it is felt he may have left
because he could not agree with
many actions of Winston Churchill’s
advisers.
That there were stronger motives
in the action was the belief of many
observers who pointed out that this
was a bad time politically for Cripps
to disassociate himself from Church-
ill. British successes in Egypt and
elsewhere in Africa have given
much strength recently to the
Churchill government. Other sources
claimed that Cripps had been want-
ing to get out of the cabinet for
some time but had refrained from
doing so previously to save embar-
rassment for Churchill.
When Cripps left and Anthony
Eden took over his leadership in
commons, many British citizens saw
a further grooming for Eden to some
time succeed Winston Churchill as
prime minister.
AIR ACTION:
Hits Japs
While the Jap has had plenty of
reason to feel the impact of United
Nations’ airpower in the Southwest
Pacific, until a few weeks ago he
had been getting off fairly comforta-
bly in Burma and China. But now
a new air offensive in these areas
seems to be taking shape. Both the
Chinese and American bomber com-
mands are taking part in it.
Two Chinese bomber squadrons
countered a Jap drive in Central
China by blasting munitions ware-
houses and an airfield near Shasi.
This air force gave needed strength
to the Chinese ground forces which
were putting up stiff resistance to
an all-out Jap attempt to push them
out of the area.
Meanwhile, in Burma, the largest
force of U. S. bombers yet to attack
the Japs there, blasted the railway
center at Mandalay. Enemy de-
fenses were reported weak and
large fires in warehouses and in the
railway yards were started.
BUTTER:
Frozen
One-half of all cold storage butter
reserves in the 35 principal markets
of the United States has been set
aside for the exclusive use of fed-
eral agencies upon order of the War
Production board.
The move was taken to assure
butter for the armed forces and for
lend-lease requirements. War de-
mands and increased civilian con-
sumption were said to be respon-
sible for the shortage.
WHO’S
NEWS
This Week
By
Lemuel F. Parton
Above: A noontime
throng of workers at the
Calship yards pose for
their picture. In the
background is a large
pre-fabricated section of
a Liberty ship’s prow.
Left: A Liberty ship
goes to swell the ranks
of the Victory Fleet.
Twenty-four-hour shift prevails as three Liberty ships are pre-
pared for launching at a West Coast shipyard.
Consolidated Features.—WNU Release.
^TEW YORK.—Just after he won
the world heavyweight cham-
pionship, Jack Sharkey was dining
at Tait’s restaurant in San Fran-
. cisco. The
Psychological By- waiter
Products of North brought
Africa Mount Daily
one claw missing. Jack wanted to
know about that. The waiter ex-
plained that two lobsters had been
brought together in a crate from
Martinez; that they had a fight
and this one lost its claw.
“Take this bum away and bring
me the winner!” bellowed Jack.
The quite human desire to
string with a winner is mani-
festing itself in Latin-American
countries, and perhaps else-
where, since the U. S. A. cut
loose and started swinging in
North Africa. Dispatches from
several countries tell of senti-
ment shifting to the Allies, and
away from the Axis. More
specifically, Argentina’s distin-
guished hair-splitting legalist,
Sr. Enrique Ruiz Guinazu, is
caught off dead-center for just
about the first time in his long
and amiably noncommittal ca-
reer. As foreign minister of
Argentina, he cables to the
U. S. A. his felicitations and
his expression of Argentina’s
“solidarity” behind our North
African campaign. There is the
rumble of the band-wagon as
well as of guns throughout the
world.
During the Pan-American confer-
ence at Rio de Janeiro last Janu-
ary, gleaners among the senor’s
learned and bland evasions could
not find so much as a straw in
the wind. Seven months earlier, he
had been elaborately feted at Wash-
ington, with state dinners and a big,
jovial stag party by the President,
and as time passed it appeared that
we might not even get our bait
back. Our later cultural phalanxes
moving on Argentina, seemed equal-
ly ineffective. Argentina remained
our hardest nut to crack. Perhaps
General Eisenhower has cracked it.
Representing Argentina at the
League of Nations for many years,
Sr. Ruiz Guinazu was an eminent
personage in the great academic
tournaments which deplored but
sidestepped the oncoming Axis jug-
gernaut. He was president of the
League of Nations council in 1935,
and in that year voted with the op-
position when it was proposed to
throw a switch on Mussolini, en
route to Ethiopia. He is a veteran
of Argentinian statesmanship, pro-
foundly learned in International law,
and political theory, for several
years ambassador to Switzerland.
Cautious and cryptic, although al-
ways gracious and smiling, he is
at last on record—for “the safe-
guarding and security of the Amer-
icas,” as he cables Secretary Hull.
TT WAS nearly two years ago that
Robert D. Murphy, then counsel-
lor for our embassy at Vichy, started
on a little publicized tour of North
Africa, in-
We Have Had a specting
Lawrence of North our con-
Africa on the Job ^cautious
little newspaper handouts of the
time would have it.
There were subsequent trips
which made it clear that Mr. Mur-
phy’s interests were not confined to
consular efficiency. General Eisen-
hower supplies additional and final
proof in leading the greatest sea
and air borne invasion of all time—
strategically and politically read-
ied by Mr. Murphy’s preparation.
As to the bournous and all the
other traditionally romantic fix-
ings of such enterprise, it’s quite
the reverse so far as Mr. Murphy is
concerned. He is a trim-rigged dip-
lomat, whose genial and ready
smile, as well as his name, sug-
gests his Irish antecedents. He has
been correct and dependable in dip-
lomatic punctilio.
Much of Mr. Murphy’s activity
seems to have been adroitly
political. He rallied Free
French adherents everywhere
and he made strategical use of
American food and clothing sup-
plies. The latter was, of course,
denounced as appeasement of
Vichy, with an insistence that
the supplies would find their
way into German hands. The
Germans put us right on that,
if we were reading their Paris
newspaper Aujourd ’Hui, of
February 10, 1941. They vilR*
fied Mr. Murphy as a conspira-
tor working with the DeGaulle
forces.
Born and reared in Milwaukee,
Mr. Murphy attended Marquette
academy and George Washington
university. He entered the career
service of the state department in
1917. Stationed at consular posts in
Europe and Africa, he frequently
was entrusted with strategic and
scouting missions. Department in-
siders have long known him as a
quiet, cagey, political explorer, with
a camera eye and a nose for inside
news. For the preparatory work
Mr. Murphy has done in North Af-
rica, he deservedly takes a bow
along with General Eisenhower.
Sidewise launching of an EC-2 Liberty ship at a Gulf Coast port.
The United States is
now nearing the peak of
production in the great-
est ship-building pro-
gram in world history.
It now appears quite
certain that the 8,000.000
deadweight-ton goal set
by President Roosevelt
for 1942 in the directive
he issued at the time of
his “State of the Nation”
address in January of
this year will be reached.
One of the outstanding
accomplishments by
American shipbuilders
in the past year has been
the reduction of building
time they have made,
particularly in the emer-
gency cargo vessels of
the Liberty ship type.
These pictures give you
close-ups of our Liberty
fleet in-the-making.
Shown at right are (top)
the Patrick Henry, first of
the Maritime commission s
Liberty ships. (Below)
Hands upraised in a vic-
tory salute, shipyard work-
ers at Bethlehem-Fairfield,
Baltimore, hold the Mari-
time Eagle aloft in the
main mast of a Liberty
ship.
U. S. Shipbuilders Break
All Records to- Break Axis
Sturdy cargo ships fill the sealanes leading to all fronts.
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Naturally you want to be sure
the gift you send your service man
will be appreciated. According to
recent surveys, cigarettes are
foremost on the service man’s gift
list with Camels first of all accord-
ing to Post Exchange and Canteen
sales records. If he smokes a pipe,
send him a pound of the National
Joy Smoke—Prince Albert Smok-
ing Tobacco. Special holiday gift
wrappings make these gifts par-
ticularly attractive. Take your
choice of the Camel Christmas
Carton or the Camel “Holiday
House” of four “flat fifties” (200
cigarettes either way) or the
pound canister of Prince Albert.
Your dealer is featuring them as
gifts sure to please.—Adv.
One-Third Women Average
A recent study of women’s fig-
ures revealed that, out of every
thousand, 339 are average, mean-
ing that they range proportionate-
ly from 110 to 144 pounds in weight
and from five feet one inch to five
feet four inches in height.
How To Relieve
Bronchitis
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cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, in-
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a bottle of Creomulsion with the un-
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
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