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THE ARCHER COUNTY TIMES
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Nazis Face Serious Retreats in Russia
Following New Major Gains by Soviet;
U. S. Planes Smash Jap Ships at Rabaul;
Gen. Clark Commands Africa Fifth Army
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‘One Can to a Customer’ at This Store
Air-Minded
President Roosevelt examines a huge globe of the world, which was
presented to him by the army. The globe, which is 50 inches in diameter,
shows in considerable detail strategic areas of the earth’s surface. It
occupies a prominent place in the President’s office in the White House.
SIGNIFICANCE:
Of Russia's Drive
While the world marveled at the
military might of the Russians which
was able to push the Nazis back all
along the battle front the full sig-
nificance of this winter campaign
was overlooked by many. Should
the offensive maintain its momen-
tum of the early days of the new
year Hitler’s troops faced the definite
prospect of retiring to lines they held
in the last World war.
On both ends of the long fighting
front the Russians were scoring ma-
jor triumphs. In the north, the vital
German-held supply base and rail
center of Velikie Luki had fallen to
the Soviet army. (Velikie Luki is
only 200 miles from East Prussia.)
In this sector the big threat was to
the Nazis massed before Leningrad,
because if the Russians pushed be-
yond Velikie Luki toward that strong-
hold all the Germans in the area
would be cut off from supplies. Fur-
ther extending the picture, military
experts foresee the necessary evacu-
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Results
But while much of this campaign
in the north was speculation, Rus-
sian might had already dealt a series
of crushing blows to the Germans
massed in front of Stalingrad and
in the Caucasus. Success here came
as the result of a bold strategic move
on the part of Josef Stalin and Gen-
eral Zhukoff. For when these Rus-
sian leaders decided that Germany
had about spent her might in the all-
out effort to capture Stalingrad they
unleashed a counter-offensive direct-
ly before the city. Soon they learned
that the Germans had few reserves
between the Volga and the Don riv-
ers. Thus the Russians took heart
and pushed westward toward the
all-important city of Rostov.
Capture of Rostov would mean the
entrapment of a million Nazis in the
Caucasus. Hitler realized this and
started a general movement of his
troops in that sector. But again the
Russians attacked and were success-
ful in capturing many important
points while driving the Nazis ever
backward from their last year’s goal
—the oil fields of Grozny and Baku.
iary evacu-
SOUTH PACIFIC:
Allied Successes
Although the Allies won the battle
of Buna, clearing that New Guinea
area of Jap troops, activities in the
South Pacific showed no signs of
lessening. Jap resistance continued
unabated in other areas.
Later communiques from General
MacArthur’s headquarters told of a
successful heavy bombing attack
upon a strong Japanese naval con-
centration at Rabaul, New Britain.
Flying over the target, Flying Fort-
resses and Liberators scored direct
hits with 1,000 pound bombs on eight
Jap merchantmen and supply ves-
sels. Another 1,000 pounder smashed
into a destroyer tender, alongside
which a destroyer was tied. All were
left sinking or burning.
A government official in Mel-
bourne, Australia, announced that
the largest armada of transports,
supply vessels and warships yet sent
by Japan into the Southwest Pacific
was being assembled at various
poin*ri -Kx-jer cover—^^ier,
three things, ne ...id: 1. An attempt
retake Henderson airfield on
Guadalcanal. 2. An effort to re-
inforce Jap units at Sanananda point
in New Guinea. 3. An effort to
strengthen Jap defensive positions in
the entire area.
i WNu Service)
Grocers can do much to prevent hoarding of canned foods between
now and the time that rationing of such foods gets under way in February.
Joseph Tannenbaum sets an example here by putting a limit of one
can ot each food to a customer at his store in New York. Most citizens
put up with the restriction without complaint.
First Aid on North African Battlefield
“You can’t keep us Chcnnaults out
of the army air forces,” says Miss
Zoe Chennault (left) to her cousin,
Pvt. Charles L. Chennault. son of
famed Brig. Gen. C. L. (Flying Ti-
ger) Chennault. While the general
is knocking down Nips in China, Miss
Chennault works As a welder for the
army air forces at Keesler Field,
Miss. Private Chennault teaches
men how to keep ’em flying at Kees-
ler’s airplane mechanics’ school.
Built on Great Lakes
American soldiers am
le in
wounded in a bai
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skte, or on the
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\ put up resistance
A Few Tank Gune fi ommel Left Behind
NEW SPIRIT:
On Capitol Hill
Over were the colorful opening
sessions of the new 78th congress
and the national legislators had set-
tled down to the tough job ahead.
Yet a new spirit—some observers
called it a “spirit of Independence
—hung over Capitol Hill.
On the biggest objective of all—
the winning of the war—there was
unity between the two parties.
There, however, unity ended.
Support of the administration in
most of its home policies would no
doubt be forthcoming from the Dem-
ocratic side of both houses but there
would be no quick “write your own
ticket” edicts of power to the execu-
tive branch. Like their Republican
brethren, the Democrats were in a
“show me” mood as far as domestic
programs were concerned.
So small was the control of the
Democratic party that anything
could and more than likely would
happen. Republicans had their eyes
on 1944 and were pledged to strictly
uphold the position of an opposition
party on matters affecting the home
front.
Guadalcanal
Encouraging news came from
Guadalcanal island when American
troops took from the Japanese im-
portant heights flanking the south-
western rim of the United States po-
sition in that sector. It was thought
the advance may have signalized the
beginning of a campaign to drive
the enemy out of artillery range of
the Solomon island air field. Six Jap
counterattacks were repulsed with a
loss of 150 enemy dead.
AFRICA FIFTH ARMY:
Gen. Clark in Command
Another step in the organization
of huge Allied forces for the assault
on Tunis and Bizerte in North Africa
was made with the announcement
that the United States fifth army has
been activated and Lieut. Gen. Mark
W. Clark placed in command of the
new force.
General Clark, 46, is the hero who,
traveling by submarine to North Af-
rica three weeks before the Allied
landings, held a secret rendezvous
with French officers.
The announcement indicated that
a large United States army of sev-
eral divisions has been organized
through its rank and is ready to fight
alongside Lieut. Gen. K. A. N. An-
derson’s first army in Tunisia. The
size of the army was not indicated.
It may mean a force of as few as
two or three divisions, although it
may reach 10 or 12 divisions.
Meanwhile the United States army
air force struck strong blows in sup-
port of French and American ground
forces in central Tunisia. Railroad
yards were bombed at Kairouan and
other targets were smashed at Cheri-
chera, five miles northeast of
Foundouk.
Bad weather continued to keep the
opposing armies comparatively in-
active in the north. Observers said
that French troops, with a complete
disregard for politics and ancient
equipment, are fighting with great
gallantry in central and southern
Tunisia.
A
our torces.
The Peto, first submarine to be
built on the Great Lakes, goes
through the locks at Lockport, 111.,
to start her journey to the Gulf,
where she will be fitted and join the
impa- i fleet. The ship, built at Manitowoc,
___”____ 'iv*d nrolimlnarv tests on
the Great Lakes, it is said to be the
first of 30 subs to be built there.
West Point at War
By MaJ. Gen. Francis B. Wilby
(Superintendent of Weet Point Aeademr)
Being a newspaper columnist and
reporter is a new experience for me.
However, I feel that I can give you
a Reporter’s Report to the Nation’'
from West Point, which should be
of interest to every red-blooded
American.
I wish that everyone could visit
West Point for just one day, and
see what I see. You would get an
inspiration that you cannot help but
feel when you see the men of the
Corps and what they are doing. They
are not only fitting themselves for
winning this war, but also for win-
ning the peace, and preventing, if
possible, the recurrence of such an-
other world conflagration as we are
passing through today.
As you know, a cross-section of
American youth is selected from all
parts of the country to come to West
Point. They are selected by the
most democratic of methods, many
of them by winning'competitive ex-
aminations.
Starting with these young men, we
aim to develop a rigorously trained
soldier-officer, a job which is great-
ly facilitated by the fact that the
Cadets themselves sincerely desire
to make the most of the opportunity
they have here. With the rapidly
changing weapons and new methods
developed in modern warfare, we
are constantly working to keep up
to date and give the latest, most
accurate information and training
to the Cadets.
WALTER WINCHELL /, „ , tour of
duty outside Continental U. S. During bis
absence, contributors will substitute.
Ration Book No. 2
The Cadets learned and were do-
ing everything a thoroughly trained
enlisted man ought to be able to do,
and before the Summer wa3 over,
they looked like veterans.
Summer maneuvers don’t end the
story of tough training at West Point.
Summer maneuvers are just a phase
of the year-round program which is
built to train fighting leaders.
Every minute of the 16-hour day
(6 a. m. to 10 p. m.) is filled by a
tight schedule of instruction, study,
and athletics plus tactical training
in the arms and branches of the
service, une program is ’ctSSlghwi-
to turn out officers schooled in all
types of army operation, and each
Cadet is familiarized with the use of
every weapon from the pistol to the
airplane.
So one can see the West Pointer
is TOUGH—physically and mentally.
He has to be.
employee operating a
press and perforator is
British officers inspect a line of 75-mm. tank gun barrels which Mar-
shal Erwin Rommel’s battered Afrika Korps left behind in their wild flight
towards Tripoli, with Gen. Bernard Montgomery’s Eighth army in hot
pursuit.
Mail Gets Through to Jungle Front
HIGHLIGHTS
in the week’t newt
DRAFT deferment was sought by
28 Oxford group aliens, members of
Moral Rearmament organization, on
grounds their work is of a morale-
building nature. Twenty-five are
English, one a Canadian, one a Dane
and one a Norwegian.
• • •
VETERAN character actress,
Kate Price, 70, died in Hollywood.
Had been in movies since 1902.
TRAWLER Lord Nuffield, out-
gunned and slower than Italian sub
adversary, Emo, battled it out in
the Mediterranean and won. The
Italians surrendered.
• • •
DUMBBELLS are wanted by the
U. S. navy officials at Navy pier,
Chicago. The exercising kind was
specified in ad when it appeared in
a newspaper.
Sergt. Joseph H. Ritzenheim of G
sorted the first mail to get through fn
Guinea. The sergeant’s “office” Is I
front near Bans, where our hoys eh*
and Rapids, Mich., Is shown as he
home to the jungle front of New
a jungle clearing on the Sopota
ied out the Jape.
A woman
two-color
shown turning out War Ration Book
No. 2 at an unnamed Pittsburgh print-
ing plant, which is helping to turn
out the nation’s largest printing or-
der. The plant is guarded by elec-
trically operated doors permitting
only employees inside.
i
‘Valuable Player’
—^
Frankie Sinkwich of Georgia was
chosen the “most valuable player”
of 1942 on radio commentator Nor-
man Sper’s All-Players All-Ameri-
can team. Sinkwich is shown being
handed the Douglas Fairbanks 8r.
trophy, which goes with the honor.
At the close of the Summer, the
Cadets came back into the class-
rooms for what we call academics.
During the Winter months emphasis,
is placed upon academic instruction,
while the schedule in tactical train-
ing is somewhat reduced.
A reporter probably would say-
that we have a highly mathematical
and stiff engineering course. Per-
haps that is right, but the West Point
curriculum aims at teaching a man
to think, to reason, and to draw-
sound conclusions expressed clearly
and concisely. Mathematics and the
sciences provide this training of the
mind which we believe is so essen-
tial in order to produce the finest
military leaders.
I am happy to announce that this
week the West Point instruction is
being given a first-hand inspection
by some of the leading educators in
our country. I have invited Doctor
Compton, President of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, and
Doctor Hopkins, President of Dart-
mouth, along with the principal mili-
tary experts on training in our Army«
today, Major General Bull of the Re-
placement Training Center of the
Ground Forces, Brigadier Huebner
of the Training Division of the Serv-
ices of Supply, Brigadier General
Edwards of the Training Division of
the War Department General Staff,
and Colonel Schlatter of the Flying
Training Command of the Army Air
Forces, to meet, confer and review
our plans for the new 3-year course
at the Military Academy. With this
course we propose to produce a
graduate of West Point who will have
the finest education and training
it is possible to afford in the time
available. By constantly keeping
abreast of the latest developments,
we aim to do the job which America
and Americans have asked us to do.
In the days of Robert E. Lee and
U. S. Grant, West Point produced
men to meet the challenge of that
era. John J. Pershing fulfilled his
task in the days of the Kaiser.
During the past Summer over 2,000
West Pointers went through the most
rigorous field maneuvers that have
bee i held In the history of the Acad-
emy. Every phase of combat train-
ing was given the Cadets. They
worked, they sweated, they maneu-
vered over the hills and through the
rivers of northwest New York State,
as well as here at West Point. They
had a good taste of how modern
campaigns are fought.
During these maneuvers some of
the toughest combat problems were
carried out by the Cadets.
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