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printing Equipment
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Advancing Campaigns
WASHITGTON. — (AP)
_ President Roosevelt’s
contention that in this war
there is “no such separate
ilustrated by the Army’s
entity as the home front” is
efforts at home to get news
to the troops abroad.
8o closely is this tie-in figured
jn military operations that in
planning the Sicilian invasion
General Eisenhower requested
linotype machines, presses and
paper to be taken on the ' ex
pedition.
One week after Palermo fell
Army newspapers were being
printed in Sicily .
There are more than 709 camp
newspapers, at home and abroad,
provided by the Army with gen
pral news and weekly clip-sheets
containing cartoons and home town
news.
Those papers have names like
The Round-Up in New Delhi, The
Bleat in Australia, /The Midnight
Sun in Alaska and The White
Falcon in Iceland.
The eamp nespapers are in ad
dition to Yank, the Army Weekly,
which has headquarters in New
York but is printed now in Iran,
Egypt, India, Australia, Hawali,
Panama, Trinidad, Puerto Rico
and London.
Outlying Editions
Outlying editions made up in
New York, go to Greenland, Ice
land, Bermuda and Newfoundland.
Daily The Stars and Stripes ig
published in England, Cairo and
at Algiers, Oran, and Casablanca
in North Africa. The same paper
is published twice weekly in
Sicily. s
As the Army moves up through
Italy more papers will sprout be
hind the fighting lines.
Daily the Army sends a 2,000-
word summary of each day's
news — obtained from the great
American wire services — to over
seas posts all over the world. =~
When the news reaches the vari
ous centers it is printed locally
and rebroadcast to other posts for
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(ofion In Georgia
ATLANTA—(#)—Georgia cotton
growers can look for an increase
of aproximately §58,000,000 over last
vear's slightly larger crop, if pick
ing and ginning continue on the
Present scale, ‘Col. James H. Pal
mer, southern regional director for
the Food Distribution Administra
tion has announced.
Favorable weather, more care
in handling and more pickers in
the field were said by Col. Palmer
to be chiefly responsible for im-
Jrovement of grade in this year's
Crop, nearly three-fourths of which
ginned up to date phas graded mid
dling or better,
Reports up to date place the
Guality of this years crop above
any since 1931, Palmer said. He
addeq that the season for bad
Weather is approaching, and many
more volunteers must go out if the
grade and quality of the crop is
10 be maintained at the high level
for the rest of the season,
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Fight Is Renewed
On The OWI And
Chief Elmer Davis
WASHINGTON —(#)—The Of
ice of War Information was set
UD today as the target for the
first economy drive of the fall
Session of Congress.
“Their operations are a con
tinuing menace,” said Rep. Taber
°f New York, ranking Republican
" the House Apropriations Com
ittee, He urged a reorganization
! OWL and removal of its ad
linistrator, Elmer Davis.
The New Yorker, who led last
ummer’s fight which resulted in
irtual extinetion of OWT's domes
i¢ service told reporters Ne be
leved Dayig should be replaced by
‘a traineq executive,”
“Mr. Davis has meither ' the
Abacity nor the desire to reorgan
¢ the agency,” he said. “We need
9 Put some kind of a business
Peclaliot ‘.t work down thete to
€ things in order.”
Taber also criticized the OWI
Verseas activities, which he charg
-0 Were “getting worse instead of
Uer’ ang emphasized that his
lews on Davis applied also to
obert Sherwood, playwright head
f the Overseas division,
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General George C. Marshall, Army chief of staff (left(, warns the Senate and House military com
mittees against “dimming the power” of Allied offensives by prohibiting the drafting of fathers.
Besides the general sits Admiral Ernest J. King, cdmmander of the fleet. The hearing was on the
Wheeler bill to postpone induction of Pre-Pearl Harbor fathers until January 1. Marshall testified
as Washington speculation was stirred by an edito rial in the authoritative but unofficial Army and
Navy Journal, which declared bluntly that “powerful interests” would like to remove the general from
his post as chief of staff—~NEA TELEPHOTO.
Fall Of ltaly Came Sooner Than
Anyone Expected, Churchill In
Review Of War Progress Reveals
Distillers Fear
Bootleg Rebirth
“Bourbon’’ Being Made
Of Sugar Whiskey,
Tobacco Juice Mix
BY J. B. LEWIS
NEW YORK — (AP) — Revival
»of*W‘MM
4s the result of growing shortages
and forced dealer rationing of
current stocks, distillers said to
day.
They told of a valuable load of
liquor hijacked in Chicao, a fresh
eutbreak of “after-hours” sales in
monopoly states, pure stocks being
re-bottled illegally and liberally
cut with water and the inexpensive
portable still coming into ccmmon
usage in larger cities.
Everything except general bath
tub gin-making and home brewing
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Second High Army
Officer Found
Guilty Of Charges
SELFRIDGE FIELD, Mich.—(#)
Lieut, Col. Charles G. White, the
second high ranking officer of this
Army Air Base to be convicted
within a week of Violating the
Articles of Whar, was sentenced by
a General Court Martial last night
to dismissal from the Army.
After deliberating nearly seven
hours, the Court Martial found
Col. White guilty on five counts,
including “drunk to the prejudice
of the service” on two occasions,
gross neglect, misappropriating the
labor of two civilian field employes
to repair his private automobile
and an attempt to persuade them
to perjure themselves before the
Court Martial. The 35-year-old
suspended executive officer was
found innocent of 10 other counts,
including charges of fraudently ob
tainig transfers of enlisted per
sonnel.
Col, William T. Colman, former
base commandant, was demoted by
a- Court Martial last Tuesday to
the rank of captain after he was
convicted on four counts of drunk
enness and careless use of fire
arms in connection with the shoot
ing and wounding last May of Pvt.
Wwilliam R. Mcßae, negro soldier
chauffear. = 7
IConvictions 'of ‘both White and
Colman must be reviewed by the
War Departmeht.’ Meanwhile, both
officers’ rémain “at the field and
retain their rank although they are
deprived op duty status.
Newsprint For Papers
Is Cut Another
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Five Percent By WPB
WASHINGTON —(&)— Blaming
manpower shortages in the pulp
wood industry, the War Production
Board has cut newspaper con
sumption of Dpaper another five
per cent for the last quarter of
this year and Chairman Donald M.
Nelson said greater curtailment
was inevitable next year-
Toven with this new cut, the,
publishers will be using newsprint
at a rate exceeding production by
94,000 tons, Nelson said yesterday.
By using up reserve supplies, “a
further, perhaps far deeper” ‘re
trenchment is in store in 1944, he
added.
WIPB held tliis latest cut to five
percent on the recommendation of
the -Newspaper Industry Alvisory
Committee, Nelson said. .
By E. C. Daniel
LONDON. — (AP )—
Prime Minister Churchill
surveyed the whole sweep
of the war with serene con
fidence today and answer
ed critics of the Allied op
erations in Italy with a dec
laration that not a moment
of time was needlessly lost.
~ Churechill declared that the sec
m&,&mx‘- ) Ahrown open. atl.
‘the right time” and “a mas¢ invas
icn of the continent from the west
will begin.”
Calling the Mediterranean bat
tlefield the “third front,” the Prime
Minister told Commons’ that the
second front “already exists poten
tially” and “already is rapidly
gathering weight, The second
front exists and is a main preoccu
pation already with the enemy.”
“It has not yet been thrown into
play,” he continued. “That time is
coming.” X
Invasion ¥rom West
“At what we and our American
Allies . judge to ‘be the right time
thist front will be thrown open and
a mass invasion from the west
will begin.”
Surveying the whole sweep of
the war with serene confidence,
Churchill declared:
1. Not a moment was lost need
lessly in the operations against
Italy and except for the failure of
Italian guards to do their assigned
duty Benito Mussolini would have
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Georgia (ropland
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Yield Much More
AUGUSTA, Ga.-—{(f)— Some of
Georgia’s cropland can be treated
with a single food element and
yield five or six times as much
farm produce. H, P, Stuckey, di
rector of the Georgia Agricultural
Bzperiment Station said today.
Discussing work of the Station
in an address prepared for delivery
at a Rotary Club meeting, Stuckey
said little could be done for poor
lands that are low in practically
all plant food elements.
He suggested that poor Ilands
be planted in pine trees or other
plants which can grow in soil too
low in fertility for profitable farm
crops. |
“There are soils in the sthte
however,” he said, “which are very
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Alabama Rose Bowl
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Quarferback Wins
Three Decorations
A SOUTH PACIFIC BASE —
(Delayed) — (AP) — Mrs. Eleanor
Rooseveli, at a Navy hospital, to
day presented the Navy Cross, the
Purplée Heart and the Gold Star
in lieu of a second Purple Heart
to Navy Lt. Hugh Barr Miller, 33,
of Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Miller, who quarterbacked the
University of Alabama in 1931 to
a 24-0 Rose Bowl vietory over
Washington State, saved the lives
of two men during the sinking of
the U. S. Detroyer Strong in the
Kula Gulf in the Central Solo
mons the night of July 4.
Injured by depth charges, Miller
lied for more than a month in
Japanese territory, was strafed in
the neck by a Japanese plane, kill
ed five Japanese with their own
grenades and finally was rescued
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“Athens, Ga., Tuesday, September 21, 1943.
French Commandos
Fight For Corsica
General Giraud Says
Battle Has Taken
“Favorable Turn”
LONDON — (AP) — French
troops were battlirg; on the soil of
Metropolitan Franee today for the
first time since the collapse of the
renublic in the spring of 1940 as
Commandos from North Africa
fought side by side with patriots
of the mountainous island of Cor
sica against the German garrison.
Announcement of the landing of
the Commandos,, some of the forceg
which took part in the Tunisian
campaign, came in a terse com
munique issued last night in Al
giers by Gen. Henri Giraud. The
communique gave no details of
the fighting, but said it had “tak
en a favorable turn.”
The Stockholm Svenska Dag
bladet, publishing dispatches from
German-controlled Marseille, said,
however, that French forces had
occupied Ajaceio, Corsica's capital
and an air and naval base, after a
Nazis were said to have retired
Nazis were sadi to have retired
to the eastern shore of the island,
where they were receiving rein
forcements from the Italian main
land and the island of Elba. The
German garrison also was aug
mented by troops withdrawn from
Sardinia, seven miles to the south,
from which the Nazis were driven
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Opponents To Father
.
Drafting Weaken
Before War Leaders
WASHINGTON — (AP) — With
support for the measure apparent
ly ebbing, Senator Wheeler (D.-
Mont.) counted heavily today on
Bernard M, Baruch to dent the
solid military front against his
proposa Ito defer the father draft.
Wheeler told .reporters in ad
vance of the scheduled resumption
of* hearings on the legislation that
he expected Baruch to criticize
the reported “hoarding” of work
ers by war industries. The Mon
tanan contends this has done more
to put family heads in line for in
duc‘tion next month than any oth
er one factor.
Baruch made such a criticism in
his reent report to War Mobiliza
tion Diretor James F. Byrnes. But
at the same time he said it would
be unwise to exempt fathers in
unessential occupations 55 AL
meant taking skilled workers from
war industries.
The Senate Military <Committee
voted yesterday to call Baruch as
a witnes son Wheeler's demand,
but the time of his appearance re
mained in doubt. The Montana
senator said he would not ask
for debate on his bill until Baruch
had been heard, probably tomor
row afternoon.
While Wheeler was inclined to
discount its effect, the opposition
voiced against his bill yesterday
by Gen. George C. Marshall, Army
Chief of Staff, and Admiral Er
nest J. King, Commander of the
Fleet, apparentiy damaged its
chances of passage.
Senator Austin (R.-Vt.) said he
thought the testimony of the twe
military chiefs “shows the fathers
draft measure ought not to pass,”
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Skelgton’ Exposed
f eleton’ Expose
Disclosure Of
Army, Navy Journal
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MacKenzie Discusses
':if“?owerful Interests”’
‘Seeking Marshall Ouster
By DeWitt MacKenzie
‘Associated Press War Analyst
It gives exceedingly to
wonder whether the au
%orit‘ative Army and Navy
Journal hasn’t opened the
ecloset door on a rather
grim international skeleton
by its sensational assertion
that powerful interests
wotld like to remove Chief
of Staff General George C.
Marshall from the Wash
ington scene,
| “Acting, under the President's
imstruction,” explains the journal,
“he (Marshall) has labored zeal
ously to insure the fullest meas
ure of cooperation with our allies
and especially the British, a policy
based on the President's and his
own appreciation of the necessity
of safe-guarding American inter
ests. Thinking only of winning the
ar in the shortest time and of
saving every American life pos
sible, in connection with the bloody
operations which it calls for, Gen
eral Marshall, of course, has come
into conflict with powerful inter
ests which would like to eliminate
him from the Washington picture,
and place in his stead an officer
more amenable to their will’
That’'s a nasty picture, Who are
these powerful interests? The Jour
‘nal leaves it to us te figure it
"out for ourselves. The general
public has learned of only one dif
ferente of opinion between Mar
‘shall and critics.
P British Oppose It
! The chief of stafp is said to
‘have held firmly to the conviction
that western Europe should be in
ivd(iod directly from England. Other
ks\‘.ra.tesist,s, particularly those on
ith’ British side of the table, have
frowned on cross-Channel invasion,
| ing of the drive also is said to
hadve caused some dissension.
'ell, it certainly is interesting
toy know where General Marshall
has ~stood on such invasion, for
that has been one of the major
issues of the war, as Moscow
hasn’t allowed us to forget. Read
ers of this column over a consider
able period will recall that it per
sistently has pointed out that the
quickest way to victory would be
this' admittedly highly dangerous
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Japs Paid Heavily
Losing Sal
osing Salamaua,
Lae, Report States
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC —
(AP) — Japan paid a high price
in men and equipmeyg while los
ing Lae and Salamaua on New
Guinea. Now that these air bases
are firmly in General MacArthur’s
hands, enemy garrisons in the area
are beginning to undergo attacks
by fighter-escorted bombers and
to see more strafing Allied fight
ers than they have experienced
before.
Just how many of a Japanese
Army once estimated at 20,000
men were slain as Salamaua fell
Sept. 12 and Lae Sept. 16 remains
to be disclosed in official reports.
But a spokesman for General Mac-
Arthur said today the enemy,
caught in a jungle encirclement
movement, lost heavily.
He said evidence has been found
that the Japanese lost an entire
regiment, ordinarily averaging 2,-
200 men, in killed and hospitalized
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House Vofes Today
On U. §. Post-War
World Collaboration
WASHINGTON—(#)—The House
reacheq for its legislative pen to
dayt to sign a history-shaping
document which would place Con
gress on record in favor of post
war collaboration with other na
tions in maintaining a “just and
lasting peace.”
The action comes in a roll call
vote on a tersely worded resolu
tion designed to bury any Dbeliet
that congressional peacetime phil
osophy will be dictated by a doc
trine of isolationism.
There appeared little doubt as
to the outcome. From both thei
Republican and Democratic sides
of the aisle came potent support
for the resolution, drafted by Rep.
Fulbright (D-Ark).
Leaders of both parties express
ed confidence it would be adopted
by substantially more than the
required two thirds vote.
A comparative handful of law
makers battled bitterly against it.
They declared its adoption would
sign away American sovereign and
constitutional rights, that its ac
ceptance would involve the United
States in the conflicts, the respon
sibilities and the wars of other
continents,
/Against that argument was level
ed the r!ipoatod con?ntlon,og the
resolution’s backers that Congr
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Red Armies Push Nazis Back
Red armies of Soviet Russia drive the Nazis back along the long
front in their sweep toward Smolensk, Kiev, and the Dnieper river.
Other Russian drives are expected at Gomel and Poltava, In breach
ing the main German defenses bhefore Smolensk, the Red armies
reached within 160 miles of the Polish border.—~NEA TELEPHOTO.
Fifth A Battling
Way Inland; Veni
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ay Inland; Venice
Under Attack By Air
Enemy Communication Center Taken;
Brifish Bth Army Menacing Germans
By NOLAND NORGAARD
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA.—
(AP)-—American Liberators threw new weight into the
conquest of Italy by bombarding the historic port of
Venice as French troops and native guerillas prcoeeded
today to mopping up German resistance on Corsica and
the U. 8. Fifth Army registered new gains in the Salerno
beachhead.
Soviets Blast Into
Outflank Nazi Central
Front Anchor By -
Slashing Advances
LONDON -—()— Blasting into
the Smolensk defense zone to out
flank that German central front
anchor, Red army forces stormed
on today from captured Velizh, 65
miles to the northwest, while fur
ther south they had slashed across
the Kiev-Chernigov highway on
the Middle Dnieper river and cut
the main Crimean escape railway
between Zaporozhe and Dniepro
petrovsk,
The Moscow communique dis
closed an amazing list of triumphs
marked up by the hard-slugging
Russian troops, including, the start
of a great wheeling movement
pointed toward Cherkasy, key rail
center on the Dnieper southeast of
Kiev, in an attempt to entrap the
hundreds. of thousands of German
troops reported massed in the river
bend.
More than 1,130 tons and vil
lages fell before the slashing So
viet advances, the Russian war
bulletin said. Trémendous piles of
war equipment, Including strings
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Aflanfa OPA Office
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Discloses Errors
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In Ration Book 3
ATLANTA —(#)— Through im
proper assembling of some of the
Ration Books Number Three, the‘
new brown stamps do not appear
in proper sequence, the Georgia
State War Ration Book Control
Center of OPA discleses.
Holders of books improperly as
sembled, which OPA said occurred
principally in the “BJ” and “BK”
series, are urged by OPA to ex
amine their books for error and
report to their local War Price
and Rationing Boards for exchange.
OPA explained that a correctly‘
‘assembled book contains four pages
of brown stamps, two in the fron!!
of the book and two at the back.
The two at the gfront should be
lettered A through F and N
through T, containing 24 stamps
to the page, and should be in
proper sequence.
The two pages at the back of a
correctly assembled book eacp con
tain 24 stamps, the first page be
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A.B.C. Paper—Single Copy, 3c—sc¢ Sunday
Slowly and steadily pressing
the Germans backward, the Fifth
Army stormed and took the key
town of Eboli, sixteen miles in
land, which had served the enemy
as a communications center during
last weeks’' heavy fighting about
Salerno.
General Mark W. Clark's sol
diers also battered their way to
Montecorvino, nine miles idland,
in a sustained push, an official
source disclosed.
A military spokesman also an
nounced that the Germans are
swinging the lower end of a line
which formerly enclosed the Sa
lerno bridgehead to the north and
east to avoid being trapped by the
continued rapid advance of the
British Eighth Army.
This retreat already has taken
the bulk of the German forces
north of the Sele River.
The Germans are using infantry
supported by small groups of
tanks to fight a delaying action in
the Eboli area and the Fifth Ar
my also was reported encountering
elaborate minefields and demoli
tions in its slow but continued ad
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To the People
of this Community:
" 'DON’T KILL OUR BOYS!
A steadily rising wave of opti
mism based on the careless be
lief that the war is already won
will bring about the cruel and
unnecessary deaths of thousands
of Americans
in uniform
on the battle
rd field.
This in sub-
WAR stance is the
warning of
LOA N Secretary of
Back the Attack | the Navy
with War Bonds | Frank Knox
' addressed to
you personally. '
Any relaxation cn the home
front now that Americans are
invading enemy territory will be
tragic. No matter how many
War Bonds you have already
bought, you cannot do enough to
back up the invasion. Invasion
is the deadliest, the costliest of
military tactics. We are still at
the outer edges of the Hitler and
Hirohito fortresses. The Third
War Loan, now in its 12th day,
is a forthright test of your abil
ity to come through when your
boys need you most.
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Great Offensives
About To Begin,
Marshall Asseris
“At Last” Ready
To Carry War
To Enemy, He Says
OMAHA, Neb.—(AP)—
Great cffensives in which
the full strength of Ameri
ca’s armed forces will be
hurled against the enemy
in Asta and Europe are
“just about to begin,” Gen
eral George C. Marshall
said today. A
Addressing the American Legion
convention, Marshall said there
appeared to be some public mis
understanding of the recent Allied
successes, a tendency to believe
that the final steps of the war
were being taken. :
On the contrary, he said in a
prepared speech, the last year and
a half has been spent largely in
preparation for operations of the
large forces still to go into action,
in establishing bases for future
campaigns. i
“Now at last we are ready to
carry the war to the enemy,” said
Marshall, “all overseas thank God,
with a power and force that we
hope will bring this conflict to an
early conclusion, .
“But please remember that this
phase is just about to begin a
point which seems not to be un
derstood by our people here at
home, pessibly because they - are
far removed from the agonies of
war except for those whose aon‘,
or husbands have been engaged in
the fighting.”
Marshall said he found himself
“in a curious state of mind” over
suggestions that perhaps the Ar
my had acquired more than if
needed of some types of war
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Pencillin Girl Is
To Refurn Soon
To School In Macon
MACON, Ga—(/P)—Anne Shirley .
Carter, 16-year old girl who was
‘treated with the new drug P%.i‘
lin for a streptococci infection, had
‘returned home today from a hos~
pital and i 8 expected to return ta
school as soon as she regains her
strength, . g
The high school senior credited
the drug with saving her life and
sald phe hoped it soon would be
manufactured in sufficent quan
tities to help other persons “as it
helped me.”
Through efforts of the Macon
News and the Danville, Va., Regis~
ter-Bee, a supply o¢ penicillin was
rushed her from New York by
‘Army bomber after other attempts
to obtain the drug quickly had
failed. 4
The daughter of Southern R#l.
way Superintendent C. K.. Carter,
of this city, Ann Shirley was
stricken with the deadly infection
the first of the month. The child’'s
grandparents, Judge C, K. Carter
and wife of Danville, Va, came
here by plané'to see her. 4
Hundreds of letters were receilv
ed by the girl following news of
her plight Gnd Anne Shirley Is busy
answering these and compiling a
scrapbook of newspaper clippings.
“People from all over the nation
write me,” she said. “I heard from
several soldiers, The pastor of a
church in Texas wrote that his
congregation held special prayers
for me and hundreds of cthers
just wrote to wish me good luck.’
' She was moved from the hospital
yesterday. Her father said it would
be several days before she could
return to school. |
YWorld Today
BY THE ASSOCIATED. PRESS
INVASION: U. 8. Fifth Army
continues advance, storms and
and takes German communi
cations center of Eboli, 16
miles inland §rom Salerno area.
Eighth Army advances against
light opposition as Germans
swing Salerno line back to
avoid trap. U. S. Liberators
smash historiec Venice. French
troops and guerrilias mopping
up Gprmans on Corsica. |
RUSSIA: Russian armies
blast into Smolensk defense
line, outflank this keystone
Nazi kpitadel on central front.
Other Hforces advance within
10 miles of White Russia, 1156
miles from old Polish frontige.
Main German rail line of es
cape from Crimea cut.
AIR WAR: Aliisd daylight
raiders renew offensive against
continent, smasjh Ggrman cen
ters in north France. High
command discloses pevere blows
at German sea forces through
intensffied air attacks and the
sowing of mines by planes.
PACIFIC: Allied plangs hit
Japanese .‘tnngg: in New
Britain, U, S.-Aussie troops
catch up with Jap survivors
fleeing from Lae déieat in New
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