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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
On the
Business
front
By WARD SCHULTZ
Detroit riu,cs tInancial Editor

Now I'm told that a number OF
influential Delroitcrs are whooPing
il up and trying 10 organic a
concerted campaign 10 answer Lie
Magazine alleged slurS on the
fair name Of Detroit.
The Board Of Commerce has re
nortedly been approached ana
some serious thought IS being
gwen 10 The idea.
Whether IL rs advisable. 90 start
such a campaign, or not. I'm not
certain. hut ] 90 fccl that II INC
lob is undertaken J. could wei
follow along the path outlined by
this column of August ,.
At that time. VIC pointed 10
SOME of DctroitS definite accom-
pliShmentS and "firStS' IN the war
program
I suggested that tho Board Of
Commerce pubhCize the terrific
record chalked up by the banks IN
the sale of war bonds, the JAW
Go record Of membership pur-
chaSes aggreCatinh 100000 600.
the first BullS-Eye flag for EN-
Cello, the first Minute Man flag
for Great Lakes Steel and dozens
Of other firsts.
I submit that had such a pro-
gram been started at that date, II
would have. by sheer coincidence
gotten under way az the same time
the Life article was released.
II would have been a perfect
answer.
Eddie Levinson. UAW-CIO, pub
licist. sends in release denying
the statement used here that the
union was rehiring Wyndham
Mortimer who was suspended as
an organizer for his part in the
North American strike,
In the release, President X.
Thomas says:
"Wyndham Mortimer Is not
now. nor will he be on the pay
roll OF the UAM-CIO."
Mr.. Levinson admitted that Mr..
Mortimer's case was discussed by
the UAW-CIO executive board in
secret session but refused 10 give
details beyond the bare assertion
that ''he was not on the pay roll
nor would he be-" He also adj
nitted that Mr.. Mortimer is still
a member of Cleveland local of the
union.
However, for the record Mr..
Thomas is not rehiring him.
Congratulations. r. j.!
However, we understand that
Mr.. Mortimer has applied for the
post of organizer of the National
Go Of which Thomas is vice
president.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
Farmers Market

FRUlTs-- Apples. Mcintosh. No. J, 81
si.5o@i7s. No. 2. Si'a5: Northwestern
River. no !, 81 56ai.75 bu. crabsppes.
No. 1, H.2sai.75. csntaloupe, Hearts
:. Is. No ?. 81; Honey Rocks. No. /,
81 25N 50 bu: No 2 75C 81; MARKET
King No. !, S2G225 bu No. ? $3.50
Grapes. early varieties fancy 26o 4-a,.
fancy si@l 80 bu. 80 J, s303.56; No
? 50: Elbertss. fancy. $3.50 hu. No. J..
81 1898 as No. :, 81. Pear Bartlett
%: 10 ?, 81 Plums Ds'nson, SO. +.
81 bu. other varieties, fancy. 50 bn. ,
-IrS2A2 20 No, ., 81 25Fi I.la
Watermelon fancy. $3.50 don; No. !
y LETTUCE n AND SALAD CREENs-Lcsf
lettuce. No J. T5cn 81 M Romano, NJ.
]. e0cQ 81. Etcsrole No. ]. 30 soc hu
80 2 4oe Endi'e fa5eyi ~. N.2o 2 90
vEGETABLE pREENs coilards No. !,
900 csc bu sorrel, No J. ~ 65c BIZ.
spinseh, 80. !. soe ti25 BY. No. ?
10 l. so 75c bu Cabbage greens. No. /,
sriss chsrd 80 l. soa soc bu
VEGETABLES. NIscE:l.L.A5NEous -
bearx fancy 50 - bu. 80 l. 81 500
rs No. ?. 81 ia, green btsns No
fscAN bu.; 70 oN io.ha ., ~ =
heansi fancNs elio pl.i ~ !, -. - T
10. / Str125 hu. No. 75e; timi
hes-s' No J. s7a3.5o On Bec's NJ
s2ri iOc dOz punches No. tlc. bee'
sle5~11S hr Cabbsgs 10 2 30
va. red cahba-s. Nc % Nh0 nu.
orriv CshnaCt. SO. : 90 75g ~. '5rro,
- ,.J " a9 e, % ai 1s! No q so 90
Ca'HHrwer 80 =. Si2t bu Nc N
81 Celtry. fare. 75 90 toZ ua1. hes
csbbars. 80. !. SiaIz5 by. 80 ?. soc
sweet corn fsncy Si25 5-doz sacks
s.,. .,. Is -, - -r9 2T su 70
Ce,. oins, fancy sl75 bu.i NJ / si.2'
so; No. 2 81; nicklers. fancN - bu
80 I. s0a3 IN No. /. 81 Sc dol
t-hs ERVp,snt Ne. ], 90 g eoc ~. No
Vet; Katlrsbi 10. J. 800 SOC dor. hch'
freks No E0ms Oc don. bchs onion'
~. fancy S1SD bo-Ih SACK No
~ iaa igE5- 80 ?. SOC re- 81 green. 80.
50 s0.ib. sack. No 2. s. okfa, No.
81 25gI ~ psck basket; 30 81 Pei
grips. NO I. s5ca = IA ~ ?, ~
y Cuty parsley, 30. ], ~ tOc dof NJ
ptysisT root No. I, l'Waoe coz 80
10. 4. 50a7Bc bui red sweet No
egaesc peck basket Fifnentc Ne. J t0-
e0c ptck basket Potatoes No :. - 2 4
bu.i 80. ? T3e Radishss, RED no
Ne sassc eo1 bchs Ratabaras \,
4 TseHN bu. squash. dsilciouE. 10
s1rfH0 bu.. SUMMER, No. !, 81 p o4c
~ No 2 Csc table queen no
- nc tu. huDberf Ne u 81 30
go Touatats fancy S209 81 be $50
FiaIsc. 30. Il iaa 4pc- Tprrinf. ~.
t09 COG oot. hcls TORPID, tancy. ti-4
81 80, !. 7oeau.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
Market Opens
Uneven With
Volume Light
Bonds Steady as
Cotton Loses | to S
Points; Chrysler Up

NEW YORK, Sept. 3 GNS).-
Stocks opened narrowly irregular
today with volume light. Bonds
were firm. Cotton futures lost TO
) points.
Small gains and losses balanced
off and left the list about UNI
changed on balance. A stable
group opened at the previous close.
Postal Telegraph preferred made
its daily new high. 1t opened at
1875, up Il point. Chrysler gained
"a TO 59h on the first sale. while
General Motors lost u to 38.
Preferred stocks in the utility
group were fractions TO more than
2 points higher. Engineers Public
Service 8 per cent preferred
opened at 52h, up 2la points.
West Penn Electric z per cent pre-
tferred was up a point.
Louisville and Nashville gained
ia points 10 81.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
Tax Outlook Now Appears Improved

outlook better All this talk about payasyouEo
merely by-poduc tendency collect taxes AT the
source that tendency turn reflects The need OF taHng
whether this through
retail sales tax withholding wages must
on in hearing the tax load
This win November eectipns-Then Me
viii see period taxation which as IN
investment and enterprise
Finally the necessity of borrowing and the widespread Sa OF
making Sounder credit conditions AS
tho people bondhode the deuson that the SIZE OF me
debt difference beealse we owe 1T to Ourselves VIII
bondhoder will be just keen Tor falf
interest S other capitalist.
These mat denloc-
may win in The and the world.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
Lower Requirements

Lowering of the minimum age
limit for entrance TO the Pom
tiac Motor Division Apprentice
School Is announced by Fred A.
Voelker. director OF the school.
Applications now are being
received from yeaths is years
old. Former age limit was 18
years. To qualify an applicant
must have completed at least
two years of four-year high
school course.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
WPB Disbdnds
Contract Office

WASHINGTON. Sept. 3 1NS).
Liquidation of the WPBs con
tracts distribution branch, with
its ia employees, today was viewed
as the first step in a wholesale
housekeeping of the board.
The WPB disclosed that dismiS-
sal notices were sent TO the la
workers in Washington, effective
September IS, the effective date
of the resignation of Amory
Ioughton. WPB director general
for operations. who ordered the
large-Scalc shutdown.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03

wage rates ito a properly developed cost
of living index" lie also called for 9
ceiling on farm prices and for national
sales tax
on tho eve of the formulation o
President Roosevelt's program TO control
imitation. Sloan's recommendations, re-
hecting the considered and practical judg
ment of an outstanding industrialist, arr
of extraordinary timeliness and impor
lance.
After outlining the potential danger
Sloan. in proposing a remedy, told me:
"The attack must be made at the
source. III costs increase, prices sooner
or later must follow. Mere than two
thirds of the prices Of goods and serv-
ices involve directly and indirectly the
compensation content. -
There has occurred an enormous en-
pansion in wage rates. Higher hourly
wage rates have been made obligatory.
Superimposed upon this are longer hours
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
Lewis HaneY
Lewis Haney
Political issues
Revised by Va ar

Tire passing through the crisis and is going to sur
"a pli freedom
h, oucu on several weeks vacation with plenty
of toy Citation.
take the steps required TO WIN
conflict
,sn roS Political parties viii operate of course
that fundamental unity which arises iron
the survival As predicted many times IN tS
finally beginning 60 show the unreay OF uSlnl
private purchasing power and The deSucVenes'
OF pressure group politics
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
Detroit Produce

=. APPLEs-Michigan. bu. crates. u. s
No. !, an min. unless otherwise stated.
Wealthys. N.l5I1.s0; Mcintosh, 81. $50
s. Well Rivers. 81, few best color.
Belchenheimes. 75c; bu. crab apples. s2u
cANTALouPEs-cantornia central dis.
salmon meats, Jbo. crts.. ass. s3;2oi Jb?.
ripe stock all sizes, low as 81.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. crts.. Jbo. 81,
81. IS; Jbo, SIS std. es q 12s, So.
LETTUCE-Los Angeles crts.. Iceberg
.SS: f.r qnsy s's:' s n1I%s OI
$4,000, mostly s55o9S.7s.
ONIoNs--5Q lbs. sacks, Michigan, U. 8.
No; l.. yellow med, si.10@i.2o. mostly
quality. ss,ioga.i5, 1915 lbs, box white
pickIers. 50; Colorado sweet spanish. U. s.
No. /, 81 and larger. 81
PEAcHEs-Michigsn, ". 3. No. Z. e.
s Der, s,., 2" up b.. ssk,.;' sa29gS;:o,
ing some ripe, 81; Pennsylvania bu. bskts.,
Y. $. No. Elbertas. 2" up. s2,5o; New
2" up. ripe, $1,50Hl.75. Hales. Michigan
bu. bskts., y. $. No. 1, ga" up. 50, az"
PEAs-Colorado bu. bskts. s2eoa3 Is,
fair, S2.50U2.60. bu. hampers, S2.75.
FRESH PRUNEs--oregon Washington
". =. No, Italians, half bu. baskets,
81. 10g2.15. occasional s2.25.
PoTAToEs-l00-Ib. sacks Oregon u. s.
No. washed Long whites, $40; Wash
ington U. S. No. ] washed Long Whites,
$3.50; Idaho u. s. No. I washed Long
Whites. 50; U. s. No. washed Russet
Burbanks, s425. few best 81 40; Idaho,
standard grade. mostly s3.75; Y. 8. No.
washed TrIumphs. very few sales. 81. 20
parsss or'sGn Me SH T e. s. N No
unwashed Cohblers, si.s0G1.s5 large size,
80; generally good ;'oSSa y t s. Mo- DUAL
ity si.5oni.so; 15-lb. paper sacks Chip
pewas, CSC.
SWEET PoTAToEs--Louisiara Porto
Rican Vans. bu. crates u. q. No. 1,
50. 7512.s5. fair quality s2.i5; Tennessee
Porto Rican Vans, bu. crates, ~. W2.eO;
bu hampers Nancy Halls. generally good
quality, S2ioU2.i5; Maryland Goldens,
hu. baskets u. 3. No. I, 212.f IS.
WATERNEL ONs---Oklahoma Tom wat
sons, "a lbs. per melon, soc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03

vi GDblo 81 ' hNA ~
m ore signiii-
cant.
In the recent
annals OF new
style collective
bargaining. the
situation IN the
Murray Corpo-
ration. p @ a c O.
time makers of
a m o b il G
bodies, consti-
tutes a success
s ( o + v. There
has b @ en- no
s [ o p p a &c oil
work since the
first union CON
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
Murray, Union
Time Study Plan
Wins Praise
Rukeysor Cites Record
Of No Work Stoppaee
Since Pact Made in 81
BY VI. s. RUKEYSER

Usually the outside public learns
Of cmploye-employer relations only
when there has been dramatic
breach. hut the normal peaceful
xogress. which goes unnoticed is,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
Detroit Stocks

Sales HIGH Low II 100 Ch'Ee
.GrVBrew or 300 .5S IS rs az
Kinsei Dr % 300 80 40 10 n3
Dividends la the foregoing table are the
amounts declared or paid 80 far this NrHr,
unlrss otherwise noted. R-Liquidating diVi-
drnd b-tm ACCOMMODATIONS, eN-EN-dlNidCnd'
s-StOck dividend.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
Square D Co. Again
Votes Soc Dividend

Square d Company has declared
a dividend of so cents on the COM
mon, payable September 30, to
holders Of record September is
The same cunt was paid
June 30.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
Detroit Poultry

Market. weak. Hens. average run, 2te
leghorn hens, lbs. and up. Ice; cocks.
i2ni4c; rock springers, lbs. and up. 2oc
rock broilers. "a 70 lbs, 25c; leghorn
brollers. all sizes, 23e.
EGGS-Market steady Current receipts.
32hc: undergrades, 2sia q 3ic.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
What Is lnfation2
What Is nHa+ion7
Sloan Outlines
Methods of Control.

I'm of series about the current imitation crisis
Stanley Rukeyse presents exclusive interview WIN
Sloan J board chairman OF General Motors Corpoaton
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03
BY MERRyLE STANLEY RUKEYsER
Noted Writer on Economics

Alfred p of the General Motors Corpora
exclusively in production today
including
goods and forced savings to combat initiation
this imitation symposium Sloan
the absolute freezing Of definite Tying oI
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03

Bond stores, Inc, has declared
the regular quarterly dividend OF
40 cents on the common, payable
September Is, 10 holders of record
10.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03

Pressed steel Car Company for the sis
months ended June 30 reports net prof.,
Of s567,iai after federal taxes, agains'
1925, 2O9 for the first half OF lefi.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-03

of number employed
agricultural has been established
legislation constitute the major influence pro-
imitation.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-08
CHURCHILL:
And Roosevelt

Prime Minister Winston Church
i'll, in his dramatic address, tinged
with his famous humor and flashing
with his matchless oratory, had
completely captured the senate and
house.
After week Of solid conferences,
from early morning until nightfall,
the President climaxed the visiting
prime minister's speech with a
statement. He said:
eve have advanced far along the
road toward achievement Of the Ill.
innate objective, the crushing de-
feat of those forces which have at
tackled and made war upon us.
1t was his first full communique,
and followed almost Immediately
after conference which included
representative Of the 80 nations
and British dominions aligned in the
fight on the Axis.
much has been accomplished,
the President said, Through the
medium Of many conferences held
in the meetings of supply and pro-
duction officials, military and naval
leaders, and in discussions with the
chiefs of missions of the nations at
war.
Il know the position of the United
States and of all nations aligned
with us has been strengthened i'm
measurably."
Churchill had told the represen-
tatives of Latin-America that three
fifths of the entire world supported
the forces fighting for freedom from
Axis aggression, and that the Allies
were out to win the war all around
the world.
He said that the fleets of the
United States and Great Britain
were completely dominant in the
Atlantic and in the eastern Pacific,
thus protecting adequately the vital
life-lines Of Britain and the United
States (the Atlantic) and the shores
of the Western hemisphere (the east
ern Pacifc).
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-08

bombing of the metropolis (second)
to inform the world that it was ''un-
thinkable" that Manila should be
considered undefended.
This was tantamount to calling the
Americans liars, and then killing
off few helpless ones with we'll
directed bombs.
Newspaper men at the principal
offices of the large services stood
fearlessly and watched while scores
of Japanese bombers rained death
and destruction about them.
Fortunately they lived to write
unforgettable reports of the raid,
the damage it caused, the mint
Waterman slain and buried under
huge heaps of silver coins, the
priceless Catholic rosary destroyed
in the direct hit on the Church of
Santo Domingo, the flames, the
crunch of the bombs, the thunder
of the planes, the explosions, the
death and disaster.
They also were able to describe
the spirit of the people, digging out
of the bomb horror as though from
one of the frequent earthquakes
that have visited the city, and of
the defiant mood which resolved
them to die to the last man rather
than surrender the islands tn the
little brown invaders.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-08
RUSSIANS:
Drive Hard

Despite the obvious stiffening of
Nazi resistance on the Russian front
almost Immediately following the
ousting of the German high generals
and the taking over of the reins by
Hitler himself, the Russians had
seemed to keep their drive going,
weather or no weather, and to be
reporting continued successes.
In fact, the drive to relieve the
siege of Leningrad was said to be
picking up speed" all the time. A
20-mile gain was reported on the
Volkhov front, and there were in
dications that the Russians were
seeking to re-enter the Crimean
front on the extreme south.
German broadcasts had been
heard telling of sinking two Russian
transports in the Kerch vicinity,
which was taken as a Red attempt
to get back into that peninsula.
Sevastopol was still holding out,
and the German pressure there was
admitted by the Soviet to be strong,
despite enormous losses.
But on the central and northern
fronts the Germans were Catching
the devil" losing an average of
more than 20 villages daily.
Increased German resistance in
the north was evidenced by Russian
sappers finding 600 land mines in
one kilometer of road.
London observers had expressed
the opinion that if the Leningrad
campaign of the Soviet armies
should succeed, German tenure of
the entire northern front would be
impossible.
Highway. telephone and telegraph
communication between Moscow and
Leningrad had been resumed, but
the Red immediate objective was to
shove the Germans back far enough
so that uninterrupted rail COM
munication might be restored, thus
losing for Hitler what had taken
hundreds Of thousands of German
and Finnish troops six months to
accomplish.
That the Christmas week drive Of
the Reds had carried them through
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-08
MANILA:
Jap Frightfulness

Close observers of the war in
China had brought back horror sto-
ries concerning the brutality of the
japanese war machine, the bomb
ings and machine-gunnings of help
less civilians; attacks on Chinese
women, rapine and pillage of towns.
Any desire the Philippines popula-
ton might have had to disbelieve
the general tenor of these reports
had been rudely dispelled by the
bombing Of Manila just as General
Macarthur had officially declared it
an undefended city, had moved the
government and the military away.
Japan's answer was Girst) to car
ry out their heaviest unscathed
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-08

Inc V1chy- Washington talks con-
cernlng the st. Pierre Miquelon cpl
sode showed that there was much
confusion about the whole situation,
and while the man in the street,
wanted De Gaulle's forces to have
the islands with American co-opera.
ton, and while Canada seemed
much in this frame of mind also.
there was much in the situation
which the same man in the street
did not know anything about,
Most observers felt that official
Washington sympathized with the
De Gaullists in their seizure of the
islands, and apparently felt that the
De Gaulle claim that the radio had
been used to send weather informa-
ton to the enemy was justified.
But these same observers felt it
extremely likely that the state de-
partment was not willing to depart
from the rules of procedure until it
became impossible to do otherwise.
Hence the outward appearance of
annoyance sent to Vichy at their
loss of the islands, but the most sig
ni1cant statement that the u. S.
wanted, If it was to help Vichy re-
cover them, was to have charge of
the island radio stations.
Vice Admiral Muselier, however,
barred all warships from the islands
and prohibited all planes from fly
ing over them. A plebiscite, he
said, produced vote of SO per cent
in favor Of occupation by the De
Gaullists.
1t was possible that the st. Perre-
Miquelon incident might bring to
head a showdown on the question
of all French Atlantic holdings.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-08
HIC HLIC HIT S

Baltimore: Cashing d + en- e
checks for fees Of 10, 20 and 80
cents, was a new ''big business"
here, with armored money-trucks
surrounding booths where the
checks are cashed.
London: Jugoslav guerillas, mem
bers of the Chetniks, had dislodged
Germans from points held for six
months and were playing havoc
with communicate lines to Greek
cities.
Albany, Ore: The worlds mean
est thief was a man who, capitaliz-
ing on the Pearl Harbor disaster,
pretended that he was sailor who
had been reported killed, and wired
his parents" to send him SIS. that
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-08
PHILIPPINES:
Full Scale

While the United States anxiously
scanned bulletins from Manila, and
frowned at the increasing serious
ness of the situation, there were rea-
sons for general belief that the
army and navy high commands
were not blind to the situation, but
had agreed on counter measures of
some sort.
Obviously these had not been
made public, as to do so would be to
Tip our hand" to Japan. But the
meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt
in Washington, and the presence in
the United States of the now-famous
party of 80, which included all the
British military and naval, as we'll
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-08
in the weeks news

he had arrived at San Francisco and
needed money. The money was
sent, the family, broken hearted,
later learning they'd been swindled.
Manila: An escaped Filipino SOL
der said that Japs whack their
prisoners on the feet with their gun
butts, making their feet so sore that
they will not try to escape.
Honolulu: The navy, having sal
vaged second Japanese suicide
SUBJ one of the two-man, 41-foot
affairs which took part in the Pearl
Harbor attack, were studying its
construction and discussed the pos
sibility that the boats were made of
cast iron.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-08
Weekly nay
FOX Pledges Aid to the Philippines Manila Hard by Bombs

nor did he hint at any but an all
out effort on the part of the British
to save Singapore, keep the Burma
road open, and do all in their power
to defeat the Japs.
Those whose homes, families and
properties rested on the Pacific
slope were becoming nervous over
the smashing attack on Pearl Har-
Dor, the loss of Pacific island strong
holds, the nearness of Jap subma-
rlnes, and the unchecked landings of
japanese on the Philippines.
And the Churchill statements
about the battle of the Atlantic be-
ing the most vital of the whole war,
together with his prediction of re-
verses in prospect for 1912, and the
turning of the tide in 1943, did not
allay the Pacific coast nerves at all.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-01-08
LIBYA:
Ndzi Rush

Reports had come in that the
Nazis, desperate over the conditions
confronting General Rommels divi-
slons in Libya, had landed reinforce
ments in Tripo1i and were rushing
them eastward to try to make con-
tact with RommePs men before they
were hopelessly trapped.
Heavy rains, however, which had
slowed the British operations, also
were hampering these rescue divi-
sions and were giving Rommel lit
tie chance to gather together the
German-Italian forces, which re-
NAMED to him for last stand.
The latest reports were that the
British, by rapid movement, had
again made contact with the
enemy's main force at Agedabia, a
district south of Bengasi, formerly
the main Axis stronghold, which fell
to the imperial forces on Christmas
Eve.
The British forces, Cairo had said,
extended at that moment even be-
yond the limits Of Cyrenaica and
into Tripolitania.
German and Italian prisoners in
large numbers were pouring into
Cairo. Huge quantities of war ma
terial had been captured or de-
stroyed.
From German prisoners, the Brit
ish said, it had been learned that
Rommel had planned large-scale
surprise attack on the British at To-
bruk only matter of days after the
imperial forces launched their
sweep against him on November 49,