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Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29
Germans Tighten
Grip on France
At Big Air Base

Africa.
Allied quarters. awaiting further
news of the Scuttling of the Toulon
fleet, believed that as the result
of the German attack powerful
French naval units neutralized at
Alexandria, Egypt, and Gibraltar
and based on Algeria. Morocco and
Martinique might join the Allied
naval forces for active duty.
British warships searched the
Mediterranean in hope that they
i1ight pick up and escort to safct"
any French ships which escaped
during the suicide OF the main
fleet at Toulon.
DARLAN APPEALS
At Allied headquarters in North
Africa, an Allied spokesman an
nounced that any ship of the
French fleet would be welcomed at
any llied-hcld port on the African
coast
News was received that Admiral
Jean Francois Darlan. French CON-
fander in Africa. made radio ap-
Leal over the Algiers radio last
night for French ships at sea 10
Join the Allies, evidently belleFlNg
that some were at large.
At that time, it was indicated.
Darlan and Allied leaders were stu
uncertain of the extent OF the Sc "
ting.
Men of the fighting F.cnch f'cct
already fighting with the Allie
paraded in the French admiral'1
courtyard here today and all fight
ing Frenchmen observed q minute
II silence in honor CT the Toulon
dead. Flags at the French aomlr-
,lty and Gen. Charles De Gai ucS
headquarters were at half staff.
rOULON QUIET
A Vicly Havas dispatch rep ~
q quiet this morning. with street
.ars running, after night IN Wlilta
EXPLOSIONS shook houses and ITS H.
}eed many Of them as ammunltion
oXDloded in dumps as explosives
ietonated in scuttled ships. a pan
VI smoke hung over the city SO
dick. Havas said, that it was i'll
4 mi darkness.
Reports reached neutral SWl'2cl.
land and Spain that the mon OF
The Toulon fleet put up . deS,>c'a'c
nd gallant six hour fight 10 Keep
the Germans off Their SilpS' ana
that thcv moved down with Jncr
machine guns ali German ana 'laI-
!4n troops who approached.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29
WILDERNESS BREAKERS
lOntariO Report)

All the frontiers are not yet conquer
ed. All the pioneers are not figures of
the past. History is being made by the
hard-hitting pioneers OF the L. S. Army
Engineers, and the last page they have
written. to date, is the completion two
months ahead of schedule of the Alaska
highway.
Little more than a dream a year ago,
this strategic route is now an accomplish
ed fact. The entire 1,671 miles of road
is now reSoundng to the rumble of truck
traffic speeding men and supplies north
ward through the Canadian wilderness
to Fairbanks, and returning with raw
materials for our war industries.
Just how vital motor transportation is
to Americas own war effort, is shown
by the significant figures that here in
the Far West, a pivotal area in war pro-
ductiOn. some IS per cent of all highway
carriers are engaged in hauling war ship
ments. Considering the fact the nation
has some 100000 commercial vehicles,
we can gauge the enormous contribution
motor transport is making. Even con-
Struction of strategic routes, such as the
Alaska highway, would not have been
possible without trucks pouring in sup
plies to army engineers and builders,
night and day, to make possible that road
building miracle ID 1,67l-mile route
slashed through remote wilderness in
slightly more than six months.
Our wilderness breakers have made
road that will make history
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29
WILKES PUNCH
FROM THE SHOULDER
(William Allen White)


In his speech Oct. p. which has Great
ed more stir in this country than amy
other speech for nearly 100 years, Wen
dell Willkie spoke straght-from-the-
shoulder. That powerful speech is be-
ing chopped up and quoted all over the
country in short lengths Here is the
hardest punch. Note the simple words,
the direct sentences. the straight. un-
equlvocal statements and the power of
the mans rough, hard diction. Read it:
The record of this war to date is not
such as to inspire in us any sublime faith
IN the infalIibility Of our military and
naval experts. Let's have no more of
this nonsense Military experts. as we'll
As our leaders. must be constantly expos
ed to demOcracy's greatest driving power
the WhiplaSh Of public opinion-devel-
oped from honest. free discussion. Men
with great power usually like to live
free Of criticism. But when they get
that way. that's the time to increase the
criticism
That speech stirring the American
people deeply to the dangers of the hour.
contributed definitely. perhaps heavily
to the Republican election victory. That
speech was d real leaders war cry.
Don't forget this men and brethren.
when a politician can talk for IS minutes
like that he has something that the opin-
ion of mankind is bound to respect.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29
GERMANS REINFORCED

Strong COuntcrattackS also were
reported northwest and southwest
of Stalingrad by enemy reinforce
ments brought up from the deep
rear, bUt they did not seriously re-
tard the Russians.
The Stalingrad garrison gained
Cn all Sectors-in the northern part
of the city. in a factory district,
and in the center.
Inside Stalingrad, the Russians
borrowed q gap behind the Ger
mans with the capture of Ma
rinovka. 90 miles due west of the
city. and 10 miles east of the juno
ton from which a spur line
branches from the Stalinerad-
Kharkov railway and runs 10 miles
to the northwest, toward Russian
held Kalach.
Apparently the Russians were
irving to attack enemy forces in
side the city from the rear.
TO DESTROY ENEMY
The army newspaper, Rcd Star,
said that the Russians aimed prl-
marily at annihilating the enemy
rather than advancing, and 1t was
the arlny's first duty utterly to de-
Stroy surrounding enemy torceS.
Therefore. it was indicated, the
Russians were attacking in every
direction.
The Germans were reported
cleared entirely from the west bank
of the Don on one sector. Dis
patches said the Germans had also
been thrcwn back in tense fighting
to the east, and it was indicated
that this German force had been
trapped between Russian units drlV-
inc east as we'll as west
AXIS OUTNUMBERED
radio Berlin said Axis forces
wcrc oltnumbcrcd 10 times at some
places on the Stalingrad 'front.'
At least four towns of some I'M
pOrtancc. and vast amounts oil bcoty
had been captured by the Russians
i'm the last "a hours, The SOVIET
communiquc last midnight named
four towns captured, and mentioned
a number of unidentified populat-
ed places taken. The noon COM
muniqra said Soviet forces had
driven into another place held by
the Germans.
Radio Moscow said the One-timc
defenders of northern Stalingrad
had Joined forces with Red army
men who began the attack outside
Stalingrad to greak a defense area
which the Germans had boastcd
was impregnable.
OFFENSIVE BROADENS
These Soviet forces had captured
Kamilov Akatovka and Latoshanka,
giving them more elbow room, and
had already taken ports of the i'm
pregnable' German defenSeS.
The noon communique indicated
that the offensive inside Stalingrad
was broadening, although it dio
net indicate the positions of pincers
/ somewhere in the plains west OF
the Don river.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29
STRETCH IT OFT

All this is not SGT down to nm
imize the fact that there arc gen
uine SHORTAGES Of doctors in some
areas, and that these shortages may
be caused by heavy recruitment Of
physicians. You can't slap 5O6OY
or l50.Co0 workers into nov VA
producticn area that two years agn
was a great open space and eXnect
them to oct along without doctors
But the answer is that civilian
medical practice will have to be
stretched farther. Specialists will
have to give up their exclusive
fields and tecome just plain old
fashioned family doctors. And
paticnts will have to learn to ad-
lust their illnesses.
Quit getting The doctor out ID
the middle of the night. You call
at his office instead Of making him
call at your bed Of pain.
There are so many sides te TINS
question of the doctor shortage
however that the subject will have
to run into two more installmentS
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

A congressman from New Jersey
, recently called up the headquarters
OF the government agency charged
with recruiting doctors for the
armed forces, moaning low that a
lot of the people in a town of this
congreSSman'S district were protest
ing that one of the doctors OF this
community was about to be ccm-
miasioned III the Navy Medical
Corps.
The congrcssman'S constituents.
needless 10 say. wanted some
thing done about il. They want
cd> their doctor released from
having TO go in the Navy. II
something wasn't done about il,
the town was proposing to or
ganizc a delegation of 10 people
TO come down to Washington
and get action. IL was that Sc
rious. War or no war. these peo-
pie weren't going to let the nasty
old Navy take their beloved doc
to away from them. War or no
war, 80 people were going to put
further strain on the eastern
railroads transportation jam
by travelling to Washington on
a perfectly unnecessary Journey.
A check-up on this particular sit
uation back in Jersey revealed
facts:
The doctor in question was and
had been for some time a commits
stoned officer in the Naval Reserve
Medical Corps. He was not only
willing but anxious to get into
service. He was not the commu-
nitys only physician. There would
be nc shortage of competent medi-
cal talent in the community.
And though this doctor couldn't
exactly protest to his patients be-
cause of their devotion to him, his
medical career in service was about
to be ruined by the SelfiShnesS of q
group CT silly people who didn't
want any other doctor to move into
the community because they were
afraid that after the war was
over their old doctor might not
come back
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29
Allies to Drive
For TuniS First

CAllied general headquarters i'll
London announced that IL enemy
planes had been shot down in for
ward areas Of TuniSia on Thursday
The allies lost two fighters and the
pilots of both were sayed0
Brig Gen. James Doolittle'S Amer
ican 18th air force hammers axis
communications lines without sur
cease. One of their attacks WAS on
the railroad station at Matui, where
enemy troop and supply trains were
waiting.
In southern TuniSia, patrol aCtiV-
ity continued in the air and ON the
ground, with American P-38'S at
tacking axis armOred patrols.
It was learned that one unit OF
the famous French Foreign Legion,
which gave the Americans so much
trouble south of Oran, has sworn
allegiance to the American army.
1t soon will be fighting with the
Americans, with equipment it had
previously lacked.
Radio Morocco said last night,
quoting Allied sources, that prepar-
dJlOilo III q DIe
against Tunis and Bizerte, were in
their final stage.
TRANSPORT READY
1T said that all means of trans
port had been put into service,
while French. American and British
troops made their way slowly into
northeastern TuniSia.
CThere has been some hard fight
ing with axis vanguardS, Radio
Morocco said, and many German
and italian attacks have been re-
pulsed.
Radio Vichy broadcast q Berlin
dispatch that German and Italian
forces had clashcd with 40 British
tanks on, the AlgerianTunisian
frontier.
CRadio VjchT said the British lost
II tanks, abandoned seven and the
remainder rCtrcatcdD
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North
Africa. Nov. %. (UP)-The British
First Army, throwing back axis de-
tenders at a rate of 20 miles in "a
hours. is driving straight for Tunis,
intending to take it by storm and
isolate Bizerte for later attack, it
was made known today.
Under Lieut.. Gen. Kenneth A. N.
Anderson, the First Army, support
ed by American mobile units, smash
ed it's way 20 miles up the main
railroad toward Tunis yesterday and
took tho key town Of Tabourda Is
miles from the capital.
They were now headed toward
their ncXt objective, Diedeida, juno
ton of the TuniS-Bizerte railroad
10 miles from Tunis.
OBJECTIVE TAKEN
"A Vichy HaVaS agency dispatch,
reporting the allies 1G miles vest
Of TuniS, indicated that Djedeida
had been takenD
The Allied forces were now push
ing steadily against the sole big
remaining center of axis resistance,
the Tunis- Bizerte northeast corner
Of Tunisia.
Their dive was aimed straight
a. the heart Of axis Sstrength-TuniS.
When Tunis falls, Bizcrtc, the great
naval base to the north. will be
entirely igolatcd and will be cx-
rrctcd quickly - folloW Suit.
Allied air strength, which seems
"a be the key tD the Tunisian CAM
paign, was swiftly increasing. It's
growing power was indicated by
continuous attacks, despite sloppy
weather.
Al FLAMES DESTROYED
All types Ct American planes op-
Grating IL the Nc tn African thcater
hammered IN air field in central
Tunig!a On Thursday, DESTROYING 40
enemy planes. Then a British arm
C.2d column moved in and took
the field over.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29
GAVE 1T Up

In the end, the delegation of 10
was persuaded not TO come to
Washington. and it looks as though
the popular young doctor will 90
into service whether his patients
want him to or not.
This situation is dealt with in
this detail and in more space then
il is probably worth because it is
typical of a lot of the squawks
that come into the headquarters
of the Procurement and Assign
ment Service of the War Man
power Commission, which has the
job of mobilizing the cOuntry's
medical strength for war.
1t is really amazing how much
hell one neCrotic Nellie can raise
when she starts out to make nui-
sance of herself. but the fact is
that when a lot of the doctor
shortage scareS are investigated,
they can be traced down to the
individual head and bellyacheS Of
people who think there is only one
doctor in the world for their case.
How much choice do you sup
pose the soldier or sailor with hall
a leg or an arm shot off has in
the selection of the surgeon who
attends him? The answer Is that
he's glad to get whatever saw
bones or pill dispenser happens
along. and if all the medicine h"
can get to help relieve the pain
for a bit is a drag or two on a
cigaret. lit and held for him by
stretcher-bearer or first-aid sta
ton attendant who six months AGO
was a shce clerk or a farm boy
well thanks for that. And as
for Army medication. it has long
survived on a reputation for ad-
ministering shots, iodine or salts
for all ailments. so if the armed
services can survive on SGch treat
ment. civilians should be able to
get alcng.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29
BY Nj. 5. HANDLER

MOSCOW, Nov. 28.-lU.PD-FOg
and wet snow hampered operations
inside the Don river bend today, but
the Russians advanced their giant
offensive of encirclement and ami
hiIation on all sectors and in Stall
ingrad swept the Germans from a
series of buildings and 20 pillboxes
and dugOutS.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29
WASHINGTON TITCHHIKE

Farm over 10 acrea NAV install
USED gasoline dispensing pumn*. j."
sritc of gas rstioninp -. Schco'
buses may haul ONLY veur9s'rfa
who would otherwise have ~ wall
more than two milo .. Thc 7o1
railroad tank "ars left i'm snrvicr 70
haul vine in California arc conSlf-
cred msuitcd 10 han! prlreirim
products. western I"Iiih"H.
may have te ask for authority io
import MEXICAN track workers
Labor shortages are reported il 1855
out Of the 523 skilled occupations
in essential var industries.
Prices on Mexican chick pea,
used in coffee adulteration, are sub
ject 10 maXimuuls.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29

The Russians had taken a toll
of at least 10000 AXIS soldiers,
killed and captured, since November
49, and the figure mounted as they
pursued the Germans and mopped
up pockets of resistance to prevent
the establishment of a defense line
anywhere.
While the snow slowed the Rus
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29
NINE AXIS SUPPLY
SHIPS SUNK

LONDON, Nov. %. - U.PJ-1hc
Admiralty reported today that
British submarines have sunk nine
Axis supply ships and damaged
three more on the supply routes
across the Mediterranean to Tu-
nisia and Triplitania.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29

If as we face higher taxes we are
tempted to cuSs Congress or chide Hen
ry Morgenthau, remember the evil men
who are really responsible. Direct your
wrath against the real culprits-Eltler
and Hirohito DIR Peter Odegard, as
sistant to the secretary of the treasury.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29
DE GAULLE ACTIVE
AnnihiIution o. NQziS
Chief Goal for Soviet

slams, it was an even harder blow
to the Germans who. having lost
much of their equipment and most
cf their communications lines. had
to face cold weather as well as the
aVenoinp Red army
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE

LONDON. Nov. 28-UP)--Ger-
many, tightening its grip on French
Mediterranean defense areas. has
ordered the complete evacuation OF
tie great air force base at Istres
Lear Toulon the German-controlled
Paris radio said today.
Possession of the base would give
the Germans a new aerial defense
stronghold which they might de-
velop to resist am Allied attack on
Corsica or Sardinia and would en-
able their planes to operate over
wide area of the Mediterranean
between Spain and Italy.
ADMIRAL ARRESTED
(The British radio, heard by
CHS in New York, reported that
at Toulon the Germans had ar
rested Admiral Jean de Laborde
flee nmander, and all naval OF
ti.
ride was quoted as having
med the Germans yesterday
when thev demanded access to his
ships: L shall open fire on any
nc who tries to board our naval
llits." Then, it was said, he re-
5rted to Marshal Henri Philippe
tain at 10 a. m; Tho entire
at Toulon has ceased to
~
e newspaper Evening News
here reported that all Vichy gov
nr,,noent officials had been dis
missed except Marshal Pctain
DE GAULLE ACTIVE
The usually ell-informcd press
association reported that Gen.
Charles De Gaullc, fighting French
leader, would go to the United
States soon for convCrs tons cX-
pected to smooth out much of thf
French political difficulties in North
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foIlolcin0 edit
'riais are presented as interesting opin
iOns Uoiced bu editors eiselDhere. Thel
10 not necessarily reflect the opinion .,
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29

The first lesson Of history is that mans
innate striving for freedom cannot be
misunderstanding of State Cor
dell Hull.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-29
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

YOad that will make history
Evening star., 1942-10-18

cent, but has sent at least half to Ger
many, keeping the Poles under sub
sistence level.
Gov. Gen. Frank announced in July
that 100000 Polish workers had already
been drafted to Germany.
Yugoslavia d40Oo,O0O population) had
half her acres under cultivation. Ger
many has commercial agreements aimed
at absorbing all the country's raw ma
terials and agricultural produce.
Meat, milk and vegetables have been
inadequate for months. according to in
formation reaching London
Under German pressure 100000 Croats
are working in the Reich and $4,000
Serbs
Greece G,00O,OO0 population is mainly
agricultural but only one-fifth Gust
over 100000 acres has been culti-
waited Two-thirds of all the Greeks are
normally occupied in agriculture, chiefly
in specialized crops such as grapes,
olives and tobacco.
Today the Greek producer cannot sell
or export anything agricultural without
special permission from the Ministry of
Supply r.,
twenty-five per cent of the crops Is
automatically handed over to the occu-
(See FAMINE pooe nay
Evening star., 1942-10-18
Food May Win the Peace
Famine Spreads as Nazis Plumber Europe

Back in 1918 the slogan was food
will win the war-dont waste it,"
Now, with the big guns booming again.
food is playing an even more important
key role-it may win this war, too; and
it may also win the peace.
Scientists sizing up the job of restor-
ing Europe's war-scorched agricultural
lands after the guns fall silent are agreed
on one thing-that 125,000000 oppressed
Europeans must be freed of hunger be-
fore there is even the remotest chance
of lasting peace.
Hungry men neither think clearly
. nor act wisely" declares Sir John Russell,
chairman of the British Science Associa-
tion's Agricultural Reconstruction After
the War" section.
IF the peasants are left with bare
earth, burnt-out villages, no seeds to SOW,
no animals to tend, no crops to feed
themselves, their children and their fell
low countrymen, they will all too easily
fall prey to propaganda which the de-
feated Germans will almost certainly
start as soon as they realize their de-
feat"
Many aspects must be taken into con-
Evening star., 1942-10-18

kets. Rations are generally 40 per cent
of normal requirements.
Reports reaching London said the
Nazis had requisitioned at least half of
the country's livestock
Holland Is Plundered.
MISUNDERSTANDING circles in Lon7'
don estimated that this country of 9,o00,-
900 inhabitants has been plundered of
practically three-quarters of it's livestock.
There has been tremendous drop in
butter and cheese production. Potatoes,
usually third largest in the country's
crops, failed so badly that large guam
titles had to be imported from Poland.
The Germans have established a
monopoly over all food grown in the
country and acquisitions most of it for
Germany.
A contributory factor to the drop in
production has been the forced transfer
to Germany of 10000 Dutch workers.
Denmark-With 375O,0O0 population.
this country is suffering badly from lack
OF foodstuffs. Out of 3,25o,OOO head of
cattle only 100000 dairy COWS and
100000 young cows were left at the end
OF 1941. Half of the 5000 900 pigs have
Evening star., 1942-10-18

British Scientists Association, recently
warned meeting of United Nations ex-
perts: THE Germans will leave behind
them only pestilence and famine. Dis
eases of malnutrition, tuberculosis, ma
laria and typhus will be rife =.
We must get the agriculture OF each
country going so that the food can be
produced on the spot, especially the milk
and protective foods necessary to save
the children growing up into diseased
and malformed men and women"
Kenneth G. Brooke of the Society of
Friends, noted for its assistance with
rehabilitation after the World War, said
"the primary needs of the population.
food, clothes, shelter-will have to be
met before an agricultural policy can
hope to be effective. Side by side
with the relief work it will be necessary
to undertake as part of the agricultural
policy vast program of public works"
Here is how the food situation looks
today, every shortage undermining the
acuteness of the postwar problem:
Belgium-Of her 8,750,000 population,
20 per cent are normally engaged in
agriculture 1t is country of small
farms, IS per cent of them ranging from
21a to Is acres.
Under Nazi occupation meat is prac-
tically unobtainable. Potatoes, eggs,
fish, cheese, bacon, coffee and oil have
+ practically disappeared from the mar
Evening star., 1942-10-18

( but owing to inadequate social, economic
and technical organization in pre-war
days. most of the land has been wasted.
Also operative over these European
areas are completely differing standards
of well-being, reflected in the peoples
health.
In the mixed farming areas of the
Low Countries, where animal husbandry
plays large part, the population has
been able to draw on substantial GUAM
titles Of milk, cheese, meat, potatoes and
green vegetables.
In the other areas-particularly Ru-
mania, Spain and Portugal-there is a
serious shortage of high-grade proteins,
calcium and vitamins An absolute
shortage of good food is an annual expe-
rience.
Throughout the greater part of Europe
there is great need for increases in milk
and milk products and for green vege-
tables before the peasants diet can be
brought up to standards sufficiently high
for years of arduous work.
Malnutrition Widespread.
Rumania, Poland, Yugoslavia and Hun
gary are all predominantly agricultural
and all suffer from malnutrition. For
instance, in Rumania it is estimated that
its agricultural production with the ex-
ception of maize) would have to be in
creased up to 400 per cent to provide