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Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09

! wav. The American air attacks
struck like lightning and the ground
fighters, moving in with the great
est of speed captured three strate-
gic air fields in short order.
The dynamic tempo of the great
est American offensive in history
has never slackened Successful
landings were made at numerous
points along a thousand miles or
coast line exactly On schedule and
the troops dashed into the interior
with speed that exceeded all ex-
pectationS.
American planes were landed at
the airdromes only few minutes
after the fields were taken by Amer
ican ground troops. In one in
stance, American fighter planes
coming for a landing aided in the
capture OF an airport by ground
strafing on its way down.
AIR BASE ra1IS
(Radio Morocco reported last
night that the air base at Rabat, 75(
miles north of Casablanda on the
Atlantic coast, had been "evac-
uated for reasons of military Or
der" The station, located at Rabat,
the capital of Morocco, failed to
broadcast it's usual schedule this
morning, indicating that the town
had been taken by the Americans.
The offensive was proceeding
according to plan" at Oran, where
an airfield had been taken, and
along the Moroccan coast of the At
lantic. At both places, the oppo-
sition was stiffer than had. been en-
countered at AlgierS.
AIRFIELDS TAKEN
Two airfields had been taken at
Algiers, the capital of French AL
gier. and American planes had NOV
ed in, giving the United Air force,
commanded by Brig. Gen. James
Doolittle, land bases for air fleets
with which to control the western
Mediterranean and carry on the
North African offensive.
Mai. Gen Mark w. Clark, deputy
commander in-chief of the Allied
forces in North Africa under ELS
enhoWer, left for the front TO-DAY
to establish an advanced mead
quarters. ,o,.
Until he sends his reports pack
TO Eisenhowers headquarters, an
inclusive. official picture OF the Oh
fensive which began early Sunday
morning will be difficult TO draw
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09
SOFT LIFE
DIES HARD
(Oroville Mercury-Register)

(Oroville Mercury Register)
There are still some persons in the
United States who believe that the war
hasn't affected them much. However,
there aren't rs many as there were a few
months ago. AS the weeks pass, there
will be still fewer.
You meet the comfort as usual" crowd
on the busses, in the railroad stations, in
stores and restaurants.
They complain because busses and
trains aren't running on schedule, be-
cause inexperienced women baggage
checkers are not as efficient as the young
men who were in the baggage rooms last
year. 1t might not occur to them that
the young men now are in the SolOmons,
on a destroyer in the Atlantic or in some
other hot spot making the world safe for
the comfortable American way OF life.
If the stores don't have what these
comfort boys want, it's probably matter
of poor management, they conclude.
Rationing they regard secretly as un-
necessary and an Inconvenience that will
have to be put up with when their supply
of boarded articles is exhausted.
As the war goes on, however, even the
die-hards will find that it's their strug-
gle. too It's up to all to make adjust
ments. The more quickly we learn this,
the happier will be our lives under
wartime economy, and the nearer will be
the victory that must be ours.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09
France TO Inferno
u. s. Diplomats

ZURICH Switzerland, Nov. o.
CU.P0-Ralph E. Heinzen, chief of
the United Press bureau at Vichy,
said in a telephone conversation TO
the United Press headquarters at
Zurich today that he would be
concentrated" soon with Ameri-
can diplomats at Pau, France.
CHeinzen's use of the word "concen-
trated" was taken to mean that
American diplomats and corre-
spondents in Vichy, France, would
be interned, pending their ex-
change for Vichy diplomats and
correspondents in the United
States)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09
BY C. X. CUNNINGHAM

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
FRENCH NORTH AFRICA, Nov.
UP9-American troops were
occupying the surrendered city of
Algiers today. approximately q
hours after they made simultaneous
landings at many points along the
Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts
of French Africa.
This correspondent was permit
ted to report that as of this morn
ing, the American advance was 60
ing even better than had been an
ticipated. but reports still were too
meager to give a complete picture
of operations.
The rapid caputulation of the
largest and most important city of
French Africa which contained ia
cilities for a prolonged and spirited
defense, suggested that President
Roosevelt's appeal to the French
and widespread French sympathy
with the Allied cause was bearing
fruit.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09
By EDWARD w. BEATTIE

LONDON, Nov. 8. CUP)-Tht
American forces mopped up Algiers
today and drove east toward the
Tunisian frontier with powerful re-
| Inducements streaming ashore al
the Algerian and Moroccan bridge
heads already firmly in U. S. con-
troll.
American forces, according to vi
chy reports, swarmed ashore at Phil
lippeville, only 100 miles west of
Tunisia, and other unconfirmed re-
ports said there had been landings
within 60 miles of Tunisia which
is the backdoor to the axis positions
in Tripolitania.
Tanning out westward from AL
giers, u S. forces were closing in on
Oran, which appeared to be the
scene of some of the most severe
action on the North African coast.
PLANES OPERATING
American fighter planes were op-
Grating from French African air
fields and massive reinforcements
including hundreds of American
bombers were reported streaming
up to the African shore.
British infantry was following the
American assault forces ashore at
many points. With the exception
of French naval opposition and
heavy firing from naval-manned
shore batteries the U. S. troops had
not met with notably determined
resistance.
A report from the African head
quarters of Sir Andrew Browne
Cunningham, British admiral in
command of the joint naval force,
said that the only naval losses in
the initial action were two small
craft lost in forcing an entry into
Oran harbor.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09
Yankees Driving
Toward Tunisiu
FRENCH LOSE AT SEA

I However, the Nazi-controlled ra-
dio. Paris insisted that three Amer
lean warships were damaged by
Casablanca's coastal batteries. The
French admitted they had lost Sc
verely in a naval action off Casa
blanca.
While Allied adviceS on the Nor
ccan situation were skimpy, the
Vichy radio reports indicated that
this key to the French northwest
African coast ma" be in imminent
danger of falling to the Americans.
Vichy said that several American
regiments have driven to the envir-
ons of the town and it appeared
likely that such Moroccan strong
points as Agadir, Mogador, and
Mahdia are about ready to capitu-
late if, as a matter of fact, they are
not already in American hands.
American landings around Oran
were said to be progressing and it
was believed that with AlgierS safe
ly in American control, heavy forces
would quickly sweep westward to get
control of Oran and the coast be-
tween Oran and AlgierS.
DRIVING EAST
The eastward sweep of U. S. fore
eS had taken the American vanguard
almost half way to Bizerte, the Tu-
nisian strong point directly opposite
Italian held Pantelleria and Sicily.
Bizerte is known to be strongly
fortified. In American hands it
would provide a base not only for
carrying the war to Sicily but also
for advancing on Tripoli, $50 miles
to the east. Such a drive would
squeeze Rommel firmly in a nut
cracker since he is already racing
westward with the British 9th army
at his heels.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09
Americans Take AIqiers

the invasion had said that British
divisions would follow the Ameri-
cans at onceD
(Vichy radio reported that a huge
Anglo o-American fleet of warships
and transports anchored in the
splendid AlgierS harbor this morn
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1912

ing and American soldiers poured
ashore. A large crowd Watched0
AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
The speed of the American in
vasion was even greater than the
German overnight invasion of Nor
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

The public will not tolerate and should
not tolerate the deferment of men simply
president, University of Chicago.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09

Those responsible for the atrocities per-
petrated by the Reich armies are not so
much the soldiers as the barbarian Nazi
chiefs.-Minister of Foreign Affairs Eze-
uuiel Padilla Of Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09

The American soil is free because it is
not poisoned by the centuries-old accre-
ton of religious and social despotisms
and prosecutions of Europe.-Rabbi Jo-
nah B. Wise of New York
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09

1t is not defense that Americans are
thinking of these days. We are much
more interested in attack.-OWI Director
Elmer Davis.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09
Egypt
Battle
Won
BY LEON KAY

/ CAIRO. Nov. 9. CUP = Marsha
Erwin Rommels broken army near
ed Bardia, in Libya, today in its
flight from complete destruction
and the British believed he might
try to rally his remaining forces
25.00O to 10000 men-there for a
| stand.
The battle of Egypt. a complete
and smashing success for the Allies
was over Rommel, who had started
with 100000 men, had less than one
fifth left, and even those were disin-
tegrating as they fled into Italian
Libya.
Thirty thousand TO 10000 of his
men were prisoners. Other thous
ands were killed or wounded, and
six divisions Of Italians, approx
mately 10000 men, were ready to
be captured. The allies had destroyed
at least 500 of his tanks and 900 to
1000 of his guns.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09
GIRAUD IN AFRICA

TO support such a suggestion,
were a number CT significant re-
ports from jittery Vichy and Axis
radios and one from London indi-
eating that Gen. Herr Giraud, one
of Frances most beloved military
heroes, was in Africa rallying the
French army there to the United
Nations cause.
(Vichy itself reported a ''Degaul-
list uprising" in Casablanca and
said a French general had been ar
rested.
radio Rome said there had been
a mutiny of French armed forces
in North Africa against their
Vichy officers. Radio Vichy claim
ed this morning, however, that its
forces had been reinforced" dur
ing the night and were attacking
the Americans everywhere.
Hostilities ceased at Algiers,
which has a population of 240,00O
and strategic and highly devel-
oped harbor, at pm, under an
armistice concluded by Maj. Gen.
Charles w Ryder, commander OF
American troops there, acting for
Lieut.. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, su-
preme Allied commander in French
Africa, and a French military COM
mander, the American began oc-
cupying the city at dawn.
FRENCH RETAIN ARMS
(Vichy reported that the French
troops were permitted to retain
their armS-perhapS a significant
indication of a lack OF hostile in
tent
(The Fighting French radio at
Brazzaville, French Equaotrial At
rica, was heard saying that Brit
ish reinforcements to the Ameri-
cans were landing and that the
United Nations command was con-
fident all fighting would cease
soon. The first announcement OF
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09
LAST HOPE DESTROYED

Swedish military experts believed
that Rommel would hastily attempt
to evacuate the remnants of his
army to Europe.
(All Rommels hope of escaping
disaster have been dashed by Amer
ican landings in North Africa, these
experts said and he realizes that
unless he tries to escape to Europe
soon, the eighth army will be so
close upon him there will be a Ger
manhattan Dunkirk)
The Germans tried to fight de-
laying action at Matruh, in Egypt,
l25 miles east of the Libyan border.
United Press Staff Correspondent
Henri Gorrell watched German 88
nm. and mortar batteries on the
escarpment overlooking Matruh sur
render, one by one. The eighth army
swamped the Germans and drove
on west after the main force.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-09

nm. and mortar batteries on the
escarpment overlooking Matruh sur
render, one by one. The eighth army
swamped the Germans and drove
on west after the main force.
DEFENDERS SURRENDER
A communlque of the British
Middle Eastern command today con-
firmed, battlefront dispatches of
United Press correspondents that
the last axis forces holding out at
Matruh capitulated yesterday.
Allied air striking forces relent-
leSsly pursued the remnants of ROM
mels army, the communique said,
and continuously attacked his trans
port columns which were without
air protection and at the mercy OF
Allied bombers and fighters. One
fighter-bomber sortie yesterday shot
up so trucks.
The eighth army has collected
many more prisoners, including the
Italian Pavia division, the COM
munique Said.
The London Daily Mail reported
from Cairo that Rommel had less
than 10000 men left and that his
tank forces were practically dissolv-
ed
PASS BOMBED
Reports reaching Cairo yesterday
said that famous Hellfire Pass on
the border was believed to have
been partly destroyed by big bombs
rained from Allied heavy and med
ium bombers. These reports also said
enemy transport in the Bugbug area,
near the border, w<.s SO closely pack
ed that bombers couldn't help hit it.
Pilots of medium bombers flew
down to within 500 feet and machine
-gunned the dense concentration
Rommel was trying to fly in gaso-
line for his remaining tanks and
trucks.
Speedily advancing squadrons of
British and American planes were
operating from airdromeS they had
attacked few days ago, when they
were in axis hands. Fields at Ell
Daba, Fuka and other points west
ward were Uttered with wrecks of
Junkers 83's, gliders, some for carry
ing troops and some for carrying
material up to the size of trucks,
and many MeSserschmitt 109S and
communication aircraft
ADVANCE IN RAIN
Gorrell reported that he had ad-
vanced with the Allied air striking
force toward Matruh in a drenching
rain.
Six Italian divisions were milling
around in the desert, waiting to be
captured. They were the Trento
Trieste, Pavia, Bologna Brescia and
Folgore divisions, the latter includ-
ing some parachute troops used as
infantry.
The general headquarters of the
Folgore division was captured in
tact, and the Italians did not try
10 conceal their bitterness at having
been abandoned by the Germans
Prisoners reached the rear in such
numbers it was difficult to count
! them.
The Italians, however, were enter
ing into the spirit of the thing. and
even operated a shuttle service OF
trucks to take their comrades to
prison camps.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
Shortage Of Farm Labor
Cited in Prince GEORGES

Farmers in Prince Georges County
view the increasing shortage OF farm
labor in their area as the main OBJ
stacle to a banner harvest year, ac-
cording to P. E. Clark, county agent.
Already handicapped by the ra-
tioning Of tires and gasoline, they
are having q hard time finding
workers to help with crops which
are potentially "as big and maybe a
little bigger" than any previous
yield, Mr.. Clark said.
"The farm labor situation right
now Is the most serious that have
ever seen," he said. But he attrib-
uted the shortage not so much to
the draft as to an exodus of agri-
cultural workers to the factories,
where highly paid defense jobs. are
available.
"The selective service boards have
been 100 per cent cooperative with
the farmer In deferring agricultural
workers." Mr.. Clark emphasized.
Although farmers are willing to
pay their labor an average of 81 q
day now, at least so cents higher
than in recent years, they cannot
compete with the Government or
with defense plants.
The county agents ONCE is now
compiling q list Of farmers who wish
to employ helpers, he asserted. This
is the first time, he said, that such .
file has been necessary. He esti-
mated at least 500 agricultural work
ers were needed in the county now
Evening star., 1942-05-16

Two 4-year-old boys were injured
homes late yesterday.
William Ward, 25l8 Seventeenth
street NV, was struck by a truck,
police said. The truck driver took
him to Children's Hospital, where he
was treated for head injuries.
William Heigler. jr., colored, 827
Second street Sc. was taken to
Providence Hospital with leg in.
jury after being hit by passenger
auto.
Three young colored people were
injured by an auto as they walked
In the intersection Of Georgia ave-
nue. and Irving street NV. Lois M.
Marshall, 18. 152 w street NV,
suffered shock and abrasions. Lucius
Marshall, 81, of the same address, re-
ceived body, leg and hand injuries.
George Hatton, 20, 52l Harvard
street NV. was cut on the left
hand.
Miss Margaret Cammarata, 20,
21l5 r street NV, suffered pos
sible arm fracture when a taxi in
which she rode was in collision with
an auto at Sixth and E streets NV.
She went to Emergency Hospital.
Mary Alice Williams, IL, colored,
of Fairmont, Nd, went to Casualty
with head injuries when she was hit
by an auto which veered after COL
liding with a streetcar at Fifty
eighth and Dix streets NE.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
F. Lawrence Walker,
A|mas Recorder,
Dies in Hospital
Veteran Shrine Official
Stricken by Heart Attack
Following Hip Injury

r. Lawrence Walker, "a, recorder
of Alnas Temple, and nationally
known Shriner, died early today at
Sibley Hospital. He suffered q
heart attack Wednesday.
Mr.. Walker had been in the hos
pital with a broken hip received in
fall at Almas Temple April 10. He
had improved after the first shock
of the accident, and was believed to
be we'll on the road to recovery when
he suffered the heart attack. His
condition grew progressively worse,
and he died at 1:30 O'Clock this
morning.
Mr.. Walker was af1ectionately
known by his friends as Larry"
He had been recorder of Almas
Temple for % years, and was work
ing there early on a Sunday morn
ing when the accident which led to
his death occurred.
In theatrical Business.
Born in New London, Conn, Au-
gust %, 1867, Mr.. Walker lived for
a while in Massachusetts,, and came
to Washington about 40 years ago.
Having been in the theatrical busi-
ness as a manager, he became
widely known in dramatic circles
here in his early days, managing
the late Charles B. Hanford, Shake
spearean actor, q brother of the
late Henry G. Hanford of The Eve
ming Star.
Mr.. Walker was manager of the
Radcliffe Chautauqua Bureau before
becoming Almas Temple recorder.
He was the first president of the
Recorders Association Of North
America, national organization of
Shrine recorders, and held that ONCE
for three years.
Funeral Rites Monday.
Funeral services will be held at
the Scottish Rite Temple, $500 Six
teenth street NV, 2:30 pm. Mon
day. He will be buried in Cedar
Hill Cemetery.
Mr.. Walker was a member Of
several Masonic orders. He belonged
to King Solomon Blue Lodge, Co.
lumbia Chapter, Adoniram Council,
Columbia Commandery, Albert T.
Pike Consistory, Almas Temple, and
the Royal Order of testers.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Apphia G. Walker; two daughters,
Mrs. j. Earl Bassett, and Mrs.
Mary w. Poppe; three grandsons
and a granddaughter; sister, Miss
Grace H. Walker, all of Washington,
and a brother, Fred H. Walker of
Marblehead, Mass. He lived at
3O23 Newark street NV.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
Bill 10 Increase D. {.
Wartime Powers Opposed

The Glover Park Citizens Asso-
citation last night opposed the pend
congressional bill to give the Dis
trict Commissioners vastly increased
wartime powers.
Jesse L. Coen proposed that the
association aid in raising funds for
the construction of an exit to a
natural bomb shelter" in the Cor
don Junior High School.
In addition to sponsoring a lawn
party at Stoddert School. the asso-
citation has decided to aid the ci-
william defense organization in the
Glover Park area through a joint
benefit sometime in June.
Two Glover Park children, Diane
Fullerton and Alfred Hill, enter
tained the meeting with music.
The associations next session will
be held in the fall.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
Budget Director
| Opposes Cut in
| State Taxes
By the Associated Press.

By tne ASSOClAtcQ fTcSS
CHICAGO, May 16.-The States
are urged by Federal Budget Direc-
tor Harold D. Smith to resist any
public pressure to reduce taxes in
this period Of great inflationary
danger"
Balances in State treasures in
excess of current needs should not be
made the basis for appeals for tax
reduction" Mr.. Smith asserted yes
terday at a conference on emer-
gency fiscal problems called by the
Council of State Governments.
1T is a pressure with which
have much sympathy, but it is a
pressure which must be resisted.
This is time to maintain tax rates,
provided the amount that might
have been left with the taxpayers
Is used for retiring State debts of
accumulating balances-not, I want
to make clear. to support increased
spending or even past levels of
spending"
By maintaining taxes at a high
level and improving their fiscal posi-
ton, he said, State and local gov.
ernments first would reduce the
pressure toward imitation by keeping
down the demand for goods and
services, and secondly, they would
place themselves in . position to be
more independent Of the Federal
Government after the war when
Federal war expenditures have
ceased.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
10 Gardens Open Today
In GEORGETOWN Tour

Ten gardens will be open from
to 7 pm. today on the final day OF
the annual Georgetown garden pill
grimage given for the benefit OF
Georgetown Children's House.
Despite gasoline rationing and
transportation difficulties, a record
number Of persons visited the eight
gardens opened to the tour yester-
day, it was said by Mrs. Robert r
Whitehead, tour chairman.
Today's tour was to be held i
the weather was clear by 2 pm.
1t was announced.
The following gardens will be
shown today:
Evermay, 1923 Twenty eighth
street; Mrs. Robert Allen, 1926
Twenty-eighth street; Miss Eliza
beth Dean and Miss Blanche Hal
bert, 2816 o street; Mrs. Edward
Burling, jr, 1889 Twenty-ninth
street; Mrs. William Burden, 1921
Thirtieth street; Mrs. Deering Howe
3014 N street; Mrs. Henry Leonard
5000 P street; Mrs. Devereux Green
1928 P street; Miss Katharine Dou-
gal, 5000 p street, and Miss Lucy
Bentley, 291S p street.
Today's schedule also includes ar
exhibition of handicrafts Of the
children at the settlement house
1924 N street, under the direction
of Robert Lembcke.
Evening star., 1942-05-16
| FHemen Free
| Puppy Caught
In FIotiron

The Fire Rescue Squad sped
through the city at 4 am. today to
aid a hree-week-old puppy which
caught its head in the handle Of an
old-fashioned f1atiron.
This accident had been discovered
by the puppy's mother, FloSsie, 4.
She ran and jumped on the bed Of
Mrs. Lillian Hills, colored, 1854 Sec
ond street NV.
Mrs. Hills labored for an hour to
pull the pups head out, without Sue
cess. She consulted her telephone
operator. The operator summoned
the four-man rescue squad.
Nossie had suffered anguish dur
ing Mrs. Hills attempts at rescue.
Her cries were 50 disturbing that
Mrs. Hills put her outside. Then
the cries 50 disturbed the neighbor-
hood that when the rescue squad
came they put Flossie inside and
began their work outside.
They used q hacksaw. In half an
hour they cut both ends Of the iron
handle OF.
The puppy, half scottie, half
cocker spaniel. is f,ne now. So is
Flossie.