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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-30

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09
BY THOMAS B. JOHNSON NEA Service Military Writer

The opening of what President Roosevelt calls "an effective second front" by American British land- ings in North Africa, reveals to the general public what the initiate few have known for some time-namely, the broad outlines of the United Nations offensive strategy for win- ming the war. It is a strategy of en- circlement-of going around the block to get next door.
 This means that plans for front al attack on Germany by Britt ish-American crossing of the Eng fish channel and landing in France probably must wait at least until the outcome of the in- vasion in North Africa is known. If that invasion runs into heavy fighting 1t will consume troops and equipment in such quantities that not enough will remain for 8 major effort in France or else where for several months and per- haps, as good authority has believed for some time, year.
 NO EASY TASK
 Primarily the new stroke is a bold attempt to solve the United Nations greatest global problem, which is logistics reinforcement and supply. At first it will be ser- ious in North Africa, too,
 The enemy has the interior and shorter lines; we are fighting out on a limb, far from our bases, per-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09
WOMEN'S LEAGUE
 RALLY THURSDAY
Salvation Army Sending Delegation to Session in
 New Haven

Major Hugo Wiberg of the local corps of The Salvation Army spoke last night in the 800 o'clock service on What Is Christ to MeP" He spoke of Christ as Saviour, Deliver, The Way, the Light of the World, and as Shepherd. Mrs. Wiberg presented a lower grade corps cadet certificate to one of the corps cadets of the corps,
 Saturday night and in the morn ing worship service at headquarters on Cherry street, Walter Wodosky, a member of the Danbury corps, par ticipated.
 Major Wiberg announced Women's Home league rally will be held Thursday November 19 in New Haven, in which several members of the Waterbury League will take part. Mrs. Major Harold A. zealley of Hartford will be in charge of arrangements and Mrs. Colonel Richard Stretton will be the chief speaker.
 General and Mrs. George L. Car penter, international leaders of the Army, will be in Boston Thursday November 12, for series of public engagements. At night, the general will speak in a public service at Jordan Hall.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent

London, Nov. 9.-(UP)-The Axis ragged and fumed Aelplesly today while American troops, supported by the British navy were taking over strategic North Africa, and the United Nations moved vigorously to create a military situation pointing toward a second front by way Of the Mediterranean and southern Europe.
 Berlin radio, speaking for the Nazis who overran neutral Norway, Denmark, Holland, and Belgium, fumed that the American action was immoral" and violation of "hu- man rights" while other Axis Sta- tons frenziedly tried to pam Amer lean short-wave stations still re- beating at frequent intervals, Presi- dent Roosevelt's personal message to the French people.
 AS the Vichy French government moved to intern United States dip- lomats and newspaper correspon- dents, following its break of diplo. matic relations with the United States, evidence filtered out that the American move to protect the French empire from the Axis, might bring 1t to O crisis point with the people of Metropolitan France 1t claims to represent. Already 1t had been compelled to prohibit oil public meetings and to urge Frenchmen not to listen to foreign radio stations meaning President Roosevelt's message.
 As the British eighth army con- tinued its pursuit of the wildly flee ing Axis African army from Egypt into Libya and the American occu- patton of French North Africa ad- vanced "betetr than anticipated" military circles here saw them aS twin actions aimed at eliminating the Axis and Axis-friendly Vichy entirely from Africa in preparation for Q second front invasion of south- ern Europe by crossing the narrow Sicilian Straits Into Italy.
 Both Great Britain and United States moved to quiet any fears the new developments had aroused among Europe's remaining neutrals. They assured Spain and Portugal that 70 long as they remained neu- tral. they bod nothing to fear.
 North Africa is not the second front which the Russians demand,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09
Axis Fumes As U. s.
 Troops Invade Africa
Action Called "Immoral' By Radio Berlin; French
 Crisis Believed Imminent

but in the opinion of Allied military leaders, it is not only the best as- sistance possible at the moment but promises immediate returns in 0 drain on German strength from Russia.
 Italy is by far the weakest spot in the Axis--weaker even than Ru- mania or Hungary. Her North African army is almost gone, her cities are being pounded by the Royal Air Force, her economic Situ- ation is desperate and her people have long been war-weary.
 Germany is believed to have as many as 25o,000 troops in Italy, but a number insufficient to guarantee against invasion.
 Benito Mussolini's unhappy navy has been restrocted largely to convoy work since 1t was last defeated by the British, but 1t might be forced by Berlin to throw It's weight into the present conflict.
 The Axis seems faced with Q tre- mendous handicap if Adolf Hitler decides upon an attempt to demend the Mediterranean--the overwhelm- ing superiority of the Allied Air Forces in Efypt and Algeria. The air units assigned to the American end of the front are very large nu- merically. With the exception of Q few squadrons in sioiy assigned to attack Malta and e purely defensive force based in occupied France and the low countries, Hitler's only ex- tensive pool of combat aviation Is on the Russian front.
 Hitlers' only alternative to with drawing troops from Russia would be to pull some divisions away from the French Channel coast. That would be dangerous.
 The North African action spelled the end of the sweetness and light" era of Vichy- American relations. The French collaborationist leaders tried to give the impression that France had been struck by trusted friend, Marshal Henri petain spoke of his "grier.
 Hitler was given Q splendid, fresh topic for his annual "beer hall" speech fest at Munich yesterday afternoon, but his oratory was defin- itely on the defensive. He cursed American "brIgandage and gangster- ism" and said he was willing to take his time subdulng Stallngrad. Tokyo parroted Hitler, declaiming
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09
BY GARDNER FROST

Boston, Nov. 9. - (UP) - Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patter- son said today that l943 will be "a fighting year" for American troops and that they will be battling in Europe as well as in Asia and Africa and on the Seven Seas.
 we will seek out the enemy wherever we can find him-not on one front or on two fronts--but on any front where Nazis and Jap Rnese can be engaged in combat, " he said in a speech prepared for the opening session of the fifth consult utional convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
 We will open second front and We will open one as soon as possible. There is complete agreement among Dur military men that this war can not be won without the opening ot ! second front"
 Patterson warned that 1943 will be "a tough year"--a year Of heavy life and loss of blood to attack, to press the war home to the enemy 70 win momentous battles"
 l IlS Ge14hdiAo, he oe1AG' oAO AA0AAN ing Russia with the last Hungarian tnd the last Roumanian and the last Slovak.'
 Discussing the possibility of a knockout blow against Italy, Pat serson said:
 Weary though they be of the con- flict, impoverished and footed as thav ara by their NaZi masters, the followers of Mussolini are d eufor a good licking from us, and they'll get it."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09
GLEASON, WALLEN
 PLAN BROADCASTS
Wartime StabilizatiOn Program to Be Explained
 Tonight, Tomorrow

Roland J. Turgeon, local VILE agent, has called attention to two radio talks which will be given by regional directors explaining the wartime stabilization program. The broadcasts have been scheduled to- night at 7:l5 over Station WELL in New Haven and for tomorrow night at 7:3l over Station VITO in Hart ford
 Speakers will be Leo Gleason, re- gional director of the wage.hour and public contractor division of the U, s. Department of Labor, and Saul Wallen, regional director of the Na- tional War-Labor Board.
 Executive orders. regarding the stabilization of wages and overtime work will be interpreted and discus sed by the officials.
 MT. Turgeon, who opened the Wa terbury office of the VILE last Thursday, has been conducting con- ferences with various employer and employe groups, advising them on interpretation of the new regula- tionS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09

American soldiers on leave pas- sing through . West Highland town in Scotland paid S48 for bagpipeS. $40 for Q kilt and $28 for . Celtic dagger, Tartan souvenirs being most popular with them, and they spent freely to get them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09
ALLIES APPLY FINGERS AGAIN-AS IN 1918
Johnson Sees Cross Channel Attack Delayed a Year

hapS the most difficult operation in which American troops ever have engaged. If Vichy French land and naval forces make real fight and can be really reinforced by the Axis, there may presently be criticisms of our not having followed the ad- vice of our more orthodox strat- egists.
 These pointed out that Q straight line across the Channel was the shortest distance between two points base and objective. The direct attack idea was shelved for the Af- rica plan partly because of the Ger man strength in France (the Disppe raid was more valuable than the American public suppoSes) and partly for reasons more immediate than the possibility of the Axis us- ing Africa to invade America.
 The Axis might have done that some day. But as of today, shipping is the Gordian knot, and the Africa stroke is meant to cut that knot.
 If we clear the Mediterranean of Axis power we reduce by roughly two- thirds the time required for our ships and the British to supply the British-American forces in Africa. That release myriad ships to sup ply other fronts: the Far East, Brit ain, Russia Also we shut of the Axis from notably strategic miner als 1t has obtained in French Af- rica and gain those supplies for our selves. We also gain some French war equipment and either save some French warships from the Axis or at least fight them dispersed, not grouped, as later we might have to do Some French and native troops will join the Fighting French whose movement will e'e greatly stimula- ted, not only in Africa, but in France. Laval may fall.
 OTHER ADVANTAGES
 There are even brighter vistas, The northern coast of French Af- rica once won, we have a string of naval bases, harbors, airf1elds and roads leading eastward to the big Italian base of Tripoli in Italian Libya. Not only is this the place to smash Rommeps remainders, but natural jumping-off place only 600 miles from Sicily where anti-Mus- solini Italians say an Allied army of liberation would be welcomed. They would be welcome, too, in Yugo- slavia and Greece.
 Then, as United Nations troops move northward into Central Eu- rope, they would be aided by re- wolfe i,, ape1oyed no1iptrieS' Traara Yugoslavia, Albania, Rumania and Czechoslovakia. The northward ad- . vance of this southern pino:r would E.e aided by the southern advance of a northern pincer that at tho proper moment would reach from the British Isles into France. Ger many would be caught, surrounded, just as she was surrounded in 1918. WILL AID RUSSIA
 And Russia? She may feel that this sort of second front Is less ef- fective immediately than her other allies believe, but there is no doubt that she will be aided at once by the diversion of some German troops and material, notably planes, from her front to the Medib3rra- mean. An Allied invasion of Italy and the Balkans would threaten the exposed German flank in the Caucasus. And the clearing of the Mediterranean not only would free many ships to supply Russia--by the southern route-but also would cut their turnaround time perhaps tWo-thirds,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09
1943 To Be Fighting Year" For U. s. Troops
Under Secy of War Patterson Tells CIO Next Year to
 Be Tough; Murray Cites Program

Two primary objectives for 1943, Patterson said, should be:
 1-To conquer the submarine menace and cut down losses of sup plies destined for the Russians and Chinese.
 2.-To retake Burma and reopen the Burma road.
 Patterson said that organized la bor has shown from the start that it "is conscious of its job in our great industrial mobilization for victory"
 Tn 1943 our arms and equipment will be subjected to great strain, stress and wear" he said. "So far, they have more than held their own. Plane for plane, tank for tank, gun for gun, our equipment has stood up to the best the enemy has been able to wheel out"
 In the production battle against the Axis, he said, despite the tre- mendous start enjoyed by the enemy we have caught up in quality and quantity, too"
 President Philip Murray's report of his year-long stewardship pledg- ed unfailing support to President Roosevelt and asserted that the working people are determined un- to death that Nazism and all for which it stands must and will be wiped off the face of the earth for all time"
 He called upon labor and industry to join hands and take five steps to victory:
 l. By total mobilization of man. power in industry and on the farm.
 2. By establishment of a central directive of war production.
 3. By rigidly controlling living costs with lover r-all" rationing.
 4. By imposing stiffer taxes on profits, bonuses and high salaries.
 Labor" he said, now calls for a complete and absolute mobilization of all the nations resources, of all business and plant facilities, of all manpower and of all farm produc- tion."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09
HE|NzEN GETS BREAK OUT
U. p. Manager in France Sends Word of American
 Concentration"

(Ralph Heinzen, United Press manager for France for almost two decades, managed by strategy, to inform his New York office today that United States diplo- mats and newspaper correspond ents in Vichy were being con centrated" at Pau, France.
 Because of the uncertainty of the means by which Heinzen got this word out of Vichy France, he had to be circumspect in his use of words and there was some doubt as to what he meant by concentrated"
 If he meant interned. Vichy France was taking a step which always follows a declaration of war, rarely mere severance of dip lomatic relations. There was a possibility, however, that Vichy authorities had merely asked the Americans to assemble or concen- trate at one point, without inter- fering with their liberty of move ment, pending arrangements for their. return home.
 Washington had not interfered with the liberty of movement of French Ambassador Gaston Henri Have, his staff, or Vichy news paper correspondents. Indeed, Washington did not accept press reports of the severance of rela- Mons as official and awaited word from Henri-Haye.
 Heinzen filed his last dispatch yesterday afternoon just before Vichy authorities denied com- munications facilities to all Amer ican correspondent. But this morning, apparently pleading per- sonal urgency, he obtained per- mission to telephone the United Press bureau at Zurich, Switzer- land and reported that he was being concentrated" at Pau, France, managing to add, before the conversation was terminated, that American diplomats and the other correspondent were also be- ing concentrated" there.
 Heinzen is one of the deans of American correspondent in Eur ope, and one of the best known to American newspaper readers. His service in France began at the end of the World war. He has covered for the United Press since then all the major stories between two wars. He followed the French government in 1940 from Paris to Bordeaux, then to Vichy.
 His last dispatch follows)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09
FRENCH WARSHIPS
 LOSE IN BATTLE
Naval Engagement Off Casablanca Yesterday;
 Port Also Bombed
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent

London, Nov. 9-(UP)-French warships suffered heavy losses in a violent battle with Allied naval units off Casablanca yesterday, the French news agency, Havas, said today.
 Allied warships also bombarded the port heavily, Havas said, and other Vichy reports told of severe dive-bomber raids on the city which inflicted heavy damage. Some of the planes, apparently carrier-based were identified as American, the vichy radio said.
 The official German news agency, said that the naval engagement in volved an American squadron and that it was broken off yesterday afternoon.
 The dive bombers hit the 35,000 ton French battleship Jean Bart and four French submarines, Ger man dispatch from Vichy said. This report also said two American cor Fattes were sunk at Algiers.
 Meanwhile, Vichy and Berlin re- ported that a formidable French naval fleet based at Toulon, in cluding three battleships, was await ing orders to steam into the Medi- terranean to challenge the powerful British American armada supporting the Allied offensive against French North Africa. A London newspaper published a dispatch from Berlin that the Italian fleet was setaming westward" in the Mediterranean
 Vice Adm. Paul Auphan, Vichy Secretary of Navy, was reported by the German trans-ocean agency to be in toulon, which he visited re- cently to inspect all facilities of the great base.
 The Toulon fleet represents the strongest single unit of Vichy's dwindling naval and military strength. Including the 26,50O ton battleships Dunkerque and Stras- bourg, and the 22,189 ton tattleship Provence, the fleet has been one of Chief of Government Pierre Lavals jump cards in negotiating with Germany.
 The Nazis have been anxious to get the French Navy since the fall United States have repeatedly used of France and Britain and the pressure to prevent this. Laval ex- plotted the situation to gain con ,essions from both sides.
 Also based at Toul0n are the 10000 ton heavy cruiser Algerie, the 1888 ton cruisers Dupleix and Fcch, md the 7,600 ton cruisers La Gal ssoniere and Jean De Vienne. Ad- litional units include the 2,884 ton iestroysrS Modador and Volta, II lestroyers of the 2,241 ton Aigle class, three destroyers of the 2,126 ton Tigre class. the 10000 ton sea- plane tender Commandant Teste, ana an undisclosed number of sub marines and smaller vessels.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09
JAPAN REVISES HER JUDGMENT

Boston, Nov. 9.-(UP)-Under- Secretary of War Robert F. Pat tersOn remarked today that the Japanese are rapidly reducing" Uncle Sam'S Navy to a first-rate naval power.
 After the battle of the Coral Sea-" he said, "The Tokyo radio reducedAus to a fourth-rate nOval power.
 After the first battle of the SolOmons, the Tokyo radio reduced us to a third-rate naval power.
 "Now the latest estimate by the Tokyo radio reduces us to a sec ond-rate naval power.
 "There made in Japan judg- ments are most encouraging, in- deed."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09
RECOMMENDS ALFALFA

Los Angeles, Cal. (UP)-Dr. Charles R. Wood, of this city, be- fore the National Chiropractic As- sociation, advocated the eating ot alfalfa in the tretment of goiter. Alflfa, he stated, contains much iodine formerly imported from the Far East for the treatment of thy roid trouble.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09
PRICE CONTROL ACT
 VIOLATORS WARNED

State OPA Director Chester Bowles has revealed that % state retailers, including one Waterburian have violated the Price Control Act They will be given final warning that continuance of the violation will result in the closing of their stores.
 The charges against the store of- ficials include failure to display maximum legal prices or prepare proper price lists or accepting high CT than ceiling prices.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09

that the North African invasion con- stituted international banditry".
 The British foreign office an. nounced that ambassadors to Madrid and Lisbon had been instructed to inform the Spanish and Portuguese governments that Britain was "aS one with the United States govern ments that Britain was "as one with the United States government re garding the conduct and object Of the operation in connection with the landing of United States troops in French North Africa"
 Spain was given solemn assur- anee on behalf of the British gov- ernment that the operation now be- gun in North Africa in no way threatends spanish territory, Metro. politan or overseas"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09

asking for an armistice. to save our empire and 1t is you who, acting on behalf of a country to which so many memories and ties unite us, have taken such cruel initiative.
 France and her honor are at stake. We are attacked. We shall defend ourselves. This is the order which l give"
 The Vichy Council of Ministers remined in session throughout the morning, receiving reports of the progress of the action. tI met again in the afternoon. and once more in the evening, after which Tuck left his hotel and went to see Laval.
 It was announced that Switzer- land had taken over British and American interests in France.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09
BY RALPH HEINZEN

yichy, Nov. 8-(Sunday)-(UP)- Diplomatic relations between the United States and France were broken off tonight.
 Tn a ten-minute interview with Pierre Laval, chief of government s. Pinkney Tuck, the American charge d'affaires, received th C French governments decision, which was reached at meeting of the French Council of Ministers.
 Tuck had seen Marshal Henri Philippe Petain at 9 a. m. The aged marshal was awiting him. He had already prepred reply to President Roosevelt's amour cement of the de- cision to invade North Africa to forestall German and Italian de- signs upon that strategically vital continent. He handed 1t to Tuck immediately.
 Tt is with amazement and grief '' Petain's reply said, that I learn of the aggression of your troops against North Africa. I have read your message. You invoke preteXts which nothing can justify. You im- pute to your enemies intentions which never have been translated into actions.
 T have always declared we should defend our empire if 1t were at- tackled. You also knew we should defend 1t against any aggressor, whoe-er he might be. You knew I would keep my word.
 Tn our misfortune. wanted. by
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1942-01-29
Twenty-Five Years Ago
Friday, January 26, 1917.

Capt. r. j. Coombe, for many years
mining captain at the Chandler mine,
died suddenly on Saturday evening at
his home at Virginia of heart at
tack He was SIS years of age and was
born at Hancock, Michigan, Novem-
Der "a, 1852 He is survived by his
widow, ten children, eleven grand
children, three sisters and a brother.
Three of his children are residents OF
this city, viz: Mrs. William Brier,
Mrs. Peter Cardew and Alfred j.
Coombe.
NJ j. Murphy, newly elected head OF
the Commercial club presided at the
meeting on Tuesday evening. Acting on
communication from John G. How
ard regarding the road from Winton
past Eve Lake into Lake county, a
committee of three, George L. Bro
zch, John A. Harri and Fred B. James,
were named to take the matter in
hand and see what could be accom-
plished. The legislative committee re-