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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-07-03

ELLIS CHARLES OBERDORFER
DR.. and Mrs. A. 2. Oberdorfer
announce the birth of son, Ellis
Charles, on Friday, June 10, in
st. Vincent's Hospital.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-07-03

EVENTS OF INTEREST TO MEN IN UNIFORM
Saturday. July 4th $3.50 p independence Day Ball at the
Jewish Center, Third Silver
Sunday, July 5t, A Hospitality
For invitation to dinner to
USO Club, w. ST.
6 r. M.-Amateur Night and Buffet Supper at the
Jewish Center, Third Silver
Monday, July 9Th, p. M.-Recordngs O. Chopin
Tuesday, July 7th 6:45 p MHorseback Riding
w.
Wednesday, July 9Th, P. MQuet night, 81 w. Du
val st.
Evening star., 1942-09-14
BY HARRY CROCKETT,
Associated Press War Correspondent.

WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
THE WESTERN DESERT, Sept.
IA pretty American singer, Mary
Ellen Hughes-stage name Marilyn
Williams-is ''wowing" British des-
ert fighters and winning their praise
for courage under fire.
A tall, slender brunei, % years old
and native of Hickory, N. c., Miss
Williams is the daughter of the for
mer Hollywood and New York
singer Marion Harris, who now is in
London. She is direct descendant
of President William Henry Harri-
son. ,s
After training in New York and
winning talent contest there, Miss
Williams went to London In 1898
and, with English actresses and
actors, she volunteered to help en-
tertain soldiers. Within "a hours
she was on her way to Egypt.
She is the only American enter
tainer here and is believed to be
the only American woman ever to
entertain soldiers, right up at the
front. The soldiers are singing
her praise for conduct recently
during q performance at Tel ell Elsa
ridge-'Hill of Jesus"
She was doing a duet with Hugh
French-who has postwar Holly
wood contract-within three miles
of the German lines when the daily
shelling began.
Evening star., 1942-09-14
TWO TROUSER
SUITS
For Young Men
sl7.ss

Suits as serviceable as they are hand
some. Single breasted 3-button coat
with one matching and one contrast
ing pair Of slacks or two, pairs match
ing trousers. Tweed effects, tans,
browns, blue-greys. Sizes IL to %,
chest 20 to SO.
fRE pALAlS NoYAI ERSr FLOOR
Evening star., 1942-09-14

= mustache. No trace Of him could
be found. nor any sign Of him at
the two ADSs or at the MDS.
He must have got q direct hit.
I'd been all over with him, gone
up in the night column with him,
and shared a slit trench with him
when the shelling was hot.
Nazi Wants Only to Get Home.
A Jerry prisoner, wounded In the
leg, watched 1t all calmly, didn't
try to take cover. How do YOU
like it9" Bill Thomas asked him.
Whats the difference?" the Ger
man groaned. Our planes, your
planes, our bombs. yours-theyre
all the same--nobody likes them
nobody likes war. But we get guns
instead of butter and sent away
to the desert instead Of home-it's
always been so In Germany-guns
instead of butter" Then he stopped.
The WEAKNESS of his thought wore
down his voice to thin edge and
he stopped altogether. What's
the use? What's =" He lay
there and pushed his hands through
his graying hair.
Down at the MDS, waiting for
the stafI to find a place to put
the wounded and clear our ambu-
lances, we met another German.
He was complaining about the bully
beef and biscuits they'd captured at
Matruh. Having captured the stun,
now they had to eat 1t and none of
them liked 1t. He rambled on about
the war, about battles he'd been in,
about how they froze up In Russia.
The war seemed his world: 1t was
all he knew. Finally I asked him
bfuntly, What do you want out OF
this war? Why are you f1ghting?"
"Ah want to get home" he an
swered straightforwardly "Ah want
to get home-dot's vot all de Ger
mans want"
Evening star., 1942-09-14

the shock, were yelling "stretcherl
stretcher!" for those wounded. /
grabbed . canvas and rushed over
to them. The handsome young
captains middle and leg and hip lay
wide open and loaded him on and,
while the doctor gave him morphine,
L loaded another whose lung was
punctured and he died while was
loading him. Then We put the young
captain in the ambulance and he
came to and recognized me. ut
didn't take EN- long to get me. did
it, Yank?" he said weakly, then
passed out.
Somebody down below yelled
"ambulancel" and I ran back to
my car.
A big shrapnel hole had ripped
into the front end. torn through
the dashboard, wrecked the steering
wheel The whole inside was pep
pered with holes and the seat was
burning. I yelled to Freddy Quale,
50' yards away, to head over there
and turned the extinguisher on the
flames. When the extinguisher was
exhausted, cut out the burning
seat with my knife.
ferries Moan Like Children.
The wounded ferries in the cap
tain's truck were yelling in pain
and there was a shrapnel-packed
demoralized truck load OF moaning,
hysterical Italians Just behind
Mac" McMeekan had driven up
and, with his usual initiative, got
the captains truck going. We
hauled the Italians on our shoulders
from the wrecked truck and piled
them into the ferries truck. They
cried and moaned and carried on
! like children. Mac" drove them
down to the ADS.
looked for my orderly. He
| hadn't turned up any place and
couldn't understand It,. I searched
the area and looked at the deat
man covered with dust I'd loaded
on a stretcher earlier, but he har
Evening star., 1942-09-14
U. S. Girl Singer Vows Troops
At Front in E Egyption Desert

"One shell hit about 100 yards in
front of us" she said. Then
another one hit behind us and then
British shells screamed over our
heads into the German lines. The
soldiers instinctively looked for
trenches and I didn't know what to
do. was scared to death but I
didn't want to show it, so / started
singing America Love YOU Hugh
said It's all rights lads; sit down,
and they did.
They were wonderful Shells
kept coming for a while but the
boys, mostly English and Austral-
ians. sat there and joined me In
singing American and British patri-
otto songs and we finished the
show"
Evening star., 1942-09-14
nv nave HYATT

=
War CORRESPONDENT OF The Star and North
American Newspaper Alliance.
AT THE FRONT NEAR Ell
ALAMEIN, Egypt.-Working with
the New Zealanders, the Yanks of
the American Field Service have
been doing front-line ambulance
work near Ell Alamein. 1t has been
our job to haul the wounded from
the field to the regimental aid posts
(battleline battalion first-aid CEN
ters), from there to the advanced
dressing stations, and. after medical
attention there, back beyond she'll
Ing range dozen miles from the
fighting to the medical dressing
station.
Evan Thomas, son of Socialist
Norman Thomas; Joe Meeker Of
Philadelphia, Broadway Actor
Wayne McMeekan, Manning Field
and John Nettleton of Connecticut.
to mention few of the so field sery-
ice men serving at the front, manned
their ambulances during Jerry's
worst fire.
Desert warfare is fantastic be-
cause one is never exactly sure
where he Is or where Jerry is.
Navigating by compass bearings
over monotonous sandy terrain,
using the sun or stars as guide be-
cause of the shortage Of compasses.
you may be told to 60 east by north
east to an RAP and you may keep
your course fairly accurately, but
in the meantime the RAP has moved
with its battalion. Not knowing
this, you keep on going till you
come to the tanks. You ask the
tankmen where the RAP is. They
laugh, We'll, 1t amt where you're
heading. We been watching Jerry
all morning just over that ridge. !"
You head back, wander more, finally
find your outfit.
Bombed in Stuka Raid.
Not always, however, is the situ-
alton humorous. In the line of duty,
the ambulance OF Lee Kyle and
Wayne McMeekan was blown I'D in
minefield, but both escaped mi
raculously. The car Of Dan Beatty
and Jack Brooke was machine
gunned but they got out in time to
see it burst into flames, Beatty suf-
fering q minor foot wound. Evan
Thomas and Manning Field, am
bushed with brigade in one of the
earlier Allied attacks, came through
safely though their ambulance was
marked with shrapnel. My own
ambulance was bombed in a Stuka
raid. killing three close by me, one
Evening star., 1942-09-14

Of them my orderly. My own story,
by no means spectacular, neverthe-
less may give an idea Of the 'front.'
line ambulance work the Ambulance
Field Service is doing.
In the afternoon of my fourth day
up forward, Jerry shelled our artil-
lery heavily. The field artillery
RAP where I was stationed was
back center among the guns. Get
ting of lorries. coming up past our
RAP, some of the infantrymen
walked into the shelling and we
had to haul them back. Later we
brought in wounded from shelled
gun post half a mile above us.
That night we attacked. In a
night column, lorries in the middle
and guns on either side, we moved
up 6 miles under cover of dark
ness. Then from daybreak on we
hauled back wounded as fast as we
could. Mobs of prisoners were being
driven on foot back from the fight
ing area. We picked up a paunchy
Italian divisional commander from
one of these mobs. He'd been
wounded in the arm. Three young
men stood by him, tried to go with
him, but he gave them the Fascist
salute and waved them back into
the cluster of prisoners. 1t looked
like grand opera, but the eyes OF
the three young men were wet.
Around the RAP, shelling con-
tinued in full fury. just after noon
mess, a sergeant in a jeep led us
along the edge of mine field fal
beyond our own lines to pick uE
six wounded ferries. Their owr
trench mortars were landing within
a hundred yards and they cheerec
us as we came up. I went over te
one who was sitting against the
trench with a dazed look in his eyes
He was dead. Two New Zealander!
lay dead beside him. Three of tht
wounded ferries helped load tn,
other three, PROSTATE with back anc
head injuries, and we carefully
skirted the mine field and got ou
as fast as we could
Bomb Drops 10 Yards Away.
We no sooner got back than /,
lorry brought wounded man int
| the RAP. We rushed him to tn,
car post. A handsome young New
Zealand captain had just driven VI
with truckload of wounded Jerr,
prisoners, and behind him was an
other truck of wounded Italians
Getting kind Of hot up here, ism
it, Yank?" he kidded me.
+ Then we heard planes. Wed beer
getting four or five Stuka raids
day, so We got out at once. wen
back, got the patient out, found hin
"a slit trench, and got in one myself
Ack-ack pounded rapidly for min
utes and then the bombs dropped
one within 10 yards and the othe
about Is yards. When I heard tn,
scream I figured I was a dead mon
key. The feeling wasn't so mucl
fear as inevitability. You Just la,
there and waited for it.
And then it was all dust aroun,
us and voices Of stunned men, unhi
yet seemingly unable to move from
Evening star., 1942-09-14
War Delays Iceland
In Using Hot Springs
To Heat Houses
Neutral Country UnobIe
To Get Iron Pipe From
Bellieerents for Conduit
BY LEO BRANHAM,

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Sept. IA
The war Is delaying Iceland's S ambi-
tious program to utilize one of its
few natural resources project to
harness its numerous hot springs
to heat homes and business houses.
In warning world, with the bel
1igerents hard put to find shipping
space for war supplies-and need
ing raw materials to make imple-
ments of battle-neutral little Ice
land simply hasn't been able to OBJ
tain the necessary iron pipes and
machinery to complete this peace
full enterprise.
Iceland, geologically speaking, is
q young country, formed by series
of volcanic eruptions which piled
hundreds of basaltic layers on top
of each other. So the rugged, bar
rem country has no deposits of coal,
oil or gas. It's few trees are stunted
in growth and are a slight source
of fuel. Farmers In some districts
produce peat and also burn sheep
dung But urban Iceland must i'm
port its fuel, as well as most of its
building materials.
Springs Heat Army Hospital.
Many homes, schools and hot
houses in rural areas, as well as the
American Army's largest hospital,
already are heated by scalding hot
water from nearby springs. The
water in most of Iceland's hot
springs remains at its unusually
high temperature the year around
irrespective of weather conditions.
Some of these springs are only
foot or two in diameter. In areas
where they are found the Icelandic
housewife doesn't have to worry
about fuel to cook the family din
ner. She merely puts the food in a
pan and lowers it into hot spring.
The project to tap these springs
to heat Reykjavik was launched
aout 10 years ago when the city
council purchased a large group OF
hot springs some 10 miles away.
Several years elapsed before the
Government was able to negotiate
loans with Danish banks to finance
the project. A Danish engineering
firm was employed in 1887 and at
last the work began. 1t progressed
slowly, but now concrete conduits
to house the iron piping have been
constructed from the springs to the
city and through some of its streets.
Coal Costs S22 a Ton.
Delays in obtaining materials per-
sisted after outbreak of the war.
Eventually enough pipes and ma
chinery to complete the job were
purchased from Germany, Belgium
and Denmark and assembled at Co.
penhagen.
A ship carrying them was almost
ready to sail for Reykjavik when
Evening star., 1942-09-14
Germany invaded Norway and Den
mark in April of 1910.

Prolonged negotiations between
the Icelandic government and the
belligerent nations began. The
Germans, Reykjavik representative
of the Danish engineering firm said,
finally agreed to release the ma
terials but refused to permit ships
operating in the Baltic Sea to carry
the goods. Efforts to get permission
for Icelandic vessels to 60 through
the blockade after them proved
fruitless.
After the United States Joined
Great Britain in military occupation
of the island. Iceland turned to
America for help, and sent a govern
ment commission to purchase ma
terials anew.
One shipment of materials has
since arrived, but Iceland still
doesn't have enough to complete the
project. Because of the acute ship
ping problem and wartime priorities
on materials, it's uncertain when
any more will be Forthcoming.
Meanwhile, Reykjavik, now
badly overcrowded city of $4,000 per-
sons, will continue to heat It's build
ings with coal imported from Eng
land. Last winter this fuel cost local
citizenry $22 ton.
Evening star., 1942-09-14
His Patience Exhausted
By 40 Years of Silence
7y the Associated Press.

Ry the Associated Press.
LINCOLN, Nebr.-The patience OF
an Oakland, Calf, man was finally
exhausted-after more than 40 years.
Gov. Dwight Griswold got letter
from the Californian asking why the
latter's offer to enlist in the Ne
braska Regiment in the Spanish War
wasn't acknowledged.
The man said he wanted to satisfy
long standing" curiosity on that
point,
Evening star., 1942-09-14
ROGER WILLIAMS
SUITS
With Two Trousers
s34.7'

A Palais Royal Days special at this
price-for this two-trouSer suit regu-
larly sells for $39.75 Hard, long
wearing Worsteds that retain their
shape. Also few tweeds. Single
and double breasted models in
stripes, Glen plaids and mixtures.
Sizes 80 to A.
fHE pALAIg RoYAI yiRSf FLOOR
Evening star., 1942-09-14
Honey Pays for Point Job

ELLSWORTH, Ill. P)-They had
a sweet time in the old town
church painters found three tubsful
of wild honey between the walls of
the church. Members of the con-
gregation confiscated 1t and paid for
paint with the proceeds of the sale,
Evening star., 1942-09-14
Ambulance Driver
Tells Of Rescue Work
Under Heavy Fire
Wounded ferries and
ltuIions Also Aided
In Eeyption Desert

(The iDriter OF this dispatch is
serDing as an ambulance driper
,Dith an American Field Serpice
unit operating in Egypt and has
been under fire in the fighting
from Tobruk to FL Alamein. His
home is In Terre Haute, Ind.)
Evening star., 1942-09-14


husband captain the
of
Of the
Evening star., 1942-09-14

Uncle Sam win give you ms
tanks-if you ret in that scrap.
RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1942-03-05

ma i ma posletku masine alatljike
iii radne masine." - Marx.
Dakle, prvi j drugi dec masine
kao sto smo gore videli, ne znaci
masinski nacin proizvodnje. Povr-
sno posmatrajuci izgleda da in
dustrijska revolucija pocinje cd
prvog iii drugog della masinske
proizvodnje kao sto mnogi misle.
lIako je drugi dec masinske proiz-
vodnje, "transmisioni mehanizam,"
potreban "a pocetak ~masinskog
nacina proizvodnje ipak industrij-
ska revolucija pocinje cd njenog
treceg della. (Kao sto cemo videti
masinski nacin proizvodnje jeste
sustina industrijske revolucije.)
RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1942-03-05

tenu iEvlaci i uvrce zilu koja izvr-
suje stvarnu operaciju predenja'
/ Marx dale veil, "Industriska
revolucija zahteva najpre has O.
vaj drugi [rucni rad ma m%asini]
dec zanatskog orudja." Onda Marx
zaklju6uje owl misao: "Sad ina
mo masinu, ali tex kao jednosta-
van elemenat masinske proizvod-
ME-"
Ovo prvo tesko i mucno revolu-
cionisanje proizvodnje - masinski
nacin proizvodnje - imalo je jos
prilicno da koraca dok nije stale
ma svoje sopstvene noge. DALI
process ovog razvitka da Sc videti
(Nastavak ma 4. strani.)
RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1942-03-05

Jos u II. stoleeu pronadjena je
parma masina koja je ~pokretala
kovacki meh sve do polovine Is.
veka pa ipak, veil Marx, "nije liza
zvala nikakvu industrijsku revo-
l~uciju, bias ma protiv masine alat-
Like izazavase potrebu da Sc par
ma masina revolucionise." Zasto?
Jer "Industrijska revolucija IS.
stoleca polazi cd ovog della mast
nerije, cd masine alatljike. A ona
je j sad jos uvek polazna tacka
kad god zanatljijski iii manufak-
turni rad prelazi u masinski." Da
bi Marx ovo potkrepio, on uzima
"a primer kolovrt gde je noga po-
kretna snaga a ruka radi ma vre-
RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1942-03-05

D. Culum 800, n. Oreskovic ESQ,
J. Cindric 200, D. Mraovic ESQ,
NJ. Pavlovic 200, NJ. Vukojevac
1862.
U hrani je Familija Pavlovic
darovala kolace u vrednosti 3.19.
Cist prihod ovog sastanka izno-
81 u pesosima 22.S7.
Moramo spomenuti neumorni
rad Viktorije, cerke naseg druga
M. P~avloviea, koja je letela oko
stola kao pcela, nedozvoljavajuei
da bi neka casa bila prazna iii BIZ
10 nedostatka u jelu. Tako isto
pohvalno belezimo rad roditelja
drugarice Pavlovie, kao i rad dru-
garice Diosin, koji ucinise sve sto
mogose samo da bi vecera bila sto
ugodnije spremljena.
Organizacija Sc zahvaljuje nil
ma i swim prilagacima, kao i svoj
poseti ovih afera.
p. Centner, dopisnik.
RadnicÌŒka borba = Workers' struggle. [volume] ([New York, N.Y.]) 1907-1970, 1942-03-05
Kroz Partiju i FederaCiju.

Kad su utemeljaci naucnog So
cijalizma (Marx-Engels) u Komu-
nistickom Manifesto rekli: "Oslo-
hodjenje radnicke klase mora BIZ
ii delo samih radnika", oni su ia
ko rek1i zbog toga, sto niko drsgi
ne moze Ca i kad bi mogao, ne bi
hteo) osloboditi radnicku klasu,
osim samih radnika. Pored toga,
oni SUI u istom manifesto, medju
drugim stvarima, rekli i ovo:
"Od sviju klasa koje stole u SUI
p%rotnosti sd b~urzoazijom, samo je
pr%oletarijat istinski REVOLUTIONARY
ma klasa. Sve ostale opadaju i ne
staju sa razvitkom industrije, sa-
mo je proletarijat proizvod MEM.
Skoro je 100 godina cd kada je
obelodanjen Komunisticki Mani
fest, u kome SUI gornje misli IRA
zene. Cd toga vremena ~razvitak
moderne industrije dostigao je
svoj vrhunac, sa kojim su pools
Gene sve druge klase i potklase,
sem radnicke i kapitalisticke kla-
Sc. Nj znaka nema danas Cd dru-
9Th klasa i p~otklasa, koje su pos
tojale "a vreme objave Komunis-
tickog Manifesto. Danas je pod
vojnost u drustvu ma owe dive kla-
sc jasnija i o%cevidnija, nego sto
ie ikada ranije bila.
Same je radnicka klasa revolu-
cionarna kIasa, kako kaze Komu-
nisticki Manifest, a kapitaljstic-
ka je reakcionarna klasa u svakom
smislu. Izmedju owe dive klase,
klasna borba bukti u svoj svojoj
zestini - borba izmedju progresa
i regresa.
Dale nam Komunisticki Mani
fest kaze: astoria svih dosadas-
njih drustava [klasinskih drusta-
val jeste istorija klasinskih bora
ba". l dale nan kaze, da dogod
postoje klase i klasne razlike i
drustyu, klasna borba je neizbez-
ma. Svaki pokusaj da Sc ugusi
klasna borba u klasnom drustvu,
osudjen je unapred ma propast.
Klasna borba u klasnom drustvu
proistice IL klasnih nejednakostl
- ekonomskih nejednakosti. Owe
ie osnova klasne borbe. l sve dok
postoje ekonomske nejednakosti Il
drustyu, klasna borba &c da OPP
stoji. Klasna borba &c izceznutl
samo onda, kada Sc otklone EXC
nimske nejednakosti drustvu,
Koren ekonomskim nejednakosti.
ma nalazi Sc u privatnom vlasnis-
tvu nads sredstvima Ia p%roiZvod-
niu.
klasa koja poseduje alate "a
proizvodnju, II danasnjem sluca-
ju kapitalisticka klasa, pomocr
Min izrabljuje potistenu i exc
nomski obespravljenu klasu, rad
nicku klasu, te ma tag nacin ONO.
queen joj je izobiljan bez rada
raskoSan zivot. Dok radnicka kla'
sa, buduci ne poseduie alate zs
prcizvodnju, prinudjena je da Sc
be prodaje u najam klasi. koja pc.
seduje alate "a proizvodnju, i M
tai nacin Diva izrabljivana, pri
majuci samo jedan dec svog pro
izvoda, u obliku mizerne najamni
ce, dok veci dec (oko pet sestina,
p~risvaja posednicka klasa. OVID,
Sc nalazi koren ekonomske nejed
nakosti. On sadrzi u sebi problem
sa kojim je drustvo suoceno, i sv'
dok sc oval osnovni problem NJ
resi-, nema spasa "a covecanstvo
Uprkos gornjih cinjeniea, i'm;
ljudi i pokreta. koji zagovaraj,
saradnju klasa, sto znaci izmire
ME klasa i klasnih suprotnosti
Nile cudo kad Sc takva saradnj,
D. Culum 800, N. OreSkovic $50
T Cindric 200. y MraOvif 80