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Evening star., 1943-05-09
Fighting First Division Adds
To World War Repute in Africa
Reports on Tunison Battles Point to Ability
To Withstand and Push Back Germans

the first American Division, with
the 5th Marine Regiment attached,
to land in France. It was the first
to fight, the first to suffer combat
casualties. On November II, 1918,
1t fired the last shell into the Ger
man lines.
Between the 1st Division in Tuni-
sia and other infantry units there
no doubt has developed the keen riv-
airy as existed between it and the
famous End Division in France.
The latter, composed of Marines and
doughboys, took part in fewer COM
bats than the 1st Division but suf-
fered heavier casualties, gained more
enemy ground, captured more pris-
oners and more artillery. But when
Gen. Pershing paraded in Washing
ton after his return from Germany,
he rode down Pennsylvania avenue
at the head of the lst Division.
Allen Well Known Here.
Gen. Allen, its present COM
mander, is well known to Wash
ingtonians. He was stationed at
Fort Myer, Va, before the last
World War and has been stationed
here prior to the present. In 1913
fighting with another division In
France, he was cited for galantry
in action during the St. Mihiei
operation and again at Aincreville
Wounded, he wears the Purple
Heart decoration.
One of his brigade commanders
is Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt,
son OF the former President and a
regional commander in the 1st Di-
vision in 1918. He was decorated
last week.
Activities of the infantry in the
Tunisian campaign have been OBJ
scured by widely publicized reports
of feats performed by the Army
Air Forces and the tankmen. Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower's report to
the War Department on the recent
fighting of the 1st Infantry Di-
vision shows that it is second to
none in performance.
1t took Gafsa on March II in a
surprise attack after a swift motor
movement by night of As miles
across a mo mans land" Then
it forced a passage onward to the
rocky hills of the Ell Guettar sector
Aided British Break through.
There the Americans, with the
9Th Division at the fright of the lst,
threatened the right flank of the
Axis lines and pinned down con-
siderable Axis forces" the report
stated. This in turn contributed
to the successful break of the
British 9th Army through the
Mareth line and to the preparation
for it's next victory on April s in
the Wadi el Akarit area. With that
second victory, the Allied forces
swept northward through Tunisia to
their present positions"
AS at scissors in 1918. the 1st
Division unloaded from trucks te
their final jump-off lines in the
attack on Gafsa. Thereafter the
division faced days and nights OF
the heaviest kind of fighting as II
pushed forward.
The attack on the rocky heights
of Djebel Ank-another surprise
Evening star., 1943-05-09
London Believes Allies
Are Not Yet Ready
By JAMES Nj. LONG,
Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.

Associated Press Foreign Correspondent.
LONDON, May 8.-Invasion of
Europe from the west, perhaps the
most dramatic prospect of the Allied
comeback seems to observers on this
British springboard of attack to be
as much of certainty as it does to
those in the United States.
But the relatively widespread feel
ing across the Atlantic that inva-
sion forces virtually are poised at
the zero hour is not reflected here.
There is here the same cold deter
mination, the same impatience, but
also a feeling that more strength yet
must be gathered for the blow.
Weeks or months, rather than days,
are expected to be required.
Veteran Units in Africa.
These are the reasons:
l. There has been no indication
that the United States troops which
went from here to North Africa have
been more than partly replaced.
(The longest traineds most likely
striking force in the British Isles
probably is the Canadian overseas
army whose March maneuvers sent
q m reconnaissance p plane S
streaking home with the alarm that
invasion armies were massing.)
Britain's flrest-the 9th Army.
desert-toughened into one of the
greatest assault forces in the world,
and the 1st Army, veterans of Dun
kerque-are in Africa.
2. There mas been no slackening
of the heavy supply shuttle to North
Africa and to Murmansk; no sign of
a gathering of the tremendous fleet
necessary to land an army in France
and keep it there. More than 800
ships, the greatest force of it's kind
In history, carried the men and
material to North Africa for the
much smaller landings last Novem-
ber.
3. The pattern of air attack and
the massing of air forces have not
yet taken form foreshadowing i'm
rninent landings.
Must Employ Million Men.
Multiply Dieppe tenfold, back 1t
with a million men poised to strike,
blanket it with air power capable
OF sweeping the Luftwaffe from the
coast and Channel skies-and that
is the probable pattern of invasion
when it does come.
The multiple Dieppes, unofficial
observers here believe, will be con-
Quoted simultaneously at the best
beachheads from North Cape to the
Eastern Mediterranean.
For hours after the initial land
ings the Germans would be unable
to tell which were feints and which
the real attacks. That uncertainty
would confuse and delay the man
ming of second-line defenses and the
organization of counterattacks.
An examination of the map and a
recheck of past Commando opera
Evening star., 1943-05-09

thrust-netted more than TOO pris-
oners on March 81, smashing the
Italian Centauro Division. Three
days later the German 10th Panzer
Division attacked the Americans in
force, hurting so tanks of all sizes
against the 18th Regiment, preceded
by infantry. The enemy attacks were
broken down with heavy losses.
Dive Bombers Attack.
The next day Axis dive bombers
were active and in the fighting that
ensued more than 100 German tanks
were, counted during the day. Gen.
Roosevelt estimated that so enemy
tanks were employed in the morning
and 80 in the afternoon.
"Thirty-one German tanks were
put out of action" the report stated,
including is destroyed on the bat
tlefield by the division engineers
and a Ranger battalion, and Is
towed away by the German under
protective smoke screens. They
probably were not capable Of early
effective use"
Col. Reese M. Howell and his 17th
Field Artillery won praise for their
effective support
The fighting of the next few days
was largely a repetition, with the
1st Division hurting back frontal at
tacks by German Panzer and in
fantry units. Practically all of the
units Of the division were engaged
day and night from March 81 to
April 3. .
Take Nearly 1900 Prisoners.
Up to noon Of April 3. 1852 Ital-
ians and 100 Germans were taken
prisoners. 1T was evidently the mis-
sion of the 10th Panzer Division
to counterattack and destroy the
American lst Infantry Division" the
report commented. But the divi-
sion did not give ground; on the
contrary, 1t captured every objective
after overcoming stubborn enemy
resistance"
The engineers and service ele-
ments of the division shared in the
credit bestowed on the infantry. The
1st Reconnaissance Troop of the
division was engaged south of Djebel
Berda with French elements under
Gen. Roisseau. For its aggressive
ness the troop received three cita-
tions from the French.
From such fighting record in
Tunisia, War Department omcials
said, the 1st Division is credit to
its Dad" and will be heard from
again-many times.
Evening star., 1943-05-09
Eisenhower Pledges
Early 0b|iteration
OF Axis Remnants
Formally Presents U. S.
Leose-Lend Equipment
To Giroud for Army
BY the Associated Press

oy the ASSOcldteO Press.
ALGIERS, May 8.-Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, supreme comman-
der Of Allied forces in North Africa,
declared today that all Axis soldiers
remaining on the African CONT
nent soon will be in. their graves
or in prison camps"
His statement came In a speech
broadcast to the United States dur
ing formal presentation of American
lease-lend equipment to Gen. Henri
Honore Giraud for use by the new
French Army.
Now that the only Axis soldiers
left on African soil soon will be in
their graves or in prison camps"
he said, "let us set our hearts and
MINDS on complete victory so that
we may march with this equipment
up Champs Elysees to the Arc de
Iriomphe where lies the Unknown
Soldiers symbol of French heroism. :"
There" he continued. I'VE will
render a salute to the Tricolor once
again floating proudly, peacefully
and forever over the freed French
people, who will re-establish their
own government in accordance with
their own conceptions of right,
liberty and justice"
The presentation ceremony took
place in a great workyard where
American tanks, guns, trucks, jeeps
and other equipment was being put
together on assembly lines. The
assembled weapons and vehicles
Evening star., 1943-05-09

lordship of Ethiopia. Endangered
directly are her mid-Mediterranean
plum, Sicily, and mountainous, stra-
tegic Sardinia. and Corsica.
Remaining are her thin slice of
Nice and Savoy in Southeastern
France, and the Dodecanese Islands,
plus dubious military police power
over parts of the rebellious Balkans.
Evening star., 1943-05-09
Urgent Cabinet Talks
Held in Italy After
News From Africa
Nation Faces Tosk of
Marking Empire Day for
Empire She Has Lost
By the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated Press.
LONDON, May 8.-Italy faces the
perplexing problem of celebrating
Empire Day" tomorrow for the en-
pire she has lost, while Premier Mus
solini's cabinet and military leaders
worry in secret session over means to
save their mainland.
No announcement was forthcom-
ing after the first urgent cabinet
meeting in Italy since the fall of
Tunis and Bizerte left the beaten
Axis armies scant, slipping toe
hold in Mussolini's vanished dream
empire.
But the Italian public could read
into an editorial by Virginio Gayda,
who serves as sort of official echo,
the open acknowledgment of the
1mminence Of Italy's zero hour.
Soured Keynote.
"The exigencies of tomorrow have
made us restrict the use of our war
material to the absolutely necessary
minimum" Gayda wrote in a soured
keynote to the Empire Day "cele-
bration."
To-day this phase of the war has
come to its epilogue. Today it seems
the battle is coming nearer to Italy.
All powers of resistance are neces-
sary this is the most dramatic
moment of Italian history" Gayda
wrote.
In equally grim mood. Political
Commentator Imberto Guglielmotti
said on the Rome radio that "all
Italians feel that the battle has
drawn closer meanwhile the
European fortress is massing more
and more energies to face any even
tual threats from the enemy"
Message From Mussolini.
And in a message which he or
dered broadcast to 'our far away
brothers" across the Mediterranean,
Premier Mussolini said "the sea has
never divided us and is not dividing
us now" although North Africa
"has become the theater for shame
less proWess of Americans who are
revealing their primitive Redskin
strain"
The message concluded: I'VE shall
return"
Lost to Italy already are Somali-
land, Eritrea, Libya and the over
Evening star., 1943-05-09
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Evening star., 1943-05-09
Bey Of 1unis Reported
Fleeing 10 Italy
Leader Is Said to Have
Accepted Bid for Visit
By GAULT MacGOWAN.

Foreign Correspondent Of The Star and
North American Newspaper Alliance
ON THE TUNISIAN FRONT, May
8.-The Bey of Tunis has fled, ac-
cording to reports which reached
the British 1st Army field headquar-
ters today through Arab sources.
He is believed to have taken advan-
tage of the Italian offer to "pay a
friendly visit to Europe and inspect
the Italian war effort" ~.
The report says that he has taken
his two wives with him.
The present Bey is the violently
pro-Italian Mohammed Ell Moncef,
about As years old. He lived luxur-
iously in his palace in the early days
Of the campaign, courted by Ger
man and italian officers in his
palace, Kessar said.
sThe first sign OF the Bey's alarm
I saw was when I entered the sea-
side village of Hergla, just south of
Evening star., 1943-05-09
Dr.. BeoehIey to Speak

DR.. Ralph Beachley, Arlington
County health officer, will address
a meeting Of the Thomas Nelson
Page School Parent-Teacher Ass,-
citation, Arlington. on health con-
ditions at 8 pm. Tuesday. The
children Of the fifth grade will pre-
sent a health program. Achieve
ment Night will be observed with a
display Of the work of the children
during the year, with the teachers
and home mothers acting as host
eSses,
Evening star., 1943-05-09
BY NELSON M. SHEPARD.

Modern motorized infantrymen
of the Fighting First" Division are
holding high in Tunisia the battle
torch handed down to them by their
famed predecessors of the 1918
A. E. F.
From Cantigny, France. to the
scenes of newly won glory in six
months of campaigning that con-
tributed to the capture of Bizerte
the 1943 streamlined edition of the
1st Infantry Division continues tt
uphold the finest fighting traditions
Of the American Army.
Emerging from the Ell Guettal
sector early last month, bleeding
exhausted, but victorious in three
weeks of continuous combat. the Isl
Division was withdrawn to the north
for short period of sleep and re.
equipment. Again, as the lines drew
closer around Rommel's veteran
Afrika Korps, the division was
thrown into the midst of the attack
With the End Corps that is bearing
the brunt of the present fighting, ii
Is still pressing forward.
Brilliant Job at Gafsa.
Official reports covering the STIR
ring events of last week are not yet
available at the War Department
but the 1st Division recently was
singled out in an unusual manner
for it's brilliant capture of Gafsa and
ensuing actions in the Ell Guettal
campaign. It was the only time that
such specific identification of an in
fantry unit has been made in North
Africa.
The report testified to the terrific
striking power of the Fighting
First" From March II to April
4, the division fought with irresist-
ible force.
1T knocked out the Italian Cen
tauro Division the official report
stated, met the challenge of two
German Panzer divisions, beat back
three determined German attacks
and then carried on sustained and
successful offensive.
The 10th Panzer Division, which
lOUh uSh1lis dI lto lldlluo, 10 oilC vi
the best. 1t had forced the break.
through at Sedan and had fought
in Poland and Russia.
The Ist Division has proved itself
to be capable of taking on the best
that Rommel has to offer" re-
ported Mai Gen. Terry de la M
Allen, its commander.
Won Pershing's Praise.
There is a familiar ring to this
deserved praise and to the combative
record of Gen. Aliens infantrymen
One might go back 25 years to the
reports of Gen. John J. Pershing
to find similar illusions to the lists
reputation and it's tenacious fight.
ing at scissors, ST. Mihiel and the
break through in the Argone to
Sedan.
The 1943 edition may be changed
in combat vehicles and weapons
but Army men claim the sons ano
younger brothers of men of the ole
1st Division are the same in endur-
ance and spirit.
In the last World War, the division
was first in many things. 1t was
Evening star., 1943-05-09

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Evening star., 1943-05-09
Kensinqton P-TA to Meet

Election of officers will feature a
meeting of the Kensington Junior
High School Parent Teacher Asso-
citation at 8 pm. Tuesday at the
school. N. Carter Hammond will
present an American flag to the
school in honor Of 1t. E. Guy Jewell
former principal, who resigned sew
eral months ago to enter the NAVY
Evening star., 1943-05-09

Enfidaville where the ruling sheik,
Fouhami Kechiichi, denied any
knowledge of the Bey's whereabouts.
He claimed he had not heard from
him in some time.
1t was known that the Bey had
been encouraging the formation of
the Tunisian volunteers, an Arab
battalion working for the Axis. Its
volunteer scouts often preceded the
German troops into action, denot-
ing the presence of Allied troops
with hand signals to the Germans
behind them.
The Bey refused earlier offers to
visit Italy following the heavy Allied
bombings Of the Tunis docks, but an
airplane was placed at his disposal
and his refusals became weaker and
weaker until now it is claimed he
had fled because of the arrival of
the army of liberation.
Evening star., 1943-05-09

sonnel and supplies ever assembled
on such small territory-directly
through France and the Low Coun-
tries, possibly Denmark, as the fast
est way of reaching Germany for
the promised march on Berlin.
Evening star., 1943-05-09
Invasion Of Europe
Twill Consist Of Many
Thrusts, Writers Say
Foreign Correspondents
Differ on lmminence
Of Attack, However

(TDo Associated Press corre-
Spondents, one in Stockholm and
the other IN London, haze re-
ceiued information recently giv-
ing remarkably similar picture
OF the form to be taken by Allied
invnston OF Europe. One, how-
euer, finds that the Allies require
more time for preparation. The
other expects a more or less inn
mediate action. Neither mini
11izes the bloody cost of retaking
Hitler's Fortress Europe" no
matter 1Uhen it conteS.)
Evening star., 1943-05-09

PATTERN FOR VASION-Broken black possible
Allied invasion routes discussed by unofficial British
today White broken possibility that rapidly rearmed
Turkey neutral may swing into the Allied camp conjecture
which British made often Black NEUTRAL
shaded, Axis dominated; white, Alied-controlled
a P. Wirephoto.
Evening star., 1943-05-09

ADVERTISEMENT.
Milford chronicle., 1943-11-12
4 BUSINESSMAN SPEAKS

OF Edgar Monsanto Queeny's
new book. Tine SPIRIT OF Enter
prise" John Chamberlain says in
the New York Times, 1t is good
to see u representative OF Ameri-
can industry standing up on his
hind legs and yelling back"
As Mr.. Chamberlain points out,
Throughout the thirties business
men made little effort to eX-
plain themselves. The Marxians
were vocal, the New Dealers had
Stuart Chase to make their case,
and labor finally crashed through
with "a first rate book . But the
book 10 justify American business
remfained unwritten.'
Mr.. Queeny has stated industry's
case after perusing at great length
the works OF such men as Adam
Smith, Karl Marx, ThoTstein Web
len, etc. And as Albert Jay Mock
OF the Economic Council Review of
Books says:
In importance, this book stands
side by side with Mrs. Isabel Pat
erson's The God of the Machine
Mrs. Paterson's work deals
with the theory and philosophy of
individualism, and Mr.. Queenys
deals with the practice of it. Taken
together. the two make a complete
manual for the American individ-
ualist who really wants to know
where he stands and why he stands
thapa
Milford chronicle., 1943-11-12
no MAGIC IN BUREAUCRACY

New frontiers of accomplishment
for us. but for the peoples of the
world, are seen for the future by
Robert p. Barbour. president of
the National Board of Fire Under
writer's. if opportunity and rewards
are not denied and IF government
keeps its hands out of business and
industrial enterprise that can be
handled capably by private citi-
ZenS.'
Speaking at the Boards nth an
nual meeting. Mr.. Barbour called
attention TO warnings by Congress
iOnal leaders of the dangerous eX-
pansiOn of government by bureau
cratic edict and directive, and said:
Only an informed and vocal pub
lie can kill this unhealthy growth,
which. in so many countries of the
world. has made the individual lit
tie more than a cipher. Let no one
believe any government has magic
enough TO give something for
nothing"
Mr.. Barbour cited a world trend
to minimize the importance of the
individual and to magnify the I'M
portance of the state, with result
ing loss of personal liberty and i'll
itiative. Even in this country
there has been growth of a philo-
sophy that would have us believe
we have outgrown the American
way of life. that government bu-
reaus and super-agencies can Plan
for and direct the individual better
than he can for himself: a philo-
sophy which tells young people
that the opportunities that their
forefathers enjoyed have gone and
that the government must plan and
do for them.
1t is healthy sign when bust
ness and political leaders are
alert to recognize menace to
freedom OH the home front as well
as the battle front.
Milford chronicle., 1943-11-12
LIEUTENANT GREENLY DIES
IN ACTION ON ITALIAN SOIL
loonllnpsa iron Flrn rassl

cot when the Japs struck the mill
tary and naval installations al
Pearl Harbor on December Z. 1941
Although severely shaken by the
blast, young Greenly reported to
his commanding officer, and worked
throughout the balance of the day
and night
In the spring of 1912 he was sent
to the States, to Fort Benning, Ca,
where he took the officers training
course receiving his. commission as
a second lieutenant in record time.
Six months later he was commits
stoned a first lieutenant at Camp
Edwards and Immediately applied
for overseas service. Attached to
the Rangers, the American counter
part of the British Commanders,
the young officer began his tour of
foreign duty April l, 1943.
At the time of his death he was
serving as acting captain.
In addition to his parents, he is
survived by his wife, the former
Miss Betty Flanagan of Long Is
land. n. Y. Miss Flanagan and
Lieutenant Greenly were married
January Il, 1943. Four brothers,
Staff Sergeant Leslie Greenly of
Company c, Delaware State Guard;
Paris Greenly, serving i'm the Mer-
chant Marine; Private Mitchell
Greenly, in the postal exchange,
New York City. and Seaman John
Nelson. engineer on a crash boat.
and Miss Norma Greenly. at home
Milford chronicle., 1943-11-12

through eight, for the best essay
on the subject. This year the Mills
boro Fire Prevention selected the
following as winners: Poster con-
test-first prize, Fritz Geiger; sec
ond prize, Patsy Truitt; third
prize, Haddie Rust For the fire.
essay contest-first prize, Marilyn
Cahall; second prize, Pearl Boyce
third prize, Edward Wilkins. The
school was delighted to have the
good news that Pearl Boyce was
the first-prize winner of the Sus-
sex County Firemen's Association.
Pearl has been invited to attend the
next Sussex County Firemen's As
sociation meeting in Lewes an No
vember 90.
During American Education
Week, which is November z thru
Is. the public is not only invited
but urged to visit the school and
visit the children while in class.
The faculty and children wish the
parents to visit the school in order
to gain better appreciation of the
work to be done. Also during this
week there are two drives and the
children are cooperating very well.
The first drive is to make a free
will contribution to the many war
work organizations. These organ
izations are the U. S. o., United
Seamen's Service, War Prisoners
Aid-Russian. United. China, and
British War Relief-Refugee Relief
Trustees-Boy Scouts of America,
and other similar organizations. A
goal of $4,000 has been set up for
the entire school population of the
state. There is to be no contest in
volved in making these contribu-
tions either between pupils, grades,
rooms or other schools; also no
emotional appeals will be made.
For this reason the children are
asked to contribute as literally as
they feel able and to bring their
to the schools on the
designated dates. November HIP.
The second drive is the enrolment
drive for the American Junior Red
Cross. In the past, MillsborO has
had 1000 enrolment in this wOr-
thy organization. No fixed amount
per pupil is set. but the estimated
average is given in order that the
grades will make the required do
nation to become members of the
Junior Red Cross.