The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 353, Ed. 2 Thursday, June 10, 1943 Page: 2 of 14
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
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Thursday Evening, June 10. 1943
Thursday
Fascist Mediterranean Empire
Battle Ground Through History
By United Press
Italy's island empire in the Med-
iterannean has been the scene ot
conquest and strife, the battle |
ground of Christian and infidel,
throughout history.
This economically and strategt-
eally important empire is composed
of two large islands—Sicily and
Sardinia—and one small island —
Pantelleria
The peoples of these islands are
of many origins and have known
many masters. They began fighting
for their lands and lives before the
birth of Christ, battled fierely
through the middle ages, and final-
ly settled down to a somewhat
peaceful existence during the letter
half of the 19th century. This con-
tinned until Allied planes and ships
began bombarding them in the sec-
ond world war
ISLANDS FORTIFIED
The Axis partners began fortify-
ing the Italian islands early in the
war, used them as intermediate!
supply points and air and naval
bases during the long African cam-
paigns, and prepared them for the
final defense against invasion of
Europe after the battle of Tunisia
had ended in Allied victory,
Triangular-shaped Sicily is the 1
largest and most important to Italy
of the three Islands It really is a
continuation of the Italian main-
land, shooting off from the south-
west tip of the mother country and
separated only by the Straits of
Messina no more than two miles
across at the narrowest point.
Sicily is a mlld-climated land of
olive, arange and lemon groves, of
steep volcanic cliffs and slopes, of
good roods and fine harbors.
Sicily and the tiny island of Pan-
telleria—62 miles from Sicily and
44 miles from Tunisia—form the
•stepping stones'' thst lesd from
Africa to Italy. They are the moot
natural pathways of the Invader
striking at the heart of Italy. Sar-
dinia also holds a commanding po-
sition in the Mediterranean, south
and west of Italy and directly south
of Corsica—but it conceivably could
be by-assed in an invasion of the
SICILY
CRETE
. Area 9926 sq. mi.,
( pop. 4,000,078
: Miles
150
"Tropani.".,
"Marsala 0
ITALY
s • Mediterranean
o Sea
MALTA dhunue_
1 a fighting force some time earlier to
1 let the Romans and Carthaginians
fight it out.
A later invasion of Sicily by .
the Saracens led te 263 years of
Mohammedan domination. Then
came the Norman conquest that
encompassed all of the island
and inaugurated a reign lasting
more than 200 years. The Chris-
tians welcomed the Normans as
< 1-3 I Arae 3310 mi .
GREECE C, pop. 345,142
$0
Miles
50
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Sea of Candid
sphingm—se
miles.
I Like Sicily and Pantelleria, Sar-
I dinia is mountainous and rises to
6,016 feet at its highest point.
It is largely an agricultural island
and its history up to about 100 years
their deliverers.
Sicily was several times an inde-
pendent power and came under com-
plete Italian domination when Italy
became a united nation in the last
century.
PANTELLERIA IMPORTANT
Pantelleria, although a small vol-
| canic island, holds a commanding
position in- the Mediterranean
which is vastly important from a
naval standpoint. It is to Italy what
Malta is to Great Britain because
it dominates the east-west passage
of the Mediterranean.
Allied planes and warships have
virtually isolated Pantelleria since
Axis resistance in Africa was crush-
continent
The population of Sicily is about
4,000,000. Its area to 9,936 square
miles including tiny adjacent is-
lands Most of the island to more
than 500 feet above sea level vol.
canic Mount Etna rises gently from
a. base of 400 square miles to a
height of 10.868 feet, the highest
point on the island.
It abounds in fruit trees vine-
yards and flowers. It to suitable for
sheep and goats and some cattle
raising It has rich sulphur mines
and its fishing industry ranged over
the entire western Mediterranean
. In normal times.
Palermo, ht the northwest portion
of the island, to its finest harbor.
There are large harbors st Messina,
the ferry terminal facing Italy;
Catania, Trapani and Marsala. All
of these have been shattered TE5
peatedly by Allied bombs. Porto Em-
pedocle and Licata shared with
Catania most of sulphur export
trade.
In the 20 years before the First
World war, migration from Sicily
was heavy because of stringent liv-
ing conditions Between that war
and the present one Italy made
many public improvemenu.
FROM NORTH AFRICA
Sicilians originally migrated from
North Africa The island was col-
onised by Phoenicians snd seafar-
Ing Greeks Hannibal invaded Sicily
in 409 B. C., and there followed
many years of warfare between
Carthaginians and Greeks
Sicily was the scene of the First
Funic war between 264 and 241 B.
C By the treaty that ended the
war, Carthage ceded to Rome all of
her possessions on the island which
thus became the first Roman prov-
ince The Greeks had withdrawn as
FFE Executive
Board Election
The local unit of the Federation
Of Federal Employes Wednesday
night elected an executive board.
Claud W Fenton, president, was in
charge. The new board to composed
of:
T. J. Reid, W. V. McDonald O.
M. Grizzard, T. E. Kelley, Oscar R
Jackson, and Dorothy Jackson was
nominated for secretary-treasurer
to take the place of Lillian Pree-
lar. who is resigning
Organised in March, the FFE now
has a membership of 120. It is al-
lied with no other organisation.
Clyde Infant Buried
CLYDE, June 10.—(SpD)—Nancy
Ellen Frazier, four - month - old
daughter of Mr and Mrs T. F.
Frazier of Clyde was burled here
Monday. The infant died of pneu-
monia last Friday In the Baird hos-
pital Born last Feb 4 in Abilene,
the baby to survived by her parents
and a sister. Helen; and the grand-
parents. Mr and Mrs. R W. Frazier
of Clyde and Mr and Mrs W E
Drown of St. Louis, who were here
to attend the funeral.
THE WIFE WHO SERVES
4 7A577 MEAL
S SURE OF ADoKAnON
SHE VIRES THE wAST
WIT TAYSTEE BREAD
FOR ITS THE
TOAST OF THE NATION!
ftiSfEt BREAD
A TASTYTOAST/
ago was linked with other European
powers, notably Spain and Austria
It went to the dukes of Savoy in
exchange for Sicily under the
treaty of London Its recent history
has been bound up with that of
Piedmont and Italy. Victor Emman-
uel II. king of Sardinia, became
king of United Italy in 1861.
Sardinia produces grains, white
wines, olives, tobacco and vegetables
| It provides good pasture lands for
| cattle, sheep, pigs and goats.
The people are f short-statured.
Native costumes still are worn in
the hills. The first inhabitants of
the island were cave dwellers In
early times, Greeks, Romans and
Carthaginians colonized Sardinia.
ed. It has been subjected to bom-
bardment day in and day out and it
is doubtful that Italy was able to
reinforce or supply the island prop- |
erly.
The Allied task of knocking out'
Pantelleria has been simplified by
the fact that it has only one nat-
ural harbor-that at the city of
Pantelleria at the northwest end of
the oval shaped island. The inner .
harbor is enclosed by a breakwater
on the west and a smaller mole on
the east A third breakwater lies
farther west. Two miles back from
the harbor lies the island s only
airdrome
Pantelleria has an area of 41
square miles and a normal propuls- |
ton of less than 10000 R is fertile I
but lacks fresh water and the in- I
habitants supply themselves by con-
densing the vapor streaming from
volcanic fissures.
Mediterranean sea-farers have
been attreeted to the island since
ancient times. It was believed first
occupied by the Carthaginians. |
Strange sephulchers and temple1
ruins give evidence of an early civ-:
ilization about which little is known.
The Carthaginians occupied it until
the Romens came in 255 B. C. In
the days of the Roman empire, many
political exiles went there.
Arabs wiped out the Christian 1
population of Pantelleria in the
Eighth century and held it until
the 12th century when Roger of
Stelly captured it Later conquests
were made in the middle ages by
the Spaniards and the Turks
Before the war, Premier Mussolini
tried to convert Pantelleria Into a
base for small warships, submarines
and aircraft.
KING FROM SARDINIA
Sardinia lies 125 miles west of the
Italian mainland at the nearest
point It is an island 140 miles long,
and to miles wide of 9,187 square 1
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By HERBERT D WILHOIT war industry employing several a rain or snowstorm), bowline seyeh by 18 feet._______- .
OSHKOSH, Wis.. June 10.—(P-
The birth of British Mosquito
bombers in an Oshkosh woodwork-
ing plsnt was disclosed today.
Veneer from the finest birch and
maple trees in northern Wisconsin
and upper Michigan moves out of
this factory direct to England
where it becomes wings and fuse-
lages for the speedy planes wreak-
ing havoc on Hitlers Europe.
Simultaneously the company.
Pluswood, Inc., announced pro-
duction of a new plywood, half
the weight of aluminum but
stronger than many metals,
used for propellers and other
undisclosed wood parts of "mos-
quitos.”
Until last July the factory was
an abandoned relic. Rehabilitated I
It gave Oshkosh a new 100 percent
war industry employing several
hundred persons of whom 85 per-
cent are women. *
But Dr. Monte M. Wladaver, chief
laboratory technician, told visiting
newspaper and trade press repre-
sentatives that the postwar uses of
the resin impregnated, heat and
pressure treated plywood are virtu-
ally unlimited.
He said it resists mild acids, fire,
salt water, actinic rays of the sun;
that it's virtually scratch-proof; has
a brown, permanently glossy fin-
ish needing no paint, varnish or
wax; is impervious to the elements,
and can be sawed, drilled, turned,
threaded, milled, and tapped like
metals. '
Among postwar uses Dr.
Wladaver envisioned were for
window sills (you wouldn't have
to close the windows at night in
alleys, bare and table tops
(spilled drinks wouldn’t faze
the stuff), golf club heads and
shafts, ship decking, tool hand-
lea, gears, bushings, and store
counters and fronts.
Timber for “pluswood" — wood
plus resin plus heat plus pressure—
is so carefully selected that only one
or two trees may be taken from an
acre After the bark is shaved off
the thin sheets of veneer are peel-
ed off, cut to size, dried thoroughly.
Impregnated by a secret process
which the company said saves
greatly on a critically scarce chem-
ical, cured, and then is heated by
electrostatic high frequency waves
and simultaneously compressed.
The huge press exerts pressure
to 5,000,000 pounds on an area
The company aggounced that it
was turning over its chemical-sav-
ing process to the government.
Nature's Remedy
KANSAS CITY, June 10.—(Ab-
Snakes Alive o
SPRINGFIELD, Ill . June 10.-
(P)—The State Department of con-
servation is appealing for snakes,
rattle, water, bull, blue racers er
almost any other variety.
The reptiles are wanted or STS
play in a traveling exhibit beiri
prepared by the department to
tour a vetnestnietiona have prevented
x Lueth, manager of the
Francia A. AS wildlife
department's educational _ wildlife
exhibit, from getting out to round
up some snakes.
Paul Nachtman. regional War La-
bor board official, went to Dubu-
que, Ia., to attempt settlement of
a welders’ walkout.
Meanwhile, Mississippi river flood
waters there lapped higher end Ieprerepsr (externally
higher, regional board Chairman TET ' caused)
Joseph A. Hoskins explained, I E HA. TE Caused?
threatening to close the plant any-
way.
So Nachtman arranged tor work-
ers to take their annual vacations
—while the National War Labor
board acts on the wage problem and
the sun acts on the flood problem.
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Father’s Day Sunday, June 20th
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Palm Beach Harmonizing Ties $1.00
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Arrow "Kerchiefs 35c to $1.00
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Kongo Cloth
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