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THK CORRIGAN PRESS
Typewriter Monologue:
The news from Africa gave Amor
leans the first hip-hip-hooray feeling
of the war, coming as it did afte:
the British had sent the Fascist and
Nazi armies staggering across the
desert . , . There were loud cheers
for Midway, and the triumphs in the
Solomons were hailed. But it's
more inspiring when the senior part-
ners of the Axis are getting the slap-
ping . . . Even a neutral can cheer
when a Nazi is having his sehnozzola
rubbed in the sand. There’s some-
thing very beautiful about one of
those bragging squareheads biting
the dust. They yell uncle so sin- j
cerely ... If you enjoy nervous
Nazis, tune in on the Berlin short
wavers and listen to them pretty
up the African disasters. Their
broadcasters sound like lush-rollers
in police court—explaining how the
victim’s wallet gave them such a
surprise when they found it in their
hands.
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Pacific Sea Victories Prove U. S. Naval
Strength Is Growing as Japs’ Declines;
Russ Smash Nazi Threat to Caucasus;
MacArthur Encircles Japs in New Guinea
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ROOSEVELT:
War's ‘Turning Point*
American victories in the Solo
mans and in North Africa might well
be hailed as an apparent turning
point in the war, President Roose-
velt declared. But, he warned the
American people, there is time only
for working and fighting, none for
exaltation.
The President coupled his analy-
sis of recent military events with
a rebuke to critics of the govern-
ment’s war and international poli-
cies, who speak “either out of ig-
norance or out of political bias.”
Declaring that he had made a
constant effort to keep politics out
of the fighting of the war, Mr. Roose-
velt pleaded guilty, however, to hav-
ing permitted pressure to disclose
the sinking of an American aircraft
carrier 10
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Released by Western Newspaper Union.
\X/HEN a fighting football team
’ ’ from the University of Illinois
defented Minnesota’s Golden Go-
phers early this year, the pre-season
estimates were thrown in the waste-
basket. When twice-defeated Pur-
due edged out Northwestern, the
wastebasket was burned.
Not since the late 1920s had the
Midwest witnessed such a close race
for the Western conference title.
. , . days before the Novem- j jeanis fount! out that to be named
ber elections. He said he had rcnl-
Hollywood is panicked by the
wage ceiling, limiting the yearly
pay check to 25 Gs net. The big-
gies can collect $67,000, which is the
over stayf'in thT’boM* hb'pocket vasion of French Nor,h Africa. The above photograph, one of the first pic-
-• v F tures passed by the war department, shows a detachment of U. S. troops
landing at a picturesque Algerian .Mediterranean village west of Oran.
izud that “if the news of the sink
! ing had been given out two or three
weeks later, it would be publicly
charged that this news had been
suppressed by me until after the
election.” The result was that vig-
orous protests had come from com-
manding admirals in the Southwest
j Pacific and at Pearl Harbor that
j military information was being giv-
j en to the Japs, because they prob-
! nbly had no sure knowledge of the
sinking.
GAS RATION:
The North African coast was the end of the first lap of their journey to ('nrtnileil in Fnet
Berlin for thousands of l\ S. soldiers who participated in the successful in- ‘ 1
It calls for adroit handling.
It an actor keeps on working, he is
toiling for free. If he lays off he
runs the risk of being forgotten by
SOLOMONS:
.‘sheitf may wreck^hT^Vslm' Smnshin* V ‘ S’
If the studios get into the habit of Americans had scarcely received
paying actors wages that keep them the news of the brilliant naval vic-
within the legal limit, they might tor>' in the Solomons which drove
get to like it and keep it up after the JaPs back reeling with 23 ships
the limit is off Agents are sunk and 30.000 sailors and soldiers
scared stiff. They get 10 per cent1 drowned, when additional reports
of a client's earnings. As one of were forthcoming on the sinking of
them put it: “Ten per cent of five enemy warships. The second
zero is zero,” but there are those ' action was the concluding part of a
who think that’s a fair wage for i *reat three-day engagement which
agents. j routed the Jap fleet from the Guad-
_ alcanal area.
•n.. ,. . ! Shrewd and resourceful Vice Ad-
'Y1 can f *ee nl> many miral William F. Halsey, command-
movies, judging from its ad-, cr 0f the American forces, emerged
v ce to pUip fictiomsts to make their from the battle as one of the out.
• 1 S <rPS XT- ^very ''eek standing heroes of the war, for it
'ZT'L 3 NipP°ne.se N,asty for was his audacity and pluck in the
. rn®T I?sknoSsm- face °f Superi0r Japanese forces
a pushover heavy .
prise to anybody (and no drama at
all) when Basil Beautiful clips the
Japs in the teeth and tells him that
squares Bataan. It leaves you want-
ing a lot . . . The place to make
the Japs the heavies is in the news-
reels, especially if it also shows the
heroes getting hunk. We don’t want
to just pretend we’re hurting them.
It’s much better if it’s the McCoy.
Oh, ever and ever so much.
A Frenchman, who lived in Eng-
land for many years, turned on it
with written attacks after France
was licked . . . When Winston
Churchill heard about it, he said:
“We thought we had a friend—we
only had a client."
The Magazines: Eugene Tillinger,
in Pic, relates that there is a caste
system among the Berlin Murder-
ers' Set. Frau Himmler, he re-
ports, gets snooted by the wives of
Goebbels, Goering, et al, because
her husband, Mr. Gestapo, butchers
people for a salary, while others do
it for medals . . . John Erskine,
in the American Mercury, grieves
that American poetry is namby-
pamby because the poets “have for-
gotten how to curse” . . . Mebbe
that’s because they keep their
cussin’ for their letters to critics
. . . I. F. Stone’s pungent pieces
in The Nation are waker-uppers . . .
Look's literary snapshot of Ambas-
sador Winant points out that he
looks like Lincoln. But more im-
portant—he thinks like him . . .
Kyle Crichton did a success story
on actress Marjorie Reynolds. He
reports she earned $600 a week in
horse-operas but got a break in the
films at $250 per week . . Huh?
that won a smashing three-day vic-
tory.
Jap ship losses in the slugging
encounter included one battleship,
three heavy cruisers, two light cruis-
ers, five destroyers and eight troop-
laden transports sunk; four cargo
transports destroyed on the beach
near Guadalcanal, and one battle-
ship and six destroyers damaged.
Enemy losses in the second engage-
ment were one battleship, three
large cruisers and one destroyer
sunk.
Naval officials said there was
“good reason to believe” that the
sinkings reported in second engage-
ment were in addition to those pre-
viously recorded.
American losses were two light
cruisers and six destroyers sunk.
The major part of the sea action
was fought directly off Guadalcanal
island, which the Japs approached
with three strong fleet task forces
intent on effecting a landing that
would dislodge the heroic American
defenders. One of the decisive ele-
ments in the battle was the daring
of American surface units in steam-
ing directly between the lines of the
Jap columns, firing broadsides in
both directions. In this phase Rear
Adm. Daniel J. Callaghan, former
naval aide of President Roosevelt,
was killed in action.
While the navy rejoiced in its tri-
umph, it accorded full credit to Gen-
eral MacArthur’s aircraft which had
originally spotted the Jap concen-
trations and made repeated bomb-
ing attacks on the enemy shipping.
I RUSSIAN FRONT:
Reds Show Mettle
The' Nazi threat to the Caucasus
mountain passes and the Grozny oil
fields was lifted when the Russians
staged a fierce counter attack in the
Ordzhonikidze area which resulted
in the annihilation of 5,000 German
troops and the capture of 140 Ger-
man tanks, 70 field guns, 2,350 army
trucks and 1,000,000 rounds of am-
munition.
The furious nature of the Red as-
sault and the fact that the Russ
forces were fully equipped with
planes, tanks and other mechanized
equipment indicated that this en- ;
gagement might be the signal for a
far-flung counter-offensive all along :
the Soviet front.
At the other end of the Caucasus
front German attempts to break
through the Soviet lines near Tuapse
were repeatedly beaten back. Mean-
while reports said winter was clos-
ing down rapidly over the entire
Russian front.
As it had for weeks past, the Nazi
front at Stalingrad remained at a
stalemate, with German attacks
beaten off by the stout-hearted Rus-
sian defenders. The industrial city's j
factory area was the principal tar- j
get of the Nazis’ effort to gain a
firm foothold in this strategic Volga
metropolis.
Demands for petroleum products
by the American Expeditionary
forces in North Africa far in excess
of original estimates resulted in a
curtailment of 25 per cent in the gas
oline of motorists in the Eastern
states. The OPA order did not af-
fect the Middle West, where ration
ing had been scheduled for Decem-
ber 1.
Motorists traveling in the East
from other states, however, would
have to comply with the new rations
which gave three gallons of gaso-
line for "A” coupons, instead of
four.
Officials said the East Coast cur
tailment would result in saving
about 20.000 barrels of gasoline a
day.
•FREE RUMANIA’:
Fund Grab Foiled
How a plot to spirit exiled King
i Carol of Rumania into the United
States from Mexico and establish a ,
j “Free Rumanian” movement in this I
country was foiled, was disclosed !
with the indictment in Detroit of 1
three leaders in the cabal. At stake j
was nearly $60,000,000 in frozen Ru
—J
Rob Zuppke
Typewriter Ribbons: H. L. Menck-
en: Conscience: An inner voice
that warns us somebody is looking
. . . Anon: He was a cashier who
wished to be one of the 400 but now
is only No. 387 . . . S. Butler: She
gave the impression that her mind
was wearing trousers . . . Christo-
pher Hale: Don’t slam your mind
in my face . . . Jean Tennyson:
The only ambition in life a paper
napkin has is to get down off a
diner's lap and play on the floor . . .
Anon: The snow is beautiful if you
are watching the other fellow shovel
it . . . Goethe: One cannot always
be a hero, but one can always be a
man . . . H. Shriner: Henry Kaiser
—Old Man Riveter . . . A. P. Her-
bert: To me, the conception of two
living together for 25 years, without
a cross word is absurd, and sug-
gests a lack of spirit only to be
admired in sheep. Where there is
spirit there must be sparks.
Hero Bulkeley saw "Sons of Fun”
the other night and howled at it.
Later he asked Olsen & Johnsons
“How can you stand it night after
night—all that noise and shooting?”
. Kenneth Miller’s suggested
slogar for Loudmouths: “Loose
Schmoose Can Cook Your Goose!”
. . . Gracie Fields is a click at the
Wedgwood Room at the Waldorf.
Gets all the stuffed shirts to sing
"Always Be an England” and "God
Bless America” . . . Ginny Simms
has told RKO she’ll do no more B
films.
NEW GUINEA:
Jap Dunkirk?
Steadily the jaws of the Austral-
ian-American trap had closed on
the strategic Jap-held port of Buna
in New Guinea.
Significant of the importance of
the New Guinea drive to dislodge
the Japs was the presence in the
field of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
While his land forces converged on
the enemy positions, MacArthur’s
bombers had fanned out for wide-
spread aerial activities. On their
calling list besides Buna werS ene-
my installations at Lae and Sala-
maus.
The critical plight of the Jap gar-
rison at Buna was emphasized by
the arrival of eight enemy warships
in the vicinity. In a grim game of
hide-and-seek that ensued between
American Flying Fortresses and the
Jap vessels, one enemy cruiser and
a destroyer were sunk and another
destroyer damaged before the flo-
tilla fled. Observers were of the
opinion that the Jap warships might
have been preparing to evacuate the
Jap defenders of Buna.
18-19-YEAR DRAFT:
High Schoolers Deferred
President Roosevelt set aside
three weeks beginning December 11
for registration ot youths who have
reached or will reach their 18th
birthdays since June 30. The Presi-
dent’s order likewise provided con-
tinuous registration on their birth-
days of youths who become 18 on or
after next January 1.
A presidential proclamation hailed
the new registration as "advisable to
insure victory."
NORTH AFRICA:
3-Pronged Pincer
What was left of the tottering Axis
empire in North Africa had drawn
closer around Tripoli, as Allied
forces menaced it from the east, the
west and south, while the Mediterra-
nean on the north had fast become
a lake dominated by United Nations
air and sea power.
From the east, Gen. Montgom-
ery’s Eighth British army had swept
through Libya in pursuit of Mar-
shal Rommel’s battered Afrika
Korps. From the west American
and British forces had poured into
Tunisia, aided by units of Gen. Gi-
raud’s French North African army.
From the South it was reported
that 10,000 of the fighting French
army, mechanized with American
equipment, had struck northward
from Lake Chad in French West
Africa.
Goal of the Anglo-British armies
from the west had been strategic
Bizerte in Tunisia sea-coast “spring-
board" to southern Italy. British
paratroops flown in American planes
had captured airfields deep in Tu-
nisia, reports disclosed. The Mo-
rocco raid described these para-
troop operations as the largest ever
carried out by air-borne troops.
FRANCE:
Laval Mask Off
Pierre Laval could now write his
own ticket. Observers believed that
ticket would be filled out with or-
ders for greater French collabora-
tion with the Axis. For when dod-
dering Marshal Pctain invested La-
val with dictatorial power giving
him the right “on his simple sig-
nature alone to make laws” the im-
mediate fate of continental France
was in pro-Berlin hands.
Petain’s decree simply gave offi-
cial sanction to what had been an
unofficial fact for months. Every-
body in and out of Europe knew La-
val had been the real boss of the
Vichy regime and Petain the figure-
head. Now Laval could emerge in
his true role.
Across the Mediterranean in Al-
geria, Admiral Jean Darlan contin-
ued as the titular head of French
North Africa. But no longer had he
Vichy’s blessing and no longer was
he heir-presumptive to Petain's post.
Achieving the doubtful distinction of
International Turncoat No. 1, Dar-
lan had dexterously cast his lot with
the Allies, following the successful
American invasion. Previously he
had been notoriously pro-Axis. His
elevation to second in command to
Petain had been a reward for his
Axis leanings after the 1940 French
Collapse.
M
EX-KING CAROL
.. he eyed tttO.000,000.
manian funds now in custody of the
U. S. treasury.
The indictments charged violation
ot the Foreign Agents Registration
and Espionage Acts. The defend-
ants were Glicherie Moraru, self-
styled leader of the movement, Ste-
fan Opreanu and George Zanfer.
SEA SAGA:
Boise Story Told
Triumphant survivor of a battle
in which she helped sink six Jap
warships off Guadalcanal in early
October, the heroic light cruiset
Boise was undergoing repairs at an
eastern American shipyard, after
being battered by gunfire, swept by
flames and losing 107 of her crew in
action.
That the Boise would be refitted in
time to steam off to war again was
emphasized by her commander,
Capt. E. J. (“Mike”) Moran, and
navy officials. The Boise was lead
ship of an American naval task
force that engaged a Jap cruiser
transport force bearing troops for
the Southeastern Solomons and bore
the brunt of the fighting in which
the enemy lost two heavy cruisers,
one light cruiser and three destroy
ers.
Given up for lost in the battle, the
undaunted Boise later joined its
companion ships after receiving
shell hits in vulnerable places. In
the engagement, the Boise fired
more than 1,000 rounds of six-inch
shells in 27 minutes.
a favorite in the press was the virtu-
al kiss of death. Wisconsin knocked
Ohio State out of the Big Nine lead
and the nation's number one place.
The latter spot was promptly filled
by Georgia. Iowa then proceeded
to topple Wisconsin from the pinna-
cle and from among the country's
leading undefeated teams while In-
diana rose to peak form to drop
favored .Minnesota.
The renascence of Illinois as n
power in Midwest football came
as an exceedingly __
pleasant surprise to
1 followers of Big
Nine football for-
tunes. Oldtimers re-
member wistfully
the glory days of
the Fighting Illini.
Particularly do they
remember the his-
toric battles of the
Illinois - Ohio State
series.
Probably the two
most famous games
of the series were played in 1919 and
1920. In 1919 at Columbus the Illini
were on their own 20-yard line with
the score 7-6 against them and only
a few minutes left, when Larry Wal-
quist completed three passes to
Chuck Carney, All-America end,
which put the ball on the Buckeye
20. Bob Fletcher place-kicked a field
goal to give the Illini victory and
the championship by a 9-7 score.
A Close One
Next year, on the Illinois field, the
game was still scoreless as the pis-
tol sounded but Workman's pass to
“Truck” Meyers was in the air for
him to catch and score the touch-
down that won the game (and cham-
pionship) for the Buckeyes.
Illinois first became acquainted
with the immortal Chic Harley in
1916. The Illini were leading 6-0 in
the closing minutes of play when
Harley broke free for a touchdown,
calmly changed his shoe and place-
kicked a goal.
Illinois' victory in 1934 uncovered
Bob Zuppke's famous "flying tra-
peze." In this delightful little num-
ber everyone on the field except the
officials and the waterboys handled
the ball. Illinois deserved to win
by the final 14-13 score.
Red Grange played an important
part as a sophomore in the 1923
game. He scored one touchdown
that made up the majority of the
9 points by which the Illini claimed
victory. He was injured and did
not play in 1924 when Illinois won
In 1925 Grange played his last col-
lege game at Columbus, contribut-
ing more than his share to a 14-9
victory.
Boxing Industry
Takes It on Chin
The boxing industry, less con-
cerned than other sports by the
transportation problem, is faced with
a talent loss that likely will result
in the doom of all big scale opera-
tions.
While exact figures are not avail
able, it is probable that on a per
capita basis boxing has sent more
men into the armed services than
any other branch of athletics.
The National Boxing association
recently summarized the induction
or enlistment of 18 champions and
contenders. Hundreds of unranked
fighters are in the army or navy
and increasing numbers are seeking
work in war plants.
Four world champions are in the
service—Scrgt. Joe Louis, heavy-
weight; Gus Lesnevich. light heavy-
weight; Tony Zale, middleweight;
and Fred Cochrane, welterweight.
Contenders in service represent
five of the eight standard divisions:
WASHINGTON: In a move to
speed shipments of important war
materials through Mexico, the Unit-
ed States has agreed to finance re-
habilitation of key lines of the Mexi-
can National railways, it was an-
nounced here. The U. S. govern-
ment has agreed to bear the cost of
all necessary materials and equip-
ment as weli as repair costs and
the expense of maintenance.
The Roster
Heavyweight, Corp. Billy Conn,
Melio Bettina and Pat Valentino;
light heavyweight, Billy Soose, Tom-
my Tucker and Ken Overlin; mid-
dleweight, George Abrams, Tony
Martin, Coley Welsh, Fred Apostoli
and Steve Belloise; welterweight,
Marty Servo and Jackie Wilson;
featherweight, Mike Raffa. Also
gone is Bob Pastor, heavyweight
who retired to join the marines.
Boxing has been in rather a bad
way for the past several years. Joe
Louis outranked his heavyweight
contemporaries so far that, interest
in that division reached an all-time
low. Most of the other divisions
were in a chaotic condition.
Now, with the army and navy
drawing from its ranks, the cauli-
flower industry must adjust itself
to a changed situation. The wild,
unhampered promotion of past big
time bouis is doomed for the dura-
tion. Fights will be less of a specta-
cle, with little-known brawlers earn-
ing no more than ham and eggs.
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SNAPPY FACTS
ABOUT
RUBBER
In fits modern automobile there
are 32.5 pounds of rubber In ad-
dition to that vsod In tiros and
tubes.
Last summer'i
I.«sl summer's national scrap rubber
drive brought out 6.87 pounds par
capita. Even this gratifying amount
Evon this gratilying amou
□ted only a scraping ol t]
surface of the ac
backyard*, cellars
country.
ly a scraping of the
scrap littering the
and attics of the
There are some 3,065,000 miles
of roads In tha United States of
which 40% are of tha surfaced
highway typo. Mora Improved
roads than any other country In
•ho world.
There ere more than 10 motor ve-
hicles for each mile of highway in
the United States. Pre-gas rationing
Sundays mada this ratio seem like
10 oars to each 100 feet of road.
In 1940 It was estimated that the
market value ol passenger car* la
the U.S. was $7,209,000,000; truck*
bad • value of $1,165,000,000.
Ik mi peace
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F,RST in rubber
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