d « tj. - O ■1»; j i2-, ^5. *ra’ xv. IC^ I len. C^CC^L^ 1 "••’i ' s j .. in t t t-_e British •* r • aio orocco A" ' have t . en the CityJL This is in line with re arts all aay that the about to fall# A xrently the Axis forces '.ere putting up no re-1 aefense, \.ere conducting nothing none then rear ...u-rd action The British closed in swiftly, nd captured - il im ortant defensive If positions.1 Radio Morrocoo re orted that Gene: i nth tri 1, v?.nt e oints British rti. lery s eo x ~rdin. tre c ^ l . oO ^-j -1 g ilely enough the t ri. lit nov: the nritish ^.'e r—cuing into TT that ornate metropolis on the shore of Libya. It s a.......istorio of the^ Ot old, c e corsairs terrorised the mediterranean i>or Cc:*-1 ' 6S that the British eighth_army h ut etron.r: coin n to by-pass Tripoli to the south, in an attempt to 1? cut off t (2 y . T y that i for ^ -hn- v q Tunisia, . nd its route leads to the Homrel is retreating to....in , , 4- British column, by—passing trie city aiicht SO\ . Oli. - ^ ^rixian t.uj.u. • front of the .Vfrika Korps and catch it in oe able to et round m a trap. However, the probabilitiej Ger.-Vn rorce t -.t vee! s a, o v;c vould be able to e its vay into units tiers. ouid seen to be that the s at the a.tej oi‘ Alexi.ndria Tunisia nd join the Axis ihece un i' t^sse?. toS^e scoriA: some success in ^riVin'; Le1 s tellsHh. t the C^r ns r \ \ \ * x — ^ continuing to thrust forward in Nortnedst rn TuniXia - soufi^ of 'ont du • Unitet I': tions ahs. t o V >ored cohsins -.re strVkine uo-,.r.Vporallel .i t i- C C15)1* , yTrenoh t\oops, A ce le overUo the siVe i,ve been ur\ven b: ck\.'or so..e r\les. s have\been re;ortX on previous days, ana anotheApush is i-., \ _ t.. t ouWXe -rive bi\t 0 coiu:.'\s throu;!? BUBTON HOLMES ..6 aiG all interested in North Africa, now that hundreds of thousands of our American boys are fighting over there. And one of the best ways to find out about North Africa - Dakar, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Malta, Libya, and on to Suez - one of the simplest ways to learn more about it, is to go and hear Burton Holmes. And by the way, this is his fiftient season, on the platform, telling- us about this rapidly changing world. That's an all-time record. And it probably v/ill never be broken again. There is only one Burton Holmes. RAF British civ pover struck at the Nazis again today. London tell s us tin t the H A I' onrriec out h t it called "I .r:;e Sc; le offensive operations over Belgium and Northern Fr mce.*1 ,..6 inwhiie, ao^don s of the inter—uHied su nd i broadcast warnin to t lople or occupied France* The s okesman told the;; th t their territory . ouid become a theatre of v;ar o eration He referred to the fortifications the I sis re buiidin^ lonc th«- Irencn heditt_r n coast, _d the use of the harbor^ of i. rsieilles nd Toulon ...s submarin b ses* He s id the allies \ ould not illow -to. the Germans to proceed unnc ted, nd uarned/French eople to stay A •; • ,y from .ilit ry ire s that, re li; ely to be bo bed. jii now let1: consider the definition or - ord, the word - Fortress . A Fortrr s is - stron^ place that can take a lot of Lshment, and still keep on shooting, t <3 inition in mind, let’s o on to note that no istal 3 ide when the n - s jiven to that i nt type of imerloan bo mber - the /flying London tells us how a Sortress v;as flying back to its b..se after bing the * n is in France. Xnemy fighter planes appeared, and aix of them, diving in airs, attacked thej^ortress* They got in some 1 ell aired shots itk their cannon, and shells burst irsiue ef the big be The tail gunner, jtaff sergeant C S Johns of California, Knocked . ’i--,, wMeh fell in flames* But Just then down t'.io of the hrzi xigntdis, • ul - a Cc rr'.on shell ^tsreed • nd c:c loded. The re' r 'un turret-, heat of the csion * ,£ ., t , r. oxrpen mask ns .rby so intense —t an ^ melted, nd t s r units ■bo:' caurn +• r i V . ■ rsv: ut out the blaze, -nd v.ent on , 4---n'- Technic Fiootm. * - 4- o-iver '.core ox Sergeant 0-........... 3' ».£: : j s ' > - '--•oh fl aed I > I U t . - 2 • • ? Tec:- lc 1 , Eiohard Sutterfield of raimont, •..'eat Virginia, gives the answer in this '.Vest Virginian fashion; "They were thicker th; n revenue orficer in tie mountains,rT says he. The shells bursting inside the bo-ber tossed the crew around like u.ie .-ins in a bowling alley. Technical 3er.;;e nt Joseph liorris of ::h.-.1, Plordi , LS hurled with ^uch’farce that he was paralized 0 pilot C-: . tain Tribbet of Thornton, Indiana, was thrown from the controls by the concussion of a shell, and co-pilot Lieutenant II T Hear don of Test Los Angeles was kneeled out of his £ rtre s ■ s left v ithout anybody flying it. rt 'i. .. , ^ -i .p • „_ 4 -'-i "i ^ 1 " lioVner "!un ed and took a dive Dairngea by the shell f..re, tne i—a*, thousand feet. It ,: hs three thousand feet from tte ground of seven t' • hen the half stunned pi3ot niar_at to . -ici kinself up and get back '" cii Uiiw xiciJ-x w '-*■ ar----- j_ _a- ■- oj nive. nd r ot ^.t „ . ,, v. j . 4-he ship cuu of h.-o Q1; > to the controls. ;..e brou ,h^ ^ , t'-ere is no r.istc':e when . . -n t jv see ^ back to its base in • they coll them - --1 -> ,T * yr< I’ • 'T tresst — ■ hussl The latest L ort nt poi; t c 'cured by the Russians is the city of SaXsk-a hey roalroad. junction in the jnorth Caucasus. Salsk is a hundred .ilt s souths st of uostov, nd its loss is another heavy bloc to the syste : of railv.cy conuiuni cat ions on v. hich the Naxiz ust he endl# Tne lost ii pressive ne' s of the £p:ive situation / of the Gormans in southern Russia comes, not from Moscow today, .ut from Berlin. The 1 i Eli h Command onounoes bluntly that its r.uy - efore St clin-.r ;d is surrounded : nd th .t Red Army forces have broken through its defenses* The hitler High Command uses these ^ v.ords; "The German grou in Stalingrad is closely encircled ay tne enemy*n *hid the official communique goes on to st te ci. t -cvuet forces h: ve crushed through from the sat ana a ~ ^ a cpe 1 j . c a one hazi before St" lingr a to ..ithui a their -iiios r So nov. the Ger n peovle knot that the . r.'.y v.-hieh so proudly vas supposed to take Strlir ^ a a - — * i encircled and faces annihilation, It consisted of tventy-t.vo divisions in the first i^ce. J)ut the ITr&tifcty v that heavy los v a The German High Command toa: y .is si on c tin1 RUSSIA - 2 that a ion- the entire southern front the ^oviet r:ai e are bre- in; throu ti. 1: i;- movement of German troops in the Caueasus , the Berlin bulletin uses this logy - "They ched themselves fro . t .V* . he. u Nazi lan . e for dmitting setbacks retre ts. NOR TJL COM AY Thorp are some thousands of young men in this count ry -io crc v'ondering tonight whether they may not soon be fighting in riussia. I mean the men of our mountain and sky regiments. Not that they have been told they are likely to go to Russia. But they are being trained to fight across the snow and in the mountains. And that might mean Russia. Or it might mean Norway, when we get ready to invade there. Or it might mean the Brenner Pass country after Italy collapses and the United Nations get ready to storm their way into Central Europe. At any rate, the call has gone out again for more young men of the out-of-doors, to join our maountain troops who are now training high up in the Rockies of Colorado. I cam up to North Conway, New Hampshire, this ---------- --- I-IHII rn ^ morning with a crowd of young men who are training and MflRTH CONWAY O hoping to join the U.S. Ski troops. They came here to get a preliminary workout under the old maestro, the veteran of them all, Hannes Schneider, and his corps of experts, Benno and Toni and the rest. Lester Sprague of North Conway made a remark to me this afternoon, that I thought rather striking. Said he:- wSkiing is the only sport that has actually supplied troops for the American Army. So, ski, and get tough, and join the Army! •'YT Cn this d Lx v^uadaxc nal, Lher e is one place that you v/ould not 63C] • ct tc 30 cheerful aiid gey - the oa ,p where Japanese risoners ire kept. You icture captured Japr ^ sullen and nasty, and they ‘-re th.1 t - at lir-t. .her made prisoner, they behave themselves with sour res nt. But prese tly they realize that they are bein. ti -. ted like hu’ian beinps - and re fed ore than L iTT^ A .L >/> A / v r *' The - j to h vc self • t, teX* A A .4 a. X OX ine corps combat corn.a 'oncent. J ^ 4^ ey go in mostly for v.T©stling and American jazz. The favorite song it the Gu 1 rc " a - — the V ps y..o tr*^' ^ Tm alrav- it U t -— k ; • arise: e. \ A K ai i s \7 t\- talces u^to \ t b 11 expression cropped up v;hen\ ecu ie X wentl to the c ap fir Lt of \ \ * hnd tX-olish fl : . .. \ * tl \ Y' — V th ' seme t i\e t ' in - to t:\ prisone^c. ^ ;; nnKs JJ? F-w ' bf=t\.C6ii. u x .o';...v ^, Ox*e Ox "the isrines 'sntionoC. sor.et- in;j; L ball. A m > ~ - the 1 ;ht ball. The marines in P V s^^ression. He tranl ,ted ei it belli into Va? nese. Xt ^ fth chi A A aaru.” The c. tives r:-..c. tb it up, and now one of the t oillar ex ressions around the prison c: p is - ’hVchi nnru.” roybe the rr. Vi un ena an One of the prisoners h • (I ■' Sll, if 8 thi y. The y the others. wouldn*t hove anything to ao . , . , t , , v u'otsstin^ . But none with him. He talked to tne guards, > p could understand v.hat he -s s • It ierely sounded like ^ anese to them. Finally, it ■ discovered Oi the marines at txj.e c • V 7 Java and put in Javanese. He ad b< en o tured by the \faps in - tte lion cn uadi lei . 1. He didn-t loci, uch different f , and all ne could sue.-.: nativeJKalay, wliioh sounded li’ce iften his identiy ’.as discovered, he . js u . a .orison car.ip guard {2td K-<rvO ""t^dsL with n American Uniform nd un. Tlw^WJe^Lig. '<3^0*2'*- ' T -t \/VV^O~vi\ /' VW> ;j)D SOLO Ci o In Washingtont a ilarine officer at. tea today that there wer e fev.er than 1 ‘our t - 1 J troop* ft ^ 2 Lie tei nt - C, ael Le. ..is iuller^cc x: ncied a , . .rine battalion tin out there, and now back in this country, Ite states the Japanese force oj inally amounted to fifteen thousand men* Eit‘ht thous nd ve been illed, three thousand node risoners or eli ine ted in o her 7. ays, so a, mere four thousand Japs are left on Gu to t£^ C<S2Sl (kjU r- , * late iv. vy ala nineteen people, '> " ' > - ; t. t big seaplane carrying or to San I rancis co but at _ n ^ i* ncisco b d ’P .- r t _.. s thursday .xr* ing* then nothing has been line. A- oird it ’.-.ere Temicval off leers «nd a ere'; of nine. The coal Ine strike finally oa;;e to .n ena to iay, vheR the last .rou; of strikers voted to return to worJsV The anthracite walkout, linst aa increase in union oues, lasted for t.er.t/-. r a /s, no are1., a vigorously • oraed directive f roni L» to .: hi ck to their jobs 4 w Dunn.- tne x st several days one local after another has heeded the Presidential dvice, nd returned to the Coal pits. Today only two .ere left on strike* This morning, sixteen hundred '.orders at the nus.ber seven colliery of the aus uehanna co yany voted to go b cl . ii a this fternoon eight hundred miners of the payne company decided to e i . kout* —MM&t thi >it< ti 0 to 1 A ” final close HOOVEF Ex-President Hoover is calling attention to a Congressional Committee report, which sfcfc states that millions of dollars' worth of crops in the southwest ■'ere los . year because they could not be harvested. ; 1 riAnd? the former President goes on, ”word from farmers in many part of the country indicate that unless their difficulties be remedied, they will be compelled to reduce planting this Spring.” And then he tells us a cardinal principle of modern war. MAgriculture," says he, ”simply must be envisaged as a munitions industry. And the farmer must be given men and tools if he is to perform his part.” As for remedies, the former President proposes that removal of labor from farms be stopped, and he recommends a thing they do in Europe - over there farm boys are given furloughs from army service during a few months of planting and harvesting. uUJ? -71 r»r —> — - ti : 11 - t .■ jj J L A- >-* i. -u X 1 • — bout - ersatz coffee. T: io 7B ** c:mes^in an office-of-pri Linistrati 6 n announcement that fixes eel ling rices foi 3 ft’oe substitutes -and coffee cc is* ^ : 1. fipr? ^ ‘ . of roll t flour, io 3 corn oil. 7 ? Tne compounds re mixtures of coffee and something else - like coffee, c’ iccr7 nd chick ^eas. One, called "Victory Blend," consists of coffee, roa sted berle^r and i?.rbenso beans. r irsetz coff e is on its v-v to the Gi°c^rs shelves and v.e’ll soon M^vi/ be drinking it. Hope -ou’ll like it, — *i*i to ^U. Sh^e /7 <Sh^-t^ ^ <?-h ;