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THE GREEN BAY PRESS-GAZETTE Wednesday Evening, December 23, 1942 .4 4,1 V. iVsi Hi 7f -T 1 i -ir us it 'All'. 1 i r-. fit i.t 1 Italy's Rule of Libya Near End Relentless Advance of Eighth Army Indicates Fall of Duce's Empire By DON ZAUTA EN NOFILIA, Tripoli-tania, Dec. 21 (Delayed) Thirty years of Italian sovereignty in Tripolitania appear slowly but inexorably drawing to a close.

That is the vivid picture one Defense of Stalingrad Called Miracle of Modern Warfare Commander of Garrison Gives His Story of Heroic Battle Against Nazi Men, Machines Tody Henry Shplro, United Prixw Moscow manager. In only American correspondent who visited the StullnRrad front, gives th tory of the heroic defense of tht city revealed to him by the commander In chief of the Stalingrad garrison. By. HENRY SHAPIRO Copyright, 1942 by United Press WITH THE RED ARMY ON THE STALINGRAD FRONT, Dec. 22 (Delayed) UR) Four months ago Lieut.

Gen. Vassili Ivanovich Chuikov of the Red Army stood on a hill and looked at what appeared to be a flaming volcano 30 miles away the burning city of Stalingrad. enemy victoriously with inferior St. Norhcrt college made a 10 ton contribution to the De Pore scrap metal drive Tuesday, when the World War I cannon shown above was hauled away from the spot on the campus where it had rested for the last 14 years. The cannon was obtained from the War department in 1928 through the efforts of the Rev.

A. M. Keefe, former doan of the college who is now on active duty with the army in Australia. Yankee Air Leaders In Cairo All Smiles at Rommel's Rout A group of children playing in Fort Howard park during yesterday's snowfall made this giant snowman and named him "Mr. Five by Five." Jackie Allen Linquist, left, and Beverly Ann Gussert, right, are seen admiring the handiwork of Ed Crane, Bob Johnson, Virgil F'rue and Dick Scharno.

gets watching the measured, re lentless movement of the British Eighth army on the heels of Field Marshal Rommel's panzer columns retreating toward Tripoli. This offensive is not breathtaking in swiftness, although it has moved approximately 1,100 1 miles by road across the desert in 57 days. It is ponderous and piuauing in massive weigni oi men and arms. But it gives the feeling that its force this time is unstoppable. Army Stays Together Doughty, confident General Sir Bernard L.

Montgomery is not stretching his army thin by racing westward. He is drawing up its full weight behind the armored columns keeping contact with the enemy a few miles from where this is being written. When the time comes to strike, he can strike in force. Rommel obviously does not want to pit his battered forces against British power at this time. He did not risk a stand at the El Agheila line, and military men to whom I have talked doubt there is a stronger position on the North African coast.

i There is a possibility, judging from recent developments, that Tripoli may fall without more than a heavy delaying action at one of the gulches between Sirte and Misurata while Rommel pulls his main forces into Tunisia. Narrowly Missed Coup The British almost accomplished a brilliant coup last week when New Zealand columns swung south of the El Agheila line and closed in on a German rearguard at Wadi Matratin, west of El Agheila. It has now ben disclosed that they captured about 400 prisoners and 25 guns and knocked out 15 ranks in running skirmishes but the bulk of the Germans fled south through the wadis and escaped over terrain with which they were familiar. Rommel has kept his main force well ahead of the British, leaving small rearguard detachments and heavy mine fields. And there is no indication that he expected to come back again over this road of retreat.

Montgomery Has Holiday Message for His Troops CAIRO Pi General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery praised the members of his British Eighth army today for their exploits in the two-month-old drive from El Alamein and expiessed the hope "that 1943 will be a very 4 jfr K4 "Now that's a small incident but it indicates contented minds. Our morale is just so good that there's nothing you could say about it that would be exaggeration." "What part would you say that air power has played in the Eighth Army offensive?" I asked. "Air power has been one of the chief factors in our success," he replied, "and it has been our good fortune to have a share in this along with the RAF. Major Bombardment Force "It has happened that in the category of heavy bombers we have formed a major bombardment force because of the nature of our equipment.

We have con centrated on port facilities and sea communications. For example, after the Eighth army reached Bengasi we made repeated attacks against the Axis port of Tripoli which had been one of their chief supply bases. "Among our major targets have been gasoline depots and tankers and we certainly raised the devil with them. The result has been that the activities of the Axis air-force have been heavily restricted because of lack of gas. "Our medium bombers and fightters also have done excellent work in support of the Eighth army, especially in bombing and machine gunning enemy motor transport and troops during the retreat.

There has been no glamor about this job. It has just been steady slugging. British Cooperation Superb "Back of this effort of course is service and supply to keep the airplanes flying. British cooperation in this service has been superb. At first we were entirely dependent on them and we still have to rely on them to some extent.

"I haven't the words to describe the whole-heartedness of this cooperation. Never once have the British turned down an appeal from us, and they have gone all out to service us. "But there is more than that to the cooperation. When our men first arrived in the desert they were great fliers but without practical experience in fighting. So the British taught us combat work.

The RAF put us through actual combat training. They first broke in one pilot. Then "they added others gradually until we had reached a squadron. Now of course our own veterans do our training, oui our nrst combat and opera tional schooling came from the British. generally private home owners, will receive 11 gallons of fuel oil under the new arrangement compared with the former allowance of 10 gallons.

Apartment house owners, holding Class two coupons, will receive 110 gallons per coupon as against their current value of 100 gallons. The date for use of the coupons was advanced to today from Jan. 5. Brecke Asks Change MILWAUKEE (U.RI The Wisconsin petroleum association Tuesday sent a telegram to James F. Byrnes, economic stabilization director it Washington, urging the elimination of heat rationing periods and making coupons usable at any time.

Roy Brecke, executive secretary of the sissociation, pointed out in the wire that most fuel tanks in the state hold enough oil to necessitate only seven deliveries a year whereas the period system requires 15. Boston Shops Close BOSTON (Pi A number of Massachusetts business establishments not directly engaged in war production, including the Gardner Daily News, a member of the Associated Press, and Boston department stores announced to- day that they would close for three days over the Christmas week-end to conserve fuel. Labor Notes An important meeting of Bricklayers' and Plasterers' union, Local 3, to discuss work on the new Sturgeon Bay housing project is to be held at 7:30 tonight in the Labor Temple. New officers of Coal Dock Workers, I. L.

A. Local 1014, will be elected at a meeting in the Labor Temple at 1:30 Sunday afternoon. Lunch and refresh ments ar to be served. New officers of Bakery and Confectionery Workers' "union, Local 339, are to be chosen at a meeting at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the Labor Temple, happy year for each one of you." ment officers to give every is wonderful what has been sideration to small plants in alto-achieved since Oct. 23.

when we cation work. First consideration started Ihe battle of Egypt." the will be given to firms in distress, general said in a Christmas mes- but all companies recommended sage to the army. i by the Appleton WPB office will And he pledged on behalf of receive invitations to bid. He had received orders to takef command and defend the city with the life of every man in it. The Russian troops were outnumbered, outgunned, blasted day and night by thousands of German planes.

They were tiring and many were discouraged. Chuikov and his Red Army men made their stand week after week. They stood up under an almost unbelievable attack. They broke it, and today they are driving the Germans before them house by house in the city. Fired the Whiners Chuikov told me the story in a special interview given over the Red army military telegraph irom his headquarters in the city to this front headquarters base in the Don river bend.

I tried to get inside Stalingrad. Gen. I. N. Christiankov, commanding here, refused to take responsibility.

He said the fight was still raging and that he had orders to get me back to Moscow. He let me appeal to Chuikov who responded with this story. Chuikov told me how he had taken charge at Stalingrad's darkest hour, how his men day by day and week by week fought the Germans with everything from long range guns to fists and boots, how they broke two of the greatest ingle attacks of the war. "The history of wars knows no precedents for such fighting," he said. He said Stalingrad not only set a precedent for sustained ferocity but proved that a great city can be defended house by house by determined and intelligent men and he described the technique which he and his staff worked out.

"When the front military council entrusted me with the defense of Stalingrad I fully understood the great responsibility and seriousness of this task," he said. "One could see what the city was like 30 miles away. German bombs had transformed it into one great fire. "There were many whining pessimists in the army. I threw these panicky people out of the army right away and set to work.

First of all we had to create the proper spirit of firmness. We were told we could not retreat beyond the Volga. We could see for ourselves there was no road. "Hitler Gave His Best" "Hitler put the best he had against Stalingrad. He did not spare quantity or quailty.

It was a battle for life or death. "We were continuously attacked by great masses of infantry, tanks, artillery and planes. Our forces were not equal. The enemy had superiority at all points all the time. "The German command used its favorite method.

It intended to smash us with a stunning blow. They thought we hadn't enough (tuts. They hoped to push us into the Volga with one blow. They did not carry out a methodical offensive. This was their method Sept.

14. This is what they tried again to do Oct. 14. "The German command made one obvious mistake. Large columns and groups of German soldiers made wonderful targets for our artillery and infantry.

We destroyed them in great numbers. "I believe that nowhere in this war have there been such bloody hand to hand combats. Nowhere have bayonets and hand grenades been so widely used as at Stalingrad. "The main characteristic of the battle of Stalingrad is close distance fighting, and I don't mean the kind of fight we study at the military academies where enemies meet, engage in battle and then separate. "Here we hold each other in deadly grip.

The distance be tween trenches is between 20 to 100 metres. (Amctre is 1 1-10 yard). The longest distance is 150 metres. Army headquarters are one kilometre (1,090 yards) apart and there were moments when only 350 metres separated us from the enemy. "Naturally we had to work out new methods.

Our ability to maneuver was extremely limited; by the narrow territory" and by enemy aviation and artillery. Counterattacked by Nljrht "The Germans usually attacked by day, when their planes and tanks were active and they could have precise artillery and trench mortar fire. "We counterattacked usually bV Tlipht. Our f1rrirr tive. At the end of every 24 hourt we had to count up results.

This was an exceedingly difficult task. Reconnaissance reports were always the same: 'impossible to count I myself several times had a chance to see it really was impossible. Mounds of corpses piled up at the end of each day. "Our army grew firmer daily. Yet it became obvious that we could hold Stalingrad only by destroying Germans.

Heroism took the form of mass self-sacrifice. "When an enemy group 10 to 15 times larger than one of our units attacked us, our soldiers would send a signal to our bat teries, ordering them to fire "They ordered the batteries to aim at them, so that while they would be killed by their own puns, they would take 10 to 15 timei their number of Germans with them. "Our units, after they crossed to the west bank of: the Volga, seemed reborn. Love1 for their mother country took the form of hate for the Germans. Our spirit allowed ti counterattack the In the of to to forces.

"German infantry are brave only when they are supported by planes, tanks and artillery. If their infantry have to fight our infantry unaided, their attacks invariably fail. "Our infantry are invincible under proper command and with clearly defined tasks. Woody Fartory District "We knew no retreat in the battle of Stalingrad. The Germans advanced only at places where there remained no Soviet soldiers.

"Lieut. Gen. Rodiml.ev's division was first to arrive at Stalingrad and receive the first fierce German blow. "Rodimtzev told me: will fight to the last man. We will not leave the "Hodimtzev's guards unit held the left flank.

It received the strongest attacks but it remained firm. "Then the Germans attacked Mamaev hill. There they met Gorishny's division which repulsed all attacks. "The Germans then attacked the barricades in the factory settlement. There they met Smek-hotorov's and Gin iev's divisions.

A bloody battle took place there. "The most awful battle took place Oct. 14 after Hitler's speech commanding the occupation of Stalingrad regardless of cost. "I honestly never saw anything comparable with that. I would not have believed that such an inferno could open up on earth.

"That day you could nt see beyond five metres. Fire and smoke screened the view. "That was a serious day for the defenders of Stalingrad. Gen Zholudev's division received a tremendous blow. The Germans attacked this division, which had already lost many men, with two tank divisions.

"Zholudev's men were frequently encircled. Each man actually killed dozens of Germans. Men died but they never retreated. Those who died and those who lived are to me all heroes. There can not be any accurate estimate of the number of attacks the enemy made.

It was one con tinuous attack. "The Germans Intensified their blows. They hoped to break our morale with uninterrupted tank plane and infantry attacks. But Russians can beat any Germans even the most fanatical, as far as firmness is concerned. Ordered to Stand "I believe that if the military machines used against us had been used against any army in the world, including the Ger mans, they could not have en dured one-tenth what we endured.

Our soldiers had only one idea Stalin had ordered them not to retreat. "Between the 7th and 20th of November our army was no longer defending itself. It was advancing, even though with small forces. This minor offensive drew the enemy's attention from the major operation we were preparing in the north and south. We certainly received the enemy because in addition to the large forces used against our 62nd army they brought in their 44th and 160th reserve divisions, stationed beyond Gumrak.

"I want to say a few words about our weapons. War has proved that all weapons from rifles to cannon are very good provided they are properly used. the battle of Stalingrad the Russian hand grenade won general respect. It is much better than the German hand grenade. Extremely unpopular with the Germans is our katushka (the still secret Russian gun), which enemy call 'Stalin's All living objects are destroyed wherever its shells burst.

"But all these weapons would have been of no value if they had not been in the hands of men who were willing to die for; freedom. All our men used to say: 'there is no land beyond the That was the end of their world. "Our experience in the battle Stalingrad already allows us draw some conclusions: "In each city each building can become a fortress if It is Qllieklv and skilfully tc defense, if soldiers do not fear encirclement and if they are not afraid to get into houses and stay there. "The battle within a city is a fight at close distance in which light weapons, bayonets, rifles and light machine guns, are used. "Fighting within a city requires the greatest initiative from every officer and man.

"Closer the Better" "A man should not be afraid take a position in the immediate neighborhood of the enemy. The nearer the enemy the smaller the losses. "Artillery and aviation invariably hit their own troops if the distance between trenches is 20 XS- I As soon as German planes appear over Stalingrad our ar-l tillery opens fire and the Ger-j mans send up rockets signaling: 'don't hit your own troops We give exactly the same signal, and then the devil himself couldn't "One more point: It is impossi ble to maneuver in a city by day- light. But at night we carried out all our troop movements successfully with small losses, no matter how many rockets the Germans sent up. Modern nviation makes it necessary to take great precautions even when moving troops In Ihe field; but that is nothing to movement in a city.

"The Germans learned this at Stalingrad. Their tank attacks cost them very much. "It is important to train more snipers. This is profitable busi ness. Its cost is small a few cartridges.

The revenue is many enemy corpses. "Radio communication is very important. Wire is often cut by shells and bombs, or by fire. Radio sets require specially constructed dugouts, rn one engagement four of our radio sets went out of action at once, though there was no visible cause. A radio set is a delicate apparatus.

In that dugout even tea glasses burst from shell shocks. "German propaganda went too far in Stalingrad sometimes. Once four Germans drove up to our positions in a car. We asked them where they were going. They replied they were going for some food eggs.

Their radio and their newspapers, they insisted, had announced the fall of Stalingrad. Winter Help Reds "Now winter has come. Winter is our element. Russians are well adapted to fight in winter and no matter what preparations the Germans have made for winter we re better prepared." With the aid of I.ieut. Col.

Anatoli Tarantsev, who accompanied me to the front from Moscow, I found officers who fought at Stalingrad with Chuikov. They described to me his quarters and his appearance. His headquarters is a dugout furnished with one table and three chairs. There are maps on the walls and the table. Now and then one hears a rustling sound earth sliding off the dugout's log walls.

The ground is continually shaken by blasts of shells, mines and bombs. Chuikov looks like Valery Chkalov, the first trans-Arctic flier from Moscow to America. He is obviously a man of great will power. He has a deeply lined, sharp featured face. As he speaks he walks softly about his small dugout, deep under ground.

Chuikov was born in 1900, one of eight sons of a peasant family. His father still works on a collective farm in the Tula district, 500 miles northwest of Stalingrad in the Moscow area. As a boy he went to St. Petersburg, now Leningrad, where he did odd jobs. In 1918 Chuikov volunteered in the Red army and fought in the Civil war.

He was wounded four times fighting on the Stalingrad front where now, at 42, he is commander in chief. The officers I talked to say that the defense of Stalingrad has been a miracle of modern war. When they are asked how this miracle was accomplished they repeat Chuikov's phrase: "Guts and readiness to die." The 120-day battle is generally considered the fiercest and stub-bornest of this war, beyond comparison with the battles of Moscow, Leningrad and Sevastopol. It has cost the Germans more than 300.000 killed and robbed them of the fruits of their entire summer campaign. Michael Maus Dies of Heart Ailment Today Michael Maus, 69, former employee of the North Western railroad shops, died this morning in a local hospital as the result of a heart ailment.

For the last four months he had been making his home with his daughter, Mrs. Leo Thirion, 1042 Western avenue. The deceased was born in Bay Settlement but had lived in Green Bay for several years. Survivors are four daughters, Mrs. Clifford Watermolen, Mrs.

Rose Calhoon, Mrs. Ben Geven and Mrs. Thirion, Green Bay: eight sons, Peter, Joseph, Haroid and Clarence, Green Bay; Edward, De Pere: Corporal Irwin, Great Falls, Private William, Fort Shiridan: George, United States Navy; five sisters, Mrs. Joseph Geniesse, Mrs. Ira Brock, Mrs.

Albert Vandersteen and Mrs. Barbara Schaut, Green Bay; and Mrs. John O'Grady. Niagara; two brothers, John, Green Bay; and Anton, Birnamwood; 28 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The purest diamonds are color- iess and water-clear.

Knights of Columbus meet t.ic at Columbu club 7:45 tomte to go to Coffey Funeral Home, De Pere, to recite rosary for Bro. Harold Kuypers. Those with cars available Kindly share with Others. American Birdmen Are Doing Their Share In Lashing Axis Armies lly HEWITT MACKKNZIK CAIRO, Dec. 21 (Delayed) Staff officers at headquarters of the Ninth American Air Force in Cairo have a glint in their eyes these days.

It's a dead giveaway for the satisfaction they feel over the fine contribution Uncle Sam's airmen are continuing to make to the British offensive against Rommel. I dropped in Brigadier-General Victor H. Starm, chief of staff to Major General Lewis H. Brere-ton, commander of United States air forces in the Middle East and India to i i eocwitt MacKf mie whether the flag still flew. "You bet," he retorted.

"Our units are doing a grand job along with our Royal Air Force colleagues. Our morale is top hole. It can't be beat." First Class Testimony Now that's strong mustard, but it's first class testimony from a man who is familiar with the fighting game from battle experience. Of course, you don't nee'd any introduction to this distinguished ace of World war I who hails from Bowling Green, Ky. Since the Allied air forces have kept a constant and devastating contact with the fleeing enemy thus far, I asked General Starm whether any individual crews have made any sorties as they did in the big show at III Alamein, where the Axis rout started.

"We are making many," he replied, "but our men stand up firm. Their morale is at its peak and they are itching to go." Good Frame of Mind The general paused and grinned. "Thanksgiving day out in the desert I saw an example of the frame of mind they're in. Some members of a South African air unit came over to visit us and they arrived in an armored car. Our boys immediately wanted to know what it was like to be under fire in such a car.

So, a few at a time, they shut themselves up in the machine while everybody else cut loose at it with pistol Oil Ration CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 1 son failed to help the delivery problem. "If we continue to be forced to make deliveries of 30 and 40 gallons, under the present set-up, Coupons Good Today The Brown county war price and rationing board received confirmation Tuesday night of the increased allotment for No. 3 coupons, which became valid for purchases today, from Don T. Allen, state director of the Office of Price iidministi ation. Originally, No.

3 coupons were not to become valid until Jan. 7, officials said. Distributors and dealers will honor consumers' No. 3 coupons for the 10 per cent increase in allotment under ihe new ruling without liutite, uiliciais said. 'Jo receive the extra amount consumers have to do nothing but write ration number on the back of each coupon, just as they have done previously.

The new ruling docs not affect No. 2 coupons, which remain good for only 10 gallons of oil. No. 2 tickets will be honored until Jan. 20.

No. 1 coupons me no longer valid for purchases. instead of deliveries of 400 gallons, we won't be able to handle the situation," he said. Spencer said the dealers faced a paradox, as they were being forced to increase their mileage 50 per cent in order to deliver oil to home owners, while at the same time the office of defense transportation demanded a 25 per cent mileage reduction. Middle West States The Increased rations affected Illinois, Indiana, Missouri.

Kansas, Wisconsin. Minnesota. Nebraska, Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan. Holders of Class one coupons, WPB to Give Aid To Small Plants Seeking Contracts Small manufacturers in the 14-county Appleton War Production Board district who are interested in obtaining war contracts are urged to obtain forms and list their facilities at once with Paul W. Romig, APPletou WPB district manager.

"Many small manufacturers in the Appleton district have listed their facilities in the past, but many of these records now are out of date," Romig said. Aid in obtaining contracts will be given through the smaller war plants division of the WPB. Romig will supply facilities record forms to any smaller manufacturer located in Brown, Calumet, Door, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Marinette, Oconto, Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca, Waushara, and Winnebago counties. Romig noted there are many cases where facilities exist in small plants, but where management or financial assistance is necessary. The Appleton WPB office is in a position to assist such plants in solving these problems by making recommendations, and in some instances by actually assuming responsibility in connec tion with operations under a contract.

Arrangements have been made between the Smaller War plants division and government procure- Ships Bombed CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 1 that German planes had severely damaged five large merchant ships and a torpedo boat in attacks on British and American convoys in Algerian waters. German and Italian detachments "have gained ground after lively local encounters'' in Tunisia, repulsed Allied counterattacks upon mountain defenses and captured prisoners and war materials, the high command said. In central Tunisia, fighting French forces still were driving to smash through to the eastern Tunisian coast, and had beaten off a German counterattacks west of Kairouan, presumably at Tichon about GO miles west of Sousse. Patrols In Combat Stabbing ahead of the main American and British troops in Tunisian positions. Allied patrols brushed with German units 15 miles northeast of Medjez-El-Bab and 10 miles southeast of Mateur Tuesday probing enemy locations while the Allied forces were being steadily reinforced.

The French in central Tunisia said the Germans suffered "serious losses" in their counter smash Tuesday west of Kaiouran. In six weeks, U. S. fighter pilots were repot red to have taken a toll of 96 Axis planes, while losing 55 themselves. Two Officials of Bank At Cochrane Arrested MADISON, Wis.

Ah in Loverud, assistant United States district attorney, announced today thai: two officials of he Farmers and Merchants bank of Cochrane, had been arrested on charges of embezzlement. The defendants are John R. Meili, 44, cashier, and Raymond A. Guettingcr, 49, assistant cashier. They were indicted by the federal grand jury which reported to Judge Patrick T.

Stone here Dec. 12. Both were arraigned in justice court at Cochrane following arrests Tuesday and were released pending trial on bond of $1,000 each. Not least among the many glories of our country is the long list of men who half-educated, friend ess and poor, have by the sheer force of their own ability raised themselves from the humblest beginnings to positions of command and eminence. The War Department's new Pentagon office building, the largest in the world, can modate 35,000 workers.

Authorize Production Of More Wall Paper WASHINGTON The War Production board today authorized the production of more wall paper. WPB amended an order issued last Nov. 13 which limited each manufacturer to 50 per cent of the total tonnage used by him in tha production of wall paper in the period July 1, 1941, to June 30, 1942. Today's order raised this quota to an industry-wide figure of 60 per cent. Americans Open Winter Raids On Kiska Invaders WASHINGTON U.R Th winter air offensive against tha Japanese base at Kiska in th AJeutians is under way.

Naval sources said today that American fliers are taking advan tage of every half-decent flying day to dump explosives on Kiska to prevent the Japanese from strengthening their positions during the usually severe winter months. Two attacks were carried cut recently. Last Thursday, a force of army Consolidated B-24 heavy bombers struck at shore installations on Kiska and left a number of fires burning. Three days later, another force of bombers escorted by fighters, attacked. That assault was aimed primarily at knocking out a submarine base which the enemy has been trying to develop there.

More and heavier attacks were predicted. The Americans apparently are operating from their advanced bases in the Andreanof islands, which are less than an hour's flying time from Kiska. The Japanese have given American fliers little opposition. Only desultory anti-aircraft fire has greeted American airmen and no Japanese plane has appeared over the area in months. Information here indicates that the Japanese are attempting to build a small advanced naval base at Kiska during the winter months.

That base, it was believed, would be for the use of submarines and other light naval forces, possibly destroyers and small cruisers. But the American air hammering is expected to interfere with the work. Squadron In Africa Has Holiday Turkey ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa One American bomber squadron in Tunisia will have turkey for Christmas dinner, thanks to Lieutenant Robert Dorsey, Pittsburg, Kan. Dorsey flew in a load of 16 live turkeys in his bomb bay. worried all the way back from the unre-vealed place where he got them, lest he would have to jettison the birds in case he was attacked.

Major Joe Cunningham, Clarksburg, W. squadron leader, who had warned Dorsey of "dire consequences'' if anything happened to the turkeys, praised him for his feat as though he had contributed another encmv plpnp or so to the number shot down by the 12th U. S. Air force. This group during the week ended Dec.

18 destroyed 24 enemy planes, losing 12. U. S. Weather For Green Bay nnrt vicinity: SlIRhtW cnlcter tonight unci Thursday forenoon. Ocrasional light, snow tonight.

Fresh, to moderately atron winds toniRht. For Wisconsin: Slightly colder tonight and Thursday forenoon. Occasional light snow in north portion early tonight. Freh to moderately strong winds tonight. STATIONS AND WEATHER OF UNITED STATES Pre- Iot High clpita- Jju Last tion Nlte24Hr GREEN BAY Bismarck.

N. Brownsville. Texas Chicago, 111 Detroit. Mich Duluth. Minn Escanaha, Mich Fargo.

N. D. Grand Rapids. Mich. Houghton.

Mich. Huron. S. Madison. Wis Marquette.

Mich. Miami. Fla Milwaukee. Wis Minneapolis. Minn.

New York. N. Y. Pittsburgh. Pa.

Sit. Ste. Marie. Mich. Washington.

C. WlUiston, N. 2S 27 37 77 32 3.1 33 37 54 24 29 13 14 31 33 25 30 24 3S 28 35 27 30 63 77 2R 35 20 32 32 37 3.S 40 24 30 31 34 SS 38 himself and his men to keep the enemy "on the run." Text of Message Said his Message: 'The Eighth army turned the enemy out of the famous El Agheila position and is now ad- I vancing into Tripolitania. "Before the battle began I sent you si message in which I said: "Let us pray that the Lord, mighty in battle, will give us victory." "He has done so and I know you will agree with me when I I say that we must not forget to i thank Him for His mercies. "I have received a Christmas greeting from Hull, Yorkshire.

It is quite the nicest I ever received. My only regret is that I cannot answer it as the writer gave no address. But I shall treasure it all my life. Quotes From Greeting "It was intended for you as well as for me and is as follows: 'Dear sir, to wish you and our lads of the Eighth army a very happy Christmas. Good health.

Good lutk. And, by the grace of God, victory in 1943. Keep 'em on the run, Monty. Best wishes from a Yorkshire lass with a lad in the "I would like to tell her from us all that we will do our best to 'keep 'em on the Christiansen Gets Pardon From Heil MADISON, Wis. PX Harry Christlansc-U Milwaukee, who was convicted July 6, 1940, of the first degree murder of his sweetheart, Mildred Beil, was pardoned by Governor Heil today.

Christiansen fired six bullets Into the girl's body Feb. 5, 1940, while she sat with a girl friend in a Milwaukee drugstore booth and then reloaded his revolver and shot himself in the temple. The wound blinded him permanently. He was committed to Waupun state prison Aug. 20, 1940.

but five months later was transferred to the state school for the blind at Janesville where he now is being trained in blind arts. Christiansen, who was 22 years old at the time of the shooting, was sentenced by Municipal Judge Max W. Nohl. The youth's mother, Florence applied for executive clemency for her son Feb. 2, 1942, pleading that "blindness itself is a lifetime imprisonment," and that from a social standpoint he could bt-st Ije rehabilitated among those who are close to him." The application was opposed by Judge Nohl and District Attorney Herbert Steffes of i I 1.