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LUMBERTON, N. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1942. PAGE SIX PAGE SIX Analysis Of Far News By KIRKE L. SIMPSON (Wide World War Analyst) Mounting evidence that the developing Anglo-American squeeze in Africa has already play tered both prongs of Hitler's most unbitious "pincer" attack of the war comes from many sources even before full fruits of Allied strategy can be assessed. Certainly the southern jaw of the Axis vise is wrecked.

Nothing remains of Rommel's African Corps in Egypt except its casualties in men and machines. The Suez Canal and the eastern Mediterranean are again secure. In Russia, the northern jaw of that device designed to throttle the Soviets into submission and to isolate and ummobilize Turkey is no less on stalled. German retreat before an ing Russian winter, perhaps soon: "16 be fanged with a massive iet offensive, seems all but inevitable. Moscow and Ankara reports indicate it is already in the making.

Significant abatement of the weight and fury of Nazi air attack on Stalingrad and in the Caucasus is noted by the Russians. German air power is winging west and south to meet the rising Allied threat across the Mediterranean is the logical explanation. It is the first definite symptom of relaxation of enemy pressure on Russia due to the Allied ofiensive in Africa. Turkish observation posts cap that with otherwise unconfirmed but plausible reports that Nazi troops from Russia also are being shuitled westward into: the BalHans to man a new. potential Axis defense front in the south that reaches from the Pyrenees to the Dardanelles; from Spain to Turkey.

Nor can Hitler be certain at what moment Turkey might forsake her neutrality to join the tightening Allied Mediterranean cordon. The hour of enemy "demoralization" to invite new. allied attacks which Prime Minister Churchill foresaw is not yet arrived. The first crux of the American steeled offensive in the Mediterranean theater is brewing in Tunisia with domination of the central Mediterranean narrows as its prime objective. First air blows cf that clash have been exchanged in the little French protectorate.

Just how near. the American or Anglo.American armored columns liaslening eastward mav be to cOIn- TODAY SATURDAY BLAZING GUNS ME- -MAN VICTORY PICTURES CORN presents SPING- SIX GUNTRAIL: ALSO DICK TRACY VS CRIME WALT DISNEY'S "SLEEP WALKER" LEON ERROL in MAN I CURED PASTIME 17c plete. Allied Investment of African outposts Li not cleat. The odds seem heavily in Allied -favor. Turkish accounts of heavy Nazi 'troop mortinents from Russia.

to the Balkans are of special interest, it true, they Indicate Hitter's ape prehension over the security of the Greek Balkan sector of his southen front as well as over its French or Italian sectors. His concern is. justified, His most vital war asset, the oil to keep his planes. tanks and war industries going, is in the Balkans. Could Allied major strategists freely pick the place at which they could strike the most deadly blow at the Axis, without question the Rumanian oil flow would take first i place in their calculations, Manpower Report Opposes National Service Law Now Washington- UP) President Roosevelt has made public a report of the Wart Manpower Commission's management-labor policy committee opposing immediate enaction of compulsory service legislation and utiging tightening of vernmental power machinery.

The unanimous: report calling upon "government, industry, agriculture and labor for strong leadership, aggressive action' and maximum made'. these specific recommendations: 1-That authoriyt and responsibility for formulating an over-all manpower program integrated with military and production planning be, centralized in chiefs of staff of the Army and: Navy, the lend- administrator and the chairman off he War Production board and the W. M. C. Would a Stop Enlistment: 2-That voluntary enlistments in the arined forces be stopped and that the Selective Service system be placed under the W.M.C, and authorized to: make special draft calls by.

direction of the Army and Navy for meri with special skills. 3--That military and civilian training conducted in non-Thilitary educational "institutions be coordinated by M.C. Chairman Paul C. McNutt. 4-That the W.M.C.'s employ-! ment service be made "the primary clearance agency for the recruitment and: employment of workers" and "a strong administrative an.

doperating organization" for the W.M.C., with Congress providing the necessary, additional funds and removing "imI pediments." The committee urged that industry, agriculture' and labor. cooperate W.M.C. to obtain "uniform acceptance and compliance with its: policies and directives." MAXWELL ACQUITTED IN KNIFE SLAYING Wilmington, Nov." -A 'Superior Court jury acquitted Otto Platt Maxwell, 40, of. Gastonia, yesterday on a murder charge filed as, the result of the knife death last September 25 of Johnnie A. Moore of Erwin, a shipyard worker.

Testifying for himself, Maxwell said he stabbed Moore in self-defense. in an altercation which he said; when he found Moore and Mrs. Maxwell, from whom he was estranged, in a automobile here. Mrs. Maxdid not testify, Louisiana Boy Tops Scrap Collection Washington JAP) -An 11-yearcid Louisiana boy spent his vacation: urging local farmers to get out their scrap.

He conducted all the transactions himself, paid the mers, did an average daily, ousiness cf $27 and collected tons of scrap which she: sold for a profit of $2,736, This achievement Lops the records individual scrap collections, according to the Office of. War, Information. SUCCESS an SUCCESS IS AN EVERYDAY ACHIEVE. MENT for the man who tills your prescriplions. His success is measured by the value A of his service to you.

Precision: Knowiedge Responsibility and -Experience are the watchwords of his Where failure is a matter of lifc or death, don't lake chances on inferior prescription: filling. Call Hedgpeth Phermacy for. successful service every day in the year. PHARMACY TWO REGISTERED DRUGGISTS PHONES 424-425: 4T.H STREET IF Allies Capture. The Mediterranean TENUOUS VICHY-ALLIED relations American invasion Africa; this may make a direct of southern France to.

sad practical. HUNGARY RUM 2 SPAIN: SARDINIA TUNISE TURKEY! BLANCA MEINF CASA: TUNISIA ALGERIA EGYPT LIBYA ANGLO FRENCH EGYPTIAN: WEST AFRICA AFRICA SUDAN EQUATORIAL ITALY MIGHT out WITH CHETNIK ARMY still fightthe land and air ting in Yugoslavia, Balkan invasion may attack against Ger- be teasible through Greece or, with many ac encircling Italy already knocked out of the war, through Yugoslavia. Diplomatic barriers melt ly and the Vichy-American relations which precluded a direct land attack, through France (No. 2 above) dissolved a tew hours after the American operation, against North Africa. Economic necessity and possible shitting of.

political alliances may swing Spain all the way into: the Axis or. all. the away from Either, shift would pave the way. for the No. 1 invasion possibility, a drive north from Gibraltar.

or other Spanish seaports through. France at the Nazis. Nothing but military considerations could- devastating bombing of Italy followed by you not to comply with this simple, request. is to fail to meet war. need that is vital and very (To be continued) Advertising Is 'Essential' Says WPB Man Nelson New.

York, Nov. Is. an "essential part of our communications system," a of system which the government has "no remotest desire" to destroy, Chairman Donald -M. Nelson of the War Production Board asserted last night. Nelson said the future does not hold a bright picture for.

the indi-. vidual businessman, but. "the pica net wholly black either At a dinner mecting St the sociation of National Advertises he said: 44T see 110 reason why any man should assume, now, that no scope is going to be left for the free exercise of his talents; I Sue 00 reason to assume that the field is going to tighten up 50 much that advertising will not still have an amportant job to do in the distri-: bution of -goods. "For advertising, I must repeat; -an essential part of our communications system. We dare not destroy or cripple that communications system in wartime, and we have no remotest desire to do so." War, Just "Beginning" The WPB chief prefaced his address with a warning against a too-optimistic view of war devel-' opments.

"What is happening in Africa is only a beginning, not an end," he cautioned. "The German military organization is immensely -powerful; it has lost heavily. in Russia, but it will still take a lot of licking. "And 011 the other side of the world, we have only made the barest' beginning of the reconquest of the immense and wealthy territories seized by Japan." The American economy is vital enough and fiexible enough to crush: the enemy without itself. breaking down in the process, Nel-: son.

said. "It has a greater aduptability than our enemies dreumed; great-; er, I than we ourselves suspected." The peacetime distributive and marketing machinery has found vital role in the war economy, the WPE chairmani said, albeit a role from its peacetime one. This machinery can help cushion The conversion to 'an all-out war effort, he added, and through it "our busic structure can be preserved and kept sound for Owners Warned By OPA To File Statements Soon are available at rationing, board: circumference of the Attention Farmers. We Will Buy All Your Soy Beans We Will Pay Market Prices According To Government Grades BRING YOUR BEANS TO Carolina Warehouse LUMBERTON, N. C.

WE WILL PAY CASH FORCORN (shelled or in shucks) OATS, BARLEY AND OTHER FARM PRODUCTS. OR YOU CAN TRADE IT OUT AT OUR COMPLETE STORE Lumberton Trading Co; Inc. CHESTNUT STREET LUMBERTON, N. C. P.S.- Have Just Received A Carload of Young, Well-Broke Missouri MulesSee Them At Our Stables In The Fuller Stables.

Building. Atlanta. Regional OPA officials announced that forms for registering passenger car tires are now available and warned that. owners- possessing inore than five tires for car after November 22 wilt be subject to fine and imprisonment. Frank H.

Merritt, regional mileage rationing chief, said owners in Atlantic seaboard states in whicli gasoline is already rationed. must file. the form with their local rationing board by that date. In other states, the deadline for owners to dispose of any tires they have in excess of five is still November: 22, although the effective date of gasoline rationing has been postponed to December 1, Merritt added: He pointed. out, however, that if motorists in the presently unrationed states want to secure their basic ration as early as possible they must dispose of excess tires by the time they register for gasoline at school houses November 18, 19; or: 20.

Otherwise, he explained, they will be unable to secure rations until local boards reopen for registration December 3. No rations will be issued to motorists until they presented statements swearing they have no more than tires. Should. File Chile the statements presented at: the time for gasoline in these states, Merritt said motorists: in seaboard states should file their statements as early as possible, mailing or taking them to their local board. In all states, he: added, forms are available at rationing, board: atticial tire Lions, and menti require the serial numbers of of the make of the numbers cannot Merritt pointed out that of the Railway: Expri Agency have been designated as reception center.

for all excess fires those which are obviously unuseable. These may be sola to Junk dealers. The. agency, which will call for. tires of arcas, will give owners receipts, government checks will be mailed later, based on the size.

and condition of the tires turned in." New Publication On Changes On Tax Rates On Farm Real Estate College Station, Raleigh.thorough going-over of changes in tax rates on North Carolina farm real estate is contained in: new publication. just. issued by. Station the Agricultural Experiment of N. C.

State College. Dr. L. D. Baver, director, said the purpose of the tax study was to reveal the more important social and economic implications involved in the changes and to suggest methods by: which tax rates may be.

adjusted to. the income of the taxpayer. The publication has been issued das Technical Bulletin No: 72, and has been titled, "Recent Changes in Tax Rates on Farm Real tate." Author of the bulletin. is Dr. G.

W. Forster, head of the Department of Agricultural Enomics at State College: Copies may be obtained from the Agricultural Editor, State College, Raleigh. The Netherlands East Indies stretch across one-eighth of the The New York Association for the Blind started its scrap drive by placing-two large barrels in its hobby, to which blind contributors were directed by in in Braille Five Chrysler employees: have since 1937, cutting transportation expenses 80 cent of their 50-mite- dally -trip to work. SATURDAY4 BIG SHOWS A SAGA OF SINGING: SIX GUNS! HOLT in "Bandit Ranger" And Mad-Man Murderer! "THE FALCON TAKES OVER" "OVERLAND MAIL" COLOR CARTOON CAROLINA sweep Wide The American Af rica timed with the British defeat of Marshal Rommel: gives the first definite direction Anted lorig-range strategy in Europe: The joint designed to give the Allies cantrol.of all of North Atria the Mediterranean Sea, the halter a military; ed the Allies for If this "first historic step to the liberation and restoration of France'1 succeeds and the Allies win their preliminary objective, four good: alternative Invasion routes to Europe and the heart. of the Axis will become available: Why Uncle Sam Tells You To Save Waste Fats War Production.

Board Conservation DivisionNEARLY ALL OUR FATS: NOW FROM MUST HOME COME: SOURCES (Continued from yesterday In peace times; glycerine-manu-' facturers have. drawn not. only: American fats and. oils but i upon imports from many foreign lards for supplies of necessary fats. The chief outside sources were the Philippine the Dutch East bor, and the war in the Pacifi Aput an end to that for the being.

America now." must itself supply almost all her own fats. Not only that must help supply the United Nations with both fats and. glycerine. It must supply the glycerine that Great Britain can no longer produce in adequate quantity. It must provide Allies, as well as our own country, with sufficient food fats to keep them and ourselves properly nourished.

It. fats needed for food purposes converted into glycerine, one important is served at the expense of another. It, sufficient waste fats can, be recovered that cannot be. used for anything but glycerine, then we. have 'solved a real problem.

without decreasing the food supply. That is. another why the Waste Fat Salvage campaign is so vitally iniportant. It is the housewives of America: who now can help to supply the fats that needed to make up: what, America no longer can import. The gov.

ernment has estimated that Americans throw two: billion pounds of. fat down the drains and. finto the garbage. cans. every year, every pound of fat yields onetenth of a pound of glycerine, this' means that we have been throw-.

ing away" two hundred pounds. of potential glycerine! Is itany wonder that Uncle Sam now. looks to the women: of America to stop this waste, and by so do-: ing to provide the glycerine the. war must have and at the same time. not draw, upon fats which are needed for All that the War Production Board asks is to stop" waste.

It is 'not asking for fats that can be reused in home cooking; is. asking merely for fats that have hitherto been thrown away. No sacrifice on your part is involved yet shock troop landings and quick conversion of. that country from an Axis danger to. Africa into an Allied base against Germany and, if necessary, France.

Fourth ace in the Allied hand is the war road into Central: Europe, making use of the Chetnik army and the unrest in Greece. With these four cards the A1- lied high commands would be in a position to out-bluff and out-' guess the Axis. his. time, as they did in Africa and as Hitler did earlier in the war, the Allies could pick the time and the place 'and the invasion methods that best suited them. the years of peace and.

prosperity which lie ahead." DAD'S DAY CELEBRATION AT DAVIDSON: WEEKEND OF 21ST Dad's: Day celebration for the week-end of Nov. 21st is being planned by Davidson college for the fathers of the' institution's 700 students. An elaborate program, from Friday night through Sunday, is being arranged for the visiting fathers, many of whom attended Davidson themselves. Highlights of the program will be a banquet Saturday night. She's The Man He'll Leave Behind Syracuse, N.

Y. (AP) -Mrs. Beulah Merrill, mother of six children, thinks the army may call her' khusband chances. and isn't taking any hours a clay she is workin his garage, learning to, re pair fires and grease A Denver, bank vault, weighing one ton, went to the city's scrap drive. UNLUCKY Friday 13th! LATE SHOW 10:45 NITE OF HORROR If You Can Sit Thru This Show You'll Get A FREE PASS! NIGHT MONSTER Not For People With Weak Hearts! CAROLINA.