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FITCHBURG SENTINEL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1943 fitcfjbttfa Published Dally, Except Sunday, by THK SENTINEL PRINTING COMPANY, 808 MM" Street, Fitchburg, Mass. TERMS' One year $8-00; six months, S4.25; three months, $225: payable In advance. Entered as second-class matter at the Postofflce, Fitchburg, Mass. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1943 Member of the Associated Prcu The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republlcatlon ol all news dispatches credited to It oz not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local news published herein All rights of rcpubllcatlon of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Sentinel assumes no financial responsibility for typographical errors In advertisements but In such an event furnish a letter stating the facia to be posted in the store.

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29, 7h, 29m, Morn E. USES OF BASIC ENGLISH When Winston Churchill spoke at Harvard university so flatteringly of Basic English, he was. dealing with a subject upon which Fitchburg, Dose Margaret Americanization director, has done i considerable pioneer work. We choose the following paragraph from the letter: "The city that does not help build up the its citizens, young and old, is a doomed city. It may have its well paved streets--its good police department--its schools--its clean healthy water--its well- lighted streets--but when it does not give friendship, companionship, re- Ir.xtftion and recreation--when it does not take as one of its major responsibilities the building up of the spirit and soul of its people, what is known as morale, that city i sadly lacking in fulfilling its destiny." Translated into Basic this excellent statement of the place of a recreation program in Fitchburg would be as follows: "The great town which does not do special things to make the persons living in the town, old and young, have more belief in themselves, is marked out for a sad end.

Its streets may be smooth and hard, the government way keep public order, may have good schools, clean healthy water; the streets may be well lighted--but when the great does, not persons in that town knowledge" that others' are" their friends and that they may have pleasure with such friends--when the town does not give them a chance to have amusement and rest from work--when it does not give them a chance to make better use of their free time--when the town is not responsible to a full degree for maicing better that part of man's beme looked on as different from and separate from the body, and that part of man's being looked on as not material and living after death--when the town does not make the sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, have more belief in themselves-then the town is not doing what is marked out for it by a higher pur- literate per- a "breaking down" of the" semantic words helps one to plumb Praising the possibilities of Basic as an international language in which ideas might be interchanged, Mr. Churchill spoke of the work of an Englishman, now at Harvard, Dr. Ivor Richards. Miss Kielty, who has used Basic in Americanization classes here, has with Dr. Richards for some time.

She 'did the class room experimentation for him in preparing his latest textbook, "Words on Paper," for teaching English to men and vtamen who do not read or write in any language. She carried on the experiments in this city and thereby helped to criticize and offer suggestions on the textbook as it took shape. The book has been very successful in teaching illiterates and also in special classes for retarded pupils. Each year Miss Kielty teaches teachers how to teach Basic at the summer session of the State Teachers College in. Hyannis.

In this work she assists Miss Mary L. Guyton, state supervisor of adult civic education in the Massachusetts department of education, who was the first Basic in this state, and one ol Erst to'' iiftfo 1 the United States. Next Monday Miss Kielty will give a demonstration of teaching Basic the full meaning of a statement. We foresee a growing interest in Basic not only as a possible international You Have to Be Careful With This Joy Water DON'T LET THAT STUFF PUT you TO SLEEP, STILL HAVE A LOT OF WORK. To Italy before a group of South American educators at Boston.

Dr. Richards is to show the educators a. Walt XJisney 'film on Basic for use by teachers with, their pupils. Prof. Louis Zahner of the Groton School for Boys has also been doing some interesting pioneer work with Basic, experimenting with it as a tool for analyzing the meaning of statements in English by translation into Basic, In Basic's own language, this is to "help in seeing what is said." In other words, it is using Basic as an instrument of thought.

At the college level Prof. Winthrop Tilley of the University of Connecticut has had excellent results in his experiments of teaching English to college freshmen fay translating the old-style grammar into Basic. All these present and projectec uses of Basic combine to make it a subject of increasing importance. A language with only 800 words (tha is, ordinary English simplified), it is available, as Mr. Churchill said, a means of promoting better international understanding.

Not only would it provide a common language for all nations, but even more important, perhaps, it would serve to deflate some of the pompous and meaningless nonsense which Global New Dealers and diplomats galore hand out in semantic words. For when ideas are expressed in Basic English, they have to have foundation in reality, or they are exposed as nonentities. It may be that this value of Basic will become more and more appreciated in secondary schools and colleges. When one begins to explore the meaning of' words, he comes to a greater admiration for good ideas and a greater detestation of bad ideas. Let us test this statement by trying a little translation into Basic from a recent public letter of great interest to Fitchburg.

Currently before the people of Fitchburg is the proposal to enlarge Hz recreation program. It is one of the most important moves projected in many years for this city, and is so recognized by scores of industrial, business, professional, religious, educational and" civic leaders. The proposal is concretely before the city council in the form of a petition to create a new city of recreation. When the petition was filed, Mrs. Norman Harrower sent ah accompanying open explaining the need for the new department and for an expanded recreation program.

Her statement was an excellent summary of the case for recreation as one of the vital municipal services; it was expressed in beautiful English. Let us suppose, however, that we withed to explain this project to a group of new citizens who have only recently acquired a workable use of the English language through Miss Kielty's classes in We would then translate Mrs. Harrower's letter ujto Basic to simplify the ll viuu oi oiuerno. language but also as an fied eir opponents as of thought, as a "help in seeing what man division (Continued from Page DTK. then pushed it -was announced, encountering strong German forces in the immediate vicinity of Salerno, 20 miles south of Naples on the Gulf of Salerno.

They identi- Geris said." Here and There When Hitler's submarine weapon failed, as we believe now that it has, the Axis was doomed. If we had not licked the submarine then civilization, as we know it and want it to be, would have been obliterated. Because this global war is, above all things else, a war of movement. The allies almost lost World War I when German subs threatened to gain control of the seas. In that war the average round trip for a transport or materiel supply ship was only 6000 miles, across the Atlantic and back.

And we had vastly greater resources upon which to rely on the continent. which required no shipping. Now, with millions of men to be sent all over the world, and with this country the major source of Allied much longer--up to 15,000 miles. Obviously this takes each ship at least twice as long, and doubles the number of craft required to transport the same number of men and tons of materiel In World War 1 only 367,000 American- fighters were transported overseas during the first year; in this war, 900,000 have been shipped and many were sent two or three as far. In World War I we were proud of getting 1,725,000 tons of supplies across the Atlantic in a year.

This tune we moved 10,500,000 tons in a like period, much of it to the far reaches of the Pacific or, if to Europe, by the long routes. In World War I almost all of our soldiers went 10 France, direct or by way of England, and thereafter were not moved by water until brought home after the armistice. In this war, for the Sicilian invasion alone--a relatively small-scale forecast of what is not far ahead--3266 ships were needed to deliver men and armament and munitions and supplies. Meanwhile, we have had to bring in, from overseas millions of tons of raw materials to feed the almost unbelievably vast maw of our arsenal of democracy. The shipping needs will grow from now until Europe is freed.

They will not diminish materially until Japan is whipped. We'might just as well recognize that, and adapt our civilian" livea to it. A summary given recently by Paul W. Litchfield, president of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, demonstrated-how American industry has -met the challenge to supply synthetic rubber in place of the natural gum the Japs have cut off. By Oct.

1, Litchfield says, we will be producing as much of the synthetic as we were using, before the war, of natural We may not get tires for pleasure driving for a long time, but it will not be primarily for lack of rubber. Once more private industry has, proved its superiority to governmental processes. We approached close to disaster while the bureaucrats quarreled among themselves about what to do. This impasse was broken only when Bernard Baruch, a business man, bortowed by government, planned and William Jeffers, a business man on loan, executed. Once industry had been given the there- was--no more stalling.

The job was done. A salmon weighing 16 pounds was caught in Oregon. Big enough for two cats or 300 boarders. Laughing at lost time won't help you double up on your work.1 The repulse of the sharp blows of the Nazis--aimed with characteristic dash to throw the' Allied invaders off balance at a critical stage in operations--indicated that Gen. Clark's warriors had weathered the first crisis of the bold campaign.

Ventotene island, 25 miles outside the Bay of Naples and only 70 miles south of Rome, a dominating feature in front of the Gulf of Gaeta, also had been seized. The Italian garrison surrendered, a headquarters com- munique said. Under the guns of an Allied fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Henry K. Hewett of the U. S.

navy, the Allies poured a great additional force into the beachheads with the objective of lopping off all southern Italy. And, notwithstanding the armistice tor Italy, the tremendous Alliec air force bombed objectives heavil; up and down the peninsula, smashing at roads leading to the Naples beaches, hulling tons of explosive: upon rail bridges at Capua, north Naples, and Canccllo to the east, am between Italians and Germans in Haute Sovoie, France, and Albania, with the Italians still holding Tarana, the Albanian capital (The-German ever, declared that Nazi measures against the "treachery of the Bado- glirt government have produced successful results practically everywhere in the Balkans, in 'upper Italy and the south of France" and that the bulk of Italian forces had spr- rendered their arms to the forces of Adolf Hitler.) The United Nations radio, disclosing the seizure of Genoa by the Germans, declared the Germans were massing their mam forces in northern Italy to prepare a major battle line and urged Italian workers to engage in large-scale efforts to sabotage the enemy's effort. "Italians! The time'is short," the broadcast said. ''The next seven days will be decisive. "It is jour task, the task of every railway worker, road worker, telegraph and telephone worker and of every Italian of every class to be ready to give his all for his coun- prevent the Germans from moving up their forces.

An Allied broadcast from Algiers howevpr, disclosed that in the north the Geimans were- making frantic efforts to prop up their position anc announced that the' enemy" already had taken -over control of Genoa the greatest Italian port, from the hands of the Italians. While Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio appeared to be following to the letter his agreement to surrender unconditionally all the armed forces of Italy, fears were felt in North Africa that the Germans might attempt to seize the capital city oJ Rome and restore a Fascist puppet regime, (Swedish correspondents quotec authoritative German quarters in Berlin as declaring that Nazi troops had seized strategically important points in Rome. (Stefani, Italian news agency, said in a broadcast recorded in London that the outskirts of Rome were shelled at midday, without stating the source of the fire. Violent artillery fire was heard south of the city, (An air raid alarm was sounded a few minutes later, Stefani said. Madrid dispatches said the firing led to reports in Rome that the Allies were making another invasion landing, perhaps at Porto D'Anzio, 35 miles south of Rome.

The Swiss radio reported that Badoglio had left Rome and left his second in command, Gen. Pjelro Caviglia, to take over. The reason for his departure was not stated. November 1944 will five Thursdays. There's a chance for another Thanksgiving.

i Father better start brushing up on his The soon will have homework again. Change will help you to a better view of life--if you invest ft in war xrnda. 4 The arrival of hunting seaion (Action flared in all parts of the Mediterranean theater as a result of the scrambling of the Axis by Italy's surrender, (Berlin announced that German bombers sank an Italian battleship and cruiser and damaged another battleship, cruiser and destroyer in attacks between Sardinia and Corsica, presumably while the Italian naval units were fleeing their naval base at La Sp'ezia for Allied havens. The Germans, however, declared the Italian warships actually were attacking German convoys. Whether the Germans were, "attempting to land a holding expedition on Corsica ''or Sardinia or were attempting to' withdraw units from those islands was not stated.

(A Hungarian news agency said the Germans had- announced the occupation of Albania, formerly garrisoned by Italian troops, and all the east coast of the Adriatic, and a major battle for the mountain country once governed by King Zog ap- peaj-ed to be imminent. Dispatches from the Swiss frontier reported that a huge British-American convoy escorted by powerful" warship formations was moving through the Ionian sea, apparently toward the Adriatic. (The Algiers radio said bitter street fighting was taking place between and Germans at several key points along the railway linking Milan and Genoa, and Madrid dispatches said the whole region from Savoy in France down to the mouth of the Po was the scene of armed clashes.) (The British radio declared Venice, Turin and Florence "are now in This suggested that a major point in Allied strategy was to sever German lines of communication in northern Italy to protect Allied operations around Naples, just as the earlier bombing assaults crippled the enemy's facilities around Naples in preparation for the imasion of the Italian toe. successes in the Naples area where Germans were threatened with being- cut off from effective contact resorted to the "leap-frogging" tactics that have accounted for so many Among New Books By JOHN SELBY "UNDER A LUCKY STAR," by Roy Chapman Andrews (Viking; $3). ''Truly the romance and adventure of exploration are gone forever," Roy Chapman Andrews writes in his autobiography.

It is easy to see what he means when you read the papers. All the unknown places are garrisoned now. The subtitle should read, "A man in love with his job," for that, exactly, is what Mr. Andrews is. He bagan life in Beloit, and'even as a boy he spent most of his time in the open.

He had an allowance of ten cents a week, and to supplement this he became a taxidermist. He did badly i mathematics, lather well with English, and he fell in love with the beasts and birds and fish of the world. With the people too. So when he got a courteous but most non-committal letter from the head of the Amenean Museum of Natural History he bought a ticket to New York and came on with $30 capital. There was no job open except a janitor's job, and he took that.

But he got a very real break when a careless whale allowed himself to be stranded on the coast of Long Island, and Andrews plus one of his friends were given the job of salvaging the bones. It started Andrews off on years of whale hunts. He out more about whales, porpoises and such than any other living man, and while he was doing that, he fell love again, this time with the Far East. This was before the first World War, when the Japs loved us like brothers. One by-product of "Under a Lucky Star" is a moving picture of the change in Japan-if it was a change, really.

But Mr. Andrews, rapidly advancing in his profession, decided to leave the sea and explore the Allied advances along the shores ol I land. He was always, and terrify- both Sicily and Italy. captured as result of a successful the communique said. Yesterday headquarters told of a similar landing down the coast at Vibo Valenlia.

More than keeping pace with the west coast drive, the 8th army column on the east coast has smashed northward to Monasterace, eastern terminus of the trans-peninsular highway from Pizzo. This represents an east coast advance of about 20 miles since the previous day. Arrayed against the invading Allied troops, led by American Gen. Clark, were sizable German forces, equipped possibly with heavy armor and quickly to threatened. German resistance presumably is stiffening against all elements of the Allied Mediterranean forces now operating in Italy under the overall command of British Gen.

Sir Harold Alexander, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's deputy commander-in- -ehief. Montgomery's forces were declared officially to be in full control of all the Calabrian peninsula south of the highway linking Gioia on the west coast and Locri, on )he eastern shore 25 miles above the ingly, seasick and that had some- decision. So there began 'the VxpeiJiSohs which" (from a publicity viewpoint) had a climax with the discovery of the famous dinosaur eggs.

Actually this discovery is only an incident imbedded in a fabulous matrix of adventures, of discoveries, and of scientific achievement. Death was always just around the corner for Andrews--in the flying tail of a in a position to shift points most seriously McKENNEY ON BRIDGE By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY American Card Authority At the start of the national championships tournament this vear. the members of the American Contract Bridge League launched a Buy a Bomber campaign, thereby under- taking to sell $300,000 worth -f bonds. They put on a rally A 1 AK 75 4 A 4 3 1062 62 A 1 0 5 Dealer AJ89 9 8 4 7 4 3 before the start of the final session I of the masters pair event, and in about 10 minutes the $300,000 worth of bonds were sold I believe that the success of the drive must have accelerated the bidding on the hand shown today, as 1 have never betore seen so many pairs arrive at a seven contiact.

The bidding given is a compobite picture of what happened at the 38 tables of the masjers pair event Many pairs got to seven no trump, some When dot I A A 7 5 3 3 1 0 9 7 A 8 6 2 Duplicate--Neither vul. North 3 Pass 4 N. T. Pass 7 Pass Pass Pass South 1 A 3 4 6 7 T. Pass Opening--V Q.

shrd the ace and played seven diamonds Twer pairs i king ot trumps, West dropped the reached seven clubs after South had I i and South guessed wrong bid clubs on the second round. One on the lead and finessed into pair went down at this the blank ten-spot. THE WAR TODAY By DE WITT MACKENZIE Wide World War Analyst German army leaders predict that Balkans are to be invaded, and just war developments will reacn a cli- i how a the rebellious little Axis max within the next four weeks. If we wanted to be argumentative we should, of course, point out that the conflict already has turned the corner and that Herr Hitler is definitely on the way out. Maybe the Nazis would concede that in their hearts, for from Stockholm comes this amazing dispatch: Berlin has notified the Swedish stone industry to halt quarrying granite which had been ordered frr postwar construction of victory satellites are prepared to go in revolt againit the master gangster.

Things look black for hint in the Balkans, and the storm might break at any time, quite apart horn Allied mvas'on In this connection the da is rapidly approaching when we shall have an answer to the war-long question of whether Tuikey will send her big army to the aid of the Allies. The Turks have been leaning that way, and they are among the world's fiercest fighteis. monuments'aHd' -official -buildings Another- Jess should. see en whale, an infected palm miles from gle muc jj more dearly. That lergth help, a terrifying slide down a'cliff, should clarify a number of a set of bandits with rifles.

But Andrews was lucky. So also his readers. A British sea-borne torce Thar swept around enemy land demolitions along the western coastal high-with their forces on the Italian foot, i way an( landed early Wednesday British-Canadian troops of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's 8th army drove up and west coasts of Calabria against light German resistance.

The west coast column made a junction at Vibo Valentia with infantry and commandos who had landed near Pizzo, and the combined force drove forward past Pizzo. at Vibo Valentia on the Gulf of Eufemia, 24 miles above Gioia, quickly consolidated its position and moved toward Pizzo, four miles still farther up the coast. (Although official quarters have confirmed that Allied forces are in operation in Italy only in the Naples area and on the Calabrian peninsula, a welter of reports from neu- The east coast column captured tral and German sources have talked Monasterace Marina. of landings elsewhere along 500 The 8th army was now more than of Italy's western coastline, as 60 miles from the southern tip of the peninsula. Its front extended from Pizzo back along the coast to Vibo Valentia, thence south to Constantino and Cinquefronde, southeast to Siderno and finally along the east coast road to Monasterace Marina and beyond.

Few if any enemy troops were believed to have have been left in the great inland mountain area bulging inside this line since roads are virtually non-existent. Today's eadquarters announcement was the first disclosure that the American 5th army which had been commanded by Gen. Clark in Morocco, had been reorganized to include some British units. In spite of enemy opposition, the Naples landings were carried out according to plan, the communique declared. For the first time, it was disclosed that the naval forces immediately engaged in the landing operations are under the command of Vice Admiral Henry Hewitt of the U.

S. navy. Both American and British fleet units are Deluded. Before the thousands of assault Iroops swarmed ashore, minesweepers passed back and forth ilong the coast clearing out mines aid off the beaches. The work unloading ships and other naval craft has continued "without intermission" ever since the first landing forces hit the beach at 4 m.

yesterday, it was announced. "The first groups of the American army have successfully established their bridgeheads in the Naples area in spite of strong German resistance," the communique said. Although it had been announced that Lt-Gen; Mark Clark was in command of the assault, this was the irst official disclosure here that the th army, training In TTorfn Africa 'or months, had been chosen to undergo its baptism of fire in this new Allied move to carve a European land route to Berlin. Ventotene island, about two miles Song a mile wide, was taken in he early hours of yesterday mom- ng by a divisional force that landed here at about the same time as the irst shock troops were going ashore in the Naples area. The Italian garrison on the island surrendered, the war bulletin said.

Despite German resistance, both lanks of the British 8th army in the Calabrian peninsula on toe advanced along the eastern and western coastal roads. He'avy demolitions slowed up the advances to some extent well as on Sardina and Corsica. (Quoting the Rome radio, London morning newspapers said Italy's most powerful warships--three battleships, the Littorio, Vittorio Veneto, and Impero--had escaped from La Spezia with a flotilla of cruisers and destroyers'. The Daily Mail said there were indications British warships were providing protection as the Italians steamed for Allied ports.) Even-though Italy has been taken out of the war through unconditional surrender, a mighty Allied air armada is still smacking repeatedly at various Axis points hroughout the length of the peninsula. Balkans (Continued from Page in Europe may come in some of those nations--Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria--or in the two conquered countries of Yugoslavia and Greece where it is assumed that the spirit of rebellion against Nazi domination is strengthened by belief that the day for action is fast approaching.

For the Allies this poses a delicate problem of timing and control. The first sign c-f an attempt at solution came in a broadcast message by Gen, Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Allied commander in the middle east, to Yugoslavia and Greece. He told the two countries to "await our signal for a general uprising" and said hour of liberation had not yet arrived. The aim of Allied strategy for the Balkans now must be to to keep the forces of revolution and guerrilla warfare from spending their power before the armies of Britain and the United States are prepared to five them full Because of the problem of getting troops into the Balkans an offer of surrender at present or in the immediate future might be somewhat embarrassing to the Allied commanders in the Mediterranean theaters. For if troops could not be dispatched in force Germany might take advantage of any such situation to take over the surrendering country with her own armies.

In fact) a premature-explosion in the Balkans could have the effect of forcing the Germans into action and while any development which complicates their already difficult policing job as advantages for the United Nations the establishment of strong German forces in the Balkans make much more difficult the task of cracking that front in the Wture, Apples (Continued from Page One) orchardists are well supplied with pickers over the weekends, but through the week the gangs are smaller. The pay for picking varies from 12 to 15 cents a bushel, and the amount that a picker earns depends Upon his industry and agility. Mr. Marshall said that one of "pickers yesterday collected over $10 for his day's work. In the district generally there is a surplus of women and girls.

What the growers need now is men young enough to get around in the trees but old enough and strong enough ladders. It is the Mclntosh crop that is being harvested now. In most sections it will take about three weeks to get this crop in, and it is important to get it picked before the apples fall Throughout the Marshall orchards today-there-were comparatively, drops, but large sections of the farm had been dusted with the chemicals that seal up the stems and keep the apples hanging longer than they would otherwise. It is in the sorting and packing rooms at the Marshall Farm where women and girls are chiefly employed. Quick eyes and nimble fingers are essential in this work because as the long carrier belts carry the apples past the operator she must direct the various sizes into the right channels.

As fast as the apples are sorted, wrapped in paper and packed in the shopping boxes they are stored away in the cold storage vaults on the farm. These have a capacity for more than half the crop and the remainder will be stored in other vaults in Leominster and Ayer until the market is ready for them. Mr. Marshall made it clear that the help of the soldiers does not mean that there is not a demand for civilian pickers. "We will need all the pickers we can get, and they may apply directly to the farm or at the Chamber of Commerce," he said.

Russia (Continued from Page One) The immediate Soviet objective in the center was plainly labelled Priluki, 50 miles southwest of Romny and 81 miles east of Kiev. A breakthrough in this sector would create a direct threat to Kiev, most important Ukraine city, and shatter the Germans defenses to the southeast around Poltava and on the eastern bulge of the Dnieper. Romny, itself, was threatened from three sides after yesterday's capture of Smeloe, 15 miles to the north, Nedrigaylov, 18 miles to the east, and Sinevka, 30 miles to tha southeast. Yesterday's capture of Bakhmach, 16 miles southwest of Konotop on the road to Kiev, virtually split the German southern and central defense sectors. give us the denouement of the unbelievable Russian offensive which continues to sweep the Germans back with a speed that threatens to produce a rout if the autumn rains don't arnve to save the invaders.

Today as the Nazis pulled back towards the protection of the great Dnieper river defenses, the Bed armies were within 80 miles of that line on the road to Kiev and only points that will determine the speed 60 miles awsy from the big bend An enormous contract for the stone was made at the start of the blitzkrieg, which long ago had the blitz knocked out of it. Anyway, it would be easy to agree with the Hitlerite captains that another month or so may produce a situation which will enable us to see the end of the European strug- with which the finish will come. For instance: 1 We must know how lone it's going io take to break German resistance in Italy. The Nazis are showing grim signs of fight, and if they stick to their guns they can cause Allies a lot of trouble and delay. neai the southern end of the river.

One of the most important points upon which we want lurther light is how the German public is taking the surrender of Italy, coming as it does on top of the avful bombing they are enduring and the frightful sacrifice of blood which Hitler is pouiing out However, indications are that we're on the altar of his evil ambitions. We not sending a boy to do a man's know already that gloom stalks the work, but will continue io land Fatherland. troops until we can annihilate the enemy. There's no present cause for anxiety. Another month or six weeks probably will tell us what further invasions we are to get this year.

We should know in that time whether the present invasion-type of bombing which the Anglo-American air fleets are doing along the French and Belgian coasts, and the full-dress invasion I rehearsal just operations against western or are merely part of the war of nerves and an attempt to draw German forces from the Russian front. We should know, too, whether On this issue it's interesting to note that the Italian people had sickened of Mussolini and Fascism and war long before the historic surrender more important is likely to be the sinking fact that Italians have trusted the Allies--indeed welcomed them bolh in Sicily and on the mainland--and that this trust is meeting its reward in kindly treatment. That' 1 going to register heavily German public and states. The demonstration that the Allies have no Hunmler, the hangman, will win a lot of votes for our side. (A German radio report," recorded in London by the Associated Press, told of still another threat to the hard-pressed Nazi forces in the south.

The broadcast said that Soviet troops had made landings along the Sea of Azov coast south of Stalino near Mariupol. Berlin asserted, however, that the beachhead had been "sealed off" and that the Russians were "facing annihilation." Moscow did not confirm this report). The Red army columns south of Stalino have already advanced moie than 80 miles in the past three days, and dispatches from the front indicated a decided weakening of German resistance in this sector. Yesterday they drove through Petrovka, 30 miles southwest of Stalino and 44 miles northwest of Mariupol, a Soviet communique reported, and garnered an additional 180 populated places terday's along the way in advances of froni- three to 10 miles. Bakhmach was taken in a ing operation, which involved crossing the Serm river and storming Borzna, 18 miles to the northwest.

Possession of Bakhmach placed the Russians 113 miles northeast of Kiev on the Kursk-Kiev railway and latest dispatches indicated ihey were rapidly pushing on in the direction of that important defanse bastion. Advance guards were reported within 80 miles of Kiev on both sides of the railway. Premier Joseph Stalin's order of the day to Gen, Constanlui Rokos- sovsky, announjing the capture of Bakhmach, conferred the name of Konotop on three divisions which stormed that Nazi base on Sept. 6, and the name of Bakhmach on three others which paved the way to yes- Veteran Baseball Manager MOSCOW, Sept. 10 W)--Triumphant Red army troops, having virtually split the German southern and central defense sectors by the capture of Bakhmach, 18 miles southwest of Konotop on the road to Kiev, Dludgeoned their way to within 80 of the Nazi Dnieper river defense line today.

Far to the south, streaking across the Sea of Azov hinterland from the liberated Donets basin, other- Soviet forces were even closer to the German last'ditch defense system, front dispatches said. Here they were reported less than 60 miles from Dnieperopetrovsk, site of Russia's greatest power project, and within 35 miles of the junction of the Sta- lino- Dnieperopetrovsk and Khar- kov-Zaporozhe railroads. Capture of this vital rail center would further cut the German north-south communications and would jeopardize the whole German position in the Crimea, toward which other Russian spearheads are driving along the Sea of Azov. HORIZONTAL 1 Pictured baseball team manager, 9 Flying mamma! 12 Isle of Man (abbr.) 13 Wood sorrel 14 Negative word 15 Ozone 16 Jewel 18 Discover 20 Gaelic 21 Expression of sorrow 23 East Indies i (abbr.) 24 Metal peg 26 Music note 27 Amount of rent 29 Fowl 30 Furniture for sleep 31 Mountain, lake 32 Rodent 33 Possesses 34 Obtained 35 That one 38 Belongs to him 37 Energy 38 Employ 39 Roman date 40 Automobile 41 Dined 42 Exist ,43 Near 44 Unit 45 "Coyote State" abbr.) 46 Wealthy 48 Work j50 Literary collection SI Article WEIectrktl Answer io Previous Puzzle FIL SITE QlN i i DOViE'-UlLlEi 0 CIR.ois'S US Iffwiie FLYING HKEIS A Sl'flR 1931418 i COHalf a i 22 Razor strap 34 Fondle 25 Within 28 Insect 29 Detest 30 He is a ball 33' 3(5 He 37 Green rust engineer (abbr.) 54 Light brown 55 His in the American VERTICAL 1 Tobacco roll 2 Egg dish 3 Negative 4 Frozen water 5 Artist's frame Indian 6 Some 40 Gem weight 7 Company 41 Any (abbr.) 42 Farewell (Fr.) 8 Carat (abbr.) 44 Exclamation 9 Hinder 10 Passageways 17 He is of the Philadelphia Athletics 45 Therefore 47 Is able 43 Beverage 49 Sheltered sidl 51 Symbol for thallium 52 Him fiT fax Zfr Si IS 30.