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Two THE PALM BEACH POST Monday Morning, November 23, 1942 (Continued from Page One) NAZI TANK FORCE SAVAGELY MAULED bombers blasted at Bizerte from the east. In desperation, it seemed, the Germans were reported endeavoring to infiltrate through Allied wedges, Sousse driven lines through which to hereto- Gabes fore been anchored on the Mediterranean only by pro-Allied French. The Germans were said to be attempting to filter through in attacks both from the north and the south, probably to establish contact between their beleaguered Bizerte-Tunis forces and the remnants of Marshal Erwin Rommel in Libya. Unconfirmed broadcasts from Radio Morocco said German troops which had come from Tripolitania, where Marshal Rommel struggling to escape with his Africa Corps, had infiltrated west of Gabes, while reports from Allied headquarters in North Africa said other Germans had attacked toward the south from the BizerteTunis area. The radio report said the French had routed and severely handled some of these small armored parties.

Meanwhile, the Americans and British were said in field reports received at their North African headquarters to have attacked the THROUGH THE MAGIC DOORS MR. AND MRS. JAMES C. DUNN of Washington, D. have been at The Villas for a short vacation and are expected to return later in the season.

WE ARE HAPPY to announce that so many calls for Service Flags have been made, that it was necessary to order another large supply. As soon as these arrive, the First National will again give one to each family according to the number of sons or daughters in service. MR. AND MRS. H.

W. SOUTHWOOD are at 141 Australian Avenue, Palm Beach, coming from Long Island, New York for the season. MR. AND MRS. E.

O'MEARA are at 614-27th Street, West. Palm Beach, having come for the season from Waterford, Connecticut. BOWLERS will remember Colin R. Cox who was manager of the Carefree Bowlaway before joining the Army. He is now at Walla Walla, Washington with the 99th Bomb Group, 347th Squadron.

Drop him a line. BARGAIN National and every 25. War 50 War $100 War SALE at the First Bank all next week week thereafter: Bond for only $18.75 Bond for only $37.50 Bond for only $75.00 MOST PEOPLE associate turkey with Thanksgiving Day, but as a matter of fact more turkeys are served at Christmas than on the harvest holiday. The A Tea Company expects to purchase more than 6,000,000 pounds of turkey to supply this year's Thanksgiving trade, but it will purchase more than 8,000,000 pounds for Christmas tables. WHEN YOU BUY a War Bond at the First National Bank in Palm Beach, you receive 8 "Bomb Bank" free.

Have You Called The MYSTERY GIRL? IF NOT-WHY NOT? HER NOW -NEA Telephoto EVEN A GENERAL'S FEET HURT SOMETIME- Brig. Gen. Hanford MacNider, former assistant secof war and minister to Canada, here administers first aid to his "dogs" (left) and gets a neck retary trim from a soldier-barber somewhere in New Guinea, where he is serving with Allied forces. The Iowa-born general previously served on the Mexican Border and in France during the World War, was national commander of the American Legion in 1921-22. and German-Italian arc of fortifications about 30 miles outside the the naval base and capital in at least five different places.

The radio report declared that Allied forces had captured the railway line northwest of Gabes, French-held seaport some 200 miles south of Tunis, and others were establishing a line from Sousse on the Mediterranean to Kairouan, two towns about 80 miles south and southwest of Tunis. This was the first direct mation received of the Allied Southern drive, all eyes having been centered for the past week on the mounting fight for Tunis and Bizerte. Tight-lipped Allied headquarters spokesmen were silent on the reported tactical victory, but information from other sources tended to confirm the radio announcement. French sources believed that German detachments from Libya -possibly a vanguard of survivors of Marshal Rommel's routed Africa Corps--had attempted to reach their comrades behind the TunisBizerte fortifications before their line of retreat up the coast was cut off, and that this explained the German attempts at infiltration west of Gabes. The additional conclusion was that the German high command had despaired of holding Gen.

Bernard Montgomery's British Army at El Agheila in Eighth, and had ordered its Eastern desert force to try to reach ern Tunisia while there yet was time. If this were the case, the Axis defense of Bizerte and Tunis may then be regarded as strictly a holding operation in an attempt to save the remnants of the Africa Corps. In that connection, it had been reported recently that Marshal Rommel was in Tunis, presumably perfecting plans to succor his tered forces. While Allied spokesmen were giving little official information concerning their land operations, they were not the least reluctant to tell of the damage their air forces were doing. Maj.

Gen. James "Jimmy" Doolittle's airforces in North Africa entered the battle on a large scale as America's Flying Fortresses, escorted by twin-engined P-38 Lockheed Lightning pursuit craft, battered an Axis airfield in Tunisia. Taking off to grasp command of North African skyways, the American planes scored direct hits on hangars and started many fires around Tunis airdrome, an official spokesman reported. The Fortresses and fighters destroyed at least nine German planes, "probably destroying and damaging many in their daylight attack, a spokesman said. The P-38's were in action against German flyers for the first time.

At the other end of the huge Anglo- pincers, American four-motored bombers operating with Lieut. Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery's British Eighth Libya, blasted Tripoli's harbor works and defenses by day and by night in two waves of an all-American assault. Vice Admiral Emile Musilier, West Palm Beach's Per Capita Sales Top National Average 2 to 1 Using latest available U.

S. Census reports West Palm Beach's $650 per capita sales were higher than those for the county, for Florida, and for the entire nation. Per capita sales were $449 in Palm Beach County; $329 in the State of Florida; and $319 in the United States as a whole. West Palm Beach consumers took advantage of local facilities, doing most of their buying al home. Mr.

Merchant, get your share of this "spend at home" market. Make plans today for a consistent advertising campaign in The Post- Times where circulation is largest and buying power greatest. Will Seek Delaying Of Gas Ration Date WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. (P)- A Congressional bloc seeking postponement of the nationwide gasoline rationing Dec.

1 looked Sunday to the House Interstate Commerce Committee to develop evidence for an appeal to President Roosevelt. The committee will open a twoday review of the problem Monday, with representatives of the War, Navy and other departments as witnesses. Congressmen saw little chance of shoving through legislation to delay the rationing and it was understood that the strategy of the group centered around an appeal to the President, probably Wednesday, for a postponement of at least a month. CHINESE BOMBS HIT YANGTZE RIVER PORT CHUNGKING, Nov. 22.

(P)- Chinese airmen bombing planes loosed devastating Sunday against Shasi, Yangtze River port in Hupeh Province, and Shayang, on the Han River 35 miles to the northeast, the official Central News Agency reported Sunday night in a dispatch from a secret airdrome. Heavy concentrations of river barges and Japanese military establishments were reported set aflame at both these cities where violent fighting is in progress er the enemy initiated offensive operations. Chinese troops captured three towns north of the Kwo River in Anhwei and inflicted more than casualties the Japanese in a sharp battle, the high command reported Sunday. In two other active theaters, the war bulletin said, the Chinese I reoccupied Hutoukang, village in East Hohan Province on Nov. 17, after putting the enemy to rout and raided Japanese positions near Swatow, Kwangtung Province, Nov.

11, killing a number of the foe. AEF GETS ARMBANDS 'SPECIAL DELIVERY' LONDON, Nov. 22. (P)-Providing American invasion troops in North Africa with American flag armbands was such a last-minute rush job that speed boats were used to make final deliveries to transports already headed for the Mediterranean. Pictures of beach landings in North Africa showed United States troops wearing for the first time a miniature "Old Glory" in the form of a brassard the left arm.

By readily identifying the troops as American, the brassards were credited by Army headquarters with facilitating landings, possibly preventing many casualties by inviting non-resistance from the French. At one time it appeared manufacture of the brassards could not be completed in time, because of the damp weather. When hardly dry enough for handling, they were rushed by courier to ports where the transports lay with steam up waiting for sailing orders. Deaths And Funerals Mrs. Lydia Copenhaver Mrs.

Lydia Hollingsworth Copenhaver, 76, of 319 Edgewood died at a local hospital Sunday night after an illness of several months. Mrs. Copenhaver came here four years ago from Washington. She is survived by her husband, George M. Copenhaver; two daughters, Mrs.

R. O. Middleton, city, and Mrs. Frank Koenig, New York City; two sons, George Montclair, N. and William C.

Copenhaver, Decatur, one brother, Dr. J. W. Hollingsworth, and a sister, Mrs. C.

B. Gibbons, both Washington, and six grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 7:30 p. m. today in Ferguson Chapel.

Dr. Francis Morton Fox will officiate. The body will be sent tonight to Washington for burial. Seth E. Firth The body of Seth E.

Firth, 82, who died at his home, 222 Park Palm Beach, Saturday afternoon, will be sent this morning by the Ferguson Funeral Home to Troy, N. for funeral services and burial. Mrs. Matthew NeSmith Ira L. NeSmith, 206 Pendleton Palm Beach, was called to Norman Park, Sunday morning by the death of his mother, Mrs.

Matthew NeSmith. Mrs. Ira NeSmith's mother, Mrs. Thomas Mosher, died a month ago in Windsor, N. S.

BIRTH STATISTICS BROWNSVILLE, Nov. 22. -At 3 a. m. Sunday Dr.

Vidal Longoria delivered twins to Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Trujillo. At 6:30 a. m.

he delivered another set to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Friedman. At 8 a. m.

he delivered a pair to Mr. and Mrs. Eugenio Garcia. Tired, he went home to rest. In a few minutes he had another call, rushed out but found the baby had already arrived.

All seven were doing well. The United States depends mainly on foreign countries for spices. The world's most powerful lighthouse is located at Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. (Continued from Page One) STORY REVEALED OF CREW RESCUE the rescued man, undertook search for the other survivors.

That night, with the aid of flares, Eadie located Rickenbacker's raft some 40 miles from the island. Rain squalls swept the sea, 1 and Eadie was afraid he'd be unable to guide surface ships to the scene, so he landed on the water and attempted rescue with his plane. Col. Hans C. Adamson of Washington, D.

was seriously ill so he was put into the cockpit of the plane. The 52-year-old Rickenbacker and Private John F. Bartek were lashed to the wing, and Eadie, unable to get his light plane off the water with that load, started the long 40-mile taxiing back his base. "That chap who picked up Eddie and Colonel Adamson and then taxied back over the open sea, had what it said Whitaker later, in admiration for Eadie's attempt. But a boat finally came alongside Eadie's plane and took off Rickenbacker and Bartek.

Adamson was too ill to be moved, so Eadie continued his taxiing to the island base. It was early morning Friday, the 13th, when Rickenbacker and Bartek finally set foot on land, and when they landed Rickenbacker said to Bartek: "You'd better thank God for your testament, son. You can see now what faith can do for you." Meanwhile, Whitaker and his party had spent a cold, wet night on their but feasting on coconuts. who had been tified that missing fliers were nearby, sought the men in canoes, and found "That native in the first canoe sure looked like a Jap to said Whitaker, telling of his first glimpse of the natives. "I thought I'd get a blast of machinegun fire." Whitaker was the only man not absolutely in need of hospitalization, after he and his companions were rescued from their island by a Navy plane.

Eddie, I hear you've been sick," he said when he shook hands with Rickenbacker at the island hospital, The 41-year-old Whitaker came ashore unassisted and now is rarin' to go again if the doctors will let him. He was a carpenter's mate in the United States Navy in the last World War, but left the Navy in 1920 and joined the Army Air Corps about a year ago. "I think I'll get in the Marines for the next war," he said. Whitaker, annoyed at the report the Army had given him up for lost, said: "Why everybody knows that Eddie always comes back, and I figured that my wife thought the same thing about me." Rickenbacker, premier American ace in World War 1 through downing 21 German planes, and survivor of many a narrow escape, said his faith in eventual rescue never wavered. "I have my own religion," he said.

"I hold to the golden rule and I believe most firmly that if a man just follows what he knows and feels in his heart, then he cannot go wrong, and is possessed of religion enough to get by in any man's All the survivors who were hospitalized strength, are said recovering official and advices, gainbut it may a month before Colonel Adamson is able to travel. OFF THE AIR LONDON, Nov. 22. (P) The German radio station "Deutschland" went off the air Sunday night shortly after 10 p. m.

(5 p. EWT). (This sometimes indicates an air raid alarm.) Japanese Court Sits To Hear Alien Cases CHUNGKING, Nov. 22. (P)- Dispatches reaching Free China from Shanghai said Sunday the Japanese had established a special court to handle cases involving Americans and other Allied citizens there.

All the Allied Nationals long since have been forced to wear distinguishing arm bands and more recently were banned from any place of amusement. The seven largest publishing houses in Shanghai were reported seized by the Japanese, including the famed Commercial Press. TWO COOKS ARE HELD IN HOSPITAL DEATHS SALEM, Nov. 22. (AP) State police Sunday arrested two cooks at the Oregon State Hospital For the Insane, where 47 patients died last week of poisoning.

Under orders of District Attorney Miller Hayden, police held Mrs. Mary O'Hare, chief cook, in custody and placed A. B. McKillop, assistant cook, in jail. Both were arrested without warrants.

The district attorney said he was preparing a charge of involuntary manslaughter against McKillop, and a charge of obstructing public justice against Mrs. O'Hare. The arrests followed all-night questioning in which State Police Captain Walter Lansing said the cooks admitted they sent a hospital patient to a basement storeroom to get powdered milk with which to prepare scrambled eggs. The patient, identified as George A. Nosen, 27, Medford, who volunteered to enter the institution last August, went into the wrong storeroom, and brought back six pounds of roach powder, Lansing, poison said.

resembles powdered milk, and McKillop told Lansing he mixed it in the scrambled eggs without noticing the error. HUNGARY PREPARES FURTHER AXIS HELP BERLIN (From German Broadcasts), Nov. 22 (P)-Nicolas Kallay, Hungarian foreign minister, told the Hungarian parliament Saturday that the "government regarded it as its foremost task to defend the country and to prepare the nation for overcoming the dangers which are threatening all the countries of Europe at the present moment." the speech, which was given prominence in all Hungarian Sunday newspapers, Kallay said Hungary had decided to fight on the side of the Axis and was doing its share on the Eastern Front in accordance with "the splendid military traditions of the country." MOSCOW, Nov. 22. (P)-Tass dispatches from Geneva, Switzerland, said Sunday it is rumored that the Hungarian government has agreed to send almost a third of the Hungarian army as a new contingent to the Russian front.

In addition, the Germans are reported to have demanded the mobilization of several divisions to be sent to Greece to guard against Allied invasion of the Balkans. FORCED LANDING BERLIN (From German Broadcasts), Nov. 22. (P)-Dispatches Madrid reported Sunday that a four-engined American military plane had made a forced landing at Santa Christina de Haro, according to information from Barcelona. GENOA CRIPPLED AS SUPPLY PORT LONDON, Nov.

Genoa has been knocked out as an effective Axis supply port for months to come, experts concluded Sunday after a close study of pictures made by RAF photographers during the raid Nov. 15 and since then. The show many streets of roofless, burned-out buildings and wreckage in the great Ansaldo works, which made engines for warships and tanks and other war material. One picture shows more than 50 fires, many of which merge into one great conflagration covering whole districts of the city which has been raided six times since Oct. 22.

Only 12 RAF bombers have been lost in the raids on the important Italian port city. In the harbor two Italy's Transatlantic liners- -the ton Roma and the Augustus were damaged. The Roma, which was converted into an aircraft carrier, received two hits. The funnel of the Augustus was split in half and the decks were severely damupper, fire. Many warehouses were burned out and the headquarters of the dock company was gutted.

More than seven acres of the Ansaldo fitting-out yards were wrecked. In the center of the city two areas, one covering 27 acres and the other 20 acres, were burned out. The city's public buildings, business and shopping centers were located there. He Knew! NILAND, Nov. 22.

(P) That now familiar Jap trick of trying to disarm American jungle sentries by calling out in English so well any more, W. I. Isn't, working, Phipps of the Marine Corps related on his return from the Solomon Islands. Phipps told of a Marine machine gunner who heard footsteps in the dark and let go a few bursts, An came quickly: "Hold fire. We are answer.

American troops. I am bringing in my The gunner's replying blast of fire knocked out an enemy patrol. "Just too damned grammatical to be a he explained. former commander in chief of the Free French navy, predicted here that the Allies would find it "virtually impossible to dislodge the Germans from Bizerte except by siege with an overwhelming force" if the Axis became well established there. But he estimated the Axis would need between 20,000 and 30,000 troops to man the defenses of the great French naval base properly.

The Bizerte batteries, said, had a range of 25 miles, and he described the landward defenses as "very strong." "When I left Tunisia there were nearly 20,000 tons of ammunition and stores in underground depots," he said, "and it may still be there." Admiral Musilier was commander of naval forces at Bizerte from 1932 to 1937, but since he left there five years ago, German and Italian armistice commissions have been in Tunisia and are reported by some sources to have done a thorough job of dismantling the defenses and removing the ammunition SO that the French could not oppose an Axis occupation. Reuters news agency reported that the Axis still was landing airborne reinforcements at Bizerte. It said also that Allied shock troops had captured an important road junction west of Tunis, apparently outside the main ring of Axis fortifications. USO Aides To Stage Games Party Tonight USO aides will hold a games party at USO headquarters in the Palm Beach Yacht Club this evening at 8 o'clock, for service men and the public, according to Mrs. Gerald Routh, publicity chairman.

Committee on arrangements includes Mrs. Julia Garvey, Mrs. L. V. McFarland, William Sullivan, Mrs.

Ben Trapp. Mrs. Routh stressed the public was invited. AWAITS FURLOUGH LOUISVILLE, Nov. 22.

(P) Pvt. Louis F. "Lou" Bush, formerly a pianist with some of America's leading dance bands, and Janet Blair, one of Hollywood's newest stars, will be married as soon as Private Bush gets a furlough, the groom-elect's mother said Sunday. "I have known they were considering marriage for some time, Mrs. Irene Bush related.

"I understand they are going to get married the first time Lou has a furlough, anytime now." MORALE BUILDER FT. BRAGG, N. Nov. 22. (AP) W.

M. Shaw, Ft. Bragg postmaster, couldn't help being curious when he saw a soldier entering the post office with a whole armful of postal cards. Shaw ran them through the cancelling machine: There were 400 of them, and each was addressed to persons in the same town. "That's a lot of cards for one fellow to write," commented the P.

"but if it built up his morale any, it's all right by ON WAY TO ITALY LONDON, Monday, Nov. 23. (P) Reuters reported early today that air raid alarms sounded Sunday night in Basel and Zurich, Switzerland. These alarms lasted about an hour. In the past such alarms have indicated that the RAF was en route to bomb Italy.

YANK, BRITISH RAIDS DAMAGE BURMA AREAS NEW DELHI, Nov. 22 (P)-The biggest formation of United States bombers ever sent into the air from an Indian base teamed up with the RAF to cascade many tons of bombs upon Rangoon, (Mandalay and Toungoo, major cities in Japanese- Burma, during weekend raids which cut wide swaths of fiery destruction through enemy targets. A British communique, issued simultaneously with one from American headquarters, emphasized the "increased scale" of aerial operations in this theater, indicating that more such blows could be expected. The resurgence of Allied activity recalled recent talk of an invasion of Burma to free that vital link in the land supply route to China. American pilots of the 10th Air Force set the pace in a Friday night assault on Mandalay, unloading ton upon ton of explosives on railroad yards, repair shops and big warehouse.

They encountered only weak and ineffective enemy aircraft and not a single challenging enemy plane. Like the British raiders, they all came home safely. The RAF concentrated Saturday night on the Mingaladon Airdrome at. Rangoon, the Burmese capital and chief port, and Toungoo, 150 miles up the Mandalay Railway. YOUTH, 17, CHARGED WITH KILLING MOTHER YORK, Nov.

22. (P) -William A. O. Jackson, 17-yearold farm boy charged with stabbing his 41-year-old mother to death with a butcher knife, then burning the body and hacking off the arms, legs and head with an ax, was in York Hospital Sunday night, undergoing treatment for burns. District Attorney W.

Burg Anstine of York County said Chief County Detective William Kasparavich had filed a formal charge of murder against the boy with Justice of the Peace Charles W. Gross of Dillsburg. Anstine said young Jackson admitted slaying his. mother, Mrs. Mary Ellen Jackson, "because she nagged me about helping around the house." There are eight other children, ranging in age from 3 to 22.

The father, William A. O. Jackson, is employed in York. The slaying occurred Friday morning, according to the prosecutor. HIT-RUN VICTIM BATTLE CREEK, Nov.

22. (P) Floyd C. Parker, 41, of Shorterville, was struck by a hit and run driver and killed early Sunday while walking with another soldier on a highway inside Fort Custer Military Reservation. Parker's companion said the driver of the car stopped, backed his car to the scene, and then fled at a high rate of speed. Parker had been assigned to the medical detachment station hospital at Fort Custer.

WOMEN-LED RIOTS LONDON, Nov. the Belgian news agency in London, said Sunday it had received authoritative reports of recent German riots by women in Cologne, the much- bombed Rhineland city. EGAD, FRIENDS! DOING OUR OWN REPAIR WORK BECOMES A WAR DUTY! EVERY NAIL WE DRIVE 15 A BULLET FIRED AT HITLER CO. COPR. 1942 BY NEA SERVICE, INC.

FREYSE TEUTON 'TOURISTS' INFILTRATE ITALY ANKARA, Turkey, Nov, (Delayed) -(P) Sixty thousand German -all men of military age--have entered Italy in the last three months, to bolster the morale of punch-drunk Italians, according to reports from Italy reaching diplomatic sources here. The reports said the German infiltration--a tactic which has been successful against prospective victims of invasion and which is now used against an ally--was a result of German conviction that Italy either cannot, or will not, defend herself if attacked directly. As a result of this conviction, the Germans also are preparing a sort of "second line" of defenselarge scale fortification works along the Austro-Italian frontier, a Balkan source reported. Diplomatic channels said Italian morale had been utterly crushed by RAF bombings of Northern Italy and that as a result talk of evacuating Rome was spreading in the capital. Dazed Italians in Northern Italy, where the RAF has smashed Genoa and Turin, have been found standing in doorways holding opened umbrellas over their heads during raids "for protection against shrapnel," the reports ON THE SCREEN FLORIDA Last times today: "Forest Fred MacMurray, Paulette Goddard, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:25 p.

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