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THE ARCHER COUNTY TIMES
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Allies Demonstrate Growing Strength
In ‘Dress Rehearsal’ Raid on Dieppe;
Solomon Victory Forecast of Further
Pacific Offensives by United States
Natives of India Turn Out to Fight Foe
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CHERBOURG
The English channel area which was the scene of the most daring and
extensive daylight raid by Allied forces on the French coast thus far. Brit-
ish and Canadian Commandos, supported by American Rangers, took
part in the nine-hour foray which ravaged the Nazi defenses at Dieppe,
destroyed artillery batteries, ammunition dumps and radio stations and
left Dieppe in flames. /
COMMANDOS:
SOLOMON ISLANDS:
In Dress Rehearsal
Adolf Hitler learned that no mat-
ter how deep into Russia his eastern
armies might penetrate, his western
flank was open to attack that might
be costly.
That was evident when British and
Canadian Commandos supported by
American Rangers swept across the
English channel and back again in
a nine-hour daylight raid that was
a dress rehearsal for the forthcom-
ing Allied invasion of Europe.
The Nazi-fortified coastal defenses
at Dieppe, midway between Ca-
lais and Le Havre were the target.
Although German sources estimated
the force at 15,000 men, its number
remained an official Allied secret.
The raiders carried tanks and ar-
tillery with them.
While losses on both sides were
considerable, the raiders were re-
ported to have destroyed a six-gun
shore artillery battery, an ammu-
nition dump, a vast anti-a‘ lft bat- _____
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city of Dieppe had been left in '
flames.
A strategic feature of the assault
was the vast aerial umbrella in the
form of 1,000 Allied fighter planes
shielding the raiders. This was re-
ported as the greatest aircraft can-
opy yet sent aloft. While it pro-
tected the operations of Commandos
below, it succeeded in downing or
damaging 273 enemy planes.
The attack demonstrated that
landings in force could be success-
fully made against the strongest
Nazi-fortified points on the French
coast. And as a reminder of the
growing air strength of the Allies,
American and British planes swept
over France the day after the raid,
striking out in the greatest force
ever seen over western Europe. The
air raiders, 500 strong, included
fighter-escorted American Flying
Fortresses and other bombers.
Important Victory
At last it could be told, for the
news revealed in a laconic navy
communique was that the offensive
in the Solomon islands had been
completely successful. The enemy-
held islands in the southeast Solo-
mon chain were now firmly in the
hands of United States marines.
Only remnants of once strong Japa-
nese forces remained on the islands
and these were being mopped up.
The navy’s communique announc-
ing the victory said also that an en-
emy cruiser or destroyer was
bombed and set afire by American
planes in the area.
“United States marines are en-
gaged in mopping up remnants of
the Japanese forces on the islands
which were recently captured in the
Solomon archipelago,” the communi-
que said.
“Casual bombardments of our
shore portions by enemy aircraft, .
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bombed and set afire by our air-
craft.”
The main offensive had been
launched on the strategically impor-
tant Tulagi harbor area on Florida
island, 930 miles from Australia.
The enveloping attack included land-
ings on smaller islands nearby.
Viewed in its strategic perspec-
tive, the Solomons offensive meant
that Japan’s thrusts toward New
Caledonia would be forestalled, and
that the pressure on southern New
Guinea and Australia would be
lifted.
In the Punjab region of India recruiting officers have no trouble in getting volunteers to fight against
Hitler and Hirohito. As the war conies closer to India young men from far-flung districts are turning out to
fight the common foe. In the recruiting center shown at the left the doctor, an Indian, vaccinates each recruit
on the point of his left shoulder. Right: An Indian officer (captain) gives each recruit a small advance
of pay on enrollment.
What’s Cooking? Victory Vegetables!
By LIONEL BARRYMORE
(Who needs no introduction.)
Every actor knows what the crit-
ics think of him. These industrious-
gentlemen who distribute plaudits-
or brickbats, according to their
views of plays and performances,
have the benefits of their news-
paper circulation to broadcast their
views.
Now, having been offered the
space of my friend Walter Winchell,
with whom I often agree and just as
often do not, I have the opportunity
not often vouchsafed the actor to-
talk about the fellows who talk about
him, in print.
Of the great stage critics there
were some who honestly wrote what
they believed, in spite of hell, high
water and the newspaper’s business
office. No actor ever resented being
criticized by one of these men. In
fact, we respected their knowledge
and views, and often benefited by
constructive criticism. The same
applied to playwrights, when these
critics analyzed a play.
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RUSSIA:
Gloom Persists
Only in the northernmost area of
the Russian fighting front—at Voro-
'Vjezh and Bryansk—were the Soviet
fOTces able to report any success.
At these points several towns had
been taken and thousands of Ger-
mans had been killed.
But elsewhere the picture re-
mained gloomy. Stalingrad, key in-
*, dustrial city on the Volga, was men-
aced by a Nazi pincer. Further to
the south, Maikop, fertile center of
the Kuban valley wheatfields and
source of some of Russia’s oil, had
been taken and Russian communi-
ques admitted the Germans were
moving trainloads of foodstuffs out
of this area.
The loss of Maikop opened the way
for the capitulation of the strategic
city of Krasnador, a railroad and
river in the northwest Caucasus,
and gateway to the Reds’ naval base
of Novorossick, less than 60 miles
distant.
Although Prime Minister Church-
ill’s visit to Moscow had roused
hopes that strategic moves from
western Europe or from the Middle
East by the Allies might take some
of the mortal pressure off Russia,
the situation remained critical. The
successful Commando raid on the
French coast was at least a token
in that direction.
MARRIED MEN:
Face Early Draft
Married men under the age of
45 with dependents faced the pros-
pect of being called in the draft “in
the not far distant future.” This pre-
diction was made by a spokesman
for Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey’s
national selective service board.
Speaking before the 52nd annual
reunion of the Legion of Valor in
Boston, Ted Luther, Hershey’s aide,
said “the nation’s reservoir of 1-A
men was practically exhausted” and
that it would be necessary to ob-
tain men from 1-B and 3-A classes.
“The selective service board is
most anxious to avoid breaking up
homes and families,” he said, “but
because of the few men in 1-B clas-
sification and the smaller number
that can be obtained from among
those reaching 20 years of age each
month, it will be necessary to take
those with dependents.
BRAZIL:
Irked at Axis
Submarines which for weeks
had persistently attacked Brazil’s
coastwise shipping roused that na-
tion to fighting pitch when they sank
five merchantmen within a few
days’ span, with a loss of more
than 600.
Thus a tacit state of war existed
between Brazil and the Axis, with-
out benefit of a formal declaration.
“Brazilians know how to fight
decisively and with or without arms
will know how to die for Brazil,” Air
Minister Joaquim Salgado declared,
as the nation’s warships and planes
combed the sea for submarines and
raiders.
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y went through maneuvers that Ines stormed th« Salomon islands
tough assignment. In picture at tof
water high into the air as the marines “
fishing a bridgehead in the South Sea 1 land troops and stores after estab‘
Japs have been exchanging heavy co i,ands’ where V S* forces and the
heavy gun, part of the equipment of ■*»«"«• B*low: ™oad“* a
islands. a landing party in the South Sea
Bundist Arraigned
‘General’ Coxei
Hans Diebel is shown entering a
U. S. marshal’s car in New York.
Diebel, leader of the German-Amer-
ican bund in Los Angeles, pleaded
not guilty to an indictment accusing
him and 28 others of conspiring to
have bund members evade the alien
registration act of 1946. He is also
charged with attempting to evade
the selective service act.
ads New Army
HIGHLIGHTS • • • week's news
LONDON: One of the largest
troopship convoys to cross the At-
lantic arrived in Britain recently
after a fast, peaceful voyage escort-
ed by American and British war-
ships, it was announced here.
Nurses from the convoy were the
first to go ashore, followed by troops
who proceeded to camps in Britain
where thousands of their country-
men are completing training.
NEW DELHI, INDIA: Devadas
Gandhi, son of the Hindu leader and
managing editor of the Hindustan
Times, was arrested here under the
defense of India rules. His father,
Mohandas K. Gandhi, was taken
into custody by the British several
weeks earlier, after the All-Indian
Congress party had made him gen-
eralissimo of a civil disobedience
drive for Indian independence.
Crack ‘Hard Nut’
Ensconced in s horse-drawn bugg,
once led an army of the hungry to wi
army of war workers in Massillon,
Massillon war industry by the army a
and navy departments and heroes of
in the “salute to Massillon.’*
FIRED ACTOR TURNS
CRITIC AND ROASTS SHOW
Sometimes critics are evolved in
strange ways. Years ago my broth-
er John and I were in a traveling
repertory company. We had a
friend, Fred Butler, a newspaper
man, whom we persuaded to come
along and try being an actor. This
wasn’t in any spirit of discovery.
We were great cronies and liked to’
be together- Also Butler had a gold
tooth which could always be pawned
when we were broke.
The company got as far as Minne-
apolis When the director decided that
Butler was no actor, and, much to
the dismay of John and myself,
“fired” him. Butler went out and
landed a job on a newspaper. Then
he talked the editor into letting him
review our shows. Gleefully, he
“roasted” them, and John and I
used to laugh over his “roasts” at
dinner each night. But they drove
the manager wild.
I remember one gem in which he
deplored that a good play “could be
utterly ruined by an insignificant
young actor named Lionel Barry-
more.”
George Bernard Shaw was a great
critic, in the days when he reviewed
*r ndon-huMications. Trui* “
about tlpHL But any criticisn^pl
his was tempered with justice. Mark
Twain once tried his hand at dra-
matic criticism on the old Alta Cali-
fornia in San Francisco, but never
became really interested in it.
The motion picture brought about
a new technique in criticism. The
early “tintypes” were ignored.
Then, as pictures grew in stature,
critics were forced to write about
them. At first, many had a feeling
of hostility, but this gradually dis-
appeared, and today a fine picture
like “Mrs. Miniver” is reviewed by
the keenest dramatic minds among
the writers of the press.
>, “General” Jacob S. Coxey, who
shington, is shown leading a small
Ohio, during the tribute paid to
ad navy. High officials of the war
the army and navy participated
Two ensigns work out a problem
in navigation while flying one of
the naval patrol bombers—out after
U-boats—Jrom the Banana River,
Fla., naval air station. These patrol
bombers are doing good work.
NEW KIND OF CRITICISM
EVOLVED B¥ MOVIES
Motion pictures have evolved a
new form of criticism which the
public never sees. Pete Harrison
started it, with confidential reports
on pictures to exhibitors. He told
them what to expect from the pic-
ture, from a showman’s point of
view, to equip them with advance
information on the handling and ex-
ploitation of a film.
An adverse report meant that too
much expenditure for advertising,
for instance, was inadvisable. On
the other hand, when he praised a
picture, this meant that the exhibi-
tor was safe in “going the whole
hog” in exploitation.
Today there are numerous trade
magazines, which review pictures in
the same manner and for the same
reason. They tell the exhibitor what
to expect. Sometimes audiences fool
them, however. Audiences may
flock to a picture the trade critics
had no faith in. And vice versa.
For, after all, the only reliable
critic is the public itself.
A few days ago a group of studio
writers and directors were discuss-
ing a certain picture. They picked
holes in the story. They thought
players were miscast. “When the
critics get hold of it, you’ll see,”
they chorused.
One veteran director spoke up.
“Well, maybe you’re right,” he re-
marked. “It looks like nobody’s go-
ing to like it except audiences.”
He was right. The picture grossed
a million.
—Buy War Bonds—
Babe Ruth didn’t give much
thought as to whether “The Pride
of the Yankees” film was a white-
tie or black-tie premiere . . . The
Babe showed up with his throat
bared, very informal, m’dear . . .
You get a pretty good line on the
Nazi honor code in the behavior of
the eignt saboteurs. They short-
changed the Coast Guardsman who
pretended to accept their bribe . . .
Even in bargaining for their lives
they can’t stop cheating . . . Orders
were handed Washington hotels to
fire their enemy alien waiters.
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