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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Hitler Takes Over Personal Command
Of German Army as Russia Continues
To Push Invaders Back on All Fronts;
Far East Battle Centers in Philippines
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HITLER:
Inner Voice
Explaining that he was answering
an “inner call,” Adolf Hitler took
over sole command of the Nazi army
because, he said, the Russian war
had “exceeded all past notions.”
This meant that the former
commander-in-chief, Field Marshal
Walther von Brauchitsch, was out,
as Hitler put it, because of “the
vastness of the theater of war” and
the manner in which military opera-
and political war
aims were.linked.
Berlin circles discounted theories
from other world capitals that Von
Brauchitsch was dismissed because
ADOLF HITLER
An 'lnner Voice Spoke.
of the tie-up resulting from the Rus
sian campaign. But Hitler did say
that “the present war is now enter
ing upon a new and favorable stage j
for us. We are now facing a deci- (
sion of world-wide importance.” j
Germany’s task until spring, he c
pointed out, was to “hold and defend £
with fanaticisn” what they had
already gained. j.
EVIDENCE: ‘
On Russian Front i
Both returning American newspa- 1
per observers and dispatches from 1
Berlin itself began to hurl the heavy £
weight of evidence back of the facts
that Russia had been informing the J
world about the inroads the weather i
was making on German strength
and ability to fight and as to the
defeat the Nazi armies were suffer
ing.
Two Berlin dispatches had told,
first in the Volkischer Beobachter,
Hitler’s own newspaper, that the
"Russians are equal to us as fight
ers and under some conditions su
perior”; and, second, that the Ger
man soldiers were suffering terribly
from the cold.
The second instance was given to
the world by Goebbels himself, in
opening a campaign, “house to
house and apartment to apartment”
to collect warm clothing, particular
ly furs, for the men on the Russian
front. *
Goebbels had said, in part:
“We have done all to equip the
army for winter. But winter came
too early. Our soldiers will still lack
much.
“We must prevent German sol
diers from suffering the winter in
Norway, Russia or elsewhere.
“The front wants everything the
Fatherland can give for defense
against this winter which set in so
early, earlier than usual.”
The Amer ; can newsmen told of
watching the German retreat,
abandonment of materials, includ
ing tanks and guns as the Nazis fled
from their advanced Russian posi
tions back over the snow-packed
roads. There had seemed to be no
diminution of the Russian claims as
they added division after division to
the list of “those annihilated.”
LIBYA:
Bright Spot
Another bright spot in the war re
ports had been the British North
African campaign, which had sud
denly gone into high gear, and there
began to be a repetition of the pre
vious British campaign, which swept
across Cyrenaica almost to the
doors of Tripoli, and resulted in the
taking of an estimated 100,000 pris
oners.
HIGHLIGHTS ... in the week's news
Washington: The United States
has more than 90 monitoring radio
stations listening constantly for sig
nals that might be endangering the
country’s war effort, it was re
vealed.
Sacket’s Harbor, N. X.: The USO
opened a radio station “broadcast
ing by soldiers for soldiers’’—first in
the country. It was predicted that
they would be opened at all camps.
By Edward C. Wayne
This time it was not the Italians,
but the Germans, who were fleeing
across the desert North African
; plains along the coast, with the Brit
: ish in hot pursuit.
General Rommel’s famous tank
• divisions, battered and broken, were
jamming the roads.toward Bengasi,
• chief German-Italian landing spot
l for supplies, having abandoned Der
na and all the hard-fought-over ter
» ritory close to the borders of Egypt.
! MANILA:
' Major Thrust
The good news from Russia and
• Libya had been rather offset by the
; discouragements and losses of the
Far Eastern campaign, and it had
become evident that the Japanese
attack on the Philippines had been
slowly but steadily growing in in
tensity.
Then came the report that 80
transports of Japanese troops had
been sighted off the coast between
the port of Lingayen and Manila.
These thousands of soldiers meant
that the long-expected invasion of
the Philippines was under way.
U. S. land, sea and air forces then
began their defense against this ma
jor battle force of Japan.
Lingayen was called by military
experts the “gateway to Manila”
and because of this a strong defen
sive force was thrown into action
to defend it. First reports told of
the United States forces “holding
their own.” One unconfirmed report
told of the sinking of at least one
Japanese troop transport.
A landing on Davao made the |
fourth spot in the islands on which
the Japanese had gained at least a
temporary foothold.
The Davao landing became the
potentially greatest menace against
Manila, because it was on the near
by island of Mindanao, largely in
habited by- Japanese and Japanese
sympathizers.
A hotbed of fifth-columnist activ
ity, Davao had been editorially I
called Davaochukuo before the out- I
break of the war, because Luzon
dwellers regarded it as the chief
fifth-column threat.
The landing there was believed to
have been engineered with the aid
of treachery from within. The
American troops gave battle to the
invaders, but no claims of immedi
ate victory were made, and the land- i
ing was said to have been “in con
siderable force.”
AIRMAN:
Heads Navy
After a week which had seen rapid
shifting about of the American
| naval and army high command in
Hawaii, Washington had made a sud-
I den move which made the supreme
commander of the U. S. Navy Ad
miral Ernest J. King, an air officer.
Previously the command of the
Pacific and Asiatic fleets had been
ADMIRAL STARK
I ‘On Ike Shell?*
j placed in the hands of ship-minded
officers, and the air arm had been
, believed to feel slightly "out of it.”
, Jubilation reigned in the air force
of the navy when Admiral King was
placed in supreme command. The
appointment had completed the
shakeup and a rapid prosecution of
the war in the Pacific under Ad
- mirals Hart and Nimitz was ex
i peeled.
As a matter of fact, many observ
s ers wondered if the appointment did
- not place Chief of Operations Ad
t miral Stark "on the shelf” for what
b duties remained to him were un
-5 specified. Formerly he had been re
- garded as the navy’s supreme com
mander.
Washington: The FBI cautionea
auto owners to protect their cars
better against thieves since the tire
shortage had made them more at
tractive as booty.
London: One hundred thousand
bomb and shell fillers in ordnance
factories in Britain sent birthday
greetings to Josef Stalin of Russia
on his sixty-second birthday, accord
ing to official news sources.
WILLKIE:
To Fore Again?
WENDELL WILLKIE
Out in Front?
The President, attempting to run
the war again with an augmented
cabinet which contained no less than
15 persons, was said to be contem
plating a supreme war council
which would sit with him and under
him prosecute the war.
And the reports had been that
Wendell Willkie, his 1940 opponent,
might be a member of the group.
This had been speculation since
Willkie lunched with the President,
and since a couple of other jobs that
were open were not tendered to
him.
Those closest to the President be
lieved he had a most prominent
place reserved in his mind for Will
kie.
In fact, informants as to the Presi
dent’s plans named the following
as probable members of a five-man
board which would plan the war ef
fort:
Willkie.
Rear Admiral Leahy, minister to
Vichy, former head of the navy, for
mer governor of Puerto Rico.
Vice President Wallace, now also
head of the SPAB which runs priori
ties.
Philip Murray, head of the C. 1.0.
SHORTAGES:
Looming in V. S.
In addition to the tire rationing |
which was imminent, and the tire j
prohibition which preceded it, the I
government saw other shortages
looming in 1942.
Among them, it was said, would
be a shortage of electric power. Such
a lack, it was declared, “seemed
practically certain in 1942 and 1043”
in some sections of the countryr in
cluding the Southeast, the South
west, the Pacific coast and part of
the Middle West.
Householders were warned to be
parsimonious in their use of elec
tricity.
Blackouts of all non-essential
lighting, including many store signs
were predicted.
HONGKONG:
‘ Sacrificial ’
A band of British and Hindu and
Canadian defenders of Hongkong
were termed a “sacrificial garrison"
in dispatches telling of the last-ditch
fight to hold the island stronghold
at the north end of the China sea.
Chief hope of the defenders rest
ed on the Chinese, and oddly enough
the Chinese were the chief menace
to the defenders.
Bearing out the former statement,
the Chinese soldiers were driving
southward from the East river, past
Tamshui and Pingshan, within a few
miles of the rear of the Japanese*
who had occupied Taipo and Kow
loon on the Hongkong mainland side.
That this attack would be success
ful and divert enough Japanese pow
er from the Hongkong front to
change defeat into victory for the
British was the chief hope of the
defenders.
Bearing out the second statement
was the fact that several hundred
thousand Chinese refugees from the
mainland, having no other direction
in which to flee, had gone over the
half-mile of water to Hongkong
where they were jamming the al
ready crowded island and seriously
menacing supplies of food, water
and shelter.
These refugees were regarded as
almost equal in endangering the de
fending garrison as were the Jap
anese guns and bayonets.
SUBMARINES:
Versus Submarines
Almost simultaneously with re
ports from our navy of the sinking
of at least two Japanese vessels bv
our own submarines, and th« ex
pressed belief that the navy wa‘
beginning the long process of block
ading Japanese shipping came rc
ports of attacks by Jap submarine,
on our shipping along the California
coast.
Three vessels had been reported
attacked, one escaping and one ap
nfar.r y M a g hit ’ thou Sh the fate
of the third was not at once clear
Two of them were oil tankers, the
Emldio and the Agriworld The
latter vessel was said to have cs
caped and the former to have L “
hit and to have sent out an SOS
The navy was not telling the world
where its submarines were movine
about, but Japan admitted .C "20
U. S undersea boats” were operat-'
ing in waters close to Japan b „h
‘red thC ‘' ShiPPing WM bel "« men
THE COSTHXA DEMOCRAT
Uncle Sam’s Aerial Giant, the B-19
I . . these Jays of air blitzes to know that Uncle Sam
mn /,!? con )i or . l bombing plane in the world. It is the 53,500,000
B-19 a°/ ' lined Douglas whose engines produce a total of 8,000 It. p.
The gross l \»«*/>< n f t,lis aerial R ' ant is 02 tons ' and “ has ° wine ~
spread of 212 /«’'• Thcse r ic,ures acquaint you with our new flying
fortress.
Snapped in flight over a river in southern California is the giant
B-19. The pic\ure teas made during a test flight , with twenty persons
aboard.
Looking aft from the pilot’s cabin we see the radio and control
panel which, with the pilot's instrument panel , comprise the “ brains ”
of the world’s mightiest plane.
A glimpse into the rear compartment of the B-19. Lieut. L. J. Doyle,
veteran test pilot, is shown at the inter-plane phone. Machine gun
mounts (not shown) are on sides opposite the lieutenant.
Lieut. Cut. Stanley Umstead is here A view of the two starboard
pictured at the controls during a three- motors as seen from the cabin
hour test fl ,'g/„ n f the super-plane. of the B-19 bombardment plane.
The B-19 being cicortcd by two P-40 punuit thipt.
Sportlight
by
GRANTLAND
RICE
IT REMAINED for Florida and
* West Point to get the first war
All-American in Colin Kelly who de
livered the three death thrusts to
the first Japanese
battleship to be
sunk. The Florida
and West Point
fighter found death
in a brilliant coun
ter stroke when
such was badly
needed after the
Japanese raids on
Hawaii. Captain
Kelly was closely
followed by Lieu
tenants Wagner and
Keller in setting up
~ j six
Grantland Rice
a new honor roll along the road to
glory. This new All-America honor
roll is one that is sure to grow
where the main trouble will be giv
ing due credit to so many con
cerned, not overlooking those gal
lant marines on Wake island. Colin
Kelly’s performance in diving
through three anti-aircraft blasts for
three direct hits on the hostile bat
tleship was not only the final word
in bravery but also the final touch
in the amazing nerve control need
ed for this triple blow.
Sports Fortune
Queries including letters and tele
grams continue to arrive asking
what the future of sport should be.
The answer is entirely in the hands
of the government at Washington.
They know the types of sport that
will still be badly needed—and they
also know the types that will be
out of order until the war is over.
It will naturally take a certain
amount of time to get the right
program set up. In the meanwhile
it is better to keep original programs
going until changes are needed un
der government order. There is
no occasion for any panic along this
line as competitive sport can still
play a big part in the way of physi
cal fitness and morale under proper
supervision and direction.
The war situation in regard to
sport is a far different thing from
what it was at this time a year ago.
Then there was largely apathy on
all sides. It is entirely different
now. Everything else is completely
overshadowed, as it should be, by
the greatest emergency this coun
try has ever known.
Sport can still play its part in the
way of national conditioning and na
tional morale, but there will be 9.
far larger call on all athletes to
help out, and classifications will be
changed abruptly and on an ex
tended scale.
Getting in Shape
Jack Kelly, who might be known
as national commissioner of nation
al physical condition, now has one
of the country’s important jobs to
handle.
There should be no national soft
ness in times of peace. There is
certainly no place for national soft
ness in times of war. And the coun
try, from youth on by‘middle age,
hasn t been moving toward rugged
ness for some years.
When the going begins to get
tough, health and general fitness
mean more than ever. One of the
best ways to help rests with each
individual who, after all, is the re
sponsible party—the one most af
fected.
This con be done by closer atten
tion to diet—by taking more exer
cise—by making a persona] poinl
of getting back into better shape.
This country, for one thing, needs
stronger legs -only a small per cent
are equipped along this line. Ask
any able athletic trainer.
TOO Many Spectators
The point has been made that we
have too many looking on—nol
enough taking part. This is true
But the growth of basketball ano
bowling has been a big help. These
two .games now call on many mil
lions.
Bowling, for example, may no.
be heavy exercise, but it contrib
utes its share. Basketball is now
in the middle of a nationwide sweep
especially in all high schools and
colleges.
There is still a place for competi
tive sport that has a crowd appeal.
To have all this destroyed woula
be a big mistake. But this should
not prevent the spectators from tak
•n* better care of their own fitness
All along the route from New
York to California those more close
ly interested were asking how tile
new war would affect such sport!
as football, baseball, racing, etc.
It will have u decided effect on
the financial side, which will be
nothing to cry about. And there
can’t be the same keen interest in
results. But there will still be com
petitive sport to contribute its pari
along needed lines.
SPORTLIGHT BRIEFS:
C. The contract of Biff Jones Ne
braska football coach, has been ex
tended for another five years The
contract was renewed following the
Cornhuskers’ poorest season of the
century.
«. Michigan was third in total home
football attendance In 1941 but the
Wolverines led the nutlon In over
age per game with 60,321.
C. Mel Hein has completed ids
eleventh season for the New York
G . ia m S ‘ Ht i P*oyed college football
at Washington. State.
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