The White Falcon - 13.03.1943, Blaðsíða 1
Vol. 111.
Saturday, March 13, 19h3.
No. 25.
Wallie Boag (above) manipulates balloons into shapely ani-
mals during show presented by USO-Camp Shows troupe, while
Freddy Leitner (right) amuses audience with his comedy sing-
ing and patter.
USO-Camp Shows Troupe
Has Busy Schedule Planned
Rommel
Retreats
Again
' After abortive large-scale at-
tacks against British Eighth
Army positions east of the Mar-
eth Line in North Africa, Rom-
mel’s battered panzer units are
u; full retreat to the hills north-
cast of Medenia.
As Rommel’s tanks rolled down
from the hills toward Medenia,
Eighth Army artillerymen pick-
ed them off in large numbers
until the Germans were forced
to retreat to their original start-
ing point. In this frustrated at-
tempt to break through the Allied
trap, the Germans lost 50 tanks.
So successful were British gun-
ners that General Montgomery
found it unnecessary to use tanks
in defense of his positions.
Similarly, in northern Tunisia,
attacks by General Von Arnim’s
forces made headway at Temara,
seven miles west of Sedejanene,
only to be thrown back to their
original starting positions by the
British First Army, after losing
200 men. During operations, Al-
lied aircraft bombed and strafed
Axis positions in Sedejanene.
On the central Tunisian front,
American forces have clamped
the trgp tighter on the Axis Af-
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Radio Shows
Will Begin
This Month
Preparations are being speed-
ed to insure inauguration of the
local AEF broadcasting system
before April 1, Porter McKeever,
general representative of the Of-
fice of War Information, dis-
closed this week.
At present, the library of “can-
ned shows” is hardly adequate
to maintain the contemplated
schedule in the event new rec-
ords are late in arriving, so of-
ficials are marking time tempo-
rarily until they have an ample
slock on hand. Meanwhile, Mc-
Keever announced that the Fred
Allen variety show has been add-
ed to the list of big-name pro-
grams which will be available.
The cast of six entertainers
dispatched to this base by the
USO-Camp Shows organization
will depart from the immediate
vicinity tomorrow to launch an
extensive tour among units in
“suburban” localities.
The sextet of vaudeville, mus-
ical comedy and nightclub per-
formers received its stamp of
approval locally this week after
a series of well-received appear-
ances. The troupe made its de-
but at White Rose theater last
Saturday and has been active
every night with nary a pause.
Each member of the cast was
praised by audiences for his
specialty, but Comedian Freddy
Leitner and Wallie Boag’s novel-
ty routine won a major share of
the plaudits. Leitner is a “re-
fugee” from such famous lures
as Earl White’s Scandals, Rio
Rita, and the nation’s foremost
nightclubs, while Boag’s unique
act, in which he molds animals
from ordinary balloons, is re-
markably clever.
Of course, this doesn’t mean
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to imply that the others weren’t
well regarded, because they de-
finitely were. Each audience en-
joyed every minute of the 90-
minute show, from the time Bob-
by Henshaw, comedian, mimic,
ukulele virtuoso and master-of-
ceremonies, introduced the first
act until the curtain fell.
Remainder of the group in-
cludes Len Gunn, smooth operat-
ing magician; Jim Penmen, adro-
it juggler, and Mitchell Davidson,
the unit’s one-man-band.
The performers will return to
this district after their trip and
will remain until all available
units in the Command have had
an opportunity to see the show.
Welles Ridicules
Nazi Propagandists
“The United Stales has no de-
signs on Latin America and will
give up its military establish-
ments there, when the war is
over,” Acting Secretary of Stale
Sumner Welles asserted recently
at a press conference,
Welles explained, that Hitler
propagandists are trying to
spread the belief that the Unit-
ed States wants permanent foot-
holds in South America. How-
ever, he said, military .agree-
ments call for the use of Latin
American territory only for the
duration.
The OWI group is busy mov-
ing to larger and more centrally[ Canada plans to place at the
located offices this week. The, disposal of the United Nations
new building is near the radio
station, and a “city room” will
be arranged soon for the staff
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a second sum of 225,000,000 Ster-
ling, Cinvent Massey, high com-
missioner fqr Canada, announc-
ed.
Red Army Takes
City of Vyazma
Belgian Pilot
Surprises Nazis
Acting on a tip from the
Belgian News Agency under-
ground channels, a Belgian
airman in an RAF fighter
plane killed five Gestapo of-
ficers and 30 other German.';
meeting in Brussels. The fli-
er reported: “I flew almost
low enough to attend the
meeting myself!”
‘5-Ocean Navy
Ours By 1945,’
Knox Reveals
The United States will have
a five-ocean Navy in 1945, Navy
Secretary Frank Knox revealed
in his” department’s annual fiscal
report. Knox. pointed out that
the new building program,
which will make the U.S. Navy
the most powerful in the world,
will be ready for action two
years ahead .of schedule.
Knox revealed that America’s
warship construction program
now is moving at such unpre-
cedented speed, warships plan-
ned for combat service in ’46
and *47 will be ready for duty
with the fleet in 1945. This state-
ment, Knox said, takes into ac-
count losses which may be ex-
pected during the course of the
war.
In 1945, the p.S. Navy will
have in active service 5,675,000
tops of pe-\y combat vessels.
Fierce Russian power continu-
es to press back the crumbling
Nazi horde on every front of the
I 2,000-mile battleline, except near
Kharkov and the upper Donetz
Basin, where a desperate Ger-
man counter-thrust retrieved
some ground before it was
checked.
The Red Army scored another
major victory yesterday when
Vyazma, gateway to Smolensk,
was taken from the Germans
after bitter fighting.
The Germans are reported in
full retreat along a wide arc
north and east of Smolensk as
the Russians increased their
gains and consolidated their
newly acquired positions. Rus-
sian advance units occupied se-
veral villages west and south-
west of Czatsk, including a di-
strict center.
Russian columns also are driv-
ing on Smolensk from the north
and southeast. Farther north,
Marshal Timoshenko’s forces are
closing in on Staraya Russa,
while other Soviet units have
crossed the frozen Lake Ilmen
in a drive toward the city from
the north.
The second huge Red Army
force has bypassed Staraya Rus-
sa and occupied a number of
points west of Lake Ilmen, while
a third column is approaching
Smolensk from the Demyansk
region.
The Russians have repelled
furious German attacks aimed
at retaking Kharkov, vital south-
ern bastion, as wide-scale com-
bat rages along the upper Donets
on a front of 140 miles. Thurs-
day night Russian gunners de-
stroyed 29 tanks and killed paore
than 500 Nazis in the battle for
Kharkov.
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President Starts
I Ith Year At Post
President Roosevelt moved in-
to his eleventh year as Chief
Executive of the United States
this week, and his personal
physician reported him to be in
even better physical condition
tban when he first assumed of*
fioe.
The President’s intimates re-
veal that he is determined to
have the United Nations defeat
the Axis and establish a stable
peace foundation before his
third term of office expires in
Jan., 1945, •'
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