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leo Durocher Colder Relalned I~ Pilot IOWA : Colder today; scat­ Of DocI,er. ~osPital ·IOWA'N tered liehl rain, ~e Slory on rare 4 THE :·',DAJfiY · Iowa City's Morni~g Newsp per showen. !BeaUn '1'81 A8IOCI4'1'ID pa.l. )OWA CITY, IOWA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1942 lIY THE ASSOCIATED paESS VOLUMEXLm NUMBER 50 I (ross . ( e -, r nd M.... 1\0 n oPPolnt.d ~ , John on ~t r', r mml\ ~ on lal rvlre, 1'1'0 QI Izer e l'h Irmnn as ~ th OI)POinl~t, , • wltl h II "­ 9:15 P. M.-BEFORE BLACKQUT aUonall, IIr IIIe , reou let ~ Ycink~lmpericil Forces 35 Miles off! lall to te.J al "viII ... at ,rill), "" and COlli ..... From Axis-Held:· f,unisian Base 1 n, with tilt I$­ 'al locnl orllnlll. pi nnlnl to tqUl Doubling of Airplane IOtPltallty Or ~p , Bilerte, 'itnis ·Blasted as Both , of all m n Ie Ih! \ Battleships, Cruisers Output New U.S. Goal t mp and hOI­ Included in listing -----, to be orl.n~ \~ ~ides ' Ballle for Air Supremacy , adJ nt to 1I'1lI~ Qf Vessels Hit, Sunk Nelson Gives WPB's , and h plttla, Wilson Responsibility .. hlp ",UI II. BOX SCORE By WES GALLAGHER 11111 of I'e ll~WeshlP8 .. ................................ 2 For Production Boost AL1~JEJ) llEADQ AHTER. IN l OR'I'H A/<' IU 'A (AP)­ a I I rvleea, I'e (One may be heavy cruiser) American and Brlti~h D1echllnized units hal'c smllsh d theil' wllr 41 __ WASHINGTON (AP)-Chair­ "eavy Cruslen ............ ............. 6 lo within 35 miles of axis Tunisian stronghoid of Biz rIc afte/' Lt6ht Cruisers ... ........ ... ... ...... ..... 2 man Donald M, Nelson of the war the III I '--' scattered clashes with German patrols. It.'''' from "lui. Destroyers .................................. ~ production board announced yes­ lnd at t-" Transpor&8 ....................... ... .. ...... II terday he had given his vice A helldqulIt'teJ' spokesma n Raid l!l~t nig:ht onc lHhanl!('d 1408Wn' .... <WI~h perhaJIII 24,100 drowned chairman, Charles E. Wilson, re­ Am rican and British unit WitS" pretty fa I' into 'runisia," This and bUIll ... ~el1) sponsibility for doubling aircraft was understood to be about half-way ft'om the Algerian fronti t'I' Cino Ships ........... 1... ............... 4 output within a year to meet new to Biz rl , Thc alii d p n tration is 35 mil s by air and abolll Toial Sunk ............... ............. 28 1943 goals set by President Roose­ 50 by road, velt. 'l'he RAJ:<'" b d and Ii WI\.SHINGTON (AP) - The mb German·held Tunis Biz(,l'te wit Nelson, il:\ a press eonference, crisscross raids from Algeria and the Br'itish l\fedilcl'rHnNlll great American sea victory in the did not disclose the new presiden­ Solomons assumed even more epic tial objectives, but said their at­ island of Malta. proportions yesterday when the tainment would require "more BI'itish , pitfil'('s all-;o shot down at least fil·c axis bombel'l> thal navy announced that a Japanese than double ~he present monthly Rought to break the allied a I.'· ba~tleship or heavy cruiser, three war plane production rate by this mOl'cd tentacles I'PRching towlll'd large cruisers and a destroyer time next year." Biz rte. The British lo~t two were lIunk and three other enemy The WPB ehief said, "I think it Poison-Deaths I warships, including a battleship, can be done"-and added he plane ' in these furious sky bILl­ ,I damaged in a single engagement meant that not only the overall t! '. , last Saturday night. weight· 01 aircraft I?roduced, but It also was authoritatively These heavy los~es were in­ that the actual number of planes , fHcted on the enemy by an Ameri­ could pc doubJed, . Of 4-7.' ermed, stated that the Germans had can battleship task force, whose "The expertence of the fighting served an ultimatum of the victory, coming on top of the fronts has shown that quality French garrison in middle Tuni­ smashing triumph scored two counts ev-en more than Quantity," 'Mass Murder' sia to join them or be attacked nights earHer, . finally drove the Nelson decla red, saying there at dawn yesterday, But when the , enemy northward in ingloriqus re­ could be constant improvement in ultimatum expired no attack was treat. quamy along wHh the increasc in SALEM, Ore. (AP)- Gov. Char­ lorthcomlng, it was said. It was offiCially revealed that in output. les A. Sprague last nigh t termed (A Moroccan radio broadcast the ltemendous Solomon:; fight Wilson ~ former president of said that the French Tunisian ArlIerican battleships slugged it General El'lctric company, now is the death of 47 Oregon stale in- commander, General Barre, at­ out with Japanese battleships, for selecting II new aircraft high com­ sime asylum inmates frum eating tacked the Germans instead.) the first tlme during the war in mand to ~dvjse him, Nelson said, poisoned eggs "mas.s murder" and The whole situation a~ ~he the Pacific. but Wilson himself will have di­ said "the pol on was evidently momenl Is a baUte for all' su­ 'Yesterday's communique was rect supervision over production added in the preparation ot the premacy, n Is apparen~ Ibe the second' giving results of the and procurement by the armed food." Germans are planning a Ihree­ series of sea fights which ensued services. "As soon as I received the report cornered all' fight from Tunlllla, ',Vhen the Japanese tried to attack that the deaths at the stat.e h s­ ardlnla, and Icll" American-held territory on Gua­ pital were caused by a chemical The spokesman added "the RAF dalc'anal isllmd with a mighty ar­ Franco to Accept Aid poison I directed the state police raids on Tunis and Bizerte were mm of warshIp,. aAcl transt>CIrts, to take cl1arge of tho Investiga­ made at night and were success­ It was their' greatest effort In am­ tion and leave no stone unturned fuL" phibious warfare and the latest If Spain Is NAttacked in the effol't to aWx the responsi­ Both U. S. and British pilots report made clear that It failecl bility tor this mass murder," he were working hard to attain this utterly. NEW YOB,K (AP)- Generalis­ said. ail' supremacy over the Get'man First Communique simo Frnncisco F'ranco of Spain Frozen Eggs air force, The first communique giving ha ~ informed bolh the axis and He sa id "The frozen eggs sup­ Lieu~, Col. Elllol Roosevelt, results was ,issued last Monday. It the united nations that Spain im­ plied hy lhe ledet'al surplus com­ the president's on, arrived at dealt at length with the first main mediately would accept aid from modities corporation were not re­ this base from [neland and de­ battle of the series which was D ... • ~ the other side if any of her sea sponsible. There was notWng parted three hours later for the fought out shortly after midnight and air bases were seized, advice.> wrong with these eggs." froni to Join his reconnaillsance last Thursday <O\ladalcanal time). reaching tl"\e Associated Press from Discovery of the pOison "points unit, I they're That communique listed 23 Jap­ informed EUropean diplomatic in the general direction of the A spokesman said lhat Lieut, anese ships, including one battle­ so urces l'epol·ted la st night. roach powder which is contained Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the til ',IS shill and three heavy cruisers, as Rumors of German demands in an ash barrel in the fruit cellar allied generaliSSimo, was working having been qestroyed and said abroad and pro-German pressure under the kitchen," said Dr. J. C, in the closest cooperation with Here's seven, incl4ding a second battle­ at home to permit the axis to use Evans, superintendent. British middle-eastern headquar­ ship, had been damaged. It also Spain's Mediterranean bases have Milk Powder ters, particularly in the air squeeze 'lIe. reported that the Saturday night flown thick and fast in Madrid and The rQach powder, he said, was put on the Germans from both action had been fought but that abroad, simila'r in appearance to po",!dered sides. ur details "have not yet been reo Nevertheless, the s e informed milk which was stored in a room Night raids on the Germans ceived," . quarters said, Franco, backed by across the hall from the fruit cel­ from both Malta and Algeria were American losses were reported a majority of his army genet'als, lar. Powdered milk is used in pre­ the results of this cooperation. ht ..• as two light cruisers and six lIe­ has been sitting tight on a policy paring scrambled eggs at the a3y­ stroyers sunk. of neutrality. lum. Eisewhet'e in the world at WBt', Huee LoIsel there were these developments: Following this up, yesterday's Llby_The British drove to a cQmmunlque said that reports just FL YING FORTRESSES TAKE JAP TOLL point 50 miles south of Bengasi, in from the south Pacific showed narrowing the axis-held gap In that enemy losses in the Saturday north Africa to 670 miles. night battle were one battleship France-Doddering old Marshal or heavy crui~er, three large Petain, now an out and out Ger­ cruisers and one destroyer sunk, man stooge, called on the French .nd one battleship, one cruiser In northern A frica to "resist the President Tells Montgomery Ward Firnl and one destroyer damaged. No Anglo-Saxon aggression" but said Commander Perkins Acclaims further American losses were re- nothing ot the German aggression ported. \ in continental France. Gen. Max­ To Obey 'Maintenance Membership' RulQ Th«: communique cautioned that ime Weygand, 'dismissed north "this report ot damage (to the Alrican commander, was reported Performance 'Almost Perlect' Japs) may include some of the arrested by the gestapo.

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