J. Dies; service corps effective December 1, British Are Blocked Offensive in Combination Metal George Wright Failure of Kurusu with each to serve up to 30 day3 Libya Ex-Indian Service Aide annually. Men will be inducted up to the Funeral service* for J. Georg* age of 40 years: unmarried women In Tobruk veteran Indian Servlet In U. S. Talks Seen to the of 25. Escape, Is Reported Pulling Shell Casings Tested Wright, 81, up age official, who died yesterday at hi.' Political observers said there i* home, 4550 Connecticut avenut a movement within the Japanese Italians Declare Turks Nearer Allies To Save Copper N.W„ will be held at 2:30 p.m Mon- By Tokio Newspaper House ofc Representatives for revival at the National Cathedral. Ht of which were elim- day I political parties will be buried at Naperville, 111., hi! inated under Japan's present one- English Fail to Score Interest in North African Experiment's Success birthplace. Conclusion of Stalemate party system. Positive in Could Reduce Mr. Wright retired from the In- Drawn in Article 'Outstanding Campaign Is Tense Key Shortage dian Service in 1931 after 47 by yean Cross Fire Result/ Rome Asserts Near Eastern To Vanishing Point of service. He is survived by hit Correspondent Here Ingenious Country widow, the former Miss Irene W NEW YORK (JP).— Banks which th» Aucciated Prpm. the and a J. | Bn By the Associated Press. Br Auoclated Preu. Basford, brother, Joseph By the Associated Press. hold $10 in dimes and $8 75 in quar- ROME, Nov. 22.—Italian divisions ordnance it was Wright. — ANKARA. Nov 21 iDelayedi.— Army experts, TOKIO. Nov. 22 Failure of the ters are being offered for 10 cents besieging Tobruk in North Africa of the British offensive in learned today, are testing a method Kurusu. Opening mission of Saburo special at the 1 100-odd branches of Bun- blocked attempts of the be- of soft steel and repeated North Africa, with American equip- combining copper Japanese envoy to the United States, British to break out in dles for Britain in the United States leaguered troops ment playing an important role, has the manufacture of shell casings Edward D. Dies was forseen by the Tokio newspaper of their fortress while the battle Spencer The in pulled neutral, strategic Turkey which, if successful in experimental Nichi Nichi today in a front-page and American possessions. tha desert Libyan raged unabated, nearer to the British-Russian cause, production, could reduce this Na- At 87 in Williamsburg interview telephoned by its Wash- $18 75 saved will buy a United States the Italian high command reported in the Turkish be- tion’s severe copper shortage nearly Deiense bond, and the 10 cents, diplomats capital Bj the A^&oriated Frew: ington correspondent. today lieve. to the vanishing point. cost of the bank, will go toward re- WILLIAMSBURG, Va.. Nov. 22 — It reported that United States The high command communique Interest in the North African But, whether the method, if suc- lief of British civilians. Edward Dudleigh Spencer, 87, Wil- officials saw no room for further ne- ; paid losses in men and material were campaign is tense in where cessful, will win War Department Turkey, liam and oldest alumnus, gotiations if Japan's policy con- | being inflicted on the British and Axis and on the Mary's British-Russian diplomats approval apparently depends tinued to be based on the three six of their were down died yesterday in a Williamsburg glBISI3®S1^5iaiafflIB®®ieraiSJa]S®5IS<i) planes shot each are trying to haul this key outcome of a family row between hospital. points made by Premier Gen. Hideki In the Mediterranean. The Italians of the entrance ordnance perfectionists and officers country, guardian Mr. Tojo in his recent speech before acknowledged the loss of one who fear that available Spencer was general ticket plane. to the Black Sea, across the line of copper sup- the Diet, and drew the conclusion Stefani declared the British had would be and passenger agent of the Missouri, neutrality. plies hopelessly inadequate of a stalemate from this. To Match failed to score Kansas & Texas Railroad when he "outstanding positive So steadily have American fight- if the United States entered a shoot- 84.95* up 1 retired about 20 ago. For An ordinance ordered Odd Coati results,” although they were using iii5 ai years many imperial ITROISERS and British ing equipment Empire of and g the largest forces so far thrown into was years Mr. Spencer was a member of the mobilization boys girls fighting men poured into the Near It understood that experi- EISEMAN’S—F at 7th battle in North Africa. Tammany Hall and active in from 14 years of age and young men 1 | *ny East in recent months that some ments with steel-copper casings polit- ical circles in New York. and women Into a national labor 3SjSJc?fe*_ TriPIt? British Attack in Ethiopia. British Russian diplomats assert have advanced to the point where On the the com- Ethiopian front, Turkey has been swung "probably at defense officials now can speak of that the munique acknowledged least 70 per cent to our side.” the possibility of mass production Italians were further undergoing This estimate was made by two within 18 months or less. British attacks in the Gondar heavy big power diplomats on the eve of Army perfectionists claim, how- of area, where the last defense the British desert offensive, after ever, that the combination casings Italy's East African empire is being both had been watching anxiously never could equal the efficiency of made. to see whether Turkey would stand brass casings, made largely of cop- With the Celga garrison isolated, and that this BRITISH ENCIRCLE AXIS PANZER FORCES—The main British firmly by her announced intention per, country has not It a motorcade a said, supply fought to fight all aggression, no matter yet been forced to the "next-best’’ battle to break thrust into which started from Sidi Omar iopen arrowi, bloody four-day Libya, what its source, or buckle under extremities of Russia and Germany, from Gondar itself with through by-passed besieged Tobruk last night, Cairo reported, and drove German pressure. both of which have been using com- aupplies for the garrison. bination for some on along the Mediterranean, trapping large units of Axis Panzer Tiie launching of the African cam- casings time. The defenders of another garri- convinced ob- It was believed, however, that the Omar arc the main paign many foreign son on the Gondar forces within the Tobruk-Sidi and splitting front, Culqua- servers and many Turks that Britain Army experts had improved foreign bert. have been since forces in two. Junctures of and black arrows resisting yes- Axis armored open is confident she has enough strength methods to eliminate or reduce to a terday and have launched bayonet indicate where major Axis forces have been defeated in the;r to protect the Russian Caucasus minimum the danger of premature ’’ counterattacks against preponder- or duds attempts to break out to the west. One arm of this major against a German break through. explosions ant British forces, the communique About one-third of the United British thrust was within two miles of the Tobruk j added. reported Stp.tes copper supply for 1942 has a British force was flanking It said that garrison had been forces. In Salum-Fort Capuzzo area been earmarked for shell casings pounded continuously for eight days behind Axis intrenched forces, which were held in position by a Mrs. Roosevelt Is 'If and defense officials estimate that by British and planes. use of a artillery frontal thrust. Two secondary thrusts into Libya also were combination casing would Four Reasons for Campaign. save up to 400.000 tons of copper under from Maddalena (70 miles into Axis territory i and In Game to Aid Artists The official Italian news agency- way annually. This saving, presumably, —A. P. said a front about 90 miles deep ex- from just above Giarabub. Wirephoto. A group of American artists lo- could be devoted to easing the pres- tended from Salum southward and dav were assured varying amounts sure of the present shortage on then westward into Libya. It lo- of cash, a buying game in non-defense outside Tobruk, which following j industry. Rezegh, just D Roosevelt cated Italy’s Ariete division south- which Mrs. Franklin O. P. M. estimates the 1942 sup- was taken over by British tank west of the Libyan-Egyptian fron- Cairo participated last night at the Na- ply at 1,800.000 tons and the demand forces. The others, it was said, were tier when the battle started. • Continued From First Page > tional Art Week show in the De- at 2.400.000 tons. new sites selected by mechanized Stefani listed four reasons for the partmental Auditorium. been beaten back after successively reconnaisance which ranged British campaign: patrols Mrs. Roosevelt, honorary chair- weaker thrusts. into Axis territory weeks in advance 1. To show that Britain is open- man of the Nation-wide observance, Prosecutions Threatened Specific British losses were not j of the new ing a second front against the Axis push. addressed several hundred persons stated, but in two tank battles which ; while Germany and Italy are fight- ! at the exhibition, urging purchase For paved the way to encirclement, the There was unconcealed optimism Overcrowding ing in Russia. of art works, pointing out that \ British said the Germans lost 130 in British quarters in London over Maj. Edward J. Kelly, 2. To try to eliminate Italy from ownership of such objects could superin- tanks and declared their own losses reports of the battle.