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Holding Stalingrad
Was Turning Point
Bf September 7, 1942, the inw
mense end highly mechanized Ger>
man army had forced the Rueeiane
bade 1,100 miles from their borders.
On the ISth began the siege of Stalin
grad, Russia’s great steel-produdng
city. Here the Russians determined
to make tiieir stand. With equal
tnnnees, the Nazis dedded to take
fte d^, although sounder military
Judgment would have dictated by
passing It. As the numths dragg^
on, the dty became a sjrmbol and a
point of lu^r on both ddes. Hitler
gave orders to capture Stalingrad at
any cost. Stalin told his troops to
die in place rather than yield an
inch.
Slowly the 'Germans deared the
suburbs. Then the battle for the
dty itself open^. Attack aiul coun
terattack held the fighting to the
outskirts day after day. Sometimes
the Nazis would claim a small ad
vance. Then the Russians would an
nounce that they had repulsed the
enemy. The slaughter was fright
ful, with neither side apparently car
ing what the cost in lives would final
ly be.
Street Fighting Begins.
Fighting in the streets started
about the 17th, in the northwestern
comer. Bitter hand-to-hand strug
gles held the Germans at the bor
ders. Meanwhile bombing planes
and artillery were leveling ^e build
ings as the Nazis blasted at the stout
defenders. All the civilian popula
tion had long since evacuated. There
was an army in the city, and one
adthout. —
On November 9 the Russians
launched an offensive south of Stalin
grad and a smaller one north of
the city. Gradually the prongs of
these curled together, cutting the
Nazi supply lines. Nevertheless,
fighting of unprecedented ferocity
continued witl^ the city. Every
weapon known was employed, from
siege artillery to bayonets. Men
struggled from building to building,
month after m(mth. The dead lay
where There was little
heed paid to wounded. It was sav
age beyond description.
Nasis Feel Pinek.
By the end of the year the isolated
Nazis were beginning to feel the
idnch. The generals in the field ad
vised abandoning the siege, fearing
a disaster. But Adolf Hitler, always
mindful of prestige, sternly ordered
that the city be taken. His "intui
tion” told him to tell his men to
hold on, to continue ^hting in bitter
cold, arithout supplies, against an
enemy who had no thought of yield
ing.
January, 194S, saw the eel-
lapse sf the Oarmaa besisgsrs.
Many thousands ware gaad. Hm
remaindar beeama panuai up lu
a earner of the city, Ighttag
merely far their Uvas. The Ru^
alans attaekad'>elentlassly fraan
all sides. The battle tamed la
a sladghtcr. At last the Ger
mans realised the fntlUty af their
position and began snrraadaring,
'division by division. The last
stubborn holdouts gave la an
February 2. The Gennaas loat
,more than 'half a mlllkm men,
killed, wounded or eapturad.
The bolding of Stalingrad marks
the turning point in the Russian war.
During the summer and autumn of
fensives of 1943, the Red army tolled
the Nazis back nearly 600 miles. It
was the beginning of the end for
Germany.
beginning of EmF
Came With Alfied
Victory in Africa
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FRIDAY^AT., MAY 11-12
‘‘RUSTLERS HIDEOUT’
With
Buster Cnihbe with A1 (Fux*y)
, St. John -—
Chapter 10
“Zorro’a Black Whip”
And Comedy
with Edgar Kennedy
u
MON.-TUES., MAY 14-15
DOdtS OF NEW YORK”
^ Eakt Side Kids
Also Fatba News
WED.*THURS., MAY 16-17
‘‘R<WGH, TOUGH AND
READY”
Chester Morria A Victor McLaglen
Jean Rogers and Veda Ann Borg
Chapter 4
‘TSguadu Steer, Ruportar”
Aioft Paramount News
Hitler committed hit second stra
tegic blunder in 1942 when he failed
to conquer Egypt and seize control
of the Mediterranean.
The Axis knew the value of the
Mediterranean and by keeling cod-
trol of the western end throu^ uac
of the Italian fleet and Tunisia, kept
the British from using it as a supply
line for Egypt end the Suez canaL
But that was not enough. BritiMi
convoys dared the Italian fleet and
brought suppliea to embattled Malta,
bombed day and night like nothing
was ever bombed before.' But the
suppliea went through and Malta
at^, giving the British a base.^
Field Mazahi(l Erwin Rommel, the
German commander in |forth Af
rica, had made two attempts to end
British resistance hi Libya. The
Axis forces had almost been suc
cessful In the first two attempts but
had been checked and then driven
back. Now, Rommel decided to try
again.
Bomraal’a Final Attampt.
Rommel launched the third and
flnnl Axis offensive against Egypt
in May, 1942. Nothing happmed at
first and then the British were am
bushed.end lost almost all its armor
—a tragic blow at that stage. The
British fell back tc El Alamein, only
60 miles from Alexandria, with their
backs to the wall.
Rommel tried in vain for the final
breakthrough, but victory eluded
him. The British aerial bombard
ment of German horns industry and
transportation. Hitler’s failure to
crush the Russians, and the iteady
growth of Allied sir power in the
eastern Mediterranean reduced the
easistance that Rommel was able to
get end kept him from getting aJl
^e supplies he needed.
The Axis was beaten in the Medi
terranean when the British broke
through in a counterattack at El
Alamein and then drove the Afrika
Korpa west to the final defeat in the
fall of ’42 and the crushing Allied
victories following the landing
American troops in North Africa on
November I, 1942.
Solon Urges More
Fat Back For
Folks At Home
NOTICE OF FIUNG OF
DECLARATION
V.-
Keonedy Prepared Concurrent
Resolution To Get Moat
“ RaUof.
Notice ia hereby gtren that the un
dersigned Board of Corporators, not
leas than three days after the publi-
cation of this notice, intend to file
with the Secretary of State of South
Carolina a declaration asking for the
incorporation of “Supreme Products
Company,” a oorpor^on having its
prtaicipal office in the City of Cam-
dea. eoenty of Kerahaw, State ol
Sonth CaroUaa, setting forth the gen
eral nature of the boaineae the cor
poration proposes to do, tha amCnnt
of capital stockjiiereof and the num
ber of shares mto which 4t is to be
divided and the par value of each
share, and all other matters required
to be suted in said declaration by
the laws of the State of Sonth Caro
lina
H. A. Raboa
1949 BUtmore St, N.*w
Waahiagton, D. C.
J. W. Rabon
Lugoff. South CaroUaa.
W. lx Qettya,
122 Pine Grove Psrkwa*
Lake Poreat. Wllinlagt«r*w I
BOARD or CORPoX^,
Becanse of the extremely critical
reduction in the meat allowances to
Progress in Paellld.
In the Pacific, the U. S. fleet had
won notabla victories during that
fateful year of 1942. We had beaten
the Japs decisively in the Coral sea
battle in May and had whipped them
again in the battle of the &lomon»—
napped them so badly that the im
perial Jap fleet was to retire to
home porta and concentrate on the
defense of the homeland.
clvillana. Representative R. M. Ken
nedy of Kershaw county and Reps.
Gregory and Usher erf Chesterfield
county, introdneed in the House of
Representatives a concurrent resolu
tion which was passed by both the
House and Senate last week. . . >
The concurrent resolution authorit-
es 'and directs the Commissioner of
Agriculture to make tot investif^lon
of the meat situation in the state, e<
peclally^ in reference _to _fte. sufiplv
or~fat back and fresh meats in small
towns and rural areas and to use
every effort to Induce the office of
price administration to alleviate any
hardships the investigation may "re
veal
Tlie resolution rreites that it is es
sential every effort be made to in
sure diets to the people that are nu
tritionally sound, that such diets of
necessity include animal protein and
such protein is obtainable only from
animal products, that vegetables 4rs:
essential to a balanced diet to supply
vitamins and minerals, that it requir
es fat back or some other such fat
meat to properly prepare theee vege-
tables, that such balanced diets are
necessary for working people tO do
their best In war plants .and on the
farm, that prevailing regulations im
pede the most advantanpouB mnvor-
ment of livestock to maikets and
work an unnecessary hardship upon
the farmefiTitRl the devCfepm^T “of
the growing livestock tndust^ of the
state, that reports are general that
new office of price administration
regulations will drastically curtail the
number of animals small local slaugh
terers can kill, all of which will make
.more acute the present shortage of
such products.
Mr. Kennedy has followed up the
resolution by c^onferences with the
department of agriculture, federal
authorities and farm organizations,
compiling data that will convince
Washington that this section is be
ing seriously affected by the shortage
of meats, eepfcially of dry salt meat
used by our people. .
He will appreciate his being furn
ished specific Instances known to
merchants and farmers respecting
this situation.
Roy Jones, Commissioner of Agri
culture, will leave shortly for Wash
ington to urge some relief.
DHtb Carelallx—-Satw a Life.
According to the 1940 census, 27
per cent of the' U. S. population is
more than 45 years old, as compared
with 21 per cent recorded In the cen
sus of 1930.
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