Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER) 28, 1942
Parade Of
Trucks On
Alcan Road
Relays Of Drivers And Service
Garages Will Keep Procession
Moving
By WILLIAM OILMAN
North American Newspaper Alliance
and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Throughout the 24 hours Of day
and sub-Arctic night, three-ton
trucks carrying four-ton loads
through every obstacle' the frozen
| north can erect—such is the proj
gram which American army chiefs
! here have set for the Alcan High-
I way this winter.
This is the "impossible" road dedi- |
| cated in sub-zero weather a few j
days ago by muffled men in parkas,.
their mittened hands thudding ap-
plause to the cutting of the ribbon
which allowed the first land con-
voy to go on to Alaska.
Trucks Start Rolling.
With that rolling of trucks, the
miracle of construction became his-
ory and Uncle Sams army engi-
neers applied themselves to the new j
challenge, that of transporting war
tonnage over the 1,610-mile high-
way closed to civilians—road without
a single "Mike's Filling Station"
or "Nellie's Diner," tonnage aimed
at supporting Russia and China, and
stabbing at the vitals of Japan.
ALLIES WELCOME FRENCH SHIPS
Air War Mounts In Violence Over Africa
But Few At Toulon
Get Away
Scuttling Of French Fleet Is
Deemed Hopeful Symbol
Of French Resurgence
LONDON, Nov. 23.— Allied ports
today held out the hand of welcome
to any surviving units of the mar_-
tyred French fleet which early Friday
defiantly chose mass suicide in
the harbor of Toulon on the Mediterranean
rather than to be taken
by Hitler.
Even as great explosions still were
tearing out the vitals of French
men-of-war, Admiral Jean Darlan
went on the air last night in an ap-
peal that any surviving units be
given haven at United Nations bases.
Whether any French ships got
away from, Toulon is. not definitely
known yet.
Axis Loses
Planes In
Tunisia
British Submarines Sink Italian
German Supply Ships
In Mediterranean
LONDON, Nov. 28. — Allied aerial
assaults mounting in violence, are
reported by the Morocco radio. The
Allies are making an offensive
against the Tunisian stronghold of
Tunis.
United States Army fighter planes
officially are credited with the destruction
of 14 German and Italian
planes in forays in Tunisia.
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