THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MAY 6, 1943:
It was officially announced today that an allied offensive had
begun on both the second United States Army Corps and
British First Army fronts of Tunisia and a field dispatch said
"the payoff battle is under way." Massicault, 17 miles southwest
of Tunis, was captured by armored-supported First Army infantrymen this after-
noon and this was but one of a series of victories rolled up
by British and American troops on a broad front.
Preliminary steps to the drafting of fathers were being taken today.
Major-General Lewis B. Hershey, national selective service director,
has instructed all employers engaged In war production or an activity essential
to the war effort to provide draft boards with written evidence
of the essentiality of fathers in their employ. Those with occupational deferments
will be the last called for military service.
The Bakersfield Clifornian
BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1943
ALLIES SHATTER FINAL BARRIERS
TO CAPTURE OF BIZERTE. TUNIS
"Payoff Battle"
Is Under Way
MASSICAULT FALLS AS ALLY DRIVE
RUSHES FORWARD; HAIL OF AIR BOMBS RIPS
AXIS DEFENSES AS TWO ENEMY VESSELS SUNK
ALLIED Headquarters In North Africa, May 6. (/P)—Allied air forces
drove enemy aircraft out of the skies In the opening of the allied offen-
sive toward Tunis today, a communique said tonight.
ALLIED Headquarters in North Africa, May 6. (AP)—It
was officially announced today that an allied offensive had
begun on both the second United States Army Corps and
British First Army fronts of Tunisia and a field dispatch said
"the payoff battle is under way." Massicault, 17 miles southwest
of Tunis, was captured by armored-supported First Army infantrymen this after-
noon and this was but one of a series of victories rolled up
by British and American troops on a broad front.
A special communique announced that enemy positions In the
Medjerdn river valley had been penetrated deeply and a field report
from Daniel De Luce. Associated Press correspondent with tho British
First Army, said the British bad broken through for 4 miles along the
main road from Jedjez-el-Bur to Tunis after capturing Djebel Bou
Anuknz,
Tho special headquarters communique issued tonight said:
"The First Army with the magnificent support of our air forces
took the offensive south of the river Medjerda early today.
Infantry and. armored units have penetrated deeply Into enemy positions.
Teo village of Massicault was captured this afternoon.
Many prisoners from a large number of different units have been taken.
U. S. Fathers on Brink of
Draft as Machinery Rolls
By FRED MULLEN
United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 6, (U.P)—Preliminary
steps to the drafting of fathers were being taken today.
Major-General Lewis B. Hershey, national selective service director,
has instructed all employers engaged In war production or an activity essential
to the war effort to provide draft boards with written evidence
of the essentiality of fathers in their employ. Those with occupational deferments
will be the last called for military service.
Hershey had told a Senate military affairs subcommittee by letter that
drafting of fathers, of necessity, would begin "some time in August,
if not sooner." His letter opposed the bill by Senator Burton K. Wheeler
(D-Mont.) to forbid the drafting of fathers. Fathers, as defined by selective
service, are those who maintain a bona fide home with children born
prior to September 16, 1942, and under 18 years of age.
Some Taken
Some fathers already are being drafted, but they are among the estimated
100,000 employed in "nondeferrable" occupations and activi-
ties, and an unstated number who left agricultural pursuits for which
they had been deferred.
Hershey'a instructions amount virtually to a revival of class 3-B,
which was eliminated' when the dependency deferments of all except
the pre-Pearl Harbor fathers were wiped out early last month. That
class has included men with dependents who also were employed In
the 36 essential activities.
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