Council Bluffs Iowa Nonpareil (Newspaper) - October 10, 1943, Council Bluffs, Iowa VOL 283 ESTABLISHED IN 1651 EVERY Senate May Force New Deal in War Report of Committee Shows Dissatisfaction With Present Conduct ruck Dell WASHINGTON off tho record report of tho wur th donate received thin from five nt IU members haw started th bull rolling on whut may be far reaching changes In this nation with Its find th peoples of reconquered lands military strategy remains u matter for command feel tho weight o legislative an a o tho net critical summary of th conduct given their col leagues by Senators D Chandler Meat N Lodge and Brewstor The effect of their serialized ver slon of a mile trip to the world's battlefields delivered li two sessions He likely to bci Into theso early 1 Strengthened opposition to any declaration of foreign policy that makes specific commitment In advance of u statement of pout war Intentions by Britain and Uus 2 Revision of lend louse op to prevent other conn tries notably Britain from credit for furnishing plies which originate In tho States Along with this Is promised ft check on tho made by other nations as reverse lend lease 3 Increased demand by gross that other countries share fully In relief and rehabilitation and that American agencies not promise post war benefits that the United may have difficulty delivering A developing contention thai this country must maintain tary bases far from this continent for Its future security as well as have military and commercial to airports we are building everywhere Oilier There are other changes which many In congress would like to sec made and some which already are under way In former category lies the of tho five ators for strengthening the diplo- matic corps anil advancing bers In rank AM an Instance of the the administration already has a readjustment to the drain on British and American supplies of petroleum Military strategy naturally will be less by thu report but even the military lenders cannot disregard wholly the general dis- satisfaction with which the five viewed the slow progress of the war in the Pacific This does not mean of course that the high com- mand will adopt the strategy gested by Chandler ol fighting a holding war against the Hermans while we turn the full power of oui offensive on the Japanese But outside ol the strictly tiny lield the senate thing it can sink Its legislative teeth into and Its Is tar troin conciliatory Administration ate sorry that the trip ever was made be- cause it spells trouble tur them and they teel it li likely to have a bad reaction on with our allies As one of them dolefully told this Nothing but harm can come out of this tin Pope Receives Nazi Ambassador Tlie l Vatican said day that In lei to the ciin Harun vnn Vnn was a fornier of stale in tho office Tin Prominent Red Oak Doctor Is Dead SIM nd In Sunini il OAK Di 1 I 70 resident of Red lor It years suddenly taken ill ami died Satin day at St Russia Clears Taman of Nazis LONDON UP The Taman peninsula across the Kerc straits from the Crimea ha been swept completely clear o Germans ending Hitler's cost and disastrous win the oil riches of tho Caucasus Premier Marshal Joseph Stalin Saturday night in a special of the day Stalin's triumphant announce merit of the full recovery of tne Taman peninsula the land arm which almost divides the Sea of Azov and tho Black sea came shortly after a Berlin that the last of tho mia forces had from tho head which tho Germans defended bitterly all through the spring and summer Berlin's announcement claimed that tho Russians had paid tho of more than lives for tho peninsula recovery The new success earne as their soviet forces to the north wore blasting huge wedges Into Dnieper river defenses north and south of Kiev Your Tin lowans Begin to Carry Foods Will Cut Down Gas Rubber Use DKS MOINES will begin carrying their own groceries and bundles on an extensive scale Monday when new limitations on and retail delivery ce go into effect Purpose of the now restrictions which have boon In effect in 12 eastern states and tho District of Columbia since May Is to conserve rubber manpower and John DCS director of the of- Ice of defense ex- The limitations will be extended hrough the entire nation Sunday Ono of tho major regulations retailers from delivering which do not weigh more han five pounds or measure more 50 Inches in length and girth Thoro are certain options to cover rles such as medicine arid foods The rules curtail sharply tho umber of wholesale and retail that may be made of cor- uln commodities They also prohibit any wholesale on Sunday except Ice nil any retail on lay except ice fresh milk cream r related dairy products and meat stores may take deliveries only three limes week and never Into tho same roil on consecutive days Operators of milk routes and her regular service routes have ecu observed to make revisions duplication and are provided to allow bilge collections and iir and emergency service In- the public health and weir ire such maintenance of ies services ilven IN the delivery ule listing first the commodity then the maximum weekly ber of wholesale deliveries and the maximum weekly number of retail or frozen meat poultry fruits vegetables fish and sell lush 01 live plants for tood production fi wholesale and 3 re- tails bakery ti and 3 alcoholic beverages or wines 1 and 1 non-alcoholic beverages or wines 1 and 1 excluding fresh milk or tobacco confectioneries or a combination thereof 2 and 1 Mall beverages In bottles 1 ami I malt beverages in kegs 2 and J provision us made that when a COUNCIL BLUFFS SUNDAY OCTOBER 10 1943 Fortresses Blast Nazi Gdynia Base Three Planes Land in Sweden After Long Land Journey By linbert N Sturdevant LONDON Oct 9 mighty American force of Heavy bombers made a record dis- tance flight into eastern Germany and Poland Saturday for smashing attacks on the fugitive German fleet's base at Gdynia the rine yards at and a large components factory at in A Stockholm communique issued Saturday before official details of ho raid were announced said three American Flying Fortresses had mado a forced landing in ral Sweden after raiding eastern Germany All crew bers wero reported safe Two nan fighter planes also were in Sweden Stockholm mid An undisclosed number of enemy pianos wore shot down In ho flight which involved a round rip of approximately miles o reach the former free city of tho bombers had to strike vcr tho world's most heavily A returning pilot aid he ran into the damnedest opposition he had en- in 10 missions Explosives dropped by the U S fell approximately 450 from the active front line in offering direct support to lie soviet army the eastern rout is approximately 800 illes from London and tho former port of Gdynia is 12 miles of Danzig Anklam is 0 miles north of Berlin Tho at- ick refuted the Germans claim hat their inner industrial empire 1 safe from aerial attacks Effectively splitting the German fighter defenses as the force ed toward Its multiple objectives the big bombers dropped heavy loads on harbor installations and docks at Gdynia which American PRICE 10 CENTS Soldiers In Favor of Rest In United States By Edward Kennedy ALLIED HEADQUARTERS ALGERIA tion that American soldiers on foreign duty be brought home for a rest after a given period was re- State Department Defends Self White Book Shows Moves to Halt War By James D White WASHINGTON state department whose critics have it of lacking policy ted a mass of papers Saturday night to show it was on its toes in the years before the war and tried hard to head It off Its evidence is in the form of 274 official speeches messages and half the ments have never been published before and there aro still many more in the secret provides a background for the white book peace and war ed States foreign policy This book was published in ary These selected documents set forth that the department was forewarned from the beginning of the inherent dangers of political systems rising in Germany Japan and Italy and that this ment sought to promote peace and world order and to meet tho wide clangers resulting from axis aggression The white book IMS since sold by troops in tills theater as the happiest idea they Lad heard since they came there was much skepticism that it ever would be put into effect The recommendation made by senators who recently toured this and other battlefronts was prominently by the troops newspaper The Stars and Stripes There is no question that tho one thing every American soldier wants more than anything else in the world ia to go home Recent opinions that the war may continue as long as 1949 and that an American occupation army might be kept In Europe long after the war is ended caused much uneasiness among the soldiers One sergeant said I was ed in 1940 and it was supposed to be for- one year Here It going on to four years If it wasn't this T would be married by now I'm and beginning to get bald If this goes on I'll rest of my life A soldier who had be here tho been hero combination delivery of bottled Pope Pins had malt ls mmk private the I no Uvo wholesale deliveries may be made that milk or other related dairy fruit or vegetable juices or products thereof or when delivered in tion with fresh milk or cream C ami I provided no two retail an- on same or consecutive ice or Iced and -I and I or dry cleaning and it provided that one al wholesale delivery of laundry army headquarters how Is used extensively by the German navy and also on submarine slips and tho ship building yard at zig which Is actively engaged in the construction of Tho third objective for the pre- blow the at Anklam formerly was the chief manufacturing plant for the standard training for the German air force but now is engaged In turning out vital parts for German fighters The formations attacking Gdynia and Danzig encountered little en- emy opposition over those targets one group completing Its bombing run and returning as far as tho North sea before meeting a small group of which wore off in short order re- turning crewmen reported But on the attack the crews reported the formations had rip-roaring air battles with all ypes of German fighters to number between 100 and 200 mil many of them equipped with rocket under each With the long flight to effectively accomplished ther arose the possibility that on Berlin soon might occupy air force since the is considerably closer to Britain than tho targets his Satur day Yoin Tin Atlantic Man Gets Promotion Paul Minn according to re- I to rua- here and one additional retail delivery of laundry shipment Dr and Mrs hail been vacationing In Wisconsin mid had stopped at St to visit his brother Peter when ho was taken ill and died Ho was a veteran of the first world war having served with n and was u member of American Legion the County society Iowa Slat society nml the u me Ins widow lighten Mis Gordon Will ol Kul MI- III mil burial he at St when tho consists exclusively of damp ice 7 and 7 parts or supplies for repairs 6 and 6 flowers 5 and 1 Two wholesale and two retail deliveries weekly are permitted for anv commodities not covered In the and weight restrictions will not apply to deliveries of fresh milk or creum bread or perishable products when delivered by a pel son engaged exclusively In the sale of such laundry and dry cleaning or medicines parts and I supplies for mid orders by mull or telephone One southwest lowan was among the temporary promotions of announced Saturday by the war department Glenn A P Peterson CH of Atlantic was promoted from first lieutenant to captain Your Tin More Hen Needed to Build Ships WASHINGTON Ad- miral Howerd L Vickery of tho war shipping administration told a committee of west coast Saturday more men were needed in the country's ship yards to koop up production ules of cargo ships The committee investigating tho manpower problems of its area was told nearly tons of merchant shipping were being produced monthly now Vickery reported the greatest shortage of manpower existed in repair yards and said he was short of men in the Oregon and San Francisco ship building areas but not In ths Los Angeles shipyards Your Tin Columbia Picks New Cabinet BOGOTA Colombia new cabinet for Colombia was ed Friday night including as ister of the interior the former to Washington Alberto Lleras about copies in this try and some copies in tho official British first American document so treated by the British government It has been privately printed in German In Switzerland and private Ings In Portuguese and Chinese are under way Besides showing the development of axis aggression around the world despite American pleas and proposals of peaceful settlements the documents also depict as the department phrases it the slow march of the United States from an attitude of Illusory aloofness ward world-wide forces ing America to n position in the forefront of the United Nations that arc making commion cause against an attempt at world con- quest unparalleled In boldness of conception and in brutality of operation However the full story of the fateful decade cannot become known for about 15 years as it is customary to wait that long to publish stare department papers in full Tho 271 documents represent only a fraction of tho thousands of diplomatic papers sifted to provide the evidence for the book's thesis As a demonstration of mental alertness there is cited a statement made by Secretary of State Hull on Nov 2 1933 lo tho Gorman ambassador Hans Luther that a general war during tho next two to 10 years seemed more probable than pence Hull made this statement after word from American emissaries in Japan and Germany as to what was browing in those countries Ambassador Joseph C Grew in Tokyo had said in a message on Aug 13 1933 that the Japanese military machine has built for war feels prepared for war and and would welcome war It has never yot been boaten and unlimited self confidence I am not an alarmist but I believe lhat have our eyes open to all possible future Grow sounded this ing when Japan reacted violently to American criticism of their which had begun m since the landings 11 months ago Oh it's all right for the senators to we ought to go home after a certain length of overseas service but I doubt that we'll ever get that It would be a groat thing if you could look ahead and be sure of getting homo by a certain date no matter how long off it is As it is we don't know how long we'll be here and have nothing definite to look for- ward to Asked for tho WAGS attitude Sgt Dorothea Patricia Maria Callahan of Minneapolis who has been here nine months and signed to duty m tho public tions office wrote this It would definitely bo ive to my physical welfare to know that after a certain of time I would bo returned to the United States where I would bo properly fed Whilo there was no official com- ment here on the tion most high officers believe it is impractical under present in American diplomatic to koop Italy out of the war and later to prevent the French fleet from falling into German hands are also recounted The record shews that early in 1911 of State Sumner Welles informed the soviet ambassador in Washington of re- ports that Hitler was planning to attack the soviet union Tho painful negotiations with to settle the war In China while preserving China's In- and later to avoid an out- right conflict between Japan and the United lengthily documented for 10-11 Beginning with a warning from Ambassador Grew in Tokyo in January 1941 that Japan might strike suddenly and with every possible element of surprise the drag their slow way months of conferences In Washington and numerous ages back and forth between the wo governments The tragic climax comes on Dec 1941 when dor Nomura find lal Envoy Saburo Kurusu handed Secretary Hull Japan's that the Japanese government it impossible to reach n agreement through further hour after Your Tin More Butter for Civilian Users Military Buyers Out of Market Soon By Ovid A Martin WASHINGTON Military and other government purchasing agencies have arranged to got out and stay out of the butter market until next March to permit the en- tire production to move into civilian consumption channels This action said war food ad- ministration officials who disclosed it Saturday should help relieve shortages which have developed in particularly those far distant from major producing areas by making from ten to 30 per cent more butter available for civilians than the average con- by them during the past seven months They make no prediction over as to possible changes in the ration point value for butter which now is 16 points a pound compared with 8 points last summer The notice of the government de- to remain out of tho market until production begins to increase next spring has been sent to con- gressmen who have inquired about recent butter shortages and tho sharp advance in the ration value Food officials say the ment Jias already bought ana stored sufficient butter to meet military and other requirements until next March Stocks now held by the government total about pounds accumulated during the past seven months under an order requiring to set aside specified of their output for the government That order was pended this month WFA officials estimated duction of creamery butter will average between and pounds a month during the next five months all of which under present plans will be able for civilians Civilian con- sumption during the past seven months has averaged only 000 pounds Thus if these production Po Defense Line Nazis Only Hope Must Surely Retreat to Earlier Planned Stronghold in Italy By L Simpson Associated Press War Developments in Russia toward the close of an October week thai saw even Adolf Hitler admitting rising defeatism in Germany bade fair to determine the locale of the real stand in Italy against Anglo American allies and might also affect the timing of a awaited revolt in the Balkans against rule By every sign the nazi high com- mand is under extreme and growing pressure to all available re- serves eastward against the fronted soviet juggernaut and do It now or face the ultimate aster of complete retreat from Russia The Dnieper line and its tion to the Baltic already is badly punctured by a Russian master of- fensive gaining instead of losing power despite torrential rains anil seas of mud If it is to be held at all every nazi division not necessary elsewhere is ently needed In Russia And the only nazi source of heavy quids reinforcements for the cast must be Italy and the Balkans The Russian summer drive to the Dnieper unquestionably was aided Importantly by the allied at- tack in Italy Tills forced of nazi strategic reserves from the cast to cope not only with advancing British and American armies but with an Italian lation that left the Balkans ing with attacks In addition to tho estimate 20 to 25 divisions thrown into Italy largely from cast front re- serves probably as many or more are in the Balkans and Greece This diversion of forces must in Rome measure explain the soviet drive to the Dnieper and be- yond Recall eastward of some of the divisions in Italy and the Balkans Is highly probable The bulk of the German forces in Russia li worn by Its vast retreat its morale un- questionably lowered by that con- and by the fact that for substantially a year SCRAP LEADER Herbert C county cse planes had attacked Pearl mates are borne out civilian plies will average more than did consumption during tho period from last February when supplies dropped abnormally through tember Year Tin Honolulu to Get More Light HONOLULU T H nearly two yean of blackout the streets of Honolulu are to receive more light A new shield for street lights giving three times the ent illumination is receiving final tests They arc made from old tin platea scrap metal and other non- priority the army or the German home front With the need of troops to force the Russian front patent to the casual observer it seems clear that only the shortest and lease vulnerable front In Italy can be nazi hold And that front Is not on the Volturno river which the allies now arc crossing or even on the Rome axis but north of that on the line or back to the Po Fulfillment of the allied threat of now strokes Is not far off It is in of Corsica There has been a specific pledge from highest allied authorities of cross channel operations against tho continent in due course Almost hourly the grim necessity of shortening the front is being forced on the foe and every foot he falls back where brings that much closer the deadly air attack upon his war industries and upon obviously war nerves of the German public A month of a quarter tury ago those war nerves cracked under a lesser strain There can be small comfort in now at the close approach of another of the surrender of 1918 Rumor runs fast in neutral Europe of German dickering without Hitler sanction for peace somewhere anywhere to case the growing strain It may be of that which prompted Hitler's gloomy summons to the German that arms alone would not assure victory only the will of the people to fight it out to the bitter end Your Tin The Weather By the U S Weather Bureau Bluffs and No Important temperature change Sunday forenoon Cooler Sunday No important change Sunday forenoon No important ature change Hourly p p m m m m 77 70 89 67 p p p p p p p p m p m Humidity 1 Wet bulb 63 Ury bulb 72 65 70 Wind a per hour at p m Maximum temperature In lait 24 86 degrees at p m Saturday temperature In last 24 45 degrees at a m Saturday Total 20.87 inches Total 3.51 Scrap Campaign Plans Revised Drives Will Be Held in Individual Towns Inability to obtain a large ber of army trucks and sufficient to cover the county in our days has brought n revision n plans for county collection of scrap metal y scheduled for Oct 25 Robert R O'Brien chairman said Saturday The drive will be held and It is that all the wrap able must bo gathered before the ml of this month Salvage of scrap hould start immediately Each town will be asked to lake i local drive in its own im- icdlaio territory soil the scrap nd donate the money lo such oso as they sec fit rucks Not Available Plans had been completed and worked culling or collection of scrap and loading t into army trucks as a means of citing il quickly inlo dealers yards This was the wish of the state salvage section Seventh Service command however have decided that they do not have the manpower to handle the available They do not wish to loan tho trucks to civilian drivers BO a change in plans is O'Brien said Herbert C Flagman of DCS director for Iowa who conferred here Ihls week with O'Brien stressed that farmers will probably be called upon to furnish the bulk of the scrap metal Tiny are urged to gather scrap and place it in convenient piles for col- lection to soil It themselves to dealers this month No Light Scrap told us ment docs not want light scrap at this O'Brien said By that they mean scrap iron light in weight and large In bulk This in- cludes sheet iron bed springs wire and was placed on the sity of getting scrap Inlo hands of dealers before snow much would be covered until the following spring Increased tion of war materials makes it necessary to obtain large scrap supplies tills full to last through tho winter months I am sure that county a county that has ished far more than its share of soldiers sailors and marines and has done more tlinn its share in recent bond drive and all other drivers will not be found wanting in this O'Brien added Iowa's scrap quota Is tons for October county will be expected to furnish or more tons Your Tin Maytag Estate Tax Is DBS MOINES taxes on the estate of E H Maytag of Newton amounted to Fred Maytag II an executor in Polk county district court The statement was made in a petition claiming a refund of 416.18 from the stale tax sion The petition said that had been posted with the sion earlier to cover taxes to be computed later E H Maytag died July 20 1040 and his will was admitted to bate in Dadc county Fla Your Tin Homesick Jamaicans Land in U S Jail MIAMI Pla Ninety-two Jamaican Negroes were ID jail Saturday awaiting tion by immigration authorities because they balked at working In Florida's sugar cane fieldi and laid they wanted to go home They were among more than 300 sent to Florida from New York to sugar cane around Lake Imported to the United to assist with wur food production their first ment was to northern Filth Army Crosses the In Hit and Run Clashes With Nails Reinforced by Division By Kennedy HEADQUARTERS Algiers Blh army patrols have smashed across tho Vollurno river where tho nazli have chosen to fight the first round in the battle for Koine and ed In with German troops reinforced by an entire new division ters announced Saturday The Cairo radio said in a cast recorded in London lute day that allied forces had crossed the Vollurno on a broad Tho Germans wore retreating to positions along tho river some 15 to 20 miles north of the Volturno and SO to from Rome iho broadcast Caserta strategic rail ami way center 18 miles north of fell to thu Bin army as last enemy resistance on the side of the Vollurno and Caloro rivers was wiped out mid front dis- patches suki tlie allies now were In control of the south hunk along a front at leant at miles in length The army patrols crossed tho ruin swollen stream under Die cover of darkness look a number of smacks at the enemy and en- counter ed considerable return fire some of it from artillery Their Is to probe German positions along the north bank of Hie river nnd out tho fighting mettle there Associated PreM correspondent with iho 6th army wild in a dispatch from the front that allied troops had reached tho Volturno along its whole length from the to the a of approximately 30 line miles A communique from allied quarters mild Iho American army In the west and tho Sth army in the cunt both ad- two to miles lit of henvy rains which caused floods in Homo irons Although bad weather con- bomber and tighter rons of the northwest African air forces kept up their hammering of enemy supply on both of the mainland and teamed with middle cast air to Rinnan ot air fields In Greece Crete and the Dodecanese Your Tin Press Gallery Has Own Secret Executive Session WASHINGTON appeared mysteriously Saturday on board of the press gallery Members of the senate will conduct an executive behind closed doom on Oct 10 All doors will locked and guarded Senators will not bo ad- mitted and will be limited to only such information HO they can ob- tain from the customary However arc requested to check with censorship before any of the information BO obtained as national security may be in- In Home of the material Your Tin Local Youth Is Given the DFC DAYTONA BEACH Fit E com- manding officer of the naval air Saturday presented the flying cross to U jf Raymond J Tennant Council for his strafing action a surfaced enemy nub in tho Allan tic His kept the enemy from manning their anti- aircraft making possible tho sinking of the nazi sea raider by accompanying navy planed Tin Ci Give Fishermen Chance on Seas WASHINGTON To help meet the meatless of 1944 Die government authorized construction of 381 new fishing for the nation's tilla Interior Secretary as eral of fisheries Saturday the new craft would take the place of boata normally lent destroyed or withdrawn from ice for but will no- where near replace fishing craft requisitioned by the military for war UM Tta Would HMO Japs Who Kill Airmen WASHINGTON and navy journal death by hanging be out to Japanese responsible for the ex- of American regard death by aa the moat ful
