Cumberland Evening Times (Newspaper) - January 21, 1943, Cumberland, Maryland The WEATHER Moderately cold tonight CITY WEATHER for tht at 8 4 Maximum a m 30 9 17 VOL 21 City Edition 18 Pages CUMBERLAND BID THURSDAY JAN 211943 Pitts FOUR CENTS Russian Shock Troops Are Pouring Across Manych River to Isolate Nazis In Caucasus gTEEL RING AROUND ROSTOV OBJECTIVE Feverish German Attempts to Fix Staple Line Along River Are Failing Moscow Learns E Accusers Peggy Larue Satterlee left and Betty accusers of Errol lynn movie actor of having intimate relations with them study court By HENRY C CASSIDY Moscow Jan 21 Russian troops were reported pouring westward across the Manych river today 15 miles from the rail junction pf Salsk in the drive to isolate the Axis army ofthe Caucasus and clamp an arc of steel about Rostov Feverish German efforts to fix a stable line along the left bank of the Manych a placid j testunon together during lull in trial in Los Angeles Cal stream which flows into the Don 30 miles east of Rostov are failing field dispatches said Red Star announced that Soviet detachments were capturing point after point while the Germans were ticking up bridges and trying to j lay more mines in a rapid retreat They already have been driven from j i number of positions on the Salsk I side of the Manych it said Offensive In Tenth Week EXECUTIVE NOT TO GET TOUGH Eases Gingerly Into Na tions No 1 Hot Seat With Desire to Get With Public HENDERSON EXITS AFL ADVOCATES STRIKE ENDED here and elsewhere on the long Legislation Would Extend front the Russians were declared i moving over westward in the 10th j of offensive with I Rostov the steel city of Kharkov I the industrially important Donets basin center of Voroshilovgrad and j the Maikop oil fields of the Caucasus j their objectives The German communique said I there was continuous hard fighting of Lake Ladoga where the I Russians are battling to widen their supply corridor loa a reference to or I losses the communique said that shock troops were successfully I employed in local combat on the I central front and south of Lake The Hel War and Finance lite were repulsed during violent assaults along sectors and had lost 55 ears during one period this week Trapped troops Stalingrad were reported to have stood firmly against mass assaults a northern army reported p miles east of Kharkov at Ura i a southern force swept 17 capture ra 115 miles southeast of Khar kov a special Russian communique last night Threaten To Form Pincers These two troop bodies threatened form the pincers to clamp onto The troops who had Reached had actually the deepest penetra of the Ukraine republic since Russians were forced to retreat 1 this region by the Germans 1942 funnier offensive is about 50 miles the Ukrainian border South that area the special said Red army troops also eel into a district er 45 miles above Voroshilovgrad Soviet communique broadcast Moscow about midnight and recorded by the Soviet monitor in jondon said that the Russian forces the four big Places of Goro arid and the railway of pincers action threatened Voroshilovgrad now offered re to London military ob of a Russian army sweeping I the southeastern Ukraine the sea of Azov to encircle WOULD HIKE TAXES Higher Rates Can Be Sub for Unwieldly Victory Tax Execu tive Council Says Miami Ha Jan 1 gress will be asked by the American Federation of Labor to pass two birds with one stone legislation which protection io all workers and it the same time help finance the war effort The AM executive council yes instructed officers to place before senators and representatives at once a program to help complete labors objective of safe guarding the working masses of our people and their families from the spectre of poverty and tion Would Raise Taxes This broad program will have to be financed by higher taxes both from employes and employers said the council in a resolution These higher taxes can be sub for the unpopular and un Victory Tax and the im mediate proceeds used to defray part of the heavy cost of carrying on the war to a victorious conclu sion The Hard Coal Miners Return to Their Jobs In All Major Collieries In Pennsylvania 3000 REMAIN IDLE Back to Work Movement Gets Underway Few Hours Before Deadline Set By Roosevelt WilkesBarre Pa Jan 21 old strike in the Pennsylvania anthracite fields in man hours lost since Pearl ended today a few hours before a deadline set by Pres ident Roosevelt by the thou sands trooped back to their jobs in all major collieries in what one strike leader described j as a courtesy to the president rather than an acceptance of de feat Many Canned Baby Foods to Be Rationed Under Point System Affecting Processed Fruits Washington Jan 21 tiss M Brown eased gingerly into the nations No 1 hot seat today and allowed as how he didnt guess aed get tough And thus the colorful era of the jutting jaw and belligerent cigar passed out of the Office of Price Administration After spending two days with Leon Henderson his pugnacious predecessor at the OPA helm the softspoken from Michi gan only smiled when a reporter asked if he intended to get tough Not To Get at 53 Get tough he repeated Well I dont see how I dont think I can change my personality at the age of 53 Hendersons stormy support ol many protested OPA policies was under fire during the congressional criticism which preceded his resig nation In marked contrast Brown said he thought President Roosevelt had picked him for the job to make it plain to people why he must do the things we do He said he wanted to show the American peo ple and congress that the ration ing and price control program was not an imposition but a pro Throughout his first press con ference yesterday Brown stressed hat he wanted to get along with the public Compared to the sometimes cy clonic Henderson huddles the Brown conference was a study in sofe answers Even verbal barbs were turned aside rather than re wasnt lively Leons way A reporter caught him up on use of desirable in con with increases and Brown took it beck substituting Inevitable If I said desirable he grinned Rommels Forces Driven To Within 35 Miles Of Tripoli By British Eighth Army Nips Nipped In New Guinea I misquoted myself 3000 Remain Idle Of the 24000 who once partici anned Baby Foods Will Be Rationed Washington Jan 21 Office of Price Administration an today that many canned baby foods will be rationed under FINAL COLLAPSE DOGES AFRICAN EMPIRE IS NEAR Believed Only Hours Away As Imperial Forces Ad vance Past and Horns Swathed in bandages three Jap prisoners present a picture of utter dejection as they under guard of Australian soldiers They were captured during the final assault in which American and Australian forces drove the Japs out of Gona New Guinea pushed on to take Point and village SUDDEN THRUST MADE BY NAZIS TUNISIA AREA Experts Believe Move May Develop Into Decisive Battle Afri can Campaign ALLIES CONFIDENT plans to Counter German in War Councils May Be Clearing for Rommel pated in the revolt against United the same point system to be used t to take he place of legislation which never reached consideration in the last these features 1 Extension to all employed per sons and their families of social security laws The present act omits such domestic and agricultural workers Health Insurance for Workers 2 Increase old ben now described as ard 3 Standardization cf a Continued on Page x Col 6 I The Russians Firmly Entrenched advance on Rostov from the and from the Caucasus hc Russian army f en at the Soviet bureaus bulletins said ns the clearing of the entire north of the Manych water on Page iSCo NAVY WILL ANNOUNCE DAILY CASUALTY LISTS Washington Jan 21 Navy announced today that effec tive immediately all casualties of the Navy Marine Coast Guard would be announced in a daily list instead of in periodical accumulations as heretofore The first dally list containing the names of 14 men killed 15 wounded and 43 missing wss made public yesterday the Navy will continue to follow the policy of notifying next of kin before making the names public Mine Workers leadership barely 3000 were known still to be idle as the crowds of workers rode down colliery shafts to their Jits many for the first time since Dec 30 Two of the four small UMW still out announced meetings or later today and many members believed votes result Only one of the four was commit ted to wait out Mr zero hour sometime this when he had said the necessary steps would be taken if necessary to end this strike which is doing serious damage to the war effort Foresaw Seizure by Army Strikers and others took the Predicted PostWar Generation Airmobile Will Be As Light As Present Passenger Planes But Will Have Tensile Strength Greater Than Steel Will Cost About and Will Be Foolproof Jan Can ou backing your plastic hell of the some Sun taking your family for Dove the countryside and a I your home stopping stand to eat hot like a espe when the old L Martin Aircraft Company instructor at the Plastics Industries Technical Institute predicts that someday a plastic helicopter be in every garage After the war of course Heres his idea of the family j plane of the postwar era j Presidents warning to mean that troops would be sent to take over any collieries still strikebound at the end of the grace he allowed when his order was tele graphed shortly after noon Tuesday It was evident before starting whistles sounded at 7 a m EWT today that the back of the strike had been broken Strikers returned to the south WilkesBarre Woodward Huber and Lance collieries of the Glen Alden Company and the prospect Henry of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company David Cummings president of the United Mine Workers Lance colliery local said two miners not members of the local appeared at the mouth of the colliery before he starting whistle blew but left at his request No Disorder Reported There was no disorder The Exeter colliery local of Payne Coal Company with 800 members and the old Washington colliery j with 400 workers scheduled voting meetings this morning The Westmoreland colliery of Le high Valley Company voted last night to remain idle and the mine j did not open this morning President Roosevelt had said the government would take the sary steps1 to reopen the mines this afternoon unless the unauthorized walkout ended The was widely Interpreted to mean that troops would be used The ranks of the strikers one numbering 23000 were thinned again last night when three unions decided to return Strike Issues Not Discussed Like unions taking similar action for rationing of processed fruits and vegetables Harold B Bowe director of OPAs foods rationing division the announcement was intended to clarify any misunderstanding that may exist regarding the baby foods that are to be included in the new rationing program No date has been set for of point rationing of processed fruits and vegetables but the pro gram will begin as soon as OPA has set up necessary machinery Rationed Foods Included The number of foods which OPA may ration was increased yesterday to cover evaporated and condensed milk canned fish and shellfish jams jellies preserves pickles relishes and canned products con meat but at his first press conference Price Administrator Prentiss M Brown said not mean they would be rationing immediately Brown told reporters he asked by Secretary of Agriculture Wickard to explain that including he extra items along with processed fruits and vegetables was not in ended to indicate their immediate inclusion in point rationing Continued on Page iS Col 4 By WILLIAM B KING With Allied Forces at Sou Arada Tunisia Jan 20 Delayed A German thrust into the French sector southwest from Pont du Fahs has thrown the whole central Tu front state of fluid may well develop into a decisive battle of the French North African campaign Allied plans the Ger man move remained hidden in war councils but confidence was es pressed in front line area that the situation would be rectified without loss of our favorable positions Two possible explanations of the sudden German offensive were dis cussed here Orie was that Col Gen Jurgen von Hitlers new commander of Axis forces in Tunisia was sim ply following the old military dic tum that the best defense is an offensive Seek Bontes For Rommel The second was that the Nazis were making a desperate effort to clear the routes for the retreat of Marshal Rommels defeated army into Tunisia General von Arnims tanks and turned southward against he French positions after an abor ive attack on British formations in the Boy ared The Continued on Page 2 Col i Five Enemy Subs Are Destroyed In South Atlantic Rio De Janeiro Jan 21 Admiral Jonas H In grain commander of United States naval forces in the South Atlantic announced to day that five Axis submarines have been sunk in the last month in the South Atlantic Ingram said a German sur face raider had been in these waters and scuttled by her crew in the same period There have been compara few sinkings of Allied ships in the South Atlantic Ingram told a press confer ence and weve gotten a high per centage ol enemy craft I believe than in other zones We can account for five submarines within the last month Our success is due largely to the fine air forces of the United States and Brazil which are doing a magnificent job operating from bases extending from Bahla northward Nazi Party Proposed Peace Back in 1940 It is Revealed Joseph E Davies Former Ambassador to Russia Approached by Spokes man For Germany PROPOSAL INCLUDED HITLER RETIREMENT This airmobile will be conj previously they did not discuss the strutted largely of plastic materials j strike for in the garage most of one fifth as heavy the materials a day wage bonus and a cut in presentday j In monthly But Germany Was to Keep Dominant Place Which Conquest Achieved In Europe Los Angeles Jan 21 spokesmen for certain Nazi high of approached him in 1940 with peace proposals that would retire Hitler but would enable Germany to keep the dominant which It had achieved by conquest of Eu rope has been revealed for William Z Safka design j planes but will n Plastics of the Glenn j Continued on it Col t of batk to work boys Continued an Page jt Col t the first time by E union clues former to Russia town meeting Continued on it Col 4 PRODUCTION OF Senate Group Holds Office of Civilian Supply Has Gambled Unwisely With Supply CRITICIZE OCS VIEWS JAP DESTROYER IN SOLOMONS SECTOR United States Fliers Also Shoot Down Eight En Short land Island Area AXIS WITHDRAWAL SHOWS SIGN OF ROUT No Authoritative Indication Tri poli Is Being Evacuated ONE U S PLANE LOST Several Flying Fortresses Damaged In Battle With Zeros and Biplane Navy Says Washington Jan 21 fP The Navy announced today the bombing of a Japanese destroyer off Bou gainville island in the Solomons and shooting down of eight enemy planes in the Shortland island area The text of the com No 257 South Pacific All dates are east longitude 1 On 19th an air strik ing group of United States planes bombed Japanese position at Munda on New Georgia island Results were not reported 2 On January 20th During the early morning Flying Fortress heavy bombers Boeing scored one bomb hit on a Japanese destroyer off Cape friendship at the easternmost tip at Bougainville island Enemy Shipping Attacked Flying Fortresses with fight er escort attacked two cargo ships and two destroyers in the Shortland island number of enemy Zeros and bi planes intercepted the attack and eight of these planes were shot down No hits on the ships were observed One United States Rejection Of was lost and several Fort tion For New Farm Ma chinery Held Short Sighted Policy Washington Jan 21 ing there was grave that 194344 food goals would not be met the Senate defense in committee declared to day that the Office of Civilian Supply had gambled dangerously and unwisely with our nations food supply The report made public by Chair man Truman said tw DCS a war production board j agency rejected recommendations for new farm machinery by the agriculture department and sub instead recommendations J based on a formula which was resses were damaged 3 On January 21st during the morning Marauder medium bomb ers Martin dropped bombs on Japanese positions at Munda Results were not observed Patch n On Guadalcanal The Frets London Jan 21 The British Eighth Army with a Fighting French desert column on its left flank pushed Marshal Rommels rear guard down the coastward slope from Nefusa Ridge to probably within 35 miles of Tripoli today in a continuing ad vance past the hill village of Tar huna and the coastal road town of Horns The occupation of the towns one 40 miles southeast and the other 58 miles east of Tripoli yesterday was announced in todays Cairo com which said Gen Sir Ber nard L forces pushed on in close contact with the enemy retreating to the west Under steadily mounting aerial assault the Axis withdrawal showed signs of disorganization but inform ed sources said there was no au indication that bomb battered Tripoli was being evacuat ed Advance in Oh the Tunisian land front where It was suggested that new Axis offensive thrusts might be in tended to hold open a corridor for Rommels withdrawal Axis troops made a new advance against French positions southwest of Pont Du Fobs This was in the section where a communique yesterday disclosed a German penetration of seven miles Todays war bulletin described the new gain as a small advance and said Allied bombers and fighters including the French Lafayette Escadrille were striking to support of the French troops Reports from the front said that he German penetration in the ridged country southwest of Pont Du Fahs created a fluid front from which one of the deci sive battles of the Tunisian cam might take form Harbor of Tripoli Bombed Big American bombers battered again by daylight yesterday at the harbor of Tripoli last stronghold of Mussolinis one time African em pire Allied planes sank one ship and damaged two others off the Tunisian coast and sent another to the bottom in the Aegean sea The Italian communique report ing 1500 prisoners captured on the Tunisian front in three days said positions which had been there were being consolidated The news that the Fighting French actually had made contact with the onrushing British after sweeping northward across hun dreds of miles of Libyan desert was disclosed last night in a communi que from Brig Gen Jacques Le headquarters Le Clerc said his troops now WCH brilliantly taking part with thell British Allies in the advance on Tripoli moving steadily forward on the Armys flank thus compressing Rommels fleeing Afri ca Corps into a narrow strip the Mediterranean coast French Arc Death Blow fighting French maneuver 4 Maj General Alexander M Patch United States Army re cently assumed command of the United States forces stationed on Guadalcanal Major General Patch j relieved Major General Alexander I effectively sealing the arch which Continued on Page 2 Col 3 Continued on it Col t Tokyo Political Crisis of Some Nature Seen Pending Joseph L director Office of Civilian Supply told the committee Wednesday that farmers were entering 1943 with the greatest aggregate quantity of machinery in history When new machinery had been limited to 23 percent of 940 production said repair parts had been upped to 167 percent of figures Held The committee however said it was a shortsighted policy to of Fact That Premier Has Cold Not Held Sufficient of Explanation For Postponement of Im portant Parliamentary Session Believed Pend ing Would Make Tojo Dictator Br GLENN BABB The parliament was to have convened today to hear Pre mier General Tojo and his col leagues outline the governments policies Usually this which two Houses resume business the JR think that most farmers could by the New Year repairs keep up a important of the production for n or The ministerial morf Important The recommended to the 1 That food to Continued on it Col r on the of this the occasion year when the ministers make a more or clean breast of things to the coiintry But Tokyo redlo nays Tojo has B cold and the postponed to Now in highly un usual Although Tojo who ic wur l as Is man mot of it not seem that if OR Pant A Cot
