Cumberland Evening Times (Newspaper) - January 26, 1943, Cumberland, Maryland The WEATHER Rain or sleet tonight colder moderate winds 26 CITY WEATHER for ifie I M Maximum Minimum I a M 67 32 33 tect inch and snow City Edition 16 Pages CUMBERLAND MD TUESDAY JAN 261943 frus FOUR CENTS House Orders Probe Rubber barges ARMY AND NAVY ON PRODUCTION GOVERNOR AIRS ENCROACHMENT STATE RIGHTS North Carolina Executive Blames Commonwealths For Expansion Of Federal Powers Murder Witness ALMOST DRIFTING Remark These Loafers In Industrial Plants In With Output Stirs Washington t DENIED NEEDS FOR RUBBER MAKING Military Contends De mands Would With War Program Up to Roosevelt Washington into Rubber tor William Jeffers charges that Army and N a v j loafers were interfering with war produc tion was ordered today by the naval committee The action was taken at the re quest of Chairman Vinson after he read to the committee a newspaper story of Jeffers remarks before the Council of State Gov at Baltimore yesterday This is a serious accusation and we should have an inquiry to give Mr Jeffers an opportunity to prove the correctness of his statement We should also hear from Army and Navy officials It was up to President Roosevelt today to call the winner in the sharp skirmishing between Rubber Director William M Jeffers and the armed services on whether Jeffers get the overriding priority goahead he demands for his syn thetic rubber program said There was some question whether had spoken of the Army and Navy aat loafers or of the Army and loafers His secretary asked by reporters to ask him what his exact words were later informed them that he laid he spoke of Army sad Nary There was no further comment immediately available from the rub ber director who was reported busy in conferences Claims He Needs High Priority Jeffers has been contending that he needs high priority on materials to get his synthetic rubber program going and that ths armed services in his way with their de mands Chairman Donald M Nelson of the War Production Board told a Senate agriculture subcommittee he had given full cooperation to Jef fers but we cant put one program of all others The synthetic program he re minded is competing lor priorities on valves heat exchangers control and other parts against four other vitally pro grams He listed them as the aviation gasoline the air plane escort vessel and merchant ship programs Asks Joint Investigation Vinson said that he planned to suggest to Rep May chair man of the House military commit tee that the inquiry be made a Joint investigation May endorsing an investigation said it was up to his committee members to decide whether to participate Vinson said this committee can not concern itself with idle gossip rumors and ir responsible statements But Mr Jeffers holds a responsible position he is a great railroad executive and jHolds Washington May Be Shown More Disposed to Pass Buck Than Raid State Jurisdiction Baltimore Jan 26 Iff Everett Lee De Goyler as federal deputy administrator told the Council of State Governments today that the time was not far away when fuel oil would be ration ed throughout the country Baltimore Jan 20 Coun cil of State Governments today pre pared to speak its piece on man power and defense and heard Gov ernor J M Broughton of North Carolina blame the states them selves for much of the almost ter rifying expansion of federal en upon the original do main of the states j But Broughton predicted in his Cairo Jan 26 British prepared address we may discover Eighth Army again advanced yes ia the years immediately ahead that I in the drive toward Held Germany Says Violence Of Red Thrusts On Wide Part Eastern Front Increases British Advancing Inside Of Tunisia IMPERIAL ARMY SEIZES Represents An Advance of About 30 Miles Since Fall of City of Tripoli ROMMEL ARMY KEPT UNDER AIR ATTACK Wrecked Nazi Transport Planes Near Stalingrad Enemy Filtering Through Zuara 35 Miles Ahead of Pursuers Fight to Retain Africa Toehold Washington is more disposed to pass the buck to the states than to rain their jurisdictions The councils manpower and de Marshal Erwin Rommels positions inside Tunisia and British troops occupied the town of about 30 miles west of Tripoli a British said today fense programs expected to brace the state governmental i Part of Rommels forces were still groups most important dations were to be presented just before the council adjourned its sixth annual Genral As sembly late today Terms Expansion Terrifying Those of us who believe in the fundamental principles iof states rights and local selfgovernment Governor said may as well concede frankly that much the almost terrifying expansion of federal original encroachment upon the domain of the states has come about because state govern Marine Private Harold R Wilson ments to meet the challenge above occupied the berth above that of Mrs Martha Virginia Erin son James when she was mysteri while travelling through Oregon on a San Francisco bound train He at tempt to catch a man he said he saw leap from Mrs James berth I think we should look into this matter Vinson will appoint a subcommit tee to conduct the inquiry later At the suggestion of Rep Maas R members of the appropria Continued on Page 2 Col 3 MOTIVE SOUGHT IN MYSTERY OF TRAIN BERTH 13 Evidence Collected On Train On Which Naval Officers Wife Was Slain Studied THREE ARE HELD Belief Exists Womans Throat Was Slit While Rebuffing Attempt ed Rape Albany Ore Jan 26 dence collected along the route of the Southern Pacifics West Coast Limited was sent here today as Linn county authorities took charge of the mystery of Lower 13 the sleeping car slaying of a naval officers young bride Mrs Martha Virginia Brinson James 21 daughter of a prominent Norfolk Va family was killed her throat slit as she lay in Berth 13 of a sleeper aboard the southbound Limited early last Saturday Death Car Being Studied The death car and pages of tes timony taken from passengers and employes as the train moved through Oregon and California have been sent here Also returned are two men held of the new day Inadequate educational oppor tunities archaic labor laws and regulations unrelieved hardships and inequities suffered by the working people he continued led them all too frequently to look for relief to the federal govern ment He added it was true there ii a large and growing group of theorists who believe that our national gov should take all control and authority x x x Theorists Welcome Extension These theorists have been quick to capitalize upon national distress or need he said This group has sought and still seeks to use even the war emergency as a pretext for expanding their sociological ex Unsound measures NAZI DEFENSE SEVERE CLAIMS HIGH COMMAND Berlin Communique Again Gives Black Picture of Plight Hitler Hordes In Stalingrad Area REDS PUSH BATTLE LINES NEAR ROSTOV Also Moving Deeper Into Ukraine re of Another Unidentified Town Announced These wrecked German transport planes with some of their freight scattered about near Stalingrad bear testimony to the determination of Russian defenders of the city who thrust back the enemy and trapped an estimated 22 divisions The Germans attempted to fly supplies to the trapped troops Radio lioto from Moscow to New STATE OF SIEGE IS PROCLAIMED MARSEILLE filtering through Zuara 65 miles west of Tripoli yesterday and Al lied continued to rake his weary columns with ma fire and bombs the com said One ship in the har bor being used to take off some ofj the was hit by a bomb 1 it was reported i The Axis landing ground about 70 miles inside Tunisia was attacked Sunday night by Allied bombers and targets near Vichy Authorities Act When Angry Frenchmen by also were hit the communique said The bombers returned again yesterday to blast landing ground which is only 45 miles southeast of Gabes Axis supply lines in Tunisia and m A ATO Sicily were also attacked with bombs SHOOT Fortify Homes In Old Port District and andj German News a British plane was lost in the op Axis Fights to Keep North Africa Toehold London Jan 26 Mar shal Erwin Rommels Libyan army and the Axis Tunisian forces under Jol Gen Jurgen Von Arnim fought jack to back to retain a foothold n Africa today as tie British Eighth Army pressed relentlessly after the recreating Rommel in the south and American British and French forces held firmly a bristling line on the west 40000 Persons Have Been Arrested Death Threatened for Others which were repudiated in normal times have been trotted out under new regalia accompanied by the flag He said an increase in federal embarkations Upon new and cost ly experiments in governmental service x x z the national debt will ay a restraining hand I think on London Jan 26 auth have proclaimed a state of siege in Marseille the Vichy radio reported today after dispatches from Switzerland told of angry Frenchmen fortifying their homes In the old port district of the city and firing on German soldiers or dered to evacuate the district 40000 as material witnesses Marine Pri Continued on Page 2 Col i Liberation of Tripoli Ghetto By British Victory Hailed Emotional Outburst of People Almost Riotous As They Recognize War Correspondents As Americans Some Throw Themselves At Their Feet Of fering Gifts of Wine Tobacco Money the ambitions of our federal gov This is particularly true because ww for the first time the average citizen is paying direct taxes to he federal government It is easy o clamor for expenditures when heir costs will be borne by other rs Citizens scrutinize budgets with a skeptical eye when Hie money must come fro purses Centralization Near Saturation Centralization has about reached the saturation point in this coun try he declared and added the future of the American state was never so bright In the last prepared address of the session Governor Leverett Sal tonstall of Massachusetts said his state had learned that delegation of emergency powers to the gover nor was the best method of solving urgent wartime problems As a permanent institution he commented we dont want execu tive orders to supersede legislative action either on a state or national basis xxx but the demands of modern war make it absolutely necessary for us to go further in centralizing authority than we would in peacetime WHITEHEAD and Tripoli Jan 25 Delayed Seeing people liberated from virtual bondage and watching their emo tional outbursts form the most gra impressions we have of the occupation of Tripoli Only a few hours ago British and Advance units of the Royal Air Force rolled into this rv nnd the official surrender to rl Sir Bernard L Montgomery vote the lust chapter in the of kissed Mussolinis African the elly ancient ghetto where some 16000 Jews were crowded into n labyrinth of houses and cellars re sembling a rabbit wanen We walked through an gate guarded by military police and as soon ns the people recog us as Americans the emotional outburst was almost riotous Some threw themselves at our feet offering gifts of not only wine and tobacco but money as well threw their arms about our BRITISH COMMANDOS RAID NORWAY COAST Small Scale Attack Last Sat Night Reported to Be Very Successful While it was assumed that German news agency END of Rommels forces already in dispatches to Madrid and joined Von Arnim the that 40000 persons had been of the Axis corridor up the in the city The Vichy radio coast of Tunisia was indicated placed the number of ar when American troops at 6000 was making an ob a dare broke through effort to difficulties only 35 miles from the old and historical city of coastal road and seized 80 second largest in France Shortly after reporting the state French troops holding their siege proclamation the radio as tions in the important that Marseille was calm and sector of central Tunisia evacuation of the old port dis back German attacks in the had taken place without the east and the Earlier it had reported that rival of U S armored disobeying an order or at strengthened their hold north to shoot would be sen northeast of the town a to death communique Bring Up Artillery Sizeable Force Behind Reuters dispatch from Zurich Rommel was believed to have the Germans had brought up a sizeable force into the to shell revolting French Line which once guarded into submission if necessary against the Italians but this that fighting was believed by most observers in progress be only a delaying action occupation authorities the Eighth Army pounding ordered evacuation and razing ward toward the the district apparently de The position there was measure against possible threatened by the approach invasion from North Africa the south of Fighting French reporting the under Brig Gen Jacques Le of 40000 persons said the reported to be 50 miles was absolutely necessary be Continued on Page 2 Col on Page 3 Col 3 Positions on Consolidated by US Navy Two Units nf remind Allies Discuss FarFlung Plan To Win War London Jan 26 eral De Gaulle Fighting French leader and General Henri Honors Giraud high commissioner in French North Africa were reported today to have reached an agreement as a result of mediation by the United States and Britain Talks were understood to be part of farreaching warwin the Allied nations Military leaders of the United States and Britain it reported played a part in toe talks Fighting French sources here had maintained for weeks that any disagreements could be quickly ironed out if representatives of the two French factions met CONFIRMATION EDWARD FLYNN NOW DOUBTFUL London Jan 26 Ger man high command asserted today that Russian on a wide part of the eastern front increased In violence The onslaught the Soviets against a large part the eastern front increased in v lence yester day said the broadest communi que recorded here In severe defense against the enemy who was several times su in number the armies withstood all attempts of the Soviets to break through or cordon them off Again the communique gave a black picture of the plight of the German defenders of Stalingrad saying they were concentrated in a narrow space in the southern and Signs Multiplying Of district of the ruins of the On il said Me treating Democratic up a position to His Diplo matic Appointment TO EXTEND LIFE WAR PACT IS INTRODUCED Measure Would Continue Administrations Lease Lend Authority For Another Year NEED HELD URGENT Meanwhile Proponents of Investigation Into Lend lease Shipments Are Against Curbing supported therein by the air force under the most difficult condi I tions Russians Closer Russias armies pushed their bat tle lines ever closer to Rostov and deeper into the Ukraine today spurred at once by the praise cf Premier Joseph Stalin and his rally ing cry that the invading be thrown entirely out of Soviet Russia For the first time In the Russians offensive hints were directed at Soviet activity close to Rostov al though the midday communique as reported here by the Soviet ra dio monitor did not say how near the units were working Cited ia the communique was a guerrilla detachment credited with operating in the Rostov area and wiping out about 200 of the enemy Not only did the group destroy guns truck and carts and capture rifles and ammunition the recorded war bulletin said but they also re captured from the Germans 1200 A dozen or so no votes from the head of cattle and 3500 sheep said J 1 I to have been taken off collective farms Further Gains id South The Russians also fur ther gains with the capture of towns and villages on the southern survey showed front on the southwestern front The foreign relations committee m the Voronezh area and on the COMMITTEE TO ACT One Member Says An Un favorable Report Would Not Surprise Him Showdown In Week Washington Jan 26 multiplied today of increasing Dem opposition in the Senate to President appointment of Edward J Flynn as minister to Australia and his personal ambas sador to the southwest Pacific With the Senates 38 Republicans expected to vote nearly solidly j against confirmation of the former Democratic national chairman for the diplomatic post cations of Democratic defections cast doubt on the outcome Few No Votes Might Erd It Democratic side might swing the verdict against Flynn depending on he number of senators voting when the showdown comes probably next week Several more than that num of Democrats were tal in their attitude a cloakroom will ballot on the nomination to morrow and while its verdict gen was believed likely to bei North Caucasian battle line but they were not immediately favorable one Democratic member j The Premiers praise was contain who asked to remain anonymous an order of the day said an adverse report would not be too surprising to him Washington Jan 26 bili j Democrats generally were loath to to continue the administrations authority for another year was introduced today by Chairman Bloom DNY of the themselves publicly but cast by the Moscow radio and re ported here by the Soviet monitor In it he cited the Red army for driving 245 miles in two months of Senator Wheeler DMont snid he Hie Russian winter offensive and thought the nomination was more than 200000 prison fortunate at this particular time jers while rolling the Germans back House foreign affairs committee as and unfortunate as to the from the Volga and down front the especially needed now when place United Nations are on the march to victory Some Democrats Against Flynn j Premier Stalin signed ths order Some Democrats were reported as The Supreme Commander He In a statement accompanying the planning to oppose Flynns out the armies on all the Bloom declared that now on the grounds that he was I fronts iii language that began like the nation is at war I know an experienced diplomat nnd I congratulate the Red army there will be few among us who that reason ought not to bo sent the nnd will question the wisdom of a critical war zone as A x x x on their victory over act the German Invaders Page i Col Principles Held Sound The principles of he Continued on Page Col 7 nnd London Jan 26 Join At Jap Headquarters On Island to Control Village and Beach After Kill ing 293 of Enemy Troops Washington Jan 25 Guadalcanal was intercepted and can forces have consolidated by U S aircraft The tions in planes driven off and on Guadalcanal bombs were dropped on U S positions Four Japanese Zeroes were shot down no U S planes struggle on which the fate of thc world depended They are even sounder at a time when the United i Nations arc on the march to tory j of Axis Transport Described by War Reporter unless renewed and added congress was in British source said today control the village and beach a small scale Commando raid was killing 293 enemy the Navy made last Saturday night on today were lost coast of Norway and was very sue In a Navy unite of U S ground but further details withheld of a force bombers Only a small force engaged i turned baek by American fighter of Japanese dive i forces joined at on intercepted niter one unit had en the 19411 in anticipating the necessity ofj aid to the countries op posing Axis aggression What wasj not so obvious then is crystal clear j now Proponent of a senatorial investi gation into to the Allies indicated today that they seek nn Inquiry into the fld Bound From Tripoli to Sicily for Farm Work Sent to Bottom In Mediterranean and Escorting Destroyer Badly Damaged By CROCKETT j k troops Aboard a warship off hundreds of Axis workmen to Tripoli IB n inn coast Jan farms In the action he said I planes the village from the ministration of this aid without beach to the cast and the other had Reuters reported a German The text of the encircled a strong enemy pocket and agency broadcast yesterday which No 262 entered fmm smith said the British Commandos had South fall dates me oast struck at on the const of Norway This broadcast Axis has Just had Their fire 23 aboard convincing nnd ship onn of them ft former that the British Brooklyn resident who fleet is OP the English He said many of in Hie form of a I his shipmates were of sunk who were being takes One senator who asked not io escorting destroyer badly Sicily and Italy unwillingly to asking that U be curtailed Hopkins Role Main Point The maneuver resulted in giving quoted said that the role of Harry J by IT ft nf T tf 1 On January rmr checks German defenses imri repulsed l large force of our of seven British on Page j Col 6 boat two of fighters which U S forces unrestricted use Hopkins special assistant to into which been at and the beach to the President Roosevelt was a main i saw Two hundred Japans kilted nnd fl e for on point on which would I round be sought MieD Col 1 j Continued on i Col 3 nnd another fnr many hours off the III round of roust through nut rl sons whipped to fury by en Jrom Tripoli Continued on Page i Col iJ
