Hutchinson News Herald (Newspaper) - January 24, 1943, Hutchinson, Kansas Weather Warmer The Hutchinson VOL. NO. 175 JANUARY 24, 1943 PRICE 5c Germans In Caucasus Entrapped Vegro Held In Murder Aboard Train In West Beautiful Young Bride Of Ensign Slain In No. 13 Ore. Sgt. E. W. said ho had arrested a Negro waiter as n suspect in the train slaying of Martha Virginia 2l-ycar-oId Virginia bride ot n navy She was slashed lo death in Berth 13 before dawn the waiter as John who was held at the county jail for further 21-ycar-old bride nt was slain as a train rolled through northern Oregon toward San No Motive Officers said they could find no state police crime detection said at where tiie body was that she had not been Her belongings were including In a Marine Private Harold R. who was sleeping in the above said he was awakened by a scream below He saw a dark man climb from her berth and run down the He thought the man was a William Van U. S. marine who occupied a berth across the aisle from Mrs. said he heard terrible about 4 a. m. Body In Aisle Van Dyke said he drew back and saw the body of Mrs. James in the aisle with a sheet over it. He leaped from his The woman was was in the vicinity of Krom there a manhunt In Yard Sheriff Herbert of found a of footprints in the Tangent indicating the man may have leaped off and immediately got aboard a northbound foot prints might have been those of a they seem to have been made a man who jumper off the West We Column 2, Feelings Hurt Detroit CIO lenders today as and comments by Eddie Rickenbacker here on labor's role in war in address following a tour of war plants said that you could understand what our boys are doing in the hell holes throughout the world that our way of life may be you would not worry about eight hours a or double time for and and proposed congress act to provide that returning service men after the war be employed by any employer without having to join any organized labor The Weather north and ast continued mild southwest portion Sunday with wind Increasing to 35 lo 35 miles per mild Increasing w i n d ranging from 25 to 30 miles per hour Clouds rolled in Saturday and temperatures wont but on the whole it was a. pleasant Hutchinson Temperature Saturday's high 48 at 12:30 low 20 at 8:30-11:30 at 6:30 p. m. 37. by CAA at Year ago 82, low 35. Official U. S. report by Mrs. J. high 37, low 26, at 7 p. m. 37. U. noun n 6:30 p 39 31 Denver 60 n DCS 12 7 roUne 37 rort 88 30 80 5& New 78 W New York 3\ 1.1 CHy 72 6* Louie 3S 40 33 28 31 D. Mix These With Your Breakfast No Doubt Asbury N. a chow thawed out but nobody can explain how his tail came to bo frozen six Inches under the Ice at Franklin lake at West Long miles north of SPCA Officer William T. Davenport ot who held a leash around the dog's neck while Police Chief Earl Hanaway chopped the animal said he'd seen anything like in 25 Outsells Horse New surely are Sam Saturday after ho Was paid more for a turkey than a Kg said hlf still in good Just while his smallest dressed turkey sold for a few cents more than Country Makes Good Omaha 21, had never been away her home town or S. had never seen a A taxicab an escalator or a large Miss Lundgrin was sworn in as a WAAC recruit after passing entrance examinations with one ot the highest marks ever Of the girl who had been working 18 hours a day as a the WAAC lieutenant at the recruiting station said like to have 150,000 more like Special Delivery J. a has solved his wartime transportation problem by buying a pair of and half terrier and half beagle Miller hooks his dogs to a little cart and they haul his tool chest from home to The dogs also transport groceries for the Miller Miller figures they can pull 270 pounds on level or 340 pounds when their harness is attached to a He says the dogs REVIVE ANOTHER OLD NATIVE David age 10 strapped to the back of his Mrs. Jacob papoose picks up a toy from a counter In a Washington Meanwhile Mrs. Karro talks with Mrs. Philip who has her daughter with Lack of domestic help and transportation problems are being met somewhat by taking the baby along to One Way To Move Man 1/P)tfl>) - They couldn't get Alexander frostbitten safely to a hospital any other way because of so they just hitched a tractor to his bunkhouse and hauled bed and all the 38 miles to frostbitten while working In the was carried from his bed Into the hospital after the bunkhouse was dragged to the hospital Files Fur Colorado gust of wind a fur piece from a woman's shoulder into the The fur Eventually officers found it atop four story The Police Chief I. B. Bruce was pulled from the street into the Golden Cycle building's Terrific suction il up tour stories through the drain Officers found it lodged in the roof opening of the Dairy Foods Certain To Be Rationed Cheese Limitations Apt To Same Time As Meat By Sterling Green - Butler and cheese probably will be rationed next It was Indicated at the Office of Price An official disclosed that although a dairy may be rationed along with meat because ot its adaptability as a meat Butter for civilians is so scarce now that it cannot bo rationed at explained the who could not be quoted by 4, Column 2, Plan Soon Treasury Submit Proposal Next Week Washington that the treasury department experts would have their recommendations on the income tax collection proposal ready fof presentation to the house ways and means committee was expressed by Chairman In a letter to Treadway the committee's ranking minority Doughton said that he believed that consideration of the plan would have first consideration in the order of the committee's His letter was in reply to one from the committee's Republican members demanding Immediate public hearings on prospective tax including the of adopting some form of collection of the personal income Sauce For Gander Can Sass The Goose Women May Equal Rights And Live To Regret Lost Privileges By Kenneth L. Dixon Washington It just among us but that proposed constitutional amendment for equal rights for may get strong backing from tha Introduced by Ludlow and Senator Gillette tho legislation was sure to get lip at from the congressmen it has enough feminine sponsors to make even a bachelor Bui the men found some It and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its any henpecked husband can see that such a law gives him equal rights with his According to officials of the National women a bad deal all over the classed with idiots and lunatics in many The ladies cited slate laws which bar women trom Jury husbands preferred rights over children and refuse legal business status and makes it easy tor a man lo divorce wife for the same acts he can indulge in without danger ot anything more drastic than a disrupted home These they would be eliminated by the But some male amid some protests that the plan was 8 blow at state's discovered that what's sauce for the ganger can also sass the For in some states where a man can be prosecuted for family desertion but errant women wives and mothers have been trotting off to tlie the WAVES and defense Fathers forced to quit work to keep house for the have found they have no legal In other alimony is always a one-way Ditto salary The said the grinning also would bo by the Plain Mr. Henderson Fla. A stocky man wailed in line at the Dade county rationing shifting trom foot to foot as the applicants slowly moved into the As he reached a he asked the clerk if he could use her phone but was declined permission because the were so When he stepped back into line the girl those waiting ahead ot him and behind to make sure he hadn't moved up a hitch or The typist returned to her never realizing that she had been talking to Leon her former boss as administrator of the office oi price now just Mr. looking things Henderson ts here Big News In The London Says World Offensive Against Axis Is Being Plotted London for a world-girdling offensive against the including the formation of some type ot supremo war council of the United are expected to bo announced possibly the next it was learned How many details will be announced of the decisions at negotiations now under way for a 1943 victory drive will depend on how much the enemy can safely be allowed to but formal disclosures are expected soon by informed Allied quarters Under a banner line ot news soon says the Sunday Pictorial said that last night the news in London and Washington hinted dramatically that an early announcement of was Steps Being Taken The London diplomatic a heading of plans of wrote that unusually optimistic and expectant atmosphere in authoritative quarters in London leads observers to the belief that steps either have been or will be taken in Tho Sunday Express headlined great event's saying for the coing offensive against the it may be now under active consideration discussion between the British and U. S. Plot Second Front In addition to the formation of a central which is expected to be ihe most Important result of the decisions are expected on tho question of a attack on the European and on an of the scrambled political situation In North Wladyslaw premier of the Polish who arrived here 13 after conversations with President is understood to have emphasized the belief of the smaller Allied governments In the urgency of a campaign lo free the conquered people of Other United Nations including President Roosevelt Prime Minister and Premier Stalin have left doubt of the desire for a second front in Europe ot the earliest possible Pacific Sub Chief Aboard Lost Plane Admiral English Among Those Who May Have Perished Francisco - Hopes were dimming for the safety of Rear Admiral Robert commander of the Pacific fleet submarine and 18 other persons aboard a navy transport plane since search is navy officials reported That was Names of those were made public That the loss of so many high-ranking officers was a severe blow was easy to discern terse by navy three commanders and two lieutenant commanders is a heavy toll in the fighting One Nurse Aboard One woman was Edna a navy nurse assigned to duly In the South The plane was last heard from Thursday when It circled bay area unable to land because of weather Whether the pilot sought a water landing at Clear which before the war was an emergency landing for the Pan-American or headed back to sea was not Rafts Not From Plane A brief Hurry ot excitement occurred Saturday when a packinghouse John of Santa saw an empty rubber life raft floating miles north of the Later a second raft came and both were turned over to army Investigation proved the rafts had belonged to the coast and probably had slipped away from the deck of some The Admiral whose usual residence is his Mrs. Eloise Walker lives at Holmes commanding officer of a Rocky N. Robert E. ot the navy civil engineer director ot the Pacific division ot the Bureau of Yards and Donald C. attached to the twelfth naval San Commander John assigned to duties at Commander Francis attached to the staff of in Pacific San Commander William G. commanding officer of a naval John gunnery officer ot submarine Pacific George attached to the 14th district at Pearl Big Mich. Edna navy nurse assigned to duty in the South Rich Kansan Dies In Fire Trapped In El Dorado El Dorado Frank El Dorado philanthropist who founded the Susan Allen Memorial died Saturday in a fire which gutted several rooms on the second floor of a district building owned by Allen's body was found on the floor near the head of a bed in one of the Death ivas caused by According to Allen went to the rooms shortly after Later smoke was seen pouring from windows on the second floor of the and the fire department was Allen's clad only in was discovered when flames were sufficiently extinguished to permit a Police expressed the belief that the victim apparently was asleep in the bed when the fire and because of his advanced age unable lo make his way out of the The leading to the suite ot they had been Allen was widely known for his philanthropic and recently was a major donor to the new Joseph's orphanage constructed His with many business enterprises since moving to El Dorado in 1882, had permitted him to amass a estimated by friends to be in excess of a million Seek Kinsley Washington civil service commission announced Saturday it would receive applications until February B at Mo. and Alexander Is Boomed To Head Next Great Allied Offensive By Alfred E. Wall Lundon to the of popular acclaim by the tall of and the successful conclusion of his desert Gen. Sir Harold commander in chief ot Allied forces in the middle is regarded by many here as the logical man lo command the next full-blown offensive ot the Allied wherever it may The pleasant whose appointment to supreme command in the middle east last August received a cool reception from British press and now has won firm recognition as one of Britain's most capable Throughout the recent desert campaign military authorities stressed the fact that it basically was Alexander's even though Sir Bernard I. Montgomery was more in the limelight as battlefront executor of his chief's grand Now the public Is remembering again that the Alexander won fame in the last war and the man oft the beach at in the present Alexander organized the present realistic battle training methods in Britain and directed the British army's retreat out of where the soldiers in the face ot terrific odds were said to have come out their tails An avowed apostle ot the Alexander has told his junior mast not be content to sit behind concrete We should take every opportunity to hit back - especially where the enemy is not expecting He is a exponent of air support for ground and his in the use ot the aerial arm was seen all through the desert Fleeing Nazis Under Steady Fire From Air British Troops Hardly Pause In Tripoli But Continue On Heels Of Who Seek Union With Tunisian Army By Noland Norgaard Allied Headquarters In North Africa Eighth army captured Tripoli to finally topple African empire early Saturday and raced on westward toward Tunisia where Allied troops were mopping up Nazi parachutists trying to widen the 50-mile of escape left to Marshal Rommel's Axis forces fleeing into Montgomery's desert troops at 5 a. swept into Tripoli dock depots and had been blasted both by Allied bombers and Nazi demolition Capture of city the ultimate triumph ot a push equivalent to the distance from trew York City lo the plains ot Planes Sow Death The British then wore reported to have pushed on toward the Tunisian 100 miles of while Allied planes pounded Rommel's shattered troops on the coastal highway and inflicted on boatloads ot Axis officials fleeing the port of 60 miles from admiralty in London also announced that light of the Royal navy bombarded Zuara early results were large fires and explosions being the communique No casualties nor damage was suffered by the British Less than 300 miles separates General Montgomery's troops and the Allied Tunisian the area of but the Axis apparently is firmly entrenched all along the eastern Tunisian coast Rommel is withdrawing to join the Axis troops under Jurgen Von It also is believed that General Montgomery's main forces would have to pause for rest and reorganization after the exhausting haul across Beat Nazi Tanks A French communique issued Saturday night said fighting continued all day in the mountainous central Tunisian sector 20 miles northwest of Kairouan where U. troops are aiding the repulsing all enemy attacks our forces regrouped in the region north of the road which leads from to the bulletin kilometers north ot our Moroccan detachments annihilated a German During the day several enemy posts surrendered and valuable material was the communique Earlier British and French troops were reported to have rolled back a German tank column at least tour miles in tho Kebir valley after a counterattack launched from toward Pont Du This sector is above Ihe In these two roughly 50 miles weet of the eastern Tunisian the Axis has made its most determined bid to the Allies ill order to secure the line of Marshal Rommel's Allied aircraft continued to pound German and Italian columns retreating along the coast and at the same time attacked El airdrome three a great concentration ot Axis transport and fighter planes on the Round Up In lo widen their on 200-mlle-long coastal belt the Axis dropped parachutists nt several In the tear of the Allied But the majority of these already have been roundup with the gendarmerie and a spokesman hinted that Montgomery's forces had Intercepted the Rommel retreat fn Libya by landing forces from boats somewhere along the coast west of The Berlin broadcasts claimed the landing party was driven The bjg question of course was how troops Rommel can speed Into Tunisia to reinforce the 70,000 or more which General von Arnim is to Death Takes Collapses During Broadcast New York - Alexander 56, widely known author and died here Saturday When he was taken to the hospital following his collapse ip the studio he given only a to live by his Dr. Edmund De Vol. Dr. De Vol had called a heart Dr. T. Stewart when he found the in so serious A police crew also was called to administer Woollcott participating in the program on the Germany when he became ill. The radio audience was unaware of his feeling he wrote in a note to Dr. Harry president ot Brooklyn college and acting chairman ot the discussion Motioning to Rex writer and chairman ol the Writers War Dr. George N. president of Hunter and Marci also a lo continue the helped Woollcott to a lounge in the The radio program continued without announcement that the author had taken ill. Woollcott first achieved distinction as a dramatic critic for the New York a post he held from 1014 lo 1922, except for two years when he served in the during the first World radio and writing have held his attention in recent He played the role of Sheridan Whiteside In Man Who Came lo a stage comedy based on tys own Sub London admiralty announced Saturday that the submarine Traveller was overdue and Rail Key To Oil Fields Is Captured Entire Army Of Hitler Menaced By New Success By The Associated The Berlin radio said Saturday that the Nazi armies encircled at the last cartridge and last hand In order to tie down huire Russian forces and make them large amounts of The heard by tho Associated as part ot the German and radio campaign to prepare the German people for news ot greater reverses In By Eddy Moscow Red army has recaptured Armavir which controls the Maikop oil fields in the and on the Voronezh front to the north has occupied railway junction 78 miles northeast ot Kharkov and 50 miles cast nt two highly important Nazi a special communique announced Saturday On the Voronezh front 12,000 more prisoners were boosting the total Axis captives to 64,-000, and in nine days since the offensive began tho Russians said they had routed 17 Axis nine of them Germans In Vise Tho seizure of Armavir was the biggest Red army victory yet in the From that city runs the only railway to the Maikop oil fields and to Tuapse on the Black sea The latter Is still in Russian hands and Axis troops in between these points now are sources estimated that 200,000 Axis troops were threatened with encirclement in the Caucasus just as an equal number was trapped betoTe In taking on the fast Voronezh front thi troops of Lt. Gen. F. Golikov again cut the railway in the sweep toward the main line is about 22 miles above which was taken several days industrial center ot Donets to the also is threatened with imminent seizure by Russian troops who Friday captured 10 miles to the and only 12 miles Might Encircle Rostov troops driving into the Ukraine may wheel southward toward the sea of Azov in an effort lo completely encircle the Caucasian gateway of midnight Soviet communique recorded by the Soviet monitor in London said only 75 miles from had fallen to the Russian troops that had seized railway junction 100 miles ot The Red army also took 20 miles southwest of Salsk on the railway to 2,000 enemy an entire trainload ot and other important equipment were this communique and hundreds ot Axis troops were killed or Rostov Rostov itself was in growing peril from other Red armies less than 60 miles to the east on the lower Don beyond the recaptured rail junction and air base 100 miles to Ihe by forces on the railway to 75 miles to the and by the Caucasus armies driving up the Baku railway less than 200 miles Closer To Kharkov On the Voronezh Russians declared they dislodged the enemy from a number of populated places encroaching closer on ancient capital ot the Further troops pressed deeper into Kursk less than 85 from the capital of the same The most rapid advance was in the north Caucasus where the Russians were paced by the superb Cossack thundering home at last to their plundered of populated were occupied overnight in the on the northern slopes of Europe's highest which the Russians were mopping Intercepted JOE LOUIS DEAR Glad you are toming down to open the Golden tournament next Yours
