Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - March 22, 1943, Kingsport, Tennessee WEATHER FORECAST Continued cold with ture tonight temperature Tuesday morning Sunday's lush 88 last night's low 28 Monday noon 35 53 Inch precipitation Vol XXVIII No 69 Kingsport Tenn Monday March 22 1943 8 Pages Five Cents HOME EDITION s Army n Squeeze Churchill Gives Post-War Views BABY JOINS THE Persian cat selected from ft group of volunteers as mascot for a warship at Charleston S C here gets a physical check-up from Lieutenant jg H A Cassady right ns his former owner Miss Odell Tanton holds him Recording the results of the examination is Boatswain's Mate Acey Murphy of Cleveland Tenn Baby was accorded full honors when ho went on duty and was piped aboard like an officer Flood Situation On Ohio Brightens Plans Completed For Tin Can Drive In Kingsport Area Plans for the collection of pre- Talk Called Charter For Future London JP Prime Minister Churchill sketched for the world in a radio broadcast Sunday night his vision of a post-war order where peace might eventually be kept by a European and an Asiatic Council of Free Nations but ed the British people of the sity of keeping their eye on ball to win a struggle which might i go on two years or more before Adolf Hitler is crushed into dust and ashes The speech which was devoted chiefly to the problems of creating a peaceful world of tomorrow and a comprehensive four-year for improved social conditions in Britain drew quick but mixed re- i actions today from the British some sections of which felt the Prime Minister had not gone far enough in his post-war ing while others stressed the of winning the war as the mary consideration at present Favors Post-War System Churchill placed his government squarely on record as favoring a post-war system of comprehensive social insurance for all purposes from the cradle to the in- health and unemployment benefits He promised a social system free of snobbery with equal ties for all classes of citizens The post-war organization for peace which Churchill envisaged was based on an agreement be- tween the British Commonwealth of Nations the United States and Soviet Russia supplemented ably by Regional federations of smaller nations in Europe because in Europe lie most of the causes which have led to these two world wars Although military affairs were Tress given a secondary place in the The Ohio river flood situation brightened with the of the P prepared river above Portsmouth and h that the British stages expected from Portsmouth hth Army under Sir Bernard L i nof lofo American Troops Drive Wedge Into Defense Italians Captured Allied Headquarters in North armored troops drove a wedge into Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's last defense barring the way to the Gulf of Gabes with the capture of about Italian prisoners and Gen Sir Bernard Montgomery pressed a full-scale attack on the Mareth Line Monday Field reports said an American column was within sight of I a strong German position on I the railway some 50 miles west of the port of hares The battle of Tunisia which Prime Minister Churchill an- Sunday night was under way and going well found mel's southern forces squeezed into HITLER AT RUSSIAN FRONT NAZIS newspapers on March 17 published this picture purporting to show Adolph Hitler near the front lines in Russia DNB German news agency said Hitler flew to the front and held discussions with his officers The German caption identified the men as left to right Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Mannstein Colonel Genera Ruoff Hitler General Kurt von Zeitzler and Field Marshall vor Kleist it Hitler Breaks Long Silence To Admit Certain German Areas Zones New Gains Reported By Soviets Red army has captured the railway town of rovo 57 miles East of Smolensk on the main line from Moscow and the Russian column driving ward toward the rail line from Bely has made new progress the Russians announced Monday as the battle for the Donets river line southeast of Kharkov grew in city was occupied by the same Russian force which broke through the German defenses at to crack the Nazi salient so long pointed threateningly at Moscow The advance was made in the face of repeated German counterattacks that cos: the Germans heavily in men and material communique said the mid-day The Berlin radio in a broadcast a coastal strip of barely 70 miles separating the correlated drives of Montgomery and U S Gen George S Jr from the south and the west respectively New British Lino In the north Col Gen Jurgen Von Arnim's troops drove a British First from Station which lies 47 miles west of Bizerte and about two miles northwest of the Abiad but the dominating heights of Abiad were covered by a new British line This was a mere sideshow to tho Allied ground and air offensive which threatens to encircle mel in south CA British radio broadcast re- corded by CBS said tho powerful aerial action with which the Brit- ish Eighth Army opened its attack on the Mareth positions was very much like the beginning of tho battle of El dust stores I and rain clouds which had recorded by the Associated Press I admitted Monday for the first operations for days vanished that its steel ring around Leningrad Saturday it said and the all-out through Cincinnati late Monday Portsmouth's crest Go Easy on It's Frozen One Week OPA Order easy on the butter boys and girls it's all you Adolf Hitler I emerged Sunday from a silence which had given rise to rumors of his illness or death to tell the German people in a radio broadcast the crisis or the sian front had been surmounted assure them their losses in war dead were relatively small and yet that many parts of many had become war zones as a result of incessant Allied get this week Montgomery was on the Retail sales were halted by the Veteran broadcast listeners who have heard many of Hitler's Allied Bombers Pound Enemy Ships In Pacific Headquarters in Australia four or five feet below the critical A corp t Field Marshal Rommel's government Sunday midnight and before listened Meth Line in Tunisia where military clash for days stage was anticipated Monday ha b awaiting a de- and Cincinnati's revised crest prediction of 61 feet was due Tuesday U S Meteorologist J Cecil Alter said A pared tin cans in Sullivan county Of 29 Red Cross disaster completed Sunday afternoon were sent to points be- at n meeting of the Salvage Portsmouth and Evansville at the office of the OCD j Inci to supervise evacuation and School children will be kept distribution work this week collecting cans from their j Newport Ky homes and Inking them to the hor Cincinnati appeared to schools where they will be pinked tnc hardest hit of any river German Soldiers In Paris Theater Fight Each Other will not be resumed until rationing starts next Monday Sales of margarine lard and other edible fats and oils which will go under with meats and cheese next also were frozen for the same riod Restaurants are not affected by intently to be sure fuehrer speaking convinced i it was the they and said was his lats ana OHS point rationing along mil cheese next week In ot up at the of the week and involving 000 ed on a freight car for shipment to being moved out ot bottom Members of the committee who visited the schools to explain the campaign to the children reported a great deal of enthusiasm on the part of students I really do not think it was necessary to offer any special in- to the children to a committee member said They seem to an awareness of tho war and an eagerness to help that puts some of us adults to shame It explained to the dren that it takes cans to furnish enough tin for one motored bomber and they arc ing after those in n big way Free Movie At the same time revolver fight be- tween two groups of German homes The anticipated crest in a Paris movie house in force evacuation on a total of 27 Nazis were killed and 70 Red Cross officials wounded was reported Monday by families dieted Families Moved Fifty-two families were moved in Cincinnati Sunday 70 in Dayton Ky 40 in California O 20 in ington Ky five in Aberdeen Ky and three in Ripley O The Red Cross predicted 40 families will have to move from homes in expected crest Bernard S Townroe secretary of the United Associations of Great Britain and France Addressing a meeting at Epsom College he said the fight occured about two months ago between German troops stationed at Paris and troops reportedly on leave from the Russian front He did not give his source but said they were attending a movie at the Kino formerly the order and may continue to tain butter and tho other foods from their wholesalers Mayonnaise and other salad dressings are not rationed and hence are not included in the freeze The Office of Lion said its sudden action was of the shortest and most subdued speeches he has ever de- the told a German memorial day gathering t the military museum Berlin the fourth such blage since the war began that 542.000 German soldiers had been killed since the start of the con- Premier Josef Stalin has set the total of German dead on the eastern front at and been broken The Russians triumphantly re- j ported last Jan 18 that the month siege had been lifted The Berlin broadcast asserted I that Leningrad was connected with the remainder of Russia only by a route across Lake Ladoga but went on to explain that a strip of ground several kilometers wide south of the Lake had been evacuated by German troops only because it would be completely swamped in the spring The Germans claimed this withdrawal still permitted the Russians no overland tion Leningrad and said jet attempts to bridge the clay searching the southwest t in b had been for enemy shipping and the day and night attacked convoy and other vessels Positions Seized off Dutch New Guinea and crippled a large Japanese destroyer in the The Russians on the March it Solomon sea an Allied South of Bely seized two strongly fortified German positions quo said Monday The Convoy sighted off Cape consisted of two cargo vessels and a de- stroyer Results of the first attack were not observed but later in the day a heavy bomber straddled one of the cargo vessels with bombs the communique said The destroyer sen was hit the Solomon communique said and in one place moved in over the bodies of 275 Germans After conceding the loss of gorod 50 miles North of Kharkov Sunday night the Russians ed today they were holding bornly East and Southeast of the in the area of The ce at night when have tried repeatedly to onslaught was launched In clear weather Italians Captured A column of General Patton's forces thrust due cast from El Guetar mopped up Hamran eight miles nearer the coast and captured more than Italian prisoners Heavy shell fire by American batteries forced some of them to surrender American troops are now at grips with the last Axis defenses ing communication routes on tho coastal plain Both Italian and German Com- broadcast Berlin and Rome and recorded by tha Press said violent air and ground battles were in progress The German bulletin was phrased to imply that Nazi troops were not under fire saying strong American forces attacked Italian positions in south and central nisia London observers expressed be- lief that difficult communication and supply problems would hold down the pace of the American ad- vance eastward in central Tunisia from Gafsa Cautioning against over optimism one said there was still the job of clearing the enemy decided on because stocks now on own admissions hand are not large enough to in their entrapment sighted proceeding cast at the Donets river and continue numerous hills in tha on i vnn t n OV port heavy public buying and defeat at Stalingrad would appear to make of losses speed Two direct hits were their advance but each time Speculation on tho scored and when last seen the been thrown bacK by operations were dis- remaining before Hitler's total figure for two years the Rex Theater Men of the Paris is reached Monday Flood waters already have taken prison Townroe said applauded a toll of seven lives in Kentucky cws pictures but the troops who A forecast crest of from 40 to experienced setbacks on the had feet at Louisville Wednesday was front scaled downward to 39 feet by U Were not the one The retail sales said OPA does not apply to any of the cheeses or meats involved in the new rationing plan and sales of these foods will continue as usual between now and March Sales of canned fish and canned meat which were frozen February 18 will continue to be suspended until rationing starts POPE ILL A Vatican City dispatch by the cried true out the Berlin radio said today that Pope j Pius XII is from a severe A B Covey Meteorologist J L Kendall Mutual insults led to many of j cold and is confined to his bed with manager of the in floods last Friday pulling their revolvers a high fever Kingsport has arranged a special the greatest damage of their holsters and firing at The Berlin broadcast was See FLOOD on Page 8 Washington IP battle of inflation in its critical stages tho that ad free showing of the Laurel Hardy comedy Great at the State Theatre Saturday morning Every student Inking 12 cans to school will receive a ticket to this show Tho Salvage Committee decided to make no attempt at any pickup until had had a to make canvass since it in expected every family will be on by some child a truck will collections from households which children It was pointed out Unit in pre- paring the cans they should not be crushed so tight that the acid Investigating committee In tho process could will delve into a wage flow through them The cans not bo hammered flat but merely stepped on Three Collection Units Tho work of collection of the cans from the schools will be di- between the city the county ami tho Royal Crown Bottling Com- pany The city trucks will pick up I the at the city schools company trucks will collect the comity schools of Civil districts 11 and and Judge T R Bamly has authorized Use of the country trucks to collect from the rest the county schools Sec TIN CANS on PURO 8 each Townroe declared ed by the Associated Press Senate War Investigating Committee Will Delve Into Coal Wage Dispute stroyer was away trailing army defenders it a large oil slick it was announced Three Ships Bombed Off Cape Dutch New Guinea three small enemy nier chant ships were bombed and of war unduly low Army Strengthened told his people the army despite its losses was being rapidly strengthened by additional classes of service men and the return of wounded men who had recovered gcc on Page 8 At the same lime he said production at home spurred by the new total mobilization of German people was rising result of the utilization of youths and hundreds of barges the shore were strafed itay a heavy reconnaissance plane was said The German high command communique broadcast from Berlin and recorded by the Associated Press said that Russian attempts to break through the Nazi lines Southwest of in British military ters which said the offensive would take some time to unfold 1 Destructive missions were cured by Allied aerial squadrons and throughout Saturday night and Lake Ladoga w day See RUSSIAN on Page 8 With miners m- administration leaders thls I contend would break through their bor costs in parity price ceilings were advancing swiftly toward ate action after a quick victory in which threatens a bituminous coal strike Chairman Truman said Monday that when President John L Lewis of the United Mine ers appears for testimony scheduled Friday on the general subject of dam Lewis last week has been by leaders of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial who urge that the Little Steel wage formula ing increases to 15 per cent over Jan 1941 levels be scrapped to wa- production the lid will he rising living costs for inquiries into the failure of Presidents Philip Murray of he and ope fur on a new contract to keep testify co to agree thus and William Greer of the AFL before the Truman ill production going after April Tuesday and Wednesday re- demands apparently ad- to congressional another front where The leld of questioning is going be wide Truman told With these The members can a showdown stage the ministration fought vigorously to porters The members can asK about anything they want to and I imagine the mine wage dispute Chairman Smith called the Senate Agriculture committee together for what he said was tain to be overwhelming approval of a by Rep Pace which would force an upward parity Parity is a price at a farmer's crop returns would be men sands of women and girls He assured his Our front has been stabilized and wo have taken measures which will secure in the months ahead of us success until final victory is achieved His closely guarded personal was not even revealed over the air until 50 minutes be- fore he was scheduled to Delivery of his speech was then de- layed a further 20 minutes Confusion The German radio threw sion into speculation as to whether Hitler might have been deposed or relinquished his control over the armed forces A transocean commentator took occasion to say the fuehrer spoke not as leader of the German ple but as supreme commander f the German armed forces Hitler however was surrounded nf I on the platform by such army 1 i Field Marshal Wilhelm chief of staff to whom Drive to Put Deferred U S Employes In Uniform Pressed Major Lew selective service I do too Hershey director told House members day he does not think some ment agencies are setting the er example in the matter of draft deferments for employes Testifying on the general sub- ect of deferments which a frustrated Sun-1 Sunday bombers leading off with a blasting of the docks of Iville a port of Bizerte's deep bor 10 miles south of that naval base A considerable force of heavy and medium bombers of the ern desert nir force attacked ob- in the Mareth and tane areas while bombers of tho Tunisian air force attacked somo enemy air the said Little Opposition Fighters escorting the bombers over positions by daylight Sunday shot down one 109 but there was little air Sition the bulletin reported bombers Asked by Chairman Costello D- Calif if many government workers could be replaced by women or men The selective service I said revision wigs i equalized with the price cf the manufactured articles he buys Opponents have charged that since farm price ceilings are an- chored primarily to parity an ward revision of this standard to include all farm labor tures would boost living costs about 16 per cent Smith contends some such boost is necessary production to obtain rale rearman York the Berlin announcer referred as of the army a title Hitler took during the 42 winter campaign in Russia and by Field Marshal Erhard Milch of whom the announcer called of the air force Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering Nazi has been regarded as the chief of the air force On the ground that desire to enter into a cussion of individual cases he handled Hershey was given permission to KO into details at an executive session inquiry about factors involved in over draft age Hershey said there i f was no doubt about it to the pounding of tho air fields upon which Hommel 1 ponds for both aerial of his supplies and n on tho the emy fighter our bombers e raid in- he did not obtain shortly from all a formation of Junkers public dis- agencies records on employes de- because of their government of transport units were declared 1 Our investigation already has on Harness produced some the four Allied failed to return fornian declared adding that he received reports that many deferment of members of the had ment movement in workers had applied or said em- tlie Office of War In- formation had been deferred by local boards and 127 OWI workers had not ever been classified for the draft I wonder how that could for s POPULATION cation from deferred status to a class available for immediate census tarv service estimated Monday that tho he said many of population had reached them who have grounds for on Jan I an increase of deferment have decided during 1942 or nearly to correct that situation the average gain for
