Oelwein Daily Register (Newspaper) - March 5, 1943, Oelwein, Iowa WEATHER this afternoon od in portion The Tlw TlM TW ss Wire Report of TODAY'S Important of the World by Automatic Printer Service VOL 57 THE OELWEIN DAILY REGISTER FRIDAY MARCH 5 1943 20 CENTS THE WEEK SENATE GROUP APPROVES BANKHEAD STRAFE OF I U It 1 I V II V Vl CONVOY Condemns Commandeering ar Over Pacific Area In Un- disputed Mastery of the Skies Seas GEN MacARTHUR'S AUSTRALIA Allied Flying Forti esses and lly Mitchell medium Lombers ared the northeast New unea coast s of sea and skies Relentlessly king thc few The cant quietness of Huon gulf 2a tore testimony ol the e completeness of their of a huge enemy ivoy Today there was no threat ot assault and no Japanese ips remained on the surface last two wounded ire sunk by the bombers y morning Wreckage was scattered les evidence of the strength of land-based air power that it 10 Japanese war vessels and transports to the bottom l with them troops There were bits of wreckage re and slicks of oil theic and Japanese hands and a head could be seen ig above the water clinging to ft or debris but the silence OL e sea added strength to ilian newspaper stones calling c death of the convoy the single teat of arms in thc southwest The Japanese garrison at Lae to have thc goal thc convoy was warned y that allied an power was minant in this theater s and fighters a tier strafing e survivors ol thc convoy m e water the vital base id shot down or damaged 27 of The Vatican radio has told that the Catholic church I condemns the enslavement ol the deportation of ed labor and the slaying ct in- nocent hostages U S mert monitors said today The broadcast did not charge directly with these acts rut the inference was clear for i the talk was in German and the declared that we have I all learned what war means since the Germans marched into Poland I The war he said is regarded J as a license for all imaginable i persecution of I on the suppression of and religious houses the ing of churches and schools 2 unprecedented of human freedom I of I ands tor forced labor I extermination ot tural values hundreds of years eld unpardonable deering of human beings ally of school and university youth for the aims of a state the reigns supreme and has lost contact with the laws of God HIT BY NAZI PLANE FORT RESS GETS BACK TO BASE ALLIES SEIZE 3 TUNISIAN TOWNS Its tail riddled and almost cut off after a n with a German plane an American Flying ress is pictured above somewhere over North Africa returning to its base which it reached safely despite badly crippled The pilot of the German fighter plane was dead in the cockpit when out of control struck the Pilot of the U S bomber was Lieut Kenneth Bragg of Savannah Ga BRITAIN PROBES SHELTER DEATHS Huskies Crush Fairbank Go On To Semifinals Tonight Independence Maynard Winthrop Survive Earlier Rounds of Sectional Cage Meet Planes Sink Four Axis Ships As Ground Forces Win Victories at Both Ends of Line IT forces victories at both encK of the Tunisian front today British and troops hurling the mans out of Sod in the north while the French seized Glides and pushed in- to in thc south A Nazi unit forced its way into Sed road junction 12 miles south of Cape Serrat only to be driven out in brisk street As the French Greer Garson Gets PUT FARMS ON Coveted Star Of Mrs Miniver Highest Award HOLLYWOOD UP AJ weeping Greer Garson on her fourth try walked off parly today with the Motion ture Academy's imitation Allied statuette symbolic of her rise to first place among wood's movie actresses I feel just like Alice in sobbed the Irish star as last year's Academy winner Joan Fontaine Landed her the coveted statuette this year of plastic and painted Miss Garson won the prize while 1300 movie makers bumped elbows in their applause tor her role in Mrs a picture which won most of the other standing on the table in the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove The film itself was judged best of 1942 William Wyler now with the American Air Force in Eur- DRAFT OFFICIAL i Lack Of Hand Rails Blamed For Suffocation Of 178 Air Shelter OPA SETS LIMIT PORK PRICE Oelwein Huskies cleared an- other hurdle last night on way to the top in the Sectional Basketball Tournament here in LOS ANGELES UP Union leaders charged today that the many workers to leave their jobs in the vital ah craft industry to seek higher wages elsewhere Officials of the AFL machinists t Seattle San Diego Move Is First In Designed To Eliminate Black Market T UP Lack of haye tiy games compete m the joint statement issued by i Maynard 23 St WASHINGTON UP 18 and Independence of Agriculture Claude R 55 Stanley 14 cause increased loss of industry early Thursday and were iich rained clown rounds cannon shells and machine Continued on Page Three TS EASY TO HAYE A GARDEN This is thc sixth of a sencs cl ing written by an lowan for lowans and dis- by thc Iowa Daily Press Association I Continued Story For Your Victory Garden Old timers know how to get c most food from then gardens ROTATION and SERIAL ANTINGS You too can akc youi Victory Garden a story ol lood m by following simple You will we hope plant your tuce chard radishes and peas ly eaily lust as caily as you n work youi soil They love ol and can stand low bo- re and alter thc seed has routed and come up But being early crops they are c tirst to be used up or such they arc no savory When you sec at your lettuce peas radishes id chard arc past further use ill them all up make new ws with your hoc and plant me ol thc vegetables that kindly to late planting y of thc bush beans sweet corn 01 carrots Thus at pait of your garden is uble duty Serial plantings arc important 3 in order to keep your vegetables coming along over c longest period of time If you peas don't stop with a single anting of the very early kinds ant the first row of any early riety just as soon as you can uric in the soil A week or so ler plant another row of the rl cariety That way you'll be joying peas over a period of have Ll dJU 1 loading to a London air raid a permit system lor ter Wednesday night during a slock slaughtered effective April air raid preliminary re- 1 4 ports indicated today j Wickard s was em- Soon after Home Sccrelaij- graced in three ITomo Security All livestock Morrison began his sell meat including farmers rf thc tragedy workmen began and local butchers must operate drilling holes in thc concrete steps under a slaughter permit system rnd landing lor the erection of and stamp their permit number at ladings before the shelter is used least once on each wholesale cut I 2 All livestock dealers must again Morrison sought to learn ther any structural or obtain permit to buy and sell and keep complete tive weaknesses played a part m of their operations the King George VI 3 All slaughterers operating a complete investigation federal inspection must set No bombs fell in the area during for war uses certain council today rejected WASHINGTON UP A list a proposal that a mass funeral be ot ceiling prices in north central held for thc victims Sixteen states on the five most popular bodies were still unidentified ol pork announced today by j Sixty persons rescued alive from fne Office of Price Administration thc tearful crush were under as effective April 1 at hospitals Among the Puces arc in cents per pound survivors was the middle-aged Class includes all independent woman was the innocent stores with less than an- of the tragedy rual sales Class includes all Burdened with a baby and a chain and stores with bundle she tripped and fell near than sales thc foot of thc stairway leading The north central states are m- Ul to the subway after the air raid eluded in prize zones four five had sounded Her fall an elderly man behind her Those coming in Irom includes this part of Iowa the home security iry said could not sec exactly what had taken place and con- i whole or shark to press down the steps so i nali smoked ham Price ceilings for zone CIass 40 38 59 a minute there center cuts of hundreds of people crushed smoked ham aether and lying atop one another i Center cut chops 41 the landing and lower grade A stcos 57 39 smoked sliced John Minns who was just ahead bacon ol the woman who Cirst fell said Fresh cured or he jumped clear of thc crush and salt pork dry salt saw the surging forward bellies Continued on Page Seven 46 24 games but the er's rally fell short one point for a loss Independence gave ib second and third teams a chance at tournament competition as they romped over Stanley in a one-sided battle By Bob Lynes Oelwein Husky chalked up their second victory of the tournament last night on the local floor as they managed to power the Fairbank quin- tet being on the long end ot the final score 51 to 23 First quarter proved to be fast and thrilling as the quired 16 points during the first period even though Fan bank broke the ice as McCunniff for- waid made a point by tossing in a free throw Their lead however was short-lived as Temple center for the Huskies and Legg Oelwein forward aged to obtain 4 points by a field goal apiece McCunniff in a field goal as his team was trying haid to get back into the running Legg followed however and made a beautiful shot for the Huskies Burnett other forward and McCunniff added to the score as they made a field goal and a ficc throw respectively thus ending their scoring for thc lust period Ed Oelwein forward captured thiee field goals as Ray Wine Husky guard ed the lust miking one of thc famous Wine crs score being leading by a long Continued on Seven cl 11 v The statement said labor over in the was 130 per cent last year Waukon Pilot Gets Jap Plane WASHINGTON UP The war department today announced the names of pilots of a single aimy air force group credited with down a total of 129 anese fighters and bombers ing the New Guinea campaign Included m tine group was 1st Lieut Frederick C kon la who is credited with one y World War a Year Ago March 5 1942 By United Press Japanese announce of Batavia U S communique reports bombs dropped by a Single enemy plane near Honolulu Japanese communique reports sinking of the British destroyer Stronghold off Cape Chila March 2 and the U S gunboat Asheville on March 3 communique announced occupation of in thc Smolensk area War Production Board new and used typewriters m the United States solo on net record The nurses special training at Bowman Field Ky and only recently arrived in ca by convoy With the nurses able to give during the night the wounded can be removed more in support took the best secondary actress won awards Only prize winners among the were James Cagney named best actor troops pushed the lope received the prize for i urnA edge of the Cliott in lower Tunisia the British eighth anny probed at the Mareth line in for a assault Allied pounded ceaselessly at Axis positions in Tunisia at the communication lines from north they sank f out- ships and damaged others A ALLIED HEADQUARTERS local i North Africa With pert blue oversea caps carefully ad- justed over their long more than a score of U S Army nurses are seeing the sights of Africa be- fore going to the as on army hospital trans- port planes The nurses will supplant en- listed personnel physicians who have attended wounded troops in the planes evacuating them from the front to base hospitals in the Oran and Algiers area They include 2nd Lieut Ellene Church Cresco Iowa a pioneer commercial airline stewardess who persuaded a transport line to replace men stewards with nurses m 1930 She up her job as superintendent of nurses in a children's hospital in ville Ky because she wanted to fly again She has eight hours Committee Hear Report Urging Greater Economy In power Use in Agriculture WASHINGTON The senate military affairs tee reported today that the tor a food crop this year as large as is almost less of realization In a report urging the Bankhead till to workers from military service the committee said that Secretary of Agriculture Claude R ard is increasingly alarmed about the inability to get enough labor to reach goals for farm production this Wickard more alarmed day by day as a result of tional information and ments in the matter of farm the report added Before announcing its sions the committee had studied plum The photographer and special report by Col Lewis writers of Mrs Miniver also Sanders of the selective service bureau who warned time has to con- vert agriculture to the same war production basis as industry to essary casualties on the fronts about labor shortages food riots and starvation must be with action too little has been done and it is work in Yankee Doodle avert hunger at home and ir i IT TT n v racnaitips nn the Dandy and Van Heflin who got the statue as best supporting tor for his role in Johnny Eager The Cagney who his statue lor his work emulating George M Cohan as a song and dance man didn't weep Not exactly But when Gary Cooper handed him the prize he grabbed the latter's hand end Pal don't leave me WORK ABSENCES Navy Official Suggests System The committee said the Tydings amendment to the tive service act granting to essential farm workers has been so circumscribed by red tape in its administration that it did not accomplish the desired result At the same time the commit tee declared farm workers were lured from the farms by the at- I tractive wages and short hours and better living conditions Of Rewards Penalties Con- gressmen Blame Liquor For Lost Days By RALPH A BARD Assistant Secretary of Navy Written for the United Press It is evident that if ing is not done soon to restrain the movement away from farms j the result may be the re- I port concluded I Six members of the committee opposed passage of the Bankhead on ground that it is a blanket UP Should deferment of agricultural some enforcible program be ers taking into account pd out which would eliminate a which would make greater part of the absenteeism whether the person deferred is P recommend that an producing an amount of essential fort be made at the same time to his on the farm more set up some system in private in- to the nation than his dustry of vacations every 90 services in armed forces cays or four months as a reward Tms t declared to those who have a fine record of nQ evidence was working performance that f t It must be perfectly apparent anv such class quickly to base hospitals In the that workers cannot devote i a raso selves efficiently to their jobs tion Qf haye past most serious cases have had to near the front although some been flown back with doctors aboard the planes Air evacuation of the wounded is carried out in the matter of a few hours whereas it would take from 24 to 36 hours by the best available ground transport Continued on Page Eight 22 To Address percentages ol then i lion Responsible he said i will be asked to form city and DES MOINES town muit committees to Prcs Herbert Hoover today the program accepted an invitation to address thc I arm manpower and food duction conference here 15 The meeting was called by to assure every Gov Bourke B Hickenlooper of entire American a fair share at Iowa and will be attended by the a fair price and at the same time governors or their drive meat black markets out of from 10 other midwestern states existence Hickenlooper said he invited Continued on Page Eight Hoover because of the latter's food experience both prior to during the last war WASHINGTON UP Puce March Administrator M Brown today a now program luce and dishes are ust a Claude I and War w of the vegetables that can be foard Chairman Donald continued story in your Nelson advised Hickenlooper that ry Garden they or top representatives Both Rotation and Serial their departments will attend gs will increase the amount of the feting ad you and enable you to On calling the conference the uble up on the vegetables governor contended that the wt to come along over a period problems of farm labor and time must be solved See The Register Tuesday for immediately if a serious drop m e next article production is to be avoided CITy j sh d -erstatc Shorthorn Breeders ooen Monday atthe Sioux stock yards l list of entries is ex- Thompson tary of the American Shorthorn Association will be the principal speaker at the evening banquet PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Women's Army Auxiliary is invaluable service the aimed forces ot our country and WHEREAS the of tins Corps was begun in the State of an especial and spirit among the of our state and WHEREAS is greater field of service cind activity in connection the effort to which the Corps can and special be made by the Corps to recruit from the of Iowa the month of March THEREFORE as Governor I hereby proclaim the month of March A D 1943 as MONTH in the State of During this month recruiting centers will be shed in various cities and towns m Iowa and I urge all of our to aid and encourage the recruiting of enlistments m the Corps among the women of our state who are not engaged or needed in vital production otherwise for the war effort IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the state of Iowa to be duly affixed Done at the Capitol in the City of Des Moines on this Twenty-fifth Day of February in the year of our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Forty-three BOURKE B HICKENLOOPER Governor SEAL By the Governor WAYNE M ROPES of State News In Brief V WASHINGTON Sen Joseph F D Pa pro fci seel 100 per cent new er took the budding fourth issue to today by telling th 2 there is no American tradition that a good cannot scive four leims in the white house NEW YORK UP Mmc Chiang of the C hinese generalissimo called upon the United today to send expeditionary loice to China lo show that Amenta means iness NEW YORK UP A Red ship the first ol what is expected to be a fleet sail Irom Philadelphia next week for Marseilles France carrying a of food parcels gifts for Americans being held prisoner by Germans arTd Italians The ship the Caritas I a for- mer Belgian vessel has been anteed safe conduct WASHINGTON UP The P Co Inc Jersey City N T is charged by the Federal Trade Commission with misrepresenting its current advertising of Old Gold cigarettes based on a Reader's Di- gest report of laboratory tests Issuance of the complaint was announced last by the FTC j which leveled charges against the advertisements for three other products Beech-Nut and throughout the period of a long wai without some change and re- The six senators said the which will not help d fe an their morale but will make them to inore efficient from the in the to uon standpoint As IT is now the most agricultural employment At the workers who are not on the rants from employment absentee list suffer because n another patriotic adherence to duty In many industries workers have ie t aid had no vacation period Pearl had ef Haibor This is not a pood thg committee om the standpoint of morale was telji another com health or production Even that there g ct and in fne armed f farmers raisin granted furloughs for much food hi rest and change of environment j Wickard admits that Thc scope and intensity of the f how food is increasing on all fronts In t m t b f u face of this Project in he h and we find that m war production plants m Continued on Page Eight country has been increasing December 1042 proximately man hours were lost through ab- in the ship yards and yards nf the country sufficient man hours to con- struct 14 additional ers and approximately forty the man hours lost due to strikes or shutdowns in the yards of the States for the whole year of 1942 These figures include Predicts Increase In Liquor Permits DES MOINES UP M L Curtis chairman of the Iowa Commission mated today that 325.000 dual liquor will be issued 1.1 Iowa during the fiscal year starting July 1 He out that 265.000 leave sick leave and mits have issued since last legitimate causes for I an increase of nearly The best available over the corresponding period that about 50 per ago a mate i of this total of man hours lost Since rationing of liquor has absenteeism is due to been in effect many persons have or wilful absence from had their wives relatives or v ork 1 friends obtain books accounting It is admitted by all i for the big increase Sensation cigarette and smoking tobacco Friends the Curtiss said that the books the i ing printed for the next fiscal is one that needs to be ear will have room for blv more information about the Persons seeking the new books organized labor and agencies that studied and a cure developed Un- however the problem is so complex that a satisfactory and fair is difficult to i be required to give their social to apply Mr William Green j security number name of of the A F of L and er name of spouw Mr Philip Murray president of driver's license number ration the C I 0 have come out book number affiliation and Continued on Page Eight number of ttw
