Sunday Times Signal (Newspaper) - March 7, 1943, Zanesville, Ohio f 4L SUNDAY HPT 11 VOL. No. 36 MARCH 7, 1943 GENTS A Copy Rommel Attacks Despite Heavy Losses A Reds Take Key City Of Gzhatsk Nazis Driven from Anchor Point on Central Front March troops smashed a 4cy anchor of the German salient on the front today by capturing 92 miles west of the closest Nazi base to the to weather the Red army's 1941-42 winter A special Soviet communique an- the capture of German base on the trunk vay along the historic invasion of after two by Russian The victory was the greatest cored by the Red army of the front since the seizure of 60 miles northwest of at the upper tip of the now dwindling steadily un- ler the impact of a ian drive toward The second Soviet bulletin of the giving the first details of the capture of said more than a of German normal strength to wiped out in two Earlier reports from Moscow lid the Russians fanning out be- Rzhev through a wasteland of lazing communities wrecked ridges and mined roads in the rake of the German retreat had 30 more villages for a. of 133 in 36 Among them was on the railroad 16 miles of which fell to assault forces who stormed cross the Osuga Gzhatsk is 35 miles northeast of the next apparent ob- Muskingum College Chooses Beauty Queens Betty Lee Winfield Freshman Three brunettes and one blonde appealed to the sense of beauty on the Muskingum college campus last week as the four classes chose their queens to them in the feature pages of the college year now being prepared for Except for the senior all the chosen coeds Marion Uber Junior Connie Hunter Sophomore are from Miss of was the senior class class also honored her in the Miss Marion Bowling is the junior class She was also the choice of her class and reigned as queen of the homecoming game last Esther Jane Hunter Senior Miss Connie of Cambridge relative of the senior is the pick of the the chose Miss Betty Lee The search for campus beauty is an annual as the year book dedicates several pages to gum's outstanding in the series of northern tary observers said the ob- German purpose last year in inging to Gzhatsk and as to maintain a springboard for lOther eventual drive Continued OB Page Severn Caiser Buys Jlane Plant NEW March 6. enry J. west coast announced today that the aiser as has lired its first aircraft and at his goal will be and ore His statement disclosed that ar- have been made for e Kaiser company to purchase all ack of now aircraft for the States army air The aircraft which s two plants at and lOther plant approaching near that has been en- ged in development and of original aircraft for the st 15 Asked if he intended to expand the aircraft and if the eed would duplicate his records aim always has been and wiU be more and more and He said my the company was his first but that it would in way interfere with his non- afit contract in the company for the n o' three giant cargo transport now being manufactured on west coast with Howard L. Kaiser's who released the of his T can say that he will never be until he has reached r He referred to the Muskingum College Approved For War Training Program Muskingum college has been proved for a specialized war ing program of the armed it was announced last night at Washington by the joint com- for the selection of non- federal Details the of of Ohio State sity of arid Western Reserve Eor navy's dental training Dental schools of Ohio uni- versity and Western Reserve uni- I v For war program of worked according to Dr. Robert president oJ The has been designated training army In addition to 51 have been added to a previously announced The selection committee em- that approval means only that the designated branch of service may contract for use of facilities at the colleges and uni- Other Ohio schools approved by the committee for basic training Heidelberg Kenyon college and University of For war department medical training medical schools of Ohio State sity of Cincinnati and Western Re- For training in basic medical sciences under war department Dental schools of Ohio State university and serve j For war department veterinary training Ohio State For training of war department chemical warfare service in- Denison Col- of Oberlin navy department medical training Medical school 20 Stolen Purse Luzella Eppley of 1 police yesterday afternoon I was stolen from her purse He she was shopping in a Main eel he said she placed her purse a while inspecting and a few minutes later covered the was her loss to the re il uas learned t a purse had been In ew minutes before by a small Tie woman identified It as h but discovered Get Free Book On Gardening Are you planning a Victory Most likely you and if you're not an may need a little expert In that write a letter to the Victory Garden editor of this The Times Recorder or Ask him to send you the illustrated booklet to Make a Victory The booklet wili be mailed to you entirely free of in lame to start off your lory Garden ihe right It is full of helpful hints atong with complete plans for dens lo meet the needs of any z Major OPA Alterations To Be Asked March Sweeping changes practices of the OPA will be upon Administrator P r e n t i s Brown Tuesday by ten members o the senate finance and bankin it was learned The proposals will Reduce Limit the scope of price contro to basic commodities Abandon attempts to regulat Raise ceilings on farm The meeting for a general dis- cussion of OPA was arranged a the suggestion of himself a former as criticism con from many quarters and Brown pressed his struggle fo greater public support substitution of voluntary for polic ed controls so far as All of the senators who are to participate reported receiving nu merous Senator Ma loney an omnibus home half of those guys who are working in Senator Danaher ex- pressed belief that the time had ar- rived for OPA to abandon its at- tempts to fix prices of countless ar- ticles and to concentrate on con- trolling only about 40 basic com- bearing direct ship to the cost of Chairman George of the finance committee said he many of Brown's but im- Ceilings on Pork Prices Announced March OPA announced today imum prices which may be charged in class 1 2 in- Ohio for the 26. most popular cuts of effective April Stores affected dent merchants Jess and or more under ness These maximum prices will be subordinates ought to be DIES AT March 6. E. 77, former 3ilUicothe mayor and slate died He was active during his service in the Ohio ale in obtaining passage of the free text book law In 1933-34. n and some small change were police ADVANCED SOUTH 1C March Movie Actor Robert has bern promoted lieutenant the navy revealed advancement saw fleet in Uie the is Madame Chiang Pays Visit To New England Alma Mater March As the First Ledy ol but excited as a school back lo her Alma Ihe week-end of Its New England women's Now Madame wife of She Chinese hasted her limousine near the end of a ride from ion's station In order Jo look at the house where she lived as a She commented that It appeared to he more Thr honor graduate of the ol 1917 then went on to Towers where Jived as For this she Fortresses Blast Meet With Opposition THE ASSOCIATED German bases at Lorient and Brest in France were and yesterday a few hours after British and Canadian carried the Allied aerial of- fensive against through the tenth straight by pounding of i the The American planes were corted and Allied fighters and an official three bombers communique sak and fighter were lost in the twin Just how many German fighters were downed has not yet been an The communique described the results as at where a naval power station am railroad bridge were among the objectives hit At Brest the re- sults were termed Bombs rained down for Smoked bone whole or shank half 40 cents per butt or round half 41, ter slices 60. bone or shank half 44, or round naif 45, center slices 66. skinned hams on in Friday night's saturation raid which cost the RAF 14 Returning who reported leaving several of the city described one sal which illuminated the entire target area with flames hundreds of feet They agreed that a powder factory or skinned hams 40, shank half 39, butt or roun half 41, center slices 45. Fresh picnics or call whole ham Smoked picnics or cali whol Fresh pork or half loin roast 38, shoulder chops rib roast 34, loin chops or loi roast 38, center chops or center round 42. Sliced Boston Smoked Canadian 62 store sliced 70. Sliced boiled Sliced baked Grade a sliced Grade B sliced Grade C sliced 36 sliced 41. Dry salt cured Fresh spare Farm Workers Still Deferred March The war manpower commission told local draft boards tonight to keep farm workers in deferred cations even if the quotas or the forces cannot then occupying ihe of the house oT Hack a sable Chiang drove wilh in. H. on 3cave as of lo as director of the Miss Helen English fessor Jo Madame at rode the First Lady of China in her special train car from York Past throngs massed Jn Jhe ton the party drove be The commission also issued three other new instructions designed to help meet the farm labor 1. Any man with farming ex- who is now in other work hould be classified as erred 2-C or 3-C) if he goes jack to agriculture as a regular ob before notified lo appear for 2. State and county war boards f the agriculture department may Bequest the deferment of a farm worker though Uie worker himself or his employer do ot seek Ihe The also mav appeal from deci- oas of draft 3. If a board finds thai a arm worker is not producing lo justify his deferment H defer case a county board and allow 30 days for lo be placed in another before it can draft Held for Failing To Report for Draft Thomas 25. of N. arrested by police here and was turned over to FBI Agent Thomas B. Coughlin for failure to report for Arraigned before U. S. William he pleaded ordered removed lo New Jersey for disposition of the ammunition storehouse had been AT A U. S. BOMBER STATION IN March sky full 6f Flying in the fourth raid on the continent in eight the German naval base at Lorient on the coast of France this afternoon with tually no flak Liberators at the same time at- tacked It. was the fourth raid on Lorient since November and the latest concentrated series of and the fliers reported at one time that the prime Nan submarine base was left looking a The bombs hit a power house and the main bridge leading into Japs Lost 3 Cruisers in ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN March More Is Forecast The weather turned cold during the with temperatures of 10 above zero predicted for this And that isn't the worst of according to a special bulletin from j is now reported as three were the enemy in the sinking of Bismarck convoy Allied the Previous communiques 'the aerial annihilation of the New convoy March 2-3-4 had listed the ships sunk 10 warships and 12 loaded with but had de- scribed the warships only as or composition of the enemy's 10 warships which guarded his 12 21 German Tanks Are Knocked Out Commander Tries Desperate Gamble in Tunisia ALLIED NORTH March tanks and infantry attacked British Eighth army in heavy force south of the Mareth in an obvious to upset of- fensive and heavy fighting was reported raging The enemy attacked in southeastern at dawn its effort expand in and northern Tunisia had been turnM back at almost every point J and American troops seized the of Pichon to threaten Axis communications -in the The new attack was with front but ful Eighth army formations weis ready for h the preliminary stages of the knocked out 21 The first enemy thrusts without British the reports is V The attacks dawn some four to six miles east of the main Mareth anchored on the town Mareth near the Mediterranean coast Marshal Erwin to embarked upon another of his famous this dictated by tion since had picked strongest force inn Eighth tack Americans and This was first had Burned on the lall tx across The Eighth army Had been ing for its the Mareth the state weather as even lower levels are forecast for Chilling March winds whistled a wintry tune last night to close out one of the most disagreeable days experienced here this The sharply in he early evening from the mid- 30's to the to freeze the slush that resulted from day's snow and Shoppers had their paddling through the slush and many were splashed as auto- mobiles and buses pulled to the War Guilty Can't Escape March iubert Pierlot of the Belgian assured his rymen hi a broadcast tonight that Axis war criminals would not escape punishment by fleeing to Continued on Page Eleven the premier uI attempts on their part to Shelly in Plane Three Finally Exploded March CR The war department night issued the following bits of A 20 millimeter shell ex- in a flying fortress cruising over a quiet sector in There wasn't on enemy in Henry J. engineering of- investigated and learned that the shell had been in the plane since it attacked German Installations three weeks pre- light cruisers and seven said the noon communique from General Douglas thur's battle of the Bismarck sea which terminated yesterday planes blasted to the bottom barges I vrith troops adrift from the en approximately 136 of our aircraft the communique enemy's air force employed approximately 150 planes of which 102' were definitely ed as put out of Our planes dropped 226 tons of Eighty direct hits were observed and near misses or were one heavy bomber and fighters shot a number seriously ed and others receiving minor AH the four destroyed in combat returned to We had no other March warships blasted two anese bases in the island sank two large destroyers when enemy force sought to drive them the navy revealed It did not disclose extent of the damage on She enemy Munda on New Georgia terlin Air Raid oil Reaches 486 March 6. Communications from Berlin today ihe victims in the British raid ion Berlin March 1 now totalled and 377 ed. The need for window glass is im- possible to fill in the near these and shops Kfi only ordinary slass for their windows until the war's Only bombed out and will br permitted lo buy and persons were escape punishment will be in he will not be big enough to hide As for the neutral the new international law will not allow them to refuse extradition and they will that it is in their interest as well as ours to cooperate in securing the of true order in the human based on law and and on nearby island but said merely that surface units bombarded Japanese at those WEATHER Cold wave Sunday moderating slightly Sunday strong Woman Sees Hi Ocean Flight as March force revealed today that setts has flown to England as zoand plane to see her Darling's odyssey started Feb. 6 at e After Royal Canadian air Marion Darling of stowaway in a ferry redded some luggage 3n the dently realized lay greatest many of his precarious perch Tunisian Today's attack was believed to explain why the wily mander had concentrated able armored and strength in the the on Page Twelve 2 Brazilian Skips Sunk 6-ffl freighter oide and the passenger sunk off the east ship losses in 23, the government All 26 men reached 'the beach safely in life The ship formerly was the German Montevideo taken Brazil after into capture or destruction by the Brit- The was Feb. 18, and the Afonso Pena was torpedoed March 2. No mention was made of losses or survivals of the Afonso To jo Decisive Year Bond was fixed at command post A leading woman an the she had been granted a 21-day from her base and had gone lo the hoping to buv a sage lo There were no She ed at the airdrome wailing for a new inspiration and Jt came when she saw an getting its last minute check-up for the over- seas seized my Mrs. ordered lo put all not no one I climbed aboard and lutely accessary in I She covered herself with some spare flying clothes and shivered in temperatures for eight hours before the crew dis- The RCAF announced today Ihc is to the faction of all parties Mrs. Darling a re- union with her who was preparing to leave for another theater of j And the RCAF has given her a. new job in its overseas NEW March Tokyo radio beamed a broadcast to the United States today quoting Premier Hideki Tojo as forty three is the year in which the issue cf the world war must be He was speaking to the Japanese Diet in response to a resolution urging the strength of the nation's fighting power be The federal communications which recorded the picked up another sion in Japanese for home con- sumption which quoted Tojo as saying year is indeed a very important one in view of the world Tojo was quoted 3n the English broadcast as saying billion diligent people of Asia are with as on front and with the ol these people Japan will march forward for the tion of Asia for the The Japanese version cave the sion that the premier was ing to billion of Asia for f Twin Brothers 94 Old March liam and possibly the nation's observe their twin 94lh birthday A highlight of youth was a rolling with Lincoln he passed through en- to
