Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - March 7, 1943, Waterloo, Iowa Buy Bonds F I R S T WITH THE NEWS The Weather Not so tonight Complete forecast tor Iowa and on X ESTABLISHED 1854 WATERLOO IOWA SUNDAY MAKCH 1 1943 TWENTY-SIX PAGES PRICE SEVEN CENTS RONNEL STRIKES AT 8TH ARMY Speed Up Air Attacks on Germany More German Bases Threatened U S Bombers Hammer U- Boat Base Essen Blasted into Fiery Ruin 14 RAF BOMBERS SHOT DOWN OVER KRUPPS London INS United States heavy bombers mered the Lorient U-boat base Saturday in a swift sequel to a devastating RAF night raid on Essen that covered several square miles of chief arsenal city with flames rising from blocks of ruins The new American daylight blow at Lorient on the French coast ried the record allied air offensive against Europe thru its eleventh day Essen site of the vast Krupp steel and armament works in the Industrial Ruhr was hit by an estimated 300 or more of the KAF's weights Friday night with dreds of tons of explosives and incendiaries including more than 150 the ministry revealed The London Express said that proximately tons pounds of bombs were loosed upon the metropolis at a rate of three tons every four ends for 35 minutes An authoritative British source however characterized the paper's estimate of the bomb load as tho it was clear that a gering weight of explosive metal had rocked Essen Heavy and Concentrated The destructive bombardment of- termed extremely heavy and concentrated cost the RAF 14 of the participating bombers which were mostly of the Lancaster Stirling and Halifax types Carrying to the continent its tenth straight night of bombing in the current softening up campaign British Canadian and Polish crews of the RAF drove home the gigantic sault on tho sprawling Krupp tories with the utmost bravery in the teeth of densest anti-aircraft lire Several of the bombers were perforated by shells and tracer bullets but nevertheless kept swooping resolutely over their pets with icing devotion to their task So successful was the war's second raid on Essen which still ranks as the objective of history's biggest air attack when 1.036 RAF planes struck the city last June 1 that pome bomber crews described it as the greatest ever One reverberating explosion of such tremendous proportions as to indicate that a large munitions depot had been blown up was re- ported by the returning airmen Fire Stretches for Miles They also told of a broadening wall of fire that stretched for miles clear across the middle of the get area presumably the Krupp plants employs ers turning out guns tanks motives and other implements for Hitler's war establishment Clouds of smoke towered nearly three miles into the air and the glow of the flames could be seen by the returning airmen from the Dutch coast 160 miles away The whole attack was crowded into the space of 40 The first five minutes saw flares and tens of thousands of incendiaries float down on the city followed by screaming tons of for the balance of the raid The commander of one RAF bomber station from which some of the planes had been dispatched to Essen called the raid by far the most outstanding show of the last six months perhaps the est and most concentrated air at- tack of the war The air ministry usually con- in itr communiques called the attack very heavy and Loss of 14 bombers indicated 300 or more bombers were used RUSSIA 0 200 Novgorod 1 Russ TIKE Capture Nazi Spearhead Only 100 Miles West of Red Capital RETAKE 30 MORE TOWNS IN ATTACKS BY NIGHT Key German pointers from Russa to petrovsk were menaced by Red army drives all along the far-flung eastein front Shaded area is approximate territory regained by the Red army from the deepest penetration and the dotted line is the approximate front A swift Russian drive on the road to lensk increased the menace to the German bases of while farther snuth the advancing Russians threatened the nazi of Orel and Bryansk Sub That Sank 13 Jap Ships Misses Its Biggest Chance Washington D navy disclosed Saturday night that a single American submarine has sunk 13 Japanese cargo vessels and three warships The submarine which was not named was commanded by Lt Com- mander Lucius Henry Chappell 38 of Columbus Ga On one occasion the submarine torpedoed a Japanese freighter and Chappell promptly squared off for a the navy related that the Jap would either make for the bay or try to beach Butchers in East Plan Nationwide Protest Strike London The Red army scored its third major victory in a week Saturday by ing Gzhatsk 100 miles west of Moscow and the nearest point to the soviet capital in the mans crumbling hedgehog de- fense system on the central front After storming the town said a special Moscow nique recorded by the soviet radio monitor our troops captured the town of Gzhatsk The captured war material is being counted Gzhatsk 60 miles southeast of recaptured Rzhev had been a nazi spearhead pointed at Moscow for a year and a half Its capture released a tional Russian drive on 35 miles away on the road to main German base to the Pittsburgh than butchers and packing house employes will walk off the job within a week here as part of what is to be a nationwide protest against government wage and price policies union leaders announced Saturday night Meat supplies the area be shut off by the butchers union leaders predicted They said that work of ing the strike movement in Ohio locals already is under way and within the coming week it would be extended the nation Besides wage increases higher price ceilings on meat for salers and a eiling price control for livestock are demanded News Feature Index Afterthoughts 22 Believe It or Not 22 Boys and Girls Page 24 Brady's Health Bugs Baer Talk 4 25 Dutch Master Corlna Perfecto Garcia El Verso Galo advertisement Cedar Falls City in Brief 10 Classified Ads Farm News 21 Markets 15 Merry-Go-Round in News 4 Northeast Iowa Parsons Movie Talk 12 Picture News 18 Private Lives 18 Radio 15 Serial Story Society Sports Entertainment Uncle Ray's Corner 22 Uncle 22 War Activities Directory 22 Waterloo News 11 Winchell in New York 23 To his surprise the Jap skipper did neither Instead the crew of little low men began pouring overboard and swimming away like sixty We soon learned the Chappell explained After a very few minutes that ship blew up with the damnedest explosion I ever saw I guess he was loaded with munition A few months after Pearl Harbor Chappell and his crew had the ex- of having an entire nese battle fleet steam over them while they lay submerged and un- able to attack lest they be ered and destroyed themselves A destroyer came speeding out of a then another and another There were six of them all in a row Chappel then committed what he considers a grave strategical error He closed in for an attack on the destroyers and thereby missed a chance of the kind submarine men dream presently became apparent He closed range and was getting ready to pick off one of the de- when it spotted him The destroyer pointed him as a hound points a pheasant and the whole blamed covey of destroyers bore down on him Down we the submarine captain related ruefully And said Chappell I had probably the bitterest pointment of my life For as they lay there inert and barely buoyant with their presence known and six lethal destroyers waiting for the first sign of her on the surface they heard the throb of propellers much heavier than any and louder until they must have been directly overhead then dying in the dis- tance Again they came and again and again An entire Jap battle force passed by them as hey lay there and Chappell couldn't move a muscle When they got to the surface the fleet was gone and the bay was empty SAVE A LIFE IN Traffic Toll in City of Waterloo This Year and Last Same Jan I Date 1843 1942 Number of accidents 103 Number injured 13 28 Number killed 0 0 Russian shock troops fighting south and southwest of Rzhev had captured 30 more towns during the night and morning including the railway station of Osuga 53 miles north of Drive in Russa German reports also have told of Russian troops battling toward from the Kaluga sector in the southeast Above the central front field dis- patches said Marshal Timoshenko's troops were fighting toward Russa below Lake Ilmen after the smashing breakthru at In the south the Russians reported further progress west of in the effort to cut the main German artery linking the central and southern fronts the railway Gzhatsk had withstood a terrific Russian pounding since the man failure to take Moscow in the winter of 1941 Now only remains to be cracked by the Russians before they can stride on toward Smolensk which is 230 miles west of Moscow Swinging southwest of Rzhev the Russians apparently were aiming at an early encirclement of which is girded with the typical nazi hedgehog and concrete pillboxes traps and miles of barbed wire The Germans had used their Todt construction workers to fy all these points and their had charted the whole area for mathematical firing system Report Other Advances Continued successes were ed along the front west of Kharkov and Kursk where the Russians are driving toward Kiev and the Dnieper river line The noon communique reporting the advances in the Rzhev kov and sectors listed wards of Germans killed in the widespread fighting Even in the muddy Donets basin where the Red army push has been stalled the Russians said they fell upon the German rear southwest of grad wiping out a company of 250 nazis The German communique said Marshal Timoshenko's ern front offensive was bearing down on Russa and to the south In the Kuban around a Russian attempt to out- flank the Germans was repulsed and the communique said two sian divisions were wiped out and others were mauled severely The capture of prisoners was claimed Fighting along the sea of Azov in the central Donets and south of Kharkov was termed In two days on the Rzhev sector the Russians have claimed the cap- ture of 144 towns and villages Predicts Early Action to Curb Washington D Chairman Vinson pre- Saturday night that the house naval committee would approve fi measure to ab- among war workers next week beyond a shadow of a and said he would fight any move to tack a dry rider to the His statement came amid forts by prohibition advocates to restrict or eliminate altogether the sale of liquor in industrial areas for the duration of the war in connection with the drive against absenteeism there has been no effort yet to organize the ad- some of them are ering offering the dry rider to the absenteeism to cure day morning as Rep Rees put it The house naval committee has reached the point on the legislation to put able-bodied men into uniform if they take unwarranted holidays from war jobs for which they have been deferred from the draft The measure sponsored by Rep Lyndon Johnson an ad- ministration supporter would re- quire war contractors and sub- contractors to turn over to the war manpower commission the name of each employe absent from work without prior be re- quired to pass the names on to local draft boards to determine whether the workers should be longer deferred The move has been indorsed in general principle by Secretary of the Navy Knox Undersecretary of War Patterson and War Shipping Administrator Land Senators Will Outline Plan that Includes Limits on Price Control HERRING WOULD GIVE LOCAL BOARDS POWER Warships Blast Jap Bases Sink Two Destroyers Washington D C U S warships blasted two Japanese bases in the Solomons Friday night island time and sank two large destroyers the navy revealed It did not disclose extent of the damage wreaked on the enemy Munda on New Georgia island and Vila on nearby bangar said merely that light surface units bombarded Japanese installations at those points Light Japanese surface forces attempted id drive off our group and two large en- emy destroyers were it ed succinctly Says 1943 Decisive Year New York The Tokyo dio beamed a broadcast to the United States Saturday quoting Premier Hideki Tojo as Nineteen Forty-three is the year in which the issue of the world war must be decided He was speaking to the Japanese diet in response to a resolution urging that the strength of the nation's fighting be in- creased Washington D Sweeping changes in policies and practices of the OPA will be urged upon Administrator Prentiss Brown Tuesday by 10 memoers of the senate finance and banking committees it was learned Saturday night The will 1 Reduce personnel 2 Limit the scope of price con- trol to basic commodities only 3 Abandon attempts to regulate profits 4 Raise ceilings on farm The meeting for a general sion of OPA was arranged at the suggestion of Brown himself a for- mer senator as criticism continued from many quarters and as Brown pressed his struggle for greater lic support thru substitution of for policed controls so far as practicable In this connection Clyde L ring newly appointed tive assistant to Brown and former Democratic senator from Iowa pointed a committee for the pose of simplifying procedure and regulations arid taking back to the people more for price and rationing More Power to Local Boards He plans giw local boards greater authority to make decisions independently of Washington The committee will be made up of OPA and budget bureau officials Herring indicated that it would look into such complaints as those voiced by the senators All of the senators who are to participate reported receiving merous complaints Senator loney Mine is an omnibus complaint home half of those guys who are in OPA 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 relationship to the cost of living Who cares what a movie star pays for a fur he asked That doesn't affect the cost of living for the ordinary person Chairman George of the finance committee said he believed many of Brown's honest but im- practical subordinates ought to be replaced Tries to Meet Complaints Congressional criticism has been concentrated lately on the OPA officials many of them holdovers from Leon Henderson's regime Brown personally has made in- tensive efforts to meet complaints from the capitol since taking He also has installed aides in the senate and house office buildings to serve congressmen George has demanded that the OPA abandon any efforts to control industrial profits thru the lowering Continued on 2 column 3 One Bristle Pig Sold at West Frankfort King Neptune a blue-eyed pound pig and the governor of Illinois faced each other at the auction block night when the prize animal was knocked down to the ernor for a cool in war bonds King Neptune whose worth in war bonds gradually approaches that of a warship faced the ordeal with porcine indifference He ambled around the platform playfully while Mayor Glide ker opened the festivities and auction by greeting King tune in pig Latin Gov Dwight H Green was more harried The state had authorized him to bid in war bonds for King Neptune with the un- the funds invested would not leave the state But the auction under the auspices of U S navy opened lively with the outcome uncertain as to whether the governor would ever get a chance to bid on the whole animal King Neptune was sold first in parts and for a time it nothing would be left but the squeal bidding was opened by Lieut W W Murray St Louis who bought one red bristle from King Neptune's back for a war bond Then the West Frankfort High school placed a bid on the pig's brains But after he was sold in was sold again in whole After each sale the was donated back to the navy The price of pork on up to bid by the county coal miners and then the governor stepped in and bidding was over for the night Originally the animal was to the navy for a pork dinner Since then he has been sold and donated back to the navy so often that with the bidding Saturday night his worth in war bonds is Up Plane Building New J Kaiser west coast shipbuilder announced Saturday that the Kaiser Company as such has acquired its first craft plant and that his goal will be more and more He disclosed that arrangements have made for the Kaiser company to purchase all stock of Inc now ing aircraft for the United States army air corps The aircraft company has two plants at Bristol Pa and another plant approaching completion near that city SEVEN ALIENS NABBED Chicago German aliens were held by the FBI day night after a roundup that also yielded 150 cans of food a short wave radio and cameras The total of nationals arrested in Chicago since Dec 7 1941 now stands at 225 Fancy A magazine describes a two- faced watch with 18 ments and 975 wheels that never stop Worth having Yet under certain circum- stances a two-faced thing with 18 unsatisfied attachments and 975 wheels going around and around might become a somewhat troublesome ment within the family and impossible to get rid of even thru a Ad Because that is no place for misfits That's why this one shono with BABY In Good Condition Ph 4233 The baby buggy was quickly sold COURIER CLASSIFIED GIRLS Phone 1711 Berlin Says Raid Dead Totals 486 Stockholm tions from Berlin Saturday said the victims in the British raid on lin March 1 now totaled 486 killed and 377 seriously injured The need for is impossible to fill in the near future these advices said and shops will get only nary glass for their windows until the war's end Reveals 3 Jap Cruisers in Ships Sunk in Bismarck Sea Allied Headquarters in Australia Japanese light cruisers were among the 22 ships lost by the en- emy in the sinking of the Bismarck convoy by allied planes the high command announced today Previous communiques on the aerial annihilation of the New convoy March had listed the ships sunk as 10 ships and 12 transports loaded troops but had described the warships only as cruisers or de- The composition of the en- 10 warships which ed his 12 transports Is now re- ported as three light cruisers and seven said the noon communique from General las MacArthur's headquarters In the battle of the Bismarck sea which terminated yesterday when planes blasted to the bottom barges with troops adrift from the en approximately 136 of our aircraft participated the nique related The enemy's force em- ployed approximately 150 planes of which 102 were definitely ob- served as put out of action Our planes dropped 226 tons of bombs Eighty direct hits were ob- served and 63 near misses or hits Our losses were one heavy bomber and three fighters shot down a number seriously damaged and others receiving minor damage All but the lour destroyed in combat returned to base We had no other losses The communique told of a raid by a single bomber on the drome area at Cape Gloucester New Britain and by another on the building area of New Axis Forces Press Attacks On British After 21 Tanks Had Been Lost DRIVEN INTO DESERT IN FRONT OF MARETH LINE Allied Headquarters in North Erwin axis forces lashed out savagely at the British Eighth army at dawn Saturday in an offensive against Gen Sir Bernard Montgomery for the first time since the battle of El Alamein in Egypt After the loss of 21 tanks in early stages of the fighting the axis army which Rommel had brought miles across Libya in retreat struck back pressed its attack The 21 German tanks were knocked out without loss to the British Rommel's tarik and infantry at- tack was described as in erable strength and early fighting was continuing Apparently gambling with the idea that he deal ery a blow the one he handed the First army two ago the nazi field marshal in action across lands in front of the Mareth Was Being Caged He was aided by the that the old French-built line was designed not so much as a but one from which counterattacks could be launched It is apparent that Rommel was slowly being caged up into the Tunisian between the French and the British Eighth ies and decided his best chance to forestall defeat and gain time was to strike first His first blow in the north had pushed American troops out of most of southern Tunisia his Hank until the cans rallied at Kasserine pass and inflicted losses so heavy he had to retire The persistence of gen von Arnim's attacks in the north in the face of heavy losses now have been explained in that they have had the aim of pinning down the Anglo-American forces and keeping the allied force on this side from stabbing at Rommel's exposed flank The Germans have withdrawn from almost all the territory they won in southern Tunisia Again in Foothills American and British troops are once more in the foothills of the secondary Tunisian dorsal at Pichon and Sidi Bou Zid barely 70 miles airline from the German desert pan- zer army's main supply base at Sfax The forces used in Saturday's sault were undoubtedly the same ones Rommel had used in his ern Tunisian drive including the rebuilt German 21st panzer with its new mark VI tanks and the battered 15th panzer sion in reserve Von Arnim holds the Tenth panzer division probably In tion to deal with any blow aimed at dividing the two axis armies While Rommel's attack can be construed only as a desperate tary gamble to attack one foe while another powerful force is ready to pounce on him he has much to gain if it should succeed If a crippling blow could be dealt to Montgomery's Eighth army the axis would gain weeks and perhaps months in the battle to maintain a foothold in Africa and delay the allied attacks on the continent just that much longer Americans Take Pichon The new outbreak followed by only a few hours the report that American troops had captured on 20 miles west of the German base of Kairouan to win back most of the central and southern ian territory lost In the north the British First army had halted and inflicted vere losses on the German that had pushed seven miles behind and local attacks reported continuing Bad weather rary halt to the allied air axis Ay fame also gave A chMa cloak his for a prise hlow The Mareth lina is far tram
