Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - December 21, 1942, Zanesville, Ohio e Always First The Times Recorder Always Fair Vol No 303 SNOW ZANESVILLE OHIO MONDAY DECEMBER Nazis In New O On Convoy To Africa By Ernie Pyle WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN ship on which we sailed from England to North Africa had two funnels or smokestacks The forward one a inside About three from its top a steel platform had been built reached it by climbing a steel I ladder The army kept a lieutenant and three en- j listed men up all the on lookout with binoculars ffor it was indeed British Maneuver for Knockout Try In Libya Ernie Pyle I used to go up every afternoon and sit with the lookouts The sun was bright the funnel sides cut off the wind they had deck chairs and it was really a few square feet of Miami Beach We could get a perfect view of our zigzagging maneuvers Once saw three rainbows at once one of them making a horseshoe right over our ship Occasionally on the horizon we could sight dimly a ing sloop or a fishing vessel Lieut Winfield Channing who had charge of an fry usually had the afternoon watch up there and we'd chat for hours about his job before the nar and of our chance for the future and of what we'd do when was over They had an empty barrel up to which was tied about feet of heavy rope for escape in case the ship was hit The men on lookout had made among themselves as to which side of the ship the first torpedo would hit Fortunately no- body collected We called our little post The Funnel Club We correspondents and a few Army officers made up a on when we would arrive at our The various arrival dates ue chose covered more than a The pool of about was finally won by Lang of Time STATUTE MILES MINOR ROADS ROADS AND TRAILS MISURATA EN EL HUN Recapture Pichon In Tunisia LONDON Dec re- capture of the Tunisian town of Pichon by French troops aided by the of American fighter planes was reported tonight while far to the east of that new front hard-pressed remnants of Marshal Rommel's men continued their headlong flight toward Tripoli Pichon is 60 west of Sousse and 62 miles south of the latter a key point in the Allied campaign to drive the Axis from Tunis and Bizerte A spokesman at Allied quarters in North Africa said the reoccupation of Pichon by the French was accomplished with the help of U S fighters who de- at least 10 enemy vehicles on the roads of that Shortly Gets Purple Heart headquarters here from North Africa than 35 miles wide has been opened by the British near Wadi This map indicates how a corridor more than 35 miles wide has uy reas Shaded in Libya between the two halves of Rommel's retreating army areas Shaded shows direction of Rommel's continuing retreat toward Misura a and Tripoli lies 100 m arrow miles be- yond Exactly on of Kommers continuing how the British maneuvered to straddle the retreating Axis army has not yet been told of afterward a French service jn inventing a new frag c o m m u n i q re- mentation bomb Gen MacArthu has awarded the Purple Hear Medal to Lt Gen George C Ken ney commander of th Allied air forces in the Pacific The new bombs said Our troops have occupied a locality west of Kairouan and held on to it in the face of a strong by tanks This communique said several other engagements have taken place in the area and the enemy suffered considerable losses and prisoners The French presumably were referring to the fight for Pichon which is 25 miles west of command headquarters Rickenbacker Home Urges Greater Production to Equip Fighting Men and Life American gunners manned all he ship's guns but they never had fire a serious shot On our first morning out all the ships in the tested their guns and it was a vivid and noisy display of shooting all over the place for a while Once under way two canteens wore opened for tho troops One sold cigarets chocolates and so forth the called a wrt toon sold hot ten There was a constant long queue at each one often had to stand in line for three hours My special hangout down below was in a section where I ran onto a bunch of soldiers from Now Mexico One of them was Sergt Cheedle Caviness a nephew of Senator Hatch Cheedle has grown a blond and goatee and looks like a duke There was no trouble at all among the troops during the age But WP did have a couple of small incidents in the cers section of the ship One officer monkeying with his NEW YORK Dec tain Eddie Rickenbacker back home after his harrowing ences in the South Pacific and in the of Guadalcanal told his story personally to the American people today over radio hookups The the three weeks he and seven others floated on a raft in the ocean after their plane ran out of gasoline and of the things he saw in the theater of much the same as he told in Washington and tic last hour SOS appeal made by er in New Yoik yesterday radio and of the landing on the Sitting here in the comfort of ocean Know It in was his rabin loaded and didn't shot a mrp hole through the wardrobe thoughtfully his cabin mates Another officer was ar- rested for taking pictures of the convoy out of his porthole No movies were shown the troop The commander issued orders that electric razors not to be used for fear the enemy could pick up our position from the current hut we found out later this wasn't necessary We got radio news broadcasts a day from BBC It was they would be ued after we wore n of at sea but they weren't They were piped I ho ship by loud speakers so the troops could hear the news Chaplains aboard ship said that church attendance among the troops went up noticeably after sailed and continued to rise as we approached sub marine waters The nurses and doctors aboard mainly from Roosevelt pital In New York There were two other detachments of nurses on other ships in the convoy UP learned later The nurses teamed up with the officers played cards walked tho decks sat in the lounge That moonlight was pretty enchanting and I wouldn't be surprised if some romances got started As the days wore on grew broader and broader just as they do on a peacetime cruise The days were purposeless and without duties yet they seemed to speed by Henderson's Aides To Quit WASHINGTON Dec Administrator Leon Henderson's lop lieutenants in the Office of Price Administration have agreed among themselves to offer their resignations to his successor It was learned authoritatively today to give him a clear field for re- forms Senator Prentiss Brown of Michigan is expected to succeed Henderson shortly after the New Year But due to legislation and directives and the OPA's relation to the various food rubber petroleum transportation and economic agency probably cannot alter its course very far in the view of competent ers who have studied its mg chief my own home on a Sunday just five days before Christmas I find it rather cult to visualize that entirely ferent world some thousands of miles away in the Pacific from which I have just the flying ace of the first World war said today Few Americans who have not been there can comprehend that world in which our armed forces are making the gallant fight for us for such Sunday afternoons and Christmas Rickenbacker who spoke Army Hour which made available to the other jor networks then reviewed the latest of his many thrilling time a war mission for Secretary Stimson Calmly he told of Ins giant ship getting off its course of the Evangelist Is Summoned INDIANAPOLIS Dec E Howard Cadle 58 nationally known evangelist and pastor under Brown or any other His voice broke however as he told of Sergeant A T The what Morocco radio It described as broadcast an Allied in New Guinea que reporting that in Tunisia were in Allied patrols frequent con- tact with the enemy and made ther progress in the southern tor Light bombers escorted by momentarily of the death Kaczmarczyk several days after they had been floating about helplessly marczyk was the only fatality The sergeant had fallen over- board and swallowed sea-water and never fully recovered said To shield him from the cold at night I cuddled him in my arms like a mother would cuddle a small child to give him the warmth of rny body On the night he died he asked to get back into his own small raft I have never heard a sound which affected me so much as this last gasp of life When morning came we stripped him of clothing lifted him overboard gently and he disappeared into ocean I had completed one of the hardest jobs I ever had Rescue By Naval Plane Rickenbacker then described the rescue by a naval plane and of the continuance of his trip to New Guinea You simply cannot know and cannot tell you for obvious reasons just what a mendous job our men are doing fighters attacked the railway tion at Sfax the broadcast con- Numerous hits ob- served and when our bombers ed back the station was hidden by smoke clouds from fires All our planes returned safely Although the recapture of Pichon was reported major activity on the Tunisian front continued to be to air activity while Allied forces consolidated their positions In the battle of Lieut Gen Dwight D Eisenhower com- mander of the Allied forces in isia and French Africa announced that part of the French merchant shipping in north and West Turn to Last Page Please Joseph Stalin Is 63 Today MOSCOW Dec V Stalin will be years old tomorrow and will celebrate the anniversary with long hours of work at his desk as he wrestles with the problems of the Red army engaged in three winter offensives a colorful figure in His tabernacle from In most controversial rationing questions which have arisen in the Henderson regime the decisions which have led to most criticism have been dictated not by OPA but by other agencies which lect OPA and how much to ration Informed OPA officials who re- quested anonymity said that tually all of Henderson's official in policy-making posts had agreed to make it possible for the new administrator to shuffle through of the tabernacle here which bears his name died late today after an illness of 10 weeks Carile was Indianapolis which he broadcast covers a er of a city block in the downtown district It was built by Cadle in memory of his mother He told in his autobiography The Man Who Came that he pledged to his mother he would reform and spend his life helping unfortunates 0 he said ic After his Collier the marriage to Ola M evangelist Nor is there any way for me to convey to you adequately the ships they are undergoing and the Turn to Page 13 Please City Sees Heavy Snow against Nazi invaders This son of a peasant cobbler The popular White In song appeared to sheaf of their nations keep the men he wants and let the others step out Wife Acquitted In Slaying Of Army Captain BISBEE Ariz Margaret Dec 20 W For many of a grand rest us the Toward trip the was end some of us even hated to have it felt the sad sense of parting from new friends and of returning to old toils and you were reluctant But the war doesn't humor such whims The Weather rising ture followed by snow SUNDAY'S n 4 p m 7 a 6 p m in a 8 p m 12 10 p rn v i 2 p 12 Midnight n m Moon 5.40 p m m a was acquitted last night of the murder of Cant Carr Fort David D officer who was fatally shot in the girl's home last Aug 14 Col Edward G Benning Ga anc former commander of infantry Fort Huachuca where was by The daughter of Lt Herhhy of Fort lived for a time in Oklahoma City Returning to Indianapolis he as a tailor ery salesman and automobile sales- man He founded a While You Wait shoe repair store and at one time had a chain of 22 such shops He got his start in religious work when he and a New Albany minister built a church structure n Louisville Ky and held meetings there for a year At one time the Evangelist spoke before persons in Crosley Field Cincinnati One of the features of the vices at his tabernacle was the choir which he ed Survivors are the widow a son Lieut Buford Cadle of the U S Army Air Force at Memphis Tenn two daughters Mrs B W Major of Indianapolis and Mrs H Max Good of Columbus O a brother K E Cadle of Clayton two sisters Mrs C M King or Orleans and Mrs John Green of Salem Services will be here at 10 a m Wednesday in the tabernacle a certainty as the heaviest fall in years blanketed Zanesville and southeastern Ohio Saturday night and Sunday Driving and walking hazardous as snow covered icv streets and sidewalks Several accidents due to the weather were reported to police and ambulance drivers were kept standing by Wanda Frame 13 of 1520 Lewis drive was taken to Bethesda pital in the Dean ambulance with a fractured skull and bruises and lacerations sustained when she struck the left rear wheel of a car driven by Harry Albert Nelson of 24 Pierce street while coasting The girl was ing down a bank near her home police said using a piece of leum for a sled The accident curred about p m near her home Three soldiers were injured one when their car skidded West Main street near the who was born Joseph vich Dzugashvili and received the name of Nicolai Lenin leader of the Soviet revolution is accounted by sians not only the leader of the state but the chief Russian in the struggle against the Germans Even in times of peace few of the world's leading men labored as long and as hard as Stalin and with the advent of war from what can be learned from beyond the towering Red walls of the Kremlin he has added many hours to his day's work The Red army has already brought Stalin his birthday swift and excellent tion of two offensives the first at his namesake city of Stalingrad on the Southern Russian front and the second on the Central front northwest of Moscow Now it is became j chalking up successes in a third in the Voronezh area Stalin is no er Never announced Russians learned of the personal tion of Stalin in last winter's de- fense of Moscow from a picture quietly exhibited of Stalin and his commanders meeting in a small cabin at the front outside the tal Since the German armies drove deeply into Russia's lands from Leningrad to the Black Sea Stalin and not his generals and field shals has been the real director of the Red army His staff chiefs have been consulted but he is be- Hitler Holds Conference LONDON Dec Hitler whose armies are being hit hard on three fronts and guarding a fourth red this week-end with Italian For- eign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and high military chiefs on tions of common and also talked with his teed Vichy French leader Pierre Laval The meeting at the Fuehrer's an official Berlin announcement said was a token of the firm determination of the Axis powers to employ all their en- for winning final victory With regard to all questions dis- cussed a full agreement of con- ception was established The meetings were held Friday and Saturday and in addition to Hitler and Ciano these men parti Gen Ugo Cavallero chief of Italian general staff shal Gen Hermann whosi multiple jobs include control o Germany's air force war produc tion and transportation German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Rih bentrop Marshal Wilhelm chief of the Nazi high command and other military and politica leaders British quarters said Mussolini s health probably prevented the at- tendance of the Italian premier but his absence is just another in- dication of how he is being planted by Ciano Laval's meeting with Hitler in the presence of Ciano and Goering was limited to one sentence in the communique and from Berlin comments on Laval observers here got the impression Inflict Casualties On Germans MOSCOW Dec Red army sweeping across the frozen Don plains at a daily clip was nearing the key railway junction of on the line today after a powerful offensive that has inflicted casualties on the Nazis and threatens the entire German army anchored in southern Russia A special communique the second in two days an- the capture of only 30 miles north of and numerous other towns gether some 300 villages have been retaken in this exhibition of Soviet strength which is continuing on Premier Joseph Stalin's birthday anniversary Of the Nazi casualties were reported killed and captured Driving southwest the Russians said our troops ing the routed and hurriedly retreating German Fascist troops advanced 25 to 30 kilometers to miles Altogether since the beginning of the offensive our troops have advanced 75 to 120 kilometers to Vast Amount of Booty Taken The offensive began Dec 16 and the communique said he Russians had captured vast quantities of war equipment 89 tanks as well as a trainload of guns of various calibers 800 mortars more than rifle more than mines and shells trucks lorses 77 supply stores and 70 radio stations During yesterday's operations alone the Germans lost killed and prisoners the nique said The Russians said their ves on both sides of Stalingrad and on the central front also were con- as part of their general winter strategy which inflicted re- versos on the Nazis last winter be- fore Moscow A Berlin radio broadcast heard in London Sunday night admitted that the Russians on the Central front had broken into Velikie Luki Turn to Page 9 Please Raid Cost Six U.S Bombers LONDON Dec great force of U S Flying Fortress and Liberator bombers deepest penetration of a certain coolness Frenchman who has toward failed the to swing France Whole-heartedly into the Axis camp Six Allied Vessels Sunk Last Week Shipping In the south Atlantic again bore the brunt of punishment from Axis undersea raiders as navy and other reports disclosed that five of the eight vessels sunk in the western Atlantic last week went down in that area The other three ships were sunk off the United States and in the north Atlantic in the seven-day period ended Saturday The total raised to 564 the Associated Press count of announced sinkings of lied and neutral ships in the ern Atlantic since Dec 7 1941 Three American and three Brit- ish craft were lost and one each of Belgian and Norwegian try Seventy-four lost their lives and 24 were reported tions Mopping Up In N Guinea WITH AMERICAN TROOPS SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA Dec an troops veterans of campaigning and American who had held the jungle line for a solid month swept the Japanese off Cape day in an hour of the most bitter fighting of the entire New Guinea campaign While their Australian allies ried the brunt of the victorious charge the Americans followed closely to consolidate positions to mop up Japanese strong points which the had and then went to the immediate sistance of their allies as the battle gained in fury Cape consisting chiefly of coconut groves at the ex- treme eastern end of the ing Japanese beach head east of Buna was taken at a heavy cost in casualties to the enemy There were at least 600 Japanese in the made their of the war into France day and made one of their heaviest daylight attacks but they also their heaviest loss as swarms of Nazi fighters shot six of them down The big planes streaked 180 miles beyond the coastal frontier to blast an enemy airfield at Romilly Sur Seine which lies 80 miles beyond Paris The weather was good and ex- results were seen Many enemy fighters were re- ported to have been destroyed but the exact number was not known pending a check with the ing pilots The long overland flight ed enemy fighters a wealth of time to climb info position to intercept the bombers In addition to being the site of an important Nazi air field and plane park Romilly-Sur-Seine also contains railway shops At the same time the heavy bombers were stabbing deep into enemy country nearly 300 craft of the Allied fighter com- mand including Americans made a vast sweep over northern France from Le Havre to Graveline Many squadrons returned to re- port they had seen no enemy craft Others said they sighted some German planes but that they did not offer battle seriously on ity ial will be birthplace at Fredericksburg his limits Saturday night Lieut Edward Kenny Army Air Service Turn to Last Page Please HL r ui t Carr's superior officer waited the courtroom surrounded members of her family and army an expectant or gasped as the verdict was read hut otherwise remained calm As the jurors were dismissed they filed by the counsel table and shook hands with the red-haired girl and wished her I don't know how to told the Jurors She was smiling through tears Tohn F Ross county attorney who prosecuted the also con- her Editor's This story carried in Zanesville m th Sunday the Gieck For New Cruiser Houston HOUSTON Tex Dec Secretary of Navy Knox will take n leading role in a naval program tomorrow that includes the ing of eight vessels and the pre- of a check to the navy to pay for a new cruiser Houston Knox arrived by plane tonight Also on Commerce hand Jesse is Secretary ol Jones who will hand the check to Knox The city raised the in 21 days The previous cruiser Houston was lost in the south Pacific ing the invasion of the Dutch East Indies area and as usual most of them resisted to the last The assault was carried out after the Allied capture of Buna village Is Held In Slaying Of COLUMBUS O Dec Deputy Sheriff Ralph Garner said tonight he would file charges morrow against William Kitchen laborer in the Friday night slaying of a worker William Norris Dummitt 22 also of Ashville Deputy Garner said Kitchen admitted he stabbed Dummitt during a fight as they were enroute home from the eye Steel Castings Co where they were employed Suspects at Butte Mont Not Touhy Gangsters BUTTE Mont Dec erroneous tip sent Butte police into swift action late today In the hope of capturing Roger Touhy and Basil Banghart desperadoes who escaped prison in Illinois last Oct 9 Two men and two women were arrested but they had no tion with the Touhy gang Police Chief Jack Duggan said to have been strategist in Russia's the master war moves KILLED BV COLUMBUS O Dec A hit-skip motorist struck and killed Louis Neuhardt 75 Grove City farmer near his home Santa Clous Fund Seven contributions totaling j were received over the week-end for the Avondale Santa Claus Fund This brings the total now on hand to The money will be used in chasing Christmas gifts for the 46 children of the Avondale home in an effort to bring a Merry mas to these young folks Anyone wishing to contribute to this fund is asked to aend the contribution to The Times Re- corder sometime today Contributions Previously acknowledged Sam Hall Question Couple About Abandonment of Baby YOUNGSTOWN O Dec Tyson 27 and his wife Doris tonight were taken to Pittsburgh for questioning in con- with the abandonment of a baby in a Pittsburgh hotel eral weeks ago Detectives William Lally and Herman Mathieu said they ed Tyson here last night and de- his wife at a bus station as she arrived in Youngstown from Cleveland today The couple was booked on an open charge and re- leased to Detective Inspector tor Monaghan of Pittsburgh for return there ESCAPES IN CROSSING CRASH CLEVELAND Dec Paul J Steinmetz 41 a city ance department auditor was un- Diane Cotter Roseville A Friend A E Cadet injured last night when his car 5 661 was struck by a train thrown into the path of an 5 train at the W HOth crossing Steinmetz climbed WAR SUMMARY A Friend 5.00 Total out of the machine before the ond train struck demolished The car was Russians in new winter offensive overrun 300 villages and towns ing or capturing Germans and capturing a vast amount of booty The action is assuming the portions of a German NORTH British continue relentless pursuit of Marshal Rommel's ing Axis army taking and destroying 20 tanks French troops have recaptured the town of Pichon in Tunisia NEW Allied forces continue to mop up nese in the Buna sector Defendant In Famed Murder Case Is Dead NEW BRUNSWICK N J Dec 20 IF Mrs Frances Stevens Hall the aristocratic principal of the murder case one of America's most celebrated crimes died yesterday She was 79 The murder 20 years ago of her husband the Rev Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs Eleanor Mills at- tractive young choir singer in fashionable new Brunswick church evoked enormous interest in the nation the trial four years later of Mrs Hall and her two brothers Willie and Henry Stevens was a sensation The three were acquitted nnd the case remains today one of crime's major unsolved teries The case contained virtually ery element the morbid or the crime connoisseur could desire The middle-aged rector and the church sexton's were found neatly laid out beneath a crabapple tree on De lane a lovers trysting place The calling card was carefully placed against his heel the couple's love letters strewn about the scene The an had been shot three times and her throat had been the clergyman had been shot once Editor's This story carried exclusively in Zanesville in the Sunday V
