Times Recorder, The (Newspaper) - January 5, 1943, Zanesville, Ohio Always First The Times Recorder Vol LIX No 4 ZANESVILLE OHIO TUESDAY JANUARY Russians Drive To Cut Off Nazi Invaders Stories Of Army Moil By ERNIE PYLE WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN ALGERIA By fine collection of freak stories about the mails is growing up over here Recently we had a flood of mail both from England and America Mail sacks were piled on the docks by the F thousand ing mounds as as The Army's post of- fice working with remarkable speed sorted and delivered all of it in three days Some people got as many as 75 letters all at once Others correspondent got none One fellow I know got two a notification that a friend had subscribed to the ers Digest for him which he ready knew and the other a letter about some church festival which his wife had sent him though he had received no personal letter from her in weeks The recipient uses very unchurchly language when he tells about it Another man I know a colonel from San Francisco hasn't heard from his wife in three months or from his friends in longer than that This recent deluge of mail brought him just one letter It was from a vice-president of the Goodrich Tire Co warning him that it was his patriotic duty to conserve his tires But here I think is the best one Capt Raymond Ferguson of Los Angeles had a Christmas box from his aunt It was the first one she had sent in many years and he was quite touched when he saw who it was from son opened the box with eager fingers Then his face fell The Pipe Line Crosses Mississippi Ernie Pyle such as this Ohio May Not Change Time Zone COLUMBUS O Jan movement to return Ohio to the Central Standard time zone ed a setback today as the general assembly convened The War Production Board not only advised against moving the state from the Eastern Time zone but suggested that the addition of an extra hour of during the summer would help the war effort The WPB after a survey of in- savings resulting from in Ohio further said that a return to Standard Time might set a baa example for other states The proposal to turn back the clock an hour championed by ral interests who complained that farmers have to do many of their early chores In the dark is de- into a strong and haps troublesome issue for the Gov John W Bricker has that he would not be dis- posed to make recommendations contrary to the policy on Bundles for Boys in Services informed the The Texas to Illinois oil pipe line is negotiating one s ol lite most difficult stretches with the crossing of the Mississippi at Cape Mo Here is a general view after work had started of laying o ere s the from barges in the river The pipe slides into the water the sections are welded together Bureaucrats Give More Views on Gas Rationing gift was n large forms for stack him blank write home on And Captain Ferguson being head of the army's postal this section already service in had millions of American movies prohibited during the German occupation shown again some modern theaters in the ger cities but no new films have arrived yet They are dragging out some un- believable antiques One theater showed a film starring Sessue Hayakawa who has been gone so long you have to be middle-aged to remember him at all Another stars the dog Rin Tin Tin dead lo these many years Capt Stan Charlotte coca-cola king came to town and bought an gerian violin in a wooden case to while away his spare hours at camp He paid for it and was lucky to find one at any price as Earl the music stores are nearly bare Lieut Col Gurney Taylor has just been in to use my bath again That's two baths for the colons in less than a week It makes him so damn clean he is Chuck Conick of burgh got a whole flock of burgh Presses the other day and came rushing over to show me my own column Unfortunately tho papers were four months old and I was just arriving in England behind the times as WASHINGTON Jan 4 VP Leon speaking as an outbound price administrator declared today that public lessness and indifference were partly to blame for the present gas and oil situation Gasoline bootlegging and spread failure to convert oil ers to coal show that the full seriousness of the situation is not realized he told a special senate T E With to Head C of C T E superintendent of the Ohio Power company in this city was elected president of the Zanesville Chamber of Commerce at the annual reorganization ing Of the newly elected and over directors held at the Rogge Hotel Monday evening committee investigating the petroleum shortage on the eastern seaboard Petroleum Administrator Harold L Ickes said the east would remain on a hand to mouth basis Neither he nor others who testified held out hope for a relaxation in the very necessary rationing of gasoline For Farmers Rubber Administrator William M Jeffers however recommended that farmers be allotted all the gasoline they need for essential food production until a new rationing form can be put into effect April 1 Joseph B Eastman director of defense transportation said his office was giving careful to Jeffers proposal but could not yet commit itself man said that farmers like body else should be as sparing as possible in the use of their time The WPB ernor In the state of Ohio which Is quite far west in the Eastern Time zone there is probably only a small saving in plant capacity by War time There are however substantial savings in kilowatt hours of energy produced and used Our estimates show that it will be about kilo- watt hours per year The WPB pointed out that light saving time promoted huge savings of electricity coal oil and gas in plants plus wear and tear on electrical machinery and Additional savings along these lines may be effected by ing a second hour of war time for the period beginning May 1 and ending Sept 30 It is the WPB said that one rule be adhered to by the country as a whole The new legislature dominated heavily by the Republicans passed its first day in organizing for iness electing officers and The Eleventh division of the conducting the Victory Pas times campaign of the upper west side section of New York city ar shown preparing bundles for shipment to boys in the services in th U S and Seamen gave the gals a helping hand Seaman Gerald Marqusee Mrs C A Brodek chair man of Mrs Harry N Wesser chairman of Victory Pas times Chief Mate Herman Nadler Mrs Maury Prage and Jerry Holmes Always Fair COLD Americans In Tunisia Are Blasting Axis By The Associated Press The Russian offensive southwest of Stalingrad ed last night to have reached a point only about 30 miles short of a possible juncture with the drive down the middle Don and the far southern Soviet forces also were going for- ward unchecked in the campaign to cut off the German in- vaders of the Central Caucasus This shortening of the gap between the two thrusts down upon the approaches to Rostov was indicated by a special Soviet communique announcing the recapture of the Nazi air base of and the railway station of the latter 100 miles west of Stalingrad and astride the railway which runs from Stalingrad to join the main line at The two armies previously had been about 45 miles apart and it seemed plain that they were seeking to bring together a second envelopment of the survivors of 22 Nazi divisions already declared cut off about Stalingrad Indict 33 for Plotting Impair Military Morale WASHINGTON Jan Thirty-three persons including George E Deatherage were ed today along with the New York Sunday Evening Enquirer for con- spiring to impair morale and mote insubordination and mutiny in the armed forces Twenty-eight of the defendants had been indicted previously on the line the novel truck and far usual I've just had of driving an Army 50 miles along African roads at night time to help out a fellow who was getting a little tired was the first time I'd driven since leaving America six months ago and it felt wonderful Traffic here Incidentally is right-handed the same as at home After all those ir in left-handed i 4 V x fcf TOW 11 land I felt during the first few days here ss if I was on the wrong side of the road The West rumor to hit town Is that the ship we came from England on was sunk on the way back Id hate to of that faithful ship being Jon the bottom of the ocean A large batch of officer tions just came through catching many officers without the insignia S their new rank They'll have to continue wearing their old ones as no American insignia are ava able here I heard of one ambitious and farsighted second who came loaded with all insignia up to three stars The army newspaper Swingle was elected first Morris R Pollock second vice-president and 15th di- rector William E Maharry tary and Henry J surer Clyde B Calhoun retiring dent elected as ex-officio member of the board Mr With new president of the chamber has long been active in the affairs of the organization ing his available time to civic fairs since his return to Zanesville from Newark upon elevation to the position he now holds with the power company Secretary Maharry made his an- reports following which items were discussed ing the development of new airport A committee to prepare lutions on the death of E R Meyer director was appointed by Mr Calhoun prior to his ment as president This committee is composed of C A Zinn R W Ickes advocated the building of new tank cars to assure the domestic supply of fuel oil and gasoline Eastman said he was preparing a new recommendation Turn to Page 9 Please Girl Slain on Way to Work NEW YORK Jan er who chose the murk of the pre- dawn to drive a knife into the back of an attractive girl was the object of a police search tonight The stabbing victim pointing personnel It will meet again tomorrow to canvass the vote cast in November for state officials and then will adjourn un- Turn to Page 9 Please Roll of Honor Is on Display Visitors at the Zanesville lishing company offices yesterday were delighted with the ance of the Southeastern Ohio Roll of Honor book being sponsored by The Times Recorder and The Zanesville Signal The book is on display in the lobby where it will remain until completion of plans for a formal dedication in the near future In response to many queries It is pointed out by officials of the two newspapers that there is ab- no obligation assumed by anyone signing the book The Roll of Honor is designed to perpetuate the memory of the men and women from ern Ohio now serving in the ferent forces and in the center of the first page is this Citizens Protest Levy Seeking to block an ordinance taxing real property city's electric citizens the light severa registered protests with city council at the regular meeting in city last night Representing a group of payers Holland M Geary de scribed the proposed tax as un just and and asked council to block the ordin ance to prevent court action Speaking as a member and pas president of the Zanesville Rea Estate board John Garrett de the measure as confis as an unjust bur ame charge violation of the sedition statute The new was returned at the re- quest of the justice department Besides listing the five additional persons and the Enquirer a y publication it named a host of additional organizations and cited quotations from their literature The new indictment charged 8 conspiracy beginning in 1933 anc continuing to this date whereas the previously returned hill hac covered only the period from June 1940 to July 1942 Among Those Accused The five persons named for the first George E Deatherage of St Al bans W Va described by the tice department as a member o the Knights of the White Camelia which the indictment said was one nf 41 organizations formed to fur ther the conspiracy Mrs Lois De Lafayette Wash burn alias T N Chicago an Seattle Wash Frank W Clark alias o Tacoma Wash Paquita de alias Pa quita de alias Mrs Turn to Page 9 Please Hitlerite Lies Russians Dorothy Huber was still conscious when found early today by two ers on a sidewalk near the Bronx Baking plant where the three were employed Get me to a she Stars don and with Sgt un set shop and were printing m less than a week The paper is now a weekK but it may become a daily Tt is doubly welcome down nere where you get only newspapers printed in French PIONEER RIVERMAN DIES CINCINNATI Jan P Suit 79 pioneer Ohio erman associated with coal com- panies during most his career died in his North Bend O home today McAllister and Ralph Gorsuch Directors of the association are William H Adams Jr A L Jr E Johnson Charles E Miller Russell E Roberts Earl B Swingle T E With John W field Lowell M Luther R W Allister G F McConnell A F Murphy Harold V Tom C Alfred Zinn and Morris R Pollock Ford's Theater in Baltimore Closed BALTIMORE Jan 4 VP Ford's theater known and loved for almost three-quarters of a tury by nearly every star of the American theater today became a victim of old age The quaint old playhouse on whose boards such stars as Edwin Booth Maxine Elliott Richard ed They supported the girl and not knowing she had beer stabbed walked with her the two blocks to the baking plant In front of the plant she collapsed At Lincoln hospital where she died a few minutes later doctors found a stab wound had penetrated her lung Detectives searching the discovered a knife shoved through a picket fence several doors from the scene of the stabbing which occurred in a mixed tion Police said the girl had been ing to work at a m but was starting today on a shift arriving at a m Her father Otto walking to work n few minutes later along the same route his daughter had taken saw police gathered recognized his daughter's tam-o-shanter lying at the scene and identified her body at the hospital This book is proudly dedicated to the men and women of our community who are serving their country in its hour of greatest need It is a spectacular volume sive in proportions and beautiful in appearance Stamped in the center of the leather cover is a service emblem with a brilliant border of red field of white and star of blue It is lined with silk and is 12 inches thick Its pages es in size carry space for names of men and women now in service Following the dedicatory ices the Roll of Honor will be at home in the Service Center the lobby of the Zanesville Publishing building on South Fourth treet where relatives of service men and women are invited to call nd register their own names and Pointing out that not so long ago many people in Zanesville had lost their homes through taxation he explained that today the real estate market in Zanesville is more stable than for years a con- dition threatened by the electric light tax Leonard Sellers local labor leader asked council for an ex- planation of what had become of the money already appropriated for electricity Speaking as a member of the Tax league he warned council that in Columbus a group of zens had worked together to de- feat the service tax in that city and implied that similar action was to be expected here We read in newspaper lines of high wages all over the Turn to Last Page Please This progressive worsening of Hitler's situation in ia the arena of all arenas was accompanied by reports of inconclusive and scattered ground fighting in lisia and by indications that it thus far still was impossible o prevent the ferrying of considerable weights of Axis ar- nor into North Africa Dispatches from Allied headquarters in North Africa old of two raids by American planes on considerable con- centrations of German tanks about the port area of Sousse across the channel from the Axis arsenal of Sicily and the inference was that tanks had only recently been unloaded at that port It was stated that at least two of them were smashed four others burned out and many more damaged American Equipment Aids that American LONDON Jan Mansfield William Gilette the Judith Anderson and Barrymores Katharine Cornell once trod was ordered closed by the city until the structure is put in a safe tion The Weather cold Tuesday with winds diminishing in after- noon 33 37 33 30 Sun Moon Uses t m Sets p m SOU p Ford's Grand Opera as oldtimers still call have its face lifted if it is to re- sume its place as an integral part of the American stage The city buildings engineer told the management that he would de- cide later in the week whether the city's ruling would be modified CONDITION CRITICAL COLUMBUS O Jan P Van Schoik 51 chief supervisor of relief audits for state tor was in a critical condition day after a blood clot developed near his heart following an auto- mobile accident Dec 19 Stealing and Forging Dependents Checks PHILADELPHIA Jan Stealing and forging of checks sent by the goverment ents of men in has become a the armed forces serious problem Fred W Gruber secret service supervisor in Philadelphia said today Gruber stated that there are more than 200 such cases under investigation in Philadelphia rep resenting an increase of 20 over the all-time high mark Ir depression days when WPA check were the loot of mailbox thieves Gruber said the thieves mall carriers deliver the checks steal them from the cash them usually in a neighbor hood store The dependency check average about he added hose of their rmed forces families with the About 40 Pounds of Canned Food Per Year WASHINGTON Jan agriculture department said night that the total amount of canned food for each civilian under he forthcoming rationing program be between 35.4 to 40.3 pounds for the year 1943 In a statement the department corrected its previous figure of 36 pounds that the new mate included canned fruits soups baked beans and baby food the statement said clarifies the earlier ment of 33 pounds per capita for civilian consumption in 1942 which stated that frozen and U S Buys Hotels For Hospitals WASHINGTON Jan War Department has purchased six hotels a school and a private hospital for use as permanent hospitals it was officially disclosed tonight and has leased six other hotels two schools and three private hospitals as ary military hospitals It has condemnation proceedings pending for the purchase of two other hotels for permanent als It has purchased two more hotels and two schools for other purposes And it has leased hotels in all for various temporary Political Play Still Annoys LONDON Jan 4 W Harol MacMillan newly appointed Brit ish resident minister has arrive at Allied headquarters in Nort Africa where it is expected he will confer at once with Gen Henri Giraud high commissioner arid other French leaders in an effort to smooth out the rift with the Fighting French it was re- ported today MacMillan probably will report fully on the attitude of the North African French toward Gen Charles De Gaulle Fighting French leader and then attempt with Robert Murphy President Roosevelt's envoy to work out a program by which all conflicting policies may be reconciled it was Soviet Information bureau tonight accused the Germans for the ond straight day of inventing Hitlerite lies to conceal the true status of the Nazi armies which they said are making a swift backward movement on many fronts in Russia The midnight Soviet Mae broadcast by Moscow and heard here by the Soviet monitor said the Germans had their troops began the new year with large-scale attacks in the Terek area of the Caucasus and that all Bolshevik counterattacks collapsed against the iron ance of our troops To this the Russians said This is a blatant contradiction ment had materially aided the French in the fighting around Kairouan which is roughly 30 miles inland from Sousse was dis- closed in a French announcement that American weapons and planes had been used in Turn to Page 9 Please of the facts The begun by German said De Gaulle himself was said by his intimates to be waiting a for- mal invitation to go to North new year was troops with a swift backward movement on many fronts including the Terek sector In the first days of the new year Soviet troops occupied the towns of Mozdok and and dozens of other inhabited points Under the blows of the Red army the Nazis are ing one inhabited locality after another and are rolling back to the west The Russians also chided the German high commander for ing yesterday that west of Kaluga one enemy battalion was routed 95 strongholds and pillboxes were destroyed and prisoners were cap- tured This announcement also is a Hitlerite communique said the Russian Kaluga 90 miles spokesmen have uses The scope of the department's operations in this field was out- lined in a report by Undersecretary Robert P Patterson to Senator Byrd D-Va which the senator made public in connection with his protest at the army's purchase of the Stevens hotel in Chicago largest in the country for Patterson contended it was cheaper to purchase the hotel than to rent it when various factors were considered but Byrd disputed this and further declared that ownership was able nca Giraud's that all French elements ought to be united to wage the war on Germany and Gen De Gaulle has expressed a similar at- However De Gaulle has de- clared that collaboration is on the removal of alleged Vichy elements from Giraud's im- council and has indicated impatience that his proposal to Giraud for establishing a formal French government in North rica In which the Fighting French would be represented has not met with speedier recognition In diplomatic quarters It was reported today that the United States government may issue a statement in a few days outlining its position and clarifying iU at- toward the imperial council which named Giraud as the high commissioner southwest of Moscow on the way to Bryansk has long been in the rear of the Red army West of Kaluga as already announced by the Soviet information bureau there still is a lull The inventions of the lerite high command are as foolish as they are false and only expose the Nazi ringleaders to the de- of the whole world U S Bombers Hit Nazi Base CAIRO Jan U S Liberator bombers rained pound bombs in heavy salvos on the German fighter and bomber base at southeast of Candia in Crete in their raid Saturday it was disclosed today by a Reuters correspondent who made the flight The correspondent rode in the Liberator Tangerine in the first relay of bombers ing at the base in the second light attack on Crete The raid was announced by Allied headquarters yesterday The correspondent gave this witness I saw bombs fall In salvos from the bellies of the huge aircraft flying in perfect formation over the island Our cargoes had all been re- leased before the gunners below surprised at their midday meal were able to get the range and open fire 150 heavy bombs on the enemy air More than were dropped base as part of a carefully planned and well executed daylight attack delivered soon after noon WAR SUMMARY west of reached Russians Stalingrad have a point 30 miles Senator Glass Celebrates His Birthday LYNCHBURG Va Jan Senator Carter Glass celebrated his birthday at his u unx home Farm near here n today by receiving a few friends Caroline O'Day AS Cl I J dried fruits were included and failed to include canned soups baked beans and canned baby foods O'DAY DIES RYE N Y Representative L four times elected from New York died day at her home here She had been In ill health for some time mal observance of the event Senator Glass was re-elected last November without major party opposition One Killed Two Injured In Crossing Crash BROOKVILLE O Jan Noah Haupt of Brookville a sylvania Railroad section hand was killed and two co-workers were injured one seriously when the truck in which they were ing was struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train at a crossing be- ween Brookville and Dodson ay Russell Lever of Brookville is n a serious condition at a mond Ind hospital where he and lis companion John Hussong also f Brookville and driver were aken following the accident Smoke and a snowstorm which to obscure vision were to be the cause of the short of a junction with the drive down the Middle Don and the far southern Russian forces are also un- checked in their advance to cut off the German in- vaders in the Central casus To Drive Last Jap From New Guinea ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA Tuesday Jan forces in New Guinea are regrouping for a drive on anda Point the last salient held by the Japanese in that area the high command reported today Allied air forces were active from Lae New Guinea to New Britain the communique reported A heavy bombing unit ed the airdrome at Gasmata and a reconnaissance group strafed an enemy schooner in Jacquinot Bay on the southeast coast of New Britain Allied attack planes and medium bombers raided the Lae airdrome and nearby installations destroying Japanese age to land some supplies on Guadalcanal Eight anese destroyers were at- tacked in the operation and one is known to have been damaged and it is possible others were hit NORTH American planes bomb German tank concentrations at Sousse and American equipment helps the French in fighting about Kairouan 30 miles inland from Sousse three grounded enemy aircraft starting fires in the hangar and building area A reconnaissance unit strafed an enemy supply boat in Finschhafen We are regrouping our troops preparatory to the com- said of the activity in the area FOUND DEAD ON CINCINNATI Jan C Otte 61 was found dead today v on a sidewalk spattered with blood Police Captain George Pear S cy reported Coroner Frank Cop pock said examination i revealed a head cut and jaw ture and that he would gate the death v
