Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
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37TH YEAR, NO. 21—44 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 1943
PRICE TEN CENTS
RAIN STOPS AFRICAN DRIVE
Government Mediation of ReCOmmend MineW age Dispute Asked l\;i.\i\, Week
For Steel
Lewis Proposal to Extend Negotiations Is Rejected by Soft Coal Operators
He's Captain Now
New Yorlc, M.rch JO. (UP)--, Government medi.tion in the wage! dispute of miners and operators in the northern and southern soft coal recions will be .outnt early next weeic, it was indicated to- nifht as the Joint wage conference adjourned  for  the weekend.
Edward R. Burlce, apoKSsman for the aouthern operators, said tonlfht his group will inform 'the proper government agency" that it it unable to reach an agreement with the United Mine Workers on thtir demand* for a |2-a-day wage increase, and asic for mediation.
The aouthern operators sent a telegram tonight te President Roosevelt and cople. to Harold Ickes, .olid fuel co-ordinator. See¬ retary of Labor f>ance. rerkini. William H. Davis, chairman of the' War Labor Board, and Samet Byrnes. director of economic! stabilisation. Text of the telegrams wat not revealed. ¦
He taid the group must first de- I termine which agency it would ap- { peal to, asserting the War l.<abor Board must now "paM on change. in w.gt structure." The normal procedure, Burke said, wouid be to ask for a review of the eaae by a Department of Labor conciliator.
"We could go to the co-ordinator' ef solid fuels," he added, "or even > the President himself could exer¬ cise some authority."
Burke', statement came after thej southern miners had rejected a pro-1 posal   by   the   operator,   that   the' UMW Join them in immediate sub¬ mission ef the dispute to a govem¬ ment agency.
Reeume Talka .Mendajr |
After Burke's statement. John' O'Leary, UMW vice-ptoaident andi representative ef Pretident Jehn M. Lewis at the southern conference, said the miners believed a negoti-1 ated contract still oould be worked! out without appeal te the govern-' ment.
The southern sub-committee for negotiations wlll resume itt taikt' Monday, however, detpite Rurke't | announced intention of a§iftta\ing tn    the    govemment.    Burke    and
Churchill Speaks On Radio Today
London, Sunday, March 21. (UP)—Prime Miniater Churchill will broadcast a speech at • p. m. tonight (« p. m. EWT), it was announced today and it wa. be¬ lieved he might rai.e the curtain on an Allied .pring campaign to lick the U-boat, finish the Tuni¬ .ian war and soften up Europe with air blow, fer an eventual grand invaalon.
The prime minister also was expected to sum up recent Allied war achievements and outline immediate difficulties involving morp sacrlflces on the home front.
The context of the prime minis¬ ter's speech i. now completed, it wa. announced, but is subjeet to change in event Adolf Hitler or some other Axi. leader should decide  to speak Srst.
Labor Advisers Of WPB Suggest Move to Spread Needed Manpower
:    Washington,   March   20.    (UP)
A   48-hour   work   week   for   all   of
the steel industry wa. recommeixd- .ed today by the War Production' I Board',   steel   latior  advisory  com-|
mittee, consisting of Philip Mur-; I ray, president, and aix other oBi-; I cials of  the  United Steel  Workers
of  America   (CIO). {
! Appointed earlier this week to; Iwork with W^PB'. .teel division and I jthe indu.try toward obtaining thei
maximum    ateel    production,    thei
ialior advisory committee endorsed 1
the M-hour work week  in  the  in-j
dustry aa a move to spread man-i
Iiower for expanded steel produc¬ tion facilities and to make up for'      m^ Tnnb.. c>.A44j>»ak.j I
the  loa. of worker,  to  the  armed
services. ¦,
Government  statistics  show  thati
the average work week in the ."^teel i
industry    during    December,    1942, i .	
, was   4m   hours.  Allowing   for   in-      Boston, March  20.   (UP)    A  mil- juries and other unforeseeable fac-1 lion-dollar   fire   punctuated   hy   a
tors, a 48-hour industry-wide work i dozen   explosions   wrecked   a   Dor-
lEden'S Ml Americans Ready
Clearing Up ^® ^''«'p Pommel
French Crisis ^^''^-^^^^y
Poised for Drive to Sea
In Rear of Axis Marettt Line;
Sliock Troops Reach Sened
M
Military Control Of Giraud Backed By U.S., Britain; Rivalry in Guiana
EXPLOSIONS, FIRE WRECK WAR PLANT NEAR BOSTON
Air Tanks Scattered Over Factory Area; Damage Is Million
By VIRGIL PINKLEY
Allied   Headquarters,  North bogged
compi'e*t'e"*undir^and^ng°onTngi^- Allied Headquarters, North .\frica, March 20 (UP)— American policy toward the French jTorrential rains have bogged down the fledgling Allied situation has been one of the con- offensive in South Tunisia, and American troops today wer«
r.^r'ta"'"'A^tSLf''EtnrTi;ir»»".«?"«»««"« l^'K "^"^^ '" \t"'1 ^"^"^ *,^* '~'* ""' here, it was learned tonight. waiting for a break in the weather to resume It.
Both governments are emphasii- (Xhe British radio reported that .\merican nhoek trocv* In'^.^h'; tt:T\'JiKlZ:"tl advancing 23 miles ea.st of (J.fsa penetrated Sened. eneoan. Axis and are endorsinft the mill- teied no ie.sistance, and withdrew.)
tary leadership of Gen. Henri Four days of Steady rainfall in some sectors had turnrt hTZlt^^niiy "' '"*' """^ ^^* '^"'"''' *"'' P'*'"'' ""^" quagmires impa.ssable for heavy
Gen Charles de Gaulle, lender of «»"«« and armor, and Allied air foiccs Were unable to strike
the Fighting; French group, will be through the heavy skies.
welcome as a participant In French!    Three American divisions were leadv to roll toward the
St.??rin"'!;nv"riv),i"nrn''in'^!„t'"r;'t-a'je8 bottlenpck a.s .soon aa thev had the footing, while to ported   in   any   rival  movement   to    , ,,     ,,        .,  .,.  ,     ...   , ,,      . -.        , ,     .. ..
assume leadership of the French' the .south the Blltl.sh Lighth .\im.v, after blasting the cause as a whole. Mareth   Line, awaited Gen.  .Sir  l>eniard  L.  Montgomery'a
End .Misiinderataiidlngs
Kden's peraonal contnct with offi-
'Vwo year, ago Winthrop Rockefeller, right, joined the Army a. a
private.   Now he i. a captain.   He', shown in Louisiana maneuvers.
Pvt. Frank Morris, Hillsgrove, R. I., left.
command to advance.
Poised on the .soutli-central front were the American 1st TmiJi mTunSand\'!,;s,3'mad''e' a"*! '"^tl' Jnf«"tr.v DivLsions and the l8t Arniored Division week would mean actual operations Chester war plant  in  less  than an",  P'-"  ^^at   the  British   are   not I the f^.'^^V^^ P    ''^^   /   irffo^.in.i^  ^ITnl^^^ averaging about 4«'s hours, it was hour today but onlv one minor ess-  att'mptinK  ^"..'^'"iJ'L'^^''^^*   "^''*'   l^assenne   Pass   after  suffering  a   setback   la.st   monti . estimated. uaity was reported. against Giraud in Allied efforts to Their hold on the Gafsa area secure. thc.\ were read.v to push
FRANK O.LOWDEN, 1920 GOP LEADER, OIESATJ6E0F82
Almost Beat Harding For Party Nomination; Retired in 1928
CITY OF FLINT, ONCE NAZI PRIZE, SUNKTOOAT
Seized in 1939, Freed Months Later By Norwegians
Tucson, Aril.. March 20. <UP)— Washington. March 20. (CP> — O'Leary agreed that discussions of Frank O. Lowden, a village black-.The Navy revealed today that the other clauses in the UMWs 12 de- smith's son who climbed to the freighter City of Flint,"wich was mands  could  continue. Illinois governorship and a promi- seized in 1939 by a Oerman raider
The northern negotiatinr sub- nant place in the councils of the and subsequently released by the committee is scheduled to resume Republican party, died today after .Norwegian government, ha. been Monday, also. ,¦ lingering illness at the age of 82.! torpedoed and sunk in mid-AUantic
I Replaoe. .VIaiiuoH«r Loe. Although  20  or  more  employees
Further drafU by the armed .er- «P.P«rently  were   in   the   two-story vice,   on   .teel   workers,   combined H."^"*  production   plant of  the  Air
assist   tlie   French   to   organize   a . j   .„..»u«.,.* f.,^.^ v\ f.....f.n>.
more  effective   fighting  force. ^^^^^ "I'l southea.st from Ll Cuetzai.
A new instance of rivalry between      The .'\niericans were within 70 miles of Gabes, the coastal
Reduction Sales Co. when the blasts the two French factions developed cit.v which  the .Axis undoubtedlv was preparinjr to defend
and  blaze occurred,   a deputy   fire today, however, with announcement with   sll   its   might.   If   the   Allies; '¦
reported   that   everyone   ap- in London  that  dc Gaulle has  ap-; guccceded   in   blocking  the   12-mile rologlcal  rarily  there
with the need for more workers be¬ cause   of  expansion   of   production'  .     .
facihties,   will   bring   the  industry ^"'"   --m—-—   -—    ' ;", 7"^ i    ,...,,„.    . i -   .   .     ™    .;
fare  to   f«c«   wilh   a   cpiicIaI  man.  Pe»red to have been accounted for.! pointed Maurice   Bertaut as gover-1 utrip between Gabes and the Chottlor   river rower nrobiem   Murray said! CyHnder. Explode nor of French  Guiana,  the Fien'-h 1 njerid    (Salt    Lake),    the    Afrik. the   dirt
*^ *^ ' Flre offlciais said a truck loaded colony    on    the    .South    American Korps  would   be   trapped   between muck
newly-created ^^.m^ compressed air backed into a mainland which  announced it. ad- the   British   and   American   armies     The Tunisian rainy season usually
ox     tne     ^a*   ormnn    Af    r>nmnro««AH    flip    r>vlinH*p« 1 Vl*fl.*nr>A tn  fZirmuM   Ihla   U7fl«lr i.. ii      «f.v|M«nt     Of
The wadis, beds, were flooding and roads   were   ribbons   ef
Lewis ha. proposed to operators in both sections that the existing contracts be continued after M^-rt .tl. with any subsequent wa<:e agreement made retroactive. Reso¬ lutions relating to the contract ex¬ tension were rejected late today '.t the northern conference and to¬ night at the southern conference.
( ongrevs Ready te Act Te Outlaw Strikes
Waahington,   March   20.    (UP) Congress is ready to act on  legis
He died shortly oefore noon, wilh | ^h, jjavy earlier today had an- only a nurse at hi. bedside m flie.„„„„^,j ^^^^ sinking, which occur- EI   Conquistador   Hotel.    Members i„<, ;„ j^„ ^ut it did not dis-
of h. family had  visited him here;^,^^ ^^^^  ^^^
at his winter retre.jt but none was ,,„„„, American  vessel  that  had present at his death. ,pp„t  jjg   ^^y,   „„   ^^^^  j,,^,,^  ^^
I.,owden   had   spent   his   winters and a.s a captured prize before re- here for several years ^ince falling turnhijt to her home port of Balti- health   forced   him   to   retire   from.more on Jan. 27, 1940. politics   after  his   unsuccessful   bid Ifor    the    Republlcsn    presidential nomination in 1928. Strongest In l»20
It   was   in    1820,
Keixed Sixth Day Out
Memliers   ot    the manpower   committee   oi   me   «a- g^oup of compressed  air  cylinders !herence to Giraud this week. In   a   Kmall   segment   of   Southern  extends  from  October  to May  but
tional Association of Manufacturers on   ^   loading   platform   and   thei    DeGaulle  took  that  action  inde-;Tunisis eve;i a short respite would enabto
were reported to agree with Presi- explosions and fire foHowed.    Bye- pendently,    and    Indications    here Squeeze' Play Planned fthe"JOmiTW'f*ll    orward.    Thick
dent Roosevelt that a thorough trial^jtnesses counted. 12 explosions in jwere that his  appointee  would not     A Royal Air Force statement thus !dust storm. In the desert also h.^-* should be given voluntary mobiiiza- r,pij succession and the structure I be recognized by the group now in'described the Axis position: '»>«•" hampering operation.,
tion of worker, for war Jobs be tore was almost immediately enveloped i control in Guiana. '    "if the  territory in Tunisia held Tamera Hector Quiet
compuUory service IS introduced.     In flames. |    (In London, de Gaulli^ts reported  by   the   enemy   is   thought   of   as'    Reports to Allied headquarters In-
The NAM committee held its first The truck was virtually destroy-.that the populace objected to the roughly in the shape of a mans dlcated that enemy activity had meeting hero yesterday under the ^j by the flames. IU driver suf- plan'of former Oov. Rene Veber tn head, with the neck in the narrow quieted in the Tamera sector of leadership of E. F. Weston,  presi- fered a  burned  right wrist. take the  colony  to the  banner  of section  that   reaches  down   to  the Northern Tunisia 'or the first time
dent of the  Weston  Electrical  In-      Chester   Dalbridge   of   Wellesley, Cen. Girsud.) Mareth  positions,  then   two  hands In  three weeks.
I' plant   manager,   estimated   damage     Guiana  had   been  under the  nn- of the sir force already nre gripped!    (TheBerlin  radio, however, claim-
(Continued  on Page A-lOi around    his    throat    "squeezing    it ed that a (German combp' group In
¦ tighter  every   dav.     The   squeezing Northern   Tunisia   had   driven   the
process will .ontinue until, the grip British Fir.st  Army  bsck from  im-
shifting,  the  whole head  ha.  been'portant   poaitions.     The   broadcast
crushed." jsald that Cape Negro on the Medi-
This  promise  to choke  the  Axis I terranean coast wss In Axis hand.
could   be  applied  to  the   land  and'and  the Tabarka-Mateur road  un-
air forces of the American. British der German control.
Washington  March 20 (UP)—The "weiiing, selling nre lo me  .truc-jiJ-  ^- neavy ana meaium  oomoers, and  French  allies     All  were   bent      (Axis    broadcasts    claimed    alsn
Navy diseloeed tonight how a Navy '"*¦•¦   Pi'"*>nen   quelled   the   flame.'eonlinuing   an   intensive   campaign on th» same project. that the  Allies had   lost  1.800 men
chant-"'*'''' however, and no one in the to   keep   the  enemy   from   mnktng Weather Aid* Axis taken   prisoner.   IS  tanks.  .'?0  gunj
¦ )use was reported injured. effective use of its submarine base      The bad weather was considered and many motor vehicles in north-
The  largest  group  of Red  Cross in   the   Aleutians,   struck   twice   at  more detrimental to the Allies than ern  Tunisia.     German  planea were
snd   Civilian   Defense   workers   as- i^'ska   on  Thursda.v,  the   .N'avy  re- the^Axis   because   the   former   ap- said  to have  raided   the harbor  of
sembled  since  the  Cocoanut Grove ported    today. parmtly were readv to let go with Tripoli, setting fire to several ship..
du.trie.  Corp.,   Newark,  N.  J. (Continued  on Page B-10>
NAVY GUN CREW ON U.S. MERCHANT SHIP DOWNED 8 BOMBERS
at 11,000,000.   He .aid loss Included 'MO.OOO    cubic    feet    of    hydrogen,'
oxygen   and   nitrogen   which   was
stored   in  the  building.
Tank Files 7M Feet
One compressed air tank was ^ blown 700 feet through the air and [Crashed   through    the   roof   of
KISKA AND MUNDA ARE BATTERED AGAIN
Washington.    March    20.    (UP)-
-The ''*'•'""*• ¦*'""* "¦¦* to '•>«  struc-1U-  S- heavy and medium  oombers, and  French  allies '—    Firemen ••   -   ¦•      - '—¦¦¦-¦¦¦¦—   --   •-¦—•  -    ¦
ture. gun crew aboard a U. S. mere......   . .  j .   ,      ^
man    shot    dow-n    eight    German """.iJ!'Y"^"?"''^^"''"!;?'"!?' bomliers   and   damaged   12   others during a week  of almost  uninter-
by'*U-1)oat»"^'"   ''^°'"   ^^'   *"   """^ ^olocau.t  was   mobilized   for   duty.      The   attacks   were   the   18lh   and everything   they    have    while    the      (Radio Algiers countered with an ' ' .   '    Firemen and police patrolled tlie 19th    this    month    on    the    much- Germans   snd   Italians   had   a   re- asaertion   that  recent  Allied   bomb-
The    gun    crew    brought    their ^^^ea watching for damage or »cpa- battered but .grimly held   Iipane.se charge,   the   Liberty   ship   \\illiam ^.te   fires   that   might   have   been foothold   at   the   northern   end   of
Bound for Manche.fpr «nH T lv'«r   v.    .. ¦   "•-"--••••'    -¦¦•*¦.•    ,    rate   nres   mat   might   have    been '"""'"'"   "<¦   >n^   nurmrrii   .
poTwfth  a c^^^^^^^^ by   fragment,   of   flaming the    far-stretching   Pacific
L°phaU   machinerv   food.^tX.^H """•.»"'"' "l '""'il^''^ •'"""'" "" •'^"ri. flying through the air.   Thei" "ne.
^hrlflnnT'i "'rL'^^1""'V,'^r?'"   '"'^^^  nation._ The   gun   crews ^.„^ ^,^^^     „,.,j   „j^„   ^„^.     poults   of  the  Thursday
however    that lubricating  oila,  the  City  of Flint, commander,   En.sign   Jeremiah   T.
probably   saved   other   com-      Results   of   the   Thursday   bomh-
lation t"o "oJlUw strikVs -for"The J-^^en made his greatest bid for a ve.«el of les., than .VOOb tons, waalMTh^n-iir-.n-iVVhe" nVrn'-^'^atic rgen'':inrn'rtro«n"ler';''s't°o?:3'-bb' b:c"r.se"of .t""::vv v-'eTh"; duration of the war if the present '^e par y leadership while he was sei.ed on the high sea. by a Oer- candidal, for mayor of Xew York ™ra' automomies and truck. «hich complicates aeria v.arfare di.puteof the UMW and soft coal J|;"'P'''"« hi. term as Governor of man surface raider, reportedly the I in   1937,   was   awarded   t^e   Silver ^^^^^^^ pC?oTmwJre^^^^^^ the   Aleutians,   but   all   U   S
operators   results   in  closing of the »"'"»"• ?'.i"*''';'""f   "",, »<=»•   »¦   1939.     It Star   Med.l.   and   24   enlisted   men ,h" flamC^ "^ ^ planes   returned   safelv   to   base,
mine.".   This   wa.   indicated   by   a     His record as wartime Governor n»d««iled from New \ ork six days received letters of commendstion. ,    Dalbridge   said   the   plant's   war     At    the    southern    end    of    the
On one occasion, when enemy air- production   contracts   for  hvdrogcn Pacific   front,   U.   S.   fighters   fro:n craft came over in great force, the gnd   oxygen   would   be   fullilled   at Guadalcanal    poured    round    after
prieve to  strengthen defenses. ing.i hsd knocked out Tunia as  sn
United   Press Correspondent  Phil Axis    supply    port,    and    that    the
battle  Ault. in a dispatch from Gaf^n. re- British   Eighth   Army   had   gained
ported   that   the   rain ¦ in   that   area|some   ground   east   of   the   ?lareth
wns accompanied by hail    a meteo-Line.)
survey made here tonight. «'on   him   support   throughout   the earlier.
Meanwhile, the War Labor Board nation for the presidential nomina-     The Germans   put   a  prize  crew prepared  to vole next week    prob- tion,   but   his   opponents   stsrted   a aboard  the_^ City of Flint  and  also gun crew shot "down" three bombers the"compVn'y's'HTn'gham'and'siut"h found  of bullets   into .Japanese   In ably    Monday    aflernoon-on    pro- "")?¦'»"   'hat   his   family   wealth crew members of a British vessel.'and   damaged   six    Another   large- Portland   Me     oiants stallations at Munda. New ^Jeoijjf
posals  bv  AFL members  to scrap *•« being used to buy the conven- the SS Stonegate, an earlier Tictimgcale  attack  developed  the  follow- -- '  '^ Island,    in    a    blistering    strafin;.
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Reds Make Fierce Stand Southeast of Kharkov; Gain Towards Smolensk
ceiling
tion  votes.    Lowden  was   the   son- of  the  raider,
"more 'n-law of George H.  Pullman, railroad car manufacturer.
the
tht    "Little    Steel"    wage
formula    and    establish    s
realistic"  wage   policy.
MLR Aeems Adanwat Harding Given Xemlnation
On the outcome of that vote, it Lowden's strength mounted diir- • ppeared. will depend UMW Presi- ing the early balloting, then sud- dent John L. Lewis' chances of denly broke and Wsrren G. Hard- winning government approval of< ing received the nomination 'n n the 12 a day wage increase he has'move reportedly engineered by the
jing day. and again the Navy gtin- SAY MO SERB.H ARE SI.AIN which   brought   to   96   the
On Oct. 21, the City of Flint ar- ners downed three planes and dam-      New   York.   March   20    (UP)— of    air    attacks    on    that was taken to Kola Bay, Murmansk, I aged six more. Radio London,  in  a  broadcast  re- Solomons     air     base     since     late
number central
ii^;i"Li"T'it:i"?..»"'i"3j'.'""7' .i-t". •» .i"t watch spoiled. -^i^/>:..s?f!j"i;i«,T./?:''r^!'fi' ""thTv:;
demanded   for  his 450.000 soft  coal  late Pen.' Boies Penrose of Penn.syi- ernment •"'"'¦¦s. v.nia.
Those chances, labor members of!    Lowden    was    born    at   Sunrise, 'Continued  on Page  A-10) (Continued  on Page  B-IOi
Planes Score Direet Hits On Two Japanese Sliips
the German prize crew Norway Balked Naals
On  Nov.  5.  the  Norwegian  goV' rejected   Germany's   de
AtH.uge-;p,.i;.--tH^-^M;d";h;;;sr;;;;ntw:j;;;^^j^^,;^-;;;^„v',^i- „r;„^^^t./l^*^asiand rime)
and to Bergen, Norway
sund   Norway, authorities Interned from the clouds at dusk
The gun
crew  opened   fire  liefore  the  pilot
habltsnts of Pozarevac by Germans Again    all   U.   6.   planes    returned reprisal for acts of sabotage.        to   ba«e.
reached the bomb release point ani sent the plane flaming into the sea.   The  crew  knocked  down   an-   _._, -,
mand   that   the  prize   crew  be  re- other  lone  raider  in  a subsequent   W% »¦•     %ninnim*T leased  and  that  the  City  of Flint attack. •
be held at Haugesund pending Ger- '• Submarines, meanwhile, narassed man-Norwegian negotiation, on her the ship but never scored a hit. disposition. One  submarine   was  driven   off  hy of  men
The   City   of   Flint   subsequently the   gun   crew's   intense   fire.   Dur- Donets was permitted to sail from Norway ing   another   atack   the   merchsnt- for  the  United  States   and   arrived man's gunners trained  their «i'-*s- at Baltimore on Jan. 27. 1940. upon   a torpedo  racing  toward  ihc
Norwegian    navy    vessels    inter- ship, and  blew   it up with a direct • Continued  on  Page A-10) hit   before   it   reached   d!-   target
By SA.ML El. D. HALES
London, March 20 (UPi—The Red Army tonight reported that it w-ia rrieJ 'ocked In fierce defensive battles in the Chuguev area southeast ot Kharkov but on the central front had captured more towns and vil- Ingcs in the enveloping drive aimed at Smolensk.
The Soviet midniRht communique broadcast from Moscow ignored the Donets   River   front
Ths  Nazis  slammed   fresh  wave? In   their  Ukranian  drive,   which   sn reports said the Russians had wiped
 J   ..„i,,   .f   »v,.   p,,,,un fsr   has   netted   them   nothing   that  out   a  German   v.erige   driven    ntl
and  tanks   at  the   Russian ^^^^^ indicate a resurgence of the  their River   line   Saturday   nigh; ^(penglh   necessary   to   knock in   a   powerful   but   generally   vain Soviet  ability  to  hold.     A and   establi.'h communique   of   doubtful
Gen.   MacArthur's   Headquarters, of  Ambon   to   the   vest,   an   Allied Sunda.v,    March-   21.    iUP'—Allied communique said.    Six land objec-
plane,   pounded   Japaneae  instslla- "7' y"" ¦'^.'^""^V      ,_
tlons  over a  l.MO-mile  arc of the      ¦*   '»"•   medium   bomber   scorel
Islands   sbove   Australia   Saturday
snd   attacked   three
scoring   hits   on   at
them,  it was announced today.
The widespread raids, csrried out o.v Liberator. Billy Mitchell and Hudson Bombers, extended from Gazelle Peninsula on New Britain Island in the northeast sector to the former Dutch nava
enemy   ships. _,
least   two   of ^"l'   ''""
southern   shore
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direct   hit   and   close   misses   on
10.000-ton   enemy  cargo  ship  off
den    Busch.    or    the 	
of   the   north   est
tip   of   Dutch   New  Guinea.   Otii< Washington,    March   20.
medium bombers set afire the ded- Secretary    of    Interior    Harold
of    s    merchantman    in    Kaimant . i,.      .i.)   .^..^-i..   .   .u- j
„      .    .. J        .,.      Ickes   said   tonight   a   third   maior
Bav in the same area and anothci * ¦¦¦•jur
medium-sized    ship,    traveling    t.i-  petroleum   pipeline   from Texas   oil
7'. "'''i"I_'j ward   Rabaul   in   a  small
1 base island ,,^     ,   j   ^ t -,_
convov.   was  attacked   bv  a  Liber- ,f,j
ator off Northeastern New Britain  j,,„^. .    ^^ ^,„g,
with undisclosed results. "^
An    Allied    snokesman     ii.sclosed      "C    made    the    statement
Favors Third Pipeline Over Florida Canal
effort   to   cross   over and   establi.'h communique   oi   nououui   i   i uracy
n    bridgehead    that would    crimp said  the  RiiRsians    n recent  weeks
Red  defenses  in  the central  Khsr- have    ost   50,000   dead    and   19.^94 kov-Donets area. prisoners.
down    in offensive
out    one
Donets    line,    only     to
 ^  hordes   of   Nazi   troops.
,,_ .. .      .<ians   hinted   th''   river
(UP)- been granted for construction of a ^^^   crossed   at   some
L. second major line. Soviet    dispitches    aaid
•It now has  become evident     he  ^    j,^,^    ^_^    ^^,^    ^j
said,    "that   a    third    line   will    •--
All   reports   told   of  heavy   lo.s.srs      Fishting    was    bORged in    the    battle.     The    outnumbered Tunisia,    the    American Russians, fighting to hold the lines which is bidding to cut througn to left after their winter gains, wiped the  Mediterranean coa!=t and sepa- German    wedge    in    the rute   the   Axi.s   forces   in   the   nnrtn
the   German   anchor   base   for   the whole central  front.
Four hundred Germans «-ere  re¬ ported   killed   in the  storming of • Nazi  defense  position  captured  by the Riu-sians, and heavy losses were Inflicted   on   the   tank-led  Orman infantry    undertsking   a   counter- I attack on one .sector. 'nmoohenko Pounding 1    A strongly fortified Orman posi- wherViariier "°"   "umpled   under  a   R»d   Army onslaught   south   of    I.4ike    nmen, where     Marshal     Semyon     Time- positions   as   a   tremendous "^'"^^   " , pounding   at   the   ap¬ out battle  on  a broad front moved to- Pr""'hes   of  etar.ya   Rus«,   hMd- rcrmiin  ......A '.    ii™.„ quarters of the l«th German AmtT.
t.crman  ,,ard  a cUmax. '^ .^^   g^j,;^^   ^^^^^   ^^^^   ^^
Meanwhile the official N.izi news ^^w advices thst the Donets battte ascncy DNB claimed that Chuguev. bad reached a furious tempo aaC ¦:-J miles below Kharkov, v.as 'firm- g,id the next 24 hours might 4a« ly in Germin hands" and that Ihe dje whether the (Jerman. »oill« (Germans h.id captured Scvsk. 80 achieve their primary objective al miles   northwest   of  Kursk   and   20 smashing acroes the river in fere«k
milest cast of the B.-yansk-Konotap	
rail^^av. along with Tomarovka, IT  BLAST   OF   SEWER   GAS miles iinrth'.veFt of Belgorod.
strong
on    most
points.
face    new The   Rus-
mav   have 'hey v.erc places   but »"'•   "p" they    kept their    msin
nnd south being unable to contend tiaim Donets Crossed
with   the   mired    routes.   However.      'German troops in the Kharkov-
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I
•onsolidatins their gains  Belgorod   sector   yesterday   reached!     Indianapolis. March 20.   (UP>—A poised,   along   with   the the upper Donets on a broad front." power   transformer   touched   off  A British   Sth   Army   e.t   the   Mareth the     DNB     dispatch     said.       The shattering  sewer  gas explosion  t* Line,   to   forge   ahead   as   soon   as Donet.s    was     cros.sed     at    several night    in    the    downtown    district, weather permits. Thc British radio points." ^ smashing windows over a two-block
.said   thst   American   shock   troops      However.    Moscow    reports    sa;i area.   Preliminary reports said onlf midnight  plowed   through   to Sened.  23 milc< the Red .\rm.v was clinging firmly  one   person   was   injured.    He   waa
needed.     If   this   is   true,   it   is  my
escorteJ fields to the ea.'t co«t is necessary opinion   that   the   propo.sed   Florida      -j^^    Soviet    Saturday     „ .
preferable   to   the   proposed canal   should   be   considered   in   the communique made   .0 further men-  west of Gafsa.  but then  withdr" v. to its main positions along the up- Jrrry Conyell. 17. elevator operatar
light of its desirability by c"mpar- jj(,n   ^j  ,be   Donets   front  but   said The  troops  were  said to  hsve  met per Donet.=i. at  the same time ack- who  suffered  a alight shoulder !•• i.'ion wilh large pipelines.    My con- ,bRt the  Red Armv  was locked  in! no resi.stance. noAledKing      inten.sified      CJermin jury,
spokesman     iisclosed      "'"    "'«u«    '"«    vtaiement    in    a dujion  j,  that  we can  decide only fierce      defense      battles     in      the , efforts to e.stablish strong footholds      The    transformer    was    situate4
that  the  Allied   planes  which  san't letter to  Rep. J. Buell Snyder  i U.. in favor of the pipelines" Chuguev area southeast of Kharkov'     The   gravity   of  the  U-boat   cam- on the north   bank of the river.        eight  blocks southwest of the
a Japanese submarine as it -vas Pa.i, chairman of the House War Appropriation of funds for the ^^j .j,,j ^^ ^^^ captured more paign was brought to the fore '\gai\ The occupation of a njmlter of shaken by the semer blaae. unloading in Lae Harbor Friday Department appropriations sub- Florida canal project was approved towns and villages in ita enveloping by Nazi propaganda claims that inhabited localities was credited to [Indianapolia Light and Power i were   B-25   Billy   Mitchells.   It   w^s committee.    Icke«   .lointed out that by the Snyder's sub-committee but ^riv*  on  Smolensk. submarinea    had     sunk     32    ships Red Army columns beating towardipany emplovee said  a short-clrenll
believed   that   another   enemy   sub- the   eastern  -and   last—leg   of   the struck a snag in the full committee. totaling 204.000 tons and an escort-  Smolensk,   one   of   them   within   a ignit'd all  in.ul.tion   in  the
marine  was   ia   the harbor  at   the first   major   pipeline   now   i.   heing The   latter   group   wili   meet   again      Turkish military quarters claimed, ing   destro>-»r   in   an   sttack   on   a few   miles   of   Dorogobuzh.   on   the former  snd   eauMd time. completed, and that priorities have early next week te decide the Usua the Oermane had  loet 70,000 men convoy in thc North Atlantic. | Moecow  railroad S3 milee  eaM  efte eateh flra.
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