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%__ A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Continued cooL 38TH YEAR, NO. i—44 PAGES WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1943 PRICE TEN CENTS REDS STOP NAZI DRIVE \ 8th Army Ready to Open Attack in Italy No New Plan If Subsidies Are Beaten OPA Has Nothing To Stop Price Rise; House Certain to Blocl( the Program Washlniton, Nov. 20. (UP»— Antlclpatinc defeat of Us con¬ sumer subsidy program in the House next week, the administra¬ tion warned tonight that it h%s no workable alternative plan for fighting Inflation. As the House lesdership con¬ ceded a Iwo-to-one defeat for the aubsidy program when It comco to a vote Monday or Tuesdoy, Price Administrator Chester Bowles told newsmen that OPA has "no secondary line" of ac¬ tion in prospect to hold food prices In check If Congress outlaws sub- sidles. Want Control by Ickea Meanwhile, a House coalition, encouraged by the prospective death of the subsidy program, or¬ ganized to push through legisla¬ tion to remove coal and oil price* from control of the Office of Prioe Administratin and place them under Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes. who favors price in¬ creases for both fuels. As the food-subsidy lasue neared a climax. Secretary of Navy Frank Knox and War Production Board Chsirman Donald Nelaon made lllh hour pleaa for retention of the administration's program In letters to Rep. Wright Patman D., Tex., one of the pro-subsidy leader*. "Subsidies are an Important tool that has been used by every bellg- crenl nation to atuln maximum production and preserve stability in the price structure," Knox wrote. "We could not afford to take the risks which would flow from fur¬ ther increases in the cost of liv¬ ing." "I feel," wrote Nelson, "that the (Continued on Page A-20) French Training In Alabama Tuscaloosa, Ala., Nov. 20. UP) —The Army Fourth Service Com¬ mand announced tonight that French army veteran* of North Africa and France are being trained by the U. 8. Army Air Corps at Van de Graaf Field near here. CONGRESS GIVEN NEWTAX BILL FOR $2J40JtLI0N Find Administration Spending Estimate Greatly Exaggerated Washington, Nov. 20. (UP)—Thc House wsys and means committee tonight formally presented its 1944 tax bill, calling for J2,140,00,000 In new revenue, in a report which charged that the administration bad exaggerated the need for ad¬ ditional income. The bill will go before the House next Tuesday or Wednesday. Criticizing the administration's original request for at least $10.- 500,000,000 in new taxes, the report flled by the Democratic majority contended that the proper anti- inflation psychology could be main¬ tained only "by strict economy in government expenditures, through effective price control, rationing and wage control." Tax Hlgber lluui Britain's The majority report battered the argument frequently used aa justi¬ fying higher taxes here, that the British bear a heavier tax load than Americans. It insisted that the British per capita rata 1* low er than ours and that the corpor ate tax law of the United Kingodm and Canada is more lenient than thia country's. Both t/ie majority report and a minority report by 10 Republican members of the committee ssld that no matter how much any American earns in 1944. his ne* income after taxea will not be more than $25,000 (Continued on Page A-11) Homelihe Touch For Yanks in Naples Hurdy-gurdy cranks in front of Naples high school converted into rest center for weary Yanks from Sth Army. flghting Dough- Cut Last Rail Line Below Rome Patrols in Force Cross Sangro River To Lash Outposts; Sth Improves Line By HARRISON SALISBIRII Allied Headquarters, Algiers. Nov. 20. (UP)--Smashing ahead five miles against fierce resistance Deadly Fire of Artillery Mows Tanks, Infantry I German Drive Was Effort to End Threat to Plank of Winter Line; Reds Indicate Plan to Push Westward to Old Polish Border By ROBERT S. MUSEL London, Sunday, Nov. 21 (LP)—Ken. Nikolai F. Vatutin's the British Eighth Army has cut | First Ukraine .\rmy. knocking out more than half the boys are all set for j m sc.s.sion but nary a WAC is i. sight Aussies Using Tanks In New Guinea Drive OPA Offers Meat Stamps For Salvaged Fats, Oils Washington, Nov, 20. (UP)—The Office ef Price Admlniatration an¬ nounced tonight that it hope* to double fall and oils aalvag* by offering houiewlves two meat ra¬ tion points for each pound of fat* turned in to retailers. The pro¬ gram will ga in effect Dec. 13, OPA (aid. At present fat salvages total 10.000,000 pounds a month, ac¬ cording to officials. The poin» premium "is hoped at least f) double that amount." Token* I,*iter Meal Retailers will give stamps to housewives and others who such a *lcp. Milk now ii critically ahort in many areas. Pressure for repioval of butter, fau and oils from the meat ration chart, Offlce of Price Administra¬ tion spokesmen asserted, ha* grown with the rl*e In the ration value of butter. Ne Need For New Book Separation of the item* now grouped together and rationed with brown (lamp* could be achieved without issuing a new ration book, since Books three snd four hsve a variety of undesigned stamps. Reported as highly acceptable to Col. Bryan Houston, rationing turn in fats when the program,chief, is a milk distribution plan stsrts, OPA said, but when one- similar lo one employed in Canada, point ration tokens become avail- Under this plan milk . would be able, tokens will be used in sal- allotted on the basis of minimum vaged fat payments. requirements—to give every person Rationing authorities also were in the country a basic, sustaininf! reported ready to submit several: ration—with all milk over that difTerent plan* for rationing milk amount being disposed of on thc nn a nationwide basis in event the'open market, probably when it is War Food Administration advises I more than a day old. T T KILLE0B0Y,13; MYSTERYSOLVEO Playmate Cleaned Blood from House, Put Body in Yard Ann Arbor. Mich.. Nov. 20. 'UP) —After his playmate, Barry Rolh- stein, 13, had been killed while they played with a pistol, Jackie Wall, 11 mopped up the blood in his parents' kitchen, hid the body, and told no one until police confronted him late today. Barry's body was found in a vacant lot this morning, a bullet wound through the lungs, and his death was given n sinister aspect by a "death note" he had shown his parents. In a boyish scrawl, it said he was marked for desth and would be killed at 11 a. m. Confemion Clears Mystery minenl when 2.900 employees defied But Jackie cleared the mystery a back t? woj;j« «>'',<«5''^<^' P'"_»^'^*_Pl by admitting that Barry's death had I IN SEVERAL AREAS Fishermen in Port In Price Dispute; Tanneries Remain Idle By I'NITED PRElM Striking fishermen paralyzed New England'* $20,000,000 fishing Industry Saturday as other scat¬ tered walkouts disrupted war pro¬ duction across the country. Government seizure of S2 strike¬ bound tanneries at Beverly, Salem and Peabody, Mass., appeared im- been another of the tragedies re suiting from children playing wilh firearms. Authorities concluded that the note had been sent to him as a prank and waa coincidental. Jackie was released after he had told his story. Prosecuting attorney Frank Kamman questioned him for hour*. Jackie, a *llght, handsom*, brown eyed lad, confessed to hts father late today, then hysterically re¬ peated his story to Kamman and Police Chief Sherman H. Mor- tenson. Showed oft Gun Jackie told Kamman and Mor- tcnson that Barry came to the Wall home about 4:30 p. m. yes¬ terday and wanted to see his gun. Barry knew they had a gun, Jackie said, because he had been telling other boys in the neighborhood about his father's automatic Mauser. In his stalement to police, Wall said the gun wasn't safe. Jackie pulled the gun from the (Continued on Page A-10) Roosevelt. The Independent National Leather Workers voted to continue the walkout which in¬ volves a jurisdictional dispute with the CIO Fur and Leather Workers' Union. The Presideift ha.^ termed this situation "inexcusable" apd a "challeng* to gouernment by law." Th* independent anion said It is an "anti-Communism fight." Crane Men Out, Work Halta At Homestead. Pa., 8T cran* men virtually stopped war production at tha Meats Machine Co. plant in a (Continued on Page A-11) 18 DIE AS NAVY PLANE CRASHES IN BRAZIL Finschhafen Drive Seeks New Sites foi' Attacl(s on Rabaul By DO.N CASWEIX. Allied Headquarter*, Southwe*t Pacific. Sunday, Nov, 21. (UP) — Australian forces supported by light tanks on Friday Increased their pressure against the southern defense line of Japanese-heid Sat¬ elberg above Finschhafen on the New Guinea coast, while Allied bombers dumped 39 tons of bombs on enemy positions in the area, it wa* announced today. Gen. Dougla* MacArthur's Sun- da.v communique reported the heavy raids against Kulungtufu. 15 miles northwest of Satelberg, where bivouac areas and suppl.v installations were hit. Fires and heavy damage were caused in the building area. The raid was car¬ ried out by a force of Mitchell, Marauder and Boston bombers Friday morning. The most advanced flank of the le?ow"RoTe' 'and'"^"nt "pSjT""?' """'^'''"f../''"'^ strength and mowing down his swarming in force across the!"?'*"">' ^*"" artillery and trench mortars, turned back turbid Sangro River to lash enemy defense outposts, dispatches re¬ ported today. Fifth Army troops in western Italy Improved their positiops somewhat despite heavy enemy artillery fire and continued nasty weather conditions which also limited aerial operations. In heavy fighting, the British German thrust.s near Korostishev yesterday, halting the Nazi drive into the Zhitomir salient west of Kiev. Despite the loss of Zhitomir, abandoned in the face of pressure from an estimated ir>0.000 Orman troops on Friday Official Soviet reports indicated the Red .\rmy planned to push its drive westward tn the pre-war Polish frontier, which was only .'>2 miles beyond the fighting line northwest of Kiev. Fierce battles raged in tlie Dnieper bend around Clier- and Canadian troops of Gen. Sir ka.s.s.v, southeast of tiic Zhitomir .salient, and on three fronts B. L. Montgomery captured Pera-;to the north where Russian armies pres.sed slowlv foi-ward no, on the east bank of thc Sangro I - - • ' . . v. five mllea northwest of Alessa, to' cut the rail line running from Ortona on the Adriatic to Alfedena -way across e a an eg, attacks had been repelled "near Korostishev", 15 miles east of Zhitomir. They did not mention From Alfedena. the Ortona rail¬ road cuts due norlh lo Sulmona and Joins the Pescara-Rome trunk line. Its course through the Sangro val¬ ley alread.v had come under British artillery fire, making it untenable for the Germana and leaving the enemy dependent on secondary highways. The capture of Perana also brought the Eighth Army to within a mile or less of the Sangro east bank for a distance of 12 miles in¬ land from the Adriatic. Patrols were immediately dispatched across the river and returned wilh reports of dealing heavy casualties to Ger¬ man troops on the far bank. Expect Big Attack by Stti Patrol fighting was reiiorled par¬ ticularly heavy near the mouth of the Sangro while at the other end of the Eighth Army's front, above Rionero, Montgomery's vnnguard fought sharp clashes with German rear guards. (Berlin dispatches to the Stock tlirough savage German resistance toward the Pripet Marshes fringing the Polish border. Communiques broadcast b.v Moscow .said heavy Gennan RAF WIPING OUT NAZI GERMANY'S nCALPLAIITS Special Targets of War's Mightiest Non-Stop Assaults By PfUL ALXT London. Nov. 20 (UP)—Racing through thick weather to keep Ger¬ many quaking under the mightiest """"¦'"n ¦'¦¦ "'»»"" "f ^* *'*'"• Australian forces w»s slightly less "o'™ P"" ¦*''' '^"'' Montgomery hundreds of British bombers last than a mile from Satelberg Thurs-i»»o" w" expected to launch a ^i^^t blasted the Reich's biggest day, as Australian forces drove i'lrge-scale offensive against the, guip^uric acid factory in a block- against the enemy defenses guard- Germans' Adriatic flank with the bugter attack that might have activity In the immediate vicinity of Zhitomir itself, but German broadcasts, betraying uneasiness, said battle-weary Nazi troops were awaiting attacks "by fresh flood* of Soviet fightcr.s' nt the important Ukraine railroad junction. Two Regiment* Slopped In one sector of Ihe Korostishev front, two regiments of German In¬ fantry, supported by KO tanks, at- tacked the Soviet positions. In a sharp battle, 800 of the Germans were slain and 32 Nazi tank* knocked out. In another sector of the same front, German Infantry massed in the thick forests on the outskirts bf a town. Soviet artillery and trench mortar batteries raked the enemy lines, sending thc Germans into flight, leaving behind 200 of their dead and two of their prized self-propelling "Ferdinand" guns. Moscow's midnisht supplement¬ ary communique listed some 4,200 Germans slain in Saturday's fight¬ ing on five fronts. ing the ba.se of the high plateau where the town is situated. Japanese barge staging points along the New Guinea coast and Masangko. near Satelberg, were also bombed Friday as bombers supported the ground troops aim¬ ing to push the enemy from thc position he has held since the cap¬ ture of Finschhafen on Oct. 23. Boston bombers swept the coast 10 miles above Fin.schhafen be¬ tween Gui.sko and Sialum, the barge depots, where supplies might be moved in to the Satelberg forces idea of rolling •» their entire line. Strong British ana _ lillery forma¬ tions are concentrated near the coast for the assault, which mayjth* I. G. Farben plants which make already be undsr way with theipoigon gas components, waa the (Continued on Page A-10) (Continued on Page A-10) ,, .„. Heavy fighting was reported loosed poison gas on the area. m^ar Cherkassy. 95 miles .southeast Leverkusen. six miles north of „, j^|,^. ^^^.^^^^ ^^^^ j^^^ ^^.^^ formed another major crossing of bomb-battered Cologne and site of Germans Land on Samos, Morocco Radio Reports the Dnieper Friday in a spectac¬ ular action co-ordinating para¬ troopers and guerrillas. Fighting Near CTierkasey Although there was no Indica¬ tion how close the Soviets had ad¬ vanced lo Cherkassy, where fight¬ ing was in progress on the town'* i approaches, the Soviet communi¬ que noted that the C;ermans were being driven out of strong pointi north Keep Airfield* Useless were again active over ^ Sea Battle to the Death ^ U. S. Planes and Blimp Sink U-Boat, Capture Crew . h # tv, » IV, London, Nov. 20 (UP) — Thi [Turkish shore between Rhodes and on the Dnieper's west bank. Three „.°;u '""""^ """ 'artner lo me Morocco radio reported today that!Coo, and returned without losses, hundred Germans were slain and the Germans had invaded Samos | Three small patrols were reported^ an artillery battery and ammuni- and British official sources, while i to have entered thc town of Simi.jtion dump captured. not confirming the report, said the partly wrecked an enemy head-1 At one point in the Cherkassy small garrison of the Allies' last quarters, overcome a German pal- i fighting. Soviet patrols penetrated Aegean base may already ha'e rol of 14 men and blown up the inside German lines and blew up been withdrawn. I main nninuinilion dump. The Morocco broadcast gave noi On Thursday night. RAF heavv details of the reported Nazi at-1 bombers attacked the harbor of tack, which has been expccte.l ancient Chalcis in Greece, an RAF since the fall of Lero lo the south communique announced, causing left the defenders of Samoa vir- j heavy explosions and large Arcs Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 20. (LP)~-A ^j^^^p^ __^^ _ ^^^_ U. S. Navy transport plane crash-JB„„j,^i„^.i||g ^„j g^^^^^ ,^ ^^^ cd 30 miles west of Rio de Janeiro northern Solomons intent upon today, killing all 18 persons aboard. ,,gppj„j, ^^^ enemy's scattered air An official announcement gave fj^i^, (^^^ being .-eturned to oper- few details of the crash, but It was „{ion understood the rlan^ ^"^ carry- jjbcrator bombers blasted the ing offlclal documents and corrc- ^^^^^ ^^^^ Wednesday and Thurs- spondence to thc United htates ^^^. <jroppi„g 70 ions of bombs in Embassy in Rio de Janeiro. ^,,p gecond raid. Tlie runway and The big transport crashed abnut dispersal arena were well covered of reinforcements. 8 p. m. while en route to the'and an enemy bomber on the! The Exchange Telegraph agency BraziHan capital and all 14 pas- ground wh.s destroyed or damaged reported that Allied commando.; sengers and the four Navy crew- and the Buka airdrome left un-, h^d carried out a successful raid men were believed lo have been serviceable. Mitchells raided Mat-1 „gainst. German installations on killed instantly. 1 rcontinucd on Page A-ll 1 Ithe island of Simi, close to the aeveral dugouts and blockhouses together with their occupants. Radio Paris said the Cherkasty area was becoming one of the most important centers of fight¬ ing on the Russian front, with tually isolated and without hope j One plane was missing. ithe Red Army pouring masses of The German radio asserted that airborne and parachute troops Into German fighter - bombers ha'! | violent fighting around the town, scored several hits on an Allied 1 Take Heavy Toll crui.'cr and destroyer in thc east-j Tlic day's heaviest toll of Oer- crn Mediterranean, severely dam-1 mans was taken in the difficult aging both vessels. (Continued on Page A-11) Washington, Nov. 20 (UP) — A knock - down, d rag - out. 10 - hour fight between a German submarine and seven Navy and Army planes plus a blimp, ended with destruc- planc is listed as missing in action. The blimp's crew was rescued. Tlie pilot of. one of the damaged planes was killed and four other mem¬ bers of his crew were injured. tion of the U-boat and one of t'lr. Flying Boat DIsappei attacking planes, the Navy r^-l vealed tonight. Forly survivors ofi^vas sighted in the early afternoon the German crew were made by a Marlin Mariner Navy living prisoner. .r.n damaged by the first atlack, it TURKEY TO STAND BY was unable to submerge. l.»w.»,^.. .. . ......... Brave Fire t« Attack | BRITISH ALLIANCE Crockett circled twice, fhen, as he dove to attack, the U-hoal opened up with murderous anti- IHar Nummary Russian artiller.v sliowed The hig- heavily-armed U-boat 1 sircrnft fire. Crockett's bow gun¬ ner sprayed lead at the sub's its American inlereits in the Far East T.tnnhi.l Vnv. on (IIP. Turkish PO^tr again and stopped thc one j- until thai policy .hanged to one s-,::.^ «¦• ^ AT M„,,",,, German advance in months on the of bomba at Pearl Harbor. (Story Foreign Minis er N""^an Menem- front- near Koraslishev '"- °.~- *- encloglu ha.s informed tho Allied Halt Nazis Below Fiume By Attacks of Partisans In addition, two of the planes were seriously damaged and the blimp wa* lost later when it wai forced down after exhausting its fuel. The action occurred in the Caribbean several months ago. The 10-man crew of the destroyed In Today'a laaue ClasslAed B—11 ^itorial C—S ^levies B—10 '*oclal A—1« 8|>ort* B_l •*«"e B—10 Outdoor Jl—U boat piloted by Lt. Robert Matu- skl. of Setauket, N. Y. Maluski st- lackcd and a few minutes later re¬ ported the U-boat had been dam¬ aged and was visible wilh its bow out of the water, making a speed of only two knots. A moment later he flashed this last message: "Damaged, damaged, fire" Mntu- skl and the nine other members of his crew were never seen aga'n. Another Mariner, piloted by Lt. David Crockett. Nsahville. Tenn., arrived two hours after Matuski's and Axis amba-ssadora in Istanbul It WHS reported tliat tanks and! mowed down. ^ !on Page A-3). Ry RMRKRT RK HARDS which the Germans claimed day* crowded conning tow-e. The Mar-ISarTurke^^nt;^ iner's firat salvo of bombs landed i,pr obligations under her militii' Great* Britain, thc off the port quarter of thc aub, alliance with shaking thc U-boat so severely that all anti-aircraft flre ceased momentaril.v. As Crockett started his second run. R shell ruptured a gas line between his plane's hull and the wing tank. A mass of flames filled the starboard wing. A warrant officer finally extinguished the Istanbul. Nov. 19 flames, and Crockett attacked i Informed circles said today again. Diving Into a hail of gun-[German Ambassador Franz von flre. he dropped a bomb about ."iO, Papen had gone to Adolf Hitler's near ClierKa.ssy. prcs.ed «1." ° «;;%'^^;,^„P« f.°^\ »""'"^''„"'">" ^ have halted a German The Partisans halted a German pro-Axis newspaper Son Posta re- ^"''''""^' ""? ^"^^^ Marshes and .>"^."'^„^„^"/'^° ^'\"/"^/"Y.^^?.! *n >''-i^« "clow Flume wim a scries of column between Fiume and Senj, 30 ported today '^''''^''^ u^^''VV?"u''^'' l^'' ^"'''' ZT,n^>H ^^ ''='« eounter-atlacks. Jugloslav!miles to the south, by taking full M,L ^°"">- on to thr old Polish border, now line south of Rome was cut. " - The newspaper said that decision ^^^^^. ^^ ^ji^.^ beyond the line wesl was reached last Tuesday at « meeting of deputies of the Republi¬ can People's party—the only po¬ litical party In Turkey. of Kiev. From Russia also came a report that 100.000 persons had been The Au.'Aralians were using tanks In New Guinea, as the drive went sources .said tonight, upsetting Mar- advantage of their knowledge of shal Erwin Rommel's plans lo boi-; the terrain and disregarding (3er- ster the Nazis' eastern Adriatic de-j")*" superiority in weapons. Jugo- on to clear the Huon Peninsula andl'^"*<=^ against po.ssiblc Allied thrusts slav quarters said. give the Allies a good base to the froni Italy inlo tho Balkans. | This column w as a main cog In imurdcrcd hv the Germans during west of Rabaul. This will serve the Other Partisan.s under Gen. Josip j Rommel's machinery to clean out 'UP)—Well- (^,ir two years in Kiev. (Story on,same purpose as will Bougainville I Brcz (Titoi halted or threw back 1 Ihc Jugoslav coa^l fiom Fiums to that Page A-10). Ion the ea.st. There was no report German forces in central Bosnia Albania. from Bougainville. Raids continued and in lower Dalmatia. inland from A German column suffered heavy The Stale Department Issued ti\„ pi„ t|,e Japanese down in all Split (Spalato). A Partisan com- losses between Imotski and Po- last report and spotted the s'lb, jfcrt astern the U-boat. The Ger- headquarters tp assure him that l.sumniary of dealings with Japan areas. munique reported strong fighting susjr. 38 and 45 miles east of Split, its bow still up. moving slowly and man began to settle b.v the stern jTurkey will not enter the war on between 1931 and 1941—showing' against German marines and am-i respectively, a Partisan commu- with blue smoke trailing from the A Navy blimp returning lo itsithe side of the Allies, parlirularly how Tok.vn continually was apolo-: From China came reports of Jap-, phibious troops on thc islands of niqur said. stern. German survivors reported:Caribbean base and a naval «hore-[if Germany maintain* a strongjgizing but csrrying out also its anese advances in the central area.[Krak and Cres below Fiume. and on! Partisans fighting around tha later thst ths U-boat had been so| (Continued on Pag* A-20) position In the Aegean. Isteady -plan lo infringe upon It was a threat to CSiangsba. the Peljesac peninsula, all areas' (Continued op P*«* A-10»
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
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A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Continued cooL
38TH YEAR, NO. i—44 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1943
PRICE TEN CENTS
REDS STOP NAZI DRIVE
\
8th Army Ready to Open Attack in Italy
No New Plan If Subsidies Are Beaten
OPA Has Nothing To Stop Price Rise; House Certain to Blocl( the Program
Washlniton, Nov. 20. (UP»— Antlclpatinc defeat of Us con¬ sumer subsidy program in the House next week, the administra¬ tion warned tonight that it h%s no workable alternative plan for fighting Inflation.
As the House lesdership con¬ ceded a Iwo-to-one defeat for the aubsidy program when It comco to a vote Monday or Tuesdoy, Price Administrator Chester Bowles told newsmen that OPA has "no secondary line" of ac¬ tion in prospect to hold food prices In check If Congress outlaws sub- sidles.
Want Control by Ickea
Meanwhile, a House coalition, encouraged by the prospective death of the subsidy program, or¬ ganized to push through legisla¬ tion to remove coal and oil price* from control of the Office of Prioe Administratin and place them under Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes. who favors price in¬ creases for both fuels.
As the food-subsidy lasue neared a climax. Secretary of Navy Frank Knox and War Production Board Chsirman Donald Nelaon made lllh hour pleaa for retention of the administration's program In letters to Rep. Wright Patman D., Tex., one of the pro-subsidy leader*.
"Subsidies are an Important tool that has been used by every bellg- crenl nation to atuln maximum production and preserve stability in the price structure," Knox wrote. "We could not afford to take the risks which would flow from fur¬ ther increases in the cost of liv¬ ing."
"I feel," wrote Nelson, "that the (Continued on Page A-20)
French Training In Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Ala., Nov. 20. UP) —The Army Fourth Service Com¬ mand announced tonight that French army veteran* of North Africa and France are being trained by the U. 8. Army Air Corps at Van de Graaf Field near here.
CONGRESS GIVEN NEWTAX BILL FOR $2J40JtLI0N
Find Administration Spending Estimate Greatly Exaggerated
Washington, Nov. 20. (UP)—Thc House wsys and means committee tonight formally presented its 1944 tax bill, calling for J2,140,00,000 In new revenue, in a report which charged that the administration bad exaggerated the need for ad¬ ditional income.
The bill will go before the House next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Criticizing the administration's original request for at least $10.- 500,000,000 in new taxes, the report flled by the Democratic majority contended that the proper anti- inflation psychology could be main¬ tained only "by strict economy in government expenditures, through effective price control, rationing and wage control." Tax Hlgber lluui Britain's
The majority report battered the argument frequently used aa justi¬ fying higher taxes here, that the British bear a heavier tax load than Americans. It insisted that the British per capita rata 1* low er than ours and that the corpor ate tax law of the United Kingodm and Canada is more lenient than thia country's.
Both t/ie majority report and a minority report by 10 Republican members of the committee ssld that no matter how much any American earns in 1944. his ne* income after taxea will not be more than $25,000 (Continued on Page A-11)
Homelihe Touch For Yanks in Naples
Hurdy-gurdy cranks in front of Naples high school converted into
rest center for weary Yanks from Sth Army.
flghting Dough-
Cut Last Rail Line Below Rome
Patrols in Force Cross Sangro River To Lash Outposts; Sth Improves Line
By HARRISON SALISBIRII
Allied Headquarters, Algiers. Nov. 20. (UP)--Smashing ahead five miles against fierce resistance
Deadly Fire of Artillery Mows Tanks, Infantry
I German Drive Was Effort to End Threat to Plank of Winter Line; Reds Indicate Plan to Push Westward to Old Polish Border
By ROBERT S. MUSEL
London, Sunday, Nov. 21 (LP)—Ken. Nikolai F. Vatutin's the British Eighth Army has cut | First Ukraine .\rmy. knocking out more than half the
boys are all set for j m sc.s.sion but nary a WAC is i. sight
Aussies Using Tanks In New Guinea Drive
OPA Offers Meat Stamps For Salvaged Fats, Oils
Washington, Nov, 20. (UP)—The Office ef Price Admlniatration an¬ nounced tonight that it hope* to double fall and oils aalvag* by offering houiewlves two meat ra¬ tion points for each pound of fat* turned in to retailers. The pro¬ gram will ga in effect Dec. 13, OPA (aid.
At present fat salvages total 10.000,000 pounds a month, ac¬ cording to officials. The poin» premium "is hoped at least f) double that amount."
Token* I,*iter
Meal Retailers will give stamps to housewives and others who
such a *lcp. Milk now ii critically ahort in many areas.
Pressure for repioval of butter, fau and oils from the meat ration chart, Offlce of Price Administra¬ tion spokesmen asserted, ha* grown with the rl*e In the ration value of butter. Ne Need For New Book
Separation of the item* now grouped together and rationed with brown (lamp* could be achieved without issuing a new ration book, since Books three snd four hsve a variety of undesigned stamps.
Reported as highly acceptable to Col. Bryan Houston, rationing
turn in fats when the program,chief, is a milk distribution plan stsrts, OPA said, but when one- similar lo one employed in Canada, point ration tokens become avail- Under this plan milk . would be able, tokens will be used in sal- allotted on the basis of minimum vaged fat payments. requirements—to give every person
Rationing authorities also were in the country a basic, sustaininf! reported ready to submit several: ration—with all milk over that difTerent plan* for rationing milk amount being disposed of on thc nn a nationwide basis in event the'open market, probably when it is War Food Administration advises I more than a day old.
T
T KILLE0B0Y,13; MYSTERYSOLVEO
Playmate Cleaned Blood from House, Put Body in Yard
Ann Arbor. Mich.. Nov. 20. 'UP) —After his playmate, Barry Rolh- stein, 13, had been killed while they played with a pistol, Jackie Wall, 11 mopped up the blood in his parents' kitchen, hid the body, and told no one until police confronted him late today.
Barry's body was found in a vacant lot this morning, a bullet wound through the lungs, and his death was given n sinister aspect by a "death note" he had shown his parents. In a boyish scrawl, it said he was marked for desth and would be killed at 11 a. m. Confemion Clears Mystery minenl when 2.900 employees defied
But Jackie cleared the mystery a back t? woj;j« «>'',<«5''^<^' P'"_»^'^*_Pl by admitting that Barry's death had
I
IN SEVERAL AREAS
Fishermen in Port In Price Dispute; Tanneries Remain Idle
By I'NITED PRElM
Striking fishermen paralyzed New England'* $20,000,000 fishing Industry Saturday as other scat¬ tered walkouts disrupted war pro¬ duction across the country.
Government seizure of S2 strike¬ bound tanneries at Beverly, Salem and Peabody, Mass., appeared im-
been another of the tragedies re suiting from children playing wilh firearms. Authorities concluded that the note had been sent to him as a prank and waa coincidental. Jackie was released after he had told his story.
Prosecuting attorney Frank Kamman questioned him for hour*.
Jackie, a *llght, handsom*, brown eyed lad, confessed to hts father late today, then hysterically re¬ peated his story to Kamman and Police Chief Sherman H. Mor- tenson. Showed oft Gun
Jackie told Kamman and Mor- tcnson that Barry came to the Wall home about 4:30 p. m. yes¬ terday and wanted to see his gun. Barry knew they had a gun, Jackie said, because he had been telling other boys in the neighborhood about his father's automatic Mauser.
In his stalement to police, Wall said the gun wasn't safe.
Jackie pulled the gun from the (Continued on Page A-10)
Roosevelt. The Independent National Leather Workers voted to continue the walkout which in¬ volves a jurisdictional dispute with the CIO Fur and Leather Workers' Union. The Presideift ha.^ termed this situation "inexcusable" apd a "challeng* to gouernment by law." Th* independent anion said It is an "anti-Communism fight." Crane Men Out, Work Halta
At Homestead. Pa., 8T cran* men virtually stopped war production at tha Meats Machine Co. plant in a (Continued on Page A-11)
18 DIE AS NAVY PLANE CRASHES IN BRAZIL
Finschhafen Drive Seeks New Sites foi' Attacl(s on Rabaul
By DO.N CASWEIX.
Allied Headquarter*, Southwe*t Pacific. Sunday, Nov, 21. (UP) — Australian forces supported by light tanks on Friday Increased their pressure against the southern defense line of Japanese-heid Sat¬ elberg above Finschhafen on the New Guinea coast, while Allied bombers dumped 39 tons of bombs on enemy positions in the area, it wa* announced today.
Gen. Dougla* MacArthur's Sun- da.v communique reported the heavy raids against Kulungtufu. 15 miles northwest of Satelberg, where bivouac areas and suppl.v installations were hit. Fires and heavy damage were caused in the building area. The raid was car¬ ried out by a force of Mitchell, Marauder and Boston bombers Friday morning.
The most advanced flank of the
le?ow"RoTe' 'and'"^"nt "pSjT""?' """'^'''"f../''"'^ strength and mowing down his swarming in force across the!"?'*"">' ^*"" artillery and trench mortars, turned back
turbid Sangro River to lash enemy defense outposts, dispatches re¬ ported today.
Fifth Army troops in western Italy Improved their positiops somewhat despite heavy enemy artillery fire and continued nasty weather conditions which also limited aerial operations.
In heavy fighting, the British
German thrust.s near Korostishev yesterday, halting the Nazi drive into the Zhitomir salient west of Kiev.
Despite the loss of Zhitomir, abandoned in the face of pressure from an estimated ir>0.000 Orman troops on Friday Official Soviet reports indicated the Red .\rmy planned to push its drive westward tn the pre-war Polish frontier, which was only .'>2 miles beyond the fighting line northwest of Kiev. Fierce battles raged in tlie Dnieper bend around Clier- and Canadian troops of Gen. Sir ka.s.s.v, southeast of tiic Zhitomir .salient, and on three fronts B. L. Montgomery captured Pera-;to the north where Russian armies pres.sed slowlv foi-ward
no, on the east bank of thc Sangro I - - • ' . . v.
five mllea northwest of Alessa, to' cut the rail line running from Ortona on the Adriatic to Alfedena
-way across e a an eg, attacks had been repelled "near Korostishev", 15 miles east
of Zhitomir. They did not mention
From Alfedena. the Ortona rail¬ road cuts due norlh lo Sulmona and Joins the Pescara-Rome trunk line. Its course through the Sangro val¬ ley alread.v had come under British artillery fire, making it untenable for the Germana and leaving the enemy dependent on secondary highways.
The capture of Perana also brought the Eighth Army to within a mile or less of the Sangro east bank for a distance of 12 miles in¬ land from the Adriatic. Patrols were immediately dispatched across the river and returned wilh reports of dealing heavy casualties to Ger¬ man troops on the far bank. Expect Big Attack by Stti
Patrol fighting was reiiorled par¬ ticularly heavy near the mouth of the Sangro while at the other end of the Eighth Army's front, above Rionero, Montgomery's vnnguard fought sharp clashes with German rear guards.
(Berlin dispatches to the Stock
tlirough savage German resistance toward the Pripet Marshes fringing the Polish border.
Communiques broadcast b.v Moscow .said heavy Gennan
RAF WIPING OUT NAZI GERMANY'S nCALPLAIITS
Special Targets of War's Mightiest Non-Stop Assaults
By PfUL ALXT
London. Nov. 20 (UP)—Racing through thick weather to keep Ger¬ many quaking under the mightiest
""""¦'"n ¦'¦¦ "'»»"" "f ^* *'*'"• Australian forces w»s slightly less "o'™ P"" ¦*''' '^"'' Montgomery hundreds of British bombers last than a mile from Satelberg Thurs-i»»o" w" expected to launch a ^i^^t blasted the Reich's biggest day, as Australian forces drove i'lrge-scale offensive against the, guip^uric acid factory in a block- against the enemy defenses guard- Germans' Adriatic flank with the bugter attack that might have
activity In the immediate vicinity of Zhitomir itself, but German broadcasts, betraying uneasiness, said battle-weary Nazi troops were awaiting attacks "by fresh flood* of Soviet fightcr.s' nt the important Ukraine railroad junction. Two Regiment* Slopped
In one sector of Ihe Korostishev front, two regiments of German In¬ fantry, supported by KO tanks, at- tacked the Soviet positions. In a sharp battle, 800 of the Germans were slain and 32 Nazi tank* knocked out.
In another sector of the same front, German Infantry massed in the thick forests on the outskirts bf a town. Soviet artillery and trench mortar batteries raked the enemy lines, sending thc Germans into flight, leaving behind 200 of their dead and two of their prized self-propelling "Ferdinand" guns.
Moscow's midnisht supplement¬ ary communique listed some 4,200 Germans slain in Saturday's fight¬ ing on five fronts.
ing the ba.se of the high plateau where the town is situated.
Japanese barge staging points along the New Guinea coast and Masangko. near Satelberg, were also bombed Friday as bombers supported the ground troops aim¬ ing to push the enemy from thc position he has held since the cap¬ ture of Finschhafen on Oct. 23.
Boston bombers swept the coast 10 miles above Fin.schhafen be¬ tween Gui.sko and Sialum, the barge depots, where supplies might be moved in to the Satelberg forces
idea of rolling •» their entire line. Strong British ana _ lillery forma¬ tions are concentrated near the
coast for the assault, which mayjth* I. G. Farben plants which make
already be undsr way with theipoigon gas components, waa the
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,, .„. Heavy fighting was reported
loosed poison gas on the area. m^ar Cherkassy. 95 miles .southeast Leverkusen. six miles north of „, j^|,^. ^^^.^^^^ ^^^^ j^^^ ^^.^^
formed another major crossing of
bomb-battered Cologne and site of
Germans Land on Samos, Morocco Radio Reports
the Dnieper Friday in a spectac¬ ular action co-ordinating para¬ troopers and guerrillas. Fighting Near CTierkasey
Although there was no Indica¬ tion how close the Soviets had ad¬ vanced lo Cherkassy, where fight¬ ing was in progress on the town'* i approaches, the Soviet communi¬ que noted that the C;ermans were being driven out of strong pointi
north
Keep Airfield* Useless
were again active over
^ Sea Battle to the Death
^ U. S. Planes and Blimp Sink U-Boat, Capture Crew
. h # tv, » IV, London, Nov. 20 (UP) — Thi [Turkish shore between Rhodes and on the Dnieper's west bank. Three
„.°;u '""""^ """ 'artner lo me Morocco radio reported today that!Coo, and returned without losses, hundred Germans were slain and
the Germans had invaded Samos | Three small patrols were reported^ an artillery battery and ammuni-
and British official sources, while i to have entered thc town of Simi.jtion dump captured.
not confirming the report, said the partly wrecked an enemy head-1 At one point in the Cherkassy
small garrison of the Allies' last quarters, overcome a German pal- i fighting. Soviet patrols penetrated
Aegean base may already ha'e rol of 14 men and blown up the inside German lines and blew up
been withdrawn. I main nninuinilion dump.
The Morocco broadcast gave noi On Thursday night. RAF heavv
details of the reported Nazi at-1 bombers attacked the harbor of
tack, which has been expccte.l ancient Chalcis in Greece, an RAF
since the fall of Lero lo the south communique announced, causing
left the defenders of Samoa vir- j heavy explosions and large Arcs
Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 20. (LP)~-A ^j^^^p^ __^^ _ ^^^_
U. S. Navy transport plane crash-JB„„j,^i„^.i||g ^„j g^^^^^ ,^ ^^^ cd 30 miles west of Rio de Janeiro northern Solomons intent upon today, killing all 18 persons aboard. ,,gppj„j, ^^^ enemy's scattered air
An official announcement gave fj^i^, (^^^ being .-eturned to oper- few details of the crash, but It was „{ion
understood the rlan^ ^"^ carry- jjbcrator bombers blasted the ing offlclal documents and corrc- ^^^^^ ^^^^ Wednesday and Thurs- spondence to thc United htates ^^^. |
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Year | 1943 |
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