DImout
Tho Insido
Thursday sunset I p. m.
Friday sunrise 8:44 a. m.
Weather: Toes. max. temp.
JS, min. 2L Thur. river 2.S
ft. Weather 4aU restricted
by army request
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newspaper, Th Statesman,
offers yon pertinent com
meats on war news of the
day by Klrke 8 1 m n a o a
Washington analyst.
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IJUIETY-SECOND YEAR
Golem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, January 21, IS 43
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No. 223
Da A
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Cold Due: Hem
Freeze
Surplus on Tax
Great Problem
For Legislature
Ueciuctions in
By RALPH C. CURTIS
...... Total revenue from Oregon's
state income tax will not be
substantially less in 1943, un
der existing r t e s, than the
$13,800,000 collected in 1942.
There is good reason to expect
that it will be greater. Income
tax receipts are not subject to
accurate prediction. But the point
is that legislators, wrestling with
the "surplus" problem, will not be
in position to "let nature take its
course" confident that the reduc--tions
in individual payments
thanks to deductions for federal
income tax payments, mentioned
by Gov. Earl W. Snell in his in
augural message, will solve the
'problem for them.
Oregon's lawmakers and par
ticularly taxation committee
members already have encount
ered the need for "education"
in tax matters and the possible
fact that they have heretofore
been well informed Is of no crest
help. For nothing less than a
revolution has occurred In this
ypnase or coTcrameni, ana inose
. wj onee were familiar with all
Xhe . angles will have to learn
all over again.
That the surplus will not evapo
rate due to federal income tax
deductions is the first lesson.
It is true that an individual
whose, income in 1942 was the
same as in'1941 vkll pay less state
Income tax in 1943 than in 1942,
and Gov. Snell's estimate that the
reduction will amount to 15 per
cent truly was, as he insisted,
conservative.
But in the aggregate, incomes
in Oregon in 1942 were greater,
by considerably more than IS per
cent, than in 1941. How much
greater, and to what extent the
increases will be reflected in tax
payments if the legislature does
not revise the rates, cannot be
stated accurately. But here are
some figures which indicate the
trend:
The state unemployment com
pensation commission reported
that the "covered" payroll which
does not include all wages and
salaries paid in Oregon, not to
mention income from other sources
amounted for the year 1941 to
$355,000,000. That was a gain
.from $216,000,000 in 1940. The
total of "covered" payrolls for
1942 has not yet been announced.
But for the 12-months period end
ing September 30, .1942, they
amounted to approximately $500,
000,000. That is a 40 per cent in
crease. For the full year 1942
the total almost certainly was still
higher.
: That's not to say that state in
- come tax receipts will be 25 per
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Chain Stores
Are Charged
KANSAS CITY, Kan., Jan. 20
(jfy-The federal government
brought two more of the coun
try's big food store chain organ
izations Safeway and Kroger
under indictment Wednesday on
charges of violating the Sherman
anti-trust law, charges promptly
denied by officials of the two
companies.
In separate indictments a fed
eral grand jury in the court of
Judge Richard J. Hopkins alleg
ed that Safeway Stores, Inc., and
a group of its subsidiary organ
izations and officers and the Kro
ger Grocery and Bakery company
and its subsidiaries and officers
each conspired to restrain and
u: A. nailed, uuuuu, vaui
president of Safeway, and C. M.
Robertson, Cincinnati, president
cf Kroger, issued promptdenials.
"Safeway has in no way vio
lated any anti-trust laws unless
being efficient and rendering a
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lutiduuicis iiaa wcvuuw a nuuci
said Warren.
siriKe wearing oei
LEBANON, Jan. 20 Issues
in a strike which closed the Evans
. Products company plant here for
five days recently will be pre
, sented at a hearing before a west
coast lumber commission referee
ka Perttand Friday.
Oregon Roads
Ice-Coated.
Snow Coming
PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 20(3
The weather bnrean warnev
Wednesday night that all high
ways 'out of Portland were a
sheet of ice as a new i cold wave
struck the entire state.
State police headquarters here
said there was a minimum "of
: traffic . on the slippery routes
Snow blanketed the Salem
area early, this morning. It was
the first of this winter to
"stick."
and urged motorists j to travel
with j utmost caution. Chains
were advised.
Earlier, the weather bureau
issued the following forecasts:
"For Portland and vicinity,
clear cold wave next 24 hoars;
occasional snow "flurries until
tonight ; with occasional high
winds; temperature falling to
10-15 ' decrees above aero dur
ins next 24 hours.
"For Oregon, clear cold wave
next 24 hours in northern Ore
gon. Snow until tonight with
hich winds, occasionally reaeh
ing force. Temperatures
falling- to It-15 decrees above
zero west of the Cascades and
to sere-15 above east of the
life Extended
Bill Signed Last Day;
Post-War Committee
i Measure Ieadied - .
Gov. Earl W. Snell signed Wed
nesday afternoon the bill extend
ing legal existence of the state
guard, enlistments in which might
have expired today if the meas
ure had not become law.
Contrary ; to rumors that the
senate amendment providing the
guard's existence should finally
be terminated upon proclamation
by the governor at his discretion,
rather than six months after the
war ends as the house bill had
originally provided, house concur
rence In this and other senate
amendments was unanimous and
there was no debate.
Gov. Snell's bill proposing crea
tion of a 15-man committee on
post-war readjustments and de
velopment was ready for intro
duction. I Problems of returning
service men's employment and de
velopment of the state's resources
are to be undertaken by the com
mittee. Members of the committee
would j be Sen. Angus Gibson,
Junction City, , chairman of the
senate ; ways and means commit
tee; Rep. Carl Engdahl, Pendle
ton, chairman of the house ways
and means committee; State Bud
get Director George Aiken, State
Forester IN. S. Rogers, State Di
rector of Agriculture J. D. Mickle,
State Director of Geology and
Mineral Industries Earl K. Nixon,
State Highway Engineer R. H.
Baldock, a representative of the
University of Oregon school of
economics or business administra
tion, a representative of the Ore
gon State college engineering
school,! and six members to be
appointed by the governor.
The state election division pre
pared a bill to permit soldiers to
vote in all elections. The federal
law qualifies them to vote in con
tests for. federal offices. This bill
would allow them to vote for state
and county offices, permitting the
elections division to send each sol
dier who applies a ballot on which
he can vote for all offices.
New Yorktown
To Be Launched
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Jan. 20
(-Another Yorktown, to replace
the gallant aircraft carrier sunk
by the Japanese last June in the
battle of Midway, will go down
the ways into the James river
Thursday afternoon at the New
port News Shipbuilding and Dry
Dock company plant.
The last Yorktown had 104 days
of continuous battle cruising and
participated in every major naval
engagement in the Pacific before
she went down. Taking ' up the
fight where her predecessor left
off, the New Yorktown will follow
the earlier ships tradition, in hav
ing as sponsors Mrs. Franklin D
Roosevelt. The first lady christen
ed the old Yorktown here on, April
4. 1938.'
State Guard
Again;
Midwest
32 "kJow Zero
I Vjst; Plants,
Canada Short of Coal;
Weather Shuts Down
Boeing at Seattle
By Tho Associated Press
Subzero cold harassed the icy
midwest Wednesday.
Temperatures ranged: down
to 32 below zero in Roseau,
Minn.
, Chicagoans donned their
heaviest coats, ear muffs and
overshoes as the thermometer
registered 13 below, the lowest
of the winter and an all-time
mark for the date.
Twenty deaths were attributed
to the weather in t h e central
states, and many persons were
treated for frost bite.
Schools were closed in many
parts of Illinois, but they re
mained open in Chicago on the
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20
Storm warn in rs were ordered
continued along the California
coast from the Oregon line
south to Point Sur 1 because of
winds- of sale force Wednesday
night and Thursday.
theory that the children who live
in poorly heated homes would be
better off in their class rooms.
Some temperatures recorded by
the weather bureau were Garri
son, ND, -31; Glasgow, Mont
-26; Lemmon, SD, -25; Valentine,
Neb., -22; La Crosse, Wis., -20;
South Bend, Ind., -22; Battle
Creek; Miefa and SpentJer, Iowa,
15; Rockford, 111, -13.
WINNIPEG, Man, Jan. 2$
(P)-A cold wave, with tempera
tures reaching the lowest of tho
winter, continued across west
ern Canada Wednesday. From
the prairie provinces came re
ports of Arctic weather.
Prince Albert, in northern Sas
katchewan, held the low point for
the prairies 56 below during the
night, it was 54 at Saskatoon, and
52 at Edmonton, equalling the Al
berta capital's all-time low of
January 13, 1911.
The Pas, 500 miles north of here,
reported 50 below and in Winni
peg it was 41. In 1936, the mercury
dropped to a record low of 53 in
Winnipeg.
EDMONTON, Alta, Jan. 20-C)
A coal shortage Wednesday night
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Chile Breaks
With Axis;
Brazil Ready
SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan, 2(HP)
Chile severed relations with the
axis powers Wednesday, and Pres
ident Juan Antonio Rios told his
people in a broadcast Wednesday
night that it was a step toward
continental solidarity and in de
fense of democracy.
Rios explained the rupture with
Germany, Japan and Italy in a
half hour address -from the gov
ernment palace. ;
, The Chilean, senate approved
Tuesday night by a 30-to-10 vote,
and Rios afterward signed the de
cree to oust axis diplomats. A
roundup of all axis nationals was
quickly begun.
Wednesday night Rios gave
Chileans the full explanation of
his decision, reached ; long after
the original popular protest
against axis attacks on Chilean
shipping had subsided.
(It was not known immediately
whether the diplomats would re
main in Chile until an exchange
could be arranged or whether they
would be transferred to- Argen
tina, which now is tho only Amer
ican nation maintaining diplomatic
relations with the axis.)
: Foreign Minister "Joaquin Fer
nandez called in the American
diplomatic corps to make the an
nouncement. The Brazilian ambassador, Sam
uel Souza de Leao Grade, whose
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Water Pure Now
WEST SALEM, Jatu 20 City
Recorder Robert E. Pattison of
West Salem has ' announced that
further,, tests of the city water
tanks have found them pure. Resi
dents may use water now without
boiling it, he stated Wednesday.
Russians
Close In
On Cities
Kharkov, Rostov and
. Salsk Threatened -
By Soviet Noose
By EDDY G1LMORE I
: 9
' MOSCOW, . Jan. 20-P)-The
red army, driving deeply into
the Ukraine, gained 17 miles In
the sweep toward Kharkov, and
farther south reached a point
only 45 miles above Voroshilov
grad, Donets river industrial
center, a special communique
announced Wednesday night
The Russians now have rolled
back the Germans to an area
where the resilent red army itself
had retreated last summer when
the big nazi drive began.
(The midnicht Soviet eommu
nkrue heard by the Soviet Mon
itor in London said the Russians
had captured Mityakinskaya,
only 22 air line miles east of
Voroshilovcrad, a Junction on a
network of railways that winds
down to Rostov. Thus tho Rus
sians not only were closing in
on the important Nazi base of
Rostov from three sides, but
micht aim to sweep around it
to anchor their flying columns
on the sea of Azov behind It)
In the Caucasus the Russians
now were near Salsk, big; rail
junction 100 miles below Rostov.
(British military observers said
the Russians, in two months had
rendered ineffective a total of 89
Axis divisions, representing -the
demoralization of some 1,335,000
enemy troops if they were at full
divisional strength, ) - : KX .
The southern, arm of the Rus
sian sweep toward Kharkov cap
tured Byelokurakina,. 115 miles
southeast of the big industrial cen
ter. A northern army is fight
ing within 79 miles of the city
from the east
Byelokurakina was taken by
Soviet troops advancing 17 miles
from Novo-Pskov. Farther south
another column took Byelovodsk,
45 miles above Voroshilovgrad.
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Hendricks
Funeral
Today
Funeral services for R. J. Hend
ricks, for many years editor and
publisher and since 1928 editor
emeritus of The Statesman, are
to be held at 10:30 this morning
from Clough-Barrisk chapel, Bish
op Bruce Baxter of the Methodist
church officiating. v
To allow felloe-workers at The
Statesman office to attend services
and in tribute to the man who
had been connected with the paper
for a longer period, of time than
had any other, Oregon Statesman
offices will be closed from 10:15
to 11:15 this morning, i ,
Honorary pallbearers are to be
Paul B. Wallace, A. N. Bush, Dr.
H. H. dinger, E. T. Barnes, Ray
Yocom, Charles A. S p r a g u e.
George Ejitnam, Ralph Glover and
Ralph Kletzing.
Lowell E. Kern, Ralph C Cur
tis, Arthur Edwards, Carle Ab
rams, Stephen, A Stone and John
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Lobby Hobnobber
"It will be a short session," one
veteran observer r e m a r k e d.
Things are so quiet for the lob
byists that they're mooching off
each other."
No question about it, the lobby
is quet almost deserted, in sharp
contrast to the old days when the
rotunda in the old capitol always
was crowded at session time and
there frequently 1 was "standing
room only?, in the microscopic gal
leries. ' '
On Wednesday the lobby hab
itues had - dwindled to a quartet
and its members demonstrated
how busy ihey were not by haul
ing out a flat board and starting
a card game. It wasn't poker, and
no chips or cash were in sight The
lobbying profession isn't what it
used to be.
However, . complaint of ."lob
bying" on the part of state of-,
ficials and their "top employes;
voiced in the last session, is be
ing heard again.- State employes
TTTlTm
Cold - - hut NotrLike This
Members of Undo Sam's first mountain troop unit, in training at Camp Hale, Colo for action in moun
tainous country anywhere in the world under any conditions of weather or terrain, leant that' at
- times they have to substitute for draft animals. Here white-clad troops step into harness to haul heavy
equipment up the mountainside while carrying full packs and walking en snowshoesv Associated
j'Press Telemat , u - -. i I ' j . i.' TV- " .Z-S.,
Jungle Troops
Move Rapidly
Japs Compressed on
Guinea; Airmen
Raid Heavily
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Thursday, Jan. 21
(flAllied jungle fighters, moving
bo last they ; didn't have time to
count the. enemy dead, further
compressed Japanese pockets
around Sanananda point in New
Guinea while allied bombers at
tacked 10 points embracing prac-
UciCl tb& w hp I-south. Pacific
area' Tuesday - and Wednesday.
"The whole thing is crumbling,"
said a spokesman at Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's headquarters con
cerning tho Papuan ground re
sisting of the Japs.
An enemy pocket northwest
of the point where the Sananan
da road reaches the beach still
is resisting land there is heavy
fichting on the other side of the
point between Giruwa and Tar
akena where the Japanese at
tempted to break out .
Two other enemy groups still
are showing some fight along the
inland road. One about 2500
yards inland has been split up.
The bombers made their strong
est call at Lae, starting new fires
among supply installations.
On the aerial war front, these
achievements were listed:
The jetty at Debo in the Aroe
islands I was raided and one of
three Jap float planes which at
tempted to intercept probably was
damaged. At Ambon in the same
sector, a Jap fighter was shot
down by a bomber. -
Jap i localities at Lautem in
Portuguese Timor were bombed
and near Juijoro one of five Jap
fighters trying to intercept was
damaged.
Along the coast of the Willau-
mez . peninsula . in New Britain,
three barges were strafed and
these had to be beached. Also in
New - Britain, tho Gasmata air
drome, a much-bombed target
was raided, and gun positions
were hit at the 'Cape Gloucester
airdrome. ' !
- In New Guinea, the Madang
airdrome and wharf were bombed,
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Quips, "Angles
And Personalities
At the Capitol
possess a great deal of the infor
mation legislators need and are
frequently consulted, so it's dif
ficult to determine whether any
one of; them is "lobbying" from
selfish; motives or not when he
appears around the legislative
halls, j Chief criticism two years
ago was that some of them en
tered the legislative : chambers
and conversed with' members
while tho bouses were 1b ses
sion.
; .The fnew" capitol is almost five
years old, counting its age from
the ' date of first occupancy, but
It hasn't lost much of its newness.
The public and state . employes
have respected its immaculateness
and-' refrained., from acts which
might rnar it . Inside some of the
constantly-used offices there may
be signs of wear and tear, but
not in j the lobby nor in the legis
lative chambers, - now being util
ized for; the third time. The white
marble i exterior has lived up to
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Navy to ReleaseJ
Casualties Daily
WASHINGTON, Jan.
The . navy announced Wednes
day 1 effective immediately all
casualties of the navy,! marine
corps and coast cuard would be
announced In a daily list In
stead of in periodical accumula
tions as heretofore. f
Tho first daily list contain
Ins Che names of 14 men killed,
15 wounded and 45 missing, was
made public Wednesday. ; The
navy will continue to follow the
policy of notifying next of kin
before, makinc the names pub
lic. None were of Oregon men.!
Salem Nurse
. ..-
.... - V ' M - - '
Is Stabbed; i
2 Suspected I
Two suspects in the Salem stab
bing of a nurse were under sur
veillance by city police early this
morning as officers waited for
Mrs. Dale Moon, 21, to regain con
sciousness following remedial
surgery, at Salem General hospital
before making any arrest ; f
Both men were said to answer
descriptions given by Mrs. Moon
15 minutes after she had been ac
costed,! threatened and stabbed in
the abdomen at 9:05 p. m. as she
stood waiting for a city street bus
near the Center street gate lights
at the General hospital, where she
had been "ott special duty. ; -
Mrs, Moon, Woodburn resident,
declared to the investigating of
ficer that she had obtained a clear
view of the man who stepped out
of the darkness, knife in hand,
telling her he would stab her If
she refused to do his will.;' She
slapped - him, she said, : and - he
stepped back before lunging at
her with the knife. . : j
iThej-wound,t between i stomach
and Intestines, was straight and
clean; in appearance, made : by a
double-edged -knife, it was be
lieved.
Mrs. Moon was able to run back
to the hospital,! where investiga
tion i revealed that more than
emergency care' would be required.
Depth of the wound was not
known to them, police said. f
Axis Agrees,;
Economic Aid ;
By Thm Associated Press
A Berlin radio broadcast re
corded by the Associated i Press
Wednesday night said that Ger
many, Japan and Italy had signed
an economic cooperation! pact
Wednesday to utilize, "each In his
own . economic sphere, their re
sources for "totalitarian warfare
against common enemies, and al
so as the basis for permanent col
laboration ."a f t e r - a victorious
termination of tho war." . t
The agreement to run concur
rently with the 10-year military
assistance', pact of September 27,
1940, was signed at Adolf Hit
ler's ' headquarters - by nazi ' For
eign Minister Joachim Von Rib
bentrop and the Japanese ambas
sador, Iliroshi Oshima, the broad
cast said,; i-; , - . j
An identical pact was signed In
Rome by Italian . Foreign Minis
ter Count Galeazzo Ciano and the
Japanese charge d'affaires, Shuni
chi Kase.
in Salem
"T!
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German Planes
Bomb London ,
At Least 30 Killed!
- In School; City - -Has
Night Alarms .
LONDON, Jan. 2 0-P) German
rooftop raiders : killed at least 30
school children and buried 30 to
3 more and three teacheri be
yond hope of life under tons of
debris in a ! swift but' relatively
small-scale attack on London , at
at noontime-Wednesday. It was
the worst blow suffered by Lon
don' schools since the blitz, attacks
began, i, . ', ;
Only six raiders eluded Lon
don's defenses, and the school, in
the heart of a residential section.
was smashed into rubble.
There wasn't a chance that the
children and teachers buried in
the ruins were alive, for they had
been chattering gaily at luncheon
on the first floor," but 200 rescue
workers kept digging for them.- '
Only 11 i chUdren and one
teacher in the building emerred
alive. Sixty bodies of children
from six to 14 years" of ago had
beefi recovered.
.. The known victims besides' the
children in the one building were
.10 children and six women. - - -
In southern England, where the
raiders also delivered destruction,
one elderly man died of shock in
a southeast coastal town where 40
to 60 planes appeared in i two
waves ,but dropped ho bombs.
Two brief ; alarms sounded in
London between dark and mid
night but no; planes were heard,
although the guns went Into action
in one suburban district in the
second alarm.
x After midnight the sirens sound
ed for a third alarm in one Lon
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Most Miners
Vote to Work
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Again Today r
WILKES-BARRE, Pa, JanT 20.
- (JP) - Stomping, shouting miners
launched a new . back - to - work
m o ye m e n t in Pennsylvania's
strike-bound h a r d coal fields
Wednesday night ..
Cries of "back to" work, boys"
rang through union halls as near
ly three thousand workers voted
to comply . with President Roose
velt's order -that they . end their
t h r e e-w e e k-o 1 d unauthorized
walkout by noon Thursday. "
v Throwing parliamentary- order
to the winds, the 1800 employes
of the Lehigh Valley Coal com
pany's " Prospect - Henry' Colliery
didn't even bother to take a for
mal vote. In a five-minute session
they yelled unanimous approval
when one worker called out:
- "What do we want ,a meeting
fof? Let's go back to work!",.
They were the first to make such
a decision since Mr. Roosevelt Is-
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Rotary Nominates
CHICAGO, Jan. 20-vTJ)-Charles
L Wheeler, of San Francisco was
nominated Wednesday' for presi
dent of Rotary International Jor
1943-44. His selection by the nom
inating committee will place him
in the presidency automatically on
July 1 if no other nomination is
received from a member club be
fore April 1. 1 -. r - f ,
9
Advance
Hurries
Rommel
Allied Navies Sink
14 Axis Vessels
In Three Days
By ALFRED E. WALL
LONDON; Jan. 20-(P)-Th
Fighting Fr enc h . fwarminj
northward from' equatorial
Africa have joined forces with
the British Eighth army closing
on Tripoli, .v it was , announced
Wednesday n i gh t while thu
British reported sinking 14 axis
vessels in the Mediterranean In
the first three days of this week.
; These French troops swept up
from the1 Lake Chad area over
deserts and mountains, conauer-
ing the Italian Fezzan, and now
-are continuing their advance
northward and. have established
contact with the British Eighth
army," a communique from Brig.
Gen. Le Clerc's headquarters an
nounced..
"These forces are brilliantly
taking part with their British
allies In the advance on Tripoli.
' They are attacking; on the. left
of ; ;- the Elchth ; army mwlnc
northward,"- said the war bul
letin broadcast by the Fighting
French at BrassavHle.
The juncture was announced
shortly after the British had re
ported sinking 14 Axis ships In
the central .Mediterranean in the
first three days of this week, and
as twin British columns pounding
toward .Tripoli rere ; reported
within 40-to 60 miles of the bomb
battered capital ' of-. MussoUni's
vanishing Libyan empire.
The new threat from this French
thrust increased the probability
that Field Marshal Erwih Rom
mel would fight only a delaying
action at Tripoli, Instead of mak
ing a final stand there.
The French column had moved
up under Col. Ingold, the field
commander under Leclerc. Its
new advance was announced by
the authoritative French radio sta
tion at Brazzaville, and not tho
"radio Brazzaville" used as a cloak
by an Axis broadcasting, station.
A triumphant communiaue br
the admiralty. Wednesday niht
disclosed that a pack of destroyers,
six British and one Greek, sank
these vessels on Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday nights without dam
age or loss: .
A 2090-ton supply ship, ap
parently carrying ammunition
which blew up south of . Sar
dinia. Ten ships of varying rises, off
Tunisia.X;" . , v
A motor launch, also off Tu
nisia. ' . '
K small naval vessel carrying
gasoline to the Island of Lam
pedusa.' Further, a British submarine
chased an enemy supply ship for
five hours ind sent her down off
the Tunisian coast. . This, same
submersible also drove ashore two
small supply ships, both burning.
The destruction of these ships
swept Mussolini's "mare nostrum"
virtually dean from the Tunisian
coast to Sardinia as the Eighth
army - steadily drew nearer to
Tripoli.
The navy has announced the
destruction of 23 surface craft In
the central Mediterranean since
the first of-the year.1
The absence of opposition at sea
was taken here to Indicate there .
was little probability of the Axis
attempting to evacuate 'its forces
from Tripolitanla and Tunisia.
Thus these would be squeezed be
tween, the advancing Eighth army
and. the Allied forces in Tunisia.
Abroadcast of. the Morocco
radio recorded here said that part
of Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel's
retreating forces already Is well
to the west of Tripoli and moving
rapidly toward the Tunisian fron
tier. - :
' 'To the northwest in Tunisia,
the Axis tank forces pushed for
ward seven miles into French
held positions southwest of Pont
du Fahs in an : apparent move
to take some of the .pressure
off Marshal Rommel's route of
retreat Irons Tripolitanla.
Gen.-Sir. Bernard LV Montgom
ery's troops, advanced more than
25 miles along the coastal road
to the Horns" area, 60 miles east
of Tripoli, t while : a companion
spearhead of the ... Eighth army
swept in on Tarhuna, 40 ir.llos
from Tripoli.