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C, Dec. 12 Certain concession! are being mide by the bureaucrats in the national capital in their regula tions, such as: if farmers and truck operators have not ob tained their certificate of war necessity they may go to the nearest ration board and obtain all the gasoline they need until February 1; assurances from Paul McNutt that labor will be furnished' the farms, voluntary or otherwise, and that farm wages will be comparable with other Industries; that the cost of farm labor will be included in parity. Something will be done about the questionaires sent to every big and little business, etc. The November election has made the people more assertive; the bureaucrats more willing to lis ten. There will be an agricultural breakdown unless restrictions are amended, writes a county Judge, from the Pacific north west. He says that local boards familiar with local conditions should have the authority which is now vested in Detroit in the handling of gasoline. Also from the northwest, a letter saying ' that unless gasoline 1s allowed i the non-ferrous mines, which are producing critical and strategic metals, they will be forced to close. A farm woman writes (her boy has gone to war and her husband is crippled) that the gas oline allowed a tractor for a month will scarcely permit it to operate for 24 hours. These are merely samples of letters from Washington, Oregon and Idaho that have been sent In protest; others come from every com munity of that region. Because of the clamor, which M-hned throughout the south west and midwest, John L. Rogers, director of motor trans ' port, ODT, is providing for the gasoline until February 1. In tho meantime the subject is to ' be explored more thoroughly. In the next 80 days ine gasoline puzzle may be worked out under ' Hornlrt L. Ickes and something arranged which will keep the lnsains trucks, farm trucks and nver-the-road common carriers rolling. o o o BUREAUCRATS are discover ing that milk is vital. Hereto fore they have done nothing to prevent a shortage. A dairyman writes that he attended a sale of (Continued on Pag EWHt) FAR WESTSTOOD LACK HELD ACUTE San Francisco, Dec. 12 U.R) The far western food shortage is "going to get a lot worse before it gets better," Regional Civilian Defense Director James C. Sheppard warned tonight. Sheppard said "the public must be told the truth we face an acute situation in the far western states." "We've got to get back to the backyard again, as we did in the last war," Sheppard de clared, after a conference with government and civilian defense "Every vacant lot should be made into a victory vegetable arden. School grass plots .hiH become school gardens The bean stalk should replace v.. hMivhnrk flowers are good to look at, but mighty poor to eat" BULLETIN Chicago, Dec 12 U.F5--Connie Sehwoegler, 220 pound youngster from Madison. Wis., ltd the all-star bowling cham pionship fiald ioniaht with a game) average ol 21S.10 puu. SENGALESE READY TO JOIN ALLIES ON AFRICA FRONT Axis Attacks Repulsed . Drive To Close Libyan End of Pincers Underway An Advanced Allied Base in Tunisia, Dec. 12 (U.R) Allied artillery, tanks and spitfire fighter planes have repulsed four axis tank and infantry assaults in the Mediez-el-Bab area 40 miles southwest of Tunis, it was learned tonight as both sides poured men and material into the battle zone for an impending finish fight. In their initial attacks the Ger- mans sent two heavy columns of tanks and infantry toward Med-jez-el-Bab, which lies on a slope rising to a commanding height. The columns approached from two directions. - British spitfires raced out to meet and strafe them. Tanks rolled out to engage them and artillery boomed from the city's heights.- The counterattack cost one column abo t half its tanks. Both were forced, to retreat. Two new attacks were report ed tonight one in the north the other aimed directly at Medjez-el-Bab. Both attacks were much lighter than the first two and both were repulsed. Washington, Dec. 12 (U.R) American and British forces battling the Axis for control of North Africa may shortly be re inforced by some 50,000 crack Senegalese troops, the office of war information said tonight. The Senegalese, rated among the best colored troops in France's colonial empire, distin guished themselves in the battle of France, in 1940, and are re garded as particularly formid able fighters at close range with the bayonet, rifle and machine gun. London, Dec. 12 (U.R) Amer ican-British forces have driven back two more Axis tank and infantry attacks in Northern Tunisia, it was announced to night, amidst indications that Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgom ery had started a drive at 1 Agheila to close the Libyan end of the North African nutcracker. Lt. G. Kenneth A. N. Ander son's allied forces, battering Ger man efforts to develop their of fensive near Medjez El Bab, 40 miles west of Tunis and 50 miles south of Bizerte, beat off an en emy tank and infantry attack in that sector and repulsed an other to the north, an allied headquarters communique an nounced. American heavy bombers ranged over Tunisia, blasting Axis communications while Brit ish submarines hampered Ger man Gen. Walther Nehrin.fs supply lines through the Medi terranean. Anderson, mean while, was bringing up supplies and reinforcements through the Tunisian mud. readying his British forces for a new drive against Tunis or Bizerte. U-BOAT RESCUED London, Eng., Dec. 12 0JB The air ministry today reveaiea details of the rescue of 73 sur vivors of a torpedoed British boat after reconnaissance planes had flow 9S.000 miles and naval units had combed hundreds of square miles of the ocean in a 13-day search. The passengers and crew got away in four boats after the ship was torpedoed by a German sub marine. When the SOS was re ceived relays of coastal command planes, including Liberators and Flying Fortresses, began to search In ever-widening circles, aided by navigational experts who calculated tides, wind and current which might affect the course of the lifeboats. San Francisco, Dec. 12 (U.PD Lengthening America's work week "to a basis equivalent to those of our allies" was urged tonight by the California Cat tlemen's association. I zxj WAS I Here's another Indication of the growing food shortage on the Paclllc Coast. Grocer Jack Parodl, left, of Ban Francisco, received so many queries about lack of food that he had to post this sign, which said, "It you don't see what you want, don't ask for it." Helen Donovan Is Uw ' customer. SEN. BYRD FLAYS NEW DEAL STAND ON 40-HR. WEEK Boston, Dec. 21 (U.R) Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D., Va., de nounced the administration to day for refusing to abandon the principle of the 40-hour work week when "everyone must know that to win the desperate war in which we are engaged will require all of the working capacity of all the people of America." Byrd, addressing the Massa chusetts Federation of Taxpay ers associations, said two import ant groups controlled the na tional affairs and policies of the United States. One, he asserted, wants to eliminate peacetime comforts and subordinate all considerations to that of vic tory; the other the New Deal ers insist on social reforms and waste of public funds. The Virginian pointed out that Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson is an advocate of 48-hour week. Patterson, he id, only this week stated that 1,500,000 fewer workers than are now employed could be used in industry if the present average work-week of 42.8 hours were increased to 48. "Yet. from the beginning of the war, the leaders of the New Deal have refused, in the face of logic and facts, to change even for the emergency the principle of 40 hours a week, when every one must know that to win the desperate war in which we are engaged will require all oi ine working capacity of all the peo ple of America, and that every restraint in law to freeing the complete working capacity of America must De removea, Byrd said. Byrd also condemned the or der f xing "an arbitrary limita tion and ce ling on the income of individuals." He described It as one of the basic tenets of the Socialist and Communist par ties. FAIR SEX FACES Los Angeles, Dee. 12 (U.R) Just one week after releasing a full report on American losses at Pearl Harbor, the navy to night revealed officially that wo men shipbuilders now wear long "undies" and no longer "luxur iate" in their bathtubs. The neatly mimeographed re lease from the 11th Naval Dis trict told of an interview with seven women at the Harbor Boat Building company on Terminal Island, believed the first of their sex in California to work on small boat construction. ESPEE TRAFFIC HIT Fairfield. Cel., Dec. 12 (U.R) Traffic on the Southern Pacific tracks near here was tied up for several hours tonight after a train hit an automobile at crossing. HITCH TOGETHER Amarlllo Field. Tex., Dee. 12 (U.R) President Roosevelt, acting on appeal from a widowed moth er, has Issued an order directing that her twin sons, Bobby and Billy Philips of Shawnee, Ok'a., be allowed to serve together for the duration of their army life. The 19-year-old twins enlisted last June 3 and were sent to Sheppard field, Tex., for their basic training. At the end of five weeks, they were separated for the first time, when Billy was transferred to Luke field, Ariz. and Bobby to Amarillo field. Both were detailed as military police. Their mother, Mrs. Mary Phil lips, wrote to the president that the twins had been inseparable buddies all their lives and asking that they be reunited. An executive order from the president resulted in Billy being transferred to Amarillo field and assigned with his brother to the military police unit command by 1st Lieut. Robert P. Snowden. They will continue to serve as a team, wherever they go. KILLED IN CRASH Newcastle, Ind., Dec. 12 (U.R) An army cargo plane en route from Patterson field, Ohio, to Stout field, Ind., crashed seven miles south of Newcastle tonight, killing the entire crew of seven men. The plane left Patterson at 10:30 p. m. and was ultimately bound for Sedalia, Mo., where It is based. The plane was com pletely wrecked and burned, with its fuselage pointed In a westward direction. Only the army insignia was distinguish able. AMAZONS ON WARPATH Rio de Janeirl, Dec. 12 (U.R) Savage Vamaris Indians of the upper Amazon country have mas sacred eight persons. Including employes of the Indian protection service and members of their family, it was reported today. NOTED DEAD Williamstown, Mass., Dec. 12 0J.R Dr .Harry A. Garfield, 79, former president of Williams college and son of James M. Gar field. 20th president of the Unit ed States, died today after a lengthy illness. Garfield, a native of Hiram. Portage county, O., was graduat ed from Williams college in 1885. He became the ninth presi dent of Williams In 1908 and held the office until he retired in 1934. During World War I. he a was United States fuel admin- listrator. STARVE OUT IAPS ON ALEUTIANS IS But Invasion Threat From North Real Last Summer, Senator Says. Los Angeles, Dec. 12 (U.R) A Japanese Invasion from the north was closer titan anyone realized as recently as August, Sen. Albert B. "Happy" Chand ler, D., Ky revealed today. "If the Japs had attacked us In force as late as August, we could have lost the Aleutians and possibly Alaska, too," Chandler declared. "That's all changed now we could wipe 'em out if we wanted to pay the price. But it may be simpler to starve them out. They aren't getting any shipping In up there we've sunk all their ships and I think their Aleu tian bases have cost the Japs a great deal more than they're worth all ready. Almost daily fighter and bomber raids now replace the 800-mile round trips made by unescorted bombers last sum mer, he said. Chandler, who visited the Aleutians last August with the Senate military affairs commit tee, is here on an inspection tour. . ET IN HILL BATTLE Chungking, Dec. 12 (U.R) A Chinese communique said to day that Japanese columns strik ing northward from Tengchung had been stopped by the Chinese in a severe engagement still in progress, and other military re ports told of apparent Japanese preparations for invasion of the interior of Yunnan province. The two armies were reported to have been locked In bloody battles for six days on the rugged plateau, more than a mile above sea lever, on the west side of the Salween river gorge. The Japanese were said to have concentrated at least two full divisions at Lungling and Tengchug awaiting the long awaited invasion attempt while cleaning up advance Chinese forces based In strongholds sur rounded by giant pine and bam boo forests near the China Burma border. While Japanese tanks and air planes peppered their lines, the Chinese enlisted the help of su perstitious Paiyl Tribesmen who organized Into guerrilla bands to fight the Japanese invader. NEXT WEDNESDAY Washington, Dec. 12 (U.R) The seventy - seventh congress, during whose tenure occurred some of the most momentous events in U. S. history, will probably adjourn sine die next Wednesday, It appeared tonight. Senate Democratic Leader Al ben W. Barkley, of Kentucky, told reporters that a preliminary decision to end further consider ation of legislation had been reached In conferences during the past 24 hours between con gressional leaders of both par ties. GREEKS DEPORTED Ankara, Dec. 11 Delayed) (U.R) German officials in Ath ens have announced that depor tation of Greek workers to Ger many has been suspended, ef fective last week, until April, 1943, because of "communica tions difficulties." Three tons of Jewelry dies, or iginally costing over $230,000. were contributed to the tcrao drive by a manufacturing Jew tier in Mew York City. GERmJS SUFFER F Counter-Attacks On Central Front Fail Try To Break Stalingrad Ring. Moscow, Dec. 13 (Sunday) (U.R) The Germans have begun desperate counter-assaults in an effort to break the steel ring forged about their divisions trapped before Stalingrad, the Soviet midnight communique re vealed today as a special an nouncement disclosed that the Nazis have had 241,000 troops killed or captured on two fronts since Nov. 19. The midnight communique re vealed also that the Germans were counter-attacking on the central front, particularly In the Velikie Luki area, where the Germans tried to check a Soviet onslaught with counter-attacks, all of which were repulsed with heavy losses. The German counter-assaults in the Stalingrad area were un dertaken as their desperate po sition was revealed by the ex tent of air transport being shot down. The communique said 38 transports were shot down Fri day. A record 60 were report ed shot down the day before, testifying that the entrapped Nazis were devoid of communi cations save by air. The Germans counter-attacked both northwest and southwest of Stalingrad and were repulsed with heavy losses in eai4t in stance. Northwest of the city, the Red army had fortified Its positions and withstood a fero cious assault by tanks, planes and Infantry, in which 23 tanks, eight guns, 30 lorries, and some 700 men were wiped out. Anti aircraft fire accounted for six Nazi planes. A total of 88 enemy planes were shot down In the Stalin grad area. Soviet air force units ranged over the front Friday, destroying or damaging 20 Ger man tanks, 80 lorries filled with troops and supplies, silencing ten anti-aircraft batteries and blow ing up three ammunition dumps. About a battalion of German in fantry was wiped out. These losses were apart from the total of 189,000 Axis troops reported killed between Nov. 19 and Dec. 11 in a special commu nique Issued prior to the regular midnight communique. ON ROUEN, TURIN London, Dec. 12 (U.R) Pow erful American air force bomb ers, maintaining a shattering round-the-clock allied offensive that blasted Europe from Italy to France, pounded the French Industrial town of Rouen today, following up a two way British- American smash at Italian objec tives. Allied fighters covered the big American planes as they picked their way up the Seine river through bad weather to deliver explosives at Rouen, a communi cations center where heavy In dustries, oil refineries and ship yards are located. Two bombers and four fighters failed to return but a Joint Brit ish-American communique re ported that 14 enemy fighters had been shot down by the bombers and four by their allied escort planes. The American raids came only a few hours after Royal Air Force bombers had returned from their third raid of the week on Turin. Northern Italian industrial center. That raid, in turn, had followed a daylight at tack on Naples by heavy Ameri can bombers of the middle east ern command. Washington, Dec. 12 (U.R) The war manpower commission estimated tonight that 63,000 000 men and women in the Unit. eo suites win oe UKiuinz ine - 1 war on the battlefront. In fac- (lories and on (arms year nonce.' mau. War Bulletins London. Dec. 12 (U.R) Tho Vichy radio announced tonight that Liboria had broken off diplomatic relations with the Vichy government. Now York, Doc 12 (U.R Tho British Broadcasting Cor poration, quoting Radio Dakar, said today thai a special Amer ican military mission had ar rived at Dakar by air. At Eugons, Ore Univer sity of Oregon 71. Camp Adair 32. At Seattle Washington 54. Looter's (Soattlo) 26. Berkeley. Cal.. Doc. 12 0.' Pi Hank Luisattl, former national collegiate basketball high-scorer, tonight led the St. Mary's Pro-Flight basketball team to a 4S to 39 victory over the University oi Califor nia here. London, Doc. 12 (U.R) The admiralty revealed today that a small enemy convey was in tercepted by light British naval forces last night and that one Gorman supply ves sel and aa escorting ship war sunk. Berlin, Doc. 12 (Gorman broadcast recorded by U.P. in London) On the anniver sary of tho Axis Tripartite pact to fight tho allies. Em peror Hlrohlto today tele graphed Adolf Hitleri "I aee pross Joy to so our goal being realised stop by stop." HINDERS PACIFIC SHIPPING, CLAIM Washington, Dec. 13-(U.R The Sailors Union of the Pacific charged tonight that War Ship ping Administration "meddling" threatens a disruption of war shipping In the Pacific. The charges were made In a formal protest filed with Ad miral Emory S. Land of the WSA and AFL President Wil liam Green by Harry Lundberg, secretary-treasurer of the Sail ors union, an AFL affiliate. An agreement made last May provided that all ships operated out of west coast ports by the Luckenbach Steamship Co., W. R. Grace It Co., Inc., and the Moore-McCormlck lines should be manned by seamen hired through west coast unions. Recently a WSA assigned an east coast crew comprising members of the National Mari time union (CIO) to the John Copley, a Liberty ship being built at Portland, Ore. Lund; berg said the ship would be picketed to prevent its leaving nort. "The question now has aris en," Lundberg said In his state ment, "will the mcrcnani sea men be allowed to carry out their work peacefully? or shall our efforts continue to be dis rupted by bungling government"! bureaus. 'We are now referring to certain sections of the war Shipping Administration wnicn have innocently, or otherwise. consistently kept the Industry In a turmoil with certain actions and interferences which indeed border on incompetence or pure and simple meddling for med dling's sake!" Chicago, Dec. 12 (U.R) Sew ell Avery, president of Mont- onmrrv Ward St Co.. said to night he would obey promptly an order from President Roose velt requesting compliance "without further delay" with a war labor board directive to sign a contract with employes. Avery Issued the statement within a few minutes after re ceiving a telegram from the President Informing him that the President's formal order for compliance with the WLB direc tive of December 8 had been sent him by special delivery air- AERIAL ATTACKS HIT ENEMY BASES AT LAE, SALUMAUA Hied Offensive Near In Coastal Area Tropical Storm Slows Battle. United Press Correspondent Gen MacArthur's Headquar ters, Australia, Dec. 13 (Sun day) (U.R) Allied heavy and medium bombers attacked Jap anese airdromes at Salamaua and Lae, today's communlqueTe- ported, while heavy tropical rains kept ground operations to a minimum and gave respite to the enemy's strong Buna coastal positions where a heavy allied offensive Is lmlnent. Laa got a good plastering Friday night," a spokesman said. "Fortresses bombed and strafed the airfield and plastered it with 500-pound bombs. The wrecks of many planes were seen scat tered around the airdrome." The spokesman reported that allied forces had advanced slightly in the Sanananda sec tor. Among the Japanese refugee force which an Australian patrol rounded up and killed in the creeks and estuaries near Gona were a lieutenant colonel and two other officers. At Gona, 20 miles along the coast from Buna, allied forces burled 638 enemy dead, killed in the final stages of the assault. Mopping up operations con tinued In the Gona area, where) one patrol, operating westward of the town, destroyed party of enemy refugees. There was only desultory fighting on other sectors and only reconnaissance activity in the northwestern sector, tho communique said. Heavy bombers attacked tho airdrome at Salamaua, the com munique reported, and started fires there. Both heavy and medium bombers were used in the Lao raid, durlna which aircraft dis persal installations at the air drome were atacked. Occupation of Gona, 20 miles up the coast from Buna, cut into the Japanese right flank, but tho allies faced a tough Job of cross ing rivers and swamps interlaced with barbed wire barricades and concealed machine gun nests. Enemy snipers fired from cocoa nut trees and their machine gun ners from pill boxes. The Japanese situation was desperate but there were many evidences of the enemy's deter mination to fight to the finish. In their stand at Gona, the Japs hung on by wearing respirators amid piles of their dead and many dug under roots of giant trees. REPRESENT WEST E An1e. Dec. 12 -(U.R) The colorful University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles Bruins, ho missed the honor in 1939 by the margin of an Incompleted pass, tonight were cnosen m represent the west against the University of Georgia in the New Year's Day Rose Bowl game. Commissioner Ed Atherton made the announcement after he had tabulated the results of a telegraphic vote from represen tatives of conference schools. However, awaiting the official counting of the wired ballots was merely a "paper move" since the aggressive Bruins had clinched the task this afternoon by struggling to a 14-7 victory over the University of Southern California and winding up atop the conference standings. GRIDIRON CLUB HEAD . Washington, Dec. 12 U.R Lewis Wood, of the New York Times' Washington bureau, was reelected president of the Grid iron club tonight at its annual meeting.
