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NO. 227
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Thirty-seventh Year.
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Kelly's
Comment
Fran Washington. D. C.
Truck Operators
Get Concessions
Bureaucrats Find
Milk Is Vital
Farmers Oppose
Dropping Tariff
Mr Jobs w. riir
Washington, D. 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
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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.