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PHONE NUMBERS Subscription, Class Ads, and Display Ads, 205 News Room. 170 VOL. XXXV, NO. 125 The CoshoctonTribune Best or Newspaper Pictorial Service COSHOCTON. OHIO WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1943 Full Leased Wire Report or United Press KEEP ON WAR BONDS THREE CENTS UNION CHIEFS CANCEL RAIL STRIKE ORDER Red Army In Suburbs Of Korosten Germans Falling Back All Along 63-Mile Front By UNITED PRESS Massive Russian forces streamed thru a 65-mile gap in the German defenses west of Kiev today and fanned out in three directions toward the old Polish and Rumanian frontiers.

Surging westward thru crumbling enemy resistance. Russia's first Ukranian army fought its way into the northeastern and suburbs of Korosten in an 11-mile advance that threatened momentarily to engulf that key five-way junction on the main Odessa-Leningrad railway. All along the 65-mile front the Germans were falling back with increasing speed as the Red army pressed what appeared to be a full- scale drive to break thru to the Bug river in Poland and to the Rumanian frontier, thus trapping hundreds of thousands of Nazi troops pinned down in the Dnieper bend. The northern wing of the Russian offensive captured Bekhi, four miles northeast of Korosten, while a second column drove into Khotinovka, 5 miles southeast of the junction. 8 Less than 50 miles to the south, the Russians cleared the way for direct assault on the enemy stronghold of Zhitomir by capturing the town of Korostishev after a fierce street battle in which virtually all the German garrison was annihilated.

The southern flank of the Russian offensive are broke into Pav- loch, 38 miles northeast of Berdi- chev and 29 miles northeast of Kazatin, two important junction towns athwart the main railroad line to Rumania. In northern White Russia, the 1st Baltic army beat off savage German counter-attacks around Vitebsk and tightened its arc around that enemy bastion. More than 2.500 German officers and men were killed in 18 futile counter-attacks on that sector. Middle East Boss Long Illness Fatal To Bethlehem Township Farmer William Henry Binning. 70.

died Tuesday at 10:25 p. m. at his home in Bethlehem township after an extended illness. He had been bedfast for the past 10 months. Mr.

Binning was born in Jackson township June 26. 1873. "and was married to Almeda F. Speaks on Sept. 29.

1899. She died in 1913. His entire life was spent it! farming and he was a member of the Bethlehem grange. Surviving are two children. Mrs.

Myrtle Styer of Younpstown and Lester C. Binning of the late home, and four grandchildren. A daughter. Hazel, is deceased. Funeral sen-ices will be conducted Friday at 2 p.

with Rev. Ira Cooper of Warsaw officiating, at the Prairie Chapel church. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends will be received at the Binning home after 3 p. m.

Thursdav. Sir Bernard C. T. Paget, above, commander-in- chief of British Home Forces, has been named chief of Allied forces in the Middle East. He succeeds and will operate under Gen.

Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, recently named supreme Allied commander in the Mediterranean theater. Marines Close in On Jap Airstrips Australians Seize New Guinea Ridge ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. New Guinea--Tank supported U. S. marines pushed five miles thru the New Britain jungle td within striking distance of the Cape Gloucester airstrips, it was announced today, while Australians seized a 5.600-foot ridge in New Guinea overlooking the Japanese stronghold of Madang.

The Japanese on New Britain threw four strong but futile counter-attacks against a marine column advancing east from the Cape Gloucester beachhead toward Borgen bay, but the main force encountered little opposition in driving to a river within a mile and a half of the bomb-devastated airstrips. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com- munique said American casualties were "extremely light" and reported that huge quantities of supplies, ammunition and artillery had been captured. a medium and attack planes, in support of ground forces, dropped 150 tons of bombs on enemy defenses and strafed enemy airdromes. Four of 36 I enemy planes which attacked the Cape Gloucester beachhead were shot down by ship anti-aircraft guns.

Adriatic Port Taken By 8th Army Canadian Troops Win 10-Day Fight for Ortona By C. R. CUNNINGHAM United Press Correspondent A I HEADQUARTERS. Algiers--The British Eighth army has captured the bitterly contested Adriatic port of Ortona and the Apennnie transport junction of Castel Di Sangro, keystones of the. German defense line, in violent fighting all across Italy, it was announced today.

Fjghting flared up in all key sectors between the Tyrherihian and the Adriatic seas, and simultaneously Allied air forces resumed their offensive in force, hammering key targets in the Rome area and the Rimini and Vicenza regions in the north. Eighth army blows at both ends of its front rolled up the German wing along the Adriatic and unhinged the Nazi positions in central Italy, while on the Fifth army front French Moroccan troops captured commanding heights and the British beat off sharp German attacks near the mouth of the Garigliano river. The 10-day battle of Ortona, probably the fiercest since the week-long struggle by the American First division for Troina, Sicily, ended in victory for Canadian assault units of the Eighth army. Smashing the last German toehold in the outskirts of Ortona, the Canadians plunged forward thru driving snow, sleet and high winds along the Adriatic coast toward Pescara, terminus of the trans- peninsula road to Rome. Inland from Ortona, Indian troops won new heights and New Zealanders inched forward between Orsonga and Guadiagrele.

The fall of Castel Di Sangro came as a surprise, since little action had bene reported in that sector on the loft wing of the Enghth army while the fight on the Adriatic was in progress. Gave Us Insulin Widow, 76, Dies Suddenly at Home In Newcomerstown Mrs. Olive Hunt Hursey, 76, died suddenly at her home on East Canal Newconierstown, about Some 50 miles to the southeast, I 3 p. m. Tuesday 'following a heart Above is the latest picture of seldom-photographed Professor Alexander Fleming, who, 14 years ago discovered penicillin, since developed as the wonder drug of modern medical science.

Professor Fleming is now associated with London University and St. Mary's Hospital, London. elements of the U. S. Sixth army beat off enemy thrusts and resumed their advance eastward after having been forced back to Um- tinglau Sunday.

Allied planes broke up a strong enemy raid by 30 Japanese dive-bombers and 20 fighters Monday, bagging 30 planes while ground units destroyed attack. She was found by her daughter. Florence, when the latter returned from work at the Heller Bros, plant. She --as born near Uartwood. July 31.

1876. the daughter of Pork Rationing Holiday Asked OPA Unmoved by Group's Pleas WASHINGTON. A group of farm state senators and representatives pleaded today, apparently in vain, for an "experimental" 10- day holiday in pork rationing to relieve a glut of meat in storage facilities. The plea grew ouf of a meeting between the congressional group and government rationing and food production executives late yesterday. It was resisted on the spot by representatives of OPA's rationing division and Price Administrator Chester Bowles, who backed up the resistance both thru his weekly radio address last night and in the meat point values for January announced today.

The January point on meats were relatively unchanged from the December schedule, including low point values for pork --but point values nevertheless. Bowles, referring pointedly to the pressure for a temporary removal of pork rationing, said Commandos Set Stage For Invasion Yank Troops Hold Rehearsals for Attack on Europe LONDON --Two British Commando raids on one of Germany's island outposts oil the French coast and signs that the Allied invasion of western Europe was "relatively near" were reported in Nazi broadcasts today. Simultaneously, American troops were revealed to be rehearsing with live bullets, bombs and shells for the coming invasion. The exercises were causing real casualties, but high oflicers were said to have adopted the theory that it was better to lose a few men today than many tomorrow. A German DNB broadcast said British lorces twice in ihe past three days carried out ''unsuc- cessful'' Commando raids on Sark, one of the channel islands some 15 miles off the west coast of the Cherbourg peninsula and 100 miles southeast of the English coast.

"When the enemy approached the baech, heavy explosions were observed, indicating that beach mines had blown up," DNB said. "On dead British soldier later was found. German defenses did not go into action." While British sources said they could not confirm or deny the German report, similar Commando raids can be expected with the approach of the "zero hour" for the opening of a second front because of the necessity of gathering information about enemy dis- poistions. The Germans also reported an "unsuccessful" i i h-French Commando raid on the French channel coast Sunday. The American invasion exercises were regarded as probably the most realistic and extensive ever conoticted by the U.

S. army. Whole towns have been evacuated and wide stretches of the country side cleared of everything, including livestock, to prepare a practical no-man's land. Beaches bristle with pillboxes, Run Railroads for the U. S.

Continued on Page Ten Ohio Educators Plan Campaign for More State Funds COLUMBUS A 14-member executive committee of the Ohio education Association, which criticized the state administration's alleged failure to finance schools adequately, today drafted plans to cooperate with the state in solving Ohio's a teacher shortage now estimated at 1,000. Here are the five men now directing government running of the nation's railroads: C. P. Gross, top left, chief of transportation, Army Services of Supply; Lieut-Gen. Brehon B.

Somervcll, right, chief of Army Services of Supply; lower, left to right, A. F. Whitney, president Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and Alvanley Johnston, grand chief, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, labor consultants; Martin W. Clement, president Pennsylvania Railroad, operations consultant Move for Fourth Term Seen in Scrapping of New Deal Trade Mark Joseph and Samantha Hunt. Her slaughterers a re taxed to capacity Joseph E.

Hursey. died handling the sent them ironJ Approximately 500 delegates to 33 years ago She was a i the farms That, he inifcte.1. is thc I the educators' annual meeting three and naval craft shot i the College St. Methodist rcas0n farmcrs a lrivlI1R troub fl voted to authorize the committee four more. The Australians' capture of GOO-foot "Shaggy Ridge" broke a two month stalemate in New Guinea's Ramu valley below Ma- dang and gave them a dominating church and of the Eastern Stars of Port Washington.

Surviving arc the daughter. Florence, of the home; a son. Clarence. Newcoinerstown Route 1: a foster-daughter. Mrs.

Clyde getting rid of their hogs--not the inability of consumer? to purchase enough pork with their present points. position from which to mount an Stilhvnter; two grandchil- assault on Bogadjim and ch-en; three foster-grandchildren: ally Madang, both of which can be seen from the crest. HAS SCARLET FEVER Can Obtain Money The AAA office announced to- a that holders of milk or butter-i fat sales slips for October, Novem-1 two Mrs. Violet Xewcomerstown Route 1. and Mrs.

Stella Hammond of Uhrichsville: three brothers. George. Jesse and Homer, all of Xewcomerstown Route I. Short funeral services will be will remain for January. generally at to work with the Ohio school survey co.nmission in outlining the financial needs of the public schools and in waging a campaign for more adequate i 00 1 cnr i i school support.

present levels. He thiit As the conference went into its the special five-point bonus an- final session, the delegates adopt-, led report opposing the practice' jounced Dec. 22 i run out of hiril 0w alaricll sllb 'teachers to fill regular positions! January point value, on im volcd prcparc a i aw i and other brown-stamp foods will also be the same, the OPA with butter listed again Friday at 1:15 p. m. at the points per pound.

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF Birth Note A son was born Dec Rev. ari Mrs jj Adams Crete 11! education were asked jGeorzc Peoples of WmJcrset offi- Thc baby has bccn Burial wili be in Hart- Corwm Adams, the second. Mis. wood cemefry. Adams was formerly Friends may call at thc funeral Clark of this city.

i home until time for the ing "substitute" for submission the school survey commission. The delegates pointed out the i need for a i i salary sched-l ule thruout the state and a change' thc foundation law to finance wage adjustments. Board' in the report to adopt thc same salary for elementary and high school teachers without penalty to, tiic hignT-paid instructor. 1 More Invasion Leaders Named Suffers Burns When Sir Bertram Ramsay, who super-', Auto Radiator Explodes vised the Allied landings on Sicily and Salerno, has been appointed naval commander-in-chief for the invasion -Toe McGrpdy. Warsaw Route western Europe, it was announced today.

city ho-pitai today with Air Chief Marshal Sir Strafford Leigh-Mallory has burn? about the face caused Rvi been named air commander in chief, the announcement A thc radiator of his autorr.a- rcp said. exploded as he wa- attempt- Simmon- roa to a i Fires Three Shotgun Blasts Biir "Cat" Near 'Warsaw 21 U. S. Bombers Hit Rome Airfields i attend.int.- revolted LU.MMhN--strong forces of American i bomb-'condition 1 ors blasted German airfields in the northern and southern suburbs of Rome yesterday, an Algiers communique an- i THE WEATHER nounced today, and a German broadcast reported a heavy JoHio-cioudv and tonight death toll and considerable damage. i night r.boxit 9 if flrc hrcc charge 1.

at an tne cat-like beast to i been roaming Co.sho~tr.n recent weeks. Mr. Ashcraft -aw animal in a field r.e;.r hi- r.on. r. wit.n Thursday warmer.

an- and Bag of Nazi Warships Increased LONDON--British warships and planes, in a smash-, ing follow-up to the destruction of the Scharnhorst. have sunk three German destroyers and a homeward-bound 3 ni Axis blockade runner in thc bay of Biscay, a communique a announced todav. a about 4:45 p. m. It yellow color, had a "I I "but I sr.i No.

8 and prooa'jly i i it mucji. A ni.nute- l.itei. C.o;,. v. r.eaiby.

-c-t foxhound animal'- tr.ick thc him'. i the was lost. Several 10 of that i i a i epoif'fl heard hign. A I GTON President Roosevelt's disavowal of the term New Deal as the administration's reform trade mark was widely regarded here today as the first important move toward a win-the- war fourth term campaign. But 'others regarded his triumphant accounting of administration policies since 1933 as a reply to those critics who have accused Mr.

Roosevelt of having lost interest in the reform era now that a war was underway. The president tossed the term New Deal overboard in a casual conversation last week. He made it official at yesterday's news conference during which he rend a partially prepared statement to nearly 200 reporters who somehow felt they were participating in an historic occasion. Altho he jettisoned the administration's trade mark, Mr. Roosevelt said that after victory thc program of the past would have to go on in relation to transpires in other countries.

He added that it would not pay to undertake economic isolation any more than military isolation. He said thc post-war program was not yet settled except in generalities. But he said we must plan for and help bring about an expanded economy which will result in more security, employment, recreation, education, health and housing for all our "Docs all this add up to a fourth term declaration?" he was asked. "Oh now--we are not talking about things like thnt now," the president replied. "You're getting picayune.

I know you won't mind my saying that, but I a to say something like that." Some of Mr. Roosevelt's wing supporters have been i i 1 mating that he was i i out on New Deal philosophies as well a.s, teims. Some of his conservative! party partners have been a i of political disaster unless Demo-' f-rats dissociate themselves the Xew Deal at once. "Thf New Ueal i.s i a i 1 Sen. Kdwm C.

John'on. on Dec. fi. "If the Democratic a i persists in hanging on to its dead corpse it i la-o the senate, the hoii'-e and the governors of evefy northern and western state i in the next election." Southern politician' have Hospital Notes i rvrry Rich.ird, No .1 muttering for months. Their displeasure burst like shrapnel in -the senate this month against Sen.

Joseph F. Guffey, who had offended them in his role of New Deal spokesman. It is significant that the southern bitterness is against the "New Dealers" rather than against the administration as a whole or against the president himself. 12 More Jap Vessels Sunk U. S.

Submarine Toll Increased WASHINGTON--American destruction of Japanese ships ncared the 1000 mark today as the navy reported thc sinking of 12 more in its latest communique on thc Pa- cillc submarine warfare. Thc big victory presumably carried out over a period of weeks --brot to at least 937 thc number of Japanese Mink since Pearl Harbor--and raised again thc possibility that shipping may eventually be the Achilles' heel of thc foe in the ea.st. Japanese is vital 'to maintain her hold on her far-flung Pacific defense bases and to bring essential war materials from her conquered empire. More than one-third of Japan's known merchant tonnage before the war now has been destroyed. Reports that b'lrges arc being used more frequently to transport and supply troops was an indication that Japan's building program is unable to match losses.

-Ships listed as sunk by thc latest submarine victory included a Japanese destroyer, two large tankers, two medium transports and freightei.s. Thc losses were administered in thc Pacific and thc Far and were considered an in 1 a a tho indirect aid to Arnencan fences in the New Brit- am i a i Threat of Nation-Wide Tie-up Ends Conference Called By Gen. Somervell Brings Agreement WASHINGTON The threat of a crippling wartime strike of railroad em- ployes ended today when three holdout i assured the war department that they "will take no action that will imperil the successful prosecution of the war and that they will immediately cancel the strike order." The unions' promise was announced in that language by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson after their presidents had spent 50 minutes in conference with Lt. Gen.

Brehon B. Somervell, federal operator of the railroads. The unions--firemen and engin- mcn, switchmen, and conductors-had precipitated federal seizure of the railroads on Monday by refus- in to follow the suit of 17 other rail unions in acceptin presidential arbitration of thejr wage dispute. With only 18 hours remaining before the deadline at 6 a. m.

tomorrow, the three unions rescinded their strike call as the army prepared to keep the railroads going with soldiers if necessary. In releasing Stimson's announcement, the war department said it was approved by the three union chiefs. The'question immediately arose as to how long the-government will retain control ot the carriers. It was assumed that federal oper- atuwv technically speaking, would continue until the wage dispute a finally settled. President Roosevelt said.at his news conference yesterday that federal operation would last only until the emergency was over.

He added that he wanted to restore the roads.to private management as soon as it became certain there would be no strike. Inasmuch as he already has em. barked upon arbitration of the wage issue, however, it was believed he might wish to settle it finally before relinquishing federal control. Thus far he has made an arbitration award to two operating unions which previously rescinded their strike call. He is ready to arbitrate for the carriers and the 15 nonoperating unions as soon as these groups agree on the scope of issues to be arbitrated.

To the two operating unions-engineers and a i he awarded increases totaling nine cents an hour--four cents straight time and five cents overtime. All five operating unions originally had asked an increase of $3 a day. The men who conferred with Continued on Page T'i Mi Vrjdon, Wr -t major. S. T.rr.rnor!.-.

med.c.'l. i Lyma st mcdic.il. Wane Jor.c Routo 5, Mrs CiaiTicr i Former Big League Player Succumbs CLKVKLAND, O. Louis (Steve; F.vans, 60, who played big le.igue b.iseball in the National league i the days of Larry and Christy Mathcwson. difl a a long illness.

A Ir-ft fif-idor and a ans played the Na- le.igue for more than 10 i i h.s itHncmtnt i of the United St.itis into the fust World w.ir. He supei isor higiiway department at the i his death and a i jn Republican political circles. and ai.imal call in 6 m. -x -x Hourly Temperatures 7 a :) a. liead like a cat or a Voon.

r.cilateu. before, ar.d was about the size of a fox. Seeing the a i a from home. Warden E. A Mr.

A-hcraft picked iriMO- rji.i- ts i i set snot IG-gauge i and Saturday nights. Baiicy re- i -iich an once. M7, Ninth i Carolyn 1 Route 3. minor. 1 1 Rn Soutj.

OLD MILL BURNS HKLLKFONTA1NK. O. Ap- proxim.itely S23.000 worth of grain and i i rr--c-hmcry were IP NVwcnm- i of undetermined origin i i (ic.strovcd the wa- Claim Mussolini Dead in Germany MADRID--A non-Spanish diplomatic source said today that Benito Mussolini died in a clinic in Germany 10 days ago as result of "old stomach ulcers and mental (The report w.is received with caution in London. Mussolini has bccn reported dc.id on several previous occasions, but each time erroneously.) Mussolini was deposed as Italian premier last July and imprisoned by his successor. Marshal Pietro Badoglio.

Following Italy's surrender, Mussolini was rescued by the Germans and put at thc helm of the "Fascist republican government" of German-occupied Italy. He' lmJ iiot been active, "presumably because of a prolonged He's Needed at Home NEW YORK Altr-o Fred Kiichbaum. 34. '-Uher of nine i i would receive 5268 in the army, about what he makes as a truck he said tod.iy he would appeal r.n induction oraer because "nobody can (ontiol all kids but nivself." a it. He lired thiee re- a Inmtmu i2 Noon 20 luadinR as he ran.

may be on it.i ti nil. i Main Habcork, tcr-opetaU'd Allinger mil! at 030 Oronfic were i i cd. Qumcy last IILAXE IN STOKE A cignret that a cus- tomer left ly.ig on a pile of p.t*;e- board caitons filled with gbv'- a re.Milted in a fire at the W.il- Kroger store abciu 8 a. m. today.

Damage was alight..