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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1943. Twelve Pages UREENVILLI POPULATION 74,767 PRICE 5c SUNDAY 10c VOI. LXIX NO. 20. DP A Opens National Drive On Black Markets In Meat 0 5 KEY TOWNS-ON SOUTHERN FRONTS MUSIl REDS CAPTU1 Russians Advancing On Southern Front Johnston Envisions Dry South Carolina In Inaugural Talk Mixed Reaction Among Members Of Legislature Greet Dry Statement New Gov- ernor Outlines Fiscal Proposals COLUMBIA, Jan.

19. (AP) Statewide prohibition, envisioned by Governor Olin D. Johnston in his inaugural address, drew quick comment tonight from the state's legisla-0ors, ranging from praise to flat statements of, "I won't vote Violation Of Price Ruling Widespread Illegal Butchering Of Animals In Many Cities Alleged WILL PROSECUTE Survey Shows Cattle Are Killed In Secret And Peddled Out Soviets Within 80 Miles Of Kharkov, 85 Miles Of Rostov Thousands Of Prisoners And Huge Quantities Of Guns, Tanks And Ammunition Taken By Victorious Russians N. MOSCOW, Jan. 20.

(Wednesday) (UP) Unrushing Soviet armies captured five big railway towns on three southern fronts yesterday, overrunning vital German bases 80 miles east of Kharkov, 85 miles north of Rostov, and 50 miles northeast of the big Caucasian stronghold of Voroshllovsk, the high command announced today. A special, communique revealing impressive Red army advances on the Voronezh, northern Donets and Caucasus fronts announced the conquest of Kamensk, Belaya Kalitva, Valuiki, Urazovo and Petrovoskoye, all key "hedgehog" points anchoring the shattered Nazi positions. The fall of Kamensk, on the Rostov-Moscow railway where it crosses the Donets, was foreshadowed by the announcement 24 hours earlier that Soviet storm troops had for it." The 46-year-old Spartanburg at By THE ASSOCIATED FRL8S The OPA launched a nationwide campaign yesterday against what it called a black market in meat, moving against alleged violations of price ceilings and bootleg operations tending to aggravate the shortages. The "meatlegging" took various forms around the country, officials said. In some places livestock was being slaughtered surreptitiously in torney and fornjer cotton textile mill worker, became the first governor to return to the chief executive's office since the constitution was amended in the 1920 to change the term from.

two to four years. Johnston and retiring Governor -R. M. Jefferies rode to the inauguration ceremony in a horse-drawn carriage, a repercussion of the OPA ban on pleasure driving. It was the first time In 36 years that a carriage had been used by a governor Ap attend his inauguration.

The new governor took his oath of office, administered by Associate Supreme Court Justice E. L. Fish-burne, on a tattered vest-pocket Bible he carried with him as a sol-(Continued On Page 10; Col. 5) seized its railway station and street fighting was going on This radiophoto from Moscow shows Russian soldiers driving Axis troops from their positions at Tormossin south of Stalingrad. The Russian squatting at the left is splattering the retreating Nazis with rifle fire while his comrades move forward.

From Leningrad, in the far north, to the southern front, Red forces were advancing triumphantly. in the town. ANOTHER PROP KNOCKED FROM UNDER Still another prop was knocked out from under the German defenses north of Rostov with the capture of Belaya KalitDa. 25 miles southeast of Kamensk on the railway bi 1 Allies Check secting the Don bend and about the same distance east of the GOVERNOR JOHNSTON British Eighth Army NowNearing Tripoli Lakhaya junction. Sweeping 30 miles southwestward down the Ukraine railroad below Voronezh in 24 hours, Lieut.

Gen. Philip Golikov's men occunled Valuiki, crossroad of two trunk railways, and out-of-the-way, improvised abba-toirs. Elsewhere there were charges that meat salesmen exacted above-ceiling premiums of several cents a pound before they would sell meat. ALLEGES Meanwhile, "bureaucratic bungling" was blamed by Mrs. Rose Marie Keifer, secretary-manager of the National Association of Retail grocers, for meat and dairy products shortages.

Hundreds of communities for weeks have lacked supplies of these products, she told a senate committee in Washington. Responsible In part at least, she declared, were "bureaucratic bungling and a refusal on the part of the office of Price Administration to accept as a working principle that neither producers nor distributors can reasonably be expected to continue to operate at a loss." An Office of Price administra Axis Thrust, Killing 400 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, American Subs Sink Five More Nip Ships Urazovo, 10 miles to the south and 80 miles east of Kharkov. NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 19 (U.R) American and French troops, rein WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.

U.R-five more Jap ships and damaged attrition which is slowly sapping The capture of Petrovskoye in the North Caucasus gave the Red army a springboard for a drive 50 miles southwest-ward to Voroshllovsk, one of the biggest industrial and agricultural centers of the region. At Perovskyoe the arms of the railroads running 33 miles southeast to Blagodarnoe and 46 northeast to Divnoe both taken in the last few days join. forced by British tanks, have killed CAIRO, Jan. 19. (U.R) -Two British columns swept on toward Tripoli tonight, one smashing to within 50 miles of the bomb-blackened Axis citadel from the desert while the other bore down from the captured ports of Misurata and Garibaldi on the Mediterranean coast.

Londau military quarteEs Credlct-f nether. JM or houji; vof'W see ihe i collapse of I yaliarrt Africa as" Marshal Erwia Roraruel Showed no intention of defending Tripoli and hurried his riddled columns on westward in an effort to join forces with the enemy garrisons in Japs Lose Two More Points In Papuan Sector ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA. Jan. American ahd Austrian; in.anj,rymen have stormed ana taken the tafjj, two' important Japanese positions on the -Papuan peninsula of New. Guinea, Sanprfanda point and Sanananda village, and the surviving enemy is now holed up in three small pockets Just inland from the coast, the Allied command announced today.

tion spokesman said" to Washing ton: 400 Germans and knocked out a number of enemy mechanized units in throwing back strong Axis thrusts Cffitral believed designed to 'j'over MtTfrl Erwin Rommel's retirement from it was announced tonight. (Reports persisted in London that Rommel had arrived at Medinine, "Persistent reports have come in from all agricultural areas about The special bulletin salcTthe number of prisoners rounded up on the Voronezh front had mounted to 52,000 with the capture of 21,000 more yesterday. They were listed as 27,500 Hungarians, 22,000 Italians and 2,500 Germans. The high command gave no explanation of the prepon black market ooerations and we na turally must do something about it." A typical report, this spokesman added, was of "meatleggers" going southeastern Tunisia, in advance of to farmers and buying cattle at his Afrika Korps and was preparing to join forces with German Gen. derance of Satellite prisoners over the Germans.

The announcement recalled, however, that the Nazi command has depended heavily on Hungarians, Rumanians and Italians to higher than market prices, taking the cattle to hidden slaughter houses for butchering, and peddling Hans von Arnlm in the defense of Tunis and Bizerte.) the meat at extra-legal prices, either direct to the public or through retail stores. Because of this diversion of meat, man certain sectors of the southern front. HITLER SATELLITES BEING CAPTURED Recent Soviet dispatches have reported wholesale surrenders by detachments other than German. They have re-riDM rnnctstpntiv trrnwins distaste on the part of the many legitimate packing houses were getting little more than enough meat to fill their orders for the armed forces, lend-lease and other governmental purposes, this Satellites, especially the Rumanians, for their "cannon fod 40 MILES IN DAY Covering another 40 miles in a single dav, the inland flank of the British Eigth army was Hearing Tarhuna, only 40 miles airline southeast of Tripoli, a British communique said, and could almost see the smoke billowing from the repeatedly raided Tripoli harbor and from Castel Benito airfield to the south, target of two new Allied fltit'fl'CRf! On the coast, the British right wing had occupied undefended Misurata and Garbaldi, 120 miles and 104 miles respectively east of Tripoli, and was attacking Rommel's rear cuard at Zliten, 84 miles from the Trloli1anlan capital. Gen.

Sir Bernard L. Montgomery thus had within his grasp the supreme Allied goal of two and a half years of desert warfare. He was hearer Tripoli than Rommel was authority explained. Many stores across the country have been short GERMANS HALTED Official reports disclosed that four German companies (800 men) thrust some distance into the Franco-American positions in the Bou Arada area, 25 miles southwest of Font cfii Fahs, early yesterday, but British armor halted the advance. The Allies then counter-attacked and won back all the lost ground, wiping out two of the enrmy companies and forcing the others into disorderly retreat.

At mid-moming the Germans attacked again, using considerable of meat lor weeKs. OPA regional attorneys met in Cleveland to set up a program der" assignments. Axis forces east of the Rostov-Voronezh railway in the Rossosh area have been completely encircled and a great battle of annihilation is being waged against them, the high command said. Rtlil further Russian successes were rccountercd in the -American submarines have sunk two others in the endless war of Japan's shipping and manpower throughout the Pacific. One destroyer, two cargo ships, a were listed by the" Navy today as the newest victims of the heroic under-' seas raiders prowling the Far Pacific and in the words of President Roosevelt striking "right at the very mouth of th harbor of Yokohama." Additionally, a Jap tanker and a cargo ship were damaged.

BLEEDING THE ENEMY These missions, which find American submarines slashing away at enemy supply lines stretching thousands of miles from Japanese home waters to the Solomons, are all part of the primary task of destroying more enemy war material than he can replace of bleeding the enemy and eventually bringing him to his knees, How effectively the Job is being done was told by Mr. Roosevelt 12 days ago in his State of the Union message to Congress. He gave no figures. But a United Press compilation of enemy losses suffered In the 13 months since Pearl RBrbor and in the five months of the Solomons campaign bears out his words. Based on official Washington announcements, the survey shows that American forces definitely have sunk at least 290 Japanese ships in the Pacific, not including losses inflicted by Gen.

Douglas MacAr-thtir's American-Australian forces. Submarines alone have accounted for 40 per cent of these sinkings 117. They also are credited with probably sinking 22 more and dam-aglna: 31 others for an overall total of 370. Of the 290 enemy ships sent to the bottom, 114 were warships including three battleships (one of which may have been a heavy cruiser), six aircraft carriers, 25 cruisers. 51 destroyers and seven submarines.

The other 17fi were non-combatant vessels, including 56 troop transports, 82 cargo and supply ships and 23 fleet, tankers carrying untold quantities of men and materials which never can be replaced and without which the enemy's striking power Is commen-surately reduced. against illegal meat sales, and crim inal actions already were under wav in several districts. frigid Weather Grips Most Of Midwest Area By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Sub-zero temperatures gripped much of the Mid-West Tuesday. One of the most frigid areas was In Minnesota, where the mercury sank as low as 51 degrees below zero.

At Kansas City it was 12 below, coldest in 18 years. Hays and Junction, recorded 20 below. Chicago registered three below but other points were much colder. Other low readings included: Bismarck, N. 28 below; Des Moines 17 fcelow, Minneapolis 19 below, t.

Louis 5 below. A Warmer readings included: Detroit 21 degrees, Columbus 22, Louisville 10, Albuquerque 6, New York 32. Pittsburg 39 and Washington 38. At Miami, it was 72 degrees. Girl Is Presented To State Senators Miss Sims' Father Com mander In The Pacific COLUMBIA.

Jan. 19 (Pi MLss Georgia Ann Sims, 14. daughter of Commander Gelzer films of the U. fi. destroyer now in the Pacific war theater, was presented Mio the South Carolina Senate to-4iay.

MLss Sims, who wa.s at Honolulu a nd witnessed the Japanese raid on December 7, 1941. said she was "glad to be back in this state and glad to call this my home." She returned from the Hawaiian (rffslands last May. Miss Sims, her mother and younger brother are now living with relatives at Orangeburg. Hrtr father a hmtVier nf Rpnntnr' Rims of The OPA spokesman disclosed that the Agricultural department HEM JAPS IN The successful conclusion of the next-to-last phase in the campaign to drive the Japanese off the peninsula, which left General MacAr-thur's troops with only a mopping-up operation to be undertaken, was thus described in the headquarters announcement: "In a continuation of the aggressive action which started Sunday, January 17, Sanananda village and Sanananda point were captured yesterday and our forward elements reached Giruwa. "On the coast the enemy Is restricted in a small pocket 500 yards northwest of the motor road terminal in the area between Giruwa and Tarakena.

Inland, two enemy pockets are under attack." Two American and three Australian infantry units took part in the decisive Sanananda assaults. ACTIVITY IN AIR Allied air action continued heavy. A communique announced that bombers had sunk an Japanese cargo ship in the Bismarck sea; that Rabaul harbor and Gasmata, on New Britain island had been attacked, and that fires had been set off at the big enemy base of Lae in upper New Guinea. Ground patrols operating in the the area of Mubo near Salamaua, another important enemy base, accounted for 40 more Japanese in a skirmish, BREAK WITH AXIS was cooperating in the drive, part ly because of the alleged evasion of Soviet Tuesday midnight communique. On the Voronezh front, it said, the Russians on Tuesday also captured the district centers of Shatalovka and Vd-delevka latter 16 miles east of Valuiki.

tvip rnmrmininno told of the anihilation of a German federal meat inspection laws, and also predicted efforts to persuade farmers not to sell their cattle to anyone but known buyers in established business. "Reports of bootleg slaughtering infantry regiment of 3.000 men in the repulse of desperate German counter-attacks designed to relieve an encircled enemy garrison on the "southwestern front" presumably that below Voronezh. first came from the south about three or four months ago, and since then appears to have spread rapidly throughout the country," the OPA representative said. "In the South, these hidden slaughter houses seem to be located mostly in the mountains while in (Continued on Tage 10; Col. 8) to Alexandria last summer, ann whereas Rommel pulled up exhausted at El Alamein Montgomery was advancing and at the fastest pace of his entire three-months offensive.

Military quarters said the British column in the Tarhuna sector was in position to strike directly for Tripoli or veer alone a good road to the northeast toward Horns, on the coast 65 miles from Tripoli If the British were in sufficient strength, they could take both mutes and probably make Rommel's position untenable In the entire Tripoli area, leaving him no choice but to abandon the city. VMS ON Kt i Axis broadcasts today reflected the seriousness of the Axis situation in Tripolitania by the very paucity of their reports. The Germans said only that Axis tank (Continued on Page R. Col. 31 "In the town," the communique said, "Hitlerites abandoned to their fate 500 of their wounded.

In the area of the town, over 3,000 enemy dead were left and 940 men were taken prisoner." Bootv captured in the fighting included 11 tanks, 17 planes, 48 guns. 850 trucks. 10 food stores, several railway trains and 1.000 barrels of fuel. ENCIRCLED NAZIS FACING ANNIHILATION The pnpirrlerl German carrison at OstrogOZhsk, 55 miles The Weather (It. S.

WEATHER BUREAU) South Carolina Colder Wednesday. North Carolina Colder east and central, continued very cold ex SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 19. m-The Chilean senate in a private session approved President Juan Antonio Rlo's decision to break relations with the Axis, Informed political sources reported tonight. south of Voronezh, by-passed in the swift Soviet advance to the southwest, made several attempts to break out of the town Tuesday but all were repulsed with heavy losses to the numbers of tanks in an effort to Infiltrate the Allied positions, the reports said, but British artillery replied with a barrage which took such a toll of the enemy tanks that the survivors withdrew.

The action had ended by noon but British patrols swept the area throughout the day, taking a number of prisoners who had lost contact with their units In the earlier fighting. BITTER KIGHTINC; (The Axis radio version of the action was that Axis combat-teams "broke through enemy positions at several polnt.s and stormed heights stubbornly defended by the enemy." The Germans claimed to have sunk two Allied transports totaling 12.000 tons In air attacks on the Allied harbor of Bone In Algeria near the Tunisian frontier.) Military quarters said that further Axis attack on a limited srale could be expected on the Tunisian front while Rommel wa.s trying to transfer his army. Yesterday's efforts conclded with new Allied air attacks on Axis communications as far as Tripoli. May Resume Work On Many Airports Anderson And Others In Mayhnnk Program Thf Nri Biirnu, 1110 Trf Plrtr WASHINGTON. Jan.

19 -Senator Maybank and other members nf the enemy. treme west portion Wednesday. Georgia Colder extreme ftoulh, continued very rold north and cen The capture of 5,000 Kalians in a two-hour battle in another sector of the Voronezh front also was reported In t.hp mirinitriit. rmvm-mnimip. At, still another noint.

a larce tral portion Wednesday. (Weather Data on Tage 6) Anglo-American Authorities Orangeburg. Italian motorized column surrendered after putting up only Admit U-Boat Losses High weak resistance. "Seven hundred trucks were captured, on which Soviet men continued to pursue the enemy," the communique noted. In t.hp northern Ganrasus.

the midnizht announcement 'FDR To Take'Necessary Steps' If Coal Miners Don't Resume Work In 48 Hours WASHINGTON. Jan. "Our shipping lanes are long and said, the Russians captured the railroad station of Splteevka. 23 miles southwest of retrovskoye, and the large inhabited localities of Dnnskavabalka. nine miles south of Tetrovskoye, and Sukhaya Bulvola, four miles farther southeast.

In occupying Cherkessk Monday, the communique sain, the Russians captured 54 guns, 195 machine-guns, 48 trench mortars includinc 22 nf the six-barreled tvnr. two stores of war supplies and fivp radio transmitters. GERMAN REVERSES ALL ALONG THE LINE On the central front, southwest of Velikic Luki. the com- Senate Appropriations committee Official spokesmen here and In lonrion torhy cmphaswd anew the sravjtv of Allied ship losses to Axis raiders which have stink at least fi'J7 United Nations and neutral merchantmen in Western Atlantic waters since America entered the war, A U. Navy department spokesman and Britain's deputy prime minister, Clement R.

Attlee, both said the submarine menace Is far from licked and that complex antisubmarine defenses are increasingly necessary. An unofficial United Tress compilation of Western Atlantic sink-liiES reached 627 with Navy disclosure that two more British ships were blasted to the bottom last month tn the South Atlantic-the favorite Axis hunting ground In recent months. The Navy spokesman said every-t hints possible Is Veins done to cut losses but as things now Maud "we're not, wlnnlna the battle of transport a Hon" and Axis raiders still are "colna to town" off the mnnimiP rnnt.innpri Soviet units cleared the Germans from on military affairs foclav started a movement under which work may be resumed on various airports where many," he said, "while our shtps are not enough." Rven convoys are he said, and many cargo ships still are "knocked out" under the guns of protecting escort vessels. He said if the Allies are able to "stymie" the raiders in the South Atlantic "as effectively we have from Canada to Trinidad, then we'll start winning the battle of transportation, As it stands now, we are not," Attlee, In a House of Cunmons speech, descried the U-boat men-ace as of the first magnitude and said there unortunately is "no short, simple wsv of defeating it," Kffreflveness of nntl-submetTim defeases along the seaboard and in the Gulf and Caribbean is shown a breakdown of Navy announcements Since the peak months of Mav and June when 21,1 vessels were lost, sinkings have declined stearillv In these areas and no ship has been reported sunk In the Gulf since September Hut In the South Atlantic sink-Ines have continued unabated. The two British vessels reported by the Navy were the 10th and 11th to gc down during December In the area where submarines took a loll ol is in Novcm'iw.

1,1 In and 17 iu September The walkout began as a revolt against Lewis' leadership, with the strikers protesting an increase from $1 to 1 .50 a month In the union dues, voted by the UMW convention last fall. They also demanded a 12-a-day boost In wattes berause of higher living costs. Mine spokesmen said current wages averaged about $8.50 a day. There was no hint from the White House as to what steps the President had in mind to take if his telegram was disregarded. It was widely presumed, however, that he would have the military take over the mines as he had it take over six plants in earlier cases where the WLB was unable to end strikes.

In two rases the North American Aviation company In California, in 1941. and the General Cable company In New Jersey, la.st year armed Torres were used. There also has hern some unofficial suggestion that recalcitrant strikers might find themselves classified 1-A In the draft. On this point, War Manpower Chief Paul McNutt told a press conference yesterday that he would decide whether he favored such action when the auestion actually arose, several more settlements and killed 300 of the enemy tn repulsing a counter-attack. Seven German tanks were burned.

Ranging Rlong the whole vast Soviet front Monday, the Red air force destroyed or damaged 15 German tanks, upwards of 200 trucks loaded with troops and supplies, and eight artillery batteries. In six rtavs nf fiffhtinc on the Voronezh front up to Mon The local at the No. 7 colliery of the Susquehanna Collieries company, also decided to remain idle Some of' the voting there likewise was done after the workers learned about, Mr, Roosevelt's directive. Balloting among the 1.200 workers at the Glen Alden's Lance colliery, one of the largest Involved In the strike, ended in a noisy demonstration, with no result determined, A general belief prevailed among the miners throughout the strike area that the President's order meant that the government would take over management of the dosed mines without the use of troops. Many of the strikers favor such action.

John L. Lewis, president of the UMW. hac" no formal comment on Mr. Roosevelt's action. Officials of the UMW, however, were described by Informed persons, unwilling to be quoted by name, as confident Unit President would not have to take any steps.

They were said to believe that the backbone of the strike already had been broken and that the mines would be bark in full operation well within the 4fl-hour period of grace allowed by Mr, Roosevelt. 0 WASHINGTON, Jan. commander-in-chief of the armed forces. President Roosevelt served notice on striking anthracite today that they must return to work within 48 hours or he would take the "necessary steps" to protect the Wiatton against "serious injury to the WBr effort." The chief executive's warning, possibly implying that troops would be dispatched to the mines, was telegraphed to local and national officers of the United Mine workers. -The War Labor board had advised Ohlm that the, strikers had not complied with two requests from it for a return to work.

Although 6.0D0 of the strikers returned to the Jobs today, UMW local at two large collieries voter) to continue the three-weeks old V'alkout, and the meeting of a third broke up In confusion before balloting was completed. Although more than 12.000 still are Idle, The 970 cmplove.s of the Button-wood colliery of the Glen AlHen Coal company, voting after the President's order was Issued, to stay out despite warning from Ren Phillips, president of the local, hat "troops probably will bo sent to." such has been stopped. Among these airports Is that at Anderson, S. C. Spokesmen for the committee said that it was developed that in many instances municipalities, backed by local chambers of rnmmerre, had met all requirements of the Civil Aeronautics authority and the War department In acquiring lnnd needed, but that In some Instances day, the Russians reported, they took rich hauls of booty in when the work wa.s two-thirds completed such had been stopped be cluding 170 tanks, 1,700 guns, a.Huu macnine guns, i.wuu irnun mortars.

5,000 motor vehicles, 1.100 horses, 65,000 rifles, about 10.000,000 rounds of ammunition. 600.000 shells and more South American coast, cause strategic materials were needed on ports being built In other lands, The Senate committee discussed the situation Informally, with than 15 war dumps. More booty wa.s amassed in the area of Kamensk and Belaya Kalltpa, where Axis resistance was broken in decisive Red Rrmy onslaughts, the special communique reported. It lie said the ronvov svslcin cm-plovcd along the Atlantic seaboard and in the Gulf and Carlbbenii-hns forced the marauders to move southward but that such operations "lake more uhlps than we rnn muster." 4Jie hope thRb some plan might be worked out whereby construcumi would be resumed Rt the earliest date possible now Is being counted. (Continued on Page 6.

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