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27; PA'MPA P. D. R. (Continued from page 11 Truman told reporters. The President's order, announcer' Vast night, emphasized that thr need for extending what Mr.

Roosevelt preferred to cnll "milage rationing" as a rubber conservatior measure was becoming more acutf dally. "We must do everything withlr our power to see that the prograir starts Dec. 1 because victory mus not be delayed through failure tr support our fighting forces," President said in identical letters to Jeffers and Henderson. The effect of the President's order was to reject pleas, mostly from members of congress from oil-producing states, that nationwide rationing was unnecessary. Thesr members last week formed an unofficial 15-man committee which recommended ft 90-day delay.

Their clamor led to a resumption of hearings by a special subcommittee of the house interstate commerce committee studying thr overall gasoline and rubber situation. Both Jeffers and Henderson, testifying at the hearings, declared nationwide rationing was as a rubber conservation measure They repeated this contention in radio broadcast, last night in which they were joined by Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson and Rear Admiral Claude A. Jones, assistant chief of procurement and materials. There was talk of a congressional move to oust Henderson from thr rationing picture. Representative Anderson (D-NM) said opposition to rationing would largely disappear if the program was shifted from Henderson's office to the office of defense transportation headed by Joseph B.

Eastman. Representative Boren (D-Okla) termed the President's order "a dangerous error" and said the, rationing of gasoline to conserve rubber was "comparable to rationing water to save coffee, or amputating a leg to cure a tooth-ache." Meanwhile, the public roads administration estimated that about fifty percent of all automobiles using rural highways exceeded the national speed limit of 35 miles per hour, a study showing the average speed of passenger cars being 37 miles and of trucks 86 miles. BUY VICTORY STAMPS 2 DEAD (Continued from page 1) was not ascertained. Steward said the soldiers in the car behind the jeep were armed with rifles and at least one Tommy gun. The soldiers awaiting the busses scattered and the battle was on.

The situation was brought under control about 3 a. m. At least 50 soldiers were arrested and taken to the city jail. One group of five was reported armed with a rifle. Several civilians, including two Negro girls, were jailed.

Allies Tighten (Continued Irom page 1) r-order of thp French (Vichy) Dvernment." DNB. the official German news zency. said Hitler himself gave the vdp.r which German troops arching into t.he base last night. A German communique said the was effected "to protect this igion against furl her violation by le British and American aggres- rs" following the Anglo-American ensivc in North Africa. Toulon lies across the Mediter- T.ean from Tunisia, where U.

5. vmy and British troops were now living a wedge between Axis-held 'mis and Bizerte. On the Tunisian front, spearheads Kenneth A. N. An- Anglo-American expedi- onary force were reported to have 'vanced within 15 miles of Tunis, 'ie Axis-held capital, and battled troops at Mateur, 25 miles -ulh of Bizertc.

Still another Allied column was fficially credited with routing the from Mejez El Bab, 30 -ties southwest of Tunis. If successful, the effect of these thrusts would be to the Axis forces in Bizerte nd Tunis and also cut off the of Axis escape southeastward Libya. United Nations headquarters in forth Africa said Allied troops were ow "advancing successfully" north- the direction of Tunis ad the Gulf of Gabes npturing Mejcz El Bab over stiff A German broadcast reporting iat the Allies had surged forward -ithin 15 miles of Tunis indicated hat they had advanced 15 miles Virough the 30-mile-deep perimeter Axis defenses guarding the sector along the north- ust coast. On the naming Stalingrad front, haotic fighting raged across the 'felines of Hitler's imperilled siege rmies and latest reports indicated hat the fast-wheeling Red armies now driving back from the to strike at the invaders' rear. Citing the capture of seven towns the Don river bend, Soviet head- announced: "In this sector, they (Red army 'voops) threw remaining enemy units the eastern banks of the River Don." This apparently meant that the Russians now were actually driving Germans' back toward Stalin- lightening the noose after cutting off all but a 20-mile-wide ave- 'iue of escape.

Official Soviet dispatches said Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's oight-day-old offensive 'had rolled up a tally of 115,600 Axis troops killed or captured and possibly 00 others wore wo.unded—a grand total of 265,600 knocked out action. Russian reports said the Red nrmies had already severed many, if not a large majority, of all roads vaguely that "an engagement of armored cars ended in fnvor of AxiS forces, which destroyed mini- eroiis enemy armored cars." but! A check on Japanese dead, dis- fnilPd to note thp locnlc of the closing new uniforms and equip- actibn except that it was in Tunisia, ment. showed that the enemy had steady prcssuie from thren sides. In the far Pacific Allied war- succeeded in landing fresh rein- The French were previously rr- counlcred," All headquarters i planes violently strafed Japanese I forcements along the 12-mile shore- i ported to haved eclared they would ther preparing to seize powerful said. -troops crammed into the narrow line despite heavy.

blows by Gen. defend the base against "all ag- remnants of the French fleet at An Italian communique reported Bunn-Gona beachead in New Gui- Douglas MacArthur's aerial gression" and himself had Toulon or mistrusted the French. nea as the enemy, newly rein- rons. set Toulon aside as a special un- DNB. resorting to the familiar forced, still held off American and United Nation" hpadqliarters said occupied zone when the German Nafct explanation 'for many of Hit- Australian forces.

was littlp chnnge in the bat- A swe into tlw rmw frpe I le ra sl tie picture in the last 24 hours. of France on Nov 11. vicwm STAMPS with Allied troops maintaining The new move, violating alill an- Product-; rif tup milkweed arc be- other of Hitler's pledges, apparent- inn used in tho of ly meant that Germany WHS pi- paper, rnyon and nltro-cellulose. BETTER CLEANING Cleaners A Negro soldier killed still had of supply and escape and were not been identified. The other man killed was Robert Riley, 44, Negro civilian, whose body was found slumped at the wheel of a car, a bullet wound in his head.

Most seriously wounded was 1st Lt. August J. Essman, 39, of a white military police detail. Essman, former Sheridan, high school football coach, was shot in the abdomen. The wounded were two -white military policemen, two city patrolmen, two Negro military policemen, four Negro soldiers, and a girl.

Col. Fred Ellis, commander of the troops, said a hoard of officers is investigating. BUY VICTORY STAMPS ALLIED (Continued worn page 1) troops, striking northeastward, had captured Mejez El Bab, 30 miles southwest of Tunis, over stiff resistance and were "advancing successfully." Mateur lies athwart the railway line and one of two highways between Tunis and Bizerte, in which Hitler has concentrated the majority of German and Italian troops in Tunisia. London commentators estimate their number at 20.000. It is 40' miles northwest of the cnnital.

Eastward, toward the Mediterranean coast, runs another highway between Bizerte and Tunis. The Morocco radio said all ground engagements this far, fought amid the first showers of the Tunisian rainy season, had been on a small scale. It reported the French forces under Gen. Henri Honore Giraud were advancing rapidly eastward in cooperation with the British and American program. The Berlin radio declared the German air force had gained air superiority over Tunisia "with lightning speed," but offered no statistics in support of the statement.

"Naval and land forces have been able to pour men and materials into the country," the Nazi agency said. "Deployment of Axis forces is still in progress and consequently fighting is restricted to a few minor brushes between mobile units." VICTORY BONUS- tinning the estimated 300,000 survivors of the Axis siege armies into a 45-mile-wide strip between the Don and the Volga. Front-line dispatches said that battle swirling across the frozen steppes was so confused it was impossible to define the lines clear- but reported that in some places the Russian offensive had gained such momentum the fleeing Germans were overwhelmed before they could burn planes on airfields. Overnight, the Stalingrad gar- ison struck out at German troops still holding positions in the ruined city, recapturing four large blocks the northern factory section and killing 950 Nazis. The extent of the German rout was high-lighted by a Soviet com- munique reporting the capture of 1,863 guns, 3,851 machine guns, 50,000 rifles, 1,320 tanks, 9,000 horses and 108 supply dumps.

The battle for Tunisia, key north African buffer zone between Allied- occupied Algeria and Italian Tri- politania, was developing speedily after a week of only minor clashes while the Allies moved 300 miles eastward across the rugged Atlas mountains. London quarters estimated the Axis now had 20,000 German and Italian troops in the French colony, and the Berlin radio reported that naval and land forces have been able to pour men and materials into the country." A Nazi broadcast also asserted that the German air force had won air superiority over Tunisia "with lightning speed," but offered supporting evidence. The Germans' vaunted "superiority," however, did not prevent U. S. Army planes from inflicting new havoc on the Nazi-held airdrome at Tunis, where 10 enemy planes were caught on the field and heavily bomb.

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