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m. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, THE GREATEST NEWSGATHERINO ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD l2Sth YEAR No. 15 TWELVE PAGES PRICE FOUR CENTS ITHACA, N. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1943 ussians Aim at Kharkov Gain in Libya; 9 Americans Wipe Out Thousand Japs in Guadalcanal. TTTTV BO 1 ritisii Lost in Action Miners Take Work Vote U.

S. Flying Myers Sailor Lost On Destroyer Union to Oust Miners If Strike Is Continued Allies Set Back In Tunisia By Axis Attack By The Associated Press Russia's armies were reported storming: forward today 'fTbirtx Nvi" 'fr XT within 79 miles of Kharkov, the "Pittsburgh of the Ukraine," while on the North African front the British Eighth Army was swiftly closing in on Horns and Tarhuna, respectively 56 and 40 miles from the big Axis stronghold at Tripoli. A Cairo broadcast said British vanguards were only 30 miles from Tripoli, last citadel in Premier Mussolini's African empire, in pursuit of Nazi Field Marshal Erwm Rommel's fleeing columns. At the same tme, the Berlin radio said British parachutists were beinp; dropped behind Rommel's lines to harass communications. A bulletin from Gen.

Sir Bernard L. Montgomery Eighth Army headquarters pictured the shattered Rommel corps as in headlong; retreat, losing prisoners, guns, and vehicles, under violent round-the-clock assault by Allied Workers from the South Wilkes-Barre Colliery are pictured in their local's union hall casting their ballots on a referendum to determine whether or not to go back to work in the struck anthracite mines. After general vote, about 4,000 of the 15,000 miners on strike returned to the pits. Didn't Know New Deputy-Was Gangster, Flynn Says The Russians say less than survivors remain of 22 Nazi divisions trapped in the Volga-Don corridor. Hitler's command dealt obliquely with the lifting of the Leningrad siege, in the north, asserting that "local breaks in the German line were dealt with or led to the cutting off of enemy groups." Red army headquarters, reporting the capture of numerous cities and towns on five key fronts, gave this picture of the vast battle theater: Leningrad Russian shock troop continued to clean up blockhouses and dugouts in widening the break through the 17-month-old German siege ring.

Moscow said food and other relief supplies were now en-route to Leningrad's 1,000,000 residents through a five-mile-wide corridor which has restored the city's communications with the outside world. Kharkov Soviet forces driving to recapture the great Kharkov steel center, ancient capital of the Ukraine, were only 79 miles away after a 50-mile advance from the Voronezh sector. Kamensk Col. Gen. Nikolai F.

Vatutin's Middle Don army was officially reported to have captured the big Donets River and rail town of Kamensk, only 85 miles north of Rostov, after bitter street fighting. Soviet vanguards had already driven 10 miles nearer Rostov. Voronezh "Our troops conducted successful offensive engagements and tightened their ring around encircled enemy divisions," the Russian command said. Velikie Lukl Red army troops battling the Germans southwest of Velikie Luki, 90 miles from the Latvian frontier, captured five more towns. Caucasus In a special communique, the Russian command announced the recapture of Petrov-skoe, about 75 miles east of the German-held rail hub at Armavir, by Soviet troops driving back through the Northern Caucasus toward the Maikop oil fields and Black Sea ports.

bombers and fighters. Dispatches from Cairo said the fact that Axis columns were fleeing westward instead of northwestward toward Tripoli might indicate that Rommel's southern flank planned to by-pass Tripoli completely in its haste to reach Tunisia, i Allied warplanes were reported already raining havoc on the road along which Rommel must travel up the coast of Tunisia for a junction with other Axis forces in the Tunis -Bizerte zone. The German high command asserted that Gen. Walther Nehring's forces had attacked and captured "important" but unspecified positions in Tunisia and seized more than 1,000 Allied prisoners. Allied headquarters in North Africa conceded that Axis troops advancing southwest from Pont du Fahs had scored a penetration of about 7 miles and reported the "minor engagements continue in the Bou Arada-Goubellat area" farther north.

Flank Assaulted The heaviest fighting recently has centered in the area between Pont du Fahs and Medjex-el-Bab some 30 miles southwest of Tunis, where the Germans have been trying to crack the French-held flank of the Allied lines. As the campaign in Libya neared its climactic phase, the news on the Soviet front grew blacker by the hour for Adolf Hitler's invasion armies. And now Hitler's own newspaper, the Voelkischer Beobachter, spoke utterly on the hardship and told the German people at home that they "should see how difficult is the fighting; on the eastern front." Satellites Surrender Soviet dispatches declared that Germany's satellites fighting on the eastern front were displaying a willingness to surrender, and reported that in a two-hour battle near Postoyaly, on the Voronezh front, 5,000 Italian officers and men were taken prisoner. Since last Wednesday, the Russian command said, the Red armies have captured 52,000 prisoners of whom only 2,500 were Germans. The others were 27,500 Hungarians and 22,000 Italians.

Privation Acknowledged Nazi field headquarters acknowledged that German troops in the Stalingrad sector were suffering "serious privations" but asserted that the beleagured forces continued to "defend themselves stubbornly against all Soviet attacks." Red A rmies FtNLAND V. ST Fortresses Pound Jap Slipping By The Associated Press Hard-hitting U.S. Army troops and Marines were officially credited today with wiping out 1,032 Japanese soldiers in a five-day battle on Guadalcanal Island, in the Solomons, while American Flying fortresses pounded enemy shipping 300 miles to the northeast. A Navy communique said the heavy casualties were inflicted on the enemy from Jan. 13 to Jan.

17 as American troops slowly battled their way forward against stiff Japanese resistance. For the most part, the fighting centered around mopping-up actions to clear the enemy away from Henderson Air Field. Bombs Set Ship Afire The Navy said Flying Fortresses, escorted by fighters, left a Japanese cargo ship in flames in a foray to the Shortland Islands and shot down two enemy float-type planes. One U.S. fighter was listed as missing.

Meanwhile Premier Hideki Tojo of Japan was reported stricken by ill.iess today, on the eve of the scheduled reconvening of the Japanese parliament, while on widely-separated battlefronts the Mikado's invasion armies struggled against mounting Allied offensives. A Tokyo broadcast -eporting To-jo's illness said the 81st Diet session, which Tojo had planned to address, would be recessed until Jan. 27. 'Diplomatic' Illness Hinted In the United States, speculation arose that Tojo's illness may have been "diplomatic" to allow him time for framing measures giving him even greater dictatorial powrers. Aside from hard going on three fronts in New Guinea, Guadalcanal in the Solomons, and in Burma Japan was reported now facing a serious shortage of ships to supply her armies spread out across more than 5,000 miles of the Pacific Ocean.

Official tabulations showed that American and Allied submarines, warships and planes hacking away at Japan's vital supply lines have destroyed at least 445 Japanese naval and merchant ships, among which weije six aircraft carriers, 38 cruisers 'and 60 destroyers. Japs Near Shipping Crisis Little more than a month ago, Navy Secretary Frank Knox declared that Japan's maritime strength, even with all the ships captured since the war began, had been reduced to "a few thousand tons short of desperately impairing Nippon's extended lines of communication and supply." Since Knox made that statement, Japan has lost approximately more tons of naval and merchant shipping. On the New Guinea front, dispatches said Allied troops inflicted such heavy casualties that only 27 Japanese prisoners were taken in the capture of Sanananda Point and Sanananda village, wiping out the enemy's last major garrison on the Papuan Peninsula. Four Groups Hold Out Four isolated Japanese groups, tightly pocketed by American and Australian troops, still held out in the coastal jungles. Gen.

Douglas MacArthur's headquarters reported that while the mopping up of enemy land forces continued, Allied bombers renewed the assault on- Japanese bases at Lae, New Guinea, on Timor Island, on the Kaie islands, and at Gae-mata, New Britain. In the Burma theater, RAF bombers hit the Japanese in new "softening up" raids, attacking Rathedaung, 25 miles north of the big enemy base at Akyab, and the enemy-occupied village of Padali on Akyab Island. Wavell Meets Resistance British headquarters said Field Marshal Sir Archibald P. Wavell's forces driving back into Burma from India were meeting continued Japanese resistance above Akyab, but no important change was reported. A communique said Rathedaung was left "well on fire" after the RAFs latest attack there.

RAF night fighters were also credited with shooting down two Japanese bombers when the enemy raided Calcutta, India, for the seventh time. Riclcen backer Mate To Join Ministry Albany UP) WThen Sergeant Johnny Bartek of Freehold, N. lays down his gun at the end of the war he expects to turn to the cloth. Bartek, 23-year-old Army Air Force soldier who spent 21 days with Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker in a rubber raft after their plane was forced down in the South Pacific, revealed his ambition Tuesday on a visit to war plants here.

"After what happened to us out there Ive decided I'm going to become a minister," he said. "I feel I'm a true believer." Iii Solomons Donald A. Warner, 22, of Myers, fireman second class, USN, went down with his ship, the destroyer USS Laffey, off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands battles last November in which the aircraft carrier Hornet and other U. S. warships were lost.

The son of Everett G. Myers of Waverly, and grandson of S. S. Warner now of Lockwood and the late Mrs. Warner, with whom he formerly made his home in Myers, Warner is the nephew of Mr.

and Mrs. Harley Hill of 134 Spencer St. Word of his death was received by his family in December, but the sinking of the USS Laffey was not officially announced by the Navy until last week. A graduate of Ludlowville High School with the Class of 1938, Warner was employed with the International Salt Company at Myers before his enlistment in the Navy Mar. 10, 1941.

He received his naval training at Newport, R. and at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, 111. State Probes Fuel Oil Complaints Albany UP) Governor Dewey today ordered immediate investigation by the attorney general of complaints of discrimination in the distribution of fuel oil to determine whether a state law prohibiting monopolistic practices Is being violated. The Governor turned over to Attorney General Nathaniel L. Goldstein several complaints, along with reports from state police and local authorities which indicated, he said, some of the complaints are well founded.

These include, he added, "a charge which is repeatedly made that there is discrimination by the larger distributors in their sale of fuel to small Indictments Loom Dewey told newspapermen that, where violations the anti-monopoly act are found, the attorney general would seek indict- ments by the grand juries in counties involved. left immediately for New York City, where, the Governor said, he will begin his investigations Thursday. While the complaints of discrimination, causing hardship for some oil users, have been statewide in origin, the Governor said they have been filed "most Insistently" from the New York City area. Delays in deliveries, however, have caused difficult situations in Borne smaller upstate communities. Kemedies Asked Dewey ordered Goldstein, in addition to his search for law violations, to determine whether more equitable distribution of supplies is possible and to make any recommendations for other remedial action that may be proper.

He pointed out that control of the oil supply and rationing is a. province of the federal government, but said that where the health and welfare of New York people are affected or inadequate supplies ere improperly distributed within the state "it is a matter of paramount importance and state government must take swift and effective action." War Con ii nil Hilt v. a Jl M- JaV 17 crimination Albany The State War Council urges the Army and Navy Departments not to bar, because race, creed or color, any armed service trainees from New York colleges and universities used by the federal government. A resolution adopted by the council Tuesday declared "any departure from the recognized policy" of the state to provide equality for all its citizens to attend colleges and universities ''is inimical to the best interests" of New Yorkers. A complaint alleging the Navy "as refused to admit Negroes to fttain Nfw York training courses, filed with Governor Dewey, was id to have inspired the resolution copies of which were sent to ihe Var and Navy Departments and to the war and navy commit.

of the War Man Power Commission. Ar Takes Hride Tl7 York The marriage atao- er Se'8eant Ezra Stone, Sar oand ladi actr. nl Miss rev? i of Kokomo, was weil by fritnd9 today. They ie married Oct. 5 at Washington, in is now appearing wlnl "Tnis 18 the Ariy, wbach he directed.

Wilkes Barre, Pa. UP) The United Mine Workers served notice on striking anthracite miners to day that they face "dishonorable expulsion forthwith" if they refuse to lobey President Roosevelt's order to 'return to work by noon Thurs day. The UMW executive committee of District 1, to which the un authorized work stoppage now is confined, issued the warning as thousands of miners, increasingly resentful of what they regard as the government's unwillingness to negotiate their grievances im mediately, voted to stay out. M. J.

Kosik, District 1 president, declared that "the majority of mine workers should not suffer because of the action of a small minority." Expulsion Would Cost Jobs Expulsion from the UMW would prevent a man from working in the mines under the closed shop agreement between the union and the operators. Angry mutterings of "let the troops come!" were heard at meetings at which strike ballots were taken. Karl Kratz, president of one revolting United Mine Workers' local, bluntly declared: "I don't see why the government doesn't give the men the assurance that it will look into their grievances without the threat of force." President Warns Miners President Roosevelt served notice Tuesday that the strikers must go back within 48 hours and said if the order was not obeyed the government would "take the necessary steps to protect the security of the nation against a strike doing serious damage to the war effort." The warning was widely interpreted to mean that troops would be dispatched to take over the mines. Some spokesmen, unwilling to be quoted by name, have said they would welcome such intervention and "the consequent government proximity to our problems." Several hundred did not vote when their locals took -strike ballots Tuesday night and many expressed this sentiment. Board Refuses to Hear Issues Leaders of the 21-day wildcat walkout, now involving 12,000, had asked the War Labor Board to consider the issues demands for a $2 a day wage bonus and protests against a 50-cents-a-month dues increase but the board ordered the controversies submitted to processes provided in their working agreements.

If such negotiations' should fail, Chairman Wilflam H. Davis said, the board then would act. The ruling was made after UMW President John L. Lewis, against whose leadership the insurgents are revolting, declared that WLB had no authority to intervene. Growing New Deal Opposition Seen Chicago UP) Harrison E.

Spangler, Republican national committee chairman, i.i a message today to officers and leaders of the National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs, declared that the "anti-New Deal trend is mounting daily." Spangler's message was read at the opening of a two-day meeting of 20 national leaders representing the federation's 3,600 clubs in 39 states and a new group of officers, headed by Mrs. W. Glenn Suthers of Chicago, president. The women met to plan a program for the 1943-44 presidential campaign. Spangler urged the federation to accept the challenge of the "increasing tide of public resentment against the New Deal, and to meet it with the same vigor and enthusiasm exhibited in the recent elections." Mrs.

Suthers said that "the critical problems related to war and to efficient administration demand deeper analysis and understanding on the part of the American electorate if we are to meet our obligations." Robert A. Hutchinson, past president of the New York State Bowling Association, received word today from George Ober-nauer, assication secretary, of the official cancellation of the 1943 state tournament at Utica. Obernauer wired: "In compliance with the request of the Utica Bowling Association and in view of the most recent ruling of the OPA curtailing use of automobiles for non-esential driving and because we desire not to impede the war effort, the state tournament has been indefinitely postponed." Several Ithaca teams had originally planned td participate. Late Sport DONALD A- WARNER Jap Premier's Illness Delays Diet New York UP) The Office of War Information said the Tokyo radio broadcast a report today that Premier Hideki Tojo is ill, and that the 81st Diet would be recessed until Jan. 27.

The broadcast was recorded by the Federal Communications Commission as it was relayed by the Harbin, Manchukuo, station at 6 a. the OWI said. A Domei broadcast from Tokyo said later that the premier was suffering from a cold but expected to recover by Jan. 27. The Diet has been in new year recess since Dec.

27 but was scheduled to reconvene Thursday. On Thursday's program were several speeches by cabinet ministers outlining the empire's war policies, domestic and foreign. Tojo was to have delivered two addresses, one as premier and the other as war minister. A review of foreign affairs by Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani also was on the program. The day on which the Diet reopens after the new year usually is the most important in the session and a postponement for any cause is most unusual.

Technical opening ceremonies will be observed Thursday, the broadcast reported, and then the Diet immediately will vote the extra week of recess. The OWI said the broadcasts were intended for the Japanese public, rather than foreign listeners. It suggested that "the recessing of the Imperial Diet may have been the real. purpose behind the report since recently Tojo has been assuming more and more dictatorial powers." Chile Breaks With Axis Santiago, Chile CP) Chile broke relations today with Germany, Italy and Japan, leaving Argentina the only American republic maintaining diplomatic contact with the axis. The decree was signed by President R'los after representatives of other American countries and Britain were notified of the step.

Unofficial sources said Axis diplomats would be notified during the day and President Rios planned to inform the country at 7 p. m. Baroness Von Schoen, wife of the German ambassador, Baron Wilhelm Von Schoen, already has left by train for Argentina, the one remaining nation which will be left in the Americas maintaining relations with the Axis. The Senate's vote was taken Tuesday night after Foreign Minister Joaquin Fernandez, speaking for the President in a private session, announced the rupture decision and asked for the Senate's ap-procal. Of the 45 senators, three were absent and two abstained from voting.

Morgan Firm Has First Meeting New York UP) For the first time in more than 80 years of banking, the "House of Morgan" today opened its doors to permit the public to see how its afftirs are run. The occasion was the first annual meeting of new stockholders in J. P. Morgan Co. after Hiatrihution jof 16.500 shares of com mon stock in February last year.

Presiding at a conference tame in a panelled room on the second the bank. J. P. Morgan opened the meeting. It ran for exactly 30 minutes.

Present were about 4U, inciuaing 3 women, of the approximately 600 stockholders. A large contin gent of newspapermen helped fill the comparatively smau room. Washington UP) Edward J. Flynn, minister-designate to Australia, told the Senate foreign relations committee today that when he swore in the late Arthur Fleg-enheimer as a special deputy sheriff of Bronx County he did not know that was the real name of Dutch Schultz, the gangster. Earlier an assistant secretary of state testified that Flynn's experience as federal commissioner for the New York World's Fair helped equip him to discharge the duties of minister.

Flynn, testifying at iris own request, offered denials to all specific charges raised against him by Senator Bridges (R-NH) in opposing Senate confirmation of the diplomatic appointment. Appointment Endorsed The appointee testified immediately after Assistant Secretary of State G. Howland Shaw presented the State Department's endorsement of the appointment and said the Australian government has approved the appointment before it was sent to the Senate. Shaw said Flynn was the President's personal choice. Flynn, ruddy-faced and perspiring as he testified in a confident manner, told the seators: "These are political charges.

They have been levelled against me in political campaigns. They are not true." Five Points Made He made five specific points in his defense to charges made on the Senate floor by Bridges. They were: sby vbgkqj xzfiflff1. xznflff Vs jj 1. He denied that as a lawyer he had ever represented Serge Rubinstein, identified in formal charges filed by Bridges as associated with Guiji Kassi, "a- registered agent of the Japanese government." Flynn said, however, that hi3 law partner, Monroe Goldwater, had been interested in a Rubinstein case.

2. There was no one, he declared, who could "say truthfully" that he ever knew "at any time" that the courtyard on his Lake Mahopac estate was being paved with New York City-owned materials and labor. Denied Foreman Rewarded 3. He denied that Daniel Daly, foreman of a Bronx grand jury which cleared him after an investigation of the paving block incident, had been rewarded, at Flynn's suggestion, by appointment to a federal job. 4.

When, as Bronx sheriff, he appointed Arthur Flegenheimer as a special deputy, Flynn said he did not know that the man involved was Dutch Schultz, the gangster. Six months later, he said, he "lifted" Schultz's badge. 5. Flynn denied that he had given any special consideration, as New York City chamberlain, to the State Title and Mortgage Company, named in the Bridges' charges. He asserted further that investments he made were legal and any loss was occasioned by a drop in real estate values.

4 Harlem Tenement Blaze Injures 3 New York UP) Three Negroes were seriously burned and four others rescued by firemen's aerial ladders from perilous perches in the upper floors of a six-story Harlem tenement today when a blaze swept a fourth floor apartment in the structure. Reported in a critical condition at the Medical Center were Roland Hill, 52; his wife, Elizabeth, 54, and Herman Hughes, 43, a roomer. Police and fire officials said they believe the fire started when someone in the Hill apartment lit gas oven. PRINCESS BORN Netherlands' Juliana-Has 3rd Daughter Ottawa Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands gave birth to her third daughter Tuesday night, a 7-pound 12-ounce princess for whom a little bit of Canada was proclaimed a little bit of Holland so that she not be born on foreign soil' The four-room hospital suite was declared by the dominion government extra-territorial for the confinement period. For all that, the little princess was the first member of the Royal House of Orange to be born outside the Netherlands and she is the first member of any European royal family to be born in North America.

Her father, Prince Bernhard, announced that "she looks splendid." Queen Wilhelmina, In London, was expected to travel to Canada for the child's christening at some future date. She was notified by the father after the child's birth. A son to the 33-year-old princess would have become automatically her heir to the throne. With the birth of a third daughter, the succession remains unchanged. The Princess Beatrix, who will be 5 on Jan.

31, is next to her mother in the throne succession. The second princess is Irene, aged 3. Bombing of Rome Implied by Eden London UP) An implied jromise that Rome will be bombed by the RAF "as heavily as possible if the course of the war should render such action convenient and helpful'' "-as voiced by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to the House of Commons today. He was asked if he had information that there were a military camp and armament factories in or near Rome. Eden replied affirmatively.

Then he was asked whether Rome was an open city. "I think," he answered, "that the prime minister made it plain last September that we have as much right to bomb Rome as the Ittlians had to bomb London, and we should n.t hesitate to do so to the best of our ability and as heavily as possible if the course of the war should render such action convenient and helpful." Commons answered with cheers. Some ItaKah planes were identified as among raiders who struck sporadically at London in the early days of the bombings. Retired Professor Dies Indianapolis UP) Don C. Bai rett, 76, a retired professor of economics at Haverford College, died Tuesday night.

He wa.s born in Spring Valley, Ohio. Late News Washington (JP) Secretary of Agriculture Wickard has signed an order delegating authority to the Office of Price Administration to ration evaporated and condensed milk, jams, pellies, preserves, fruit butters, pickles, relishes, processed fish and shell fish, and food products which contain meats. Assemblyman 111 Albany JP) Assemblyman Harry R. Marble of Holcomb, Ontario County, is seriously ill with pneumonia in Albany Hospital. A Republican, he has been a member of the Assembly since 1934.

Roll Ahead RUSSIAN THRUSTS MltES 0 200 KIDS ADVANCE TOWARD LATVIA SOVf OUC IS BREAK SfGf AT LINING AD MOSCOW TON I A RZHEV I I THE FRONT KURSK LIKHAYA1 4 or KHAKKvJV UKRAINE CENTRAL fRONT DRIVES MENACE KURSK, KHARKOV RUSSIA VORONEZH RUSSIANS SWEEP CLOSER TO ROSTOV; HIT NAZIS IN POCKET AT STALINGRAD Cga i-inufc II I ODESSA 2 ROSTOV. VTAKMAVIK jOIVNOE 4AIKOP j.tjjrsJP MAIKOPili'3 GAIN i JT" BAKU fey From the Finnish border to the south Caucasus Red Armies rolled ahead, creating desperate situations for the German invaders. The map above shows key points of forward drive, including high spot of the good news breaking of Leningrad's 16-month siege..