Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 1

A 28 TWO CENTS will (Turn to Page 13 Col 1) and' historic monu Indiana governor tSK 4 I that had egg lo no ob against Turin was a series of heavy against war centers embarkation from Ensign Greve Of Navy lyers Is Killed in lorida ilibuster Against Anti Poll Tax Bill WASHINGTON Nov (UP) hearing one and a half hours discussion today of subjects ranging from gasoline rationing to pensions for congressmen only four senators remained in the senate chamber on this sixth day of the southern filibuster against the anti poll tax bill Egypt Is Promised Peace Table Seat CAIRO Nov King arouk I said in a throne speech on the opening of a new session of parliament today that Egypt non belligerent ally of the united nations had requested and re ceived a promise of representation in any peace conferences to be held after the war Some 5000 persons registered for gasoline ration books in Tip pecanoe county Wednesday after noon and evening first period of the three day campaign to dis tribute the books entitling hold ers to obtain their share of gas oline when rationing starts Dec 1 or thereafter But since there are 20000 car owners in this county the number registering on the first day of the three days should have been' around 7000 This means that the Thursday and riday record will have to be much larger 'than the first figure if all 20000 are to get their applications' in by ri day night the final time The county ration board made an ap pear Thursday to car owners to register at the earliest oppor tunity to avert a last minute rush that will swamp the reg istration boards Registration is proceeding at grade schools and several local factories At the schools the principal is the registrar assisted by teachers PTA members and others All are volunteers ren dering valuable service that en tails much real work Some 600 or more of these workers are en gaged in the big task Later to process the registrations 300 more women will volunteer time and effort at the ration board headquarters in the city hall Those failing to register by ri day night will have no chance do so until after Dec? 1 That would mean delay in getting gasoline allowance Also the cal board announces that alphabetical order is being served in enrollment SOVIETS SCORE NEW VICTORIES AGAINST NAZIS Defenders of Beleaguered Stalingrad Counter Attack and Seize Number of or tified Positions MOSCOW Nov The red army striking back at the nazis in widespread attacks which may herald the start of a new Russian winter offensive today scored marked successes against the Germans in clashes at all key points on the southwestern and Caucasian fronts At beleaguered Stalingrad re surgent soviet forces counter at tacked and? seized a number of fortified positions on the southern outskirts of the city TAKE IANY PRISONERS Northwest of the Volga metro polis Russian troops broke into the nazi lines killed 400 Germans soldiers and took numerous pris oners New ground was gained by the soviets in offensive operations northwest of the black sea naval base of Tuapse in thewest Cau k'AlL'nazl counter attacks 'ta the Tuapse sector jgere'frustrat6d 'a high command 'communique said Announcement of the latest sov iet successes was made at noon while at midnight a communique revealed that the in the northern district of Stalingrad had been dislodged from recent strongpoints yesterday SMASH NAZI OENSIVEMeantime a1 German effort to resume the offensive on the Moz dok sector of the Cau casus was smashed in day long fighting The nazis attacked with 50 tanks and 2Q armored cars but the drive was broken up and the enemy thrown back after losing 17 tanks A partial summary of German casualties in the actions to tailed 1200 dead including 600 in Stalingrad 200 on the Nalchik sector of the lower Caucasus and 400 on the central front west of Moscow On all sectors of the Volga Caucasus front soviet forces took the offensive or held firmly to their positions against all as saultsr (Stockholm and Vichy dis patches reported great massingsOf Russian forces from Lenin grad to Astrakhan in preparation for early winter offensives It was expected that attacks would "be launched as soon as the rivers and lakes are frozen hard whom she to work in Indiana Is Lagging In War Bond Quota INDIANAPOLIS Nov (AP) state war savings staff re ported today Indiana was lagging by $2000000 at the half way post of its drive to reach the Novem ber quota of $22000000 in war bond sales Wray leming state war savings administrator said sales reported through last Saturday totaled $8140000 while in order to be even with the quota the sales should have been $10340000 Three Tell City in Perry county and Switzerland and Union counties already have exceeded their quota for the month while Blackford Brown DeKalb Put nam Ripley Starke Tipton Ver million and Whitley counties have passed the half way mark CALLS PARTY MEETING i INDIANAPOLIS Nov (AP) Zahnd national chairman of the greenback party today called a meeting of the national advisory board for Nov 24 to begin plans for the 1944 campaign correspondent MS AM NORTHWESTERN GREATEST NEWSPAPER LAAYETTE THURSDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 19 300000 Hoosiers Register for Gas Rations irst 'Day INDIANAPOLIS Nov 19 Officials estimated today that approximately 350000 Hoos iers signed up yesterday in the first day of registration for gaso line ration books Registration will continue through riday James Strickland state OPA director said the registration functioned smoothly in the state as a swhole Persons with last names beginning in the letter range were scheduled to register today while persons whose names are in the bracket Nto will sign up tomorrow INAL AMERICAN AND BRITISH UNITS NOW EDGING NEARER TRIPOLI Axis Positions in Africa Threatened by 3 Offensive and Climax of Drive May Bd Reached by Week End Doolittle's lying ortresses Bomb Enemies at Bizerte bulletins NEW YORK Nov 19 (UP) The British radio quoted radio Algiers today as reporting that British paratroops have captured additional airdromes in Tunisia LONDON Nov 19 (UP) An allied army estimated pt 300000 men moved on Tunisia today with strong Indications the climax of the drive may be reached by this wcek epd Axis positions in Africa were beset by a three way allied offensive LONDON Nov Allied troops were credited today with battering back German patrols in preliminary clashes of the battle for Tunisia and a new thrust was reported under way from the Lake Chad region to supplement the east west drives upon the re maining axis holdings in North Africa RA BOMBERS i BLAST ITALIAN CITY TURIN Great iat and Other Indus trial Targets Are Wrecked British Suffer No Losses During Raid LONDON Nov In a strong attack designed to knock out the chief industrial city of northern Italy royal air force bombers heavily raided Turin during the night it was officially announced today The air ministry announcement said the great iat works and other industrial targets had been bombed with good results Clear weather aided the bombers or the second time the RA squadrons carried out their mis sion losses An '(unending? of British aircraft was said by ob servers' on the southeast coast of tb have swept across the channel and out over the conti nent indicating that the raid may provd 'to be the heaviest yet car riedl out against' northern Italy PROMISE MORE BOMBINGS The attackrwas launched only'a hoursafter 'WaHJevwsNashj New Zealand defense minister said in Washington that Italy soon may be subjected to mass bomb ings such as have blasted German 'production centers In addition to airplane manu facturing plants Turin is thd siteof metal works and chemical in dustries The industries are sup plied by huge hydro electric plants nearby The city also a center of auto mobile manufacture is situated on ttte Po river 75 miles northwestof the port of Genoa It is noted not only for its in dustries but also for its numer ous 'cathedrals and' historic monu ments The assaultthe'" ninth ofbombardments TiArfjL nf which axis forces In North Africa are1 supplied Turin was last attacked on Oc tober $3 while Genoa has borne the brunt of the British raids I Inflationary Jag Will Be Avoided Says Townsend INDIANAPOLIS Nov will escape a post war and the that erupted after world war Clifford Townsend admin istrator of the agricultural conser vation and adjustment administra tion predicted today The former Indiana governor told delegates to the 24th annual convention of the Indiana arm Bureau Inc remember that inflationary land selling for $300 an top prices for wheat and corn and hogs It was all fnr three vears butit worth' the hangover thatfollowed and lasted 20 years remember that when in the space of 12 years one "farmer out of four lost his farm and millc strikes and and barricading of roads 'itook place right out here in the midwest God? that won happen again It happen this time because there will be no Infla tlonary jag This' time in? three years Xhe cost of living has risen but 19 percent' and if we all get behind the anti inflation program it rise much higher When this war is over six million farm ers will not be squeezed to death between collapsed prices and highexpenses" 4 Townsend said service In Is enabling farmers according to our needs requirements of our allies and the capacity of our farm plants to do the He also said the farmers need organization "especially now when our country must either produce or i WEDS HOLLYWOOD Nov (INS) Lona the "Panther Wo of the screen today re vealed' her secret marriage four weeks ago to Richard Patton Jr aircraft worxer met when she went war plant Tipsy Driving in Indiana Increases INDIANAPOLIS Novi (AP) Arrests of drunken drivers in Indiana have increased 5 percent thus far this year state police records showed today Don Stiver superintendent of state' police reported 2069 drivers had been arrested 'on charges of driving while intoxicated during the first ten months this year compared with 1349 in the Similar 1941 period Of the cases brought to trial 85 percent have resulted in con victions Stiver added MAJOR SEA AND AIR BATTLE I OOD POISONING ATAL TO 44 IS BREWING NEW GUINEA I H0SPITflL new york Nov i9 (ins) I Strike Swiftlv in State American lying ortress Bombers Range Anthony Cramer 42 year old Ger i tt i i if oi 1 1 man bom mechanic today faced I Mental Institution After Hundreds Eat an Through Murky Skies Search of Eight the possibility of paying with his i T1 life for his part in aiding the I Evening Meal of Tainted Scrambled Eggs Japanese Destroyers Believed Lurking in eight nazi saboteurs who were wk i I banded in this country by subma Immediate Investiaation Is Launched Vicinity of Buna Nippons Coastal Base I rines last June I i i I I Sentence vwill be imposed next SALEM Ore' Nov 19 orty four inmates of the Oregon UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA Nov 19 Wednesday by ederal Judge gtate Mental hospital were dead today and approximately 350 others American flying fortress bombersi ranged out through murky Henry Goddard before whom various stages of recovery after eating a poisoned serving Skies over waters off New Guinea today to give battle td eight Japa a jury of 12 men yesterday found scrambled eggs for dinner Wednesday night hese destroyers lurking in the vicinity ofBuna Jap coastal base on Cramer guilty of extending aid to Death struck swiftly aftenthe evening meal and by midnight 30 which Australian ana werner iuwi patients had succumbed Reports of additional deaths continued through the early ihoming as xa full staff of doctors and nurses men While American and British forces edged nearer Tripoli from Algeria and Gen Sir Bernard British eighth army maintained its advance from Egypt Reuters quoted a Cairo dispatch broadcast by the Al giers radio as saying that an al lied force of considerable strength was moving north into the Libyan desert from the fight rench bases on Lake Chad The Morocco radio said only about 940 miles separated a mo torized column from Lake Chad and the allied force of Lieut Gen A Anderson pushing east ward through Tunisia There was no confirmation of this in authoritative London cir cles but British observers pre viously noted that such an assault was possible from Lake Chad in rench Equatorial Africa some 1200 miles south of the Medi terranean TWO WAY OPERATION Dispatches from allied head quarters of Lieut Gen Dwight Eisenhower disclosed that the ad vance into Tunisia was a two way operation one force striking in the north where both the naval base of Bizerte and the capitalof Tunis are situated and the other in the south across the trails on a direct route to Tripoli elements of the Brit ish irst army together' with' British fcndAmerican parachute troops rench forces operat (Turn to Page 13 CoL 5) ive Thousand Get Gas Ration Books Guinea only a few miles from Buna Ths said it was uncertain whether the enemy destroyer force off Buna was bient on offensive action or was merely i planning to evacuate jirpA 1 Of 6 3 eggs? which were served in (It was recalled that the last I rench People in WfifH threO ffthfe I 1 appearance of a Japanese naval Redant aw strange force off New Guinea was when LONDON Nov 19 (AP) had noticed something strange their i beaten troops were evacu ighting rench sources? forecast about the food and orderea tne ated from the Milne bay area of today a full military alliance be patients not to eat it borne oi eastern Papua The destroyers tween Germany and Vichy rance them ate the eggs before ui had the advantage murky granting the axis the use of the warning was received and tnei a weather to shield their operations 64 ships In the fleet Toulon as tendant also tasted the food ah and allied (bombing of Pierre I of those? includingtnerajtenqMt difficult) new dictatorial powers were stricken" iGTf i at jap BASKS I Such an alliance if it develops DOUBLE IN PAIN I Medium bombers and twin en probably would foildiv A jieace Effects of the poisoned food md firiitMshShed out SJiSt treaty between Germany and struck swiftly Some were taken northern Jan bases of Lae rranee releasing more than 1000 I sick in the diningroom a few Ina Salamauft hi New Guinea to a(te (St smaah the elr bae3 there OTlw wouM reeaUed ag I (Turn ls Cot '(Turn to Page 13 i Col 2) gested Backed by German hayonets I i 1 I I Pierre Laval held powers of life A 011(1011 1 0116 VS "xi and death over the people of un I XeSlollpUOll Ul happy rance today through the TX 1IT I 1 I1T III' Vichy' government's latest (gesturd blX DOV CCK lAnmnntnr War toward the nazi conquerors VV omen lOr yv CH It was disclosed last night that h' ilJ A tlT Marshal Petain at a Tuesday cab IttMnQUSirV WrkrV nrArad Pnet meeting designated the swart VVOIK 1 UICLaol hittle Germanophile his heir as 1 NEW YORK Nov WAWTNOTON Nov (UP) chief of state and gave him full Negotiations between the United to wHU hU own low Mln Worker lAnreri hooded The pTIUNSlrEB GOVERNMENT tjmlnoue of the Appa Of The Paris radio said lachian area to set up a six day wsr board said' today after would rtransf er the government to week the soft coal mining in 1 inference with Siident 1 The announcer quoted a dustry were abandoned today WoAmXaU PreS statement by Marcel Deat collab The negotiations were started wniinm ch eeA of the orationlst" publisher saying weeks ago at the request Solid deraHonG of Labor has become a symbol of ueia Coordinator Harold Ickes exnerted some announce I a11 that? is Gotten The govern In an cffort to boost the two weeks about the pnent must' be stripped of the soft coal production from 550 of women He said barely camouflaged De Gaullism 000000 to 600000000 tons a year hid beTn re'ached on hich reigned in Vichy two to war thP rejisuation would years" As the negotiations collapsed rhmnHlsnrv of voluntary British political observers were following a meeting in New York i hecomlnDress quick to declare that extended hast night Lewis announced "The matter press power3 for Li whose fortunes pending a general agreement whh said and ver3r life are ntne organisations of the Union He 3 he Murray often belief in an ulti had been instructed to make aep Of Tndmat axis were a arate agreements with operators president orth theK leal They said it inUoduction of the six! day dustrial Organizations and their shdwed deflniteiy the octo ekm uv the the ques" genariap Petaiq "is "completely in Although Charles spokes Oi finiinJ toe nrff and man for the operators said that 'nation sufnlv of the? put val ln the separate agreements could woman Jn officifd Vichy annOunce create confusion fn the industry There are from 40 000 000 to the 86 year old marshal Harry Moses head of four S'cap 50 000 000 to be registered Green Praised Laval for patriotism and tive" coal companies owned! by 50 000000 to be registered ureen foresight explained that the chief the United state3 steel corpora ACIO whined tional war labor board in order to agree on the mode of pro to speed up the a consideration ofMr8 PayneS SCCOnd cedure The union demanded time Murder Trial Opens' dS I I RT nmvrTNraTnN Ind Nov 19 week be put into zorce immea rr Mrs Caroline Payne 45 lately oung Bridegroom I year old ex newspaper executive i Dies in Accident Xt'X 32 Price Ceilings on WASHINGTON Ind Nov 19 I second time on a murder charge TirrlfOUd CiTdl PYPfl A skidding transport In the slaying of Mattingly AJl lAVl vu truck which' a deep I an Indianapolis attorney and her I WASHINGTON Nov 19 (UP) ditch today had taken the life former fiance I The office of price adpainistra of a young bridegroom who was I The 'niht of July '5 1941 the tion has established special ceil to been inductedinto mill then attorney examiner for the I ings on turkeys sold direqt to tary soon 1 Indiana service commission I consumers by farmers vand proc loyd Hill 20 was fatally in? I was shot five in the back lessors j'ured and two companions were as he sat with his wife Lurayne Such sales which are expected hurt when the truck he was driv kitchen of a home to amount to $5000000 or about 3 Ing skidded in gravel and I here The shots came from an per cent of the 1942 crop must be toppled into the ditch' yesterday open window 4 based on highest permitted bride his parents two bro Mrs Payne at whose home Mat retail selling price prevailing in others and a sister survive I tingly lived while attending Indi I the nearest city or hamlet itnivomity was arrested the Mail order sellers may add to this I same night and charged with first ceiling the actual shipping costs rm vwv 1 1 degree murder The regfllation is effective imme TnP 1 1 1 At the first' trial 'she entered I diately i LXZXzi pleasinnocent and innocent by reason of temporary insenity Qfrrtith TfofitrnQ To Military Duty portion riday forenoon colder KEGOKUKAiNrAui! 1 northwest portion tonight and I RANKLIN 1 Ind Nov I INDIANAPOLIS Ind Noy 19 north and west central portions I The government weather I CoL Elmer 'Straub riday forenoon not much station 4 reported i today Tuesday state adjutant general for the change in temperature southeast deluge of four and a half past 10 years today was joack and extreme soythwesf portions inches of rain that inundated sev in army service Col StraubJ who fresh to rpoderately strong winds eral city blocks and caused had served the 150thi field Local temperature from 7 a streams to onto hun artillery in world war was Wednesday to 7 a Thursday: ldreds of acres of farmlands was granted an indefinite leave of High 68: low 40 mean 54 trace the heaviest precipitation report absence by Henry of rain Sun rises 7:38 sun sets ed in a 24 hour period in the Schricker and left for military 528 weather station's historjr dutjr under secret orders i 'r A A major sea and air battle ling two of the saboteurs who which may detejmirie the fate of since have been executed New Guinea appeared Jn the Cramer who became a natural maKing as me jap destroyers iZed citizen ivjo naa Known tricken moved along the coast in an ap Thiel' for 13 years prior to the battled to save tne stnexen parent effort to support their be time the saboteur left this coun an? fnrreased today leaguered troops which have been ttry for Germany in 1941 Among Juspic on increased jay smashed steadily backward out of other things he had done for to the frozen the 'Owen Stanley mountains Thiel it was charged was to de been ad The latest communiaue from nnsit the cash eiven the saboteur yolas Gen Douglas field by the gestapo 1 in a safe deposit dptermined until headquarters in New Guinea an vault 1 Kade id nounced that allied heavy bomb jn his defense Cramer a veteJ th vans hospital su ers were attempting to make con I an of the German army in thelDrJo tact with the Jap destroyers driv iast denied that he knew penntendent but it ec ingout over the sea 'through mission in the country apparent from Present Pto8 thick weather he became confused once that some inorganiq AUSSIES REACH ISIVETA th is terrible situation ground troops mcan ted having a hunch that his patients appear to PTAIN NAMES fc PIERRE LAVAL said American forces were I iav svah I rci vatks ttrOZEN I NrW Hill I A I I IK have used eggs from (this iilww Ulv I ss I Wil I supply constantly The egg yolks a come frozen in three gallon tins Pro Nazt' Leader Backed by Never before have we found any thing wrong with the doc German BayonetsGet Pow 7 tor said ENSIGN GREVE in The name of Ensign rederick William Greve HI Navy of West Lafayette hasz been added to the gold star hon or roll of men who have given their lives for their country in world war No 2 The sad news that he had been killed at Pensacola la where he was sprving as Instructor at (Turn to Page 13 Col 5) OUR ITHS UND RAISED IN WELARE DRIVE Community Campaign Nears $50000 Goal as Workers Amass $40587 Appeal Is Made for VictoryDash Eighty one percent: of 'the goal in the Community und War Re lief campaign was reported raised at the third luncheon of workers Thursday noon at Central Pres byterian educational building Ad ditional gifts apd subscriptions of $10401 were reported which added to the previous total of $29186 brought the grand total to $40587 The goal is $50000 In announcing next reports for Tuesday noon Simon Heemstra general chairman called upon leaders and workers to check up carefully on work yet to be done and follow through with prompt solicitation of individuals and firms not yet been seen With planning and work the goal will be met he declared OVER THE TOP A number of divisions have gone over the top while several are still considerably under their marks and a few have not yet reported at all' Several divisions are confident quite substantial sums are still to conie and it is expected also that the rural districts participating in the war relief campaign only will also add a considerable amount the rural work is under' way during the three days of 'gasoline ration ing this week and reports of re sults are still lacking except for a small sum A new division going the Thursday was that of autos and imnlements wnicn sent its total up to against a quota of $800 Another exceeding its quota was the clubs division adding $121 to make $444 with a quota of $400 A third was the construction division adding $426 to make $914 against a quota of $700 REPORT ADDITIONS reports showed ad ditional sums with the percentage of their respective goals reached as follows: Colored people $37 220 pct rural $21 less than 1 pct labor $20 10 pct1 clubs $121 111 pct religious $57 75 pct auto and Implements $111 105 pct finance $890 61 pct special gifts $70 113 pct construction $426 130 pct public service $69 69 pct schools $176 50 pct coal and grain nothing yet beverages nothing yet government $235 33 pct professional $1233 70 pct retail and service $4789 93 pct $432 113 pct industrial $1710 73 pct BRITISH UNITS CONTACT OES NEAR BENGHAZI Eighth Army Units Catch Up With Rapidly leeing Germans and Italians South of Libyan Port CAIRO Nov Ad vanced units of the British eighth army have caught up with fleeing German and Italian troops 'south of the Libyan port of Benghazi the British middle east command announced today troops of the eighth army were yesterday in touch with the enemy south of Ben a communique from head quarters of Gen Sir Harold Alexander British middle east commander said Ten German transport planes were smashed in allied fighter plane attacks on landing grounds in the 'Benghazi area? The port was Subjected to heavy bombing attacks and at least two Axis ships were reported left burning in the harbor TORPEDO OE TANKER British naval torpedo planes torpedoed an 8000 ton enemy tanker sailing west from Tripoli Tuesday night and left it burning furiously the communique same night medium bomb ers attacked the Tunis airdrome causing explosions and Jt was said No resistance was expected tt Benghazi as the enemy has been evacuating for the past week afiji (Turn to Pago 13 Col 4) Dire Predictions Regarding ood: Situation in NEW YORK Nov The growing seriousness of the food situation in this country was accentuated today by businessmen and representatives of the gov ernment speaking before the 84th annual meeting of the Grocery Manufacturers of America Most dire of the warnings waa made by Morris Sayer executive vice president of the Corn Prod ucts Refining company who de clared that "starvation was around the 4 and predicted that if the critical: situation was per mitted to grow worse "this coun try (would not only go hungry bgt would lose the predicted increasing de upon the food producers of this nation both fog the armI forces and for lend lease purposas More than 12100000 tons of food will? be needed for the fightinr men alone next year he estimated plus untold demands which will be made upon us by our allies "Soon we may 'aiding Italy the Balkans rance and northern the speaker predicted "Still the essentiality of skilled farm workers is receiving scafit attention from draft boards The army would never send am munition without food to Africa yeti we have planned 'the produc tion of ammunition while taking food production for 'J While America this year has the greatest food crop in its history the people are confronted with shortages of beef bacon and many canned products Sayre As serted rv Republicans Meet iTo Analyze Trends INDIANAPOLIS Nov (AP) republican officials aijd committeemen convened here today in their first confer ence since the November 3 elec tion to analyze the trends reflect ed in voting throughout the state Ralph Gates state repub lican chairman said an would provide a basis for a pro gram of eliminating Gates announced last night he would ask the republican majority members of the 1943 gen eral assembly to introduce as fw bills as possible and that he fa vored as short legislative session as (possible S' No 277 Vol 23 URIER 49 THE COURIER ESTABLISHED 1K1 i 1 JUuniNAU xusAADi rionrrf 1 t' I A 1 1 1 I' MBHMB ALLIES BATTER BACK OES IN TUNiSB ft r'r I a 1 1 1 4 Tat zx Av 6 vsa jp Al 1 Mr Left Little A jft A.