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MAKE EVERY PAY DAY BOND DAY Join the Pay Roll Savings Plan 'X THE OWENSBORO INQUIRER VOL LVI 1 1 No 17 OWENSBORO KY MONDAY JANUARY 25 1943 EIGHT PAGES i A THE WEATHER Kentucky: Much colder with a cold wave tonight slowly diminishing winds Marshall Cleaning Up in Tunisia British Press Pursuit Of Rommel Post War Planners Are Seeking To Block Another Depression orces Launch General Offensive Against Japs On Guadalcanal Island of (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Three) Late Bulletins (Continued on Page Three) a a I IC Ikll 1 Cl tlUK Cl UlUV JljL was reported in foreign diplomatic possession of the heights deminat circles today to have been attained ing the Kairouan plains and a long (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Three) (Ccnuinyed on Page Three) officers and men Another unidentl was said to have coordination also its tre transporting Louisville Ky Cale Young Rice 70 poet and native of Dixon Ky was found dead in bed early Sunday morning here with a gunshot wound below the heart Coroner Rodger Daugherty said Mr Rice apparently shot himself some time during the night Be side him was a pistol Mrs Alice Hegan Rice his wifo and author of Wiggs of the Cabage among other worksdied last ebruary On Dec 7 1872 Cale Young Rico 1 was born the son of Laban and Martha Lacy Rice in a house in Dixon now on Highway 41 A tablet has been erected before his birth rape that he or outcry the 3 1941 when Rue Satterlee Columbus (AP) Between five and 11 persons were reported killed today as a plane which witnesses said was a two motored Army bomber fell in flames near New Albany 14 miles northeast of here London Agreement upon Mme formula for a supreme coun cil to direct and unify the United Nations drive for' victory in 1943 troops over long distances in de fiance of the obstacles of terrain The range of operations opened up by tills coordination of air and land forces permit the ap plication of offensive power in swift massive strokes rather than the dilatory and costly island to island advance that some have assumed to be necessary in a theater where the far flung strongholds are dispersed throughout a vast expanse of he added forces and ground forces were welded together in MacArthur concluded "and when In sufficient strength with proper naval support their indissoluble union points the way to victory through new and broadened stra tegic and tactical observations follow By NOLAND NOR0AARD Allied Headquarters In North Af rica United States troops ac cepting a dare from' Axis forces opposing them raided the town of Maknassy only 33 miles from the Gulf of Gabes and captured 80 enemy soldiers it was announced today A military spokesman said the obviously made in was made after the enemy dropped a note on the lines the Americans come out and fight?" The answering slap at the troops of Col Gen Jurgen Von Arnim came as rench British and Amer ican forces halted the menacing German thrust down the Ousseltla valley more than 100 miles to the north checkmating a play for Washington American forces on a general offensive in the Sol omon islands were reported by the Navy Monday to have won seven important positions from the en emy on Guadalcanal to have killed 201 Jap soldiers and captured 40 and to have virtually wiped out an enemy island base 1590 miles to the northwest by sea and air at tack The places captured a communi que said were six important ele vations 'west of American field on Guadalcanal and the coast al village of Kokumbona where quantities of stores and equipment were seized This meant that the American front lines had been advanced about two to three miles beyond previous ly held Point Cruz which had been the furthest known point of advance on the coast The front apparently is being Quit Voronezh London The German high command communique broadcast Monday by the Berlin radio said' that Axis troops had evacuated Voronezh or the Upper Don The communique said that or der to shorten the front the bridge head of Voronezh was evacuated ac cording to plan and without inter ference by the The Russians never have conceded that Axis troops were in possession of the city Voronezh has been the hinge be tween the Central and Southern parts of the Eastern front marking the northern limit of the Russian offensives in the south which began Nov 19 Allied Headquarters In Australia The prospect of an Allied vic tory in the Pacific achieved by massive of coordin ated air and land forces rather than a slow island to island ad vance was held out Monday to the United Nations by General Mac Arthur on the basis of new meth ods tested in the Papuan campaign These methods MacArthur de clared in a written statement demonstrated the possibilities in herent in calculated application of air power" and open ed the way to and broadened strategic and tactical The victorious Papuan campaign MacArthur asserted proved effec tively not only the offensive and defensive power of the air arm when used in properwith land forces but mendous value in All Time Weather Record Reached Balitmore Asserting that small businesses had been ignored by war agencies Senator James Murray (D Mont) Monday sug gested to the Council of State gov ernments the ormation of an in dependent civilian supply adminis tration and of a special state and federal liaison committee to consider small business problems Murray said the war had changed the production picture so that manufactured goods and 100 big plants producing 30 per cent as in peace time the figures were just the other way around this spectacle of concentra tion of business is permitted to con he said in his prepared speech tens of thousands of small concerns will vanish never to return Bankruptcy will surely in vade the once prosperous small com munities ghost towns will rise all over He said the majority of small business extinctions he claimed now impending have been avoid ed by properly planning the utiliza tion of small business in the war ef fort and in civilian production and would he said your council designate a spec ial committee to act as liaison be tween your organization of state executives and the Congressional committees studying the problems of small business" The task he commented was "too Rapid City (AP) Ten men and officers aboard a four motored Army bomber from the Rapid City air base were all killed when the plane crashed Sunday night near Ordway Colo the public relations office at the base here announced today Washington American air craft struck at Japanese bases in the Pacific in seven raids last ri day and Saturday the Navy re ported over the week end while the enemy countered with aerial as saults on Guadalcanal and Espiritu Santos islands In four raids Saturday American bombers inflicted heavy damage on the Japanese air base at Munda on New Georgia island in the Cen tral Solomons The Navy communi que Sunday said that anti aircraft batteries were destroyed fires were started and an explosion indicated that an ammunition dump was hit American offensives covered in the communique started riday morning with a lying ortress attack on a Japanese position at Rekata bay on Santa Isabel island On Saturday a lying ortress bombed enemy positions at Kahili and Ballale island in the North western Solomons Tire Japanese struck with air at tacks on an American base on Espiritu Santo island in the New Hebrides group which is southeast of the Solomons and on Guadal canal Details were not reported The raid on Espiritu Santo occurred the night of Jan 22 23 the Navy said and the attack on Guadal canal the following night pushed forward in an effort to bottle up and eventually wipe out dwindling Japanese forces on the northwestern end of the island The enemy still holds about 16 miles of coastline on the northern side of Guadalcanal The heavy attacks against the Japanese island base were delivered oy born airplanes and warships on Saturday and Sunday the om munfqtfe island attacked was Kolombangara in the Munda area of the New Georgia group Of the 201 Japanese reported killed T10 were slain on (Guadalcanal time) when American ground forces launched a heavy at tack against enemy positions on the west front Heavy opposition was encountered but six important ele vations were captured Saturday aggressive resulted in the capture of Kokumbona The attack on that point authorities here said prob ably was facilitated by the previous By HAROLD OLIVER Washington (ZP) There are more than armchair strateg ists around Washington these days is a newly coined word applying to post war planners They are both in and out of the govern ment and their problem is: How to make a better America fit into a better world after the war A survey disclosed Monday that more than 100 specialists are en gaged in such studies in a score of government agencies Their re searches into how to cushion the after effects of the war and to make future wars less likely are proceed ing simultaneously with plans on how to end the current conflict No waiting this time America is preparing for the peace perhaps as thoroughly or more so than she did for the war When this mess is over the President and Congress are going to have before them more blueprints and formulas for chart ing the future than could be read by one person in six months May Avoid Depression While numerous headaches are in store immediately the war is over many government' officials agree with private experts that a post war depression can be avoided appropriate action is taken there is np necessity for a post war says the National Resources Planning Board in one of its voluminous reports Secretary Wickard says the Agri culture department does not share the pessimism that a severe eco nomic situation is inevitable after the war he says coun try need never go through a major economic depression again We vis ualize a post war world in which An all time record for January weather in Owensboro was set Sun day when the mercury reached 76 degrees according to Henry Berry official weather observer The day was unusually warm and spring like and hundreds of Owens boroans were out on the streets in the afternoon Spring clothes were much in evidence However the ideal weather was short lived and the mercury took a drop of 59 degrees to a low point of 17 degrees Monday morning making pedestrians revert to heav ier clothing In 1914 a temperature of 70 de grees was reached which was the nearest to the all time record reached Sunday Portland Ore Tire slaying comely Mrs Martha Virginia Brin son James 21 whose throat was slit as she lay in lower berth 13 of a California bound train grew more mystifying Monday Clues abounded but police in their third day of investigating the strange death of a Navy bride said they could determine no motive and could find no suspects They held two men for question ing at Klamath alls Marine Pri vate Harold Wilson 22 Buckley Wash who slept in upper 13 and John unches 30 Oakland Calif dining car waiter on the train but emphasized there was no evidence to connect them with the crime They issued a John Doe warrant for the arrest of a third man an unidentified negro who was believed to have been a passenger although trainmen could find no record of him At Los Angeles detectives met the train on which Mrs James was slain and took Robert olks 21 negro second cook into custody for ques tining olkes said he had no connection with the slaying He was detained on the request of District Attorney Harlow Weinrcck of Albany Ore capture bf the important heights which presumably com manded the Kokumbona area Also on Saturday American troops continued mopping up pockets of enemy resistance captured 40 Jap prisoners and killed 91 American aircraft meanwhile at tacked a large Jap destroyer and a cargo ship in the Shortland island area in the Northwestern Solomons and both were damaged Japanese planes replied with an attack on Guadalcanal Saturday night but the communique made nojeport of the results'o'r that The enemy installations on Kol ombangara apparently were exten sive in view of tlie report of wide spread fires and explosions The nature of those Installations was not reported but there was specula tion here that the Japanese may have had a small air field there to operate in coordination with their main central base in the Solomons at Munda Handy horse trough somewhere in Tunisia makes a wash basin for British paratrooper cleaning some of that embattled mud off his boots section of the coastal communica tion routes (While the Maknassy action was simply a raid it suggests that Amer ican forces may be mobilizing above the Chott Djerid wastelands for a slash at the coastal roads and the Gabes Sfax railway which would outflank the Germans campaigning to the north in the Ousseltla val ley) American patrols scouted the area northwest of the town of Ousseltla between the Axis bases at Kairouan and Pont Du ahs and brought back a number of rench wounded who had fallen before the tank supported German drive last week urther particulars of the Axis challenge which was answered by the Maknassy raid were lacking but it was assumed the raiders start US Troops Accept Axis Dare Raid Town Take 80 Prisoners STALINGRAD HOME Survivors of families that occupied a collective farm near Stalingrad return to their native village after it was retaken from Nazis by advancing Russian troops Sufferings of war are written on their faces but they are glad to be home again Washington War Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt and ood Administrator Wickard an nounced Monday they would seek to mobilize a of about 3500000 to volunteer for seasonal farm work this year Together they told a press con ference that persons doing work not connected directly with the war effort would be enrolled in both rural and urban communities and asked to shift temporarily to plant ing and harvesting work whenever needed to save crops Such they gave clerks in stores as an example of the type worker they had in mind w'ould not be asked to work without pay but would be asked to accept reg ular farm wages even if below the pay of their normal jobs as a con tribution to the war effort Workers in rural would be enrolled as to ability and willingness to perform farm work through questionnaires sent out by the Agriculture Department's Ex tension service which would follow up with recruitment drives Even as McNutt and Wickard talked the Senate Military com mittee set out to find the answer to this question How large an army can the United US liers Hit At Jap Bases we will make full use of ou man power and our resources for the benefit of the American The Resources Planning Board proposes that the 40 hour week be made permanent along with a 50 week work year without sacri fice of high wage standards Tlie board is cooperating with federal and private agencies in fields of post war fiscal policy science and research employment and Social Security (a fresh report on Social Security is now on the President's desk waiting to be sent to Congress) health and education urban re development industrial lo cation transportation land water and energy resources ederal Works Planned A program of federal works pro jects is being mapped with the budget bureau The Labor depart ment is analyzing the magnitude of manpower demobilization the num ber likely to be seeking new jobs within two years after the war ends and with the Selective Service system is preparing a revised oc cupational code to facilitate de mobilization into occupations for which the men are best fitted The federal "security agency has r' program planning committee looking into problems of Social Se curity youth health education nu trition and education while the ederal Works agency is formulat ing long range public works and highway development programs President Roosevelt Vice Presi dent Wallace Secretary of State Hull and Undersecretary of State Welles are unanimous in believing some form of association of the present United Nations when the war is won is just as essential to the future security of the United States as it is in the successful prosecution of the war MacArthur Says Air Power To Play Major Role In Pacific Cale Rice Is ound Dead Proposes US Agency To Aid Small Business 3 Await Hearing In MHey Case Lexington Ky The three men convicted of slaying Golf Star Marlon Miley were in ayette coun ty jail Monday awaiting a hearing Wednesday on the plea of one Rob ert Anderson for a new trial Anderson Tom Penney and Ray 1 mond Baxter originally scheduled to die last riday were transferred from Eddyville penitentiary Sunday under heavy guard The executions had been stayed to eb 26 The three occupy separated cells they talk with each Jailer Ernest Thompson said ayette Circuit' Judge Chester Adams who sentenced the trio to die following the slaying of Miss Miley and her mother Mrs Elsie Ego Miley will conduct the hearing as the result of a state Court of Appeals order Anderson won' his stay in the court but Penney and Baxter were granted identical stays by Gov Keen Johnson so they would be available to testify at the hearing Guards reported the two auto mobile trip from Eddyville Sunday was without Incident Chief of Staff May Head Allied Armies in Europe London Speculation that Gen George Marshall chief of staff of the Army might be appointed commander in chief of Allied forces in the European war theater was published in British newspapers Monday as the press continued great emphasis on Allied strategy for 1943 Unofficial British commentators maintaining intense interest in Al lied the plans which were believed to be already made or in the final draft predicted that an official announcement was imminent Walter arr Washington corres pondent of the Daily Mail reported thatit was the view of some in Washington that Gen Marshal was to be named gen eralissimo of the Allied armies in the European theater Boat Menace Cited arr who gave the first tip to Britons of Prime Minister visit to Washington in December 1941 also speculated that Vice Ad miral Sir Percy Noble head of the British admiralty delegation in Washington might be appointed su preme comamnder of the anti boat campaign Only last week Noble emphasized the gravity of the boat problem at a Washington press conference and said it would 'take all our strength resources and ingenuity" to beat the submarine Plans to give the Allies the edge over the Boat menace and moves from either Washington or London or both to help solve the problems between the ighting rench fol lowers of Gen Charles De Gaulle and Gen Henri Honore Giraud high commissioner of rench North Africa were believed to be promi nent in any pattern for victory un aer consideration by States Britain Russia the United and China Three Moves Open It was evident there was no op timism about the possibility of an early internal collapse in Germany and almost all discussions proceeded from the premise that a distinct and smashing military defeat must be inflicted on the Axis Speculation as to the basis on which Allied strategy was being planned included these views on the possibilities open to Hitler: 1 ight a defensive war through the winter and attempt to knock out Russia with a great spring offen sive 2 Attack Gibraltar through Spain in an attempt to close the western end of the Mediterranean 3 Make the long waited and perilous attempt to invade England Official sources refused any com ment on the various reports in cir culation but their persistence' was indicated by the fact that even Nazi controlled radio stations were broadcasting stories of politcal conversations under way hr Tandy Ellis' Widow Shoots Self Dies Carrollton Ky Mrs James Tandy Ellis widow of the poet lecturer columnist who died Decem ber 9 1942 shot herself to death at 7:30 a Sunday at her home at Ghent Carrol county Coroner Car roll Graham said Monday He returned a verdict of suicide She died instantly of a pistol wound through her right temple Graham said Marvin Brightwell Negro helper at the Ellis home said Mrs Ellis sent him on an errand shortly after 7 a and that when he ritturned he found her body in the living room of the home Coroner Graham said the act was attributed to grief over her hus band's death Before her marriage she was Miss Harriet Richardson Paris Ky She is survived by a nephew and three nieces uneral services will be conducted at 2 Tuesday in Ghent Christian church Burial will be in Ghent Masonic cemetery 3500000 arm Workers To Be Enlisted Africa Corps Retreat Imperilled By orces London The British Eighth Armj warplanes which indy bombers and fighters strik both east and west post Jr hs lai Rommel farther on his ig Tripoli Monday even as ti S' developed that Al a Limy aiicduy uneaten jute along the Gulf of ites troons were offic ial to have been in ac tio JS knassy in central Tu rnip J3 miles from the Gulf of ft and the circumstances suffurf that the whole Axis strategy for a union of the armies of Rommel and Col Gen Jurgen Von Arnim might be imperilled A Cairo dispatch said that almost all surviving Italians and the greater part of the Germans were already behind the Mareth for tifications Maginot and only rear guard elements remained in the northwestern tip of Tripolitania Answering a taunting note drop ped on American the Americans come out and soldiers raided Maknassy and captured 80 prisoners a spokes man reported at Allied headquar ters in North Africa This evidence that the Americans have mobilized in some force more than 100 miles south of the con tested highlands and the Ousseltia valley between Pont Du ahs and Kairouan developed as a Cairo com munique announced that British Eighth Army troops their advance to the from Tripoli Sunday A German thrust in the Ousseltia valley was halted Natural Barriers Lacking route of retreat which Von Arnim is trying desperately to keep open lacks the natural bar riers along the Gulf of Gabes that it has in the mountains and desert wastes in other Tunisian areas Another threat to forces appeared as it was announced that Brig Gen Jacques Le ight ing rench troops hurrying up from Equatorial Africa had reached the Jebel Nefusa a range of hills south west of Tripoli and had only 50 more miles to go to reach the Medi terranean A ighting rench communique said 'Our forward troops penetrated Jebel Newusa The fleeing enemy is being pursued without Powerful aerial blows were loosed by medium bombers upon an air drome immediately west of Meden ine a Tunisian town 60 miles west of the Tripolitanian frontier and an Allied headquarters spokesman said from 25 to 30 Axis aircraft were believed to have been destroyed on the ground These sweeps were correlated with others against Zuara 65 miles west of Tripoli the port of Sousse Axis shipping and Sicilian bases The Morocco radio said the Axis air force over Tripolitania was growing and It was considered possible that British vanguards already had speared into Tunisia Virtually all of Rommel's forces some 60000 to 70000 men reported in Tunisia and the speed of their flight indicated they might not even pause for a stand at the Mareth line the system of defenses which the rench erected before the war some 65 miles west of the Libyan border (A British broadcast reported by the OWI said that rapid reconnais sance units of the Eighth Army had crossed Eastern frontier The BBC cited reports from North Africa as the source for its an nouncement) troops continued their ad vance to the said British headquarters in Cairo without stat ing the specific extent of gains Allies Attack Zuara Allied airmen striking from tlie East attacked the port of Zuara 65 miles west of Tripoli and ranged as deep as 60 miles into Tunisia to blast at communications and air field facilities An Axis merchant ship was reported broken Death Of Navy Ensign's Bride Baffles Police Tipped or Commander Hear Crewman In lynn Case Los Angeles (ZP) A crewman of Errol yacht Sirocco testified Monday in the trial on charges of statutory heard no disturbance nights of Aug 2 and 17 yera old Peggy La says the film hero seduced her Corp Hubert Oliver on fur lough from a Texas army camp re futed testimony that lynn took her below deck on the return trip of a week end excrusion to Catalina island telling her she could look at the moon through a port hole lynn below deck to your knowledge at any time coming asked Jerry Giesler chief of defense counsel replied Oliver you hear Mr lynn say jok ingly or otherwise that Peggy had attacked Oliver answered said lynn employed him as a seaman from June to Septem ber 1941 The witness said lynn personally steered his luxurious yacht all the way from Catalina to the Los An geles harbor He said he and Capt Hayward Kingsley in charge of the Reds Take Key Railroad City To Enemy Base By CASSIDY Moscow (ZP) The Red army of the North Caucasus has smashed through German resistance to the rolling plains of Rostov province capturing the railroad city of Peschanokopskoye and threatening the key German stronghold at Ros tov 95 miles to the northwest from its softest flank the Russians said today This important advance in the Russian drive to destroy all the German forces south of Rostov was reported a few hours after a special Russian communique announced the capture of Starobelsk 125 miles southeast of Kharkov the import ant industrial center of the Ukraine Other Russian forces farther north already are within 78 miles of Khar kov (A Moscow broadcast was quoted by Reuters in London as saying nearly 3000 more Germans had been captured in the Kamenka Rossosh sector below Voronezh in the past 24 hours making a total of some 70000 prisoners taken in 11 days (The mid day Soviet communique as recorded by the Soviet radio monitor in London said that in this area where the Russians have pressed closest to ancient Kharkov another enemy group had been liqui dated and 1100 taken prisoner fled community been captured Other Successes Reported (Many successes from Voronezh to the farthest German outposts in the Northwest Caucasus also were reported The drive which resulted in the occupation of Starobelsk was continued successfully and several more copulated places were taken in fierce fighting it was said (Again there was no mention of the fighting around Leningrad ex cept that the Russian offensive was continuing (The Red army of the Caucasus struck out during the night from the recaptured town of Peschano kopskoye on the Stalingrad Tikho retsk railway and occupied several dozen more populated places said the mid day communique as record ed in London) The entire Eastern and Central regions of the Caucasus have now been cleared of the Germans and the remaining Nazi troops there are concentrated in the Northwest Rus sian advices said The terrain between the Lower Don river and the Salsk Tikhoretsk railway on which the Russians are now firmly enterenched offers few elements of natural resistance and would be difficult to hold against the powerful blows the Russians have been striking in their current offensive observers here said Railway Occupied Dispatches from the front indi cated the Germans fully realized the difficulty of their positions and were abandoning their last positions in the Caucasus The Russian forces moving north westward from Armavir on the Ros tov Baku railway line meanwhile drove northward and the midnight' communique reported the capture of several places approximately 20 miles north of the city The Russians said the southwest ern Red army has further scrambled the German lines of communication north of Rostov by occupying a 50 mile stretch of the Moscow Donbas railway between recaptured Staro belsk and Kondrashevskaya where the railway joins the Millerovo Voroshilovgard line just northeast of Voroshilovgrad Russian Army Smashes Through German Resistance To Enter Province Of Rostov 70000 Nazi Prisoners Bagged In 11 Days rr 1 J' (gfefr" ywE Me MWBi.