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Weather Forecast Possible rain with rising temperature tonight. Sun sets 5:38 Sun rises 7:56 TIME ERALD -Edited for Southwestern New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania For Victory Zinc may no longer making metal mill "coina" far street car or tax Slug! and tokeni are amonf than 100 articles in which the of zinc hat been atopptd. VOL. 'LXXXIL, No. 277 Entered cUis mull daily except Sunday mt the fost Office New York, under the Act of March 3.

1879. TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1942 PRICE THREE CENTS Government Prohibits Essential Airplane And Ship Workers From Enlisting In Armed Force's Of Nation Allies Roll On In Tank Battle Rages At Stalingrad; Savage Air Offensive Intensified In Bizerte, Tunis And Tripoli Area All Arrows Point To Good News By HARRISON Vnited Press Saff Correspondent Allied forces in Africa rolled forward today toward a decisive battle for Tunisia and in South Russia the Red Army fought to close a ring of steel around the Nazi siege army before Stalingrad. Major Allied successes which would go far to affect the underlying strategy of the war hung in the balance of battles now underway. Soviet troops had driven a spearhead deep into Nazi defenses at Chernyshevskaya, 110 miles west of Stalingrad, and were within 60 miles of making a juncture of forces which would encircle an estimated 350,000 German troops engaged in the attack on Stalingrad. By A I t'nitecl Staff Correspondent MOSCOW A great and possibly decisive tank battle raged in the area west of Stalingrad today as battered German forces, foreseeing entrapment in an iron ring forged by the Red Army, sought to rally for a counterattack.

The Soviet offensive gained mo- --menturrrrUne army pushing southward reached the village of Pogod- insky, well inside the bend of the river Don. in a drive to achieve a junction with Russian forces ham menng their way westward from Kalach. A third army, advancing from sou them sectors, cut the railroad to Rostov and rolled on to the southeast. The Gorman attempt at a counter-attack was having little success. One entire German division was reported exterminated in a single brief operation it tried to rut off the Soviet wedge northwest of Staling! ad The Russians beat off the counter-assault while other forces struck the enemy flanks and encircled the division.

Another German division met a similar fate. HASTENS PLANS Col. Gen. Hermann Hoth, Commander of the Germans in the Stalingrad area, hastened to develop a counter-offensive powerful enough to break the Russian drive before the big trap snapped shut and left him open to annihilation. The inspired Russians gave him a foretaste of the peril in four days of fighting, during which 26.000 Germans were killed while another 1.000 fighting inside the city of Stalingrad, were taken prisoner.

Booty was in proportion. In one Stalingrad segment alone the Russians annihilated a complete, fully-equipped infantry division of 12,000 "which had arrived at the front recently. Within a few hours the same Soviet units annihilated the bulk of another division and the survivors abandoned their arms and ammunition in flight. PREVENTS FUNCTIONS Aviation was involved only secondarily. The low, dense morning fogs prevented planes from per forming their full functions but afforded fine cover for heavy artillery and the advance of shock infantry and tank units.

The Russian winter was giving the Germans a taste of disaster also. The entire steppe was frozen and blanketed with snow The newspaper Pravada reported that the Soviet thrust south of Stalingrad across the frozen Kalmyk steppes was developing no less successfully than the western and northwestern offensives. Large German and Rumanian units, miserably clad, with blankets wrapped around their shoulders and handkerchiefs over their faces to shut out the biting wind, roamed the windswept steppes and often surrendered without a fight, the newspaper said. Those who resisted were encircled quickly and wiped out. By EDWARD VT.

BEATTIE I'nited Press Staff Correspondent LONDON--Allied air forces struck from west and east in an intensified savage aerial offensive against Axis positions at Bizerte, Tunis and Tripoli today while the masses of the American. British and French armies pressed on toward enemy ground positions in Tunisia. Allied planes based on northwest Africa ferociously bombed Bizerte and the vital Axis West Libyan base of Tripoli. Radio Morocco reported. Long range Allied bombers of the British Eighth Army flew across Libya to give Bizerte still another pasting, and fighter planes from Malta shot down at least three giant German transport planes off the East Tunisia coast.

Other attacks were made by Malta and Middle Eastein planes on Palermo airdrome. Sicily and enemy shipping off Sardinia, where a merchantman was sunk. PRISONERS TAKEN The British Eighth Army. driving through Libya, westward toward Tripoli a Tunisia, occupied Agedabia, on the Gulf of Sirte roast seventy miles from El Agheila, and the inland oasis of Jalo. Radio Morocco reported that in skirmishes, calculated to lead soon to a grand scale battle, the Allies in Tunisia had taken many Axis prisoners, including forty at one point.

German-controlled Radio Paris reported that all French forces Africa had been put under the command of Lieut. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower by agreement with en. Henri Honore Giraud. active commander of French fighting forces.

Though the report was not con- 'irmed here, it was regarded as the logical sequel to the swing of all French West Africa, including Dakar, to the Allied orbit, as announced over French Af- radios by Admiral Jean Francois Darlan. the French eader in Africa. GERMANS ENRAGED News of the loss of Dakar en- the Germans, evidently, and stimulated the new German- backed campaign to form an Af- ican legion, among continental (Continued on Page 2) Analysis Of War Fronts By LOUIS F. KCEMIX of the United Press War Desk Good news for the the United Nations comes not only from the Russian anc North African fronts biu from the southwest Pacific and Asia. Allied air activity against Bur ma in Indo-China and Japan's ap parent inability to make offectivt counter moves at present presage the day when Allied forces wil move into Burma to le-open the back door to China.

Such a drive has been confi dently forecast by Allied commanders in the Far East, who see it as a necessary i i i a main land forces of the Jap'- anese. FORCE GROWS Brig. Gen. Clayton Bissell. commanding army forces in India continues to grow.

At the same time the Japanese have been unable to reinforce their air power sufficiently to cope with increasing and destructive raids on their positions. United States heavy bombers have attacked the Japanese base at Mandalay in Burma for the second time in three days, causing- considerable damage. The bombers met little opposition. The bombers also have attacked Rangoon, Toung-oo, Haipong in Indo- China and other points, centering on airfields, railways and port installations. Gen.

Bissell suggests that the Japanese are being kept so busy elsewhere that they are unable to spare either ships or pianos for this area, which is threatening to become a new theater of war. LINES EXTENDED Japan's strength is not exhausted but it is becoming apparent that its lines are too extended for effective operations on more than one front at a time. Tokyo's present pre-occupation (Continued on 2) THOUSANDS MASSED While the Russians have crushed and battered dozens of Gorman divisions in the past three months, the newspaper Jzvestia pointed out, dozens of other divisions, numbering hundreds of thousands of Nazi troops still were concentrated in the area, They have occupied fortified villages and strong French Colonials Exact Payment For Stab In Back By Mussolini A I HEADQUARTERS. North Africa French colonial troops, exacting a first payment for Benito Mussolini's stab in the back of stricken France in 1940, ripped an Italian force to pieces in one of the fiercest fights of the developing Tunisian campaign, reports to headquarters said today. An Italian column attacked the French in superior force in north central Tunisia yesterday, under the protection of a strong force of German Stuka dive-bombers.

The Frenchmen met the full shock of the Italian attack, stopped it and, in a counter-attack, gave the Italians what headquarters informants called "a terrific beating-." Allied Spitfire fighter planes roared Into the fight and, it was reported, ihot down a number of the Stukas while anti-aircraft guns accounted for others. News of the French victory reached here as Gen. Emile Beth- ouat of the French Army joined the staff of Lieut. Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower, the Allied Commander In Chief, as liaison officer between the French and American armies, and as headquarters welcomed the news that Admiral Jean Francois Darlan had brought Dakar and all French West Africa into the Allied camp. Headquarters could not confirm the Dakar news, but its accuracy was not doubted. Allied leaders had expected the quick capitulation of all French West African areas as the result of their successful landings in the northwest. It was Intimated that the Allies would utilize Dakar promptly and to the fullest extent a baie. -MOSCOW SOVIET RUSSIA LTV.

GERMANY KHARKOV i KALAO HUNGARY RUMANIA BULGARIAJ TURKEY SYRIA IRAQ MILES mtmfmmmm LIBYA I ALLIED ATTACKS AXIS RETREAT Four-fold good news from the fighting fronts for the U. S. and its Allies is portrayed on the map above. (1) RAF bombers rain destruction on Axis war production plants in and Genoa, Italy. 2 Allied forces, slashing eastward fiom Algeria, cut across Tunisia, harass Axis forces trying desperately to hold narrow Mediterranean coast fringe at Tunis-Bizerte-Gulf of Gabes aiea.

3 i British Eighth Army relentlessly continues its pursuit of remnants of Rommel's Afrika Koips. i 4 Biggest news of all conies from far north, where resurgent Russian armies launch gieat offensive against German forces around threaten to entrap scores of thousands in pinceis Three Men Ordered To Die, Three Women To Jail Terms For Treason BULLETIN CHICAGO--Judge William J. Campbell today sentenced three men to death and three women to prison for treason for assisting a member of the Nazi sabotage mission. Campbell sentenced the thiee men to die in the electric chair January 22 and the three women to twenty-five years in prison and fines of S10.000 each. The sentencing climaxed the biggest treason case in the nation's history.

All the naturalized German American defendants were accused of giving aid to Herbert Haupt, electrocuted Nazi saboteur. TRIO LISTED The men were Hans Max Haupt, the saboteur's father, Walter Wiihelm Forehling, the hoy's inirle, and Otto Richard Wei-gin, a friend of the Haupt family. The women were young Haupt's nether, Erna Emma Haupt, his aunt. Lucille Froehling, and Mrs. Kate Wergin.

Judge Campbell said in his opin- 011 with reference to the women lefendants: "There is no priority on mercy and it was incumbent on the court to consider the mothers of thousands of boys fighting for us and those working on the assembly lines in the aluminum industry who could have been destroyed by Imperial Army Enters Agedabia CARIO British Eighth Army orces have entered Agedabia, lincty miles beyond Benghazi on the Libyan coast, a middle eastern headquarters communique said today. Contact is being maintained with the Germans, who.are continuing their withdrawal toward Kl Agheiln, miles to the southwest and only 475 miles from Tunisia, tha communique said. Banks To Handle Ration Coupons In Checking Accounts In January Fine Repast For Naval Recruits SAMPSON. N. the ansuer to "what's cookm' tomorrow at the new Sampson Naval Training Base bordeiing Seneca Lake.

In endeavoring to supply between five and ten thousand "naval recruits with food "just like mother makes" on a Thanksgiving Day for many may be the first one away from home, the commissary department comes up with: Ten thousand pounds of turkey: 15.000 potatoes: 1,000 pounds of cranberry sauce: -100 gallons of turkey soup: 3,500 quarts of milk; 2,500 loaves of bread and 1,000 pies. Plus sundry trimmings. So, mothers, don't worry that your boy here won't a delicious Thanksgiving repast. Education Plan Termed Unsound ALBANY--Assistant State Education Commissioner Edwin R. Van Kleeck charged today that a proposal by the Educational Policies Commission would "turn the high school upside down." The plan, announced in Washington yesterday, would permit promising high school students, about to start their senior year, to go to college and earn their high school diploma and a year's credit in th higher institution at the same time.

Dr. Van Kleeck termed the proposal "unsound, unnecessary and unrealistic." The Educational Policies Com- misslon represents the a i a Education Association and the American Association of School Administrators. WASHINGTON The nation's commeicial banks will begin handling ration coupons in checking accounts similar to regular ciinency transactions next Price Administration Leon Henderson announced today. A test of the plan--which does not affect individuals handling ration coupons--was marie in the Albany Sehencclady Troy area of New York and has been successful, Henderson said. Under the program, deposits will be made for each rationed item catried by a dealer.

The accounts will be in gallons and pounds, instead of money, and commercial establishments will draw checks on thoir accounts. Henderson said the banks act ns agents of the OPA and will be paid by the OPA. The system is designed to simplify the "handling of ration coupons'and to take a large load off loral war price and rationing boards. Action Compromise Answer To Demands Of Manpower Groups GestapoTo Slay Jews In Poland By "SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS T'nitcil Press Staff Correspondent LONDON Heinrich Himmler.

head of the Nazi, Gestapo, has ordered that one-half of the large Jewish population in occupied Poland be exterminated--by-- the end of the year, reports from the Polish underground movement to the Polish Government-in-Exile here said today. The first step, in the bloody program, it was said, be to kill fifty per cent of the thousands of Jews living in ghettoes established by the Nazis. The re- would be later. There were 3.133.900 Jews, or 9.8 per cent of the total population, in Poland according to the 1931 census, but the Germans during moie than three years of occupation have reduced this number by killing thousands outright or permitting them to die of starvation and disease. OFT PROGRAM Special Nazi "liquidation" battalions, commanded bv members of the notorious SS Elite Guard, were said to be carrying out Himmler's program.

These squads were dragging Jewish victims from their homes or seizin? them in streets and driving them to village and town squares in mass roundups for execution, the reports said Old men and women and cripples were singled out to be herded to cemeteries where they were mowed down by filing squads, Polish sources said. The Nazis' made no attempt to prove that the Jews had committed any crimes or violated German regu- ations. Jews who were not executed immediately, it was reported. packed into freight cars-150 packed to a car that normally was large enough for forty--to shipped to undisclosed points for liquidation. Buffalo Hunts Missing Water BUFFALO--It was no dripping faucet that bothered Buffalo solons today the probed the case of the missing gallons of writer, or every third galllon of H20 which was sold to the city airport last month.

Porks Commissioner John Ulinski told the Ah port Advisory Board that there is no apparent leak in the water system, but more than a third of the billed 1,138.000 gallons of water is unaccounted for. Peoria Car Owners Walking To Dramatize Need To Save Tires PEORIA. Half of Peoria's 40,000 motorists left their cars in garages today on this "car-less Tuesday," a government-sponsored dramatization of the need for tire conservation. Participation was voluntary, but city authorities said preliminary indications showed that motorists were taking it "seriously" and would cooperate willingly. The Office of Price Administration chose this midwe-stern "typical" town for the experiment in mi effort to demonstrate what ivould happen to any other American city if half of its automobiles were forced out of circulation because their tires had worn out.

Mayor K. N. Woodruff flipped a Saturday, deciding that cars wiring odd' numbered license ilates shall be left in garages. Motorists authorized to use their trt rirlAa their neighbors. Each operating car will cnrry a large windshield sticker.

Its driver will be expected to pick up passengers who become stranded if the city's bus and street car facilities are overtaxed. E. W. Fowler, manager of the street car and bus company, said the company had followed the suggestion of the Office of Defense Transportation and would place no additional equipment in service. As in other cities, Peoria's public transportation facilities have experienced a sharp increase in peak traffic loads during the past year.

Fowler said facilities were expected to be choked today. O.P.A, officials said the test was expected to show the impact of reduced automobile usage which might face all cities in a year un- 1 By -TOHX M. MECKMX t'nilcd Press StatI Correspondent WASHINGTON--The Gov eminent today prohibited any essential worker in the aircraft and shipbuilding industries enlisting in the armed forces. The action was seen as a conn promise answer to demands federal manpower agencies for a halt of all voluntary enlistments. Acting with the approval of tha War and Navy Departments, Maj.

Gen. Lowis B. Hershey, Selectiva Service director, instructed local draft boards by telegram to refuse releases to essential aircraft or shipbuilding workers seeking to enlist. He defined essential workers 3.3 "any registrant who is, or should be, classified in Class II-B or III-B and who is employed in the aircraft or shipbuilding industries." The ruling also applies to registrants who resigned from essential jobs these industries within 60 days before seeking to enlist. XOT BLANKETED Hershey emphasized that "this is not a blanket deferment of workers of these industries, who will continue to be called for military service as they are needed and as they can be replaced in essential jobs." Some persons here interpreted the order as indicating that President Roosevelt' has decided to reject the plea of War Manpower Commission Chairman Paul V.

McNutt that all voluntary enlistments be stopped in order to permit an "orderly withdrawal 1 for military duty of men from essential industries. McNutt wag sup- norted in his plea by Hershey and other manpower officials. Mr, Roosevelt is known to have opposed the idea because of his close association with an affection for the traditions of the Navy, which always has been manned by volunteers. SUGGEST EXTENSION Officials suggested that the new ruling might be extended to other industries as labor shortages become more acute, but they were unwilling to speculate on what industries might be next. Essential igricultur.il workers must be deferred under the recent 'teen age amendment to the Selective Service Act.

The Army and Navy already have stopped accepting enlistments of deferred federal workers, including employes of Navy yards, Army arsenals and other government war production plants, unless their superiors will certify that they can be spared. Hershey's telegram to local boards mentioned specifically an issue which fast is becoming one of the knottiest problems of the Federal Manpower program: this action has been taken to protect the aircraft and shipbuilding industries from an uncontrolled loss of essential employees, local boards have a major responsibility to carefully and promptly determine whether op not a release will be issued upon request to a registrant wishing to enlist." FOLLOWS COMMENT This, significantly, followed a press conference comment by McNutt yesterday that tighter controls should be applied to sure that local boards observo directives from Washington. indicated to follow such directives has done considerable damage to W.M.C. and Selective Sen-ice programs. There were these other developments in the manpower field: 1.

Officials in charge of the tional roster of scientific and cialized personnel, a project of W.M.C., urged senior and students of chemistry, gineering, and other apeclalized subjects to add their names to 300,000 already listed on the renter, which covers more than HO specialized occupations. Through the roster, W.M.C. already hM channeled to war mor't 40,000 men and womtn. BY CIVHJANH 2. McNutt toM ference that.