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'GET IN THE Uncle Sam Needs It BUY BONDS UNION COUNTY'S HOME DAILY BUY WAR BONDS WEATHER Fair anil roldsr warmer ftmtday Vol. XLVI, No. 65 MARYSV1LLE, OHIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1943 By Carrier, lOc a Week BLOW STRUCK AT BULGARIA WIDESPREAD BLACKOUT OF RADIO STATIONS IN REICH AND SURROUNDING COUNTRIES INDICATE rtEAVY DAYLIGHT RAID FOLLOWING SCATTERED NIGHT MORALE SHAKEN BY TWO-HOUR ASSAULT ON CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE A widespread blackout of German radio statiqns in the Reich and surrounding countries today indicated Allied bombers car- targcts were not immediately announced. Speedy plywood Mosquito bombers attacked targets in western Germany without loss during the night. Indicating the raids were on a larger scale than usual Mosquito assaults, coastal observers reported a force of British bombers heading toward the continent before midnight took 45 minutes to cross the coast.

Allied airmen also appeared de'ter- today to apply tha torch to the the "powder keg of a view toward blasting the satellite nations out of the war. Sofia Raided As reports emanating from the occupied as well as neutral countries i rj Bulgaria and UuRglry, went a powerful two-hour Allied attack yesterday. As a result, evacuation of non-essential civilians was reported'ordered-under threat of "exceedingly drastic measures." The attack, apparently carried out by. African-based American planes, was directed against the city's strategic railroad yards. However, also Interrupted a session the Bulgarian meeting less than a mile from the target area.

According Despite the statement that "violent" anti-aircraft opposition was hurled against the' attackers, the. Nazi agency made no claim of shooting down any Allied planes. London suburbs underwent a raid by Nazi bombers, which damaged a number houses along the Thames estuary. Four of the German raiders were shot'down. Only one Nazi plane managed to penetrate -the city's anti-aircraft defenses.

German ground forces, took a pounding in both Italy and and Russia, although in the latter theatre the Nazis scored some Important gains. to the German DNB agency, deputies of all parties in secret session attacked the government's "foreign which is that of continued. Axis allegiance. Extensive damage was inflicted on the Bulgarian capital by the raiders who struck In three waves, the German Overseas Agency conceded British Eighth Array. troops swarming across the Moro Hiver to establish a second bridgehead, have captured the riverbank, town of San Leonuardo, Gen.

Dwight DV Eisen bower's headquarters announced today. On the Fifth Army front, Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark's troops consolidated their newly-won height positions and carried'out successful local actions, said the communique.

Italian troops fighting with Fifth Army were revealed been thrown into action of Mignano, abandoned by the Germans yesterday. Advancing into the foothills near the Via Caslllnl highway stretching to Cassino and Rome, the ItaUaons were attacked from two directions by troops of the Nazi Herman Goerlng Rivision 1 and "forced to withdraw." ROOSEVELT IS ENROUTEHOME FROM PARLEYS PRESIDENT HELD MEETING WITH EISENHOWER AND HIS STAFF OFFICERS- STOP AT LONDON RUMORED By ROBERT NIXON InternatlonAl News Service' WASHINGTON, Dec. White House revealed today that President Roosevelt has. held a fourth war strategy conference in North Africa, on the. ruins of ancient Carthage, in preparation for new and concerted Allied blows to crush Germany in the.

The chief executive Is now en- route home by air. The exact time of his arrival is undisclosed. Reports from London that the president is expected to stop over in the British capital on his way back to the United States were received at the White House without comment or confirmation. Likewise German radio propaganda statements that the president's plane had landed at the Gibraltar airport went, without White House Carthage conference was held between President Roosevelt and General Dwight D. Elsenhower, Allied commander-ln-chief in North Africa, and members of Eisenhow'- er's land staffs.

It took place during a 48-hour stopover by Mr. Roosevelt in Tunisia while enroute home from his historic and epochal war strategy, conferences at Cairo and The purpose of the Carthage con ference was to acquaint Gen. Eisenhower fully with all decisions of war strategy at between the "Butch" Missing United Great Britain and Russia. Gen. 'Eisenfiower was with the ward Comdr.

Ed- Butch" above; have been notified that he is in action. The navy air ace received the Congressional Medal of Honor for shooting down five Jap planes In the. battle of the Coral PLAN TO RUSH LIQUOR PROBE TWO-POINT PROGRAM' OF TAXES AND NEW DISTILLING PROPOSED BY MICHIGAN SENATOR (Continued on page 2) DETRltW BY EPIDEMIC ESTIMATE TEN PERCENT OF POPULATION OF MOTOR CITY ILL FROM IN- FLUENZA WASHINGTON; Dec: Homer Ferguson said today he will insist upon a complete investigation of charges bl monop oly in'the liquor industry as a par Of the senate judiciary sub-commit tee's search for an answer to th liquor shortage. With public hearings adjournec until next week, Sen. Frederick Van Nuys committee chair man, proposed a two-point program First, he would make whiskey in bonded warehouses taxable afte four years.

It can be held eigh years now without payment of tax This would, he said, force 117 mil lion gallons of whiskey on the mar ket. Then, he said the War Production Board could permit limited resump tlon of whiskey, manufacture build up stocks. Russian Front By INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE armored and infantry forces pushed across snow- driven plains toward the strategic rail junction of Kirovograd today after breaking the back of German defense in the Dnieper loop by capturing the twin communications centers of Zna- and Khirovka. Climaxing three days of bitter, often hand-to-hand fighting, troops of the second Ukranian army wrested the two rail junctions from the Nazis street by street Their capture, hailed by Marshal Stalin In a triumphant order-of-the- day, was declared to have dislocated the railroad system on which INVASION OF NEW BRITAIN IS FORECAST CONTINUOUS BOMBINGS INDICATE MacARTHUR PLANS LANDING ON ISLAND WHERE RABAUL IS LOCATED By FRANK ROBERTSON International News Service. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Dec.

II. For the 12th consecutive day, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com- munique told today of Allied to soften-up the Invasion- threatened western coast of enemy- held New Britain. Fighter-escorted Mitchell bombers dropped 48 ton's more of high cxblosives on enemy Installations from Silimati point to Alaido and from Cape Racult to Rein Bay. Heaping new destruction atop heavy damage wrought by a record weight of nearly 1,000 tons of tiombs dropped on that coastal strip during the previous 11 days, motored American craft also struck at the oft-battered Cape Gloucester area.

In addition. to high explosives and Incendiaries on enemy the Allied raiders "heavily" strafed. Japanese supply dumps and dispersed bivouacs. Cape Gloucester lies across the narrow Vitiaz strait from New Guinea's Huon peninsula and appears the most likely point for an invasion, of the island situated the enemy's main- Bastion of Rabaul The latter stronghold is the obvious target of a developing pincers, one arm of which is expected to move from the Huon promontory while the other drives northwestward from the Solomon islands. EAST EXPECTS COLD WEATHER WASHINGTON, Dec.

weather bureau warned today that a cold wave will strike the eastern states over the week-end with the lowest temperatures so far this winter expected to be reached tonight and Sunday morning. Cold wave warnings were issued LAND-AIR-SEA STRENGTH STRIKES INTO JAP ISLANDS the Nazis relied to supply their troops fighting in the Dnieper bend sector. It also foreshadowed Imminent collapse of remaining German defense points in that area. To the northwest, however, the Red Army was forced to give ground before ft' powerful tank- paced Nazi counter-offensive that has driven to within 60 miles west of the Ukranian capital of Kiev. Although the Soviet communique announced the repulse of several, Nazi attacks, some of them spearheaded by as many as 200 tanks, it revealed that fighting now Is raging south of Malln, on the Kiev-Warsaw railroad 30 miles southeast of Korosten, Just south of the Koros- ten-Klev railroad.

So desperate Is the Nazi position in the Dnieper bend now that the enemy's rail transport system has been dislocated, that the Germans ore supplying their forces by air, just as they were forced to in the disastrous battle of Stalingrad. Left wing units of Konev's army meanwhile renewed their attacks against Krlvol Rog, great Iron raining and rail hub 65 miles southeast of Kirovograd. DETROIT, Dec. production In Michigan was being hampered today by an epidemic of influenza, with some plants reporting absenteeism as high as 100 per cent. It was estimated that a million persons were stricken throughout the state.

In the Detroit area 10 per cent of the population was ill. A total of 180 policemen was reported on sick leave. The F. L. Jacobs Company disclosed that its 1,200 war workers were affected by the epidemic, forcing the plant to close down over the week-end.

Two other small plants have closed. The Ex-Cello Corporation, one of Detroit's biggest producers, announced 2,000 of 8,000 employes were not at work because of Illness. In Windsor, across the Detroit River, the death toll from the epidemic rose to 23 with the deaths of three.more persons. DIES AT DANCE COLUMBUS, Dec. 50, fell dead of a heart attack yesterday while danc- 'ing in the Silver Slipper Night Club, police reported today.

JAPS BOMBED CHUNGKING, Dec. strategic airdromes at Wuchang and Hankow were pounded heavily Thursday night by American twin- motored Mitchell bombers. AERIAL COPS NEW YORK, Dec. F. II LaGuardJa predicted today that two years after the war is over, airplane traffic will be so heavy that sky cops will be necessary to control the air channels.

STRIKE DISORDERS ATLANTA, Dec. brief exchange of gun lire in the southeastern truck drivers' strike put four men in Jail today on disorderly conduct charges. Van Nuys explained that Canada for New York, Pennsylvania, New has Jlf ted the ban and permitted dis-! Jersey. Maryland, Delaware and tilling of liquor, even though all of her plants had been converted to making alcohol for war purposes. The United States, he said, could do the' same thing for a limited period.

STABBED 23 TIMES NEW YORK, Dec. mystery reminiscent of the savagery of gangland confronted police today in the slaying of William At wood, 62, mild- mannered superintendent of a midtown apartment building. Police said he had beea struck on the head and then stabbed 23 times, in the chest with a. sharp-pointed instrument. northern Virginia, for today and tonight.

The bureau warned that auto radiators and exposed water pipes in the affected area should be protected over the week-end. TIGHTEN REGULATIONS TOKYO YOKOHAMA; HAWAIIA ISLANDS MARIANAS 1 ISLANDS V. Yill MARSHALL WAREO, MP STRONGHOLD CAPTURED BY AUSTRALIANS BOMBARDED S. WAtoHIPS Laid-sea-air arms of American might have struck deep toward the heart of Japanese island defenses. As shown on this map, the Allies have been pushing steadily ahead through the enemy chains of- islands Latest gains have come with'the capture of Wareo in New Guinea by Australian troops and a sea- air assault on Nauru island by a United States Navy ternatipnal).

OPPOSED PAROLE COLUMBUS, Director Roy B. Weed threatened to resign before he would sign a parole- for Michael "Mike" DeAngelo, 44- year-old convicted gambler, it was disclosed today. 'MUSTER-OUT' PAY RUSHED SENATE COMMITTEE APPROVES PA.YMENTS AND HOUSE GROUP TO SPEED HEARINGS COLUMBUS, stringent regulations governing issuance of doctor's certificates, to workers who claim their jobs are Injuring their health Is being devised today to help combat the labor turnover in Columbus, Ralph E. Gabele, Columbus WMC director announced. SHOWDOWN ON SUBSIDY BILL FOR NEXT WEEK PAYFORMULl UNDER ATTACK IBANKHEAD SENATE MAY GET BILL FROM COACVtnTEE SEEKS DELAY TEXTILE WORKERS PLANS TO DEM AN INCREASED WAGES BEYOND "LITTLE STEEL" SCALE TREMENDOUS PO STWAR BOOM FORECAST BY HEAD OF, 6MG SLOAN DECLARES NATIONAL INCOME MAY REACH PEAK OF HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR NEW YORK, Dec.

the theory that the nation's post-war Income will exceed 100 billion dollars annually, General Motors Corporation is prepared today to spend reconvert Its war- peacetime produc- $500,000,000 to busy plants to tion. Alfred P. Sloan, chairman of ths board, announced that striking vote of confidence in America's future last night at the dinner meeting of the National Association Manufacturers, which marked the end of the organization's three- day war congress. Sloan told the 4,000 NAM members attending the $10-a-plate dinner, that masterplan-was intended to "help preserve the free enterprise system as the keystone of American democracy," But, he warned, "we must first win the war it is not yet won by any WASHINGTON, Dec. May (D) chairman of the house military affairs committee, said today his group would meet Monday to draft a bill providing mustering out pay for men and women in the armed forces.

May said the amount of pay to bo provided will be decided upon Monday and the bill reported out Tuesday, or Wednesday. He declared, however, that the will not rush through this task. "We found a lot of complications and do not intend to go crazy like the senate did," May said. "These" things must be worked but and it will take several days." The senate military affairs committee, under a speeded-up schedule, yesterday approved the amended Barkley mustering out pay bill, providing payment of up to $500 for honorably discharged members of America's fighting forces. The following scale is contained in the Barkley-measure which probably will go the senate next For all men' who served 18 or more months overseas, $500; twelve months or more overseas, $400; less than one year overseas, $300; more I than one year in the United States, $300; and less than one year's service in the-United States.

$200. The payments would be made In three equal the time of discharge and at one month intervals thereafter. WASHINGTON, Dec. assault on the administration's' "Little Steel" formula was intensified today as delegates of the CIO textile WASHINGTON, Dec. I John H.

Bankhead (D) farm leader, announced today that Ihe senate banking committee will begin executive sessions Monday on a bill banning subsidies. Bankhead, strong subsidy foe, said an amended version of the house-approved bill halting food subsidies after December 31, prob- (Continued on page 4) STOCKYARDS FIRE WAUSEON, Dec. fire of undetermined origin at the Lugbill Bros. Stockyards, Wauseon, today was estimated to have caused $250,000 in damages. Ellender (D) Introduce a reso- workers union assembled in Wash- ably will be reported to the senate ington to formulate demands for Wednesday, higher wages.

0 Allel The textile union is the second bigj f) Ul wl ilution Monday to continue the life CIO group to take positive action I the Commodlty Credit Corpora- toward a pay increase for its mem-: tj olli hlch pays most food subsi- bers. Some 900,000 steel workers al- dies, until February 10. The cor- rcady have demanded a 17 cents an! poration otherwise will expire De- hour Increase. the steel 31. The house bill giving industry will meet with representa- CCC life until June 30 1945, tives of the steel workers in Pitts- contains a ban against sub sl dles.

burgh December 14 to take up the wage demands. The CIO's moves toward wages above and beyond the limits of the government's stabilization program follows senate approval of an eight- "The senate has put itself in an inconsistent position by assuming judicial power and approving the eight cent wage increase for railroad workers," Ellender asserted. "Now most of its members want to cent-an-hour increase for one mil- ben subsidies. The.railway wage lion, 100 thousand non-operating vote will be virtually nullified if railroad workers. House action on I subsidies are banished and prices the matter is.

expected next week, are permitted to rise." CHARGES MADE BY SPARKS GETTING ACTION IN HOUSE COMPLETE INVESTIGATION MAY BE MADE OF ALLEGED "PURCHASE" OF G.O.P. NOMINATION WASHINGTON, Dec. Harley Kilgore chairman of a special senate elections subcommittee, planned to determine today whether a full-scale investigation will be made into charges that Wendell L. Willkie's backers "bought" him the Republican presi- dential nomination in 1940. Appointed chairman the subcommittee without his knowledge, Kilgore said he would-first confer with Sen.

William Langer (R,) N. who introduced the resolution calling for the extraordinary inquiry. Meantime, Langer planned to urge that Willkie himself as well as other presidential candidates and persons named in a book by Nelson C. Sparks, former Mayor of Akron, Ohio, be summoned. The Willkie charges were made by Sparks..