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Forces Kill 10,000 U. S. STORES OF BUM I BY Soviets, Paving Way For New Offensive, Force Germans Back OIL nese on Guadalcanal Jap a FREEZE ORDER Red Troops Seize Inhabited Point in Tuapse Area, Height South of Stalingrad By HENRY SHAPIRO (United Press Correspondent) MOSCOW, Nov. 21. (Saturday) Soviet troops, building up to a second winter offensive against the Germans, seized an inhabited point in the snow-swept mountains northeast of Tuapse and knocked the enemy from another height south of Stalingrad Friday, the high command an JAPS BA TTLE FOR NEW GUINEA HOLD Heaviest Fighting of Buna-Gona Campaign Rages, Allies Meet Artillery Fire (By Associated Press) ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Nov.

21. '(Saturday) The heaviest fighting of the New Guinea campaign raged today in the Buna-Gona areas where the Japanese, pinned against the coast, lashed back at the advancing allies with light artillery, mortars and machine eruns. has been driving the Germans back toward Nalchik, repulsed four enemy counterattacks Friday and destroyed 11 tanks. In another sector, the communique said, tha staff of a Rumanian battalion was routed and 200 men killed. Earlier front dispatches had reported the slaying of "several thousand" Nazis in a three-day battle below Leningrad and the capture of another strategio mountain southeast of Nalchik.

Enemy 'To Get No Breathing Spell' Russian editorials were almost un-precedentedly optimistic, apparently as result of new Russian successes and the allied offensive in north Africa, describing the military and political situation as having (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) Government Reserves for Its Own Purchase 40 Per Cent Of Supply in Storage WAR NEEDS WILL BE MET Sharp Curtailment of Product For Civilian Consumption Forecast by Officials (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. The government tonight ordered that half of the butter in cold storage in the 35 principal marketing centers be held for government purchase, an order which had the effect of freezing 40 per cent of the total butter supply in storage in the nation. The war production board, In issuing the order, said the action was "temporary" and designed to insure adequate supplies to meet the needs of the armed forces and the lease-lend program. Agriculture department officials said the freeze order would result in a sharp curtailment of civilian supplies Inasmuch as current production of butter is insufficient to meet civilian war needs.

The 35 marketing centers hold about 80 per cent of the butter sup ply. The balance is scattered among small warehouses in the less im portant producing and distributing areas. The order does not af fect stocks on hand in retail establishments. Army, Navy finding Supply Shortage Because of the butter shortage, W.P.B. explained the army and navy have been meeting difficulty in get ting sufficient supplies, and ships having space for butter have been departing with other cargo.

"This situation requires prompt and drastic action," W.P.B. said. It was estimated that 30,000,000 to pounds were frozen by the action, which is effective tonight and will remain in force until March 6, 1943. Immediate Rationing Said Not Expected Dr. Roland Vaile, spokesman for the W.P.B.

office of civilian supply, declared, however, he did not think the program would "necessitate ra tioning immediately. The customary seasonal drop in production occurred earlier than usual this year, he said. Informed officials, who could not be quoted by name, reported Wednesday that Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard had proposed a dairy products rationing program to control civilian purchases of cheese and butter and, in larger cities, of fluid milk. The new freeze order will be sup planted as soon as possible, W.P.B. said, in a limitation order which will set aside from current produc tion sufficient butter to meet the (Continued on Page 2, Column 8) CLOSING TRAP Britain's Eighth Army Riddles Remnants of Rommel Force Fleeing Through Libya GERMANS ABANDON BENGASI Axis' Tunisian Troops Confined To Narrowing Pocket Along Mediterranean Coast (By United Press) LONDON, Nov.

20. The axis sun was believed rapidly setting in Africa tonight with Anglo-American forces, victorious in battles with German tanks, driving the enemy into a narrow pocket of northeast Tunisia and the British eighth army riddling the remnants of the Africa corps in Libya. The axis setbacks involved losses where they hurt most in the dwindling supply of tanks which Major-Gen. Walther Nehring and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel have ferried over from Italy or patched up in dsert garages. The British Knocked out or captured 28 in sweeping past Benghasi, which the Germans acknowledged they had abandoned, and British and American forces destroyed 11 in Tunisia, Axis Forces May Not Make Agheila Stand Rommel managed to get only 15 out of his original 500 front-lins tanks out of the Egyptian debacle and those lost below Benghasi must have been rushed to the front from his sparse reserves in Tripolitania-His shattered army was believed so weak now that it might not even attempt a stand in tha salt marshes near Agheila, where two previous British offensives broke down due to extended communications.

There were no new reports on the progress of the Fighting French army driving across the Sahara from the Lake Chad region to strike the axis rear in Libya. Reinforcements in Lake Chad District The drive from the Chad originally was reported by the Morocco radio and the Algiers radio said tonight that during the last 48 hours important forces "with considerable war material have been deploying in the Lake Chad area," suggest ing the drive is being reinforced. It was believed the desert armv. although it had nearly 1,000 miles to travel, would attempt to cut, ths (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) Lehman Believed Slated to Head Foreign Aid Plan (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Nov. 20.

The New York Times, in a dispatch from Washington, reported tonight that Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York soon will be named to direct the feeding, clothing and rehabilitation of countries which are friendly to or occupied by the united nations. Whether Lehman, who is retiring after four terms in Albany, would serve out his present term could not be learned, but confidence was expressed in Washington, the Times said, that the appointment woud be announced by President Roosevelt in the near future. The governor would work on a worldwide scale, the dispatch said, but he would not have domestic food responsibilities.

The responsibility of feeding, clothing and sheltering the starving millions of Europe, Asia and Africa in the postwar era not only would be his, it was said, but he also would be charged with the efforts to these countries back on their feet industrially and agriculturally. 1 DECISION DELAYED WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. It will be about three months befors a definite decision can be expected on construction of a synthetie rubber plant in California, Felix Butts chairman of ths California wlneii rubber commltUs, bsllsvts. A communique announcing the al lied attempt to shove the trapped Japanese into the sea gave no details of the battle which began yesterday except to say that "enemy air forces have entered the engagement." Bad Weather Keeps Allied Planes Back Bad weather on the lower side of the Owen Stanley mountains was said to have prevented General Mac-Arthur's airmen from giving the formidable aerial support which has been such a factor in the allied counterdrive across the huge island.

U.S. and Australian ground troops thus' bore the entire brunt of the attack of low-flying Japanese Zeros that thus far had not shown much activity. The tempo of battle rose to high (By Associated Press) CANBERRA, Australia, Nov. 20. Facing defeat in the Solomons Is lands and New Guinea, to the north and northeast of Australia, Japanese forces are strengthening their positions methodically on the island of Timor to the northwest, It was stated officially today.

wine anchorages on the north shore of Portuguese Timor have been occupied, and the Japanese have moved in much equipment, including many motor vehicles. Australia consequently still Is menaced by invasion, Australian spokesmen said, and Prime Minister John Curtin expressed belief that an action similar to the long and tedious campaigning in the Solomons and New Guinea will have to be fought to prevent an invasion from the northwest. Timor was being consolidated, It wad believed, as a Japanese spring board for operations against Aus tralia. It was thought the Japanese were obliged to concentrate there because their footholds in New Guinea and the Solomons were slipping away under the relentless pounding of allied sea, air and land forces. New Caledonia Gets More Allied Troops (By United Press) NOUMEA, New Caledonia, Nov.

21. (Saturday) Well-equipped New Zealand forces have arrived In New Caledonia to supplement American and Fighting French troops already here, it was revealed today. JAP PIER IT TIMOR GROWS Estimate of Losses Said Conservative By FRANK TREMAINE (United Press Correspondent) PEARL HARBOR, T. Nov. 20.

U. S. marines and 6oldiers have killed at least 10,000 Japanese troops on Guadalcanal island since the Solomons campaign began Aug. 7. it was estimated to day by a naval officer just back from the Solomons.

The officer, Naval Lieut DeWitt Peterkin 29, of New York City, gave the first personal report of the big American naval victory in the Solomons earlier tnis moran, He said the 10,000 figure was "conservative estimate" and that the Japs are suffering heavy cas ualties on Guadalcanal where they are trying to wrest vital Henderson field from American nanus. Nightly Slaying of 1,000 Not Unusual "As a conservative estimate, per haps 10,000 Japs have been killed there Bince Aug. 7," he said. "I think the Jap casualties are so high and so out of proportion that I oe- lleve the actual total would be as toundinsr. A thousand killed per night in one sector is not Peterkin said the first phase of the recent naval battle in wnicn 28 Japanese ships were sunk be-tha afternoon of Nov.

12 when 21 Mitsubishi bombers with Zero fighter planes for escorts at tacked ths naval rprce commanaea hv th lata Rear-Adm. Daniel Callaghan. That force was support' Incr a erouo of American trans ports. Men on Guadalcanal See Guns' Flashes The Jap planes were wiped out and only one "possibly got away," Peterkin said. The big sea battle followed in the early hours of Nov.

13 but the men on Guadalcanal could see only the eun flashes. Peterkin said. The (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) Warren Returns From Trip, Will Start on Budget (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20. Gov crnor-Elect Earl Warren returned today from a 10-day fishing trip and immediately conferred with State Finance Director George Killion, laying the ground-work for Califor nia's next biennial budget.

Killion offered Warren his fullest cooperation In preparing the 1943- 45 budget. The governor-elect said he planned to start budget hearings Sacra mento Monday. He will attend as many of the meetings as his pres ent duties will permit. Warren also plans to confer later next week with representatives of the departments of natural re- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) Vern Haugland Back On A.P. Beat Again (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.

20. Vern Haugland, the Associated Press war correspondent, who survived 43 days of wandering and suffering in New Guinea Jungles, is back on the Job again. His diary of those 43 days after he bailed out of a lost plane has been called "an epic of journalism." Gen. Douglas MacArthur presented him with the silver star "as an outward symbol of the devotion and fortitude with which you have done your duty." After seveial weeks in hospitals 84-year-old Haugland, now Is able to resume the war coverage he so agerly sought His co-workers noticed today that cables from Australia bora his name. Haugland went to the southwest Paclflo from the A.P.'s Los Angeles bureau.

He Joined the A.P. staff in Bait Lake City after working on newspapers in Missoula and Butte, Mont. i U.S. Position Now Secure, States Knox (By United Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.

The navy's smashing victory over the Japanese off Guadalcanal last week netted 28 enemy ships, including one and possibly two battleships, it was revealed tonight, while on land U. S. soldiers and marines killed half of a Jap force of 1,500 men landed east of Henderson field early this month. As a result of the naval triumph by all odds the mightiest U. S.

naval victory of all time the American position on strategic Guadalcanal is "now very secure," Navy Secretary Frank Knox said, and our forces outnumber the enemy there. Revealing the full magnitude of the victory, he said the five Jap ships sunk and three damaged in last Saturday night's fierce toe-to-toe slugging match between rival battleships were In addition to the 23 previously announced sunk and seven damaged. -i ft- Final Tally Sheet Released by Knox Hitherto, there had been some doubt that the five a battleship or heavy cruiser, three large cruisers and a destroyer were new Jap casualties. But Knox's press conference statement was the final tally sheet of Jap losses in the battles of Nov. 13, 14, 15 and it read: Sunk (28 ships) Two battleships (one of them possibly a heavy cruiser;) six large cruisers, two light cruisers, six destroyers, eight trans ports and four cargo transports.

Damaged (10 ships) Two battle' ships, one cruiser and seven destroy ers. Against this staggering blow to the enemy fleet announced American losses were two light cruisers and six destroyers. On the basis of Knox's statement, the Japs used at least three and possibly four battleships in the ti-tanio struggle. Two Battleships Of U.S. in Battle He officially revealed for the first time that the American force included two battleships.

It was a "very efficient and well-handled maneuver," he said, and it "caught our friends by surprise." As a result of these losses and subsequent sinkings accounted for by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's bombers in the New Guinea area "the Jap fleet was pretty badly punished," he added. Knox held his press conference soon after the navy issued a communique revealing that the American land forces on Guadalcanal had wiped out half of a force of 1,500 (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) Mass Poisoning Probe Continues (By United Press) SALEM, Nov. 20. State police continued thfeir efforts tonight to determine how a deadly insecticide found its way into a scrambled egg dinner which proved fatal to 47 inmates of the state mental hospital.

Gov. Charles A. Sprague, describing the incident as "mass said the sodium fluoride, a deadly poison with the appearance of salt or powdered milk, "evidently was added in the preparation of the food." More than 400 inmates were served the eggs Wednesday night and all became ill, with the first deaths occurring within an hour. The poison, used as a roach powder, was stored in tha hospital kitchen's basement Dr. John C.

Evans, superintendent of the hospital, said it was impossible as yet to determine whether the poisoning was Intentional or due to carelessness. Capt Walter Lansing of the state police said his office had no official opinion as yet but that a complete investigation was being mads. nounced today Russian newspapers promised that with the closing down of winter, the red army would seize the Initiative on all fronts, striking ceaselessly at the battle-worn axis forces. In storming Into the inhabited point northeast of the Black sea naval base of Tuapse, the Russians killed 100 enemy officers and men and captured much booty, the Friday midnight communique said. 400 Nazis Slain in Capture of Height Another 400 German troops were slaughtered In the Soviet capture of the unnamed height south of Stalingrad.

In Stalingrad itself, the red army heat off enemy attacks and strengthened Its own positions, the communique reported. Russian forces in the central Caucasus, where a Soviet offensive LLF.5 AT (By United Press) LONDON Nov. 21. (Saturday) A strong force of four-engined British bombers was reported to have smashed at northern Italy last night for the sixth time this month. An air raid alarm was sounded in Geneva, Switzerland, at 8:55 p.m.

and for more than an hour a steady stream of planes roared over the Alps from the northwest to the southwest the royal air force route to Italy. An alarm was sounded at Basle, Switzerland, at 10 p.m. Four raids on northern Italy this month all were concentrated on Genoa, main axis supply port for north Africa, In support of the Anglo-American ground offensive. A fifth raid, last Wednesday, was against Turin, site of the Fiat motor and airplane works. The air ministry announced that fighters of the R.A.F.

army cooperation command, presumably North American Mustangs, attacked ground targets in France, Belgium and Holland in daylight Friday. One fighter was lost Firemen Musi Slide Down Wooden Pole (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20. If fire men at Sawtelle station suffer from slivers, it'll be slivers for victory. The fire commission announced that, to save critical materials, the dormitory pole in the new station-house will be of smooth (let's hope so) greased wood, instead of steel.

with Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch, Yugoslav patriot whose Chetnik fighters are maintaining a minor second front against Germans and Italian occupation troops. The Yugoslav government in exile here was certain the executions marked the beginning of a new wave of German atrocities due to Anglo-American successes In north Africa. A German broadcast stated openly that "there are still too many Serbs in Belgrade hoping Anglo-Americans will arrlvt on the first train." MASHES 1 pitch all along the coastal strip between Buna and Gona where the Japs are being forced back toward the shore. Growing Disaster For Japanese Seen Japanese planes, whose appearances in the sector have been infrequent, have entered the engagement in' an attempt to forestall what appears to be a growing disaster for the enemy.

Jap air forces made a feeble effort on Thursday night to cover a light cruiser and two destroyers seeking to relieve the situation but the Jap fliers were driven off with a loss' of three Zeros. The cruiser and one destroyer were bombed and sunk and the other destroyer, damaged, fled the scene. TD (By United Press) HEADQUARTERS, ALASKA DEFENSE COMMAND, Nov. 8. (Delayed) Belief that the Japanese are reestablishing their base on Attu island, at the extreme end of the Aleutian chain, which they ap parently abandoned in September, was expressed today by army air force pilots.

A fighter pilot exoud that de stroyed eight Jap seaplane fighters at Holtz bay on Attu Nov. 7, report ed meeting strong anti-aircraft fire. Pilots advanced the theory that the enemy intends to use Attu as an in termediate base in bringing new air support to the beleaguered Kiska garrison. American planes raiding Kiska have had no aerial resistance for weeks. Four air force fighter pilots raided Attu following a strafing attack on Nov.

6 by a United States bomber, and found four Jap planes moored at a creek mouth and four more, either being assembled or storm-damaged, on the beach. By repeated strafing they blew up two of the planes and set fire to others despite the anti-aircraft fire. Authority Granted To Ration Coffee (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. Coffee rationing is official now.

The war production board today formally delegated to the office of price administration authority to ration the product. The fact that coffee would be rationed, beginning at midnight Nov. 28, was publicly an nounced Oct 27. at the behest of Chairman Martin Dies, Texas Democrat, of the house committee on un-American activities who prepared a list of 1,121 names for investigation. Of tha 42 dismissed three were on the list Meanwhile, Secretary Robert E.

Stripling of the Dies committee, said the group soon will hear charges that Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox "yielded to Communist pressure" and reinstated 10 ship radio operators previously ousted by a naval trial board for alleged subversive activities. 1 no IT F.B.R. II TALK (By Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 21. (Saturday) The London Daily Express in a dispatch dated on the French frontier quoted Paris reports today that a crowd armed with bludgeons attacked pro-Nazi Jacques Dorlot and his bodyguard as they left a meeting of Doriot's popular party.

LONDON, Nov. 20. Pierre La val charged tonight that President Roosevelt undermined French defenses in north Africa "by systematic preparations and propagan da," but he declared France will not admit herself beaten "and the dav will come when the French flag again flies over our empire, Speaking on a French broadcast, the pro-Nazi puppet premier said the situation for France is "tragic" and Marshal Henri Philippe Pe-tain "has given me the heaviest task a man can carry on his shoulders." "I will take my share of the re sponsibility and ask no more than to give an example to my country men," Laval said. Reminding Frenchmen of Petain's orders to resist the Anglo-American attack in Africa, Laval said "France does not want a world of bolshevism under the cover of the Anglo-Amer ican bayonet." Laval also reminded his listen ers that there still are 2,000,000 French prisoners in German hands and said his present policy "is intended to liberate them and at the (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) Slayings It was believed the latest shootings were part of a move to clean up elements whose activities may bo dangerous to the axis in the event allied activities reach Yugoslavia. The Czech and Greek governments here also received information of a fresh wave of terror since German setbacks in Africa.

Numerous residents of Crete were reported arrested and imprisoned and last week 40 Czechs were reported shot, probably because they listened to allied broadcasts. In Brussels 18 persons were tried for espionage and "maintaining a friendly attitude toward the enemy." Fifteen of them were sentenced to death. The fascist mayor of Charlerol in Belgium was killed last night by unknown persons as he left the city hall Axis Resorts to New In Battling Increased Unrest Six U.S. Employes Ousted (By United Press) LONDON, Nov. 20.

Underground advices from the continent said tonight that more than 100 persons had been executed or condemned by axis occupation authorities striving to put down a new wave of unrest inspired by the allied campaign in north Africa. For Subversive Activity The reports came from Yugo-' slavia, Czecho-Slovakia, Greece, Crete, Belgium, and even from Germany Itself, where executions were reported at Dresden and Cologne. Five Italian workmen were reported shot by Nazi storm troopers at Dresden when they rioted after tha Germans rejected demands for a wage settlement and their return to Italy. Jan Barendrecht was executed at Cologne for espionage "at home and abroad." In Belgrade it was announced that 13 Serbs had been executed for "seoretly plotting against the state" (By United Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.

Six more government employes have been dismissed for being members of subversive organizations, bring ing to 42 the number of such dis charges since congress authorized the federal bureau of investigation to look into these cases a year ago, Attorney General Francis BIddle reported to congress today. me report, covering the period July 1-Sopt. 30, showed that 4,612 cases still were under scrutiny on Oct. 1. Congress authorized the Inquiry.