The Rock Island Argus from Rock Island, Illinois • 1

1 S1LAND The Weather Warmer through tomorrow forenoon. NINETY-SECOND YEAR No. 32. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU CIRCULATION ROCK ISLAND, TUESDAY, NOV. 24, 1942.

EIGHTEEN PAGES ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED. PRESS PRICE FIVE.CENTS Final Edition Moline news, page Radio news, page 13. Broken Railways, Shortages And Second Front Shock Are Beating Nazis, Lochner Says ENLISTMENT OF SNIP AND PLANE WORKERS ENDED RUSSIANS DRIVE ON AND RETAKE MANY VILLAGES I Wobbly railways, frightful shortages and the severe shock to German morale which came when Hitler de- I nSlolSUlingrad Defender, Hurll Lochner, former chief of the Associated Press bureau in Germans From 17 Berlin, aid last night before 600 persons in Rock Island' high school auditorium. Creation ini Blockhouses. Go of a second front North Africa has greatly heartened millions of subjugated people in Europe; has shocked the Nazis by prov- Fnsom and will soften the enemy the united nations.

Dakar Base Shifts Strategic Ordnance and Ammunition Production Placed on Essential List INflUDFS is' fl AWS tLADOLo Washington, Nov. 24. (United Press.) The government today prohibited voluntary enlistment in the armed forces by any essential worker in aircraft and shipbuilding industries. The action was seen as a compromise answer to demands among federal manpower agencies that'ajl voluntary enlistments be stopped. Acting after approval had been obtained from the war and navy departments, Major General Lewis B.

Hershey, selective service director, instructed local draft boards by telegram to refuse re- leases for enlistment to essential aircraft or shipbuilding workers. I He defined essential workers as any registrant who is, or should be, classified in class II-B or II1-B and who is employed in the aircraft or shipbuilding industries. The ruling also applies to registrants who resigned from essential jobs in thoe industries within 60 days before seeking to enlist. Hershey emphasized that this is not a blanket deferment of workers in these industries, who will continue to be called f9r military service as they are needed and as can be replaced in essential jobs. This followed a press conference comment by McNutt yesterday that tighter controls should be applied to make sure that local boards observe directives from Washington.

He indicated that failure; to follow such directives has done considerable damage to WMC and selective service programs. The waf manpower commission announced completion of a comprehensive list of approximately 3,000 specific occupations which hereafter will be considered as vital to war production and therefore ground for occupational deferment from armed service. All told, there are about 27,000 occupations in the United States. List Essential Occupations. The occupations were listed under 35 categories of essential activities.

The list will be made available to regional offices of Th strategic naval base of Dakar (above) and all the rest of French West Africa has come under the control of Admiral Jean Darlan, the former Vichy defense chief himself announced. The statement indicates that Dakar; for two years a potential dagger pointed at the western hemisphere, has fallen to the allies without bloodshed. Germanys most Vulnerable points are its railways, Mr. Loch avJss.TS'ss fis fir js armies became extended. Then what he had built so carefully was of no value; when I left Germany, (Continued on Page Three.) Fire Destroys School At Toulon; Loss $100,000 Toulon, 111., Nov.

24 (As sociated Press.) Fire of unknown origin swept through the Toulon community high school early today causing damage extimated by school board officials at $100,000, most of which was covered by insurance. The blaze started in the manual training room and badly damaged the entire building except one wing housing gymnasium and auditorium. Firemen from Kewanee, Galva, and Wyoming aided the Toulon department in getting the blaze under control. HIMMLER WILL LIQUIDATE HALF OF POLISH JEWS I I A I Gestapo Already Carrying I I Uut Rule, Government in Exile Says. London, Nov.

24. (United I Press) Heinrich Himmler, head the Nazi gestapo, has ordered that one-half of the large Jewish population in occupied Poland be I exterminated by the end of the year, reports from the Polish un derground movement to the Polish govemment-tn-exile here said today. The first step in the bloody program, it was said, would be to kill per cent of the thousands of Jews living in ghettoes established the Nazis. The remainder would liquidated later. There were 3,113,900 Jews, or 9.8 per cent of the total population, Poland according to the 1931 census, but the Germans during more than three years of occupa- U.BU muv-c v.vut-i Allies Defeat Nazi Column At Jalo in March on Tunis; Axis Reinforcements Arrive Washington, Nov.

24. (Associated Press.) Attorney General Biddle announced today that Richard Julius Herman Krebs, who wrote a widely-sold book on his experiences as an agent of the Gestapo and the O. G. P. U.

under the name of Jan Valtln had been arrested near Bethel, on a warrant ordering his deportation to Germany. The next step presumably will be to intern Krebs as an enemy alien, since he cannot be returned to Germany during the war. The justice department decined to comment on this in line with is policy concerning enemy aliens. Krebs is a native of Darmstadt, Germany, and is 37. His book was entitled Out of! the Night.

Krebs was arrested by immigration and naturalization service officers on a warrant issued by Commissioner Earl G. Harrison, after Biddle had approved a deportation order based on alleged WMC's U. S. employment service I violations of the 1917 and 1924 TWn DD nvrc inuANrr TWO PRONGS ADVANCE i I 32 1 JmsstttSx I fresh ga ns northwest and -south I of the Volga bastion, todays latest battle reports showed. Details of the advances were not given but many hundreds more Germans were reported killed, adding to previous Russian estimates that the enemy lost 50,000 slain and captured through the first four days of the drive.

(A dispatch to' the London Express under Stockholm dateline said Colonel General Herman von Hoth, reputed to be the Nazi commander of the siege forces, has begun to pull out from Stalingrad. (Other reports said the Germans were throwing in masses of reinforcements in an attempt to keep open an avenue of escape or reinforcement). The regular midday communique did not name any of the towns captured through the night but said our units occupied number of populated places northwest of Stalingrad, indicating that the axis forces that have been battering at that city for three months were in growing danger of encirclement. The Russians were reported to have driven one prong of the 2-pronged offensive as far as 125 mile northwest of Stalingrad. Siege-toughened defenders of Stalingrad helped themselves, too, clearing the Germans from 17 blockhouses, killing 250.

The offensive columns north- west of the city were said to have smashed enemy resistance at several points, knocking out nine CiCU vUUSf VUt German tanks, capturing seven guns, an ammunition dump and a wireless station in one area while in another 13 tanks were disabled or fired. Attack. In a surprise attack on one town, the Germans were reported to have been to organize jjetense and 1,000 of them were killed while 70 trucks and 25 planes were destroyed. South of Stalingrad, one unit was said to have killed 850 of the enemy and captured 520. In local action at Tuapse in the Black sea sector, the Russians said they repulsed a German counter-attack on a recently won CUT JAP AID TO SOLOMON ISLES Knox Says Patrols by U.

S. I Make Landings Very Unlikely BULLETIN. Washington, Nov. 24. (Associated Press.) The navy reported today that American forces oii Guadalcanal island in the Solomons had made further advances to the westward of their positions following night attacks on Japanese positions by American I I in ing Americans can blitz, too, the final great blow by Mr.

Lochner, who lived in Germany from 1921 until six months ago, was interviewed over WHBF and talked informally to a group of newspapermen and others at a hotel dinner. Sponsored by the Rock Island Optimist club, Mr. I Lochner was presented to the audience at the school by Walter E. Chambers, Optimist president, and Clifford L. Hubbard, program chairman.

The Rock Island high school male quartet sang four numbers. ARREST AUTHOR JAN VALTIN AS ENEMY FOR U.S, Former Nazi and A.G.P.U. Agent Julius Krebs to Be Interned. immigration acts. The violations described as illegal entry into the United States after once having been arrested and deported and after commiting a crime (perjury) involving moral turpitude.

The board of immigration appeals voted unanimously for the deportation order, the department said, after first denying Krebs' application to suspend the proceeding, on the ground that he had not been a person of good moral character during the past five years and that he was otherwise deportable, Prior to his arrest he had been at liberty under $5,000 feond pending a decision by the board Works for Commintern. Out of the Night described in fereat detail Krebs life, particu larly his work as an agent of the Soviet Russian secret police which, he said brought him to America to stir up trouble along the water front. He claimed to have done similar work in Europe and. declared he was the Com minterns chief trouble maker on the water front of Europe, hunted by the police of half a dozen nations' Krebs first came to the United States for a brief period in December, 1921, landing at Galveston, Texas. He made brief visits also in 1923 and 1924.

He testified before the immigration appeals board that from 1923 to December, 1937, he was a member of 50 by be in of to to Madrid, Nov. 24. (United Press.) Allied columns advancing toward the Tunisian promontory along the val ley of the Medjerda river, which runs northeasterly to the Mediterranean between Tunis and Bizerte, defeated a German column at Jalo, reports from Algiers said today. The advancing allied force en 1 to Darlan (The French news agency Havas reported from La Liriea, Spain, today that a British convoy of 28 merchant ships heavj escorted by warships, bombers and fighters had passed through the Strait of Gibraltar toward the Atlantic. Two American destroyers were said to have entered Gibraltar harbor this afternoon.

The harbor already contained three' battleships, two aircraft carriers, several British destroyers and 35 merchantmen, including (Continued on Page Two.) RATION BANKING SET-rSLATED System Will be Placed in Operation for Nation in January. Washington, Nov. 24. (Associated Press.) Dealers in rationed commodities are going to put their sugar in the bank. A system of ration banking requiring separate bank accounts for sugar, coffee, gasoline and other rationed products will be placed in operation throughout the nation sometime in January, the office of price administration announced last night.

A grocer, for example, will deposit in the bank all the sugar ration coupons he collects from customers. To replenish his stock, he will draw a check on his rationing account for required number of coupons. The check goes to the grocers supplier who in turn will deposit the check in his own rationing account. The checks, cleared in the same manner as checks for money, -will be handled by 14,000 commercial banks which will be reimbursed by the government for the added expense of keeping the new accounts of pounds and gallons' of rationed products. hoppitto $ays till Christmas TRAITORS WILL BE EXECUTED Iff CHICAGO JAN.

22 Judge Serves Notice Nazi Scheme of Pawns in U. S. to Fail. DEFENDS -HOME FRONT Chicago, Nov. 24-(Associated 6ess.) Three men who becamo American citizens in name only were sentenced to death today for treason.

Their wives, convicted with them, were eachi fined $10,000 and sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. Federal Judge William J. Campbell called them pawns of Hitler, and in fixing their punishment he said, this a war ot people against people as well as cannon cannon. To endanger the home front, therefore, is as treasonable as the act of spiking our guns in the face of the enemy. The white faced defendants, who heard their sentences with barely a quiver of emotion, were proved to have aided; and comforted Herbert Hans Haupt, one of the six Nazi saboteurs executed in Washington Aug.

8. They were young Haupts parents, Hans and Ema Haupt; his uncle and aunt, Walter and Lucille Froehling; and two friends of the family, Otto and Kate Wergin. Campbell said the sentences will serve notice on the enemy that the cunningly conceived Nazi scheme to use German-Americans in this country as pawns is doomed to failure. Counsel has urged clemency for the prisoners before the bar, particularly in. the cases of the three women as mothers, Judge Campbell said as he soberly read his statement.

There are no priorities on mercy. Like ustice, it is the common hope of all. Considers U. S. Mothers.

In weighing the mercy pleas' for the rwomcn here involved it also has been incumbent on the court to consider the millions of suffering mothers of the boys who are fighting this war And the mothers who must toil in aluminum and powder plants or on production lines in constant danger from saboteurs mothers who had equal rights to consideration with the 'prisoners here. These defendants by their acts have thus forfeited any right to consideration as mothers. The convicted men pnd women listened with their eyes glued on the judges face. They heard the men sentenced to be electrocuted Jan. 22.

They heard the women condemned to spend most of the rest of their lives in prisons. And (Continued on Page Two.) Today Rock Island. Lochner points to main weaknesses in armor. City council orders study made of proposal for to. all city employes.

Mayor Galbraith returns after brief rest in Florida. Increase infat salvage expected as womans club and Cub Scouts combine campaign efforts. Moline. Rationing permits issued to 131 in upper county. 'Membership drive for Y.

M. C. A. ends with 104 new members added. SUvis.

Four Rock Island ypuths sent to county jail. services held for George Lenc, former Augus-tana college athlete. i Davenport. Twenty-five hundred persons hear prbgram by John Charles Thomas. Shrine circus opens.

three Nazis position and then dislodged the Hitlerites from a fortified point. Only light action was reported in the Caucasus southeast of Nalchik. To the northwest near Lenin- grad, a Soviet detachment was I lentless envelopment, todays mid-credited with the capture of an day communique reported an enemy strong point and nowhere Australian Jungle column had long the front lines was there moved into Gona enemy anchor tion have reduced this number by indication that the axis forces 12 miles above Buna, and was killing thousands outright or per-1 had made ny gains. mopping up the die-hard garrison mitting them to die of starvation I (London sources estimated the there. and disease.

i might have 300,000 to 400,000 Rifnitanoii1v American forces Special Nazi liquidation bat- jn ta the, imperiled Stalingrad ovaUnltae EA4iadere, which talions, commanded by members area-l the notorious SS Elite guard, apparently have chosen to be exterminated rather than to surrender their southernmost New Guinea beachhead. Extending the picture of lies three miles southeast of Buna, overcoming stiff resistance and local draft boards. The 35 categories are production of aircraft and parts; production of ships, boats, and parts; production of ordnance and accessories; ammunition; agriculture; processing of food; forestry, -logging, and lumbering; construction; coal mining; metal mining; non-metallic mining and processing and quarrying; smelting, lefinmg and rolling of metals; production of metal shapes and forgings; finishing of metal products; production of industrial and agricultural equipment; machinery; chemicals and allied products; rubber products; leather products; textiles; apparel; stone, clay and glass products; petroL Wum, natural gas and petroleum and coal products; finished lumber products; transportation equipment; transportation services; materials for- packing and shipping products; communication equipment; communication services; heating, power and illuminating services; repair services; health and welfare services; educational services; governmental services (other than federal); technical, scientific and manage- xnent services. Attractive Blonde Slain; Worker in 'Shipyards Soughtl AUSSIE COLUMN GOES INTO GONA TO MOP UP JAPS Other Allied Forces Fight Yard-by-yard Toward Buna Base. General MacArthurs Headquarters, Australia, Nov.

24. (Associated Press) American and Australian soldiers fought their way yard-by-yard toward Buna to- day against Japanese forces that from many machinegun nests and treetop While some of the allied left wing forces were completing the mop-up job in Gona, others turned down the coast toward Sanananda, between Gona and. which the enemy was reported to occu- py In force. The Japanese were resisting fiercely around Buna although they were forced to fight with, no air or sea support. General Mac-I Arthurs bombers kept close watch along the coast for any effort to reinforce or evacuate the Japanese units which are being slowly shoved back into the sea.

Few Allied Casualties. With U. S. Forces Somewhere New Guinea, Nov. 23.

(Delayed) (Associated Press) United States troops fighting a Jungle battle over what they say must be the worlds worst, battleground are taking everything the Japanese of-tricks trees, are dealing out steady punishment at small cost Our troops are finding the Japanese tricky. For instance, one wounded Japanese lying among the dead was caught lifting a hand grenade. A bullet in the head finished him. Corporal Clinton Brownell of Platteville, described the Japanese as big fellows, well-equipped, fighting from well-prepared positions in slit trenches, behind log barricades, and some barbed wire. The enemy has staged a regular show with sound effects firecrackers and shouting.

countered resistance from the Nazi column, a light armored unit, but repelled it, the reports said. Other African reports said Admiral Jean Francois Darlan has ordered all French warships and mechant vessels at Dakar to remain there while he dispatches a special staff to Dakar to organize the port for full cooperation with the allies. Among French naval forces at Dakar were said to be he damaged French battleship Richelieu, a cruiser and 21 submarines. Reveal How Six. Tanks Saved Big Force of F.

BY HAROLD V. BOYLE. Lyautey, French Morocco, Nov. 17. (Delayed) (Associated Press).

A tank commander saved an entire American landing force here from being thrown back into the sea by leading six U. S. tanks against an overwhelmingly superior French force and knocking out every one of the 18 opposing machines, it may now be disclosed. The first full story of this encounter. led by Colonel Harry Semmes, former Washington, D.

attorney, came today from Captain A. T. Netterblad, aide to Brigadier General Lucian K. Tru-scott, commanding general in charge of the attack here. The American position was imperiled on the evening of Nov.

8 when the 18 French tanks and a regiment of infantry were approaching from Rabat, 25 miles away. They were detected by many air scouts. The chief American striking forces were tied up in a bitter battle for the Kasha, ancient stronghold overlooking the sea. Only two American tanks, one 37-millimeter gun and one anti-tank gun were protecting the right flank. The French knocked out our anti-tank gun and iU crew and began chewing up our infantry but didnt advance further that night, said Netterblad.

Despite the surf which delayed landing of our heavy armored equipment Colonel Semmes, commander of the third armored landing team, managed to get two more tanks ashore overnight and attacked with four tanks, although later reinforced by two more landed during the action. The French tank column was smashed. Colonel Semmes own tank was hit eight times and he knocked out four enemy tanks himself. We didnt lose a single tank to enemy action. were said to be carrying out Himmler's program.

These squads were dragging Jewish victims from their homes or seizing them in streets and driving them to village and town square in mass roundups for execution, the reports said. Old men and women and cripples were singled out to be herded cemeteries, where they were mowed down by firing squads, Polish sources said. The Nazis made no attempt to prove that the 'Jews had committed any crimes or violated German regulations. Jews who were not executed immediately, it was reported, were packed into freight cars 150 packed to a car that normally was large enough for 40 to be shipped undisclosed points for liquidation. Many Suffocate.

The floors of the cars were covered with a thick layer of lime or chlorine sprinkled with water and the doors were tightly sealed. In some cases the trains reportedly Washington, Nov. 24 (Associ- remained on a siding for two days I ated. Press.) Secretary of the before departing and many of the Navy Knox said today it was Jews died of suffocation. The very unlikely that the Japa-dead were left Jh the Cars with the nese were getting reinforcements I living.

to their troops opposing American I takin advance trough tall grass Polish government quarters said forces on Guadalcanal in the on uuadaicanai in have In their full bag with comparatively few casualties. In short, in this cautions, pains- and under the green canopy of tall the Americans Palo Alto, Nov. 24. (Associated Press) A shipyard worker named Frank was sought today for questioning in the brutial kill- I and violence, irg of 27-year-okl Bernice Curtis, He came to the United States whose body was found in a field from Shanghai in 1926 by way of near Staniord university yester- Canada on orders, he told the day. board, of his Communist party Miss Elsa Martin of San Fran- superiors.

Krebs assaulted a Los cisco, with whom Miss Curtis had Angeles store keeper about Aug. been rooming the past three weeks. 1 14, 1926, pleaded guilty and was Id police that the attractive blonde from Chicago had a date Sunday night with the worker, but she could furnish no other identification. Police also pursued slim clues in a mans footprints and tire tracks on a dirt road alongside I Chicago, Nov. 24.

(Associated the spot where the body was Press.) Ten-year-old Kenneth found. Miss Curtis evidently had (Konk) Aim was in bed when he been driven there in a light car, heard noises downstairs. His folks they said, and was slain with a were away, so he seized his air large rock which crushed her ifle, went to the top of the stairs kull. The body iwas thrown over l-and shouted Stick em up. A a fence into a plowed field.

man going through his mothers There was no indication she had purse dropped it and fled. of the Communist party of Germany and that during that period he led a life of conspiracy the Nazis temporarily were spar- Solomon islands, ing young and relatively healthy It is possible but not prob-Jews to be used as slave labor. As able, Knox told a press confer-confirmation of the reports they ence, because rigid United States cited German figures reportedly patrols are working day and announcing that only 40,000 food night ration cards were printed for Jews I The- Japanese have not been in Poland for October, compared reported landing more troops on with 130,000 in September. the embattled island since their Polish Jews will not be the only great and unsuccessful drive al-ones to suffer from this latest Nazi I most two weeks ago to land huge pogrom, since thousands of Jews I forces and overwhelm the Amer-from Germany, Austria, former lean defenders of the airfield Czechoslovakia, and some occu- there. pied territories have been trans- Prior to the big push the Jap-ported to Polish ghettoes after anese had the method of feeding having been deprived of virtually in an average of about 900 men all their wealth and personal pos- I every second night, landing them sessions.

from cruiser-destroyer groups. leen raped, nor wiis there other clues as to the motive. A large diamond engagement ring sparkled on1 her left hand, which was clenched tightly. Several lingers were broken. "Konk told police his preparations for attack were simple: I got my pocket knife, key chain, and coin collection and put them all under my underwear in my dresser.

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