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fnr Today lueuied THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Weather- Dakota Oldest 1873 VOLUME 70- NUMBER 53 BISMARCK, N. THTJHSDAY, MARCH 4,1943 i i a PRICE FIVE CENTS YANKS BATTER 22 JAP SHIPS Mountain War-Time Bill Awaits Moses' Signature Only the governor's sig? aiu'e on house bill 220 now neteita'-v to kota on a mountain war-time basis That bill, previously passed by the clewed the senate Wednes-l esst the Missouri river go back with lily seven negative votes. I one 1' or. bekiz unchanged wejtt truuiu tjvart April i der terms of the measure, it becomes effective April 1, when clocks Local Boards Still Under Orders to Pass Up Fathers WASHINGTON-- UP) --Correcting en earlier statement, Chairman Paul V. McNutt of the War Manpower Commission Thursday said local draft boards are still under orders not to draft men with de- Victor A.

Smaltz, Bismarck Flying Student, Dies Taken suddenly 111 Wednesday, Victor A. Smaltz, 604 Ninth died early Thursday in a hospital at where he went Rochester recentlv army's civilian pn Mr, ently Jiving He wer to his flist" training nesday He was 34 student pilot in the training service for a' 1 in appar- wjen his wife, from him. i to continue last Wed- old. VICTOR A. SMALTZ A resident of Bismarck for about the last 10 years, Mr.

Smaltz was proprietor of the music department of the Tavic Music company here Be was well-known as a musician having played with leading bands of the Northwest and having been a staff musician for Radio Station KFYR much of the time in recent years. Born In Canada Mr. Smaltz was born 1909, at Yorktown, Sask. Jan. 21 in Can- pendent -mm they receive im national selective sTVitf hepdoua'rers.

At n.is t'ress coniTence Monday McNutt said be knew of no such restrictior on the low! boards and declared quite a number" of fath- eis of children were being taken. McNutt Cites Regulations In a clarifying statement issued Thursday, McNutt said the only men with children now being inducted are those whose dependency was acquired after Dec. 8, 1941, or at a time when draft selection was imminent. "Those registrants having wives and children, or children only, with whom they maintain a bona fide home, and who were married before Dec, 8, 1942, and at a time when selection was not imminent, may not be inducted through selective -ice until thcic is direct authorization by national headquarters," McNutt's statement said. The regulations have been designed, McNutt said, "to protect the bona fide family relationship as long as possible" to the extent that it is practicable to do this and still meet the requirements of the armed services for 10,800,000 men by this year and also supply the manpower needs of war industries.

30 Days to Find Essential Job However, after April 1 men who oij. my me "non-deferrable" occupations listed last month will have 30 days transfer to essential job's or IP "gisfer with U. S. employment service before "being placed in Clfws I-A. In reslaseifyintf men with de pendents into I-A, the boards will follow this procedure, McNutt said: First, the supply of single men who are without dependents and who are not deferred as necessary in their occupations will be exhausted in a local board area.

Then the local board will review the classifications of the 3-A or 3-B registrants to determine which should be re-classified 1-A and which should be further deferred for occupational reasons or because induction would cause undue hardship on dependents. Order of Call The order in which registrants are called (and the order in which the 3-A and 3-B registrants will come up for review and reclassification) is listed in selective service regulations: 1. Single men with no depend ents (l-A); 2. Single men who do not contribute to the war effort but who have dependents (3-A); 3. Smgle men with dependents and who contribute to the war effort ada.

the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. His parents still make their borne in Yorktown. On June 29,1941, Mr.

Smaltz married Miss Alfhild Sandsmark of Bis- marek and Watford City, N. at City. Beside- his widow and Mr. Sma'tz leaves two small daughters bv an earlier marriage. They are Pwlope, 4, and VicM, 8.

He also Ipfves two brothers Alvin Smalts nns been serving in the Royal Canadian Navy since the start of the war and Larry lives in Los Ansteies, Calif. About ago Mr Smaltz enlistee jr the army's program for! the training of pilots and received his hasir i-ralning at Bismarck. He received his secondary flight train- at Fargo and had just started flight training at Rochester Not Set 7 was educated In schools and was f-he North Dakota 4 Men who are not engaged in the FT effort but who maintain a family relationship with a wife or iv (3-A): who are not engaged in the effort ind who maintain a ni fule fsmilv relationship with ndi children or children only pne (Red in the an'! vh mantain a bona nsh with wife and chili i i drf oti (3-B). wevrr, thai ri-i fMe amoie th i i i ilati- liirfr i i fieri to vent one Ix ferral their from before ft Hoards ii" been in- i i pre- ig de- a her i nd bV Mr! -in La'nr In 101 nit i not ine lee Ion (X 1 fpri" --'B M' Mi Jii- irrn i i rirr men a 7 In ITT-B trimr 1 1 IxmrrU 'he nnr" hauitpci their yooi' the The pr)" ioiuid uartlcular op- positioi' izoni those who live near state boundaries, on contention it would work a hardship on railroads, radio stations, interstate bus lines and airlines as well as on merchants. Farmer-senators were for the bill to a man as Senator Platt of Ransom, Sheldon farmer, declared the problem was simply whether "we want more time for food for victory or more time for golf." Flatt explained farmers who arise at 7 a.

m. must wait an hour or so before it is light enough to work and "when the sun is still high and the watch says 8 p. Just try and get your hired men to work long er." May Be Confusing There were others who were convinced the time change would re suit in "endless confusion" insofar as interstate and federal governmental departments were concern' ed. One statehouse attorney told senators in the corridors after the bill had passed that the V. 8.

supreme court on a Massachusetts case had ruled in point. He said that time as fixed by congress is to movement on common carriers engaged in interstate and foreign commerce; to its own officials and departments: and acts done by any persons under federal statutes, orders, rules and Under that Interpretation, he said interstate common carriers would not be affected nor would post offices or any federal officials, Including federal courts and quasi federal government agencies. Senate insurance Committee Asks Legislation Okay A special senat comirmte? Thursday asked for final approval of proposed legislation to eliminate re-in- suranre and prohibits the fire and tornado fund from acting as insurance brokers in move to "stop continuation of insurance costs on public property." In 53-page printed report, crowded with testimony from the special committee's hearings and comparative insurance figures, the committee recommends the fire and tornado fund "be placed on a basis whereby it can accomplish what it was intended for--low insurance costs for public buildings." Fund Created to Reduce Costs The senate committee, composed of Senators Bridston of Grand Forks, Page of Fembina, and olberg of Williams, contends "the oniv reason Senate Kills Truck Bill By 23-24 Vote Oontroversial hoiw "es were under fire in the Wednesday as senators Ul authorizing increased and lengths of trucks, passed a tell which permits the use of pointers setters and droppers by upland game bird hunters. The latter measure now goes to the governor for signature. The trucker bill, killed 23 to 24, would have provided for increased length limits from 40 to 45 feet overall and lifted the present pound gross weight limitation, without altering existing load limits of 18,000 pounds per axle and 8,000 pounds per wheel.

After the bill was defeated the clincher motion was applied, requiring a two-thirds majority of members present to return it to the floor for re-consideration. Dented waa public the fund was original! to rerhice insurance i- propp'ties in North Th" committee cited of Insurance Commissioner Osrar E. Eririfsoft in which fie think the cost was roneirterrt' when asker' if he believed the fund was created to give protection without any fnnsWeraticn of Th 1 "ommit'ee was seiwirt after the legislature received a report from A. Kiaudt, special exaiminiw com- or practices fire and tornado fund ThP Commit' ee was assigned to Inthe Klaudt report after O. ifl'lrd t' R.

Volt), manager of the fund, said "this 'pport udt's) is full of accusation based on conclusions of someone -mi- familiar with insurance laws and rrartlpes." "The rnmmittee has made a dill gent effor' to satisfy themselves as to the flrr'-Brv of all facts and fig- urpp met! Kiaudt's report and are satMiM they are correct," the report err ued. i Policies Adopted "he "oniTnlttee further asserted a tornado had policies as cited in the hna'rt areas in i 1 p.ther local 'tatr had ex- if nele men." I 1 i "tU IP Nature been deter- i ri rorr I'l-iiH The I Convert Fun- Ask Women of City To Help Can Drive Increase tne mount. i ranee nrop- i i I "ts. or aH" in rlia-ze n' nirh piop. I a IV 1 Senate Has 24 As the senate closed for the day, a check of the calendar shows the upper house has 33 house bills left for final action.

There are 24 bills on the calendar for today, leaving only nine to be reported out of committee. The house, which convened again in night session to work on a long calendar, has approximately 80 sen ate measures for final consideration. The senate also passed a house bill providing for returning $900, 000 to repay the state hail insur- How They Voied Here is the vote by which the senate defeated a house bill provid ing for increased weights and lengths of commercial trucks. For (23): Beaton, Bond, Brant, Bridston, Bnmsdale, Cay, Boss, Outer, Hoenck, Lavik, Lofthus, Lynch, Nelson of Dickey, Nelson of Origgs-Steeie. Nelson of McKenzle, of MrHenry, Olson of Mow ail Rasrriko, Semerad, Solberg, mtffoer Troxel and Wog.

Again" (24): AtHHnrBfiteh, Dftw, Tiatt, Oreiser, Ouenther, Kamrath, Kehoe, Morgan at Walsh, Morgan of Rlchland, Nelson of Ren- vllle, Nordhougen, O'Brien, Oksendahl, Olson of Barnes, Page, Porter, Rue, Schrock, Strelbel, Stucke, Watt and Young. Absent or not voting (2): Blank, ance fund for money transferred from the fund in 1936 to the state equalization fund when common schools were financially distressed Opposing the measure, Senator Young of LaMoure declared the legislature is faced with balancing the budget at this late hour and contended the department did not need the money; Senator Braun of Richland concurred with Young as an argument arose over whether it was considered a loan or outright grant to the equalization fund. Ballot BUI Killed senator Stucke of McLean de- eta Ted "There was a $100,000 token payment on the amount in 1939 so T'm convinced It was a Senator Bnmsdale of Trail "the law doesn't say i m- a loan" and further explainec the )iij provides for a 2 per cent In- charge. The bill passed 27 to 2 with one absent. After a day spent entirely on amending senate bills and receiving committee reports, includes five recommendations for indefiniti postponement which were adopted the house went into night session facine a final action calendar of 29 measures.

indefinitely postponed withou Rrsnjment nnd with no dissenting voro wa" the bill to repeal the stare's consolidated ballot act and provide or ballots a primary irv i rmiTi idee 'r psfi'it i dp nf i i a a 'p ll Bill ed oratory pieeeded th -i' of permitting insbnnd Tiife tO dlS rrrr)! (' the Mil Of a de ICP Rri'l srt'eal to thi ecelvp a share the nresent law he "same manne Jnrf died ln- The Changed Man in the White House 15,000 Men 55 Planes aster In Major Dis A I HEADQUAR- IN AUSTRALIA (AP)--An entire convoy '2 Japanese ships, including '0 cruisers or destroyers, has been virtually annihilated the Bismarck sea and Japanese warriors bound for the battlefields of New Guinea have been wiped out "almost to a man" by airmen of the Southwest Pacific command, an Allied communique announced proudly Thursdav. The amazing victory, the bulletin said, was achieved at the cost of only three Allied fighters and one bomber, while 55 Japanese planes were shot out of the fight and many others damaged. Thirty-three of the 55 were listed as certainly destroyed and 22 as "probables" In addition to the 15,000 ground troops killed or drowned, several thousand Japanese naval personnel probably lost their lives, the spokesman said. 1933 Ten yean will chance any man and ten yean In the White Boose have changed Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 1943 WASHINGTON President Roosevelt attained his tenth anniversary in the White House Thursday amid scattered fourth term talk in Democratic but apparently without the slightest encouragement from him.

"He's too busy with the war to think about' 1944," said one party leader, "and besides many things can happen between iow and nom- convention "time." As on previous anniversaries of his first inauguration in 1933, the chief executive arranged to observe the day at special religious services, 16 More Bodies Found in Mine BEARCREEK, MONT. (P) -Oxygen-masked rescuers found 16 more bodies in the gas choked depths of the Smith coal mine Wednesday, bringing to 36 ftie number recovered since an explosion trapped 74 men below the level Saturday. Lethal carbon monoxide fumes continued to hamper the work of crews, who have almost despaired of finding any of the remaining 38 men alive. The crews reported they could detect no sign of life. An emergency ventilation and circulation system is slowly blowing the gas of the mine, owned by the Montana Coal and Iron company.

Five days after the explosion a crowd of women, children and over- ailed men still watted at the mine entrance, clinging desperately to a pitifully-thin thread of hope thai rescuers will alive. Meanwhile find the Montana public welfare department announced that $10,000 has been made available for emergency work. Many of the women and children who continue to wait at the mine for word of their husbands and fathers will be destitute and without immediate means of support. FR ML REED? SALT LAKE CITY-- Police aren't 't we when it happened. Heed was committed and made a trusty, What they can't figure he walked away.

They have been shortly after he arrived. Francis to (ail Feb they aere" out is whp' think it to which were invited high government officials and relatives. The services are being held In the east room of the White House, Instead of at nearby St. John's Episcopal church as in past years, because ol the President's recent illness. Mention of a fourth term made in what- was-described as a very casual manner at a White conference Wednesday.

Frank Walker of the Democratic national committee took 12 other officers and committee members to see the chief executive. Walker said afterward In response to questioning that "two or three" members told the President he "should" or would "have to be" a candidate next year If the war is stiU on. "But they got no response from ihc President," he-added. "I don't think he heard it as he was doing most of the talking. If he did he rather lightly and there was no discussion." The new national chairman and postmaster general did not identify those who brought up the matter He said the President talked almost entirely about the prosecution of the war and general conditions, and appeared optimistic about developments in the war so far.

Two Dakotan Pilots Hit Japanese Convoy AUSTRALIA (IP)-- One squadron of Mitchell bombers in particular had a remarkably successful day of skip-bombing at masthead level. Twelve men in the squadron reporting of them on more than one ship. Members of this squadron who distinguished themselves with hits included: Capt. Larry Tanberg, Dickinson. H.D.

Fortress pilots who were in the thick of the battle. Included First Lieut. Joseph Niece, Beach, N. D. Nazis Plunge Four Miles Into Allied Tunisian Lines By the Associated Press Marshall Erwin Rommel has shifted at least a part of his armored forces to Southern Tunisia to meet the British Eighth army along the Mareth line, Allied headquarters in North Africa announced Thursday, but in the north the drive of Gen.

Jurgen Von Arnlm forced a four-mile Allied withdrawal near the sea. Seven Dakofans Wounded in Action WASHINGTON-W)-- The war department made public Thursday the names of United States soldiers wounded in pction. The announcement incluoes casualties in the Alaskan, European, North African, South Pacific and Southwest Pacific areas. The list included: North Africa area: North Dakota: Gralchen Sgt. John Miss Charlotte Grairben, sister, State Teachers college Valley City.

South Pacific area: North Dakota: capt Kenneth Mrs. The change of emphasis from the central to the Southern Tunisian fronts by the German chieftain was further indicated by field reports received at Allied headquarters that American and British forces, retracing the path of their recent defeat, had occupied Sidi Bouzid, only about 10 miles from Fald Pass, without meeting opposition. Reds Erase Menace To Capital The destruction of seven Axis vessels and the damaging of nine others by British submarines in the The two-day aerial attack--one of the great plane-versus-siup battles of the dislocated" the Japanese campaign, the com- munique said. It obviously reduced the threat to Australia. Providence Guarded Allies "We have achieved a victory of such completeness as to assume the proportions of a major disaster to the enemy," the communique said, and Gen.

Douglas MacArthur added. that "merciful Providence must have guarded us in this great victory." The enemy transports and warships represented an estimated 90,000 tons. "All are sunk or sinking," the com- munique said "His (the enemy's) air coverage of this naval -force has been decimated and dispersed, 55 of his planes having been shot out of combat and many others damaged. His ground forces, estimated at probably 15,000, destined to attack in New Guinea, have been sunk or killed almost to a man." The action was executed brilliantly under extreme weather hazards and extended from the Vitiaz straits, between the Bismarck archipelago and continuous war of the supply lines tne New Guinea coast, south to Huon te4he Mediterranean was announc-, gulf on which the Japanese bases of ed meanwhile by the Admiralty in I Lae Salamaua are situated. The London.

Two Red army offensives northwest and south of Moscow gained Lae convoy started from Rabaul, New Britain, and originally consisted of 14 ships. Eight more vessels joined Ethelyn Budge, wife, 1213 Belmont Road. Forks. Dowhaniuk, Tech 5th Or. Paul- John P.

Dowhaniuk, father, Route 1, Belfield. Ne-s, U. Vernelle Rang- raid E. Ness, father, box 201, Ambrose Ste- William George Sterile irot Grassy Butte. vnik (M wathias Miss Tillie momentum as the Russians smash- it Wednesday shortly before the ed southwestward from the fallen final, concentrated Allied attack, fortress of Rzhev, capturing 11 Fight Began Tuesday towns and villages, and raised an I The convoy was first attacked increasing threat to Orel to the I Tuesday.

Wednesday, the last of the south, in evident determination to 122 ships was turned into a burning, wipe out once and for all the German menace to the Soviet capital. Southeast of Kharkov in the listing hulk. Our air force in all categories constantly attacked throughout the Ukraine, however, the Germans day and ship after ship was again and again hit with heavy bombs from claimed a further success in their counteroffensive that is menacing the Russian Hank, and declared that Slavyansk, 'a vital Donets valley railway hub about midway between Rostov and Kharkov, had been recaptured. RAF Germany The RAF, heenless of comparatively weak German efforts at retaliation for -the -iestructive rfc, joe Mrs. Eva Voller mother, Towner.

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