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ADRIAN DAILY TE1 VOL. 94. NO. 10. ADRIAN, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1943 Continued Cold (Weather Detail! on Pojo PRICE 3 CENTS.

FAVOR LEWIE ACTION TOT' Workers Can't Get In Fields Before 10 O'Clock, Says Zimmerman MOTION CARRIES 20 TO 5 The Lenawee county board of supervisors went on record yesterday afternoon as favoring state legislative action to return the state to the Central Time belt, which would result in turning clocks back one hour. The resolution was presented by Rollo Conlin of Franklin township, and 20 supervisors voted in favor and five voted against the adoption. The resolution stated that the present time system puts the state two hours ahead of the sun, and "works an unnecessary hardship on agricultural producers and is a definite hazard to the production of food which is now a vital war necessity. As a result of the action, the state legislature will be petitioned to return to the Central Time belt, "then apply the War Time measure which will put Michigan on the same time basis in relation to the daylight hours as other sections the country." Copies of the resolution are to be sent to Senator El mer Porter, Representatives Fred Rodesiler and Gov. Harry F.

Kel Farmers Want Old Time The overwhelming vote in favor of the resolution came from the representatives of farming commu nities, all of whom pointed out the disadvantages of the present Wa Time during the planting har vesting seasons. "The present time does not mean such a great hard ship on smaller farms," O. E. Zim rcerman of Medina township said "But when a farmer is hiring help he loses much of the effectivenes of the worker. He can't get the fields much before 10 o'clock in the morning, and the worke wants to quit at 6 o'clock, when sun is still high in the sky.

"In the past I have said that the present War Time is an ad vantage to war industry, and i that advantage offsets the disad vantage to farmers, let's keep it However, many mistakes have bee made, as President Roosevelt ha admitted, in managing the war date. Some day I think that the. will discover that the present Time is mistake too." Dr. Harry W. Lundahl.

of Ad rian, spoke in favor of the presen time He said he believed that Adrian people like it, and that affords war workers an opportunity for recreation, "which they need." Favor Resolution Besides Mr. Conlin- and Mr. Zimmerman, others who spoke in favor of the resolution were William E. Swick of Macon and C. E.

Halladay of Clinton. Adelbert Vedder of Adrian stated that he was not in favor of part of the state having one time, and another part the other. Other business before the board was the report of Leon- krd A. Warner, register of deeds. Mr Warner stated that total receipts of his office in 1942 were n-r TO amounted to "Never Say Die-" RED ARUM PUSHES Farmers Praised By President; INVADERS Only In Lower Don River Valley Are Germans Able To Check Reds NAZI TANK PUSH FAILS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW, Jan.

a 100- mile front from deep in the Caucasus to the lower Kalmyck Steppe, the Red army is pushing Axis invaders back toward Rostov, and just north of this sector other Russian columns are preparing for the siege of Salsk, another milestone on the way to Rostov, Soviet authorities said today. Only in the Lower Don river valley was German resistance admitted to be in such force that the push toward Rostov from that direction. The Soviet noon was slowed communique Told They're Brother i-In-Anns Of Nation's Fighting Sons Martin Loop, Adrian Civil War Veteran will be 100 years old tomorrow, January 14, is shown above at the Civil War memorial at Tipton, the first memorial of its kind erected in Michigan. He visited the memorial on Memorial Day, 1940. 100-Year-Old Civil War Vet Has Date to Keep in 50 Years His eyes dimmed by the years, but still possessed of a vigorous spirit, M'artin A.

Loop, one of the nation's few remaining Civil War veterans, will be 100 years old Thursday. Still hale and hearty once he gets the morning stiffness out of his joints, Mr. Loop expects to celebrate tomorrow in accordance with the importance of the occasion. Tomorrow night he will be the guest of honor at a family dinnei arranged at the Palmer House by his nieces, Mrs. Clara Eldredge of 227 North Broad Street and Mrs Clara Allan Baker of Detroit.

-Later in the evening an open house is Japanese Salient In New Guinea Reduced Further ALLIED Australia, HEADQUARTERS in Jan. 13 Allied the 107.79. Expenses amounted 093.99, leaving a profit to county of 51,013.80. Mr. Warner requested the board to authorize him to burr, all chattel mortgages more than five years old, on file at the office.

He said that a state law passed in 1935 made this possible. Supervisor Holloway Sawyer of Palmyra introduced a motion Eivin, the permission of the board, but it did not receive support. Mr. Warner explained that by permitting the disposal of the old chattel mortgages, it would give his office about one-third more filing space. Mr.

Swick gave a brief report of the distribution of the third quarter weight tax receipts, as chairman of the road committee. He said that 555,796.85 was distributed, half of which went to the road commission and half to the villages and the county at large. Only one motion was introduced st the morning session of the board. The supervisors voted to appropriate 525 for a petty cash fund for the operation of a truck by the county drain commissioner. Bills were read and approved.

AXIS-HELD POSITIONS POUNDED BY BOMBERS CAIRO, Jan. 13 bombers of the Middle East command pounded Axis-held Tripol- and Horns, 65 miles farther east Monday night, and other Allied planes followed up the attack with raids on Axis bases in Crete, Sicily and Lampedusa Island yesterday, a British communique said today. No new developments were re ported from the land battle fron in Tripolilania. Aerial fighting over the battleground, was carried on despite sandstorms, arid five Ax is fighters were reported sho down. Two Allied planes were reported lost in these operations, but the pi lots were said to be ground forces in New Guinea reduced further the Japanese salient extending one and a half miles inland from Sanananda Point on the Papuan Peninsula of New Guinea yesterday as Allied planes carried the triumphant campaign to the Salamaua area of New Guinea, Allied headquarters announced today.

After announcing the destruction Japanese positions at Sanananda 'oint in the previous communique. General Douglas MacArthur's eadquarters reported today "fur- her gains against the remaining nemy positions." Allied planes raided the trai eading from Salamaua to Komia- um, 10 miles to the south, and de- troyed a bridge, the communique eported. Other planes strafed the apanese-held coast in the Amboga egion. Nine Japanese bombers raided Merauke, colonial administrative enter on the of Dutch Guinea yesterday, but caused jnly slight damage, it said. Long-range Allied fighters madi a low altitude attack, against airdrome installations a ''uiloro in Portuguese Timor anc fire to' one-Japanese fighter ilane.

Buildings'zmd other installa ions on the airfield were strafed uccessfully, the communique said planned at the residence of Mrs. Eldredge. Although he isn't as spry as he was before a siege of pneumonia kept him bedfast and critically ill early this winter, he still has visions of leading Adrian's Memorial Day parade again this year and paying his customary tribute to his fallen Civil War comrades. He did just that last May 30. Since his illness he walks with a cane- but "it's just because of the slippery sidewalks" he says.

At State Convention A day or two after marching In Adrian's parade last year he went to. Grand the G. A. R. Estate convention and was elected vice commander the state organization by some 45 Civil War veterans who were able to ittend.

"By rights," he says, "I ought to ive to be 150 years old because got a date to shoot a man rom New Jersey when he gets to be 100. -This friend of mine said he wanted to be shot if he ever jot to be I volunteered to do the job. He's still living." At 100 years of age Mr. Loop can recite Lincoln's Gettysburg address with all the fervor and expression of Lincoln himself. Up until he was stricken with pneumonia he said several more populated places fell to the Russian Caucasus army in the night's fighting and added a significant report: that Red army planes had swept far west to Kras- nodar in a series of raids on the airdrome at that key German strongpoint and rail center, 150 miles south of Rostov and only 60 miles east of Novorossisk, on the Black Sea.

Ten German planes were destroyed on the ground, about 30 were damaged and two planes were brought down in an aerial duel, the communique said. A German tank advance in the Lower Don area was thrown back in vicious fighting and several towns were occupied in one sector, the war bulletin said. The Russians also reported that Red army shock troops had broken through to the western outskirts of Stalingrad after bitter- fighting in buildings, courtyards and streets. The siege of Stalingrad began 141 days ago. Held In Huge Trap The besiegers themselves are held in a huge trap before Stalingrad by the Russian columns that fanned out in the winter offensive launched Nov.

19. The Soviet midnight communi- u6 pictured the far-flung central Caucasus advance moving steadily along both sides of the railway that angles from Baku, oil center on the Caspian, northwestward to Rostov, at the mouths of the Don, WASHINGTON, Jan. Roosevelt praised the country's farmers yesterday for the work they already have done in the United Nations' greatest arsenal for food and fiber and expressed confidence they would rise to the even greater tasks ahead. 'The production victory they won in 1942," Mr. Roosevelt said in a statement on farm mobilization day, was among the major victories of the United Nations." The text of his statement, issued through Stabilization Director James F.

Byrnes, follows: "All over the world, food from our country's farms is helping the United Nations to win this war. From the South Pacific to the winter front in Russia, from North Africa to India, American food is giving strength to the men on the battle lines, and sometimes also to the men and women working behind the lines. Somewhere on every continuent the food ships from this country are the life line of the forces that fight for freedom. This afternoon we have heard from some of the military and civilian fighters who look to us for food. No words of mine can add to what they have said.

(Turn to FOOD Page 3) LANSING, Jan. 13 farmers turned towards 1943 production goals today, assured by a U. S. army spokesman they were brothers-in-arms of Uncle Sam's fighting sons of freedom, expected soon to aid in keeping heaped the mess plates of 7,500,000 soldiers. Lt.

Col. Earle D. Brown, commandant of the bakers and cooks school for the quartermaster corps at Ft. Riley, told a farm mobilization meeting here yesterday that America's, expanding forces soon would require much more than the 15,000 tons of food now distributed daily by the army. Michigan farmers must help to see to it that American soldiers do not encounter the disaster of an empty or lean mess plate, Col.

Bown declared. History is replete, he warned, with battles lost by under-fed armies. He called upon farmers to work to the utmost to attain 1943 goals despite labor and equipment shortages, asserting the hardest day of work on a farm compares with "just another day" for a soldier in combat. (Turn to FARMERS Page 3) MOTHER HOPES FIVE LOST SONS WILL SHOW UP WATERLOO, Iowa, Jan. 13 The 49-year-old mother of RAID RUHR AGAIN LONDON, Jan.

13 bombers smashed at the Run again last night, the air ministry announced today. It was the sev enth attack on the Ruhr in 1 nights. One of the attacking planes failed to return, a communiqu said. MCAFEE TO MM five sailor brothers, all reported missing in action aboard the cruiser Juneau which was sunk last November in the southwest Pacific, today clung to a hope that "maybe they'll all somewhere, some day near where the river splits to flow into the sea of Azov 23 miles below the city limits. in the Caucasus, including Essent- uki, 12 miles west of Pyatigorsk, was announced.

Essentuki's fall carried a Russian column to within 38 miles of the headwaters of the Kuban river. The Moscow correspondent Reuters, British news agency went into an Irish slightest suggestion jig at that the age might be taking physical toll of his small, slender body. He boasts that he came through three years of the Civil War without a scratch and that his only physical injury has been a crooked little finger, the result of-a. railroad accident. "I can remember- when College Avenue and West Maumee Street were all woods," the Civil War veteran said on one occasion during an interview.

"My father used to cut down the trees and cord up the wood for 50 cents a cord. Yes, he used to cradle wheat all day for 50 cents. And "look'at this city now." "Never Say Die" If Mr. Loop has any secret philosophy, for a long and active life it is expressed in his own words, "Never say die, say damn." Contrary to the accepted rules for long life, he isn't opposed to taking spirits now and then to limber up his joints and turn back the years. (Turn to LOOP, Page 6) of reported that Russian troops which had speared from Stalingrad down past Elista through the Kalmyck steppes had' joined hands with columns from the north Caucasus at a point between Urozhainoe and Levokumsky, 25 miles east of Bu- dennovsk, which was listed yesterday as recaptured.

The Soviet command also said that four more towns were cap- Lured by the army that advanced along the railway which travels southwestward from Stalingrad through Kotelnikovski, Zimovniki, Salsk, Kuberle and Tikhoretsk to Krasnodar. Kuberle previously had been reported recaptured and the taking of Kharkovsky, Mayorsky and Kurmoyarsky in that (Turn to. RUSSIANS Page 9) show up soon." Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan, wife ot a railroad freight conductor, was notifed yesterday by the Navy Department that all five of her sons, ranging in age from 20 to 29, were "missing in action." "The boys always wrote at the end of their letters, 'keep'your chin the mother recalled, "and now's a good time to do just that" "If they are gone," she added, "il will be a comfort to know they went they wanted." Navy officers said at Washington that the loss of the five brothers was the heaviest blow sufferec by any single family since Pearl Harbor, "and probably in American naval history." The brothers joined the navy a little over a year ago with the pro vision they not be separated though navy policy is to divide members of a family in wartimr service.

They were: George 29, gunner's mate second class; Francis 26, coxswain; Joseph 23, seaman, second class; Madison 22, seaman, second class, and Albert 20, seamon, second class. All were single except Albert, ho had a 22-months-old son. Elected Executive Vice President By Directors Russell B. McAfee, former vice president of the Lenawee County Savings Bank and also the former National Bank of Adrian, yesterday was elected executive vice president of the Commercial Sav- Government May Seize Mines By THE ASSOCIATES PRESS WILKES-BARRE, Jan. Thousands of striking miners in the Pennsylvania anthracite fields were called into mass meetings today to consider a possible truce after the War Labor Board hinted it may ask President Roosevelt to seize all strike-bound collieries and end this threat to the prosecution of the war.

Strike leaders received the labor board second in two a meeting last night and immediately acted to convene their local unions, affiliates of the United Mine Workers, today to "get the reaction" and consider peaceful negotiations. The WLB, in telegrams to John L. Lewis, UMW president, anc heads of five companies, declarec that "anthracite coal stockpiles are at a critically low level endangering the health of our people anc the prosecution of the war," and added: "Unless this threat to the safety of our nation is immediately terminated, the board will exercise al powers within its jurisdiction to fulfill its obligation to the country." Spokesmen for the 19,000 participating in the 15-day-old Wildca strike took this statement to be a strong indication that the board, i necessary, would recommend tha Mr. Roosevelt seize the 15 strike bound collieries in the name of thi government. The board's message was read ti the strike leaders from a news dis patch.

Meanwhile three local unions a nearby Olyphant, appealed ti Mr. Roosevelt to intervene, in tele grams dispatched last night, but at the same time voted to remain on strike. SALES TAXi IS SHAPING UP Robertson To Re-Offer Method Of Helping To Raise 16 Billions In New Taxes jigs Bank by the directors and will 5 PER CENT LEVY STUDIED By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, Jan. scrap over a national retail sales time with possibly more legislators on the "pro" side assured today when Rep. Robertson announced he would re-offer this method of raising revenue to help' sweeten the new 516,000,000,000 tax kitty proposed by President Roosevelt.

A member, of the tax-framing House Ways and Means Committee which will start consideration of pay-as-you-go and other legislation within the next Want $2 a Day Bonus The strikers demand a 52 a day bonus over wages estimated to average 58.50 a day. They also are protesting against an increase in union dues from 51 to 51-50. The boost was voted at a UMW convention last October. The strikers, who opposed the increase then, say that delegates from bituminous coal fields, who favored it, had an unfair balance of power. The wage dispute was certified to the War Labor Board yesterday by Secretary of Labor Perkins.

Earlier, the WLB had appealed directly to the strikers to return. (Turn to COAL Page 9) tax ten days or two weeks, Robertson said he believed the income tax had reached the saturation point. "If we are to raise another 516,000,000,000," he told reporters, "I don't see how we can do it without a sales tax. Income taxes have reached the limit of ability to pay for a great number of people. I don't see how we can- go any further on this." Robertson was unsuccessful in an effort last year to get the ways and means group to consider a sales tax.

The vote then was 13 to 8. Since then the committee has undergone some change, with six new Democratic members being added only the other day to fill vacancies. As last year, Robertson said he would propose only that the sales tax principle be considered, with the committee fixing the rates once it has agreed to the principle. Advocates have estimated roughly that a 5 per cent levy. with government and state purchases exempt, would raise 52,500,000,000.

Both houses of Congress were itt recess today but Senate subcommittee called James C. Petrillo, head of the American Federa- NUMBER POOL LOTTERY RING SMASHED losing of Two High Schools Believed Only Answer If Oil Heat Conversion Is Demanded Workers Fired At Request of Army DETROIT, Jan. 13 war workers accused by the army of responsibility for a series of unauthorized strikes early in December at the Bohn Aluminum Brass Corporation plant, were dis- charged'from their jobs today. Seven were fired by the Bohn Corporation at the request of the army, while the other, who since the strikes had taken a job at the Packard Motor Car Company, was discharged, from the Packard plant, also at the request of the army. George E.

Strong, chief of If the fuel oil shortage the point where oil heating units serving the Adrian junior and senior high school'buildings are ordered converted, to coal, it would be more practicable to close, the two buildings entirely and arrange for high school classes to share elementary school buildings a half day basis, according to Superintendent George H. Little. Coal is used for fuel in the elementary building. Discussing the announcernent made this week by OPA- officials that all oil heated buildings, othe? than dwellings must be and that oil will be withheld from those unless it that conversion is impossible, Mr. Little stated that for us is practically impossible.

I firmly believe that if we closed down the two schools today and started converting our plant to coal, the conversion would not be completed a year from now." Mr. Little mentioned the difficulty in obtaining priorities for material and labor shortage as factors which would hinder conver- plant. "Even if priority rating troubles were ironed out, we would find that parts would be unobtainable or that firms which furnish the labor working at capacity on industrial needs." The school superintendent cited an example irt'a furnace part which was sent to Jackson firm five weeks ago Mr. Little was. told recently" that the repairs probably would hot be completed for another' because of the industrial, He also recent en- jcquntered.

in pipe for an the storage tank installed several weeks ago: Balked by. priorities regulations, he, Had'to-buy and use se'cond-hand The fuel oil heating equipment which was installed about four years ago is valued at about $40,000, Mr. Little said, "but that's hot saying that it could be replaced for that amount." None of the could be in the converted plant, he-said; and.it would be necessary to remove an entire side of remove-the pres- plant protection 'for the army air'forces; said it was definitely es- eight were responsible- for the wildcat strikes. Twenty were given hearings but 12 of them were allowed to their jobs when they promised they wouldn't impair war production any way. "They'are on -probation," Col.

Strong "arid whether they continue to work in plants where there are air forces contracts depends strictly upon their future RAIDED BY RAF DELHI, India, Jan. 13 W) ranged.far into Burma yesterday without encountering air- opposition from the Japanese and attacked railway transportation and river and coas- sion. of LANSING, Jan. 13 of Michigan's two largest cities disagreed today before a legislative committee on the effect a change in Michigan time would have. At the same time, Peter Revelt, representative of the regional office of the War Production Board, declared flatly that proposed legislation to set Michigan clocks back one hour would hamper war production in the great eastern Michigan munitions belt.

Ganson Taggart. city attorney of Grand Rapids, declared his constituents were almost unanimously in favor of setting the clock back one hour and that the post office banks and schools already have done so. Revelt told a committee of the House and Senate that to set the time back now would throw the Detroit industrial area war pro duction out of gear with army and navy, and WPB contacts in Washington and its steel supply centers in Pittsburgh, Youngstown anc Canton, as well as with other eastern industrial areas. "The government has asked th Detroit area to increase its manu facture of munitions from 57,000, 000,000 last year to one sixth of the national produc tion," Revelt said, "and that wil require the utmost of fine co-or dination with the east." Revelt urged if time must changed it should be done 'on uniform basis. "For us to get out of step wit! the nation might jeopardize th job this state has to do," Revel declared.

"We are fully aware the hardships imposed by wa time on a portion of our popula (Turn to TIME Page 9) tal shipping, a British communique said Two villages on were bombed by fighter-escorted it was reported, and low-flying fighters machine-gunned and rolling stock in the Shwebo district of central Burma. AUCTIONS Jan. 161h. Auction southwest of Mela- mora. Albert Linehan, Auct.

See adv. on Market Page. Jan. Auction, north ot Adrian. T.inchan-&.T,inriian^Auctioneer!.

on-Market-Eage; Mercury Drops To One Degree The mercury in the official gov ernment thermometer here avoic ed the zero mark by only one degree last night. This low poin was recorded at 6 o'clock th morning and by 7 o'clock the mer cury had oozed up to four degree above zero. Other readings fo this morning were six degrees a 8 o'clock, seven degrees at 9 o'clock and ten degrees at 11 o'clock. Th minimum' temperature yesterda was 13 degrees and the maximum 26 degrees. One year ago today the'low was seyen'degreesrand'-th Russell B.

McAfee, icome the active manager of that ank. He expects to complete his ork at the Lenawee and take-up new iduties some time- this lonth. Mr. McAfee replaces P. president of the Commer- al bank, as the bank's- Mr.

Dunn, finding it ne- essary to retire active work or the present because of his ealth, was elected chairman of he board. Mr. Dunn has been resident of the Commercial since 938 and has been with the bank nee 1904 when he began work as messenger. Charles G. Hart, former chairman the board, was elected as the ank's new president.

Joseph P. Libs and L. W. Smith, oth were re-elected vice presi- ents and Mr. Libs will continue vith his usual banking work.

L. Walker was re-elected cashier nd John McKendry and Edward Fisher were re-elected assist- nt cashiers. The directors also Henry R. Jewett and E. L.

Saker as the bank's attorneys. Mr. McAfee has been engaged the banking business for the ast 18 years. From 1925 to 1928 was employed in banks at Ihanghai and Tientsin, China, 'rom 1928 to 1933 he was at the Tirst National Bank in Detroit and from 1933 to 1939 was connected with the Manufacturers National Bank in that city. He came to Adrian in 1939 as ice president of the National Bank of Adrian.

When the National Bank's assets were sold to the bank last September, Mr. McAfee went to the Lenawee as vice president. At" the present time he is acting as the liquidating agent for the National Bank. BOSTON, Jan. 13 they had cracked one of the nation's number pool lottery rings, reputed to have grossed 590,000,000 in the past eight years, state police today held 20 men and three women under heavy bail.

Investigators from Attorney General Robert T. Bushnell's office said federal authorities were Investigating the possibility that the ring had defrauded the government of 51,500,000 in taxes on income amassed in that period in operations in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. The investigators added that they had evidence, backed with motion pictures taken by detectives who shadowed the ring since last June, indicating that it held federal rationing laws in disdain. These pictures, the investigators continued, showed smalt-time bookies as well as some big shots blossoming out in new automobiles and new tires. The automobiles bore basic gasoline ration stickers, but, the investigators added, one moving picture showed a member of the ring refilling his car's gasoline tank from a five-gallon tin carried in a rear compartment.

This has led. they said, to an investigation of a possible "black market" in gasoline. State police made the arrests in 12 simultaneous raids yesterday. The 23 defendants were booked on charges of conspiracy to set up and promote a lottery. The aggre- tion of Musicians, for further questioning on his ban against making recorded music for commercial use.

To Question Ickes In another committee room, Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes was slated to be questioned about a shortage of steel, copper, aluminum, and other metals. Senator Murray declaring it was well known that the war production program "has permitted an over-expansion of factories that cannot be fully utilized because of the lack of sufficient metals and minerals," said he wanted to ask Ickes what obstacles were "blocking the development of our and mineral deposits." Jumping into the revenue-raising discussion, proponents of a government-operated lottery declared they would renew their efforts to pass such legislation. Representative Knutson and Representative Sabath 111.) both offered plans which they said would yield the government about a billion dollars a year. Members of the Ways and Means Committee expressed belief that the Ruml plan and other pay- as-you-go tax collecting proposals designed to make it easier for individuals to pay the ever-mounting taxes to defray war costs would be given first consideration.

(R. Kans.) who of discussion on Rep. Carlson started a round the House floor yesterday when he advocated a plan to shift taxes from past to current income, said later he understood the Treasury was working on a plan of its own as was the joint congressional internal revenue committee. Meanwhile the Senate is expected to decide Friday whether to hold hearings on the nomination of Edward J. Flynn, retiring chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to be minister to Australia.

(Turn to CONGRESS Page 9) BULLETINS gate bail exceeded 5150,000. CHINESE REPORT GAINS MADE CHUNGKING, Jan. 13 high command said today that Kushih, about 36 miles northeast of Shangcheng, and other points in Honan province had been recaptured from Japanese forces. The recapture of Shangcheng was announced Monday. The high command's communique said.that advancing Chinese" were closing in on enemy positionsjin'the direction of Kwangchuan and Kwangshari after successful counter-attacks.

It was also disclosed that more than Japanese troops, based at Yitu, in Shantung province on the Tao-Tsinari. railway, began an attack on-Chinese positions Jan. 7 but.met.strong resistance. Japanese troops moving eastward put of Hopei province toward central Anwher province continued after'bloody fighting Papua-a attacks. War At A Glance By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RUSSIA German report of heavy fighting between Lake II- men and Leningrad-Lake Ladoga area indicates Reds may have launched major new offensive.

Moscow reports smash through Nazi siege ring on western outskirts of Stalingrad and further gains in moving within artillery range of Nazi rail center at Salsk, 110 miles southeast of Rostov. NORTH S. fliers destroy 34 Nazi planes in raid on airfield 10 miles south of Tripoli while other allied bombers hit Tripoli, Horns, Crete, Sicily and Lampedusa Island as sandstorms hold British in.Libya. EUROPEAN pounds Ruhr seventh time in 10 nights, losing one plane. Two Luftwaffe planes hit English coastal town.

raids deep in Burma without opposition. Chinese report Honan province towns' retaken from Japs. NEW reduce Jap hold on Sanananda point on Papua as make WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 A Japanese plane dumping bombs near Henderson Field on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons killed one man and wounded several others while American aircraft continued to pound the enemy air field at Munda, the Navy reported today. WASHINGTON, Jan.

13 James Ceasar Petrillo promised a Senate committee today to take his American Federation of Musicians into immediate negotiations with radio broadcasters and recording companies in an attempt to reach an agreement which would end the ban on making records. Pressed for a bill of particulars on the musicians' demands, Petrillo told a Senate Interstate Commerce sub-committee he believed the time had come to "talk business with these boys," adding "I think they've got some justice on their side." WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 OP) Secretary of Interior Ickes pictured America's small business, man today as a forlorn loser in the turmoil of war and called for a more diligent effort to keep him on a going basis. "We can clearly see the trends," Ickes told a special Senate committee which concerned itself primarily today with ways to find a place in the war economy for small mine operators, major portion of war production contracts going to a few large corporations, the hundreds of small businesses.