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VOli. LXXIV, NO. 23. totflc. oi Wtuno Chattanooga, Wednesday, January 6, 1943.

PRICE: 5 CENTS KILLED, 12 INJURED BEELER DOUBTS REDS SEIZE FIVE KEY CITIES IF ALL OF TAX INDUCKTOWN BLAST: ROSTO IN MASSIVE PUSH ON v. CAN BE LIFTED 34 OTHERS RESCUED SHIPS BOMBERS BLAST 9 JAP Believes Amendment Would HIT ARMADA AT RABAUL Be Necessary to Get Rid of 50-Cent Levy Gen. Clark Heads 5th Army BUST, FUMES EXPLODE Explosion in Copper Mine Occurs During Routine Blasting Operation Poised for Blow in Tunisia EXPEL FOE AT NALCHIK Tsimlyansk, Which Nazis Won at Heavy Cost, Is Back in Soviet Fold Strong Forces Believed BY FRED HIXSON Timet Staff Corretpondent. NASHVILLE, Jan. 5 Doubt Set for Blow at Buna or Henderson Field was expressed here today by State Newly Activated American Force Is Expected to Join British First Army in Early Of fensive Roy Beeler as to PINCERS ON DON CLOSING JAP AID ATTEMPT FAILS whether the Tennessee general assembly could legally repeal the poll tax.

WORKERS ON 10TH LEVEL special to Th Chattanooga Time. DUCKTOWN, Jan. 5- ALLIED The attorney general was inter MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. '---sseV it nil' LONDON, Jan. 5 UP) Red Army troops have captured five more viewed in the reception room of Eight employes of the Tennessee Copper Company mines here lost key cities in the Don River loop and the Causasus in their massive the governor's office as he waited to see Gov.

Prentice Cooper. It was presumed that he called to 6 (Wednesday) UP) Allied heavy bombers, soaring out to attack shortly after an ominous warning that the Japanese were assembling a huge armada in the Southwest Pacific, sank or fired 9 and per their lives early this afternoon in 7 sa explosion of dust and sulphur discuss the poll tax with North Africa, Jan. 5 UP) Indicating progress in the organization of the huge Allied force that is being geared for the attack on Tunis and Bizerte, Allied headquarters announced tonight that the United States Fifth Army had been activated and Mark W. Clark placed in command of the new force. Gen.

Clark is the 46-year-old the chief executive inasmuch as he fumes set off, it was believed in unofficial quarters, by a routine haps 10 enemy ships at Rabaul in New Britain with a shower of was asked a week or more ago to study the question and draft ap smash toward Rostov, whose seizure would trap the entire German southern army in Russia; another special Soviet communique announced tonight. The broadcast bulletin recorded here by a Soviet monitor said Tsimlyansk and Morozovskaya in side the Don bend had fallen to the Russians, who already are far Wasting operation. jbombs. Allied head propriate legislation. Beeler said it is clear that the Of a total of 54 men trapped for 52 minutes on the -10th level general assembly may repeal 1 all quarters reported today.

Nine ships certainly and probably 10 aggregating 50,000 tons "were destroyed" in the raid on of the network or mine shafts lying between the Boyd and the Burraburra mines, rescue crews -Hn sjjh tit hero of the secret agent thriller who visited North Africa by submarine three weeks before the fy I of the poll tax levy except 50 cents, which is imposed by the constitution. That may be accomplished, he declared, by enacting a bill re west of the remnants of 22 Nazi the vital harbor, the noon communique declared, with only one big first brought 14 tathe surface, divisions encircled before Stalin grad. pealing Section 1082 of the 1932 Allied landings and held a secret rendezvous with French officers. His post of deputy commander four of them dead, and later the remaining 40. The rescue operations were directed by Lamar Code of Tennessee.

Russian columns that took these two cities, both about 140 miles from Rostov, are obviously trying 50-Cent Levy Excluded "But that won't repeal the con to link up with other Red Army stitutional levy of 50 cents," the Weaver, Tennessee Copper Company mine superintendent here, and H. H. Hill, assistant safety director at the mines and chairman of the Red Cross disaster troops pushing southward on Rostov from the Millerovo This attorney general added. "Tennessee's constitution pro bomber lost and six Japanese planes downed in aerial combat over Rabaul. The smashing raid was announced only a few hours after a high Australian government official, who declined to be quoted by name, declared the Japanese were concentrating at various points in the South Pacific the largest armada of transports, supply vessels and warships yet sent into that battle area.

Offensive Strength Such a powerful force, some observers said, might be intended for vides for a poll tax of not less than committee of the Copper Basin, Russian wing last was reported to be within 100 miles of Rostov, city on the Sea of Azov. A Twelve survivors of the disaster Times Staff Photo. WAAC OFFICERS CONFER AT POST CoL Ilobart Brown, commandant of the Woman's Army Auxiliary Corps Training: Center at South Post, Fort Oglethorpe, is shown yesterday as he conferred with First Officer Mary W. Long, rank early tonight were being treated at the Tennessee Copper Company Take Nalchik, Two Other Points Deep down in the Caucasus other 50 cents from citizens within such ages as the general assembly may prescribe. It also provides that any person liable for the payment of such a tax must present evidence that he has paid the tax be i MARK W.

CLARK Hospital at Copperhill and the Red Army columns seized Nalchik, in chief to Dwight D. Eisenhower now is vacant, the announcement said. (Presumably the announcement means that a large United States Army of several divisions has been organized through its various ranks and is ready to take its place alongside the British First Army of K. A. N.

Anderson in Tunisia. (In military terms an "army" may mean a force of as little as two or three divisions though it usually is much larger and may be as large as the British Eighth Army in Libya, which is estimated to have 10 or 12 divisions.) Meanwhile, Allied forces in the Fondouk area, 50 miles southwest of Sousse in central Tunisia, were; Kimsey-Guinn Hospital here for com- Prokhladnenskl and Kotlaryevs- ing waac ouicer and capt. Frank E. Stillman, assistant mandant. varying degrees of asphyxiation kaya, the communique It ana ior onuses ana contusions stir disclosed in an Allied communique today to have scored a telling defeat on a German tank force which made a surprise thrust in that sector against the supposedly fore being eligible to vote.

There you have it. A constitutional levy of 50 cents and a constitutional fered in the explosion. may be the Germans in this sector already are beginning a precipitate vThe blast Is reported to have occurred between 2:30 and. 3 withdrawal toward Rostov, 310 218 Waacs at South Post requirement that before a voter weakly armed French. may cast his ballot he must pre renewed offensives against Allied positions, or simply to consolidate a strong Japanese defensive line behind which the enemy could exploit the rich raw materials of the captured East Indies and Malaya.

4 o'clock. The Dead miles to the northwest, lest they be trapped by the Russians striking toward Rostov. Running unexpec tedly into sent satisfactory evidence that he Prepare Training Center American-made anti-tank guns in the hands of the French and com- An unoxnoai list or dead re- British military observers be has paid the tax. The legislature, in my opinion, may repeal all of the tax. but 50 cents.

But if in J-ssed' tonight included: The Australian official said the Homer Payne, Simon Dunn, See Page Two, Column Two threatening concentration meant "fwv South Post, Fort Oglethorpe, was a busy scene yester- lieved the Germans were abandoning the central Caucasus after almost attaining the rich Grozny oil fields because of the threat to Rostov. They said the rapid Russian iq this wintry, hilly some voting precinct some person should present himself to vote and have no receipt showing that he has paid the amount levied by the SOLOMON POINT one of three things: 1. The Japanese were about to try again to retake Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal in the Solomons, now held by U. S. forces.

rkMda HeitonT aay 1116 218 leminine officers and auxiliaries of the Wom-Aa the dead lived to the Copper en's Army Auxiliary Corps settled down to and pre-rsin, whicA embraces Ducktown, pared for a visit of their commanding officer, CTperhiii and north Fanning Don Faith, head of. all 'Waste training tenters, tomorrow U.S. MUNCHING A SHIPS DAILY constitution, it might caus trouble. region could only have been possible in the absence of organized 2. They were beit upon Beeler said from his studies of c-iGty, Georgia.

and. Friday, ,1 the question it is his opinion that determined effort to reinforce their units desperately- isolated at Nazi resistance. More than" 11,000 German troops Te -Col." Oveta Culp Hobby, director of the Waao program SEIZED BY U. S. Jap Artillery.

Position Near constitutional amendment would be required to fully, and completely Sanananda point in New Guinea, lis Injured were: alo is expected to visit the where Gen. Douglas MacArthur's V. .1. ftM.WW0 ing from Dec. 24 to Jan.

4, the Arnold Tarpiey ana ciauae new training center soon; remove the poll tax barrier from President Says Shipyards to special Russian announcement Tennessee elections. Australians and Americans are preparing a final general attack. Chancey, in the Kimsey-Guinn 1 At present there are 53 Waac Hospital nere. officers, 165 auxiliaries, S2 male said, and vast quantities of Nazi The attorney general suggested 3. The Japanese are making J.

Quails, Woodrow Patter-I officers and 150 enlisted men- at Exceed Goal of 16,000,000 Tons for This Year that in the event the assembly Guadalcanal Airport Taken in Strong Thrusts major effort to strengthen their on, Paul Cash, Windom Taylor, the camp, working under the di should enact legislation to repeal equipment were seized, including 150 tanks, 109 guns, 263 machine guns, about 5,000 rifles, 59,000 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines general defensive position in the the levy outright, and also to abol I J. Loudermilk, J. O. Fortner, rectlon of CoL Hobart B. Brown, M.

Horton, Arthur Rymer, who was formerly chief officer for Ralph Higdon H. Helton, the PMGSC the same spot in Southwest Pacific. Aircraft on Reconnaissance COOPER URGES WAR JCONOMY Tells 73rd Assembly State Must Keep Levies Down to Make Way for U. S. Tax ish the provisions of the laws of WASHINGTON, Jan.

5 UP) and 253 motor trucks. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 UP) the state requiring payment of American yards producing four American troops have wrested In the same period Russian In the Tennessee Copper; Company Fort: Oglethorpe poll tax as a prerequisite to vot from the Japanese, Important Hospital Capt. Frank: E. Stillman Jr.

is He said Japanese aircraft apparently operating from submarines had been engaged in extensive re ships a day and will exceed their ing, an immediate test of these troops destroyed 18 planes, 170 tanks, 222 machine guns and 390 None of the injured was report- assistant commandant. Each of laws should be filed in the courts. 1943 cargo vessel construction of 16,000,000 tons, President Roose heights flanking the southwestern rim of the United States position on Guadalcanal Island, the navy connaissance of Australia north' ed In a serious condition. these men has an officer of the supply trucks, the communique added." News of the tragedy spread rap- Waacs as assistant. First Of ficer He said he would recommend that proper proceeding be instituted under the declaratory judgment east coast, and he added that at Munda, on the northwest coast of velt said today.

Tsimlyansk is on the north bank announced today. wiy in this little mining town this Mary W. Brown acta in this cap Right now, he said, the produc of the Lower Don River, and Mo- New Georgia Island. 200 miles The advance may have signal aiternoon, and friends and rela-lacity to CoL Brown, and Second law so that an interpretation may be obtained at the earliest moment tion rate is 14,400,000 annually, or rozovsKaya to the north is on the northwest of Guadalcanal, the en' ized the beginning of a campaign lives of the dead and trapped men Officer Jean Kiendl to Capt. Still to anve the enemy beyond artil emy was building one of the great four ships a day.

The rate is still Text ia printed on Page 11, gainerea about the heavily guard- man. Stalingrad-LIkhaya Railway. The capture of Morozovskaya repre- from the state supreme court. View Known to Cooper est airfields in the area. lery range of the Solomon Island ed gates to the mine property and First Officer Elizabeth Yancey sented an 18-mile westward 'ad airfield.

increasing, he and will reach its peak in May when five wauea tensely for news. 13 the personnel officer of the It was understood later in the vance since yesterday's announce The Japanese counter-attacked Company safety crews, highly camp. Third i Officer Margaret trained for rescue work, mobilized Baldwin is the assistant director ships will be finished daily. day after the interview with Beel ment of the seizure of Chenishkov. NASHVILLE, Jan.

5 CP) A call to emphasize economy of state government and to get down to its own business promptly in order to the newly won American positions er that Gov. Cooper was familiar Both the President and Rear Morozovskaya is only about' 80 six times, a communique but with the attorney-general's opiinon miles from Likhaya, junction point on the Moscow-Rostov Railway. Adm. Emory a. Land, in charge of the shipbuilding program, re on the legal implications involved swiruy after the accident and the of personneL acting' under L.t."' B.

first group of trapped miners was E. Lacaze, personnel director. brought to the surface, where four ond Officer Lillian Burge is as-men were pronounced dead. sistant adjutant. First Officer Company officials worked side Virginia Clampitte, who has not were repulsed with a total loss of 150 dead.

While this fighting was in progress, our patrols in other sectors of the island battleground i nthe poll tax repeal matter. Not ported that 8,090,800 tons of ships withstanding that situation, an ad' Russian troops driving southward on Rostov last were reported somewhere between Millerovo and Lik end the session quickly and economically was given-to Tennessee's Seventy-third general assembly today in the biennial message of Cooper. i A packed chamber, with gal were built in 1942, well above the Killed zu Japs, and captured how ministration spokesman, close to Gov. Cooper, said plans are being 8,000,000 goal fixed for the year. oj, siae with rescue squads, and arrived yet, will act as physical haya, and the latter point is prob itzer mortars and light machine This was in addition to ships of last as uie blast victims were training director.

laid to proceed vigorously in the guns. war, and some 800 small vessels, ably the Intended goal for a junction of these two columns. leries filled and standees jamming legislature for the enactment of Drought to the surface they were Though in the throes of the first rushed to hospitals here and at week of development, yesterday The advance was accomplished the rear; of the house assembly 'Child Is Doing Well bills to accomplish the poll tax re ivionaay (uuaoaicanal tune) in the Copperhill for emergency treat-lthe post was the scene of the (In Washington, Navy Secretary Frank Knox said at a press conference that he had no information concerning an unusual Japanese naval concentration at Rabaul, New Britain. There always are a number of Japanese ships at that base, 650 miles northwest of Guadalcanal, he said, but activities there are under constant observation. (A naval communique, announcing another of the daily attacks on Munda, disclosed also that the installations there consist not of one runway, but several.

(Knox, shedding some light on recent navy communiques telling of a group of Japanese destroyers which approached Guadalcanal's north coast Saturday, said the warships did not make a landing but attempted to float some supplies ashore. (Originally numbering 10, the form. It is understood that Gov. greeted the state -third- The President declined to be Tsimlyansk Hard-Won Tsimlyansk on the Lower Don vicinity of Mount Austen, a busy, smooth-running, strictly drawn into comparing the extent term governor as he delivered his 45-minute address to the joint ses Cooper will introduce the measures recommended by the attorney-gen is the. point which was so fiercely foot peak rising out of the Jungle covered ridges four miles south fending arrival of state mine military machine for which, the inspectors, Supt Weaver issued no I Waacs have become famous in sion, in which he outlined admin eral they will include not only of new ship construction and the extent of ship sinkings, but made it plain he was pleased with the contested last fall when the Russians attempted to keep, the Ger- 4 west of the airfield.

tatement on the accident, but in the six months of their exist repealer of the poll tax levy, but also a repealer of the prerequisite unofficial quarters it was believed ence. The personnel who have mans from crossing the river to way those figures were running, istration aims for new legislation and told the lawmakers he saw no need for enactment of new tax levies. that the routine "ihrnitin' nnm-lnlrnrfv arrived urn olliriBr the ma- BALLEW, RAGON NAMED attack Stalingrad from the southwest. i telling reporters: "You had just to voting sections and make drive to obtain their enactment, tioas this afternoon had caused an ehlnerv for the arrlvaL some time better say the child is doing explosion of dust and sulphur the last of January, of the first Below Tsimlyansk on the Don When the joint session was over Shipyards could deliver 20,000, The governor spoke in stronger fumes. COOPER FLOOR LEADERS Special to The Chattanooga Timet.

NASHVILLE, Jan. 5 Gov. River other Russian troops are trainees. each house held a brief separate 000 tons this year if materials were The officers and auxiliaries who made available, Land declared. terms about the poll tax question in today's message to the general assembly than he has In messages striking southwestward along the Stalingrad-Tikhoretsk Railway.

U. ROSENWALD QUITS are at Fort Oglethorpe now have Land, an old navy constructor Prentice Cooper announced tonight session for introduction of bills. The house session was enlivened by a brief clash between administration and anti-administration These troops repre sent an addi a big job to do in preparing the who now heads both the Maritime delivered to the two previous leg' mat state sen. J. H.

Ballew of WAR PRODUCTION BOARD tional threat to the Germans an post for a basic training scnooi Nashville will be the administra islatures he faced as governor. Today Cooper said in reference to the Commission and the War Shipping Administration, told reporters that chored deep In the Caucasus be First officers must be assigned to first oiucera must, oe iukuiicu destroyers were under attacks by United States Flying Fortresses-and dive bombers for 275 tion floor leader in the Senate. forces in which the administration won an easy victory. Wi mvnnxT 1 kfflhfp their various duties. Training com.

J- Renwald resigned to- n.nl bamfi. ordered here panles are being ordered here, poll tax issue: "air transport is a coming thing; The governor made his an "I recommend the repeal of the cause they last were reported only 170 miles from Tikhoretsk, through which the Nazis must withdraw toward Rostov if they decide to t' oirector of the War Produc have See Page Two, Column Two i inese are me eroups wu "The taxpayer must be left free See Page Two, Column Three already doing a splendid job," but insisted that "we'll never have enough ships as long as this war nouncement following a conference with the Nashville senator. He announced yesterday the appoint See Page Nine, Column Four completed their training, and are lause he was "not completely In as the teachers ror new en- lasts." Meat Point-Rationing rollees. Planes never can carry the bulk Wlul a recent which placed his functions In ment of Rep. J.

Ragon Jr. of Chattanooga as the floor leader in the house of representatives. Still other Russian troops were See Page Two, Column One George Washington Carver Dies; At present there is one training of the traffic, he said, explaining that their function is "quality, not new war resources agency. rnmnnnv on acuve QUIT i uie Noted Negro Educator, Scientist center. This 1 is the 8tn waac quantity." IValnlncr Onter ComDanV.

It 13 78th Congress to Convene Today; Rear-Adm. Howard L. Vickery, In Today's Times who directly supervises the mer May Wait Until March WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 CD-Canned food rationing may start about the third week in February and point rationing of meat about mid-March, Informed but unquotable government sources estimated today. OPA officials said no date had been set for the start of the See Page Two, Column Two TUSKEGEE, Jan.

5 UP) Local News T. Washington, founder and first Bureaucrats Warned by Rayburn chant ship construction program, said he thought the War Produc president of the school. 30 PER CENT OF BUTTER tion Board would allocate steel for Dr. George Washington Carver, the noted Negro scientist," died at 7r30 p.m. today at his home at Dr.

Carver was best known for his contributions to southern agriculture, he also was a Society 4, 5 TO GO FOR WAR NEEDS WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 UP) about 18,000,000 tons of ships this year. Junosements .11 CJaMlfled Ads 12 Comics ...10 Editorial Page 6 fanclal Hth Talk ..10 al Becords 1S Cooke promises Tuskegee Institute. Speaker Rayburn Tex.) Sports News 8, 9 TrI-State News 7 WASHINGTON. Jan.

5 UP) Dr. Carver had been in railing noted artist whose works have hung in a number of well-known BUDGET PRESENTATION .18 Sucretarv of Aericulture Wickard meat rationing program, one of the knottiest problems the agency has tackled. Weather. field house galleries. health for some months and had been confined to his bed for the past 10 days.

i was reported authoritatively tonight to have told House Democrats, in executive session, that Congress no. longer would bow to the demands of "bureaucrats" and for tonight directed manufacturers to risiri 30 ner cent of their He was an humble man who warner Park POSTPONED TO MONDAY WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 MP) Originally meat rationing was Born of slave parents, at dia passed up worldly gain "to work among the trees and the ferns and announced for "after the first mond Grove. he was never we draft boards 'call January monthly production of creamery IrafteM Januari butter for direct war require- Gr-Pfc. ments, including miUtary and lend- of the year subsequently that the legislative branch of Government "must reassert itself." sure of his birth date, but once the grass of God's good earth." Presidential Secretary Stephen Early said today that presentation of the Government's budget to estimated that it was "about Associates tell of the time that lu uuBfrvH iitiiiuo, v.

1 1 The speaker's message Fictile lease, oeguuuiig ucu. 1864." about the time coffee rationing was OPA's growing worry officials set themselves an unofficial and unannounced goal of I At me ottiuc uuic, wv. aaers plan to be hnst tn Waacs. Liniotntnr ovtndeil a nrevious He became a member of the Tus a pecan blight struck Alabama and Florida trees in the 1920s. A grower came to Dr.

Carver with a amounting, some of his listeners said, to a "declaration of independence" was delivered at the House Congress, originally scheduled for Friday, has been postponed until next Monday. ttcture nt th War Production Board and go, but Congress will live on long after their departure" that the department heads are not elected officials and do not represent the people, as do members of the House and Senate. He was reported to have said that, unlike the "bureaucrats," President Roosevelt made a practice of consulting congressional leaders weekly on all legislation he is seeking. To illustrate his point, he said that the Chief Executive planned another conference with the House and Senate leaders before delivering his state of the union report to a joint congressional session Thursday. The speaker's conference statement was Interpreted In some quarters on Capitol Hill as evi-; dence that he planned to take the initiative in holding together the 1 vt kegee Institute faculty in 1894 and had been attached to the Negro institution ever since.

missine after Nashville reserving the production of all cit- Early made the definite an Democratic caucus on the eve of the opening session tomorrow of re 7 nu iuices. except unconcentrated nouncement after President Roose March 1 for meat; but currently, it is now said, members of the OPA staff do not believe the program can be set in motion by that time. Dr. Carver was recognized as plea for a cure, offering a large sum of money if he would undertake research. Dr.

Carver developed a cure and his price to that grower and all others was the Georria. trAn eraoefruit Juices, for war needs. the 78th Congress. Some of those who heard him velt told a press conference that mechanical problems had arisen in printing statistical tables, threatening delay. said Rayburn served blunt notice In addition to the fact that one of the outstanding scientists in the field of agricultural research.

He discovered scores of uses for such lowly products as sweet potatoes, peanuts and clay. From the South's red clay -and postage stamp necessary to mall it. that he would prevent legislation from being laid upon his desk by The Chief Executive said he was meat presents special rationing problems, such as how to calculate bones and fat, OPA was said When quite young, he and his 'bureaucrats unless they first mother were kidnaped from the Missouri farm where he was born to feel it would be an impossible conferred and gained the co-operation of the leadership and the burden for retail outlets to ad lr4 1 that supplies 01 uieoe pruuuno 3ors to train north of Potomac mjght be held for civilian'use later .....8 ta! the-season, when supplies of easketball Clinic opens new field fresh citrus fruits are low. How-fiere, tonight 8 ever, 1 wholesalers ahd retailers Oi MactHna mov pnntlntlft tn sell their aVSil- working now on his annual message on the state of the Union, which he is to deliver in person on Thursday. He said he hoped to have it finished late tomorrow afternoon.

and taken into Arkansas. His master, Moses Carver, ransomed proper committees." sandy loam, he developed ink, pigments, cosmetics, paper paint and many other articles. He will be buried in. Tuskegee Cemetery, where also lies Booker 1 just themselves to the two big new ration programs if they Rayburn was quoted as saying See Pa-go Two, Column Six See Page Two, Column One that "department heads may come were launched close together. a know score stocks of citrus juices.

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