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TWENTY-TWO PAGES TODAY RALEIGH, N. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 18, 1942. TWENTY-TWO PAGES TODAY PRICE: FIVE CENTS FUNDAY. Suspension of 'A' Cards May Be Ordered Today Leon Henderson Resigns As Price Administrator Prentiss Brown Likely Successor; Roosevelt Lauds Henderson's Service Washington, Dec. Chief Leon Henderson, father the nation's wartime rationing system, resigned tonight after a long siege of Congressional criticism, and President Roosevelt accepted, but stipulated that Henderson remain until his successor is chosen.

This may be Senator Prentiss Brown, Michigan Democrat who has been conferring periodically with Mr. Roosevelt and Stabilization Director. James F. nestormed the reportedly President that he would accept the post "if and when" Henderson resigned, but Brown's only public comment was: "Any statement as to my future connection with the government must come from the White House. I have nothing to say." He was en route to Detroit tonight.

Henderson said his action was dictated "principally" recurrent by physical reasons, ditficulty and a rather bad impairment of that his physicians had advised him to take long rest. It is no secret, however, that the rotund, cigar-smoking price chief is unpopular with many members of Congress, who openly resented his price and rationing policies. There had 1 been rumors for sev. eral days that he was on the out, although only six weeks ago he bluntly told a Congressional committee that no special group, specifically the Senate farm bloc, or any other group, would "gun me out of my Will Return. Mr.

Roosevelt's letter of conditional acceptance made it plain that while Henderson eventually will be brought back into government service, it will not be as head of the Office of Price Administration. said in part: "I hope that after you have had the rest prescribed by your physicians, your condition will be so improved that you can return to the service of the government. Keep me advised as to your condition, not only because of my interest in all that concerns you, but because when you are able to return to work shall certainly want your assistance in some other capacity." Henderson was in Baltimore tonight-to participate in a radio program regarding rationing regulations Toward the end of the broadcast-it was a questions and answers program-he was asked if it were true that he had resigned. it is true," he replied. "I resigned with a great deal of reluctance and regret.

I have talked with the President several times in the last few months about my physical condition and the pressure of the work. This looks like about the best time to 1 resign. The doctors tell me I need about four months' rest to get my back fixed uP, am sure, however, that the principles of OPA that been established will remain firm." When the resignation becomes effective, Henderson will be out of the administration for the first time since 1934 when he first appeared in the role of consultant for the now-defunct NRA. It seemed foregone that Brown would be the man. Brown was defeated for reelection in November after piloting Mr.

Roosevelt's controversial anti-inflation through Senate. His colleagues said at the time that he was risking his political scalp, but he stood fast; and just before the final vote--when the measure seemed doomed -he rallied both Republicans and Democrats with an eloquent plea for a united stand. He also steered the original price bill through the Senate, a no mean task in view of vociferous farm bloc oppositionterred early this week with Mr. Roosevelt and Stabilization Director Byrnes. Yesterday he met with Byrnes again and today he talked with War Food Administrator Claude R.

Wickard and David Ginsberg, OPA general counsel. He is highly popular with his Congressional colleagues and consequently would carry considerable weight as OPA chief. The colorful Henderson, never too See HENDERSON, Page Eight. New Air Gun Los Angeles, Dec. Inventor W.

B. Hale today displayed a new gun fired with compressed air contained in a cylinder on the under side. There is no powder, no flash, no noise, and no recoil. Where the Nazis boast their newest weapon will fire 3,000 rounds a minute, Hale declares his weapon will pour forth 000 rounds in 60 seconds. It fires the equivalent of caliber bullet.

The Dix Manufacturing of which Hale is chief engineer, produced the weapon. The exact process is secret. With no powder used, the bullets require no shell casings. Poured into a hopper, the bullets are forced into the firing chamber by vacuum. The weapon weighs less than 300 pounds, and one man operates it.

Richard W. Adair, company president, said the gun was exhibited to Army, Navy and Marine Corps officers. ARMY, NAVY WILL UTILIZE COLLEGES FOR WAR TRAINING Quarter Million Young Men Affected; Deferments for Students Announced Washington, Dec. huge portion of America's higher educational system, was dedicated to the arts of war today as the Army and Navy announced plans for the training of perhaps 250,000 young men in colleges. Secretary of War Stimson readily acknowledged that the tremendous plan will go far to destroy liberal education for the time being, "so far as the able-bodied men of college age are concerned." But he added quickly that the long run effect will be to, preserve liberal education, and plans for its revival after the war already are under study.

"'The immediate necessity, is to win this war," he said, "and unless we do that there is no hope for liberal education in this country." The youths to be trained will be selected from among those now in colleges, in the armed services and in civilian life. The Army and Navy will contract with the colleges to provide educational facilities, faculties, living quarters food men. A cadet et system will be established in each institution selected to take part in the program. The soldier ed and will receive the pay and and 1 sailor students. will be uniformrating of the lowest enlisted grade.

The Army plans to draw its students from its own enlisted ranks, and from the existing enlisted reserves and Reserve Officers' TrainCorps enrollment. The Navy, too, is counting on its enlisted men and reserves, and in addition may enroll young men now in civilian life. In addition to the Army-Navy program, Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt announced that temporary draft deferments would be given to medical students and certain other technical students as well as their instructors. Many such students, officials indicated, would continue their studies as civilians.

It also was reported authoritatively that McNutt would ask Congress to provide funds to finance the education of a number of nonmilitary, students subjects valuable in war and post times. Requirements Stated. In all cases, the youths who receive this educational preparation for more useful posts in the services must meet satisfactory educational requirements. Army students may not be younger than See STUDENTS, Page Eight. Downgrade Chicago, Dec.

Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier and commander-in-chief of the Polish government in exile, stated today that "as far as offensive warfare goes, Hitler now is finished." He asserted that the Axis was on the downgrade, and added: "For Hitler to continue the war now means he must use up all his raw materials, all the slaves of the conquered countries, all the available supplies. Then he will have nothing left. Hitler, for the first time, is forced on the defensive." The general, here for a twoday visit, regarded the Allied invasion of Africa as the turning point of the war, and suggested that "we must now prepare for peace lest war's end And 115 unready." He told interviewers he favored a federation of eastern and central European countries "which will not only safeguard the security of those nations between Germany and Russia, but likewise will be a neutral rampart of security for Soviet Russia." SPEEDY BRITISH 8TH ARMY SPLITS ROMMEL'S FORCES Acute Gasoline Shortage in East Expected to Bring Drastic Curtailment Resigns LEON HENDERSON. OPA ORDERS CUT IN MEAT SUPPLY Growing Military and LendLease Demands Cause I New Curtailment Order Washington, Dec. -Civilian meat supplies today were ordered cut per cent after the New Year the Office of Price Administration prepared new retail price regulations for poultry which would raise prices "only slightly," if at all, over present levels.

At the same time, Price Administrator Leon Henderson authorized packers to begin celiveries of 1943 meat quotas December 20 to meet severe shortages in several localities. The order curtailing meat deliveries for the first quarter of 1943, as compared with last quarter 1942 quotas, was ordered by Henderson at the direction of War Food Administrator Claude R. Wickard, who said sharply increased military and lend-lease needs make it necessary to cut average per capita civilian consumption from pounds two pounds and three week. Poultry Regulation." The new regulation affecting all poultry except turkeys is expected within the next few days. Turkeys already are under price regulation.

The order is expected to set fixed margins over net costs for various classes of retailers, as was done in the case of turkeys. Meanwhile, OPA established specific dollars and cents wholesale ceilings: on all types of domestic birds at levels slightly higher than those which generally prevail at this time of the year. OPA said this action was taken to encourage poultrymen to meet the Agriculture Department's 1943 production goal of 4,000,000,000 pounds of chicken and 560,000,000 pounds of turkey. These new maximum prices reflect a return to the producer of approximately 115 per cent to 120 per cent of parity, the OPA said. Deliveries of pork for civilian consumption for the first quarter of 1943 will be cut below the last-quarter 1942 deliveries; mutton and lamb 21 veal 30 per cent.

There will be no immediate change in beef. Advance deliveries made during the last. 12 days of this month against 1943 quotas will be deducted from those quotas. Under this phase of the order, packers will be permitted to deliver up to 10 per cent of their 1943 first quarter quotas from December 20 to January 1 to meet shortages which have developed in Detroit, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Los Angeles, Seattle and other West Coast cities and towns adjacent to warmushrooming plane and ing industries. It was explained meat quotas were based on consumpSee MEAT.

Page Eight. Washington, Dec. 17. -(P)- The Federal government approached almost to the point of suspending every gasoline ration card in the Eastern Seaboard shortage area tonight, but a hitch developed, and shortly before midnight it was announced that no order would be issued tonight. tr from There officials were that strong some such indications drastic curtailment order would be issued tomorrow, but in view of developments tonight, Washington was inclined to await its issuance before predicting its exact details.

During the day, Petroleum Administrator Harold Ickes had declared that gasoline supplies in the Northeastern states were critically low and appealed to motorists not to drive at. all unless absolutely necessary. During the evening, the Office of War Information called newsmen to receive an important story, and the word was passed that at midnight the sale of gasoline to holders of cards would be forbidden until further notice. Not Forthcoming. But the hours passed, with the reporters waiting eagerly, and the announcement was not forthcoming.

Periodically, officials would give out would be available "in a very few Officials of the Office of Price Administration and the Office of the Petroleum were debating the Administrator, order, it was said. But shortly before midnight an OWI spokesman told newspapermen that "there will be no suspension of gasoline ration 'A' cards tonight." Acute Shortage. The acute gasoline shortage was attributed to military needs, including the campaign in North Africa, and the necessity for using available oil transportation facilities to supply home owners with a minimum of oil for heating purposes. Stopping sales to card holders would produce a daily saving estimated at 60,000 barrels. In the East, the holders of cards are entitled to three gallons weekly.

If such an order becomes effective, holders of and cards will, of course, still be entitled to make gasoline purchases. The holder of a card has been receiving gasoline based on a monthly ration of 410 miles. The card is issued for proven amounts of essential motoring. While the officials were in a huddle at Washington, another official source at Atlanta announced that the card suspension order would be forthcoming immediately, but later withdrew his statement with the explanation that any announcement would come from Washington. SHORTAGE OF GASOLINE ACUTE IN THE NORTHEAST New York, Dec.

(P) -Gasoline supplies in the populous Northeastern states were declared critically low today by Petroleum Administrator Ickes, who appealed to motorists to keep their cars in garages unless it was absolutely essential to take them out. "We are at the point where, in order to meet military and industrial requirements and to preserve the health of the people in terms of heat, we are going to have to live on a hand-to-mouth basis so far as gasoline is concerned," Ickes declared in a statement. The Petroleum Chief came to New York as industry reports indicated that there was less than a day's supply of gasoline left for the New York area alone and that shortages were acute elsewhere in the region running from Washington, D. north along the seaboard. Ickes directed motorists to eliminate all driving for pleasure or any "border-line" purpose and cautioned them not to start a run on neighborhood dealers since the stores of gasoline in these tanks were there to meet only essential requirements "and he (the dealer) too little to meet even those needs." Ickes warned that if the nonessential use of gasoline continued there no longer would be any assurance that demands for barely essential purposes could be met.

See GASOLINE, Page Fourteen. Allies Pledge Punishment For Persecutors of Jews Washington, Dec. persecuted Jews of Europe today were promised by 11 United Nations and the Fighting French that the Germans responsible for the "bestial policy" of Jewish extermination will meet just retribution when the world crumbles before Allied might. pledge was made in a statement endorsed by the governments of the United States, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, United Kingdom and Jugoslavia, and by the French National Committee. Denouncing the Nazis for "carrying into effect Hitler's oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe," the statement not only reaffirmed, but, bolstered a previous promise President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill that those responsible for atrocities in occupied Europe would be punished.

Other of the United Nations are expected to endorse it. (Mr. Roosevelt recently discussed the Nazi persecutions with Jewish leaders. It was indicated then that there would be concerted action by the United Nations.) Smoke Marks Grave of Jap Plane A column of black smoke marks the grave of a Japanese plane which sideswiped the U. S.

S. San Francisco off Guadalcanal November 12. The cruiser continued the battle. In left foreground is United States transport; sky is full of antiaircraft bursts. battle the Japs lost 32 of 33 planes which attacked.

(Official Navy photo.) (NEA Telephoto.) Japan May Be Preparing New Guadalcanal Attack HULL UNITY PLEA AIMED AT FRENCH Urges Darian and De Gaulle Factions to Patch Political Differences Washington, Dec. of State Cordell Hull today appealed indirectly, to the Darlan and De factions to forget their differences and "strive to unity their efforts in the support of the Allied military cause until final success." He mentioned no names--in fact, he said his appeal applied to "every person in sympathy with the cause of the United Nations and every group of persons and every other one the circumstances made it plain he referred primarily to the Darlan and Gaulle groups. His statement followed directly press conference question whether he thought "those French leaders eager to help bringing about the defeat of the Axis should now try to cooperate in the common effort." "I have had only one view with respect to the two central points in the international situation as they address themselves especially to the Allied Nations." he replied, "and that view applies universally, and not to any one country or any one people any more than another. "The first central point is that every person in sympathy with the cause of the United Nations and every group of persons and every other one concerned, should strive to unify their efforts in the support of the Allied military cause until final success. That is the supreme and immediate question that adSee HULL, Page Eighteen.

UNDER THE DOME REPLY--Governor Broughton received a reply from Secretary of State Cordell Hull to a letter inviting Madame Chiang Kai-Shek to visit North Carolina. Hull advised the Governor to send the invitation to Dr. Wei Tao-Ming, Chinese ambassador to the United States. The Secretary of State explained that he didn't know Madame Kai-Shek's plans and that the Governor should write the ambassador directly. The Governor was a bit surprised when he got the go-signal to write foreign ambassador directly.

Broughton has written Dr. Tao-Ming, however, and thinks that Hull has the way for the correspondence. red No answer has been received yet from the Chinese ambassador. bills BILLS- -Most earmarked of the as "Governor legislative Broughton's" have been drawn up. Judge Marshall T.

Spears of Durham is drawing up the bill calling for improvements at the Morganton State Hospital, a bill which Broughton will push strongly, although Capitol Hill doesn't expect. a strong push to be necessary. Attorney General McMullan is drawing up most of the Governor's other bills. Capitol Square sources say McMullan has finished three bills--for setting aside, 000,000 of the State's expected surplus of about $30,000,000 for a postwar reserve fund; for granting Broughton "war emergency and for approving the new North Carolina code. Of course the Governor will have more bills, some earmarked as his and some which are his but not earmarked as such.

Broughton's legal right arm during last session was Judge E. B. Denny. Judge Cream Of Nazi Africa Corps Believed Trapped In Desert; British Attacking Fleeing Columns Without Letup: Americans Make Heaviest Raid On Axis Tunisian Targets Cairo, Egypt, Dec. The Japanese Concentrating in New Georgia Area; Buna Fighting Continues Washington, Dec.

signs that the Japanese are girding for a new blow at Guadalcanal--or elsewhere-were noted today in a Navy communique reporting that American bombers wiped out entire flight of 12. Zeros and damaged a destroyer cruiser in New Georgia Island area. One Army Flying Fortress and one Navy Douglas Dauntless divebomber were lost as the Japanese offered their initial challenge to the long United States bombing raids against the New Munda airdrome and outlying installations 150 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. For the first time the Navy noted that enemy ships and planes were found in the New Georgia target area-evidence that the Japanese are gathering strength for another thrust into the southern Solomons or perhaps against some other American bastion in the Pacific. Hitherto the sole target offered by the Japanese was the new airfield at Munda, and it has been pounded relentlessly by the Americans who previously had encountered no resistance whatever.

Wednesday the picture changed. Dive-bombers streaking down on Munda found ships present how many was not revealed. They attacked the vessels and shore installations and damaged one destroyer or cruiser. They also encountered resistance. One dive-bomber failed to return.

All Shot Down. The same. day, a group of Flying Fortresses on an attack mission "in the vicinity of New Georgia Island" -presumably headed for Munda airfield Zeros. were The intercepted entire by enemy 12 force was shot down. One Fortress was lost, but the crew was rescued.

The fact that the Zeros were land types suggested that they had taken off from the Munda field. If so, it would indicate that the American bombers had failed thus far to knock out the field to prevent its use as a direct short-range menace to Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. There is a possibility that the planes See PACIFIC WAR, Page Eight. RUSSIANS REPORT ADDITIONAL GAINS: Sharp Fighting Occurs Northwest of Stalingrad; Nazis Lose Equipment Moscow, Friday, Dec. The Red army killed 1,235 Germans and knocked out 12 tanks yesterday in sharp fighting along the railway leading to Kotelnikovski, 90 miles southwest of Stalingrad, made small gains on the central front, and consolidated position inside the Don River elbow, the Soviets' announced early today.

The heaviest fighting was reported southwest of Stalingrad, where the Russians announced yesterday that they had broken a stubborn German defense near Kotelnikovski after a two-day fight in which 50 Nazi tanks were destroyed. Supplementing a previous announcement of a huge victory west of Surovikino, inside the Don River bend on the Stalingrad-Likhaya railway, the Russians said today a total of 580 German guns, 15 tanks, 26 small tanks and armored cars, 65 mortars. 203 machineguns, 650 antitank rifles, and huge quantities cf ammunition and supplies had been captured in that action, which apparently occurred more than 90 miles at the rear of the Nazi siege army on the Volga. Northwest of. Stalingrad, in the area between the Don and Volga rivers where subsidiary Russian encirclement efforts are under way, the army was reported to have wiped out more than 350 Germans, and destroyed three tanks, 10 machineguns and seven blockhouses.

The Russian effort in that sector, however, appeared to be devoted mainly to fortifying the wedges they have driven into enemy positions. Stalingrad Area. In the immediate Stalingrad area, the communique said, the Russians destroyed seven more transport See RUSSIA. Page Eight. Court Strongly Verdict Against Pelley Chicago, Dec.

language, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed the conviction of William Dudley Pelley and two.co-defendants in the first major sedition case that was tried during the war. "No loyal citizen, in time of war, forecasts or assumes doom and defeat and the futility of his country's the court's opinion said in part, "except with an intent to retard patriotic ardor in a course approved by the Congress and citizenry of the Pelley, goateed founder of the Silver Shirts of America, was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment at Indianapolis last August 12 for criminal sedition. Lawrence A. Brown, associated with him in the Noblesville, publishing firm of Fellowship Press, drew a fiveyear sentence on a conspiracy count, and the firm was fined 000. The appelate court brushed aside all technical points raised by the defense in its appeal and asserted sharply: "In time of war, when success depends on unified national effort, abiding loyalty, and unremitting patriotism, one who broadcasts British Eighth Army, throwing strong force across the line of Field Marshal Rommel's retreat, has cut his fleeing columns in two and now threatens to inflict another major disaster upon them.

A swift and powerful thrust which reached the Wadi (gully) Matratin, about 65 miles west of the abandoned Axis positions at El Agheila, then swung south into the interior, has isolated large German armored, infantry and artillery a punishing fire. "Enemy troops east of this area (the scene of the cut in Rommel's line) include armored formations which, in attempting to break out, already have suffered Heavy casualties and continue to be mauled severely, the British communique announced. "Fighting continues." It thus appeared that a considerable proportion of Rommel's retreating force, which had been es timated at 50,000 to 60,000 men, was in the gravest peril. Rommel Trapped. (In London, a British military observer commented: "It looks like a good part of the Africa Corps -the cream of Rommel's army--is trapped." (It was said in London that in cutting Rommel's line, British General Sir Bernard Montgomery's forces had reached the coast from the southeast and then swung to the south to close the trap.) At the western end of the Allied offensive in North Africa, in Tue nisia, the day's information indicated that new and heavy ground fighting was in preparation as the rains abated.

The Morocco radio was heard broadcasting reports that Axis forces were falling back from the vicinity of Medjez-El-Biberte. (An earlier broadcast from Germancontrolled Vichy had claimed, on the contrary, an Allied withdrawal from that point.) At Allied headquarters in North Africa it was reported that the biggest bomber and fighter Africa force bombed yet action in North and strafed Axis shipping, docks and in Tunisia Thursand three others. day, destroying, five Axis planes The Americans attacked Bizerte, Tunis, Gabes and other Axis strongin Tunisia and beat off attacks by a record number of German planes. Heavy Air Action. British air action command continued announced heavy.

that eight-hour-long assaults had been delivered Tuesday night and Wednesday morning upon Tunis and the harbor of La Goulette without loss of a single Allied plane. "Violent explosions and large Ares" were reported officially and it was added that the Tunis-La Goulette canal had been partly blocked by the bombing attacks. Commenting upon the growing power of the Allied air arm and its relatively small losses, as flected in official announcements, the Morocco radio observed: "It can be said that the course of the battle already is changing under weight of Allied air superiority." Over the line of Rommel's flight in 1 Libya, Allied planes continued their running attacks. A United States communique announced that American planes participating had scored many hits. The core of this action was in the region of Zauta Ennofilia, 100 miles west of El Agheila, where fighters, fighter-bombers and light and medium bombers cast tons of bombs upon those Axis columns which had gotten by the vicinity of the Wadi Matratin before their comrates were cut off, The trapped German forces were under assault not only by the for- The statement charged that Jews are being transported from occupied countries "in conditions of appalling horror and that in the principal Nazi slaughter ghettos are being "systematically emptied, with the ablebodied worked to death in labor camps and the infirm left to die or massacred deliberately." Strengthens Resolve.

The 12 signatories declared that the only effect of such a policy will be to "strengthen the resolve of all freedom-loving peoples to overthrow the barbarous Hitlerite tyranny." British sources estimated that 50,000 Jews have been deported from France, more than 40,000 from Holland, 73,000 from Alsace and Lorraine and 250,000 from Rumania. Some 43,000 Poles were said to have been driven from Warsaw alone in the last three months and some 8,000 executed in the Lublin district. The persecutions and deportations are regarded in some quarters as part of a barbaric plan to exterminate millions of people and thereby alleviate the food shortage already facing Hitler's "master race." See JEWS, Page Eight. Denny now is on the Supreme Court bench, so the Governor will have to get another counsel for the 1943 session. JOB WAITS- -The job of managing the State Fair will be kept open for Dr.

Joseph S. Dorton, who this week was appointed to a as Raleigh area director for the War Manpower Commission. Sponsored annually by the State Department of Agriculture, the fair was called off this fall at the request of the ODT. Dorton was paid the $3,600 annual salary called for in his contract with the department. He had worked on plans for the 1942 fair up to the time it was cancelled.

"When the war is over, we hope Dorton will return to his post." Agriculture Commissioner Kerr Scott declared. FIRST ACT-With North Carolina factories manufacturing camouflage material under Army contracts, it well may turn out be the opening of a business that eventually will bring to the State millions of dollars in payrolls. Several weeks ago Governor Broughton announced that Army contracts had been awarded to companies at Kinston and Carthage for manufacture of the camouflage See DOME, Page Eight. Shopping 6 Days Until Christmas See AFRICA. Page Eight, War in Brief falsely, as verities, misstatements of the country's continued failure in battle, asserts that it is destitute of defenses, is bankrupt, that it has prejudiced and incompetent leadership and extols the virtues of the enemy-cannot successfully challenge the verdict of a jury which found him guilty In the same vein the court said it was "hardly conceivable that a writer or speaker would have written such propaganda, at a time when his country was at war, save as he entertained the hope of weakening the patriotic reserve of his fellow citizens It was brought out at Pelley's trial that most of his writings reached the public through a magazine called The Galilean.

as Then empty challenge" defense appellate characterized claims that indictment was insufficient. ruled that the names of 300 persons, including some women, were supplied as prospective jurors, and that the fact that no women were on the jury did not affect the legality of the verdict. It also held that the appearance of assistant attorneys general the grand jury which returned the indictment was duly authorized by law. Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel faces another disaster in the Libyan desert wastes as the British Eighth Army splits his fleeing forces, trapping the cream of the German Africa Corps, British planes continue pounding fleeing troops without letup. American bombers and fighters stage their heaviest raids of the battle for Tunisia, blasting Axis targets at Tunis, Bizerte, Gabes and Sousse as ground fighting lull continues.

Presence of Japanese ships and planes in New Georgia Island area may indicate another enemy effort to regain lost ground on Guadalcanal. Americans and Australians continue to keep enemy under heavy pressure at Buna mission in New Guinea. Russians report victory in twoday battle near Stalingrad and minor gains on other sectors of winter front. Report heavy losses to Germans men and equipment, Jews of Europe get promise from United Nations that Nazis responsible for wholesale killings and privations will be punished after the war. Army and Navy announce widespread plan to use colleges and universities to train quarter million young men for the armed servicetary Hull expresses hope that Darlan and De Gaulle French political factions will compose their differences..