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BLlCAI PRICE: THREE CENTS FORTY-SIXTH "YEAR EIGHT PAGES BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1942 DAILY REP HUM IMA 1 A A Li. LL A LL LL I'll LL r-i U. AUSS1ES Wives U.S.' Prohibits-Enlisting Of Ship, Please Be Kind To Our Employes Sentenced Year Terms Germarn's Face Annihilation ALLIED PLANES BLAST AXIS ON AFRICAN FRONT To 25 Pot In Sabotage By kuss Army Jan Valtin Seized By U. Ordered Sent To Germany $10,000 Fines Arc Levied Against Trio Of Women On Conviction For Aiding Executed Nazi Saboteur CHICAGO. Nov.

24 Federal Judge William J. Plane Workers WASHINGTON. Nov. 24 The government today prohibited vol untary enlistment in the armed forces by any essential worker in the aircraft and shipbuilding in dustrics. The action was seen as a com promise answer to demands among federal man power agencies that voluntary enlistments be stopped, Acting after approval had been obtained from the war and navy departments.

Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, instructed local draft boards by telegram to refuse releases for en listment to essential aircraft or shipbuilding workers. He defined essential workers as "any registrant who is, or should be, classified in class 2-B or 3-B and who is employed in thfe air craft or shipbuilding industries." The ruling also applies to regis trants who resigned from essential Campbell today sentenced three German-American men to death and their wives to 25 years in prison for treason "as a timely and solemn warning to all who would treasonably traffic with the enemies of the United States." Campbell condemned the men to die in the electric chair January 22, and with the remark that the women, while not less guilty, only had followed their husband's leads, sentenced them to prison and individual fines of $10,000.

The defendants, "all found guilty of treason, which Campbell termed "the most iniquitous offense on the IIURL TAR AT REDS TO BREAK TRAP MOSCOW, Nov. 24 A great and possibly decisive tank battle raged in the area west of Stalingrad today as battered German forces, foreseeing entrapment in an iron ring forged by the Red army, sought to rally for a counterattack. (The German high command admitted today that the Russians pentrated defenses outhwest of Stalingrad and on the Don river bend, but said Nazi countermeas-ures were in progress. The com munique complained of unfavorable weather but said "several hundred enemv tanks were de The Soviet offensive gained momentum. One army pushing, routh- ward reached the village of FO' kihs in those industries within 6oMav unholy list of crimes, were passive.

I hey sat at a taoie in the tiny federal court room and stared into space as their sentences were intoned. The defendants, all naturalized citizens convicted of treasonably aiding Herbert Haupt, one of the six executed members of the eight-man Nazi sabotage mission which June, were: Max Hans Haupt, 49, father of Herbert, a. Ger howej that orders from Com. party superiors" Krebs came toe Ued State, in 1926 man soldier in the first World war, who came to the United States in. 1923 and became a bricklayer, painter and building contractor.

His wife, Erna, 43, who was 'naturalized only last year. The government -stressed that it was at her fireside that Herbert was inculcated with the Nazi philosophy. Walter Otto Froehlinsr, ii Australians mopping up -t it Gona; lanks Move In On Buna Nov. 24 Sec retary of Navy Frank nox said to- (Jay it is unlikely that the Japanese can get reimorcemeni into Guadalcanal Knox told a press conference that American forces are main taining a "pretty rigid patrol day and night" around the island in the South Pacific. WASHINGTON, Nov.

24 American troops continued ad vancing westward on Guadalcanal but the Japanese were active southwest of U. S. positions on the island, the navy annenmced to- The American advances were lwmiea, me navy saiq. report also tha during the night of ovemoer i-zi usiana American airmen attacked enemy positions on me isiana Japanese troop activity wuuiww ui me u. o.

positions was centered on the Mabulo and UPP- maianiKau river regions. Mambula is about three miles from the northern coast of Guad alcanal Break Into Gona Advance elements of an Aus tralian force breaking into Gona were rolling back the right flank lhe Japanese Gona-Buna beach pead today while American troops r. etrated to within 1,200 yards of Buna. Mopping up operations at Gona, mission village of only three Eu- roiean houses, three schools, a church and a hospital, were expected to be completed shortly. A communique from Gen.

MacArthur's headquarters said Australian units already were ad vancing upon Sanananda, a native vi)lage about 12 miles by land southeast of Gona and five miles northwest of Buna. Seize Position A dispatch from Harold Guard, United Press correspondent in New Guinea, said tropical downpours, which flooded rivers and IS swampy ground still more impass able, were hampering Allied oper ations somewhat, particularly the movement of troops and supplies. Nevertheless, American troops, ngaB'ngr eWmy fLJhe time were giving as good an ac count of themselves as their tough, jungle-seasoned Australian allies. While the communique merely re- p- to3" the sea slightly more than a mile southeast of Buna, Guard said an Australian-American col- lumn wfiich came down one track from Soputa was within 1.200 yards of Buna last ntght. UNDER KNIFE YORK, Nov.

MJessica Dragonette, radio singer, was re-ported in good condition at' Mis Lcricordia hospital today after an appendectomy- last night. Nazis 0 To Half Of ADVANCING ON MALCANA 1 1 1 IUa Vtnni ef from Kalach. A third army, advancing from southern cut the railroad to Rostov ana.ronea on to the southeast. Nail Drive Stalled The German attempt at a counterattack was having little success. One entire German division was reported exterminated in a single brief operation when it tried to cut off the Soviet wedge northwest of Stalingrad.

The Russians beat off the counterassaault while other forces struck the enemy flanks and encircled the division. Another German division met a similar fate. Col. Gen. Hermann Hoth, commander of the Germans in the Stalingrad area, hastened to de-j velop a countfiroffensivc powerful' enough to break the Rassian drive 1 it.

Wl 4ni, Bnnnruwl cVlllf before the big trap snapped shut and lelt him open to anninuauon Slaughter Mounts The inspired Russians gave him a foretaste ot tne pern in ioui days of fighting, during which 000 Germans were killed while an- other 1,000, fighting inside the city Kuuu mv. LS ThSr SesS EOSTON, Nov. 24 A Dorchester grocery store today posted this sign: "Please be kind to our employes. They're harder to get than customers." Guard- Murderess To Balk Rescue By Killer -Mate LAKE CHARLES, Nov. 24 A doubled guard stood around the cell of murderess Toni Jo Henry in the parish jail today, believing her husband, killer and bandit Claude (Cowboy) Henry, just escaped from a Texas prison.

Was on his way here to try res cuing her. Henry fled from the Sugarland state prison farm yesterday and was last seen on a highway near Houston headed in this direction. he is to have a try at shooting his way into and out of the local jail to get: the woman who loves him because he "is the only man who ever treated me decent see?" It will have to be before Saturday noon when she is to. be executed in the state's portable electric chair. i Killed Benefactor Mrs.

Henry, 26, a prostitute hardened in Texas red light dis trlcts since she was 15, committed one of the most vicious murders In Louisiana annals. J. P. Calloway, a Houston salesman, gave her and a companion a ride in his automo bile. She produced a pistol, forced him to take off his clothes though the weather was freezing and while he begged for his life on his hands and knees, filledjiis head with lead.

She wanted his car and besides, she told police when' they caught her, she didn't like men with the single exception of "Cow boy" Henry. Henry, who was serving T50 years for homicide, and another convict, jumped into, a truck and raced away wheii their' guards were momentarily looking the other way. A fusillade of bullets didn't stop them. They aban- doner the truck later, stole a car, and were last seen last night near the Houston-Hempstead highway, 200 miles from here. Father Hunts Son Held By Daughter LOS ANGELES.

Nov. 24 Mark T. McKee, wealthy airline executive, said today that he may take action against his daughter, Cynthia, 20, unless she returns soon with her two-year-oia half-brother, Terry McKee, who has been missing since Friday. McKee employed two private detectives to join deputy sheriffs in the search for Terry. He did not explain what legal action he contemplated.

Custody, of the child for nine months of each -year was given to McKee Friday at the conclusion of a divorce trial. Temporary custody of Terry had been given previous ly to Cynthia, who sided with her mother during the proceedings. Both Cynthia and Terry have been missing since the trial ended. Draft Prosecutor Takes Army Exam CHICAGO, Nov. 24 John Kiely, former assistant U.

S. district attorney who prosecuted draft law violators until his own board cited him a delinquent, takes an army physical examina tion today and expects to be ducted tomorrow for military. serv ice. His board withdrew the delinquency charges after conferring with him last night. Kicly told the board he had failed to report for induction previously because of "misunderstanding" over the status of the justice department's request that he be deferred until he could be, replaced.

CALL WAGE STRIKE WINDSOR, Ont, Nov. 24 Ap- Tord otor Co Canada en.l"" atrainst hirine of women at wage less than that paid men similar, jobs. all a on landed on the east coast last Legislature To Plan Postwar Work. Hints GOP SPRINGFIELD. 111., Nov.

24 Gas and tire mileage allotments made by the office of defense transportation to Illinois farmers for their vehicles is "badly inade-quate" at the present time, according to State Agriculture Director Howard Leonard. Leonard said here Monday that "a serious drop" in production of food might result in Illinois if the ODT did not change present gas and travel allotments for farmers. He said this- was in conflict with the fact that the federal government has asked farmers to produce an even larger amount of food next year than this year's record harvests to meet increasetj war demands. Some Rations Halved "The allowance of gas and of tire mileage for farm -owned trucks used to transport farm products to market in Illinois," Leonard said. "is cut in many cases as much as fifty per cent.

"If this policy 1 is adhered to, definitely will not be able tc produce the food which the gov. einnieni is aemanaing be in. creased livestock, poultry, 'dair, products in fact everything." Asked what he planned to do to remedy the situation, which he said if continued, would result ir a bottleneck in the nation's food production in 1943, Leonard said: director of agriculture can file a protest with the OD7 to have the allotments made larg er unless these regulations increased by the government "Farmers can operate, now that crops are in, on what they havr (Continued on Page 2 40, brother of Mrs. Haupt and uncle of Herbert, a ruck driver and musician whose home was on the Gestapo list as a possible headquarters for the sub- marine-borne saboteurs. His wife, Lucille Froeh- ing, 6Z, the motner or two children, Gordon, 6, and Esther, 8.

The children tave been cared for by a neighbor since their parents were arrested last June 2. Otto Richard Wergin, 46, Worid war sailor in the German navy, who, the government charged, offered to iielp Herbert by doing un- dercover work. His wife, Kate, 43, moth er of two children, Irene, Savage Offensive Paves Way For Advance By Ground Army ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Oran, Algeria, Nov. .20 (De layed) Lieut. Gen.

Mark W. Clark, second in command of the American forces in North Africa, said today that the Allied position was even more iavorame man had been expected and that it was hoped to make North Africa a German Dunkirk. "I believe vvecan do it," he said. He revealed that the Allied in tended, to make Oran a gigantic supply base for additional troops because it was comparatively out German range. The troops will moved eastward to the battle zone gradually, as they are ready and needed.

LONDON, Nov. 24 Allied" air forces striking from west and east intensified a savage aerial offen sive against Axis positions at Bi zerte, Tunis and Tripoli today while the masses of the American, British and French armies pressed on toward enemy ground positions in Tunisia. Allied planes based on north- cast Africa ferociously bombed Bi-zerte and the vital; Axis west Libyan base of Tripoli, radio Morocco reported. Lone range Allied bombers of hp army flew across uioya to give tsraerte sun another pasting and fighter planes from Malta shot down at least three Giant German transport planes off the East Tunisia coast. Other attacks were made by Malta and Middle Eastern planes on Palermo airdrome, Sicily, and enemy shipping off Sardinia, where merchantman was sunk.

Sel-e Agedabl The British Eighth army, driving through Libya, westward toward Tripoli and Tunis occupied Agedabia, on Gulf of Sirte coast 70 miles from El Agheila, and the inland oasis of Jalo. Radio Morocco reported that in skirmishes calculated to lead soon to a grand scale battle, the Allies in Tunisia had taken many Axis prisoners. German-controlled Radio Paris reported that all French forces in Africa had been put under the command of Lieut Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower by agreement with Gen.

Henri Honore Giraud, active commander of; French, fighting forces. Call French to Fight Radio Morocco broadcast a mo bilization order, published in today's Morocco newspapers, calling all French officers under 30 years of age and noncommissioned of ficers and men of the 193b. 1938 and 1939 army classes to report to the colors. Though the report was not confirmed here, it was regarded as the logical sequel to the swing of all French' West Africa, including Dakar, to the Allied orbit, as an nounced over French African ra dios bv Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, the French leader, in Af rica. Canvass By Board; Tax Ban Lost McKeough, Chicago, by a plurality of 202,876.

Brooks topped the O. ticket with 1,582,887 but W. G. Stratton, Republican who defeated Democrat W. D.

Forsyth for, state treasurer, had the biggest plurality 253,853. Sales Tax Vote Lost A proposal to amend the state constitution so that the legislature would have power to exempt food from the state sales tax received an affirmative vote of 979.892 against a negative vote of 346,232 but lost because it lacked a majority of the total vote cast O. P- leader, appeared before it r.wttoct -m-WlM-Tinn or ISTP or Mate oen. Louis G. Menges, East St.

Louis, (Continued on Page 2) If to WASHINGTON, Nov. 24-At-torncy General Francis Biddlc announced the arrest of Richard Julius Herman Krebs, who under the name of Jan Valtin wrote "Out of the Night," for deportation to his native Germany. The deportation warrant was served on Krebs in Bethel, by the immigration and naturalization service. He will be in-terncd for the duration of the war. The board or immigration appeals found Krebs had entered the United States illegally after once having been arrested and deported following a prison term.

It said he had visited the United States in 1923 and 1924. From 1923 to 1937, the board said, Krebs "was a member of the Communist "par ty of, Germany, a section of the Communist International." Red Party Member The board said its- records as a stowaway and that he acted on orders "to commit murder by a Communist partyof fctarmL0s Angeles." In October of 1926 Krebs pleaded guilty to assault, with a deadly weapon on a Los Angeles storekeeper and was sentenced to ten years in prison. After serving 39 months at San Quentin he was paroled for de portation in November, 1929. The board reported Krebs later became an executive officer of the International Union of Seamen and Harbor Workers and "tne (Continued on Page 2) Charge Showgirl "Lured9 Rich Mate REDWOOD CITY, CaL, Nov. 24 Pretty Mrs.

June Colburn Eraser, 25-year-old former showgirl, used her experience as a "worldly woman" to lure socialite John D. Fraser. 21. into a marriage 14 m0ntrts ago, her husband wealthy family' charged today. jn an amended annulment pe- tititdh, Fraser's family alleged the time of her first meeting with Fraser a sophisticated and worldly woman.

It said she used "various arts and devices and tricks de signed for the sole purpose of lur ing Fraser into marriage. The Frasers charged that she believed. Fraser "would come into a considerable sum of money" at the age of 21. The petition also alleged that Mrs. Fraser posed in a bathtub for a photographer, causing Fraser "humiliation" when the photo was published.

Mrs. Fraser sued separate maintenance, and the' annulment action was filed as a counter suit. State Vote Released Sales conTMnvnrT.n Nov. 24 November 3 election was history today following approval by state canvassing board late yesterday of official county re turns for state and district oi- fices. Certificates of ornce were mailed the winning candidates by Secretary of State E.

J. Hughes today. The canvass disclosed i a state total vote of 3,049,312, the smallest since 1934 when 2,935,192 went to the polls. It was well under the 3,274,814 cast in 1938, the last off-year election. The canvass 31U in UUWIlMaiC Ull nuvcmuci U.

bs ben. c. wayiana erooKs, Chicago. Republican, won re-elec- tion over DemocratRaymond of be a n. of Stalingrad, were taken prison- that "as a result of her ample fixer.

Booty was in proportion. perience, she (Mrs. Fraser) was at 9, and Wolfgang, 21, who led the United States with" davs hofnro ewkinfr tn pnlur Nat Blanket Deferment Hershev enmhasized that "this in not blanket deferment workers in these industries, who will continue to be called for mil. Mary service as they are needed and as thev can bo renlaced in es. contini inhc Some observers interoreted the order as indicating that President Roosevelt has decided to reject a plea by the war man power com mission chairman, Paul V.

Me Nutt, that all voluntary enlist ments must be stopped in order make possible "orderly withdraw al" for militarv rfntv of men fmm essential industries, McNutt- supported by Hershey and other man nnwer nffiriai. man power officials, Mr. Roosevelt, is known to have opposed the. idea because of his close association with and affec tion lor traditions of the navy, which always has been able to meet its man power' needs on a voluntary basis. Knotty Problem Hershey's telegram to local boards mentioned specifically an fssue which fast is becoming one of the knottiest problems of the federal man power program: "Since this action has been tak en to protect the aircraft and ship building industries from an uncontrolled loss of essential employees, local boards have a major respon sibihty to carefully and promptly determine wnether or not a re lease will be Issued upon request to a registrant wishing to enlist." lnis, significantly, followed a press conference comment by Mc- Nutt Monday that tighter controls snouia De applied to maKc sure that local boards observe direc tives from Washington.

He indi cated that failure to follow such lauui lu ivsiiuvr auLH directive ha, rfnno mnsirWahlo damage to WMC and selective service programs. New Developments There were these other develop ments in the man power field: 1. The national roster of scien tific and specialized personnel, a part of WMC, urged senior and graduate students of chemistry, physics, engineering, and other specialized subjects to add their names to the 550,000 already listed on the roster, which covers more (Continued on Page 2) Oddities In The Day's News MINEOLA, N. Nov. 24 The liuhts of.

268 confiscated pin ball machines burned again today in all their glory. Civilian de fense authorities used the lights and other parts to build an illuminated map of their units in Nassau county. Several hundred pounds of leftover metal turned over to the army. were NEW YORK. Nov.

24 Alfred Felardo, 50, was haled into court on a policeman's charge that he "tantalized" squirrels by wiring nuts, bunches of grapes and home-made toy squirrels to a tree branch. This contraption, the patrolman testified, was pulled away just as the live squirrels jumped for the tid-bits and tjiey fell on the ground. Felardo finalycneedeludgelnat he was a. nature lover and wanted I only to study -the habits.of squir. rels.

The judge sen- 1 tence and Felardo promised to re turn to the study of 'At Pf a i Exterminate Polish Jews young Haupt in 1941 and now is a member of the German army. The government proved to the satisfaction of a jury of eight women and four men that all the defendants aided Haupt in full knowledge that he was back in his own country from Germany to blow up aluminum plants, spy out war Secrets in the optical industry, and otherwise, liweck tha American war sThe women dabbed at their eyes with hanakercnieis ana looked helplessly at their hus bands. Two navy doctors and special deputies with smelling salts standing behind the defena. ants ready for an emergency proved unnecessary. fifty spectators who crowd ed into the courtroom, leaving an overflow of hundreds in the halls of the federal building, main tained a dead silence as Campbell read his three-page opinion, concluding Illinois' first and the na tion's biggest treason case.

Judge Campbell said in his opinion with reference to tne women defendants: "There is no priority on mercy and it was incumbent on the court to consider the mothers of thousands of boys fighting for us and those working on the assembly lines in the. aluminum Industry who could have been destroyed by sabotage, Campbell said "the sentences will serve notice on the enemy Says Exile Government In one Stalingrad segment alone, the Russians annihilated a com- plete, fully-equipped infantry di-( visinn oR 12.000 which had arrived at the front recently. Within a few hours the same Soviet units anni-( Continued on Page 2) Peoria Testing "Carlcss" Tuesday PEORIA. Nov. 24-Peoria's ex-periment in leaving half its cars idle today appeared to be succeeding.

Employes seemed to be getting to work without too much trouble even though all automobiles bearing odd-numbered license plates had been ruled off the streets in a government-sponsored test in a typical midwestern City to learn what would happen if half its cars were unable to operate due to worn-out tires. Buses and street cars 'were packed, but their operators said they did riot have to leave any one stranded on a street corner, Motorists with even-numbered license plates were picking up pedestrians. Mayor E. N. Woodruff flipped a coin Saturday, deciding that cars bearing odd-numbered license plates shall be left in garages.

Motorists authorized to use their cars were asked to offer rides to their' neighbors. OPA officials said the test wa expected to show the impact of reduced automobile usage which mierht face the nation's cities in LONDON, Nov. 24 Heinrich.of the notorious SS guard, were said to be pushing Himm ler's program. These were dragging Jewish squads victims from their homes or seizing them in streets and driving them to village and town squares in mas for execution, me re ports said. Old men and women and crip ples were singled out to be herd ed to cemeteries where they were mowed down by firing squads.

Polish sources said. The Nazis made no attempt to prove that the Jews had committed any crimes fir violated German Jews who were not executed 4 packed into freight cars 150 packed to a car that normally was large enough, for 40 to be shipped'' to, i undisclosed points for liquidation. Himmler, head of the Nazi Gestapo, has ordered that one-half of the large Jewish population in occupied Poland be exterminated bv the end of the year, reports from1 the Polish underground movement to the Polish government-in-exile here said today. The first step In the bloody program, it was saia, wouia oe io kill 50 per cent of the thousands of Jews living in ghettos estab lished by the Nazis. The remain der would be "liquidated" later.

There, were 3,113,900 Jews, or 9.8 per cent of the total population, in Poland, according to the 1931 census, but the Germans dur- mgtnorythan-thiee years of occn pation have reduced this number bv killinff thousands outncht or permitting them to die of starva tion afid disease'. Special Nazi "liquidation" bat concciveJ ld. TSSSSSS- fhSSSL scheme to use German-Ante Nam in this country as pawns i. doomed to failure." Campbell referred to lhe tiri (Continued on Page 2) A tfnr ancu'or- nr I uh havo wvitpndpd that trasoline rationing was unnecessary on nation-wide scale. a.