Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 1

MHHii aJ "1 lijlf HI Bfl fell Wi I SJ 'B 64 de acuiljly mvAMUH vuiupi isiiiu ai auu that has been driving the Japanese strength 15000 men had been a A A rl a A i 1 'f a a A What The Nazis Are Doing In Warsaw OPK ph 13 (UR) Thn nrawil 11 ur St Ms st Red Army Tightens Noose About Kharkov Claims New Victories on All ronts Sgt Louis Cooley of Portland Ore girls just stack up to American girls All we ask for is a thousand in every camp" Sgt Jack Lumber Ontario Ore here com pare with St Louis (He went to radio school in St Louis and was looking across the table at Jo Sippy Red Cross worker from St Louis) back toward the Muon Gulf area of northeastern New Guinea am bushed and disbursed an enemy rear guard of 60 marines and killed 32 of them a communique from Gen Douglas head quarters announced today Australian jungle fighters came upon the enemy marines Saturday morning two and a half miles northeast of Mandumi which is nine miles from Wau on almost a direct line to Mubo Attempt Capture The Japanese were retreating from the Wau area after having made an unsuccessful attempt to capture the important Wau air drome from the Allies An Allied headquarters spokes man reported that there were no major engagements in the Sala maua area of New Guinea but that widespread 'patrol activity continued throughout that sector This was the first mention of the use of Japanese marines in the Wau Mubo Salamaua area It had been announced previously that the enemy had one army regiment and an: engineering unit' Strafe Jungle Trails American Havoc planes bombed and strafed the jungle trails and Japanese positions around Mubo yesterday) the communique re vealed The bombers supported the action of the Australian ground troops Allied long range fighter planes executed a strafing sweep along the New Guinea northeastern coast between Madang and inschafen Large fires were started' at both ports and a nairplane hangar at Madang went up in flames The hangar apparently contained fuel T7 XT TT AT Tr A TD HEADQUARTERS Australia eb J4 (Sunday) (UJ3 An Allied force INDIANS QUIET POONA India eb 13 (UK Partisans of Mohandas Gandi in this city four miles from the heeavily guarded Aga pal ace where the Mahatma is in the fourth day of a three week fast said tonight that silence of shock and was spreading throughout India because of the internment SEVENTY THIRD YEAR NO 72 zs I I LONDON eb 13 (UP) If American soldiers in England could send Valentines to their girl friends back home they probably would read like this: Roses are red violets are blue British girls are okay but take Here is some opinion from American boys gathered at the Red Cross Club on the relative merits of American and Brit ish girls Sgt George Grant Grass Valley Cal am a married man so much experience with British girls but I think American girls have it all over Girls Better Company Sgt Jerry Williams Cal girls are all right but our girls are better educated have travelled more and are better (He would have Alexa Keegan of Williams know that had only three or four dates in England) routed by the Red army taking a terrific toll of lives Lose Many Men "In the last two days alone" the communique said of this division lost 3500 The 320th division was routed as the Russians continued their at tempt to envelop the rich Donets basin smashing forward from Krasnoarrneiskoye "the town of the Red and only 80 miles north of the sea of Azov Simultaneously it was disclosed Red army forces captured Likehya hotly contested rail junction 70 miles north of Rostov Novoshakh tinsk 40 miles north of Rostov and Zverevo midway between Ka mensk and Shakhty on the rail line leading north from the Caucasus gateway city to Voronezh Increase Pressure The capture of Novocherkassk on whose outskirts the Soviets pre viously had broken a strong Ger man defense line increased pres sure on Rostov immeasurably and observers believed might pave the way for German evacuation of the city (A CBS broadcast from Moscow said there were reports in the So viet capital that the Germans ap parently fearing that capitulation is imminent had set fire to all of Rostov) Army Inductees In Better Health i MILWAUKEE Wis eb 13 (UR) Army inductees of are in much better physical condition than those called to the 5017106 a year ago Rear Admiral Ross McIntire personal physician to President Roosevelt said tonight "We are now receiving men who can lie trained in a much shorter period of time than those of a year ago simply because they are better' McIntire told grad uates of the Marquetie University medical school NAZI Page 2 Col 5 WASHINGTON eb 13 (UR) The first direct move in Cong ress to wipe out a presidential wartime order was taken by the house Ways and Means commit tee tonight when it approved legis lation to nullify the executive or der limiting net salaries to $25 000 annually The committee voted 15 to 10 to replace President or der with legislation which would prevent salaries of more than $25 000 net after Reduction of fed eral taxes from being raised above their Dec 7 1941 level Could Make More Tr Thus funder the? proviso a man whose' annual net salary was at the rate of $300 000 a year could continue to re ceive up to that much salary but he could not be paid more Per sons whose net salary was less than $25000 net would not be af fected iccieu ive Democrats voted the 10 man Republican representation on the Ways and Means commit tee to approve the restriction which was written into the ad bill to boost the na tioinal debt from $125000000000 to $210000000000 Rider Attached The rider was sponsored by Rep Wesley Disney Okla who termed the move the opening of a drive on "government by ex ecutive As approved the plan would become retroactive to Oct 2 1942 An amendment offered by Rep Bertrand Gearhart Cal to provide repeal of the order with no substi tute was voted down by the com mittee over Republican objections 15 to 10 When the Gearhart proposal was defeated Republican mem bers switched support to plan despite tjieir earlier objec tions to the December 7 1941 date for pegging wartime salaries rering irom anemia and softening of the OWI said In 1941 9000 persons died of tuberculosis compared to less than 3000 in 1938 In the first eight months of that year typhus killed 5592 compared to 23 in 1938' (That was much earlier in the war Lacking specific figures the OWI does not speculate on what has happened on cumulative deprivations since then) The Poles ret almost no 'fond except from the black market rigged by Germans who take the exorbitant profit therefrom The principal staple' is mread which is 40 per cent sawdust and bark and indigestible' There may not be number of times that fliers have rained havoc and destruction on the Munda base since Nov 23 The enemy started work there soon after Marines captured the then incomplete Guadalcanal air field which has proven to be of such inestimable value to Ameri forces American Soldiers in England Prefer Girls at Home Much Better McCarran Honored at Dinner by Nevada riends 1 ENGLAND RAIDED LONDON eb 14 (Sunday) tA5) German raiders dropped high explosive and incendiary bombs bn a town on the southwest English coast tonight killing two persons and injuring eight The enemy planes took advantage of bright moonlight to carry out a pro longed raid PRICES INCREASE WASHINGT ON eb 13 Secretary of Labor rances Per kins 1 reported today that' food prices increased 94 per cent be tween May 12 '1942 and January 12 this year? a gigs 'A By EDWARD BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS North Africa eb 13 (UP) American and British troops in Tunisia are an expeditionary force in the process of becoming an army They are still raw They have suffered casualties beyond what experienced CONGRESS MAY LIT SALARY LIMIT ORDER Ways Means Group Votes for New even this bread in Warsaw this Winter the OWI observes Eighty per cent of the popula tion has been without sufficient light and heat since the occupation Coal may be had only on the black market at $160 for half a ton Adults meaning persons over six months old are not permitted milk On the black market one egg costs i i vcuu ui! may ue nan at aoout a pouna ana tween $9 and $11 There is no adequate housing Poles are expelled from decent homes so that Germans may occu py them Conditions in the over MOSCOW eb 14 (Sunday) (UP) The Red army pulled its noose tight about the key city of Kharkov today driving one column within 11 miles of the city on the southeast and sending the long northern arm of its pincer 25 miles north northwest of the Ukrainian stronghold Simultaneously Soviet troops drove toward the apparently doomed city of Rostov after capturing the German strong point of Novocher kassk only 30 miles northeast of the Caucasus gateway city The new advances were announced in the regular Soviet midnight communique and a special communique issued shortly before midnight Logan Captured While one Russian column drove to Zolochcv 25 miles north north west of Kharkov another captured Rogan only 11 miles east southcast of the German winter lino bastion Rogan was the closest the Russians have yet approached Kharkov At the same time the Red army captured Kamennaya Yaruga 16 miles southeast of Kharkov Tara novka 24 miles to the south Liptsi miles northeast of the city and Kazachaya Lopan 24 miles to the north on the railroad to Belgorod' The midnight communique dis closed that the 320th German in fantry division comprising at full niiTTTr rr iNiiAV luna eu xne appalling story bf what the Nazis have done in Warsaw capital of conquered Poland is told in detail in a pamphlet "Tale of' a released tonight by the office of war information Testing Ground Warsaw is described as a testing ground for Nazi plans of world conquest through the ruthless ex termination of entire populations This plan has been sensed before by the civilized world but the OWI brochure by focussing on Warsaw gives a specific idea of how it works The materia was gathered from all possible sources many of them hitherto confidential If the Nazis 2r'sir naL us JAPS REVEAL SHIP LOSSES I I They Say American Vessels Sunk troops would have suffered in the same scale of fighting They have failed sometimes because of bad tactics and sometimes because of bad coordination They are opposed by a tough experienced enemy that excels them in fire power in cer tain categories of weapons But by and large they are splen didly equipped they have a flam ing spirit and they are learning how to become soldiers the hard way During a lengthy tour of the front I talked with a wide variety of American rench and British sol diers top commanders intelli gence officers sergeants command ing remote hill top outposts and plain everyday privates They? are agreed on one thing that the Ger mans are licked but that it is go ing to be a lomr hard iob tn con vince them that they are Men Must Harden The task of the commanders in Tunisia is to forge their men into a foice as experienced and tough as the British Eighth Army which is moving into southern Tunisia The Eighth Army tested in the fires of desert warfare and hard ened by reverses as well as suc cesses is judged here to be the fin esCfighting force this side of Sta lingrad With experience the An glo American rench forces in Tunisia can become equally good here and in future campaigns A 10 day inspection of the front including the terrible Tunisian mud leads to these conclusions about the trend of events in this theater of operations: Will Be Casualties 1 Allied casualties are going to be heavy There is no tendency here to underestimate the enemy and perhaps it is better that the home front in the United States under stands clearly the magnitude of the task The Axis has mustered well over 170000 troops in Tunisia and more than half of them are German veterans with three years experi ence in modern war They occupy strong positions they are well armed and their morale with the exception of some past 35 years of age is good They have had inval uable experience in mounting heavy machine guns in placing mortars in the right positions and in concentrating fire power against an infantry attack 2 The Axis strategy is one of de lay At present they control all the important defensive positions ex cept the pass at Pichon which is relatively unimportant So far they have held the initiative with a se See TUNIS Page 2 Col 2 On the eve of his departure for Washington after spending three weeks in Nevada Senator Pat Mc Carran and Mrs McCarran were the honored guests last night at a dinner at the Riverside Hotel which would have been in ordinary times the subject for interesting political comment It was a "homecoming arranged by friends of the senator without regard to politics either partisan or inter party was attended by nearly 100 represen tativemen and women of Nevada who heard the senator review the world situation and in particular discuss the future of Nevada and the future of silver Carpenter Presides jt roi a carpenter: director of the Mackay School of Mines pre sided and was the only other speak er His talk was brief and on be half of the assemblage1 he extended a welcome to a native son of Ne vada "who is called upon to de vote much of his time to national and international affairs but never overlooks the problems of his own state and returns occasionally to get the Nevada Though he devoted the greater part of his talk to silver and what it means to Nevada Senator Mc Carran took the occasion to declare that "civilization will continueon the principles of the constitution of the United States as we know it and when the war is won this coun try will shoulder the burden of re storing peace and civilization to the war disrupted countries of the 1 He paid tribute to Dr Jeanne Elizabeth Wier former professor of history at the University of Ne vada and gave her credit for teach ing him the fundamentals of con stitutional government He also paid tribute to the Mackay family and to Mrs Robert Ziemer Haw kins daughter of Clarence Mackay who was present ight for Silver to silver which has oc cupied much of Senator McCar time while in the United States senate he traced its history as a money metal from the earliest days of the nation to the present and declared that he and other sen ators from the west were prepared to fight for the preservation of sil ver to the last ditch He declared that the present pegged price for silver is not a subsidy and asserted that the real honest statement on the subject is that the silver producing industry of America is rendering 'a serviceto th'e government in producing without charge the only lawful money that is now in circulation Continuing he said: was pending in the clos ing weeks of the last session of congress a bill if it Had been enacted would have permitted the taking of silver from the treasury of the United States at 50 cents per notwithstanding the fact that this silver in the treas ury of the United States is worth $129 per ounce and notwithstand ing the further fact that the treas urjT of the United States had given to the American miner 71 cents See SILVER? Page 2 Col 1 Break Jail Long Term Prisoners Escape Prison PARCHMAN Miss eb 13 (UR) Three of the 19 long term con victs who escaped from the Mis sissippi penitentiary armed with 13 rifles early today were captur ed tonight near Clarksdale Miss prison superintendent P'Love revealed Love said another group was re ported cornered by 50 armed deputies in northern Cohoma county near Clarksdale and that more captures were expected soon Authorities at 'rClarksdale: said they expected a heated gun fight when the remainder of the con victs most of whom still were wearing prison stripes were rounded up Prison superintendent Love said the break started when the prisoners overpowered a guard as he opened the prison gates to release prison cooks so breakfast Sbe prepared URGE SPEED LIMITS WASHINGTON eb 13 Defense Transportation Director Joseph Eastman today urged state legislatures to enact laws permitting their governors or des ignated state agencies to' change rtnlrt UmUe 1 qiai cpvtt AixAXftvoi Day YANKS AMBUSH JAPMARINES orces Plow Ahead as rth Tanis ighting Picks Up 1 1 Writer Analyzes Troops 1 1 4 rt 5 K8SI SfSSilSSf BIS a Curb on Civilian Goods orecast WASHINGTON eb 13 (UP) The nation will have to curb manu facture of civilian goods sharply in order to produce $80000000000 worth of munitions and meet man power reouirements of the armed serevices this year war production The actions brought to 63 the cmei uonaia iu xxeison oeueves Testifying last week before the senate military affairs committee Nelson disclosed that war man power chief Paul McNutt had asked WPB for a report on how 3200000 workers could be trans ferred from industry to the army navy marines and coast guard BwRSiWiWsBasS i A 1 i ftw BTB BTt i BS Of irst Line In Africa pi evau the booklet says Warsaw fate will be the ultimate fate of Paris Oslo Rotterdam Belgrade and of every village city and na tion that falls into German hands The Nazi pattern is one of death by outright murder (called by them executions) 'disease starvation and the wholesale elimination of popu lations The survivors are doomed to economic slavei City Dying Out Warsaw is dying out the OWI reports? Deprived of the necessary fats and vitamins the population falls easy prey to disease In the first half of 1941 some 8000 births were recorded in Warsaw but deaths were 21800 The children are "malformed and ghostlike suf 2 SECTIONS 26 PAGES SILVER IGHT TO CONTINUE SAYS SENATOR Maybe Music By Orchestra Caused Heat! NEW YORK eb 13 The power of suggestion: More than 2000 persons listened in their overcoats last night to a two hour concert by the New York Symphony Orchestra City owned radio station WNYC had warned them to wear overcoats because there enough fuel oil to heat the audi torium properly After the ap plause had died away Morris Novik manager of WNYC wiped the perspiration from his forehead and revealed that the temperature had been grees Tho auditorium had never tried to maintain a temperature of over 68 degrees 'A' By United Press Tokyo radio today broadcast an imperial headquarters communique of purportedly unreported Japanese losses from Aug 7 1942 to eb 7 1943 as seven warships and five cargo ships sunk and 215 planes destroyed in the Solomons cam paign The communique said 16 Allied ships eight warships and eight cargo vessels had been sunk and 237 Allied planes destroyed 32 of them on the ground in the same period Admit ew lhe Japanese losses the commu nique said comprised three de stroyers three submarines and one patrol vessel sunk in addition to the five cargo ships sunk and one cruiser four 'submarines one patrol and five cargo ships damaged The communique said 114 Japanese planes were damaged A Berlin broadcast covering the same communique reported that three Japanese battleships had been listed as sunk The Toyko broadcast said Allied losses previously unreported in cluded four submarines1 three tor pedo boats and one patrol boat sunk eight cargo ships sunk and three destroyers four submarines one patrol vessel and two cargo ships damaged LA Solomon Island Raids Reported WASHINGTON eb 13 (UR) The navy reported today that American airmen carried out four raids on Japanese bases in the cen tral Solomons on riday Island time three against the enemy air base at Munda on New Georgia Island and one on Kolombangara Reports lying LONDON eb 13 Reports that Adolf Hitler had authorized the German minister to Bulgaria to put out feelers for a separate peace with Russia headlined the great deluge of peace rumors cir culating in Europe tonight "Peace were more abun dant than at any time in weeks but none could be traced to any authoritative source iiiifil SSBIXiflii it LONDON eb 13 The Morocco radio reported tonight that the British Eighth Army had blasted Marshal Erwin Rommel out of his first defense line in south Tunisia while to the north British forces in the Ousseltia Valley have thrown back an enemy thrust designed to widen the Axis coastal corridor nuuiiiiei was lorcea to withdraw from his positions despite the mas sive concentration of artillery and tanks he had thrown against the Eighth Army the Morocco radio said and the front now is near Ben Gardane 20 miles inside the Tunisian frontier from Libya The Morocco radio report did not state which side of Ben Gardane the fighting had shifted to but it was presumed to be to the west since the Eighth was offi cially reported to have reached a point just east of there earlier in the week Artillery Duels Large scale artillery duels have been in progress in that sector for several days and Cairo communique also reported skir mishes between British patrols and enemy armored car detachments on the inland end of the southern front in the Tunisia marshes Activity appeared to be picking up all along the Tunisian battle area as the weather improved The Axis controlled Paris radio said that American forces had moved up for another the vital aid Pass controlling the main road across the waist of Tunisia and had already made i Jlminary contaetxwith the German defenders Surprises Attack In the Ousseltia Valley the Ger mans tried a surprise attack with tanks but the British braced on the lower slopes of the valley and threw them back urther enemy lunges to ensure Marshal Erwin commu nications with Upper Tunisia were expected on the basis of reconnais sance reports showing great enemy activity in the region east of the Ousseltia Valley and south of Gafsa to the southwest Tills was the first disclosure that the enemy was as far inland as the Gafsa area 70 miles from the Tuni sian coast Patrol skirmishes picked up markedly all along the Tunisian front as a cold hard wind dried muddy and snow covered areas sufficiently to provide footing for light forces Native Spahi cavalry men attached to the rench Colo nial Army distinguished themselves by capturing 53 Italians In two forays on the Pont du ahs Robaa west of the Ousseltia Valley Spring Cleaning Housewife Will Have New Problems WASHINGTON eb 13 With spring cleaning on the hori zon the housewives were told today by the war production board that they will find new' problems confronting them as they do their annual redecorating Uncle Sam the WPB pointed out has a more Important engage ment with a certain paperhanger named Az Schickelgrabcr So the American housewife xvill find that painting and papering the house will take more ingenuity tlnn it has in the past orgone thing WPB said the housewife will no longer be able to brush paint on her chairs in the morning and entertain her bridge club in the afternoon Quick dry ing paints are out for the duration The necessary ingredients are used for military purposes now RAISE ANTE WASHINGTON' 13? Despite the fact that one of its former James Eyrnes is now the economic sta bilizerthe supreme court decided today jo abandon a price level of long standing within its own pre cincts The court increased from $15 to $25 the price of admission 1 to lawyers seeking authorization to practice before it iVWiWX (J Nevada 3 Only Mornlng and Sunday ARMED ORCES NEEDS STATED BY WPB CHIE 'I Many Married Men To Be Drafted or Service WASHINGTON eb 13 (UR) War Manpower Chief Paul Mc Nutt tonight told physically fit men in the 18 through 37 age cat a majority of them with dependents that their total num ber less those deferred for vital occupational reasons will barely meet needs of the armed services this year McNutt and Maj Gen Lewis Hershey selective service dir ector revealed in a nationwide (Blue Network) broadcast the reasons why it will be necessary to draft thousands of married men including fathers before the end No Choice Now The choice no longer lies be tween single men and married men McNutt said but is between vital war workers and whoever is left Of the physically fit in the 18 37 category some 2500000 will be deferred because they work on farms' or in war factories he ad ded Hershey said that more than 4000000 men must be added to he army navy marine corps and coast guard before next Jan 1 Inductions he added will be at the rate of about 12000 a day whatever viewpoint the problem of finding these mentis examined Hershey said each in dividual "must accept his mili tary responsibility "Bottom of McNutt said that are scrap ing the bottom of the so far as single men are concerned Virtually all single men not now overage physically unacceptable or employed in such important war work that draft them would be to damage the war ef Married and single fathers and childless there were at the first of the year a total of 22000000 American men between the ages of 18 and McNutt said of these men are now in the service Others have: been re jected for physical reasons and we know the proportion we can expect to have rejected in the fu ture Eliminating the 1500000 men deferred for vital farm work and the 1000000 deferred 'for other highly important war jobs we now find ourselves with "our phy sically fit pool shrunk to a point where it is not very much great er than the number to be selected in 1 tz I utter at be 'jZ fi I.