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The Government Asks You To Have Your Draft Classification Card, NEW MEXICO'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER HOWDY A TRUE FRIEND IS A GIFT 1 GOD, AND HE ONLY WHO MADE HEARTS CAN UNITE IOL, 267 OLOVIS, NEW MEXICO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1943 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WIDE WORLD SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS ERMAN ARMY IS FACING NEW ENCIRCLEMENT outhwest Pacific Battle Is Yet A Secret lay Use Axis 'risoners U.S. Farms By The Associate! Press 'WASHINGTON. Fob, 5 government moved on a broad Iront today to 'bolster Ihe nation's Inonpower forces and assure an Idoquntc supply of labor for war Industries in areas where shnrlugrs Vxist. J. O.

Walker, chief of Ihe Inbor Branch of the food production administration, disclosed Ihe jtovern- was considering the use of tls war prisoners on forms ami jie shifting of 50,000 families from jhirglnnl nrenjv of the and to dairy, livestock and sultry forms 5 follow of I Ihe war manpower isRlon's announcement that it fjulcl control as quickly over the hiring and fir- ig of workers in 32 areas where i rs -are scarce. I Meanwhile, ndvoratifs of skipping I fast year's Income taxes to put I'ollwt ion.s on a sis apptarcd to be losinj, thinr before House ways and'' He Is Brain of the Russian Army (AP Fen I ti res) Behind (lie swooping iiclviinccs of tin 1 Soviet jifiuy on -every seel or of Ihr Russian j'i'oiif sUiwI.x a tall, JHIS- lort'ly (lijjnirirrl ptt'iieral with a name lilllc Uumvn (n Americans. Chid' of the jrcneral staff of lite "Hod iiriiiy. lie is I he heavy thinker he-hind the hiller of bcnin- ftnul. Sevastopol, Stalingrad; lh dilc'h fiirhtiT who even in ri'lrciil has slowly the Nsixi the spirit hcliiinl now-flowing Ked tide, lie is filJ-yciii'-old Mar-shiil I'mris Slmp- Most committee mwnhi weroj Mainly hoMilu to tho Hum) plnn.

i would ignore last year's lax- but there were increasing int s-ome ear's levies; be forgiven in changing to current payment basis. Just how luch is yet to settled. Backer of the Senate leglKlation on overall war inobUixii- agency appealed to public save the bdl from military committee alter losing their lattle to place it with the more' Inceptive and education commit! ec. Pepper and co- fmsor, expressing tear that Biliary commute might kill the 11 declared the public wanted i In agency voting control over' contracts in civilian Kc asserted that if JegUItitors wishes of military author- "fhe present setup won't he rcged." lomb Turin and fpezia Base Italy Feb. 5 The HAP nber Turin and the Spvzla naval in northern Italy last night slmultaneouily attacked the and the Gorman submarine at Lorient Franco, it was nouncod todny.

Only three bombers wore report- R-loat In, the raids, which consiltut- 'J, otme of most sweeping oporalioivs the RAF ever attempted, IC raid upon Spezia was the of tho war for that fortified (die site of artillery works and' lUimwnls for the production electrical supplies and nwrine especially torpedoes. was the first fhnl lipme- British hombere had taken long trail across the Alps to Itack northern Italy Pec when hwxvy raid on Tun ild up a Uvo-month offensiv lainst Prowler Mussolini's war in, istries there anrl at Genoa and tlan. fhree Hurt in ir Wreck East If Texico persons were in lo, Hftl twiay as the result a slon between two trucks about lo'clpok iiitfht on thp Bovlna In World ho in (lie ciivnlry. devised MS I'irld (it'i'n'CM'. 'heciuiio colonel.

Turiiinji lo (lie Hods, lie dm-iilcd lho vielonuiis tinny of Hiu Devolution. Order oi thf Ked Hnuwr by Lenin in ho reotgati- izcd Russia's West Point, taiiji'Iif Jiuniy iiovv top In he led tho Polish invasion. Heavy Jap Force Reported Headed For Guadalcanal By The Associated Press Fit-si word of a large Japanese force hearing down on Guadalcanal Island came in delay- dispatches from (he South Seas bait Icfront loday as official secrecy continued to shroud developments in an expected showdown battle between the American and Japanese fleets. In Washington, the Navy reported "recurrent engagements" by opposing naval and air forces in the Solomon Islands theatre, but declared that Tokyo radio reports of a big naval fight already in progress were false. Biff Naval f''nrce Amid the tense Hiatus, censor- passed dispatches from Guadalcanal dated Feb.

1 declared: "Aerial observers reported tonight that a large force of Jap warihips headed for Guadalcanal. Some observers think the Japs hope to bolster their tottering Guadalcanal ground forces with reinforcements." The dispatch quoted Flight Lead- Major Whitaker, of Toxana, I Ky i( as saying he observed between and 40 Japanese ships, many of 1 UK warships, in Shortland harbor 150 miles north of Guadalcanal. Tokyo Reports Battle i A Tokyo broadcast, had previously asserted, without confirmation, They Need Practice LOS police traffic bureau has discovered the chief cause of the big increase in accidents involving pedestrians. Gasoline' rationing has rut, down motor travel, and inexperienced pedestrians arc primarily responsible for a 30.6 per cent increase in injuries Vanguard of Eighth Army In Tunisia WITH U.S. FORCES IN SOUTHERN TUNISIA, Jan.

30 (Delayed) vanguard of the British Eighth Army sun-burned and bewhiskered desert raiders-reached this outpost of United States and French troops in southern Tunisia today in the first junction of Allied Forces converging east and west. American officers gaped in astonishment when a French lieutenant brought the weary and fool- sore men into headquarters and announced: "These gentlemen from the Brit- New Trap May Be Sprung BF JQ 4t8r North of Rostov MOSCOW, Feb. 5 (AP Facing a gigantic encirclement of all their forces in the Don basin above Rostov even as their armies in the Caucasus were being pinned back against the sea, the Germans were reported desperately rushing squadrons of tanks and divisions of mto the battles raging west and south Young Mother Drowns in Cistern CARLSBAD. N. Feb.

5 A young Hope mother In breaking through to Krasny- Liman the Red army pushed deep' into the rich Ukraine to develop 4 potential flanking movement against the important German of Kharkov arid Voro- shilovgrad. Soviet forces were well to tho west of the latter city, Tho remainder of nine Gorman and Hungarian divisions ed west of Voronezh appeared lo today is be facing the fate of' the Nazi dead the result, a peace justice i force that was encircled and undecided, of "accidental drowning in a cistern." The body of Mrs. Heber Eskue nihilated at Stalingrad, The news' paper Pravda reported the trapped forces were fighting in scattered garrisons, with no communication that Japanese forces attacked Am- isl1 Eighth Army have come from jerican warships off Fennell Island j'Gabes to see you." 100 miles south of. Guadalcanal on Desisrt Patrolmen tion, either no immediate fi om Washington or Questioning disclosed that they' her absence, especially since she were members of a long-range des- had been til in bed several days, patrol which had been traveling! Eskue went to inquire was discovered early yesterday i one another The dead already morning in a. cistern outside the Heber home, on the outskirts of Hope, after her 'husband became 'alarmed at her disappearance, Eskue told Sheriff: Frect.

Hill she was last seen alive about 9 p. m. Wednesday, retired. Arising about 6 a. m.

Thursday, Eskue said he became alarmed at Guadalcanal luell that Ihe Japa- in American-made peeps, boldly deep in Axis teritory for new had been able to land re-itfore than two months mfprcements on the pr.ze island, They brought their activitv to a although latest arhices said Amen- max bv penetrating 10 miles can Planes strafed enemy barges nortJl of Gabps more th 15Q off Guadalcanal on Tuesday. i mi ies ahead of lho rear elements Ihe navy said, however, thai of Field Marshal Rommel's re, U. S. army troops st.U were press- treating army, before ihev were PRODUCT of service amiei- flu 1 Trotsky. Ijtniiii am! Stalin, ho hard and, di'lcTtniuo-d.

Ho wita odncntvil at lho gou- cntl Imperial Acjuk'iny, "rtiduatod linttniftnt, shifc 10-10, In- lias fought tlio war as lie uiijrht play elites, his favorite And nt this he is an acknowledged cliAimpion oi' the inHt move. Yank Army Progress in Tunisia Is Slow; Bombers Are Active fivw miles enst of; Tesico seriously injured, was Dak 1 of Mflros.e, driver of one who received severe cuts bruises and possible back in- Mrs. j. M. Miller, Melrose, Ml A broken collar bone and w'hile her husband, also of JJrose, it; belfia trebled, iw cut-, Hlsw Tiie other occupant truck, p.

A. faW and J. was uninjured in a was heatied east coming west collided the vehicle, The injured were io a ciovis 'hospital Pr, V- Scott Johnson of eil, Dfivei 1 the trUeij wa-s qof immediately iden- Nag Nag? Nag SEATTLE, Walker obtkilned divorce yesterday on ctnnpinini that his wlfp nagged him. "Wu.s theio trouble over nagging?" his attorney asked him. "Yes," Walker, who is 78 and who's boon married 5(i years, "We've had for '10 jcars Superior Judge Hoger kim that was lung enough OV ROY IS OUT OP lUftPKIlH ROY.

N. M. Feb. 5 --The lown of Roy found itself without a barber today as the lone remaining barbershop fell victhn to the war, When the war manpower com- classed barbers us non-os- sweeps" by' Lig'h tnin'g war workers subject to draft Axis-held territory. LONDON, 3 of a smashing aerial victory in which American Flying Fortress and Lightning fighters destroyed 26 enemy planes and damaged another 26 with a loss of only 10 nf thoir own number was tempered somewhat today by the disclosure that United States armored forces had withdrawn from tho Sened railway stntlon in Central Tunisia, G5 miles northwest of GabeA Only "patrol activity" was reported from the Tunisian-Libyan border area where the British eighth army is following Marshal Rommel's rearguards into Tunisia.

The air battle In which Amorl- i can planes scored their most decisive triumph, of the Tunisian campaign so far occurred when tho Fortresses with their fighter ewort made a heavy attack on German airdromes and auxiliary fields at Gabes yesterday and fallen into it when they noticed the lid was up. Hill said water in thp cistern was intr forw-ird aeainst Hnnnpsp nnvi about seven feet below ground and hfns Ambushed by a German patrol. approximately the same depth, omv rtrfvinJ n' Abandoned Cars Mrs. Eskue is survived by two emy Hoops and driving the mvad-, They abandoned their peeps to small from positions of the ee evaded the enemy, escaped a band of hostile Arabs who his wife's father, Jesse M'c- Cabe, knew of her -whereabouts, her body was discovered by Eskue's were- reported to total 17,000, with 27,0000 captured. Try To Hold JBwtov Directly cast and north ol Ros- tov Nazis were reported counter-attacking with abundant tanks and motorized forces ts they made? a supremo effort to hold the key- city where the Don empties into the sea of Azov and thus retain a land route of escape for their ihard- pressed troops in the Caucasus.

The Germans now hold only tihe northern edge of the Caucasus, on a line- running up the Black Seu parents in the cistern. They told i th A Hill thfiv suanPfted shP haw the ea OtAzOV ft'OTO Hill they suspected she might, have ea into it, when NQVOioSbiSk to Rostov, with their i Not to Be Disclosed attempted to boat and rob them uuemjucu 10 oeai ana TOD inem Tho Navy said details of clashes and then walked four davs and at sea would nol be disclosed "as, to reach friendlv lines. i long as such information might The men are Willis Ml-1 the safety of our for- chaol Sadler, 22, and Sergt. John! Cooper, 20, both from England; and Sergt. A.

F. Taxis, a French- While authoritative comment remained almost ''negligible, Ihe rising tempo of allied aerial blows touched off speculation thai a United Nations offensive might be imminent against Japanese strongholds in the central and northern Solomons. For days past, Gen, Douglas MacArthur's headquarters has report- Two-Gun Man Is Meld in Crimes EL PASO, 5 -Forcyi 20, of-Cedar-Rapids, man who quit a Job in the French i Iowa, is being held without bail Legation in Cairo to join General Charles De Gaulle's fighting French. With other members of the desert patrol, all former parachute troops, they had set out in 12 peeps to disrupt Axis communications and instill constant fear in the Gered incessant and Increasingly vio-! mans and Italians by daring raids lent allied-air attacks on enemy tmm bases stretching across hundreds of SICE Is'O. -1 Manpower Distribution to Favor War Industries tho town's, last two harbors put away their and clippers.

A large placard on the door An Allied spokesman said tho American forces withdrew Spnwl, whic'h was captured late 'if HTUJI vised patrons they 'had gone into I Tuesday. a ft "accomplishing the SBK NO. l-l'AQK i Capital Speculates on Fate Of The Tobacco Tax SANTA Feb, 5 activity hmlted to a house session beginning at 10:30 m- the capitol today 4welt on speculation over the fate Of tobacep tax sent by Ooyernpr pempsey the lower yesterday, The senate was in recess Monday, but the governor a bUbeommUtee. affairs in the pub- Jc welfare, which WSMI4 fecejvo revenues defive4 tobac co lass, IQ remain, aj, weekend, the bill 'because it with the right pf 5 The governor asserted to lawmakers that "for flay 'bill is delayed you. are depriving t'hese dependent people' pf -more than per flay.

Officials estimated th produce between $700,000 a year Another of the, WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 progrrtin for rationing of munpuw- ei to give war industries firet rail the labor supply and to clamp restraints on job-switching by war workers was launched today by the war manpower commission Ordered into operation "as soon as practicable" in 3l! widvly-seat- areas of "critical labor short- att 1 the program will tie milllons to (abks deemed ps-sential unless their employers or WMC agents approve their transfer to othe -The WMC will lake control ovc all but small'scalc hiring In 3y shortage perhaps in dearly thrice as many areas where Shortages are ing workers to t-mploycrs under ('priority system on the en ployers' Importance to the war, WMC Chairman Paul MuNujt the program would be carrier out as a series community, operations, set up by WMC area rectors working 1 with management- labor committues, with broad national regulations adjusted to local conditions, 'line WMC stressed that the $et would be operated ns a mutual cooperative undertaking government, management an4 la" QV to meet the mounting The order provides guarantees so far as it will intej- fpre with the effective prosecution HOLC Officials Are in Clovis Charles W. Oliver, regional con- di Honing supervisor of the Homo Owner's Loan Corporation, and H. Vandenberg, regional manager's representative of the 11OLC, both of Amurillo are in Clovis today. Their plan is con version of avail- ablo buildings into dwelling typo units.

Temporary applications for persons to convert such buildings are available at the Chamber of Commerpe office in the Hotel Clpr will only cover the con' version of the inside of a building 4o make it suitable for habitation, Only immigrant war who Jn Clovis or are ing to. Clovis can occupy buildings of type, After- conversion, rentals will be paid toy the government, under to and rents will be callectsd, by the rnent, i from the desert, Drive Into Convoy They told how once I hey drove boldly onto a Tripohlanian coastal highway right into the middle of an Axis motor convoy, shot up 38 trucks with their machine-guns and then faded back into des- SBK NO. -I for grand jury action on charges deepest point inland at Krasnodar. Krasnador is reported threatened on three sides and in Imminent peril. Gcrniaiisx In FHgrht Red army forces o'f.

I. "havD' the Germans' Caucasus 'forces in flight and to be driving them 'hourly from hiore populated'places and fast blocing their lines of retreat. Ono determined Soviet drive was aimed at Timashevshaya, 36 miles north of Krasnodar. Should Tim- ashevskaya fall. It was pointed outi all German troops in the western Caucasus cither would i'm-e a sea that he held up a grocery and trip via Novorossisk or would.

fought, a running battle with officers before his capture. have to try to escape over the Kerch Straits into the Crimea Forey, who is alleged lo have (The German higih command used two guns in the holdup, was communique broadcast by the Ber- bound over yesterday in a prelim- h'n radio reported that powerful ina'ry hearing in which he acted as his own attorney. Meanwhile, the FBI showed interest in Forey, saying he was wanted on charges of auto theft and transporting firearms in interstate commerce, and the Minnesota bureau of criminal apprehension notified the sheriff that he was wanted for investigation in Minnesota, Girl Identifies Soldier As Her Night-Time Assailant A dramatic moment came In the 'Preliminary hearing of a soldier last night, charged with assault with Intent to rape, when the vle- time of the assault definitely identified her assailant, Miss Fruzie Sanders, I7ryear-old photo shop employe, pointed out Private Weaver C. Pitts, air base line worker, as the man who Tuesday night severely beat her during nn encounter in a 'dark alley on East Fourth street. Miss Sanders 'hart already said neither of two other soldiers were her assailant, when Pitts walked into the courtroom.

"That's the man," said Miss Sanders, as Pitts jtook his seat behind the rail in the couptrown. Assistant District Attorneys Dick Rowley and J. conducted the ease for the state, question' ing Miss Sanders about the assault nd eliciting- from her a lull so ount of what happened during the encounter. court of Justice E. McConnell.

At the conclusion of the hearing Justice McConne-ll ordered Pitts (bound over lo the district court under $3,000 bond, and the soldier was remanded to the custody of Sheriff Bob Whltley. A paint yet to be determined, possibly through court action, was the question as lo whether the army or civilian courts had jurisdiction in the -trial of the soldier. Lieut. Winton contended in a statement to the court that the' army had jurisdiction, while tho state took the opposite view, Judge McConneU said court would have to settle the issue. Sanders, showing numerous bruises and abrasions from her counter of Tuesday night, tq be carried upstairs the court- Soviet forces had attempted to make landings at Novorossisk, but had been frustrated.

The landing forces were encircled, the Germans said, and faced destruction. Nineteen landing craft were sunk, Berlin said.) (The German communique also reported "strong enemy attacks in the Don estuary region," indicat-' ing the Red army was near Ros- tov.) (An informed source 3n London said last, night that Germany and her companions ih tho Russian war had lost more thfin 1,000,000 men since last Nov, ID, whw the Russians bogqn their winter oC- fonsive, (Tho source said the speed of the Russian advance had torn apart the famed Nazi defense-In- depth system and. resulted In recasting of the Soviet high com-' mand'a objectives, even though the' Russian rate of advance would too slowed by spring'thaw.) One Russian army was ouly miles north of KursK at hino and the announced of Schfthigiyt Tlmj 43-mHes Spulhwest. put tWCf', more Red, aijmy pincers the center oC the Russians fcaW 1,400 of around. Ukraine where the hearing was SJie was accompanied by her faitlier an4 mother.

and jvirsj, Sanders, of and her sister and Mr. apd Mrs. Jime represented the army in the liminary hearing conducted in the CHINA CEtlBRATBS Dedication of New Treaties Witli prevail durinj It niay subtle pftmesp wa.y, of new hope, of allies that far some oi 'earning if, The Chinese OpO in highway dehe. IB, igwftf4 ftg fttwyakta ft ajf, fgr which.