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Ir DECATUR HE1AL0 Editorials on Page 6 Let the States Act Not Even in Class! Apologists Are Out Save the Bronze for Finghters. r-63N' DECATUR, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 1942. 16 PAGES THREE CENTS 1mjs Ml B(ore toiiis 1 Opposition Stiffens as Battle Over Tunisia Spread MARINES TAKE OVER BATTLE FOR NORTH AFRICA HEIGHTENS fight Blazes Fiercest in Jjouthern Area I jjt Ttssjg Mediterranean Sea ALGERIAN M'Sjy AGHEllA 1 -1fe LIBYA El ERGH er oases also hit x-alermo ana Bizerte. Axis planes attacked Bone and Tebessa. Allies (outlined arrow) pressed against Bizerte-Tunis.

British (arrow) continued Libyan advance. iancung oi axis reiniorce-ments in Tunisia at Sfax and Gabes was reported yesterday and Allied planes bombed troop train at Gabes. Allied planes from Malta (symbol) and oth (ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOTO) Three Men to Die For Aiding Haupt Aboard one of the horses left a marine stops to tell a ser-behind by the Japs when they geant how he's getting along were routed from the Hender- substituting "Whoa" and "Gid-son Field area on Guadalcanal, dap'' for the Jap equivalent (ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOTO) London, England, (AP) The African second front fighting spread over almost all Tunisia yesterday and blazed fiercest on a new sector in the deep south of the French protectorate where Allied parachutists broke up an Axis mechanized column and supporting fighter planes shot up an Axis troop train. The first disclosures of Axis dis positions in force in South Tunisia the presence of the armored col umn and the use of a troop train came almost simultaneously with a Vichy radio report that theAxis h3d landed large troop formations on the Tunisian east coastline at S'ax and Gabes, far below Bizerte and Tunis. Previous operations in the south Jad been reported as mere skir between infiltrating Ger mans and French outposts fighting on the Allied side.

Fight to Be Tough" Cautious moves for position and the outbursts in the south followed an Allied spokesman's comment that "the fight for Tunisia is go- iEg to be tough and longer than rcightbe expected." 'An Allied communique announc ed that parachutists had repulsed the mechanized column operating in the south and captured prisoners. The parachutists, identified by an Allied African headquarters spokesman as American, were guarding an airfield when they en gaged the Axis column. 'There is a good deal of patrol over most of southern and central Tunisia," the spokesman said. The train under attack of American fighter planes had an aerial escort, from four Axis planes were shot down in dog- tghts. Ko American planes were reported missing from these operations the continuing bombings of Tu-ts and Bizerte.

Fight Off "Advance Screen" Local engagements were fought over the greater part of Tunisia, said reports from Allied headquarters in North Africa, and an American-French force fought on a German "advance screen" southwest of Tunis while the Bri tish battered a similar Axis force jor.g the Mediterranean coast. "Long-range P-38 Lockheed Light ning fighters engaged in dog-fights Please turn to Page 2 "Tunisia" Bomber Pilot 2 Million Jews In Europe Slain' 12,000 Seized As Red Winter Drive Rolls On By EDDY GILMORE Moscow, Russia Wednesday (AP) The three-months-old Nazi grip on Stalingrad was weakening Tues day as a swiftly advancing Red army killed 15,000 more Germans yesterday and captured 12,000, including three divisional generals, in a great winter offensive rolling so fast that some Nazi units were cut down from behind in panicky retreat. Russian official announcements raised the toll of Nazis to 77,000 dead and captured, not counting huge numbers of wounded who ap parently are freezing to death on the frozen steppes -as did other Ger man units last winter in the rout from Moscow. (Reuters' Moscow correspondent estimated that 120,000 Germans had been wounded in the last few days. This apparently was based on the usual formula of three wounded for each of the 41,000 Germans re- ported killed.) The Red army's effort to encir cle the entire Nazi army stalemated before Stalingrad, estimated at 300,000, clearly was gaining in power.

Two communiques told of vast stocks of equipment falling to the Red army tide, of at least one enemy airdrome being seized so swiftly that scores of German planes were unable to take to the air. Gaining in Stalingrad Inside Stalingrad itself the Rus sians in front assaults also were gaining against Nazi detachments whose rear communications have been slashed by Russian flanking armies sweeping across the Don river far to the west. The regular midnight communi que said 900 Germans were killed and dozens of enemy blockhouses occupied in a slow but steady advance inside Stalingrad, while in the Caucasus Red army units cut down additional hundreds of Nazis in successful stands in the Nalchik and Tuapse sectors. This bulletin added some details to the striking Russian successes above and below Stalingrad and inside the Don river bend, as an nounced in a special communique. One Red unit captured a Nazi air drome so swiftly, it said, that 42 enemy airplanes did not have time to take to the air.

Twenty-five of these planes were destroyed, the other 17- were captured intact- Axis Demoralization In some sectors there was evi dent Axis demoralization because hundreds of fleeing Germans were being struck down from behind as the Red army rolled onward. This was the third special com munique in three days and it told this story of increasing Red army successes: Reds Gain 25 Miles One Red army gained 25 miles northwest of Stalingrad; another drove an additional 12 miles ahead to the southwest on a line paral leling the Stalingrad-Novorossisk railroad in an apparent attempt to drive straight across the Northern Caucasus to the Black sea and shatter communication lines of the German mid-Caucasian army. In the Don river below directly west of Stalingrad the Red army already had cut direct Nazi army communications with their faltering forces inside Stalingrad. It was inside the strategic Don river loop that the three Nazi generals were seized. Twelve more Russian villages were taken in this huge pincers movement.

(The German high command in a unique communique finally has admitted the gravity of the situation by acknowledging Soviet penetrations of German defenses. Capture Many Supplies (The German radio said the Caucasian railroad was "a clear objective" of the Russian drive southwest of Stalingrad, and acknowledged that the Red army had "made some progress" although assuring ts listeners that German reserves from the west "have brought the whole situation under control with the exception of one The Russians announced that during yesterday they had captured 1,164 guns of various caliber, 431 tanks, many in full working order. planes many of them intact, 3,940 trucks, more than 5,000 hors es, three million shells, 18 million cartridges and large numbers of infantry arms and other equipment and provisions which "still are being counted." In the 25-mile advance northwest Turn to Page 2 "Stalingrad" New Hope Seen For Peace in Labor Ranks New York (AP) Expressions of hope for the fu ture unification of the American Labor movement were expressed last night by Philip Murray, presi dent of Cngress of Industrial Organizations, and William Green president of the American Federa tion of Labor. Speaking at a dinner of the la bor division of the Briish War Re lief society, they praised the effort and the unity of purpose of American labor in helping win the war. "I hope thst before the war ends labor in America will be united as we are this evening," Green said in an extemporaneous talk before he and Murray delivered prepared broadcast speeches.

Pointing 9ut that he had wished for unity in the war effort and in support of British relief. Green asserted, "Why can't we carry unity a litUe further?" After referring to the A F. L. presideht as "my good friend," Murray said: "I am sure Green's remarks will have inspiration in the future. I have no desire to be an obstruc tionist.

I never was and I never will be:" Trade Unions United Murray declared that "the first group to realize that Adolf Hitler was a threat to civilization was organized labor in all countries. "The free trade unions of Amer ica and Britain are united in the common uncompromising, unwa vering fight against a cruel and inhuman enemy and against the conditions which made the enemy possible. "Hitlerism can only be defeated by a world rededicated teethe prin ciples of economic justice and security for all nations, for all races. for all creeds." Bevin Cables Speech Ernest Bevin, British minister of labor, cabled a speech to the meeting in which he said the collabora tion of British and American labor produced by the war will "lay the foundations for full co-operation in peace." A "technical hitch" prevented Bevin from broadcasting the speech as originally planned. He said the forces of democracy now are "roused, organized and deter mined." Court Delays Action on Alcoa Suit Washington, D.

C. (AP) The anti-trust suit brought by the Justice department against the Aluminum Company of America has been by the Supreme court because four justices have disqualifier1 themselves from acting on the controversy and hence the required quorum of six justices is not available. This highly unusual situation was made known yesterday in letters to the Justice department and the Aluminum company saying the Court was unable to act. because Chief Justice Stone and Associate Justices, Reed, Murphy and Jackson considered themselves ineligible. Since the case was not dismissed, court attaches said it would remain on the docket pending further action.

There is no limit, it was said, on the length of time it can stay before the tribunal. Meanwhile, a lower court decis ion in favor of the Aluminum Co. will remain in effect This was de livered by the federal district court at New York after a 26- month trial, the longest in history. The district court in an opinion that required ten days to deliver, that the Justice department had not proved its charges that tne company had violated the Sherman act by monopolizing the production and sale of aluminum. OPA to Make Check Of Gasoline Stocks Washington (AP) To "frustrate any attempts to create a black market pool," the Office of Price administration announced yesterday its field staff would make an extensive on gasoline stocks and storage capacities of dealers and distributors when nation-wire rationing goes into effect Dec.

1. Japs Slowly Yielding on Guadalcanal Washington, D. C. (AP) Apparently isolated by a tight blockade Japanese on the island of Guadalcanal are yielding ground to slowly advancing American troops whose ultimate aim is to drive the foe into the sea, the Navy disclosed yesterday. Vigilant day and night patrols, presumably by aircraft and naval vessels, have made it "very unlikely" that the enemy has been able to get reinforcements ashore, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said at a press conference.

Advance to Westward A short time later, a communi que said that on Nov. 23 "United States forces continued limited advances west of the Mantinikau river." This stream lies west of Hen derson airfield, vital point in the American positions. Japanese in mountains southwest of the field have been active, the communique disclosed, but it was not known whether they were seek ing to flank the American forces driving westward. On the night of Nov. 23-24; "Unit ed States aircraft attacked enemy positions," the communique stated, without giving details: Rigid U.

S- Patrols Before the great naval battle a fortnight ago, the Japanese were landing reinforcements on the island almost every other night Cruiser-destroyer groups would come close to the beaches and feed in forces of up to 900 men. But now 'it "is-possible but not probable," that the Japanese are able to get reinforcements ashore, Knox said, "because rigid United States patrols are working day and night" The naval secretary also indicat ed a belief that Japanese troops to the westward of the American positions have been virtually cut off from the remainder of their forces in the northwestern Solo Meanwhile, he aid, the Americans have been pressing the enemy back on the west. Hold Less Than 3 Per Cent He declared that the American controlled position extends along the shore of Guadalcanal for a dis tance of about 16 miles. At Hen derson field it runs to a. depth of some four miles.

Naval officers who attended the Secretary's press conference point ed out that this is less than three per cent of the area of the is land. In response to a question, Knox said the elimination of the enemy from Guadalcanal is the ul timate American objective there. Valtin Held For Deportation Washington, D. C. (AP) Richard Julius Herman Krebs, whose sensational book on his experiences as an agent of the Russian and German secret police was a best seller, has been taken into custody on a warrant ordering his deportation to Germany.

His -apprehension near Bethel, was announced Tuesday by Attorney General Francis Biddle, who approved the deportation order based on alleged violations of the 1917 and 1924 immigration acts. Krebs, who wrote "Out of the Night" under the name Jan Val tin, is accused of illegally entering the country after once having been arrested and deported and after committing a crime (perjury) in volving moral turpitude. The author had been at liberty in $5,000 bond pending a decision by the immigration board of appeals on his appeal from the deportation proceedings. The board voted unanimously for the- deportation order on the ground that Krebs had not been a person of good moral character during the past five years and that he was otherwise -deportable. Since he can not be deported to Germany until after the war, it was assumed he would be in terned as an enemy Krebs is a native of Darmstadt, Germany, and is 37 years old.

Two Die in Crash TWadison Ind. (AP) Jake L. Misenhimer. 32. of Danville.

and his eight-year-old son Jimmy were lulled and Misenhimer's wile and brother-in-law were injured seriously as their automobile crashed into a bridge railing 14 miles north of here Monday night A JAP HORSE public any report on its investiga tions since it was organized last Labor day. "The State department finally made available yesterday the documents which have confirmed the stories and rumors of Jewish extermination in all Hitler-ruled Europe," he said. "Find Cheapest Methods" "Various methods are being used in the campaign," he said, "and the Nazi doctors have found that one of the simplest and cheapest Please turn to Page 8 "Jews" Battle Rages At Buna, Gona Allied Headquarters In Australia i (Wednesday) (AP) Heavy fighting by both land and air raged today throughout the Buna-Gona sector of the northern New Guinea coast where Japanese troops, trapped within a constrict ing area by Allied forces and the continued to fight bitterly to maintain a precarious hold on the beach. The Allied high command's noon communique said fighting in the Buna- Gona sector accompanied by Allied bombing forays on Japanese plane bases on Timor, New Ire land and at Lae, further up the New Guinea coast. Yesterday's communique report ed the Allies had entered Gona, 12 miles up the coast from Buna, and were closing in on the Jap's only remaining foothold in the sec The command reported heavy air units dropped bombs, the most potent so far reported in use in the New Guinea fighting, on the airdrome runway at Lae, a Jap base northwest of Buna from which the enemy could be sending aerial support to its beleaguered troops.

That raid oc- cured last night Allied planes raided Portuguese Timor, where the Japs recently have been reported sending troops and equipment. The Japs sent 18 enemy bomb ers for their first raid in force in some time on Darwin, AustraUa, last night but the communique re ported "no damage." One bomb er was shot down by night interceptors and another by anti-air craft fire. Another potential source of aerial support to the Buna Japs, the airdrome at Kavieng in New Ire land, was raided last night by the Allies and fires were started among grounded aircraft i I Lpoes on Trial Police Hunt Missing Baby. Waukegan, 111. (AP) Searching parties of police and civilian defense auxiliaries combed the ravines, streets and buildings of Waukegan last night seeking a four months old bay Gary Bots-ford, who disappeared while his mother was in a store.

The "hysterical mother, Mrs. Stewart Botsford, 21, and her 28-year- old husband, did what they could to assist in the search which after seven hours haci yielded no trace of the infant Chief of Police Bart Tyrrell called in all officers off duty and 60 OCD auxiliary police, spread ing a radio alarm to cruising police and sheriff's cars. The baby's buggy, with the blan kets intact, was found some time after the child disappeared at the rear of a building only a few doors from where the mother had left it. Chief Tyrrell said Mrs. Botsford related these circumstances: She left the babv in its buggy in front of a chain store while she went into do some shopping, at about 3:40 p.

m. She said she was in the store only a few minutes and when she came out the buggy and baby were gone. She looked frantically for a few minutes, then went to the police station nearby to report thed isap-pearance. she called her husband, a commercial artist. Chief Tyrrell said- Mr.

and Mrs. Botsford told him they could offer no theories as to why anyone might take their child. The parents asked newspapers and a Waukeean radio station to broadcast the baby's feeding formu la. The light haired, blue eyed child was wearing a blue flannel baby bunting, pink sweater and blue corduroy bonnet. Warmer FORECAST FOR ILLINOIS: Warmer Wednesday.

LOCAL WEATHER Tups. Mon. Mon. 8 am. 37 38 Precip.

.13 .06 1 p. m. 41 39 Wed. Tues. 8 40 38 Sun-Highest 43 39 Rises 7:52 7:51 Lowest 35 30 sets o.oa TEMPERATURES High Low Albuquerque 65 31 Atlanta 44 38 Bismarck 63 34 Cheyenne 60 42 Chicago 45 40 ColumbUs 46 41 Detroit 45 40 Ft Worth 75 41 Kansas City 55 34 Louisville 40 38 Memphis 57 40 Miami 81 67 St Paul 55 27 New York 47 38 Pittsburgh 43 39 Washington 48 40 Wives Sentenced To 25-Year Terms Chicago (AP) Three men were condemned to death and their wives were sen tenced to long prison terms for the high crime- of treason Tuesday by a young jurist who regarded their punishment as a stern warn ing against aiding the nation's enemies.

The three middle-aged couples, natives of Germany who became naturalized Americans, were pale, tight-lipped and tense while Feder al Judge William J. Campbell de clared they had committed "the most iniquitous offense on the unholy list of crimes," and pronounc ed their penalties. He directed that the men be ex ecuted Jan. 22 in the electric chair, and ordered that the wo men be imprisoned for 25 years and pay fines of $10,000 each. Those Sentenced The prisoners were convicted of treason by a jury Nov.

14 for shel tering and assisting Herbert Haupt, one of the eight Nazi saboteurs who' were smuggled int this coun try by U-boats last June. They are Haupt' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Max Haupt; his uncle, and aunt, Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Froeh-ing; and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Richard Wergin. Tears of women spectators heightened the drama of the proceedings second instance of the imposition of the death sentence for treason in the United States in 148 years but the rapt audience seemed stirred more deeply by the eloquence of the 39-year-old judge. Like 'Spiking Our Guns' He stated that sabotage within our borders was as treasonable as spiking the guns of our soldiers on the battle fropts and denounced those who scheme "to destroy their neighbors and this nation." He as serted: "Here then is the most miquiiuus offense on the unholy list of crimes, an of'ense which imperils the structure of our government, the pro duction of the tools for victory, the lives of our production work ers and the very ideals or iree Hu manity.

It is the court's duty in sentencing these defendants to make; that the nunishment meted out to. them will act as a timely and Please turn to Page 2 "Treason" Publisher Gannett Quits National G. O. P. Position Washington, u.

tt. i. Oannptt newspaper publisher, has resigned as assistant chairman of the Republican National committee, Chairman Jossph W. Martin, Jr, announced In his letter of resignation, Gan-i the Remiblican gains in the elections as a "most sigm- ficent political uprising, Msrtin "I rejoice with you over the great victory." 1 nn with Accepting tne Martin told Gannett that he i mntrihution tO ttllS Deiievcu year's campaign "opens the way for ua Rpnnn- a wider opportunity iui Iican party in 1944." i State Department Confirms Sources Washington, D. C.

(AP) Dr. Stephen S. chairman of the World Jewish Congress, said last night that he had learned through sources confirmed by the State department that approximate ly half the estimated 4 millfon Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe had been slain in an "extermination Dr. Wise, who also is president of the American Jewish Congress and chairman of a committee composed of representatives of leading Jewish organizations in America, said these sources also dis closed: "All Jews in Europe" 1. That Hitler has ordered the extermination of all Jews in Nazi- ruled Europe in 1942.

2. That the Jewish population of Warsaw, Poland, already has been reduced from 500,000 to about 000 Jews. 3. That when chief Nazis speak of "exterminating" Jews in Po land, they speak of "four-fifths of the Jewish population in Hitler-rul ed Europe," since that percentage either now is in Poland or en- route there under a Nazi grouping plan. 4.

That Nazis have established a price of 50 reichsmarks for each corpse-mostly Jewish, Dr. Wise indicated and are reclaiming bodies of slain civilians to be 'processed into such war-vital commodities as soap fats and fer-l tilizer." "Even Exhuming the Dead" "He (Hitler) is even exhuming the dead for the value of the corpses," Dr. Wise said during a press conference shortly after he nad conferred with State depart ment officials. He stressed the fact that most of his information came from various sources other than the department, but said those sources had been confirmed as authentic by the Department In addition; he quoted a "repre- sentative of President Rosoevelt re cently returned from Europe" as saying that the "worst you (Dr. Wise) have thought is true." Dr.

Wise attributed the Hitlerian campaign toward elimination of all European Jewry this year to a last desperate effort one of his last mad acts before he is destroyed, or called to his judgment" State Department Confirms Stressing that State department confirmation of both sources and Lrumors from Europe had come at the request of the Jewish committee. Dr. Wise said that the com mittee had deliberately awaited such confirmation before making Santa Ana, Calif. (AP) When nthe bomber Lieut William 3. Wilson was piloting collided 'ith an American airliner and sent spinning to earth, Wilson said: "I wish it had been me instead of him." Wilson so testified Tuesday at his court martial cn a charge of involuntary manslaughter growing out ij the deaths of 12 civilians in the "rliner.

Wilson said he passed an airliner in a mountain pass but that he was not certain it was the American airliner of which his friend. L. F. Repport, was co-pilot. He asked Sgt Robert R.

Leicht, the other man in the bomber, if the P'ane was Repport's airliner and, Leicht' suggestion, he testified, he wiggled his wings. Tl -jE -men, vviison continued, ne cui ICross in frr.nt nf tVio airlinpr with clearance of about a mile and a half. "I did not know where the airier was." Wilson testified, "so I made a gentle left turn to find it. ft was about one quarter mile behind and slightly above us. I immediately rolled into a right bank.

"I suddenly felt a rather intense jar undpr th shin anH heard rip- jlng and tearing. My ship was "Town upward and forward. asked Leicht where the airliner v-as and he said it was going into a sPin. I said, 'wish it had been we instead of motion for finding of not guilty. Presented to the- 10-man board of officers by Wilson's counsel, was denied by the board Tuesday.

The accident occurred Oct 23, near Palm Springs, Calif. 4..