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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS SATURDAY, MARCH 13. 1943 An Injured Foe Gets American British Send Rommel into New Retreat Axis Attack Smashed West of 3Iareth Line; French Menacing Nazis' Right Flank BY VIRGIL FINKLEY United Tr orrpspondrnt ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA. March 12 The British Eighth Army has thrown the Germans into retreat in the Ksar Rhilane area west of the Mareth Line, aided by Allied planes which wrecked 21 armored machines and seven big guns, it was announced tonight. A supplement to the regular Al- Final Plea Is Pelade in Can Drive Trucks to Be Out at Break of Day; iBonus'' Collection Expected by Leaders More than 11,000,000 tin cans should line Detroit area curbs and roadways early Saturday morning if housewives are to strike a blow at the Axis. Collection trucks will be out at break of d.sy in Detroit and many other communities in Wayne, Macomb and Oakland Counties.

Housewives have been asked to that every last empty can around the house is at the curb Friday night, flattened and otherwise prepared to do its war duty. A "bonus" collection is expected from many households whose resi New Items on Ration List By the Asioriatcd Pr WASHINGTON. March 12 Here's the official list of what meats, cheese, fats and fish will be rationed beginning March 29: MEATS All fresh, frozen, smoked, and cured beef, veal, lambs, and pork. All meats and meat products in containers of tin or glass. All dried meats.

Variety meats, including: Tongues, brains, hearts, liver, tripe, sweetbreads, kidneys. Bouillion cubes, beef extracts, and similar concentrates. All dry, semidry and fresh, smoked and cooked sausage, including: Salami, pork sausage, baked loaves, weiners, scrapple, souse, head cheese, and others. Suet and other fats. FISH All fish, shellfish and fish products in hermetically sealed containers.

FATS AND OILS Butter, margarine, lard, shortening, cooking and salad oils. CHEESE Cheeses of all kinds except those expressly excluded. Rationed cheeses include the following: Cheddar 4American), Swiss, brick, Munster. limburger, dehydrated grated, club, Gouda, Edam, smoked, all hard varieties of Italian and Greek. Processed cheese, cheese foods.

Cheese products containing 30 per cent or more by weight of rationed cheeses. k. HIS LEG IN SPLINTS. A WOUNDED GERMAN SOLDIER LIES Two American stretcher bearers stand watch over this Nazi, hit in THE ROVING REPORTER This Fortress Squadron Over the Map The following foods are not rationed: FISH Fresh fish, frozen fish, smoked, salt, pickled fish. Fish in containers that are not hermetically sealed.

POULTRY" AND GAME All poultry and game, whether fresh, frozen, or in cans or glass. FATS AND OILS Olive oil when not blended with other ingredients; salad dressings and mayonnaise. CHEESES Soft or perishable cheeses such as: Cream cheese, Neufchatel, cottage, pot, baker's, Camembert, Liederkranz, Brie, blue. Cheese spreads made with a base of cheese which is not rationed. nn Cheese spreads and cheese products containing less than oO per cent by weight of rationed cheeses.

ing to normal practices but this rule will be so difficult to enforce on a legal basis that officials are looking to the customer to get himself fair treatment or take his patronage elsewhere. Price Administrator Brown has under consideration the establishment of a "court of appeals" to aid in administering price ceilings and rationing, it was learned today. Under the proposal. Brown himself would sit on the highest lied communique said the enemv had "withdrawn to the north" from the Ksar battlefield on the edge of the desert, stripped of belter than two-thirds of the SO armored cars which spearheaded the Axis attack on the Eighth Army last Wednesday. ROMMEL FLANKED Normal patrol activity now occupies the Eighth Army, the communique said.

The British now hold a secure salient extending 40 miles around Marshal Erwin Rommel's desert flank. The Africa Corps had intervened to meet the threat to its flank with artillery and dive-bombers as well as armored units, it was learned, but the British stood their ground In a wild desert battle and inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy. (The Berlin, radio reported fighting yesterday between reconnois-sance groups of the German panzer army and British units in the desert of South Tunisia "all of which ended favorably for the Axis." (The German broadcast admitted, however, that the Axis forces "returned to their positions" after destroying some Allied vehicles and capturing some prisoners.) FIRST ARMY HOLDS The British First Army of Northern Tunisia, meanwhile, had beaten off three new German attacks in the Sedjenane area. Standing fast on the ridges protecting the supply avenues to Beja and Medjez-El-Bab, the First Army inflicted heavy losses on the Nazis in a full day of fighting yesterday, official advices said, and at nightfall "we held all the forward areas." Rommel's right flank was doubly menaced. In addition to the British penetration to the Ksar Rhilane area, a French column had executed an even wider detour around the great salt lakes, veering eastward to seize Metlaoui and threaten Gafsa.

AXIS BARGES BOMBED B-26 (Marauder) bombers, escorted by P-3S (Lightning) fighters, swooped down on a big enemy barge convoy between Sicily and Tunisia Thursday and scored direct hits on three barges, one of which exploded. The American planes shot down two Junkers 88 light bombers. Meat Ration Will Start on March 29 Continued from Page One soup, will be rationed with meat. Not all cheese will be rationed. Hard cheeses like Swiss and American will be rationed; soft or perishable cheeses like cream cheese, cottage cheese, camembert and brie will not be rationed.

Canned fish will be rationed but fresh, frozen, smoked, salt and pickled fish will not be rationed. No poultry or game will be rationed, whether fresh or canned. Weekly coupons will be good for a month. If any coupons are left over from the first week, they may be used with the second week's coupons. The same is true of the third and fourth weeks, until on April 30 all the first month's coupons will expire together.

Because meat cutting is inexact, point costs of meat will be figured to the nearest full point. Thus, a steak which figured 10 points could be had for 10 points. But if it figures 10 Va or larger fraction, it will cost 11 points. Butchers will be allowed to give change coupons to customers not having the exact coupon' price in their books. Butchers will be required techni cally to trim fat and bone accord Medical Aid 4 OX A STRETCHER IX TUNISL an Allied raid on Sened positions Eden in U.S.

for Vital Conferences Continued from Page One through the arrangement of preliminary meetings of experts on such problems as relief, more ticklish problems such as postwar air routes might be tackled next, gradually leading up to United Nations conferences on all postwar problems, even the delicate and dangerous questions of postwar frontiers. Paralleling such preparations for general conferences of all the United Nations, it is expected van Ous problems of vital and immediate interest to the United States and Britain will be discussed. Eden's arrival climaxed a long series of official utterances pointing toward the inauguration of vital intergovernmental talks on postwar problems as well as the present. Only recently Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, after previous speeches urging the necessity of reaching agreements without waiting for the end of the war, announced that the United States intended "at once' to take preliminary steps with its allies toward intergovernmental conferences. Before Eden left London, he had told the House of Commons that the British Government welcomed Welles' proposal for a conference now on postwar aims.

WIDER RESULTS SEEN It w-as widely expected that, even though the talks here might have to begin as a purely British-American exchange of views, an effort would be made to widen them as soon as possible into an Anglo-American-Soviet parley paving the way toward that "satisfactory understanding" repeatedly advocated by Vice President Henry A. Wallace. Eden's close relations with Russia were regarded by some observers as having more than passing significance in connection with his visit to this country. Interest in the formation of some type of inter-Allied council to co-ordinate aims and resolve conflicts was heightened by recent speeches by Wallace and Welles in the United States, and by the appearance of friction between Poland and Russia over the question of postwar boundaries. Other subjects believed likely to be aired include those of security bases that each nation is expected to want in the Atlantic and Pacific after the war; Britain's attitude on re-constitution of its Far Eastern empire, including Hongkong; what plans it holds for India; the disposition of former Italian territory in Africa; what place The Netherlands East Indies will hold when freed from the Japanese, and a means of meeting the nationalistic desires of both victorious and beaten European nations without sowing the seeds of another war.

It was emphasized here that while all these subjects might be considered quite fully, the discussions would be purely exploratory and certainly not result in any treaties or hard and fast territorial bargains, nor any united-front demands by the United States and Britain. MAY SEE LITVINOFF It was "considered certain that Eden would see Maxim Litvinoff. who is an old personal friend from League of Nations days, and that the Russian Ambassador to the United States might join in some of the discussions, although Eden is concerned primarily at this time with obtaining American views. He also is expected to see Mme. Chiang Kai Shek, if her health permits, and is likely to talk with T.

V. Soong, the Chinese foreign minister. In the plans for the visit, which is to last several weeks, no speech dates were made but the possibility of an address or two was not ruled out. The trip had been planned for several months but had been held up, first by the Allied landings in North Africa, then by Eden's taking over Commons leadership for the Government, and later by the illness of Prime Minister Churchill. IMeat Ration I to Be Boon i to Detroiters Action Expected to Give Everyone in City His Fair Share of the Supply BY FRANK B.

WOODFORD Fre. "re Staff Writer The approximately two-pound-a-week ration limit for meat, which the Office of Price Administration has announced will become effective March 29, will be a break for Detroiters who have been suffering from a local meat shortage for several months, according to the consensus here Friday. On the basis of two pounds a person a week the total meat supply will be approximately what it has been, but it will result in a more even distribution. The lucky person who was able to get all the meat he wanted will, of course, be cut down to the ration limits, but the rest of the people will be able to get their two pounds without much trouble. Based on figures of the Board of Health, meat slaughtered locally and that shipped into the Detroit metropolitan area amount to an estimated 180,000,000 pounds annually.

About half of that is local slaughter. With an estimated population of 2,750,000 in the area, this quantity of meat amounts to about 254 pounds a person a week. Maynard Buekema, OPA price specialist, said that he believed these estimates were reasonable ones. However, he pointed out that some adjustment would have to be made in the supply of meat available to hotels and restaurants if everyone is to get his just share, "There is no doubt," Buekema said, "that the hotels and restau rants are getting more meat than they are entitled to and that tends to take meat away from the in dividual consumer." Buekema said that while details of the rationing process were lack ing, restaurants and hotels would be cut down in their rations on a basis comparable to the private consumer. As a result, the overall supply should be more equally distributed.

B. V. Unwin, spokesman for the local meat-packing industry, admitted that under the rationing program the over-all picture would be better in Detroit. But he said he felt that a complete study of local needs should be made. Unwin said that to assure a fair ration for everyone the local slaughtering quotas should be increased.

OPA officials said that meat rationing would eliminate many of the present black-market operations. With the amount set that any one person can buy and with a more even and adequate supply available there will be fewer opportunities for the meat bootlegger, they said. Quick Relief Is Seen for City on Vegetables OPA officials said Friday that they were expecting authorization from the regional office in Cleveland "within 24 hours" for an adjustment on the price ceilings on certain fresh vegetables of which there has been a shortage recently in the Detroit market. This wras confirmed by George E. Thierwechter, manager of the Detroit Union Produce Terminal, which on Wednesday was forced to close its fruit auction because shipments into Detroit fell off.

While the price adjustments were not outlined in detail, it was understood that they would consist of an increase in the ceiling prices in fresh beans, peas, cabbage and other vegetables to compare favorably with the higher ceilings which the OPA granted to New York, Chicago and other markets. Local produce men have complained that this price differential has resulted in shipments which ordinarily would come to Detroit being diverted to markets where they bring higher prices. "The ceiling adjustment will permit us to compete with the rest of the country on an even basis," Thierwechter said. Thierwechter also predicted another form of relief for the Detroit market in the near future. He said that southern trucks would be coming into the Detroit market within the next few weeks, offsetting the shortage resulting from damaging frosts and crop failures in Florida and California.

He described the closing of the fruit auction as a "very unusual situation" and said that relief would be provided soon. Toto, the Gorilla, Gets Her Sugar by Plane New York limes Foreign Service HAVANA, March 12 Fifty pounds of brown sugar left Havana by plane today, under special authorization from Washington, en route to Sarasota, for Toto, female gorilla raised in Cuba. Toto's ration card failed to provide sufficient sugar to keep her in good health. She will continue to receive sugar from Cuba. I court, along with representatives of the public and possibly labor.

It also calls for "lower courts" to be drawn from business men, lawyers and consumers. Members of the "courts" would be called to Washington from time to time to consider price and rationing problems in the belief the system might relieve OPA from much past criticism and tend to increase public interest in the administration of the agency. Brown was represented as feeling that lawyers called upon to aid him should be "gray haired," presumably to offset criticism in Congress and elsewhere that OPA has too many young attorneys on its staff. NOEL COWARD IMPROVED EXETER, England, March 12 (UP) Noel Coward, noted playwright, ill with influenza, is greatly improved and probably will be able to resume his engagements in his new play, "Present Laughter," next week, his physician said today. dents last time were kept from making a donation by weather conditions.

V. Terra nee Banna Wayne County tin-salvage chief, Friday with friends and relatives in the armed services to carry the word of the need for tin to their neighbors. A great amount of the food consumed by troops overseas must be canned, he pointed out. LITE'S EX-WIFE DIVORCED RENO, March 12 (UP) Mrs. Li la Hote Tyng, former wife of Publisher Henry Luce, today obtained a divorce from Sewell T.

Tyng, New York attorney, on grounds of extreme cruelty. iiimtLuocu 3 ew from our Little Hat Shop, Street Floor TZE 74 LO with a white-dotted veil. Stitched felt of 92 8 aralac with daizling white trim. pique TE RJPPLER little flatterer In fine felt (92 wool, 8 aralac) with a band of crisp white pique. :i.o PANCAKE, the tailored pomp that goes with any hair-do done with a head-hugging back and a pert bow.

l.OO Street Floor i omps 1 I .0 3 1 If XT- Fought All BY ERNIE PYLE Free Iress Special riter A FORWARD TUNISIAN AIRDROME We have with us today probably the most traveled squadron of Flying Fortresses in existence. The guys are such confirmed sightseers they all want to go into the tourist business when the war is over. This squadron actually took its present formation in India last spring from crews that already had fought on veral fronts For nearly a -year now it has shifted hit her and yon. It is still subject to striking out for some new place before dawn to- morrow. Here is these men have? fought Philip- I nines.

a I A nctralia Rtl r- it. ma, China, In- dia, Palestine, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Tripoli, Tunisia. In Burma this squadron was 3 Acquitted of Plotting to Bribe Etvald After little more than three hours deliberation Friday, an all-woman jury found Maurice Bein, Chicago contractor, and his two Detroit associates not guilty of the charge of conspiring to bribe former Councilman Robert Ewald. The case was given to the jury by Recorder's Judge Donald VanZile at 11:15 a. m.

and the verdict was returned at 2:30 p. m. Bein, Paul Fisher and Charles Carpenter had been accused of offering Ewald $25,000 to vote for steel rather than concrete in the construction of the Herman Gardens Housing project. Marie Kruckemeyer, jury forewoman, in reviewing the verdict, said that the jury was in agreement that there was no conspiracy involved and that there had been no attempt at bribery. The verdict was arrived at in three ballots, she said.

The first two were nine to three for acquittal. Pronouncement of the jury's findings brought on a fifteen-minute demonstration from the court room spectatos with Bein and his associates joining in. Judge VanZile was absent from the court and the verdict was received by the clerk, John Okray. Ewald, now serving S. prison term for receiving $5,000 from the concrete interests, was the chief witness against the three.

The case arose from the findings of the grand jury under Senator Homer Ferguson, former circuit judge. a iiar Given New Sentence Circuit Judge Theodore J. Richter Friday denied a motion by Attorney George S. Fitzgerald for a new trial for Walter Kanar, former Hamtramck mayor, whom Richter last year sentenced to from two to five years after Kanar had been found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct justice and, on a second count, of permitting gambling and bawdy houses to run while he was mayor. After denying the motion, however, Richter set aside the sentence, set aside the gambling and bawdy house count, and then re sentenced Kanar on the con spiracy charge.

Recommending that Kanar serve one year. Judge Richter sentenced him to from one to five years in Jackson Prison and then released him on $1,000 bond pending appeal by Fitzgerald to the State Supreme Court. Return to Germany Costs 2 Citizenship Citizenship of two Germans who have returned to Germany since taking the oath of allegiance was revoked Friday by Federal Judge Arthur F. Lederle. Louis M.

Hopping, assistant United States attorney, told the court that Albert Bruno Staat, formerly of 3040 Bewick, and Walter John Hebestreit, formerly of 52o had returned to Germany prior to the outbreak of the war. WAR JOBS APPROVED JACKSON, March 12 The City Civil Service Commission has granted permission to city em ployees to work four hours a day in war industry, subject to city commission approval, which is anticipated. Local industries sought permission to hire the workers on their off days. i I 1 i9 I Ml based only 60 miles from the Japs In India they lived through the dreadful summer heat that killed one man and put 15 out of 150 of them in the hosiptal with heat prostration. But through it all they kept sightseeing.

They're authorities on the Holy Land. They've seen the pyramids of Egypt and the Taj Mahal of India. They've been to such mystic places at Cyprus, Syria and Lebanon. They've lived in luxury in India with half a dozen servants each and they've lived on the ground under tents in the midst of suffocating sandstorms. They've beer through so much heat that they suffer badly in the chill of North Africa.

Their losses have been heavy, but they've wreaked so much devastation they've lost track of the figures. The total of shipping they've sunk got beyond them in October when they were operating over the Mediterranean out of Egypt. They've bombed Greece, Crete and the Dodecanese Islands. They have the credit for stopping Rommel's supply lines just before the British Eighth Army started its drive last fall. They say the German flak thrown up over Tobruk and Bengazi was the most deadly they've ever known, even surpassing the hail of metal that floats above Bizerte.

The leader of this squadron is capt. J. B. Hoist, of bavannah, Ga. Lieut.

Donald Wilder, one of the squadron's bombardiers, rat tled orf at least a dozen Savannah boys he'd met here since arriving from Egypt. Probably the oldest and most experienced pilot in the sqmadron is capt. James Anderson, of Dah- lonega, Ga. He has 35 missions under his belt not little short missions, but mostly ten-hour ones Lieut. Grady H.

Jones, of Bremen his navigator, has been on 37 missions. That'3 far more than the bomber boys who came from England have made. FIGHTERS A LUXURY This much traveled outfit finds the going not too tough here over Tunisia. They say: "This is the first time in our whole year's ac tion we ve ever had fighter es. corts.

Fighters are a luxury to use. For an international touch they nave a pet monkey. Serert. Pit tard, of Athens, got it in India and it has flown all the way with them. It has 300 flying nours to us credit.

The monkey is smart. She can tell Americans from Englishmen, Arabs, French or Indians. She doesn't like anybody but Ameri cans, i an American, but she better not start liking me. I know all about monkeys and I de test them. Even heroic monkeys.

Eden Expected to Try to Quiet Critics of Reds Continued from Page One years ago, was back to "straighten out" the American foreign policy although hardly any two diplomats agree on just what constitutes that policy. Eden always has been on friendly terms with the Russian leaders and has long been an advocate of collaboration with Moscow in maintaining world order. Russia is bitterly resentful of the Wallace, Standley and Bullitt attacks. She probably has asked the British for a showdown. At his regular press conference today, President Roosevelt refused to discuss Standley's charge at Moscow Monday that the Russian people had not been told the true extent of American aid.

But the President did observe that admirals, like other persons, sometimes are too frank and sometimes not frank enough; sometimes they talk too much and sometimes they talk too little and it all adds up to nothing. While the remark could have applied to Standley, Mr. Roosevelt indicated it applied to other unnamed naval leaders. The President also reaffirmed the principle of the policy that the United Nations should seek no territorial aggrandizement. He did so by reading to his press conference a recent statement of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek promising the people of Japanese-occupied Thailand that China and her allies have no territorial ambitions there.

That, said the President, Is a good outline of United Nations policy. Whether his reading of the declaration might have been aimed at Russia or the Polish Government in London was debatable. The Poles and Russians are engaged In a dispute ever Poland's post-war rronuers, ill mdtiks 1 (rtJ iJfnjlfifliL MmJ I 'CzjjpJ 0 Worn with Tie as a Dress Shirt I fiC Without Tie as a Sport Shirt oV A United's Newest VV r' 1 Shirt Triumph at only r--. B3SSES1 Here is a California-inspired shirt style thai you'll go for in a big way! Wear it as a sport shirt or, put on a tie and IN A FLASH it's a dress shirt! In exceptional new fabricsspun poplins, spun gabardines, spun acetates. In iridescent and plain tones: Seaweed green, skyway blue, popcorn roan brown, military tan.

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