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83>4 Year, No. 52
Reds Blast Path Through Nazi Forts At Stalingrad
BRITISH SLASH WAY INTO TRIPOLI
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.Bombs U. S. Base
WASHINGTON, Jan. it —OP)
—A lose Japanese plane bombed
the American base Island of Es
plritu Santo Thursday, the Navy
reported today, in the first ene
my air action directed against
that New Hebrides operations
center.
Deny Charges
PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Jan. it
— (/P) —The Anaconda Wire and
Cable company and five plant
executives and former execu
tives of its Pawtucket plant,
pleaded Innocent In Federal
district court today to an indict
ment charging conspiracy to de
fraud the goverpment and pre
senting false claims for payment.
Continue Raids
NEW DELHI, Jan. it—UP)—
Japanese fighter planes kept at
a safe distance as RAF bombers
and fightera swept over Western
Burma yesterday on another of
their dally raids, blasting at ene
my positions between Akyab and
Rathedaung, a British communi
que announced today,
Jap Ship Hit
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GU
INEA, Jan. *l—(Delayed)— (JP)
night raids every staged over
New Britain, a large force of Fly
ing Fortresses bombed Japanese
shipping In Rabaul harbor and
attacked three airports in the
Rabaul area early today.
Gets New Post
LANSING, Jan. *2—(JP) —Lt.
Col. Samuel D. Pepper, acting
state advocate general, today
was appointed chief deputy di
rector of the state selective serv
ice system.
Last Load
WASHINGTON, Jan. **—</P)
—Railroad tank cars rumbled
toward the east with their last
deliveries of gasoline today un
der a government order design
ed to confine use of these cars to
shipments of fuel oil.
Control Height
NEW TORK, Jan. I*— (lP)
The British radio declared in a
broadcast recorded by CBS to
day that llritish artillery is now
In position “on a height com
manding the city and harbor of
Tripoli, whose main defense
works have already fallen/'
Break Silence
STOCKHOLM, Jan. tl—<D«-
layed)— (Jf) — The Berlin news
paper Boersen Zeltung, In an is
ane received here today, for the
first time in the German press
admitted that Axis forces had
been encircled by the Russians
before Stalingrad.
Schools Seized
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 22—</P)—
Schools and other buildings are
being requisitioned by the Ger
mtn* 1* Norway to house troops
*■ , OeefaM, Mote, Fredrikstad
?***•■> where the number
of soldiers has been Increasing
since Christmas, reports from
Norway said today.
Face Shortage
BERN, Switserland, Jan. 22
(&) — The Berlin correspondent
of Milan's Carriers Della Sera,
In a report resolved here last
night, said atmospheric condi
tions had reduced to the mini
mum the flying of food supplies
to encircled Axis troops before
Stalingrad.
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Soviet Troops
Tighten Ring
About Enemy
Hammtr Blows Fall
Along Hugo Arc
H ingod on Rostov
BY EDDIE GILMORE
MOSCOW, Jan. 22 (IP)
Red army troops have blasted
their way through western for
tifications and dugouts of the
remnants of 22 Axis divisions
trapped before Stalingrad and
tightened the lethal encircle
ment, field dispatches an
nounced today.
Smaller and smaller grew the
ring about the Germans, cut off
in the first phases of the Soviet
winter offensive which is newly
reported to have carried Rus
sian forces into Voroshilovsk, in
the northern Caucasus, and laid
open the ill-rich region south of
Rostov to attack.
The last authoritative esti
mate of the number of Axis sol
diers penned up before Stalin
grad was 50,000, these from 22
or more division* which at the
outset totaled 220,000 men.
CLOSELY ENCIRCLED
(The German high command
acknowledged that the Germans
were closely encircled and were
forced back several kilometers
by an attack of 4 ‘far superior
forces” which struck the west
ern rim of their holdings. The
desperate plight of the trapped
men was suggested by the high
command’s statement that they
already had been under “strong
enemy pressure.”)
Another encirclement opera
tion developed on the Voronezh
front where an announced num
ber of Germans are pocketed be
tween the Moscow-Rostov rail
way and the Don river. Dis
patches said the Russians beat
back Nazi attacks.
New Red army hammer blows
fell along a huge arcs centering
before Rostov.
The arc extends up through
the Don and Danets river basins
into the Voronezh sector from
where the Russian high com
mand has pointed its offensives
south and southwest toward
Kharkov, Voroshilovgrad, Lik
haya and the north shore of the
sea of Azov west of Rostov.
All along that arce, it was in
dicated in dispatches from the
front and in official war bulle
tins, the Red Army is carving
out chunks of the defense lines
the Germans originally estab
lished in 1941. No sooner is a
major gain noted in one sector
than a complementary success
is registered far on its flank
along that arc. ,
Along the middle portion of
the arc, in the lower Don valley,
there has been little reported
lately of Russian success. Here
the Red army spearhead is
See RUSSIA—Page 2
Relief Is Sought
for Fuel Oil Users
Os A Asks Earlier Use
of Coupon No. 4
DETROIT, Jan. 22—0P>—The
Detroit office of tfie Office of
Price Administration and the
fuel oil industry today requested
an advance in the effective dote
of fuel oil coupon No. *4 because
the cold wave has drawn heav
ily on the fuel oil supplies in De
troit.
M. J. Vierling, state fuel oil
rationing officer, asked the re
gional OPA office at Cleveland
to move up the date, and How
ard E. Johnson, president of the
Detroit fuel oil dealers' associa
tion, sent an appeal to Joel Dean,
OPA’s fuel oil rationing chief in
Washington, to make the coupon
valid immediately and good for
15 gallons instead of 10.
Vierling said there has been a
50 per cent increase in the num
ber of fuel oil users at the ra
tioning board offices asking for
more fuel oil because of the sub
aero temperatures.
Their only respite at present Is
in borrowing on their coupons
for the next period.
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British forces havd WHfen to Tripoli after a 1200-mile chase after General Rommel’s axis army
across Egypt and Libya, but the race goes on. Fleeing Nazi troops are reported trying to get behind
the Mareth Line in Tunisia for a stand against the British, but allied parachutists and bombers are
delaying this retreat. Other axis forces are reported evacuating the Tripoli area by sea.
Third Storm
Death Listed
Ovar-Exartion
Prove* Fatal
A third Macomb county death
was blamed indirectly on heavy
snowfall today as weary resi
dents dug themselves out of the
snow again and took small com
fort from a weather bureau fore
cast of ‘‘not quite so cold."
A heavy fall of new srow yes
terday added to the troubles of
snow removal crews and indi
rectly caused the death of Fred
A. Thielk, 76, who dropped dead
at 10:45 a. m. today while shov
eling walks in front of his Har
rison township home.
OPEN MAIN ROADS
Road Commission employes
finally opened virtually all main
highways to traffic, then turned
to side roads, impassible since
the first heavy snow on Satur
day.
Nine-months-old Nancy Thom
as fought for her life in St. Jos
eph’s hospital today ater her fa
ther, Richard, of 1976 Harring
ton road, Clinton township, car
ried her a full half mile through
heavy drifts to a waiting sheriffs
ambulance car.
Blocked roads kept the car
from coming nearer the Thomas
home. At the hospital today, at
taches said she is in a serious
See STORM—Page t
VITAL WAR DECISIONS IN THE MAKING
Destruction Os Axis In 1943 Seen As Allied Goal
BY E. C. DANIEL
LONDON, Jan. 22—(/F)—De
cisions on the United Nations'
1943 world strategy are believed
her to be in the making at the
moment.
Topping the list are thought to
be:
FlßST—Creation of a genu
ine Allied War council including
representatives of the United
States, Britain, Soviet Russia
and China.
SECOND— Quick settlement
of the North African political
aquabble and consolidation of
the British and American com
mand In North Africa with the
view to future operations de
signed for the opening of a sec
MOUNT CLIMENS, MICH., FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1943
Touchdown Play at Tripoli
Sick Marines
Unload When
Labor Balks?
AKRON, O, Jan. 22—f/P) —
The Beacon Journal says in a
copyrighted story that the navy
is investigating reports that ail
ing marines were forced to un
load their own supplies when
the crew of a merchant ship ly
ing off beleagured Guadalcanal
Island refused to work on Sun
day because of union regula
tions.
The Beacon Journal’s story,
published in yesterday’s edi
tions, quoted six Guadalcanal
veterans as declaring that the
Marines had to take over the
Sunday work after the crewmen
worked two hours on Saturday
See MARINES—Page 2
UnidentifiedMan
Returns Lost
Stamp Books
The honesty of an unidentified
man is appreciated today in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Mil
ler, of 70 Grove Park. Appreci
ative with the Millers is their
six-year-old daughter, Maralee,
who has never heard of Dio
genes and his lantern, but who
nevertheless is old enough to
know that honesty pays.
Maralee was walking home
from Lincoln school in the heavy
snow Tuesday. In her hand was
Bee SAMARITAN—Paga 2
ond front in Europe.
THlßD —Coordination of the
efforts of all of the major United
Nations for simultaneous air, sea
ind land drives in 1943 to fin
ish off the Axis before the end
of the year if possible, or at any
rate in 1944.
FOURTH —A concerted cam
paign on the seven seas to put
the Allies on the offensive in the
last element in which they still
are on the defensive—undersea
warfare.
AIR OP OPTIMISM
An unusual air of expectancy
and optimism in high quarters
despite the political and mili
tary tribulations in North Africa
is causing the belief to grow in
Macomb County's Only Daily Newspaper
Bond Drive
Tops SBO,OOO
Plana Project
Advances Swiftly
More than SBO,OOO worth of
bonds have been purchased to
date in the bonds-for-warplane
campaign, Harry Malbin, chair
man of the Board of Commerce
sponsored drive said today.
It’s still a long way to the top
of the thermometer—s236,ooo,
which will fulfill Mount Clem
ens January bond quota, and
buy a fighter plane to be named
"City of Mount Clemens,”
workers pointed out.
The Rotary Club gave a
heartening push upward to the
mercury yesterday, when Bert
V. Nunneley, chairman of the
bond drive for the club, assigned
each of the 53 members a $750
quota.
A. D. Brewer, a member of the
steering committee for the drive,
addressed the annual meeting of
the Episcopal church last eve
ning in Grace parish house, urg
ing cooperation of all church
groups in the campaign.
A similar talk was given by
Ralph Clark at the dinner moot
ing of the Men’s Forum of the
Methodist Church.
The committee urges all citi
zen* to cooperate in the drive, to
bear in mind that the cold
weather must be ignored by
Mount Clemens bond-buyers as
it is by the men in service at
Dutch Harbor, Alaska, and Ice
land.
London that such comprehensive
steps have been or are being tak
en.
The trips to Washington by
Admiral Harold R. Stark, com
mander of U. S. Naval forces in
European waters, and Ambassa
dor John G. Winant are regard
ed as possibly related to these
matters.
Just as conferences last year
resulted in the spectacular North
African landings and the resur
gence of the Red Army, supplied
with British and American
weapons, so present negotiations
also are expected to show bold
planning and precise coordina
tion.
Obviously the Allied offensive
Slow Time Would
Hamper War Effort
Selfridge Commandant
Appeals to Governor Kelly
“A change to Central War
time, as now proposed, would be
a definite hindrance in accom
plishment of an all-out-win-the
war effort on the part of the
military personnel stationed in
Michigan.” Col. William T. Col
man, commandant of Selfridge
Field, said today in an appeal
directed to Gov. Harry F. Kelly
and the Michigan legislature to
retain the existing Eastern War
time schedule.
The air base commanding of
ficer’s plea was contained in a
lengthy letter to the governor
LANSING, Jan! 22— (/Pi-
Demanding that the “Eastern
Michigan Munitions Belt,” a
still undefined area, be left on
daylight saving “war time,’
Governor Kelly Injected him*
self Thursday into the legisla*
ture’s time-change problems.
setting forth the confusion that
would result not only between
military establishments but be
tween Selfridge Field and Ma
comb county civilian activities
if a shift is authorized.
REASONING
Col. Colman’s letter followed
less than 24 hours after an edi
torial had appeared in “The
Daily Monitor-Leader challeng
ing the judgment of Michigan
members of the house of repre
sentatives in placing the state
“out of step” with the rest of the
nation during the war emer
gency. The house, following the
lead of an insistent rural bloc,
has already approved the slow
time measure which now lies
before the state senate.
Following is the full text of
Col. Colman’s letter to the Gov
ernor of Michigan:
Dear Governor Kelly:
Please do me the favor of pre-
Draft Clerk
is Indicted
SSO Bribe Basis
for Accusation
DETROIT, Jan. 22 (>D
A Federal grand jury Thursday
indicted Arthur J. Wilhelm, 48-
year-old Hamtramck draft clerk,
on a charge of taking a SSO bribe
for securing a re • classification
for a newly married man.
The indictment stated that
Wilhelm solicited and obtained
the money from Walter Bavol of
Hamtramck. Kenneth D. Wilk
ins. assistant United States at
torney, said that four days aft
er Bavol paid Wilkins the SSO
Bavol's classification was chang
ed from 1-A to 3-A. Since then,
however, Bavol has been classi
fied 1-A and is awaiting induc
tion. He reported the case to
Federal authorities.
Wilkins said members of the
draft board had no knowledge
of the incident and acted on the
borderline case on Wilhelms
recommendations.
is rcachingis reaching the stage
where campaigns such as the
Eighth Army’s pursuit of Mar
shal Rommel, Lieut. Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhow'er’s cam
paign in Tunisia, and Russia's
reconquest of territory cannot be
regarded as isolated and unre
lated. They must continue to be
coordinated in a master plan,
and stock must be taken of their
progress and results.
One part of this problem of
coordination is the question of
who is to command Allied torcea
which obviously intend to. at
tack Europe from Britain or Af
rica or both,
A high British authority as
See STRATEGY—Page 2
senting an urgent plea to flic
Michigan State legislature
“Keep Eastern War Time for the
State of Michigan:”
A change to Central War
Time, as now proposed, would
be a definite hindrance in ac
complishment of an all-out Win
the War effort on the part of
military personnel stationed in
Michigan, as well as on the part
of the thousands of Michigan
civilians who are employed in
production of War materiel. I
will state the reasons for this
belief, which I desire that you
express to the legislature, re
gardless of what your own per-
See TlME—Page 2
Rkkenbacker
Visits Detroit
Gods on Air at
9 O'Clock Tonight
DETROIT, Jan. 22 V?)
Capt. Eddie Rickcnbacker ar
rived this morning in Detroit
and immediately began a tour
of major war plants.
Rickenbacker, the flying ace
of World War I, was making his
first visit here since surviving
21 qlays adrift in a small rub
ber raft on the Pacific.
Following the inspection of
war arms plants, Rickenbacker
is scheduled to talk at a dinner
meeting tonight of the Detroit
section of the Society of Auto
mobile Engineers. His speech
will be broadcast by five Detroit
radio stations.
His itinerary during the day
included visits to the Packard
plant, DeSoto Aircraft plant.
Ford's Willow Run bomber
plant, Cadillac tank and aircraft
engine plants and the Ternstcdt
airplane instrument plant.
Here from Washington for the
dinner, were Robert Lovett, un
dersecretary of war; Lieut. Gen.
William S. Knudsen. army pro
duction chief, and Mai. Gen.
Oliver F. Echols, cb'cf of the
arm> air forces materials branch.
Rickenbacker was scheduled
to arrive here Thursday night by
ai-plane. but because of weather
conditions the plane trip was
1 cancelled and he traveled by
train.
Rickenbacker was cheered rn-
See RICKENBACKER—Page 2
Jap Captives
are Happy,
Not Sullen
• The following *tor? wat written by
Srr|f*nt Samuel Shaffer, of Hath*
Ingtnn. a Marine Corp* eomhat mr
respondent, and distributed by the
Associated Tress)
SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH
PACIFIC, Jan. 9 (delayed)
Behind barbed-wire entangle
ments at this Marine Corps base
is the largest concentration of
Japanese war prisoners in the
world.
To the visitor fortunate enough
to gain admittance, this prison
camp provides a liberal educa
tion in the upsetting of firmly
held beliefs about the inscruta
ble Nipponese.
Jap officers, enlisted men and
laborers captured at Guadal
canal by Marines those I have
seen are anything but resign
ed and sullen prisoners of war,
who brood about the misery of
their lot, as they are pictured
in many reports I have read.
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
Once over this astonishment
that he is beinf treated like a
human being, and given more
food than he has probably had
for some time, the Jap under-
See CAPTIVES—Page S
WEATHER REPORT
WARMER TOMORROW
OCCASIONAL SNOW
Monitor-LeaderOfflca
MONITOR-LEADER BLDG.
Casa at Walnut
THREE CENTS
Fate of Cify
Now Sealed;
Rommel Flees
Allied Aerial Units
Deliver Punishing
Blows on Axis Columns
B v the A**oriattd Press
LONDON. Jan. 22 Short*
range fighters mauled Marshal
Rommel’s retreating columns as
deep as 25 miles inside Tunisia
today as the fate of Tripoli ap
peared sealed, with the British
Eighth Army reported by the
Morocco Radio to have already
reached its suburbs.
The Cairo communique said
that by last evening the British,
in steady pursuit of Rommel,
were engaging the enemy “west
of Homs and south of Tripoli,’*
but the Italians reported British
forces southwest of the city, In
timating that it was being by
passed as well as attacked.
On the central Tunisian land
Gen. Henri Giraud's hard
pressed French troops reported
beating off intensified attacks
which the Germans supported
with tanks and planes in the
spreading battle southwest of
Pont Du Fahs.
NAZIS MAKE GAINS
In this desperate effort >to
widen a corridor for Rommel 'j
withdrawal into Tunisia, ”1 H'e
Germans were said to have madfl}
some gains in strong attack*
north of Ains Meshour, some 30
miles west of Kairouan, but the
LONDON. Jan. 22 (/F)
British light naval forces at
tacked the harbor of Tripoli
Tuesday night and sank an
Italian submarine the admir
alty announced today. The
British force was said to have
pressed home their attack on
the harbor works and sus
tained only superficial dam
age and two wounded.
French said their own troops
stormed a height near Fondouk
el Aoueb, to the south.
The whole front was reported
erupting into heavier fighting
that might presage a showdown
of strength.
The Morocco Radio reported
that Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery's forces had pushed into
the suburbs of Tripoli. It said
that parts of Tripoli were aflama
and that much of the civilian
population was being removed.
(A British broadcast heard by
CBS said that the main defense
works of Tripoli already had
fallen and that British artillery
I was aligned "on a height com*
1 manding the city and harbor.*’)
The Italian communique said
"yesterday. Southeast and
Southwest of Tripoli, on a line
from Gasr Garian to T >rhuna,
and on the coast, fierce Zighting
took place between our armored
forces and the enemy’s.”
Tarhuna is the hill village 40
miles Southeast of Tripoli which
the British captured Wednesday.
Gasr Garian is 40 miles South
See TRIPOLI—Page t
Health Officer
Warns Against
Over-Exertion
Older men were warned to
day by Dr. William J. Kane.-city
health officer, "to rest frequent
ly while you shovel snow.”
In urging the oldsters "to lean
on your shovel as much as pot*
sible,” Dr. Kane pointed out that
three men already have died Ift
the county from heart attack*
caused by over exertion In sboVA
eling snow. ;
He particularly urged llWjl
motion shoveling for men pail 4MP
and those with reason to belitvH
they suffer from heart allmaftta?
‘ Hire your neighbor’s bog I#
possible and if you can’t do t|M
spend more time resting ttMMK
shoveling,” Dr. Kane advftaMlr
Tired buHnwm m pglgHnjjM
today that neighbor 1 * Osftt'gM
tired of shoveling, too.
licited business Saturday
the first heavy sa«i
since have been buay ofw
walks and driveways g|