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Show r "THEY GIVE THI1R LIVES YOU LEND YOUR MONEY" Buy More War Bonds Today Jfwimniirinrrrirri"mri .--.p.-.. , ; a - 1 i rrrnrrr rurmnlS. v , . . - , ' ' ' - , . . . .. - ' - . . - -, - - - 1 ' . I The Weather. V Forecast' for Provo and , vicinity cooler today. ; ; ; , ; TEMPERATURES High ........ ea Low 40 VOL. 20, NO. 44 complete: united press telegraph news service PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY APRIL 25, 1943 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PRICE FIVE CENTS .Administration Wins Preliminary Round In Showdown With Lewis Possibility Of Military" Action Seen To Prevent Walk-Out Of Coal Miners As Lewis Defies WarJLabor Board By SERELL.HILLMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 24 U.R) President Roosevelt and the war labor board tonight won a preliminary round in their showdown with John L. Lewis, but there still was the danger of a crippling nationwide coal strike. . Overtoning the situation was the possibility of military mili-tary action to prevent a walk-out of Lewis' United Mine Workers in bituminous fields. , Just a few hours after Mr, Roosevelt ordered Lewis . ....... - - ; to "end a 12-day strike at the Newark, N. J., plant of the Cel- PAY-GO TAX BILL READY FOR DEBATE DESK CHAT BY THE EDITOR Health department physicians pointing out that four cases of typhoid have been found in the central part of the county, are urging" everyone who can to be vaccinated against typhoid at the earliest opportunity. Physicians are' working now to trace the sources of the four known cases and they expect to have something definite to report re-port soon. In the mean time, every individual in-dividual can insure himself against the danger of typhohid infection by being vaccinated. The next clinic in Provo will be held Wednesday at 5 p. m. at 1 the high school. Similar clin- ics are being held throughout the county from time to time. 0O0 Tse Berlin radio, reporting on recent Hitler-Mussolini conference, confer-ence, said that "complete agreement agree-ment was reached on all measures meas-ures to be taken in any respect." re-spect." One newspaper's story was captioned "Hitler and ' Due 'Agree' Again.'"' ' Obviously that heading was tailored to fit a space. Otherwise Other-wise the story could have been told in less words and more accurately ac-curately by saying simply 'Duce Agrees Again.' The man-bites-dog story witl come when the report on such conference can be headed: "Duce Disagrees With Hitler." OOO A postmaster in Massachusetts has been on the job for 40 years. That's a Lot of post cards to read. OOO Comes spring-and publishers will again tell you that there's little difference between blank verse and blankety-blank verse. OOO An Illinois man of 80 has seen more ,than 3000 movies. He ought to be pretty well acquainted ac-quainted with the. plot. 1 0O0-4-A gir with a gun robbed a man in Chicago. Since when did they have to use guns? 0O0 It's unhealthy to suppress a laugh, says a doctor. Sometimes, it's not so healthy to burst into a laugh, either. EASTER RITES SLATED TODAY Utah county will observe Easter today, with special rites in practically prac-tically all of the churches. . One of the highlight observ- ances in Provo will be the Sunrise Sun-rise services at. 7 a. m., at the Easter cross on the bench noTth-east noTth-east of Provo, the Christian Endeavor En-deavor group of the Community church is sponsoring the program, and Rev. Elias Jones of Payson, will deliver the sermon. , Traditional commemoration of the resurrection of Christ wfll be observed by the Catholic church at masses at 7, 9 and 10:30 a. m., the Sunrise Mass, Communion Mass, and Solemn High Mass, respectively. .'' , Other churches also have an nounced Easter services. The LDS churches will conduct special pro- exams at Sunday school, as usual. While travel restrictions will reduce joy rides to a minimum, close-in recreation centers are ! expected to be crowded with pic nickers during the day. CARGO SHIP LOADED WITH D YN AMITE. SUNK : JERSEY CITY. April 24 0LT"-A 0LT"-A large cargo vessel -loaded with explosives caught fire at a Jersey City pier shortly after 5 ' p. m. today, but: was towea- into ine tc- -f Mow Vnrlr harhnr U- WW WW . V w . mid sunk at 0:25 p. m., before it ould explode. ; : - ,- - anese Corp. of America, some 500 UMW-member workers at the plant voted to go back to work Monday morning! But there were indications that coal miners might not swing Jnto line as readily as did their fellow-unionists at Newark. The WLB, undertaking to settle set-tle stalemated soft coal contract negotiations, ordered L.rwis to keep the mines open. As the government acted, however, how-ever, more than 7,000 miners struck in Pennsylvania and Alabama, Ala-bama, and at Springfield, 111., State UMW President Ray Ed-mundson Ed-mundson notified operators that 23,000 union mine workers would stop work at midnight, April 30. if no agreement has been reached then. Withholds Comment Edmundson's action, it was feared, might be the tip-off on what. Lewis plans for the remainder remain-der of the 450,000 bituminous mine workers. The craggy - browed Lewis, meanwhile, kept his own counsel in New York, and withheld comment com-ment on either the president's or the WLB's order. On the basis of his past performance, it is not inconceivable that he will continue con-tinue to defy the government's machinery for resolving labor disputes. dis-putes. In the Celanese strike, Mr. Roosevelt promised further action presumably military occupation of the" struck" plant if the strikers strik-ers have not returned to their jobs by noon Monday. In the coal dispute, the WLB (Continued on Page Two) Career Cut Short I (j-jiiwiMinwj mipiwim in """" x-.v 7 iky vl f v-- " 'I HEBER C. JOHNSON U. S. Break With Finland Can Be Expected Soon LONDON, Apil 24 (U.E) Severance Sev-erance of United States relations with Finland can be expected at almost any time now, probably as a harbinger of increasingly all-out Allied prosecution of the war. The problem of United States diplomatic personnel in Finland has been compared frequently with the situation encountered in attempting to repatriate the American Am-erican diplomats seized at Vichy and interned after the Allied landings land-ings in North Africa. The American group was taken over by the Germans, who still are nsisting on exchanging them for German as well as French diplomats, diplo-mats, particularly for members of the Axis armistice commission who are prisoners in Africa. Since Finland's position is so umilar to Vichy's, the state department de-partment does not want to risk indefinite in-definite internment of personnel of the American legation at Helsinki Hel-sinki in the event of a break. There also is the likelihood the Germans would take over thosje Americans in the same ,way they took over the Americans at Vichy. American diplomatic contact with Vichv similarly was maintained main-tained until the last .moment, despite de-spite criticisms. However, there-is there-is no indication how far th parallel par-allel between United States relations rela-tions with Finland and with Vichy can or will be carried. Democratic Leadership Asks Republicans To Back Bill WASHINGTON, April 24 (U.R) The House Democratic leadership tonight called for Republican support of the latest administration pay-as: you-go tax bill to demonstrate demon-strate the nation's war-time unity. House Majority Leader John McCormack of Massachusetts, pleaded with "my Republican friends" to support the measure approved today by the house ways and means committee, and de ciared such action would "convey to our enemies the unity of our neonle." The bill would cancel 44 per cent of tax liability on 1942 income in-come by applying 1941 .rates tc that income. The uncancelled re mainder would be payable over a three-year period. "In these trying days, and par-, ticularly at this time when we have received the sad news of the inhuman action of the Japs in murdering some of our captured; American aviators, such a course will have a wide reassuring effect," ef-fect," McCormack said, in a prepared pre-pared statement. Recalling the administrations, former "no-forgiveness' stand, McCormack said the 44 per cent abatement feature of the new bi" was an indication of Democratic willingness to "compromise their views in the interest of unity." He said joint support of the measure "would be properly construed con-strued as a legislative victory for all of us both Democrats and Re; ublicans and for a united democracy dem-ocracy on this controversial question." ques-tion." However, there was no indication indica-tion that McCormack's nlea would shake the almost unanimous Republican Re-publican support of the Carlson-Ruml Carlson-Ruml bill which would forgive 1942 taxes in full. Republicans will offer it as a substitute for the committee bill when the house begin, consideration of 'the-ax measure May 3. Debate is to last one day, and a final vote is ex pected on Tuesday, May 4. Nor did it appear that house Democrats were unanimously behind be-hind the administration bill. At least two majority members of the ways and means committee j Rep. S. A. Willis Robertson, D., Va.i affd Aime J. Forand, D R. I. planned to offer from the floor their Dlan to cancel normal and I later became division mnnao-I. of- first surtax bracket taxes on 1942 Idaho Falls. He lived there until income. That in effect would! can- j 1928 when he moved to Provo to eel the starting 19 per cent tax. : become division manager for the The treasury estimates the na- company here. Under his super-tion's super-tion's 1942 income tax liability at J vision the company enjoyed a re-SIO.000,000.000. re-SIO.000,000.000. The committee markable business jrrrvurtv, j .,. i w.i. . . . . 1 - " " this total: the Robertson-Foranrt plan would abate $7,500,000,000 and the Carlson-Ruml plan would abate it all. Heber C. Johnson, Utah Oil Manager! Called By Death' Heber C. Johnson, 48, division manager of Utah Oil Refining-company, Refining-company, of 363 North University avenue, died early Saturday at the Utah Valley hospital, after a few days' illness. While he had been in ill health for some time, his death was entirely en-tirely unexpected and was a shock to the community. Mr. Johnson, well known throughout the state, was prominent prom-inent in civic circles and took active part in many community projects. He was born in Salt Lako City March 8, 1895, the son of Gustav and Christiana Anderson Johnson. John-son. He received his education in the Salt Lake City schools and attended the LDS business college, col-lege, and University of Utah During 1913-14 he filled a mission mis-sion for the LD church to Den mark. While at Aarhus, Denmark, he served as office manager of the branch and leader of the choir.- - ,-. ' While in Denmark he met Ella Marie Samuelson, whom he married mar-ried October 25, 1916, in the Salt Lake temple. In 1917, Mr. Johnson, with Don Cope, organized the K S L Broadcasting company under the name of Cope and Johnson, Inc., and became the first announcer. In 1920 ho went to work for the Utah Oil Refining company. He AXIS ARMY IN CAUCASUS BLED WHITE Nazis Break OH Long Series Of Attacks In Kuban Area Beef, Lamb Prices To Be Lower Than Earlier Planned WASHINGTON, April 24 0LP New retail ceilings of beef and lamb, effective May 17 will be one to three cents a pound below those which had been schedule 1 to take effect April 15 the Office of Price Administration announced an-nounced today. The original ceilings were held in abeyance for revision in the light of President Roosevelt's "hold the line" order against , inflation. in-flation. Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown said the new ceilings would bring meat prices down to about February levels more specifically, he calculated there would be a reduction of one-tenth one-tenth of one per cent below February averages. !- Intermountain West Faces Tourist-Less Summer Season ... By GLEN ROBERTSON United Press Staff Correspondent SALT LAKE CrTY, April 24 (HE) The intermountain west today to-day found itself facing a practic ally tourist-less summer for tne 1 ed of the usual sightseeing motorists. mo-torists. However, even the Salt Lake City chamber of commerce toolc the situation in stride. There isn't any such thing as first time in the memory of tourist travel this year,'' iresi-veteran iresi-veteran drum-beaters of the var- j dent Fred H. Knickerbocker said, ious attractions of the "Center "but there will be so many war of Scenic America." activities going on that the lack The only i tourists around now are curious members of the armed arm-ed forces. , , AH -experts agreed :.v that ) the summer of 1943 and every other summer for the duration would find the broad ribtons of highways high-ways that knit the plains and mountains together virtually nak- of the usual sisrhtseers will txt unnoticed." Secretary Gus P. Backman estimated esti-mated the drop In tourist travel this ear at 95 per cent of normal. nor-mal. Such a drop in peacetime would have meant a reduction of $30,000,000 in revenue V to Utah (Continued on Page Two) area. Mr. Johnson, while living in Salt Lake City, was active in the LDS Eleventh ward, especially in dramatics. dra-matics. He was an elder in the church at time of his death. Mr. Johnson had always taken tak-en a deep interest in community affairs and served as a director of the Provo chamber of commerce com-merce for many years. He was also a member of the Provo Rotary Ro-tary club. He was closely associated associ-ated wiU the executives at the Geneva Works and worked hard to organize the community to provide more housing and other facilities required by the new residents res-idents of the city. He served as chairman of a coordinating housing hous-ing commitf ee when it was first organized here. He took an active interest in school athletics and had each year presented medals, known as (Continued on Page Two) BOND DRIVE HEARS GOAL CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, April 24 (UJ) Secretary of the Treasury Treas-ury Henry Morgenthau Jr., announced an-nounced ' today that the , nation wasT near its $13,000,000,000 goal in the second war bond drive, with sales totaling $12,014,000 between be-tween April 1 and last night. Morgenthau told' a press conference con-ference that $2,738,000,000 of the amount came f r-o m ' banking sources and $9,276,000,000 from non-banking sources. y , . Sales of E, F,. and G series bonds accounted for $699,000,000 of the total and two per rnt treasury bonds for $1,958,000,000. LONDON, April 24 (U.R) Russia reported today that the Axis army clamped in the northwest Caucasus had been "bled white" by heavy-losses heavy-losses and had broken off its long series of attacks after failing to expand the Kuban bridgehead. "The enemy as. a result of fruitless attacks in the last few days, suffered heavy losses in manpower and material," a communique com-munique broadcast from Moscow said. "The Hitlerite units, bled white, have launched no further active operations. " Supplementary Soviet dispatches dispatch-es said the Germans had sustained sus-tained extremely high losses in efforts to widen the Kuban bridgehead, possibly with a view to summer operations on the southern front. The Red army held every Axis efort in check, the dispatches said. Time after time the Germans Ger-mans threw fresh forces into the assaults, shifting the blows from sector to sector, but they failed to advance anywhere, the Russians said. The Saturday mid-day Soviet communique said the Red army of the Caucasus destroyed two Axis artillery batteries and blew up one ammunition dump by shelling enemy-positions. Soviet planes bombed Axis airdromes air-dromes in. the Kuban pocket, the high command said, starting many fires. Numerous damaging damag-ing explosions were observed. The German high command said that, except for lively air activity, ac-tivity, there were no developments of ' consequence on the Russian front. It claimed 72 Soviet planes were destroyed Thursday and Friday, with a loss of only four German planes. Yanks P mam lush. Nazis foscoi7 Civilians Ordered to Get Gas Masks Ready MOSCOW, April 24 ULR) Civilians Civil-ians in Moscow were ordered today to-day to bring their gas masks to-HEontrol points for testing in what apparently was a " precautionary precau-tionary move against the possibility possi-bility of German gas attacks from the air. At the same time, new instructions instruc-tions were issued to air- raid wardens, including ways of dealing deal-ing with a new type of incendiary bomb capable of smashing through four floors before exploding. explod-ing. ' The gas mask instructionsonry three days after Prime Minister Winston ChurchiU's warning in London that reports indicated the Germans were preparing to use gas against Russia, were sent out by the headquarters of the capitals passive defense forces. They were broadcast over the Moscow radio's local network. The tests will determine whether wheth-er the masks, which have yet to be used after almost two years of war, are still effective. Back In Allied Air Forces Give Ground Troops Wonderful Support Fliers Stage More Than 1500 Sorties in Single Day To Set Up a North African Record; Meet No Opposition Ry PHIL AIILT United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA, April 24 U.R) Hundreds of Allied tilanes nnl air offensive of the North African support of American, British and French troops tightening tne trap on ine axis in Tunisia. At almost every minute of the day formations of fight-ars fight-ars and bombers roared out from main airfields to hammer enemy strongholds and roads, or sailed home only to pick up more gasoline and ammunition. Sweden Delivers Sharply Worded Hote To Germany War In Brief FTVE RAIPS ON JAPS IX SOLOMONS WASHINGTON, April 24 (UP.) The navy.' announced today five new attacks by U. S. .planes - on Japanese positions in the Solomon Solo-mon islands, including two raii on much-bombed Munda, where three grounded enemy planes were set afire and anti-aircraft guns were silenced. NORTH AFRICA: American armored forces drive Germans back six miles in northern Tunisia Tu-nisia while British armies ; ad-vance ad-vance seven miles in the south. STOCKHOLM: Sweden formal ly protests German attack on Swedish submarine Draken as diplomatic relations between two countries cool. , LONDON: United States expected ex-pected to break with Finland. NORTH AFRICA: Col. Gen. Jurgen Von Arnim believed' to have replaced Field Marshal Er-win Er-win Rommel as axis commander in .Tunisia. LONDON;. Russians report that Germans . give up efforts to enlarge en-large Kuban ' bridgehead in the Caucasus after heavy losses. NEW DELHI: ; American bombers bomb-ers attack Rangoon area in Bur-; ma.- ", -- . J. . sink 10 axis supply ships in Med-iterraneahT Med-iterraneahT 10 axis supply ? ships in Mediterranean. Mediter-ranean. - By JACK FLEISCHER United Press Staff Correspondent STOCKHOLM, April 24 (U.R) Sweden tonight delivered a second sec-ond sharply worded note to the German government protesting a nazi attack upon the submarine' Draken and ordered its navy to "take measures" against any belligerent bel-ligerent vessel caught violating the neutrality of, Swedish waters. The note, delivered through the Swedish minister to Berlin, reasserted, re-asserted, a previous charge that Sweden's neutrality was violated when the German merchantman Altkirch fired .upon the Draken. It also protested against the 'laying 'lay-ing of German mines in Swedish .waters. , . Simultaneously, it was disclosed disclos-ed that the skipper of the Draken, Drak-en, Aake Sevenssen, possibly will be court martialed as soon as his vessel reaches port to explain why he waited 36 hours after the attack at-tack before reporting it to Stockholm. Stock-holm. Qualified observers said there was considerable likelihood of . change in the Swedish policy toward to-ward Germany as a result of these and previous strains upon relations rela-tions between the two nations, but they added it still is too early to determine this definitely. Wallace Returns From Long Trip MIAMI, Fla., April 24 HR Vice President Henry A. Wallace said Saturday upon arrival in the United States from a six-weeks' six-weeks' tour of South America that the Latin American nations begged him for more farm machinery ma-chinery to increase their production produc-tion in the United Nations' war effort. Wallace declared that he was greeted by tremendous ovations wherever he went and that the people were wholeheartedly with the United States in the intention inten-tion of waging the war to a successful suc-cessful conclusion.i Set New Record When the last bomb had dropped drop-ped and the final machine-gun burst fired, the log books showed that more than 1,500 sorties or single-plane flights had been niade a North African record. The bomb charts showed the greatest tonnage of explosives ever dropped in Tunisia during daylight had been heaped on the enemy. The luftwaffe. faced with the j same kind of tactics with which it had scourged the Allies in France almost three years ago, was virtually driven from the skies. Allied pilots operated without meeting much opposition. The shyness of the German air force was shown by the day's total ships lost eight for the enemy and six for the Allies. Virtually every type of Allied plane hit from every point of the compass at targets along an behind be-hind the 110-mile front, as well .asv At.feipping-ff -'SlcHyr All day, fighters and bombers flew a regular shuttle service over the area, protecting Allied ground troops, smashing at enemy ene-my hill positions and plastering routes over which the Germans were trying to rush up supplies and reinforcements Allied medium bombers Mitchells, Mitch-ells, Marauders and Bostons hammered twice at Mateur, key rail and road junction southwest of Bizerte. Rail and road bivouacs bivou-acs in the southwestern part of the town were hit. The Fortreses. meanwhile, were attacking two motor vessels off Sicily, scoring direct hits on one which was left burning. By late afternoon the offensive was so intense that there were (Continued on Page Two) U. S. FORCES SHIFTED TO NEW SECTOR British Armies Seize Key Anchors In New Advance Tommy Hiirmon lit the Hospital WEST PALMBEa7!h. FlaU April 24 ro- Lieut. Tommy Harmon, former University of Michigan All-America , halfback, whose plane crashed April 8 in the French Guiana jungles; tonight to-night was taken to an army hospital hos-pital for observation, military sources here , disclosed. ; Officials said ..that Harmon would not be available for art interview for "at. least v three days." He had returned to the United States late this afternoon from the Caribbean area, v By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, HEADQUAR-TERS, NORTH AFRICA v April 24 (U.R) American K forces storming into the bat-tie bat-tie of Tunisia on a new front have pushed the Germans back six miles southwest of Bizerte, while to the south British armies advanced up to seven miles and seized key anchors of the powerful Axis defenses, de-fenses, the Allies disclosed today. Tens of thousands of American troops and thousands of vehicles, ' shifted secretly from, south to north Tunis, ripped into the German Ger-man lines, capturing three domin- --ating --ating hills and holding them against violent counter-attacks. Yanks On Southern Wing (A German broadcast said American troops are forming the extreme southern wing of the British first army and their ob-' jective 'is Pont Du Fahs, railroad town and important road junction about 30 miles south-southwest of Tunis. Any Americans in action there presumably would be units left behind in. the northward move.) ' (A French communique broadcast broad-cast from Algiers said French troops had advanced some 12. miles eastward along the northern coast within the last few days.) ' vealed that the Allies had captured cap-tured a German document signed by Col. Gen. Jurgen Von Arnim as commander-in-chief, suggesting suggest-ing the possibility that Marshal Erwin Rommel had left Tunisia and saying his "present where-. abouts and new appointment, If any, are unknown." , ' The all-out Allied offensive against the last Axis foothold in Africa was supported by a .tremendous .tre-mendous aerial onslaught, in which bombers and fighters flew more than 1,500 sorties and dumped the greatest tonnage of explosives ever loosed on Tunisian soil by daylight. As the Americans were lunging eastward on both sides of the Sedpenane-Mateur road, the British Brit-ish first army knocked out 16 (Continued on Page Two) ' V . v j Rommel No Longer In Tunisia, Report ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA, April 24 U.R) The Allies have captured a German document indr-cating- that Marshal Erwin Rommel has left Tunisia, and Col. Gen. t Jurgen Von Arnim now is commander-in-chief of the, - ; ?Axis armies, it was announced n 1 TT'ill 1 1 oinciaiiy toaay. tommanaer ivineu At Kelly Field SAN ANTONIO, Tex., April 24 Wi!) Lt. Col. Alexander A. Greig, 4l, commander at Kelly Field, was killed today when his P-39 Air-cobra Air-cobra crashed in Leon creek, one-half one-half mile south of the field. The announcement from post headquarters said the plane, burned. burn-ed. Colonel Greig was appointed to his command at Kelly Field on March 29. He came here, from Ellington Field, Houston, where he commanded a sub-depot. - OVERFELT ELECTED ' SALT .LAKE; CITY, April 24 uIE) New student body president at the. University of Utah here today was Eugene Overfclt, junior engineering student at the institution. insti-tution. . " I ' - I. wcneii aeieaiea Aiary oiu-more. oiu-more. the first co-ed candidate Both' Munda raids ' occurred on ' for the office in the school's his-' Thursday, island time.:, tory. ' -L t Outlawed Irish, ncpablican Leader : 'Sounds ttarnirigitolhe United Stdtes BELFAST April 24 (UE Hugh area of Belfast to hold a meet- McAteer. chief of staff of the outlawed Irish Republican" Army who has a . price of .3.000 .pounds ($12,000) on his head, made an audacious appearance before ' a meeting of armed Ira men Saturday Sat-urday night - and warned the United States that , its troops stationed sta-tioned in northern " Ireland were liable to become involved in hostilities hos-tilities with the Irisli Republic , The Ira men . seized control of a movie house in the nationalist ine commemorating, the Easter rebellion, of 1916. McAtecr,- for Whom the police have been searching search-ing since his escape from Belfast prison in January, appeared with James Steele, tone of three men who broke jail-with him. ' Both read statements and disappeared dis-appeared .after the audience stood in a one-minute silent tribute to the men . who died for Ireland." At the command "dismiss,, the Ira men left the house. The British first army recently captured the document, dated March 19, which was signed by Von Arnim as general officer and commander-in-chief. The announcement by A.llied- 18th army group headquarters said that Rommel's "present whereabouts and new appoint- ment, if any, are unknown." - No other details were made available immediately. Rumore, many of them from unreliable propaganda . sources, have cropped up repeatedly in re- . cent weeks that Rommel had left Tunisia. Some said he had been called back to Europe. Only yesterday yes-terday one such source said . he was at Adolf Hitler's headquar-ters headquar-ters preparing to take over com-mand com-mand of all Axis forces In the Mediterranean zone. ' t - J Another report said Marshal Albert Kesselring of the German air force bad been put in com- -mand. of Axis land, sea and air ' forces 4n this area.. , Whatever the reason for Von - ; Arnim being placed over. Rommel or' Rommel's departure if the. document revealed the H 4 actual lineup-they -were ..regarded. In military quarters v as 1 likely ; to" have little effect on; the outcome of the closing phases of the battle " of Tunisia. r - ; .: - v?" :The iAxis -defense" lines 'already has been drawn, troop and equip- . ment dispositions made, and the enemy's . replacement . , problems , (Continued on Page Two) p.'. " |