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Show Call The Herald ff you don't receive your Herald before 6:30 call 495 before a O'clock and a copy will be sent 10 'ou- - t-5- - If iUr-" . . ........ . The Weather - Forecast f or Provo and Vicinity: . Intermittent llcht rain today antt ; Intermittent light snow tonight, precipitation ending' ; lat tonight. " LJtle cliange In temperature Maximum temp. ...... . ... . . 43 Minimum temp. .12 FIFTY-SEVENTH YEAR NO. 177 SKKSh BiS?g PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, .WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1943 trrAH'8 ' ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF BA.LT LAK.J0 PRICE FIVE CENTS " o) fffi dTi w n it fpfinnnfpfinn.i n wm wwnm rrnrn juW!!JlLulyLUg lb Ulllra lb U"u Ulk Ik u lb U MMlr Ibuv lb If if uv! U ml, Lr ikAAuy i -Lp IMJ IM Ib uvJ u U L&lb uvJlM u u lb uvJ Barrage of Russ Guns Blasts Encircled Nazi Forces at Stalingrad Germans Split Into Two Pockets; Number Less Than 12,000 of Their Original 220,000 Men; Reds Close Noose By HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Staff Correspondent . MOSCOW, Jan. 27 (U.R) Soviet artillery blasted the remnants of the encircled German forces west of Stalingrad from two sides today, while the Russian 62nd army moved rapidly toward ousting the last enemy troops from within the Volga city. The army newspaper Red Star said the Germans now had abandoned all the territory surrounding Stalingrad, but were clinging to the wreckage of a few blocks of buildings within the city. . - Less Thans 12,000 A last attempt was made a few days ago to supply the doomed German divisions west of v the city now split into two pock-,3- ets and numbering fewer than r 12,000 of their original 220,000 men but big Nazi air transports carrying arms and food were unable un-able to find a landing place. Between the time the German transports were summoned and the hour they arrived, the Red army had tightened the noose Axis Jittery in Fear of Tunisian Thrust by Allies By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press Staff Correspondent day that American forces were on the verge of a big drive to about the 22 trapped divisions! LONDON, Jan. 27 OLE) The - a twin-bad --' occupied all possibtefoxia? betrayed Increasmgfea; landing space. British military observers regarded re-garded the liquidation of the trapped trap-ped German sixth army at Stalingrad Stal-ingrad as probably the greatest military sacrifice in history. They said Hitler's prestige as a leader appeared to be one of the main reasons for the sacrifice "but that the strategic importance of holding hold-ing railroads, which the Russians Y' now have cleared, also was a fac- tor. They pointed out that the lack of German efforts to relieve the trapped divisions marked the first time the Axis had failed to make a major counterattack under un-der such conditions.) Regiment Surrenders The entire German 534th infantry infan-try regiment J surrendered in the Stalingrad pocket today, and part of the 609th regiment, including in-cluding its staff officers, was wiped out by merciless Soviet attacks. Group after group of Germans were reported surrendering or! the Voronezh front, where innumerable innumer-able Axis forces had been surrounded. sur-rounded. T,he Soviet noon communique com-munique reported that 1,463 prisoners pris-oners had been sent to the rear within a few hours. Lieut Gen. Vassily Chuikov's 62nd Russian army, which bore the brunt of the last few months of Stalingrad's defense, battered the Germans relentlessly within the city, front reports said, ousting oust-ing them; from houses and dugouts dug-outs and annihilating them. Soviet troops drove into Stalingrad, Stalin-grad, from the west, joining forces with the defenders of the Volga city in a final drive to clean out the Axis. "Now Soviet units are mopping up the outskirts of the city, where resistance already is con- siaeraDiy weaker," Red Star said. "The battle will end either, with complete annihilation of the re maining garrisons or their surrender." sur-render." The newspaper , Izvestia. said , three German generals had fled by air transport early in January, abandoning their troops. They were identified as Lieut. General Daniels, commander of the 377th Infantry; ' Lieut. Gen. Schwering of the 79th division, and Lieut. Gen. Opfendlender of the 350th uivjsjun, wno nea wim ouier mgn Montgomery Dictates Terms in Tripoli 6 (NEA Radio-Telephotol The first radiophoto from the former Italian "jewel city" of Tripoli, this picture shows British General, Bernard L. Montgomery, right, dictating terms of surrender to the governor and officials of the city and of Tripolitania at the Castel Benito gate just before the Allies took over. : : 5) Flynn Nomination Wins Approval of S3 WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (U.E) : pinch off and wipe out the Af rika The senate foreign relations officers. Casablanca: Meet "AH Tall Talk,? Says Tokyo Radio - " -.-'". . . -.; i SAN FRANICISCO Jan: 27 ; ? (U,R) The Tokyo radio said today the results of the meeting between President Roosevelt and Prime Miinster Churchill were " "all tall talk and no cider." " Quoting "informed circles" . . Tokyo radio said the "total result . of the conference was their qut-r. qut-r. . ; standing scrap centered on the - puppet French regime l. set up by ' both Britain: and the United States for dominating North Africa." Korps in lower Tunisia. Nazi Radio Vichy also said that the British Eignth army's tanks were driving south of Tripoli Trip-oli in a sweeping movement around the Afrika Korps to join allied forces in Tunisia. But the Middle Eastern corn-many corn-many still gave no indication of how much of the Afrika Korps had reached Tunisia. Its communique com-munique today said Eighth army forces fought axis rear guards yesterday west of Ez Zauia. Ez Zauia is 30 miles west of Tripoli. Trip-oli. Radio Paris joined in axis jitters jit-ters over reports that Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth army was massed for a push to Gabes, 100 miles from the border of Tripoli. "American troop contingents observed at Tebessa appear to be contemplating an offensive against Gabes," Radio Paris said. ' It was not explained how tlje axis acertained a drive "was contemplated con-templated against Gabes, although al-though that might be the easiest objective. Tebessa, near the Tunisian Tu-nisian border in Algeria, is 150 miles northwest of Gabes. Tebessa Te-bessa is about the same distance from Sousse to Sfax, either of which might offer better port facilities fa-cilities to an allied column. . Off iciar dispatches from . allied North African headquarters did not mention a coming allied drive to split the axis' Tunisian bridgehead, bridge-head, and it was highly improbable improb-able that they would. Both French and allied communiques com-muniques yesterday said bad .weather was confining action to patrols. The French reported, however, that their forces had made some gains between Oussei-tia Oussei-tia and Kairouwan, west and southwest of Sousse, on the central cen-tral sector. American and French forces now hold the western half of the Ousseltia Valley all the way to its northern extremity. The Germans, Ger-mans, who occupy the heights east of the valley, control the western half. , nomination of Edward J. Flynn as minister to Australia and gave President Roosevelt a victory vic-tory in the second test of ad ministration intra-party strength in the new congress. The committee voted 13 to 10 to submit to the senate a favorable favor-able report on the president's nomination of the former Democratic Demo-cratic national committee chairman. chair-man. - - The nomination will come up for a vote by the full senate membership next Monday. Three Democrats Sens. Walter F. George, Ga., Frederick Van Nuys, Ind., and Guy M. Gillette, la., joined with the solid Re publican minority in opposing Flynn's confirmation. Sen. Robert M. LaFollette, Prog., Wis., joined with the majority ma-jority of the Democratic . committeemen commit-teemen in approving the appointment. GOVERNOR MAW SIGNS 2 BILLS Nazis Break Last French Resistance In Harbor Sector LONDON, Jan. 27 ttfi German machine gunners and sharpshooters sharpshoot-ers have , broken the last Frenc'h resistance in the old harbor district dis-trict of Marseilles, reports from the frontier of France indicated today. The harbor district of the picturesque pic-turesque Mediterranean seaport had been quiet for 12 hours, according ac-cording to word filtering into Switzerland. Much of the area, lay in smouldering ruins from firea started by German field guns while the Nazis, including ruthless SS troopers, were driving driv-ing defiant men and women from their homes in a sweeping e vac-uration vac-uration order. Unconfimerd reports reaching London said that . at . least 300 persons had been killed and that dozens had died of exposure. - ; . SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 27 fe Gov. Herbert B. Maw today signed the first two bills passed by the 1943 legislature which permit per-mit the use of decalcomania stickers on automobile windshields wind-shields in lieu of license plates, and which, for all legal purposes, makes the Utah annotated code for 1943 the legal law of Utah. Legislation to create a motor vehicles drivers and operators financial responsibility law by Adrian Hatch. D.. Logan, and others was ready for introduction in the house this afternoon. The Dill specified a $5000 and $10,000 liability as a minimum but does not prohibit the . granting of greater judgement by courts However, all persons showing financial responsibilities in these amounts can meet all require ments of the proposed law. Financial responsibilty can be shown either by appropriate lia bility insurance or the posting of a bond meeting the requirements of the act with the motor vehicle division of the state tax com mission. Discharges in bankruptcy are not recognized in the '. measure as relieving the debtor from any of the requirements of the act Certificates costing $1 would be issued by the tax commission to show that each driver or operator had met all financial responsibility respon-sibility requirements of the proposed pro-posed law. Other house measures ready for introduction today included bills enlarging the. powers of the state (Continued on Page Two) &tS lh Id ft CL For Axis Maps ALLIES HOPE FOR VICTORY WITHIN YEAR Plan Blue - Printed For "Unconditional Surrender Sur-render of Axis Meet Catches Axis Powers Flat-Footed Germany Heaps Denunciation on President; Thought Conference Was in U. S. . By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor LONDON, Jan. 27 (U.R) The ten-day meeting; of President Presi-dent Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Casablanca was believed today to have laid the basis of a master plan for 1943, designed to bring about ? the "unconditional surrender" of Axis forces in Europe. Despite huge . obstacles particularly; par-ticularly; the constantly intensifying intensify-ing Nazi submarine' warfare trt lied plans were blue-printed at Casablanca for the purpose ' of bringing offensive operations against Adolf Hitler and his allies al-lies td a climax within 10 months. Reports Incomplete It seemed equally obvious that official communique and reports hav$ told only a small fraction of the decisions and events at Casablanca Casa-blanca which some quarters believed be-lieved may produce "tremendous events" in the near future. The Casablanca news broke on the Axis with the violence and suddenness of a bohibshell, exploding ex-ploding at the darkest moment of the war thus far" for Germany and Italy. Germany was echoing with tidings of disaster on the eastern front, and Italy had not yet assimilated the stark news of the loss of her colonial crown jewel Tripoli, the last bit of her empire that had remained uncon-quered. uncon-quered. There was confidence in Allied (Continued on Page Two) By ROBERT DOWSON United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 27 (U.R) Germany, completely misled on the Roosevelt-CJhurchill conference, heaped denunciation denuncia-tion on the president today and the Nazi Vichy radio echoed that "Frenchmen" had hoped they would be spared such new effrontery as an Allied meeting1 on French empire em-pire soiL The London Daily Sketch, discussing the complete secrecy which protected the conferees at Casablanca, said Allied intelligence agents in the United States had given fake reports of a meeting in Washington to suspected Axis spies' had been arrested. It was not until 6 a. m., three hours after the news had been released to the world that German radios heard here reported that the president presi-dent and Prime Minister Winston Win-ston Churchill had met at Casablanca. All last night, in broadcasts broad-casts in many languages, the German and other Axis radios had told in detail how Churchill Church-ill had gone to Washington to confer with the president, who, they said, had demanded new bases in the British empire em-pire in return from supplies for Britain. Germany's first broadcast putting the conference on the right side of the Atlantic merely quoted, in French and German, the fact that it had been held and the names of those who took part. Next the Nazi Vichy radio said: "The general opinion was that Churchill had gone to Washington to confer with MANY FACTS OF MEETING LEFT UNTOLD Leaders Leave Important Allied Decisions Unrevealed the president but this time the two statesmen met at- Caaa uupuiuuu, wwKj-A-;Mws,y;i.v euituoruet o uwsw w wallecl -city on Af nea s west eoas me sentiments ox aTencnroen who hadbelieved he would be spared such new. effrontery." At 9 a. m. Berlin gave its first comment, in an official German news agency dispatch: "Roosevelt's theatrical appearance ap-pearance in French territory, conquered without fighting, was symbolic of United States imperialism." DeGaulle, Giraud Clash On Several Basic Issues LONDON, Jan. 27 (U.R) British and American leaders will make another attempt to bring together Gen. Charles DeGaulle, Fighting French leader, and Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, chief of the French North African regime, who failed to agree on major political issues at Casablanca, well-informed well-informed sources said today. DOCTORS RECOVER ' SWALLOWED TEETH NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 27 0J.ro Mrs. Mary Horn, 74, wore today a set of false teth that physicians have twice reclaimed from her esophagus. She swallowed them the first time last September, along with a mouthful Of corned beef and cabbage. She swallowed them again last night while- eating eat-ing Physicians at Newark eye and ear infirmary .recovered them. Mrs. Horn put them back in her mouth and .went home. s- Congressmen Criticize Fact Stalin, Chiang Kai-Shek Wer e Not at Meeting BY PEGGY POOR United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 XJ Congressmen ' were thrilled by President Roosevelt's willingness "to risk his own life" in promoting promot-ing the war effort, but some criticized criti-cized the fact that Premier Josef Stalin and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek were not at the .Casa-ca .Casa-ca conference. - - ; Chairman Walter F. George, D., Gav of the senate .finance committee com-mittee hoped - that - high - representatives repre-sentatives of China and the Soviet . ' Union were - there even though their leaders were not. Sen. Robert Ro-bert A. Taf t,v R O., and Rep. Hamilton Fish, R-, N. Y., thought it would have been better , had both Stalin and Chiang Kai-Shek been present. ' . Chairman Tom . Connally, p., Tex., of. the senate foreign - relations rela-tions . committee emphasized the fact that Churchill and the president presi-dent had . met under hazardous conditions.. ..; s ; ' j" ' - 4While American - soldiers are risking their lives on- distant - fronts," Connally said, "they can now be , inspired by the high courage of their , commander-in-chief and the knowledge that their leader is willing to risk his own life. . ' Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, ' D pre-war non-interventionist and leading opponent of the administration's adminis-tration's foreign policy. said: I : "The meeting evidenced .... great showmanship. But. why Casablanca? Casablan-ca? It would have been more apt (Continued on Page Twof ' - - b ' ' " Japs Compressed IVithin 64 Miles At Guadalcanal WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 OLE) American troops on Guadalcanal largely U. S. army forces today continued their slow but relentless drive to destroy the dwindling force of Japanese now compressed into less than 64 square miles on the northwest corner of the island. The Japanese, although outnumbered outnum-bered by ' the Americans, are contesting every foot of ground. Military experts said that the nature of the terrain made possible pos-sible a strong defense with comparatively com-paratively few : men. It still may take weeks to end organized resistance re-sistance on the island, they said. Experts estimated that the" Americans now control more territory; ter-ritory; on the island than does the enemy. From the tiny beachhead beach-head surrounding Henderson airfield, air-field, the Americans have expanded expand-ed so that they now hold a 17-mile 17-mile strip along the north coast. The depth varies from several thousand yards to five miles. The Japanese are now within an area 16 miles long and about four miles wide between Ko-kumbon Ko-kumbon and Cape Esperance. Capture of Kokumbona, once headquarters for Japan's Guadalcanal Guadal-canal army, provides the Americans Ameri-cans with an excellent base for further operations. SLAYER OF WIFE RECOVERS BODY :ST. LOUIS, Jan. 27 (HE) Harold Lawren, 27 today led police, to a wooded ravine where they found the fire-scorched body of his estranged es-tranged wife, Elwyn, 27, whom Lawrence admitted having . killed with u hammer when she . refused to consent to a divorce. STALIN MEETS WITH STANDLEY By JOHN A. PARRIS United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 27 (U.R) Gen. Charles DeGaulle. head 3f the Fighting French, and Gen, Henri Honore Giraud, chief yt the French regime in North Africa, failed to agree on major political issues in their talks held as part of thj Roosevelt-Churchill conference at Casablanca, reliable Fighting French sources said today. They agreed on a certain number num-ber of points, chiefly that contacts con-tacts should be established at once between the French national committee of De ' Gaulle and Giraud and his French imperial council in Africa, informants said. Coo rin date Operations-Agreement Operations-Agreement was reached also to co-ordinate French military operations oper-ations and to co-operate in the economic and communications fields. They agreed also on various vari-ous minor problems. Agreement on military co-ordination, it was explained, did not mean military fusion of Giraud's (Continued on page two) MOSCOW, Jan. 27 OLE Premier Pre-mier Josef Stalin, it was revealed today, met with Admiral William D. Standley, U. S. ambassador, and H. L. Baggallay, counsellor of the British embassy, last night. ' Standley and Baggallay conferred con-ferred with Stalin together in the presence of Foreign Minister' V. M. Molotov. The . nature of the conference was not known. f it; appeared probable that the American and British diplomats may have met with Stalin to present pre-sent to him the results of the Casablanca conference of President Presi-dent Roosevelt and- Frjme Minister Minis-ter Winston ChurchUL) . ' ' FLYING FORTRESSES V ATTACK. NAZI POSTS LONDON, Jan: . 27 (OLE) rAm-erican rAm-erican flying fortresses and liberator lib-erator bombers, -4, putting into action the promise of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill of an assault that would bring about the unconditional surrender sur-render of the Axis, attacked German Ger-man naval Installations today, an authoritative source : said. " CASJ5LANCA STORY ' .'V- f IN 22 LANGUAGES - WASHINGTON, Jan! 27 XU.PJ The . story of , the historic Roosevelt-Churchill conference at Casablanca Casa-blanca was being ehortwaved to -day to ..all the world . in 22 lan-. eiMKCS aim uiwvvw. r - , 5V- ALGIERS, Jan. 27 U.R ; Conviction grew today that the "unconditional surren-; der pronouncement of Presi- dent Roosevelt and Winston Churchill tells only a part and possibly not the most w exciting part of the story 5 of their 10-day meeting at Casablanca. Casa-blanca. Correspondents who attended the historic , Rooswelt-ChurchiU pressr conference which concluded ' ity on Africa's west coast, believe that the official communi- que: did not cover all- the activity of those ten . days iii- the "sundrenched "sun-drenched Moroccan port. , Surrounded By Mystery, First of all, it is not believed that President Roosevelt would have cared to take the risk of. a 6,000-mile airplane ride for nothing noth-ing more than a "heart to heart" talk with Prime Minister Ch'urch-ill. Ch'urch-ill. . ' Nor was it thought likely that he would embark on such a venture ven-ture simply to review the events . of 1942 or even to plan the events of 1943. What particularly aroused the interest of the correspondents was the complete air of mystery which surrounded the entire proceeding.- During the press conference with Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill, the correspondents contrary to the customary White House procedure pro-cedure were not given any opportunity op-portunity to ask questions. Casablanca was literally saturated satur-ated with rumors. Crowded as It was with special anti-aircraft emplacements, special guards,, secret se-cret service men, and troops, , almost al-most any kind of report was passed avidly from person to person. per-son. One of the most frequent of these reports was that the antiaircraft anti-aircraft batteries had orders. not to fire on any planes whether enemy or not which might appear ap-pear at certain hours of the day. The inference, of course, was tnat some sort of. emsisary from " some belligerent state was expected. ex-pected. . ,. The president and the prime f minister met correspondents ! In ' the rear garden of . V beautiful white villa the North African "White House" marked simply "Villa No. 2." Pledge For Peace With Churchill sitting at tM left, Mr. Roosevelt explained to war correspondents hastily flown in from the Tunisian front that he and Churchill had pledged them-sejves them-sejves that peace would return to the world and that this peace (Continued on Page Two) . t erica n, Laud British Press African Con fererice : ' By UNITED PRESS '; American and British editorial comment on President Roosevelt's and . Prime Minister Winston Churchill's conference: v THE UNITED; STATES New York Times This is "global" "glo-bal" strategy ' for . "global" war. We are in this global .world, and we shall remain in It, to plav our proper part in its afft when this day's work . is done. That, is the ' real .meaning and promise of. the , rendezvous at Casablanca.? " . - . New York Herald Tribune The Casablanca meeting assures . us that definite war plans have been 1 concerted, that they are vigorous and far-reaching in their- scope, and that they, are directed to the one end of forcing "unconditional surrender" Upon the enemy."4 .' ? Philadelphia Record This North African trip is right In line with the.; fcerofLc boldness and! forces ' whjch . : marks Franklin Roosevelt's 'whole leadership . In our war effort and In oar social and economic res traction. -. Boston Globe The problem . of closer unification ' of ; strategic counsel has been advanced, ' but not. solved. This as - a matter of consequence, as the official com-v com-v (Continued on Page Two) , . |