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Show ODAY. THE f WEATHER Cooler today, colder tonight. Yesterdays temperatures: maximum, normal, 35. 34, mean, 44, 54; minimum, Inference Salt Price: Five Cents . Utah, Saturday, November 28, 1942 Lake-Cit- y, i Enemy Strives To Break Through Buna-Gon- a Area Ring o In Resignation Of Henderson To Be Demanded by" c. BY WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST Nov. 2Sr WASHINGTON. to efforts (AP) Abandoning block nationwide gasoline raining, a growing group of congressmen launched a new fight today against , Price Administrator Leon Hepderson. Their announced aim Is to force his removal from the .federal service through the medium of appropriations The fntilitv of carrying on the fight against rationing ordered for Dec 1 was conceded (D. by Representative Boren Okla ), who said anv legislation to stop it would draw a certain - veto and thus be a waste of time. new Morro But Boren and others who had joined him in the fight rallied around a new battle crv sounded yesterday in the Houseby the belligerent Oklahoman"Trillions for defense, but 15 cents for Leon Henderson is 15 tents too much They referred to appropriation bills, to be considered earlv in the new Congress, through which the Office of Price obtains its operating funds. Recalling . the difficulty administration leaders encountered 111 obtaining funds for OPA tins year, Boren said there were good prospects no funds would be voted for OPA next vear unless Henderson were ousted members of the House appropriations committee which passes on all supply bills, echoed Borens sentiments. Henderson was termed "a menace to the war effort" bv Representative Taber of New York, ranking Republican on the committee, who suggested OPAs funds should be drastically curtailed Admin-Istiatio- High-rankin- n g WISE TO RESIGN Representative Johnson (D. another high ranking Okla), member and long a foe of Henderson. commented that it ijnght be wise for several of the bureaucrats to resign Other members of the committee explained that it would be a simple matter to bring about Henderspn's - resignation hv writing into thp OPA supplv bill a provision that none of the funds be expended so long as Henneison was in charge. Some members went so far as to suggest that OPA be abolished entirely and its functions turned oer to Jame Bvrnes, economic stabilization director From influential Republicans cpjne predictions that one of the fust things the strengthened minority would" demand when convenes the new Congress would be a complete tion of OPA. investiga- Gallows Used InNetlier lands JLONDON, Nov. 28 (AP) Germans have introduced the gallows in the .Netherlands . to put to death those accused of "malicious and dishonorable" acts against Nazi occupation forces, Aneta news agency report- ed today. The Nazis, who consider hanging moie disgraceful than shooting, heretofore have turned convicted Dutch patriots over to firing squads. Before the war tha Netherlands had no capital punishment. The The Christmas - News' yates mcdaniel ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Nov. 28 (AP) Fighting for every foot, American and Australian soldiers edged forward step by step toward Buna today after beating back two sharp counterattacks by desperately resisting Japanese pocketed arouhd Jhat eastern New Guinea base. using rewtvee-ment- s at a cost of five Jananese struck to break the ring to a coastal area of some 40 square miles, but were thrown back with heavy Apparently landed warships, the out in efforts pinning them losses, todays que .said. noon commurv y nese in t)je position. Then the operation starts all over again on the next strong-point. The communique said Allied all planes continued to aid the ground troops all they could bv lepeated heavy strafing and bombing of the Japanese lines (Fierceness, of the fighting was apparent in a Sydpey war dispatches correspondents an engagement early this week. Two Australian imperial companies killed 150 Japj-nes- e but lost 66 of their own number in taking an enemy gun which had been holding up the Allied advance near Soputa a few miles from Buna, he said) Elsewheie in the soutn western Pacific theater, Allied medium bombers attacked and debuildstroyed ings at Nova Lisa and Beco on the island of Timor and an enemy submarine was bombed a night with unobserved results in the Gulf of Huon off the New Guinea coast. enemy-occupie- d Woman Dies For Murder -- Mrs. Henry Nervous As End Approaches LAKE CHARLES, La, Nov. 28 Annie Beatrice (AP) Mrs (Toni Jo) Henry, 26, of Shreveport, La., nervous and afraid, was put to death here early this afternoon in the electric chair for the murder 33 months ago of Joseph P. Callowav, Houston. Tex., salesman in a bleak nearby rice field. The slender brunette killer, who shot Callowav in cold blood while he knelt nude praving for his life beside a rice straw stack, lost some of her calm last night, being unable to sleep, and nervously manicuied her nails today after a Catholic priest had administered the last communion just before she was executed. She descended to the states portable electric chair at noon. One minute after the shock was administered at 12 12 pm the woman who said she was a prostitute at 13, a drug addict at 16 and a killer at 23 was pronounced dead bv a physician Solons To Probe The onnuol 1942 Yule-fid- e edition of The Deseret News rolls off the press on Dec. 19. Deseret News will happy to handle all wrapping and mailing of copies to service men. Send his name, and 25 cents and we'll see he gets all the news from home. It's one holiday present every service man wants. This yeor The be od-dre- ss WPB Powers Plan 28 WASHINGTON, Nov, (AP) A senatorial subcommittee todav inquired into a WPB plan to strengthen its authority over war schedules production against reported efforts of the armed services to take over that function. ) of Chairman Pepper the labor subcommittee considering a proposed civilian Office of War U. S. Destroys All Buildings In Island Raid 9 After this diversion the Allies resumed their advance, movinft in the same way that they have been since the enemy took a stand ten days ago within strongly positions prepared along the 12 miles of coast between Buna and Gona. The carefully hidden machine gun nests and moitar emplacements of the defender are scouted out, softened by aitil-leror bombs, if possible then overwhelmed by the swift hrust of jungle fijhters skilled in use of grenades, rifles, pistols and light machine guns. Usually it-- ip necessary tO kill all the Ja Mobilization Indicated his Intention to ascertain how strongly tPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson is exercising his authority now in the reported conflict For this purpose, he arranged to question Nelsons proFerdinand gram administrator, Eberstadt, in a closing hearing. Nov. 28 WASHINGTON, (AP) The navy announced today that American aircraft had destroyed all buildings in the Munda area of Japanese-helNdw Georgia Islan- d- In- the Solomons. The air raids, a communique said, weie carried out on No- d vember 23 and 24, Guadalcanal while on November 27 American ground patiols on Guadalcanal Island killed 50 Japanese and captured a number of machine guns west of point Cruz, w'hich is six miles 'west of the Guadalcanal air field, - Another --American -- aerial action was reported for the night of November when seven Armv Flying Fortresses scored 16 hits on the runway at Kahili Airdrome near Buin on the Is- time, 26-2- 7 land of Bougainville This raid was made at midnight and no enemy opposition was encountered, while in addition to blasting the runway, the Fortress started large fires. The only mention of enemy action, in todays communique, in fact, was a report that two enemy bombers dropped bombs near the mouth of the , Lunga American-helRiver, in the area of Guadalcanal, on the night of Nov 27 but caused no d damage. LateNews In Brief AN EAST COAST CANADIAN PORT, Nov. 28. (AP) Sinking of several German and the damaging of, another was Limed today by the merchant seamen of a United Nations tonioy that met a submarine pack in and beat it off after losing several ships. c NEW YORK, Nov. 28 (AP) A twenty year old German governess described by the FBI as the mistress of one German spy convicted in Brooklyn last year, was seized in raids last night along with four other German aliens and" hundreds of photographs of military objectives. LONDON, Nov. 28. iVo. 51. 93rd Year Fortified Positions Assailed; Enemy From Don Elbow. French Sub Escapes Toulon Allies Smash Jap Attack In Guinea - Vol. 368, Counter Offensive German Tank Units Allies- - Smash I'n Tunisia; Destroy OPA Chief Under Tire From- Solons n time zones brine tale news from world Capitals for todays Deseret News (AP) British submarines have sunk nine more Axis supply ships and damaged three others which are attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Italy to reinforce s and provision Germans and In Tripolitania and Tunisia, the admiralty announced today. YVIJH UNITED , STATES ARMY AT FEDHALA. French Ital-Ian- Morocco, Nov. 24 (Delayed) , The German members of ( YP) the Axis armistice commission captured by the United States in Morocco are on their way to th United States as prisoners of vyar, it was disclosed today. BY HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Nov. 28. (AP) The Red Army has cleared the last German soldier out of the Don Elbow west of Stalingrad and the remaining enemy forces, corailed in a rapidly closing ring of Russian guns and bay- onets, are being . hurled east upon the bayonets of the Stalingrad gairison, frontline reports said- - today. . Closing an important gap in its curving line, army dispatch- Nov. MOSCOW, 28. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Nov. 28 (AP) A French-subma- rine LONDON, -- ba-- k (YP) The Red Air Force dropped leaf, lets along the German line of retreat before Stalingrad today telling the enemy troops of Mar-shErwin Rommel's defeat in Africa and the extent of Russian successes in their own offensive. Scuttling of the French Fleet at Toulon was desiribed by Izvestia as a resounding slap in the face for Hitler and the start of the awakening of France." cs reported the recapture of Kletskaya, Cossack city on the w est bank of the Don SO miles northwest of Stalingrad and a strongpomt which had been in enemy hands since last August The Russians had . bypassed Kletskaya early in the new offensive While one foice was taxing this town, Piavda saia, another swung east after an arching thrust fron above Stalingrad add closed the Russian trap about the Nazi force on the west bank of the Don (The military correspondent of Reuters, Butish news agency, reported in London that the Russian pincers had closed on the Don below Kalach, i ail town 40 miles 'west of Ctalin-grad- , thus completing enuicie meet of tha laige Nazi foicp m the pocket southwest of Stalingrad ) The Germans were reporter counter-attackinfrequent v and futilely after being hurled to the east bank of the Don An tiupatmg the Nazi moves the Red Army said its fortes were methodically trapping and the enemy groups g one by one. Hole is the picture of the vast Russian operation, as drawn from fionthne dispatches One force which staited from northwest of Stalingrad was looping back toward tne itv , ftom a southeasterly direction, duving the enemy eastward acioss the Don into the giant plain between the Dor. and Volga where other Soviet forces were pressing the Nazis from all directions. A second force was driving west along the Stalingrad-Ros-torailroad while still a third column was moving south wesf along the line running from Stalingrad to Krasrodar, in the Caucasus v Navy Beats Army, 14 To 0 THOMPSON STADIUM, AN' NAPOLIS, Md, Nov. 28 (AP) a Navys footballers scored touchdown each in the second and third quarters today and upset a highlv-favoreArmy team 14 to 0 in their transplanted service clash before a slim crowd of lt.700 fans. Two freshmen Joe Sullivan and Ben Martin, scored the Middle touchdowns d 28-(- mine subsidence here last night and early today, the worst in eastern Pennsylvanias hard coal fields in several years. . The subsidence a gradual settling of surface earth over a mine spread ruin through a residential section covering a half square mile. Yawning cracks appeared In streets and lawns, the largest five feet wide, 150 feet long and so deep that the bottom was not visible. Two hundred homes were twisted, cracked or sprung from foundations. their Sidewalks were torn up and gas and water mains snapped in several places. Water cascaded through the streets and flooded cellars. Agents of the disaster committee of the Pittaton Red Cross Chapter helped to evacuate families whose homes- - were made uninhabitable. Other residents whose houses were less badly damaged did not leave. The cave-ibegan at about n which Lraved German war machines to sneak out of Toulon Harbor while the Nazis were attacking yesterday morning, reached temporary safety in Spanish waters today. During the daring escape, the undersea craft left behind-th- e bulk of the French Fleet which was scuttled by her commanders rather than fall into Adolf Hitler's grasp. The subs haven at Barcelona was only temporary, however. Under international law, a belligerent craft must leave a neutral port within 48 hours. The submarine commander was reported to be undecided whether to put to sea and probably head for an Allied base m North Africa or to remain in port and be intern- U. S. French National vouchsafing Darlans sincerity but pending General Charles de Gaulles forthcoming visit to Washington, the admirals status still remained in question a The News Chronicle said decision for de Gaulle to visit Washington had beep reached at a meeting of the French National Committee in London. -- Dalians appeal last night to any remaining French ships to make for Allied ports was thfe second die had addressed to the over to the squadron to come cause of the United Nations. The e heir apparent admiral, to Marshal Petain but now an active collaborator with the Allies, sent his first appeal after Hitler marched ipto southern France on Nov. 11 The small Flench armistice army made ready for disbandment today anil the last of an independent Vichy government faded out as smoke still rose at Toulon from an action which German reports now say was the scuttling oL most of the French wai ships , there. one-tim- pie-ten- Quakes Recorded PASADENA, Calif. Nov. 28 (AP) Dr. Charles Richter, seismologist, said the Calitornia institute of technologys seismograph today recorded two earth 4 00 55 shocks, at 3 50 53 and am (PWT), and estimated their distance at 5.600 miles, in the Central Atlantic Ocean pm. and before the last earth trembles were felt early today the earth had sunk two to two and a half feet. James Tadesco, an officer of the Pagnotti Entei prises, operators of - mine collieries which extend under this Luzerne County town of 18.000, said he understood that the anthracite Vein under the afflicted area had not been operated since 1868 Employes of his firm, he said, had been assigned to helD occupants of damaged homes an to make temporary repairs wherever possible. 5 15 Tunis-Bizert- e Committee Okeli Reported - men-o-wa- Axis Some London observers interv preted the Toulon incident as e Gains Approval - tearing out the vitals 'of the stricken Admiral Jean Darlan went on the air durto the night appeal to what ing suiviving units there might he to make for the haven of United Nations bases Whether anv of the ships got away was problematical, conflicting reports reaching London said some smaller units, possibly including submarines and destroy ers, put to sea before Hitler sent his jirmored columns racing into tlw Mediterranean naval f base. Regarrjess of w hether all the Toulon ftcet was lost to the Allies, the' scuttling in itself was in United Jratibns capiregarded tals as the ihost hopeful symbol of French, resurgence jetAs the Russian Government newspaper Izvestia put it, the incident undoubtedly will be one of those cleansing France of shame and capitulation While arch - collaborationist Marcel Deat was quoted by the pro Nazis Paris radio as saying This means France must unreservedly take Germany's proffered hand repot ts from the continent indicated Fiance fast was becoming united against the BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS .U WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 Allied forces in Tunisia have-rpulsed an enemy counterattack at Tebourba, destroying ten Axis tanks, a War Department communique reported today. The enemy is generally on the defensive in the Tunisian area. In an attempt to blow up bridges, roads and railway lines," the adding although repoit said, weather conditions and muddy airfields have recently hampered air activities. Allied night fighters shot down four enemy planes which last "night attempted to raid Algiers The enemy acknowledged today that the reinforced Allies had launched violent attacks be. fore the Axis fortified zone, the probable decisive battleground of Tunisia. This report, from the Paris radio, supported Atrlcan repoits that the climac- tic Allied push to sweep the enemy from his last strongholds 28 MAP) LONDON, Nov in French North Africa already The News Chronicle reported towas under wav under the shelday that a decision had been tering wings of United States reached by the French National and British Air Forces. Committee for Gen. Charles de The Paris broadcast admitted the Fighting French Gaulle, an infiltration into Axis lines leader, to visit Washington. in violent fighUng in the Me-je-z FighUng French quarters reEl Bab region, a tactically fused to comment for security important communications hub reasons e outside the forGen de Gaulle and Gen Georgtifications arc which Allied dises Catroux, Fighting French leader in Syria and the Levant, patches already had reported lunched with Prime Minister taken r, Axis Both 10 No. Churchill at communiques, Downing mentioned only limited, Street today. local fighting on the two North Previous reports had said that African fronts, Tunisia and LiGen de Gaulle was going to present to President Roosevelt the bya. The Italian war bulletin Fighting French attitude toward reported a raid on the Allied aii field at Bone, Algeria, where Admiral Jean Darlan, whom one ays and grounded it . of their spokesman had called The No. 2 Traitor of France, planes were hit, and the Ger d and who Js pooperating with the 20 AfifecTpIanes Allies in' North Africa. were shot down. , Striking deep at the roots of reinforcement and supply for the enemy In North Afiica, the RAF was reported by the Italian communique to have struck in the area of the big Sicilian seaplane base of Syracuse and s, on the Dodecanese Island of causing damage at both Visit OfDeGualle To ed. Allied officials called upon the few small vessels believed to have escaped the gravevard of the main ileet to head for African bases Even as great explosions still 200 Homes Shift, Crack Open Is Ground Over Mine, Area Sinks AP) PITTSTON, Pa. Nov, The earth split open, houses cracked, pavements buckled and scores of families were evacuated in a disastrous Germans Admit Violent Assaults In TiiiiisBizerte Area's Allies Invite All French Vessels Fleeing Nazis To Accept Haven Ring Of Russian Guns, Bayonets, Closes On Foe Tunis-Bizert- how--eve- said-runw- mans-claiTrie- To Visit America Charles de Goalie, leader of the Fsee French whose contemplated visit to United States is reported approved by the French National committee jn London. Wounded Come From Africa 8 Officers, 107 Men Included In Group 28 Nov. WASHINGTON, (AP) The first wounded Amerfrom ican soldiers to return North Africa have Arrived at Walter Reed Hospital here, the War Department announced today. Biought to an East Coast port, the men were transferred to hospital trains and taken to subuiban Silver Spring, Md , where ambulances and motor cats from the .hospital were waiting. There were 21 in the fust group, which arrived here Thursday, the army said, and 94 reached the hospital this morning Most of the men were walking and w ere in good spirits, the department said The names of the eight officers and 107 enlisted men were not disclosed, and the army said that because the entire group under medical care, no inwould be permitted at terview Was this time. aimy announcement Nov. 23 said that approximately 900 soldiers w ere wounded during the initial landings in Morocco and Algiers British Land On Vichy Isle Near Africa LONDON, Nov. 28 MAP) Le-Ro- places. A from communique broadcast British Vichy tonight said troops, mostly South Africans, had landed this morning on Reunion IslamL4Q0 mi'es east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, and that the Yifhy governor was organizing, resistance. An announcement read over the Vichy radio from the secretary of state for colonies said At 4 30 am. today British forces landed on Reunion. The assailants, partly composed of South African troops, seized the town of Saint Denis La Reunion which has no de- fense installation. Thanks to the functioning of night patrol services and the prompt decision of the governor, the plan of defense was earned out normally, and resistance is being organized The announcement had not been confirmed in British quarters. Occupation of Madagascar was carried out this surtimer by South Africans, who began their task last May with seizure of Diego Suarez in the north. Stout resistance was put up at first, then, after a lull, the occupation forces moved on into the capital of Tananarive after he seizing all-tprincipal west coast ports. Resistance finally collapsed on Nov. 6 when the governor signed an armistice. Reunion, a French possession since 1643, was the last island of France's empire to remain under Vichy control. An Woman Admits Shooting Doctor 28. ST. LOUIS. Nov. (AP) Police Detective Walter Laturno announced the arrest of Florence St- - Louis Ferrara, woman. In connection writh the fatal shooting today of Dr. Marion L. Klinefelter, noted bone surgeon. Im glad I did it, police reported Mis Ferrara told them. I saved the rest of the world " Klinefelter, specialist who was known nationally for his bone operations, died within a few minutes after a woman identified by a nurse as a former patient fired three pis tol bullets into his left ear as he sat talking on the telephone in his fourth floor office. t Suez To Singapore Don't miss reading this national best seller by Cecil Brown, famous for- eign correspondent. His account of the sinking of the Repulse and Prince of Wales is news reporting at its best. Sues to Singapore starts Dec. 7 in eye-witne- ss The Deseret News Without detail, the Algiers radio announced that tne British First Array the backbone of Lieut. Gen. K. A. N. Andersons British, American and French striking forees had 'left its defense positions for the big offen- sive , The period of patrol activity was declared completed, this within two weeks after the arm-ore- d vanguards crossed the Tumountain nisian frontier by path and desert trail from AEF-occupi- Algeria. The Swiss radio said the Allies were withm 12 miles with- in heavy artillery range of Tunis which, like the naval base of Bizerte, had been batair tered by repeated Allied raids A U. S. War Department communique announced the destruction of 51 more Axis planes, aground and in combat, and attacks upon an enemy armored column during operations which cost but two of our aircraft. The pilots of both the wrecked machines were saved. The Allied air forces successfully bombed enemy communl-cation- s in Northeastern Tunisia and area) (the Bizerte-Tuni- s fighter and bomber patrols atreconnalssanco tacked enemy units, the communique said. Mussolini 111, Envoy Reports Nov. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, (AP) Reports from a reSouth American diploliable matic source said today that Premier Mussolini was gravely ill and, if he became fully Incapacitated, might be succeeded by a government likely to discuss a sepaarte peace for Italy. r(These reports were similar to those of a few days ago from London to the effect that, disaffected military leaders In Germany were forming a junkets junta w'tth a viey to Isolating Hitler and taking con troDof the government There is a possibility that all were inspired by Axis leaders In an effort to promote among the United Nations ) The South American source, whose name could not be disclossufferwas ed, said Mussolini ing from stomach ulcers complicated by heart trouble. Rome observers were aatd to be discussing Marshal Pietro Cavilclia. former minister of war, as a likely successor to the ailing II Duce. 28 t |