Show V ka1wTP - gf- --el Get in the Scrap! 1 Finished steel for tanks guns ships and ammunition is almost r cent scrap Have you contributed your bit to the scrap salvage drive? - ' A I 1 1 :-- ""Ipe k 41 I it'l ft ii 1 1 ' t i r i 1 4 The Weather 1 f ' ! -- 4: 1 - I i I i For Salt Lake City and vicinity: Slightly warmer Vednesday Maximum temperature Tuesday 37 degmes minimum temperature 32 degrees (Issued by perrnission of t 14 military authorities) ' don Vol 146 No 77 F B I Springs Trap on Touhy Gang 1 1 i I i - I 41 i' T 1 3 I i G-Ill- en r 4 : - 1 t '''' i ''t-''- L''''''-- - '''' ' w : ' ' 1: - : ''''' le "'''''' ' - ' 44 a : '" cv 1 ' ''''i fe ' f '' '' : ) 1 r t 1 e ' ' - It - -- -- i-- A w-- ' "' : - r- ' ' 1 - - ( i - : '- t ' Ito - ( l' - 4 f"4 ? ! 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' : 3 4 - i : ! iHe power-producti- on Lan-thor- James-O'Conno- r 4 1 ' : U S Raises Flour Price Ceiling A verts Hike in Bread Cost - i IHoover 30-3- i ' 1 er vita-(Continu- ed t & Ilyinfr Fortress Dwarfed by Experimental Design - - I i Army Displays Model of Super Bomber - o' 13-- - B-2- 4s -- (Column Two) Seven) German Fliers Strafe British LONDON Dec 29 QM—While R A F fighter squadrons swept across the French coast in snow and wintry winds two German pilots machine-gunne- d people in the streets and bombed homes along ic - (Conn n wavell Troops Allies Br Pugh Nearer Wedge in Jap Goal in Burma Lines at Buna 6-Ade- 25 l- - - - ial Allles---(Offici- al) by-pass- ed 1 men-(Continu- ed Hunger Illness Stalk Japs In Solomons His observation tied in directly with a report covering a later period In Guadalcanal which came from Sergeant James W Hurlbut a marine corps combat correspondent in the Solomon& In a dispatch released by the navy department Tuesday Hurlbut said that the 'American naval forces were keeping out enemy reinforcements and supplies and that "disease and lack of proper medical facilities are playing havoc with the enemy" "Recent marine patrols have discovered scores of Japanese in bivouac areas who apparently died of disease or malnutrition" Hurlbut reported Dexter who will leave Saturday for San Francisco to become coast guard personnel officer for the Twelfth naval district presently makes his home at Staten Island N Y He left Guadalcanal on November 5 ordered out to take a rest and recover from a malarial the southeast English coast Tuesday An air ministry communique said "mosquito planes of the bomber command attacked railway targets in France Two of our fighters are missing" Two German fighter pilots flycaused ing along the roof-top- s some casualties as they strafed people with machinegun fire and dropped bombs in residential areas condition in one town t - t ' 1 f axis-controll- ed 250-pou- B-2- A-2- 0s o- - Roosevelt Waits Imminent Visit Of Gen De Gaulle to U S - 0 said there was no discussion WASHINGTON Dec 29 then of the question of French President Roosevelt confirmed unity Tuesday reports that General He said he had talked with Charles De Gaulle Fighting to General M E Bethouart and French chieftain was coming ! J L - Dubreull about supplies for the United States soon in north Africa a told press fereinrceltoLsefvu ocsoeeene- troops he thought that matter expected was going along right well but the general here very soon It was largely a question of obTold there had been reports that his visit had been delayed taining necessary shipping at the request of Admiral Wilspace and on that he remarked we are doing the best we can Earn D Leahy presidential chief The president spoke of certain of staff Mr Roosevelt said that was not true He added that De complications for example the fact that the French use a rifle Gaulle had not been delayed but of different caliber from t h e that his trip had been merely American and British rifles He postponed—twice said there always was a possiThe chief executive had conferred earlier in tite day with bility however of doing a certain amount of rearmament two representative of General Henri Giraud French high comthrough American arms factories missioner in north Africa but he I Set Axis Troop Supply Trucks on Fire 2 ck B-1- 7s VimAL Nier 111 Tnnisla After En MOSCOW Wednesday Dec 30— Russian troops have captured Kotelnikcvski 90 miles southwest of Stalingrad in the onrushing effort By Associated Press to reach Rostov on the Sea of Azov LONDON Wednesday Dec 30—The allied invasion of north and trap a million-ma- n German army stalled in the Caucasus and Africa and Russia's great second winter offensive have blasted before Stalingrad Germany's hopes of enjoying a "creative pause" during the cold A special soviet communique issued early Wednesday announced months the British war office asserted Tuesday in its third annual review of the war tersely: came August 31 the review said "Our troops occupied the town Linking the British Eighth when Marshal Erwin Rommel tried and railway station of Kotelnikovarmy's success in Libya with the an unsuccessful offensive in Egypt ski Large trophies were captured Tunisian campaign the Russian but it was not until the night of among which were 17 planes and a offensive and the Japanese failure 23 when General Sir convoy of tanks" to oust the Americans from the October L Bernard Montgomery's British re"Solomons the One of Great Goals Eighth army struck the Germans I view declared: Thus one of the great goals of Italians at El Alamein that "Not merely was the oriental and united nations may be said Russian winter strategy had been "the of the axis fully occupied to have achieved on the basis of additional partner begun demonstrably to in his own iinformation the initiative" here The capture of and on atthethedefensive end capture but the year's The defeat Kotelnikovski was a further blow sphere of the axis the war office of the Africa corps to the nazi hope of rescuing 22 European members proudly proclaimed on defensive" showed the world were the themselves divisions which the Russians say the first results to was declared 1942 The year three-yea- r are trapped between the Don and have of Britain's struggle to turnmarked a "significant and an create trained army Volga rivers north of Kotelnikovski Other red army units have ing point" in the war on land—the equipped to fight the Germans on the of general strategic even terms been hammering these 300000 passing nazis from all sides for weeks initiative from the axis to - the Today it asserted British innations is a "mobile master of steadily driving wedges into their united fantry axis the The first signs that Page Two) hedgehog positions and virtually flood to ebb" (Column Five) "might be turning severing all their supply routes save by air transport Far to the northwest soviet troops that crossed the middle Don and veered southward toward Rostov were believed to be nearing a Junction with those in the Kotelnikovski sector It is said such a union would throw a second red army ring around the 22 nazi divisions And if these two soviet columns converge- - at Rostov an ever greater German army would British Japanese Wipe Out Bunkers be cut off in the Caucasus the Then Repulse Miles Clash Russians said I Surround Milterovo Counterattack To North of Akyab Nip The middle Don offensive al- has surrounded Millerovo on ow-- 0' readyMoscow-RostoAllies--(Offic00- v the tine and has By United Press that town in the drive By Associated Press The Russian toward Rostov ALLIED HEADQUARTMSIN LONDON Dec 29—A clash betroops churning through snow and tween British and Japanese troops AUSTRALIA 'Wednesday Dee 30 (A'—The allied ground forces in operating under subzero tempera- at tures were believed to be within Rathedaung in Burma only 25 northeastern New Guinea reduced 100 miles of Rostov on that town's miles north of Akyab indicated to a Japanese strong point based on northern approaches military observers here Tuesday a triangle containing 13 stoutly The situation as it had been that General Sir Archibald Wa- built and bitterly defended bunk- t summed up Tuesday night before vell's Indian ' army was closing ers ten repulsed a Japanese counthe issuance of the speciall com- down firmly on that strategic terattack at dusk to consolidate their positions on the left of the munique was: city At the same Russian troops in villages formIn addition to depriving the Jap- Buna line Tuesday anese of a valuable base from time American and Australian ing a semicircle about Kotelnikovski had broken through its first which to bomb India the capture troops thrust from the right to line of fortifications to capture of Akyab would give the allies a widen their wedge along the coast the town of Nagolny three miles good air field from which to pun- flaps Enveloped Field dis- ish the enemy along the Irrawaddy from the city itself Bypassed In an earlier drive German river from Rangoon to Mandalay violent patches reported toward the Buna government stacounterattacks had been hurled tion the fortified bunker triangle back with such force that the nazis Large Scale Raid approximately 1500 yards inland had tin ntiortpd undamaged guns It was emphasized however from was enveloped by at and machines on the field clash that the Rathedaung allied the coast several days ago more infantry no than Other red forces from the army probably represented final reduction of this series of the middle Don stood a "large scale raid" by Wave ll's The of on Pate Two) points followed the suctroops and that the main British cessstrong (Column Three) of allied tank and infantry offensive to recapture Burma and units In Through to the cutting road‘Into free Burma the reopen the and westward coast thence not had China obviously yet end of the main Buna air tostrip begun the allies Tuesday night Observers were inclined to dis- where were reported closing in on enemy a count report by the area Paris radio that British pockets in the Dispersal bay troops already had penetrated the Prolonged Attack Chindwin River valley east of the A prolonged attack on Kavleng Chin hills which lie across a pos- In New Ireland Tuesday night by sible invasion road toward Man- Consolidated Catalinas featured — UPI WASHINGTON Dec 29 Recent communications the relentless allied air assaults dalay Japan's isolated forces on Guadal- from New Delhi however have on Japanese bases In the southcanal island in the Solomons were mentioned vigorous patrol action west Pacific area The Catalinas reported authoritatively Tuesday in the Chin hills unloaded detonation to be suffering severely from on the bombs and fragmentation Position Improves starvation and disease without airdrome area starting large fires fresh supplies for about six In a statement Tuesday Wavell Medium bombers pounded the weeks said at New Delhi merely that his runway on the airfield at Gasmata Commander Dwight H Dexter army was "getting every' day into iIn New Britain and Consolidated coast guard officer who was In a better position to fight the Japstarted fires in the Discharge of the naval operating base anese consistently and success- - persal areas at the Lae airdrome on Guadalcanal until November 5 fully" above Buna in New Guinea Smallsaid in a press conference at the He explained that theoretically er allied planes were active during bombed navy department that from his the Japanese occupied the whole the day 'Douglas huts experiences in the island he judged of Burma up to the Chindwin river and strafed Japanese-occupie- d that "right now the Japanese are but that in the recent hot weather and canoes near the mouths of having all they can do to combat they had withdrawn from the Kubo rivers on the New Guinea coast starvation and disease let alone valley to the northwest of Mina having to worry about the little bit of hell the marines are giving erator In a "mock-up- " of wood the materiel center of the army air forces displayed the kind of super warplane that Lieutenant General Henry H Arnold commanding the army air forces had in mind when he said recently that "the are the last of the and the 4 small bombers" Multiple Batteries This specific bomber may never be built—Brigadier General F O Carroll chief of the experimental engineering division of the center explained that it was just a "design study" not a production model But it revealed the shape of things to come The highly successful American 50 caliber machine gun which has to enabled the and outshoot enemy interceptors is mounted in this new design in multiple batteries and in revolutionary new turrets Vast Bombing Range The design calls for fuel capacity which would vastly extend bombing range and over this greater distance the plane would carry the bombload of A e:ria-p-ry t 1heavy bombers The bay has space for huge demolition bombs much larger thah the present "block busters" or for a large number of smaller bombs of perhaps 2000 pounds each There even is room for the largest torpedoes This model was one of a series of exhibits in which the technical work of the materiel center was shown to a group of reporters by Brigadier General A W Vanaman commanding general here In the center'o huge new wind tunnel the world's largest single unit electric Induction motor— them" (Continued on P 13-2- Kpy-1- Events of '42 Blast Axis War Hopes Says R evielv Russian— (Of icial ) i Press By Associated - WRIGHT FIELD Ohio Dec 29 (111—A design for destruction on an undreamed-o- f scale was placed on view here Tuesday in the model of a bomber which would dwarf the Flying Fortress and the Lib- 0 i highly-optimist- - 4 0-- 4 Li :''- : i- - i i ' - ' I '? - - ' ' - ''''' ' Allies Yield 0 Deallinl Heavy Losses Planes Russians Enter Kotelnikovski Seize Materiel i :' 1 - :c - G-m- an t: 1&"--- 'P i ia ') 1:7—006-'al- 40 ''"' i ' - : i ' ' J'' - 4- - I I 'c- f 4 t:: 0 :q A— z 1 o-ac- t c - - - ' - - - - - : i i ' :'''''!""-- ' - '' - : r ' Ilr'''''''''''''''1'" 1''''' -- — p 1 — - Al 2 l‘ (' s- 5 - - i wow' ! ?S 1" 1 - 11"- ' '' Li '! d A4 f-- '' --7- ''''' - 1 1 '' I ! - 1 ' '': 0 '':t $ (4 iiff Lt : '"' ) - sob' -I -- -- 't $ 41 4- - - 44---- 4 - '' I?:j ' ' ' 1 ''r: k'c '- r- 1 ""'"4 1 - - t ' '''5 ) - 0- - 0- -- - v- - ‘1-The ' coup resulted in the cap- t ' 'ti 10a ' ' '''ture of Touhy Banghart and Da'1 esa ao i d!!!'7lak brought death via gun battle 4 0 4: i - t r1 - 4 ' i ''1"14'10t‘i44 ' r14s! it to James O'Connor and St Clair 445 0401 i "! " i 'a i ' ( 1 ' ' ii-- ' t If ' i ' '''''' ' and completed the INIcInerney vlit lt' :4 t round-ulong-terseven of the 14- 4A convicts who shot and slugged 4 "'''''4t' ' the:r way out of the Stateville Ill ' I ' I p15 f ' ' ' ' ii II ago penitentiary SO ' Atcw1Z- - 7 4 'YkA4046X4 !! Thus in riatic maneuvers the law smashed i tKif'' ' the revived "terribli Touhy" gang ' ' ' r —listed by F B I Chief J Edgar I I lioover as "the most vicious and - --- -' most the has t k dangerous country ' I ' : ' 't i':: f ever had" iI Hoover who directed the pick '' ' i of his corps in the oper- I ' 1 :- i ations reported the trap set for i i I Touhy and his two confederates most was elaborate the probably '' ''' F ' ever arranged i ' ' I I4 -B I Agents Wait '''') ' I' f 1 ' The time was 5 a m The scene '' 3 ' "P' t vg six-fl4 '4was a 4 building in a north 1 ' ' i sii de residential neighborhood 4 and Darlak slept Touhy Banghart e in one of the apartments on the f:rst floor Federal agents waited in a suite across the ball Others t ' ''' ' carrying machine guns and highft t r ' t powered rifles were stationed on' t1 -- :'' '' )1 ' i "'11 'k' roof and across the street the I s' in set were —414 k Fl000lights place ?ro i ii 4''-04- ' i 04 --ii- H A loud speaker system was in- - ''' IS11 441-! stalled Families were moved to I the third floor so they could be evacuated through a skylight if a the structure was filled with tear was cleared street The gas At the zero hour the spotlights i A voice limned the building boomed through the amplifier in i the-- stillness of the night: ' WASHINGTON Dec 29 (R)—The west's great multipurpose Come out through the front and out Come door backwards :1 reclamation developments were credited Tuesday by Interior i with your hands up Banghart you i come out first" Secretary Ickes with a major contribution to the war effort It The sound echoed eerily In his annual report to the presroused residents of a square block ident for the fiscal year ended last Boulder Grand Coulee and Parker Ii finFor 10 minutes the agents s 30 June he said three 'basic needs dams he said of the triggers their rgered Reclamation provided of and electric foodstuffs projects power weapons I in the west's war work were water during the year for municiwater Comes Out Banghart pal areas of 2500000 population i - being supplied in "larger and more with extensive industrial and mill- The door of the apartTouhy ' rnent opened '': Banghart hands important quantities for hundreds tary concentrations In addition I Over head backed out cautiously of cities thousands of war fac- regional production of food forage Strong arms collared him hauled tories and millions of war work- and fiber supplied urgent needs !I him into the agents' apartment ers" Ickes said and reduced the burden i it Ickes lauded the bureau of recla- on railroads and highways manacles on his wrists clapped i Then came Touhv the leader mation as "chief supplier" of these Vast Area Irrigated was clad in brilliant red pa- - three essentials 7Special attention More than 3000000 acres of His dark curly hair had was given a separate undertaking Jamas —the Bonneville power adminis- productive land were irrigated by been turned blond by peroxide 1 tration—for its power contribution stored water and the secretary Darlak emerged meekly All surrendered without a strug- - The report also discussed the work placed value of 1941 crops on land All seemed relieved that they of the division of power in co- served with reclamation water at re we r e caught unscathed $159835998 or 35 per cent above i ordinating the department's the 1940 figure This he explained activities Knew Nothing of Pals was exclusive of livestock fattened I on reclamation lands dairy prodThe trio did not know of the Program Far Advanced Ickes ucts and poultry and eggs fate that befell two of their felDiscussing reclamation The end of the year found a The reason was cited that of 73 works in operalow fugitives the utter 'secrecy with which the tion under construction or au- storage capacity of 61610283 government concealed their move- thorized 45 were producing power acre feet in the 81 reclamation I and supplyine irrigation water reservoirs in the west a 29 per ments cent increase over the July 1 1941 Into a similar trap at 11:15 and 20 were being built n The year saw increases in gen- capacity last night walked Eugene Active storage for power irribetter known by the alias erative capacity through installaand St Clair Mc- tion of hydro generators at Grand gation and uurpeaucann industrial More uses was 4713 million acre feet Boulder dams Inerney They entered the Nor-- I Coulee and were wood apartments a few blocks generators being readied to or six million more than a year ' from the Touhv hideout The fed- start operating in six months at earlier 1 eral men ordered them to surrender They responded with gunI fire They were killed Hoover disclosed later that the i two raids ended a nation-wid- e search for the seven felons who fed from the Stateville prison Oc- - ' tober 9 He reported that MathWASHINGTON:Dec 29 UPI— ew Nelson (correct name MarWickard revealed that as far tilick Nelson alias Harold Seeger) T h e government authorized I as the ordinary citizen is concerned the principal economy had been taken into custody De an average 10 per will be the discontinuance of the cember 16 in Minneapolis He Tuesday night added that William Stewart had cent increase in the price of slicing of bread sold for home been apprehended December 19 in flour at the mill but prevented consumption "Some housewives" Wickard Chicago bread prices by discontinsaid "will be Inconvenienced by related that the gang's higher and services other uing slicing the portion of the order eliminatyielded five revolvers two tending to increase costs 0 Simultaneous action was taking the sale of sliced bread for shotguns and one home consumption However we rifle and that $13533 had been en by the office of price adminisbelieve they will be glad to cut recovered tration on flour prices and by their own bread if thereby they t Captain Daniel Gilbert of the Secretary of Agriculture Claude can contribute toward preventstates attorneys police announced' R Wickard on bread standards later that the numbers on $10 ing a bread price increase and at P A instituted a utliform bills found in Touhv's possession the same time contribute to the schedule of flour throughwar bore the same sequences as those out the country prices effort" temreplacing Other economies ordered by snatched in the spectacular $20- - porary price ceilings which froze f)e4) holdup of an armored truckgpe(-embeWickard were a discontinuance individual mill prices at their r 18 at the gates of a 4tar September of the practice of some bakers in 2 levels selling bread to retailers "on plant in the west suburban area The prices were standardized limitation of the to of various consignment" according types Work Recognized Touhy number of sizes and varieties flour and regions "The robbery had all the signs any baker makes in a single The said "This inet a Touhy job" Gilbert said "1 crease inagency week and discontinuance except flour prices should not was quite certain all along that necessitate an increase in the for certain religious needs of the the Touh?- - mob came out of hiding present retail bread prices bemanufacture of twisted and cross-pa- n to get a stake" bread by commercial cause the higher flour costs will The first steps in disposition of be completely offset by simulbakers He also recommended the gangsters were left to U S taneously introduced savings in conservation of deliveries At the same timeWickard Attorney J Albert Woll The fedmanufacture the packagingsand ral men seized the fugitives ordered all commercial white costs of bakers ef- distribution Hoover pointed out with a smile bread to be enriched with fected under a program of the on Page Pour) (ColWrued 011 PRire of teolutan Two) department agriculture" (Column Seven) ! ' e4 ' --- (721-!''''''- 0 - 4-'''''''- '' r jit''''1- k ' '' 0004: 1 - o"" !':'4- ”''416 ''4 "- 7- - - 14 - -- - $ - I t I i' - :S1"''' - "" z-- - : ' ' vs--- 4 -:- ' ' t': Reds Capture Rail TONVII in Rostov Drive fc -- -- L - -' i z - : f By Associated PteS9I ' ' CHICAGO Dec 29—An in- - t genious t r a p devised after 5 weeks of careful P lamlin g and 1 operated by the nation's top t ranking federal agents snapped !hut Tuesday on Roger Touhy Basil (The Owl) Banghart and t 1 — - tk - a ' '4 : - Edward Darlak 1 1: - ' ' ' '' I: - Took Them by Surprise - : ' e r- 1 - -- e-- 4 e - ii ' f'"''''': - Federal Agents 2Seize Three Slay Two Thugs 1 Price Five Cents Salt Lake City Utah Wednesday Morning December 30 1942 f - I I t 1 Mil By Associated Press LONDON Dec 29 — Allied troops have withdrawn from a hill six miles northeast of Medjez-el-Ba- b on the road to Tunis "after inflicting severe casualties on the enemy" while allied fighter planes striking clear across southern Tunisia blasted and set afire 20 axis troop and supply trucks near the Libyan frontier a communique said Tuesday A delayed dispatch from south- ern Tunisia said American troops had raided Maknassy only about 40 miles from theeastern coastal road linking Tunisia with Marshal t 00-- 4 1 r - ! t 'I t i - t I y ‘ I i iI Ii ! i - Rommell's Libyan forces capturing 21 Italians and killing and wounding many others The mission was completed after sharp street fighting and the reductions of numerous sniper positions Berlin Admits Threat Berlin asknowledged this threat to its coastal road by announcing that U S troops had rolled into Gafsa about 40 miles west of Maknassy French troops also were threati TUrliStall ening to cut the axiaforces into still another segment by cOntinued blows in the Pont- area Only 30 miles south of Tunis and about the same distance from the eastern Tunisian gulf of Hammamet French headquarters in Tunisia said that French troops backed by allied tanks and planes had cut an important road south of after a fierce dawn battle today and that the enemy had been cleared from the area Foreign legionnaires were credited with a great share of the fighting - Air Fighting Resumes Widespread aerial activity was resumed over Tunisia with allied bombers and fighters raining explosives on axis rear line bases including Sousse - and Tunis and strafing enemy communication lines Axis aerial losses Monday were listed as six or seven including three bombers against two allied fighters At sea the British admiralty said its submarines had sunk at least two more axis supply ships and probably damaged two more off the eastern Tunisian coast and along the Italian coast near Naples In Libya General Montgomery's British Eighth- army still was pushing westward less than 180 miles from Tripoli and the R A F middle eastern command continued to range ahead into Tunisia its blows overlapping those of allied airmen based to the west Tunis the and near-b- y La Goulette capital at the harbor entrance were hit Sunday night and fires started near a railroad yard a Cairo communique said- Shifted From Command A well posted foreign source here said-tha- t Nazi Field Marshal Albert Kesselring had been shifted from his air command in the Mediterranean to a post on the Russian front because of Marshal Rommel's complaints of Kesselring's inability to halt the R A F in Libya Kesselring is said to have b een succeeded by Field Marshal Erwin von Witzelben While the allies announced the abandonment of the hilltop northwon after east of Medjez-El-Ba- b heavy fighting Christmas eve and Christmas day the Germans announced its recapture Most of rthe ground fighting however was in central and southern Tunisia but the allied communique said "our forces destroyed two enemy tanks with artillery fire" and "light enemy units attacked one of our positions north of Medjez-El-Ba- b without sucdu-Fa- a a I r f i i k i - t L hs Pont-duFa- 4 ' 3 - f hs r r ' - i t f - cess" In the aerial war a formation of 8 Lockheed Lightning fighters made their deepest penetration yet of enemy territory in the raid on the axis truck convoy "carrying troops gasoline and supplies near the border of Tunisia and Tripolitante" "About 20 trucks were destroyed" the communiqueon said "most of them being left fire" This news appeared to bear out earlier reports that the axis forces In Libya were moving westward into Tunisia to make a final stand there is the battle for Africa- P-3- 4 - t f t j i 1 i t y i i I 1 i i - |