Show al - 1 alic trribune 3Army Denies Wednesday Morning Feb 17 1943 1 i to Take Plan Allied Comeback Brightens Over Schools g-ni- (713t t 8 1 1 — Tunisia Front Outlook 1 By Kirke L Simpson AP Feature Writer Tunisia where American Battle reports from south-centrtank-fanged 1 troops are enduring their first test in blitzkrieg war- fare against nazi veterans take on a brighter hue even though the outcome is still in doubt a There is no question that Rom- back hard and regain third of the lost ground That speaks vclumes rnel's first offensive stroke since 1 not only for the morale and traine retreat he started his of I from Ell Alamein in Egypt has ing the troops involved but for the of American staff efficiency gained him urgently needed elbow work That too befcre General room at least temporarily There reis no doubt also that the blow Eisenhower had been able to 1 was panned and delivered with group and realign his allied forces naskill It counted upon finding a in divisional units all of one as he to promote planned doubly weak link in allied disposi- tionality battle effectiveness tons in the Faid He is reported to have been close flanking the nazi Tunisian escape corridor at up to the scene of the nazi Faid close range on that misThe shock fell upon American pass break-throug- h advance elements hastily brought sion That implies that new Amerup west of Faid pass to support or ican echelons were moving up berelieve French troops hind the nazi breached sector even They faced the heaviest nazi tank as the enemy struck If SQ there concentration since El Alamein in their first real battle clash of the is a possibility that Rommel's surwar prise attack could boomerang that The significant fact is not that some of the armored ifpearheads thev were overrun or thrown back he fanned out north and south as Is miles at the first onset but that well as west can be cut off or dewithin hours they rallied to strike stroyed - - BON esly pass-Maknas- V" Srlrx FP ©1'1 i CF rvers c A - ! 3 ji 1 DA 3A r i A 1101k - - 111KHENcHE EL BAB i i''''' ALGERIA -"- ra' 7'- 4 - te e2 - (PAAHDIA 4 - I 00" KAIROU N Ti‘EBIsserESSAw - 521 Zi FAID PASS BOU THAD a BOUZID ' 0 yr:::A1171 " - S FAX - IN--E- RED-tiy- ' L''''--:''''g----- GABES : e-- I - HOUNA SOUK - ras STA e A-- Th ' MARETHw-- -- 0 Chott—D—jerld' ERAM T H I LINE tb - -- - - -- BEN GARDANE ! 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I forces which could exercise control of the air at any point they chose N 1- 1 ' ea -'' e'- threaten the isolation of his units at Gafsa and serious damage to his tank forces would weaken him where he least could afford it His supply lines were subject to constant pounding from allied air I II r There still was no authoritative report on how much American armor had been caught in the first surge of the offensive but iit was obvious that if the allies succeded in extricating most of their tanks that Rommel shortly would be in a dangerous spot ---d- - : :-is cra'tinnnsiCp 4 18 -- father of Lillian Roth erstwhile blues singer of stage screen and radio died suddenly Tuesday of a heart attack - -i- t: ? !‘ i cflarnonds 1 Feb 55 1 f A t - I - ::' 11 full-c- t ' ottoSi ' - --4 I - matclNd 1 1 I r6t:t - I I I 1 ' ' ' I o - ' to- il t - ) -)- a BOSTON thur Roth It was learned a Meantime number of farm state senators - -- -- : ' - Singer's Father Dies mittee J: si rr' - 1 ' Alakilwitelka I -- --- h '- - -- I 1) ( -- --- i duction Lend-Leas- - - : ‘ if Posters Give Lie To Nazi Boasts ic-- CS) i 16 (INS) — Senator Elmer Thomas today from the Berlin radio The broadcast recorded by the Associated Press in New York quoted "competent military quarters" as declaring that reports "spread abroad" concerning the appointment of a new commander for the eastern front "are devoid of foundation" The German denial followed publication of an unconfirmed dispatch from Bern Switzerland declaring that Hitler was going to yield the supreme command to Field Marshal General Fritz Erich von Mannstein Private advices reaching C BS in quoted quarters reportedly close touch with Germany's officialdom as saying it is "not improbable" that Hitler has already abandoned his direct command and gave this picture: Their correspondent said that two weeks ago information seeped across the German frontiers from Berlin indicating that Hitler had stepped down as a result of the nazi reverses On the Russian front A traveler who recently left Berlin and who was described as "a trustworthy professional observer" was quoted as saying that since the Stalingrad disaster the German people are blaming Hitler for "installing reckless nazi party 'Gra A mAKNAssy I i WASHINGTON Feb (D) Oklahoma Tuesday joined the ranks of senators urging Scotches Rumors infinediate halt to drafting of men for the army as a group Fighting General o state senators planned introduction of a bill prohibitiWill Take Command ng- further induction of farm workers Thomas declared that the en- By Associated Press tire nation faces regimentation plan to join i n proposing a bill Rumors that Adolf Hitler is pre- unless plans to build armed forces to prohibit further drafting of paring to relinquish command of of 11000000 men this year are farm workers and to compel the the German armed forces to a Curtailed army to grant furloughs where to step up food pro- i ll have fighting general drew a curt denial !o hset esp ildh necessary sw PONT: DU FAHS a Oklahoma Senator Joins Move to Halt Draft i - - 01 b fi Der Fuehrer ' --- SBEIT LA East 8th South g t'- - 4jk -- -- MAKT'A 4OBAA 1 5-53- I - '''' AOLIARIA 1 - Sit NEW YORK Feb 16 (INS)— was cold when Edward F SulIt generals in command" livan left for home Sersinr you with the finest work- Meanwhile other reports hinted cen can money to a Fur seek buy He stopped in doorway manship that all was not well within the PHONE serve tires and labor byHelphaving shelter from the frigid air Two ranks of the German army Trimmed sizable order—also hangers for ex- hours later he was found unconA report that 80 German army change COATS on his an bruise scious Lake's Most "Salt were arrested by the Distinctly BRANCH officers angry 23 $ Cleaned 1 head Cleaners" 451 East last month and put to gestapo Finished I Glazed death early in January for "toying Tuesday Sullivan reported his Broadway (Continued From Page One) 64 (Continued From rage One) : loss in that adventure—a pair with a plot to remove Adolf Hitt: only 1 of new shoes had ''by no means started an of- Its people for the loss of Kharkov ler" was received by C B S It refensive" in Tunisia The operations announcing a few hours earlier portedly came also from a traveler Berlin were termed of only local signifi- - that the soviets had fought their from Thi ssame source added that cance way into the suburbs of the big Germany's leading physician Dr i Ferdinand Sauerbruch has oeen ((The Italian communique city as Stocka from report (Augohttericlig had claimed that 7i81 prisoners ti holReutersteicill ensattyri:gpicarvInd 17-esisa German military been captured the axis push exhausted" spiritually a Swedish gunsn spokesman along with 33 and 23 other field pieces Ninety-eve- newspaper that correspondent tit allied tanks were captured unN suffered a defeat have "we from or destroyed the Italians said) A 17 Competent military quarters de- precedented in this war")) 1 Irscribing the American counterat5 By Russian estimate the capture kap tack said: "Heavy casualties have of Kharkov had cost the Germans — - '-MOSCOW Feb 16 been inflicted on the enemy" At 120000 N troops killed or wounded Huge posters informing (INS) the popleast 20 German tanks were listed The soviets tried in vain to take ulation of Rostov that German famong enemy losses t 3the city last year with attacks be- troops would not evacuate that was allies admitted the that It too had suffered severe losses but tween January and June but were city were pasted on walls by the nazi invaders before the Russians 1military quarters said "the Ameri- each time driven off can position is considered fairly hurled the nazis from that Cau°C1‘ Geraccount the casian stronghold for the second with troops still ' By Russian satisfactory" s''t to e Z north- mans again made a determined de- time in this war it was disthe holding high a ex west of Faid grpaosusrid fense of the powerful base The closed Tuesday rir '1 v-' ' a 1 a were now Germans The The posters read: "Do not beabout soviets Monday night had reported a 4!? i ' A: 0 r--e' ft : 12 west rumors! We shall not leave miles lieve of after that counterattacks of i German 1 pass —repulse A" t e'l - -' an American- - artil- southwest of Kharkov that at- Rostov!" 44 overrunning a 2 ' Nothing remains of the Gerlery position in their first dash tempted to break out of the steel I 6 mans and American out on but these posters in the troops T' forcing city ring closing all ' of Sidi Bouzid i 1 Jo Rommel used 100 to 150 tanks in ' this and a companion thrust to the ' 1 ' 1 'I' northwest out of Sened These it ill forced and 1 Americans French the ' ''' 4 to abandon Gafsa Sunday night to 4?!ft ''' ‘ avoid being cut off -l' wA IAApparently Rommel employed I the uthe of his armor salvaged i 1 V from 17:bk 4 wearing retreat from i 1 ilt Egypt together with new units 1 'e 4 N received from Italy and a part of t) I Genof division tenth armored the I -- von Arnim at'Tunis eral Jurgen a os 444 k He thus gambled heavily on the ' i kor i - - 1 Ai -- Pause in Doorway l Cleaning Plant in the West x7 EDJEZ BOU education l Dyers QP" Clea is soups - ' 11 KA army's operations Under the program set up at present on an involuntary basis the army students will enter comschools only after they have pleted the 13 weeks of basic training and after they have taken aptitude tests to determine whether they will be acceptable for further Itodern MOM JEDEID Ns CHICAGO Feb 16 (INS)— Brigadier General Joe N Dalton assistant chief of staff personnel for the army 'ruesday put to rest rumors that the war department would completely "take over" and dictate the operation of colleges and universities to expedite its technical training program In Chicago to address congress on medical education and licensure of the American Medical association General Dalton told a press conference that "not more than 75 per cent of the facilities of any contract school will be used in the army educational program" He also declared that in no sense of the word is the army "taking over" any of the schools of higher learning and that no contracts have been entered into relative to the new program which will prepare 18 to 22 year-ol- d youths for more responsible jobs in the 0' 1 :TABX11 'N t i BIZERTE : al 1500-mi1- - ''! - tit Africa!Berlin Denies Is" - - "" Set-U- p Training cou nterattac anks 1:MediterroneanrSea Army Outlines Rules for - A i p -- I - -- |