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j. ). Forces
Push laps Back
Advance on
Enemy Air Strip
c. YATES MCDANIEL


ADVANCE ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Dec.
20--(Pl-A steady advance up
the Cape Merkus Peninsula has
carried American troops TO the
vicinity of the Arawe airstrip
six miles East of the New Brit
ain beachhesd they won less
than week ago.
The operation has gone almost
according to plan" since the
main force drawn from 1t. Gen.
Walter Krueger's Sixth Army
ashore on the Southwest coast of
the Japanese-held island last
Wednesday morning.
Nipponese planes kept up their
raids on a day and night basis
but Allied interceptors proved
more than a match for them.
The toll of Jap planes destroy
ed reached p by midday Satur-
day. The Allied Air forces not
only beat off the enemy attacks,
but spread new devastation on
Japanese bases along both coasts
of the 300-mile long island, in
Guiding heavy fighter stab at
Rabaul harbor.
Possibility that the presently
unServiceable Arawe airstrip
may be in American hands by
this time was suggested by the
headquarters spokesman's state
ment that the Americans are ap-
preaching the field. He said the
bulletin was based on reports as
of late Saturday.
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Second Front
Thought Near
Report Eisenhower
Now in England
BY J. EDWARD MURRAY
United Press staff Correspondent

LONDON, Dec. 90 - U.p) -
Preparations for the opening of
a second front in western Eu-
rope were reported in full
swing today and radio Vichy
said Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhow-
er, whom Washington dis
patches have predicted will
command invasion forces, has
arrived in Britain.
A CHS broadcast said ire
rlendous conveys have been
piling American troops into
Britain for the past six months.
In some places, it said, whole
English villages have been evac-
uated to make space for the
thousands of troops, while the
huge concentration of equip
ment. landing barges, tanks and
p.~les is obvious to the most
casual dockside Observer
The Vichy broadcast could
not be confirmed officially, but
it was obvious that the second
front commander would have to
come here soon if the invasion is
to begin within the next three
and half months, as antici-
pated.
Gen. Henri Honore Giraud.
commander of the French Army
of Liberation, also will come to
England from Algiers shortly,
the Nszi-controllcd Vichy sta
ton said. II asserted that Gen.
Sir Harold r. l.. G.. Alexander,
Allied commander in Italy and
deputy Mediterranean comman-
der, would succeed Eisenhower
as supreme Mediterranean COM
mander.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-20
Berlin Admits
Withdrawal
from Dnieper
Key Bridseheod
Lost by Germans
in Savage Drive
Bv JUDSON O'QUINN

LONDON, Dec. 20 - Up -
The Red Army has smashed the
southern anchor of Adolf Hit
lcr's Russian front, forcing the
Germans 70 retreat from their
Kherson bridgehead at the low
or extremity of the Dnieper
River, the Berlin radio acknowl-
edged today, while 10 the north
powerful Soviet units, pouring
through collapsed Nazi defenses
in the Newell sector in a new
winter offensive, surged to with
in 81 miles OF the Latvian Dor
der.
The loss of Kherson left the
Germans without good defense
prospect short OF the Bug River,
80 miles 10 the rear on the way
10 Odessa. Announcing the
withdrawal. the German broad
cast said the crossing of the
Dnieper was achieved without
any loss, despite heavy ice
drift.
The big Russian drive in the
north. now in its sixth day, has
already overrun 500 villages and
hamlets, and Russian tanks. cav
algy and whitc-robed ski troops
today were smashing forward
toward Polotsk, key rail juno
ton near the old Polish and
Latvian frontiers.
Berlin has estimated that
100000 Russian troops were en-
gagged in this offensive.
The Russians drove up TO the
mouth of the Dnieper early in
November during the height of
their offensive which walled
off the northern outlets from
the Crimea, and at one time
claimed TO be holding the en-
tire eastern bank Of the Dniep-
or.
The Germans, however. as
serted that they still held a
bridgehead on the eastern bank,
across from the town of Kherson
which is on the west side of the
stream. The Germans also hold
bridgehead farther up the
stream near Nikopol.
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carries them out. All four men
at Kharkov pleaded guilty, but
each said he was only carrying
out orders.
Definition of war criminal"
is one problem facing the United
Nations Commission for .Inves-
tigation of War Crimes, and the
subject has been debated in
Parliament.
The Moscow News declared
the Kharkov trial was "the first
realization of the statement by
President Roosevelt, Prime Min
lister Churchill, and Premier
Stain on war criminals, and add
ed that il lis significant in that
il is the initial act in the judg-
ment that will be held in the
countries of liberated Europe"
The LONG arm of the freedom
loving peoples will pursue those
guilty TO the ends of the earth,
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Air Whip-5aw
Batters Reich
in Daylight
u. S. 'Heovies'
Blpst Germany
in Two-Woy Pottern

LONDON, Dec. 90 - up -
American heavy bombers struck
from the West at much battered
Northwest Germany in daylight
today in a quick follow up to
yesterdays Mediterranean Bas-
cd Allied heavy bomber assaults
on Innsbruck and Augsburg, 20
miles Northwest of Munich, on
the Bremen Pass route.
The big American planes
were escorted by fleet fighters
again in their renewed on
slaught on their favorite recent
recent targets-Hitler's U-boat
and the shipbuilding ports of
the North Sea. Specific targets
were not named Immediately.
Yesterdays first blow in the
one-two punch at German indus
try from the West and South
was made through fierce fighter
opposition. The Germans threw
up more than 100 planes in a
futile attempt TO halt the Lib
orator and Flying Fortress for
nations winging IN from the
South.
ThIrty-seven of the attackers
were shot down in flames and
p others probably were dcs-
troyed 10 a loss Of 16 Mediter-
ranean-based Allied planes dur
ing the days operations. Some
of the missing Allied fliers were
believed TO have landed in
friendly territory.
The Innsbruck railwa V
yards were subjected to a great
and accurate bombardment."
said the Allied communicate
from Algiers. In addition to the
blows at Innsbruck, which lies
just north of the Bremen, and
at Augsburg, Mediterranean
base planes pounded rail COM
munications at Foligno. Peruoia
and Arezzo in Central Italy, the
Terni railway junction, and
harbors and shipping in the Ad-
Ratio and off Italy's west coast
in c Ia d ng Civitavecchia,
northwest of Rome.
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Robert Daley, gunnery, Of
ficer, said the bombs were car
ried by gliders about Is feet
long and with l5-foot wing
spread. One glider was slung un-
der each of the eight twin-en-
gined bomberS striking at the
convoy.
This apparently was the first
multiple attack with the glider
bombs. One such glider had
been reported used in a pre-
viobS attack.
The German bombers made
hesd-on attack, Daley said. re-
leasing the gliders some distance
from the ships. BY radio con-
troll. they kept the gliders on a
horizou.s course until they
See wEAPON-Pase Q
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it continued. and will deliver
them to be judged and punished
in the places where they COM
mitted their crimes; they will be
tried according to the laws of the
countries whose citizens fell vic
tim to the Hitherto terror"
"Irrefutable documents leave
no doubt that all these crimes
were and are being committed
by the Hitlerites at direct in
structions of the German gov
eminent and the high command
OF the German Army" the Mos
COW news editorial declared.
Dispatches from Kharkov said
the courtroom was completely
damned when the presiding
judge, Maj Gen. A. N. MiasnS-
kov, read the sentences Satur-
day.
See EXECUTIONS-Page 2
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Churchill Better
Bulletins Reveal

I LONDON. Dec. 20 - (P) -
The news from Prime Minister
Churehill's sick bed was all
good today.
A bulletin released yesterday
afternoon said his temperature
was normal and that the pneu.
monia which sent him TO bed
somewhere in the Middle East
was disappearing.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-20
Gunfire Flares
in La Paz as
Coup Succeeds
Anti-AIIied
MiIitory-Youth
Group in Saddle
BY JULIO VALDEZ

LA PAZ, Bolivia, Dec. 90 -
up - The pro-Allied Bolivian
government of President En-
rique Penaranda was over
thrown today in coup d'etat by
leaders of the Nationalist revo-
lutionary movement, an. organs
cation described as strongly OPP
posed to the policies of the
United States.
JAIL OFFICIALS
President Penaranda, Gen.
Miguel Gambia, Bolivia's minis
ter of war, Gen. Antenor Ichazo,
chief of staff, Minister of Gov
eminent Pedro Arce Zilvetti and
other leaders of the Penaranda
government were reported to
have been arrested.
The Nationalist organization
which engineered the successful
coup is made up of elements of
the Bolivian army and youth or
CARNATIONS.
BULLETS FLY
Nationalist leaders succeeded
in overthrowing the Penaranda
government after a gun battle
broke out at 3 am. in which
both machine guns and rifles
were heard.
Victor Paz Estenssoro, for
mer finance minister arrested in
1941 in connection with an al
See BOLIVIA-Page 2
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Old Newsboys
Hawk Papers
on Tuesday

Banking on the generosity Of
Mount Clemens, the Old News
boys in selling their annual
GoodfellowS edition of The Mon
tor-Leader tomorrow, will con-
duct an experiment never tried
before in the groups history.
They will attempt TO meet
their quota with proceeds from
the newspaper sale alone aid
ed, of course, by traffic viola
ton fines collected by the Police
Department.
The amateur shows, feather
See SALE-Page 2
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Champ Bowler
Held in Death
Drunk Driving
Blamed for Crosh

DETROIT, Dec. 20 - up -
Johnny Crimmins, chosen by the
Bowling Journal as the outstand-
ing individual in American
Bowling during 1912, was TO be
araigned in traffic court today
on an involuntary manslaughter
charge which named him as the
hit-run driver responsible for the
death of Vincent Ereaux, 26.
Crimmins was arrested, police
said, shortly after he had failed
TO qualify for the annual Peter
sen bowling classic to be held at
Chicago next month. Officers
said that Crimmins failed to stop
his car after it struck Ereaux
and that he was apprebended
after the car went out of control
and struck utility pole. Con-
viction on the manslaughter
charge carries a penalty of from
seven and a half TO Is years in
prison.
Crimmins holds first place in
the averages of the American
Bowling Congress with l0-year
score of 203 plus 38 pins. He
was anchor man with the Detroit
team which won the ABC tour
nament in 1899.
Last December Crimmins
placed second in the all-star
bowling examinations in Chicago
where he got off TO bad start
but grabbed the lead and held it
until the final game. He lost by
a fraction of a point when he
failed to convert a baby split.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-20
Band Director
10 Join Army
Som BoFbokoff
Awaits Induction

Samuel Y Barbakoff, director
of the high school band and or
cheStra, and, i'm the opinion OF
Superintendent l.. Wade Fast
lone of the most capable and en-
ergetic" band directors the
school has ever had, Will leave
for army induction early next
year.
Barbakoff is now awaiting an
induction date. He declined
suggestion of school board mem
bers that they seek a deferment
for him on the grounds that his
program is a builder of youth
and community morale during
war time. A short time ago he
sought to enlist in the navy but
did not pass the strict physical
requirements.
Supt. Fast states that for the
present the school will continue
its music program under the di-
rection of Miss Margaret J.
Kleinhuizen. Barbakoff's assist
ant. who will continue TO direct
the stringed instruments and or
chestra.
If the school board next year
decides that a band director
should be hired, Fast states, they
have already made contact with
a woman who has had consider
able high school and band ex-
perience.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-20
BY JOSEPH DYNAN

ALLIED T1EADtl ~ AN Eho,
Algiers, Dec. 20 - (P9 - 1t.
Gen. Mark w. Clark's Fifth
Army, which captured the heav-
lily fortified village of San Pet
70 after thre days of furious
fighting, has hammered out new
gains toward San Vittore, next
strong defense on the road TO
Casino, and in the mountains TO
the northeast has registered
gains up to two miles, Allied
Headquarters announced today.
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Mont
gomery's Eighth Army, support
ed by tanks, overran an enemy
position in the sector along the
Adriatic coast, inflicting severe
losses, while advancing about a
mile further inland and captur-
ing the village of Consalvi, six
miles from Orsogna.
BLAST TANKS
Montgomery's artillerymen
knocked out five German Mark
Nv tanks, bringing TO 43 the total
of German tanks destroyed
since the start of the Sangro
River battle. OF these at least 80
were Mark Tvs, the largest the
Germans have mployed in Italy.
Fifty German parachutists
were captured from a group re-
Gently transferred from the CEN
trail mountainous terrain to boil
ster the eastern defenses.
Fifty Army troops north of
Venafro in the Italian peninsula S
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REBELS GUST BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT;
NT|-AMER|CAN GROUP TAkES-0vER
Tanks Hammer Out
New Gains in Italy
Fifth and Eighth Armies Both
Score Smashing Successes

billy backbone we're blasting
their way through the difficult
terrain and forcing enemy forces
See ITALY-Page 2
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ADMIT MASS EXECUTIONS

ADMIT MASS EXECUTIONS
The trials, with testimony and
admissions of mass executions of
Russian civilians. and the hang
ings were ignored by the Ger
man radio.
The Kharkov convictions were
one answer to the knotty legal
question of who is war GRIM
inal - the person who gives the
order, or the one who actually
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First Atrocity Trial Ends in Death for Four 7errorist
SWIFT JUSTICE

held, a Gcstapo captain; Hans
Ritz, vice-commander of a
storm troop company; Richard
Ratzlaw, Gestapo auxiliary po-
lice corporal, and Mikhail Bull
anov, a Russian who served as a
Gestapo chauffeur.
Langheld, Ratzlaw and Bull
anov died within three minutes,
while Ritz twitched on the gall
lows for almost five minutes,
the broadcast said.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-12-20
Reds Skater Southern Anchor of Nazi Line

Impartial Coverose
OF Al Loeal News
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-06-19

holds the myth of race superiority
and limits the freedom Of Amer
lean citizens" r
Jenkins opened and closed the
debate here Tuesday. He argued
that America is going TO have long
war with japan. and that the war
could not be won without the help
OF darker peoples who outnumber
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-06-19
Covenant BAN
LOSES TEST IN
LEGISLATURE.
House SOlons Refuse To
Force Measure Out
OF Committee

SPRINFIELD, Ill.-A move
to bring the anti-restrictive
covenant bill to the floor Of
the House was defeated here
last Tuesday morning after
two hours Of debate.
Proponents OF a motion 10 dis
charge the House Judiciary COM
mittee from further consideration
fell short by 10 votes in their effort
20 have the bill. which outlaws
Covenant restrictions in sale OF
property in the State OF Illinois,
freed from the pigeon-hole. Sixty
seven members voted in favor OF
the discharge motion while 36 voted
against IL Forty-ohe others sat
silently by and declined TO vote one
way or the other as the measure
went down 10 defeat
Failure 10 vote. while indicative
OF reluctance on the part Of the
member 10 commit himself in the
highly-controversisl issue. was
taken 10 be a move in opposition 10
the bill. The reason was that ~
members sat quietly as the roll
was called twice IN search Of the
needed 10 votes In discharge.
Searle An Enigma
One exception. however. was be-
1ieved To be Rep. Clinton Scarle,
white. Rock Island Republican
Searle. il will be remembered
blocked voting on the measure al
judiciary committee hearing or
May rs. al which time lobbyists
for and against the legislation. sp.
pcared here in large numbers. Al
the time. Sesrle demanded a roll
call for quorum. thereby thwartini
an attempt OF colored represents
uves 10 bring the matter TO vote
From ell indications. Sesrle wa
more familiar with the attitude o
the members present al that tim,
than were the colored sponsors o
the legislation. Tabulation OF tn
voting shows that OF the 10 com
mittee members answering th
quorum roll-csll. seven were op
posed. three were in favor and thre
declined 70. vote.
The motion 10 discharge was Of
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strong arguments in favor Of imme-
date adoption OF the bill.
They pointed out that the bill
promises TO do away with: Cd an
un- American attitude that is be
smirching the fair name Of Illinois,"
% a ghetto system identical to that
which is condemned in Mari Ger
many; go influences which tend
20 promote Generalization OF a
large segment Of the population
and "a propaganda which up
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st. Louis unit, stated that the march
was ordered after the officials OF the
company ignored registered letters
TO their Offices requesting inter-
views relative TO that subject Daily
advertisements appear in the news
papers urgently asking for workers
while Negroes are Disseminated
against, he said.
The company has been termed
an essential wartime industry, thus
placing it in the groups affected by
the Presidents Executive Order
1902.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-06-19
COMMANDS wAACS
AT FORT CLARK

FORT DES MONIES, 1a.-tANP)
Second Officer Geneva v. Fer
guson OF Camp Dennison. o., has
been assigned to duty as company
commander OF a company OF Negro
WAACs at Fort Clark. Texas She
has been a company commander at
First WAAc Training center here
since March.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-06-19
IT'S Pick
st. Louis Bell
Telephone Go.

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Approximately
IFS persons shouldered banners and
placsrds and paraded around the
Southwestern Bell Telephone COM
pany here Saturday morning in a
dramatic protest Of that company
failure to employ Negroes in jobs
other than porters
The parade was staged under the
supervision OF the local unit OF the
March on Washington Committee.
T. d. McNeal, president OF the
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fered by Rep. Charles J. Jenkins,
one OF the bills sponsors. His aim
was 10 have the bill released from
committee and placed on list for
first reading on the House floor.
The measure seeks 10 prohibit
further use OF restrictive covenant
clauses in property sales. which
prevent Negroes from buying the
property. Supporters Of he bill
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-06-19

Fishermen in about rs villages in
South India are catching sharks.
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contend that the continuance OF
restrictive covenants create the es-
adjustment and maintenance Of I'M
desirable "ghettos," and perpetuste
the principles OF race diccrimina-
ton.
Fight for Measure
A large contingent OF hackers OF
The legislation made the trip to the
capital on May Is. and presented
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tuberculosis patients who have been
released from sanatoriums with the
doctors approval as arrested cases"
cannot give the disease 10 anyone else.
according 10 the Michigan nIbercu-
losiS association.
Evening star., 1943-02-06

the fleet Is not definite. In a matter
Of months after she was launched
she was put into commission-com-
pared with the year or so ordinarily
required.
Indications that she may soon be
ready for battle were seen in the
chipping away Of all paint to re-
move fire hazards-and in the spirit
of the men, many Of whom have
orally wished for "a crack at the
Tirpitz," top ship Of the German
fleet.
There's plenty Of power for pro-
pulsion If a running battle should
be encountered. Deep within the
ship four massive shafts from as
many engines drive the four big
propellors. Each engine alone
could keep her underway. Fuel oil
provides the battleships power.
Originally the battleship was de-
signed for crew Of about / 800 men,
but changes in war methods brought
changes in equipment. Now she
has aboard about 1900 omcers and
men.
Most of the crew consists of
youngsters in years. But many are
veterans, men who have fought in
the Pacific, who know the battle
zones Of the Atlantic.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
200-MiIIion Loan Fund
Set Up 10 Increase Crops
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Agriculture Department has
established a $500, ,00o, 900 wartime
food production loan program under
which the Government win assume
losses from crop failures on products
needed for the war.
Farmers planting designated crops
may borrow funds to cover planting.
cultivating and harvesting. They
will be obligated to repay only to
the extent of the value Of the crops
produced.
In event of q complete failure,
the loan will be cancelled.
Crops on which the loans are Of
fered include those involving high
production risks on which farmers
would not otherwise grow. Loans
will be made by the county Agricul.
tural war boards from funds pro.
vided by the Regional Agricultural
Credit Corp.
The crops include soy beans for
beans, flax for seed or fiber, pea.
nuts, potatoes where the farm goal
Is three acres or more, sweet potatoes
on farms having set goals. Americana
Egyptian cotton, hemp for seed or
fiber, dry beans and peas, castor
beans, tomatoes, snap beans, lima
beans, peas, carrots for processing
or for sale on fresh vegetable mar.
kets, cabbage, sweet corn, and beets
for processing.
Evening star., 1943-02-06
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,

SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND {By
MaiD About the coldest journey
imaginable Is In a jeep, here jocu-
larly called pneumonia wagons" in
driving snowstorm in England.
1t was on such a trip that I
started out the other morning with
1t. Col. William E. Warf1eld of Silver
Spring, Md, to locate various COM
panies of his battalion, containing a
considerable group from the Dis
trict of Columbia and nearby Mary
land, who had started just after
breakfast on 25-mile toughening
march along hard-surfaced English
roads and then-guided entirely by
map and compass-over the fields
back to camp.
This Is the strenuous training pre-
scribed for infantrymen In this
training area. Just a march takes
all day, allowing for 10-minute rest
periods every couple of hours. This,
said 1t. Col. Warfield, was a very
good day for it. First the snow on
the roads made the constant tramp
ing easier on the feet. Second, it
was good test of the skill of the
officers leading the strung -out pla-
toons in finding their way under
very adverse circumstances.
No Sign Posts.
Various companies proceed under
different direction orders. 1t is
something of triumph, considering
the weariedness of the march and
the complete lack of directions, for
all units to come together at the end
at approximately the same time.
And it is tough on soldier who gets
lost from his outfit. All he can do
Is ask directions from the English
country who often are as confused
as he Is, due to the lack Of sign
posts taken down long ago 50 as not
to aid the enemy in case OF an in
vasion.
Only q few miles down the road