,. - Five aears Ri.ing Temperatur•• t1ollf'n on All· Ll'a,ue IOWA: ailin. t e~rature I'rof~~lIlonnl Team THE DAILY IOWAN today, with OCt'UIOOfll See Stoty on l'llle 4 Iowa Cityls Morning New spape r U,ht Rnow. TilE ASSOCIATED .aE89 IOWA CITY, IOWA THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1943 VOLUME XLm NUMBER 93 , e e Ir I ------------ '--------------------------~~-----------------------------------------------------.----------~~~---------- ------ . • ~ · I C'z·I Coa s' tiel ne Allies Slash N~l~ Air (oyera~e, AII·ie 5, H.am mer I ~ . Rommel's Tunisia Retreat LIRe ----------------------------------------------------------------------.~----------------------- • FLYNN, GIRL ACCUSERS AT LOS ANGELES TRIAL ALLIED IIE DQ ARTER IN NORTH AFRICA (AP) - British Reveal Use of Wellington Bombers American Flying Fortres. " de!ltroying 34 axil! plane aground Aerial Armada and aloft in a brillifillt raid on Castel Benito airfield, 10 mil e outh of 'l'ripoli, have torn a ('o)lIliderable hole in the already thin In Aiding to Clear Coasls of -Nazi Mine~ ail' cover on which Field )1aJ hal Rommel j de(l('ndin~ tor IIJl Blasts Holland, efrective l'Pt reat from Libya into Tlmisia. LONDON, Thursday (AP)-Thering held a magnetic coil and the Tn thi., the h a"ie t n anlt y t delivet'ed from the we t on the' ail.' ministry released a 3-:,.ear-old ~~rrent \".as supplied b.y an aux­ axis in Tripolitania, not an Amrrican plane was lost, allied head· secret today in telling how We!- lhary engme of the ordmary Ford I'] l1arte1'. announced y(' t rday. ~8~~ The Fortre. e. ' attack, delivered ye terday, topped all other Vichy France i1nglon bombers helped clear the Th . t d ' d t I e equlpmen was eslgne 0 action in the nOl·th African theater, where land operations were seas- around Britain's coasts of the Iset up a magnetic current which marked only by patrol encolmters in the area bt'tween Bou Arada ' 3 Flying Fortresses deadly German magnetic mines would set off the then new type of lind Ooubcllat in 'l'nniRiR Rnd along Rommel's route or retreat in which once were Hitler's "secret mine. ea tern 'J'dpolitania, Lost as Nearly 400 weapon" and which threatened "Coastal Command" said that While the alii d communiqn(' Planes Raid Lowlands the supply lines to these islands in "when lhe mines exploded the stated only that 14 planes were the last three months of J 939. Wellingtons were severely jolted Russians Take , hot down harp nmning com· LONDON (AP)-Large bomber The story of the "hazardoliS and and their crews had no warning unpleasant work" was told lor the to brace themselves, lor they bat dllring the en tel Benito forces and Americl\n and allied [Irst lime In "Coastal Command," could not know the moment when raid, an air force spokesman li:hters-nearly 400 in aU-made a new booklet In the series on the they would pass over a mine." 12 More (ilies added that at least 20 German OIII! of the greatest series 01 day­ British air force, the first of which Minesweeping [rom the air, it planes were smashed on ground. liabl raids of the war yesterday on was "Battle of Britain." said, continued "some f 0 u r He estimated that at least 10 more OC(IIpied France and Holland. The minesweepers of the air months, after which it became no Nazi craft were damaged in the aIr were equipped with a "hoop- longer necessary, the (surface) Open New Offensive - thus bringing the enemy's pos­ The heaviesl attack was deliv­ shaped caSing ext end I n gaL 1 ships having been fitted with de­ In Voronezh Sector sible lossea to as high as 44 plnnes. ered by Flying Fortresses which around them and secured to their gaussing gear," which nulliCied the The axis pilots, !lyin, Messer­ bored through swarms of German nose, wings and taiL" The cas- . magnetic mines. Of Upper Don River schmitt 109's, apparently were n"ters to register many direct under instructions to get the mJ. LONDON (AP)-The Red army Fortresses at aU costs. Avoiding hits on Industrial plant~ al Lille. tanning out in the Caucasus has the American fighter escort, they E. • • • captured 12 more settlements, swooped upon lhe big bombersJlnd (oal·Strikers , Refuse 10 Relurn were met by terrl1ic blasts from 'I'bree Fortres~es were mlssin&, Moscow reported last night, and a Irtm tbe Lllle attack and two the cannon of the raiders. Enemy IAf f1abtel'5 failed to return 'German bl'oadca t said the Rus- plane after plane plummeted out IrtaI Holland. Three enemy To Work , Despite ·WLB ' O~der sians had begun a new offensive in of action but every Fortress, de­ pia_ were shot down. the Voronezh area of the upper spite the Germans' concentrated effort, reached home safely, al­ • ~ * Don l'iver 300 miles northwest of The Flying Fortresses and the though one limped in two hours To Await Government Stolingrsd. late on two motors. JAF's newest and :fastest lighl The midnight Soviet communi­ , bombers shuttled across 'the chan­ (At the eastern end of the al· Federal Grand Jury Action on Proceedings que heard here by the Soviet nel from noon until late afternoon lied lin_In Libya-the British Of Anthracite Miners Monilor did not mention the Vor­ command announced comple­ to pute these targets: onezh sector, but said the Red Uh&-HI(lh altituc;le attacks by Returns 6 Indictments mentary all' blows in which five WILKES-BARRE, Pa. {AP)­ army stm was rolling northy.rest­ enemy li,htel'5 were destroyed the Fortresses on Nazi controlled ward along the Mlneralnye Vody­ indUlipial plants and railways Ten Persons Charged Saying they \vl!re content to "let in combat; TripoU and 00l1li in lhe government make the next Rostov rililway in the central Cau- Libya and tarretl in Cilte. wm succt/lSlul. It wns the third casu. hta9j1 rai~ on Lllle. and the 17th I With Extortion, Theft, move," union £epresentatlves ,of 10 Sicily and 011 Lampeclul& tJlaocl of tlie'l locafs. involved in a wfld­ N~vosel~aya, Svobodny, Sab­ were suooesstully attacked • • In ~lng nttack there sinCe it WII~ Bribery and Fraod linslmyn, Grescheskaya, and Novo­ eaplured by the Nazis in 1040. cllt strike of l!l,boo anthractic aU these operations two -.l1Ied miners reported ;It n special meet­ blngo-Darnnya were among the planeB were l08t. • iI ~ WASHINGTON (AP) - A L- lng Jast night that their memb,r­ towns declared regained by the (The British communique spoke 51. Olller-RAF ,Boston bomb· Red army which is spread out til scored many hits on the torney General Biddle announced ship nad decided to continue the only of patrol action aground jn yesterday that a Cederal grand walkout. along a lOO-mile fl'ont on either Libya, but front-line dispatchea Genilan·occupled airfield. side of the railway. ,tbbevllle - Vela V e n t u r e jury at Harrisburg, Pa., has re- Of the other six locals, two voted indicated that the British Eighth Drive on Roswv • armY was increasing its pressure belibel'll with an escort bombed lurned six indictmellts which name to return work, two were un- AtE I FI ( t) Ith III I It. j I I L A I h t classified tobecause of not havtng c or rro ynn cen er con t ers w awyers as Ie goes 0 ,r a n os nre es on c arges 0 r a· The Russians now were believed Ibe airfield from -. low level. on Rommel.) 10 pel'sons and charge conspiracy held meeUng , and two were not lacklnlr two 'teen-ared girls, Bett1 · Uan8~ {lower left) and Percy Satterlee (right), both seell as they to have reached a point only 210 Aside from the Castel Benito Ilt­ represented. appeared in court. Y.esterday 12 jurors, ellht or them parentR, were chosen to hear the ca e of the swa h- miles southeast of Rostov in the Northern France - Mosquitoes to defraud, bl'ibt,ry, extortion and tack, allied headquarters an­ theft in connection with building Reporting that his local, Balti- ~c_k_U_n_Ir_H_o_lIywood star. • -,II drive [rom the Caucasus moun­ nounced that British planes had bombed railway centers Irom low * * tains. level and engine sheds and repair of a naval supply depot at Mechan- more No. 5 of the Delaware and ! . --------~---------- been bombing the roads behind To the north along the Don river the axis positions in Tunisia and Ihops were hjt. the Russian" were still meeting Hoiland - Transportation and that American craIt had assaulted ics~~:g:U~:~ed crimes were rela- ~aun~~~~a!:b:~7~~~:r~:: ~~~~ Pouring Rain Slows 'Errol FIyn nr S French Industrialist stern German resistance and re­ bridges Petween Sousse and Siax fUn pOsitions were blasted. peated Nazi counterattacks. on the Tunisian east coasts. Fighter pilots who were out dur­ The Russians did not claim any ing the day included American, !~ieSm:~:~i~:: :~C:::~o~~ i~; "FoW' ~:dr~~I~en~~ my local New Guinea Fighting L '. (I. Arrested for Trading Two German planes were shot material gains in the Don river down in an attempted attack on Brltl~h, Canadian, New Zealand, thefts of property va lued at less have voted to abide by the deei- awyer alms W·th E · Af· area and the communique said: an allied airfield; allied losses in Australian, Belgian, Norwegian, than $50. Allied Airmen Raid I 'The Germans concentrated a PoUsh Dnd Fighting French. !~O~ ~e~:e;v~~' ;~~°1n~~~~i ~~~ nemy In nca all these actions were but i). si ngle Inqujry Uamstrunc considerable tank and infantry plane. gion and the United Mine Workers, Four Japanese Bases 'A 1'' I " t Corce on a narrow sector with the It was in connection with this I defy any of YOU to stop us from Cor nnocen WASHINGTON (AP) --Charles Morrison to Head investigation that United States going back.