Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 26, 1943, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition Winnipeg free press 16 pages Sun rises 0.11. Sun sets. 18.11 Moon rises 23.55. Moon sets n.34. Winnipeg tuesday january 26, 1943. Strike settlement reached steel workers for return to Sault Ste. Marie out., Jan. 26. Steeh workers of the United steelworkers Union of _ including i of living Bonus at a mass meeting this afternoon accepted the Union s suggestion that the results of the vote Here and at Sydney n.s., be pooled. Workers at Sydney had voted to return to work. On this basis the total vote at the Sault and Sydney plants was to in favor of accepting the settlement and going Back on the Job. The Sault vote was to against returning. The Sydney vote was to 734 in favor. The workers at Sydney voted on a ballot which carried the Reserva Tion that the strike could be resumed alter 30 Days if the Union s demands Are not met by negotiations. Urf cd to return during the present bitter cold spell Manitoba s gunners at Shilo Camp Are facing the blasts of Winter As they carry on with their full programme of combat training keeping up Canada s reputation for producing the finest cold weather artillerymen in the British Commonwealth. Top this mechanized artillery unit is in route to Range seize Africa town London Jan. 26. Pressing re endlessly Westward from Tripoli a Pursuit of. Marshal Rommel s orces a Vanguard of the British Ith army has occupied the Small coastal town of Zamia about 3d Miles West of Tripoli while a fight no French column from the african Interior has reached Tripoli to join he approaching Battle for Tunisia. British spokesmen emphasized hat the communique announcing he occupation Zamia placed the advanced elements of Gen. Sir Bernard Mongomery s pursuing army still More than 60 Miles from he tunisian Frontier toward which Rommel s troops were racing under fierce air attack. The fighting French of . Facques Leclerc announced they and reached Tripoli to join their British allies after a Irive Over the desert from the Lake Chad Region of equatorial Africa. Bad weather restricted activity on the tunisian front both on the ground and in the air. The Allied Headquarters communique reported briefly that our forces continued to operate toward the North in the Ouss Eltia indicating that allies were maintaining pres sure in this Region where a recen German thrust has been halted. Reports from Rome radio Rome said today that Axis reconnaissance planes had Dis covered Large scale american troop movements in lower Tunisia Indi at . Mark Clark army was about to thus toward gabes to Cut off the re afrika Korps. Gabes is 100 airline Miles from e tunisian Border and above the French built Ivi Areth line which the bulk of the afrika Korps Rem Nants was believed to have reached. Practice. Centre warmly Clad these artillerymen have dug their 25-Pounder gun into the deep Snow for camouflage during the prac Tice. Bottom these sled mounted Dummy tank targets towed behind a heavy truck will be riddled with shells by anti tank gunners lying in concealment on the wintry artillery grounds. Tough Shilo soldiers defy Winter Rigours across Manitoba Plains where covered wagons rolled ponderously in their Lay student soldiers of the Canadian army Are speeding today with Meehan be d equipment against Odds of time and the elements to completion of their Battle training. Blazing new trails daily across wind swept Prairies motor carrying men to the ranges at Shilo Camp break roadways through russians Cut Down might of germans Moscow. Jan. 26. Military quarters today estimated that More than 40 per cent of Axis effective on the Eastern front had been knocked out or badly smashed in the to months soviet Winter offensive which today rolled for the Sault Union local 2251, to Day received a wire from c. H Millard National director from Toronto urging the men to go backs to work on the basis of the Settle ment plan. Tali Ojard s wire stated i firmly believe that the machinery now provided by the government should be utilized without further delay and a fair trial should be Given to this method of achieving a final before this afternoon s meeting Here a Union official said he thought the Adverse vote Here yesterday resulted from Lack of in formation about the feeling of the men at Sydney. Our men thought that the Sydney workers were going to vote to stay on he said. It was not until after noon yesterday that we Learned that the Sydney executive which recommended saturday that the terms be rejected had reversed its decision and recommended decision reached the decision was reached at a meeting attended by about 1.200 of the Union s members Here. They filled the theatre in which the meeting was held while hundreds More stood in the streets. The Resolution providing for the pooling of the Sault and Sydney votes on the settlement terms was passed by a standing vote. Proposed from the floor it provided that the Union would strike again within 30 Days if there is no action from the government in that time implementing the the agreement. An official of the company said the return to work would probably come on the 7 . Shift tomorrow. Flan another meet talks by allies stir excitement in London London Jan. 26. Newspapers anticipating an important announcement on United nations strategy and policy displayed such head lines As these Over despatches from their Washington and York correspondents biggest talks of War United states awaits news on tiptoe momentous decisions by allies Gran strategy in 1943 United states expects Marseilles citizens Battle nazi tanks London Jan. 26. Army mass ing tanks Field guns and infantry against frenchmen defending their barricaded Homes in the old Harbor District of Marseilles were reported today to have threatened to devastate the entire news to stir world. Two news papers published editorials on the general War situation. The United nations Are waging at least four wars which in no sense Are subject to common strategic the news chronicle a present Day army unit. Considered one of the Ward toward kursk Kharkov and Rostov with apparently greater momentum. The estimate was accompanied temperature readings Low of luring the night. High yesterday High Jan. 26, 1943. Commando raid very successful London Jan. 2g. Commando forces have made a very successful raid on the norwegian coast it was said authoritatively to Day. Berlin reported yesterday that seven British motor torpedo boats attempted to penetrate norwegian coastal Waters sunday night near Larvik 70 Miles South of Oslo on the Oslo fjord. This meant that the British had penetrated the heavily mined and heavily defended Skagerrak be tween Norway and Denmark. Ber Lin claimed two of the torpedo boats had been sunk. Informants said Here that Small combined operations or commando raids were being carried out con stantly. The germans they said repeatedly sought information on such operations by broadcasting misleading reports them and that combined operations Headquarters had no intention of helping them by issuing communiques or otherwise giving details. At last at last better weather h you feel warmer by turning the other Way when you pass a thermometer Okay but All the Weatherman would say by word from diplomatic quarters of a dramatic improvement in Allied Supply deliveries along the German plane and submarine infested routes to the russian Arctic ports. These quarters said that losses from British and american con Voys to the soviet had been reduced sharply by better Protection in contrast to the very heavy losses of a few months ago. A Large american Convoy it was revealed arrived in Russia recently without the loss of a ship. The growing Allied control of he Northern Supply route was emphasized by a soviet report that russian dive bombers and torpedo planes Hod smashed an important German naval Convoy in the Barents sea sinking nine transports and a patrol ship with total capacity of tons. The red army units struck mercilessly today at disorganized Des Perate groups of germans and other Axis forces on the Voronezh front wiping out those who re fused to surrender. Hurled from Voronezh a special communique had a ported the taking of Voronezh on he Rostov Moscow Railroad with the capture of prisoners to dring the total on that front to . Philip Golikov crowned a two week Campaign by ranges in the Empire the Shilo Plains afford ample Opportunity for testing men and machines. Best acquainted warmly Clad student officers Are among those Best acquainted with the Rigours of the Shilo climate for it is to these men soon to become leaders in Canada s army that some of the most strenuous train ing is Given. Melton cloth Caps with ear flaps Down give the men adequate Protection As they prac Tice Battle manoeuvres. Adequate Protection for army vehicles is an essential for Winter Winnipeg Blitz entered its 12th Day tuesday. Leg s sub Zero he did not expect it would by quite so cold Toight Jed wednesday. Even so the Mercury hit a Low tuesday morning. Moder Aie to fresh winds Are forecast for Manitoba. Blitz is the City s longest continuous cold spell since Janu 1d3s. But Only two "3 s of the present Blitz have expected the lows on corresponding a s in the previous period. They " we Jan. 20. When the Low was As compared with on 29, 193g. And monday when Jow of the 1936 cold spell were Given officially As follows. The lows for the present cold spell which started Jan. 15. Are Given in Brack ets after the 1936 Jan. 4. 1936. In Jan 5-2.1 Low was As compared -19 on Jan. 25. 1936. The Low Day of the present cold to Date Jan. 20. Beat the Low of the 1d30 spell in frigidity a degrees. The 193q spell is tech for 49 with eight Days of tempera below four of them ans consecutive Jan. 20 to 23. Jan. 6, Jan. J 11 9. -2 Jan. 10 Jan. 1 Waii. Of -15 Jan. 12, -13 Jan. 13, an. 14. -17 Jan. 15. -32 to 1943, Jan. 16. -29 -20.6 7. _37 Jan 18 -08 Jan. 1 Jan. 20. 19. _39 Jan. 21. Jan. 22. -41 Jan Jan. 24. Jan. 25. -19 Jan -24 27. -25 Jan. 2o -18 Jan. 29. -24 Jan. 30 Jan. 31. -19 feb. 1. -30 feb. 2 weather continued on Page 8, column finest deep drifted Snow with ease and Speed. Four wheel drive jeeps carrying company commanders usually break the Trail and Are Fol Lowed by a succession of vehicles bringing up the variety of equip ment essential to the operation of meanwhile at the Trenton. N.s., subsidiaries of the Dominion steel and Coal corporation strikers planned Naother mass meeting Fol lowing sunday s decision to remain on strike until the Trenton Indus tries and recognized As the workers placed in the same category As those at Sydney and Sault Ste. Marie. The strike involved men at Sydney at the Sault and at Trenton n.s., subsidiaries of Dosco. Immediately Sydney workers had called a halt to Nova Scotia s great est steel strike in years Union offi cers made preparations for getting them Back to the Plant without delay. Five hours after the vote ended the first returning workers were reporting for the 11 . Shift. However it will be at least a week before the Plant hits full production again. The men have been on strike since Jan. 12 for higher pay training and sheepskin lined Issue Coats of heavy to vehicle Drivers who May be required to spend considerable time without Opportunity for warm up exercise is another indication of the army s regard for detail. Allied services lauded by Hartle Belfast Jan. 26. Tribute to the British and Amer ican navies and air forces today . Russell p. Hartle who commanded the first american forces in the British Isles said he did not believe Germany s a boats can Knock out the Bridge across which Are pouring hordes of men and sinews of War to fight the Axis. Hartle spoke at ceremonies commemorating the first anniversary of the Landing of american troops in North Ireland. President Roosevelt in a Mes Sage to the troops said the Road the capture of throwing the germans Back beyond very the Don River to the West of it. It was indicated that already Large Berlin is Long and hard but it forces of Golikov s army were mov ing Westward along the Voronezh kursk Railroad to join others who had penetrated the kursk administrative area less than 60 Miles from the City in a direct attack on one of the big German Anchor Points. Col Gen. N. F. Vatu in s South Western army adjoining Golikov s on the South had increased the Prospect of a direct attack on Kharkov by cleaning up a series of towns and villages East of the eyelets Rostov Railroad. At the Southern end of a 4ao-mile offensive front the Southern and North caucasus red armies pressed steadily on the great Railroad junctions of Tik Horetsky and Kro Potym planning to trap the entire 180.000 speak no longer of defence we thing of unrelenting smashing our troops have chafed at inaction they will get troops below Rostov. They arc within 60 Miles of each other Stalin in an order of the Day. Said 102 Axis divisions had been smashed and routed in two months of the russian Winter offensive that 20u. 000 prisoners and guns had been captured that the russians had advanced As much As 250 Miles. Tilings 12 the president said. We the strike at the Dosco Plant has resulted to Date in a loss of tons of steel. Women also return Sydney n.s., Jan. 2g. Up women steelworkers. Filling men s shoes in hundreds of jobs at the Dominion steel and Coal company s Plant Here lined up alongside the men in the strike which started Jan. 12 and ended last night. It was probably the first time in Canada that women workers had taken part in a steel Plant strike. All the 300 of members of the United steelworkers of America. Cargo a boats Jan. 26. Informants said last night that Ger Many is building a Fleet of the world s largest submarines As cargo carriers in an Effort to establish shipping Contact with Japan and obtain raw materials from the far East. The first six displacing tons will be completed within a few months these sources said. May Transfer food control by b. T. Richardson Ottawa out Jan. 26. Special Transfer of food control with the exception of actual Price control and consumer rationing measures to the department of agriculture is under serious consideration at the present time and expectations Are growing that the change will be made shortly. The effect will be to remove All authority Over food and farm production from the wartime prices Anc Trade Board clarifying issues o jurisdiction that have caused Fric Tion. The department of agriculture if current proposals Are accepted by the government would have undisputed control of production plans and would work through the provincial departments. The question of what prices Are paid by the Consumers would re main under the wartime prices and Rade Board. But All production measures including the payment of subsidies necessary to obtain food supplies required by the Canadian people to fill the British contracts Birrd to support Canadian armed forces overseas would be under the department of agriculture. One source indicated that 90 per cent of he trouble about rationing Price control and food production might be due to overlapping jurisdiction. Army to be fully reported London Jan. 26 up Canadian people will be assured of he most prompt and extensive re ports of their army when it goes into action Joseph w. G. Clark of Ottawa chief of information armed forces department of National de Fence said today upon his arrival n London. The country s intense interest in the Dieppe raid was Clear Indica Tion of the importance of taking every possible step to get news of activities of our forces Back to the people at he said. The same thing is True of men serving in the Navy and the Public relations staffs and their equipment must naturally be in creased to meet the increase in action against the enemy transmission of news must be guaranteed even under great difficulties and All possible eventualities must be anticipated. This now is being Clark will be in Britain for some weeks discussing Public relations the chiefs of All three services he said the policy of appointing experienced newspaper end radio men to Public relations duties will be continued. Norse flier killed new series is based on Hitler s women what is happening to the women of the nazi overrun countries what is their lot under the nazi tyranny driven from their Homes these unfortunate creatures Are being As signed loathsome duties As spies and labourers of the German army. The whole system is described in detail in a new and exclusive series of articles. Hitler s women by Charlotte Paul which begins wednesday afternoon in the free press. Through authentic reports smuggled out of Europe via Neutral sources miss Paul recounts for the area unless resistance ceased. The residents were battling nazi attempts to uproot and move them elsewhere. Vichy disclosed that t had imposed martial Law in the District to id the germans and said that evacuated persons who returned or others classed As would the liable to the death penalty by French court martial. Fighting French Headquarters heard that fighting had been go ing on since yesterday morning and that Many frenchmen and women had been killed. The fighting French expressed fear thai loss of life in the old crowded District might be appalling. Despatches from Switzerland Anc other Points bordering France said fighting started when German troops led by agents of the Ges Tapo the nazi secret police Anc Vichy police sought forcibly to remove All residents normally from the Harbor area. At once residents started to barricade streets and fortify houses despatches said and snipers opened fire from rooftops and windows. Resistance became so serious despatches said that the germans called for tanks Field artillery and infantry reinforcements. Despatches reporter that Many houses were under siege and there were reports also that isolated Par ties of German infantrymen and Gestapo agents were themselves under siege in some sections. Reliable informants in Madrid re ported that the greatest strike since the War started had broken of in the six Luxembourg steel and and Iron works which have been of enormous value to German War Industry. It was said that workers struck suddenly saturday morning and left the factories. The germans impressed others into service but the substitutes sat Down before their machines in a sit Down strike. Hundreds of workers were arrested Madrid said but. The strike continued despite German attempts to convince the factory men and women to return. The strike aside from the hatred of Luxom burgers for their Ger Man oppressors was due to anger Over All their production going to Germany to longer working hours imposed on them and to orders compelling them to speak German. The nazi radio said persons evacuated were being taken to a French army Camp at Frejus. 70 Miles East of Marseilles on the Mediterranean coast. Liberal party Organ said. The vast resources of the allies can Only be brought to Bear with full effective in terms of a fully concerted plan individual interests must be subordinated to the supreme in Terest of winning the War As rapidly As formation of anything like a supreme War Council would be warmly welcomed by Allied said the conservative daily mail. To have always to Cen the View that Complete Unity can bomb English towns London. Jar. 26. Raiders coasted in across the South East Shore of England with the Ris ing Sun behind them and bombed at least two towns today killing two women in one town and injuring three persons in an adjacent Village. A special broadcast on the world wide news announcement to be made tonight will be carried at 9 o clock this evening Over station Curc. It is certain that reference will also be made to it during Csc s National news summary carried at the same time Over sky. London Jan. 26. House of commons went into secret session late today on the motion of foreign Secretary Eden and it was considered pos sible that it was to receive a statement concerning the reports of Allied strategy negotiations. Not be achieved until such a body has been set up. However there is much to be done yet and co Ordin ated policy would be but the first step toward doing Axis radio stations continued broadcasting reports that prime minister Winston Churchill had left London to Confer with president Roosevelt and today s voc Klischer Beo Zachter official newspaper of the nazi party quoted by the Berlin radio said that the meeting was a sign of British embarrassment. The newspaper suggested that announcement continued on Page 8, column 3 Ottawa tense awaiting news by b. T. Richardson Ottawa Jan. 26. Ports from other capitals that in developments in United military and political portent nations strategy Are imminent have their counterpart in Ottawa where an air of tense expectancy exists. Observers noted that Kenneth Stuart Canadian chief of general staff had flown to England. This might mean that important decisions affecting the role of the Canadian overseas army in military plans were pending., the belief that the overseas army will be assigned an important sector in an offensive against Ger Man held Europe is firmly held Here. There a wide expectation that such an offensive will Start in 1943. The Canadian overseas army unlike the Canadian corps of the last War is much More than a Force its role is believed determined of Shock troops to have been general Way. But general Stuart s trip May provide further consultations. The custom is not to Issue information regarding trips of the chief of staff to Britain. Toronto Jan. 26. Plane crashed killing its Pilot but six other planes of the same flight were guided by radio to Safe landings when a Squadron of seven planes of the Royal norwegian air Force became lost in dense visibility Sun crashed plane apparently beet growers to get higher Price sugar beet growers of Manitoba will get a Price increase of si.25 per ton on their 1943 crop Herbert sulkers president of the sugar beet growers association of the province announced tuesday at the annual meeting of the association in Day. The Ole Bacher. First time the suffering experienced by women under the nazi regime she tells of a Europe where every nazi Soldier is privileged to pos sess in addition to his wife in Ger Many a second honorary wife i wherever he is stationed. In Short she describes a Europe where women Are degraded to the status of animals. This is your Opportunity to be come acquainted at first hand with the Fate of the women of nazi occupied Europe. Every instalment of this new series Hitler s women conclusion is a revelation. strayed from formation and went Down near Norval in Halton county 30 Miles West of Toronto and burst into flames. The Pilot who lost his life was sgt. German rumours London. Jan. 26. German radio reported that it was hinted today in the Wilhel Strasse that prime minister Winston Churchill might go to Moscow after of his Washington the legislative building. The Dominion has agreed to re Duce the excise tax on sugar by a half cent a Pound and the benefits of the reduction will be passed on by the beet sugar company to the producers thereby raising the Price paid for the crop by s1.25 per ton said or. Sulkers. Representatives of the sugar beet areas of Manitoba have been granted permission to go to japanese Camps in the British Columbia Interior to recruit japanese families As volunteers to work in the Mani Toba sugar beet Fields. The Domin Ion government will pay the expenses of the travelling representatives and also of the japanese who accept offers to work in Manitoba. Cornelius Byle of Middle Church Secretary treasurer the Manitoba sugar beet growers association re ported that the Canadian sugar beet producers association Vas formed last week with Philip of Raymond alta., president c. H. Wilson of Chatham ont., vice president and or. Sulkers of the Manitoba association second vice president. The meeting tuesday afternoon addressed by Premier Stuart Gar son Hon. Douglas Campbell. Istir of agriculture col g. Hairold Aikins. President of the Manitoba beet sugar company and Philip. Baker who also is president of the Alberta beet growers association ;