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Is Tho Weather Continued cold. Complete forecart (or Inwa and aurroundlng iuui ea ptgt 1. War Savings Stamps Are Liberty's Lamps! 0 'jjl WITH FIRST II NEWS ESTABLISHED 1854 TRICE THREE CENTS FOURTEEN PACES WATERLOO, IOWA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1943 v. Happy When They Joined Cruiser 1 111 i 1 ii OPA Freezes Corn Prices i fx? tw. BROTHERS ON Si JUNEAU LIS! HDV.

14 ACTS TO HALT RETREAT- I 0 Tales of Heroism Bared by Report of Hornet's Sinking (Tin United Pros war correspondent who wrote the following dispatch has been compelled by reason of military jrrurlly enforced by naval cenuomhip, to tupprem one of the best atorles of the Pacific war nince Oct. 28. On that date, he witnessed the death of the aircraft carrier Hornet, and now, with official permisaion, deacribea U.I By CHARLES F. ARNOT Headquarters, United States Pacific Fleet, Tearl Harbor, Jan. VI.

(UP) A seaman, lying on the blistering deck of. the crippled aircraft carrier Hornet as enemy planes shrieked down, RUSSIAN IRA Solomons Area Battle Cas ualty Lists Include Water- loo Quintet, 20 to 25. CASH MARKETS tried to climb off his stretcher "to have another shot at the Japs." German Withdrawal from Wickard Approves Action by One of his legs had been shattered, the other broken. A man with a broken back' tried to refuse a surgeon's care so his buddy could be treated first. Four men ran to throw a blazing, bone-scaring incendiary bomb off the deck.

Men rammed powder into almost red hot guns with their bare hands when the automatic controls Mere knocked out. Those are a few of the scores of incidents that made American heroes and American history when the 11 United States warships, Some Sectors Close to Becoming Rout. REDS DRIVING TOWARD Byrnes, Director of Stabilization. CEILING IS HIGH LEVEL I Cr-JAi Lli I ARMAVIR, VOROSHILOVSK PREVAILING ON MONDAY DISPATCHES SAY SHIP "EXPLODED, SANK FAST'! Br J. t.

(DIXIE) SMITH Courier Stall Writer Waterloo's five fighting Sullivan brothers Tuesday were officially listed by thj U. S. navy department as "missing in action" after sinking of the cruiser Juneau during sea battles in the Solomon island area during November. Sons of Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas F. Sullivan, 98 Adams street, the five boys. 20 to 29 years old. had enlisted In the naval service here Dec. 28, 1941.

Thev boarded the U.S.S. Juneau, whose names were made public Tuesday, were sunk in the South Pacific last fall, all fighting to the Moscow (UP) Red army Washington 1). (AP)- These were happy days for the five Sullivan brothers. of Waterloo, shown above Just after they had been placed in the crew of the cruiser Juneau hen it i commissioned last February. Left to they are Joseph, Francis, Albert, Madison and George.

They are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan. 98 Adams street.

The Juneau was sunk last Nov. It In a Solomons battle, and the five Sullivans were officially reported missing Tuesday. last. troops drove from two direc The office of price aclministra I was with the fleet. I saw the tions Tuesday on Armavir and tion Tuesday froze corn prices hit that crippled the Hornet, and Voroshilovsk, German defense OPA Extends Dates of Tire Inspections heard at first hand the stories of on all exchanges and in every officers and men in all four en points northwest of Georgicvsk, cash and local market over thi rnnntrv.

cenerally at the high gagements concerned. and front dispatches reported the axis retreat was becoming Get 4 Zeros in Solomons est levels at which sales were Japan paid a price for those ships which her navy should never forget. The score was: a rout in some sectors of the Cau made Monday. The action is designed to halt fur casus. new $13,000,000 cruiser, at iu Hornet Sunk in the battle of commissioning in Brooklyn, N.

l. ther sharp advances in the price of corn, previously uncontrolled at Maj. Gen. Ivan Krichenko's Cossacks raced 13 miles up the Caucasus railroad from the town of Santa Cruz Oct. 26.

Japan paid in mid-February last year all five with a large aircraft carrier dam Washineton D. (UP)-U with the same ship at their own insisteiicc. aged and probably sunk and two S. nlancs in an air battle in the cruisers and three destroyers dam Washington, D. INS) The office of price administration acted Tuesday to minimize public inconvenience in connection with the tire inspection program, giving holders of gasoline ration cards until the end of March for their initial tire checks.

Originally the deadline for the first examination was Jan. 31 tor Solomons shot down tour Japa aged by the Hornet's planes. all levels of distribution. It was taken upon Instructions from Stabilization Director James F. Bvrnes, and was approved by Secretary of Agriculture Wickard, the announcement said.

nrir ceilinas were cstab Cruisers Atlanta nnd Juneau, de Mineralnye Vody during the night. They were within 100 miles of Armavir a strategic town on the railroad and on the Rostov-Mak-ach Kala oil line hich parallels It. Voroshilovsk. the other German stroyers Laffey, Cushing, Monsscn mm of: nese Zero fighters bringing en cmy aircraft losses in the Solo mons campaign to 680, the navj announced Tuesday. and Barton Japan paid with one battleship, three heavy and tw 1 light cruisers and five destroye lished by means of a temporary The action took place Monaay island time) between Santa Isabel sunk.

point immediately threatened, is 42 60-day freeze regulation, enecuvc Destroyers Preston, Walker and all passenger car owners. OPA extended the deadline for motorists with and supplementary gasoline ration books until the end of February. miles east of Armavir. nH Npui Georcia islands northwest Benham Japan paid with one bat Prices of corn futures contracts tleship, three large cruisers and of Guadalcanal when 12 Zeros at tLoH a force of Douclas Daunt Other soviet forces were driving down from the Kalmyk steppes and and prices for casn corn in u.e rash markets were one destroyer sunk. less dive bombers escorted by Grunv had advanced to Konstantinovskaya, At the same time OPA announced Cruiser Northampton Japan paid On "Missing" List.

To be carried on the navy's "missing' list until evidence of their trua fate has been uncovered, the five brothers included: George Thomas, 29, gunner's mate, second class. I ranris Henry, 2fl. coxswain. Josrph Eugene. 23, seaman, second Class.

Madison Abel, 22, seaman, second class. Albert Leo, 20, seaman, aecond class. Of the five, only one, Albert, was married. He is the father of a 21-month-old son, Jimmy, now with his mother and grandparents at 93 Adams. The navy department's telegram of condolence to the parents Tuesday gave no details of the Juneau's loss, listed as of Nov.

14. Admiral Sends Message. Sent by Rear Admiral Randall frozen at the highest level of man Wildcat fiehters. 34 miles northeast of Voroshilovsk. with nine shins which tried to land nrices rjrevailing Monaay.

that subsequent examinations will be less frequent, since inspections Tn addition In the four Zeros shot men and supplies on Guadalcanal down, two others were "possibly island. so far have disclosed that a larger proportion of car owners already These two columns threatened to cut off the enemy troops retreating from the Georgievsk-Mineralnye Vody-Pyatigorsk region captured destroyed, the navy said. In most instances, these highs were reached Monday. Com prices at the small local frmen at the hifih- One Wildcat fighter failed to re are taking care of their tires than Japan lost at least 25 warships, possibly a big carrier and at least 133 planes for our 11 ships and an unspecified number of planes. turn.

a forre of fichter escorted Mar est level of prices in the period ever, before. After the initial inspection, "A' Monday by the Russians. "Serious" Dietmar Says. in medium bombers attacked Japa Jan. 8-12.

In most instances u. The ships which wc sank carried (Axis sources refused to admit nese nositions at Munda on New highs were reached Monaay. Plan Permanent Regulation book holders will be required fo have their tires examined only once in each six month period, to their deaths thousands of Japa the loss of the Georgicvsk railroad center. Georgia the same day, the navy said, but clouds prevented accurate nese troops and seamen. The ac against the former requirement of tions staved off two big attempts bombing and made observation oi Within the next 60 days.

OPA said, it will issue a permanent price regulation on corn, which (Radio Vichy said German reports asserted that "particularly violent" to recapture Guadalcanal. results difficult. From a battleship which alone shot down 32 planes I watched the once every four months. Inspections for book holders will be once in every four months, and for book holders once in every three months. will continue tne leveis onrl will be based Records of the five Sullivan boys from the very beginning of their service in the United States navy are recorded In this scrap book, which Is being held by their mothor, Mrs.

Thomas F. Sullivan, at their home. 98 Adams street. Standing with her is Genevieve, 25, sister of the Sullivan boys and Mrs. Sullivan's only remaining child.

The last entry, which Mrs. Sullivan has not yet pasted in the scrap book, Is a telegram informing Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan that their five sons ara all missing In action. Allied Bombers battle of Santa Cruz Oct.

26 in on $1 a bushel for No. 2 yellow which the Hornet was the victim of a mad aerial attack. Blast at Naples, Formerly the schedule called for Our destroyers sank the Hornet examination of cars in these cate after tjvo Japanese attacks had rid gories once every two months dled her with bombs. Axis Supply Port tV. 'S.

Tax Revenue From my observation post I saw The OPA also extended to the fighting was in progress near Georgievsk and Pyatigorsk. (Gen. Kurt Dietmar, one of Germany's leading military critics, admitted in a Berlin broadcast, however, that the Russians had broken thru axis lines on the southern front and that the situation had become serious. Russian offensive has made no Inconsiderable penetrations," he said. "There Is need for more German troops in Front reports said the Georgievsk area was taken only after carticu- the Japanese planes shriek down.

end of February the deadline for in Iowa Doubled T.ondon (U.R Allied bombers Webb Dies of Heart Attack initial inspections by motorists who maintainins a thunderine. two- The Hornet had tent out its plane to bomb a Japanese task force 100-odd miles to the north. High naval personnel officials at Washington, D. told the Courier by long distance telephone Tuesday noon: "Loss of the five Sullivan brothers ranks as the greatest single blow suffered by any one family since Pearl Harbor and, probably. In American naval history.

"In peacetime, the navy has allowed brothers to serve together but in wartime It has been navy policy to separate members of the same family. "Presence of the five Sullivan aboard the U.S.S. Juneau was at the insistence of the brothers themselves and in contradiction to the repeated recommendations of the ship's executive officer. "Serving together had been one condition of their enlistment' hold bulk coupons and also by way air offensive against the axis Des Moines (INS) Iowa internal revenue collections in 1942 more operators of fleets of vehicles. the Mediterranean, strucK again Nanles.

one' of the crincipal Thereafter they will be re than doubled the figure of 1941 E. Chicago U.R William J. (Billy) quired to have their tires inspected once every three months. ports from which supplies and re-inforcements are shipped to the Germans and Italians in Tunisia, in daylight Monday, it was announced They heavily damaged at least two cruisers and three destroyers in addition to planting four to six 1,000 pound bombs on a new aircraft carrier of the Zuikaku class, 17,000 tons or larger. It was a raging furnace when they Webb, veteran coach of the Chicago' White Sox, died of a heart attack Tuesday while en route to work at Comiskey park.

Paul M. O'Leary. deputy administrator In charge of rationing, appealed to drivers not to wait for deadlines, "The sooner you go to an official larly heavy fighting along the rail lines leading to the junction. The newspaper Pravda said the Russians attacked all the centers of Webb was an executive in the The bombers were b-eiievea to ave included American Flying left it Comiskey organization. Fortresses snd Liberators.

resistance from various directions But the Japanese were sending He was strlcxen his automo- OPA inspection station, the better," he said. and surrounded them. wave upon wave dive bombers mobile a short distancev from thj park. Rpfore takinc Georeievsk. Miner Jacobs, chief of naval personnel at Arlineton.

the message read: and torpedo planes against the Hornet and its escort. "If you need a recap, the inspec Webb was 46. He had been con alnye Vody, Pyatigorsk, Zhelezno- H. Birmingham, collector for the state, said Tuesday, He reported revenue from the various sources contributing to federal government reached during the 1942 calendar year. That compared with 99 in 1941, he said.

Largest single source of revenue was the individual income tax, which leaped from $9,380,417.10 in 1941 to $31,657,443.63 in 1942. Corporation income tax moved from $11,470,092.11 in 1941. when it had been the largest single revenue source, to $19,637,197.27 in 1942. Federal insurance contributions were listed as $7,851,217.55 in 1942, up from 1941's $6,987,942.50. Dean of Women from A Messerschmitt 109, one of Germany's best fighting planes, was shot down as it tried to intercept.

Fighters and bombers of the Middle Eastern command also blasted axis bases and transport in Tunisia. American fighter planes and the vodsk and Kislovdsk, the major nnint surroundine the junction, the tor will recommend it and help you fill out an application to your local rationing board." nected with professional baseball as a player, manager, coach and scout since 1916. anti-aircraft guns shot down many of them, but the remainder dived on thru a hell of fire. soviet troops had to oppose the Ger During his playing days Webb mans along railroads, highways, ana Our ship was several thousand was with Duluth, Birmingham, Pittsburgh, Akron, Newark, Buffa Rommel's Army streams and drive the enemy from heights in the area. yards from the Hornet It was 9:55 a.

m. "It Is with deepest regret that the navy department confirms the report that your five gallant sons George Thomas, Francis Henry. Albert Lets Joseph Eugene and Madison Abel are missing as the result of enemy action on Nov. 14 in the service of their country and in the performance of duty. "They will be carried in the missing status pending evidence as to lo and Toronto.

Singly, in pairs, in threes and He managed clubs at Buffalo, Find Officers In Bed. The rollaose of the German ear- OK's Campaign to Replace USO, "Chest" Drives SHU Retreating London (INS) Field Marshal fours, at least 40 Japanese planes hurtled down on the Hornet, com Binghamton and Galveston before joining the White Sox organization risons came so suddenly, Pravda airi that at one Doint a soviet tank ing out of the sun thru low scat in 1935. tered clouds. Erwin Rommel has resumed his Webb was survived by his widow. unit caught four German regimental leaders in bed.

their true fate. Frances, and one son, Billy, jr. They were almost on the ship "The officer in charge of the U. S. While the Red army developed its retreat westward and now is between Eburat and Tripoli, the Morocco radio reported Tuesday, quol.

ing a Cairo dispatch. recruiting station at Des Moines, (Continued on oaee 2. column 2) corn in Chicago. In a joint statement Stabilization Director Byrnes, Secretary Wickard acd J. K.

Galbraith, OPA deputy administrator, said present prices for corn exceed 100 per cent of parity, taking into consideration the AAA payments made by the department of agriculture. "Ceiling price levels set In the temporary regulation," the statement said, "will be continued In the later permanent order. "There definitely will be no increase in the general level of corn prices." Only seed corn, pop corn, grain sorghums, sweet corn, broom corn and local-farmer-to-farmer sales of corn were exempted from price control. Agriculture department officials, who would not be quoted, said the freezing was designed to preserve a favorable ratio between the prices of corn on the one hand and hogs, cattle, milk, poultry and eggs on the other. Present ratios make it profitable to feed corn to livestock and poultry.

Prices Advancing. Officials said that corn prices nave been advancing in recent weeks, due principally to a sharp expansion in the production of hogs and poultry, and to prospects that corn and other feed reserves would be reduced considerably as a result of the consequent expansion in the demand for corn. Corn prices advanced from an average of 76 cents to 80 cents a bushel at local markets between mid-November and mid-December. It was necessary, officials said, to bring the corn price advance to a halt because livestock, dairy and poultry products are subject to government price ceilings. "If corn prices were allowed to go much higher," an official explained "the margin between feed prices and livestock prices would narrow.

"The government would have to raise ceilings on livestock, dairy and poultry products in order to maintain a favorable margin, else many farmers would become discouraged and reduce their production. "The government does not want to raise ceilings on livestock, dairy and poultry products." Applies to Futures. It was emphasized at OPA that the ceilings apply to all corn (Continued on page 2, column 4) Webb, in discharging his duties offensive toward the Armavir-Vor-oshilovsk area, two other Russian rnlumns menaced Salsk. 100 miles acting as the emissary of the navy department, has been re The axis columns were report ed being hammered constantly by southeast of Rostov and 95 miles north of Voroshilovsk. quested to convey this sad news to you personally and he reports that he has accomplished this mission.

allied planes from Libya, Malta News Feature Index Page Believe I or Not" 7 and Tunisia. finf force advanced on the city as manager of the White Sox farm clubs, frequently visited in Waterloo over the last three years while the Chicago club owned and operated the Waterloo White Hawks of the Three-I league. A former coach with the major league club, he assumed his farm club connections the same year in which Wa General Jacques Leclerc's Fight from the northeast and the other Iowa Finds Life in A A Satisfying Leavenworth, Kan. (-D First Officer Mary S. Bell of the WAACs.

ready to return to Omaha, heard an army officer's suggestion that she fly. "In an plane? How much would it cost?" Officers, she was informed, don't have to pay. "Goodie, goodie! This the way it was when I was dtan of women at Coc college in Cedar Rapids. Sympathy Extended. "The navy department extends ing French forces were reported from the east.

Both were reported continuing to advance toward Rom sincerest sympathy to you in your Brady's Health Talk 4 last within 30 miles of Salsk. mel's lines from Murzuk. great sorrow aid to the many young friends of your sons who share your, grief. Rear Admiral Randall Ja terloo became affiliated with the Comiskey organization. Washinafon, D.

UP President Roosevelt approved Tuesday a plan for two major money-raising campaigns for relief activities this year, one in the spring by the American Red Cross and the other in October for "a national war The. latter will replace the various individual campaigns for the United Service organizations, community chest and council, those of certain state war chest organizations and the drive of major foreign relief agencies. The formula for the two campaigns was presented in a report of the war relief control board of which Joseph E. Davies. former ambassador to Russia and to Belgium, is chairman.

DRIED BOONE COUNTY ECCS AID WAR EFFORT Cedar Falls News City in Brief 6 Classified Ads f. 12-13 i cobs, chief of navy personnel." In the Georgievsk area, infantry moved in fast behind Krichenko's Cossacks to mop up pocketed axi troops and collect rich war spoils. Webb was last here in September when he assisted Manager Johnny Mostil in cleaning up the club's Comics 14 Editorial 4 Breaking the news to Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan, their daughter Genevieve, 23.

and to Mrs. Al- bert Sullivan Monday, while here business affairs at the close of the season. Markets 11 Webb was a director of the Wa 6 Die in Crash of Army Plane Colorado Springs. Colo. (VP) An army plane crashed Mondav on the central Colorado plains, killing tix persons, the public relations office at Peterson field, home base of the craft announced.

Name? uf the victims were not released. terloo baseball club. Sold Right Away! This ad brought several calls and an immediata sale. American Plane Merry-Go-Round in News 4 Northeast Iowa Events Parsons' Movie Talk 10 Private Lives 4 Radio Programs 11 Sinks Submarine Cavalry, tanks, armored cars and! motorized infantry captured the key towns of an entire Caucasus railroad system, reaching from the foothills toward the Kalmyk steppes, in a day of big Rains Monday. On the Don river front the Red army pressed steadily down the Stalingrad-Tikhoretsk railroad toward the junction city of Salsk, 100 miles southeast of Rostov, and pushed westward toward Shakhty, 47 miles north of Rostov.

Take Rail Stations. All stations on the railroad system keyed at Georgievsk. 275 miles southeast of Rostov, had fallen to the Russians within the last 24 hours. Now Russians were driving (Continued on page 2, column 4) i Serial Story 7 Harvester. San Felice.

Bmenon nnw 0. Kins Edward qujli'y Cigar lot So. ladvertlwmenti London for the de on his secret mission, was Truman Jones, officer in charge of the Iowa recruiting office of the navy at Des Accompanying him here were a medical corrs lieutenant commander and a chief petty off.cer. also from the Des Moines navy office. Official confirmation from Rmp Admiral Jacobs followed hours later.

Cling to Slim Hope. At their home here, Mrs. Sullivan, 49, her daughter and Albert's w.f-j Tuesday clung to what tnry cm-sidered "slim hope" that the fives brothers would be found, safe. "All we C'fi is hope, no th mother said. "Mjyb eil ociety 6 struction uf an axis submarine in the Bay of Eiscay was given Tues Sports 9-10 day to the crew of an American FOLDING Baby Cab.

Ph. 2-217S, Call 49 'a Lafayette St. Place an ad for things you wish to dispose of and you loo will make cash sales in a huny. COURIER CLASSIFIED GIRLS rhone 7711 Theatre: Entertainment 10 Boone, la. (U.P.) Boone county eggs, in dried form, are being sent to all parts of the world.

In recent months half a million dozen eggs have been put thru the dehydrating process here and shipped in 5-ounce packages. Large quantities of them are being taken by the army, navy and lease-lend. A pound of dried eggs equals 3 dozen fresh eggs. air force Liberator bomber piloted by First Lieut. Walter Thorne of Uncle Ray's Corner 7 Marietta, O.

Fraise for accurate SAVE A LIFE IN 1943! Traffic Toll in City of Waterloo This Year and Last Since Same Jan. 1, Date, 1941 1942 Number of .13 19 Number injured 1 8 Number killed 0 0 placement of the depth charges dropped by the plane went to Uncle Wigglly 7 War Activities Directory 7 First Lieut. Irving T. Colburn, or Chicago. VVinchell on Broadway .14.