NAZIS BACKED UP BY TITO’S ARMY Yugoslav Partisans Given Strong Support By Air Arm Of The Allies LONDON. Dec. 15.—W—Supported by an Allied air arm striking with enormously increased force from Greece to western Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav partisan army under Marshal Josip Broz (Tito) broke and turned back one wing of the German offensive in Bosnia today and regained the island of Uljan in the sheltered inner approaches to the enemy’s major port of Fi ume. Tito’s communique warmly sa luted the Allied air action as hav ing helped in driving the Nazis from Uljan and in having aided in “heavily” defeating German for ces occupying the nearby coastal city of Zara. He used the term “thanks to Allied air forces ” Even more powerful Allied air attacks in his aid — raids by 300 or more American bombers and fighters on Hitlar's air bases near Athens in the greatest sucn action yet seen in the Balkans — were announced from Allied headquar ters at Algiers. Aground in Yugoslavia, the most J significant fighting was in east- 1 ern Bosnia where a minimum of . six German divisions has been on the attack for days in four sepa rate offensive thrusts. Here one German column was thrown back and the town of Kladanj was re gained by Moslef troops who went over to Tito's command in a steady recruitment which is build ing his forces well beyond the 200.000 mark. Ouster of the Nazis from the is land of Uljan — innermost of a chain of islands lying just off the Adriatic coast between Split and Fiume — w’as accompanied by indications that the German com mand was making strong efforts to seize or neutralize these poten tial menaces to their Fiume sup ply head. -V pwpiNVILLE AIR BASE IS IN ACTION (Continued from Page One) ported by Mac Arthur. While it wa! being jolted by 248 tons ol bombs, other bombers in the coordinated operations loosed their loads on Rabaul, on the north tip of New Biitain; on Cape Hoskins, on the north - central coast; on Cape Gloucester, on the southwestern coast, and on Wide bay, on the east coast direcily south from Ra baul. Westward across the V i t i a z strait from New Britain, Austra lian troops are closing in on Ka kona, Nipponese supply base on the Huon peninsula. They are clearing the enemy from the pen insula to make it secure as an area from whicn invasion of west err New Britain may be launched. -V TREASURY WANTS VICTORYTAX HELD (Continued from Page One) Colin F. Starn, chief of staff r>f the joint committee on taxa tion, objected that under that pro cedure 9,000.000 ot the present 11, 000,000 victory taxpayers would go oft the rolls. Paul rejoined that the potential $161,000,000 loss w ould be made up by other tax payers, for no net loss in revenue. He said there could be no real simplification of the tax structure without the removal of the 9,000, 100 With the vexing income tax question still to be threshed out, and with action yet to come on a proposal to cut the whisky bond ing period from eight to four years, the committee abandoned hope of completing the bill before tomorrow. Anthracite Deliveries At Homes Suspended WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. — UP) — The solid fuels administration to day clamped down on home deliv eries of anthracite coal, limiting house-holders to 87.5 per cent of their estimated requirements for the fuel year ending March 31, 1944. The SFA said domestic con sumers would b&. expected to stretch their reduced anthracite allotment by using bituminous coal. Production losses due to strikes and the inability of anthracite mines to expand output will cause an estimated deficit of 5,100,000 tons during the heating season, SFA reported. SKIN IRRITATIONS Of (externally earned) pm ns pa Check Itching—Burma* rlmrLtd the antiseptic—eaay way ACNE with famous Black andWhite „„p« Ointment. Promote* healing, TETTER lesaens scarring. Use onlya P117P aa a directed. Cleanse dally with tvuHIN Black and White Skin Soap Flying Forts Increase Their Lethal Load A new underwing shackle on American Flying Fortresses has increased their bomb-carrying capa 3ity approximately two tons. A ground crew at a bomber station somewhere in England attaches a leavy bomb to the shackle, shown for the first time, just before the plane takes off for a German target (NEA radiophoto). Vr ay For America Clear Ahead By CARY C. CRANMER NEW YORK, Dec. 15—.The Unit ed States emerged from its second year of war on December 7 after a hairbreadth escape from defeat, still facing the possibility of the greatest blood sacrifice in its his tory but with the road to victory for the first time becoming fairly clear. There is growing confidence that before another Pearl Harbor anni versary passes th: United Nations will bring Germany down, and make sweeping inroads into the vast empire of land and sea dom inated :-y -Japan. The climactic assault on the western ramparts 01 Adolf Hitler's E'urope. a test which may exact from the United States armed forces the greatest losses they ever have suffered, is yet to come. Japan's vast domain still stretches almost a quarter of the distance abound the earth at its girth and 5,000 miies north and south from the Kurile islands to below the Equator But out of the fogs of the North sea and the Aleutians, the jungles of the Solomons New Guinea and Burma, the morass of China, the deserts of North Africa, the mud of the Italian mountains, the feuds of the Bahians, the vast boggy steppes of Russia ana the great reaches of the Pacific—out of all the confusion ana baffling expanse of a world girdimg war is begin ning to come the firs' definite per ception of now the Allies may go about winning the war. A clear-cut strategy which does not depend over-much on an in ternal German collapse or an over night scurcn-to-the-eaith bombing The Moscow conference made it abundantly clear that Russia is in the war to stay until Germany surrenders unconditionally. The successes 01 the Rea army have removed all fears that Russia might crack up as she did in 1917. The ability of the RAF to go to the heart of the Reich in its cam paign to destroy Berlin, the in roads into Germany by the grow ing armadas of Flying Fortresses and Libera iors, are the measure of the strength being massed by the Allies tc attack the Hitler for tress from ihe west. A year ago it was apparent that -the Allies were committed to t large-scale campaign ir. the Mediterranean. The economy of force being em ployed in Italy indicates that the main Britisn and American effort is not to be maae in that theater. It was just a year ago that the country learned for the first time that every one of the eight battle ships at Hawa!i were lost or dam aged in the Japanese attack on Sunday morning, December .7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor. The backbone of the Pacific fleet lay shattered. As the nation neared the end of its second year of war, Navy Sec retary Knox announced that the United States fleet, largest in the world, had been doubled in the last 11 months, anc now totals 817 fighting ships. The rate of growth was so great that it would total 838 wai ships in two more weeks, he said. Among the new warships built in the 11 months were 40 aircraft carriers of all sizes The United States may now have 22 battle ships, ai least twice as many as are available to Japan. So great is the preponderance of United States fleet strength, and so rapidly is it growing, that mili tary experts at "A'ashington see the day approaching when the Allies, with their superiority in the air, will be able to sweep Japan from the seas and destroy the founda tion of her sprawling empire. A year ago United States forces on Guadalcanal were just leaving behind them their period of great doubt, when they hung on by their eyelashes under nightly shellings and daily bombings and the 'Tokyo express" ran aowr from the north ern Solomons almost nightly to re inforce the enemy. Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s Aus tralians and Americans were still hammering at Buna in the painful New Guinea '■ampaign. Island hooping ar.i jungle slash ing, it was clear, were going to be slow, costly and bloody roads to Tokyo. But on Nov. 20 of this vear a new phase 01 Pacific strategy open ed up with the larding of United States marines and soldiers in the Gilbert islands with the support of powerful naval task forces. The conquest of Tarawa in the Gilberts is reported to have been the ‘toughest fignt in marine his tory”—the Heaviest previous toll in the history’ —the heaviest previous toll in tne history ol the United States was at Scissors, France, in the first World war when marine units of the second division lost 70 per cent of their men in killed, wounded and missing—but it may nevertheless open one of the easiest roads to Tokyo. The campaign in the central Pa cific beginning at Tarawa, Makin and Abemarna, opens a shorter and more direct route toward the far Pacific * At least seven major Japanese bases dot the chain of islands ex tending westward from the Gilberts to the Philippines, but a campaign along that 2,500-miie road, support ed by predominate naval and air power on the offensive raises the possibility of outflanking, by-pass ing and neutralizing many of them. Rabaul in New Britain, which has appeared so formidable an ob jective, also may be left dangling by itself. Even Truk in the Caro lines, the most important Japa nese base in tne chain, might be so hammered and threatened from several sides as to become useless to the enemy. Wake island, off to the side, held by a few marines for 13 days in 1941, again may fly the Amer ican flag and play a role in a flanking operation. Similarly, Guam eventually may be recap tured to advance the aerial and fleet umbrella into a strategic po The Japanese island of Marcus in mid-Pacific, 1,200 miles from Tokyo, already twice raided by American task forces, is another important oin point either guard ing the advance toward the Phil ippines or on the line of a main drive to Japan. Operations proceeding westward from the Gilberts to the Marshalls to the Carolines may be consid ered as a drive back to the Phil ippines (where another major cam paign would have to be fought) with the objective of retaking the islands either as a base for attack on Japan itself oi as a position from which the east coast of China might be opened up. Or they may be regarded as establishing a protecting flank for a mighty armada of aircraft car riers and thousands cf other ships in a direct attack on Japan. In either case, Japan’s commu nications with her newly-won south ern empire—the Netherlands East Indies, Indo-China, Malaya, Thai land and Burma—would be threat ened. A plan to use the Philippines as a lever to open up the east coast of China would mea i that the Chi nese are to play a major role in the defeat of Japan In that case, presumably, the objective would be to equip and train large Chi nese forces for a major land drive. Whatever the objective in a cen tral Pacific campaign, Japan is faced with the same difficulties that confronted the Allies in 1941 and 1942. She mus* guard thou sands of islands. She can hardly be strong everywhere at once. Certain focthoids will fall easily. Others will be taken only after a fight, pernaus even tougher than that at Tarawa. The Japanese have had years to prepare in the mandated islands in the Marsh alls, the Carolines and the Mari anas to the north. They had held the Gilberts only since the out break of wtr. isui tne marines anu soicuers wna landed m the Gilberts were at tacking an atoli for the first time iiu history They haa no precedents to guide them. They learned much from the experiment It is still 'sland hopping, but the 76 hours required tc take the Gil berts apparently demonstrated that the path aiong the jagged coral reefs and f.at, barren islands of the central Pacific is quicker than jungle slashing in the Solomons, New Guinea, the East Indies, Ma laya and Burma. In a year of fight’r g the United States forces progressed about 400 miles in the Solomons, from Guad alcanal to Bougainville, where they still have a difficult campaign be fore they root the Japanese out of the last large island in the group. Gen. MacArthur has advanced 150 straight-line miles from Buna to Finschhafen in New Guinea still more than 3,000 miles from Tokyo. The striking reverse in which the Allies now hoi- the initiative in the Pacific where two years ago they were watching the swift fall of Guam, Hongkong, Wake, Manila, Singapore, Batavia, Ran goon and Burma, Bataan and Cor ' regidor, began in’ 19^2 in the battle of the Corai sea, May 4-8, when Australia was saved from inva sion, and the battle of Midway, June 3-5, when Hawaii and per haps Alaska were saved, and the Japanese took one ol the greatest and most important naval beatings in history. These decisive battles were won by outnumbered American naval and air forces. A few mis-directed bombs or torpedos, the failure of a few extra airplanes to arrive in time, and the resu-t might have been reversed. By chance, tne weather lifted and a Japanese fleet of 22 ships was destroyed by Gen. MacArth ur’s airmen in the Bismarck sea. But for that the Japanese might Tl* NO Do yon have headaches? Q Q Do you lack pep or vim? Q Q | Do you get irritable easily? Q q Do you feel depressed-nervous? 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DORIS DUKE OFF BEAM IN DIVORCE Rapid-Fire Procedure In Nevada Courts Delayed By Missing Papers RENO, Dec. 15. —(IP)— The cus tomary rapid-fre procedure of Ne vada divorce cases got off the beam today as the wealthy Doris Duke Cromwell came into court with request for a divorce from James H. R. Cromwell, one-time U. S. minister to Canada. There was a 45-minute morning session of the court. This in itself was a much longer time than is required for many divorces here. But, because four depositions had not arrived from Honolulu, there was every expectation the case would go over until tomorrow. Mrs. Cromwell, 31, wearing a page boy bob, spent the morning session giving evidence of her Ne vada residence. A chancery court in New Jersey ruled yesterday she still was a resident of New Jer sey. The missing depositions from Honolulu, where the Cromwells formerly lived, were to certify her prior residence there. After the morning session a re porter asked Mrs. Cromwell if she would marry again if she got the divorce here. “Good Lord, no!” she exclaimed. She charged Cromwell with ex treme cruelty and set up three years’ separation as further grounds. Mrs. Cromwell bought a home here and formally established Ne vada residence on July 31. -V JAPANESE REFUSE GAUGE OF BATTLE (Continued from Page One) that enemy base will be found “much more strongly defended than Rabaul.” He knows of the strength at Ra baul, for the Saratoga—dubbed Saracobra by her crew because the has proved deadly in action participated in two air assaults on that Japanese base on new Britain island. As a result of the attacks, he said, the Japanese have abandon ed use of Rabaul as a naval base. But, he hastened to add, Rabaul still is a potent base for air and land operations with its three or more “excellent landing fields and probably large numbers of troops.” With loss of Rabaul as a naval base, Cassady said, the Japanese fleet has been “forced to with draw from that part of the ocean.” Presumably the warships blasted m Simpson bay—principal harbor at Rabaul, moved back to Truk, some 800 miles distant, for re pairs. nave won superiority in isiew Guinea. Hits by American gunners fir ing almost blindly in the darkness off Savo island on the night of Nov. 13, 1942 turned the tide at Guadalcanal. Now it is America who launches the blows, .and the Japanese who seek, without much success, to parry. BULL'S-EYE FOR ACE BOMBARDIER <•> A DIRECT KIT with a half-ton egg on an 8,000-ton Jap transport off Ka vieng, New Ireland is made by Lt. Don Scurlock of Butler, Ala., during an attack on enemy shipping. Butler is one of the outstanding bom bardiers in that war theater. Air Forces photo. (International) WEATHER (Continued from Page One) WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. — (.¥)— Wea ther bureau report of temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m., in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: Station High Low Prec. Alpena ____ 19 1 0.00 Asheville _. 26 20 0.00 Atlanta _ 32 28 0.03 Atlantic City _ 20 16 0.00 Birmingham'_ 32 24 0.00 Boston _i_ 17 9 0.01 Buffalo _ 17 4 0.01 Burlington _ 6 0.00 Chicago - 14 _1 0.00 Cincinnati __ 21 1 0.00 Cleveland II_ 18 0 0.00 Denver - 54 14 0.00 Detroit _ 19 4 0.00 Duluth _II_ 11 _15 0.00 El Paso* _ 28 0.00 Fort Worth_ 29 0.00 Galveston _ 42 36 0.01 Jacksonville _ 44 43 0.61 Key West_ 28 0.00 Little Rock _ 25 16 0.00 Louisville __ 22 8 0.00 Memphis _ 24 12 0.00 Meridian _ 40 0.00 Minn.-St. Paul _ 15 _1 0.00 Mobile -.._ 38 32 0.43 New Orleans _ 43 39 0.14 New York _ 20 15 0.00 Norfolk _ 27 23 0.01 Pittsburgh _ 16 4 0.02 Portland, Me. _ 15 _1 0.00 Richmond _-_ 27 20 0.00 St. Louis _ 12 -3 0.00 San Antonio___ 43 0.00 Savannah _ _2 0.61 Tampa _ 74 0.00 Vicksburg _ 31 27 0.00 Washington_ 22 15 0.00 Wilmington _ 26 2.03 -V Fats Waller Dies Aboard Train In Kansas City KANSAS CITY, Dec. 15.— UP) — Fats Waller, jovial composer and band leader who began playing the organ before he was 10 years old, died today, ending a 25-year professional career. The Negro musician who was 39 died in his berth aboard a train in union station today. Deputy Cor oner Edward Robinson said pre liminary examination indicated death resulted from a heart at tack. Among Waller’s hits are “Ain’t Misbehavin’ ” and “Feets’ Too Big.” He composed the music for “Early To Bed”, a current Broad way success. Known privately as Thomas Wright Waller, the 278-pound mu sician enjoyed playing the piano or organ whether professionally or in the privacy of his home in St Albans, Long Island. MAFFITT POSTAL SERVICE NEARS (Continued from Pag'' onp( would be primarily to sell m orders and stamps and iJ packages. The classified po> free will be parallel m actiwtr* to that of Camp Davis tA«V ,(| !»■ “■«« vni.» wm'^'5 t0 the new post office who/" will be broken down a id