NUMBERS News Room, 170 Subscription, Class Ads, and Display Ads, 205 VOL. XXXV, NO. 18 BRITISH Red Armies Push Ahead Toward Kiev Isolation of Nazi Troops in South Threatened MOSCOW Russian armies carrying the battle for the east valley of the Dnieper into its final phase are advancing less than 80 miles from Kiev on its middle reaches and less than 70 from the big bend of the river, front dispatches said today. The swiftly gathering momentum of the Soviet forces driving toward the Dnieper on a 450-mile front threatened to isolate all German troops in the southeastern Ukraine and in the Crimea, military quarters reported. Field reports indicated that the German defense system before Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, was near collapse as Gen.
Konstantin Rokossovsky pushed westward at an accelerated pace, With Pavlograd and Dniepropetrovsk the immediate objectives, the Red army units in the northern part of the Donets basin mopped up large areas above Stalino and seized positions only 35 miles east of the Kharkov-PavlogradZaphorozhe-Crimea railroad. Striving to delay the apparently inevitable catastrophe, the Germans were making a desperate stand west and southwest of Kharkov in the last German bulge into the eastern Ukraine, where Soviet progress was slow but steady. To the northwest the Soviet capture of Bakhmach deprived the Nazis of their most important stronghold east of Kiev, releasing Rokossovsky's forces for a full dress push toward the Dnieper. The Russians also fanned out northwestward toward Chernigov and pushed southward in the direction of Priluki, aiming to cut the Poltava-Kiev railroad. Priluki is about 45 miles southwest of Bakhmach, and its fall would cut the last lateral railroad east of the Dnieper connecting northern Russia and the Ukraine.
Red army units descending southward entered the Poltava administrative district and reached points 60 miles northwest of Poltava, where they joined forces enveloping Poltava from the east. John I. Couts Claimed by Death At Youngstown John I. Couts, 92, a former resident of Newcomerstown vicinity, died Wednesday at 8:30 p. m.
of a stroke of paralysis suffered one week ago, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Seth Porter, Youngstown, where he had made his home for the past several years. He was born Nov. 30, 1850, in Guernsey county, the son of Isaac and Amanda Couts. He was married to Amy M.
Bailey in 1876. Mr. Couts was a member of the Peoples Methodist church near Newcomerstown. He is survived by three sons, Isaac Couts, Cooper, Iowa, Grover and Arthur Couts, Youngstown; three daughters, Mrs. Seth Porter, Youngstown, Mrs.
O. M. Peoples, West Lafayette, Mrs. Jessie Weimer, Cleveland. Two sons and the wife are deceased.
Services will be Sunday at 1 p. m. at the Jones-Lydick funeral home at Newcomerstown. Burial will be at Wesley Chapel cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Miners Object to Fines, Walk Out BELLAIRE, of the United Mine Workers union today called a mass meeting of miners in an attempt to end a walkout of 600 coal diggers at the Dunglen operation of the Hanna Coal Co. The miners walked out day. Union officials said the men protested a $1-a-day fine levied against them by the company for a six-day walkout in August. The men walked out in August in protest to the war labor board's denial of portal- pay for Illinois miners. Hospital Notes Hospital Notes Mrs.
George Mort, Roscoe, medical. Mrs. Ray Steiner, Coshocton Route 5, was dismissed, The Best of Newspaper Features, Comica and Pictorial Service COSHOCTON, OCCUPY Allies Swoop Down on Italy BRENNER MILES PASS GERMANY 100 SWITZERLAND Bolzano OVER GERMANS KEY TAKE Trieste Zagreb Milan CITIES Verona Venice Susok CROATIA Po River YUGOSLAVIA Pola Genoa. Savona2 La Spezia Ravenna Pisa Sarajevo Ancona Split LANDINGS Leghorn REPORTED Metovic Ligurian ELBAL ITALIAN FLEET Sea ITALY URGED TO FLEE Ragusa Calvi TO ALLIED PORTS CORSICA A Vatican City ROME Adriatic Sea Frascati Foggia ALLIED Naples Bari Gaeta LANDINGS Terranova REPORTED PONZA Benevento Brindisi: Pompei Taranto AMERICAN CAPRI TROOPS LAND Sapri Arbataxe Gulf of Taranto: Cagliari Tyrrhenian Sea Cosenza BRITISH Crotone Vibo 8th ARMY SARDINIA ADVANCES Palmi SICILY: Mediterranean Sea Palermo LA Bova Marina Messino Reggio Calabria Marsala Melito Catania1 Ionian Sea Up and down the west coast of Italy from Genoa to Naples the Allies are reported landing to occupy beaten Italy, (arrows), while General Montgomery's 8th Army continues to drive northward. Probable strategy is to pincer the Germans remaining in south and central Italy before they can flee to their Po river fortifications.
Coshocton Tribune OHIO FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1943 Pull Leased United Wire Press TARANTO NAVAL Allied Troops Gain Firm Naples Area; Italians Fight Men of the Hour The whole world is watching Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, right, Allied commander-in-chief, who engineered Italy out of the Axis, and Lieut. -Gen. Mark Clark, U.
S. 5th Army chief, who is directing American and British forces in the Naples area. This picture was taken before General Eisenhower received his fourth star. Block 314 Leads War Bond Drive New Stab at Germany, Drive to Oust Japs From Burma Anticipated WASHINGTON-Another quick drive into Europe and within six weeks or so the first major thrust against Japan in Asia were believed today to top the Allied time table fixed by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, The thrust in Asia against Jap- Allied Columns Approach Lae Big Guns Hauled Up to Shell Base ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific--Allied columns were reported approaching main Japanese defenses around Lae today, bringing up artillery on one flank to shell the bomb-wrecked New Guinea coastal base. Australian forces moving from the east reached the wide, deep Busu river, which empties into Huon gulf only four miles from Lae.
Swampy jungles impeded their advance but they hauled up guns capable of shelling the enemy's stronghold. On the west, American paratroops and Australian air-borne artillery units had driven 12 miles thru enemy patrols and were nearing prepared Japanese positions around Heath's plantation, seven miles from Lae, after passing thru two native villages. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique reported that the steady air bombardment of Lae appeared to have reduced its inner fortifications "to practically ruins." Flying Fortresses and Liberators, along with medium bombers, dumped another 73 tons of bombs on the enemy defenses ringing Lae Tuesday and Wednesday. the Salamaua base, 25 miles southeast of Lae, warships shelled the besieged enemy stronghold before dawn Wednesday, shooting down three enemy planes that tried to stop the attack.
Two Children Die in Fire CLEVELAND Two young sisters were burned to death in their cribs today when fire, which police said was started by a brother playing with matches, swept thru their parents' three-room apartment. Victims were Patricia, 2, and Joyce, 4 weeks, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gray. Birth Notes Mr.
and Mrs. George Layton, 648 Walnut received word of the birth of a seven-pound daughter to their son and daughter-inlaw, Lt. and Mrs. Caleb James Layton, at Cochran field hospital, Macon, Ga. The baby has been named Mary June.
Mrs. Layton was formerly Mary Mapel, Coshocton. Put Your Payroll Savings FIGURE on a Family Basis IT OUT YOURSELF Make 10 per cent Just a Starting Point Report of THREE CENTS BASE Foothold in Germans REPORT KING ABDICATES DENIED BULLETIN LONDON- The German news agency DNB today quoted a German communique that Rome had capitulated to the Germans. The German communique said that the German attack on Rome was necessary because the government of Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio resisted. The German communique said troops under Marshal Erwin Rommel, who was chased out of Africa, had overpowered Italian troops in northern Italy.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa- An Allied landing party, aided by naval forces, has occupied the big Italian naval base of Taranto on the heel of the Italian boot. An official communique at headquarters said that the offensive against the Germans in Italy had been extended when British forces supported by the royal navy seized Taranto yesterday evening. By UNITED PRESS Italy appeared to be bordering on collapse today. Two days out of the war against the Allies, the Italians were fighting again-now against Germany. Violent fighting between German and Italian troops was reported at several points.
A formal Italian declaration of war against Germany was expected. It was reported--and denied--that King Victor Emmanuel had abdicated the Italian throne in favor of Crown Prince Umberto. Premier-Marshal Pietro Badoglio left Rome on a mysterious mission. Amidst the turmoil over Italy the fighting went on. There were two battles--that of the Allies against the Germans in southern Italy, and that of the Italians against the Nazis striving desperately to clamp a grip on as much of Italy as they could salvage from the debacle.
Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Amer- square miles of the Tyrrhenian ican and British expeditionary sea. Powerful air forces ranged force hacking at the Nazi tentacles ceaselessly over the battle zone, on Naples was revealed to have blasting the German frontal posiestablished its foothold below the tions and blowing up enemy lines city in battering down strong leading to the beachheads.
German opposition. While the Allies were slicing Allied reinforcements and sup- into the Italian coast below Naples, plies were pouring ashore from an a diversionary force splashed invasion fleet sprawling over 1,000 ashore on Ventotene island, 40 Dister Served in Ohio Pen, Police Here Learn Today Arthur A. Dister, Columbus, held in the county jail on a charge of stealing $134 from the WimmerArnold drug store here on Labor day, has a prison record dating back to 1931. Police here were informed of this today by the state bureau of identification. The record recites that in that year he was charged with robbery in Lafayette, no disposition of the case being given.
He was arrested in Akron on a charge of grand larceny under the name of Arthur Myers on Dec. 18, 1935, and sentenced to a one to seven year term at Ohio pen. He was discharged from the London prison farm Nov. 17, 1942, upon the expiration of sentence. In Columbus he was picked up under the name of Arthur A.
Dister and given a fine of $50 and costs on suspicion. THE WEATHER a. .44 8 a. m. .42 Saturday.
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m. ..39 2 p. m. .65 miles to the west, accepted the surrender of the Italian garrison. To the south the British Eighth army in effect completed the oCcupation of the Italian toe.
The imperials captured Pizzo at the south end of the gulf of Eufemia and Monasterace on the opposite side of the peninsula. Nazi propagandists claimed that German bombers had sunk an Italian battleship and cruiser and damaged a second battleship, another cruiser and a destroyer in continuing attacks on a fleet formation which left Spezia, presum- (Continued on Page Eight) Argentina Faces Cabinet Crisis Diplomatic Blunder Has Stormy Effect anese positions controlling the Burma road will be led by Lord Louis Mountbatten, former Commando chief. Normal weather conditions interrupted a tentative British campaign in Burma early last spring. But the great rains are beginning to ease now and the comparatively dry season shortly will begin. The Burma offensive was expected to be preceded by a series of trip-hammer blows against widely-scattered enemy air bases.
Already there is evidence that the Japanese are finding it difficult to maintain strong air concentrations at all of their far-flung bases. Observers here believe the Japanese are playing a "borrow from Peter to pay Paul" game. In other words, they think that the enemy is reinforcing some of its air bases with planes drawn from other areas rather than from new construction. The Allies can strike from two directions against Europe- the west from Great Britain or on the south from Africa, Sicilian and Italian bases. Italy's gradual collapse is estimated to have deprived Germany of approximately 10 per cent of her war power.
Mother of Coshocton Woman Dies in England Mrs. Rachel Archer, 230 South Lawn has received word of the death of her mother, Mrs. F. F. Webb, 73, which occurred in Lancashire, England, Aug.
14. was made at Dean, Lancashire, England. Mr. and Mrs. Webb formerly resided at Zanesville and Cambridge.
They moved from Zanesville to England six years ago. Surviving are the husband, four sons, two daughters, a number of grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. Novelist Aids U. P. on Surrender News Beat ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Now it can be told how a famous novelist turned "copy boy" for one night this week to aid the United Press in scoring its world beat on the surrender of Italy.
Lt. Richard Llewellyn, author of "How Green Was My Valley," and an officer of the Welsh Guards, ran copy for the United Press correspondents at Allied headquarters when the announcement of the surrender was made. Llewellyn's fast foot work from the press room to the radio office helped keep the U. P. ahead on the big news.
Wife of Dr. E. U. Marquand Dies Wednesday Eve Mrs. E.
U. Marquand, 70, of 1516 Chestnut st. died Wednesday at 7:45 p. at the city hospital following an extended illness. Stella Millikin was born March 9, 1873, near Ontario.
She received her education in the country schools and attended Ohio Northern university at Ada. She taught school for a number of years in and near Ontario. On June 30, 1898, she was united in marriage with Dr. E. U.
Marquand, who, with a son, Capt. E. A. Marquand, now of Hill Field, Ogden, Utah, and a grandson, John Robert Marquand, survives. Two sons died at an early age.
Other survivors are two sisters, Mrs. J. F. Walker and Mrs. A.
R. Caton, and a niece, Alice Caton, all living in Knoxville, Tenn. In early life Mrs. Marquand be-1 came a member of the United Presbyterian church in Ontario. After her marriage she transferred her membership to the Methodist church in Conesville, where she was active in all church work.
After moving to Coshocton on Dec. 1, 1927, she became an active member of the Historical club and was interested in church work and the Red Cross. Arrangements for services are incomplete. Draft Board Balks at Calling Fathers; Members Removed WASHINGTON-Chairman Andrew J. May, said today that his house military affairs committee would investigate Selective Service's dismissal of a Haverhill, draft board that refused to induct fathers while single men were exempted.
May accused Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey of vio- lating the intent of the selective service law in ousting the fiveman board. He also said he would ask investigation of reports that army officers had perused the records of Kentucky draft boards and ordered the induction of certain men. "Draft boards are supposed to be autonomous," May said. "The law set them up to act independently and free from control of $850 Sold in One Day by Two Men Warden, Assistant Canvass 20 Homes Block 314 led the big parade in Coshocton's Third Loan campaign today, with every home contacted for the purchase of war I bonds.
The block, bounded by Vine, South Lawn, Elm and South Seventh has Everett Dawson as its warden and Ray Loos as his assistant. Mr. Dawson and Mr. Loos took yesterday, the first day of the drive, as the occasion to call on all of the 20 homes in their block, and they amazed their district warden, Alva Taylor, when they reported to him last night that their canvass was completed, except for one or two call-backs. During the day, they sold war bonds with a maturity value of $850.
The majority of homes in block, which is by no means the wealthiest in the city, today are proudly displaying Third War Loan stickers in their windows. "It goes to show," commented Victor Park, officer manager of the campaign, "that this house-tohouse canvass is a job that can be done simply and quickly by each worker, if he'll just get at it." Meanwhile, it was announced (Continued on Page Five) Retail Merchants, Clerks Pledge Full Aid in Bond Drive Coshocton merchants and their retail sales staffs pledged 100 percent support to the Third War Loan campaign with a parade up Main st. and a rally at the Sixth Street theater this morning. Virtually every retail business firm in the city closed at 9:30 this morning to participate in the parade, which was led by the high school band, and the ensuing rally. Employes of many stores carried placards, identifying the firm, and promising their full cooperation in the Third War Loan.
At the theater, stirring talks were made by Probate Judge C. M. Ross and Harold Hunt, cochairman of the county war finance committee. A movie showing the part which retail sales people are expected to play in the current campaign was presented. Paul Rice acted as master of ceremonies and E.
A. Crawford led in prayer, Martin P. Murphy led I the audience in the pledge of allegiance to the flag. Brief talks were made by Lt. Col.
Russell Karr, former Coshocton resident who now is stationed at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, and John Montgomery, co-cairman of the county war finance committee. It was announced that every employee of a Coshocton retail firm who sells $200 in war bonds and stamps this week will receive a treasury certificate of award. WASHINGTON The Argentine cabinet crisis today confirmed belief here that Foreign Minister Segundo Storni made a major diplomatic blunder by inserting an appeal for airplanes and munitions in his recent letter to Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Storni, regarded as more of a naval officer than a diplomat, showed himself inept at the finesse of diplomatic notes by leaving himself wide open for a humiliating rebuke by the veteran, Hull. Storni said his country needed armaments to reestablish military parity in South America.
What he meant was that Argentina wanted to keep pace with her rival, Brazil, the recipient of much lend-lease equipment from the United States. It was regarded here as a blunder, first because Argentina knew that she would not get airplanes or other munitions either by paying cash or thru lend-lease, and, secondly, because it permitted Hull to remind her that the doctrine of military equilibrium is inconsistent with inter-America ntreaty obligations to settle disputes thru peaceful processes. The immediate results of this blunder, which already has caused Storni's resignation and may force President Pedro Ramirez to resign, depend upon developments in Buenos Aires during the next few days. Nazis Battle Italians at Naples and Other Points LONDON-German official patches today said Nazi armed forces were fighting resisting Italians at Naples and other points apparently including Rome- seizing strategic Italian areas in Italy and Albania to guard against threatened new invasion thrusts by the Allies. Radio Rome reported a violent artillery barrage in the outskirts of the capital following a bombing attack, presumably by the Germans, and other unconfirmed reports broadcast from Switzerland said a great Allied invasion Your Dollars Can Help To Shorten This War WASHINGTON-Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, today issued the following message: "The fall of Italy is glorious news--if we take it as the end of round one instead of the finish of the fight.
"Before the last shot is fired a lot of lives are going to be lost and a lot of billions spent. The more American dollars go into superior equipment the less American blood is going to redden foreign soil. It cost 46 million dollars to lay equip and transport the crews and ready everything for the Hamburg low, It cost, another three hundred million to train, task. And Hamburg is just one enemy city, "The war bonds you have bought have paid for our victory over Italy in part. They have paid for weapons and armor, they have fed and clothed grim fighting men who have won the unconditional surrender in the field.
"Now, more than ever before, we need the help of every individual American. As Mr. Churchill said last week when he bought the first bond of the Third War Loan, 'This loan will undoubtedly have the effect of appreciably shortening the struggle. I have fully subscribed, but if it fails it would entail a prolongation, For that reason everyone should give it utmost fleet was steaming toward the Adriatic sea and Albania. The Exchange Telegraph agency quoted Radio Algiers as saying messages from Rome received at Allied headquarters in North Africa said German troops were attacking Rome.
The Nazis recently had been attempting to establish a new Fascist government opposed to the Italian regime of Marshal Pietro Badoglio with Benito Mussolini as the theoretical leader and it was believed that the reported fighting in Rome was connected with the German pressure by military or government sources. If they are losing their independence and becoming tools of Washington, then it is time we found out about it." Lt. Col. Francis B. Keesling, legislative officer of Selective Service, insisted that Hershey had full authority to remove the board members because they publicly announced "they did not intend to carry out the national policy." Keesling told a senate military affairs subcommittee yesterday that the armed services ly oppose the Wheeler bill to halt drafting fathers until Jan.
1, and asked that the measure be returned to committee so that the services could present new evidence. efforts to take over the capital in the name of Mussolini. The Allies and the Germans were racing to occupy the most important points in Italy, with the Allies gaining an important advantage when a British force, supported by the Royal Navy, seized the big Italian naval base of Taranto in the heel of Italy's boot. At the same time, dispatches from the Spanish frontier disclosed that six Italian warships--including two light cruisers, two destroyers and units believed to be aircraft carriers- had arrived at Gibraltar after fleeing the Germans in Italy. They were accompanied by a merchant ship.
The Germans, however, were moving rapidly. They reported they had sunk an Italian battleship and presumably sunk a cruiser and a destroyer when the Luftwaffe intercepted and bombed Italian naval units attempting to escape from Spezia. The Nazis also said they forced other Italian naval units to return to Greek ports..
