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II Kill) TO 1 IM IT: I 'nge Radio Pago 11 Pago 11 I'aKt-s 1). 1( 'miking IUiy's Record Editorials Page 16 War Orders Page 13 Page 8 Weather I 'age 16 THE WEATHER Continued warm. Des Moines' SS was among: cooler Iowa readings Monday, but still 9 above normal. At 2 a. 74.

THE NEWSPAPER IOWA DEPENDS UPON PRICE 5 CENTS- DES MOINES, IOWA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1943. SIXTEEN PAGES o) to 3 Reds Break Through in Donets Basin WACS SEE NEW LIFE AHEAD IN POST-WAR ERA STEPPING UP PACIFIC WAR SEEN AS PLAN V- HMIIiiiiliM it, DELOUSING OR JUST STALLING? I -RECEPTION! 1500jvv RUSSIA TELLS 22 MILE GAIN IN NEW PUSH ITALIAN SURTRENDEfR Moscow Celebrates Kharkov Victory. Map on Page 4. LONDON, ENGLAND W) A deep breakthrough on the Donets river front south of Izyura in a smashing drive apparently aimed at freeing the Donets basin was claim -i by Monday night's Russian communique. This fresh success came on the heels of recapture of Kharkov, Russia's third largest city, by the victorious Russian army.

i Russian forces estimated at 150,000 strong swept into Khar kov Monday on the heels of the retreating Nazis to end a 17-day drive on that former capital of the rich Ukraine. Berlin already had announced that Kharkov had been "evacuated." Moscow celebrated he victory with a brilliant display of fireworks amid a clatter of machine guns and other light arms. Heavy cannon boomed out a victory salute ordered personally by Premier Josef Stalin. The night communique reported that German forces defending thei Donets basin great industrial area on the northern shores on the Sea of Azov were sent reel ing back from 19 to 22 miles in three days of savage fighting that saw the Red army overrun 30 villages, including the railway sta tion of Taganrog Line Cut. By storming into Donetsko- Amvrosievka, the Russians cut the only railway link into German held Taganrog about 50 miles above that city, and thus threat ened the Germans' easternmost position in the Donets area.

Donetsko-Amvrosievka lies about 70 miles northwest of Rostov and about 40 miles from Staliho. Thus the Donets area was threatened both from Russian forces driving westward and by the Red troops that toppled Kharkov almost 200 miles to the north west. 85 Tanks Disabled. Soviet forces throwing heavy blows at German defenses along all active sectors of the long front Sunday disabled 85 German tanks and shot down 134 enemy planes, Russia Continued on Page Four. All Whisky Sales Halted During Week Sale of whisky and dry gin was halted for a week in the 177 state liquor stores Monday.

The stato liquor commission also announced that another holiday from the sale of those two beverages will be held the week beginning Sept. 20. Similar bans are expected to be ordered for succeeding months. To End "Confusion." Commission Chairman Dick R. Lane said the step was taken in order to "eliminate confusion" in the operation of the liquor rationing system.

Since July 1 store patrons have been limited to three bottles of whisky or gin in four weeks. Thus, a patron who bought his maximum' of a bottle a week for three consecutive weeks was barred from purchasing another during the fourth week. That necessitated checking each book by store clerks whenever a patron wrote out a slip containing a whisky code number. The practice reportedly slowed up handling of sales considerably in the stores. The order to store managers said: "AH whisky and dry gin strips are to be removed from the board in all stores during this designated week.

Customers positively will not be permitted to buy any whisky or dry gin under any circumstances. "It is very important when selling a permit in the no-whisky week to inform your customer that whisky will not be available until the following week. "This simplified procedure should eliminate all excuse for selling more than the ration allotment to any person during a week." Wine Scarcer. The notice also said that "wine is becoming scarcer." Not more than a fifth of a gallon of wine a week should be sold to the occasional wine buyer, the managers were told, and not more than half a gallon to the regular wine drinker. Customers, however, "may purchase any reasonable quantity of champagne." Lane said the commission's whisky allotment has been averaging 30,000 cases a month since July 1.

Before that it was 40,000 cases while in peacetime sales averaged about 55,000 cases. Nisei Girls Eligible To Join WAC Today CHICAGO, ILL. (U.P). Elmer L. Shirrell, Chicago area supervisor of the war relocation administra tion, said Monday that Japanese- American girls will be accepted for service in the WAC beginning today.

Japanese enlistments will be limited to 500 throughout the nation. Shirrell said. Hitler Orders Study Of Street Fighting LONDON, ENGLAND A Moscow broadcast of a Tass dis patch from Stockholm Monday said Adolf Hitler had ordered Germany's air raid protection corps to study the tactics of street fighting and other forms of fighting on the internal front. On the Road To Victory! Everything but one jj about the war is marching ffl abreast on the road to Al- lied victory, Representative fa Thomas E. Martin of Iowa City has declared.

The fe single thing on which we ft are behind schedule is pro- duction of vital army 5 supply requirements, in- eluding airplanes, he said, Martin, a retired regular army officer and member l-l of the house military af- fairs committee, reveals as much as he dares tell about the progress of the war in I an interview with C. C. 1 Clifton, the Register's po- 1 litical writer, in another of 4 a series on Iowa's con- gressmen. Turn to Page 4 13 today for the story about Martin. iinw.r-.'Wh'i;' -i Marriage to Reflect Army Training.

"My husband is going to have to wash his own dishes after the war." That's what WAC Pvt. Miriam Brown of Philadelphia, is planning' for her postwar resumption of domestic life. Private Brown was one of 10 WACs interviewed at Fort Des Moines and in the women's army corps downtown buildings on this question: "Ho tv -much difficulty do yon think the average WAC ic ill have after the war in mold ii the transition row ainnj life tt uasliiittf the dishes, takiitf care of babies and other domestic tasks "My husband is washing dishes and doing other KP duty in the army and am added Private Brown. "There isn't any reason why that can't continue after the war. Fifty-fifty is the best system." Many Ideas.

OtheF WACs had a variety of ideas on how they will find the civilian world after the peace is figned. Declared Second Lieutenant Dorothy White, 33, of Washington, D. We have been so far removed from domestic life that even now we welcome anything with a domestic angle. I never ould touch a mop in my eivili- an days. I really like to wield one now.

And the girls going to cooks' and bakers' school will be a lot better off than if they hadn't joined. So will their in the quality of ni-als." First Lieutenant June Thorn-burg. 31. of Columbus, Ohio, looks upon WAC life as a stabilizing factor. Learn Self "We all have learned a great deal of self-control and a lot of give and take," she observed.

"Stabilized emotions have resulted. These girls will not find the civilian world the same as it was when they entered the service. I definitely will not be satisfied with civilian life again because I like the army and its discipline." First Lieutenant Ruth McCtaw, -'J. of York, N. a former actress and dancer, said: "WACs who have children probably will Ik- better mothers than if they had not been in the army.

One of the most im-Iortant things the women are getting out of this experience is a wider understanding of people." First Lieutenant Evelyn V. Nelson. 2'J, of Madison, said most of them will be anxious to nturn to domesticity. "This is just a job for the duration." commented. "They will go back to washing dishes and lve it." Said Capt.

Eleanor Sullivan, 39, cf Lawrence, "These girls have made the adjustment into the army very well nd I think they will make the outgoing trmisittuu Just as smoothly I suppose I will be bored for a LtUe while though." "Can Always Io Job." First Lieutenant Gladys Clark, 26. of Franklin, said: "Certainly they will want to resume civilian lives again. It won't be much trouble for them. A woman can always do her job, whether it is issuing clothes to new WACs here or washing dishes back home." She is assigned to the clothing warehouse. Sergt.

Ruth Mason of Mount Sterling, expects the WACs to "make that adjustment easily." "I was a second grade teacher and I know I could go right track." she added. "Rut I like this better." Pvt. Edna Myers, 28. of Waterloo, pointed out that "a lot of us are washing dishes now." "Easy Life." The adjustment certainly won't be hard for me," she asserted. "It will lj a return to easy life." Ivt.

Ruth Ruby of Zeona, S. expects the transition will be 'pretty hard." "The change will be worse than it was when we came into the WAC," she said. "We will miss' this regular routine." 'Utmost Importance Bracken Asserts. By Paul K. Ix-ach.

(Siwrlnl Dlspntrh to Chicago Tally Newa nl Dea Uotnca tmaaVtt.t Copyrl)cht. 1943.) QUEBEC, QUEBEC, CANADA A much more pronounced far eastern war, flavor than was publicly anticipated a week ago was in jected into the Roosevelt-Churchill-King conference today. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, arrived following Sunday's appearance here of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and China's Foreign Minister T. V.

Soong. Another arrival in Quebec was Sir William Glasgow, Australian high commissioner in Canada. Meet With Soong. President Roosevelt and Prima Minister Churchill conferred during the' day with Soong. Stimson and Knox.

It was the first time that China had been of ficially represented at any of the Roosevelt-Churchill war councils. Harry L. Hopkins, No. 1 adviser to Mr. Roosevelt, also attended the conference, it was revealed.

Coupled with Saturday's story of the bloodless Canadian-American occupation of Kiska, marking evacuation by the Japanese from the entire Alaskan theater, and, announcement in Washington. D. of creation of a joint British-American far eastern air mission," this semifinal conference steps Monday gave Japan as much to fear from the mighty growth of Allied fighting power as the Germans must now have. Brendan Bracken, British minister of information, asserted that "MILITARY DECISIONS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE" had been made at the Quebec conference in regard to strategy in the Pacific. I "I can assure you.

Bracken told reporters, "military decisions of the utmost importance, have been taken in the CitadeL In year to come Quebec is going to be famous for the decisions taken in this city. 'Tf you want to follow up those decisions, you will have to be accredited as war correspondents." Heretofore the assumption had been that virtually all the stresm had been placed here upon deliv ering sledge-hammer blows, far greater even than those of recent weeks, in the European theater. Global Terms. Now it annara that hm-Lr rsf V. forbidding stone walls of Quebec' Citadel and under the Chateau Frontenac's turreted roofs, the principals and the combined military staffs are thinking in truly global terms.

The American navy, of course, as well as the American army is engaged in European operations, but the major far eastern naval effort is American. Whether this means actual lessening of Canadian and American forces in Europe for their greater concentration in the east, upon which the rumor manufacturers on the fringe of this conference have been speculating, may not be learned for months to come. The sounder supposition is that it means of the sort. So great has grown the fighting power of the Allies, so overwhelming their munition production and ad vanced training of men, so well have battle programs progressed beyond schedules, and so happily has transportation improved, that WEAKENING OF ANY OF THE FAR-FLUNG FRONTS DOES NOT APPEAR NECESSARY for the bolstering of another. UtvinofPs Recall.

The Soviet Union's announcement that Ambassador Maxim Lit-vinoff would not return to Washington, nor Ivan Maisky to London, naturally gave birth to a great deal of speculation here, much of which went on the air and into print, because of the timing with this conference. Questions put to British. American and Canadian spokesmen regarding reactions by these gov- Quebec Continued on Pajf Fmrr. T. V.

Soong, Chinese foreign minister, as he arrived at Quebec, Quebec, Canada, to take part in conferences with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt. Close Escape Of Churchill In Blitz Told QUEBEC, QUEBEC, CANADA CP) Winston Churchill narrowly escaped being killed during the London blitz in November, 1940, it was disclosed Monday. The British prime minister was dining at No. 10 Downing Street, his official London residence, with Sir Archibald Sinclair, British minister for air, and Brendan Bracken, minister of information. A bomb fell on the treasury building next door, demolishing it and killing 12 persons.

The dining-room chandelier at 10 Downing Street plopped right into the center of the prime minister's table, but no one was hurt. Churchill insisted that his loyal cook go down into the air raid shelter, but she refused to go without bringing the party its coffee. With a fatalistic attitude, the prime minister and his two cabinet members stayed at their table. And that was the night, it was revealed, that the stocky British leader adopted his famous air raid suit. Fishermen Can't Fill Shark Meat Orders WASHINGTON, D.

C. (Al That old seascaper. Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who is the government's fisheries man, Monday said the demand for shark meat has grown to such proportions on the eastern sea board that fishermen are unable to fill their orders. Quick-frozen shark flesh, say its addicts, re sembles haddock in flavor and swordfish in texture. North Africa Denial Of Invasion Story ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA (U.P.) Re ports broadcast Sunday by the Axis-controlled "Radio Liberation" that the Allies had landed consid erable forces on Italy and Crete Saturday were denied here Mon day as "just another Axis feeler." greeted Monday with cheers and to crowds.

WTREI'IIOTO UV). PURSE TAKEN BY TWO MEN Two well dressed young men took a purse containing a small amount of change and food ration books from Mrs. William Dennotter, 2S36 School Monday afternoon. Mrs. Dennotter told police she was walking on Twenty-eighth street about 12:30 p.

m. when the two men- stopped her at High street and, although apparently unarmed, said: "This is a stick-up." They grabbed her black leather purse and fled in a late model dark green coupe, bearing black license plates with orange letters, the first two of which were reported to be 15. The woman's purse contained $1.50, a gold ring and the ration books. Churchill Cheered by Quebec Crowds Allies Cross River Close To Salamaua ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC (Tuesday) (IP) Pushing down from hard-won mountain positions, Allied jungle troops crossed the Francisco river Monday within 2 miles of their goal, the airdrome near Salamaua, New Guinea. A communique also disclosed that Allied naval units had moved daringly above both Salamaua and Lae to pour shells at night into the dock and supply dumps at Finschhafen on the Huon penin sula.

Such a bombardment meant slipping info narrow Dampier strait between Japanese holdngs on New Guinea and others on New Britain. The bombardment of Finschhafen occurred Monday night. It was the first mention of units other than Allied torpedo boats in that area. The sea raiders, llht warships, went In for a close range attack and there was no word of enemy counterfire. There was no indication that the Francisco river crossing was opposed by the Japanese, now in retreat for a final defense before the highly-prized air field and the isthmus town of Salamaua 2 miles northeast.

Possession of Salamaua by the Allies would make the Japanese position at Lae airdrome, 20 miles to the northeast, untenable. Both Salamaua and Lae are strategically located for use by aircraft in making attacks on the important Japanese stronghold at Rabaul, New Britain, north of New Guinea. Shortly after midnight Monday, a small force of Liberator bombers attacked the Japanese airplane assembly and repair base of Kendari, Dutch Celebes, BERLIN RAIDED BY THE R.A.F. LONDON, ENGLAND (Tuesday) UP) British bombers attacked Berlin Monday night in their second successive -night as sault upon targets in Germany, -At a Glance- The War Historical Scrapbooh (Aug. 23, 1943.) EUROPEAN FRONT Russia The Red army imperilled the entire German occupation of the rich Donets basin after capture of industrial Kharkov.

MEDITERRANEAN FRONT Italy Allied bombers, working on southern Italy day and night, left Salerno, south of Naples, battered and burning despite oppo sition by 100 Axis fighter planes ASIATIC FRONT China Chungking took to its caves as Japanese bombers approached for the first time in two years. New Guinea Allied troops gained on the west approaches to Salamaua airdrome, and naval units moved above both Salamaua and Lae to shell Japanese supply dumps on the Huon gulf. OTTAWA BUSY GETTING READY FOR ROOSEVELT OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANA DA UP) With the mayor official ly declaring President Roosevelt's visit here Wednesday "an occa sion for decorations, for cheers and for a rousing demonstration," Canada's capital city Monday began preparations for an enthusiastic welcome. A half-holiday was proclaimed. Mr.

Roosevelt will speak to an open-air audience before the Peace tower on Parliament hill. It is anticipated here that his address will deal largely with United States-Canadian relations. The president's speech is ex pected to last 15 minutes, starting 11:10 a. m. (Iowa time).

Brendan Bracken, British min ister of information, announced Monday at Quebec that Prime Min ister Churchill will make an important address before he leaves Canada, probably Saturday night. It was disclosed that Churchill probably will go to Washington he returns to London. jLmtemjiMjM.jV. jKn-ff' mmr u. -mil.

Touring Quebec, Canada, Prime Minister Winston Churchill was Minister Mackenzie King is hide Churchill waving it was announced today..