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Guns Batter Rommel Air PAY-AS-YOU-GO BATTLE STARTS OF THE TRIIUNE (Aatf. Historical cra4s Thursday. March 25.1943 EATING HOUSES "PLEASE SAVE ME!" Yanks Beat Off WAR SITUATION. ALLIED HDQ- Africa Yanks shell TODAY lil HOUSE axis airdrome at Mezzouna. Page I 2 Axis Drives SUPPLIES 25 IX TUNISIA Tanks check two drives toward Gafsa.

Page 1. FIRE ON T017IJ 22 MILES Kl TUNISIAN COAST Toward Gafsa ALLIED HDQ. 14 air sweeps made on Jap posts at Mubo. Page 5. AT MARETH LINE Rommel tries Issue of Forgiveness to smash British bridgehead.

Page 7. Changes in Menus BY JOHN THOMPSON. Itiilraao Tribune Press Bervlre. LONDON Russian armies gsin at north and south ends of front. Page 8, Anticipated.

Up for Decision. CUesc Tribute rm Servle. WITH U. S. FORCES AT GAFSA, Tunisia, March 23 Delayed.

Twice Marshal Erwin Rommel struck hard WASHINGTON. Restaurants ordered to cut food purchases 25 per cent. Page 1. House begins floor fight today on with, his panzers armored forces Washington. D.

March 24. Debate on the new tax legislation af along the Gabes road east of El pay-as-you-go. Page 1, Guetar today. And twice the Ameri British Battle Nazi Counter-Blows. Asks U.

S. action on warning of fecting the individual budgets of the nation's 44 million taxpayers starts can doughboys, artillery, and tank busters held their ground, knocked Russ-Jap deals. Page 8. Meat point values allow average of tomorrow in the house. out his tanks, and checked him solid Within the next week the chamber 2 pounds a week.

Page 11, ly as he tried to smash thru to Gafsa. This bitter battle was in a sector Food hoarding by government stirs storm in congress. Page 85 miles to the northwest of the fight will decide just how future taxes are to be collected and whether it is worthwhile to write off all or part cf back levies to place the bulk of Corn shortage perils chemical rub ing on the Mareth line. ber programs. Page 16.

Each side "shot the works" with FOREIGN. every available plane aloft. But by taxpayers on a pay-as-you-go basis. nightfall it was evident that the first Twenty-one Yank soldiers trapped The battle over legislation, which two rounds had been won by the sol in snow; 20 fight way out. rage 1.

Raid on Rabaul shows MacArthur diers of a crack American division. Battle on El Guetar Boad. Points for Meat Rationing Announced The office of price administration yesterday announced the official point values for meat, canned fish, butter, cheese, fat, and oils, which will be rationed starting next Monday. Turn to page 10 for the official point table and to page 11 for a comprehensive story analyzing the effect of the rationing on faintly, eating habits and telling how to use coupons in buying these products. Other developments yesterday on the food front: Meat dealers In Chicago fear rationing will not solve shortage problems.

Turn to page JO. Congress expected to launch investigation of reports that government Is worst food hoarder and that food is spoiling in overstuffed warehouses. Turn to page 13. United States official warns egg rationing may be necessary to care for military needs. Turn to page IS.

needs bombers. Page 5. calls for the most far reaching changes in the income tax law since its enactment 30 years ago. is made necessary by the increasing tax burden resulting from New Deal financ Britons shocked as axis pushes 8th Early this morning the Americans army back. Page 7.

became aware of the enemy's Inten (Map en pagm 14.) ALLIED HDQ. IN NORTH AFRICA. March 24 0P). Strong axis counter attacks were reported today to have largely wiped out the gains mad In British frontal assaults on tht Mareth line. However, another 8th army column gained two miles in its threat to encircle the Germans, and American troops already have begun shelling Mezzouna.

only 23 miles from the enemy's coastal road far north of the Mareth pocket. A dispatch from an Associated Press correspondent with American troops said that American 155 mQi meter guns last night began shelling Mezzouna airdrome, destroying at least five axis planes on the ground and compelling others to take flight to the east Mezzouna is about 12 miles east of Yanks can bomb any target in Ger ing and war expenditures. tions when his tanks were spotted moving on the flanks of the El Gue many, says Eaker. Page 8. That taxes will be increased was Indicated by President Roosevelt's recent request, for 16 billion dollars LOCAL.

tar road between the American posi tions on the high grounds at the How Nittr gang, thru Caldwell, vy; fry fm, -t in additional revenue for the next looted retail clerks' union. Page 2, ends of tbe two biggest, mountains, fiscal year. To ease the impact lead Semsi an'd Berda. McKibbin speakers ask: "Where is In the first light of dawn forward Joe Butler?" FageS, ers on all sides in congress agreed months ago that a new collection observers spotted 50 tanks, estimated Ricca and Campagna, partners of at more than half of a German pan Frank Nitti, surrender. Page 3.

zer division. At 8 a. m. Rommel made system should devised. Offered Three Choices.

As the swings into floor con Atlanta joins fleet; heads for Pearl an all-out attack. His tanks includ Harbor. Page 4. ing some 52 ton Mark VL "Tigers Deaths and obituaries. Page 29.

sideration of the question, it has Maknassy and only 22 miles from tbe rolled over small knolls, dipping three choices by way of a solution, Washington, D. March 24 Spe DOMESTIC Gabes-Sfax coastal road along which down for cover in the gulches, and They are (1 a committee approved cial. The OPA tonight established Missouri house votes against three then stopping to fire as they tried by terms for President. Page 4. ration allotments for restaurants, force to crush the American posi Marshal Erwin Rommel must retreat if he decides to do so.

Harassed by Dive Bombers. United States infantry forces were bin providing for a withholding tax 30 per cent to start July 1, but allowing no forgiveness of back State senate votes protest against hotels, and other institutional eating tions. Chicago war contract freeze. Page 15J places. The order reduces by at least Tank Busters Effective.

taxes; 12 the Ruml skip-a-year plan. SPORTS. 25 per cent the amount of meat, but Two hours later this drive had been also calling for a 20 per cent with De Paul beats Dartmouth, 46 to 35, about midway between Maknassy and Mezzouna at last reports, and were being harassed by Nazi dive bombers. ter, cheese, and other rationed foods halted by the accurate fire of our 105 in N. A.

A. tourney. Page 27. STORM TRAPS 21 they used in December of last year. millimeter artillery and tank busters using self-nronelled 75 mm.

guns. It Appling and Solters join team holding tax for the last half of the Tear, and 13 a plan between these extremes drawn by Rep. A. Willis Robertson or some other The allied communique, however, said these troops had made, "slight ad It becomes effective Monday. uses Cubs' field.

Page 27. ATTACK BY JAPS ON AMERICA IS LIKELY, CANADIANS WARNED ORDER QUIZ OF OPA PLANS TO RESTRICT SUGAR FOR CANNING Consumers are not required to give New York Golden Glovers battle was estimated that these cannqneers destroyed or knocked out at least 20 vances altho strongly opposed, and captured a number of prisoners." compromise version, calling for par for team places. Page 27. 20 FIGHT WAY OUT tanks. up ration stamps for meals eaten in restaurants, but officials predicted tial forgiveness plus the withholding There'll be plenty on ball in prep Two axis counter-attacks were beat.

lAn Associated Press dispatch said senior title game. Page 27. tax feature. It appears certain that the with EDMONTON, Alta, March 24 CCa they will find smaller portions and Washington, D. March 24 JP).

i Rommel used perhaps 100 tanks in all, and that his losses might have Cubs' Mr. Lewis gets firm about nadlan Press. Maj. Gen. G.

R. fewer courses under rationing. Chairman JIarry S. Truman Mo, en off by American troops east of El Guetar, southernmost of two drives by Gen. George S.

Patton Jr. forces aimed at surrounding Rommel's army. Eaves dropping. Page 28. Altho today's order did not restrict of the senate war investigating com reached 30 tanks.l EDITORIAL.

holding levy will be approved, since aH plans contain that provision. It would not be a new tax, but simply sew collection device based on exist Last Yank's Fate Hidden That was the crest of the attack the portions which eating places may An allied communique said the 8ln Pearkes, chief of Canada's Pacific command, believes a Japanese attack on continental North America more likely now than heretofore because Fuel Oil Rationing Next Winter; mittee today ordered an Inquiry into reports that the office of price administration plans to "make it diffi serve individual customers, the agri Jail for Sluggers; Progress; Gander which carried within sight of the palm fringed oasis from which we ing rates. culture department is now studying in Alaskan Glacier. Sauce; Your Pay Envelope Before watched the battle thru field glasses. cult" to obtain sugar for home can war equipment is being sent westward and After.

Page 18. a plan to impose such a limitation on army had successfully repulsed enemy counter-attacks" In the Mareth village area of the axis fortified line 20 miles southeast of Gabes, and that prisoners now totaled 2,000. Actually the lead tanks came within ning. OPA officials told reporters a Au plans also contain extensive benefits for men and women in the army and navy, allowing them a thru Alaska to the battlefronts of meals for diners-out. FEATURES.

a couple of miles of our position be- proposal to require blue ration Asia and Eastern Europe. Industrial Users Cut. VALDEZ, Alaska, Delayed (flV- $3300 exemption against their service stamps for canning sugar has been Radio programs. Psge 25. Crossword puzzle.

Psge 6. IA German radio commentary rav fore the busters stopped them and soon we saw them set blazing in a Another OPA order today slashed under discussion, but added it not Died in line of duty." pay retroactive to the beginning of Supplies are going via Alaska to China and Russia, probably the safest corded by tht Associated Press said allowances of rationed foods to indus Table of Meat Point Values. Page 10. fierce red glare. That is the war department re German counter-attacks had moon tXs likely to be adopted.

The blue stamps are those now used for the Picture page. Page 14. but longest route to front line troops," At Point Blank Range. quiem for a brave young soldier who trial users, such as bakers and food processors, by 30 per cent below their But it hadn't all been rosy for our Gen. Pearkes told a meeting of Ed purchase of canned goods.

sleeps deep in a crevasse of Valdez Front Views and Profiles. Page 20. White Collar Girl. Page 20. 1942 usage.

monton business men and Canadian Truman asserted the committee glacier, famed trail to the gold camps team. Some of our artillery had been placed supporting the infantry, which "first line of strongpoints lost to tka British, but warned that tha axis position still was "not satisfactory" and that tha fighting stOl was in fnU swing. Restaurants will be permitted to Society news. Page 21. military officials yesterday.

of has been Informed the OPA, "in stead of facilitating home canning," buy meats and other products on the That line of communication Is be Women In War Work. Page2L Twenty companions barely escaped same point system as householders. Looking at Hollywood. Page 22. during the night had forced thru strong Italian positions onto the high ground.

Trying to override these is planning to "make it difficult" to obtain sugar on the theory that the the same fate, when hurricane winds but the number of points they may The Inquiring Camera GirL Page 25. ing developed and increased. Supplies by rail, road, ship, and air are now being built up for the destruction of Japan. But Japan may not sit down Cling to Narrow Salient. A storm of enemy counter-attacks spend will be determined by a mathe guns by their weight, the enemy people in the country and in the and avalanches caught them on training trip.

Friend of the Yanks. Page 25. Day by Day on the Farm. Page 82. matical formula.

beat against the tenacious British tanks drove against the American po small towns may obtain some advan The number of persons a restau sitions. At point blank range our It was five days after the storm tage over those in the larger cities CARTOONS. gunners opened fire. They scored sev Truman recalled that the commit broke that the first survivors stag and wait for that assembly to take place and to be beaten. There Is more reason for some desperate raid now than in the past." Dick Tracy, page 12; Smitty, page infantry clinging to a narrow, shell torn salient in the coastal end of the Mareth line, and the immediate outcome of the allied offensive ap rant served last December will be multiplied by .93.

The point value of eral times, but finally we lost a num gered back Into camp. It had taken 12; Terry and the Pirates, page 15: the actual meats and other now ra ber of guns destroyed by tank fire. the speediest of them five days te tee reported two weeks ago that prospects of food scarcity presented the necessity for making sugar and Smilin' Jack, page 16; Winnie Winkle, peared to hang on the fightinz in Similarly the infantry atop Berda page 17; Harold Teen, page 17; Gaso-line Alley, page 20; Little Orphan cover 16 miles. Three Given Up as Dead. this new "devH's caldron." tioned products used last December will be reduced by 25 per cent.

Whichever calculation gives the had been cut off all morning, but at other articles necessary for preserv EASTMAN SEES For more than 36 hours Rommel noon the wora came tnru -iney page 22; Moon Mullins, page But this story concerns three still smallest total points will be used to were having a wonderful time in 27; The Gumps, page 29. ing food in the home available to housewives to avoid mistakes that "caused us to lose large quantities 'missing when all the apparent -'sur struck back at this wedge driven by Bernard L. Montgomery' determine the restaurant's allot their fox holes." COMMERCE AND FINANCE. vivors had been brought into camp. They were given up for dead; a party ment for one month.

shock troops. German grenadiers and It was tougher for the Infantry, of strawberries, cherries, and other United States Steel established pro EXTENSION OF GAS SHORTAGE Indianapolis, March 24 (JP). It is not Impossible that the gaso tanks, as well as the best of Italian but they held their ground, too. In Celling for Snack Houses. fruits last year." duction records in 1942.

Page 31. set out to find the bodies. soldiers in Africa, fought to wipe out the face of a determined attack by The second formula the point Indict 16 flour makers; charge con At midnight-of the sixth day, one crawled into camp. It developed the British gains. the Germans and their crack panzer limitation to 75 per cent will pro spiracy to fix prices.

rare 31. Axis artillery concentrated Its fir grenadiers, who came in close with Fight reopened on brokers' war con three had holed up beside a noun on the Wadl Zigzaou a gulch, which automatic rifles and tommy guns. SCHOOL SHAKES, HOMES BREAK UP vide a ceiling for eating places such as soda fountains and sandwich shops which serve less food per person tract fees. Pare 81. line shortage in the eastern states may extend thruout the country before the war is over," Defense Transportation' Director Joseph said today.

tain in the bitter storm. Then a snow slide buried them. The strongest one They didn't give ground in the face Want a inisx. Pag 32. British guns and armored vehicles must cross If the salient Is to widened and deepened.

of Stukas, Heinkels, strafing Messer- than large restaurants, officials said. struggled out and crawled back to AS GROUND SINKS schmitts, and Focke-Wulfs. The first allotment period for this town. I am convinced that- the rubber Our planes, flying as often as pilots PIttston, March 24 (P). A new rationing will be from March 29 to On the morning of the seventh Unable to Employ Armor.

This is in the area between Mareth. THE WEATHER situation is not easing," Eastman told $400,000 high school and some 150 the end of April. Thereafter allot day rescuers heard cries for help. could stand the strain, bombed, reloaded racks, bombed and bombed a meeting of the shipper-motor car and Zarat and as yet Gen. Montgom ments will be made on a two month Before them, too weak to stand, was homes in a six block area rocked and trembled and began to disintegrate rier conference of Indiana, and even THURSDAY.

MARCH C5. 1943. again the enemy's tanks. ery has not been able to employ his basis. last year and wiping out back taxes in estates of service men and women who die during the war from Pearl Harbor on.

Plan Offer of Discounts. Under the committee bill, individuals would be induced to go on a pay-as-you-go basis voluntarily thru a system of bargain discounts for prompt payment of taxes against current earnings after the prior year's obligations have been met. The Ruml plan, embodied in a bill introduced by Rep. Frank Carlson pro-Tides for outright forgiveness of 1942 taxes to bring every one up to date at once in his obligations. It would snake taxes collected this year apply against 1943 income.

The Robertson plan, the favorite compromise at post time, provides for the abatement of the 6 per cent normal and 13 per cent first surtax on income of all taxpayers. This covers the first $2,000 of net income or approximately the amount which would covered by the withholding tax. Those in the higher brackets would pay the difference between the amounts withheld and their regular tax bin in the following year as they presently pay their entire obligations. Those up to $2,000, or about 90 per cent of the taxpayers, would be made completely current under this system and would pay the tax entirely thru the amounts checked off their pay envelopes. Hold BUI Threatened.

A split in the ways and means committee over this proposal has endangered the committee's bill, according to leaders, and congressional circles declare the fight now is between the Carlson bill, supported by G. O. P. leaders, and some form of compromise on tax forgiveness question. General debate will last four days.

The relative strength of opposing forces will not become known until next week when the balloting starts cn amendments. On the eve of the battle, rival spokesmen unlimbered a few verbal blasts at one another, while Rep. Robert Ramspeck Ga.1, majority whip, counted the straws in the wind and predicted that a pay-as-you-go bill would be approved with provision for wiping out a substantial portion of last Shear's levies. He said the house will take all the plans and write its own version. At 4:40 p.

m. the enemy attacked armor in a rumbling, mine subsidence OPA officials said restaurants and Sunrise. 6:48. Sunset. 7:08.

Moonriie. 11:18 the frozen figure of the 20th survivor. Digs Way Out with Bayonet. This is his story: again with masses of bombers leading Rommel, however, was reported to pull" that threatened to draw a p. m.

tomorrow. Hars and Mercury art if it were, there would remain other transportation shortages such as vehicles, gasoline, repair parts, and man power. We are not over the hump yet other institutions should apply for off, but by 6 o'clock he again was in have sent his Nazi tanks against their allotments with local ration morning- star. Vena la tbe evening; star. Saturn and Jupiter ara night luminaries.

When the avalanche roared down, whole section of this Pennsylvania anthracite mining town into the earth retreat. boards between March 29 and April CHICAGO AND VICIXITT: Continued mild; British infantrymen who got beyond the wadl on Sunday. he managed to bore a way to the sur in transportation." moderate winds. Until their exact allotments are tonight. face wth his bayonet for himself and a ILLINOIS: Continued mild.

Allied flyers of the western desert The Red Cross disaster service Eastman said the transportation pinch" would continue as long as figured, the Institutions may obtain weaker companion. Because their feet and legs were frozen, the two started TEMPERA TUBES 1M CHICAGO." Tmr 24 hour ended a. March 2S: the war lasted and said he believed emergency rations up to 50 per cent of their expected allowances upon moved into the area and state police set up a guard outside the city to warn all traffic away. Police and air force, however, dumped thousands of poundr of bombs on the axis positions In this narrow area, particularly around Zarat, fir miles north crawling toward town. the war will last a long time." a.m.

.131 9 a.m..41.1 p.m...KIi 0 p.m. .4 a.m. a p.m...6H 10 p.m. .47 application to local ration boards. tommoiroov! 6 a.m..

.40 11 a.m. .61 5p.m..A 11 p.m. .47 firemen evacuated all residents within Inventories Asked. First Horse Meat Market a.m.. .401 p.m..

Midn't. .45 Then the weaker survivor tumbled into a crevasse 20 feet deep. Unable to get him out, the other soldier cut strips from his sleeping bag to wrap a quarter mile radius of the schooL a.m. 1 p.m. .6717 p.m.

..61 1 1 a.m..4-'f Institutions, Including eating in Milwaukee Opens Today east of Mareth, and the communique said the enemy was suffering losses In men and equipment. Miners working in a section-of the a.m.. .411 2 6818 p.m... 48! 2 a.m. .42 High.

tLow. For 34 boors ended 7:30 p. m. March 84 I houses, are required to report to local boards their inventories in pounds No. 9 mine of the Pagnotti enter Milwaukee, Wis, March 24 Spe around his own feet, hands abdo The Mareth line still is a formi prises which underlies the section cial.

The Man War market, Mil as the close of business March 28 Mean temperature. 49 degrees; normal, 48. men to protect them from the ice. waukee's first retail store for sale for each of the six classes of rationed Then he dropped the remnants of were ordered to leave by the nearest exit. March deficiency, 126; deficiency since Jan.

1. 32. foods. The board will then deter dable position as long as the British can be held near Zarat to a mere foothold in the midst of enemy concrete pillboxes. the bag to hlj comrade; set up his HOW THE ALLIES ARE Precipitation, none: March esresa.

.58 of an The subsidence began at 7:30 p. of horse meat, will be opened tomorrow morning. The market will be operated by the Becker Meat and Pro mine the institution's allowable in rifle to mark the spot, and started inch: excess since Jan. 1. of an Inch.

and was still "pulling" hours after inching his way down the glacier. ventory and will deduct points from the first allotment for any excess In Highest wind velocity, 23 miles per hour. Relative humidity at 7:30 a. 74 per ward. vision company.

The company has Gain in El ITimms Ares. Behind the Mareth line and far to Cracks appeared in the walls of the Legs and Arms Frozen. When found, he had crawled four cent; at 1:30 p. 49 per cent: at 7:30 ventory. the north, however, the picture was p.

76 per cent. 30,000 pounds of horse meat in storage. Starts War Garden; Presto! The point allotment will be in the high school and plaster crumbled to till floor. miles. The strips of sleeping bag and Official weather report on page SK.J form of a certificate good for a specified number of points, which may be deposited in a ration bank account.

his uniform were rags; his feet and part of his legs were frozen almost different, and continuing allied gains in those positions balanced somewhat the fury of the axis attack in the Mareth-Zarat area. 3,000 Pounds of Bacon And It Produces Butter! Seattle Wash, March 24 (JP). G. E. BOMBING THE AXIS will be shown in a new wot map of Central Europe indicating the air bombing pattern on Germany and German-occupied territory.

Page size in color in tomorrow's Chicago Tribune. Tola! net paio? tlrtmtmtin FEBRUARY. 1943 solid. His arms were frozen to the elbows. The British gained two miles in Is Sold in 36 Minutes Norfolk, Va, March 24 VP).

A de Freeman's war garden produced food even before he finished spading it The points may be spent for any of the rationed products without restriction. Purchases by institutions will But he still was creeping along, partment store advertised it would seeking assistance for his fallen DAILY im their wide flanking movement to the rear of the fortified line. They reached a point eight miles south of 940,000 sell three pounds of bacon to each buddy. Two days later, when a party His spade struck a small, slightly torn cardboard carton. Inside was a pound of butter.

Freeman surmised be made on the basis of consumer point values or trade point values, customer as long as 3,000 pounds El Hamma, a strategic road junction found the crevasse, handprints still were visible on the glacier, but the whichever are applicable to the type a dog stole the butter from a neigh lasted. The bacon lasted exactly THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE I Continued on page 1, column 14 21st soldier was nowhere to be found. bor'g porch. 36 minutes. Continued on page IS column.