The Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, Sunday January 24, 1943
Fugitive Rommel Units Halt
Behind Little Magnot Line;
Soviet Armies Rout 255,000
Union Jack Flies At Seized Tripoli
Victorious British Army
Begins to Restore
Vital Harbor
Allies Now Dominate
Key Sicilian Narrows
Naval Forces Harry Axis
On Coast—Montgomery
Van at Zuara
CAIRO, Jan. 23.—(INS)—Britain's victorious ' 8th army,
adopting the slogan "On to Tunis!", neared the Tunisian
frontier tonight in a westward pursuit of fleeing Axis forces
after planting the Union Jack atop the white government
building of Tripoli at the break of dawn today. :
Already British engineers were hard at work repairing the bomb battered,
smouldering docks and waterfront installations of the Libyan
capital, the fall of which burst the bubble of Benito Mussolini's
African empire.
Navy Shells Fugitives
Army Closing Trap on Japs
Guadalcanal Mopping Up Pressed as Enemy Falls
Back in All Areas
WASHINGTON. Jan. 23.—(INS)
—The battle of Guadalcanal today entered its final stages as Japan's
lost battalions, now numbering less than 4.000 men. struggled westward
toward Cape Esperance with hard-striking forces of the U. S. army
close on their trail.
As the main American action against the enemy continued along
the northern coast of Guadalcanal's narrow western peninsula, other U.
S. troops patrolled areas east and south of Henderson airfield to clean
out Japanese stragglers who have been hiding out in the mountains.
Sub Bags 4 Ships Bound For Tunisia
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA. Jan. 23.—(AP)—
A British submarine operating in the Tyrrhenian sea destroyed two
enemy merchant ships and a schooner and drove an armed
trawler ashore in a sinkiner condition in attacks on a convoy southbound
to Tunisia, a naval communique said today.
The destroyed merchant ships were of 6.000 tons and 2,000 tons.
The schooner, equipped for anti-submarine warfare, was of 200 tons
and the grounded trawler was of 400 tons.
The submarine first attacked the southbound convoy of two 6.000
ton ships under escort of three destroyers.
Hubbies See Possible Boon
In Equal Rights for Women
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—AP—
Keep it just among us boys, but that proposed constitutional amendment
for "equal rights for women" may get strong backing from the men.
Introduced by Rep. Ludlow (D., lnd.), and Senator Gillette (D.. la.)
the legislation was sure lo get lip service, at least, from the congressmen
because it has enough feminine sponsors to make even a
bachelor tremble. But the men found some angles, too.
It reads: "Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the
United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.
Now, any henpecked husband can see that such a law gives him
equal rights with his spouse. According to officials of the National
Woman's Party, women get a bad deal all over the country,
being classed with idiots and lunatics in many states."
The ladies cited state laws which bar women from jury service, give
husbands preferred rights over children and property, refuse women
legal business status and makes it easy for a man to divorce his
wife for the same acts he can indulge in without danger of anything
more drastic than a disrupted home life.
These inequalities, they said, would be eliminated by the amendment.
But some male congressmen, amid some protests that the plan
was a blow at state's rights, discovered that what's sauce for the
gander can also sass the goose. For instance, in some states
where n man can be prosecuted for family desertion. but errant women
can't, wives and mothers have been trotting off to the Waacs, the Waves
and high-salaried defense jobs. Fathers forced to quit work to keep
house for the kiddies have found they have no legal recourse.
In other states, alimony is always a one-way proposition. Ditto
salary splits.
These inequalities, said the grinning men, also would be eliminated
by the amendment.
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