Current Events February 21, 1943; ALLIES HURL=BACK SECOND AXIS THRUST / JAPANESE BASES IN NORTHERN S0LOMONS BOMBED HEAVILY / UNION FILES LIBEL SUIT AGAINST ASSOCIATED PRESS:

           Sunday Register

BECKLEY, WEST VIRGINIA, SUNDAY MORNING, F E BRUARY 21, 1943.

ALLIES HURL BACK SECOND AXIS THRUST

Russians Within 36 Miles of Dnieperopetrovsk

EIGHTH ARMY

NOW SHELLING

MARETH LINE

Allies Prepare To

Throw Quarter

Million Germans

Into Sea

By The Associated Press

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

NORTH AFRICA — Military a u t h o r i t i e s said today the " t i d e h as

t u r n e d " in Tunisia after American and British troops hurled back

Marshal Rommel's renewed thrust toward the Algerian base of T e -

bessa in mountain passes near Sbeitla and Kasserine.

Gen. Sir Harold Alexander, guiding genius of the British

E i g h t h Army's unparalleled 1,600-mile advance from the a p proaches

to Alexandria to t he outposts of the Mareth line, took

personal command of all Allied ground forces in Tunisia under

Gen. Eisenhower. He started organization of the supreme offensive

to throw the quartermillion Axis troops Into the Mediterranean.

Japanese Bases

Bombed Heavily

Allies Pound

Nipponese Ports

In Solomons

By The Associated Press

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

AUSTRALIA—Twenty-three tons of bombs have been dropped on

Buin and Faisi in t h e North Solomons in the t h i rd straight raid on

that J a p base 300 miles northwest of Guadalcanal, the Allied high

command announced today. Buin is on Bougainville island

and Faisi is a tiny island to t he south of It.

"Our heavy and m e d i um bomber s attacking at night against

heavy a n t i - a i r c r a f t opposition hit Kahlili and Baallale airdromes and

Faisi seaplane base with over 23 tons of bombs and incendiaries,

causing widespread damage," reported the noon communique from

General Douglas MacArthur's h e a d q u a r t e r s .

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Union Files Libel

Action Against AP

By The Associated Press

TOLEDO, O., — The National

Maritime Union filed a libel action

in U. S. d i s t r i c t court today

asking $1,000,000 each from the

Associated Press and the Akron,

O., Beacon-Journal as the result

of a copyrighted Beacon-Journal

s t o r y dealing with Ihe unloading

of war supplies from ships off

Guadalcanal. The Associated

Press d i s t r i b u t e d the story.

A similar suit asking $1,000,000

each from the Associated Press and

the Hearst Consolidated Publications,

Inc., was filed in New York

Wednesday.

The Toledo action was brought

in the name of President Joseph I

C u r r a n of the Maritime Union

and M. Hedly Stone union

treasurer.