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WASHINGTON, Oct. 12L
( AP) President. Roosevelt,
asserting that allied strength
was on the upgrade and the
enemy growing nerrous, Mon
day night urged the drafting
of 18 and 19-year-olds so that
: an army with the spirit and
hardihood of youth may
shorten the war with annihi
latinz new offensives. ,
At the same time, the
1 president called for ' the ra
tioning : of manpower. Work-
ere must be kept from chang
ing jobs at will, he said. Pirating
of one employer"! labor by anoth-
ed must be forbidden. The objec-
tive jnust be "the right numbers
af people in the right places at
' the right time.'
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Russia and Malta
Fighting Flares;
Nazis Beaten Off
German Tanks and Infantry Attack
In Stalingrad; Malta Fighters
Knock Down 37 Enemy Planes
VMW Admits
Women; AFL
Flays Arnold
CINCINNATI, Oet It-VP)
John L. Lewis' United Mine
Workers Man day formally
opened their doors to women
and workers outside the coal
Industry, possibly to 50,000 mine
bosses, and set up a (and to
fight a post-war "movement to
crash labor" predicted by Its
leaders. -
. The midnight Russian communique reported a sudden
resurgence of German tank and infantry attack inside Stalin-
And he held out a possibility a which may or may not be sustained.
e?lnLL ZT e Enemv troops supported hy 50 tanks made three at-
lanners supplied with hands to tacks on positions held by the elite Russian guards. They
harvest the nation's food sup- -.wa t. defenders back a little in one block, Dui the
fe, ?S,ef Germaw lost 20 of the tanks and about two battaKons of
infantry, the communique saio.
Simultaneously the Germans were making 14 attacks
0r,inst an imnortant point held by the Russian relief armies
, a. m
were said to have been beaten
off with 800 German dead.
The Russians reported, renewed
fighting on the Leningrad front,
killing about 600 Germans.
On both Caucasian fronts there
was hot action; the Russians made
some advance in the Mozdok area
of the deep Caucasus, the mid
night communique said, and they
were counter-attacking below no
vodossisk on the Black sea coast,
where the Germans apparently
hope to maintain operations and
supply lines well into -the win-
added, will
guch action should it become ne
eessary. The president was delivering
his second radio report to the na
tion in five weeks. It was, gen
erally speaking, an optimistic re
port of what he found on his re
cent tour of defense plants, army
posts and naval stations. Already,
he said, America Is getting ahead
' of thek enemy in the battles of
transportation and production.
, In addition there was another,
hint at second front gains. The
officers of the general staff, he
, said, were In reneral agreement
that It was necessary to divert
V "enemy forces from Russia and
China to other theatres of war
-: by new offensives against Ger
many and Japan, v .
The objective of today is clear
and realistic," he said, "It is to
destroy completely Ihe military
fSZS-i K W : statemendoclaring, were "straining ad-
w tv w-m sr r --,7
threat against us and all the oth
r united nations can not be re-
Willkie Avers
No Reply Need
Arrives in Alberta.
With Information
For Americans
snMON TO N. Alta- Oct 12
Wendell Willkie arrived here
Monday night by airplane as he ter months.
n eared the end of his round-tne- xer announcement on the
world tour as-special represent- Moscow -radio said the Germans
ative of President Roosevelt had brought up fresh divisions
Mr. Willkie issued a- S50-word f and tank columns to the Mozdok
detmit.w roprlatetor- vmce." "THer .tteck torn. Bv
TORONTO, Ont, Oct VHJf)
. The American Federation of
Labor asked Monday for an In
vestigation of Tharman Arnold,
US anti-trust chief, to determine,
whether he has used the pres
tige of his job for personal ma
terial gain, signaled a fresh at
tack upon the national labor
relations board, and offered-an
Immediate armistice to the CIO
pending negotiations for fall
... reunion.
The delegates whooped and -clapped
again when Daniel J.
Tobin, president of the Teams
ters, read a telegram from Pres
ident James C. Petrfflo, presi
dent of the Musicians onion, in
forming him that a federal court
in Chicago had dismissed Arn
old's civil anti-trust action
against the musicians.
Chest Attains
$62,533 Total
Goal May Be Reached
Today; Women'
: Part Featured ' "
vived a generation hence.'
He pictured a Jittery lot of axis
loaM narvniKlv watchinS! the
trnffth of the united nations front
grow and their own diminish.
."The strength of the united na
tions is on the upgrade in this
war," he said. "The axis leaders,
on the other hand, know by now
that they have already reached
their full strength, and that their
steadily mounting losses In men
and material can not be fully re
placed. Germany and Japan are
already realizing what the in
evitable result will ,be when the
total strength of the united na
certain public officials concerning cast said.
the expression of my opinion In
Russia on the question of a second
WUlkle's statement in Russia,
urging speed in opening a sec
ond front and saying that per
haps, the military leaders need
ed prodding by the public, re
sulted in widespread repercus
sions in the United Nations.
President Roosevelt replying to
Questions at a press conference,
said October 6 that he had
read the headlines on the Moscow
dispatches but had not
the stories worthwhile reading,
Cm still another front the
Mediterranean the axis was
striking new blow. Swarms of
nad-fasclst aircraft were de
scending on Malta, sometimes
70 at a time, sometimes SI, and
that little sentinel island was
striking back hard. The Malta
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Italian
Alien Not
Enemy
Restrictions to
Be Removed, bnt
Maybe Not Here
NEW YORK, Oct 12-ff-US
Attorney General Francis Bid-
die announced Monday night
that effective October 19, Ital
ian aliens would no longer be
classed as alien enemies, " be
cause, he said, "from that time
on the exoneration which they
have so well earned will be)
granted them." - l
This does not mean that dan
gerous or disloyal persons are no
longer subject to apprehension or
interment" the attorney general
said in a Columbus day address at
Carnegie halL "We still will take
no chances. It does mean that' the
regulations applying, up to now,
to alien enemies, no longer apply
to Italian aliens. They will
be free to participate in the war
effort without the handicaps that
have hampered them up to now,"
Biddle said that his office had
investigated thoroughly all. Ital
ians in the nation in an "unpre
cedented exercise ' of wartime
vigilance.' '
; "We find that ont of a total
of eei.000 persons, there has
been cause to intern only ZZa,
"or fewer than one-twentieth of
Awpcf cent' ho said. -
" Brddle' said that he had recom
mended also enactment of a bill
in congress . which -would grant
to an alien, otherwise eligible,
Walking Home on Scrap
i Allies Occupy
ie Moscow I Tp TT,,,
considered liuSCS 111 t 111,
tions hits them at , additional He added that he regarded the JVj U p Un gi
nlaM nn hiT .jirtVi surface. I rtM s mirolv mMKnilative. J 1 V VV M.A.KsMJM.
Majority
Of Crews
Rescued
Initial Attack .
.Takes Toll in i
Oose Battle
' By WILLIAM F. FR YE 1
WASHINGTON, Oct.
(AP)-The loss of three
heavy American cruisers in. a
fierce, night-time naval battla "
fought daring the initia
phase of I the attack on the ;
Solomo n islands was an
nounced Slonday by the navy.
, Covering the landing of re
inforcements in the Tulagi
Guadalcanal area, the second
night of the attack on the 'islands,
the ' cruisers ; Quincy, Vincenne . .
and Astoria were outlined in the j
glare of enemy searchlights ' and
star shells and were sunk by a
Japanese force of cruisers and de
strovers. t ..j . i- v : ;i- v-yz;":
Hen dismantling the wrecked Narrows bridge at Taeoma, Wash, for 1 In the same -action, the night
scrap, walk along suspension cable high aoove wo water, ine i Cf August 8-9, the Australian, .-
cables of the bridge are expeetea so yieio uwo ion w ci- 1 cmiser Canberra was hit by shell
Associaiea rresa xetenuu. , -.. . lana Toroeaoes. neavur. aamacea
and set afire. Abandoned during
the night she sank the morning
of Ajigust 9, as already announced
by the Australian government, r
,., Although a majority of the
crews of the three cruisers was
saved, a navr eommualquo re
ported, the, loss of f life was
heavy, and the 'commander of
the Quincy, Capt Samuel N.
Moore, of Alexandria, Va, was
.' one of those I lost Capt F. L.
JUefkohl, of Manna bo. Puerto
Kico . commanding the Tln
cennes, and Capt; William G.
Greenman, of Watertown. NT,
skipper of the Astoria, , were
' saved. . -The
' action began about 1:45 ,
a. jtL, August 9, as transports and
PORTLAND. Ore- Oct. 12 supply ships were pouring rein-
ineasuxc, wmuu, , . MOre Ulan u,vwv . . I ii.i.ui. fnrMmimtf .cW. fnr th morinM .
nose remove the greatest single diffi- metals m stock pUes throughout ruiaer oe w
area of the Solomons
attack August '7.
- , . j j m m.
navy I xJiemy pianes aruppea uarea
difficulty in placid any sum above Uave made this country meir vage committee; cha
.i ii- tmmm wn.ii mw ) nm imn wmimiiwi!wmiw
'' " j ' ' - v , ' " I
!r, f ' f , ' i - ' " " f ' y ' - -
r 1 - - -
weg
on
30 Tons
Ndlionmm
Estimates
of Scrap;
Million
Victory was in sight Monday
campaign. Subscriptions amount- J citizenship - without taking i the j Ural JJlStlTlCtS
inff tn S6533 were renorted at tne 1 1 iet nmvidni . he 11 SO I : .
regular campaign luncheon, held yearg 14 or older and provided he Begin dampaignj
in connection with the chamber came to the United States before 0
of commerce weekly luncheon, jy if J924, and has lived in the Albany. dOllCCtS
bringing the total up to $62,533 country continuously since. " J . . '
which left less than $2500 to go. I This: measure, would, I think,! More than 30,000 tons of scrap
Unless subscriptions take a nose remove the greatest
dive today, the $65,000 goal will culty that has stood
be reached at "today's luncheon. ' 0f citizenship for a 1
However the campaign will con-1 cf the older generations
tinue for the Chest will have no ians, who, in all other respects, I derway led Claude L Sersanous,
IBattleship Set
For Scrapping;
Rites Planned
ulaces on the' earth's surface.
"The war of nerves against
the united nations Is now torn
v ing into a boomerang. For the
' first timei the nasi propaganda
- machine is on the defensive.
. They begin to apologlxe'to their
- own people for the repulse of
their vast forces at Stalingrad,
and for the enormous casualties
- they are suffering.
"They are compelled to beg
their overworked people to rally
their weakened production. They
even publicly admit for the first
time, that Germany can be fed
only at the cost of stealing food
from the rest of Europe.'
stories as purely speculative
t. rviiinslrfnif . Willkie told
. VUMfc.l I . . A -J.
newspaper correspondents all the WASmwuruix, , uct. n-w
statements- he had made on his The navy disclosed fa its corn
trip contained only his personal unique on the Solomon ands
I area Monday that the united na-
Vhen I speak for myself." he nf
ZT. JfleZ S jand
MiSS W about July revealed enemy activity in
nuwvi I it.. 1m 4Va mmimiina
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RAF, Nazis
6:30 p in, PDA, and will leave by
plane Tuesday morning for Min-
neaoolis.
In a verbal interview, Mr. Will-
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said, and this together with in
creased' action in eastern New
Guinea, "clearly indicated that
the enemy was attempting to
that total, where it will do a great
deal of good. The victory luncheon
is scheduled for Thursday.
A special attraction on Mon
day was the appearance of
jueau Martin Eider, navy Give- . fV 1
-bomber pilot who scored a dl- raUC KaiGS
ship In the Solomons on August
24. Despite his extreme modes
ty, Lieut FJder managed to give
his audience' a fairly clear pic
ture of the event while Insist
ing that another pilot who was
oa the same- foray. Ensign Ro
bert T. Gordon of Nebraska,
entitled to more credit
to predict that W-egonwouia - r -J JT: " P of cruisers and destroyers skirted
A its OUOta Of 10U.UUU XOIIS VJ I uc " . ,!, f Rav l1,n W
LONDON, Oct 12.-(ffV-German
raidera annroaching under a cloud
MVP attacked towns on the
south coast of England Monday,
killing five persons and fbttenuvj
a number of buildings and shopt.j
Amnni the victims was a boy
killed by a bomb which fell in the
yard of an institution for crippled
the first of January. Many locali
ties, he declared have already ex
ceeded their quotas.
In addition to Mapleton, little
southern . Oregon n 1 g n scnoui
where .,48 students in two cays
ALBANX. Ore Oct 12 -P)
Scores of Albany businessmen
took-Monday off to
scrap iron and Monday night
.v 1 MTOio- rM h the south coast of Savo island,
s?ti rstdin. Mid headed for the supply ships.
Finding a screening force
Nazis Remove
United States fighter . planes children. Several others were fa
tablish and maintain control of compare favorably with those of juxed. One British fighter was lost
the air and sea in the Solomon any other belligerent, ueut. juaer 0n patrol but the puox was saveu.
islands area. said in response to a question. , j
"Establishment of such control Plane design Is matter of com- BERLIN (From German Broad
would have put the Japanese in promise between factors of speed, casts), Oct 12.-(r-Three Brit
a position to launch a sea borne maneuverability, load, fire pow- ish planes were shot down over
thrust at Port Darwin and Aus- er, range and protection; Japan- Denmark after they had Down
1 1;- j u v...- 4ti m nianM hv mnre cnecd and Into 5 the western and goutnern
ITBUa WiU .UUH1 IWII KtnnuiJ 1 . - . . , .
svumsVkT t JltK I 1- 1 . 1 . 1 , I iniMmrmM (T hilt Trtlien - less 1 BCCtlOIUI OX irriIMUlJ, vuuu
i AiviAJii. ut.s. 'A m ui m rim ibii-u uu r muliui w utiaa a a i mm w j -
and Norway to the Islands of the I Germans lifted a state of emer
astern Mediterranean. I gency aiong
They are proclaiming that a
iwAnit fmnt t imnosuihle? but at
the same time, they are desperate- Vri"iCf 41 nniTI
ly rushing troops in all directions, 1 1 Ul Bs V4XCiii p
and stringing oarDea wire an me
way 'f ream the coasts of Finland
they bad; assembled '
more than SW tons. ;v ; .
Only two. freight ears were
available, and these were filled
to the tops, an estimated 4
tons. The overflow was damp
ed on a field and covered an
area as large aa city Mock.
Robert Shje, funeral ; director,
aid more than 4M men donat
ed services.
scores of visitors. Custodians said
the ; number was far above 1 the
average.
Farewell ceremonies were
planned by navy officers, state
officials and the Battleship Ore
gon , commission, which - has
charge of the vessel, now retir
ed and ' serving as a . marine
nuseum here. -; .
MarBu N. Dana, commission
chairman. : said - - the ceremofiies
might be held on Pearl Harbor
day, December 7, combining re
cruiting and bond sale campaigns.
Secretary of the . Navy Frank
Knox will be invited.
Lieut Com." G. F. De Grave,
district navy recruiting officer,
proposed that the - ship's wood
work be made Into gavels, plaques
and other souvenirs to be told
southeast of ; Savo, the enemy
opened fire immediately with' n
guns and torpedoes, smashing thd
Canberra. After a brief engage
ment the Japanese headed for the
passage northeast of Savo, wherd
they met a second screening force
of destroyers and cruisers and
began a' battle at close range. '
V "The actlem was fought with
guns and torpedoes, with tar
gets Uluminatcd by searchlights
and starmhens," the eomnmnl
ue reported. "The enemy fire
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collected 70 tons of scrap metals, in the bond campaign.
Allies Fight
Jap Troops
itdern Mediterranean. I gency aiong uw uuiva w aiwi- i weii as vo our lsiana oases ia uic i wireu ' i y . . - 1a- v i Keeaspon m u- - -
2Vhile!ttey are driven to wegian coast between Trondheim New Hebrides, New Caledonia and and Its pilot are "out for . good." were dropped iomffa- declared over the top Monday.
rTurn tn Pare 21 and Bedo Monday and the Moscow the Fiii Islands." said the com- he pointed out I"'6 were no wu- , j (Turn to Page 2)
- ...f-it- w . : .. fir nnr ud Dfotedion-and radio uid lloniUy "''" S-i in Take county and The date for the scrapping has! GENERAL MacARTHUHl
- well as to our Island bases in the when a plane Is down, the plane Copenhagen dispatch. BombM been seC The navy, an- HEADQUARTERS, Australia,
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War Chest v
i$65.ooa
360,000
.v55.boa
JS0,OO0P
.Mo,ooa
i and Bedo Monday and the Moscow
radio said the Puppet Premier
Vidkun Quisling had taken charge
of the state police after ousting
Jones Lie, their chiet ...
Informed Scandinavians, who
may not be quoted by name, pre
dicted intensified sabotage against
electric plants, food warehouses
I and military establishments in re
venge for the 34 patriots shot by
the Germans during the emer
i gency.
the Fiji Islands,' said the com
munique.
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One of Ships Lost in Offensive on Solomons
w- 1 I troops m we vicuury ox me g;
1 1! fill Sir V r flfll 1 leading through the Owen Stanl
"UU3lA; X V mountains of New ' Guinea,
Tuesday, Oct 13-tff-Allied force
are skirmishing with Japanese
troops in the 'vicinity of the gad
S.r3Q00a
.ooa00
ILsio.ooa00
Explosion, Fire
Destroy War Blill
"PrrrSBURGh, Oct 12-(aVA
spectacular fire which followed a
dull explosion - destroyed big
I mill of the National Supply com
pany, Spang-Chalf ant division, in
nearby Etna, -Monday night caus-
Ing damage estimated by works
Manager S, w. Bremmer at $500,-
Mine workers fled for their
lives as molten enamel, shot from
a baking oven by, the blast, igmtr
l ed the building. One man was
burned on the hands. :; V ; '
, xne piani, woiJtm u - - - v , . men. T-e maJartty were
ders, was wrecked byhe flames, cs 52:540a cruiser Qalncv (above), launched ia 1S2S, was cse earrlel tavx airplanes. Is -t " .
which were visible for miles and j 0f the ships the navy Monday reported sunk la the attack on the reported saved-Associaiea rcss
attracted thousands of spectators. .. Solomon islands.' - The normal complement of the vessel, whkh
Chanp:
es
southwestern . Pacific comma
reported Tuesday.
General MacArthur's Austral-
Salem's industrial pool ' being I lan mountain fighters made some
formed by a group of machine and I gains north from Myola .Monday.
woodworking plant operators with I a communique said, and now are
the assistance of the chamber of approaching Templton's crossing, -
commerce voted Monday night to I about 12 miles south of the en
change its name from Marion- emy a advance base at Kokoda.
Polk to Pacific War Industries, Bomber and fighter planet
Inc. , - , . I helped in the renewed allied ad
The change was suggested by vance, bombing and strafing the
Lee U. Eyerly, chairman of the I tlim Japanese supply: lino to Ko
chamber's industrial committee, J koda from Buna to the nortl
to cover possible extension of con-1 shore of the island t v--;
trading activities to, other, parts
Committees from the group are KllSSianS tO JtlelD
to circulate stock subscriptions to- T ,L v 1; A
day among plant proprietors who Make liUDDer
I were not present Monday night.
7eatlier
: Sunday's max. temp. (1, mhv
49. River Monday -4.1 ft By
army request weather forecasts
are withheld and temperature
data delayed.
Dimout: Tuesday's sunset
6:31 tua. TTedaesai'i gnnrise
127
WASHINGTON,, Oct 12 -r
Russian experts ! are coming ti
the United States to help get
I synthetic rubber 1 production 1 go
: Ing, William M. Jeflers, rut be X
1 director, said Monday. . .
Jeffers also told the senatl
agriculture committee that Hus
'sian-made rynthetic tires v.eri
being sent here for exc:
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