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Congress Plans
0 For Statutory
Wage Control
Resent Pointing of Pistol
At Congress and As
sumption of Authority
Washington, Sept. 8 P)
Widespread demands . for statu
tory control of wages came from
members today as an aroused
congress awaited introduction of
a legislative blueprint for Pre.
sident Roosevelt's drastic new
program to stabilize living costs
and prevent inflation.
Mr. Roosevelt's statement that
he would invoke executive pow
ers if congress did not act by
Oct. 1 to knock" down present
statutory farm price ceilings
and provide new taxes brought
retorts that the president was
"pointing a pistol" at congress,
was waving a "club" and was
setting out on "uncharted seas"
of presidential authority.
On Uncharted Seas '
Senator Danaher (R-Conn)
said he thought Mr. Roosevelt
was sailing "on uncharted seas
of executive power," and Sena
tor Hatch (D-NM) and Repub
lican Leader McNary (Ore)
doubted the constitutionality of
any presidential action to set
aside provisions in an act of
congress.
But out of the storm of cri
ticism that arose over the lan
guage in which he conveyed his
objectives to congress in a mes.
sage yesterday and to.. the peo
ple in a radio "fireside1 chat
last night, these trends were dis
cernable among legislators:
Influential, democrats and re
publicans appeared agreed that
over-all controls of the nation's
economic machinery were need
ed, ,with many contending that
wages as well as farm : prices
should be stabilized by legisla
tion,
Parity Guarantees
Farm state members rallied
to insist that If ceilings were to
be fixed on the prices of agri
cultural commodities at parity
levels, parity returns for all
crops should be guaranteed to
the farmers by the government.
(Parity is a price calculated
to give growers a purchasing
power equal to a past favorable
. period, usually 1909-14. The
price control law provides no
ceiling can be placed on farm
crops below 110 per cent of
parity, below the average 1919-
29 level, or below the price pre
(Concluded on page 13, column 4)
Canada Extends
Credit to Russia
Ottawa, Sept. 8 (U.B Canada
extended a $10,000;000 credit, to
Soviet Russia for wheat and
flour purchases in this country
under an agreement signed In
London today, the trade and
commerce department announc.
ed here.
The credit will be retroactive
to cover the cost of all Canadian
wheat and flour shipped to the
Soviet Union during . recent
months through the British mln
lstry of food. Covering a three
year period, the credit will be
repayable In four equal semi
annual Installments during the
two years after that, the depart
ment said.
The agreement was signed in
London by High Commissioner
Vincent Massey for Canada and
Ivan Malsky, Soviet ambassador
to Britain, lor the U.S.S.R. It
was the third agreement the two
representatives have signed on
behalf of their respective coun
tries within the last year. The
first provided for the establish
jnent of consular relations be
tween Canada and the Soviet
union after a long breach, and
the second supplemented it with
arrangements for an exchange of
ministers.
The department did not dis
close the amount of wheat al
ready shipped to Russia or the
price Involved.
Cited The exploit of Lieut.
John James Powers (above),
U. S. N of New York City,
in diving almost to the deck
of a Jap aircraft carrier in
the Coral Sea battle to be
sure of scoring a direct hit
with a bomb was cited by
President Roosevelt in' his
radio address to the nation.
Powers is missing as a re
sult of his dive-bombing
attack and was awarded the
medal of horinr by the pres
ident, (Associated Press
Photo.)
Bomber Crashes
And Explodes
Newark, Ohio, Sept. 8 OT
Three army flyers and at least
one civilian perished today as a
bomber smashed into a residen
tial area, and struck two houses
and .exploded, ' : , ::''...'' '
Fire Chief Stanley Shaw said
he believed' two other civilians
were killed and that bodies of
Other crewmen would be found
in the wreckage.
Officials at Wright field in
Dayton said that on the basis of
information they received, the
plane evidently was one that left
there shortly after 11 a.m. with
six men aboard.
Two of the crewmen were
killed in leaps from the ship, one
landing on a railroad depot plat
form, the other plunging through
a roof into a doctor's office. The
third body was seen distinctly
in the debris, Shaw said. The
body of an unidentified woman
was found ' wedged against a
small apartment house which the
ship hit full force after bouncing
off an adjacent home.
A big gasoline tank tore loose,
dropped to the basement of the
apartment building and explod
ed. The debris broke into flames.
Two women were taken to
hospitals from houses struck by
the ship. Neither was reported
hurt badly.
, At about the same time, the
body of another uniformed man
fell through the roof of a down
town building two blocks from
the crash and landed dead in
the office of Dr. Lewis Mitchell,
Lum ber and Metal
WorkersFrozen inJ o bs
Washington, Sept. 8 (IP) Non-ferrous metal and lumber work
ers in 12 western states were virtually "frozen" in their jobs today
under an order by the war manpower commission. Aimed at
halting "wasteful pirating and
migration of workers engaged
in the production of these essen
tial materials," the order, first
government aotion of its kind,
prohibits Workers in the non
ferrous metal and lumber indus
tries in the 12-state area from
changing jobs without specific
authority from the U. S. em
ployment service.
No employer may release a
worker for other jobs without
first obtaining a "certificate of
separation" from the employ
ment service. No employer in
the area, whether conducting ac
tivities essential or non-essential
to war production, may em
ploy a worker from the indus
tries unless he has such a certifi
cate. Paul V, McNutt, war man
power commissioner, who sign
ed the order yesterday, said the
plan was based upon an anti-
Blast Efforts of
Japs to Land
In Solomons
American Forces Destroy
Small Boats. Fleet
Bringing Reinforcements
Washington, Sept. 8 VP)
American land and air power
blasted away today at scattered
Japanese forces which gambled
heavily with troops, ships and
planes in a desperate effort to
reinforce their isolated patrols
in the southeastern Solomon
islands.
Disclosing the latest enemy
attempts to regain lost footholds
in the strategic Solomons, the
navy reported yesterday t h a t
U. S. planes bombed and strafed
fleets of small boats, destroying
many of them and causing
"heavy loss of life."
1 Presumably, the Japanese
succeeded in landing some re
inforcements for their shattered
forces. The navy communique,
however, referred to the land
ings as "attempted" and added
that "our marine forces are con
tinuing their efforts to search
out and dispose" of isolated pa
trols which had withdrawn to
the mountains and jungles after
American occupation.
Landing Boats Sunk
A U.S. air patrol discovered
the latest enemy attempt at a
landing Saturday near the west
ern end of Guadalcanal. The
patrol sank three landing boats,
damaged several others, the
navy said, and "killed a large
number of troops."
; Earlier, the navy reported
briefly, the Japanese sent sev
eral detachments into thesouth
eastern Solomons and a landing
party was sighted Thursday
near San Jorge island about 65
miles northwest of the important
San Jorge airfield of Guadal
canal.
Grumann fighters and Doug
las (Dauntless) dive bombers
attacked the group of small ves
sels sinking several, the navy
said, and raked the decks with
machine gun fire causing "heavy
loss of life."
Shelling Ineffectual
The Japanese efforts to re-
inforce their small forces also
brought several attacks by land-
based bombers apparently from
the enemy's mandated island
bases to the north. Nipponese
submarines, too, have shelled
the island at night. The navy
termed the shelling "ineffectual"
and declared the bombings failed
to cause serious damage.
Despite these attacks which
exacted "a heavy toll of enemy
planes," the communique added,
the American forces have con.
tinued to land supplies and re-
inforcements for the marines
who captured the Guadalcanal
Tulagi area August 7.
pirating principle developed by
the commission's management
labor policy committee, and ap
proved by McNutt on July 16,
McNutt directed all ' federal
departments and agencies to
"take all steps which may be
necessary or appropriate to cf.
fectuate these provisions and to
insure their observance."
Previously the commission
had depended on voluntary com
pliance with Its directives but
it was disclosed that the . new
order will be enforced through
the power of government pro
curement agencies to approve or
disapprove payrolls of plants
producing war materials.
States in the "critical labor
area" are Arizona, "Colorado,
Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyom
ing, California, Nevada, Ore.
gon, Washington, New Mexico
and Texas,
Coast Ship Launchingsark'Labor-DAy-iGoMtwise 'shipyards marked Labor day with
numerous ship launchings. Here are three of them, Top is the James Duncan,. 68th Lib
erty ship launched at Portland, Ore., by the Oregon Shipbuilding corporation. - Below,
left to right,! the. Andrew Furuseth and Peter J. McGuire as they were, launched at the
Henry J. Kaiser yards in Richmond, Calif.!1: Both are' named after nationally known labor
leaders.1 (Associated . Press''Phbtb. ) '.-;.'. '' " " . -iL f ' '. '
Japs Drive on
In New Guinea
General MacArthur's. Headquarters, Australia, Sept. 8 (IP)
Japanese jungle fighters, forcing back allied advance patrols,
have pushed up into the Owen Stanley range and are in contact
with the allied defense line in the mountains guarding the way
across southeast New Guinea to ort Moresby, General Mac-
Vote 5 Percent
Victory Tax
Washington, Sept. 8 UP) The
senate finance committee voted
13 to 6 today to adopt a 5 per
cent "victory" tax on the in
come of all individuals in excess
of $624 a year.
At the same time, the com
mittee directed the treasury to
make an immediate study of the
possibility of combining this tax
with the regular income tax, so
that collection would be simpli
fied. '
The committee thus acted to
obtain an annual yield of ap
proximately $3,500,000,000 from
individuals over and above pre
sent taxes and those anticipated
in the pending revenue bill.
Flying Fortress
Wins Air Baffle
London, Sept. 8 (U.B Twelve
crack fighter planes, learned yes-Focke-Wulf
190's, Germany's
terday that they were no match
for a single American flying
fortress handicapped by a dam
aged motor.
U. S. 8th air force headquar
ters revealed that a fortress,
which became separated from its
squadron after attacking Rot
terdam, shot down two of the 12
attacking Focke-Wulfs, probably
destroyed a third and fought off
the rest to return to lis base.
Scrgl. Gilbert Goar, Clarks
dale, Miss., though wounded,
brought down the first nazi
plane. A short time Inter Scrgt.
Jerry D. Johnson, Milwaukee,
Wis., shattered a second. The na
vigator, Lieut, Morris E. Manscll,
Houston, Texas, hit a third, but
could not confirm its destruction.
Arthur's headquarters disclosed
today.
A communique said fighting
was on an expanded scale from
earlier patrol clashes.
(It was not immediately clear
whether the Japanese had won
their way through the principal
pass in the mountains or wheth
er the allied - defense line still
guarded the high gap.)
The communique said "in a
series of frontal attacks, com
bined with envelopment, the en
emy has made advances, forcing
back our troops in the forward
areas, and is now in contact
with our defense positions."
The scene of the Japanese ad
vance was described as the Ko-koda-Myola
area,
Kokoda, scene of recent pa
trol clashes, is 1,000 feet above
sea level on the north side of
the range some 60 miles from
Port Moresby.- Myola, mention
ed for the first time in today's
communique, is 6,000 feet above
sea level, some eight miles
south of Kokoda on the way to
the allied port.
The fighting, which had con
sisted largely of patrol skirm
ishes, widened in extent and bit
terness and both sides sent
planes skimming over the moun
tain peaks to join in the impor
tant struggle.
The Japanese have lost more
than 1,000 men in dead and
wounded in the preliminary
stages of the fighting since their
landing at Gona Mission, July
22, and the advance to Kokoda,
a spokesman for MacArthur
said.
Triplet Smothers In Sleep
Portland, Sept. 8 VP) One of
tho 10-weoks-old triplets born to
Leo Turner, northwest middle
weight boxer, died yesterday
Deputy Sheriff Arthur Bcllis
said the infant girl, named Lana
smothered while asleep. Her par
ents and two brothers survive.
Powerful Bomb
Found in Plant
Newark, N.J., Sept. 8 (PI
Discovery of a powerful time
bomb in the Western Electric
company's vast Kearny plant was
disclosed by the federal bureau
of investigation today with the
arrest of an employe who sup
posedly had found it.
E. E. Conroy, assistant FBI di
rector, said the bomb had been
set to explode at 11 p.m. Sun
day, but that at 10:42 p.m. it was
turned over to company guards
by Bernard Joseph O'Donnell,
21, of Teaneck. Guards ripped
out wires to prevent a detona
tion. Had the bomb exploded in a
strategic spot, Conroy said, it
could have killed 100 persons.
O'Donnell was charged with
attempted sabotage, but Conroy
said the prisoner protested he
had made and planted the bomb
only as heroics and to demon
tratc that it could be done.
Flying Fortresses
A maze British Experts
London, Sept. 8 UP) American flying fortresses once criti
cized for deficient fire power were praised again today after a
precision raid on Rotterdam and Utrecht in occupied Holland yes
terday from which a formation
of fortresses returned Intact by
fighting off a swarm of German
fighters and shooting 12 of the
best German planes out of the
sky.
"With more crews and aircraft
like these, there can bo no doubt
about the mastery of the air over
Europe," said MaJ. Gen. Carl
Spaalz, commander in chief of
U.S. forces In the European. the
atre. "The fortresses have amazed
the experts again," the air cor
respondent of tho Daily Mall
wrote.
Making their longest raid into
nazl-hcld territory, the fortresses
bombed the railroad yards at Ut
recht and the Schiedam ship
yards at Rotterdam,
The attacks brought to a cli
max two days of 'intense aerial
activity against nazl military in
stallations. Sunday, the fortress
es directed the largest raid of
AHies Preparing
Second Front
Says Churchill
Full Agreement Between
United States and Great
Britain Reached
By Edward W. Bcattie
London, Sept. 8 (U.I!) Prime
Minister Winston Churchill told
the House of Commons today
that the allied laid on Dieppe
had been an indispensable pre
liminary to full scale operations
which were planned on "a much
larger scale."
Hitler now does not know
where, when, how or in what
force Europe will be attacked
by the allies, he said, announcing
a complete agreement with the
United States on all military
matters.
In a review of the war situa
tion, his first in nearly 10 weeks,
Churchill told a cheering House
of Commons:
New Egyptian Army
The British army in Egypt had
been made into practically a new
one in the last few weeks, it was
now stronger than ever actually
and relatively, that the axis had
attacked obligingly at a moment
when the British were ready,
and:
"The house may be confident
of our ability to maintain the
successful defense of Egypt not
for days or weeks but several
months ahead."
' That the recent convoy sent to
Malta through- a, ferocious axis
attack had ensured the ;llfe and'
resistance of that Mediterranean
fortress for a good many months.
Complete Agreement ''
That Britain and America had
made Stalin confident of their
resolve to go to Russia's ai'd Vas
quickly as possible without-regard
to losses or sacrifices so
long as the contribution : was
toward victory." . . :
That since tho previous meet
ing of the commons, and the
complete United Stales-British
agreement on the war reached at
the end of July, as announced
at Washington and by Churchill
today, "the tendencies of the
war have continued to move in
our favor."
That the United States army
flying fortresses operating from
Britain had opened new possi
bilities of warfare.
Submarine Warfare
That United Nations ship pro
duction had definitely passed the
sinking ratio and that:
"Our warfare on enemy sub
marines is more successful than
at any former period of the war."
He said that the sea war was
the foundation of all United Na
tions efforts.
"There is no reason to believe
we have not the means of vic
tory in our hands in the sea
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their brief activity In Europe
against Meaullc and St. Omer In
France. Two of the giant bomb
ers were left behind as the first
fortress losses In these raids were
recorded.
Sunday night a "strong force"
of RAF bombers again battered
Dulsburg at the junction of the
Rhino and Ruhr rivers and start
ed tremendous fires In the Im
portant traffic and metallurgical
center. The British announced
tho loss of nine planes in' that
and related operations, indicat
ing that hundreds of bombers
participated.
When daylight camo yester
day, single RAF planes headed
out over the North sea to strike
new blows at the German bases
of Emdcn and Brcmerhaven.
Then the flying fortresses went
up for their attacks on Rotter
dam and Utrecht, accompanied
by a force of fighters.
Germans Lose
More Positions
On Other Fronts
Red Army in Night At
tack Destroys Rumanian
Battalion Other Gains
Moscow, Sept. 8 (IP) Defed-
crs of Stalingrad were reported
firmly holding today against re
inforced German shock troops
trying to enlarge and new and
dangerous salient in the western
defenses. Non-stop attacks and
southwestern lines also held ov
ernight on battlefields stained
with blood.
A red army detachment took
the initiative in a night raid,
destroyed the headquarters of a
Rumanian battalion below the
city, slew 80 Rumanian officers
and men and blew up seven axis
ammunition trucks, the mid-day
communique said.
Held in Caucasus
Germans wedged into Russian
positions in the Novorossisk area
of the western Caucasus, but
were either driven back or held
fast in the Mozdok region of the
central Caucasus and they lost
additional positions to the Rus
sians on the central and nhrth
westcrn fronts, it was an
nounced. Scores of nazl planes were re
ported by Red Star to have fail
ed to soften Russian lines ap
preciably west of Stalingrad,
but the so,yiet information bu
reau acknowledged a penetra
tion of ground forces in .that
area. The Russian lines yield
ed, but remained intact.
All Attacks Repulsed
"The Germans brought up
fresh forces and, with tank sup
port, tried to pierce our defens
es for several hours, but all
attacks were repulsed," it said.
"The enemy left six tanks dis
abled on- the battlefield and
more than 200 officers and men
were killed."
While Field Marshal Fedor
von Bock thus resorted to very
costly frontal assault tactics, the
army newspaper Red Star de
clared the tempo of attacks
southwest of the city had been
stepped up.
Tho Germans and Rumanians
making up the assault forces
were reported to outnumber
the Russians at some points as
much as five to one. The fifth
Rumanian cavalry division lost
70 per cent of its personnel and
was replaced by the ninth di-
(Concludcd on page 13, column 6)
All Quiet on
Desert Front ;
Cairo, Sept. 8 (U.R) American
and British heavy bombers were
reported today to have attacked
axis shipping in the Mediterran
ean as Marshal Erwin Rommel
sought lo pull the remainder of
his desert forces from the south
end of the Alamein lino.
A communique reported that
American bombers carried out a
daylight attack upon the enemy
supply lino across tho Mediter
ranean In cooperation with hea
vy bombers of the Royal Air
force.
The bombers reported a direct
hit on a merchant ship and a
near miss on a tanker.
The first phase of the fall bat
tle of the Nile was over. Rom
mel had taken a beating but it
was Indicated that ho was not
preparing to make a stand and
any tendency to glont over his
reverses was discouraged by
British military leaders who ex
peeled him to try another of
fensive soon, as ho had staked
his reputation ' on breaking
through to Suez.
Tho front was quiet after a
week during which Rommel had
attneked with all his power mid,
it was finally revealed, had
reached a point only If) miles
from the vital coastal road from
El Alamein to Alexandria be
fore he met tho main weight of
the British eighth army and suf
fered a setback.