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THE RHINELANDER DAILY NEWS 168 RttlNELANDER, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1942 6 PAGES TODAY Compromise Offer Rejected in Senate Proposal Would Introduce 'Cost of Production' Factors WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 Farm state senators offered a compromise today of their demands for higher farm prices in the anti-inflation bill but administration leaders flatly rejected it. Senator Brown (D-Mich) said he and other administration leaders had turned down a proposal offered by a senate agriculture sub-committee which Brown contended would have introduced "cost of production" factors into the fixing of agricultural prices. Brown announced that the istration planned to permit an original proposal by Senators Thomas (D-Okla) and Hatch (D-NM) to come to a vote today and then attempt to substitute an administration compromise offered by Democratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky. Thomas had indicated his readi- ness to abandon his amendment, which would change the basis for computing parity standards by including farm labor costs for the first time, if the new farm bloc proposal proved acceptable to the administration.

This proposal would have directed the president to raise farm price J-ceilings where they did reflect increased labor costs and where they were too low to permit a "reasonable profit" to farmers. Senator Hatch (D-NM), chairman of an agriculture sub-committee which drafted'it, said the proposal's rejection by Brown and others demonstrated to him that "the administration expects farmers to produce at less than the cost of production." "The amendment I proposed," Hatch continued, "met with the" complete agreement of the so-called farm bloc. The only thing it included was a provision that any ceiling price to be established under If the pending joint resolution should include the cost of labor, plus a reasonable profit to the formula which every industry in 1 the more. Says' "The leaders of the farm organizations have agreed to it, but the I administration says 'no'." Brown said he did not wish to accept the proposed compromise because he believed it would upset present parity action to which President Roosevelt has said he was "unalterably and in effect would substitute for the. "cost of theory as a standard for farm prices.

President Roosevelt was reported today to have agreed to delay any executive move to control the cost of giving until congress completes action on pending anti-inflation legislation, even if the final draft does not reach him by his Oct. 1 I deadline. In his you-do-it-or-I-will message of Sept. 7 the president told congress that present controls would not hold the cost of food and cloth- ng down beyond Oct. 1, and requested action by that time.

But Senator Brown told report- fc ers he had been assured Mr, Roose- contemplated no immediate action and would wait a reasonable length of time for congress to finish its work on a measure directing that prices, wages and salaries be stabilized at Sept. 15 levels, as practical. Farmers Find Parity Adequate. A cross-section report from great plains and corn belt farmers, W. M.

Thatcher, legislative chairman for the national farmers union, said, indicated that parity prices now determined" are adequate if sufficient farm labor is assured and farmers "have the protection of such prices for a period of years following the conclusion of the war." Brown said an amendment would be offered to the bill with his support to take wheat and corn off the list of commodities on which the measure would authorize government loans of 90 per cent of parity. The agriculture bloc has looked upon the 90 per cent loan provision as a floor under farm prices, but Brown said government economists believed that an increase from the present 85 per cent loan level to 90 per cent for corn and wheat would cause price rises seriously affecting the livestock feeding program. I Aside from this, there were reports that some farm state jnem- bers might attempt to amend the bill to obtain government loans of 100 per cent of parity. Disposal of the farm questions still would leave pending a proposal by Senator Ball (R-Minn) to include a fixed formula for wage ceilings, similar to that worked out by the war labor board in the "Little Steel" case. As Ball proposed this standard, it would limit wage increases to an amount equal to the rise in the general cost of living since Jan.

1, 1941, computed by WLB at 15 per cent. The federal power commission, meanwhile, moved 'into the price stabilization picture with an order to utility companies not to pass war taxes on to consumers. Directed at the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line company and its affiliate, Illinois Natural Gas company, the order held that increased tax burdens resulting from the war "must be borne by the utility which enjoys a monopolistic position in the economic field, as well as by others who have no such advantages." Freezing of Farm Labor Suggested By Kershey PRICE FIVE CENTS 'Weather Forecast for Wisconsin: Not quite so cold tonight and Tuesday forenoon; heavy frost and freezing temperatures tonight. fc Rhinelander Weatber: The peratxire yesterday stayed close to the freezing point, ranging from a high of 39 to a low of 27 degrees; lowest reading during last night was 25 degrees; at 8 a- m. the thermometer egistered 26 degrees and at 10 a.

m. 35 degrees; the wind was northwest; the precipitatior. amounted to .28 of an inch. Weather Year Maximum temperature 58 degrees, jy'fUii- mum 32; trace of precipitation. WASHINGTON, Sept.

28 freezing of essential workers to the farm; by giving them the choice between agricultural production or military service, was suggested today by Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service chief, as one possible means of alleviating a growing farm labor shortage. He told the house agriculture committee "I am willing to do this," if the proper policy-making agency of the government decided it was advisable.

Hershey disclosed that he was considering the possibility of classifying agriculture production into its essential and non-essential components, either by crops or production areas. He said he had discussed this with Agriculture Secretary Wickard. Discussed With Senators. Before his testimony to the house group, General Hershey had discussed manpower needs with a special senate defense investigating committee preparing to investigate the situation. said the committee hoped to begin hearing heads of various governmental agencies Wednesday.

Chairman Fulmer of the house agriculture committee said it would also hear reports from Paul V. McNutt, head of the war manpower commission, and Donald M. Nelson, war production chief. The suggestion of "freezing" farm workers to their jobs, if what they produce is essential, came after nouse committee members, studying the general farm labor emergency, complained that labor was farms for industrial areas where wages are higher. One member said conditions in the dairy industry were becoming critical, because of workers being drafted and lured away by higher wages in industry.

All Agriculture Not Essential. Hershey told the representatives "nobody would assume all agriculture is essential." Several committee members, however, said it would be long and detailed job to decide what part of agricultural production is essential and what portion non-essential, and this would not answer the demand for immediate action, so that farmers might plan their 1943 crops. The selective service director warned that both industry and agriculture were going to suffer losses of more men to the armed services, and, that notwithstanding this, food and industrial production must be kept at a high level. He said that estimates should be made now on the anticipated war needs for foods and the number of farm workers necessary to produce these foods, but contended that such estimates could not be "frozen," because of the changing conditions. Turning to the demands of the forces, including men from the farm, Hershey said "we're going to have to a.sk 'what is a man raising on his Five Die in Traffic Accidents By the Associated Press At least five persons met death over the week-end in traffic accidents on Wisconsin highways.

The dead were: Mrs. Clements Walters, 21, of Ettrick. Richard Komberg and his wife, 61. Herman Kukla, of Milwaukee. Walter Liebeck, 52, of Filwau- kee.

Mrs. Walters was killed Sunday in an accident on Highway 53 near iSttrick. Her husband and two other passengers in the car were uninjured. Coroner Martin Wiemer said an inquest was probable. The Krombergs were killed Sunday in a collision at the intersection of two town roads six miles north of Neenah.

Dr. G. A. Steele, Winnebago county coroner, said both were thrown from their car and died of skull fractures. An inquest was set for Monday.

Kukla, struck by an automobile Saturday night at a Milwaukee street intersection, died Sunday at a hospital. Liebeck' was injured Sunday in an accident on Highway A in Waukesha county and died en route to Wuukesha Memorial hos- i pital. Nelson Declines Candidacy on Progressive Ticket MADISON, Sept. 28 State Philip E. Nelson, of Maple, announced today from Washington, where he is engaged in war work, that he had declined the Progressive nomination for lieutenant governor.

His decision made public a day in advance of the platform conventions of the state political parties, took the Progressives by surprise. Nelson won the nomination in the Sept. 15 primary over Assemblyman Henry J. Berquist, of Rhinelander, although he did no campaigning. He has been in Washington for about two months, working with the war production board.

The Progressive state central committee, to be named at the party convention tomorrow, will have to fill the vacancy on the ticket. Normally it would be expected to choose Berquist but he had announced his intention to enlist in the army and it was uncertain whether he would be available. Explains Withdrawal. Nelson, in a statement explaining his withdrawal, said: "It is a distinct honor for me to have the people of Wisconsin choose to have me as their candidate for this post. However, the state and nation find, themselves in a great emergency.

Representative government and democratic living are being challenged by the Hitlers and Hirohitos. entered upon responsible duties, directly concerning the allocation of critical materials for army, navy and civilian needs. My short stay in the war capitol of the world has assured me we will win, only Berquist Out of City Today Assemblyman Henry Berquist, runner-up to Sen. Phil Nelson, of Maple, for the Progressive nomination for lieutenant governor, could not be reached today for a statement as to his availability for the ticket in light of Nelson's refusal of the nomination. Berquist, who after the September primaries that he planned to wind up his per- in the armed services, is in Chicago, members of his family said today.

with an all-out determined effort on the part of every individual in this nation. I have no hesitancy in the face of these strong convictions, to decline this splendid, personal opportunity." Nelson was Progressive floorlead- er in the senate at the last two sessions of the legislature. Two years age he placed third in a field of five candidates for the nomination for governor. Conventions Tomorrow. The platform conventions, which assemble in Madison at noon, will set off the first blasts in the Nov.

3 election campaign. Besides adopting formal declarations of principles they will select the chairmen and members of their central committees for the next two years. Delegates are the state and legislative nominees. The major parties, Republicans, Progressives and Democrats, will have preliminary caucuses tonight. Wielding of the gavel at the Democratic meeting will be State Chair man Thomas R.

King, of Oconomowoc, but King will be replaced if the convention follows the wishes of Dr. William C. of Kaukauna, nominee for governor. Envoy to Vatican Returning BARCELONA, Spain, Sept. 28 C.

Taylor, president Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal envoy to the Vatican, arrived here at noon today by plane from Rome after conferences with Pope Pius XII. He is on his way home via Lisbon to report to the president. Slayer to Have Trial Tomorrow SPARTA, Sept. 28 Dist Atty.

Leo J. Goodman said today that Robert T. Bailey, 20-year-old; army deserter who has admitted slaying two women social Workers, would be brought into circuit court for trial tomorrow. Bailey pleaded guilty to two charges of murder when arraigned Sept. 21 in justice court in connection with the rape-slaying of Miss Neil J.

Pietrangeli and Miss Dorothy Baun, of Kenosha, on Sept. 7. He, was bound over for trial on Oct. but Goodman said that tfiidge, Robert S. Cowie, of La Crosse, was able to move up the date of arraignment.

Sullivan Wins Demo Nomination By 202 Votes MADISON, Sept. 28 (fP) Final tabulations completed by the secretary of state's office disclosed today that 391,048 persons voted in the Sept. 15 primary and that the division by parties was as follows: Republicans, Democrats, Progressives, Socialists, 5,680. More than 1,000,000 electors estimated to be able to vote in Wisconsin remained away from the polls. Of those who did vote about 68.9 per cent voted Republican, 16.6 Democratic and 14.5 per cent Progressive.

These are the figures to be reported tomorrow to the state canvassing board, the board's approval, a formality, will make them official. The total includes several hundred ballots that were marked improperly and not counted for the candidates. Thft featured'race, from the standpoint of closeness, was that between Dr. William C. Sullivan, of Kaukauna and Gustave J.

Keller, of Appleton, for the Democratic nomination for governor. Sullivan won by 202 votes. Governor Julius P. Heil won re- nomination for a third term in the Republican primary with a plurality of 41,072 over State Senator Milton T. Murray and 104,240 over Dr.

James K. Robinson, both of Milwaukee. His majority over Murray and Robinson together was 8,332. Orland S. Loomis, of Mauston.

Progressive and Frank P. Zeidler, of Milwaukee, Socialist, were nominated for governor without opposition. The vote for state candidates by parties: Governor: Republican: Heil Murray Robinson 32,740. Democrat: Sullivan Keller Fajkowski Conlin Cannon Wilde 7,227. Progressive: Loomis 54,508.

Socialist: Zeidler 5,666. Lieutenant Governor: Republican: Walter S. -Goodland Charles I. Wesley 70,474. Democrat: John M.

Brophy 52,952. Progressive: Philip E. Nelson Henry J. Berquist 14,240. Socalist: Arthur C.

Ochsner 5,233. Irish Surprised By U. S. 'Chutists WITH THE AEF IN NORTHERN IRELAND, Sept. 28 parachute troops showed the British army and Ulstermen how they will hit the Axis when the time comes by dropping onto Irish bogs, surprising the Tommies in large-scale battle practice recently.

Hundreds of young and tough Americans with full fighting equipment leaped from huge troop transports in this first exhibition of their skill in Northern Ireland. The presence of the American parachutists in Britain was only 10 days ago. Long-trained British units were caught off guard by the blossoming parachutes but quickly caught up their weapons and jogged a mile to engage them. The parachutists descended from a height of a few hundred feet with tommy guns, explosives, emergency rations and full personal equipment. Mortars, machine-guns, ammunition and signal equipment was dropped simultaneously.

British Leaders Support Willkie in Request for Immediate Aid to Russia Four Burned to Death in Sleep INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 28 mother and her three children were burned to death in their beds after noon today as fire of undetermined origin swept their upstairs east side apartment. The dead are: Mrs. Eileen Goolsby, 24, and her children, Gloria, four, Roy Andrew, two and Margo, one. The four were sleeping when the fire raged through the second-floor residence and apparently they were in a bedroom.

Germans Seize Americans, Report BERN, Switzerland, Sept. 28 (fP) Germans have seized some 300 Americans in Occupied France as potential hostages, diplomatic quarters here learned today, in a move which added to the tension in Pierre Laval's government in Vichy. News of the seizures came from private sources in Paris. American diplomatic sources were without official word but it caused no surprise, since Americans in the occupied zone are liable to internment by the Nazis as enemy aliens. Those held were Americans who for one reason or another remained in Occupied France pending negotiations for their repatriation.

It was assumed that if repatriation were permitted the would ask for the return of an equal number of Germans in the United States. The roundup and other incidents, especially the United States' endorsement of the British occupation of Madagascar, have served to create the most critical situation far in American-French relations, French observers of the Vichy scene said. Laval is faced with the greatest difficulties in the negotiations with Germany for 120,000 'French workers, which private sources said had been demanded within three weeks. Mindful of the sentiment of the French, Laval declared that this would involve strong compulsion which he dared not exert, information -from Paris said. According to advices, Laval is determined to pursue collaboration in his own way.

If he chooses to stand against full conscription of workers, there is a possibility of his being pushed out of the government, it was reported. In such a case he could adopt the role of having stood for the rights of Frenchmen. There was one rumor that he had even threatened to go to North Africa. It was reported without confirmation that Charles E. Bedaux, friend of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor whose wife is the former Miss Fern Lombard of New York and Tours, France, was among those taken into custody.

It was reported, meanwhile, that the United States embassy in Vichy has asked Laval's government to explain why citizens of the United Slates had been barred from air travel in Unoccupied France along with other Allied nationals. It was understood that the embassy also wanted to know why American motion picture films have been stopped in transit at the Spanish border for the past eight I days and why American film distributors in the unoccupied zone I have been notified to close their i. offices Oct. 1. U.

S. Airmen Active On China Front Fliers Tell of Bombing Jap Ship By DEAN SCHEDLER SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Sept. tired but elated Americans told today how they unloaded bombs on a Japanese cargo ship in Rabaul biggest ship they could find. When they left with the Japanese throwing shells at them from all directions, billowing clouds of black smoke were pouring from the ship which was hit directly amidships. Capt.

Paul Cool of Pontiac, summoned the crew around the breakfast table to share in telling of the night's work. Among them were Lieut. Joe Hensler of Summit, N. the co-pilot; Sgt, Ed Williams of Vernor, Texas, the bombardier; Lieut. George Walthers of Denver, navigation; Sgt.

Robert Noller of Riverside, engineer; Sgt. Lee Morris of Los Angeles, gunner; Staff Sgt, Wiley Walters of Los Angeles, gunner; Corp. Jack Maddock of Poplar Bluff, gunner; ajjd Corp. Paul Lavalle of Milwaukee, tail gunner. Cool said Walthers worked over an hour trying to get the plane over the target but had to change his course due to bad weather.

The i fortress made at least four passes over the New Britain harbor fore Williams could sight the target. "It was getting light enough to distinguish the camouflage on the ships in the harbor," Williams said, "I picked the largest and let go with a bomb which hit almost amidships. I dropped another which landed 20 feet away. "When I looked back as far as I could see a huge black smoke cloud rising from (the ship. I had been aware of ack-ack fire around us and I kinda figured it was time for Capt.

Cool to head for home." Lavalle added this: "Boy, in my private suite I never know where we are going but I sure can tell where we have been. That stuff was coming so close to my place, I picked up the interphone and told the pilots, "let's get out of here. This plane's too hot for me." Gunner Morris added: I "You just see part of the show, where you are, boy. Think of me riding along in that greenhouse I see all the show, shell by shell. Some of JBose shells came so straight at me I couldn't duck.

I just had to close my eyes. CHUNGKING, Sept. 28 Bombers and fighters of the United States army air forces blasted Jap' anese bases and lines of communi- i cations west of the Salween river in southwest Yunnan province yes- i terday, inflicting considerable damage without the loss of a single plane, Lieut, Gen. Joseph W. Stil- i well's headquarters announced today.

I Numerous direct hilts were i scored on buildings at Mengshih and Tengyueh, starting a number of fires, the bulletin said. I "Five separate groups of Japanese barracks were strafed when Am, erican planes swept along the i burma road to Wanting," the com- munique added. The attacks represented the second assault by American airmen in as many days on Japanese com- i munications in Yunnan province. Saturday Stilwell's "Flying Drag; ons" subjected the highway tween Lungling an Chefang to a violent strafing, destroying 10 enemy trucks and a staff car. This assault, too, was carried out without loss.

The previous day American fliers raided the Japanese air base at Hanoi, French Indo-China, for the first time since Aug. 27, shooting down three of the enemy's new two-eiiginud, two-seated 1-45 fighters. Laborite Calls For Second Front 'Without Delay' LONDON, Sept. 28 assertion by Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell that British and American troops would fight their way onto the European continent as soon as possible shared attention today with Labor leaders' demands for an immediate government answer to Wendell Willkie's call for a second front to aid Russia.

Wavell, commander-in-chief of India, spoke in New Delhi in a review of the global aspects of war and voiced his firm conviction that the United Britain, Russia and China would' fight on together to ultimate victory. "It is quite certain that as soon as ever possible both American troops and ourselves will start a second front, but I can't tell you when or where." Wavell declared. "It's a biggish problem starting on the continent. We'll have some American and we get back into the continent. But we'll get back." While Wavell was giving this assurance, Lord Strabolgi, Labor peer, was demanding in a speech at Wimbledon that the Churchill war cabinet reply "without delay" to Willkie's assertion in Moscow that the best way to aid Russia was to open a second front before next summer.

Strabolgi said he did not see how the Labor party could continue to give "blind support" to the Churchill government unless military aid were given Russia at once. Laborite Supports Willkie. Emanuel Shinwell, Laborite member of the House of he had been greatly impressed by Willkie's outspoken statement and cxpressed opinion that Britain and the United States should take the initiative immediately. "We are told by members of the government that our armies are well-equipped, that our deplorable shipping losses are rapidly diminishing and that we have overwhelming superiority in the air," Shinwell said. "If all that is true, what are we waiting for?" The opposite view of the situation was given by Lord Croft, parliamentary secretary of the war office, who said in a speech that Britain already had fought on 13 fronts "mostly against great odds and that she had performed great services for Russia by aerial assaults upon Germany and by delivering supplies to the Soviet in the face of great difficulties." Russian hopes of quick aid, meanwhile, were given a boost by George Alexandrpv, chief of the Communist party's propaganda department in Moscow, who predicted the opening of a second front in the near future.

Not Far "The time is not far distarit," he wrote in the party organ Pravda, "when our allies will introduce their armies against the common enemy." Germany's outward reaction to all this second front talk was voiced by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop who declared that the Germans would welcome an Allied attempt to invade western Europe. Von Ribbentrop spoke at a diplomatic reception in Berlin marking the second anniversary of the signing of the Tri-Partite pact which linked Germany, Italy and Japan in a military alliance. Speaking confidently of the progress of the campaign in Russia, Von Ribbentrop said the Soviet union already had lost 14,000,000 men in killed, wounded and prisoners and was approaching exhaustion in manpower. His figures were greatly at variance with those of Willkie, who had put Russian losses at 5,000,000 men. Military Academy Donates Field Piecss FORT SHERIDAN, 111., Sept.

28 St. John's military academy at Delafield, contributed 4,000 pounds of metal to Fort Sheridan's salvage campaign last week in the I form of three-inch field pieces which have been used as decorations. Maj. Alfred G. Anderson, professor of military science and training, presented the 1894 weapons.

U. Raiders Hit Buna-Gona Area GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Sept. 28 (ff) Flying Fortresses twice bombed the Buna-Gona area on the eastern coast of New Guinea, where i the Japanese are trying to push! I overland toward Port Moresby, and i I also damaged a merchant I I ship in a heavy attack on the ene-1 my base at Rabaul, New I yesterday, Gen. MucArthuv's head- quarters announced today.

Child Dies From Needle in Heart PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28 Three-year-old El a or Hughes, who had lived for two weeks with a sewing machine needle imbedded in a muscle of her heart, died late yetserday, the Childrens hospital reported today. A physician said the needle apparently had torn a hole in the heart muscle, causing death. The needle was driven into the girl's chest when she fell while playing at home in Clinton, Pa. Nazis Claim Troop Convoy Ships Sunk BERLIN (From German Broadcasts), Sept.

28 high command said today that German submarines had sunk three transport vessels and a destroyer in an attack in the north Atlantic on a troop and supply convoy en route from the United States to England, (There. no confirmation of the attack from other sources. German claims of large scale victories over Allied convoys in the past have proved repeatedly to be greatly exaggerated.) "In the north Atlantic," a special 1 communique said, "German submarines destroyed the greater part of an American troop transport destined for England. "They attacked a fast enemy convoy consisting of only a few large passenger steamers and which was strongly protected and carrying munitions and war material. "IrTthe course of difficult attacks and heavy pursuit fighting lasting several days, they sank one two- funnelled steamer of the Viceroy of India type which capsized after three torpedo Jilts; one two-funnelled steamer of the on Reina Del Pacifico type which blew up following two torpedo hits; one transport of the Derbyshire type, and one destroyer of the escort.

"Two other transport ships were damaged by torpedo hits. "With these successes, our submarines have dealt a heavy blow at the enemy. The enemy transport fleet has lost three particularly valuable, fast units totaling 47,000 tons such as are employed mainly for specially important and urgent transport of troops. The navy department in Washington said there was no comment on the German claims. Americans Raiding Balkan Capitals? ISTANBUL, Turkey, Sept.

28 (fP) American-made B-24 bombers, flying from undisclosed bases with bomb loads as great as four tons, have been spreading the message of the United Nations' growing might among the Axis satellites in the Balkans for the past two weeks, it has just been disclosed, bringing blackout and bewilderment to one capital after another. The targets in Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and the puppet state of Croatia could be reached either from Russia or the Middle East but where the bases are is not being given. Nor are Allied authorities revealing the nationalities of the bombers' crews. But it was indicated it probably would not be wrong to assume that American fliers are becoming acquainted with the Balkans along with Russian and British pilots. Reliable reports reaching here of Axis movements of troops and war materials across the Balkans recently toward Africa and Russia bring Nazis Reinforced As Reds Loose i Own Offensive By EDDY GILMORE -MOSCOW, Sept.

28 Fresh German shock troops rushed to the front by transport plane poured into the debris-choked streets of Stalingrad in an effort to clinch victory, dispatches said today," but the Red army, fighting from window and rooftop and in the streets, held the city in the 35th day of bloody assault. Northwest of the city, the Russians were blunting the German drive and unloosing an offensive of their own in an effort to slow the more direct Nazi attack on the city, it was reported. In one sector, large Soviet units killed 2,000 Germans in two days, the mid-day communique said. Dispatches from the front estimated that 36,000 Germans were battling from positions inside the city and said they were being reinforced steadily in an attempt to overwhelm the defenders, who were relying on bomb-harassed communications of the Volga. The fighting for the city is "growing ever fiercer and bloodier," a correspondent for Pravda reported.

"The whole city is in convulsion from the incessant explosions of bombs and shells," he said. Zig-Zag Front Line. The fierce fighting of the past 24 hours, with the Germans lunging into the city from several different points, has resulted in a zig-zag front with the Germans slightly advanced in some and the Russians established in new positions to the west on others, one dispatch said. The Russians were reported to have taken two more streets from the Germans at one point. Writing from the agony-filled city, the Pravda reporter said that the bursting of shells and bombs was so constant that the dust of the city never had a chance to settle.

Gone from the Volga, he wrote, are the former pleasure. boats and steamers. In their places are armored ships and fast cutters, darting from bank to bank, taking in supplies, ammunition and fresh troops and carrying out the wounded. Despite their great losses, the dispatch said, the German effort to take Stalingrad is not weakening. The Germans were reported throwing great numbers of tanks into the battle and one guard detachment was credited with destroying 24 of them in one assault.

House-to-House Scramble. The fighting in the city was a house-to-house scramble for advantageous positions with a liberal and deadly use of hand "grenades, fire bombs and machine-guns. At one place a Russian communi- que said, 600 Germans were killed as Red army troops drove the invaders out of buildings they had captured. Northwest of the city, the Russians were reported lunging at the German flank in a desperate and at least partly successful effort to slow the assault of the city. The Germans, recognizing this threat, were throwing attack after attack at the Russian lines there.

In one sector, German infantry supported by 40 tanks, attacked eight times during one day, a com- munique said. In another sector one Red army unit was credited with killing 2,500 Germans. 'Exceeds Combats at The army newspaper Red Star' said the battle for Stalingrad, in the number of German casualties and the stubborn resistance of the Russians, "greatly exceeds the combat at Verdun," the historic stand of the French in the first World war. In the Mozdok area of the Caucasus to the south, where the Ger- more air raids in the Balkans re- communiques accounted for. The War Today By GLENN BABB Speculation on Japan's next move begins to eliminate some of the possibilities.

The British obviously feel a growing confidence that India can be removed from the list and that Australia is not in immediate danger. Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell, who ought to know something about Japanese conquest schedules by now, having directed the losing fight for Malaya and the Dutch East Indies last winter, puts it picturesquely: "As to the Japanese, he's got his hands full. He's like a boa constrictor which has swallowed a big gnat. See "War Tuday," Page 4, pressure and said they had withdrawn from one position before "numerically superior enemy forces." Gains were reported from the region southeast of Novorossisk, Black sea naval base now in the hands of the Germans.

A German occupied height on the Leningrad front was reported recaptured and in two days of fighting, the mid-day communique said, 22 enemy blockhouses were stroyed and 800 Germans killed by patrols. Norris Accepts Nebraska Candidacy I LINCOLN. Sept. 28 I United States Senator George W. i Norris (Ind-Nebi today accepted a candidacy for re-election.

The 81-year-old veteran senator notified Secretary yf State Marsh of his atccpUuice of pt to run again as an Jadepcwdw asked Marsh to place his the November tjeucrui ballot..