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TODAY'S EDITORIAL PAGE 1PM SPA LOU FINAL Lowering Draft Age: rtitonal and Cartoon. 0e Claims of 1941 and 1942: fidSf'YItw of India: Public Opinion. MM.tMi.m., The Only Evening Newspaper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service Vol. 95.

No. 26. (64th Year). ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 194248 PAGES PRICE 3 -CENTS ROOSEVELT MAKES SECRET Railway Passenger Schedules Frozen, Special Trains Barred BE FARM BLOC 0 ACCEPT SENATE SfflN IN PRICE IBOL MEASURE 8 700-MILE INSPECTION TOUR OF V.

S. WAR PLANTS Keller Shows President About Tanks TRIP ANNOUNCED CARDS, YANKS TO LOSE SPECIAL CARS IF SERIES GOES BEYOND SUNDAY WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (AP). A spokesman for the Office of Defense Transportation, commenting on today's order restricting railroad travel, said today that should the World Series continue beyond Sunday, the effective date of the the players would have to buy train tickets in the regular way and could only "hope to get reservations." The New York Yankees traveled to St. Louis in three special cars. They and the St.

Louis Cardinals will travel to New York tomorrow for two and possibly three more games, and if these do not complete the series must return to St. Louis. An ODT spokesman said It was possible that Eastman might issue a special permit for the move, but said he thought this was unlikely. Ml I lMmiMIIII flllllllllI.MiMIII....M...M. UIUI1HU i Associated lress Wirephoto from U.

S. Navy. K. T. KELLER, president of the Chrysler Corporation, uses a oooJfc to explain tank construction to PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, during the litter's tour of war production plants.

MRS. ROOSEVELT is at the left, DONALD NELSON behind Keller. (A full page of pictures of the President's tour on Page 3.) Sale of Used Tires, Tubes Barred; Limit in Effect AFTER TWO-WEEK CENSORSHIP ON HIS MOVEMENIS( President Visited Ship yards, Tank Factories. Service Bases, Other Points on Journey to West Coast and Return. WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (AP), The White House lifted a two-week censorship on the movements of President Roosevelt today and disclosed his return from an inspec tion tour of war factories throughout the country.

A statement said: "The White House announces the return of the President to Washington after a most successful two weeks' inspection tour of the country. "The President left Washington Thursday evening. Sept 17, and returned shortly after noon today, completing a trip of 8754 miles, during which he inspected Army and Navy bases, shipyards, tank, airplane and shell producing plants. Army, Navy and Marine training centers, supply depots and embarkation ports. "The President traveled from Washington through Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, on west through North Dakota, Montana, and Idaho to Washington, down the length of the Pacifia coast and returned through the Southwest Arizona, New Mexico, Texas to Louisiana, and thence to Washington stopping at Army, cantdnments in Mississippi and South Carolina.

"Upon his return to the White House, the President announced he would hold a press conference' late today for the purpose of giving the Washington correspondents the story of his trip. He was accompanied on the inspection tour by representatives of the A. U. P. and the I.N.S." CARGO PLANES NEARLY EQUAL TO OCEAN FLEET FORECAST U.

S. Building Air Transport Craft 'By Thousands, Near Parity by End of '43. WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (A). The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce reported today that the end of 1943" it was indicated by Army Air Force officers that the number of Air Transport Command cargo planes would have swelled to so many thousands that air transport would approach parity with wartime ocean shipping. The Chamber said the American aircraft industry was building "thousands of cargo planes" for Eastman Order, Effective Sunday, Restricts Service to That in Operation Sept.

26. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 AP). Director Joseph B. Eastman 61 the Office of Defense Transportation today ordered the "freezing" of all railway passenger schedules and ruled out the operation of special trains to football games, races and other sporting events.

The order, effective Oct. 4, restricts railroads to the passenger tram schedules existing on Sept. 26, forbids the running of any spe cial passenger' trains or the addition of new trains to existing schedules. It also bars the running of extra sections to regular trains unless such sections have been run at least 20 per cent of the time dur ing the last 90 days to handle the normal flow of passenger traffic Also, under the order, no rail road may operate a passenger train which includes a car "char tered to, or the use of which by prior arrangement Is restricted to an individual or group of persons traveling together." This would rule out special cars, op cars chartered to baseball teams or traveling orchestras. This pro TAKIS TOLD 0 Refers to 1932 TalkJap anese Fifth Column Leader Gets 3 Years on Forgery Charge.

"Dr." Ashima leader In the Japanese attempt to organize a fifth column among St Louis Negroes, and Tom Uyeda, former steward at the fashionable Bridle-spur Hunt Club, spoke at a national convention of the organiza tion in St. Louis in 1932 and ad vised the members to store firearms against the day when the Japanese invaded America, District Attorney Harry C. Blanton said today in a statement to United States District Judge Charles B. Davis. In addition, Blanton said, the two speakers told members they would be given a secret countersign and furnished with special banners to put in their windows so they would be safe from the attacking Japanese who could identify them as friends in this manner.

The stored firearms could then be brought out and used against the white race, it was explained. Takis was before Judge Davis on his plea of no contest to a charge of forging a postal money order for $21 and Blanton's statement was made to the Court to outline Takis' activities in St. Louis and other parts of the country. Takis pleaded not guilty to the charge thi3 morning but after counsel was appointed for him he changed his plea. Judge Davis sentenced Takis, who was charged under the name of Mimo de Guzman, to three vears a ueaerai prison.

xu 1 rTV agent, clad in baggy gray trousers, brown sweater coat, and blue shirt, appeared unperturbed while Blanton made the statement. Uyeda, named in the statement, was taken into custody last December and now is interned in a a camp. uyeaa, aespue we iuw vention of numerous wealthy and prominent patrons of the club, was classed as a dangerous enemy Continued on Page 5, Column 2. Landlords Tair PROSECUTOR SAYS NEGROES to to 2 the tell His a a 12 on STALINGRAD ARMY COUNTERATTACKS TO HOLD GERMANS Defenders Strike Above and Below City as So viet Paper Declares 'Most Decisive Moment Is at Hand. BOTH SIDES THROW IN REINFORCEMENTS ixazis iive uround in Areas of Russian Re lief Assaults, but Ex pand Wedge in North ern Suburbs.

LONDON, Oct 1 (AP). A Reuters news agency dispatch from Stockholm said today that Marshal Semyon Timoshenko's forces, battling to relieve Stalingrad, had broken through the German defensive position at some points along the Don River northwest of Stalingrad. By EDDY GILMORE. MOSCOW, Oct 1 (AP). The "most decisive moment" in the battle of Stalingrad was officially reported at hand today and the Russian defenders counterattacked both northwest and southwest of the Volga River city in response to a telephoned order from Premier Stalin to stand firm.

Both sides were throwine reinforce ments into the battle. The counter-offensive strokes on the wings of the constricted front evidently were designed1 to wipe out or offset a new wedge driven into the northwestern flank by a fresh German tank division, as acknowledged In the Soviet midnight communique. Even with the arrival of that panzer division and two fresh infantry divisions, the Nazis seemed unable to deal the decisive blow. At the same time Volga boatmen were keeping communications open across the river, moving up Russian reserves under fierce enemy air attacks. Reds Gain In Two Areas.

The noon communique reported Axis forces had been dislodged from one village at the southwestern outskirts of Stalingrad, and the army newspaper Red Star said that in that southern sector inree settlements had been re captured, with Rumanian troops thrown into panic in one place. Another height was seized in the Russian relief attacks northwest of Stalingrad, where several Axis divisions were reported massing in support of the assault on the city, already estimated to be employing as many as 500,000 of Adolf Hitler's troops. Captured railways helped the Germans in the transport of men and supplies. At least 15,000 Germans have been killed at Stalingrad In the last week of the battle now in its thirty-eighth day, the Moscow radio reported. "The situation remains it was added, "but the city's defenders are determined to fight to the last drop of blood for every Continued on Page 1L Column 2.

Today's War News MOSCOW Reinforced Russian defenders of Stalingrad counterattack southwest and northwest of Volga city under telephoned orders from Premier Stalin to hold the foe; Russians acknowledge Germans have driven new wedge into northwestern part of city; enemy also reinforced as battle approaches "most decisive moment." BERLIN Germans report bitter fighting in Caucasus and claim new gains in Northwestern Stalingrad; say U-boats set new record for sinking of Allied vessels in September. GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA Australian troops re-occupy Nauro in 10-mile advance in Owen Stanley Mountains above Port Moresby; Japanese abandon supplies in retreat but do not engage Allied forces, whose planes continue to hammer their supply lines. WASHINGTON Navy announces sinking of two American transports in separate actions in Solomon Islands but say loss of life was small. CAmo British attack in center of lire in Egypt, taking Axis stroag points.

ON STALIN'S OH 'J. jbmniittee Chairman Indicates Quick Clearing I of Way for Passage of AnfUnflation Bill To- morrow. OTH SIDES CLAIM VICTORY ON PARITY lower Chamber Expected to Insist on Provision for Floor Under Farm Prices for Three Years 'After War. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (AP).

airman Fulmer South jrolina, of the House Agriculture immittee said today that farm iders in the House would accept Senate version of farm price ctrol, thereby apparently clear-f the way for completion tomor-n 04 congressional action on ti-inflation legislation. We will do this in the interest speedy action," Fulmer said. want to stop inflation, and at same time help the farmer educe the necessary food for irtimes." He added: In making this statement, we mme that the bill will be prop-jy administered. The Senate bill practically in line with the use, but not nearly as strong." the same time he said House leaders would insist that the ial draft of the legislation in-i a provision, now in the use bill for continuation of a lor under farm prices for three krs after the war. I To Compose Differences.

Epeaker Rayburn said earlier lit House action on the Senate rsion of the legislation would be kyed until tomorrow, to give anbers" time to consider its pro-lions, and then the legislation pbably would be sent to a joint luse-Senate committee to com- differences, knator Barkley of Kentucky, inocratic leader, sa'id he saw no ison why the bill should not be i i before President Roosevelt to-BTOw. That would be one day fond the deadline set by Roose- It in his Sept. 7 message on con-il of the cost of living, i For Sept. 15 Levels. Idministration leaders were tked by an 82 to 0 vote in the pate in seeking to obtain an freement by House members to I major features of the Senate Sslation directing the President to ibilize prices, wages and salaries Sept 15 levels, so far as prac-ll.

rhis would mean a reversal of House vote to alter the basis computing farm parity stand-I fa and acceptance of an adminis- I tuuu-sponsorea amendment, in- fted by the Senate, directing the esident to raise price ceilings ere they did not reflect to grow- wnnued on Page 4, Column 1. Little Change )) THE TEMPERATURES, I m. 65 9 a. m. 63 10 a.

m. 62 11 a. m. It 2" 61 12 noon IV 60 i o. m.

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S01 maximum this date, 74; nor- minimum 57 m' hl8 87 4:30 P- m-: tow' Fltive humidity at 1 p. 36 per feather la other dtlea Page 3D. fficial forecast St LouiB and Little Mge in tem-ature tonight 4 tomorrow Jnoon. Missouri: Scat-H light sbow-'Un extreme fewest p0r- tonight jTing into eastern por-" tomorrow fcing; little in tem-yure tonight 1 tomorrow LET'S HAVE THE NINTH INNING FIRST. noon.

Uini: Con-warm toft nd tomor- POSI-Ot Sl-ATCH WEATHER BIRD km. a PAY OTP. forenoon; scattered showers understorms in extreme north Hon, jjt, sunrise (tomorrow), of the Mississippi at St. 13.3 feet, no change; the at St. Charles, 14.9 feet, 1 of 0.3.

-U, lneludin foreeait 35-Mile Speed COUNTY WILL ARREST MOTORISTS EXCEEDING 35-MILE SPEED LIMIT ROSECUTING ATTORNEY STANLEY WALLACH sent word to enforcement officers in St Louis County yesterday to begin arresting motorists who drive faster than 35 miles an hour, in view of the national emergency program to conserve rubber. Information charging careless and reckless driving will be issued by the Prosecuting Attorney's office against speeders arrested in it3 jurisdiction, Wal-lach said, inasmuch as the driving of an automobile at more than 35 miles an hour no longer is "careful and prudent." Wallach sent the notice to the State Highway Patrol, the Sheriff's office, the chiefs of police and constables in the county and complimented them on an improved traffic showing, pointing out that deaths from automobile accidents in the county fell from 64 in the first nine months last year to 51 in the corresponding period this year. The speed limit on the city streets is 30 miles an hour, except on" the Express Highway, where the legal limit is 45 miles an However, a bill sponsored by Mayor Becker is pending in the Board of Aldermen to reduce the Express Highway limit to 35 miles an hour. BRITONS SAID TO ADOPT BABIES TO OBTAIN INCOME TAX REBATE Child Welfare Agencies to Urge Legislative Curb on "Farcical" Situation. LONDON, Oct.

1 (AP). Child welfare organizations are going to ask the Government for legislation to halt the "baby racket" the adoption of babies in order to get a rebate on high wartime income taxes in Britain. The general secretary of the National Children's Adoption Association said applications for babies had doubled since the war began and described the situation as "absolutely farcical." hibition, however, does not apply cars used by railroad officers or employes on railroad business. The "freeze" order does not prevent a railroad from eliminating any passenger trains from existing schedules, it was stated in response another query. YEARS IN PRISON Sentence Imposed on Justice of the Peace Tom Burns of Springfield, at Trial.

SPRINGFIELD. Oct. 1 (AP) Justice of the Peace Tom Burns was found guilty of signing a name other than his own to an initiative petition by a Circuit Court jury here today and his pun ishment was fixed at two years in State penitentiary. The jury deliberated 45 minutes. The jury heard State witnesses of the operation of a "signature mill" by Burns and Erwin Greenhaw, political ward worker here, in the basement of Burns' home.

The defense offered no witnesses. Burns, who had flashed a cheery smile frequently during the trial, received the jury verdict with a grave face. He told reporters he had "absolutely nothing to say." attorney said a motion for a new trial will be filed and, if that is refused, the case will be appealed to the supreme court. Burns and Greenhaw, Prose cutor William R. Collinson brought out during thhe trial, made a deal with the Missouri committee for one-house legislature to obtain signatures to petitions asking that proposal for a unicameral assem bly be placed on the November ballot.

Then, the prosecutor declared, Burns and Greenhaw set up their 'signature mill," hiring more than persons many of whom testi fied for the State to write names blank petitions, taking the names from telephone and city di rectories. The fraud was uncovered after the petitions had been filed in the Secretary of State's office in Jeffer son City, and sponsprs of the pe titions withdrew them. For their work, an official of the committee testified, Burns and Greenhaw received a total cf $2057, At no point during the trial was there any evidence that Burns mm self signed any names to the petitions, but the Judge instructed the jury that "if a person advises Continued on Page 8, Column 6. Return' Appeal landlords and tenants had worked out for themselves by free bar gaining in a competitive market which had not yet been affected by the impact of war "In suggesting the use of the date method. Congress did not as sume that all landlords were receiving the same rate of return or that each landlord was receiving an radequate" or 'fair rate of return," Henderson asserted.

"Nor was it assumed that all landlords of comparable housing accommodations were receiving exactly the same rentals." The other three protests denied were those of Mary McCormick of Belmar, N. Malonr? Land Improvement Co. of Spring Lake. N. and Stanley W.

Taylor of San Francisco. In the Belmar case, the owner Continued on Page 5, Column FAKING NAME inn CQNNALLY ASSAILS TALK OF SEIZING Rebukes Mead for Urg ing Occupation Calls Willkie's Comments in Russia 'Unfortunate WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (AP). A call by Senator Mead New York, for immediate occupation of "all French possessions within the American sphere of civilization" brought a sharp warning today from Chairman Connally Texas, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, against "dangerous references" in Congress to "delicate" matters of war policy. Connally said he thought it was "most unfortunate" that Wendell Willkie had been "so free with his comments while he was in Russia." Obviously he referred to Willkie's recent suggestion that military leaders might need prodding to establish a second front Mead declared this Government's relations with the "depraved" Laval Government had about "reached the breaking point" and that stern measure should follow the "seizure of American citizens in France." Mead asserted that Great Brit ain's recent action in Madagascar "sets a precedent for us to follow" in occupying French possessions in the Caribbean Sea and even Dakar, strategic West African naval base.

"Few Americans realize," he said, that the workers Laval sends into Germany "are being fed into Ger man factories for the manufacture of munitions to be used against our armed forces." DELAY IN CHEMICAL FIRMS' TRIAL TILL AFTER WAR SOUGHT Biddle's Request Taken Under Ad visement; Monsanto Among IX Anti-Trust Defendants. WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (AP). Attorney General Francis Biddle announced today that he naa asked the United States District Court at South Bend, to postpone until after the war the trial of anti-trust charges against 21 leading chemical companies and 65 of their officers. A Department of Justice representative presented the request to Judge Thomas W. Slick and Judge Slick took it under advisement with a promise of a decision Monday.

A statement to the press by Bid-die explained that the postponement was requested by the Army and the Navy which filed letters with Biddle saying that "the trial of these cases at this time would seriously impair the war effort." Companies named in the indictment included the Monsanto Chemical Co. and the E. du Pont de Nemours Co. Elliott Roosevelt in Britain. LONDON, Oct 1 CoL Elliott Roosevelt arrived in Britain yesterday to Join the United States army air forces here.

MIS swift transport of men and yxfZ goes through the Army and Navy I Freeze Order in Effect Until Rationing Begins i i Drivers Asked to Go Slow. WASHINGTON. Oct 1 (AP). The Office of Price Administration froze today the sale of used tires and tubes pending completion of a new rationing program governing these articles. Present regulations control use of new and recapped tires.

To conserve tires already in use, a wartime speed limit of 35 miles an hour for privately-owned automobiles went in effect today throughout the United States. En forcement methods varied from strict penalties in some states to appeals of patriotism in others. The used-tire freeze order will be lifted, OPA said, when a rationing system is completed to permit sale to certificate holders. Recap ping has been hampered under the present rationing program, it added, because of a shortage of rii-cappable carcasses. OPA said it was "important have available for rationing, not only the mileage that is represented by used tires with good tread thick- jnesses still remaining, but also the auppiy or recappaDie carcasses which are the starting point of any successful recapping program." Complaints Cited.

There has been a growing volume of complaints that car operators who get recapping certificates are unable to use them because their own casings are not fit for recapping, and there is no well-organized market where they can buy suitable carcasse, OPA explained. The freeze order granted exceptions with regard to transfers by both consumer and dealer. OPA said it would permit sale to a consumer of an automobile equipped with used tires and allow an automobile dealer to shift mounted used tires among his cars. However, used tires that were part of a dealer's unmounted stock as of yesterday may not be mounted on the dealers' cars during the freeze period. Although sale of unmounted used tires or tubes by one consumer to Continued on Page 8, Column 4, Measure Supply! as of today.

Similarly, dealers and suppliers must register inventory ana storage capacity as of today. As every transfer Will be cov ered by a coupon note beeinninc Oct. 1, the redemptions will result in a retroactive "How back" of coupons and wiU provide a basis for complete aodit of control of the trade by OPA, under its ra tioning regulations, during the entire month of October. Because the coupon note exchanges must correspond exactly with the rationed coupon transaction which will be permitted by OPA. tfte WPB order imposes transfer restrictions and prohibitions of approximately the same typ as will appear in a later OPA order.

On Rent Ceiling Is Thrown Out Rationing of Fuel Oil Begins; nanspori services. "At present," the announcement said, "these carg'Vcarrying giants are girdling th' globe over roughly four sky routes." It said transportation by air already was a "modern miracle of tr ansportati-J." White- Comes to KIska Island. TOKIO (from Japanese broadcasts), Oct Winter has corns to the Aleutian Islands, a Dome! news agency correspondent reports iium xvis-na, Japanese-occupied, ai me western end of th cnain. He said snow blanketed lsiana and rnting winds swent nn.1i. -w I uiauciterea Japanese camps.

'POLITICAL IMPLICATE SEEN BY CONGRESSMA IN THE PRESIDENT'S WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (AP) REP. HALLECK diana, said in the House "day that ths "smnr-, of news on the President's trip iU uegree -neither necessary nor desirable" and added that "the political Implications" of th- journey "will be very discernible." "The people of this country would much rather have the President stay on the job of winning the war than to mix in politics," Halleck said. He expressed hope that a precedent had not been established whereby "lesser administratoi could conceal their activities. Users Told to WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (AP).

Fuel oil consumers in a 30-state rationing area, including Missouri and Illinois, may purchase supplies today with a written promise to surrender their required num ber of ration coupons when they are distributed by the Office of Price Administration later this month. The War Production Board's coupon credit system requires dealers and suppliers receiving deliveries of fuel oil to pledge submission of coupons, as soon as they are available, for the number of gallons delivered. Consumers were directed to Inventory their heating oil supplies so their rations may be computed WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (AP). Price Administrator Leon Henderson, denying the first four protests against rent ceilings to reach him, today held in one case that the act under which rents were frozen was not intended to see to it that every landlord was receiving an "adequate" or "fair" return on his investment.

Theresa E. Reimel of Phlla-delpia had asked that the rent regulation in that area be amended to permit her to charge $60 instead of $45 a month for her property, on the ground that the freezing of rents at levels of last March did not enable her to obtain a fair and reasonable income from the property. Henderson said Congress had chosen the freeze system of rent control in order that rents would be stabilized "at the level which A 3L.