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No. 30. (64th Year). ST. LOUIS, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1942 30 PAGES PRICE 3 CENTS TODAY'S EDITORIAL PAGE SPATC BYRNES URGES ALL TREASURY SEEKS STALINGRAD HURLS BACK 150,000 PUPILS BEGIN CITY, COUNTY SCRAP COLLECTION; SCHOOL PILES RISE RAPIDLY NEW ATTACKS; STALIN SAYS SECOND FRONT IS VITAL Scales of War Tilting in Favor 3 WUDENTS HAUL 1510 POUNDS Of Allies, Says Lord Halifax Here GERMANS TH1V MORE RESERVES 10 FIGHT; REDS Red Chief Urges Allies to Meet Obligations Fully and on Time Copyright, 1942.

by Associated Press. jr wENRT C. CASSIDY, 32-year-old chief of the Associated Press Bureau in Moscow, has covered most of the Russian-German war, either from Moscow or from Kuibyshev, and is one of the few reporters the Russians have allowed to visit the front lines. A Bostonian, Cassidy has teen abroad for the AP in Paris, London and Moscow since 1936. Following is the tetct of Premier Joseph Stalin's replies to three questions put by Cassidy in seeking an interview: a a 3 8- My I a 3" a.

0 0 Ml fit i-0 I mm Wh1 amiBMHii if nhflurm lfcfcn mifinlr iVitititiMI limn wr firniii "Dear Mr. Cassidy: "Owing to the pressure of work and my consequent inability to grant you an interview, I shall confine myself to a brief written answer to your questions. "1. 'What place does the possibility of a second front occupy in the Soviet estimates of the current "Answer: A very important place, one might say, a place of first-rate importance. "2.

'To what extent is Allied aid to the Soviet Union proving effective and what could be done to amplify and improve this "Answer: As compared with the aid which the Soviet Union is giving to the Allies by drawing upon itself the main force of the German Fascist, the aid of the Allies to the Soviet Union has so far been little effective. In order to amplify and improve this aid, only one thing is required: That the Allies fulfill their obligations fully and on time. "3. "What remains of the Soviet capacity for "Answer: I think that the Soviet capacity of resisting the German brigands is in strength MiaMiifrwminiMitfiniTmMnnnrri iM By a Post-Dispatch Staff Photographer LORD AND LADY HALIFAX, on their arrival at Union Station today. U.

BRITISH ENVOYS CONFER ON RUSSIAN PREMIER'S PLEA TO JOIN IN KEEPING War Also Must Be Fought on Home Front, Asserts Economic Stabilization Chief. HENDERSON ACTS TO CURB INCREASES Rents Frozen at March 1 Level in Rest of U. S. New Food Price Limits Effective Today. WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (AP).

James Byrnes, the Economic Stabilization Director, said today that "we at home must unite in waging all-out war against any further increase in the cost of living of the American people." He asserted that "today some people profit; many more suffer" and warned that "this war must be fought not only upon the battlefield, but upon the home front." Byrnes talked at the Supreme Court Building for news reel photographers before moving his offices to the White House to direct the economic stabilization program. Rent Control Order Signed. Price Administrator Leon Henderson signed a blanket order directing that residential rents be reduced to the levels of March 1, 1942, in every part of the United Mates where rent control pro cedure had not already been in effect. The order created 45 new defense rental areas, one for each state in the Union except Rhode Island, Connecticut and Delaware states which previously had been designated in their entirety. Within each of the 45 states the new designation covers all territory, rural and urban, which had not previously been set aside as a defense rental area.

The designation as defense rental area makes it incumbent on State and local authorities to see that rents of all dwelling units are cut back to the prescribed level within 60 days, after which period Federal Continued on Page 9, Column 2. BOSTON SYMPHONY DISCUSSING UNION PACT WITH PETRILLO Chief Concern Is Preservation of Musical Integrity, Statement Says. BOSTON, Oct 5 (AP). The Bos ton Symphony Orchestra, sole ma jor non-union orchestra in the country, disclosed yesterday it bad been negotiating with James C. Pe-trillo, president of the American Federation of Musicians (AFL), concerning union recognition, but that certain barriers remained to be overcome before an agreement could be reached.

The orchestra made this disclos- use while issuing the first general appeal for funds to sustain it in its 62-year history. "The musical Integrity of our institution rests upon the wide discretionary powers we have con ferred upon the conductor (Serge Koussevitzky) in selecting personnel and in matters of discipline," the statement said. "We do not believe our institution can maintain that integrity if our musicians subscribe to the existing by-laws of the Federation of Musicians. "If those by-laws were to be amended so as to permit the full and free pursuit of the highest ar tistic standards, our chief cause for anxiety would be removed." 8-HOUR-DAY LAW SUSPENDED IN BUILDING AIR FIELDS IN U.S. Roosevelt Acts Because of Shortage of Skilled Mechanics and Laborers.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (AP). President Roosevelt suspended by executive order today the eight-hour work day law as it applies to laborers and mechanics employed by the Civil Aeronautics Administration in constructing landing areas, air navigation facilities and other public works necessary to the war effort. The employes affected are to be paid time and a half for all hours worked in excess of eight in any one day. The executive order said successful prosecution of the war required completion of the landing areas, navigation facilities and other public works "at the earliest practi cable date" and that it would be Impossible to complete them within the required time, without suspending the eight-hour law, because of an "acute shortage of skilled mechanics and laborers." The suspension applies for the duration of the war.

NEW TYPE CHECKING ACCOUNT The Popular Checking Account costing only 5c per check issued makes hit with depositors at Industrial Bank, 801 Washington. (Adv.) DO! LIVING COST 6 BILLION IRE Morgenthau Asking for Second Measure as Soon as Present Bill Is Approved. 30 BILLION NEEDED, SECRETARY ASSERTS Downward Standard Forecast George. Revision in of Living by Senator WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (AP).

Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau announced today that the Treasury will ask Congress for an other tax bill "of at least six billion dollars and possibly much more'' as soon as Congress passes the pending tax measure. Morgenthau said Jhat the Treasury believed ft must have a "minimum of 30 billion dollars a year revenue to operate during the war and the pending measure, added to existing taxes, will give us only about 24 billion." Hhe made the statement at a press conference, but declined to forecast what kind of additioanl taxes the Treasury has in mind. He said the only delay in presenting the new tax requests, after the pending measure is passed, will be whatever time the Treasury must wait before congressional committees arrange to hear the proposals in formal committee sessions. In estimating the yield of the pending measure, the Secretary was using a somewhat lower guess of the effect of the Senate measure than has been made by congres sional leaders. Back-straining taxation that will force a downward revision in the standard of living soon was forecast by Senator George Georgia, as the Senate received the new revenue bill.

The Senate agreed to begin de bate on the bill tomorrow, starting work an hour earlier than usual. George, as chairman of the Fi- Continued on Page 2, Column 2. LIGHTED OUTDOOR CHRISTMAS TREES BARRED IN NEW YORK Army Commander Says They Would Be Violation of Dimout Regulations. NEW YORK, Oct. 5 (AP).

There'll be no lighted outdoor Christmas trees in New York City this year. The Army says they will be a violation of its dimout regulations. The order barring outdoor dec orative illumination became known yesterday when Mayor LaGuardia tore into it with vengence in his weekly broadcast from the City Hall. The Mayor said Maj. Gen.

Thomas A. Terry, commanding general of the Second Service Command, had restricted outdoor Yule trees to undimmed hours. Since the dimout along the Atlantic coast, begins half an hour after sunset the decorations will have little time in the public eye. Gen. Terry wrote the Mayor's office saying illumination can be unrestricted up to the hour dimouts are effective.

The Mayor said he did not agree Christmas trees would send a glow into the- sky, but that the rule would be observed. 10 MILLION POUNDS OF BOMBS USED BY R. A. F. IN 10 NIGHTS Ministry Reports on Explosives Dropped, on Europe in First Half of September.

LONDON, Oct 5 (AP). On 10 nights during the first half of September the Royal Air Force dropped nearly 10 million pounds of bombs on Europe, the Air Ministry announced today. United States bombers carried out attacks on three days during September, and the R. A. F.

made raids on 16 nights and 11 days, the Ministry reported. Twenty German planes were reported destroyed in scattered forays over Britain, 25 over Europe, 113 in the Middle East and 12 over Malta. R. A. F.

plane losses were listed as 194 over Europe, one over Britain and 94 in the Middle East. ROOSEVELT ON AIR TONIGHT President Will Appeal for Support of Welfare Funds. WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (AP). President Roosevelt will appeal in a radio address tonight for support of the annual Mobilization for Human Needs. He will speak at 9:50 o'clock, St.

Louis war time, for approximately three minutes, during a program launching the regular fall campaign for funds for Community Chests in cities over the country. IN TAXES SOON 11 DILL YARD irst 20 at Patrick Henry Bring 400 Pounds Canvass of Business Firms, Institutions to Follow Campaign. A junior army of 150,000 boys and girls of St. Louis and St. Louis County marched to school today with guns, bayonets, helmets, tanks, shells and bombs to join he battle for victory and peace.

The arms they carried were erely pieces of old metal to be deposited on schoolyard scrap but destined to go from there to the steel mills to be forged into the world's finest fighting equipment. As these youngsters, representing tU the public and Catholic and iLutheran parochial elementary Khools in city fend county, joined in an intensive campaign to collect useful scrap metal of all kinds, kanv were thinking of big broth- fothare and nnplfiG TulntinCr jtombers and fighters, driving tanks, manning guns and otherwise Swearing the brunt of battle at the far-flung fronts on land and sea. Nation-Wide Collection. The school children's drive which started today is expected to "get in the scrap" from every home and farm in city and county. It is part of a nation-wide campaign enlisting 30 million elementary school pupils.

It will continue for the next two weeks and will be followed by a concentrated two-weeks' campaign by city and county salvage committees to collect more tons of scrap metal from the business establishments and institutions of the city and county. The first 20 children to arrive at fce Patrick Henrv Tiiihli iVinrl iortn lentn street, Drought pwre tnan 400 pounds of scrap metal, including about 50 wounds Of valuable copper, brass and lead. ihree of the nunils. Donald Cohen and Fred and Billy borrowed a junk peddler's cart to carry about 150 pounds of mp they picked up in alleys. ineir collection included a truck ive shaft, orange squeezer, coal ovei, birQ cage and fieverai pui.

Nursery Children Helo. vriupus tne Henry onnl a- ovumI, langing irum i. If years of age, also were "getting the SCratl." Dno vnimoct.f ttram trying a small Easter egg basket a which he had six pounds of Jrass and copper, including a flatbed penny. Another solemnly topped on the scale a single key. i most all the pupils, when asked py the Principal, Albert L.

Lindel, Fhere they obtained the scrap, replied, -in the alley." me alleys are eoinE- to win this far for us," Lindel commented. he 680 r1inil tVia Ca-rT pgro) School, Fifteenth and Carr Continued on Page 4 Column Cooler Tonight THE TEMPERATURES. 65 9 m. 63 10 a. m.

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f6 58 63 6o I m. siimuS; 55axlmuM this date, 72; normal feiy' hiKh- 75; low, 59. WuVh umldit at 1 P- 6 Pr cent- nether other cities Pag 5C. Official forerat nr 0r St Louis a AH P'nity: Slihtlv ier tonight; i change to- "rrow forenoon. 1 uri: ghtly cooler Snighi: iitti Ige tomorrow renoon.

i tni8ht and r. Pl SuQset. 6:30 sunrise (to- fcor rw), 7:02 f-m. lout8', the Mississippi at St. RS I at St- Charles, 13.6 feet, WEEK END 4-1 MAKES POSTDISPATCM WEATHER BIRO Mts OTP II GAIN ABOVE CITY Nazi South Flank Also Under Pressure One Russian Unit Gives Ground in Battle for Factory District.

MOSCOW, Oct 5 (AP). The Moscow radio said tonight that Soviet infantry had advanced seven miles in one sector of the central front, apparently in the Rzhev area 130 miles northwest of Moscow. An important height was captured, the broadcast reported. By EDDY GD1MORE MOSCOW, Oct 5 (AP). Th Germans poured a constant stream of reserves into Stalingrad today, swelline their forces in the area to at least 400,000, but they still had not achieved a breakthrough or ma terial advance, Soviet dispatches reported.

The Russian noon communique said the Red Army had improved its position northwest of the city but that the Nazis in a determined drive on a Stalingrad factory set-, tlement forced the defenders to give ground during the night "The enemy is conducting fierce attacks in the direction of a factory settlement," the communique reported. "At a cost of heavy losses he succeeded in pressing one of our units somewhat On all other sectors the German attacks were repulsed by our troops." 35 Nazi Divisions in Battle. The Communist party newspaper Pravda said the German command loosed the assault in the factory settlement sector after bringing up two more infantry divisions and one tank division, increasing its strength in the Stalingrad area to 35 divisions. The German divisions were estimated at anywhere from 9000 to 15,000 men. Pravda said the besiegers were moving up reserves daily over "the road of dead" despite their large losses.

After bettering their position northwest of the city, Russian troops were reported locked in battle with Nazis clinging to a strongly fortified hill. In other fighting in this area, a Red Army unit battling for possession of a strategic, height killed 150 Germans and destroyed some enemy equipment it was said. The ferocity of the fighting within the city was indicated in the report that artillery and mortar fire wiped out a battalion of enemy infantry and destroyed 24 machine-gun posts and six gun and mortar batteries. Forty-Second Day of Battle. The defenders, now in their forty-second day of battle general ly were holding fast amid the smoking ruins of the city.

The Reds kept up their pressure on the German flanks from the north and south, desperately trying to pinch the Nazi forces together and ease the terrific strain on Stalingrad's garrison, dispatches said. The midnight communique reported that northwest of the city Continued on Page 10, Column 1 Today's War News MOSCOW Stalingrad fights on in forty-second day of battle, with Germans pouring in reserves in effort to turn tide; Reds acknowledge Nazi gain in one sector, but say they advanced in another; Premier Stalin urges Allies to fulfil! obligations and to do so on time; calls second front vital, but says Russia is equal to task of resisting Germans "or any other aggressive power." BERLIN Germans report cap ture of additional blocks of houses in fierce street fighting in Stalin-grade; also claim gains in Caucasus. WASHINGTON Navy announces new United States submarine Grunion is overdue in Pacific and Is presumed to be lost; Army boomb-ers raiding Japanese at Klska almost daily from new bases in An-dreanof Islands; five enemy seaplanes downed Friday. SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA Australian troops presn on past Efogl in Owen Stanley Mountains and approach strategic pass; still no major clash with retreating; Japanese. U.

S. SUBMARINE E. PRESUMED LOST 1500-Ton Craft Was Launched Last Dec. 22 Normally Carried Crew of 65 Men. WASHINGTON, Oct.

5 (AP). The Navy announced today that the submarine Grunion had been overdue in the Pacific for some time and must be presumed lost. The Grunion, launched at Gro-ton, last Dec. 22, was commanded, by Lieut, Commander Mannert L. Abele, 39 years old, of Quincy, Mass.

The brief Navy communique did not say how many men were aboard the submarine, but vessels of this class 1526 tons carry a normal complement of approximately 65 men. i This was the fifth submarine re ported lost by the Navy since the war began two, the Shark the Perch, were presumed lost by enemy action when long overdue in the Western and Southwestern Pacific areas; the S-26 was lost in a collision off Panama and the Sea Lion was demolished at Cavite in Manila Bay to prevent capture. The Grunion was authorized in 1934, but the contract for its construction was not awarded" until Aug. 1, 1940. The kee1 was laid March 1, 1941, at the Electric Boat yards.

Mrs. Stanford C. Hooper, wife of Rear Admiral Hooper, was sponsor at its launching. Commander Abele, who enlisted in the Navy as an apprentice sea man in 1920 when he was 17, and served for more than a year before entering Annapolis, was assigned to Groton during construction of the Grunion and took command of the submarine when it was launched. His wife, Mrs.

Catherine Abele, lives at Tiverton, R. I- UN OVERDU Associated Press Photo. JOSEPH V. STALIN not less, if not greater, than the capacity of Fascist Germany or of any other aggressive power to secure for itself world domination. "With respect STALIN Welles, Commenting on Assertion That Aid Is Ineffective, Asserts All Humanly Possible Is Being Given.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (AP). Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles, asked about Russian Premier Joseph Stalin's statement to the Associated Press indicating dissatisfaction with the "measure of aid thus far extended by the United States and Britain, told his press conference today that it was hardly necessary to say it was the Government's intention to give every possible assistance to the Soviet armies and that such aid was being given to the extent humanly possible. LONDON, Oct 5 (AP). The London Star said today that some members of Parliament intend to ask Prime Minister Churchill for an early explanation of what Premier Stalin meant in asking the Allies to fulfill their obligations to Russia "fully and on time." "They would like to know whether the time table for opening a second front was agreed on during the Prime Minister's Moscow talks," the Star said.

Every London newspaper gave front page space to Stalin's utterances. Diplomatic correspondent Guy Eden of the Daily Express said Stalin's statement was "a reaffirmation of his desire that the other United Nations should create a large-scale diversion to ease the pressure on Russian troops." He said both Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt agree with him on the urgency of a second front but that the only question was "when" it should be opened. "Use of the phrase 'on time In Stalin's statement" Eden said, "was commented on with some curiosity in London. It seems to imply a promise that the action should be taken within a specified time, but this view was not confirmed in competent Quarters here." The Evening News asserted editorially: "Stalin's expectations that the Allies will fulfill their obligations fully and on time will not go un heeded. We are making ready to carry out Mr.

Churchill's pledge to t-o to Russia's aid 'as quickly as possible and in the most effective The Yorkshire Post said: "Reichsmarshal Goering tells the German people they cannot lose. Stalin tells us in so many words that if we dally we may fail to win. It is a harsh warning but one that Continued on Page 10, Column 2. Ambassador and 'Wife Met at Train by Mayor and British Consul Ceremony at City Hall. Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States, said today, at the beginning of his three-day visit to St.

Louis, that "the big scales" of war are "getting big stuff put in them, and are beginning to tilt" in a direction favorable to the United Nations. The Ambassador and Lady Halifax arrived at Union Station at 9:07 a. on a delayed train from New York. They have a schedule of speeches, receptions and war plant inspections continuing until Wednesday afternoon, when their program is unannounced. They were to attend the sixth world series baseball game then, but the Cardinals' victory in New York today, ending the series, cancelled that game.

i Mayor and Mrs. William Dee Becker, British Consul Hugh C. McClelland and Mrs. McClelland, President Thomas N. Dysart of the Chamber of Commerce and Mrs.

Dysart, met the visitors at Union Station. Lady Halifax wore a black traveling Suit with blue satin blouse and black satin hat, and silver fox fur. The Ambassador was in a gray suit with black fedora hat. Col. Angus McDonnell, aid, and Maj.

J. L. Lockhart, military attaches, accom panied them. Press Conference. At the Park Plaza Hotel, where Lord and Laay Halifax have suites, the Ambassador held a press conference in which he expressed his view as to the state of the Allied War effort and commented on the Russian, Chinese and Indian phases of the situation.

He is former Viceroy and Governor-General of India. His remarks on the gradual tilting of the war scales applied, Lord Halifax said, both to the European and the Pacific fronts. "Hitler and the Japs have been able to show remarkable results on the map," the Ambassador said, "but the days of their easy gains are over. They are up against a proposition where big things are beginning to tell. "As the Russians have done a magnificent job, so no one ought ever to forget how much we owe to the Chinese for their resolute stand, for years alone, against the Continued on Page 8, Column 1.

of the train jumped the track and rolled 25 feet down an embankment into Moniteau Creek. Seven other empty oil cars and two cars of explosives were pulled after it and all caught fire. The fire was so intense that the 100-foot bridge was destroyed. Railroad officers said a bridge building crew had been dispatched to start rebuilding it. Trains will be re-routed over other railroads in the meantime.

HOW TO WOW SOLDIERS Send them the new Mavrakos Military Box. Created to delight military men. 2 lb. 1.50. At MavraJio toret (Adv.) Ambassadors to Moscow Expected to Seek Explanation of Some of Phrases Used in Soviet Statement.

By HENRY C. CASSIDY Copyright. 1942. by Associated Press. MOSCOW, Oct 5 Premier Joseph Stalin has declared that aid to Soviet Russia "has so far been little effective" and called on Russia's Allies to "fulfill their obligations fully and on time." In a statement yesterday, the Soviet Premier said specifically that Russia regards the establishment of a second frqnt as a matter of first rate importance.

Stalin's statement was delivered in the form of a letter answering, three questions submitted to him in writing by this correspondent chief of the Moscow Bureau of the Associated Press, and represented the Soviet Premier's first public utterance on the second front issue in more than a year. U. British Envoys Confer. The letter was discussed informally today by the United States and British Ambassadors, who are expected to seek an explanation of some of its phrases. The two envoys, Admiral William H.

Standley and Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr, met at luncheon at Spasso House, the American Embassy. The main issue appears to be whether the creation of a second front in 1942, which is generally held by Russians to be an Allied obligation, should be so considered by the governments involved. In diplomatic quarters the letter was considered to be an important development bringing into the open apparent differences in the views of the Allied capitals. Standley also conferred today with Maj. Gen.

Follett Bradley, head of the U. S. supply mission in Russia. Stalin's Reply to Cassidy. Stalin, who began his letter bv saying he was unable to grant an interview because of the pressure of work, answered my three ques tions in typed form on a plain sheet of white notepaper, and signed the letter in a bold hand.

To the first query, "What place does the possibility of a second front occupy in the Soviet esti mates of the current situation?" he replied: A very important place one might say a place of first rate im portance." The second question was, "To what extent is Allied aid to the Soviet Uinion proving effective and what could be done to amplify and improve this aid?" Stalin's answer was: "As compared with the aid which the Soviet Union is giving to the Allies by drawing on itself the Continued on Page 10, Column 3. Residents Evacuate Town as Train Carrying Explosives Catches Fire The 400 residents of Rocheport, 16 miles west of Columbia, left town for. several hours today when a Missouri Kansas Texas freight train bearing explosives was wrecked at 6:30 a. m. about a quarter of a mile west of the town and caught fire.

Even the telephone exchange was evacuated. Fire departments from Boonville and New Franklin were called but authorities refused to let them fight the fire because of the danger. The wreck occurred when an empty oil tank car in the middle.