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The Latest Telegraphic News -BY- United Press DELPHOS HERALD PRICE THREE CENTS WEATHER OHIO and WEST VIRGINIA. Somewhat warmer tonight DELPHOS, OHIO, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1942 VOL. 49. NO. 62.

ALLIED FORCES MAKING DIES IN PLANE CRASH TUESDAY King George's Youngest Brother Killed on Duty With 14 Others- Giant Flying Boat Crashes in Desolate Country in Northern Weeks of Mourning Started for Britain's Koyal Court. LONDON, Aug 1 26 royal court began tour weeks of mourning today for the Duke of Kent, King George's youngest brother who was killed on duty with 14 others in an airplane crash yesterday. The giant Sundcrland flying boat taking the 39-year-old duke to Iceland crashed in desolate country in northern Scotland only 60 miles from its takeoff, it was understood today. Informants said that, the funeral probably would be private because the necessity, during the war, of keeping secret movements oE the royal family. Sorrow with which the sudden wap death of a ni)ost popular ni-em- ber of the royal family was received by Britons generally was mixed! with pride that he had been killed 011 active service as an sir commodore as had so many humbler British subjects in three continents and the seven seas.

The communique announcing the duke's death said: "The air ministry deeply regrets to announce that Air Commodore, his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent was killed on active service Tuesday afternoon when a Sunderland flying boat crashed in ncrth- eru Scotland. "His Royal Highness, who was attached! to the staff of the inspector general of the air force, was proceeding to Iceland on duty. "All the crew of the flying boat also lost their lives." In, response to reports abroad that the crew were Americans, authoritative United States sources said that such reports were completely? wrong, that no meni(ber was an American. (Presumably the reports originated in the knowledge that American troops are now in force in Iceland.) Normally a Sunderland, much used by the coastal' command for ocean patrol work, carried a crew of about nine. The plane has a range of about 2,500 miles and a speed of about 210 miles an hour.

The duke, himself a pilot; might have been serving as one of the crew when the plane crashed. He had been on active service since the war started. He had started out as a naval officer taut after flying many thousands of miles he joined the Royal Air Force in 1940. He was then an air vice marshal, but asked to be given the lower rank of commodore so that he would not outrank the experienced officers with whom he would serve. Three weeks ago the Duchess of Kent, the former Princess Marina of Greece gave birth to their third child, and second son.

He was named Michael George Charles Franklin, the Franklin for President Roosevelt, one of eight godfathers. The duke died exactly a year after he visited Mr. Roosevelt in the White House and inspected army and navy units near Washington. The duke learned to fly 12 years ago. He flew the Atlantic to Canada in July last year in-an American- made Consoli'dated bomber to inspect empire air 'training schools.

The duke was fourth in line for the throne, afttr the king's two daughters and the Duke of Gloucester. It was uncertain whether the title of Duke of Kent would descend at once to the duke's heir, his son Prince Edward of Kent. The dukedom is a royal one and usually is bestowed by a king on one person, Without the right of descent. Mourns Death Of Duke Of Kent HEAVY LOSSES INVESTIGATE BOMBER CRASH ADVANCING GERMAN COLUMNS NEAR STALINGRAD MERIDIAN, Aug. 20 (UP) Key field officers today investigated the crash of a light bomber iri which four men, two of them Ohioans, were killed.

The rlead were I'vl. William Nohlc, Cleveland, Ohio, Sgt. Dominic A. Giannamore, Steu- benvillc; 2nd Lieut. Nolan Fan- rjuy, Houma, and Pvt.

Claude Noel, 20, Richmond, Va. The plane was found wrecked three northwest of Meridian after it had been missing 1 48 hours. Ohio's I.W.OOO Needy Old Folks Will Keeeivr Larger IVIonthly to Offset liirreiiscd of Welfare Department Makes Announcement. COLUMBUS, 0., AUK. 2fi (UP) Ohio's 130,000 needy old folks being financially by the state will receive larger monthly assistance checks to offset increased costs of living, the State Welfart Depart- announced today.

At the suggestion of Governor Bricker, Welfare Director Charles L. Sherwood made surveys to determine the effect of higher living costs throughout the state. Karl R. Babb, acting chief of the State Division of Aid for the Aged, appropriate nients will he made in payments to the aged in line with the prevailing living costs in the various communities. Babb said that, the new assistance plan will become effective with October payments.

He said that state officials had hoped to get it into effect by September, but, that negotiations with the federal social security board delayed the program. Babb explained that under the Social Security Act, the federal government appropriates an amount, equal to that of the state. He said estimated that increases in awards to the aged would amiount to $1,000,000 for the last three months of 1942. Babb said, there would be variations in the amount of individual adjustments since each assistance award is based on need. Based on the most recent comparative check.

Ohio ranked third among states, in the total. amount of money paid to aged persons and. (fourth in the, number of old folks being helped. ROOSEVELT TALK OVER RADIO WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UP) The White House announced today that President Roosevelt would send a message to congress and deliver a radio address the people on the cost of living, probably on Labor Day.

White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said Mr. Roosevelt, who has been studying anti-inflation measures for some time, would send the message to congress, if congress is in and then talk to the country by radio. PRODUCERS MAKE APPEAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UP) Livestock producers appeal directly to Price Administrator Leon Henderson today against his proposal for establishing a price ceiling on live meat animals.

The delegation of midwestern feeders and western ranchers meet Henderson this afternoon to protest that a ceiling would result in a reduced meat supply and "confusion and chaos" in the livestock industry. Battle for Stalingrad has German armies drive on toward the great Industrial city from' both northwest and southwest. Mechanized forces and columns of motorized Infantry in some places nave approached to within SO miles of the city in the face of increasingly bitter Russian generaMrtew of Stalingrad is shown above. CAN SUPPORT ARMY IN EUROPE LONDON, Aug. 26 ordnance production has reached a scale sufficient to support full-sized army in the field in Europe, Br ig M.

Barnes, 'assistant chief of ordnance, United States Army, and head of the design division of the War Department, said today. Battle Force of 750,000 Men Being Spearheaded by Estimated 555 Armored Divisions Closing in on Stalingrad from Three Guards Not Less Than 40 Miles From Stalingrad. WILL REDUCE TKKE QUOTAS COLUMBUS, Aug. 26 (UP) Ohio rationing officials, working on a reduced tire quota for September, are keeping a 'close watch on motorists who abuse their tires. The "The only problem- now remains the question of transport to get the materials here," Barnes said.

Barnes refuted suggestion of German superiority in equipment, for example its much vaunted 88-millimeter (3.46-inch) guns. "The United States has many surprises," he said. "We do not admit any superiority in German no exception to that." He said he had seen many British "surprises" in production centers and at secret demonstrations! "They are real eye-openers," he said. JONES HEADS OHIO DEMOCRATS COLUMBUS, Aug. 26 (UP) The Democratic party's 1942 fall campaign in Ohio will be directed by Darrell S.

Jones of Newarkj an insurance executive and former assistant state welfare director. Jones was elected chairman of the Democratic state executive committee- yesterday at a meeting of the party's executive and central committees. John McSweeney of Wooster, Democratic candidate for governor, asked that Jones' election be unanimous and the harmony- minded group went along with his wish. The state central committee re-, elected Albert A. Horstman of Dayton, as its chairman, and Miss Marie Dickson of Steubenville, as its secretary.

FOURTEEN ON MISSING PLANE WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UP) A U. S. navy plane with 14 persons aboard is missing between Kodiak and White Horse, Alaska, the navy department announced yesterday. The plane, carrying a crew of four and 10 was making a routine trip from Kodiak to Seattle, Wash.

The navy said those aboard the missing ship included Marine Capt. Arthur Barrows, Columbus, and Lieut. (J. Charles E. Deterding, 25, of Lowellville, O.

MOSCOW, Aug. 26 (UP) A German battle force of 750,000 men, spearheaded by an estimated 25 armored divisions, was reported today closing in on Stalingrad from three directions despite fierce Soviet resistance. Soviet reports placed Nazi advance guards less than 40 miles from Stalingrad due west of the vital Volga river industrial and communications center. MOSCOW, Aug. 26 (UP) The Russians have checked a German tank wedge driven into their depth defenses directly northwest of Stalingrad, front-line dispatches said today.

Huge German panzer and infantry forces had crashed through Russian lines, bulwarked by reserve forces which Marshal Semyon Tim- oshenko's available reserves. The wedge advanced straight for Stalingrad and the Volga river line, with the Russians desperately hammering it. Finally, after "an exceptionally heavy battle" with Soviet tank forces near "inhabited points," it was checked, dispatches to the army organ Red Star said. Nevertheless, the situation grew more grave by the hour. German planes bombed Stalingrad, a city of 290,000 people, in waves, trying to reduce it to the rubble and ashes in which they had left the Crimean fortress city of Sevastopol.

(The Italian radio said Stalingrad was burning after the heaviest German air attacks. "Numerous buildings in the city have been destroyed after repeated hits and are fiercely burning," it said. "The central railway station is German losses were fearful, but it was not doubted that they would pour more men, more tanks, and more planes across the great bend of the river Don in an effort to take one of Adolf Hitler's most coveted objectives. (An Italian radio broadcast said the suburbs of Stalingrad, sprawling on both sides of the Volga, had been evacuated, and every house turned into a fortress.) A communique acknowledged another withdrawal on a sector of the front south of Krasnodar, in the north Caucasus. There the Germans had driven dangerously close to the Soviet Black sea base of Novoros- sisk, which is 63 miles from Kras- tion'a state office announced today that it has received from the state highway patrol duplicates of 718 speed warning and arrests slips issued in recent weeks.

In each case, the driver has received a notice from the OPA that "Your violation, as reported, is not; a patriotic contribution to the conservation of our nation's supply of rubber which is so vital to the war effort." Ohio's quota of new automobiles available for rationing during September will be 2,896, the OPA said. Of that number, 2,490 will be assigned to the 88 counties and 406 will remain in the state reserve. The August quota was 2,125. PORTSMOUTH, O. Jordan, 20, of Carter City, died yesterday of a broken neck received when he fell from a truck.

noclar, (The. Italian radio said civilians were being evacuated from Novoros- sisk.) Dispatches reported stiffer Russian resistance in the Prokhladnen- ski region, although the Germans still advanced on several sectors toward the oil fields of Grozny, 85 miles from Prokhladnenski, and toward the Caspian sea, 185 miles away. The noon communique reported that the Germans had attacked north of Voronezh, on the upper stretches of the Don, but had been repulsed. On the Stalingrad front the Russians were hemmed into a narrow space between the Don and Volga, rivers with their northern and southern communications cut, and subjected to a never-ending onslaught by 58 German divisions, totaling at least 500,000 men. The Russians appeared to have no recourse except to make a fighting withdrawal, exacting the heaviest possible toll of German lives.

Stevedores worked night and day, presumably loading the machinery of Stalingrad's valuable war industries on boats, to be carried to places of safety. It was believed most women and children, and all civilians not essential to the defense of Stalingrad, would be evacuated. The Germans within a few days had driven across the river Don at a point 40 miles west of Stalingrad and to the area directly northwest of the city. Russian defenses in the great Don had been broken after weeks of heroic resistance. JOHNNY EVERS SERIOUSLY ILL ALBANY, Aug.

26 Evers, 59, middle man of "Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance," was waging the greatest battle of his career an Albany hospital where attendants reported his condition "improved but still very serious." Evers, second baseman with the Chicago Cubs and Boston Braves in the early 1900's, was taken to the hospital yesterday, suffering from a stroke which paralyzed hia right side. CAPTURE TWO Six Break Out of Hamilton County Jail at Cincinnati Authorities Searching for Others in Three Seeking to Learn How Escape was Made. CINCINNATI, Aug. 26 (UP) Officers today recaptured two of the six men who broke out of the Hamilton county jail during the night, using butcher knives as weapons. Authorities of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky joined in a search for the others.

The prisoners cut jail clerk, overpowered two guards and threat- at the jail as they escaped. Orville 5 Lockhart, 19, and Ernest Riddell, 20, who were arrested on burglary charges on July 9, surrendered to police and a deputy sheriff early today at the home of a relative of Lockhart in suburban fairfax. Federal apcl county authorities sought to learn how the men escaped. They hunted two women who visited two of the prisoners yesterday. James L.

Spaulding, brother-in- law of Lockhart, at whose home the two men were recaptured, was to be charged with harboring fugitives, authorities said. Lockhart and Riddell were placed In solitary confinement. The break occurred shortly after the evening meal. Some of the jail's 170 prisoners were still milling around in a barred corridor. WAR REFUGEES RETURN HOME JERSEY CITST, N.

Aug. 26 (UP) American diplomats and civilian refugees caught by the war in Japan and the Far East dribbled ashore from the exchange liner Gripsholm today after examinations that precluded the possibility of disloyal persons escaping detention. A total of 1,451 were aboard when the Gripsholm docked yesterday. A few more than 300 had been allowed to go ashore by last night. Some had been sent to Ellis island for detention and additional investigation.

The (irat person ashore from the Gripsholm was Joseph C. Grew, former United States ambassador to Tokyo. He will go to Washington today. COLUMBUS, O. (UP) Lester Bucher of Lexington, was elected executive of the central Ohio area, Boy Scouts of America, by the directors last night.

He is a native of Mineral City, and was graduated from Newcomerstown high school and Ohio Wesleyan University. WELLS VILLE, O. (UP) William S. Storer, Wellsville high school principal for a year and football coach for six years resigned today to become professor of physical education at Slippery Rock, State Teachers College, his alma mater. Still Too Early to Predict of Desperate Struggle of Japs to Re-Twin Solomon Islands Balllc Ca Far Confined Largely to Air Action.

By SANDOR S. KLEIN WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (UP) American naval and air forces today appeared to have made progress in their effort to stem an all- out Japanese effort to retake, the Solomon islands which were wrested from them by U. S. Marines.

The Japanese apparently already have suffered comparatively heavy losses. But it was still too early to forecast tho outcome of the desperate struggle. There was no overnight word from the battle area. Japanese losses since the battle began last Sunday stood at: Two Flash Bulletin WASHINGTON The Navy announced today that the American airmen have raised to 13 the number of Japanese ships hit in the renewed battle of the Solomon Islands. One of the attacking enemy force was forced to withdraw.

Revealing that six more Japanese destroyers and four unidentified been hit, the mavy also announced that twelve more Nipponese planes had been shot down, bringing the enemy air loss to thirty-three. "aiTcraft carriers hit, one a large one; a battleship damaged along with "several" other cruisers; and a transport and cruiser bombed and left "burning fiercely." In addition, at least 21 enemy planes were shot The battle BO far appears to have been confined largely to air action. In respect, it is following the pattern of the battles of Midway and the Coral sea. Headquarters, United States Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Aug. 26 determined Japanese attempt to dislodge the United States Marines from their offensive base in tile southern Solomon islands is developing into a big scale air and naval battle overshadowing the original marine landing, well informed quarters said today.

A navy communique issued at Washington yesterday made it plain that the Japanese despite their heavy losses in the battles of the Coral sea and Midway had thrown an important naval formation into a counter-attack on Tulagi- Guadalcanal area of tho Solomons which the marines, with navy and air force support, seized in the first big Allied Pacific offensive. A setback for Japan in this battle, it was asserted here, mitcht reduce the Japanese np.vy to a point where it would not he able again to challenge a United States fleet which is growing steadily in power. The Solomons battle was being fought out in an area where, on Guadalcanal, the marines had seized the only air -base in the southern part of the islands. United States carrier borne planes were supported by army Flying Fortresses, based on emergency airdromes hacked out of jungle palm forests in South Sea islands whose locations are military secrets because therfe is every indication that the Japanese do not know where they are. The result was that new navy dive-bomber and torpedo-carrying planes, together with the Flying Fortresses and other army craft, were believed here to be loosinp: a attack.

No attempt was made, however, to depreciate the importance of the enemy attempt to the southern Solomons, or ta minimize an apparently serious threat to the marine position. Since they landed the marines had had nearly three weeks to consolidate their positions and communiques had revealed that they were receiving reinforcements and supplies. It was evident, however, that in addition to opposition from the Japanese on the islands, whom they had driven inland into the hills, the marines might still have to fight a i i (Continued on Last 1'agej.