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ml An Independent NEWSpaoer Printing the News Impartially rj WEATHER BUREAU tiCSON' AND VICINITY: Continued warm, with scattered Tmprture H.tfh 8 Low 9 Wo: High Low VE cat aid. out lip- PRICE FIVE CENTS WELVE PAGES TUCSON, ARIZONA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1942 Cntarwt wrootf-etan MUM raat Offv-au Tocaoa. Artaooa ACE OF NAVY JAPS DROP INCENDIARY BOMB IN OREGON; NEW VA VE OF REVOLT SPREADS IN BALKANS; SOVIET LINES HOLD FIRMLY AT STALINGRAD REBELLIONS FLARE UP Evidence Indicates Nippon Seaplane Operating From Submarine Made Attempt to Set Forest Afire in First Air Attack on U. S. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.

that a Japanese seaplane, possibly operating from a submarine, may have attempted to set southern Oregon forests afire in the first air bombing of continental United States was reported by "the Western Defense Command here today. A communique issued by Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt, Western Defense commander, said" that: A small seaplane was observed over 'the area of Mount Emily nine miles northeast of Brookings, September 9.

a Qnhmarinp was later siehted and bombed about 30 Red Cavalry Inflicts Heavy Losses on Charging Nazi Infantry Northwest of Stronghold; Attacks West of City Also Repulsed MOSCOW, Tuesday, Sept. 15. () The Russian lines before' Stalingrad held firmly yesterday despite repeated Nazi lunges that left a growing mound of German dead on the. western and southwestern outskirts of imperilled Volga river city, a communique said early today. A Red army withdrawal in the central Caucasus at JMozdok was announced, however.

On that front, less than 60 miles from the Grozny oil fields, the Russians fell back to new defense positions after German tanks crossed a river, BILLS DEALING WITH INFLATION ARE PRESENTED Both Branches Are Given Divergent Wage and Farm Measures 3 it it i. NO. 253 TWO FRONT AIR WAR CONTINUES AGAINSTREICH gF Pounds Bremen and Red Bombers Strike At East Germany JOOTH RAID ON PORT I Oil tcmcr ana capiiai 1 Of Rumania Also Are Russian Targets LONDON, Sept. The two-front air war against Germany and her junior partes achieved its broadest jcope thus far when hundreds of RAF bombers assaulted Bremen and other targets in northwestern Germany last night and uncounted Russian bombers fanned wide over fasten Cermany, Rumania and Bulgaria. The Uusslam specified only the Rumanian oil-producing center, ploMtl, the Rumanian coital, Bucharest and Kocnlgsberg, Prussia, a targets, but Axis sports credited even a broader (wp to th lied Air Force.

The Russians said they left pystl installations and Bucharest In moth Ilrrmen Call The British raid on Bremen, Ger-pany's second largest port and an important U-boat hatchery, was fomparcl in unofficial comment to last Thursday's assault by several hundred bombers on Duesseldorf. Has the KAF's 100th call on the big maritime center up the Wescr from the N'orth Sea. Tlie official report indicated the wight of the attack on Bremen t-A northwestern Germany by de-irrlbin? the attackers as "a very iron force" and acknowledging losi of Intruder Patrols RAF fighter planes Joined the pneral offensive from the west with "Intruder patrols" over northern France maneuvering over om.in nir field to catch enemy planes In take-offs or landings. A thwacking jmaie 10 mc iuv a tight operations was provided by taben which streaked singly nni northwestern Germany at wnrise to smash at German fac-lories, transport and personnel. The ni itlsh credited their airmen heavy damage at Bremen, but thi! German high command, in typical fashion, reported only civilian and damage to "homes, r'lurches, hospitals and monuments." Still Cleaning Up The raid caught Bremen still In i process of cleaning up from ninety-ninth attack on Septem-Vr 4 when enormous destruction wrought in submarine yards, a Fofke-Wulfe airplane factory, rail-wvi and Industrial buildings.

Aj the night was moonless it was "ly that the RAF's new Path-'mder planes were utilized to 11-'itnlnate the targets with their 'ares mid lay out the pattern for inurcessive waves of planes with heir own bombs. Homeward bound bombardiers 'mild see tlie red glow of their i mrllwork for 100 miles, It was aid. REPORTS CHECKED ON MISSING PLANE Armv officers at Davls-Monthan "ield line, searching for a B-24 mbrr missing since Thursday Jht with rlt'hf fifflrpra and two P. ilistril men aboard, said a farmer ivinu Nutrloso. near the Wznmi.V ru Mvlffi border, re- Wed hearing a plane In that vi- nuv.

Fifitil nrfn.ired to searching planes to, the area why, is noon i jo murs withenst of Sprlngervlllo, and 150 nil II. 'ill i Simultaneously with the report 11 uavis-Montnan leiti. i.e-orgc ffiuel. state highway patrolman at St. telephoned Associated Press In Phoenix -at ini iuHn-tncr similar 111,1 received from several resi- of tlie Nutrloso area.

Fpntirl reported that a plane brrn heard, flvlng at a low shortly nftor midnight 'ursdav. He sald he took a crew five mrrn tn Hm trwl.iv. nnd iv. III. two private planes from the or nving ervice oi.

Joined in the search over (xhio( rrglon. bomber was lost on a flight Omaha. to Davis-Mon-Field. IlTr "'tLKIK AKKlVLb IN IRAN'S CAPITAL JEHEKAX. Iran, Sept 14.

Joll I Willkle. personal rep-entattve of President Roosevelt, here todav from Bagdad, In a Liberator plane. was welcomed bv V. S. Louis o.

and the wi tne u. s. Military com "ion Vlllki told reporters be Avas "fPly moved when 1 left Bagdad, the people lined the streets rrowcls came tlie airpor.t RCHKlbye." HITS TAXK 'u. MOI'vtaiv rallf. Sent.

A xr 1i-krol train for Cadiz, Calif, from Phoe- ih. 8truck an army tank at 'lesert mil i i.nn.. "OCr Of thn tanlr nnrl in- two others, headquarters of "'iv i irwnvr mnnA ivoro nn VOL. 101 Machinist Donal E. Itunyan (above), 29, of Craw fords ville, I wliot down four Japanese planes In an air battle in the Southwest Pacific in which 06 enemy planes were destroyed.

Clark Lee, Associated Press cor respondent, reported that Run-yon, who is credited with eight Jap planes in all, is believed to be the Navy's top ranking com bat pilot. BRITAIN CALLED OFFENSIVE BASE President Makes Report On Lend-Lease; Urges Greater Output WASHINGTON', Sept. 14. (P) President Roosevelt disclosed today Britain now is regarded as "an offensive base" for the fighting men of the United Nations, but Is sharing equally with Russia in American lend-lease weapons flowing across the seas to the European war theatre. Roosevelt sent Congress his sixth quarterly report on lend-lease operations and, breaking down export figures for the first time in a year, showed about 35 per cent of the weapons and war supplies are going to Russia, 35 per cent to the United Kingdom, and 30 per cent to all other regions.

Total lend-lease assistance through August was $0,489,000,000, the report said. Yet the President declared that so Xar the United States "has little more than passed the halfway mark towards maximum possible war production." Output Must Expand He emphasized this production still must expand. "Not, until we have reached the maximum and we can do this only by stripping our civilian economy to the bone can our fighting men and those of our Allies," he said, "be assured of the vastly greater quantities of weapons required to turn the tide. Not until then can the United Nations march forward together to certain victory." The total lend-lease aid figure Included goods awaiting transfer to the recipient nations, those on dorks and in warehouses ready for actual export, and such services as the repairing of ships and training of airplane pilots. Value of Exports Tlie value of exports alone through August was $3,523,000,000.

With only per cent of this going to the Middle East, Australia. China, and other areas, the report commented on the fact help for China had been limited by transportation difficulties, but said "the development of other means of transportation will relieve this situation." It did not Identify the means under consideration. While Russia is a battlefield and Britain an offensive base, the Chief Executive said they were continuing to produce to the limit. In relation to their available resources, be said, they have turned out more weapons than this country has to date. He promised, however, that: "Deliveries of lend-lease supplies, which have been grow ihg iU have to grow much larger still." The United Nations, the President said, "need all the weapons that all of us can produce and all the men that all of us can muster." SENATE FINANCE GROUP OUTLINES HUGE TAX BILL $25,000,000,000 Revenue Measure Is Approved By Committee HAS 'VICTORY LEVY' Rate on Corporations Is Five Per Cent Under Previous Proposal WASHINGTON, Sept.

14. (P) a gigantic new revenue bill geared to increase treasury collections more than $25,500,000,000 annually from corporations and 43,000,000 individual taxpayers won approval tonight of 'the senate finance committee. In addition to regular individual income levies and surtaxes, the measure contains a 5 per cent "victory levy" on individual earnings over $624 yearly. The measure was sent to the drafting clerks after last-minute committee action lopped 5 per cent off the previous-approved rate of 45 per cent on normal and surtax earnings of corporations. The committee also provided some relief for individuals by restoring the house level of surtaxes in the Income brackets from $2,000 to $10,000 yearly.

It had increased them last week to bring in more revenue. Higher Than Old Law As it finally was referred to the technical experts, who will spend the next 10 days drafting changes in the measure, the bill was unofficially estimated to provide a minimum of $6,774,000,000 more direct tax revenue than the obtained under present laws, which it supplements. This compared with $6,271,000,000 in new taxes voted by the house. In the treasury would collect $1,800,000,000 yearly which it would return to taxpayers the form of credits for debt payments, or in post-war rebates. Of this amount, $1,100,000,000 would come from individuals through operation of the victory tax.

Under terms of this tax, which would be collected at the source in the form of a withholding levy, single persons could get a rebate of 25 per cent of the tax paid, and married persons 40 per cent, plus 2 per. cent for each ependent. Other chances Which the senate-1 committee approved bill would make in the present laws included: Individuals 1. Present normal income tax rate increased from 4 to 6 per cent, with surtaxes now ranging from 6 to 77 per cent boosted to range from 13 to 82 per cent. 2.

Personal exemptions for income tax cut from $1,500 to $1,200 for married couples, from $750 to $500 for single persons, and credits for dependents cut from $400 to $300. 3. Kew'credit allowed against income tax for all medical expenses in excess of 3 per cent of net income, with a maximum of $2,500. Corporations 1. Present graduated excess profits tax from 35 to 60 per cent replaced by flat' 90 "per cent tax, retaining present specific exemption of $5,000 in profits not subject to excess tax.

Average earnings base revised by insertion of relief provision. Invested capital base reduced for larger corporations. 2. Normal and surtaxes on the larger corporations increased from present combined total of 31 per cent to 40 per cent. 3.

Post-war rebate and debt deduction credit of 10 per cent of the total amount of excess profits taxes. 4. Capital stock and declared-value excess profits taxes eliminated. 5. Over-all limitation of 20 per cent of net incomes placed on corporation taxation.

All corporations placed on calendar year basis for taxation, with notch provision applicable to 1942. Miscellaneous Excise taxes increased on liquor, beer, wines, cigarettes, cigars, lubricating oil. photographic apparatus, train, bus and plane fares. Interest from future Issues of state and municipal bonds made taxable. the rumor, which grew in propor-Uon as it gained momentum.

"Tucson has been singled out as an experimental city for gas rationing." and "Two or three days each week are to be gasless," and "Filling stations will close Tuesday" so on went the reports from to mouth. The rationing board scotched all such stories. "Gas rationing is coming to tie southwest, no doubt of that," Carlos Ronstadt. board member, said. "But there has been no word or even bints from official sources of action such as that rumored here." Meanwhile, possibly because of memories of how the tire "freeze" caught short many drivers last December, inquiry for steel gasoline drums flowed by telephone into oil companies and filling stations.

The stations and companies have too few of the 50-gallon drums themselves, without, distributing the gasoline storage 'containers among civilian drivers. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. (JP) Divergent measures for dealing with inflation, which may require extensive efforts to reconcile for final enact ment, were introduced in the senate and house today in the face of the October 1 deadline set by President Roosevelt. The senate bill was a broad resolution authorizing and directing the President to stabilize prices, wages and salaries and other factors in the cost of living at the levels of Aug.

15 "so far as practicable" but stipulating that farm prices should not be iixea below parity or the highest mar ket price between Jan. 1 and Sept, 15, whichever was higher. Farm Bloc Consulted The house bill, on which farm bloc members of both branches were consulted, would authorize theresideniJto. stabilize "maximum salaries and in dustrial wasres" so as to "maintain a fair and equitable relation" be tween them and crop prices and would authorize (but not direct) thfi settinz of once ceilings on crops at parity or the highest price so far commanded in lms, wnicn ever was higher. The house bill also w-ould put a floor under farm prices at parity from the present time until three years after the war by requiring the secretary of agriculture to make crop loans and purchases for this nurnose.

This floor, a tea ture not in the senate biS. would apply to non-basic commodities on which production was encouraged for war needs and to basic commodities "regardless of the pur pose, for which such commodities are produced or usen. Farm Labor Costs Moreover, the house bill, appar entlv lea vine farm wage rates free of control, stipulated that farm la bor costs be taken into account in determining parity prices, some thing Chairman Stegall (D-Ala) of the banking committee said was not done at present. It directed parity prices "be determined so as to include all costs of production, including the cost of labor, with all labor included and the wage rates used for all labor to be the same as the general average of wage rates for hired farm labor, Chairrhan Wagner (D-NY) of the senate banking committee and Senator Brown (D-Mich), who sponsored the senate resolution, said the President was familiar with it and indicated it was acceptable to him. The senate banking committee plans to start hearings on its bill tomorrow and the house committee will meet Wednesday to consider procedure.

Axis Terror Heaped on Patriots in Several, Occupied States BULGARIANS KILLED Mass Executions Tried To End Disorders At Bosnia LONDON, Sept. 14. P) A new wave of Axis terror and anti-Axis revolt were reported spreading through the Balkans tonight following redoubled efforts by Hitler to wring greater tribute for his war machine from occupied but still recalcitrant southeastern states. The Germans themselves contributed to the accounts of trouble on their hands, reporting revolt in TSnicrarian Macedonia and ex- or-ntinn nf R00 persons, described of course as "bandits," captured in Bosnia, mountainous western area of occupied Yugoslavia. A state of siege was clamped on the district and city of Skoplje, now a part of Bulgarian Macedonia and formerly a part of Yugoslavia, after the killing, of many Bulgarian officials by Yugoslav patriots, said Balkan dispatches received in Switzerland.

One account said these disorders were set off by efforts of Germans, Italians and Bulgarians to loot the district of its fall harvests. Leaflets Dropped One Sofia dispatch told of the appearance of mysterious planes over the Skoplje area from which were dropped leaflets addressed to the population and ammunition for Macedonian insurgents. At one staee of the outbreak thpsp same dispatches said, an at- tomnt. was made to assassinate Peter Grabavsky, Bulgarian interior minister. In two villages every last Bulgarian official was declared slain bv Macedonian banns.

Macedonian circles in Sofia were quoted as saving anti-Bulgarian sentiment in Skoplje was flaming high "with one group of patrons ndinff an autonomous Mace donian state and the other agitating for complete separation from Bulgaria. Fighting Guerrillas The mass executions in Bosnia and the Berlin radio's announcement that "mopping-up operations there are progressing according to plan" were taken here to mean that the Germans were making a supreme effort to smash guerrilla resistance. The continuing activity of these patriots was best evidenced by an Italian casualty list for August showing 295 of Mussolini's soldiers killed and 387 wounded that month alone "on the Balkan front." Elsewhere in occupied Europe, these stories of anti-Axis manifestations were duplicated In announcements here that four more Czechs, one a woman, had been sentenced to the firing squad for printing and distributing anti-German pamphlets. Polish sources said that in their conquered land 28 police were put to death August 26 at Katowice on charges of belonging to secret patriot organizations and another report, from Sweden, said that a total of 1,091 Poles were executed in July and August. RODRIGUEZ IS CANDIDATE HERMOSILLO, Ronora, Sept.

14. UP) Friends of Gen. Abelardo Rodriguez, former president 'of Mexico, announced here today he would be a candidate for the governorship of Sonora at the election to be held In July, 1943. nominating convention and Mississippi Democrats hold a run-off between former Senator James O. Eastland and Senator Wall Doxey.

In Massachusetts, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Republican, sought renomination over the opposition of Courtney Crocker, Boston lawyer who has assailed Lodge's pre-war voting record. Senator Smathers (D-NJ) and Senator Brown (D-Mich) were unopposed for renomination, but in Michigan there was' a Republican contest for the senate nomination between Elton R. Eaton, Plymouth publisher, Circuit Judge Homer Ferguson of Detroit, and Gerald L. K. Smith, former Huey Lonjr ally.

Rep. Clare Hoffman. 4th Michigan district Republican who has vigorously -criticized President Roosevelt's foreign policy, was opposed for by Benton J. Burton, South Haven, and State Senator. J.

Hammond. In Wisconsin, Governor Julius P. HeU, Republican, seeks a third term. Opponents called him a "part-time" governor, to which he replied that he could do more moving about the state than sitting down in the capitoL presumably the Terek. Northwest of Stalingrad the Russians sent Red cavalry against two German infantry attacks, "wiping out about 500 enemy officers and men," in a successful repulse, the communique said.

Attacks Repulsed The steady Nazi attacks west of the city also we're repulsed, the Russians said, citing one instance where Soviet artillery and "tank busters" destroyed nine German tanks and about three infantry companies when two regiments supported by 40 tanks crashed against the Soviet positions. In beating off five fierce Hungarian attacks south of Voronezh on the upper Don, the Russians said 2,000 Hungarians were killed. 20 tanks destroyed, and prisoners taken. The Germans and Hungarians for months now have tried to crash through the Red positions at Voronezh to protect the left flank of their long salient, which reached southeastward to Stalingrad. On the Volkhov river in the Leningrad area the Russians said the enemy was dislodged from a populated place near Sinyaymo and that 600 Germans were killed and five tanks and about 40 blockhouses destroyed.

Many' Nazis Killed Red army snipers fighting in the Caucasian foothills to bar the German advance at Mozdok, less than GO miles from the Grozny oil fields, were said to have killed more than 1,000 Germans in re- fifrVitintr One smoer aione was credited with picking off 203 llfcw'n for-s(almgrd -had inc Nazis. ntfrpd its 21st day. (German high command communiques yesterday and today pictured the Nazis as having entered the southern part of the city and having penetrated the northerly outskirts and "occupied hills dominating the city" northwest of the central quarters of Stalingrad.) Dangerously Close The Germans were dangerously close to the high flat terrace on which Stalingrad proper stands. But the Red armv's resolute stand was exacting perhaps the highest price which the Germans have paid for any single objective. Dispatches from the city, covering only a few of the many battles, have reported the slaughter of roughly 1.000 to 1,500 Germans daily.

But as yet there has been no over-all estimate. BRITISH REPORTED NEAR TANANARIVE LONDON, Sept. 14. (P) British columns progressing steadily into Madagascar were reported tonight to have accomplished more than half of their march and to have advanced to within 100 miles of Tananarive, inland capital of the big French island. Thus far opposition along the roads converging upon the capital had been light and confined more to wrecking bridges than to armed resistance, but on the plateau around Tananarive the French were expected to put whatever real fight they may intend.

Apparently- forging closest to the capital was the column moving southeast from the port of Majun-ga, one of three landings the British made last JThursday. A communique said this force had captured Maevatanana. Io0 miles bv road northwest of the capital. "It is 230 miles by air from Majunga to Tananarive, but the road twists a longer course through forests along the valley of the Bet-siboka river and up to the plateau. ALLIES BOMB TWO JAP CARGO SHIPS GEN MACARTHURS HEADQUARTERS.

Australia. Tuesday, Sept. 15. (JPh-Allied planes bombed two Japanese cargo ships off the Tenimber Islands, north of Darwin and off Western New Guinea, with unknown results yesterday, Allied headquarters announced today In an unusually brief noon communique. Patrol activity was increased in the, Owen Stanley Mountain area, where the Japanese are driving overland toward the big Allied base of Port Moresby, but the general situation in this sector re mained unchanged, the communique stated.

HELSINKI RAID BERLIN (From German broadcasts). Sept. 14 JPh-The Finnish capital of Helsinki, underwent its 200th air raid alarm today when Soviet planes tried to penetrate the ritv's defenses, the Berlin radio tonight. No bombs were drop- pea, tne aispaicn miles ort tne same snore uv on army patrol plane, ith unobserved results. A forest fire started near Mount Emily and that markings on what appeared to be fragments of an incendiary bomb were Japa-nese.

Forest patrols, which extinguished the blaze, discovered a foot-deep crater, the communique added, and about 40 pounds of meiai nag-ments and small pellets. Jap Ideographs Apparently the Japanese, If they made the attack, selected one of the most heavily wooded sections of the coast, frequently threatened bv forest fires. "A few years ago a fire in the same general area swept out of control and virtually wiped out the Oregon coast town of Bandon. Japanese submarines have twice shelled the Pacific coast at Goleta in southern California February 23 and near Seaside. June 22, but this was the first reported attack from the air.

The Goleta shelling caused slight damage to oil well installations. The Seaside shells buried harmlessly in a beach. De Witt's Communique General DeWitt's communique read: "The Western Defense Command is Investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery on September 9 of fragments of what appears to have been an incendiary bomb. These fragments were found by personnel of the United States forestry service hear Mount" Emily nine miles northeast of Brookings, Ore. Markings of the bomb fragments indicated that the missile was of Japanese origin.

"At about 6 a. m. Pacific War Time, September 3, a small uniden. tified seaplane was observed coming inland from the sea and a half an hour later a plane was heard at the same point headed toward the sea. Due to poor visibility, the plane was not seen on its westward trip.

Plane Sighted "At 6:24 a. m. Howard Gardner, a forestry service observer on Mount Emily reported seeing an unidentified seaplane come from the west, circle, and return toward the sea. He described the plane as a single-motored biplane with a single float and small floats on the wingtips. The plane appeared to be small and of slow speed.

It had no lights, no distinct color and no insignia was visible. It is possible that a plane of this type might have been carried on a submarine. "About 11 a. Pacific War Time, September 9, an army patrol plane reported sighting an unidentified submarine about 30 miles off shore in the same general vicinity. The submarine was bombed by the airplane with unobserved results.

Crater Discovered "At about 12:20 p. Pacific War Time, the same day, a small fire was observed about three miles south of Mount Emily. Investigation by forestry patrols who extinguished the fire disclosed a small crater about three feet in diameter and slightly more than a foot in, (Continued to Tage 3, Column 2) MARINE REPORTS ON PLANE BATTLE (The following was written by Sergt. James W. Hurlbut, a marine corps combat correspondent at the scene.) GUADALCANAL.

Solomon I s-lands, Aug. 2L (Delayed) Marine corps aviators fought the enemy today and bagged 21 Jrp-anese planes that took part in a heavy daylight raid on Guadalcanal airport, recently built by and captured from the Japanese. Army air corps pilots accounted for another enemy bomber. Enemy losses included five twin-engined bombers; five single-en-gined bombers and 11 Zeros. Two mafine planes were lost and one is missing.

Army plane3 returned intact. In spite of their heavy losses, some of the enemy bombers reached the field and dropped about a dozen bombs. The only damage inflicted was the overturning of a truck. Following the bombing, three planes flew low over the field and attempted to strafe the gun emplacements. A hail of machine gun and anti-aircraft fire greeted them.

A squadron of marine planes flying several miles from Guadal canal ran Into the first group of enemy raiders heading toward the field. Robert E. MacLeod, for- mer Dartmouth" All-American foot ball player whose home is Chicago, led the marine attack on the first group of nine enemy bombers. BRITISH TROOPS AIDED BY NAVY ATTACKTOBRUK Units Land at Axis-Held Port, Inflict Damage And Withdraw LONDON, Tuesday, Sept. 15(P)A small contingent of British troops, supported by light naval forces and heavy RAF attacks, landed at the Axis-held Libyan port of Tobruk Sunday night "and inflicted casualties and damage on the enemy before withdrawing," the admiralty announced today.

"Our force landed in the face of strong opposition," the communique added. "The withdrawal was not carried out without losses, which in view of the strength of the defenses, were to be expected." Other British light naval forces fullv bombarded enemy lines of communication" at El Daba in Egypt, and emerged with neither damage nor casualties, the British said. The- British did not give the ex. tpnt of their losses in the raid on Tobruk, Avhich is 75 miles west of the Egyptian frontier. An earlier Pnmp radio broadcast said two British warships were hit by Axis shell fire and that one of the vessels later sank.

The Italians said a violent bombardment by a large number of RAF" planes preceded the landing, and that "immediate intervention of Italian-German defenses frustrated the attempt." British parachutists, Rome said, also participated in the raid which "was supported by six naval units, made up of cruisers and destroyers." Tobruk, an important supply port for Field Marshal Rommel's Axis army in Egypt, has been in Axis hands since June 22. It has been attacked by RAF and U. S. planes 'repeatedly. OREGON PLANE IS FOUND, IDENTIFIED SPOKANE, Sept 14 (JP) Ground from the Walla Walla army air base have definitely established that a plane found down near Enterprise, is the second air force bomber missing from Geiger field here since last Thursday, base headquarters reported today.

No other information concerning the big bomber was given in the first message. Base public relations said members of the crew of the miss.ing ship were: 1 First Lieut. R. E. Penneo of Denver; Second Lieuts.

A. F. Di Menna, Newark, N. Peter Knud-sen, San Jose, R. A.

Four-nier, Hadtey, and J. W. Jurich, Litchfield, Corp. R. C.

Raschka, La Port, and Pvt. First Class G. L. Milwaukee, Wis. SALVAGE PROGRAM BACKED BY OSBORN PHOENIX, Sept.

14. Governor Osborn called upon all Ari-zonans today to participate to the fullest extent in a state-wide scrap metal collection campaign which begins tomorrow. "So long as the emergency may exist," he declared, "I urgently admonish every citizen of Arizona to cooperate with his local salvage committee or other organization engaged in similar work, or with the Arizona Defense Council, in locating all possible Iron, zinc, copper and other vital metal, and all rubber, hemp and waste fats." FOUR SHIPS FROM CONVOY ARE SUNK OTTAWA, Sept. 14. JPh-An Atlantic convoy battle in which Axis submarines sank four Allied merchantmen and the Canadian escort vessel Racoon, the latter with all 38 hands, wras announced today by the Canadian Navy ministry.

The sinkings were known to have occurred on the Canadian east coast where, the navy said, "there has been an increase in the tempo of enemy activity." Republicans Take Early Lead In Returns From Maine Vote Baseless Rumor Sends Drivers Flocking- to' Service Stations By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Republicans took early leads as the ballot-counting started in Maine last night in an election to choose a United States senator, three representatives and a governor. Former Democratic Governor Louis J. Brann trailed his Republican opponent Robert Hale in the contest for the first congressional district seat on the basis of early counting. Senator Wallace White, Republican, seeking a third term, was well ahead of Fulton J. Redman, Democrat.

A heavy margin -was built up, in first returns for Republican Governor Sumner Sewall, seeking a second term. The Democratic aspirant was George W. Lane Lewiston banker. What was expected to be a spirited struggle for the Republican house nomination from Connecticut's fourth district turned out to be a convention landslide for Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, author-playwright.

Primary elections are on today for both parties in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Michigan and Wisconsin. Connecticut Democrats also hold their state Rumor yesterday that a temporary gasoline rationing program was to be set up immediately in Tucson flew on verbal wings over the citv, bringing scores of motorists into filling stations with orders to "load 'er up." in instigated countless telephone calls to the local rationing board and daily newspapers, inquiring Into veracity of the tale. The rumor was without founda- local rationing board, headed bv J. J. Dowd.

announced that it directed an inquiry to the state headquarters when the tale persisted. and was informs there that nothing was known i plan for such a move anywhere In the Misunderstanding of radio news-casts and a plea by Leon Henderson. OPA head. In Sunday's newspapers, that motorists Uicmselves curtail their driving as much as possible until the nation-wide sys-tern of gasoline apportionment can be et up. apparenUy originated ce4 today..