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8fe 0, S. WEATHER BUREAU TCCSON AND VICINITr: Ttmpera-turs yesterday. An Independent NEWSpaper Printing the Newt Impartially mm Tmpraturt r.iterrtty: Hirh JS T.or 71 92 Low 72 Jot PRICE FIVE CENTS TWENTY-SIX PAGES Altered tecond-clut mttm Pat OffW, Tueaon. Anions TUCSON, ARIZONA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1942 SOLOMONS FIGHT OUTLINED; SHIPS BOMBED; WILD BA TTLE IS FOUGHT FOR STALINGRAD; CHINESE ARMIES CONTINUE THEIR ADVANCE Plodding On to Malta in Spite of Heavy Enemy Attacks VICHY SURRENDER OF DAKAR CALLED LAVAL'S PROGRAM LONDON, Aug. 29.

(IP) The Sunday Express said tonight In a Stockholm dispatch that Pierre Laval, chief of the Vichy French government, intended to hand over Dakar and other French ports In West Africa to Germany. The correspondent said it was Impossible to confirm the report, but that diplomatic circles had heard that one German division already was bound for West Africa to take control of strategic ports. He said the Germans were reported to have put pressure on Laval to hand over the ports after Brazil declared war on Germany and Italy. A German note was said to have pointed out that West Africa ports were now in danger of attacks by Allied air and naval forces operating from Brazilian bases. (Berlin radio quoted a Vichv dispatch as saying official French quarters denied reports claiming AxU submarines and other naval craft were using Dakar as a base.

France is closely guarding her colonial empire, the dispatch said, and will not let herself be surprised by events.) iL si I i -v With enemy bombs bursting perilously close, Malta-bound Brit- member of convoy recently attacked by Axis, but reached merchant vessel ploughs through Mediterranean. Ship was tion safely. Germans Assemble More Men For Supreme Bid to Take City Reds Make Hitler Pay Heavily for Every Inch Of Ground Gained in Drive on Volga Life Line Of Soviet; Defenders Advance in North MOSCOW, Sunday, Aug. 3fj The Red Army, forcing the Germans to pay heavily for every inch of ground before Stalingrad, fought stubbornly today against strong German assaults while northwest of Moscow their Soviet comrades advanced in the Kalinin sector and reported crossing a river. The Soviet midnight communique did not acknowledge any German advance on Stalingrad, either from the northwest or the southwest, the two critical areas of combat.

It simply said there were no "material changes" in the fronts. Heavy Fighting (Berlin radio said the Russians were fighting "tooth and nail" for every single bunker in the Stalingrad area. It claimed that additional gains were made both here and in the Caucasus but acknowledged that "Soviet resistance remains very stiff." NO. 242 MORE STRIKES CURTAIL WORK IN WAR PLANTS Buick Employes Demand Slower Pace In Production CANADA HAS TROUBLE Steel Mill Tieups Faced By Important Units In North By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A dispute over a production rate which union spokesmen said was so high "that workers couldn't meet it" closed a department of the General Motors Corporation's Buick division at Flint, yesterday. General Manager Harlow II.

Curtice of Buick termed it a "wildcat strike" climaxing "a definite attempt on the part of the union to restrict production." Curtice the strike started after discharge of two employes who, he said, failed to acquire necessary skill. John McGill, presl. dent of the United Automobile Workers (CIO), said the production pace was too high and that, although the company termed the men temporary employes and not eligible for union representation, the Duick local was "ready to help." Wage Suits In Portland, employers asserted the entire wage stabilization structure In the Pacific northwest was threatened and asked the War Labor Board to intervene In four small suits for back wages, filed under a cost-of-living escalator clause In a labor contract. F. W.

Itomic, chairman of the employers, aid subsequent suits are expected to name employers in 37 shops, iffcctlng an estimated 5.000 workers, some In war industries. Meanwhile C. II. Millard. Canadian director of the United Steel Workers of America, said at Sault Ste.

Marie, that union workers would leave their Jobs in two of Canada's three great primary steel producing plants Monday night unless wage Increase demands were met. He gave management of the Algoma Steel Corporation factory at Sault Ste Marie and the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation plant In Sydney until 11 o'clock last night to meet the demands. Yaj Roost Rejected No comment was made by officials of either plant. Regional war labor boards In Ontario and Nova Scotia had rejected union applications for establishment of a basic wage rate of 65 cents an hour. The present basic rate at the Algoma plant Is cents and at the Dominion plant 434 cents.

The executive committee of the United Automobile Workers Union (CIO) went back into session at Philadelphia after three officers had suggested to President Roosevelt that the policy of relinquishing premium wage payments be made universal or dropped entirely. Richard T. Frankensteen, vice president, said the UAW had compiled with the President's request that extra remuneration for week-end and holiday work be relinquished and added "many other groups of workers have not done so." Drivers Strike Fifty-three drivers for the Santa Monica (Calif.) Municipal Pus Lines walked out yesterday, leaving thousands of workers in aircraft ami other war plants to reach thrlr Jobs ns best they could. Finance Commissioner D. C.

Freeman said the walkout was to back a demand for the resignation of B. K. Kverlngham, superintendent the lines. In Massena, N. 85 AFL union truck drivers left their Jobs on four projects connnected with war industry aluminum production, protesting the discharge of seven fellow wmkers.

Union spokesmen said the men were discharged without notice in violation of a con tract, while the contractor employed them denied knowledge of the cause of the strike. An unauthorized walkout of between 1.200 and 1,500 employes of the Wright AeronauUcal Corporation's No. .3 plant at Paterson, N. ended yesterday, less than 12 hours after it started, when the Workers agreed to discuss their grievances with the management. A union spokesman said the stoppage "resulted from the company's institution of classifications and (wage) rates without the knowledge of the men involved." Roth union and company said the walkout was unauthorized.

Pipe Line Delayed At Little Rock, a labor dispute which halted laving of a section of the Texas-to-lillnols oil pipeline compromised sufficiently to How scheduling of resumption of work yesterday. Labor leaders greed to discuss their claims for contract while work continued. INDIANS MAY HELP ARIZONA RANCHES NOGALES, Aug. 29. (-T) --Members of the San Pima Cattle Growers Association decided today to recruit Indians to fill out their range crews rather than try to induce the government to permit the entry of cowhands from Mexico.

A resolution passed unanimously the annual summer meeting of the association declared that "there too much red tape in obtaining needed cowhands from VOL. 101 ALL U.S. FLIERS ARE BACK FROM SEVENTH DRIVE Record of No Losses Is Maintained in Attack On Nazi Airdrome RAF PLANES ACTIVE Night Raid on Industrial German Cities Staged By British Planes LONDON, Aug. 29. (TP) American Flying Fortresses made their seventh raid on the Nazi-held continent today without suffering loss, following up the RAF's night attack with hundreds of bombers on Nuernberg, carnival city of Nazidom, and Saarbruecken, sprawling industrial and railroad center.

The USAAF bombardiers, accompanied by fighters, loosed their loads over the German airdrome at Wevelghem, near Courtrai, Belgium. The raid was accompanied by diversionary sweeps of American fighters, and all planes returned safely from the full operation. The British also were active today, making sharp attacks on Os-tend and Lille. The RAF lost 30 bombers last night, and two bombers and a fighter failed to return today but the damage to Hitler's war potential was considered a liberal dividend for the expenditures. Major War Industries Nuernberg and Saarbruecken both have major war industries.

When the raiders left, their black wings were lighted by large fires at both cities. The daylight attacks were on docks at Ostend and power stations in the Lille-Lens area. One station at Comines, northeast of Lille, was bombed from a very low level, an air ministry communique said. Nuernberg Is specially dear to Hitler, for he staged his Nazi party spectacles there in years of peace. The bombing force of 300 to 600 planes centered its heaviest attack on that city, but the air ministry said the attack on Saarbrucken was "hardly less strong." Nuernburg had been bombed three times previously, but the latest blow undoubtedly was the hardest.

The last raid there was October 12, 1941. Saarbruecken was attacked twice before, the last time on July 19 this year. Saturation Technique The air ministry said the bombers over Nuernburg used the "saturation" technique on such targets as the engineering works, a locomotive plant, the Nan Tank factor', the Slemen-Schuckert Electrical plant and the aluminum mills which turn out pistons and castings. The four-motored planes traveled 500 miles into the heart of southern Germany to attack. The Saarbruecken raid was directed against the railway system, which is the pivotal point for the western trunk lines, as well as the war plants.

The pattern of the RAF and U. S. Air Force bombings appeared in sharper relief than ever: the offensive Is aimed at Hitler's transport system, his alrforce and his submarine building centers. Railways rounded Continuous blows have been aimed at the German railways and waterways from the invasion coast to the heart of the Reich for the past month. The cippling of the German railway system is a great step in opening a second front as well as direct aid to Russia by Interrupting the flow of supplies to the eastern front.

The Nazis- depend on their heav-ilv-taxed railroads to carry the bulk of their troops across Europe to meet any invasion threat. Prior to today U. S. Flying Fortresses have been landing daylight precision blows to the rail network fecding'the invasion coast with raids on switching yards at Rouen and Amiens and at sea transport at Rotterdam and Le-trait. The RAF's big night flights have been striking at the rail heads and locomotive works deep within Germany.

The Flying Fortresses also have raided Abbeville, and Meaulte, France. Further, thev have fought German Focke-Wulf 190s over the North sea, emerging with damage to two planes but none shot down in that heavy engagement. station in Patna Province. But such incidents were not being duplicated In the cities this weekend. An indication that authorities were less concerned about possible violence In the cities was seen in the fact Gandhi's son Devadas, managing editor of the Hindustan Times, was freed by a magistrate who heard charges that the younger Gandhi had violated defense regulations.

New instructions to the passive resistance leaders emphasized that the All-India Congress Party wanted no disorders. "None of our activities should be such as to endanger human life, whether Indian or British," it was stated by pamphlets which, were being circulated qruietly. SUB CAPTURED IS CUBA STORY Another Sunk in Battle Near Island, News Report Says HAVANA, Aug. 29. (IP) One German submarine was sunk and another captured after a battle with Allied sea and air forces off the coast of Cuba, Havana newspapers reported today.

was no official confirmation of the story, which appeared under 8-column headlines, but publication of the information was authorized by the ministry of defense. The published accounts, which came from correspondents In a Cuban port city, said the battle began when a submarine attacked and sank a merchant ship. Sub Attacked "Then," said the newspaper El Avance, "ships and plane's attacked the marauding submarine with depth bombs and cannon fire and it was sunk rapidly. "An enormous oil slick appeared on the surface of the sea, together with bits" of wreckage, which made the submarine's destruction evident. "The companion of the sunken submarine, seeking to avenge the sinking, fired on another ship of medium tonnage.

The ship got an impact at a vital spot and also sank." Then, the paper said, additional planes entered the combat and depth charges forced the second submarine to the surface where the crew of 39 surrendered. The submarine was towed to the coast. The account of the battle first appeared in the newspaper El Crlsol and later was published in other papers. Filers Clirerrd The newspaper El Pals said: "Residents of a town near the theatre of the encounter watched Jubilantly the triumph of the Allied planes and ships In the battle with the Germans. On returning the aviators were applauded deliriously by the crowd.

Near a point close to the port where the battle took place, the mountains of water which the depth bombs hurled up could be seen clearly." HIGHWAY TRAVEL REDUCED SHARPLY WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. (JP) An average reduction of more than one-third in highway motor travel throughout the country and a sharp drop in state gasoline tax revenues, due to conservation of tires, gasoline and motor vehicles, was indicated today in a report by the public roads administration. A 35.R per cent decline was reported in the number of vehicles counted at 202 points on highways in 21 states last months as compared with Jul-, 1941. The decline averaged 40.7 per cent in the eastern gasoline ration area and 1S.3 per cent elsewhere.

Greatest reductions were noted in Virginia, 53.4 per cent; Rhode Island, 49.5; Massachusetts, 45.8, and Connecticut. 41.fi per cent. Arizona reported traffic decreases last month of 10.7 per cent compared with July, 1911. U. S.

GETS 6 ISLANDS Three Jap Destroyers Struck in New Air Attacks SUPPLIES CAPTURED AH Counter Attacks of Foe Are Smashed, Navy States WASHINGTON, Axis. 29. (JP) United States Marines are now holding six islands in the vital Guadalcanal-Tulagi area of the southeastern Solomons, the navy announced tonight, and have smashed all Japanese attempts to land troops in an effort to drive them out. Enemy units sent Into the Islands since the marines landed early August 7 with strong American naval and air forces in support have been either completely annihilated or captured, It was disclosed in a communique summarizing the results to date of the first American offensive of the war. Another communique today reported successful aerial attacks against a squadron of four Japanese destroyers in the Jap-held territory north of the Guadalcanal-Tulagi sector.

One large destroyer wras sunk, another was badly damaged and probably sunk, and a third, a small destroyer, was damaged. Air Control This announcement, taken to-' gcther with dispatches from Australia reporting effective action by United States Army bombers in the Milne Bay section of southeastern New Guinea, indicated that armj', navy and marine air forces had won virtual command of the skies over contested sectors of the south Pacific war zone. Tonight's communique Indicated that in the first two days of ths Solomons campaign alone the Jans lost at least 71 planes and their total losses for the campaign to more than 104, destruction of 3.1 on August 2.1 and 25 having been reported by the navy last Wednesday. Landing Smashed While reporting that mopping up operations against enemy units formerly well-entrenched in the area "have continued to date," the navy also disclosed that "sev-i eral small contingents of enemy troops have been landed on the islands which we hold, the largest landing having been made by 700 troops on Guadalcanal August 21. "Our positions have been bom-, barded by surface craft and submarines and bombed by aircraft-the communique said, "but our losses as a result of these attacks have been small.

"Every attempt by the enemy to recapture his lost positions has resulted in the complete annihilation or capture by U. S. Marines of all troops that have landed." 71 Planes Downed The communique also disclosed that at least 71 Japanese planes of various types had been destros-ed in the fighting to date, boosting the total from the CD disclosed In earlier communiques, but there was no new information on either enemy or American warship and transport casualties. The six Islands which the marines now hold and on which they had overcome all major opposition by noon August 10 (the landing operations started early August 7) were named as Guadalcanal, which has airfield facilities which the Japanese had almost completely devel-. oped; Tulagi, with Its magnificent harbor; and the adjacent islands of Gavutu, Tanambogo, Makambo and Florida.

Fight Continues The communique said that as of August 10, major opposition had been overcome only on portions of Florida island but other sections of the navy report indicated that the situation there was now well in hand. In breaking the hold of the Jap anese on this strategic area which could control supply lines to Australia and may eventually serve as a jumping- off place for further American offensive action, the marines captured large quantities of ammunition and supplies, and equipment which the enemy had been using in development of a major naval base. Concurrent with the release of the communique, the navy Issued the first account of actual fighting ever supplied by the marines new corps of combat reporters, this eye-witness story being written by Second Lt, II. L. Merillat, 27, of Washington.

He reported that when the initial surprise attack on the Tulagi sector opened with a naval bombardment, "to the Japs on Guadalcanal and Tulagi It must have seemed that hell had broken loose." Casualties Discussed In another release, Major Gen eral A. A- Vandergrift, command ing the marine forces In the area. stated that American casualties while severe, were less than at first believed and by no means disproportionate to the results Cvfltiiioed to Page 9, Column 1) which the Soviets have launched in both regions show how strong they actually still are," the report said). The Soviet communique said that "stubborn fighting continues" northwest of Stalingrad and that "the enemy regardless of losses keeps on attacking our positions." Another Battle On the other Stalingrad sector, northeast of Kotelnikovski, the high command reported, "fierce engagements took place in which 12 enemy tanks were destroyed and two companies of infantry were wiped out." (The Berlin radio said the Germans continued to blast Stalingrad throughout the day with "extraordinary strong bomber and dive-bomber, In the Caucasus, south of Krasnodar, Soviet troops "fought defensive engagements and repelled two German attacks," the high command said. The communique indicated, however, that the big Soviet offensive west and northwest of Moscow still was underway.

Advance Claimed "On the Kalinin front a Soviet formation overcame enemy resistance for a river crossing and continued its advance," it said. Earlier reports said the Russians had gained "possession of the Rzhev airport and that fighting was going on in the city itself. In another sector of the front northwest of Moscow the Russians reported the Germans had launched an offensive in which large numbers of tanks and automatic (Continued to Page 6, Column 5) ENEMY MOVING MANY MEN OUT Chungking Warning That Tokyo Has New Plans Is Discussed CHUNGKING, Aug. 29. (JP) Japanese forces in Kwangtung province in south China are in flight before a new strong Chinese offensive 40 miles north of Canton, Chinese dispatches said tonight as the high command confirmed earlier reports that the valuable air-bases at Chuhsien and Lishul in Chekiang province had been wrested from the invaders.

The Kwangtung offensive began Thursday with Chinese recapture of Pakong, said the Central Chinese News Agency. With the Chinese in hot pursuit, the Japanese since have fled from the towns of Ku-tungshan, Kweitouling and Nang-channgau and still are withdrawing southward along the Canton-Hankow, railway, the agency said. Bases Retaken On the Chekiang-Kiangsl front to the north, ithe Chinese communique said Chuhsien and Lishui, both within easy air range of Japan, were recaptured Friday morning. Central News said the Chinese also captured Sungyang, last important Japanese stronghold in southern Chekiang pi'ovince, Friday and that a general Japanese withdrawal northward appeared to be In progress from that area. Japs Mopped Up Press dispatches said Chankshu tan, five miles oast of Chuhsien, also had fallen in the course of Chinese mopping-up operations, (The Tokyo radiotmentioned the Japanese reverses for the first time, asserting that on Aug.

vj Japanese forces on the Chekiang Kiangsi front "commenced read justment of their battle line in order to secure a more militarily advantageous position in readiness for future action. (This explanation was attributed to the press section of the Japanese army in central China, the force which began the big Chekiang- Kiangsi drive May 15 with the aim of seizing potential air bases from which Japan could be bombed and establishine an all-rail route to conquered Singapore. Claim Changed (Previously the Japanese have accounted for withdrawals in China by saying they had accomplished their purpose and ne'er had intended to stay. No such claim was made in this case. (The Japanese broadcasts did not specifically say that any retreat was being carried out, and German broadcasts of Tokyo dispatching pretended the Japanese were still in full possession of their Che-kiang-Kiangsi gains.

(This broadcast said the Japanese spokesman declared the "railway line from Chekiang to Kiangsi will be repaired only as it is necessary for military purposes." (The spokesman was quoted as saying the Chinese had lost 35,745 dead and 10,203 prisoners In the Chekiang-Kiangsl fighting. Chinese Warning (The Chinese themselves, however, have warned repeatedly that the Chinese successes in Chekiang and Kiangsi are not due entirely to military prowess, because the Japanese have been mysteriously removing many of the" 170,000 troops and stcong air force with which they began the drive. (The Chinese intelligence reports simultaneously have told of Japanese troop concentrations along the border of Japanese-held French China and In Manchuria, suggesting that the Japanese bad new military schemes afoot.) FIGHTING HEAVY IN NEW GUINEA Japs Land More Men At Milne Bay, Air War Is Stepped Up GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Sunday, Aug. 30 (JP) Japanese reinforcements have reached the Milne Bay area of southeastern New Guinea and heavy fighting for that point is in progress, it was announced today.

A Japanese cruiser and eight de stroyers entered the bay last night and it was believed they may have landed some troops. Allied planes, cooperating with ground forces, heavily pounded the Japanese units, inflicting heavy damages and casualties, a communique said. It also was announced Japanese attacks in the Kokoda area of the Buna-Gona sector to the north were repulsed. Additional ground fighting In New Guinea was reported around Lae and Salamaua where outpost clashes occurred. Air activity was extensive, with Allied bombing attacks on such widely separated places as the Dutch Island of Amboina, north west of Australia, Buka, at the northern end of the Solomon Islands and Rabaul, Japanese in vasion base in New Britain.

An enemy cargo vessel off Am boina was attacked, but the results of the bombing could not be ob served. The raid at Buka was against a Japanese airfield, where dis persal areas and the runway were heavily hit from medium altitude. Referring to the fighting in New Guinea, the communique said: "Under cover of naval units off the north coast and adverse weath er conditions rendering local flying most difficult and ineffective. one cruiser and eight destroyers entered Milne Bay last night and may have landed light reinforce ments. Ground fighting of bitter intensity continues there with no decisive results.

In the raid on Rabaul, Allied heavy bombers hit hard at the airfield, the communique said, and dropped ten tons of high explosives among buildings and on dis persal areas. Six Zero fighters atempted to intercept the bombers, but two were shot down and two others badly damaged and probably de? stroyed without loss of any Allied planes. hurried to receive congratulations from their parents and friends who witnessed the ceremony. Here and there was a husband who saw his wife commissioned. The women were able to pin on shoulder bars denoting their rank, but they were unable to sport the other officers' insignia that eventually will mark their uniforms eagles on their caps, on their -collars, the corps pallas athena on their lapels.

The waf has held up delivery of the insignia. The women have two more weeks of work as officers before assignment to posts, about September 14. Some will go into aircraft warning, some to recruiting offices and more will stay here to train other officers and WAAC auxiliaries. During the two weeks, some of the outstanding women will be promoted to second officer, and first officer the WAAC equivalent of first lieutenant and captain, 1 DESERT BATTLE DELAY STUDIED Russian Activity May Be Explanation of Nazi Inactivity There WITH THE ALLIED FORCES IN THE WESTERN DESERT, Aug. 29.

(JP) The anticipated Axis offensive in the Egyptian desert appeared tonight to have been postponed, perhaps- because of the strong Russian counter attacks west and northwest of Moscow. It is considered possible here that the Germans, weak in the air in Africa in recent months, had planned to fly several hundred planes to Egypt to back up their land forces and have, been unable to do so because of developments inJlussia. Desert Quiet At any rate the 'desert remains quiet and the moon is fast waning The major activity is continuation of the Allied air offensive against Axis formations and communica tions. South African squadrons are especially active in attacking enemy positions with light bomb ers by day and making fighter sweeps. South African fighter pilots shot down two Messerschmitts and one Macchi in a 15-minute dogfight over the central sector of the El Alamein front this morning.

They damaged several others, some of which may have been lost-Nazi Air Attack The Germans did some scattered bombing over the desert during the night. One of their attacks hap pened to be on our camp. A stick of bombs fell some yards from my tent. I escaped because I was not sleeping there, but In another place 35 miles away. I had been out visiting American pilots at another field and could not get back by nightfall.

I found the Americans in fine spirits. Their only conjplaint was that they missed the comic strips which they had been following daily in American papers. They wanted to know if I had any information on what had befallen certain comic strip characters since they left America in July. Flies Fought The Americans have opened an intensive campaign against the desert's most annoying pests flies. At the door of each tent is a big flytrap.

Flies are lured into the traps by watermelon rinds which the Americans say Is the best flv bait they have found. Thev are trapping flies by the hundreds of thousands, but this has not made any serious dent in the desert's fly population. TAXI RESTRICTION WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. UP) The government clamped strict regulations on the taxi-cab indus try today in order to save tires, gasoline and vehicles.

In an order estimated to affect at least 50,000 vehicles, the Office of Defense Transportation practically froze the industry in the hands of present operators, Army Gets Feminine Officers When Waacs Graduate in Iowa Gandhi's Resistance Programs Are Extended Quietly in India FORT DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 9. (JP) The army got a lot of new officers today feminine ones but the masculine army never had a straighten prouder, smarter bunch of second lieutenants In its history. At long last, or so it seemed to them, the first 436 officer candidates of the Women's Auxiliary Corps got their commissions and the right to pin on those precious gold shoulder bars that designate them third officers. The tension of six weeks of the toughest training any group of women ever encountered was broken at least temporarily with the granting of commissions, and it was a beaming, chattering crowd of women who went back to barracks from the colorful ceremony, some to try on their newly-worr bars.

Many of the new-WAAC officers NEW DELHI, Aug. 29 (Mohandas K. Gandhi's movement of civil disobedience appears to be spreading underground after three weeks cf surface demonstrations in which disorder, suppressed in India's big cities, continued to boil in the villages. From underground channels has been distributed a secret set of Instructions to Gandhi's followers to concentrate their shut-down activities on the "first 20 cities" of India, declaring that "our activities should see that the climax of the mM.nmonr Vrnfh in rural and ur ban India, is reached four weeks from now. communicate to day reported six Indians killed and when officers fired into a disorderly crowd around police.