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a WEATHER BUREAU An Independent NEWSpaper Printing the News Impartially AND VICINITY: Con- wrm oo7 fl9" TimniriluPli TLA .4 Low. Jlifh 100 Low. I 1 I NO. 272 VOL.101 faiwm at Memo-dan aana PRICE FIVE CENTS TWELVE PAGES TUCSON, ARIZONA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1942 49 JAP PLANES, 2 CRUISERS, 2 TRANSPORTS AND 1 TENDER HIT BY AMERICAN BOMBERS; NAZIS PIERCE STALINGRAD WORKERS' ARM ARMY, NAVY CHIEFS MEET 'SOMEWHERE IN PACIFIC OCEAN' WASHINGTON. Sept.

ile.J,a.vy annunced tonight W' Nimitz- com. mander-ln-chlef of the Pacific Lt. Gen. H. H.

Arnold, commanding general of the armv air forces, and Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, commander of the south Pacific area, had been "in conference somewhere in the Pacific." The disclosure came in a terse announcement that the three high ranking officers had Jointly expressed their "admiration and congratulations" to MaJ. Gen. A. A.

Vandegrlft, U. S. Marine Corps, for the "remarkable per. formance of his fighters in destroying 33 enemy aircraft in attacks by the Japanese on Guadalcanal on September 27 and 28 without the loss of a single U. S.

fighter." DRIVE IN NEW GUINEA Army, Navy and Marine Fliers Smash With Terrific Force in Solomons and Aleutians During Past Five Days; Not a Single U. S. Plane Lost WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. (P) Smashing with terrific force at the Japanese in both the Solomon and the Aleutian Islands, army-navy-marine corps airmen in the last five days have destroyed 49 enemy planes and damaged five ships, one of which probably sank, without the loss of a single American plane in combat.

A navy communique announced that in an attack by the enemy on Guadalcanal Island yesterday (September 28 east longitude), navy and marine corps fighters intercepting a large Japanese formation not only forced the enemy Fresh German Infantry and Tanks Crash Through Russian Lines on Northwestern Outskirts; Stiff Fighting Continues on 36th Day MOSCOW, Tuesday, Sept. 29. (IP) Two fresh German infantry divisions and 150 tanks thrown into the faltering assault on Stalingrad crashed through Russian lines on the northwestern outskirts of the city yesterday, and the Soviet high command again acknowledged the numerical superiority of the enemy as the siege entered its thirtyTsixth day. The midnight communique telling of the grave turn for the Stalingrad garrison said of that development: "After stiff fighting a group of enemy tanks managed to penetrate a workers settlement, where the fighting con tinues. During the day our men annihilated about two German in fantry regiments and disabled about 50 enemv tanks." Northwest of Stalingrad, presum ably above the sector where the Soviet lines were cracking, the Russians said their troops had killed more than 1,000 Germans and destroyed eight Nazi tanks in the past 24 hours.

Holding in Northwest The Red army had been holding generally northwest of Stalingrad and even gaining ground in counterattacks during the past week. Several German counterattacks in this sector above the city were beaten off, the communique said. Inside the citv savage street fighting continued, but the latest communique gave no details of that struggle. Front dispatcnes said at least 36,000 German troops were engaged in the swaying battle amid the skeleton ruins of the Volga industrial center. On the central front before Moscow the Russians reported another Red army advance northwest of Rzhev after a two-day fight.

Twenty-five inhabited points were liberated by the Russians, tne communique said, and big quantities of enemy equipment either seized or destroyed. Two thousand German officers and men were wiped out. Losses in Caucasus In the Caucasus the Russians acknowledged German seizure of another inhabited point in the Moz-dok area of the road to the Grozny oil fields, but said that Soviet counterattacks had gained ground along the Black sea coast strath of Novorossisk. More than 1,200 Germans and Rumanians were wiped out and a number of prisoners taken in the latter engagement, it was said. At Sinyavino east of Leningrad where the Germans had driven a wedge into Russian positions, the communique said the Red army had dislodged the enemy from an important height, annihilating one German infantry company and destroying three tanks and two armored cars.

By ground transport and by plane, the German commanders pressed more torces into acuon against Stalingrad, which is rely ing on the heavily-hombeci oiga for its communications. Despite giant losses, the Germans in some quarters were able to improve their positions, in otners, iney lost ground to the Russian counter-assaults. Elements of at least four Ger man divisions the 71st and 76th infantry and the 14th and 24th tank struggled to break down the Russian resistance within the city. "In Convulsions" Battle dispatches said Stalingrad was literally "in convulsions" from incessant bombing and shelling. (The German high command said there were Russian brief attacks both south and north of Stalingrad, but claimed German troops now were advancing against northern sections, having "cleared completely" some sections of the city.

Russian attacks were reported on a number of other fronts west and northwest of Moscow, southeast of Lake Ilmen, south of Lake Ladoga and "an attempt of strong enemy forces to break the cordon around Leningrad eastward by attack across the Neva river." All these failed, the Germans van tbcm. Aflzoo BALKAN PEOPLE DEMAND PEACE, LONDONHEARS Rumania Said to Have Lost 300,000 Men, and Nazis Asking for More FOOD STORES SHORT U.S. Bombings Add to Axis Difficulties; Workers Flee From Cities LONDON, Sept. 28. (tf3) Increasing anti-war sentiment in the Balkans was reported by Allied government sources tonight and a Yugoslav official described conditions as similar to those in 1918 shortly before the collapse of Bulgaria, Austria and Hungary.

The reasons were listed as these: 1. The lengthening death list of the eastern front. Rumania alone was said to have lost more than 300,000 men in Russia and Germany was reported demanding 000 additional. 2. Decreasing food supplies.

"Pace" Signs Appear 3. Increasing Axis pressure for "closer collaboration." "The Rumanians are particularly bitter to both Germany and Hungary," a Fighting French source said. "For the first time since the war began the word 'pace' (peace) is seen scrawled on pavements and buildings throughout the country. Recently several hundred men and women were tried by court martial for unpatriotic activities including sabotage. "The majority of the people feel that they have received nothing from Germany except additional demands, and they are bitter at Hungary because they were forced yield Transylvania to her." U.

S. Bombings Cited In an effort to counter dissension in Hungary, Germany recently gave Hungary 200,000 acres of rich Serbian agricultural lands, the Yugoslav government announced. The lands adjoin Bachka province which previously had been ceded to Hungary. The inhabitants of f2 villages were evicted. Hungary also was reported worried by decreasing war goods production because of the flight of workers to the country after an air raid on Budapest, the Leningrad radio said.

Reported American bombings of the capitals of Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Croatia in the last two weeks also was said to have added to Axis difficulties. British sources said a group of specially selected agents had been created in Hungary. "It is a clear sign that reports of Hungarian unrest are not exaggerated." this source, who cannot be named, said. Other reports said potatoes and corn are to be rationed in Hungary because of a poor harvest and because Germany is asking for the greater part of the meager crop. Swiss dispatches said Rumania and Croatia had agreed to raise more troops for the Russian front, hoping for political favors from Germany at the expense of Hungary which has reluctantly sent some troops to the east.

VOLUNTEERS TO GATHER COTTON Civic Group of Phoenix Enrolls 2,309 for Emergency Work rilOENIX, Sept. 28. cotton pickers were organized by the hundreds here today as it appeared the use of Japanese labor from the state's resettlement centers would be insufficient to harvest the Important crop. Earl Maharg, secretary of the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation, said Japanese were volunteering in such small numbers at the Sacaton center that the whole arrangement for their employment might be called off. "When we made the arrangements we were under the impression that between 2,000 and 3.000 evacuee Japanese would respond from the Sacaton center," he said.

"The army is using approximately 000 soldiers for guard duty. We have no right to claim these men so badly needed elsewhere unless a satisfactory number of Japanese can be induced to volunteer to pick long staple cotton." 2.TO Japs Work Today 237 Japanese worked on five ranches in Maricopa and Pinal counties. The picking situation was further complicated today when the Chandler Improvement Company posted notices offering S1.75 per 100 pounds for picking short staple cotton. It has been customary for the short staple wage to be half that for long staple picking, which now Is S3 per hundred. The Victory Labor Volunteers, a Thoenix civic, group, announced that 2.309 persons had been enrolled for emergency work in the cotton fields on a part-time basis.

The Phoenix Real Estate Board voted to close all real estate offices here for half a day each Thursday to permit more than 300 persons to pick cotton. Challenge Issued Mayor Newell W. Stewart announced that 700 male city em-(Continued to fage 2, Column 8) COMPROMISE IS PUT UP BY FARM Defeat Seen in Drive for Higher Parity Prices; Hatch Bitter jrjtf BALLOT TODAY ministration Refuses to Accept 'Production Cost Formula WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. (-Apparently sensing de- Utt in us anve iu lurce 7 higher farm parity prices into I the anti-inflation bill, the jenate larm dioc ouerea a compromise today but administration forces flatly re- The compromise would retire President Roosevelt to fix Jpicultural price ceilings in such I way as to reflect "all productive Including labor." It was offered as substitute for the amendment by Senators Thomas Okia.) and Hatch (IX.

N. which would have altered the parity or "fair farm price" formula Introducing farm labor costs Into It for the, first time. Administration men complained hat the latter proposal would nine the cost of living $3,000.000.. OOi) to $.1,500,000,000 a year. They laid the present parity formula, which would be the basis of cell-lugs under the pending anti-Inflation bill, was fair because It re-fltd the price of things the fanner buvs.

H.in Submitted After a hastily-called meeting of th senate agricultural committee today, the farm bloc leaders laid the compromise before Senator Brown in charge of the administration antl- Inflation MIL which calls for stabilization of prices, wages and salaries. Brown swiftly rejected the com-promise, on the ground that it wtmm liter me parity inea ny introducing "cost of production" factors. President Roosevelt has expressed unalterahle opposition to changes In parity. Brown announced that the administration forces would fight It eut on the basis of the Thomas-Hatch amendment vs. a plan offered by Senator Iiarkley majority leader.

This would direct the President to make adjustments In farm price ceilings where such action appeared necessary to in-ertue war production, or where the celflngs fall to reflect increased labor costs. Hatch Is nitter The rejection of the bloc compromise led Senator Hatch to declare bitterly: Tor the life of me, I do not understand how the administration can expect to produre farm or other commodities at less than the actual cost of production. However, I am now convinced for the first time that this is the attitude of this administration." A decision on the farm price Is-me was put over until tomorrow, it least, when th senate recessed late In the day without taking any fQtcs. BRAZILIAN PLANE FALLS; 15 KILLED 1 SAO TAUr.O, Brazil. Sept.

2. WV-A Tanalr Do Ilrasll plane trashed In the mountains between Santos and Sao Paulo in southern Brazil today, carrying to their deaths I.j persons, Including two U. S. citizens. Also killed was I.lneo De Paula Machado.

possessor of one of Drain's greatest fortunes and the country's most famous racehorse owner. Reports from the scene Mid bad weather caused the accident. The Americans were Edward Ad-1'r, 41, Philadelphia, an agent in Brazil for United States products ince and at present an agent for Norge refrigerators and Zenith radios, and Carl Fred Wllklns, 48. a clerk In the U. S.

consular service ho was en route from Puerto Rico to assume a post at Sao Taulo. FOUR BILLIONS TO BE SOUGHT BY U. S. WASHINGTON. Sept.

28 (At Swretarv Morgenthavi announced today that the treasury will borrow Pproxlmately $1,000,000,000 in October, the largest slngje financing operation since the first World War. The secretary' will confer with federal reserve" board officials tomorrow, and will make public details of the financing early In the month. The treasury bbrrowed $3,000. W0.0OO this month, but September a fair revenue month because quarterly income tax payments. The federal debt now exceeds 30.000.000,000.

40,000 HOMELESS IN CHINA FLOOD CHUNGKING. Sept. 28. A nighty wave six to 20 feet deep jwirled in a flood over eastern ohansl province from the Yellow "ver late in August, leaving 3,000 ead and 40,000 homeless, belated patches said today. As the waters subsided they left layer of mud two or three feet cp and a famine is threatened result of the loss of crops, estimated the damage 80,000,000 Chinese dollar, Allies Launch Ground Attack Against Japs In Owen Stanleys JUNGLE GAINS MADE Infiltrating Maneuvers Are Carried Out by McArthur's Men GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Tuesday, Sept.

29. (P) Allied troops have launched infiltrating ground attacks against Japanese positions in the Owen Stanley mountains of New Guinea, a communique said today. The offensive was aimed primarily at Japanese-held ground on Ioribaiwa ridge more than 30 miles north of Port Moresby, key to the Allied hold on southern New Guinea. A number of small units took part in the advance, the communique said, each engaging in a separate outflanking or infiltrating maneuver. The advance against Ioribaiwa ridge was the second made by Gen.

Douglas MacArthur's troops in this sector within three days. Gains in Jungles A communique Saturday told of gains made by Allied patrols in these same rain-drenched mountain jungles, the present report of further successes suggested a full-scale ground assault against the Japanese bases on the northern shore of New Guinea might be developing, to complement unceasing air attacks upon the same objectives. Following Is the text of the high command's communique: Northwestern sector Reconnaissance activity only. Northeastern sector Lae: An Allied heavy unit bombed dispersal areas with unobserved results. Two Sweeps Staged Buna: Allied fighters carried out two sweeps over enemy lines of communication and supply.

Dumps and huts were set afire by incendiary bombs and in strafing passes. Barges on the beach were also machine-gunned and destroyed. Kokoda: A formation of our fighters attacked WairopI bridge with incendiaries and cannon fire. Buin: At night Allied medium bombers attacked airdrome dispersal areas and an enemy transport and destroyer with unobserved results. Owen Stanley area: Our ground troops have launched an infiltrating and outflanking attack on the enemy's defensive positions on Ioribaiwa ridge and are making progress.

NAZIS SINK U. S. SHIP; 13 KILLED i By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A small United States merchant man, counter-attacking gamely to the was torpeaoea last, monui bv an enemy submarine in the north Atlantic with the loss of 13 lives, the navy reported yester day. Although spotters aboard the merchantman first sighted the submarine's periscope four hours before the vessel sank, gunners were unable to hit the undersea raider. The fatal torpedo smashed into the engine room.

Forty-two crew members escaped, were rescued later and brought into an Allied port. The sinking raised to 478 the Associated Press tabulation of announced sinkings in the western Atlantic since December 7. A storv of three weeks adrift in the shark-infested Caribbean was released yesterday by the British Information Service in Bridgetown, Barbados, B. W. where 17 survivors of a torpedocl merchantman were landed.

Survivors related how their lifeboats were fired upon by the submarine and shelled again by their rescuing Allied destroyer wliich njistook one of the lifeboats for the silhouette of an enemy U-bcat COLD HALTS RAID IN FRENCH REGION LONDON, Sept. 23. UP) Eleven British planes w-ere lost Saturday in operations over northwest France which had to be abandoned because of severe icing conditions and clouds, the air ministry announced tonight. The long lapse between the offensive sweep and the 'announcement was' not explained, but the communique said extensive but futile searches has been made for the lost pilpts. The ministry said German radio accounts suggested that some of the pilots were captured but that "as these reports are clearly inaccurate In other respects they cannot be accepted without-confirmation." (The Germans said the RAF raided Brest).

'TILL OR FIGHT' EDICT PROPOSED BY DRAFT CHIEF Farm Worker Shifting to City Job Would Be Inducted at Once WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. (P) "Till the soil or fight" would be the ultimatum handed to the nation's able-bodied agricultural workers under a suggestion laid before the house agriculture committee today by Maj. Gen. Lewis B.

Hershey, director of selective service. To remedy the growing farm labor shortage, he proposed that any physically fit, draft-age man who leaves the farm for a higher-paying city Job be immediately inducted into the military service. "I am perfectly willing to do this," he told the committee, but explained that his was an operating agency, and the decision to take such action would have to be made by policy-makers, probably by the War Manpower Commission. To Avert Shortage The committee is seeking to formulate legislation for averting what Chairman Fulmer described as "a rapidly-approaching food shortage." due to a scarcity of farm labor. The shortage of agricultural workers and higher farm labor costs form the crux of the current higher parity fight In Congress.

Hershey told the committee that agricultural production might have to be classified into "essential" and "non-essential" components, either on a crop or area basis, for the purpose of deciding which rural men should stay on the farms and which should fight. "Nobody would assume that all agriculture is essential," he said. "We're going to have to ask: 'What Is a man raising on his Ho warned that both farm and Industry would suffer additional losses of men, "and still must keep on producing." Confer With Wlrkard Hershey disclosed that he had taken up with Agriculture Secretary Wickard the proposition of deciding what agricultural production Is vital and what is not. If given such information, he testified, he could adjust state draft quotas so as not to drain away Indispensable agricultural workers. Committee members presented letters they had received, painting a gloomy picture of conditions in rural areas because of labor shortages.

They likewise read from newspapers which contained numerous advertisements of farm auction sales. Several put particular stress on the position of the dairy industry in areas where workers have been drafted or moved to city jobs. 8WKKPIXO MANPOWER AITIIORITY I'RGKl) WASHINGTON. Sept. 28.

VD War Manpower Chief Paul V. Mc-Nutt indicated today that an administration proposal for a national service act, which might empower the government to make compulsory assignments of workers to Jobs where they are most needed, would be submitted to Congress soon. Testifying before the house agriculture committee inquiring into farm labor shortages, he said "per-suasion is not enough and there's not sufficient patriotic urge" to deal with the manpower problem. "I hope in the very near future that certain recommendations will be made," he added. "It is not an easv task.

We have never had such legislation. Certain constitutional questions are involved." McNutt told tne committee. that one way to keep labor on the farm was to narrow the differential between farm and industrial wages, by raising the level oC farm wages. Asked bv a committee member whether this would result in rais-ing farm prices, he replied, j'lt would seem to follow, Asked later by newspaper men if this could be construed as approval of the farm bloc fight on Capitol Hill to raise farm parity computations for Inclusion of labor costs, he said "I don't intend to get into that." BUND TRIAL DELAYED NEW YORK, Sept. 28.

JP) Because of the sudden illness and collapse of a defendant, the trial of 25 former national and local German American Bund leader? was adjourned until tomorrow morning shortly after it convened thia afternoon. bombers to Jettison their bombs at sea, but shot down 23 of the 25 bombers and one of the 18 escorting Zero fighters. On Saturday a formation of 18 Japanese bombers escorted by 13 fighters attacked the marines' position on Guadalcanal, but navy and marine corps fighters turned them back, destroying four bombers and five of the fighters. These attacks on Guadalcanal followed heavy assaults Friday and Satur day on enemy positions by long-range heavy army bombers which smashed at Japanese shipping as far north as Buka passage at the upper end of Bougainville Island and about 375 miles above Guadalcanal Island. Cruiser Hit The heavy bombers, roaring northward Saturday, hit a Japanese cruiser at Shortland Island, and left it burning, hit and fired a large transport which probably sank, shot down six enemy seaplanes and damaged a seventh.

The day before, the army bombers had scored a direct hit on an enemj' cruiser and shot down three seaplanes at Tonolei harbor, at the southern end of Bougainville Island, damaged a seaplane tender in Buka passage and- damaged a seaplane on the water and strafed gun emplacements at Rekata Bay, on Santa Isabel Island, about 185 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. On the ground, the marines on Guadalcanal have kept up continual, pressure against the remnants of Japanese troops, said the communique, expanding their positions somewhat and destroying several small nemy detaoh ment with the aid of marine and navy dive bombers. Busy in Aleutian In the Aleutians, meanwhile, army airmen accompanied for the first time by Canadian planes, were credited by the navy with setting an enemy ship afire, destroying seven planes and killing or wounding about 150 Japanese In a low level attack on enemy installations at Kiska Island. A strong force of army bombers and pursuit planes, joined by aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force, carried out the attack on enemy shore installations and ships at Kiska last Friday, strafing two submarines, destroying six fighter seaplanes on the water, and shooting down a seventh. Two transports, or cargo ships, wer.e found in the harbor, said, a navy communique, and direct bomb hits started fires on one of them.

When last seen, the vessel, listing badly, had been beached. Second Sweep The attack was the second aerial sweep against Kiska in as many days. A smaller force of army heavy bombers, said the communique, had attacked the enemy installations, Thursday, but apparently this attack was made from a high altitude, since the results were not observed. The direct hits on the transport brought to 33 the total of Japanese vessels sunk or damaged by combined army-navy operations 4n the Aleutians since the islands became an active war zone with the enemy raid on Dutch Haror June 3, the day before the battle of Midway started. Two weeks ago today a large force of army heavy bombers, ac companied by pursuit planes, car ried out a similar low-level attack at Kiska, sinking two mine sweep ers, damaging tnree large cargo ships, three submarines and sev eral small craft, firing storehouses and supply dump3, shooting down four Japanese Zero fighters and a smaller plane, and destroying one large enemy patrol plane on the water.

The navy estimated 50!) enemy troops were killed or wounded. The communique September IC. announcing this attack, also said that September 4 a single army heavy bomber, accompanied by two long-range pursuit planes, had carried out a strafing attack on the enemy at Kiska. A four-engined flying boat was believed destroyed, and numerous casualties were in flicted on enemy forces aboard ships and on shore. VANCOUVER ISLAND AREA BLACKED OUT VANCOUVER, B.

Sept 2S (Canadian Press) Vancouver is land and the lower British Columbia mainland blacked out at 8 p. m. today on orders from Western Air Command at Victoria. Radio stations remained on the air. Half an hour later the area was still in darkness.

Shipyards continued operations under what officials said was a special permit from air raid precau tion headquarteri. LAVAL DICKERS TO STOP NAZIS IN LABOR DRAFT Gives Germans Choice, to Keep Him or Face Revolt, Swiss Report BERN, Switzerland, Sept. 28. (P) Pierre Laval gave the Germans the choice today of keeping him in office or risking. revolt in France over compulsory labor conscription, reliable advices from Paris said tonight.

Informed observers believed Laval had a good chance of winning his point with a plea that public reaction must be consid ered but they were uncertain of the final outcome of the arrest of some 300 Americans by the Germans in the occupied zone, presumably as hostages for future exchange. News of Americans Scant Official American quarters still lacked formal information on what was going on in Occupied France.J The seizure of the Americans, most of them in Paris, caused surprise because those in the occupied zone were liable to internment as enemy aliens. The situation served with other factors, including U. S. endorsement of the British occupation of Madagascar, to intensify the acute status of American-French relations.

But Laval's apparent stiffening on the labor program, it was pointed out, could be an important factor in avoiding a rupture. Laval's Troubles Multiply By his current stand against compulsory conscription to raise 120,000 workers in three weeks for Hitler, Laval had not necessarily changed his perennial white tie for one of red, white and blue. He appeared simply to be giving a prudent ear to rising popular indignation. Whether he had gotten any comfort from the Nazis in current Paris negotiations remained to be seen. Laval's troubles multiplied during a week-end in which he ousted Jacques Benoist-Mechin, secretary of state in his foreign ministry, for plotting to replace Laval as chief of government by the more rabid pro-Nazi, Jacques Doriot RATIONS TO HOLD MILEAGE TO 5,000 WASHINGTON, Sept.

28. (JP) Gasoline rationing on a nationwide basis probably will cut the mileage of the average passenger car close to the annual limit recommended by the Baruch committee, Director Leon Henderson of the Office of Price Administration reported today. He based his estimate on experience with rationing in the east. Passenger cars in the 17 eastern states are averaging only 5,170 miles a year, Henderson said, and the rationing program is saving about 150,000,000 miles of tire wear everv dav. He laughed.

He was obviously pleased. Men are frequently revealed through their prides. He clearly has the logical, and practical mind of a busines executive or lawyer. This, of course, is only one of the facets of his character. He becomes almost emotional when talking of the aspirations of the Russian people.

You may agree with him or disagree with him, condemn or praise the Russian social system but don't discourage his abilities or his purposes, for no man can leave Stalin's presence these days without admiration for his devotion to the cause of saving his people from the barbarous thrusts of Hitler's merciless hordes. He knows the Russian people and he is resolved that their homeland shall be saved from any foreign intruder. He sees after victory a world where his nation may have peace and opportunity for industrial development and his people a rising standard of living under an economic and social system of their leaders choice. NATIONAL DRIVE FOR COLLECTION OF SCRAP OPENS Mountainous Metal Pile Is Sought in Huge 3 Weeks Hunt NEW YORK, Sept. 28.

(VP) Americans today began throwing together a mountainous pile of scrap that will mean steel death for the Axis. From coast to coast in farms, factories, homes the three weeks' nationwide drive to find junked metal and iron started under the leadership of more than 1,600 newspapers. Typical of the gravity of the hunt for metal scrap so vital to keep the steel mills from lagging was the declaration by Connecticut's Governor Robert A. Hurley that aa emergency existed in his state. 4 In a ringing appeal to his people, the governor said: "Until we have exhausted every last possibility of providing our factories with materials they need, each man, woman and child of Connecticut Is a member of Con necticut's citizens' army." Heirloom Offered As the scrap piled up across the nation, stories piled up, too, show ing that Americans were throwing into the junk heap that will be come planes, tanks and snips not only their old Iron beds but even their heirlooms handed down from revolutionary times.

Example: Mrs. Clayton Squaires of West Simsbury, contributed 51 knitting needles an ancestor used to fashion socks for George Wasn ington's soldiers. Eighteen states thus far have reported that every one of their newspapers, both daily and week ly, were lined up solidly in the campaign requested by Donald M. Nelson. War Production Board chief, when he saw scrap collec tion lagging a month ago, and the list Is growing.

Eighteen States The general committee for the newspapers united metal scrap drive announced solid eighteen states w-ere: Connecticut, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Wisconsin. Minnesota. South Da kota. Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Ok lahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Ore gon. But those solid states were only part of the picture for all over the nation in cities, towns, vil lages, counties campaigns were under way under newspaper leadership.

In some places they had been going on already. The steel mills will need tons of scrap between now and the first of the year and the great bulk of that is expected to be gathered in the next 20 days. Thousands of dollars have been offered in prizes by the newspapers and merchants to spur scrap salvage, the awards to be given for the best collection Jobs by individuals, groups or areas. POLICEMEN HELD AT BUENOS AIRES BUENOS AIRES. Sept 28 (JP) Police surrounded the congressional building tonight after the chamber of deputies had defied a federal court order to release two police officers arrested last week and barred the doors and posted special guards to prevent police from entering.

This grew out of a controversy between the legislative and Judicial branches of the government which started when the chamber arrested the two policemen for jostling Socialist Deputy Julio Gonzalez Iramain during a demonstration in Bupport of Brazil. The okamber charged the police had violated parliamentary priv ileges and the court contended the chamber had no authority to make arrests. The dispute was brought to a head when the courts issued a habeas corpus for the release of the prisoners. TUCSONAN ADMITTED PHOENIX, Sept. 28.

(JP) The state supreme court today admitted William Smith Dun Space of Tucson to the practice of law. He passed his bar examinations last July. Ten others will be admitted to tfce bar Saturday. Stalin Has Logical Mind Of Executive, Willkie Declares (The following impressions of Premier Joseph Stalin were written by Wendell L. Willkie, President Roosevelt's personal representative, at the request of Wide World shortly before Mr.

Willkie concluded "his visit to Russia and left for China.) By WENDELL L. WILLKIE MOSCOW, Sept. 28. (Wide World.) Mr. Stalin and I had been in lively conversation for some two hours.

Among the subjects which we discussed was Russian industrial production. I was telling him of my visit to Russian factories and some comparisons 1 had made with American indus trial organization and production. His interest was alert, his understanding comprehensive. As a pleasantry I said, "Mr. Stalin, vou know I have been in business and at the bar all my mature life.

I am rather glad your lot was not cast in America. You would have made tough.