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0t WEATHER BUREAU ft'cSON AND VICIN1TT: It 1 1 1 1 Tamptraturtt An Independent NEWSptper Printing the Newi -Impartially Low B7 Low 4S .11 NO. 297 Knlcrwi as VOL. 101 PRICE FIVE CENTO TWELVE PAGES TUCSON, ARIZONA, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 24, 1942 ACE IS MISSING Port OffV. Taen, Artsm 10 JAP SHIPS BLASTED IN RABAUL HARBOR 6 FDR SAYS TANK, PLANE TWO SENATORS URGE SCHEDULES REDUCED; LONGER WORK WEEK Cruiser, Destroyer, Two Merchantmen Sunk And Six Other Merchantmen Damaged When Allies Make Low Level Raid; AH Planes Are Safe. GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Saturday, Oct.

24. () Allied heavy bombers continuing their support of United States forces in the Solomons sank or badly damaged a Japanese cruiser, one destroyer and eight transports or cargo ships in a raid in force on Rabaul, New Britain, General Douglas McArthur announced today. The total tonnage raided by the big bombers with "deadly effect" was approximatelv 50.000 tons, the Allied head Germans Hammer at Factory Area in Northern Stalingrad Berlin Claims Success in Surprise Assault Within City But Moscow Insists That All Enemy Attempts To Advance Have Been Frustrated MOSCOW, Saturday, Oct. 24. (P) Thousands of German troops supported by heavy tanks, artillery and planes struck yesterday at a Russian-held factory in northern Stalingrad, but the Soviets announced early today "our units are beating off the "Hitlerite attacks and inflicting heavy losses.

IMPROVEMENT MADE Better Equipment For Troops To Be Built More Slowly EXPERIENCE HELPS Battle Tests Are Used To Change Models At Factories WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. (JP) President Roosevelt disclosed today that the year's numerical production goals for planes and tanks would not be met and attributed the situation to a shift in emphasis to heavier, harder-hitting models dictated by battle experience. The goals were set in the President's message to Congress last January w7hen he said he had ordered steps to be taken "to increase our production rate of airplanes so rapidly that in this year, 1942 we shall produce 60,000 planes," of which 45,000 were to be combat planes, and 45,000 tanks. Recently he explained, however, that this contemplated not the actual production of 60,000 planes in 1942 but the attainment during theN year of a rate of production.

Change Cited And today he hold his press conference that a changeover from the M-3 to the M-4 tank meant that the numerical goal for tanks would not be reached but that the full amount of steel and other materials called for in the original program would still be fabricated into fighting machines through Increasing the unit size. Both the M-3 and the M-4 are "medium tanks," the former weighing 28 tons and the latter about 30. It had been understood that the principal difference in the two models was that the M-4 was cast or welded instead of TivetedIlke the M-3 and that its 75 mm. gun mounted in the turret could fire in a 360-degree traverse instead of the limited traverse of the M-3, which had a 37 mm. gun mounted at the top of the turret and the 75 mm.

at the side. Guns Asked Along with the tank and plane goals, Roosevelt called last January for 20,000 anti-aircraft guns and 8,000,000 deadweight tons of merchant ships to be produced this year. The new numerical quotas for planes and tanks were withheld by the President as a military secret. Maritime commission officials have predicted that the shipbuilding goal would be attained, and the anti-aircraft gun goal presumably remains unchanged. On the over-all production picture, Roosevelt repeatedly has expressed satisfaction.

Models Improved The emphasis on planes with harder hitting power reported by the President was taken to mean not necessarily a concentration on heavy bombers at the expense of fighters but the building of more gunpower and longer range into all or most of the categories already being produced. The performance of tanks In the Libyan desert warfare Influenced the changeover to the M-4 type, Roosevelt said, but the problem of transporting the equipment to the battle areas also figured in the decision. HOME BURNED GRAND CANYON, Oct. 23. JPy A loss estimated at $21,000 was caused last night when fire destroyed the home and garage of Jack Tooker, a writer, at Rowe Well, near Grand Canyon village.

its; 1 mitt. a Eddie Itickenbacker, World War I ace, who is more than two days overdue on a Pacific flight, according to a war department announcement. RICKENBACKER PLANE MISSING ON PACIFIC HOP Noted World War Ace Is Two Days Overdue on Inspection Flight WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. (JP) Eddie Rickenbacker, America's great flying ace of the last war, is missing on a Pacific hop.

He is more than two days overdue on a flight out of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands, the war department announced late today appar ently lost In the watery wastes where Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1037 on her flight around the world. Ills plane. In which he was mak ing an official inspection of the army air forces In the Pacific theatre like the one he recently made in England, was last heard from Wednesday evening with only an hour's fuel supply left. (Search Is Made The terse announcement did not disclose "Rick's" route but it gave assurance all avanaoie air ana sea forces" were searching for him. Nor did it disclose the plane's tvne but it seemed unlikely Rick enbacker was flying solo.

The probability was a bomber's crew of several men was missing wun them. The war departments anounce- ment said: "Captain E. V. Rickenbacker, confidential advisor to the secre tary of war on aircraft, and na tionally known aviation expert is overdue on a flight between Oahu and another Island In the Pacific, the war department announced to- dnv. Cnota RlckenbacKer is on an inspection trip, acting ior lieu li.n tenant General 11.

II. Arnoia. commanding general, army air forces. Radio Contact "Cantaln Rickenbacker's plane was in radio contact with an is land southwest of Honolulu during the afternoon of October 21, in 12. and was last heard from early that evening, when he reported that he had slightly more than one hour's supply of gasoline.

No contact has been made since that time. Search is being made by all available air and sea Rickenbacker recently returned from England where he made a special study for me secretary of war of army air forces personel and equipment, operating ii MTAa in the European ineaue ui ottnn lie is on a similar mspec tlon trip of air forces stations in the Tacific area. Hopeful Angle fin hnneful anele to the offl clal bulletin appeared to be that while it said lUCKennacKer ia rriiip it did not add any such ominous phrase as that he must be presumed to be lost, which frequently has been added to such onnnnnrmrnM in waiimw. The fact he was In contact "with tri-inniiiln an isiana soumwi led to surmise that he might have been headed for Canton or Ender- bury in the rnoenix lsianua ui Raker or Howland islands to the north of them. It was in that area me seami (Continued to rage 7, comma 3 FDR IS AGAINST PLAN REQUIRING YEAR'STRAINING 12-Month Period Before Sending Youths Into Combat Proposed MARSHALLOPPOSES Amendment Gains Enough Support in Senate To Delay Vote WASHINGTON, Oct.

23. President Roosevelt to day Strongly oppusea a proposal to require a 12-month training period before 18- and 19-year-old men can be sent into combat, but the idea gathered so much support in the senate thatleaders hastily put off a vote until tomorrow. "In the meantime, they were re- Eirted to be trying to swing waver-g senators Into line, or to arrive it an acceptable compromise. The President had Intervened In the fight by means of a letter read on the senate floor by Senator Gurney author of the pending bill lowering the draft age from 20 to 18. "Concerning the proposed legislation to lower the selective service ige now before the senate." the letter ald, "I have been told that leveral limitations will be proposed In the form of amendments.

Opposes Limitation "It appears to me that the complicated administration necessarily Involved In the handling of large numbers of men by the: army, as well as the urgent necessity for correcting the present deficiencies is to age, make It Important that limitations other than those now Included In the bill be avoided." In another letter Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, appealed to the legislators to trust the army "to nee that each soldier has adequate training before he enters combat." A division cannot be adequately trained as a team In less than a year, he said. Hut In such cases as ground crews for the air force, radio operators and riflemen, he idded. It would be unnecessary to withhold men from combat for 12 months.

Veteran Lend Fight But two veterans of the senate N'orrls (Ind-Ncb) and Johnson (R-Calif) fought for a mandatory training period, and were Joined by numbers of others, including Chairman Walsh (D Mass) of the naval committee and Senator Taft (IU)hlo). The army's plan, Taft said, was to Induct of the youths promptly and "about half of them would be fed Into old divisions, getting only three months' or six months training." At first Norrls offered an amendment requiring a year's pre-combat training for all Inductees under 10. Later he accepted a substitute by Senator O'Danlel (D-Tex) to apply this rule to all men under 20. The Johnson voiced the first open protest In the chamber against the proposal to lower the draft age from the present minimum of 20 years. l'lea by Johnson The whlte-maned Californlan, his finger pumping up and down In emphasis, told his colleagues he was opposed to "calling children to flRht our battles." With tears In his eyes, Johnson declared that passage of the legislation meant many "children" were going to death in foreign parts of the world that a generation was on the Wav to decimation.

When Johnson had finished his address, which was at times barely audible, Norrls rose and sent to the desk an amendment stipulating that selectees under 10 must be kept out of combat for a year. The 81-year-old Norrls, dean of Congress in point of service, told his colleagues that while he believed an army of IS and 19-ycar-old men could beat "any army on earth," even military officials in the past have agreed that a year (Continued to rage column FLYING the ATLANTIC Sunday's Star will carry a detailed account of how the Clippers cross the Atlantic in time. Written by William R. Mathews Editor of The Star This will be the first of a series of chronological a i 1 describing a visit to war-time Britain and Ireland. 9 quarters communique said.

The cruiser, destroyer ana two large merchantmen were believed sunk, one large merchantman wai badly damaged and five other ships were hit. Low Altltud The airmen attacked yesterday at low altitude just before dawn and returned safely despitt heavj-anti-aircraft fire. The raid was the second to announced in as many days on concentrations of Jap ships whlctt might be poised for an all-out assault on American-held Guadal-canal in the Solomons to the south. Yesterday's communique told of bombers dropping 10 tons of bombs on ships In the harbor at Buln, which is on the Solomon Island of Bougainville. Today's communique told of continued offensive by Allied ground forces in driving back the Japs toward Kokoda, the advance base from which they launched their ill-fated drive toward Port Moresby In mid-summer.

The con munlque stated "our ground forcei are attacking south of Alola." It also reported a bombing attack by Jap planes on the airdrome of Milne Bay, on the southeastern tia of New Guinea. MARIXES MEET ENEMY ASSAULT WASHINGTON, Oct. American troops, defending Guadalcanal Island In the Solomona, drove back another Japanese flanlc attack on October 21, the Navy announced today, while In the aerial struggle six more Japanese fighter planes and 6tx bombers were destroyed. Two American fighter planes were lost The Navy also announced that American Dauntless dive bombers had "attacked enemy positions on. Russell island, about SO mllea northwest of Guadalcanal." Thi was the first announcement that the Japanese, had landed troopa upon that Island.

Naval spokesmen added that It waa posslblo that such landings had been mado on any of the small islanda In tho Guadalcanal area. Islands Described The Russell islands, lying to tho northwestward of Guadalcanal, extend for about 20 miles in an easterly and westerly direction. They consist of two principal Islands with a number of islets scat tered about them. Usually thero is deep water close inshore. The flank attack which wao driven back on the 21st was tho second such assault to be mado in as many days.

While only a small enemy force was involved, it was a foray of the type which might have been followed by an attack in force, had it proved successful. Late in the morning of the 21st, the Navy said, the American-held airfield on Guadalcanal was attacked by seven enemy bombers with a fighter escort. Planes Destroyed "Anti-aircraft batteries destroyed one bomber and damaged two other," the communique said. "Our Grumman 'Wildcats Intercepted and shot down six enemy fighters. Two of our fighters were lost" Early in the afternoon of tho following day, several groups of enemy planes attacked the airfield.

Despite bad flying weather, the Wildcats took to the air and shot down one entire enemy piano group consisting of five bombers. That night an enemy ship believed to have been a submarine, shelled American positions on Espiritu Santo island In the New Hebrides. WASHINGTON GETS CANADA'S PROTEST WASHINGTON, Oct 23. (ffj I Canada complained to the United States today that Time magazine's story of disturbances at a prisoner-of-war camp at Bowmanville, Ontario, contained "distortions and inaccuracies" which will provide the. enemy with propaganda material and may lead to further Ill-treatment of Allied prisoners in Germany.

The disturbances, it was officially announced in Canada last night, occurred when German prisoners attempted to resist reprisal shao klings. They submitted only after serious disorders in which both prisoners and guards were injured. In a formal statement announcing "representations" had been made at Washington, the Canadian legation, said: "The style and choice of expressions throughout the Time article are such as to colour and distort the facts. Such phrases as "bursts of machine-gun fire and 'commando tactics' convey an Impression of the use of military force, which is untrue and WAR NEED IS CITED Reynolds Compares U. S.

Policy To That Of England O'DANIEL APPROVES Early -Action Expected On Plan To Put Idea In Draft Law WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. (P) The expressed conviction by Chairman Reynolds of the senate military affairs committee that premium pay for overtime should be eliminated and the standard work week boosted found active support today from Senator O'Danlel who proposed It In an amendment to the 'teen-age draft bill. Reynolds had said he believed the work week should be increased from the present 40 hours to 46 or 57. Q'Daniel did not suggest a specific number of hours for the maximum work week, but he as-serttd he was convinced "the rank and file of the good working people" want to work longer hours during the war emergency but were prevented by various federal and state laws which he said should be set aside for the duration.

Called Absurd He contended It was "absolutely absurd" to retain laws which "create a manpower shortage. Elimination of time-and-a-half overtime pay was necessary, 'he said, because premium wages were an Important factor to employers who must keep their costs below price ceilings. The 42,800,000 workers employed in non-agricultural industries, he said, were working an average of 42.8 hours a week but If 'they would go up to an average of 48 hours, 4,571,667 of them would be released for other service. By working 72 hours a week, 17,114,445 could be released, he added. Action Expected The senate probably will act on O'DanieFs amendment tomorrow or Monday.

Reynolds, whose committee is questioning high government officials on the need for National service legislation, made his suggestion concerning premium wages and the work week as a solution to labor shortages. In an Interview, Reynolds declared: "We should take Into consideration the availability of the manpower already here and the possibility of working longer hours. "If we want to solve the manpower problem immediately, we can Increase the 40-hour week to 56 or 57 hours and eliminate time-and-a-half and double tinie for overtime. Comparison Made "I say 57 hours because Great Britain is working 57. Germany is working 60, and Japan 70." Reynolds said there were men In Washington urging the admission of "several hundred thousand alien laborers." "And that." he declared, "would be the worst thing that ever happened to American labor." He called specific attention to a statement by Senator Downey before the committee Wednesday that from 100.000 to 150.000 Mexican laborers were needed Immediately to harvest west coast cVops but that federal agencies had been able to furnish only about 4,000.

SPRAGUE EXLISTS PHOENIX, Oct. 23. (JPh-Governor Osborn today accepted the resignation of Ralph Sprague as a member of the board of directors of state Institutions for juveniles. Sprague, labor member of the board and employe of the Arizona Republic and Phoenix Gazette, has enlisted In the U. S.

Navy. The chairmen explained they established the policy a week ago but withheld announcement until after Colonel DeLong had an opportunity to transmit their complaint to Washington. They said, through their general chairman. Stuart Thompson, they felt the Washington casualty lists "should not contain the names of veterans of the first World War. nor the fathers of children, until other states of the nation are ready to make a similar sacrifice.

Differences Discussed They said they were "reliably Informed that great pools of single men still exist In the cities of New York. Chicago, Detroit and other congested areas, and that no thought has been given, to the ef married men in tnose 1IIUUVUVU cities, nor is. such a step likely for TWELVE KILLED WHEN AIRPLANE HITS MOUNTAIN Three of Crew and Nine Passengers Burned After Crash PALM SPRINGS, Oct: 23. (JP) An American Air Lines plane crashed and burned tonight on the steep slope of rugged Mt. San Jacinto, a mile northwest of this desert resort, killing its three crew members and nine passengers.

At the Burbank. office of the air lines, names of crew members were announced as: CapL Charles F. Pedley, pilot; First Officer L. F. Repport, copilot, and Estelle Regan, stewardess, all of Dallas, Texas.

The passenger list included: Ralph Rainger, Hollywood aong writer, bound for New York. B. R. Vest, no address listed, bound for Phoenix. Cash Henderson, Interstate In dustrial Commission, of Phoenix, bound for Phoenix.

C. Baker, of Phoenix, bound, for Phoenix. Frank Bird, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. employe, bound for Washington, D. mother, Mrs.

F. Bird, East Walpole, Mass. L. A. Hege, no address available, bound for Atlanta, Ga.

E. H. Wallace, no address available, bound for Phoenix. Lt Joseph R. Rosser, Santa Ana Army Air B.ase, bound for Dallas, Texas.

C. M. Wert, 3750 Glen Fellz boulevard, Los Angeles, to New York. The plane was bound for New York via Phoenix, Tucson, Dallas, Nashville and Washington. The tail assembly of the big silver plane seemed to go to pieces before the liner fell, said one of the witnesses.

Parts of the plane rolled down the mountainside onto the desert while flames licked at the fuselage, he reported. One witness, Fred Klug, said he Lbelieved there were "10 or 11 bod ies up there on the ledge. Klug said it was a silver plane that, crashed, Indicating it was a commercial airliner," but officials of lines operating through here said they had no reports of an accident. "The plane was flying at about 3,000 feet when something went wrong," Klug said. "It fell fast In a circling dive, crashed about 1,000 feet up from the desert floor and exploded.

Flames shot up and the plane was consumed in a very short time." "Army officials took charge and several hundred persons who were attracted to the scene were barred from geting close. At Los Angeles, the American Air Lines said the plane left its Burbank terminal about 4:30 p.m.. Pacific War Time, and was last reported out of Palm Springs at 5:20. The text of the communique Issued today: Northwestern sector Reconnaissance activity only. Northeastern sector Rabaul: In continued support of the Solomons operations, or heavy bombers in strong force struck at concentrations of enemy shipping in the harbor with deadly effect.

The attack was delivered Just before break of day at low altitude. Ten enemy ships were sunk or badly damaged, comprising one cruiser, one destroyer and eight transport or cargo ships. The total tonnage was estimated at approximately 50,000 tons. There was no attempt at Interception and, despite heavy anti-aircraft fire, all planes returned. Owen Stanley area: our ground forces, are attacking south of Alola.

Kokoda: Supporting the advance of our ground forces, our attack planes, with fighter escort, raked enemy positions between Keniki and Kokoda with bombs and machine gun fire. Milne Bay: A small flight of enemy planes lightly bombed the area in the vicinity of the airfield, causing no damage or (The Berlin radio quoted Ger man military circles as saying a surprise Nazi blow had overrun the Russian "Red October" factory bastion at Stalingrad, and that German troops reached the Volga river on the eastern side of the city.) A midnight Russian communique said of the continuing fight at Stalingrad: "In the area of Stalingrad our troops repelled enemy attacks and held their positions. After strong artillery and mortar preparations, and extensive air raids the Germans renewed their attacks in the direction of one of the factories. Losses Cited "The enemy threw into the attack over two regiments of infantry accompanied by heavy tanks. Our units are beating off the Hitlerite attacks and inflicting heavy losses.

VOne unit by the end of the day had disabled four German tanks and wiped out about one battalion of enemy infantry, uur anu-aircrait fire brought down five German planes. A pilot lieutenant rammed an enerriy bomber plane which crashed to the ground." Northwest of Stalingrad, where Soviet relief columns have been ripping into the Nazi flank extended from the Don River to Stalingrad, the Russians said their troops repulsed three successive Axis attacks, killing 1,000 Germans and disabling or destroying 12 Nazi tanks, six artillery batteries, 19 machine-guns and a six-barrelled mortar. -Twelve planes--also were reported shot down. Caucasus Battle In the Caucasus, the communique said, several hundred more Germans were killed in unsuccessful thrusts in the Mozdok area, but in the west along the Black Sea coast the enemy was acknowledged (Continued to Page 5, Column 2) WAGE CONTROL ACTIONSJAKEN New Moves Seek to Hold Workers in Jobs to Push War WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (JP) The government, using two widely different sections of its broad wage control powers, sought today to hold war workers to their jobs in Michigan's tool making industry and in the western metals industry. In the first instance, the War Labor Board put a ceiling on wages which may be offered tool and die workers in the Detroit area, announcing it took that action because there was a "great deal of pirating" of labor among the shops in the area.

Continuance of this situation, with accompanying difficulties, "threatens the war production effort the economic stabilization programs," the board said. Wages Fixed The board prohibited all employers in five counties in the Detroit area from hiring tool and die workers at rates above $1.75 an hour for jobs and $1.60 for so-called captive shops. Those were the rates fixed by the board in a previous order for similar workers in the big automobile plants. Using another of its new powers, the government in this case Director James F. Byrnes of the office of Economic Stabilization approved a dollar-day wage increase for 10,000 workers in the copper, lead and zinc industry of the western states.

In approving a recommejidation of the War Labor Board for the increase, Byrnes cautioned that it "must not be construed as binding me to approve other increases if experience should Indicate their cumulative effect would, as the minority of your board fears, endanger our program to keep down the cost ot living and avoid an inflationary spiral." Unusual Situation Byrnes said an extraordinary situation was involved in the metals workers case, noting that the board had reported that while the increase would substantially exceed the increase in living costs since the beginning of last year the new rates still would be below the common and skilled labor rates prevailing generally. WTB Chairman William H. Davis recalled that the government already had taken several steps to meet manpower shortage in the metals industry. Including the fur-loughing ot jniners from the army and a limitation of the transfer of men from the industry to other work in the west. PORT OF GENOA LEFT AFIRE BY BOMBS OF RAF Italy's Supply Base Africa Is Target of 'Block-Busters' LONDON, Oct.

23. (P) Genoa trembled and flamed last night under the RAF's two-ton "block-buster" bombs, and French and Swiss radio stations snapped off the air again late tonight to indicate another grim visitation over the Alps by Britain's heavy bomber arm. The Paris and Vichy and the Bern, Switzerland, stations went off the air in quick sucqpssion as they did last night when the RAF hit Genoa so hard the Italians quickly sent their king and queen there obviously to raise morale by comforting the wounded and homeless. In daylight today British and Canadian bombers and fighters, including the fast Mosquito planes, struck at objectives in Germany, Holland and northern France. Rail communications in northern France were disorganized byCa- nadian-manned Spitfires that damaged at least a dozen locomotives, halted a number of trains around Dieppe, and strafed Nazi control towers, gun posts and electric pylons.

Ships Damaged An armed trawler and tug also were damaged off Sangatte, and the Canadians lost one plane. The British air ministry said the RAF lost one bomber and one fighter in offensive thrusts which included attacks on the Ruhr and Rwineland industrial regions of Germany, on a factory at Hengelo 'in Holland, and locomotives in northern France Great fires kindled at Genoa, a Munitions center and a supply base for north Africa, burned for hours after the biggest British bombers had crossed the snowcapped Alps returning to their bases. King Vittorio Emanuele II and the queen were reported by the Rome radio to have spent four hours walking in the Genoese ruins and visiting the injured. Earlier an Italian communique said the casualties still were being counted. Morale Involved The swiftness with which the king hastened to the stricken city indicated to observe-j here that the raid had caused a shattering blew to Hhe wavering Italian morale, as well as to the port.

Pilots reported great destruction In Genoa. "It was an inferno eastward from the dock area," one pilot reported. Warehouses and grain silos are concentrated around the docks from which Italian supply ships leave for north Africa. Some of the block-busing two-ton bombs burst among the I'great fires" which all crews reported. Numerous were dropped.

Canadians reported damaging 1Z more railway locomotives in their daylight sweeps over occupied France, adding to the strain of Hitler's burdened land transport system. Four clustered at a station were excellent targets of cannon fire from the Spitfires. England Raided Scattered German planes dropped a few bombs at several points in England causing damage and a small number of casualties. One observer said the fires in the Genoa target area were the most concentrated he had ever and he had witnessed the RAF raids on Luebeck, Rostock and the Renault Works at Paris. "Only one stick of Incendiaries fell off the target," he said, "not a bomb was wasted." One pilot counted 13 big fires and Innumerable smaller ones.

Another counted 18 large fires and said he could see Genoa blazing from 30 miles away. Oil storage tanks "blew up with a sudden red gldW and. clouds of black smoke." another crew said. SURVEYORS MEET PHOENIX. Oct.

23. VP) Proposed amendments to the state registration law for engineers, architects, surveyors and assayers will be discused tomorrow at a conference of the Arizona Land Surveyors Association, Official Communiques Seattle Draft Board Defying Orders Calling Married Men WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. The navy communique No. 165 follows: "South Pacific (all dates are east longitude).

"1. On October 21st: "(A) -U. S. troops repulsed a small enemy force which attacked the western flank of our positions on Guadalcanal Island. "(B) During the late morning, seven enemy bombers, escorted by fighters, attacked our Guadalcanal airfield.

Anti-aircraft batteries destroyed one bomber and damaged two others. Our Grumman 'Wildcats' intercepted and shot down six enemy fighters. Two of our fighters were lost. "(C) Douglas TDauntless' dive bombers attacked enemy positions on Russell Island, about 30 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. "2.

On October 22nd: "(A) In the early afternoon, several groups of enemy planes attacked our airfield during bad weather. Grumman 'Wildcats' intercepted and shot down one of these groups consisting of five bombers. "(B) During the night of October 22-23, an enemy ship believed to have been a submarine, shelled our positions on Espiritu Santo Island in the New Hebrides." SEATTLE. Oct. 23.

VPh- Seat-1 tie's 12 draft boards and the one serving the area immediately ad-jaccnt on the north today defied me National Selective Service Administration, announcing a unanl mous nolicv of refusing to dratt moPre marricHl men until sing men in other states no longer are available for arm.VRerviffj Adjustment Expected rol Walter J. DeLong. state se-lectfve service director, said he was telephoning Washington for and believed the draft-ne of 'married men be resumed after additional explanations have been detote dra chairmen. He said omlng, Montana and Idaho added. many montns ivm.