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Make Every Pay Day A War Savings Bond Day Mississippi's Leading Newspaper For More Than A Century Full Associated Press Reports Jackson, Morning, August 15, 1942 Established 1837 The Washington Merry-Go-Round By Drew Pearson CflD wy Navy Faces Tough Troblcm In Od vu jW vu wj A ADMIRALTY ArCiil Latest Victims Of German Subs Raises Count Of Allied Losses In Western Atlantic, 425 Ships U. S. Bombers Lash At Reinforcements Headed For Isles Navy Pushing Huge Supplies Into Solomons 7 cm I V.lii ttttltt aimala I V. ljjCoraj SmB Drive Started On Nationwide 'Black Market. Threaten Criminal Action Against Steel Bootleggers CLEVELAND, Aug.

14 Ifl OPA attorneys, threatening criminal actions, said tonight a suit filed here "only scratched the surface" In their nation-wide drive to break a "black market" in steel. No. 1 war commodity. Accusing steel operator Willard P. Markle of charging 63 per cent in excess of 'legal ceiling prices, the OPA attorneys today obtained a temporary injunction against the former Houston, warehouseman.

Their civil suit said he had bought 80 tons of steel and sold it to the New Orleans shipbuilding interest of Andrew J. Higgins. Judge Robert N. Wilkin set the suit for hearing Aug. 24.

Markle told a reporter the steel he sold was fabricated material on which he knew of no ceiling prices. Those men are talking through their hats when they say I made 68 per cent profit." the 72-year old defendant declared. "I sold at prices on cost plus freight rates, allowing a small profit for myself. Combating U-uoaw uh rtiunuc Coast; Deep Water Allows Submarines Hide. And Foil Air plane Tatrols; Lurking Craft Can Take Aim Without Exposing Tell-Tale Periscopes; New Nail Device Enables Ihem To Eliminate Big Storage Batteries.

This is the second of a MERRY-GO-ROUND series on the vital problem of combating submarine warfare. The first dealt with the amazing Nazi Intelligence system by which subs merely lay in wait for their victims. Ed.) WASHINGTON. Aug. 14 Shortly after the war broke out, British shipping suffered terrific casualties from Nazi submarines.

Ships were sunk with sickening rapidty. But today the submarine menace in British waters is licked. Not a sub dares stick its nose anywhere near British shores. The British also have developed a bureau of submarine warfare which is one of the most efficient branches of the war effort. It has used hundreds of small civilian yachts, fishing boats, airplanes every possible weapon working against the U-Boat.

In view of British success, many people have been critical of the U.S. Navy for not being more effective against the submarine. Doubtless some of that criticism is justified. On the other hand, the U.S. Navy faces a far tougher problem than the British.

In the first place, the British Isles are small. The area involved is not much greater than the waters immediately adjacent to New England and the Middle Atlantic states. In contrast, our submarine combat zone extends all the way to northern South America, including the islands of the Gulf and the Caribbean. Deep U.S. Waters Another factor which makes submarine detection so difficult is that they stay below water by day and come to the surface chiefly at (Continued On Page Two) rs Eastland Calls Campaign Claims Of Doxey Absurd Says 2 Opponents Share Blame For Unprcparcdncss BALDWYN.

Aug. 14. Swinging from the Delta back into northeast Mississippi, where he has spoken on two other tours. Jim Eastland, candidate for the U. S.

Senate, referred to committee appointments of Senator Wall Doxey. and then cnarged Doxey and another oppo nent with -snaring equal guilt lor the nation unpreparedness." He cited remarks made by Dox ey to the effect that he is the only Mississippian since 1878 who has been honored with appointment to the senate appropriations commit tee." Regarding this. Eastland said: "Do I understand Doxey to tell us that he has been given assignments as a new senator that other Mississipplans. such as Wal thall, Lamar and Harrison, cduld not get? Why, it is absolutely absurd xor Doxey to make such a claim. Men of the caliber of Walthall, Lamar and Harrison dictated their committee assignments, and had there been anything to being a member of the appropriations committee, you can be assured they would have been on it.

Depends on Vacancies Truth of the matter is this. Ev- Continued On Page Three) Indianola Woman Dies Of Injuries Sustained In Wreck Near Star Wednesday Mrs. D. T. McRavcn.

45, of Indianola died at the Jackson Infir-mary yesterday of injuries she received on highway 49 near Star Wednesday afternoon in an automobile accident that followed the blowout of a rear tire. The condition of Mrs. John Hog-an of Indianola. who was injured in the same wTeck. is improved.

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helping out oa efene." i In filing the suit James C. Grue ner, OPA regional attorney, com mented: "We are continuing to get at the sources of all this black mar ket steel. If criminal prosecutions are warranted they will be made. This man's (Markle's) opera tlons are infinitely greater than those covered in this complaint. We have Just scratched the surface here." Frank Hiszins.

son and associate of the shipbuilder, recently told a congressional committee that an abundance of steel could be obtained at premium prices on the black market. President Roosevelt subsequently said anyone selling such steel should be Jailed. The suit alleged Markle sold steel to Higgins Industries, at about $20 a ton above ceilings and Greu- ner's staff calculated this made the excess about 68 per cent. Markle said that a dozen or so manufacturers came to him about a year ago and "told me I would be helping defense if I could get them steel that they needed quickly. I contacted 55 warehouses, principally in Buffa- lo and Cleveland.

By going to the warehouses and ordering it fabri- cated, I could get it immediately. The warehouses charged ceiling prices, plus freight, plus the cost of waste, which is heavy in these By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The rescue of 87 seamen from three torpedoed merchantmen attacked by enemy submarines in western Atlantic waters was disclosed in dispatches from Recife. Brazil, yesterday. The latest victims of undersea raiders the 4.694 ton British freighter Treminnard. the British tanker Tricula and the 6.1 61 -ton Norwegian tanker Hav-st en raised the Associated Press count of announced Allied and neutral ship losses in the western Atlantic to 425 craft since Dec.

7. Two Argentine ships effected the rescue. The motors hip Rio San Juan picked up 57 crew members of the British vessels, and the tanker Juncal arrived at Recife with 30 survivors from the Norwegian cargo carrier. Sinking of a Brazilian tanker by a Nazi submarine operating in the Caribbean was disclosed in reports from that area yesterday, but this loss of neutral Brazil's 12th merchantman since America's entry into the war was withheld from the tabulation pending further details of the attack. Also being withheld from the Atlantic ship loss compilation pending additional details was the torpedoing of a vessel in the South American area whose 24 survivors included two members of the United States field services.

The Americans. C. A. Chapman, of Barry town. N.

and Winslow Martin, of Providence. R. spent seven days in a lifeboat with 22 others before being rescued and brought to Georgetown, British Gul-na. reports from that city announced. Meanwhile, indignant Cubans reacted sharply to news of the destruction of the Cuban ships Santiago De Cuba and Manzanillo in the Gulf of Mexico Wedenesday.

President Fulgencio Batista expressed his anger- at the Axis U-boat attacks in a formal statement, and called on all Cuba to honor the victims. The newspaper Prensa Libre urged the government to apply the law of "a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye." In Britain. United Nations seamen reported a submarine "Wolf Pack" hounded their large convoy repeatedly. The London News Chronicle disclosed the arrival at a British port of American and British survivors of ships lost in the encounters. Some seamen were quoted as saying "Losses were suffered, but the Germans are known to have lost some U-boats." One survivor, reported to be Capt.

T. H. Cunningham, of Reno. was Quoted by the newspaper as saving that the convoy suffered heavily but "the action was by no means one-sided." Arrest Of German Educated Chemist Solves Coast Case William Dolan Was Dreaded Phantom Barber PASCAGOULA. Aug.

14. WV-William A. Dolan. 57. German educated chemist, was returned here today to face charges of assault and battery with wilful intent to murder in connection with the attack on Mr.

and Mrs. Terrell Heidelberg on June 13. and officers believed they had solved the mys tery of the "phantom barber" which stirred this shipbuilding town two months ago. Mrs. Dolan.

46. was charged with obstructing Justice, according to Chief of Police A. W. Ezell, who made' the arrests yesterday and took Dolan to a nearby city for safekeeping, returned him to Jail here today. Dolan.

who told questioners he was a graduate of Harvard. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Heidelberg universities, denied the attack on the Heideibergs as well as th clipping of hair from three small sleeping girls at about the same time. These attacks and other reported housebreakings threw Pascagoula into a state of alarm for several weeks. Dolan was born in New York, and came here 14 months ago from Purvis. He drove a small truck here, collecting scrap.

Police today said that an analy sis of strands of hair found near the Dolan's house matched those of Carol Peattie. whose hair was cut by an intruder two days before the Heideibergs were brutally beat en while they slept, investigators today found an additional handful of hair cn Pelham's Point, near where the Dolan's lived. The police said Dolan had a long criminal record langing from rettv larceny to armed robbery. He will be arraigned in district court shortly. WAR-WINNER LOS ANGELES.

Aug. 14 IT C. H. Shcles. 90.

offered his iron bedstead to the wartime scrap- metal drive: "I shall not need it very long Soviets Admit Danger Of Last Natural Barrier MOSCOW, Saturday, Aug. 15 VP) German troops fighting toward Stalingrad in the Don river bend were reported" off icially early today to have pierced Russian positions south of Kletskaya, 75 miles northwest of Stalingrad. "To the south of Kletskaya." a Russian communque said, "our troops fought fierce battles against an enemy group which had broken through to a river." The communique indicated the Germans had reached the Don river because Kletskaya is only a short distance from the Don, the last natural defense barrier west of the important Volga river port of Stalingrad. (The German controlled Paris radio reported that Siberian troops had arrived to bolster the Stalingrad front and that German airmen "heavily strafed these newly-arrived The Russians also acknowledged a Nazi break-through in the Krasnodar area in the southwestern Caucasus despite heavy losses inflicted on the Germans. "On one of the sectors," the communique said of this front which is northeast of the Black Sea port of Novorossisk, "the enemy at the cost of large forces was able to advance into the depths of our defenses." Two German infantry a squadron of Rumanian cavalry and 12 German tanks were knocked out in the Krasnodar action, the Russians said.

Elsewhere the Red army was reported holding firmly on a line ex-tendiner mora than milps frnm below south to Leningrad in the MOSCOW, Aug. 14 The battle of the Russians raged tonight from within sight of the ice-sheathed Elborus," giant mountain of the Caucasus, through the distant approaches of Moscow and up to Leningrad. Russian counter-action to the long Red army retreat on southern Steppe and in Caucasian foot-hiir was taking form from Voronezh, left flank of the German southern drive, on up the long battle-line through the Bryansk (Continued On Page Three) FDR Reaffirms Pledge For A Happier World Reviews Points Agreed On In Atlantic Charter WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 ITU-President Roosevelt hailed the Atlantic charter, on its first anniversary today, as the basis of a just and happy post-war world. It was one year ago today that he and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, meeting on a warship in the North Atlantic, signed that historic document.

It was a joint expression of the principles for which Britain was fighting and on which the United States, then a non-belligerent, was, helping that nation. Its eight bases for a post-war settlement were No territorial gains. No territorial changes except as approved by the people affected. Respect for the rights of all people to choose their own forms of government. Equal access by all nations to world trade and raw materials.

Full international economic collaboration. The establishment of a peace assuring the safety of all nations, and their, freedom from want and fear. Freedom of the seas. Abandonment of the use of force by the nations, and the disarmament of those threatening aggression. Reaffirming this declaration, Mr.

Roosevelt said today in a message to Churchill: We shall stand shouldeer to shoulder in seeking to noursih the ideals for which we fight. It is a worthwhile battle. It. will, be so recognized through all the ages, even amid the unfortunate peoples who follow false gods today. ON ONE HAND TOPEKA, Aug.

14 10 The report to the secretary of state's office indicated the recent primary election count was finished very quickly indeed out in Iowa township, Sherman count-ty. The five members of the election board were the only voters. By ASSOCIATED PRESS Heavy Allied bombers lashed again yesterday at a Japanese convoy apparently sent to reinforce Nippon's Solomon island strongholds while the American offensive in the South sea increased its pressure on the Japanese with more supplies for fighting United States Marines. General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Australia announced that the Allied bombers beat off Japanese Zero fighter defenders and raided the convoy off New Britain, northwest of the battle zone in the Solomons. Bad weather hindered observation of the results, it was said, but Allied planes returned with slight damage and minor casualties.

A spokesman at General Mac-Arthur's headquarters said this was the fourth attack in two days on the convoy, which was described as It was significant, however, that the convoy was in the New Britain zone, since Ra-baul. New Britain, is one of the main apanese invasion bases in the southwest Pacific. The communique was issued several hours after it was disclosed in Washington that the United States navy is pushing a steady flow of supplies through to the Marines now in firm positions in the Solomon islands. In the battle of the Russians, the other front where the decision will have such a. weighty effect on length and outcome of the war.

the fccope and fury of the conflict spread to such an extent that it looked as if the Red armies of north and northwest were trying to open their own "second front." A Navy communique issued in Washington gave the lie to fantastic Japanese claims which, if true, would have meant that the Allied sea forces in the Solomons had virtually been wiped out. Without mentioning the enemy's announcement, the Navy safd that U. S. and 1 Allied warships were "protecting our lines of communication and escorting supply vessels to our occupying also, that "the task of consolidating the shore positions now held by United Stales Marines in the Solomon Islands is progressing satisfactorily." This was plain implication (hat American-Allied control of the Solomon waters about Tulagi and several adjacent islands is such (Continued On Page Three) Old Trick Comes To Light; May Save Much Gas Details Bared By Oil Company For Motorists PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 14.

(TP) By employing a simple, inexpensive trick discovered years ago and forgotten in America's mad rush for speed and power on the highways, gas hungry motorists can get 30 to 40 per cent more mileage from precious gallons of gasoline. Details of the method, which involves operating passenger automobiles on half their cylinder and minor 1 carburetor adjustments, were disclosed today by Sun Oil engineers for the benefit of some 1,500,000 car owners on the Eastern Seaboard who are fretting over the gas problem. "It's the start of what we think every motorist should agree to, said J. N. Pew, Sun Oil president.

"It's only the beginning of things that can be accomplished if reallv great automotive engineers will pick up where we leave off and carry on this research." As explained by G. Moxey, assistant chief engineer of the company's research department, the method boils down to three steps Removing valve lifters from every other cylinder so that, both intake and exhaust valves remain closed; pinching together the points on spark plugs in the non-working cylinders so there will be on ignition spark; and carburetor adjustments to cut the flow of gasoline. Some carhuretors require two new parts, a larger metering pin and a low speed jet, Other carburetors can be adjusted by blocking off half of the working unit. The two new parts, Pew said, are not available at present, but carburetor manufacturers have indicated thev will stock them. The whole operation.

Pew said, costs about "a day's labor and a couple of dollars for the new parts if needed." Tests' are being made with eight cars, all of the popular six and eight cylinder models. One test car, Moxey said. rm 39 miles on a gallon of gasoline. USTRALIA Wealthy Scion Of Auto Manufacturer Still In Spotlight Death Ended Wild Career Of John Dodge DETROIT, Aug. 14 -E en after bis death, the spotlight today followed John Duval Dodge, scion of the multimillionaire automotive family, when a coroner's autopsy that before he lapsed in to a coma Wednesday morning he had suffered a skull Dodge had been more or less in the public eye for 22 years, climax ing his escapades with what Pro secutor William E.

Dowling said was a drinking party that resulted in his arrest, his subsequent col-lapse at a precinct police station and his death last night in receiv inar hospital. Today's autopsy brought a for mal report that Dodge died of cere bral hemorrhage following a tsn inch fracture of the skull. Dr. Edmond J. Knobloch, coron (Continued On Page Three) WPB Officials Expected To Invoke Meat Rationing As Answer To Local Shortages In Near Future WASHINGTON, Aug.

14 (INS) Farm Secretary Claude Wickard and War Production Board officials tonight were expected to invoke a meat rationing or allocation program within the next few days to solve local shortages throughout the country. While government livestock experts warned either rationing or allocation may be necessary "early next year," farm department officials, emerging from a four-hour session with the WPB food requirements committee today predicted immediate action. "It looks as if the amount of meat for civilian consumption is about as great as normal," they said, "but the fact that incomes are up and prices are still at a ceiling-low will require rationing." Earlier Wickard had said that he was giving "a lot of consider ation to Price Administrator Leon Henderson's proposal for a livestock ceiling, but he added that (Continued On Page Five) 1 Second Victim Dies From 2nd Collision Otis Moore Was Killed Instantly MERIDIAN, Aug. 14 The sec ond accident resulting in a fatality within a week occurred in Meridian today when the car Otis Moore was driving collided with a flatcar on the Southern Railway. Moore was found underneath the car and was believed to have died instantly.

The train was stopped when the crash occurred. This was the second car-train crash to occur here this week. Jim Hicks, local taxi driver died from injuries received in a collision with an Illinois Central train earlier this week. fJQLaBMBaBflaataaBsaSaJ STATUTt MIICS AT COUATOR Children Run Over By Car And Truck Critically Injured E. L.

Mahaffey's Daughter Seriously Hurt In Accident Two children, Carol Mahaf fey, four year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Mahaffey, 224 Keener street, and James Walter Simmons, seven year old son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. Simmons, of route 5, underwent treatment in the Baptist Hospital yesterday for injuries they sustained when hit by automobiles. Investigating officer C. Bell of the Jackson police department stated that the little Mahaffey girl had followed her dog into Keener avenue Friday morning at about 10 o'clock when she was struck by a car driven by Paul F.

Fleigher, 1841 Howard, a traveling salesman. Mr. Fleigher took the child to the hospital w-here "she was said to suffer a concussion and a broken leg. The Simmons child was rushed to the hospital by L. E.

Birdsong of the state highway patrol who happened along Just after the: boy was hit by a log truck driven by Bernard Fields, negro employee of Danny Boone. The child's father said that he suffered critical internal injuries, a broken leg and a broken arm. Patrolman Birdsong said that theJ boy was riding in the bed of a wagon behind a stove and Jumped from that vehicle into the cab of the truck. He fell under, the weels of the trailer. It happened in front of the Simmons home six miles south of here.

Bayonne Strikers Enthusiastic Over New Boss, Uncle Sam Washington Warns Seizure Not To Be Workers Victory BAYONNE, N. Aug. 14 WV The Navy seized the General Cable company's Bayonne plant today to end a wildcat walkout and the strikers enthusiastically returned to work for "Uncle Sam, our new boss." "We're damn' glad it happened," said Michael P. Petrakian, strike committee chairman. "We have a real But the very jubilation brought from Washington an indication that (Continued On Page Three) Huge U.

S. Bomber Crashes, Eight Bodies Recovered BATTLE CREEK, Aug. 14. GP) A four-motored army bomber crashed -tonight near Dowling, state police here reported, and eight bodies have recovered from the wreckage. Police said the wreckage was scattered over an area of about a mile and a half near M-15, between Battle Creek and Hastings.

The crash was reported to have occurred about 10:30 o'clock. Maj. Sidney Stout, commanding officer at Kellogg Field, said the plane was not from his field. He said ambulances had beeen sent from his field and from Fort Custer. U.

S. MARINES AND ALLIED PLANES STRIKE AT JAPS While United States Marines fought to consolidate their positions in the Solomon islands (circle). Allied bombers (plane symbols) smashed at key points in Japanese supply lines leading to the Solomons. The Allies objective in the attacks on the supply lines was to hinder Jap reinforcements on the way to the battle areas. Meanwhile, the Marines appeared to have won the first round of their battle in the Solomons, beating off furious Jap counter-attacks at three invasion beach-heads in the 900-mile-long long island chain.

British Convoy Delivers-Supplies To' Haifa Stronghold But Loses Cruiser, Aircraft Carrier To Axis Bombs LONDON, Aug. 14 VA British convoy defied swarms of Axis war-planes, submarines and tor pedo boats and fought its way through bomb-splashed seas to deliver supplies to the embattled mid-Mediterranean fortress of Malta at the cost of the cruiser Manchester and the aircraft carrier Eagle, the admiralty announced today. Axis claims of sinking 21 cargo ships, two destroyers and three cruisers as well as the Eagle were curtly branded as known exaggerations by the admiralty state-ment. The Axis also claimed damage to two battleships, two carriers and an unspecified number of other ships. The bulk of the British ships, shepherded by several British battleships as well as aircraft carriers, weathered what was believed to have been the heaviest air attack yet directed against a Mediterranean convoy.

A force of Italian cruisers hanging on the flanks of the convoy made a distant pass as if to interfere with the great sea -train, but turned tail swiftly and ran when attacked by British aircraft. Two torpedoes were rammed into the fleeing cruisers by a lurking submarine before Mussolini's surface craft could escape. Two enemy submarines were sunk, the admiralty said in its incomplete account of damage to the attackers. Many of the 700-man crew of the sleek Manchester were saved, the admiralty said. Only 11 months ago, the 4-year-old Manchester was refitted at Philadelphiathe second British warship to be serviced in U.

S. ports under lease-lend. The heaviest sea and air fighting was in the narrow bottleneck of the Mediterranean between Sicily and the African coast on the approaches to Malta. The British report did not include sinkings or damage inflicted by the Axis air attacks. The whole admiralty statement emphasized that the report was incomplete and that further losses might be expected.

There still was no substantiation of German claims that the U. S. carrier Wasp had been set afire by six bomb hits and was trying to reach Malta. Marine Fliers Killed In Crash Near Santa Fc SAN DIEGO, Aug. 14.

(INS) Death of two Marine flyers in a crash near Rancho Santa Pe yesterday was announced today by 11th Naval District headquarters. The victims. Second Lt. Raymond E. Petzold, 24.

of Hamilton, Ohio, and Staff Sgt. John David Samulak, 23. of Battle Creek, Mich-, died when their plane crashed during routine maneuvers. Revised Tax Bill Slated To Pass Before October 1 Three Weeks Public Study Is Completed WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 Senate passage before October 1 of a substantially revised tax bill was predicted today by chairman George (D-Ga) as the finance committee wound up three weeks of public hearings on the new revenue measure voted by the house in July.

Although George declined to speculate on detailed changes in the bill, which would add to yearly federal revenues as it passed the house, he told reporters that testimony tafcen by the committee had made it apparent to him. at least, that some alterations were necessary in major sections of the measure. Business representatives have concentrated most of their criticism of the bill's provisions on methods 'cf calculating excess profits taxes, on a proposal to put all corporations on a calendar year tax-paying basis and on the measure's failure to provide relief for the payment of debts or the accumulation of post-war reserves. ''V- On the latter point, George said he was Impressed by "responsible and trustworthy" testimony before the committee "that if the hish rates as fixed by the house remain in the bill, it wUl be im- (Continued Oa Page Three). St.

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