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88 ALLENTOWN, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1942 EINGLH COPT Three Cente DAILT itTNDAT IS Centi Week N. Y. Hotels Overflow Mquv ProriQrincr 'Prophet' Dies Fighting at Stalingrad Slows As Germans Shift to Mozdok; House Approval Of 'Victory Tax' Appears Certain Leaders Report It's Either That or Look Elsewhere for Revenue, They Decide Sting of RAF, London Press tt ni io uniiy strategy vjuiciuy WILBUR GLENN VOLIVA Wilbur Voliva 'End of World' Prophet Dies Religious Sect Leader Also Maintained Steadfastly World Was Pancake CHICAGO, Oct. 11. (A1) Wilbur Glenn Voliva, self-styled prophet and religious sect leader who once pictured the world as a giant pancake that was doomed to a sudden and drastic end, died in Billings Memorial hospital tonight after a short illness.

He was. 72 years old. Voliva entered the hospital a month SSorto 3 was believed reong he a though Volivanfined his activity Principally to the church colony vil- lage of Zion, a community of 6,000 north of chicag0i his fame became nationwide through his periodic fore- casts of the end of the and his persistent preachment that the world was flat. He believed a person might reach heaven though holding the world was round but banished such thought from the Zion school system when no scientist accepted his $5,000 challenge to prove the Copernican theory. The religious beliefs of his sect he once described as similar to those of "old fashioned Methodists or Blue Presbyterians." The church demanded literal construction of the Bible, obedi- ence to the old Mosaic law and total is-t A ri.vkkorl in rionih hv enough difficulties in our negotia-abstinence from liquor, tobacco vlUDDeU lO uedlll uy tions LONDON.

Oct. 11. (UP) London newspapers warned today that failure of the United Nations to unify their strategy quickly may result ln loss of the war. Discussing the controversy in Washington over allocation of American war supplies and Premier Josef Stalin's blunt demand for Allied action "on time," the London Observer said that a grand Allied strategy, in which Russia fully participates, is indispensable to victory. Commenting on the Washington arguments in favor of massing a huge American army at home at the sacrifice of the needs of other Allied fronts, the Observer said: "If such an attitude by American Army chiefs is understandable from their own professional viewpoint, this does not necessarily mean it is justifiable and right from the broader viewpoint of the global war.

"What is wrong, or in any case what concerns this country, is not that some American leaders should ake primarily an American attitude but that no common strategic plan of supreme command yet exists to decide this question of war priorities on the basis of unified Allied strategy." J. L. Garvin, military expert of the Belgian Justice Claims Germans 'Near Collapse' Delfosse Says Nazi Soldier Longs for Peace Even If Dream Is Shattered LONDON. Monday. Oct.

12. OP) Germany is on the verge of collapse on the military and home fronts. An toine Delfosse, minister of justice and information of the Belgian government in Exile, declared in a statement released early today. "We are in 1918," Delfosse said. "The only point is how long her (Germany's) final struggle will last." The minister recently escaped to Britain from German-occupied Belgium.

Delfosse said that Belgians have "the leisure to notice evident siens of -How German disintegrations whteh are the precursors of the final de bacle. "The German soldier, formerly so smart and alert, is dull and dejected and complains openly about the unexpected length of the war, the end of which he cannot see Germany is on the eve of collapse." The minister said that except on the coast only "old and tired" soldiers are in Belgium and their material is "much reduced in quantity and worn out." Streams of civilians being evacuated from Cologne and other German cities which have been recent targets of "Allied bombers are entering Belgium, Delfosse recounted. He added that German soldiers on leave from the Russian front have a real terror at being sent back, and that desertions are increasing. His report in this respect tallies with recent reports from Norway telling of virtual mutiny among German soldiers, with many being shot when they refused to return to the B-ussian front. The attitude of Belgium's captive King Leopold is "irreproachable." the minister declared, and 95 percent of the Belgians have a "fierce, implacable hatred of the Boches," and are wait-in? and preparing: for Germany's downfall.

Leopold, a "prisoner in his Laeken chauteau. has refused in spite of re- peaiea pressure irom me enemy io lend himself to any political action." Delfosse said. "His attitude is strongly approved by the nation, who regard it as a mute protest and steadv determination not to bed before a fait accompli," he continued. "There is no doubt that Belgium remains loyally attached to the sovereign who was ready to share her misfortune." Delfosse said the German soldier longs to go back home and he longs for peace even if it would not mark a realization of his old dream of world hegemony." Bomb Destroys Pro-Axis Headquarters in Nice VICHY. Oct.

11. (UP) A bomb destroyed the headquarters of the pro-Axis Rassemblement National Popu-laire in Nice today, the 15th bombing in that city in the past three weeks, There were no casualties although i NEW YORK, Oct. 11. OP) Furloughs. Columbus Day and football were adding up today to give Man hattan notel managers and restaura teurs their heaviest weekend trade in many weeks.

Many a red-eyed serviceman and hoarse alumni rooter stretched and yawned this morning after a night in a lobby chair or in Impromptu dormitories set up in banquet rooms to care for the overflow crowd. The influx was augmented by throngs arriving to witness four major football contests in the metropolitan area Army-Cornell, Fordham-North Carolina, Columbia-Brown, and Navy-Princeton. "Many went to New Jersey, up In the Bronx, or even to West Chester," a Pennsylvania hotel employe said. "We called 48 hotels trying to find accommodations for the overflow and found the hotels filled. The Hotel New Yorker reported between 2,800 and 3,000 guests last night.

Many soldiers and sailors slept in the lobby when they were unable to obtain looms after the management telephoned many other hotels in a futile effort to find accommodations. Green Unwilling To Have Lewis At Peace Talks AFL Head Says Miner Chief 'Destroys the Things' He Creates TORONTO. Oct. 11. OP) William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, said today the admission of John L.

Lewis to labor peace conferences would hamper success and that any negotiations with the United Mine Workers and other independent unions should be conducted separately. When asked to comment on a Lewis statement that a general peace conference of all labor groups, called by President Roosevelt, would be constructive, Green remarked, "in my opinion, Mr. Roosevelt will not care to call such a conference." He said the mine union chief "seems to be a creator with a faculty of destroying the thinks he creates." Green said he was referring to the CIO, which Lewis organized when he quit the AFL in 1935. The AFL chief said he was optimistic about prospects for the success of AFL-CIO peace negotiations which are scheduled to start the latter part of November. Asked in a press conference whether he saw anything constructive in a joint peace negotiation of all labor groups, including Lewis' United Mine Workers, Green said: "I think such a conference would inject into peace negotiations an increasing number of difficulties.

Any discussions with Lewis or other groups should be seDarate. We will have wis' remarks were made in a press conference in Cincinnati, where his union is meeting. Green is president over the AFL convention here. Another difficulty in dealing with Lewis, he said, was the fact that the Progressive Miners Union is anuiaiea with the federation. Asked whether he was closing the door to Lewis, Green said, "I have stated the door of the AFL is open, and will remain open." He added, With a smile, that it doesn't look as if he is going to knock on the door right now." Green said he deemed it "inadvisable to comment on the personal references" of Lewis, meaning the remarks that Lewis would not return to the AFL while Green continued as president, that the miners considered Green a renegade and not competent.

When asked about Lewis' published views that the victory war board has been of no value. Green said: "That's his opinion. Did you hear anybody else say that?" The Victory war board, or labor war board, consists of AFL and CIO representatives who have met frequently with the President on labor problems. Jersey Girl Is Named Sweetheart of the AEF BELMAR, N. Oct.

11. C4) Pretty 18-year-old Janet Barry is the "Sweetheart of the A. E. in Ireland and England, but she has a one and only soldier she's going to wait for "whether it be six months or six years." He is Corporal Albert Wexler, As-bury Park photographer, stationed in Ireland. Miss Barry reassured him yesterday in a two-way radio broacast that he was still No.

1 in her affections. Janet, a stenographer at the signal corp's Radar laboratories at nearby Camp Evans, came by her title in a contest conducted by the American Red Cross. Wexler entered his sweetheart's picture and his comrades chose Janet from thousands of other entrants as their sweetheart. Janet lives with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

John W. Barry, at South Belmar. She attended Manasquan High school and has studied dancing and acrobatics. American Hogs 'Softies When It Comes to Bristles WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.

Americans who pampered their pigs to produce better porkers now are paying the price by having to wash and preserve their old paint brushes, the National Geographic society said today. "Those springy-stiff hog bristles that make the best brushes have long been imported from Asia," a society bulletin said, adding that "China has been in recent years the source of nearly nine-tenths of the supply." Now imports have virtually stopped, and the home-grown bristles aren't so hot. It seems that a hog must live a hard life before his bristles make good on the market. Cold weather makes the bristles grow long; hard grubbing for roots gives each bristle a "liveliness" much prized by painters. And American hogs live too soft a life.

Wife Does His Electioneering WASHINGTON. Oct. 11. (UP) Various Congressmen have various ways of conducting political cam paigns but Rep. Earl Wilson.

has introduced a new one he lets his wife do it. "She can make campaign speeches as good as I can, maybe better," Wilson said. "She can make as many friends as I can, maybe more." In Wilsons 1940 campaign his first attempt to gain political office he referred to his wife as his "No. 1 helper." "This time" he said, "we've just dropped that word 'helper'." Mrs. Elsie Wilson, like her husbana, Is a former school teacher.

To. Give Enemy Warm Reception On Guadalcanal Major Land Battle of Pacific Theatre Is Expected on Solomon Island Japs Are Frightened Out of Sky at Rabaul GENERAL MacARTHLRS HEADQUARTERS. AUSTRALIA, Monday, Oct. 12. 4 Allied medium bombers urored two bomb hit on a 10.000-ton Japanese seaplane tender In the Solomons sea sooth of New Ireland yesterday and left the vessel, which carried at least 12 Zero fighter planes, heavily damaged and motionless, the Allied command announced today.

The tender may have had even more than the dozen planes. The 12 were seen on the upper deck. The attack was made despite the fact that a Japanese destroyer was escorting the larger ship. The region of the attack has been the scene of increasing activity of late. It is between New Britain and the northern tip of the Solomon islands.

Only last Friday and Saturday Allied Flying Fortresses and medium bombers smashed heavily at the big Japanese base at Rabaul, New Britain. Today's communique stated that there were no new developments In the Owen Stanley area, where Japanese force first staged an overland drive westward toward Port Moresby and then withdrew in the face of a strong Allied counterdrive. WASHINGTON. Oct. 11.

(UP) "iSL.VJ i Saenue movin in men fUffid and strangle Afield 'm erLn forces I -rom American iorces. I The Navy acknowledged in its lates communique that the enemy has sue- ceeaea in lanauig hmc icmiwi.rii.cnw nn the northwest corner of Guadal car.al despite vigorous assaults by American airmen on enemy warships ccverine the" operations. A Jap destroyer was sunk and a destroyer and cruiser damaged in the action. Naval experts said Japan's to reinforce its Guadalcanal positions, regardless of losses, makes it clear the enemy hopes to concentrate a ground force large enough to march down the island toward the American airfield. The landings are taking place on the same side of the Guadalcanal mountains on which the key American positions are established and it is considered most likely the Japanese will attempt the southward push through a series of "pincer" actions.

It is no secret, however, that the Naw has been strengthening Amen-Continued on Page 2, Column 5 Telegraphic News Briefs NEW YORK. Oct. 11. OP) Wagnerian opera mav soon hold some sour notes for Adolf Hitler, currently the German comDOser's most persistant fan. Helen Traubel.

dramatic soprano with the Metropolitan Opera company and leading interpreter of heroic Wagnerian roles, today presented her helmet, spear and shield worn for three vears as Bruenn-hilde in "Die Walkuere." to the New York Citv scrap campaign, urginc, thev be thrown against the Siegfried line. The outfit contains 17 pounds of tin, aluminum and copper Her new armor this season. Miss Traubel said, will be strictly non-pnenty. ROXBORO. N.

11. OP) They never cet too old to ride. The Person county fair closed last nieht and the oldest merry-go-round customer was a Negro great-grand- moher. aeed 94. ELKIN.

N. Oct. 11. OP Adding insult to injury: Thieves not only broke into the Carolina Ice and Fuel company offices and stole the safe, but they carted it away in the companys' own delivery truck. BALTIMORE.

Oct. 11. OP) Jeweler Jav G. Eneel wanted a surprise party for his 50th birthday so he gave one himself, but it was his guests who exclaimed: "This is a surprise!" When the 250 persons arrived an orchestra struck up "The Star Soansrled Banner," Engel made a speech and then turned loose a staff cf salesmen and stenographers to do the rest Thev did $125,000 in war bonds was sold. PITTSBURGH, Oct.

11. OP) Police Superintendent Harvey J. Scott, announced tonight nearly 200 Pittsburgh police officers have donated their personally purchased handcuffs to the government for "probable use in shackling Axis Scott said he made a personal appeal for the donations after receiving an "urgent request from the cuartermaster's office in Washington" He added that the request said the handcuffs would be used cn Axis prisoners "but did not specifically German war prisoners in Canada." "We already have sent 150 pairs of handcuffs to a quartermaster's depot in the east," Scott declared tonisht. "I know that we will be able to send a great many more because our officers are willing to oo whatever the government asks them." TWIN FALLS. IDAHO.

Oct. 11. OP) An abandoned CCC camp near here provided a great quantity of scrap, including a seven-ton tractor buried virtually intact. A forestry foreman said the machinery and parts were buried because the scrap price wouldn't justify the expense and trouble of selling it. PORT ARTHUR.

TEXAS. Oct. 11. OP) Ransacking the auto brake shop of her late husband. Mrs.

Addie Derr found a diamond ring and $25 cash neatly wrapped and tied in a Christ mas packaee which her husband had Intended givmg her. It was under bnx of rivets. She turned up 4.000 pounds of scrap for the pile here. Artillery Action Alone Observed Inside City Reds Repulse 5 Attacks At Mozdok in the Caucasus MOSCOW, Monday, Oct. 12.

OP) The Germans appeared today to have shifted their main attack to theMoe-dok area, deep in the Caucasus, after failure ln 48 days of fierce assaults against the city of Stalingrad. The Soviet midnight communique said the fighting inside the shell-torn city was now confined to artillery activity, and it referred also to fighting northwest of Stalingrad as being of "local significance." In the Mozdok area, however, there were five heavy attacks at one place, the communique said. There had been increasing evidence of this shift for some days both in the German and Russian communiques. Yesterday's Soviet communique mentioned large German troop concentrations in the Mozdok area. (The German high command spoke Sunday of Russian counterattacks along the Terek river, in the Mozdok sector, and said concentrated night bombing attacks were being made against Grozny, Important oil center, which is the objective of the Mozdok drive.) Mozdok New Battle Zone The Soviet communique indicated huge tank and air forces had been thrown into the Mozdok battle to support ground forces.

It listed 14 German tanks and destroyed during yesterday's fighting and said 300 German troops had been killed in five attacks on one Soviet position. It was also stated that 75 German bombers, escorted by fighters, attacked one Soviet position, adding that Soviet fighters and anti-aircraft guns shot down 26 of them. Reviewing the situation inside Stalingrad, the communique mentioned exchanges of artillery fire and said: "German tanks and infantry, which during the last few days have suffered tremendous losses, showed no activity." The minor character of the fighting inside the city was indicated by the communique which said that at one point two Russian machine-gun crews killed about 80 Germans. Artillery was said to have blown up eight German blockhouses. Black Sea Action Perks up Northwest of Stalingrad, where both the Russians and the Germans have been attacking fiercely for many days, the communique said some German attacks had been repulsed In "fighting of local significance." At one point some German prisoners were said to have been captured during an unsuccessful attack and in another sector about a company cf German troops were killed.

Fight ino- also became heavy along the Black Sea southeast of Novor-ossisk where, the communique said, Russian troops advanced and encircled a village after breaking stubborn German resistance. "Fighting is in progress for annihilation of a German garrison," it stated. Hitler called off his prodigal frontal assualts. Stalingrad dispatches said, after hurling one tank and five infantry divisions of between 50.000 and 75,000 men into a futile effort to reduce the Soviet Verdun. Claim Nazis Exhausted The Red army attributed the German change in tactics to exhaustion of Nazi frontline manpower and armored equipment there rather than achievement of their "strategical ob jective" as Berlin propagandists boasted last Thursday.

It was believed too early to call this development a decisive turning point but it was taken as a sure sign tnat the Germans were feeling pretty deep ly the strain of their long and costly struggle. (The German Sunday communique continued to subordinate the Stalingrad action, reporting only that "positions where the enemy had gathered were destroyed by effective artillery fir in the course of continuous With positional warfare developing within Stalingrad after 48 days of siege, the noon Soviet communique announced still more gains by Marshal Timoshenko's forces knifing into the German left flank northwest of the city. Two platoons of Nazi automatic riflemen were reported annihilated in this advance. Down in the Caucasus, the communique said, the Red army has smashed 12 Nazi assaults ln two days, annihilating two enemy battalions. Continued on Pic 2, Column 5 GuffeyOSolkHy For Democratic Ticket PHILADELPHIA.

Act. 11. OP Joseph F. Guffey. Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator from Pittsburgh, announced tonight his support for the entire Democratic ticket, thereby assuring a united party front against the Republicans in the November general election.

Guffey, who supported an Insurgent slate headrd by Judge Ralph H. Smith in the May primary, told a meeting of the Philadelphia Democratic city committee at the Academy of Music: "I have pledged my full support to F. Clair Ross, our candidate for governor. I am for him 100 per cent, without reservation or qualification. I want to see him win.

I want all my friends to help him win by going out on the political battle lines and fighting for his election," 1 11U illl 1I1UUX Amusements Classified Ads Comics Deaths of a Day Editorial Radio Snorts Paife 11 Pages 13-14 Page 8 Pae Pifie rage 11 rages 12-13 Twenty-five Years Afo Woman's Weather Page Pag 7 Phone 4241 for Want Ads Warns Allies i i-k Sunday Express, warned that projected action by the United States and Great Britain might be completely frustrated in western and southern Europe if Russian armies are penned behind Adolf Hitler's "east wall" for the next year. In that event, Garvin said, a plan to attack Hitlerism simultaneously and decisively with full force on both sides might be paralyzed. The Allies, he said, must force the fighting by synchronized action but this cannot be accomplished until Washington, London and Moscow agree on the proper definition of Stalin's term "on time." The Sunday Times' air critic, Peter Masefield, argued that Anglo-American air forces must have priority over the Army in building a striking force in the British Isles. "We should seriously consider whether we are right in building a vast army in Britain at the sacrifice of air strength," Mansfield said. "An invasion of the continent today would seem doomed to inevitable failure in the face of the tremendous strength of the German military machine.

But a year hence, with the enemy enfeebled by concentrated air attacks, an invasion would be far more likely to succeed." Prisoner Chain Receives Study Of War Cabinet Important New Development on Both Sides Looms, London Reports LONDON. Oct. 11. OP) The British war cabinet was reported to night to have reviewed the shackled prisoners controversy, in which re taliation has been heaped upon re taliation in the treatment of hapless captives, and there were indications that both Britain and Germany might be preparing to make new moves. The News Chronicle's diplomatic correspondent asserted that there were "suggestions" after a week-end war cabinet meeting that an "unexpected development" might take place within the next 48 hours.

No hint was given as to what the development might be. A German broadcast quoting "a German news agency" said a "comprehensive general account of the treatment of German prisoners of war by the British will be published by the high command of the German armed forces shortly." An unstated number of German prisoners of war in Britain and Canada were under fetters tonight in retaliation for the like treatment of British prisoners, mostly Canadian, taken by the Germans in the raid on Dieppe. Presumably the number of Germans put in chains was equal to the number of British the Ger mans said they had bound 1,376. In conter-retaliation. the Ger mans had threatened to bind three times as many British as alreaay were being made to suffer.

But so far the Germans had made no announcement of the execution of this threat. The Germans said they had hand cuffed the original 1,376 as revenge for the fettering of German prisoners during action at Dieppe and during a small Commando raid on the channel island of Sark. The British announcement Satur day that orders of some British com manders for the binding of prisoners at Dieppe had been countermanded and that prisoners actually had been tied momentarily at Sark was accepted in the German broadcast tonight as an admission of the high command's charges. The British said, however, that they had not violated International conventions regarding treatment of prisoners, inasmuch as there was a distinction between prisoners held in the midst of an action and those removed to places of safekeeping. Italians Claim Sinking Of 2 British Liners ROME (From Italian Broadcasts), Oct.

11. OP Th Italians claimed the sinking of th 20.043-ton British liner Oronsay in the Atlantic by submarine today and said another liner, the Nea Hellas, formerly th Tus-cania, had been damaged. The Italian high command first identified the ship sunk as the Brit- stroyer commander, said the Norwegians uncorked an "uncanny skill" in locating the attacking submarines. There was an officer high on the mast of each corvette, and every man on deck worked as a lookout, and "whenever the cry, went up I had only to check by bearings to find a submarine." he said. The corvette H.M.S.

Potentilla dashed up as one surfaced enemy ship dived, and dropped a circle of depth charges. After only a 12-minute breather, the corvette sighted another enemy boat only 300 yards away and let fly with her guns, scoring several hits. She set out to ram the submarine, but missed by a few feet as the sub dived. Again a pattern of depth charges was dropped, this time around the conning tower. Another submarine attempted to crash dive when the destroyer overtook it and shelled it.

The submarine's bow tipped up out of the water at a 50 degree angle and the boat slid down stern first, apparently out of control. The depth charges which were dropped right on top "probably finished her," the admiralty said. Coastal Regions Of Jb ranee Also Attacked Little Resistance Met Re turn ing A irmen Report LONDON, Oct. 11, OP) RAF bombers made daylight attacks on several places in western Germany to day, including the city of Hanover, the air ministry announced tonight. Other planes made sweeps over the coastal region of occupied France.

Three fighting planes and two bombers failed to return from these expeditions, it was anounced. The air ministry communique said: "Daylight attacks were made by air craft of the bomber command today at several places in western Germany, including Hanover. Our fighters made sweeps over the St. omer ana ADDe-ville areas of occupied France. Three of our fighters and two bombers failed to return." The air ministry news service re ported that Spitfires and Mustangs of the army cooperation command followed up the Flying fortress ana Liberator raid on Lille Friday with attacks at "telephone pole height" on Nazi fortified positions along the French coast.

The British and Canadian pilots on these flights said they encountered little opposition. One Spitfire pilot, after raking his target with cannon fire, flew into a telephone line, tear ing away poles ana wires, tne pnoi managed to keep his plane in control and he returned without further adventure. The attack was Hanover's first raid since Aug. 1, when the RAF visited it by day, and the forty-third since the beginning of the war. Directly west of Benin, ana nan wav between the capital and the western frontier, it is a busy railroad and industrial center of about 500.000 population.

It is on the main railway line connecting Berlin and the indus trial Ruhr. The city has many machine factories, most of which have been converted to making of arms. Continued on Page 2, Column 4 Priest Reveals Threat on Life By Touhy Gang SayS He Had Call from One of Escaped Desperados; Hunt Proceeds CHICAGO. Oct. 11.

OP) The hunt for Roger Touhy and his desperado companions shifted to Indiana today when a Catholic priest at Fort Wayne notified Chicago police that a member of the "terrible Touhy" gang had told him over the telephone: "We'll get you today or tonight." The priesti Monsignor Thomas Con-roy of the Fort Wayne cathedral, explained only that "State's Attorney Courtney (of Chicago) knows my connection with the matter." Wilbert F. Crowley, Courtney's first assistant, said Msgr. Conroy was instrumental in dissuading an Indianapolis priest from appearing as a defense witness in Roger Touhy's second trial for the 1933 kidnaping of John (Jake the Barber) Factor. Touhy and six other desperate convicts escaped from Stateville penitentiary at Joliet, 111.. Friday.

Police came within a half hour of catching up with several of the desperadoes last night, when they found their car abandoned in a western Chi-cabo suburb, its engine still warm. A radio blockade was placed over the northern half of the state after a gasoline station attendant told of seeing four men leave the car and enter another, which headed toward Chicago. The abandoned car was the one stolen from Herman Kross, a tower guard at Stateville, who was shot and slightly wounded in the dash for freedom over the high walls. In the machine, police found two pairs of shears, a convict's cap and shirt. Touhy used a pair of shears to cut the prison telephone wires, after forcing a prison employe to give him a ladder.

Meanwhile, police disclosed the possibility that four of the men spent Friday night in a suburban Lombard garage after terrorizing a housewife whose husband was at work in a defense plant. The woman. Mrs. Frank Buckingham, told Lieutenant Thomas Kelly of the state's attorney's police that she saw a car enter her garage. When she went to investigate, a man confronted her and told her to "go back into ti house and don't try to call the police and nobody will get hurt." She said she had nc telephone and no way of reaching one without being seen by the men.

When the four men drove away several hours later, she said, she went to a neighbor's house and called the police. Henderson Extends Rent Control Order To 96 More Areas WASHINGTON. Oct. 11. (UP) Price Administrator Leon Henderson, in a sweeping order affecting some 20.000.000 Americans, tonight extended compulsory rent controls to virtually every major city in the Nation and the Alaskan territory.

With expiration of the 60-day period in which landlords in the affected regions were to have reduced rents voluntarily, Henderson ordered that effective Nov. 1: 1. Rents in 96 "defense-rental" areas, including Los Angeles. Boston and Dallas, be cut back to March 1, 1942, levels. 2.

Rents ln the 97th area Orlando, be reduced to levels prevailing on Oct. 1. 1941. OPA officials said that Henderson, given broader powers under President Roosevelt's new anti-inflation program. Is moving rapidly to stabilize rents throughout the country to insure the public against further rises in one of the most important items in the family budget.

Conferees Hope to Complete Work During This Week WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. (UP) House acceptance of the new five per cent "Victory tax" on all individual incomes above $12 a week was predicted by Congressional leaders tonight as conferees prepared to adjust Senate and House differences in the record $8,000,000,000 war revenue bilL The measure, biggest in history, would tap the earnings of one-third of the Nation's population and will boost annual revenue to $25,000,000,000. Taxes on individuals and corporations would be raised to the highest levels in American history. Chairman Walter F.

George, of the Senate finance committee who guided the momentous bill through five days of hectic floor debate, hoped to get joint conferences underway on Tuesday in order to complete work by to be superim posed on increased normal and surtax rates for individuals, is the major dif ference to be ironed out. Chairman Robert L. Doughton, N. of the House ways and means committee and leading committee members indicated the levy will be accepted. They were of the opinion it Is a question of accepting the tax or turning elsewhere for equal revenue an estimated $3,650,000,000 annually and that the best alternative would be a sales tax, opposed by the administration and refused approval by both Houses.

The "Victory" tax applies to all income in excess of $624 a year and, in most cases, would be deduct from nav checks. A system of rebates is set up to cover war bond purchases and debt and insurance premium payments. There is no difference in the in-Continued on Page 2, Column 6 Mother of Two Children Slain By Mad Spouse Husband Who Thought She 'Was a Wolf ROCHESTER, N. Oct. 11.

(UP) A 30-year-old mother of two small boys was viciously butchered and hammered to death today when her husband attacked her with a knife, thinking that she was an Indian, then clubbed her with a hammer when he said he thought she changed into a wolf. Stanley Sproba 29, was lodged in Monroe county jail on a technical charge of first degree murder for the killing of his wife. Ella, as District Attorney Daniel J. O'Mara announced he would ask the county court on Tuesday to appoint a sanity commission in the case. Suburban Greens township police said Sproba appeared unaware that he had killed his wife Just the in dian turned wolf declaring that he had last seen her "riding a pony across the range" and was certain that he would find her.

The tragedy was the culmination of a series of incongruous events oo served by neighbors and-his wrife, who only Friday had accepted physi cians advice to take Sproba to a hospital for an examination. Police made the discovery when they went to Sproba 's house to in vestigate reports of a 6:30 a. m. ses sion of target-shooting in which Sproba was reported firing a 12-gauge shotgun at flower pots in his yard. Patrolman Cy Van Waire noticed Stroba's blood-stained shirtsleeve and then the woman's body lying on the floor beneath a sheet as he talked to the ex-foundry worker about the complaint.

Sproba light-heartedly accompanied the officer after accepting the handcuffing as a joke. Later at headquarters, he took great delight in posing for pictures, even inviting officers to join. He nonchalantly told officers that he began knifing what he thought was an Indian, when suddenly it began to growl. He said he then grabbed a hammer and beat on the head what he thought had turned into a wolf. He refused to believe that his wife was dead.

Police found the woman's body in a heavy pool of blood with one dismembered portion of her body wrapped up in a coat lying alongside. Another portion of her body was found by the bed and wrapped in red flannel. The Sproba boys apparently slept soundly during the murder, police said. The hammer was found on the crib of the five-weeks-old baby. His three-year-old brother was sleeping nearby.

Admiral George Dewey gave the command to Captain G. V. Gridley: "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." And it was the Olympia which brought home the body of the Unknown Soldier in 1921. The scrapping of the Oregon had been proposed several months ago but James V. Forrestal.

Undersecretary of the Navy, assured Governor Charles A. Sprague of Oregon in July that the Navy was oppased to the step because "lt regards this vessel as one of the historic symbols of the Nation." Last Friday, however, Forrestal notified Sprague that the decision not to scrap the ship would have to be reconsidered. "The Navy Department regrets," the statement today said, "to announce that a decision has been reached to scrap the famous naval historical relic, the U. S. S.

Oregon, in connection with the piesent nationwide drive to collect metal urgently needed for the war program. This project was suggested initially by the special projects section of the conservation division, War Production Board, and the ultimate decision was approved by the President of the United States." drugs. Prayer alone healed, it held. In 1934 he announced an occasional pork sandwich or after dinner cigar wouldn't keep anyone out of heaven but warned he would tolerate no "beer guzzling and whiskey soaking," use of cosmetics, gum chewing by young women, wearing of short skirts or other unseemly conduct. As general overseer of the nristlan Catholic church in Zion, Voliva was master of the business and religious life of the community.

He directed employment of his followers in the city's industries and each Sunday he preached to them in colorful language Continued on Page 2, Column 6 Nazis Claim Sinking Of Two Big British Liners in the Atlantic BERLIN. Oct. 11. (German Broadcast Recorded by UP in New York) German submarines have sunk two large British ocean liners, the Duchess of Atholl and the 23.456-ton Orcades, the German Transocean news agency said today, quoting competent quarters. Both ships were sunk in the Atlantic and went down a few minutes after the torpedoes hit, it was reported.

The Atholl, formerly used as a transport, was attacked off Freetown, West Africa, while the Orcades burst into flames and sank off Capetown when a submarine fired three torpedoes into her. Only one torpedo was fired at the Atholl. the explosion ner ln nalf lt was According to available information. it was oelieved the majority of the crews of both vessels was killed or drowned. (There was no confirmation of the reported sinkings in any Allied quarter.) German Bomber Chased By Ack-Ack in Iceland REYKJAVIK.

ICELAND, Oct. 11. (UP) A four-motored German plane circled Reykjavik this afternoon and was chased away by heavy anti-aircraft fire, a U. S. Army communique announced.

The ack-ack barrage shook downtown buildings before the air raid sirens began screeching and many civilians, hyper-sensitive since recent bombings along Iceland's east coast, fled for shelters. U. S. gunners, however, were all smiles as they got their first crack at the Germans after a long period of idleness. windows were shattered in areas al- ish liner Ironside, but a later broad-most 100 yards from the explosion.

I cast said the ship was the Oronsay. Four Norwegian Corvettes Tackle U-boat Wolf Pack Navy Ignores Sentiment; Will Scrap U.S. S. Oregon LONDON, Monday. Oct.

12. OP) A quartet of little Norwegian corvettes and a British destroyer that led them have seriously damaged four Axis submarines and shelled several others in a 48-hour battle in the Atlantic, the British admiralty announced early today. The U-boat "wolf pack" attacked ln relays of as many as seven at a time, by day and night. The corvettes sighted submarines on the surface 18 times during the day and night battle. The corvettes themselves delivered 33 attacks, lt was said.

The night battles were lighted by an eerie criss-cross of calcium flares, star shells and tracer bullets. The destroyer Viscount went after the U-boats nine times and the corvettes made several daring but vain attempts to ram submarines, so hot did the battle become at times. Although these particular Norwegian corvettes had been engaged in protecting Atlantic convoys for a year, this was their first tangle with the enemy in real action. Despite this, however. Lieutenant Commander J.

V. Waterhouse. the de WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. OP) Over many sentimental protests, the Navy regretfully announced today that the famous old battleship Oregon, whose stormy race from the west coast around South America to be in on the kill of the Spanish fleet at Santiago, Cuba, in 1898 was an epic of the service, is to be broken up for scrap.

The scrapping of the hi.storic vessel, which was loaned to the state of Oregon in 1925 and has been preserved as an exhibit at Portland since, was proposed some time ago by the War Production Board and opposed immediately by Oregon officials and residents, historical societies and some officials within the Navy itself. But the urgent need for metal finally led to the decision to scrap the ship. President Roosevelt himself, for all his sentimentality toward the Navy, agreed to the move. The President stipulated, however that the cruiser Olympia, now at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, be permanently preserved as the Nation's last naval relic of the Spanish-American war. It was aboard the Olympia at the Battle of Manilla that.