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1D) Moiim THE WEATHER Local Not much change in temperature Wednesday afternoon, slightly warmer Wednesday night. (Record Page 18; Radio on 13.) Tie rope JFiffi the Pictures VOL. 61, NO. 300. DES MOINES, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1942.

18 PAGES PRICE SS2JSW5 5 CENTS ON THE ROAD TO OIL TREASURES mm TipfibTiiiiEi A XA TT L-yiiuni(S Nazi British Prepare to Crack Down Hard on lake tanks RED RESERVES MASTER ANTI-TANK RIFLE Into Battle Plan to Nip New Move In the Bud No Padded Glove to Be Used by Government. By A. T. Steele. (Eptclnl Ch! th Chicago New nl The Moines Tribune.) EXCLUSIVE.

NEW DELHI, INDIA India's legal and political machinery is being oiled and geared for what may be its biggest test an effort to sup press in the shortest possible Russian Armies Still Falling Back All Along Front. MOSCOW, RUSSIA VP) Maj. Bradley, former commander of the first air force, United States eastern defense command, has arrived in Moscow on a special mission to intensify American aid to Russia, it was announced Wednesday. Bringing a letter from President Roosevelt to Premier Stalin, the general reached Moscow Tuesday night, piloting his own plane a B-24 bomber. His trip by air from Washington took 10 days.

"I am here to facilitate any possible way to make aid to Russia more effective," he said. Bradley's visit, made with the approval of Stalin, did not reflect any Soviet dissatisfaction with American aid to date, the general said. (By the Amoclnted Pr.) German mechanized col time the mass Indian upheaval threatened bv Mohandas K. Gajidhi. The government Is not giving away it detailed plans, but responsible official make it plain they will use no padded glove in dealing with the movement which even Gandhi has called "open rebellion." After all, there is a war on, which gives this civil disobedience campaign if it comes off an r.ormously more dangerous significance than Gandhi's previous big movements.

Swift Action. Gandhi has said that his movement will be "short and swift." Those are exactly the three word responsible official of the Indian government used in characterizing the government" intention In dealing with mass civil disobedience. Suppression of the Gandhi campaign will be a police task. Only if the job gets too big for the police to handle will the army be called in. Early Action.

It is patent from the grim attitude of the government here umns thundered deeper into the Caucasus Wednesday, on the road to Russia's vast oil part of a huge pool of man power now being trained under Russia's new compulsory military service program instituted Oct. 1, 1941. Now that Russia's plight is graver than ever, these reserves probably will see action soon. WIREPHOTO W. Reserve troops of Soviet Russia's army form an oval around an instructor as he teaches them the use of theantitank rifle, a weapon which has increased in importance with the heavy use oftanks, by the Red army's enemies.

These reserves are Gas Defense Training SNIFF, SNIFF, treasures, and hundreds of Nazi parachute troops and even small air-borne tanks were reported landing behind the lines in an attempt to paralyze Soviet communications. German military dispatches said Adolf Hitler's SS (elite guard) troops had captured Kropotkin, 125 miles below Rostov on the railroad and oil pipeline from the Caspian sea, and had reached the Kuban river along a GO-mile front. The Nazis said Axis troops wer Pope Protests to Petain Over Refugee Treatment toward Gandhi's plans that it feels that the time is past for dilatory SNIFF Kits Donated Here and halfway measures. Noses are going to be busy In gas defense classes, starting this Asks End to 'Inhu week. Three "sniff kits," first to man sought refuge in France and the aged marshal remarked that the problem was very unpleasant.

"However, I have one consolation," he added. "The pope under The authorities are of the opinion that to be most effective against the movement on nationwide scale, ut contemplated by Gandhi, suppressive action must come in the early stage so a to prevent the movement from gaining momentum and becoming too big to contend with. rohre action could include mass continuing "pursuit of defeated VICHY, FRANCE (De Russians on a broad front." Paul Durrie, director of training, explained Wednesday. "They do not contain the actual gas." To the uninitiated, one of the bottles will smell like geraniums, another like sour fruit or apple blossoms. The first, is the odor of Lewisite gas and the second that of tear gas.

The other three bottles contain smells like garlic, horseradish or mustard; chloroplcrin, which smells like flypaper; and phosgene, which smells like musty hay or green corn. "The odors may not remind everyone of the same thing," Durrie added. "The difference is in the individual sense of smell. That is one important reason why everyone should educate himself to connect gases with their different odors." layed) (U.P.) Pope Pius XII, Soviet dispatches still declared speaking through the papal up Jews in Paris, in- eluding children, for sterilization.) After the pope's plea was heard, It was reported that Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain asked the German occupational authorities to limit the arrest of Paris Jews to those of non-French origin, to cease deporting French Jews to Silesia and to stop breaking up French Jewish families. The nuncio, Mgr.

Valerio Valeri, make their appearance in Des Moines, will be used to teach the odors of different war gases. The kits were a gift to the defense corps here from a Des Moines woman who felt students need them to complete their recognition of gasses. "The kits contain five bottles Indta- Continued on Parte Five. the odors of mustard gas, which stands and approves my attitude." Quiet. The room was quiet and the reply of the priest carried through the room.

"Marshal Petain, the holy father; neither understands nor approves," he said. The next day he saw Petain in private audience and reportedly told him: "The holy father entreats you to put an end to these inhuman arrests of a defenseless people." i of preparations whose odors are EXAMINES MAS KIT A Warmer Night Is Seen for Iowa It will be warmer Wednesday right in Iowa, the weatherman identical with those of five gases," that the main struggle was raging far to the north of Kropotkin and gave no inkling that the Nazis had advanced so far to the south. The Question However, Russia's armies appeared to be falling back in a general although stubborn withdrawal on almost all the vital sectors of the southern front against odds which tha Moscow official press described as "already overwhelming." Oil Cut Off. placed the problem before Petain nuncio at Vichy, has told the heads of the Vichy government that he does not understand the treatment accorded Jewish refugees and entreated them to end "these inhuman arrests of a defenseless people," it was reported by an unimpeachable source Saturday. (Reports came from Europe Wednesday that the gestapo had arrested seven interna while seated beside him at a luncheon.

'if- I paid, but not sufficiently so to Unpleasant. The talk turned to the deporta jmy tion of foreign Jews who had Chicago Puts Foot Down on Women atBar CHICAGO, ILL. (U.P.) Step away from that brass rail, M'am; the Chicago city ft VAIV ft Asm ft interfere with jour sleep. A few scattered showers are In prospect for the western part of the state. Precipitation Tuesday night included .18 of an inch at Kvthervtile and .10 of an inch at Inwood.

Highest temperature reported Tuesday was 91 at Forest City; the night's low was 52 at Decorah. In Des Moines, following a range Tuesday from S3 to 62 degrees, the thermometer Wednesday noon stood at 74. INNER PRIORITIES, SHORTAGES WarHiDrugs tionally known French intellectuals in a new campaign of repression in Paris university circles. Advices also said that It Frenchmen and one French woman had been condemned as "spies." It also was said that the Germans had rounded viy.tr valve'1 No longer was it a question of merely defending the rich oil centers and communications of Russia Continued on Pago Three. 2 Tots Hurt In Accident Harder Blows Falling on Corner Store Nazis' Weight Falls on Club of council has made it illegal to serve women at the bar: The city council Wednesday unanimously passed an ordinance introduced by Mayor Kelly which makes it unlawful for any owner or employe of a saloon to serve "any female unless she Is seated at a table removed from any bar, counter or shelf or substitute thereof." "Just what," asked Alderman Walter Orlikowski, "does this ordinance mean." "It means," the mayor replied, "that it keeps women from drinking at a bar." Run Into Path Automobile.

By Herbert G. Owens. The blows of war are pounding down, harder and harder, on the corner drug store. Priorities, shortages, shipping difficulties and conversion of factories all have struck together. Drugs, chemicals, plastics, tremendous supply of quinine minerals all are integral The aldermen cheered.

parts of the drugstore busi Two children, one 4 years old and one 7, suffered severe body bruises at 10:21 a. m. Wednesday when they ran into the path of an automobile at Sixth ave. and Keo-sauqua way. The two are Joseph Campbell, 4, son of Mrs.

Peggie Campbell, 621 Seventh and Ann Marie Steinkuhler, 7, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Steinkuhler, 619 Seventh st. Witnesses told police the two ran across the street against a red signal light into the path of In the country, the government is holding it for use of the armed forces, especially In foreign lands where the threat of malarial fever Is constant. ness and all nave been with Judge Frees Youth Licked By His Dad Because 15-year-old Jack Terrell.

300 Watrous had suffered enough, Municipal Judge C. Edwin Moore Wednesday suspended a 10-day jail sentence for driving without a license. The boy was Issued a traffic summons Tuesday after driving an automobile he said belonged to a friend. Asked by the judge if his father knew of the summons, tears began to flow down the boy's face. Dad licked me," the boy said.

"Did he spank you good and hard the judge inquired. Between sobs the boy managed to tell how he believed he could still feel the punishment. "Well, I guess you have been penalized enough." the judge commented. "The sentence is suspended." I drawn from their natural flow VICHY, FRANCE (U.P.) France's prewar "Cent Kilos" club has relaxed its rules because its members can no longer make the weight requirement under drastic rationing regulations. Before the ivar, the club rigidly enforced its rule that nobody who did not weigh 100 kilograms, or 220 pounds, could belong.

Many famous gourmets were members. Noto, it was said, some members have lost as much as 110 pounds, and if the weight rule were enforced the membership wuld be decimated. to the public by the various necessities of war. Just look over the label on a bottle or jar of patent medicine The ingredients, usually a long list Affidavit. Quinine, for instance, is a widely il Noil '-y'-'-i First Aiders Revive Mother of Teacher ENGLEWOOD, COLO.

(IV) en tin Horn's mother suffered a heart attack. He called the first-aid class he's been teaching. After tico hours of artifi cial respiration, Mrs. Lillie A. Horn teas revived.

an automobile driven by Mrs. Burton R. Tate, 26, of Davenport, la. of strange herbs, roots, leaves and compounds unfamiliar to the user, are listed. Those strange drugs have created the situation.

Rough. R. J. Cavanaugh, executive vice used medicinal product in this country. Now the American druggist must sign an affidavit with The two were knocked to the paving by the car.

the wholesaler, guaranteeing that Mrs. Tate was issued a sum order will be his limited quinine president and director of sales for the Des Moines Drug whole- as an anti-ma- sold only for use larial agent. Doris Hail, 1122 Alpha wrinkles her nose as she smells the preparation In a "sniff kit" which resembles chloroplcrin gas. As secretary to 1'aul Durrie, director. of civilian defense training, she was one of the first to examine, the kits.

mons for being without a drivers license. The children were taken to Broadlawns General hospital for Drugs- Continued on Page Seven. Why Although there Is a.

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