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i NORTH IOWA'S DAILY PAPER EDITED FOR THE HOME A Of I AND A I DES I IA "THE NEWSPAPER THAT HOME EDITION MAKES ALL NORTH IOWANS NE1GH1OR5 1 VOL. XLVIH ASSOCIATED- PBES8 AND UNITED PRESS FTJLL LT8AMSD WIBZS rm CENTS A COPY MASON CITY, IOWA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1942 THIS FAPBB CONSISTS OF TWO SECTION ONE NO. 278 LAUNCH DRIVE IN EGYPT Grounds Abuzz as Fair Prepares for Opening -----r-' rHURSDAYWLL INITIAL DAY )F EXPOSITION Rodeo, Carnival Set Up; Concessionaires 1 Busy With The North Iowa fair grandstand empty Tuesday but its planks ended back the "sound of flying 'pots on'the racetrack, the lowing and Longhorn brought in by the rodeo fhich opens Thursday afternoon nd the'pounding of hammers as concessionaires got their bunting rid signs into place for the five jy 1B42 exposition. I Members of Clyde S. Miller's congress of cowboys and cowgirls limbered up their mounts ind themselves on the racetrack Tuesday to Iron out kinks From the trainride while cowhands herded the front jheir com! opposite the grand- itand.

across the -infield to the watering tronth. Saddle horses grazed north of the infield with cowboys spraddled on rronnd holding the lead rope. I (On the south side of the grand- Sand there was activity too. nicks tore way and that ringing in: displays 'and going ack for "another load. Race orses In the barns as Jes buzzed around the early jjners, races not being sched- Sunday Monday The.r'lJmted Exposition 1: Shows to set up their the afire unit being on'hand already rith a.two day vacation ahead ot erformers before they go into jeir acts Thursday morning on je A full program is scheduled dur- ig the five days, starting Thursay morning and running through londay'evening.

Labor day. All ji'estock and agricultural exhibits re scheduled to be in place in the arns, Floral hall and the Mer- hants" building Thursday rhora- and judging will begin imme- iately. 'All ribbons are to be in lace by Saturday evening, most probably sooner. North all time record in 1942 is expected to mirrored in the displays at the A more direct reminder of the war, however, will be the appearance of 25 crack sailors from the naval (raining school at Iowa State college who are scheduled to give; an exhibition drill on the Saturday afternoon and evening programs. Mason city's own company of the Iowa State guard will lake over the same assignment on the Sunday and Monday evening grandstand Other reminders -will be the lag raising ceremony at the be- inning each afternoon pro- ram in which the American Leion, Veterans of Foreign Wars rid other patriotic organizations fill take part.

Following the flag aising each, day a visiting pastor fill give a two minute prayer for i United Nations victory. Each yening at the close of the day's clivities 'before the grandstand, tie veterans will participate in the lag lowering ceremony. if. it. if.

evening will see the Mason City premiere of the Barnes-Carruthera Victory Revue, musical stage show with a fall complement of hippodrome acts. The revue will be on its double stage Saturday and Sunday evenings also. Saturday afternoon Jfnuale Lynch's Death Dodgers take over the (rack in front ef the grandstand for their Oirtll jhow. Sunday afternoon fast trotters nd pacers from midwestern tales writ open their two day con- sst for purses which are expected crowd the $2,000 mark. In ad- ition to the fair association's ap- ropnation of $1,200, all entry nd starting fees will be added loney for the winners.

Monday evening ill be the cli- jax of the 1942 exposition with imrnie Lynch in person heading is Death Dodgers, fresh from ppearanccs at the Missouri and finnesota state fairs. on the program will be a abor day address by Prof. John Vieg on "Free Labor and a Nazis Deepen Wedge S. W. of Stalingrad; Suffer Heavy bosses All Along Red Front Searing Heat Wave Edna Fell, Bandera, and her favorite mount ave looking over the situation at North Iowa fairgrounds as they take-a two day vacation before their appearance on the opening program afternoon with Clyde S.

Miller's'rodeo. The congress of-cowboys and cowgirls also is scheduled-on the Thursday evening and Friday afternoon Yanks to Stay Off Belfast Streets Wednesday Outlawed I. R. Pianned Action; Cache of Arms Is Discovered BELFAST, (IF)-- United States troops have been ordered to stay off the streets of Belfast Wednesday, it was announced officially Tuesday as tension mounted with a report that the outlawed Irish, republican army was planning attacks on American and British troops in northern Ireland. There was no explanation ol the announcement of the order but presumably it was issued to lessen' any chance of incidents among American forces and pro-I.

R. A. elements in Belfast. Neither was there any indication how long the order would remain in effect. Earlier in the day police reported that a great cache of arms and explosives captured near here Sunday night was to have been used by the I.

R. A. in attacks on the American and British forces. A police statement said the special manifesto issued by the I.R.A. calling the presence of United States forces in northern Ireland an act of aggression made it clear that ''this illegal organization lias been 'preparing for attacks on members of forces of the crown, the armed police and United States forces stationed in northern Ireland." -Police said 17 persons had been detained for questioning as all available officers concentrated on investigation of a plot which, they said, had reached a point where the organization was able to amass explosives enough to wrecK half this Ulster capital.

Free World." He will speak under the auspices of the Mason City Trades arid Labor assembly. The Hamilton chir will sing. Members of the Mason City municipal band will provide the music for the opening and closing days' performances while tlie Kenselt, St- Ansgar and Clear Lake bands will give afternoon and evening concerts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, respectively. ALLIES STRAFE JAP REMNANTS Aussies Mop Up in Milne Bax; 10 Ton's of Bombs Dropped on Lae A HEADQUARTERS, Australia, (P Allied fighter planes roared abov the Milne bay jungles of eastern New Guinea strafing any Tuesday heavib Japanese remnants left by the veteran Australia! land troops who were mo'ppin. up the enemy.

severe ninht attack was made on the Japanese air base at Lae, 400 miles the northwest, and skirmishes on land developed at nearby Salamaua. Other sharp fixhtinr ivas reported at Kokoda at the base of the lowering Owen Stanley range half way to the most advanced allied base at Port Moresby. The known Japanese surviving the allied ambush at Milne Bay pushed back into a narrow peninsula north of the bay. Day Jong reconnaissance flights failed to uncover any evidence of Japanese troops, installations or stores beyond in the thick jungle. The pilots, however, saw, three damaged barges and three tanks bogged in the muck and mud.

all mute evidence of the stoutness of the Australian land forces. Gen. MacArthur's dropped 10 tons of explosives on the Lae airdrome, leaving it smoking and battered. 1 United States B-17 and B-26 bombers delivered the attack on Lae, starting fires 'visible for 30 miles and damaging a number of grounded planes. The enemy was caught by surprise because no planes rose to intercept and only meager ground fire was thrown up.

The Aussies at Milne Bay reported the Japanese abandoned large quantities of material. In one spot, 50 dead enemy troops were found. WICKARD SAYS U. S. TO SET UP MEAT RATIONS Program to Start in About 4 Months; Open Conserving of Supplies WASHINGTON, (IP) Americans will be asked by the gov- jrnment soon to forego the extra rteaks and chops they are able to buy with their record-breaking 3ay envelopes, and in about four a meat will be rationed.

Secretary of Agri c-u 11 Wickard a nounced Monday that the food requirements -committee had decided on. rationing as the best method of assuring a'n equitable' I distribution "of I what he termed the largest'live- stock production in history. a i 1 a 'conservation campaign, i including "meatless 'days," will be instituted to limit civilian consumption of red meats to about the same average amount as has been eaten per capita during the last 10 j-ears. "It will give our civilians approximately pounds of meat a person a week," Wickard said, "as contrasted with the one pound to the British civilian. 12 ounces to the German, five ounces to the Belgian.

It is an adequate meat supply. When you add in the increased supply of poultry and cheese and dry beans we have, it provides a. top-notch protein diet for us." In discussing the rationing decision, he said: "We ought to manage the supply so that the housewife who can't get to the store until afternoon won't be forced to do without; so that everyone has a chance to buy his fair share the total." Minimum requirements of the fighting forces and their allies for the present marketing year will be 6,000,000,000 pounds, Wick ard said. "On top of that, our civilian population, with the highest incomes on record, working hardei than ever before, want mort meat than ever before," he added would take about 21 billion pounds this year "The total demand adds up to more than the total supply 27 million pounds of demand; 24 billion pounds of supply." Pending the installation of ra tioning machinery, packers' sale for civilian use will be curbed a war production board order as signing marketing quotas. The order, expected in about tw weeks, will apply to beef, vea.

pork, lamb, mutton and sausage Meat Industry to Co-Operate CHICAGO. (U.P.1--Spokesmen fo the nation's meat industry prom ised Tuesday to co-operate wit the government's proposed mea rationing program. The American Meat Institute association of packers, issued statement expressing belief tha because of Secretary of Agricul lure Claude Wickard's "farsight edness, meat will be available fo all reasonable consumer demands. The institute expressed hop that the plan would "get mea supplies in balance with livestoc supplies and that they will provide the livestock industry wit encouragement to raise and fee animals in order that finished ani mals will produce sufficient mea to meet the government plans fo increased production." George A. Eastwood, prcsidcn of Armour and company, one the major packers, said the go, eminent could depend on complel co-operation from the packing in dustry.

Beats Down Along Sun Parched Steppes MOSCOW, (IP)--The Russians aid Tuesday the Germans had eepencd a wedge toward Stalin- rad from the southwest and in- iltratec! that city's northwestern defenses! but emphasized the asualties suffered by the invaders 11 along the front. Scattered details reported in the micl-day communique indicated Jermany's loss of at least 48 tanks and about 2,000 killed. After fighting in which about 400 Germans were killed, "one soviet unit withdrew to new positions" before the Kotelnikov- ski-Stalingrad ptncer claw, the soviet information bureau Tank crews were declared to have repulsed numerous attacks on other sectors of that area. Hed army ruen still menacing the axis flank within the Don bend waged both offensive and defensive warfare and reports from the Caucasian battlefields were highlighted by a declaration that soviet cavalry recaptured a nazi-oc- cupied village south of Krasnodar German naval parties are attempting to raid Caucasian coast in conjunction with the overland drive from Krasnodar but these are being smashed, Pray da dispatch from the Blacl sea rleet declared. forces 'of men arid machines were reported mov ing up to bolster the axis assaul upon Stalingrad.

Pravda said the Germans, hurrying ammunition, food and fuel to their forces fighting between the Don and the were using squadrons of transport planes and long lines of trucks guarded by tanks. if A searing heat wave beat down upon this front and soviet dispatches said the only relief found by soldiers fighting across the sun-parched steppes was in thi partial shade provided by smoki rising from the battlefields. Water was becoming more and more of a problem for both side because normally stream had run dry. Even at night the heat wa described as so intense tha candles melted in dugouts. In a recapitulation of aeria losses in August, the Moscow ra dio reported destruction of 1,78 German planes sgainst 936 sovie craft.

Ttie battle for water between the Don and Volga became urgent that tanks were convertei into water carriers loaded will everything from pots and buckets to barrels. At one place the Germans sen foul- tanks to guard a well. Rus sian snipers were declared have blown up every one of th tanks, enabling red infantry capture the well along with surviving nazis. NIPPONCABINET Premier Tojo Takes Over Foreign Ministry; Reason Is Obscure By TUE ASSOCIATED PRESS Japan's Premier Gen. Hideki 'ojo took over the foreign minis- ry Tuesday, tightening his control I Japanese war policy and ropping the diplomat who nego- SENTENCE IOWA DOG TO DEATH Girl, Hit by Canine, Was Fatally Injured on Davenport Street DAVENPORT, the big automobile-chasing do; identified by police as the canir that struck down and fatally ir jurcd Dorothy Whipka, 21, la Thursday as she stepped from sidewalk near her home was "pi to sleep" in a gas chamber Tues day.

The dog, according to'polic had a habit of chasing autom biles and that he crashed into tl girl, tossing her high into the a She landed on her shoulders an head, suffering a fractured sku which caused her death. Police Chief Reed Phillips sai that the owner of the dog ha agreed to the death penalty a fit he had been ordered by a coron er's jury Monday night to ider tify the animal and have it irr. pounded for life. Phillips said his office had rt ceived several complaints cor cerning the dog's tiabit of chasin automobiles and that it had bee tied up since Miss Whipka death. th SOVIETS' RIEND, QUITS TOJO i a Moscow icutrality pact A a anese roadcast a i foreign Minis- Shigenori "ogo, imbassador to i a a a re- iignecl.

As i g-n minister, Togo had repeatedly affirmed Japan's pledge of friendship with Russia, but it was no immediately clear whether hi: meant a change in Tokio's attitude, possibly as a prelude to an attack on sovie Siberia. Recent Chinese and London dispatches have stressed Japan' intention to invade Siberia thi fall, presumably at.4he^height,o Adolf Hitler's campaign" agains Russia in the west, and upward of 500,000 Japanese troops hav been reported massing in Man along the Siberian fron tier. Observers also pointed out that Japan's mysterious withdrawals from east China in the last few weeks indicated that her leaders were preparing for new military ventures elsewhere in the far Pacific ivar theater. British diplomatic circles ii London said it was "quite pos sible" that Togo's removal re fleeted dissatisfaction over th conduct of the war, resulting from united nations victories in th Solomon islands and at Miln bay, New Guinea. These quarters also suggestei that the failure to launch an expected attack on Russia's mari time provinces in Siberia ma have been involved in the cabine shakeup.

JAPS OPEN ATTACK IN KOKODA, NEW GUINEA On the fighting front, a Reu ters (British news agency) dis patch reported that Japancs troops had opened a strong at tack in the Kokoda sector of Guinea, 60 miles west of the ke allied outpost at Port Moresby. The dispatch said Australia vanguard fell back under the ini tial momentum of the enemy at tack but restored their positions i heavy, close-quarter fighting. DECLARES RISING SUN HAS PASSED NOON HOUR In Chungking, China's war-tim capital, a government spokesma declared that Japan's "rising sun had already begun to certainly passed the noon hour he said--and predicted that moi islands -in the southwest Pacifi would be wrested from the Jap; ncse. faps Preparing Fight Russia NEW DELHI, (U.R)--Japanese reparations for a northern cam- aign against Russia are indicated reports that they are taking a defensive atti- ude" in Indo- i a and 'hina, Lieut, en. Joseph tilwell a i uesday.

The Japa- ese are resum- construe- on of block- ouscs a a i 1 a in hina and are utting up de- ensive attitude, which is logical they ave concentrating for a northern attack. I think chances hat the Japs will attack Siberia re good." Stilwell, who sized up the situation for correspondents at an nformal press conference in his Delhi headquarters, said there is "plenty boiling" in the ar eastern war theater. The Indian situation, he said affecting activities of American forces. The disturbances there," he said, "have affected transportation and already have slowet down the movement of equipment." Stilwel said he considers thi far eastern theater as most im portant because it offers the bes way to get at Japan. "I have always considered thi the most important war theater, he said.

"It is still the best way to ge at Japan--there's no doubt abou thai. The first step must be til re occup ati on of' -Burma China again will become an asset. Chinese Expect Jap Stand on Russia CHUNGKING, (JP--Chinese unofficially expressed the opinion that Shigenori Togo resigned as foreign minister of Japan Tuesday because he refused to support the Tokio government's plans respecting Russia. The belief was current here that a majority of the Japanese cabinet contemplates some vigorous stand in relation to Russia. In quarters it was believed Japan is about to demand assurances from Russia that the rear of Japanese armies facing the Chinese will not be attacked.

Others expressed the opinion that the Japanese are about to attack Siberia. Weather Report FORECAST MASON CITY: Continued warm and humid Tuesday afternoon, Tuesday and Wednesday forenoon: i temperature Tuesday atternoon about 00 or slightly higher. IOWA: i warm a humid Tuesday a through Wednesday forenoon; widely scattered thundershowers in north portion Tuesday afternoon. MINNESOTA: Scattered showers and thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday forenoon; little change in temperature except not quite so warm extreme southeast portion Tuesday afternoon. IN MASON CITY Weather statistics: Maximum Monday 88 Minimum Monday night At 6 a.

m. Tuesday 72 YEAR AGO: Maximum 83 Minimum 43 8 MILES ON MINEFIELDS SOUTH FLANK American Flyers Go Into Action, Pounding at Axis Supply Columns (AP) An mile German drive into he minefields on the southern flank of the El Alamein ine in Egypt, rimming the Qattara depression, was reported Tuesday in a Reuters iispatch from Cairo as new United States air forces went Into action in what appeared be a developing major battle. Against another German thrust; evidently seeking a soft spot in the center, the British were said to have held firmly. The newest American medium bombers on the north. African front B-25's like those which bombed Tokio-went into their first action with complete American air crews in a bombardment of axis transport columns while supporting American fighter i unusually large German dive-bomber formations.

ofjer haps Ei Alamein and Bengasi were said to be locked with light British forces, in what may be the opening phase of a struggle for mastery oE the Nile valley, Suez and the whole middle and near east. Although there was no official word in London that the new assault was the opening of a new German offensive, there was no doubt in unofficial but welt-informed circles that German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had begun a large-scale offensive, synchronized with the great battles in southern Russia. Four German divisions the Iflth and 21st armored divisions of 17.000 men and 200 tanks each, the 90th light motorized division of 14,000 men and the 164th infantry division of 17,000 men-were said to form the spearhead of the axis attack. Parachute troops which arrived in north Africa at the same time as the 164th division also are believed to be attached to this force. Two Italian armored divisions, the Ariete and the Littorio ot 8,000 men and approximately 150 tanks each, also supply some of the enemy armor.

There are six Italian infantry divisions of 10,000 men each in north Africa. The British war office, announcing the new offensive, said it was too early to tell whether it was "on a. major scale," but all the signs of recent weeks indicated that Rommel was about to test Prime Minister Winston Churchill's recent pledge to "fight for Egypt and the Nile valley as if it were the soil of England itself." Quiet for two months, except for the occasional fire of patrolling machinegunners and the daily crump, crump ot bombs, the southern end of the battlefield has.