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ctory. ENLIST YOUR BUY a ITS STAT DOLLARS AJ I FORTY-NINTH YEAR Teen-Aged Youths Again Asked To Volunteer; Their Stamina, Courage Seen Needed MAY BE DECIDING FACTOR Preliminary Steps Said Taken To Request Congressional Action for Drar.jg (By United Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. The war department tonight renewed its plea for 18 and 19-year-old volunteers, coincident with disclosures the army is demanding immediate congressional authority to draft them for "this young man's war." Emphasizing that the stamina and courage of youth may be deciding factor in battle, James A. Ulio for the second time within a week called upon young Americans to Join their youthful British and Russian compatriots on the war fronts.

While Ulio made no reference to extending the draft age to 18, congressional sources said the war department has taken preliminary steps toward a formal request for appropriate amendment of the selective service act. Presentation Seen Possible This Week Some quarters expect the request to be presented this week, probably by Secretary of War Stimson. The senate and house military affairs committee are said to be receptive but reports persist that action will be delayed until after the elections. The war department's initial step was taken two weeks ago with a formal request to the budget bureau which will be passed on to congress If President Roosevelt approves. Mr.

Roosevelt, after conferences with army and selective service chiefs two months ago, said it would not be necessary to call up the younger men until next year but the army's rapid rate of expansion may reverse this stand. Nelson Warning Brings Out Man Power Issuo (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. A warning from W.P.B. Chairman Donald M.

Nelson that the United States must soon decide how big a fighting force it can efficiently maintain brought the nation face to face tonight with the gigantio problem of how best to distribute its man power among factory, field and fighting front Although no steps have been taken yet to slow down the growth of the army and navy, he said in response to questions at a press conference, there is an "outside limit" on their size. Of Immediate importance, he said, is "the time element." He indicated he meant by this that agreement must be reached on the speed with which the armed forces should be built up, so they might not outrun the ability of the country's war plants to supply them with weapons and equipment. JSjTXMPS hnu rnn AKMT mm rr is All a rr mm in ENTER RANKS British Refuse to Yield On Dark Indian Problem (By Associated Press) LONDON, Oct. 8. The government repeated its determination today to deal with the Indian problem only within the framework of the independence proposals made by Sir Stafford Cripps, and the house of commons gave it support in a lopsided 360-to-17 vote.

L. S. Amery. secretary for India, and Clement Attlee, dominions secretary, had led a debate on a bill to continue the life of the Indian government and frankly told parliament the Indian picture is still "dark and confused in parts with sporadic disturbances" daily, which already have resulted In 848 deaths and the wounding of 2,024. Of the, 60 killed and 648 wounded IT WILL COST MONET TO BEAT THE ENEMY.

TOUR GOVERNMENT CALL8 ON YOU TO HELP NOW. BUT WAR BONDS AND STAMPS EVERY DAY. IF YOU CAN. TWENTY PAGES I IT ravy Bombers Strike Hard Retreat From Infantry Not Needed Now, Asserts Berlin (By United Press) LONDON, Oct. 8.

The Germans will abandon their frontal assaults on Stalingrad and destroy what is left of the city with artillery, the Berlin radio said tonight, raising the possibility that Hitler may swing his armies south ahead of the Russian snows and try to break through the Caucasus during the winter. Late tonight, Berlin broadcast that the high command has "full confidence in the ultimate issue of fighting at Stalingrad and the time factor is of secondary importance The aim was reached some time ago and it is only a question of cleaning up the town." Berlin said the "high command wisely is not willing to incur unnecessary sacrifices and is sparing its men." British experts also saw the possibility that Hitler, faced with defeat in the greatest battle of the war, was pulling his badly mauled forces back to winter quarters on the Don river. They could ill survive the winter on the Stalingrad steppes, a shelterless region of howling blizzards. German Objectives In City 'Achieved The Berlin radio said there has been "an important change in the character of the battle" (for Stal ingrad.) German objectives there have been "achieved," it said, and there is no further purpose in German troops trying to storm "the rest" of the city. It warned, how ever, that the districts still stand' ing will be destroyed by the heavi est artillery, which is already in place at the front.

The British Press association said that the Russian relief army battering its way through German lines northwest of Stalingrad has crossed to the west bank of the Don river (Continued on Page 2, Column 7) Burma Railroad Bridge Wrecked (By United Press) A U. S. AIR BASE IN NORTHERN Oct. 2. (Delayed) A twin-engined American bomber, piloted by one of the men who raided Tokyo in April, today destroyed a strategic railway bridge in northwestern Burma, cutting the single Japanese communication line to bases in that area, The pilot, Lieut.

Richard (Nobby) Nobloch, of Fort Sheridan, 111., dived the plane almost to the top of the bridge before Bombardier Lieut. Robert Sikes, of Brecken-ridge, Texas, released delayed action bombs which Nobloch said "blew 'em to smithereens." Jap Bombers Strike City in North China CHUNGKING, Oct. 9. (Friday) The Japanese made their biggest air attack in north China in months yesterday, bombing Loyang, an important town of the Lunghai railway south of the Yellow river in Honan province. The Chinese Central News agency said 25 Japanese bombers caused considerable damage.

were British soldiers, police or government employes. The house approval of the government's firm stand came on defeating a motion of James Maxton, independent labor member, to sidetrack the bill. Amery promised that the problem provoked by Mohandas K. Gandhi's demands for immediate independence would be overcome and that Britain was pledged to see "India's destiny directed by Indian hands free of all external conflict." Of Gandhi, Amery said: "His appeal may be to the German passion for brute force, or it may be to the mysticism of Hindu rhetoric, but the same type of dictatorship emerges." Nazi Tanks Break Into Two Streets Ttv Associated Press) MOSCOW, Oct. 9, (Friday) German tanks and infantry broke into two streets in a factory suburb of Stalingrad yesterday while the red army attacking the Nazi flank above the city held newly-won positions by beating off several small assaults.

A midnight Soviet communique said 16 of the 50 German tanks hurled against the red in the battered northwestern outskirts of Stalingrad were destroyed and four battalions (about 2,000 men) of infantry were wiped out. Only in one place the enemy succeeded in occupying two streets of a populated place," the communique said of this fight. Field dispatches said one quarter of the workers' settlement now was in ruins from German bombs, shells and mortar fire, but said the red army thus far has held the Germans back from the Volga river banks and the heart of Stalingrad in a siege now entering its forty-sixth day. The Soviet dispatches said Russian tanks had torn gaps in the German left flank above the city, forcing the Nazi command to divert elite Prussian troops to meet the threat. The late communique did not (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) (By Associated Press) LONDON, Oct.

8. Evidence was accumulating tonight that Germany is about to make Denmark a completely subjugated state. German-occupied for two years and a half, yet nominally self-governed and maintained as a showpiece of Nazi influence at its "best," Denmark was believed marked down now for forced Nazi-flcation for these purposes: 1. Suppression of rising rebellion against so-called German benevolence. 2.

Tight defense against allied invasion. 3. Crystallization of a "Germanic (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) Two Schoolgirls in L. A. Being Hunted (By Associated Praas) LOS ANGELES, Oct.

8. Police today hunted two girls reported missing since they left their apartment house for grammar school five blocks distant yesterday morning. Detective C. F. Detrich and Police Capt.

Vernon Rasmussen said the youngsters, Barbara Lois Swisher, 12, and Pamela (Susie) West, 7, failed to arrive at school and may have met with foul play. Argentine Radio and Telegraph Restricted (By Associated Press) BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 8. The Argentine government tonight de creed strict control of all radio and telegraph communications in order to prevent transmission of informa tion affecting the security of Argen tina and other American nations. DANES HUN IIP IN NAZI ILL cMwqpaperjoc Beamy UTD Ha 0AIL1 Stalingrad Hinted by Nazi JAP PRISONERS AT DUTCH HARBOR Blindfolded and heavily taken ashore at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, after they and three others were Aleutian' U.S.FLIERS HIT 37 HPS (Rv Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct.

8. The growing destructive power of American air forces in Egypt was credited officially today with sinking or badly damaging 37 axis warships and other vessels since early June while harassing the ports and supply lines of the Nazi desert army. Major-Gen. Russell L. Maxwell advised the war department that damage from near misses of American bombs and other unobserved destruction probably raised this total of the havoc wrought on the enemy.

In a report summarized by Undersecretary Robert P. Patterson, the American army commander in the middle east said the airmen had loosed 3,161,000 pounds about 1,580 tons of bombs in the past 110 days. Of these 969,000 pounds were dropped during September alone. The American air fighters operated with Britain's royal air force in support of British forces battling Gen. Erwin Rommel's desert army, but the report indicated they operated independently in many of their far-ranging attacks in the eastern Mediterranean on enemy shipping and supply ports.

Under the immediate command of Major-Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, chief of American air forces on the Egyptian front, four-engine B-24 Libera- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) Soldier Accused Of Killing Child (By Associated Press) BASTROP, Texas, Oct. 8. Military authorities charged Pvt.

George S. Knapp, 38, with murder today shortly after the death of 8-year-old Lucy Rivers Maynard. bruised and left to die, the child was found in a lonely ravine late yesterday 24 hours after she disappeared on her way home from school. If the charge against Knapp that of violating the 92nd and 93rd articles of war is found to be supported by sufficient evidence he will be tried by court-martial, said Col. W.

D. Brann, chief of staff of the 95th Infantry division at Camp Swift. Otherwise the charge will be dismissed. The decision rests with Major-Gen. Harry L.

Twaddle, division commander. Military and civil authorities dovetailed an investigation into the child's death described by veteran officers as on of the most brutal crimes in local history. OSAMOS Oil NBWI Flying Son Of Film Star Crash Victim (By Associated Press) LONG BEACH, Oct. 8 Capt. Don E.

Brown, 25, son of Actor Joe E. Brown, was killed in the crash of an army bomber near Palm Springs this afternoon. An announcement from the army ferrying command said 'Captain Brown was on a routine flight from the Long Beach air base to Utah when the crash occurred nine miles north of Palm Springs. Brown was flying alone. He was only recently promoted to a captaincy, after having been commissioned a second lieutenant in the air forces July 11, 1941, and had been attached to the Long Beach ferrying command base a little over a year.

Capt. Brown was a student body president at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1939 and cadet colonel of the R.O.T.C., and a first string football player in 1938 and 1939. He received his air forces training at Ontario, Moffett field and Stockton. DETROIT, Oct. 8 His famous ear-to-ear smile gone, Comedian Joe E.

Brown slumped in a chair at his apartment tonight and wept like a typical American father for (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) Parents Rejoice Over Story of Marine Son Who Survived Attack by 65 Japs (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8 If Eugene Oliver Moore of the U. S. marines could have peeped into his home here today, he'd have had a tremendous tonic for a speedy recovery in the faraway south Pacific. It was the modest downtown apartment where he'd helped with the dishes, puttered around the kitchen, laughed with his father and mother and sister, and the home he left just a year ago to enlist.

And it was a home no longer In mourning. The tall, handsome, 22-year-old first class private was alive. Since September 24, his father, Charles R. (Ted) Moore, a husky shipyard worker, and his mother, Mauds Beard Moore, attractive, 6o copy 11.10 month in North Solomons; guarded, two Jap prisoners sre captured in a naval engagement in CANIANSI (By Associated Press) OTTAWA, Oct. 8 Navy Minister Angus MacDonald announced to night that a Canadian naval force of five warships cooperated with the United States force which effect ed the recent landings in the Aleu tian islands.

MacDonald said he could give no further details because of security reasons. The U.S. navy announced in Washington Oct. 3 that positions in the Andreanof group of islands in the Aleutians had been occupied without opposition, by American armed troops with naval support. The date and the extent of the op eration was not announced, al- it was said it happened "recently." It was known previously that Ca nadian airmen have been taking part in operations agairtst the Japanese in the Aleutian area.

It was also made known previously that Canadian warships have been working with American naval units in the Aleutian area. SEVEN DIE IN CRASH HALIFAX, N. Oct. 8 Seven airmen are missing and believed killed after an R.A.F. plane crash in the Bay of Fundy at noon today.

young-looking and greying, had thought their son dead. They were informed he died in the Solomons, Aug. 8. And yet there was a doubt. They had a card dated Aug.

12, on which was the almost-unrecognizable signature of their son saying he was all right. Yesterday, there came an official letter expressing regret. Hope was gone. But less than 10 minutes later came a telegram "we were afraid to open." It said Gene was all right. And today there was an Associated Press story from the marines saying Gene beaten, stabbed and left for dead had survived an attack of 65 Japanese on an American tank.

Mother Moore, standing in a doorway of the apartment, read the story carefully. She read it again. 1942 OCTOBER 1942 tan. Mm. Tim.

Wt4. Thuri, Frt. tat, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1942 AIMlli AMERICAN FORCE SUFFERS NO LOSS Heavy Cruiser Among Planes Destroyed; Kieta Base Raided (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. An aircraft carrier task striking violently into the heart of Japan's defense area in the north Solomon islands, has damaged an enemy heavy cruiser and four other ships, destroyed eight aircraft and blasted an airfield, the navy announced tonight.

The operation, conducted in unfavorable weather, apparently caught the Japanese completely by surprise at one of their most vulnerable points. It was carried through without the loss of a man or plane and without damage to any ship. Ol jap amps Attacked by Allied Fliers (By Associated Press) GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Oct. 9. (Friday) With ground operations in the Owen Stanley mountains at a standstill and no opposition apparent in the whole New Guinea area, allied air forces have returned to the attack on enemy shipping at outlying points a communique said today.

Chief targets for the bombing raids lay well to the west of the New Guinea fighting zone, where General MacArthur's troops have come to a halt after reaching the mountain pass connecting Port Moresby with Japanese bases on the north shore of the island. One group of reconnaissance bombers struck at an enemy vessel at Koepang in Dutch Timor across the Timor sea from northwestern Australia'. A second unit attacked Saum-laki and blasted a medium transport at the breakwater, In both instances the results of the assault were unobserved. Victorious Australian troops were in control of the gap in the high Owen Stanley range but the tremendous supply problem made it doubtful whether they would press on to Kokoda and the north shore Japanese base at Buna-Gona, now that the immediate threat to Port Moresby has been erased. Two-Cent Dispute Over Meal Settled (By Associated Press) SACRAMENTO, Oct.

8. Miss Martha Chickering, state director of social welfare, came out the winner today in a two-cent disagreement over a breakfast claim. The state controller's office announced that a claim by Miss Chickering for two cents had been approved after a review of the case. "My goodness, he was the only one that wasn't killed. No wonder I've been so worried.

It's just a miracle." She didn't smile just then. Perhaps she was thinking of other mothers. Father Moore, in his undershirt and with his 6 feet 4 inches squatting on the floor (there were plenty of chairs) read it rapidly and just couldn't hold back any longer: "So they jabbed him with a pitchfork!" He jerked off his glasses "The dirty They'd better not show me another Jap. No wonder he couldn't write, mother." His voice broke. "I don't see how we could raise such a fellow.

He's got more guts than his father ever had. I don't see how we could be so proud." Father Moore, who wishes "I was over there Instead of him." was with the 48th engineers in Francs. Radio Victims; Eight Enemy A navy communique, reporting the action, said the ships attacked were in the Shortland island area, just south of the island of Bougainville, the main Japanese base in the Solomons. The airfield attacked was Kieta, on the northern coast of Bougainville, 45 miles north of Shortland. For several weeks, the communique said, enemy ships had been observed concentrating in the Short-land area.

This was authoritatively interpreted to mean not that a great armada was massing there but that on frequent occasions large numbers of enemy vessels put in. These probably were engaged in the work of supplying and reinforcing enemy troops on Guadalcanal island, site of the main American base 259 miles to the south, as well as on Japaness islands nearby. Heavy Bombs Strike Cruiser and Transport On Oct. 5, the carrier task fores under general direction of Vice-Ad-miral R. L.

Ghormley, navy chief in the south Pacific, moved in to the attack, which was coordinated with attacks on other Japanese centers in the southwest Pacific by heavy bombers from the Australian command of General Douglas Mao-Arthur. The communique reported thess results were observed: One cruiser and one transport damaged by heavy bombs. One seaplane tender and two cargo ships damaged by light bombs. One cruiser and one destroyer strafed in Shortland harbor. The navy did not claim these as "damaged." Four four-engined flying boats destroyed on the water at Faisi and six damaged by strafing.

Faisi is a little island in Shortland harbor. Bad Weather May Have Checked Torpedo Planes Two seaplanes and two bombers destroyed. Meanwhile, apparently in a maneuver designed to prevent a Japanese counterattack by air from the field at Kieta, other planes struck there and damaged the field with bombs. It appeared significant that the communique did not describe any damage inflicted by plane-borne torpedoes. The assumption here was that the weather, which the communique merely described as "unfavorable," was so bad the torpedo planes either could not get in their work or else results were not observed.

Ex-Beer Baron Faces Sugar Ration Count (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Oct. Gordon, beer baron of Broadway In the prohibition era, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on a charge of violating a rationing order regulating the sale of sugar, U. S. Attorney Mathlas F. Cor-rea, who announced the Indictment, said he hoped that It would servs as a warning to bootleggers of prohibition days that any attempt to create "black markets" for rationed commodities would be regarded ss sabotage of the war effort.

The indictment also named a Simon Hirshhtrg, described by Cor-rea ss on of Cordon's lleuUnsnts..