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Archives History Corap. Montgomery, Ala. Toe WEATHER SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA: Warmer this afternoon and tonight. OTOAN JLAG1LE "For 1 Heard Them Say, 'Let Us Go To Dothan'." Genesis 37:17 VOLUME 35 AP Leased Wire DOTHAN, ALABAMA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 2, 1942. NUMBER 37.

rn ji UUNJ Wm mm ojg) jJ Ui FDR Asks Broad Fight On 'Teen THE WAR TODAY Red Army Battles Fiercely To Hold Mountain Highway Undersea Craft List Three Damaged; Carrier Set Ablaze Russian Forces Gain Ground At Stalingrad, Fall Back At Nalchik Sailors Rescue Wounded Marine Navy Now Has Run Of Guadacanal Visits Rotary Clubs Paying visits to Rotary Clubs in the Wlregrass, J. Clyde Orr, of Bessemer, above, District Governor ol the 164th District, Alabama Rotary International, addressed the Dothan Rotary Club today. Tomorrow he will visit the Enterprise Club and Wednesday he will speak to the Geneva Club. Mr. Orr is Governor of 47 Alabama clubs which have a membership of almost 2,000.

xli VL-w mi- isi Light Ballot Seen For Wartime Vote Powers To Speed Tariff And Laws Slowing Material, He Tells Congress WASHINGTON (AP) President Roosevelt asked Congress today to give him sweeping wartime power to suspend any law, particularly tariffs, found interfering with the "free movement of persons, property and information" into and out of the United States. Asserting that speed and volume of- war output have become more than ever before in our history the primary conditions of victory," Mr. Roosevelt said in a especial mes- isage: "To achieve an all out war pro duction effort, we must Implement and supplement the steps already taken by the Congress and the President to eliminate those peace time restrictions which limit our ability to make the fullest and quickest use of the world's re-(Tnrn to No. 9 on Page 2) Turkish President Warns Parliament Of Attack Danger ANKARA, Turkey (AP) With bitter battles swirling to the north and south of her, neutral Turkey had before her today a sober warn ing that she stood In danger of be ing attacked. President Ismet Inonu uttered tte warning yesterday in the an nual Presidential address at the opening of Parliament's winter ses sion.

No names were mentioned but the President declared that "Tur key is closer to war today than at any time since the present world conflict started." The legislators, he said, must give serious consideration to the problems ahead should Turkey be the subject of aggression. In was interpreted as ap parently a reference to the Axis, Inonu said: "With the war spread over ev ery quarter of the globe, one begins to understand that political in stitutions founded on domination by a single power cannot be maintained." He said Turkey woud remain loyal to her alliances. (Turkey and Great Britain have an alliance; Soviet Russia early in 1941 pledged military and material aid to her if Germany attacked her; and Turkey and Germany have a 10-year amity pact signed in June, 1911.) Five Persons Hurt In Train Derailment VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) Five persons were injured, none believed seriously, today when five rear coaches of a fast eastbound passenger train were derailed on a branch line of the Illinois Central system between Hickory and New ton. H.

B. Sargent, chief clerk of the Vicksburg division, said the cars included two day coaches and two sleepers. The injured were taken to a Meridian hospital. Trainmen attributed the wreck to a broken rail. War Shipping NEA Telephoto Through the sweltering heat and dense foliage of a tropical jungle U.

S. Navy pharmacist's mates carry a wounded Marine on Guadalcanal. They are less than 100 yards behind the Marine lines. Aussies Encircle Axis Desert Unit Age Draft Looms After Election Ban On Enlisted Women Serving Overseas Seen WASHINGTON (AP) Whether teen-age soldiers shall be sent into combat without a year of training and whether women enlisted in the Navy and Coast Guard Reserves shall be permitted to serve over seas are among issues facing Con- when it resumes regular business next week. Both Senate and House have decreed that 18 and 19 year old youths may be inducted into the armed forces, but have disagreed overthe question of giving them a stipulated period of training before putting them under fire.

The House skirted the training issue by not even voting on it directly, only to have the controver sial subject tossed right back in its lap by the Senate, which, on a close vote, decided no teen-age In-(Turn To No. 12 On Page 2) Food Administrator May Change Eating Habits Of Nation WASHINGTON (AP) Eating habits of American civilians for the duration of the war may be determined largely by the decision President Roosevelt makes on a proposal that he appoint a food administrator to control production and consumption. The proposal, advanced by War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson, reflects sharp and fundamental differences within the government over war food requirements and the possibility of further At the bottom of these differences is the question of how much manpower, machinery, transporta tion, and other facilities should be devoted to food production. On the one hand are those Including Secretary of Agriculture WIckard who believe that food production should be maintained at as near present record levels as possible in order that civilians as well as the United Nations fighting forces may have well balanced diets.

On the other are those including some War Production Board officials and military authorities who believe that the country cannot meet both its military manpower and material needs and still maintain agricultural produc tion at anywhere near present levels. This latter group contends that in the interest of a quick and successful conclusion of the war, food production should be stripped largely to cereals, potatoes, and vegetable oil crops for civilians. Production of meats, dairy and poultry products and vegetables, they believe, should be reduced to a level deemed necessary to provide military and lend-lease requirements. Another iasue has been allocation of materials for farm machinery. The WPB will allow farmers to get only 3 per cent as much machinery as they bought in 1940.

The Agriculture Department yes terday forecast at least some changes in civilian eating for 1943 when it said in its farm outlook re port for next year: "There will be enough food In the total supply, although there may be shortages of many individual commodities. The average civilian probably will be able to consume (Turn To No. 1 On Page 2) Col. Robert L. Scott of Macon, a pursuit group commander, said of the "pea shooters" which have filled the role of escorts for regular bombers, chasers, inteceptors, level rs and reconnaissance planes In one eight day period they unloaded 50 tons of bombs on Nan-chang, Hankow and Llchwu in China and Haiphong, French Indo-China.

The dive-bombing mission against Hongkong, carried out at dawn Wednesday, was led by Major B. K. Holloway of Knoxvllle, Tenn. The small attacking formation was escorted by other, peashooters in tneir regular role as escorters. Lieut Dallas A.

Clinger, Etna, strafed a freighter and silenced one antl aircraft gun emplacement The attacking pilots' expressed the belief that challenging Japanese pilots were flying German Messer- chtnitt-109's as well as their own Zeros. This was the first Indication here that the Nazi type fighters war id action in the China theater. -By DEWITT MACKENZIE LONDON. The grave declaration by President Ismet Inonu of Turkey that his country is nearer war ir.an at any time since the world conflict started from a cause he does not specify may be taken as a warning to his people of the danger of an Axis attack and a notification to Hitler that the Turks are not asleep. What the astute Inonu has In mind seems clear.

Long ago I call ed attention to the likelihood that if Hitler were frustrated in his interlocking Caucasus and Egyptian campaigns, he likely would try to reach the Middle East either by attacking Turkey or through by-passing Turkey and making an assault on Syria with air and water-borne Well, frustration appears to be riding the Fuehrer's shoulders like the old man of the sea. Undoubtedly he will make further desperate efforts to crack this Middle Eastern nut, for it represents his only hope of winning the war. That certainly put Turkey on the hot spot. It would make small difference whether Hitler attacked the Turks direct or by passed them at the outset, for they could hardly avoid being involved in any event. Of course, Turkey might have her choice of joining the Axis or the Allies, but ever since the war began all indications have been that if she had to abandon neutrality she would fight for the United Nations.

That is the reason. Hitler has been so careful not to antagonize the Turks but on the contrary to keep their good will. Naturally it is problematical whether the Nazi leader could make such an attack in view of the terrific jam he is in on the Russian front. However, presumably Inonu sees signs which point to trouble. If the Germans do attempt such an adventure it would mean 'that they would perform a holding op eration on the Caucasus battle- front while flinging the army either at Syria or directly at Turkey From the -standpoint of weather and perhaps of stragey, the Syrian gamble might seem more desirable if it were to be undertaken in the near future.

If Hitler intends to wait until spring, then he might decide to go for the Turks. The Nazi chief'si great difficulty In attacking Syria would be to muster sufficient air strength, since that would be his chief weapon at the outset and would also provide much of his early transport. He (Turn To No. 10 On Page 2) TTTVTT7T TYTTT4 The World! I Today (By The Associated Press) PACIFIC: Nafty announces that American submarines, operating in western and south Pacific, had sunk one large passenger cargo ship, two large tankers, two medium sized and two small cargo ships, damaged and set fire one converted aircraft carrier, and damaged one destroyer and a medium-sized tanker. SOLOMONS Great naval-air battle of last Monday believed to have saved Guadalcanal; indications are that naval losses about even; U.

S. lost unidentified aircraft carrier and destroyer Porter, along with damage to other vessels; Americans scored damaging: torpedo and bomb hits on seven large Jap ships, including one carrier. 100 Jap planes destroyed, 50 others probably destroyed; Jap naval forces have withdrawn. NEW GUINEA Japs challenge Allies' mastery of air over this sector, with 20 Zero 'fighters tackling strong formation of Allied bombers and fighters on raid at Lae, north shore Jap base; three Japs shot down; Allied Port Morseby base raided by Nipponese but no damage done; Allied ground forces continue to advance in mountainous regions- RUSSIA Red army in bitter defensive stand on approaches to vital military highway across Caucasus mountains after retreat in Nalchik area; main German strength apparently gathering in shadow of towering Caucasus mountain crags; action in Stalingrad dwindles to small engagements, with Nazis thrown back in varioug parts of city. EGYPT British thrust cuts through Axis defenses and traps portion of Rommel forces in narrow area along Mediterranean coast; British reported holding all positions and smashing all enemy efforts to break out from encircling maneuver; not only were some of Rommel's troops trapped, but his whole left, or northern, flank endangered.

TURKEY President Ismet Inonu warns that "Turkey is closer to war today than at any time since the present world conflict started." Inonu mentions no names in address opening Parliament. Waters; Heavy Toll' Taken Of Nip Fleet WASHINGTON (AP)-The sink ing of seven enemy ships and the damaging of three others, including a converted aircraft carrier set afire, by American submarines during recent operations in the Paclfto were announced today by the Navy. A communique reported that American submarines operating In the western and south Pacific had sunk one large passenger cargo" ship, two large tankers, two medium-sized and two small cargil ships, damaged and set afire on converted carrier, and damaged: one destroyer, and a medium-sized tanker. These operations brought th total of enemy ships reported sunk or damaged by submarines in thai Pacific since the outbreak of war to 133, of which 86 were sunk, 30 probably sunk and -27 damaged. The text of the communique, Number 178: "Far East.

-I. "1. U. S. submarines have reported the following results of op-, erations against the enemy in Fat Eastern waters: "(A) Two large tankers sunk.

"B) One large passenger cargo) ship sunk. "(C) Two medium-sized earfft ships sunk. "(D) Two small cargo ship i sunk. ii "(E) One converted carrier dam a trod QTllI fipt nti fire. One destroyer damaged.

One meaium-sizea tannw damage damaged. 'These actions have not been an nbunced in any previous Navy Department communique." (End communique text). The last previous Navy report oh Submarine action against the Japanese in the Pacific, Communiqua Number 151 on October 14, reported the sinking of five Japanesa ships, including a heavy cruiser, plus one probably sunk and two damaged. WASHINGTON. (AP) United States naval forces today appeared tn have th run of the waters around embattled Guadalcanal Is land as a result of the devastating battle of October 26 in which tho Japanese now are reported officially to have suffered damage to seven' big ships.

In what the Navy described a the first detailed report of the nav- Islands' one week ago, the enemy also wag reported to have lost lae tween 100 and 150 planes. Japanese warships listed as dam aged included two aircraft carriers, two battleships and three cruisers. This added one battleship and two heavy cruisers to the score pre viously reported. Announced United States losses in the engagement were one car rier, as yet umaenuiiea, ana ue destroyer Porter, with other ships reporting lesser damage. As the battered Japanese armada- retired from the scene, American warships swept into the area from, which enemy vessels had bombarded the defenders of Guadalcanal and let go with a two-hour can nonading of Japanese positions on the Island.

Several buildings and boats and come artillery were de stroyed by the shelling, which occurred last Friday (Solomon Island time). At the same time seven Grum man "Wildcats" paid another call nn VtA An amir Ko a a a Tf alraia T9bii northwest of Guadalcanal, shooting; down three "Ero" float planes and two biplanes and sending a fuel dump up in smoke. Dive bombers attacked enemy de stroyers in the vicinity of the Rus sel Islands, about 30 miles north west of Guadalcanal, Thursday night and again Friday morninar with inconclusive results. One bomber failed to return. The Navy announced last night the following damage to the enemy: four to six heavy bomb hits on an aircraft carrier of the Zul Kaktt class- Two medium bomb hits on anoth er aircraft carrier of the same class.

Two heavy bomb hits on a battle-(Turn To No. 14 On Page t) WEATHER GEORGIA: Slightly warmer this afternoon and tonight FLORIDA: Little change In, temperature except slightly warm-' er in extreme north portion. ALABAMA: Warmer this afternoon and i in south and exti east portions tonight. MOSCOW. (AP) The Red Army fought fiercely throughout the night to defend the approaches to its vital military highway across the Caucasus Mountains after a retreat in the Nalchik area yesterday, but the mid-day communique, reported that the Germans had been thrown back in various parts of Stalingrad.

Of the critical situation In the Nalchik area, the communique said only that "our troops fought heavy defensive engagements." Four enemy tanks, twelve troop trucks and five guns were reported smashed by Soviet artillery fire. It was in the Nalchik area that the main German strength to be gathering in the shadow of the towering Caucasus Mountain crags. The action in Stalingrad apparently had dwindled to small engagements in scattered sectors. During the night, the Russians moved aggressively against German positions in the scarred and blackened city and reported that they had captured several buildings from (Turn To No. 15 On Page 2) Democrats Concede Minor Losses To Republicans By The Associated Press) With 'republicans predicting "substantial" gains and Democrats conceding them some but not enough to control, America's adult milliona will pause briefly in their drive to win the war to vote tomorrow in the "off-year' elections which will determine the make-up of the 78th Congress and state administrations.

In the first wartime election since 1918, when the Republicans gained control from a Democratic Congress under Woodrow Wilson and held it for 12 years, upwards of 30,000,000 voters light compared with former years are expected to choose from more than 1,600 candidates, 33 senators. 432 house members, 32 governors, and a host of other state officers. Maine held Its election Sept 14, going Republican as expected. Sharp reductions in registrations indicated a light vote despite appeals from party leaders, including President Roosevelt, that citizens go to the polls. In an attack on "Washington bureaucrats," Frank Gannett, assistant chairman cf the Republican National Committee, declared last night that a Republican victory would mean that "we are going to prosecute the war with more efficiency, more determination, more power, and win decisively." The Republicans claimed they would pick up at least seven new Senate seats six of them now held by Democrats and the seventh by the veteran Independent, Norris of Nebraska.

They have only 29 now, so even if their predictions' come true they still would have only 36, or 12 short of a majority. Democratic spokesmen said they expected to retain their present strength of 65. Republicans said their gains would come in at least seven of the following states; Ne vada, Montana, Wyoming, Colora do, Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Is land and Delaware. With 53 turnovers needed to give them House control a majority of the House Is 217 Republicans be lieved they would pick; up at least 35 net- The present line-up in the House is 257 Democrats, 15 Republicans, five other parties, and eight vacancies. Women To Represent Clubs At Convention Miss Fran Mallette, Houston County home demonstration agent, announced today that four representatives from Houston County's Home Demonstration Clubs -win attend the Annual Farm Bureau and Home Demonstration Club Meeting to be held In Birmingham tomorrow and Wednesday, The representatives are: Albert Martin, Rehobeth; Mrs.

Charles Brinks, Selma; Mrs. L. A. Roney, Klnsey, and Miss Mallette. These representatives will also participate in the State Dress Revue to be held at the Tutwiler Hotel.

1 Several Thousand Troops Reported Caught In Trap BY EDWARD KENNEDY I CAIRO (AP) A concentration of Axis forces on Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel's left flank was pocketed in a bold weekend night I thrust by Australian troops who i3umsnsa across coaslal with ba'onets flashing and up un- 111 lasl nlSac lne enemy naQ maoe no real move to break out although one appeared imminent. Cairo reports to London news papers said the trapped Axis troops numbered several thousand, most of them Germans.) The Axis force was caught Fri day night by the desert-wise Australians who crossed the railroad running near the coast in the face of considerable enemy opposition. The Aiuasies wiped out Axis nests and took prisoners as they surged forward, often relying on the bayonet to overcome opposition. The enemy concentration was not wholly but an iron ring was forged around it with sufficient completeness to make its position untenable. United States and British airmen meanwhile got in heavy new blows against Axis communications.

American headquarters announc ed a destructive raid upon the Axis air base at Maleme, in Crete, by heavy bombers and the RAF reported that two enemy merchant ships, the first to dare the North African passage since three vessels were sunk last Monday, were blown to pieces yesterday by British torpedo planes. A communique from American headquarters said fires and explosions were observed in the target area at Maleme, from which air support has been going to Rom mel. The British torpedo planes sank the two merchantmen yesterday out of a convoy trying to cross the Mediterranean with an escort of destroyers and patrol boats. The encircling maneuver was dis closed in a British communique, which said that up to last' night the British forces were holding their positions and had smashed all enemy efforts to break out. The area in which the Axis forces were pocketed was said to lie between the coastal railway and the shore a sector only a few miles v-iuro to mo.

3 on Page ty Napier Field Plans 'Open House' Nov. For Public Visits Napier Field will hold "open house" on Nov. 11 with a special Armistic Day program and all the Wiregrass will be invited to inspect the airbase which yesterday observed "Organization Day" in commemoration of the field's first anniversary. The "open house" program will be designed especially to give the public an opportunity to inspect the field at a time when the entire personnel will be on duty on regular assignments, drilling, flying and maintaining flying equipment. Maj.

Gen. Ralph Royce, commander of the Southeastern Air Forces Training Center, will be the day's honor guest and many other State notables will be present. Gov. Frank M. Dixon and Congressmen Henry B.

Steagall and others have been invited. Several hundred Wiregrass business, civic and professional men will be special guests. Small Local Vote Forecast Tomorrow A lighter-than-usual vote in tomorrow's general election in Houston County wag forecast today as observers predicted the stress of war, coupled with the formality of the election, would find comparatively few persons taking, time to visit the polls. Locally, the election will mean merely of the Democratic nominees who emerged the winners in last spring's Democratic primaries. Only four contests appear on the State ticket and none at all on the local ticket.

Governor-nominate Chauncey Sparks is opposed by a Communist and a Republican candidate. Lieutenant-governor nominate Handy Ellis by a Republican, attorney-general nominate Robert Harwood by a Republican and Joe N. Polle, nominee for Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries by a Republican. Others on the State ticket, including Congressman Henry B. Steagall, are unopposed.

Also without opposition are the following local candidates: Keener Baxley, circuit solicitor; M. W. Espy, State Senate; W. G. Hardwlck, Houston County State representative; B.

G. Farmer, sheriff; A. W. Gwaltney, tax collector; Elton G. Collins, tax assessor; D.

M. Hicks, board of education; L. E. Boswell, board of revenue; J. B.

(Brady) Trawick, board of revenue; W. Perry Calhoun, board of revenue; and H. O. Summerford, board of revenue. Pollg will open at 8 a.m.

at all voting places and will close at 5 p.m. in rural sections and at 6 p.m. in Dothan. Voting machines will be in use at all voting places except in Beat 14 and Kineey. FDR Gets McNutt Don ort On Labor, WpVII VII hUMVIr Selective Service WASHINGTON.

(AP) War Man- power Commissioner Paul V. Mc Nutt said today there had been widesnread comnlaint that Selec- tive Service boards were continuing to draft workers needed in war industry despite directives Intended to guide them in deferring such men. McNutt also told a press conference that he had sent President Roosevelt today the long awaited report of his management labor advisory committee on the man-(Turn To No. 13 On Page t) Last Minute BULLETINS CHUNGKING. (AP) Three squadrons of Chinese air force planes raided Japanese-occupied Hankow, China's largest inland city, last night unloading tons of explosives and fire bombs which set aflame the city's Japanese concession, Central News reported today.

BERLIN (FROM GERMAN BROADCASTS). (AP) Two thousand prisoners have been taken and 100 armored cars and 51 anti-tank guns seized as a result of a two-day German-Kalian counter-offensive on the Alamein front in Egypt Transocean reported today. ATLANTA. (AP) Trial of former Governor E. D.

Rivers on charges of embezzlement of State funds which was scheduled to start in Fulton Superior Court today was postponed until November 28. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, TUESDAY. (AP) Australians advancing down the northern slope of the Owen Stanley mountains now aas overlooking; Kokoda and have started a flanking; movement which may bypass that Japanese base, between Buna and Port Moresby, the Sydney Morning Herald reported today. P-40s Used As Jack Of All Trades In Hongkong Area BY 3. REIT.LY O'SUIXIVAN WITH AMERICAN Am FORCES IN CHINA.

(DELAYED) (AP) American airmen flying shark-nos ed P-40's, known hereabouts as "pea-shooters," introduced a new trick in their air warfare with a dive bombing assault on Hongkong last Wednesday. One big merchant ship was left in flames by a direct hit and near-misses were scored against two others in this third raid within a week upon the Japanese occupied British crown colony. (The Japanese radio reported seven bombers raided Hongkong Wednesday, but said that no dam age was inflicted and that one raid er was shot down.) This diva bombing assault was' the first in this theater by the Cur-tiss P-40's, built originally as fighters but now become jacks of all trades in the hands of resourceful Americans. Out here at the end of the U. S.

Army's longest supply line they make the best of wt.at equipment is at hand and then some. "We are using them' for about everything except.