Bristol Herald Courier from Bristol, Tennessee • 1

DEMOCRATIC WAYS are cumbersome but democracy is the only system under which the individual can be FREE History shows it Proiperity Can Only Be For The Free Freedom Is The Sure Possession Of Those Alone Who Have The Courage To Defend PERICLES 485 73rd YEAR-NUMBER 15163 ASSOCIATED PRESS BRISTOL VIRGINIA-TENNESSEE MONDAY MORNING OCTOBER 12 1942 WIDE WORLD NEWS FIVE CENTS i sz A BOY GIVES UP HIS DOG OF CREW REPORTS UPON LILLE RAID I FLYING FORTRESSES TURN JAP BASE AI 5 Major Joseph Stehlln New York hears (he story of the bomber raid on Lille France from crewmen of the of after the severely damaged Liberator bomber returned to England This picture was radioed from London October 10 Left to right are: Front: Co-pilot Lt Alfred Asch of Beaverton Midi Lt Tate pilot St Augustine Fla Major Stehlin Back: Staff Sgt Clcibornu Booker Augusta Ga Staff Sgt James South Iavonla Ga Technical Sgt Aaron Moses Monroe Ind and Sgt Corbett Wright Indianola Miss Though Paul Conners 10-yearold Dorchester Mass lad is smiling as he says goodbye to his pet Irish setter neither boy nor dog is very happy about it For Paul was giving up to the Army "because help the soldiers do guard duty and like Here they are parting in an Army car at a Coast Artillery post on Savin Hill near Boston Allies Jubilant Over Success Of Bombers In Lille Raid Nazis Faced With Necessity of Revising Their Methods of Defense RAF Wages Daylight Attacks On Germany Hundred Tons of Bombs Dropped During Great est Allied Attacks in Southwest Pacific By DEAN SCHEDLER SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA Oct 11 Flying Fortresses in heavy force and medium bombers have turned the important Japanese base at Ra-baul in New Britain into a smouldering ruin in two successive assaults in which 100 tons of bomhs were dropped while enemy officers and men scurried to the safety of nearby hills The attacks on early Friday and Saturday mornings will have an important bearing on the campaigns the spinal Owen Stanley mountains of New Guinea and in the southern Solomons where the Japanese have been reinforcing their troops on Guadalcanal for an assault to wrest from the marines the airport they hold Rabaul is the supply base for both Japanese encroachments which in turn are menaces to the Australian mainland Blows Complicate Japanese Problems Rabaul lies 700 miles northwest of Guadalcanal and 575 miles from Port Moresby the advanced Allied base in southeast New Guinea The crippling blows of the greatest Allied bombing attacks ever made in the southwest Pacific at Rabaul were believed today to have complicated the Japanese supply and reinforcement problems in both theaters appreciably The big planes were guided to Rabaul in the darkness of early Saturday by fires still smouldering from the attack of the night before Major William Hipps of Lumber City Pa was in one of the first planes to reach Rabaul and his job was to drop -flares-and bombs let anyone tell you those sons of the emperor of Japan like Major Hipps said we were approaching Rabaul we saw long lines of car lights streaming into the hills from the center of the town No one was going off that time of morning for a joy ride as fast as those cars were Whole Town In Mass Of Flames Before the last bomber started for home 40 tons of bombs had been loosed converting the whole town and harbor area into a mass of flames shrouded by a pall of smoke Fires and explosions were observed along the waterfront and wharves buildings and workshops The blazing rows of warehouses and flimsy dwellings in the town threw up flames visible for 90 miles A ship in the harbor was hit and left smoking and many large and small fires were set which swiftly merged into great conflagrations Soon after the Japanese seized Rabaul civilians were ousted and the town was taken over by the military Great stores were accumulated for JaDanese adventures in the Solomons and New Guinea- On the first raid 60 tons of bombs were dropped The allied bombers returned on each occasion without loss In the Owen Stanley lange above Port Moresby the advancing Australians again lost contact with the back-tracking Japanese The Aussies inspected recently by Gen Douglas MacArthur were (See Page Two Column Four) ft LONDON Oct 11 (P) 'RAF bombers made daylight attacks on several places in western Germany today including the city of HanoverT the air ministry announced tonight Other planes made sweeps over the coastal region of occupied France Three fghting planes and two bombers failed to return fiom these expedtions it was announced The air ministry communique said: attacks weie made by aircraft of the bomber command today at several places in Interpreting The War News II Five Counties in Tennessee and 2 in Virginia Placed Under Direct Federal Regulation WASHINGTON Oct 11 Freezing of residential rents ef-lective November 1 in 97 more defense-rental areas extending across the entire nation and including Alaska was announced today by the Office of Price Administration in its most sweeping move against inflated costs for living quarters The action encompassed in or-deis which OPA said were issued will bring rents in every large city except New York under federal control The OPA designated the entire nation as a defense rental area Oct 5 in accordance with a directive from President Roosevelt in the anti-inflation campaign The price control act prescribes such procedure in freezing rents after the designation local authorities have 60 days within which to control the situation and if they fail to act the OPA then can take control action represented the taking of control by the OPA over more of the 396 localities which had been designated previously as defense rental areas some as long ago as last April Of these areas 287 in all have now been brought under direct federal control and the OPA may act on the other 109 shortly in separate orders Direct federal control over the country as a whole cannot be assumed under the act until Dec 5 at the earliest The new rent areas giving the location and extent of area include: Indian Head Maryland Charles county Brlstol-KinKsport Tennessee-Virginia Green Hawkins Sullivan Unicoi and Washington comities Tennessee: independent city Bristol and Scott and Washington counties Virginia Knoxville Tennessee Blount and Knox counties Blackstone Virginia Nottoway county York-town Virginia independent city of Williamsburg James City and York counties in Warwick county the magisterial districts of Denbigh and Stanley In 96 of the newly-affected areas rents were ordered cut back to the levels which prevailed last March 1 and in the other one Orlando Fla where a March 1 date would have put lents at the height of the winter tourist season the maximum lent date was moved back to Oc-tooer 1 1941 Brought under the rent control piogram were such cities as Los Angeles Cincinnati Boston Syracuse Minneapolis St Paul Wilmington Knoxville Providence Ft Worth Dallas Houston Baton Kouge Toledo and Harrisburg Landlords in New York where a rental survey already Is under way were called uponby Price Administrator Leon Henderson to get in line voluntarily and reduce Qimaintain rents at the March 1 level But Henderson accompanied his appeal with this hint: are giving consideration to the development of administrative techniques which will extend the protection of rent regulation to New York even though a substantial number of vacancies in the housing market still The 97 areas to which the rent control program was extended effective November 1 have a population of nearly 20000060 and form a huge supplement to the 197 areas with a population of more than 50000'00d' which already had been covered by orders the first of which weer issued last spring SOLDIER PLEADS NOT GUILTY OF SLAYING CAMP SWIFT Tex Oct 11 Pvt George Shubert Knapp pleaded innocent before a general court martial today to two violations of the 92nd article of war in the slaying of 8-year old Lucy Rivers Maynard The military tribunal granted a delay until an army medical board can give Knapp a sanity examination The 38-year-old St Paul Minn draftee sat impassively while his defense counsel placed his plea before the eight 95th Infantry Division officers who make up the court The child daughter of Bastrop county Judge Maynard died after being found scratched and bruised in a ravine She had disappeared on her wav home from school WEATHER VIRGINIA: Light rain in northeast portion Monday morning little change in temperature WEST VIRGINIA KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE: Little change in temperature Monday I CUV OF STALINGRAD Enemy Fails in 48 Days of Great Battle Fighting Now Confined to Artillery Activity By HENRY CASSIDY MOSCOW Monday Oct 12 (AP) The Germans appeared today to have shifted their main attack to the Mozdok area deep in the Caucasus after failure in 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 In the Mozdok area however there were five heavy attacks at one place the communique said There had been increasing evidence of tins shift for some days both in the German and Russian communiques Soviet communique mentioned large German troop concentrations the Mozdok area Nazis Throw Huge Forces Into Mozdok Campaign (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 is in progress for annihilation of a German it stated Hitler called off his prodigal frontal a-saults Stalingrad dis- (See Tage Two Column Four) MEDITATIONS By Alley Some Boy's JH' Jump Right in SrART SUHVIN' UNCLE 5M dlHERS HATTEI? 6o ALL WAY To Ik 1 UQ western Germany including Hanover Our fighters made sweeps over the St Omer and Abbeville areas of occupied France Three of our fighters and two bombers failed to The air ministry news service reported that Spitfires and Mustangs of the army cooperation command followed up the Flying Fortress and Liberator raid on Lille Friday with attacks at pole on nazi fortified positions along the French coast The Brtish and Canadian pilots (See Page Two Column Eight) VESSEL The attack was made despite the Bv WILLIAM KING LONDON Oct 11 Four-motored American of the which in raid on Lille inflicted the heaviest defeat on the German air force since Dieppe appear to have presented the Germans with the necessity of revising entirely their methods of defense The Fortresses and Liberators flying in tight bustling formations and aided by a new technique in the use of their 500-planp fighter escorts were known or believed to have destroyed and damaged a total of 105 of the very best figliting planes Reichs-marshal Goering can put into the air This American victoiy ranked with the known destruction of 91 nazi jilanes during the nine-hour Dieppe npciation Aug 19 and was doubly significant that only four of the American bombers were lost Friday while the allies lost 98 planes in cooperation with the Dieppe binding Bombers Undoubtedly Have Hiller Worried Considering the significance of this score today while there was complete absence of ar activity either over ltiitain or the continent allied an men wondered if Hitler would not have to revise his w'holc aerial strategy to try to stop the big bombers The culminative effect of the two shattering defeats piled on top of the day to day nttiiton of "rtvrstrrn E-nropenir-air- war will duve the fuehier to force his air- 1 naft manufactuieis to a new niti of at 1 1 it and at the same tune dt mand of his dis grin and strategists a qu rk solution of the problem presented hy the tint teen I 50 caliber guns of the Fnrliesst and tie nimnmrnt of the 1 bera- ovol osisk where the communi-tors it is geneially believed I ()Ue a tt Russian troops ad-Fiving anced and encircled a village i after bi caking stubborn German i esistance impoitant oil center which is the objective of the Mozdok drive) 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 as 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 antiaircraft guns shot down 26 of them Reviewing the situation inside Stalingrad the communique mentioned exchanges of artillery fire and said tanks and infantry which dining the last few days have suffered tremendous losses showed no The minor character of the fighting inside the city was indicated by the communique which said that at one point two Russian machinegun crews killed about 80 Germnas Artillery was said to have blown up eight German blockhouses Heavy Fighting Along Black )sea Northwest of Stalingrad where both the Russmus and the Germans have been attacking fiercely for many days the communique said some German attacks had been repulsed in of local some- German piisoneis weie said to have been captured dining an unsuccessful attack and in another sector about a company of German troops were killed gld ng also became heavy mg the Black sea southeast of AXIS U- Others Shelled by Small Corvettes Led by One British Destroyer LONDON Monday Oct 12 (P) 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 the Atlantic the British admiralty announced early today The U-boat attacked in 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 de livercd 33 attacks it 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 Lieut Commander Wat" the destroyer commander said the Norwegians uncorked an in locating the attacking submanries There was an officer high on the sf of each coivctte and every man on deck woiked as a lr kout and ever the cry went up I had only to check my bearings to find a he said The Corvette Potentilla dashed up as one surfaced enemy ship dived and dropped a circle of depth charges After only a 12-minute breather the cmvette 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 fev iert 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 ertook 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 Senators Confident House Will Okay Tax Expect Agreement This Week WASHINGTON Oct 11 Final congressional approval of a 5 per cent victory levy on the earnings of individuals above $614 yearly was forecast today by senators who will serve on a joint conference committee to compose Senate and House differences over the record-breaking new tax bill The victory tax written into the measure before the Senate passed it on a 77 to 0 vote Saturday is the major revenue-raising amendment among upwards of 200 added to the bill since the House originally passed the measure July 20 Chairman Geoige (D-Ga)' of the Senate finance committee told reporters he believed the proposal calculated to bring in between $3100000000 and $3600-000000 in gross yearly collections must stay in if the measure was to produce anything like enough revenue to contribute substantially to war financing Concurring in this View Democratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky said it was that the conferees would finally agree on a bill that carried less revenue than either the House or Senate measures The treasuiy estimated the House bill would add $6291000-000 to present annual revenues $17000000000 The Senate yield in with the treasury setting it at less than $7000000000 and George and others estimating it at $8000000000 in direct taxes plus about $1750000000 in collections to be rebated later to taxpayeis The House is expected to name seven members tomorrow to confer with seven senators selected Saturday by the Senate Barkley pointed out that this joint conference committee would woik under rules which he said would preclude the substitution of a sales tax or a kindred levy for the victory tax other tax can be written into the bill to supplant the victory tax and it is inconceivable that we will agree on the measure with less revenue than either the Senate or House he declared Senator Connally (D-Tex) a member of the Senate group said he expected House members to attempt to raise corporation taxes (See Page Two Column Six) By EDW ARD BOMAR (Wide World War Analyst) From the stalemate that seems to have developed at Stalingrad rises a suspicion that the Nazis may now plan to divert much of their remaining striking power into a quick smash to try again to take Leningrad a thousand miles to the ninth before the full onset of the Russian winter The suspicion is no mine than that at the moment and has not figured prominently in the speculation over next move It is supported neveitheless by scattered reports of mounting military activity and of icgrouping of Geiman forces on the noi them end of the long Russian battle line than the dizen planes The Assuming that frontal troop as- 12 weie seen on the upper flek Seaplane Tender Carrying at Least 12 Planes Put Out of Action GEN HEADQUARTERS Austialia Monday Oct 12 (P) Allied medium bombers scoied two bomb hits on a 10000 ton Japanese seaplane tender in the Solomons sea south of New Ii eland yesterday and left the vessel whch earned at least 12 zeio fighter planes heav ly damaged and motionless the Allied command annoumed tixlay The tender may have had even Wilbur Voliva Famous Cult Leader Succumbs i f(U th it a Jap mese destroyer was escorting the larger ship The region of the attvck has been the eerie of increasing activity of late It is between New Britain and the northern tip of the Solomon islands Only last Friday and Saturday Alhed Hying Fortress and medium bombers smashed heavily at the big Japanese base at Rabaul New Britain Wulf 190's and MesserschmTt Today's communique stated that I the best the Nazis have there wrere new dev clopments tried every conceivable maneuver in the Owen Stanley area where i in an effort to get clo-e enough Japanese forces first staged anto fire effective buists fiom their in tight of th'-oe the bomners are able to bring the ronveiging fue of their guns Self- Styled Prophet of Zion 111 is Victim of Heart Disorder sault for at Stalingiad have teased the time being (See Page Two Column Thiee) WILBUR GLENN VOLIVA its prophet Frqpn his office he directed employment of his followers in bakeries candy factories pftint shops and apparel plants From the pulpit of a tabernacle patterned with the crutches of those whom prayer (See Page Two Column One) as agieed on Churchill Stands Pat On Second Front Statement 20-millimeter cannon Gunners said the Nazis peeled I (See Page Two Column Seven) On Verge Of i Says Belgian tions which are the piecursois of the fnal debacle Geiman so smart and aleit is dull and dejected and complains openly about the unexpected lengtn of the war the end of which he cannot see Germany is on the eve of The minister said that except on the coast only and soldiers are in Belgium and their material is 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 (See Page Two Column Eight) overland drive westward toward Port Moresby and then withdrew (See Page Two Column Seven) Germany Is Collapse LONDON Oct 12 Germany is on the verge of collapse on the military and home fronts AntoineUelfosse minister of justice and information of the Belgian government in exile declared in a statement released early t'oday are tn Delfosse said only point is how long her (Germany's) Imal struggle will last The minister recently escaped to Britain from German-occupiqd Belgium Delfosse said that Belgians have leisure evident signs of slow GermarlNjisintegra- CHICAGO Oct 11 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 ago suffering from a heart and kidney disorder and was believed recovering until two days ago when he took a sudden turn for the worse In the strange religious empire over which Wilbur Glenn Voliva ruled his authority was complete Zion 111 a little village of 7-000 persons tucked between subdivisions on Lake shore north of Chicago was his seat of government His name was emblazoned on its shops and its temples above Its billboards and at the mastheads of its publications on signs warning guests not to drink smoke or use vulgar language even at the head of its department store bills Voliva was magnate and LONDON Oct 11 Asked three questions paralleling those which Joseph Stalin answered last Sunday a letter to Henry Cassidy of the Associated Press Prime Minister Churchill stood pat today on previous statements on aid to Russia saying that no further statement is called for at present The reply called particular attention to the Churchill statement in Commons last Tuesday which he declined to discuss aid to Russia on the basis of the Stalin-to-Cassidy letter hinting his reticence was based on a desire to avoid tipping off the Germans in this signifi period as to the nature of coming operations On the basis of broad hints of dissatisfaction over allied help in his letter to Cassidy the Associated Press London bureau wrote to Churchill asking these parallel questions 1 What place does the possibility of a second front occupy in estimate of the situation? 2 Are the allies fulfilling their pledges of aid to Russia and arranging to increase it? 3 What remains of the Soviet capacity for resistance? The pr''rre minister who has a (See Page Two Column Four) i.