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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE AUGUST 2S, 1042 300 RA1 Scene of Great Solomon Islands 3 Damage Inflicted On Enemy Warships In Solomons Battle 17. S. Planes Score Hits on Tico Jap Carriers, Battleship and Some Cruisers In Early Stages of Great Sea Fight Hard Fight For Egypt Is Promised Churchill Says Allied Position Is Much Stronger By Edward Kennedy Associated Fress Staff Writer. the war between United States and Japanese fleet forces resulted. Yi aatcu- latch.

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The attack Is believed to have originated in the Reds Inflict Heavy Losses i jvorld the A sti ex) itat (Continued From Page 1) ton that the enemy armada had been concentrated for the attack at Japan's Truk island naval base and moved against the Solomons in a sweeping maneuver designed to pain the advantage of surprise if possible. Is Major Japanese Effort But the concentration might have been made at any of a number of other bases in the enemy's mandated island zone and sent against the Solomons with equal facility. One thing that was clear from the communique was that this represented Japan's major effort to break up the 'American offensive and recapture the Tula gi area of the Solomons where construction of a big enemy base was well advanced when the marines began their, invasion two and a half weeks ago. It was on Auerust 7 that the navy executed a surprise attack and the marines, possibly led by their secretly trained, heavily armed raider battalions, creation of which Washington disclosed only today, landed on the beaches and swiftly drove Inland against vigorous opposition to win and hold dominant points of the terrain. Prior to the present battle the Japs had made three main efforts to break up the.

American campaign. At the outset they attempted to repel the landing parties and brought aerial forces into play against transport ships and their protective naval units. In the first two days of the fighting1 they lost 36 planes. Naval Attack Intercepted Then on the night of August 8-9 the enemy came in with a force of cruisers and destroyers for an attack on the American troop and supply ships. They were intercepted by American warships and the first "strictly naval duel of Curb on Wages, Farm Prices (Continued From Page 1) to get through Congress in that time any.

legislation affecting wages and farm prices. Setting up of an economic high command of some sort was indicated by Mr. Roosevelt. Some thought its membership might comprise Price Administrator Leon Henderson, Secretary of Agriculture Wickard and William H. Davis, chairman of the War Labor Board.

Tarley With Labor Heads" The President said that the high cost of living threat has been whip-sawed between labor and farm groups and that both had to make sacrifices for the common good. He declared, however, that he would be opposed to restrictive regulations on wages unless farm prices were brought under con trol, but said that if farm prices are controlled there could be no valid reason in wartime for labor to demand wage increases. The President said that he would confer tomorrow with CIO President Philip Murray and AFL President William Green. Inasmuch as Mr. Roosevelt repeatedly spoke of the necessity for both labor and farm groups to make sacrifices during the war, it was assumed that the President was ready to do some straight talking to the two labor leaders.

Meat Price Ceiling That some voluntary arrangements may be part of the President's program was at least indicated by Secretary Wickard's re cent negotiations with livestock operators, who have been in Wash ington for conference. There was talk that the livestock people had voluntarily agreed to submit to a price ceiling on live meat. The ineffectiveness of price ceil Ings unless universally applied already has been demonstrated in the current meat shortage. Enemy losses, the navy said, were not accurately determined in the darkness, but the United States Navy suffered a cruiser sunk and cruisers and destroyers damaged. The third big Japanese effort was made on the night of August 21.

By that time Marine attacks had scattered the enemy's garrisons and sent their troops fleeing into the jungle. The Japanese navy landed a new force of 700 men. In fighting that night and the next day this force was wiped out with 670 killed and 30 captured. The Marines lost 28 killed and 72 wounded. The exact part which raider battalions played in these operations was not disclosed here, but a description of their arms and training which Marine headquarters released today indicated that they must have a leading role.

Raiders Strike Swiftly Raider battalions, the official announcement said, are "compact, self-sufficient battalions" with a swiftness and a striking power comparable in amphibious attacks to paratroop actions in land battles. The raiders carry automatic rifles, sub-machine guns, Garand rifles and pistols. They can cover ground, half running and half walking, at a maximum speed of seven miles an hour; can fight with knives, daggers or bare hands, and have been taught to shoot from the hip. Night attacks are their spe cialty and many of their opera tions are of Commando nature. It was a raider battalion, with James Roosevelt, the President's eldest son, second in command, that staged the successful raid on Makin Island in the Gilbert group on August 17.

Fliers Destroy Jap Gunboat (Continued From Page 1) areas and the seaplane base, starting fires visible for 40 miles. "Buna: Our fighters executed two successful surprise attacks against enemy planes on the ground despite rain and poor visibility. An anti-aircraft position was silenced and three type Zero fighters were set afire in the first raid. The second attack left ten additional fighters burning on the field a total of 13. There was no attempt at interception and all our planes returned safely.

"Southeast of New Guinea: Our fighter bombers attacked a small convoy of enemy warships and transports south of the Tro-briand Islands. A gunboat was destroyed by direct bomb hits and two transports were heavily strafed. One of our planes is missing." Tech Man Heads Air Research Unit Major Lauranee F. Shaffer, 38, former professor of psychology at Carnegie Tech and author of several books on psychology, has been appointed head of the Psychological Research Unit at the Army Air Forces Classification Center, Nashville, the War Department announced yesterday. Major Shaffer formerly lived at 559 Audubon avenue.

Another Pittsburgher, Lieutenant Wilfred A. Burton, who lived at 120 Hillson avenue. Brentwood, and who was executive secretary of the Lawrenceville hranch of the YMCA, has been assigned as special service officer at Fort George Wright, Spokane, Wash. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Lieutenant Burton had been engaged in YMCA work in the Pittsburgh district for 12 years before he entered military service last May. Must The jr.ust jossit pregn more in tn aviati sourc Ti Tc I 14 Missing On Navy Plane Iii Alaska Big Ship Lost Between Kodiak And Whitehorse WASHINGTON, Aug.

25. UP) The Navy announced today that a large Navy plane with 14 officers and enlisted men aboard was missing on a flight from Alaska to Seattle. Next of kin of the 14 have been notified. The plane disappeared between Kodiak and Whitehorse, Alaska. Three planes started on the trip and were forced by the weather to fly by instrument soon after taking off.

Navy aircraft have been searching for the plane and other agencies have been asked to cooperate. The navy listed the following as missing: Commander Joyce A. Ralph, 42, of 578 West University Parkway, Baltimore; Lieutenant Commander Burton Lee Doggett, 41, of 1 Queens road, Charleston, S. Lieutenant Commander Jerome H. Sparbo, 38, of 240 Meadowbrook road, Hopkins Lieutenant Commander Paul H.

Tobelman, 38, of 806 South Ogden Drive, Los Angeles; Captain Arthur Barrows (marine), 27, of 123 Clinton street. Colum bus, Lieutenant Joseph A. Crook, 26, of 1210 Highland avenue, Jackson, Lieutenant Thomas E. Johnson, 34, chaplain, of McKenney, Lieutenant (J. Thomas G.

Cherikos. 24. of 6124-A Victoria street, St Louis; Lieutenant (J. Charle3 E. Deterding, 25, of Lowell-ville.

Lieutenant (J. Jay A. Noble. 26, of 39 Elmwood avenue, Lockport, N. Ensign Charles L.

Mixon, 24, of 27 Fair mont, Pmeville, Charles E. Barber, 32, aviation chief radioman, formerly of 1704 Russell road, Alexandria, Va. (The Red Cross is trying to locate Barber's next of H. A. Scott, 41, aviation chief radioman, of 4027 Ohio street, San Diego, C.

O. Walton, 25, aviation machinist's mate second class, of 570 Cushing court Alameda. Cal. Planes Blast Nazi Cilics Heavy Dama Caused in in 40 Soviet Ai Raid Helnnk By William United Prcfs LONDON, Aug. 300 RAF plants, r--enemy fighter att? in the German mm Frankfurt cn -Weisbaden last r-.

circles predicted tr-ern allies and synchronize their Germany in r. -pincers." The London a rare daylight guns wr? today when rof motors which w. -p identified, but ma ish. The all cU half an hour. Weather Is The raid on Wiesbaden, wh; radio said also lying close by in V.

region of the Ma i fluence, was the against German trr. Monday, foul weav-if. the RAF's big bnv The air rr.ir -'t failed to return raids, indicating planes and p'-rf more participate-; Aviation rf Axis report Helsinki, F---planes in five eating 8 stq-'iy Soviet aerin.l p-" ijtt 5 a- its: begun to assert in month with East Danzig ana rvm v. jfm ra- Draft Release Rule Eased Not VorNaw, Marines. na-t Guanl Prospective listment" in eithn- rr.pr.r corps, coast guarH th r.sw not required to z-" ss- their draft board th trices announced yesterday.

The army, how signed release fro:" before it will aeo. enlistment. Draft 1 able to release nv who are on the ver rc are Lo the or who may have occupational and ckrendery ferments. While the navy tential selectees a the marine corps ari both required draft board until yesterday. limited oua.

guard warned men enlistment early their draft call comr? tr: can be sworn in before physical examination prrj rives. State Selective Bervs headquarters have tightened rtp lations on men scfkir.g sions by stating that no cr grant a deferment t- a who may be waiting fr his mission to come i Railroader FatalK Hurl George Allen. 45. 1S:" street, Northside, wa. jured last night v.

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Soldier Vote Bill Advanced By Senate Poll Tax Payments Required By Southern States Lifted WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. -CP) The Senate voted 47 to 5 today to permit men and women in the United States armed forces throughout the world to vote by mail for senators representatives and presidential electors without registration and without payment of poll taxes required in eight southern states. The voters, however, would have to meet any other requirements of state laws such as those respecting length of residence within the state, minimum voting ages or property qualifications. Bill Goes Back to House An amendment exempting active members of the services from payment of poll taxes required by Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama.

Mississippi, Texas, Virginia, South Carolina and Arkansas carried 33 to 20 over the opposition of a group of southerners including Senator Connally, Democrat, lexas, who denounced it as an "invasion" of state rights and as "clearly unconstitutional." The measure, previously passed by the House, goes back there for action on the Senate changes. The House bill confined the mail vote privilege to troops within the continental United States on the plea of army and navy offi cials that the foreign voting pre sented almost insurmountable ad ministrative problems and might permit the enemy to learn troop locations. Senate Asks U. S. Pay Transfer Tax WASHINGTON, Aug.

25 UP- The Senate adopted and sent to the House today a resolution au thorizing the Federal Government to pay a 5 per cent Pennsylvania transfer tax on the idener art collection, offered to the National Art Gallery here by Philanthropist Joseph E. Widener. Senator Maloney, Democrat, Connecticut, chairman of the Senate public buildings committee, which had speeded action on the resolution at the request of President Roosevelt, called for floor action at the close of the Senate's scheduled business. He won prompt approval of the measure without debate. WITH PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Aug.

22. (Delayed) Prime Minister Churchill declared today that the Allied desert army was in a greatly strengthened po sition and that Britain was "de termined to fight for Egypt and the Nile vallev as it it were the soil of England itself. He expressed "sober confidence in the future" before flying home aboard a U. S. plane piloted by Americans after two trips to the Middle East which lasted a total of two weeks.

(He left Cairo Sunday and reached London Monday night). He declared that United States troops "who are in increasing numbers and increasingly important positions are maintaining their invaluable aid in the conflict." He visited this crossroad of three continents, imperiled by the Germans SO miles west of Alexandria and in the Caucasus, both on his way to and returning from his epochal conference with Joseph Stalin in Moscow. Determined to Fight He inspected army, navy and RAF units the desert front and engaged in numerous conferences, two results of which have been the establishment of a new command in Iran and Iraq and a shakeup in the Middle East command which placed General Sir Harold Alexander in charge of the Middle East -rmies with Lieutenant General B. L. Montgomery in command of the Eighth Army in the desert.

Speaking to war correspondents and Egyptian newspapermen before his departure, Churchill said: "I feel that a historic epic sturggle in the desert will come to a victorious conclusion, tnougn the road may be long and there will no doubt be many pitfalls and disappointments as we tread that long road. "There is one thing I would like to make absolutely clear and that is that we are determined to fight for Egypt and the Nile valley as if it were the soil of England itself." On his second visit to the desert troops, Churchill lived with the soldiers two days, eating at the officers' messes and sleeping in a caravan captured from an Italian general. Inspects American Tanks On his first visit he saw mainly the Dominion troops, and on the second he devoted him time to troops of the United Kingdom. He greeted them heartily everywhere he went, always responding to their salutations with the salute. He inspected American made tanks in the hands of British armored units and called on the New Zealanders in their positions far out in the desert, which he had missed on the first trip.

His presence also elicited salutes from an occasional Bedouin those desert nomads who wander over the sands with only a slight, academic interest in the war rag ing nearby. Bankers Home From China (Continued From Page 1) Donald Hykes, Harrisburg, and 'Pa. Many Women Hospitalized in? women and children were confined to the building for four and a half months beginning last January 5. Late in May they were; given passes for an hour's wralk mornings and afternoons. Many of the 30-odd women and children had to be hospitalized for dysentery, malnutrition and insect bites.

The bankers were paid 100 Hong Kong dollars ($25 in United States money) a month from late February on, and had to buy their own meager rations. "Squat, athletic Japanese gendarmes were the custodians of the banking settlement, and they seldom overlooked a chance for showing their power and prowess," Meisling said the bankers told him. "They enjoyed humiliating the white men before the Chinese, and also beating puny little Chinese to impress the Occidentals." The worst of the lot, Meisling said he was informed, was "Slap-happy Joe," so-called because he was not happy unless he waa slapping somebody. Bow to "Slaphappy Joe" "The bankers were assembled each morning and marched a mile and a half to the banks, then returned in the late afternoon for lockup in the fire and rat-trap. 'Slaphappy made them bow to him at roll call in front of the hotel.

and even insisted they respond in Japanese. As most of them knew no Japanese, 'Slaphappy' boxed their ears. The bankers learned to answer in Japanese. "There were also a few slap ping incidents msiae me national City Bank, where gendarmes had taken over the ground floor and resented the Americans looking down from the mezzanine floor." The bankers often felt they were being sniped at the hotel. Bullets whizzed bv and one once ricocheted and tore through Hykes overcoat and tweed jacket and fell at his feet.

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Kubensfpin, WlllUuH Rulmr, FTTtk C. Csrrfill, Mtj F. Child, Helwi Dean, Ali-- F. (Death Notices on Page 17) W'3 ti pbye for fi ad us proxi ssrio day 'ffhic! iBanr a-gai Stalingrad; Stalingrad had become "more complicated," said 92 German planes had been destroyed over the approaches to the cityin the last two days. Southwest of Stalingrad the Red army was reported fighting German tanks and motorized infantry above Koteinikovski.

South of Krasnodar, where the Germans were pushing down to the Black Sea. the high command said stubborn fighting raged, with fre quent hand-to-hand clashes. Several German tanks were re ported repulsed in the area of Prokhladnenski deep in the Caucasus near the Grozny oil fields. German riflemen dropped by parachute behind the Soviet lines were wiped out, the communique said. (German broadcasts said Rumanian troops captured Tem-ryuk on the Tarn an peninsula of the northicest Caucasus and that the entire Sea of Azov coast teas in Axis hands; that the Nazi var flag had been hoisted on Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountains towering 18Jf70 feet; and that further gains Mere scored before Stalingrad while violent air attacks on the city caused fires and destruction in its arms plants.

(Ankara dispatches to Stockholm said the Russians were evacuating Stalingrad's industries. They said a citizens' army had been mobilized in Stalingrad to dig trenches and build defenses around the town, as was done at Moscow last fall.) Scrap Dealer Yields Books Records Given to OPM For Inspection M. K. Frank, Pittsburgh scrap dealer who fought the Office of Price Administration all the way to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals and lost, yesterday surrendered his firm's books to the OP A for inspection. The records were turned over to OPA attorneys by William McNair, the scrap firm's counsel.

The Federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Monday that they could not be withheld. A decision in a second case will be made by the Federal court September 9, on Frank's appeal from an order that he and M. I. Fruchs, his business manager, appear before the OPA for questioning. mm b4L 4 5 (Continued From Page 1) armored forces attacking waves, taking an "enormous" toll of enemy troops and machines.

Rush Work of Loading Ships Front dispatches said the Red army had hurled all its available reserves into the Datue ana mat the situation at Stalingrad was growing graver by the hour. Ger man air attacks, synchronized with the ground drive, threatened to reduce Stalingrad just as Sevastopol was levelled during a terrific land and air siege. The Russians were reported hemmed into the narrow space between the Don and Volga rivers with their northern and southern communications cut and subjected to a relentless onslaught by approximately 5S German divisions of about 500.000 men. Soviet reports said stevedores in Stalingrad were laboring heroically by day and night in order to load ships, presumably to evacuate industries from the threatened city. German Losses "Enormous" Earlier front line dispatches said that after big German reinforcements poured across the Don loop 40 miles from Stalingrad, a tre mendous onslaught was launched against the outer defenses of the city, with dive-bombers blasting the Red army lines and parachute troops dropping down behind them.

"Northwest of Stalingrad, our troops waged tense battles with large enemy forces of tanks and infantry which had crossed the Don," the midnight communique of the Soviet high command said "Our troops repulsed enemy attacks, and inflicted enormous losses." In one sector of the new front. replacing that heretofore listed as southeast of Kletskaya. the high command said a Red army unit. "holding up the enemy destroyed 17 German tanks and killed 450 troops. "Our tanks day and night attacked the Germans without re spite," the official report said.

"One unit in the course of 24 hours launched many counter-attacks against numerically superior enemy forces. Hard Fighting Near Kletskaya The Russians were reported still fighting strongly in the area of Kletskaya itself, 70 mile? northwest of Stalingrad in the Don bend, below which the Germans swung for a concentrated drive across the river. The high command, asserting that the situation northwest of 4- At Uon case, scale 'an ixtic tatio sine? aid, sale ptev asaiv ES JS Kf Ri Downtown and East Liberty Seems Like Yesterday Bv C. Kessler Na zis Cross Don in Rubber Boats P'f TeA CEAITS" AT ILMR. MJiA tos HAM jt'-' sre Othe Ci seal nt arb: acw tist: CCSt ttar hav See 1 tec h.c ftp 85 dr: lr Pa: Ca fa I i Wednesday only ms oo THAT VM I Hs-OSTO To SW0Z AJiD-ifl.

7 wo inches and over bushel Probably the last' opportunity to get good ior canning and preserving. Pennsylvania mou grown fruit measrir, 375 bushels to sell at this If laW 11! i 1 five pound, ef sUgai. can yr purchased on coupon Number 8 thig week This picture from enemy sources show "Naxi troop? General Von Bock's army crossing the Don river In rubber boats in their drive toward 41 f. Intsrnational News the aucasus oil field. The troops in the lore-ground already have crossed the stream and are enjoying a moment of rest.

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