Deadwood Pioneer-Times from Deadwood, South Dakota • Page 1

Th Day' By tki Pret ISSUED EVERY MORNING EXCEPT MONDAY Wutern South Dakota'i Uauing Morning Nvpepr SIXTY-SEVENTH YEAR DEADWOOD (Black Hillg). SOUTH DAKOTA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21. Icr42 PRICE FIVE CENTS LOCAL BRIEFS Homestake Appeals WPB Closing Order Iff Eton. Figlt Sill g)nig Hp. Hud Mmm Community Will Be Sinks Two Japanese Aircraft Carriers MARINES ARRIVE OFF SOLOMONS (St i -A, SKI Landing boats of U.S.

Marines come in for a landing on Florida island on the Solomons chain during the first stages of the campaign there. Other landing barges are drawn up along the shoreline. The Marines blasted the Japs from their positions but now the battle is on again, with heavy Jap reinforcements coming up. (Official U.S. Navy photo from Associated Press).

Huge Nazi Losses As Red Defense Stiffens Alaskan Highway Lleatenant Charles A. Slott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Slott Deadwood, was graduated this week from the officer candidate school at Fort Sill, Okla, and has been commissioned second lieutenant in the Field Artillery of the U.

S. Army. Lieutenant Slott has been assigned to Camp Claiborne, La. Boyer-Relntteln Announcements have been received here telling of the marriage of Miss Julia Boyer. former Deadwood girl, to Dr.

Victor Reinstein on Sept. 28, at Baltimore, Maryland. The bride is the daughter of the late Lee Boyer, former general manager of the Consolidated Power and Light company, predecessor to the Black Hills Power and Light company in Deadwood. The couple will make their home in Bellevue, Buffalo, New York. Need Old Faint Bnuhes-The government is making a plea for every one to search attics and basements for old paint brushes and turn them in at the Public Library.

Donors are asked not to attempt to clean the brushes, no matter how hard the bristles may be, as the government chemists prefer to do this themselves. Decree Set Aside It was stated yesterday that Judge Charles R. Hayes had granted a divorce in circuit court to Betty June Piper, Lead, from Marion L. Piper, now in training in the U.S. Navy.

The decree was issued by Judge A. R. Denu of the Seventh circuit and yesterday Judge Hayes issued an or der vacating and setting aside the decree of Judge Denu on the grounds that the latter had no authority to hear the case in question and therefore no divorce could be granted. Flaher-Grleb Annoucement has been received here by Mr. and Mrs.

William A. Grieb of the marriage of their son, Albert to Miss Geraldine Gertrude Fisher of Washington, D. on Friday, October 16, in the nation's capital The Bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George A.

Fisher, of Ft Madison, la. She is employed in civil service work in Washington. Hjr husband is the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. William A.

Grieb of Deadwood, and was born and rear ed in this city. He attended the Deadwood public schools and was graduated from high school. For three years following his graduation he was employed in the govern' mcnt printing office in Washington, D. C. A year ago this month he was called into service, and is now stationed at Camp Lee, Va.

The couple have an apartment in Washington. British Launch Two Mew 35,000 Ton Battleships LONDON, (Wednesday), Oct 21 JP) Two new battleships, the Anson and the How, are now at sea with the British fleet the admiralty disclosed today, and the Anson already has been in action with her high angle guns against German aircraft in the Arctic convoy route to Russia. Disclosure that Britain has thus finally restored her fleet to its original prewar strength of IS battleships and battle cruisers, with the completion of five great battleships of the King George class, came at a time when it is vital for the Allies to maintain their convoys and control the seas if they are to open a second front BIG TAX Dili GOESTO Higher Excise Levies Effective Nov. 1 WASHINGTON, Oct 20-OP) Congress sent its biggest tax bill in history to the White House today and President Roosevelt said he would sign it tomorrow to make higher excise levies on a long Uat of items effective Nov. 1.

Unprecedented individual income taxes will be levied on this year's incomes and payment will start Jan. 1 with payroll deductions for the "victory tax." Drafted to increase federal revenues by $6,881,000,000 at a minimum estimate, the measure nevertheless went to the White House labelled "inadequate" by the Treasury. Secretary Morgenthau recently called for another tax bill to yield an additional six billion dollars. Congressional leaders believe action will be deferred until after Jan. 1 on the new measure.

May Robson, Aged Screen Star, Dead BEVERLY HILLS, Oct. 20 0P May Robson, 78, veteran Australian-born stage and screen actress, died at her home today. Despite failing health and eyesight she had been active in mov ing pictures until less than a year ago. Her last feature picture was "Joan of Paris," made last year. Mrs.

Roosevelt Is To Visit England LONDON, Oct 20 yP Queen Elizabeth, recovered from a bron chitis attack, left Balmoral castle. acuuauu, w.m iuksi Oeorg. VI and theirtwo daughter for southern England where, newspapers reported they will make preparations to welcome Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt While there was no official an nouncement on the reported forthcoming visit of the President's wife, authoritative sources were quoted as saying she was expected shortly.

The first anouncement of the trip will be made when Mrs. Roosevelt lands in England, it was said. WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (Ay- Presidential Secretary Stephen Early said today Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt expected to go to London at some future time.

Mrs. Roosevelt told a press conference recently she hoped to make the trip if she found she could serve some useful purpose, but she, too, left the date indefinite. MCE LITTLE HAUL EAST WILLISTON, N. Oct 20 Nassau county police said to day that Mrs. James N.

Hill, widow of one of the founders of the Tex as Oil company, had reported jew els valued at $350,000 were stolen from her home. Mrs. Hill, who lives with 20 ser vants on a 120-acre estate at near by Wheatley Hills, told police that the jewels, including several family heirlooms, were taken from a small safe in her dressing room sometime between Oct and last Saturday afternoon. Only part of the collection was insured. Wrecked, Bjorge Points Out Carrying out of the War Produc tion Board's order closing gold mines would impede production of strategic war minerals, the Home-stake Mining company claimed in an appeal asking revocation of the WPB order, Guy N.

Bjorge, general manager of the mining firm, disclosed last night 'Metals Reserve company, acting for the United States," the appeal said, "has requested Homestake to develop an important strategic metal." Likewise, as a result of the suggestion of Army-Navy munitions board representatives and the U.S. bureau of Mines, Homestake is willing and able to produce a strategic war material as a by-product of its gold operations. 'It is incomprehensible to us that several very prominent federal agencies should request us to get into the production of needed cri tical strategic minerals, both here and elsewhere, and in the same breath another agency of the federal government issues an order which strips our organization of labor necessary for these undertakings." The order will destroy Home-stake's organization, the appeal continued, and make it impossible to produce these strategic minerals. The appeal also asserted that "there will not be sufficient manpower available in this area to properly protect" the Black Hills forests in which "the government has large stake." The few hundred men made avail able for work in non-ferrous mines as a result of the shut-down of gold mines "will not compensate for the economic chaos created in the gold mining districts," the appeal stated. "The company and its employes have been ready to accept any reasonable sacrifice that was necessary to wi nthe war.

We feeL however, that the economic dislocation of en tire communities far outweighs the negUiole berjeflta, and further that "SZ there is discrimination against an industry that is comparatively small in the United States and its em' ployes, while a great many men are still unemployed and many others working less than a reasonable number of hours per week lor an all-out war effort" The company's objections to the shut-down orders are stated in the following excepts from the appeal: The enforcement of the order will practically destroy the effec tiveness of our organization in conducting operations for the produc tion of essential strategic materials which have already been requested of us by the government 'The Metals Reserve company, acting for the United States, has procured a mining lease on properties in Wyoming containing an important strategic metal and Home- stake has been requested to under take development of these proper' ties. "At the suggestion of represent lives of the Army-Navy munitions board and the U.S. bureau of mines, Homestake investigated the produc tion of a strategic war material as a by-product of its gold operation, which federal agencies represented to be of greatest importance to the government's war operations. These investigations definitely determined that the company con produce such strategic war material in quantity for sale to the government at its own price. The most important factor is that the production of this important war material would in no manner interfere with the normal operations of the company and would of itself save the U.S.

government from considerable loss, and the city of Lead, county of Law rence, the entire Black Wilis region and the state of South Dakota, as well as the company itself, from the most severe, and in some re spects lasting damage and injury. 'Enforcement of the order ap pealed from will necessarily interfere with each of these undertakings. We absolutely must retain the few miners we still have in order to comply with the government re- Continued on Pag 4) Congressional High Command Needed WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (P) Sentiment for a "congressional high command" to coordinate war legis lation gained impetus today behind a resolution to formalize such an organization. The proposal was offered by Rep. Dirksen (R-lll) yesterday at the suggestion, he said, of numerous associates who felt the present duplication of effort in many cases and the repeated calling of high gov ernment officials before congres sional committees should be curtailed.

It would create a special commit tee of 21 senators and 21 represent atives chosen from the military and naval affairs and the appropriations committees of the two branches. To this committee would be sent all legislation dealing with the war. and its reports would be made to both houses. This procedure, Dirksen said. would prevent such a condition as existed last week when the military committees of both chambers held separate hearings on virtually identical bills to lower the draft age.

Soybean meal is now being used in place of part of the fish and meat scrap in poultry rations as a source of protein. UJS. Fliers Swarming All Over Battle Area WASHINGTON. Oct 20 In a trenaotu effort to dU-rg anise Japan's blf Solomons bUnd offensive before It can really (el tUrted, American filers are showering enemy troops and supply dumps with bombs in a nonstop series of raids. It was disclosed tonifht.

Throughout October 18 and 19, the Navy communique said, Army, Navy and Marine corps aircraft hammered at the enemy on Guadal. canal, and the great Japanese thrust which has been expected for days has yet to get started. However, there was no means of telling on the basis of the communique whether the air raids had altered the Japanese plans or whether the enemy was following a schedule of getting set and fully prepared before launching a land offense designed to wrest the vital Guadalcanal airfield from the American forces. Hovering in nearby waters was a large enemy fleet of warships and auxiliaries although the Navy communique said there had been no further enemy landings on Guadalcanal. U.8.

Warships In Aetlon Japan conceded that victory was still far out of sight in the battle of the Pacific as American warships were officially reported to hove thundered into action against enemy forces on Guadalcanal island in the lower Solomons. Secretary of the Navy Knox told newsmen he believed "the Japanese have by no means as yet exercised their maximum force" In the Solomons campaign. "It is' still a good stiff, hard fight," he said, adding that he had no late information to divulge. The Navy in Washington disclosed that heavy United States naval units, boldly challenging a powerful Japanese sea armada, suddenly reappeared in the Guadalcanal battle theatre Oct 17 and effectively bombarded Japanese positions on the northwest section of the island. The Navy said, however, that no Japanese attempt to reinforce their troops had been observed since Oct IS.

American domination of the skies was indicated by the fact that Am erican warships shelled the enemy positions in broad daylight while the Japanese naval forces struck under cover of darkness, apparently fearing to venture out by day gainst U.S. planes based on the is land. In Tokyo, Japan's foreign office spokesman, Tomokazu Hori, told the nation in a broadcast that the Pacific conflict was gradually as uming the phase of a long-term war and warned of a possible (en' eral counter-attack by the United States against Japan. While Japanese imperial head quarters maintained silence on op erations in the Solomons, unbroken since the start of the latest offensive, Hori declared that both the Pacific area and Africa as well as Europe were under consideration by United Nations strategists for the creation of a second front "Hori warned the nation that the war had now entered a new stage, gradually assuming the phase of a long-term war," Domei news agency reported. THE STATE OF.

THE NATION By OUN MTT.I.ER Roger Babson warns us that fuel may be short this winter 4 and advises us to lay in a sup- ply of heavy underwear, in- eluding long-handled drawers. When we lived on the farm, our winter foundation gar- ments consisted of fleece-lined drawers that reached our an- 4s kles, around which we anchor- ed them with draw-strings, and an undershirt of the same material or of red flannel. We never did know whether these garments kept us warm in their own right or if we were kept warm by the heat we generated through scratch- Inc. Anyway, if it should be- come necessary because of the exigencies of war for us to re- tort or revert to this kind of underwear to keep from freez- inc. well do it But we won't like it Squire Perkins says: "Good character it a mighty valuable asset but th' bank wont ac- eept it as collateral these day." Lieut (jg) Robert H.

Benson (above), of San Francisco, received official credit for sinking two Japanese aircraft carriers, his father, Marine Major Albert E. Benson, was informed. Lieut Benson sank one carrier in th battle of Midway and the other in the battle of the Solomons August 24. (Associated Press Photo from U.S. Marine Corps).

Recommend Big Shakeup In Tcp Warjlgencies Tolan Committee It Severely Critical WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (-A complete reshuffling of top war agencies under a new super control board was recommended today in a congressional report which said: "These officials who have charge of the war production program including the mobilization of manpower have not yea (rasped th meaning of modern war." The report, bristling with criticism of the present setup, waa issued by the special House committee on national defense migration, headed by Rep. Tolan (D-Calif). It urged subordination of the War Production Board, the Selective Service administration, the War Manpower Commission and Office of Price Administration to a new super agency to be known as th Office of War Mobilization. Asserting that "our materials distribution system is breaking down and that "hoarding of raw material has become a nationwide phenomenon," the committee declared: "This war can be lost in Washington despite numerous ze-alignments, ten months after Pearl Harbor, business-as-usual considerations still permeate the Washington wartime agencies." The proposed new agency, which the committee said should be created by legislative -action, would be headed by a chairman and primarily would be a policy-determining group. Under it would be an office of war supply, exercising functions now vested in WPB and the procurement divisions of the Army, th Navy and the maritime commission; an Office of War Manpower, taking over most of the duties of the existing War Manpower Commission and the Selective Service administration; and an Office of Economic Stabilization, an operating agency in which the present OPA would the chief branch.

POTATO MAKES SPECTACLE OF ITSELF FORT SSOTT, Kas. (ff Perry Williams says he raised a near sighted potato this summer. When be dug it out of his garden it waa wearing a pair of rusty old spectacles over a couple of its eyes. Brain tree. Mass, co-pilot Sec Lt Robert S.

Connor, Jr, Akron, Ohio. Sec Lt Lawrence W. Hunter, New Marshfiield, Ohio. Tech. Sgt William R.

Patton, Me. Keesport, Pa. Staff Sgt Jerome A. Krrmarrifk, Portland, Ore. Corp.

Milton Lakin, Chicago. Staff Sgt Ward Uuri, Delmonte, Calif. Staff Sgt E. F. Herzog, Chicago.

Staff Sgt Joseph Lynch, Juan-ita, Pa-Cadet Edward W. Laraen, Norwood, Mas. Extensive Search Under Way In Black Hills For Beryllium, Vital Mineral Open In November WHITEHORSE, Y. Oct 20 The Alaskan highway will open in late November when Brig. Gen.

J. A. O'Connor, com' manding the Northwest Service command, expects pilot trucks to make test runs all the way from Dawson Creek, B. to the Alaskan terminus at Fairbanks. Col.

John W. Wheeler, officer in charge of the road, said pilot trucks have been running on 1,030 miles of the highway for two They have been testing it between Daw son Creek and Whitehorse. The only section of the road uncompleted is a rough, part between Whitehorse and Fairbanks and near the Alaskan-Yukon Terri tory boundary. Chilean President Gets Free Hand SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 20 UFh- The Chilean cabinet resigned to night to give President Juan An.

tonio Rios freedom of action in re' placing Foreign Minister Ernesto Jarpa, advocate of continuing rela tions with the Axis. The cabinet resignation was the result of a recent statement by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles that two South American countries, presumably Chile and Argentina, were being used by Axis agents as bases. Chief of Staff Resigns RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 20 PH- General Pedro de Goes Monteiro, Brazilian chief of staff, asked for and has been given an indefinite leave from his post it was announc ed tonight He has expressed his dissastis- faction at times with United States military methods. RUSSIA AAILROAPS.

ROADS CANAL STATUTE MILES NAZIS KJ' Reinforcements Are Reaching The Defenders MOSCOW, (Wednesday), Oct 21 VP) The Russians announced today that their Stalingrad garrison had repulsed two furl-as German attacks supported by 7 tanks inside the city yesterday, and quoted Nasi captives aa saying their divisions had lost 70 percent of their effec-tivesness in the Uat few days. The communique told of the con tinuing successful Russian defense, now in its ninth week, after front dispatches disclosed that the Red army was strengthened by rein forcements ferried across the Vol ga river and intermittently relieved by cold autumnal storms sweeping the area. CRIME WEAPONS NOW WAR WEAPONS ALHAMBRIA, Calif. IP) The Al-hambra police department recently turned over a motley assortment of guns, knives and other seizures to the scrap metal drive. President Connolly said.

It is found in the pegmatite, coarse-grained granite containing rare minerals for which the Black Hills are noted. It has been mined largely as a byproduct in the mining of feldspar, mica and lithium minerals such as spodumene, amblygonite, legidolite, white mica (muscovite), and it may occur where these are found. So far it has been mined by breaking down with a sledge and sorting out the beryl by hand. Any owners of properties show, ing promise are requested to com. municate with Dr.

Lincoln at the School of Mines, where arrange ments will be made for exploring and sampling. Beryllium Is used in an alloy with copper to form beryllium bronze, employed in many different types of machinery, in the form of bearings and springs, according to President Connolly. Beryllium oxide forms part of the powder coating on fluorescent tubes for lighting equipment which gives more light per unit of electricity. No substitute found has the same efficiency. Great strength, high elasticity and electrical conductivity, and non-sparking properties generally make ber yllium alloys valuable for these and for other secret war uses.

A continued domestic supply of beryllium is necessary for the war effort "As we know it beryl occurs in rather coarse crystals from two, three to even five feet in diameter," Dr. Connolly said. "From one crystal, uncovered recently, thirty tons of beryl were shipped. Beryl varies from practically colorless crystal, the most common in the Black Hills, to a very pale sea green. The crystals may be as (Continued on Page 4) FAN OUT ON VOLGA School Of Mines Hopes To Relieve Serious War Shortage The Black Hills may contain enough critical material in which a serious war shortage exists, to supply all America's needs and net possibly as high as $150 a ton to owners of beryllium proper-tics, according to President Joseph P.

Connolly of the School of Mines. To locate such a supply is the hope of a research council at the State School of Mines, headed by Dr. F. C. Lincoln, professor in mining, financed by the General Electric company, and urged by the War Production Board.

The council has already started exploratory work, after a meeting last week with Floyd H. Elliott Patterson, Idaho, superintendent of the mining division of the General Electric Co, and graduate of the School of Mines in 1922, and How ard H. Barrows, Oakland, manager of the tungsten mine division and the lamp department of the General Electric company. Though the General Electric Co. is conducting a nation-wide search for beryllium, of which the mineral beryl is the principal ore, the Black Hills is regarded as the most likely source of supply.

In 1914 the Black Hills supplied 98 per cent of the beryl produced in the United States. Most of the nation's supply has been imported from Brazil, Argentina and the Union of South Africa, sources which have been cut down or shut off altogether by the war. Beryl in the Black Hills is found mostly in the vicinity of Keystone, Custer, Hill City and Pr ingle, and in smaller quantities at Tin ton. Rapid Air Base Bomber Crashed, Killing Eleven "WviC A I Training Flight Ends In Disaster 'RAPID CITY, Oct 20 The public relations office of the Army air force base here last night announced that eleven men were killed in a crash of a four-motored bomber in New Mexico Saturday. The bomber left the base here on a routine training flight Names of th men and their homes were: First Lt Paul D.

Cunningham, jr, Atlanta, Ga, pilot Sec. Lt Charles W. Mann, jr, 1 JSAREPTAjyW Njjiil Germans striking north and south along tha Volga from newly won positions in Stalingrad an reported to be making the Russian position more serious tha nat any time during the 54-day siege. Soma 75,000 Germans are being hurled at th Red defenders..