High Point Enterprise, The (Newspaper) - September 10, 1942, High Point, North Carolina SKI feT THE Point Mad SCATTERED THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE Keep Em Flying Buy Bonds and Stamps 251 4A80TIATRn NBA HIGH THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1942 muc PRICE FIVE CENTS BRITISH ARE ATTACKING MADAGASCAR Wid if Rationing Is Ordered if STALINGRAD EXACTING HEAVY TOLL Heavy Rains Sweep Front Winter Near Moscow Reports 73 Axis Have Been Routed Since May 1 f By HENRY CASSIDY Cold rains swept the Stalin grad battlefields today and Red Army defenses stiffened again to exact a deadly toll after repeated German power drives had overrun two more Villages west of the A similar dramatic revival of Soviet a counter attack which cost the Germans more than killed and de struction of nine re ported from the Novorossisk where the invaders had wedged dangerously into defense positions Front line developments of the day were coupled with an official declaration that Axis divisions had been broken and routed by the Red Army from May 1 through HEAT WAVE OVER The rains ended a heat wave which had attended the battle of Stalingrad and presaged the ap proach of wintry conditions which might hamper Adolf Hitlers huge mechanized But Field Marshal Fedor von Bock obviously was maneuvering in an effort to obtain a quick New German forces were concentrated west of Stalin Red the Soviet mili tary said one of von Bocks wedges was threatened by a flanking Field said Russian withdrawal had been orderly and reported that the Cully conscious of the danger hanging over are de fending every inch of their dear Bayonet clashes were From sunup to sundown the Russians fought beneath waves of German attacking in for mations of six to Ability of the German command to replace worn veterans with re serves permitted unceasing pres sure Russian infantry on 5 V Split Depends On Stalingrad Fight authoritative Chinese com said today that whether open conflict breaks out between Japan and Russia may depend upon the outcome of Japan might move against Si beria if the Germans overcome Soviet resistance at tlv commentator but she might stay her hand if the Nazi drive Japanese leaders are finding it difficult to decide upon their next he but he predicted the estimated six divisions in burma are more likely to be used against China than India can be ruled out at he PASSENGERS AWAIT RESCUE FROM on the rear decks the Naval transport passengers and crew of the former liner wait calmly as a cruiser approaches to rescue them from the burning Smoke boils up from the upper left nets have been in place so the passengers and crew men can climb down to the deck of the rescue The Wakefield was swept by fire while in a westbound convoy on the All aboard were removed without loss of The War Today By DeWITT Wide World War Analyst The battle of Stalingrad is rushing towards its climax un der a weight of arms probably never before involved in the siege of a single and with a ferocity which marks it as one of the bloodiest combats of all The denouement of this great drama must come Todays reports from Moscow give a pic ture of Nazi attack and Red coun which sway the lines violently but have left the over night position without great QUICK KILL Nazi Field Marshal von Bock is lashing his army on for a quick as the fall rains already mud the battlefield and warn of the approach of dread One of the most efficient but coldblooded of Hitlers gen the marshal is pouring men into the bottomless pit the abandon he would display in flip ping beans of his though on a smaller the Reds again are counter attacking at Novorossisk against on Page Air Raid on Gizo Is Prelude To Final Solomons Offensive 0P A new American offensive to drive the Japanese out of the Solomons Islands apparently was underway by an aerial assault on enemy troops and Installations at Gizo With the base on 215 miles to the evidently the spring board for the American air forces bombed and strafed the heavily wooded the Navy Department announced last The attack was carried out last Sunday without enemy the Navy as the marines con to mop up Japanese units had fled to jungles at the first American landing more than a month These Japanese the Navy may haxe reinforced by a few troops which managed to land the island under cover of anese flying boat by a naval patrol plane northeast of the Solomons on The loss boosted to 123 the number of Jap anese planes destroyed in the Solomons thus Chief significance of the Am erican blow at Gizo was regard ed as indication of a new phase of offensive activity in the strategic Pacific islands and evidence thai Ihe American had consoli dated their positions in the south eastern until the Gizo attack the troops in the area were mainly on the defensive against Japanese se and air at tacks while strengthening their positions and presumably building a base on the Guadalcanal Also regarded as significant was the fact that Gizo is situated more than halfway on the road to the point of Keta on Bougainville southeast of College Students In Reserve To Be Called as Soon as They Reach Stimson Announces By The Associated Press of War Stimson served notice today that college students who are members of the army enlisted reserve face a call to active military duty as soon as they reach the minimum legal age for 20 of increasing war demands for When the reserve was students were told the War De policy was to permit them to complete their college if The exigencies of the war have Eastern Area Defense Order Tightens Lines NEW New orders designed to tighten up the safety of the Atlantic coas tal home front and to exclude from areas in 16 seaboard states any person considered dangerous j to national defense have been laid down by Hugh commander of the eastern defense command and 1st In a proclamation issued from 1st army headquarters at Gover nors Drum announced creation of prohibited zones around war plants and army and navy zones which no person may leave with out special individual A new procedure directly af the public was the pro vision between sunset and sunrise no ordinary civilian may approach closer to 100 yards to the ocean front along most of the open coastline now become Stimson told his press that it is now expected that by the end of the college or semester be ginning in those stu dent members of the reserve who have now reached Selective Serv ice age will or for the most be called to active duty and those reaching that age during subsequent terms will similarly be CONCENTRATED TRAINING Stimson said the use of Reserve Officer Training Corps units was under consideration to give the student reservists concentrated military training when they are called The war secretary said he had advised educators in the meantime to carry on civilian education as far as rather than ing it by amateur military train Stimson also announced that several thousand members of reg ular army enlisted reserve corps and the National Guard of from Maine to j the United who had been deferred because of Persons found in prohibited or restricted zones bear the respon of being able at all times to identify themselves to military or civil authorities under of Enemy aliens in the area violating any restriction will be subject to immediate the order any of 6 restricted zones along the the pro clamation said no person not on official duly as a member on the armed forces could enter from sunset to sunrise a space extend ing inland 100 yards from mean tide or Jo a boardwalk or parallel if the walk or road was closer to shore than 100 Although the proclamation list would be called to active duty in October and and provi sion has been made by Congress to pay allotments to Other enlisted reservists on de FDR Advisors Recommend Drastic Rules President Will Put Sug gestions Into Effect is ly as Possible President Roosevelt said to day he would put into effect as rapidly as arrangements can be made a set of recom from his special rubber committee which in cluded nationwide gasoline ra and drastic tions on civilian He praised the committees far reaching reports as excellent and said the government a debt of gratitude to the commit tee He transmitted copies to Congress for its informa The committee submitted its report to the chief executive with a blunt declaration that there was no middle course in solving the nations rubber that it was discomfort or In addition to recommending an expansion of the present syn thetic rubber production program from an annual total now of 000 tons to a contemplated figure of the committee pro posed these additional steps SPEED LIMIT That no speed above 35 miles an hour be permitted for passenger cars and so as to prolong the life of tires by nearly 40 per That the average annual mileage per car be held to approx and this to permitted only for necessary driv That more rubber released to the public through recapping on Page 3 9 V Deplores Barbers Boost Special to The Enterprise chief OPA Attorney for North today deplor ed the action of High Point bar bers who have agreed upon rais ing the price of hair cuts from 40 to 50 cents effective Septem ber While the action is under existing I re gard it as an unpatriotic spirit for them to raise prices simply because they can do so and re main within the People in other fields of like endeavors are not allowed to raise Shepard ominously added If this sort of thing the Office of Price Administration will take into consideration the establishment of regulations to forbid such Members of the Stale Board of Barber including Marvin of High could not be reached for a state While this board has sweeping powers with respect to regulation of barber it was said to be without power to fix service A law passed in gives municipalities the right to fix the hours during which shops may be India Picture Is Says Churchill By The Associated Press Minister Churchill charged today that widespread Japanese fifth column activity may have been behind the AllIndia Congress Partys drive for immediate but he told the House of Commons that the course of events in India had been improving and on the The prime ministers review of the Indian situation laid special emphasis on the turbulent events of the past two months and their bearing on the United Nations war VOTE REJECTEr Churchill rejected a proposal for a vote to show whether the House approved his statement but sug gested that a debate with a vote might be arranged He minimized the influence of the which he accused of discarding Mohandas Gandis nonviolence and de clared that Moslems were fundamentally opposed to it to which a member cried non As a measure of the Congress Churchill mentioned that more than Indians have volunteered for war service and that volunteers in the past two months made an en When he Emanuel a chronic Laborite critic of ths told the House that Churchills statement would profoundly disappoint and shock millions of The prime minister told the House of Commons that the prin ciples of the governments de which formed the basis for Sir Stafford Cripps mission to India must be taken as rep resenting the settled policy of NOT ALL He declared the Congress Hindu organization which was in in the rejection Cripps proposal of dominion status for India after the war in return for increased aid in the Allied war does not represent all In Mohandas Gandhi and his lowers will be kept out of harms way until the troubles the prime minister Churchill it might well be that recent activities of the WASHINGTON By RAY TUCKER EVICTIONS More than four hundred towns and cities with a rti K i H c population of seventy million will rf he brount a system described and located only 231 of most of which arc well known or i Chaotic conditions in many war industry areas are wrecking health of thousands of workers Office of Administration dis The Navy communique also the big Solomons base at ported destruction of a large PROTEST A delegation from Wilmington and New Hanover County is expected tenants that they plan to Panicky occupants are frightened into buying at excessive figures in order to keep a roof over their When they cannot con they are thrown Then the is repeated on the next group of A confidential survey by the and lowering their output of In some toilers are sleep ing in fields and insanitary shacks reminiscent of 19291933 Others occupy hot to appear before the State Utili Greedy landlords have ties Commission tomorrow to proj cooked up several neat tricks to test residential rates charged by reap profits in defiance of the the Tidewater Power and Light Unable to hike charges un on 2 7 closed that more man hours of production have been lost through operation of this process than by The father must spend several days finding a new dwell ing for his family after each exo Washington officials are eager to crack down on perpetrators of J der existing they notify On New Increases In Income Tax Are Considered IP increases in individual income taxes were reported under consideration by the Senate Fi nance Committee today as it worked against time to complete action on the new revenue this Chairman George DGa told reporters the committee might readjust individual income tax rates in the lower brackets in view of its adaption of the 5 per cent victory levy against all earnings above a He that this might involve flattening out the surtax brackets above the very lowest income Other mem bers interpreted this as meaning an increase in rates paid by per sons with net incomes of around a year and As the now the first dollar of taxable net income would be assessed 6 per cent normal and 13 per cent a total of This rate would not increase until the income reached the to where the normal rate would be 9 per cent and the surtax 16 per a total of Some committee members said it was possible that revisions might be made to graduate surtaxes up ward in brackets of instead of at a Thib would provide a substantial increase in the bills The committees approval of the 5 pej cent victory levy brought additional persons into the field of potential federal taxa tion and boosted the anticipated yield from individuals to in a full years Highest Point In Mountains Already Gained Experienced Jungle Fighters Only 44 Air Miles from New Guinea Port By The Associated Press HEAD a series of outflank ing Japanese troops have fought their way across the summit of the rug ged Owen Stanley mountains in New Guinea and are push ing down the southern slopes within 44 miles airline of Port General headquarters announced to Australian the announce ment are battling gallantly to halt the enemy advance along a narrow trail traversing a series of ridges which still lie between the invaders and their The fighting is proceeding un der conditions of extraordinary hardship and the tin RAIDED CONTINUALLY Allied air units were said to be playing ah important role in the bombing and machine gunning the Japanese There was no official indication of the size of the forces which the Japanese had thrown into the of but it was evident they were employing seasoned jungle fighters trained in the infiltration tactics which played such a large part in their successes in The brief announcement disclos ing the Japanese advance said the invaders had out flanked defenses at Efogi on the southern side of the 12 miles nearer Port The invaders thus have traversed approximately 16 miles since they launched their push from Kokoda several days ago and now are con more than halfway across the 120mile wide ami of Southeastern New The gap through which the Jap on Page 2 Ships Planes Hit Island In Indian Ocean Action Off African CMS k Taken With Full Of Washington By The Associated British opened a general of fensive against the west coast of Madagascar at dawn attacking the ports of ga and Morondava with planes and 18 it was an Concentrated shelling ushered in the a renewal of hos on the big French island in the western Indian Ocean which lightened after the British cap tured the big naval base of Diego Suarez at the northern tip of the island May TROOPS STRAFED The warships poured salvo after salvo of shells into Majunga har 320 miles southwest of Diego while planes bombed and strafed French troop con centra tions as far inland as 100 The shelling continued apparently preparing a general troop The attack came two days after an unsuccessful attempted landing by fighting French the gov The French said the British at Majunga had means at their dia on Page V High Japanese Losses Listed In Pacific Area JP forces have definitely sunk 25 Japanese warships and transports and destroyed 300 enemy planes and perhaps 500 in less than five a review of communiques from Mac Arthurs headquarters disclosed The operations all were in the Australian war Fortyone additional warships and transports were and a total of 177 enemy planes se verely damaged or probably da making the aerial toll The tabulation since April 21 shows these Japanese shipping exclusive of many landing barges destroyed and damaged SUNK Cruisers Aircraft Destroyers Large Submarines Midget Submarines Transport or cargo ships Total DAMAGED Aircraft Carrier 1 Destroyers Submarines damaged or destroyed Gunboats Other Vesels Total Virtually Entire Steel Output of Going Into War Program More than threefourths of the nations monthly output of tons is now going into direct war use and the rest into such essential industries as rail roads and machinery manufac the War Production Board disclosed This war and channeling of steel was sized by a report from David acting chief of WPBs iron and steel that fifth of it was being delivered on priority ratings of AlA or high The tons a month now being delivered represents finish ed steel a reduction of approximately 30 per cent from ingot production of more than The residue goes back into the furnaces in the form of The WPB this report on where some of the finished steel goes Tanks It takes about 3S tons of steel to make a medium lank and the United States is turning out a lot of Ships Present goals are for tons of deadweight ship ping this year and tons in Each cargo ship of the liberty type now being made in quantity under direction of the Maritime commission calls for approximately tons of rough Current production is around 70 ships a Guns Some of our craft guns use up tons of steel each thousands of ma chine antitank guns and Howitzer use all the way up to the giant 16inchers that take 576 tons of steel WPB it takes half a ton of steel to make one of the bombs the British have been dumping on German cities Growth of United ingot production since 1939 pic tured by the WPB in these fig ures net tons I
