High Point Enterprise, The (Newspaper) - October 31, 1942, High Point, North Carolina THE WEATHER Weather Point i MOWERS AND COOLER THE HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE Em Bay Bonds ami Stamps ASSOCIATED SERVICE HIGH SATURDAY WIDE WORLD FEATURE SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS PRESSURE EASED AT GUADALCANAL ALLIES RESUME AFRICAN OFFENSIVE Two Nuns Escape From Guadalcanal Miraculous Flight Included I Months In Jingle to Dodge Japs 5iJr were reported holding in fierce firing their puns while in ino WITH South fighting for the Nalchik Plateau Catholic nuns Reds Withstand Fierce Attacks For Caucasus By formed lines of the Red army Blows By Axis Force Are Repelled German News Agency Says Montgomery Has Brought Up Reinforcements ed the to substitute heavy tanks which rolled into the streets in groups of five to j LONDON Oct reached the safety of South Pacific port after what seemed to them a miraculous of the central Caucasus today while German attacks were re again by the defenders of The Russians said three Ger man tanks destroyed and a German company was wiped out Stalingrad in their 68th day of overnight in the repulse of at A battalion escape from the Japanese on by tanks 11 i r i i Aim Guadalcanal The Sister Mary a community in the Nalchik area of and Sister and 22 of the machines were de Mary Evangeline of Prince Edj the Soviet information ward escaped bureau announced at from Japanese domination and In another it a Jived x month in the jungle with Soviet unit repulsed two tier tacks upon Stalingrad while Red of army men consolidated their po sitions and carried out recon cars WM during attack after attack activities northwest of the One Soviet detachment wiped out 80 Germans and captured four and 250 hand The British Eighth having consolidated all gains in its offensive in the Egyptian was reported today by official Ger man news to have re the attack early this Reuters heard the German For the resumption of the at tack General Montgomery has the communique rej brought up reinforcements artillery dej of artillery and I ti 11 e ft I 4 the enemy at their EVACUATED 4 j Twenty German trucks With seven priests and with ammunition were deseroy ether nuns they were evacuated by Soviet from Guadalcanal October These defensive accomplish Among those in the party was ments were reported chalked up Father MacMahon of three successive retreats Despite their sufferings and the sisters are eager to return the Solomons as soon as the Japanese are all cleared Other members of the rescued party have gone to Australia and New but Sister Mary I Teresa and Sister Mary line will remain at their present station they are permitted i to return to think that wont be j Their story goes back to May the Japs started of the From their mission a on the northwest tip the missionaries saw burn three enemy pill boxes uas enemy pin t man killing 240 of the j and three German however that no news of An I I t I 1 9 I IIIC 1 1 1 by outnumbered Red army Tho Germans were reported to have withdrawn their light tanks from the battle of Stalin Red Star said heavy loss es on the machines by Russian antitank guns had forc tanks dug into the t The midnight communique told of a fresh Russian setback i in the campaign southwest of I but coupled this with reports of slow Soviet ad vance in the western Caucasus and a firm stand by garrison against German attacks This was the 68th day of the battle of on Page I the actual fighting was yet avai V The MARINE GUNNERS RESIST THE no less lethal with artillery m tne desert yesterday than with rifles man a 5 mm gun tQ Wast Japs attempting tfl regain Jan Smuts Calls For Extension Of Atlantic Charter To Assure International Life in the Egyptian desert yesterday and beat off a number of Axis counterattacks with losses to the a British communique an con to hold control of the j skies and blasted repeatedly at enemy fortified lions and other the let in One formation of Allied heavy bombers was reported to have winged its way across the Medii terranean to atack FOUR PLANES DOWNED Attack Threat Is Removed Temporarily Two Probably Ships Are Damaged i By Allied Aerial Bombs j j Sams grip on the i vital Guadalcanal airfield j clenched tighter today as Ja pans fighting vessels disap from the Solomons battle scene with at least two more of her and prob ably heavily damaged by I Allied aerial j The threat of major ese naval assault lo recapture the island was dispelled temporarily even as bombing planes under Doug las Mac Arthurs Australian com mand again plastered an enemy shipping base with hit jting a warship getting an lother vessel and probably an aircraft carrier and trol of Note the camouflage net Cruiser Or Battleship Relations Put Under Stress Bombers Attack Japanese Base GENERAL 1 G Ot S ICl IOUS f IQ 11 At least four ide reported tO HOLDING OX Secretary of the Navy Knox told yesterday of the retire ment of the Japanese warships from the Guadalcanal area leaving ja gallant force of United States Marines and soldiers in possession of every inch of ground we ever controlled on the I Some of the Rising Suns ships ihad returned to their Knox NEW i waves of Allied bombers nooning contain more than 27 tons of bombs on Japanese ships in the harbor when lhe return for a stab r T Hi n r at American New T VI Oct Tan Jan me missionaries saw ourn c v ing at then saw Jap ships prime minister of South m an if approach the next But broadcast tonight for elaboration of the Atlantic fighters which at it was for three early in a Japan ese officer and a group of soldiers appeared at the They learned that the been employed as a carpen ter at Tulagi before the One one of the Jap soldiers said Ishi was a Japanese TAKE THING He was but went through On Page 2 ter in the and social sphere to guarantee a war national t PaperMaking Is Put Under Restrictions war healthy international It is our duty Jo prepare for a peace which could grow organically from the united of the United Smuts The League of Nations as iti was founded in 1918 could not bring us this he Our present may be less theoretical and even seem less fai General headquarters announced the airdrome at El Among the first references The raid was the second in two enemy to thc Swedish on the harbor and part of a British a Berlin of the ff rf h air f news agency broadcast British positions the thp The War Today I reaching but the common effort of the United Nations shows the way along which also in peacetime practical work in every sphere can thrive lo the benefit of all loving Allied Smuts assured his By CLAUDE JAGGER AP General Financial Editor NEW The great paper making business of North producing more than half the worlds went continuing effort by air forces un saki General Swedish press had ease the on uas iree liom ail Thic trannt n t he So omon ts anr Rum The British put their own air in the Mediterranean the ater at three United States fighters took part in a number of dogfights yester day to contribute to the ance of Allied air air force headquarters report ed one 109 definite the alleged This came only after competent quarters in Wilhelmstrasse commented vague ly on the Swedish It was emphasized that the Stockholm paper Dagens had already demanded a strict and troops in the Solomon Buin is on the southern extremity island in the northern j j DAMAGE The first wave of heavy bomb added that under tlle hits on the and it I cruiser or battleship and put other I bombs very close ol a light cruis circum Aussie Press Says Friction Could Lead To Loss Of Fight damaged while all American planes stances complete clarification and an airplane would presumably be causing extensive 7t was prided that it was communique Reports from of the Jap the secretary expressed agreat feeling of pride in the way our I men have met the They have done a superb he adding that we arc in as complete control of the situation Un Guadalcanal as we ever have Some quarters expressed belief the Japanese j destroyers and transports had left embattled Solomons area to I bring back more troops for re of their Guadalcanal forces whose efforts 4hus far have American medium and heavy a highly suspicious the second wave of medium rlian todav in the also were the j maneuvers and this rendered not been wartime conservation former attacking landing fields at j certain lhat competent authorities bombers an civilian El Daba and other targets in the j would taKe necessary slowly but no less sure plan embracing an entire civilian By DEWITT MacKENZIE Wide World War Analyst PRISONERS TO BE FREED the peoples of the Washington GERMANY FOR REGIONS and Belgium thai the Wartime Prices and Trade at FAIL TO GIVE QUOTA mans sole reason for bringing in Ottawa have g at FAIL 1U about the economic decay of of countries was to enable the enemy book and magazine pa fi to deport large parts of the to produce more than lation to eastern average rate of output in the Describing himself an ended September with Dutch blood in my At the same both govern Smuts asserted that as far bodies warned that this was the Netherlands and area preliminary step to curtailment or the Associated Press service 1 have no doubt that i n the near Paper industry and a member of thc Berlin bureau their existence will estimated that rates at possible hits on a j Atl of the Allied planes to was highlighted of i he that the could be lost only by a rift among Allies and could be won only long and hard f on Iace 3 By On i Arthur and Primo ther who participated in as thei said the brilliance of on as grand j moonlight reflected from waters politics and ihe scope of Bruin harbor made it tnc war Senator Thomas said he daily conducted by Dewitt war analyst the war is written to day by Alvin a veteran airport of explos bomb start Unoccupied identify positively thc T i 30 miles at Minister bombed is a marked drew ort and set warned French between some the Melbourne Ago of thc unoccupied zone in press and Anv well i cruisers and today lhat no prisoners the comment Roosevelt today to call a manpower conference to plan a sound war mobilization pol icy that might avert thc types which or launched with tilt drafting of Allied air forces freed by Germany would be two or morc to to create friction bej He was actin he said on to regions which failed to forni 0nC bulging in produce their quota of manpower for more than two years before the after the war by production is being close cooperation of the substantially at the current of which I seen of on 2 5 examples in Further paper Tlie German high command sources would bring Smuts voiced sympathy for the production below and bc announcement that in to eat inlo Although in tne countries and exhorted them inventories are well above pre had attacked a bear in that uar levels in most lines of convoy on its way to sinking nine ships totalling has a he that re ring to persons who get rejection of all that the each privation you are undergoing is bringing us a step nearer vic American newspapers have an av of 66 days lo regulate inventories and use are in the Said the Canadian Boa rd and Japanese oppressors Diminished production of education efforts of the you to accept and entails equitable Bureau of Investigation contempts for in the fields of American people as a whole and contaminated bv the anri been enlisted for law selves into a critical state anci Japanese oppressor j mind before reading Axis The announcement sounds is vour like that Uie si ruggle we daily waeI therefore included among steps to German morale which weapons daily increasing in which are being taken on an inter CI c llin TV national FBI Praised By Edsel Ford At Exercises Edsel head of the Ford said today that j through education efforts of the for The warning also told them that I i ADVANCE CONTINUING any failure on their part to enlist for labor in Germany would in In the ground fighting on it was announced Australian troops have T I I 11G political groups or schools suggestion of President thought m service high Murray of the Congress of imand could be damaging lions trial Organizations that the summon leaders of the number of workmen seven miles south of drafted from the occupied by I village of x x x in this summon leaders of R labor General denial of and agriculture within the next ithe Germans who had already elements are continu Y fhe said no nation in thc pared measures to that V JAP ATTACK REPULSED up the Allied advance ther A Japanese attack launched several This pocket of a point cast of the upper Yantze resistance was taken in an attack river port of Shasi in Hunch dusk flanking vince has been repulse command communique The hat a Japanese regimental comi This conference committee of the as proposed by Mur ing the The Japanese had offered resistance in the Alola region by the Adelaide tne integration of nn thf thori production and is making a more supreme would plan for the establish than was dci the necessary machinery by the Adelaide as very production and manpower agencies It will serve a most valuable and resources under a unified di purpose in thc United 1 the Advertiser Recent da If 1S conference on Senator Thomas nf moans thai Tho As acting bul and ac on n on I the shrewd propagandists of thc often find sary on Fridays and PROVED EXAGGERATIONS One consideration prompting the Cautious reader lo regard such re ports suspiciously of the record of proved exaggerations in i Berlin and Rome Axis New Strike Wave Hits France As Workers Protest Slavery new communiques which didnt stand of strikes was reported to up include the reports of the total i day to have broken out in destruction of a 100ship in the of France to and the Italian claims of the destruction of two United States which for work in A dispatch from Annecy to the the British authoritatively Telegraph Agency listed fied yesterday as a in Scion and a cargo ship which the watchmaking region was sunk But the sprightly victory in the thc mayors office for physical examination lo departure move in on iht at the 20th graduation of the FBI national police Ford said he remembered I not mmy years ago it al seemed the was destitute of J Then almost i t FBI entered the pici Its men began to i 8j the Associated Tress for Discontent is high among most refreshing determination and p with in a surprisingly few although calm is the country was entirely ing said one of its spectacular i Factories there were closed and police reserves dis patched to principal At several towns in voie women were reported to r mention r so vividly recall the lift to public confi dence that was given by the FBI Senator Mead told have gathered before medical the 40 graduates that their job best available sources indicated today that be cause of thc war and an apparent general apathy toward politics only and persons are likely to vote in next Tuesdays War develop ments could change the This is or more under the recordbreaking turnout in the presidential year of 3910 and is also sug gestion he requested the conference in a letter to the Pres A precedent for such a meeting was set by the education and labor at Thomas sug it brought about a confer ence last December that guided estimates of eligible voters of thousands have joined tho lhc Murray toward states showed that forces and few will sound Jabor relations policy in qualified to vote rouble to vote although War And General Indifference Toward Politics ls Expected To Slash Voting In Tuesday Ballot u ti VtO I tO ll centers to hoot and heckle and dangerous as below the total vote for congress man doctors attempting to o vc men in the armed in the elections of fighting Some estimates placed this years ing for more than the usual possible they may do so by ber of because of received here at one of the it was calculated that headquarters said or about 65 per cent of the soul of men in the armed would 1 vices from one unnamed This 65 per cent compares with vania county only 230 had applied i D t about per cent in normal off year voting and SO to So per cent in presidential The vote necessarily rough because of lack of information on the ex tent of absentee voting and other for and President William Green General migration of of the American Federation of La workers who have not lived in their wo ave no ive in eir have opposed na new states long enough to qualify tional With labor draft and may not trouble themselves and and advocating 10 vote by mail in the old gasol instead a volunteer system of war is under and tire all the labor vote fr house candidates in to balloting the President disclosed Closes and at iiix Some workers at re fap end of week isa well to answer summonses from duct examinations of device in Gorman war and the Nazi the 1 director of the probable vote even theOr below the highest lhat the consider It is based on the studies placement bureau their formally beginning of Ihe round K oie that it was level of thc congressional ional total lhat year which in President Roosevelt a nationwide ration of of psychologists who helped to under heavy up of workers under Pierre rimy protect the home of 1931 when only senatorial and all citizens to go to the women from 18 lo 65 to obtain in Thoir strikes vals In not only from surges of rial polls Tuesday as he put formation on how could M lft its been under way lawlessness but from atw national i An A compilation J Officials based their lisht ballots were as necessary rework in and what jobs Continued on 10 Notices to present themselves at for two I foe that penetrates our lof official ad on the that in keeping democracy would be able to do i
