Joplin Globe (Newspaper) - September 11, 1942, Joplin, Missouri THE WEATHER MISSOURI AND Change In temperature and cooler in northwest and Little change in temperature temperature change ASSOCIATI ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. NO. 28. Publication 117 East street FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 1942.-EIGHTEEN Except PRICE FIVE ALLIED TROOPS CHECK JAP DRIVE ON PORT MORESBY Armies Locked in Bitter Struggle in With Casualties Heavy on Both FIGHTERS AND BOMBERS SUPPORT AUSTRALIANS Statement of General Indicates Against Nipponese Is in General MacArthur's Sept. 11.-(Friday) thrust through the Owen Stanley mountains of New Guinea has been checked south of ' 44 air line miles from the big Allied base of Port and fighting continues with casualties reported heavy on both a communique said Allied attack bombers continued to pour explosives on the veteran Japanese jungle fighters and their tortuous supply lines leading back through the mountain pass to on the northern enemy yesterday made no further in the area of the communique Allied Positions The 12-mile Japanese advance from to Efogi first was announced The Japanese jungle fighters had outflanked Allied positions on the northern side of an 8,000-foot then executed a second flanking movement at Efogi to carry them south of that native Allied and Japanese troops were engaged in close combat on the mountain trail south of and front dispatches said the Australians had gone into action with their Although the casualties on both sides were a spokesman here was unable to give any estimate of the probably is too tough for the spokesman said the 4,000-foot high and heavily wooded battle area at Both Allied and Japanese troops were using native porters to carry ammunition and other supplies to their Bombers Swoop The American bombers swooped low over the jungle trail to strafe the enemy and blast any supply dumps found along the But there was no report of any Japanese aerial support in the and the Allied planes operated The of had a thick canopy of forest under which to hide at most points along the The probability that an Allied was the making for the enemy was found in the words of General addressed to United States He advised the Americans never to let the Japanese but to make it a fundamental principle to attack first their position might The size of the force was not but it not believed the force probably had only light equipment due to the difficulty in transporting tanks and heavy guns through the jungle-clad mountain Australian troops predominated among the Allied forces opposing the although an unspecified number of American service including Negroes are based on Port Allied fighters and bombers roared endlessly into the Trails and Beads The supply problems of both sides was aggravated by equatorial which made the inadequate dirt and trails Headquarters said the fighting was under conditions of hardship and after the Allied positions beyond the mountain summits had been The Japanese were employing their familiar infiltration tactics that routed the British in Malaya and Port Moresby is 325 miles from the Australian mainland and has been developed as a base for about eight The Allied force there is believed large and capable of reinforcement from of that Allied sea power is not too heavily involved in the Solomon islands and at Milne at the extreme eastern tip of New Guinea a Japanese ' force was beaten and now is being mopped Autumn to Begin Sept. 23. Sept. 10.-(/r-")-Autumn will beyin in the 23 11:17 p m. war naval Proposed Income Levies In Lower Brackets Reduced senate Committee Raises Those in Higher Brackets by Adopting New Schedule of Surtaxes for Earnings Up to a of for Married Persons and for Single Persons Left Sept. 10,-tff>)-The senate finance committee today eased the impact of proposed individual income taxes in the lower brackets and increased tax liabilities somewhat in the higher levels by adopting a new schedule of surtaxes for net incomes up to a The new for incomes below would be imposed in income bands instead of fne bracket as under present This possible a more gentle graduation of the and imposition of a 10 per cent rather than 13 per cent surtax rate on the first or surtax net Bate Set at 13 Per Cent. From to the rate was set at 13 per as proposed in the house but from to the senate voted rates ranging from one to five percentage points higher than the Above the rates would be unchanged from the house but the total surtax would larger through the cumulative effect of the to bracket Here is a comparison of the new surtax rates with those under present and those proposed in the house Surtax Net Income 5 1,000 1,000- 1,500 1,500- 2,000 2,000- 3,000 3,000- 4,000 4,000- 6,000 6,000- 8,000 During the day Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau told a press conference that war spending inevitable some form of 6%13%10% 6%l.T%13% 6',7>13%15% 6%13%17% 9%16%19% 9%16%21% 13%20%23% 17%24%25 Ji He still held to his belief that a proposed tax on individual which the senate committee was the best method to be adopted and furnish a strong deterrent to spend More Money are going to spend this fiscal he we simply must raise more Morgenthau added that if such a spending tax proposal were not adopted in the pending revenue measure the treasury would have to ask next year for substantially the same said today's action virtually wound up the work on individual income tax sections of the new revenue No action has been taken on President Rooser recommendation that maximum individual incomes be limited to a year after payment of In combination with the 5 per cent tax adopted yesterday on gross income in excess of the proposed new income rates present a formidable financial challenge to most Where a married man with two dependents and a annual income would owe under present the house raised his liability to and the senate to The senate committee approved the house exemptions of for married persons and for single persons with and under present but voted to cut the allowance for dependents from to The committee also ratified the house action in raising the normal tax on individuals from 4 per cent to 6 per cent. GUARDS CALLED OUT IN STRIKE HUGE PLANT AT EAST VIRTUALLY SHUT Sept. 19.-(yp)-With more than 1,000 men of the Illinois militia mobilized and standing the huge Western Cartridge plant at East Alton remained virtually shut down tonight by a strike of A. F. of L. chemical workers and The which began Tuesday over the discharge of one employe in the smokeless powder spread to the entire plant Only a skeleton crew of maintenance workers passed through the strongly reinforced but orderly picket Twelve Companies Governor Dwight H. Green ordered 12 companies of the militia mobilized as a for possible duty at the They were being held in readiness at their respective war department officials at Washington said the strike was the war labor Union members have twice rejected requests to return to work pending negotiations on a new union Army spokesmen declined to say whether the army is considering taking over the War Board Head Appeals to Strikers Sept. 10. Chairman William H. Davis of the war board appealed tonight to striking employes of two cartridge companies of East 111., to recognize that their idleness was the lives of thousands of soldiers and Davis sent a telegram to Fred A. F. of union representative at East address this telegram to each worker at the East Alton and Western Cartridge manufacturing I am advised that you are striking because you believe that the company has improperly refused to rehire one of your fellow workers at the job which he held before he was suspended last you believe that you are helping your fellow you must also recognize that by this strike you are jeopardizing the lives of thousands of soldiers and sailors fighting on- the far flung fronts of the call upon you to return to work immediately while the national war labor board determines Bomb Sept. 10.Heavy United States army bombers raided lust the United headquarters and were seen in the 25 JAP SUNK THREE H U N D B E D ENEMY AND PERHAPS 500 BAGGED IN 5 Sept. 10.-(/P)-Allied forces have definitely sunk 25 Japanese warships and transports and destroyed 300 enemy planes and perhaps 500 in less than five review of communiques from General MacArthur's headquarters disclosed additional warships and transports were and a total of 177 planes severely damaged or making the aerial toll 477. In Australian The operations all were in the Australia war the area embraced in MacArthur's southwest Pacific The real total on enemy it was probably exceeds 500 on many occasions when bombs were dropped on parked aircraft there was no means of determining the exact Allied plane losses for the same period cannot be given with any degree of accuracy because many of the early communiques issued by the southwest Pacific beginning April 21, did not give The highest Allied loss given in a single operation was four Among the Japanese ship tolls were three cruisers and one aircraft carrier sunk and four cruisers and one carrier WS im PRESIDENT WILL RIDE IN Sept. 10.-ta*)-George president of the Suburban Service Bus which serves a part of St. Louis has purchased a horse and buggy for his own personal transportation and the use of his office A supervisor uses the outfit to drive around and check busses in the HOURLY TEMPERATURES As Joplin residents a second day of the temperature climbed to a maximum reading of 86 Low reading was 72 Maximum and minimum temperatures a year ago yesterday wei e 74 and 62 Hourly 1 a. 1 p. 2 u. 2 11. 3 ni p. 11. 4 p. m 5 5 p. 6 6 p. 7 7 p. 8 p. m 9 p. 80 10 p. n 11. p. Noon 75 1 p. 2' a. BRITISH ATTACK M EROM AIR Three Ports on West Coast Bombed and Shelled as Attempt Is Begun to Neutralize STRATEGIC ABEA ON ALLIED SUPPLY ROUTE Jap Subs Said to Have Fuelled in Secret Harbors for Drive Against United Sept. 10.-tS')-The British launched a powerful air and land offensive today to neutralize all of Madagascar and eliminate reported fueling of Japanese submarines in secret harbors and Nazi espionage carried on with connivance of Vichy French Almost as soon as Vichy announced that the British navy and the Royal Air Force were shelling and bombing three key ports on the west coast of the off East it was disclosed here that Japanese planea liave been permitted to reconnoiter the southern part of Jap Subs It was stated also that Japanese submarines had put into remote coves to be supplied for attacks on Allied shipping in the Mozambique channel and Indian and that German spies who made their way to Madagascar were assisted by some local officials on orders from The island is so situated that in enemy hands it could become an important rendezvous of communication and supply between Japan and Germany and There were some Fighting French soldiers in the which the war office was but the brunt of the attack was borne by three squadrons of warships and R. A. F. Implementing the fighting with a political the British government announced that it had acted only after the Madagascar authorities had refused to co-operate in making the island safe for the United Nations against the the government promised that it has territorial designs on Island remains an announcement The British had little so say about the but Vichy dispatches reported that the British forces coming from the where Japanese submarines have been operating against Allied were attacking Majunga 320 miles southwest of the naval base of Diego 690 miles southwest of Diego and about 120 miles below the naval The French said it was apparent that the British were building up to a landing attempt at where the shelling continued all Eighteen warships were in the flotilla standing off the French The assault there was reported timed to coincide with an attack from the north by Fighting French who were said to NEW HITLER BID FOR FRENCH FLEET British Press Association Says Fuehrer Made Demand in Personal Message to Sept. 10.-(/P)-The British Press Association said today that Adolf Hitler has renewed his demands for control of the French fleet since the Allied raid at Dieppe in order to bolster his European coastal The Press Association said some reports claim that Hitler renewed his demands in a personal message to Marshal and that the fuehrer was so eager to press his arguments he was to see Petain The Nazis also were said to be putting pressure on Vichy anew to supply Erwin Rommel in North Africa with food for his troops from the stores in the French In the Press Association Hitler was to have offered to release more French prisoners of war and transfer control of Bordeaux on the South Atlantic coast to on page 8 RAIDERS START FIRES IN BERLIN TWELVE OBSERVED BY RUSSIAN ALSO SET IN Berlin German Sept. 11.-(Friday)-(iT-) bombers attacked several places in western Germany last the Berlin radio reported Twenty-one of the raiders were shot down by Nazi night fighters and antiaircraft the announcement GAS RATIONING AND SPEED LIMIT OF 35 MILES TOBE ORDERED BY ROOSEVELT MOTORING CURB INTO AS SOON AS POSSIBLE GERMANS ADVANCE THROUGH MUD IN STALINGRAD AREA Capture Three More Villages West of Heavy Toll Taken by REDS HOLDING FIRM SOUTHWEST OF CITY Street Fighting Rages at - Enemy Trying to Land From Sept. 10.-tff)-Russian ranging over wide Axis areas from the east in their part of a great Allied air touched off scores of fires and explosions last night in Budapest and the Moscow radio announced It was the second time within a week that the Red bombers spread over Nazi and Axis This time the Russians said two bombers failed to return to their Thirty-eight 12 of them were observed in Budapest and eight explosions were caused in the Hungarian In 12 fires and four explosions were There were 16 fires in East Near Heart of The Germans acknowledged today that Russian planes penetrated again to the environs of Berlin last night and attacked After of Axis confusion during which the Budapest attackers were identified as then English but finally were named definitely as the Germans admitted Soviet bombers came close to the heart of The official DNB news agency said the Russians over the outskirts of Greater Berlin last and added that did not drop any bombs in the center of the by that the attacks were concentrated on supposedly safe German industries on the fringes of the far from the target areas of the R. A. F. Called The German high refraining from detailed accounts of the somewhat mysterious Russian forays of last dismissed the raids Germany as on page 8 Big Japanese Battleship And Cruiser Are Damaged In Attack by U. S. Planes By CLARK At Sea With the U. S. Fleet Off the Solomon Aug. 24.-(Delayed)-(^)-Without the loss of a single a small group of American dive bombers and torpedo planes damaged a huge Japanese battleship and a heavy cruiser in a daring attack There were few dive bombers and torpedo planes in the group while seeking enemy came across a big formation of Japanese warships just before The dive bombers got one hit on the battleship while the torpedo planes plunged through thick antiaircraft fire and hit the heavy Attack in The torpedo attack was made in daylight hy the American navy planes against the large formation without any accompanying heavy attacks by dive In a similar attempt the battle of Midway the morning of June 4, two army planes and five navy planes were shot told us to go out looking for the Jap force and for to try to hit the carriers with his said Lieutenant Robert 24, of Ore. went and did not sec Harold headed north and in a few minutes we sighted the wake of Ensign Robert of was flying another dive bomber with me. was a few thousand feet below me and I there they The ships saw us simultaneously and started throwing up anti-aircraft We went through a cloud and circled There were four heavy six light cruisers and six destroyers in the main Over one side I sighted a huge battleship trying to Bomb Hits battleship changed its comse and started to I led over it. The anti-aircraft fire was coming pretty thick so I pulled up another 2,000 It was about 15 minutes before sundown and a beautiful evening and on page 8 By EDDY Sept. 11.-(Friday)-(/P) tanks and smashing frontally at forced the Red army to abandon three more populated places immediately west of that city in the fourth Russian retreat in as many the Soviets announced early Over muddy battlefields soaked by the first autumnal rains and strewn with wrecked tanks and mangled the Nazi mechanized masses hammered even closer to the Volga river Soviet airmen were reported taking an increasingly heavy toll of the advancing German Southwest of the Russians they still were holding despite Nazi Troops Fight in On the Black sea the Red army now is engaged in street fighting at Novorossisk against the Germans who through to the northwestern outskirts of the the communique At on the road to the Grozny oil the Russians reported their only signal the continued annihilation of German infantry battalions which had crossed the Terek German officers of the 360th division were quoted as saying their division had been and in some companies only 10 or 12 men Fighting also flared on the relatively dormant front at Voronezh on the Upper Don where the Russians said that German troops overran one populated place south of that but later were thrown back to their original Twenty German tanks were reported destroyed and three Nazi infantry companies Now Hold Five The new Red army withdrawal west of Stalingrad gave the Nazis five populated areas in two Four Nazi tanks were destroyed and 400 Germans killed in one the communique but the heaviest destruction was credited to Red airmen who in the last two days or damaged about 30 100 trucks with troops and and in air combats brought down 15 German Shifting the bulk of their equipment and troops directly west of the Germans have gained steadily in the last Tough storm troopers from the streets of Berlin were reported participating in the On the southwestern side of the the Russians said their artillery and infantry had beaten off the destroying 13 more 14 trucks and 42 military The firm defense of this as well as the northwestern resulted in the German frontal Nazi Boats Down the Black sea the Germans who occupy part of the former Soviet naval station of were trying to land infantry from the sea behind the Red dispatches they lost at least four cutters and two torpedo boats in the the Germans were putting on heavy pressure to get to the center of the In the Terek valley of the deep 50 miles from the Grozny oil the Germans who have crossed the river near Mozdok were reported driven back to the edge in some Several now German river crossings were smashed by strong Soviet German high command said that strong fortifications at Stalingrad were taken and that 59 Soviet were destroyed they attempted More heights were reported taken below five transports sunk off the Black sea coast in the Here's Suggestions To Save Rubber Made By Baruch Committee Sept. 10,- - Seven basic recommendations were made today by tlie rubber investigating committee in its report to President Prefacing its recommendations with the admonition that the nation faces or the committee 1. That no speed above 35 miles an hour be permitted for passenger cars and this way the life of tires will be prolonged by nearly 40 per 2. That the annual average mileage per car now estimated as 6,700 be held down to 5,000, a reduction of about 25 per cent. does not mean that each person has a right to 5,-000; it applies to necessary 3. That more rubber than is now given to the public be released to by new necessary civilian 4. That a new rationing system of gasoline be based on this 5,000 miles a to save 5. That the restrictions as to gasoline and mileage be national in their 6. That compulsory periodic tire inspection be 7. That a voluntary tire conservation program be put into effect until gasoline rationing can be President Approves Baruch Committee Report That Calls for Annual Mileage Per Car of 5,000. FOUND IN PRESENT PROGRAM Group Says Drastic Restrictions Are Necessary to Prevent and Civilian ON GAS RATIONING NUMBER INDORSE OTHERS QUESTION WISDOM OF from page A Sept. 10.-(^P)-A number of congress members tonight declared that if gasoline rationing is a military necessity the people will submit to it but there were some who questioned the wisdom of the The Baruch committee report calling for gas rationing to save rubber was applauded especially by members from the where rationing has been in effect for some Many of them have been contending that a country-wide curb would help relieve the eastern oil Some comments Senator said he long had been an advocate of and Senator commented about when told of the Baruch He asked want to buy a Bridges Backs Senator New I haven't opportunity to fully study the report as there are two features in it with which we will all gasoline rationing and a country-wide speed limit of 35 miles per Senator La said he had not had time to read the but inquired whether it contained any criticism of people who have fumbled the rubber program so Representative rationing in California would cause great People out there travel great distances to and from and they need their Public utility systems are not developed like they are in the metropolitan sections of the Representative gasoline rationing is only and it certainly would help our situation here in the east. The east now is being discriminated Opposes Rationing in Representative feel that it is unnecessary to ration gasoline in Our storage facilities there are filled to overflowing If they need the that's something should take it and not resort to a Representative recommendation the feasibility of producing rubber from grain is very It means not only more but in my judgment it also means the creation of a permanent industry that will be of immense benefits to Sept. 10.-(i^)-Th Baruch committee proposed and President Roosevelt immediately approved today the imposition of gasoline rationing and other rigid civilian motoring restrictions to keep a rubber shortage from a military and civilian Asserting that naked facts present a which the country dare not that the choice is or the committee A speed limit of 35 miles per Reduction of the average annual mileage per car to 5,000, with the mileage of the essential cut far below that Compulsory Tire The allocation of rubber and thiokol to maintain essential civilian by recapping tires and making new Compulsory tire A voluntary program of rubber until these can be application of all Bluntly criticizing administration of the rubber program for and confusing insufficient reliance and procedures on the the committee recommended the creation of a single administrator to complete charge of the program under the chairman of the war production example of inexplicable administration that we can it the failure to obtain detailed technical information concerning the experience of Soviet Russia in making synthetic has been manufacturing synthetic rubber successfully for more than 10 Had the offer of the Soviet government made in February to exchange full been it is conceivable that plants for producing synthetic rubber by the Russian processes might well be on the way to Must Rely on It found that the nation must rely upon the production of synthetic and upon the uncertainties of creating in a months an industry which ordinarily could be established only in dozen for rubber for military and civilian It approved the present synthetic rubber program in but suggested that its annual capacity bs enlarged from 705,000 tons to an eventual with tions of materials for building ths necessary plants as Unless this is it said will be no rubber in the fourth quarter of 1943 with which to equip a modern mechanized ' Among other the tee recommended increases in the facilities of making grain useful in the manufacture of smokeless powder and other Under its a plant would be built in latter part of 1943 to make 30,000 tons of buna S Also facilities for making 100,000,000 gallons of alcohol would be erected near areas and water transportation to make sure that sufficient alcohol would be available for munitions and The committee also offered a series of recommendations to govern the development of the ic keep its component parts in and prepare for all possible future ' Members of The committee was composed Bernard M. as and Dr. James B. president of Harvard and Karl T. president of on paige K 6533 65 47564688
