Joplin Globe (Newspaper) - October 9, 1942, Joplin, Missouri THE fn central and scattered showers and somewhat cooler extreme north change In temperature showers extreme north change In temperature change in temperature associated press Final Edition VOL. NO. 52. 111 East Street FRIDAY OCTOBER 9, 1942. Monday PRICE FIVE GERMAN SIEGE IMPERILLED 5 Jap Ships Including Cruiser TASK fORCE ATTACKS IN SOLOMONS Eight Aircraft Destroyed by Americans Suffer No VESSELS AT MAIN NIPPONESE BASE Apparently They Had Been Used to Send Troops to Airfield Measure of Pledged Russia by Welles Acting Secretary of State Says Aiding Soviets Either by Sending Arms or Opening Second Front Is Surest Way to Defeat He Is Not One of Those Who Believes America Losing Oct. 8.-(AP) i -An aircraft carrier task striking violently into the heart of Japan's defense ' area in the north Solomon has damaged an enemy heavy cruiser and four other destroyed eight aircraft and blasted an the navy announced The conducted in unfavorable w c a t li e apparently caught the Japanese completely by ' surprise at one of their most vulnerable It was carried without the loss of a man or plane and without damage to any Main Japanese A navy reporting the said the ships attacked were in the Shortland island ' just south of the island of the main Japanese base in the The airfield attacked was on the northern coast of 45 miles north of For several the communique enemy ships had been observed concentrating in the Shortland This was authoritatively interpreted to mean not that a great armada was massing but that on frequent occasions large numbers of enemy vessels put in. These probably were engaged in the work of supplying and reinforcing enemy troops on Guadalcanal site of the main American base 259 miles to the as well as on Japanese islands V Attack Made October 5. ' On October 5, the carrier task force under general direction of Vice Admiral R. L. navy chief in the South moved in to the which was coordinated with attacks on other Japanese centers in the southwest Pacific by heavy bombers from the Australian of General Douglas The communique reported these results were One cruiser and one transport damaged by heavy One seaplane tender and two cargo ships damaged light One cruiser and one destroyer strafed in Shortland The did not claim these as Four 4-engined flying boats destroyed on the water at Faisi and six damaged by Falsi is a little island in Shortland Field Is Two seaplanes and two bombers apparently in a maneuver designed to prevent a by air from the field at other planes struck there and damaged the field with It appeared significant that the communique did not describe any damage inflicted by The assumption here that the which the merely described as was so bad the torpedo pianos could not get in their work or else were not Tlin text of the communique U-i Pacific fall dates given Durini recent weeks our Oct. 8.-CiW-Acting Secretary of State Sunoner Welles declared tonight that the surest way to defeat Germany was to aid Russia and pledged fullest measure of every means of Paying high tribute to the epic and successful in an address prepared for the national foreign trade Welles mentioned both the sending of arms and the opening of a second front as possible means of that assistance be through the furnishing of equipment or he whether that assistance be by means of the diversion of German armies forced upon Hitler through the creation of a new theater or the fullest measure of every means of help will be Would Act surest way to insure the defeat of Hitler is to give this and to give it unstintingly at the earliest possible Welles said he was one of those few who believe that we are losing this and that Americans have a right to be proud of their country's record since Pearl They are he by the fact that most of the American republican republics have either joined in the war on our side or severed all relation with the Argentina and still be permitting their neighbors to be ip the back by Axis operating from their said the acting but it is inconceivable that they will permit this much Welles warned that unity which the free peoples have achieved to win their war must continue on to win their For since this is in truth a people's it must be followed by a people's Planning now for that peace not only does not detract our war but actually contributes to the drive toward he of machinery to deal with such problems a relief and for which will accompany cannot fail to strengthen the resolve of all including those in areas now occupied by the to bring the conflict to the possible it cannot fail to make them realize that the sort of world for which we are striving is worth the sacrifices of is worth the cost of Task The task of post-war relief will be he for much of the world will be Continued on Page 4 VOTE QUALIFYING DEADLINE TODAY XION WILL BK HELD IX ALL CITY CANADIAN SHIPS IN THE ALEUTIANS 5 NAVAL VESSELS WITH U. S. IN LANDING ON A one-day supplemental registration of voters will be held today in affording the final opportunity to qualify to vote in the November 3 congressional and county Registration will be conducted in all 25 precinct voting places between the hours of 8 a. m. and 9 p. following which the books will be closed to all registrations until after the Since only about 50 per cent of Joplin's voters now are both republican and democratic party organizations expect to be active all day tp urge residents to go to the polls to have their names Persons of legal voting age who have not registered since last May 1, when all old registrations were must register or they cannot vote in A quadrennial registration was held May 1, 2 and 4, and a supplemental registration was held in preceding the August Persons who registered in May or and who have not since moved from one precinct into need not register Only about 11,000 persons out of approximately 22,000 eligible Joplin residents registered for the August The primary vote also was unusually County Clerk Claycomb conducted a pre-registration school of instruction for registrars at the courthouse last ' Registration Places The places of registration today will be as Nineteenth street and Pennsylvania Bottling 1301 Virginia junior high Sixth street and Forest Fourth - East Central Eighth street and Kentucky Second and School flro Broadway and Railroad Seventh - Central fire city 1521 West D junior high Second street and Gray F street Oct. 8.-(^)-Navy Minister Angus MacDonald announced tonight that a Canadian naval force of five warships co-operated with United States force which effected the recent landing in the Aleutian MacDonald said he could give no further details because of security The United States navy announced in Washington October 3 that positions in the group of islands in the Aleutians had been without by American armed troops with naval The date and the extent of the operation was not although it said it happened It was known previously that Canadian airmen have been taking part in operations against the Japanese in the Aleutian It also was made known previously that Canadian warships have been working with American naval units in the Aleutian ARMY TO SUMMON Induction Will Begin in Colonel E a r State Draft BOARDS TO RECLASSIFY GROUP IMMEDIATELY Status to Be Same as That of Single Not Consider Wives as Cause for Jefferson Oct. 8.-(iP)-The army will start drafting Missouri's childless married men in state selective service announced Instructing local draft boards to start immediate reclassification of married men witli no Colonel Claude C. state draft believe we have enough single men to take care of our calls up to and including with some left over for the December ' But it looks to us as though it will be necessary to induct with wives in Status That of Single The order will not affect men with the children were born before September 7, 1942. They will remain 3-A. Nor will it affect other causes for deferment besides In the order simply removes a wife from consideration as a cause for draft leaving the married man with a wife and no children in just the same status as a single To support her if her husband is a woman will receive a from the government and from the the reclassification will begin at Earp said men reclassified to 1-A will not be inducted until substantially all single men in the state-wide pool are Men not in the war effort will be reclassified ahead of those in essential There will be ample Earp for a man to appeal his on Pace 4 on Page 4 JITTERY NAZIS TURN ON COAST SEARCHLIGHTS Oct. 8,-{.y)-The Germans switched on their powerful searchlights on occupied coast south of Calais and probed the skies and the English The reason was not immediately apparent since there had been no report of air raids or sea The have been jittery along the coast since the Allied raid on The lights appeared to be Installed on high ground at a point where the channel is but 20 miles Bombs Destroy Oct. 9.-(Friday)-0^)- The Daily Mail said today that photographic reconnaissance showed that American flying fortresses in their last raid last Saturday had completely the airplane factory at near in northern The German air force has been using the factory as an airplane maintenance and repair AIRMEN BLAST AT SHIPPING Enemy Vessel Attacked at of Aussies in New Guinea General MacArthur's Oct. 9.-(Friday)- ground operations in the Owen Stanley mountains at a standstill and no opposition apparent in the whole New Guinea Allied air forces have returned to the attack on enemy shipping at outlying a communique said Chief targets for the bombing raids lay well to the west of the New Guinea fighting where General MacArthur's troops have come to a halt after reaching the mountain pass connecting Port Moresby with Japanese bases on the north shore of the One group of reconnaissance struck at an enemy vessel at Koepang in Dutch Timor across the Timor sea from northwestern A second unit attacked Saumlaki and blasted a medium size transport at the In both instances the results of the assault were HINTS AT RIGID CONTROL OF WAGES TREASURY CALLS ON EXPERTS TO RECOMMENDATIONS TO Oct. 8.-(^)-The treasury made public today correspondence indicating that the control over the nation's wages and salaries may be more rigid than shown in President Roosevelt's stabilization order of October 3. Secretary Morgenthau released the text of a letter from James F. director of economic in which Byrnes asked the treasury to propose regulations to enforce salary Letter in Part. In the letter advised the treasury as as the recent emergency legislation seems to authorize a broader and more direct control over the regulations which you may recommend to carry out the president's objectives need not be limited to title section 4 of the executive order so long as they come within the scope of the granted to the While Morgenthau declined to discuss his probable he told reporters that ho had set his ranking experts to work on the problems and hoped to send a plan to Byrnes by The rest of the letter to Morgenthau cited the president's October 3 statement of policy that persons on Page 4 Competitive Spirit Spurs Children Piles of Scrap Grow Ever Larger STOCKS WHIRLED UP ON INCREASED New Oct. 8.--(/P)-Better war news and brighter prospects for congressional corporate tax leniency helped spur wide buying in today's stoclt market on volume of 1,000,000 best for 1942 to Favorites were bid up a few cents to or more a share and the majority closed at or near the day's best There was an assortment of new highs for the Little girls tugging at long sections of boys manfully half carrying and half dragging heavy iron bedsteads and both boys and girls pulling weighty loads of old metal in their wagons were common sights on the streets of Joplin yesterday as salvage piles on the city's school grounds mounted The children are doing their part in this week's school drive for salvage material to go into the war effort and they are being aided generously by their parents and I business The older salvage seekers are cleaning out their basements and attics and the business men arc assembling all useless metal objects from their places of business and them over to school children who will turn them over to Uncle Sam. Willie patriotism and a desire to help in tlie war effort the motive of the their competitive spirit also playing largo part in the as students of the respective vie for honors of bringing in the most valry also is showing results as the various corps of salvagers AMERICAN FLIERS IN EGYPT STRIKE PUNISHING BLOWS Thirty-Seven Axis Warships and Other Vessels Sunk or Badly Damaged Since POSSIBLE T FROM STALINGRAD HINTED IN BERLIN LONG FLIGHTS MADE TO BLAST HARBORS Russians Rip Gaps in Enemy Plank Above Forcing Hitler's Commanders to Divert Crack Prussian Troops to Meet Threat and Tanks in Vast Numbers Fail to Halt Red Lines Supplying Army Tons of Bombs Dropped in Past 110 Oct. 8.-(iP)-The growing destructive power of j American air forces in Egypt was | credited officially with sinking or badly damaging 37 Axis warships and other vessels since early June while the ports and supply lines of the Nazi desert Major General Russell L. Maxwell advised the war department that damage from near misses of American bombs and other unobserved destruction probably raised this total of the havoc wrought on the Tons of Bombs In a report summarized by Undersecretary Robert P. the American army commander in the Middle East said the airmen had loosed 3,161,00 1,580 bombs In the past 110 Of 969,000 pounds were dropped during September The American air fighters operated with Britain's Royal Air Force in support of British forces battling General Erwin Rommel's desert the report indicated they operated independently in many of their far-ranging attacks in the eastern Mediterranean on enemy shipping and supply Carried Out 77 Under the immediate command of Major General Lewis H. chief of American air forces on the Egyptian Liberator bombers carried out 77 missions between June and the close of Medium North craft of the type used to raid carried out 13 In scourging Axis supply lines in Freight vessels included in the shipping toll ranged in size from 2,500 to 10,000 Maxwell In attacks on Bengasi and other ports resulted in the destruction of small Axis boats and along with ammunition dumps and oil storage work like beavers to make their school's pile larger than the The assortment of articles to be found in the salvage drive is so varied that virtually every use to which metal has been put in the last half century is represented in the Some of the seen at a casual glance are razor children's brass the end and one side of a metal stove pipe and pipe of every the bayonet from a rifle from some former sections of iron bed frames and old metal motor car kitchen heavy machinery parts and of other articles formerly classed as but now found to be vital material to the war the is in the campaign and scrap collected there will turned in with the collection The campaign will today in greater officials as of and in the ( fort Schools will bo closed Saturday bui it is expected | on Page 4 ESCAPE FROM TOPIC OF TALK TODAY Alfred who was forced to flee from Germany after the Nazi regime came into will speak on Escape From before the Young Club at the Y. W. C. A. at 1:30 o'clock this He also will play piano Mrs. W. G. who was named president at the last will A nominating committee will present the name of a vice Mrs. Paul is chairman of tlie A nursery for the children of club members and guests will be conducted at the First Methodist HOURLY TEMPERATURES Yesterday's temperature range was within 1 degree of being identical with that of a year The maximum yesterday was 78 degrees and the minimum was 56. A year ago the maximum was tlie same and the was 57. Clear skies and a warm sun provided ideal 1 U. 111. 111. a. tl U. Ill. 7 111. S 111. 11. 111. ID II 111. Noon 1 R. m. I |i II 7 S ii in il a 111. Ill. Ill. 111. Ill. 111. 111. 111. New Oct. 8.-(AP)-The German propaganda machine laid a tonight for a possible retreat from where the Red army's staunch have consumed Nazi troops and machines by the for 45 days of flaming fight for Stalingrad has said a broadcast by the official news quoting strategic objective at Stalingrad already has been DNB is no longer necessary to send German infantry and assault engineers into the The finishing touches will now be entrusted to heavy artillery units and Stukas A Russian has HOUSE VOTES SIX BILLION FOR M BIG APPROPRIATION CARRIES FUNDS FOR 14,611 NAVAL Oct. 8.- -A appropriations boosting this nation's to was passed swiftly by the house today to finance a naval aviation expansion program and a variety of other The new appropriations encountered no opposition on the winning final approval by a voice Members of the house appropriations committee informed the house that the United States soon would be spending at the rate of monthly for Nearly 90 per cent of the new omnibus deficiency was earmarked for the with - the largest single apart for 14,-611 naval planes to give Uncle Sam's growing fleet of aircraft carriers its Funds to Expand In addition to the direct appropriations to a dozen different government the measure formally granted the navy department authority to enter into contract obligations for the 1,900,000-ton fleet expansion estimated to cost On top of tor the the measure bundled up for war 33,-800,000 for the office of war for a guayule rubber for the office of defense and for the war manpower Both Chairman of the appropriations and Representative New minority agreed that the country's spending rate for in reach a month by the first of the While Taber expressed the hope that it would go in response to a question from the said that he believed the monthly rate was approaching the Scope of the appropriations ranged all the way from providing air lanes to carry America's message of victory to the Axis countries to building homes for war from developing guayule plants for rubber to improving the gulf The measure now goes to the where quick action is been pressing heavily against the German left flank from the north on the steppes between the Volga and and was even before Hitler's speech of eight days ago when the German chancellor boasted unequivocally that Stalingrad would be may rest The very fact that in Berlin were quoted as indicating that the siege of grad might be lifted was a faint indication that the military had taken over the Hitler's latest V Ill 7.'i .US I ' i Crew ill Dutch Oct. 8.--(.'l^) 24 Brazilian seamen whose arrival fought back with guns lifeboat a trained its guns on them after their it became Four of their shipmates died of wounds before reaching Nazis Break Into Oct. 9.-(Friday)-Ca^- German tanks and infantry broke into the streets in a factory suburb of Stalingrad yesterday while tht Red army attacking the Nazi flank above the city held positions by beating off several small A midnight Soviet said 16 of the 50 German tanks hurled the Red lines in the battered northwestern skirts of Stalingrad were destroyed and four battalions 2,000 of infantry were wiped in one place the enemy succeeded in occupying two streets of a populated the communique said of this Field dispatches said one quarter of the settlement was now in ruins from German shells and mortar but said the Red thus far has held Germans back from ' the Volga river banks and the heart of Stalingrad In a siege now entering its forty-sixth Gaps Torn in Nazi The Soviet dispatches said that Russian tanks had torn gaps in ths German left flank above the forcing the Nazi command to divert elite Prussian troops to meet the I The late communique did not credit the Red with any further advances saying merely that troops exchanged fire witli the enemy and in some sectors repulsed attacks launched by small groups of Soviet artillery mortar gunners of the unit were said to havs annihilated one company of man infantry of ' and also have destroyed two eight ammunition 11 Two more Nazi infantry companies were killed in the repulse of enemy attacks in the Mozdok of the and nine tanks were destroyed and 600 Germans slain in indecisive fighting in the the communique Reds Hold While the Russians were heavy resistance in between tlie Volga and Don rivers above the army newspaper Red Star said they still held the - The Germans were tanks and planes prodigally in vain efforts to halt Marshal Timoshenko's offensive that perilled the whole siege of The Prussians were ig on AJi 1100 688?6900
