Miami Daily News-Record (Newspaper) - July 12, 1942, Miami, Oklahoma INTHIS PAPER V 10 Evening Saturday Sunday Morning fay Miami 1942 fc r i f Publication and Allies In Egypt i i JL Mountainous tosa angrily in the Mediterranean Sea in this spectacular but British de plow through them at full maintaining their perilous vigil despite the Axis submarines and dive ELECTORATE IS WARMING UP TO POLITICAL TALK More Enthusiasm Generated I As State Candidates Bid For Votes Tuesday By JOHN OWEN OKLAHOMA July hammered tonight 1 at the indifference shown them by a electorate whose votes next will nominate the men and women to lead this during four fateful Standard bearers of the Demo 1 cratic and Republican parties in November will be chosen at the primary election but the most op observers expected the total vote to be the lightest in many perhaps no more than Interest began to mount in the fading days of the campaign and for the gov a Senate post and a large number of other offices were quick to fan sparks by a speaking It will be a scramble Tuesday to get for citizens were more occupied with the The rubber many farm ers late with their thousands of voters in the armed many in defense jobs out of the state and lack of contests in many local races all served to combat the efforts of the boys who rustle The governor and senator really got started little more than a of the leading aspirants for governor on the Democratic ticket outlined a scries of broad casts for the last three Kerr Sets Radio Talk Robert Oklahoma City independent oil man and Demo cratic national will close his drive in Memorial park at Oklahoma City with a talk which will be 0 to over a statewide He Will campaign over Oklahoma county during the Frank Oklahoma City district will speak statewide Monday from to and immediately fol lowing that will talk in front of the municipal auditorium with thp hill billy band that ac companied him throughout his Gomer Oklahoma City scheduled several closing He will appear from 330 Continued On Page Seven Flag Salute Isnt iii Kansas July The Kansas supreme court held today school children who are members of Jehovahs a religious could refrain from saluting the flag without jeopard izing their rights to public educa The Kansas of Rights guar antees the conscientious exercise of religious including the right to refuse to participate in the flag the court Ira Eaker ot Texas Is Chief ot Bomber Command Preparing to Strike at Nazis By WES GALLAGHER A ARMY AIR BABE IN July bronz ed Texan who learned flying tricks as a test pilot was disclosed to night as chief of the army bomber command in the European entrusted with the task of blasting an invasion path in West ern He is Ira native of Llano and is second in command to Carl newly named commander of the growing army air forces in For two months stocky General Eaker has been whipping the American bomber command into shape and his men are im patient to get at em and get it over It appeared that their wish would not be long in coin ing On One Raid to Date they have been on only one small bombing of Ger airdromes in the Neth but theyve heard Ger man aircraft in on one the dull of exploding bombs some miles Aside from the men have been shaking down in their new General time today to decorate four young Americans with Distinguished Flying Grosses for in first raid in which they attacked from tree H OKLAHOMAN APPOINTED KANSAS July Appointment of Charles Wil executive director of the Ok lahoma Employment Security com as regional representative of the bureau of employment se curity was announced tonight by Ed director of the Social Security THE WEATHER Continued warm MISSOURI Scattered thun Continued KANSAS Scattered thunder showers in extreme northeast por tion Continued levels while roaring along at 300 miles an Huge flying fortresses zoomed along runways nearby as Charles Kegelman of El Randall Dorlon of Long and Bennie Cunningham of and Robert Golay of Fre received the decora tions from their They said they were too busy to be scared during the action for which they were a major at brought back his Boston bomber from the De Kooy in Hol land after one motor was shot lo the tail was riddled with bullets a hole was torn in the body when the plane scraped the Describes Attack The a veteran of six described the German bar rage as the best fireworks dis play I ever saw on the Fourth of thp raid was on that He said the Germans apparently bad by location appa ratus that the Americans were en route and were ready with a curtain of A British squadron leader who was in the fight with the six American of which were the flak was the worst he had seen in his 64 We were making 270 miles an Continued On Page Two Federal Agent On Stand Four Hours In Aliens Trial July An exhaustive to which a federal agent was sub today indicated that the prosecution apparently had reach ed the climax of its case against eight saboteurs on trial for their lives before a military Under the blazing electric lights of an courtroom from which all daylight has been army officers assigned to defend the stolid prisoners cross questioned the agent for more than four hours and still had not com their when the trial recessed at C until Mon day This whose name was not given in the brief communiques released by the took only part of the short morning session to give his direct testimony for the prosecution the first part of the morning session was con in of an agent who had testified yester But despite the brevity of his direct the story he told was the most damaging that had yet been presented if the lengths to which the defense went to shake it are He was the ninth witness to Swedish Ship Is Torpedoed July 11 The Swedish ship Luleaa was torpedoed sunk in the Baltic today shortly after the foreign of fice declared it had proof that Rus sian submarines were responsible for recent attacks on Swedish ship owned by an iron ore was torpedoed out side the town of Vestervik as she steamed southward presumably with a of iron ore for Ger She sank Escorting warships and planes attacked the but results of the attack were not The Luleaa was the third Swed ish ship sunk June 22 and the fifth In each case Swed ish which now all dropped depth bombs on the submarines but there has no announcement of any rines MORE INTEREST SEEN IN VOTING County Races Gaining Some Scraps Are Features The Ottawa county primary elec tion which will be determin ed at the polls are gain ing if several politica in their gazing at the crystal With the rise of interest in the gubernatorial campaign during the past apparently the PEOPLE URGED TO VOTE Party leaders and election of alike urged Saturday that Ottawa county voters turn out at the polls One official said lie believed electors should look upon Ihe primary balloting as their pa duty in these war Everyone if take time enough off from his work to cast a preference on this who asked that his name be V t county races to reflect it were tin north and central The central Democratic race with Bob Campbell and F is now creatin marked interest and the north em threecornered show anion Alva Clarence Hal and Charles all Demo come into it Only scrap for votes on a coun basis for a job will the Democratic con test for of schools Fred is be ing opposed by Frank Continued On Page Two Allies Rain Bombs On A xis in A frica bombers and fighters in one of th greatest sustained offensives o the war have made more than raids in the last 10 days agains Axis forces in North th ministry news service reporte Armies Batter Reds FINISHED ON ACT FIXING LARGER TAXES louse Committee Agrees on Higher Corporation and In dividual Income Rates By DONALD YOUNG July Wartime tax falling heavily on loth corporations and approved finally by the House vays and means committee Product of more than IS weeks the 324page measure imposes to raise in taxes and 300 in individual income Huge as it is short f the Secretary Morgenthau asked the committee o raise about in additional revenue to swell to the federal gov prospective receipts this But the committee chose to go mly part way in that ml defeated attempts to write in a 5 percent retail sales which estimated would make uj about Chairman Doughton laid that the yield rom the by Treasury was oo He made tlie personal prediction that the revenue would e closer The Treasury was too low last ear by about in the revenue from the 941 he My opinion is thai if business con as it will raise about speak ng for said the com had adopted a motion as its ast action of its de But vill meet again early next week o check the last revision of the measure and some members said here was a remote possibility that still more changes might be Cooper said that it was planned in arrangements at least three days of The usual custom of forbidding any amendments except those agreed upon by the committee probably will although some members already have started protesting against what hey call this annual gag The final draft provides in gen eral as follows Highlight of Measure in the present normal and surtax from 3 o 45 percent and substitution of a lat percent excess profits tax rate for the present scale 35 to 60 Individuals increase the present normal tax rale from 4 to 6 percent and fie present surtax graduated scale of 6 percent sur Lax graduated scale of 6 percent 01 the first of net income to 13 Beginning in January 5 percent of each persons taxable income would be deducted fron paychecks or pay witl the accumulations used as a credi against 1943 taxes due in in excise on ci train telephone bills freight and express shipments race track At a stormy session in the morn the committee abandoned it program of a 94 percent exces profits with the corporation entitled to a 14 percent refund ii bonds saleable after the Reversing themselves th committee boosted the corporation normal and surta from the previous level of 40 per cent to 45 Cooper sak that these two actions added abou to the total of the bil RAF Squadron Gives Award to July o the most famous squad rons which accompanied E army airmen in their daring Jul 4 raid over Europe today paid rare tribute to Charles C Kegelman of El The squadron was the first to g to France when the war broke an the last to withdraw with tha In recognition o its work a prominent had 14 special blue medals struc for presentation to the But there were only 13 pilot left to receive the and today the 14th medal went t Major of the arm bomber force He is wearin it beside new Service i Shortages Pinch Civilians Some More Are Coming July in many lines of goods and merchandise are al ready pinching the civilian pop the War Production board said but the citizens at horns havent anything In the next six huge peace time inventories of con sumer items will be completely it the people will really feel the im pact of an economic changeover which permits only the produc tion of war plus an absolute minimum of civilian es The people must be clothed and transported to and from if their work is WPB said in its first economic communique since Pearl Health services must be maintained as far as our educational sys tem must be kept going as os apart from providing there all of our ma terials and all of our both of hand and must be for the of the supplies and instruments of f FBI GRABS 158 GERMAN ALIENS Roundup Announced Satur day in New York Includes 130 28 Women NEW July Bureau of Investigation oday announced its biggest single of German aliens with the of 158 members of a group to Ger many oF one of eight orne saboteurs recently landed on American The latest to be landed in the Bl net were 130 men and 28 wo identified as members of he vocational group paid for the passage to Ger in 1939 of Henrich a 35yearold native of now on trial before military commission in Washing Heinck was one of the eight Nazi saboteurs land ed on Long Island and Florida beaches by a German submarine ate in June and subsequently picked up by the Already in custody were 113 Bundists swep into jail by a nationwide drive last and Herbert Karl Fried rich accused Nazi spy ap traveling as a refugee aboard the Swedish diplomatic lin er Drottningholm earlier this week assistant B director in charge of the York said the German American vocational league mem bers were part of an organization which had members through out the operating 20 The league had two pub in German and th other in both described a and intensely pro The 158 were arrested on Pres warrants in spot raid yesterday over the New York met Five of those arrested being members of the Nazi in 31 said they wante Germany to win the 28 ha military training and five sai they wanted to be repatriated a Foxworth Four spies convicted recently i New York espionage trials had ad mitted being members of th the One of those arrested was de scribed as an aerial photographe in tlie German army in the la The women seized worked a mechanics bookkeepers governesses and Ages of those arrested range from IS to A quantity of motion pictur films was seized in the variou raids along with five short wav receiving sets and a number All of those arrested has regis as and Foxworth Eai the scarcity of contraband held b those taken into custody indicat eel that they expected to be picke up by NAVY DISCLOSES MORE BLOWS TO ALLIED SHIPPING Four Two of Them Sunk By Axis BY THE ASSOCIATED FREES Four more ship sinkings an by the navy raised to 353 le unofficial Associated Press to al of ships sunk in the Western Pearl rate of sinkings prompted marine underwriters to raise their larges for cargo insurance five in the Allied merchant fleet was how in the agreement cached in Washington between he United States and Norway by the United States will fur ish free armament for fleet now in the United Nations repair damage and ships lost in war opera The latest ships reported lost jn two United States mer hant a British merchant hip and asmall Greek cargo ves The British ship was sunk only short distance from a Florida ort to which she was being towed y a She had been attacked irst March 9 while in the harbor f a British West Indian Four of native crewmen ere killed but the vessel was sal aged and brought hundreds of niles in until the second at ack July 7 finished Her entire crew of 91 Vest Indians and Lascar Indians ras rescued by the tug ot Also rescued 3 who escaped without i Only nine of a crew aboard ne of the United States ships sunk lay 27 in the Caribbean were res ucd when their ship sank in 90 after a torpedo The tine spent five days and 20 hours n two A navy gun crew aboard ither United States sunk sev eral weeks ago in the South At stayed their listing for hours after the rest of he crew abandoned it hoping for L shot at the submarine which They were forced to leave the the next1 morning when it vent One fireman was lost and men were rescued by a British naval vessel the day after the Fourteen men died when Greek cargo vessel was torpedoed n the Caribbean April Six of the men lost were trapped below deck when the ship was Nine managed to climb aboard life Appear at Miami Meeting July 15 King and Hunt Office of Price administra will be in Miami Wednesday night for a meeting with local business A discussion will be conducted beginning at S oclock in the dis county on general price ceiling markings and application for ad penalties and new reg regarding service trades The meeting will concern al business except those prac in personal and profession al Among those trades to be touched on by the officials are dry re plumbers auto shoe am While in the OPA personally check on local compli ance with government regulations The Miami Chamber of Coin merce is sponsoring the meeting in the interests of aiding local bus CONVENTION CANCELLED July Cancellation of the Knights Pythias national echet uled here the week of I1 was announced by officials can be Rommels Troops Are Retreating As Aerial Attacks Take Effect German Offensive Rolls on in How With Invaders Smashing Hard at Voronezh Soviet Positions in South Endangered Armies Try to Duplicate Last By RICHARD McMURRAY ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR EDITOR The German offensive rolling eastward on a 200mile front toward the northern approaches of the Caucasus beat heavily upon the outskirts of the railroad city of Voronezh lasj night but the Axis found the battle exceedingly tough in Africa when its troops were pushed back five miles and the broke up an at tempt to ferry German frontline specialists io the battle field in huge Junkers transports A patrol of British leaped upon the group of Junkers planes and damaged or shot down at least 12 into the The also blew up a munitions ship in Tobruk harbor as it pounded mightily at the front now in a desert pocket 75 miles west of and at the rear supply The appearance of the Junkers indicated the German command was attempting to counter the reinforced Brit ish soldiers with fresh of their Recent reports have German troop concentrations in Axis bases along the within hopping distance of the African To the on the critical Russian the mans were pressing hard upon the Soviet positions Nazi Advance Costly The German advance along the Benin Claims Yielded On Don lion west bank of the Don was only at the most terrifying cost of men and tut there was no denying that Russian tion was that th successes approached the of last From Voronezh southward to the fertile farm rere soaked with the blood of Jermans and Russians but he elastic Russian resistance to permitting the Red rmy to withdraw in good order espite a German claim of destroyed tanks and a destructively beaten en words but not las destroyed the Red army sev ral times Axis Troops Captured It was a different story in the scorching Egyptian Allied lanes gave the Germans the worst Africa has and in the successful British thrust along the coastal railway resulted n the capture of several hundred Axis The moved eastward in the south near the The Axis com nand this was a great stra victory and that the British lad been halted in the hut he British gave little importance o the Their light forces withdrew and the thrust seemed to be only a Brit sh mobile columns immediately en the Australians in Action The swaggering Australians who remained in the middle east were n action in the con reinforcement said Aus Prime Minister John Cur More than raids been made on the huddled Axis forces in the ten days they liave been The attacks Sat were made at extremely low level and the fliers shuttled from airdromes to battlefield to loose load load of Elsewhere in the global the Texas brigadier gener Ira was disclosed as chief of the bomber command of Continued On Page Two Massman Is Asking From July 11 Th Massman Construction compan of Kansas filed cuit ii federal court today against the Grand River Dam authority fo it alleged was due undei a contract in construction of th The petition contends that whil the dam has been taken bj the federal government for th duration the still maintain its status as a legal entity anc 3 Jan Bombers Are Downed by Allies GENERAL Sun July forces shot down three Japanese bomb ers and three fighters in aerial an Allied communique said The main action took place when 19 enemy bombers escorted by eight fighters attempted to attack shipping in the harbor at Port New Allied fighters shot down three bombers and one fighter and dam aged three other Two Allied planes were The Japanese fighters were de and one damaged when they tried to intercept an Allied bomber unit over New Gui BERLIN From German Broad July Germans claimed officially today they have destructively beaten the Russians on the capturing pris and huge amounts of ma The central waterway was reached along a 220mile front and several bridgeheads were estab a high command communi que The Germans said tanks and guns were destroyed or captured and that 540 Red planes had been shot from the In Fridays fighting the Trans Ocean news agency said 94 Rus sian planes were destroyed and only seven Nazi craft were The Germans repeated their claim to have captured strategic vital rail center 10 miles from the Don on the Voronezh The indefatigable pursuit of enemy is being the communique stating that the lumber of prisoners was increas ing by the Kharkov and which the Germans dis closed had been now were said to be 220 miles behind the German planes bombed the Cau casian coast and ports on the Sea of Azov and hammered at the en emy and his lines of Russian attacks in the Orel sec tor between Voronezh and Moscow were declared to have dwindled to weak attacks which were In the Rzhev sector close to resistance on the whole was and the trapped en emy forces were pressed closer to Bitter fighting was reported on the front south of Isolated breaches were remov ed by the NonWar Spending Slashed by Solons July dealing out colossal di rect war appropriations with an open has simultaneously slashed nearly one and onehalf billion dollars from the govern ments usual nonwar Capitol fiscal experts said to day it would be several weeks be fore the exact totals could be Complicated figures are involved because in some cases u ar and nonwar appropriations are For that mat there are points of sy over what is and is not a war appropriation since many peace time agencies are engaged in war
