Piqua Daily Call, The (Newspaper) - September 24, 1942, Piqua, Ohio THE PIQUA DAILY CALL Windy tonight Colder today colder tonight 19th YEAR No 288 PIQUA OHIO THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 24 1942 PRICE FOUR CENTS NAZIS DEFENSE BREAKS IN RUSSIA U S Subs Strike Home SEA the Japanese where it harts V S submarines sink two ponese freighters In heir home wafers Sinking ships are seen through submarines periscopes Official Navy Photos from NBA PASSED BY THE HOUSE Senate Leaders Prepare to Work Out Compromise With Farm Bloc on Parity Price Issue Before Measure Comes to a Vote Before the Group Presidential Veto BY JOHN R V f STAFF CORRESPONDENT Sept 24 ministration Senate leaders will make another last-minute attempt 1 today to work out a compromise the farm bloc on the parity price issue before the 1 comes to a vote in the Senate But an overwhelming vote late 1 yesterday by a rebellious House to raise present parity levels of agri products 12 per cent to have smashed whatever hope the administration had of NAZI OFFENSIVE IS GIVEN CHECK 1 BY HARRISON SALISBURY P STAFF The Red Army today aimed at Adolf Jer's forces on the Stalingrad front and half a dozen other sectors bringing the great Nazi offensive to j a temporary halt and driving the Germans back at some points Reports from both Moscow nnd Berlin indicated that the Russians were fighting the Germans to a standstill with the prospect that I the ultimate decision may hinge on the speed with which fresh reserves I Concluded on Page Four keeping a similar provision out of the Senate Price Administration officials have estimated that such an increase in Concluded on Page Eleven MEAT CONSUMPTION DOWN Two and One-Half Pounds Per Person Per Week Is Amount Set by Board BY U P STAFF CORRESPONDENT Washington Sept 24 food requirements committee of the War Production Board today an- an average cut of 21 per cent in deliveries of meat for ian consumption for the last three months of this year and appealed to civilians immediately to hold con- sumption of meat at pounds per person per week until rationing starts The WPB committee through chairman Secretary of Agriculture Claude B Wickard said limitation orders on restricted civilian meat deliveries by packers would be Concluded on Page Eleven CONVOY IS BOMBED BY ATTACKERS Vessels Discovered Off the Netherlands Coast Are Bases Struck London Sept 84 ain's heavy bombing planes re- suming their offensive after a spell of bad weather raided thern and northwestern Germany during the night and rained many tons of bombs on the important submarine yards at Flensburg near the Danish border Announcement by the Air that 10 bombers Indicated a raiding force of some 200 planes Coastal Command planes ed a German convoy off the coast and hit three dium sized ships the Air Ministry said Germany admitting what it Concluded on Page Two ROBBERY MURDER BELIEVED SOLVED O Sept 24 robbery and murder of a Canton cafe owner was believed solved today with the first degree murder indictment of Cocco 32 of Bellaire whom police described as a ruthless and ciless killer Cocco now serving a term in West Virginia state penitentiary was indicted by the Stark county grand jury for the murder of ert Effinger Canton restaurant operator on May 16 1941 Sentence Withheld Parsons W Va Sept 24 Circuit Judge Robert M Drane day withheld sentence of a young couple Mr and Mrs John Loughty who were convicted of mistreating their year-old son by imprisoning him In an attic room Strike Threatens Columbus O Sept 24 and union officials planned to meet Monday In an attempt to avert E threatened strike of workers but the United tion Workers Union went with plans to take a strike vote tonight U S Captures Japs in Solomons Again Gi A NEA lone Marine tenter captured Japs In U S prison camp Men lined up for while group in background marches Men were taken prisoner m Solomon Islands battle Enemy Installations are in New Guinea MacArthur's quarters Australia 24 Japanese huts installations supply and invasion barges have been wrecked along h trail TRY IT I Columbus O 24 A in operating costs can be saved by an 40 miles an hour in- stead of at an average speed of 55 miles an hoar State Highway Director Hal G Sours reported today On the basis of a survey con- ducted by the Highway ment Sours estimated that the state would save 1942 liy limiting the speed of state cars to 40 miles an hour Support Is Urged Columbus O Sept 24 Ohio League of Women Voters day urged Ohio's congressmen to support federal legislation ed to curb inflation of rain blasted across northern New Guinea by Gen Douglas thur's planes on the 10th straight day of a ferocious offensive in port of Australian ground forces holding the northern slopes of the Owen Stanley mountains it was an- today on Page Nine POSSIBLE MEETING OF DICTATORS DISCUSSED BJT FREDERICK U P Central European Manager The persistent report that Hitler and Mussolini will meet with an leaders at Vienna shortly to deal with new problems in southeastern Europe brings up the role oi the small satellite nations under Nail leadership The problems must be relatively acute to make Hitler leave his quarters when directly responsible for the success and morale the German forces after dismissal he should be ing the fire at Stalingrad But there are many snarls in the setup of the small minion like Hungary Rumania Bulgaria and Finland which can embarrass even endanger Hitler's conduct of the war They are not gated and occupied countries as are un Page Win Three Die In Crash Akron O Sept 24 services will be held tomorrow for Mrs Maude 50 and her daughter Mrs Murphy 20 who wore killed In an truck collision yesterday Rites for Mrs Florence 50 the third woman killed In the dent will be held Saturday FIRST GERMAN LINES IN STALINGRAD AREA REPORTED WEAKENING City Itself Has Suffered Unprecedented Devastation But Defenders Continue to Battle With ed Fury and the Enemy Is Flung Back With Infantry Artillery and Aircraft Bid Made by German Tanks to Smash Stalingrad Fails BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Press Slaff Correspondent Moscow Sept 24 Red Army rolling forward in a powerful northwest of broke through the first German defense line today according to front line dispatches While Stalingrad city suffered unprecedented tation Russian forces somewhere to the northwest were flinging the enemy back with infantry artillery and craft The Soviet noon communique laid the Russians had driven the Germans from an occupied locality A dispatch from the north Caucasus front line ed that the Germans had been compelled by Red Army pressure to discontinue their offensive in mountain ions and to abandon several occupied positions and that their plans to achieve a decision there before winter had been frustrated It was revealed today that a supreme bid by 200 man tanks to smash info the center of Stalingrad had been broken The Germans lost 42 tanks in 12 consecutive attacks CONTRIBUTE CANS Washington Sept Paul assistant director of the section day urged women to contribute as tin cans as hey can to the salvage campaign The War Production salvage and conservation are holding conferences this week with a of business and professional women to plan a more important role for men in the national salvage campaign The tanks forward tll special Russian detachments hurling hand grenades and benzine bottles nnd shooting guns halted them and thrust back the II assaults that followed Findlay Withdraws Columbus O Sept 24 U mon Pleas Judge Guy B Findlay of today withdrew as a for the state supremo court vacancy by the death of Judge Gilbert of Cincinnati In H letter to Secretary of State John E Sweeney Findlay asked that his name be from the lot Concluded on Page Two MURDER OF PARENTS ADMITTED BY YOUNG ELECTRICAL WORKER Describes Double Slaying to St Louis Police ond BY PAUL DIX U P Staff Correspondent St Louis Sept 24 electrical shop operator and former sports writer Robert Smith Nash calmly described to police today how lie killed his ents with a small hatchet after an Concluded on Pnge Four THROUGH DEALERS PRESSES VITAL METAL STARTS TO WAR YOU CAM IT JUNK But It's money In your pocket bread and emu enormously cutter for the scrap dealer and poison for the Axk This storage quired for the reduction of much of jard of Jersey City middleman Is typical of hundreds which keep usable form This old car body for vital metal moving to the steel mills the Jaws of a BIG enormously powerful equipment Is re- scrap to Instance must be crushed huge hydraulic BALED metal rods and fragments of every de- scription are crushed turned snd again until they finally are taken from scrap dealers baling machines as compact pound bundles of potential trouble for our enemies OFF TO WAR by way of the steel mills and armament go these bales of scrap metal An crane lifts and loads the heavy bales Into freight cars where their compactness many cubic feet of precious chipping space
