Tucson Daily Citizen (Newspaper) - October 10, 1942, Tucson, Arizona YOUR The Tucson Dally Americans lo our Buj War Savings Stamps or Bonds Buy them regularly TODAY TUCSON ARIZONA SATURDAY EVENING OCTOBER 10 1942 Lati Neut Edition FIVE PAGES VOL NO M T German Attack On Stalingrad Grows Weaker First Break For Reds Comes After 47 Days Of Bloody Battle ARE DEAD Infantry Assaults Of Minor Nature Are Reported There By SHAPIRO MOSCOW Oct 10 For the first time in the bloody battle of ingrad a Soviet communique reported today only small infantry attacks Communiques and dis- patches for clays bad described almost hourly assaults upon ingrad bv thousands of planes tanks and divisions of shock troops Today came the attacks were now small the Germans an- that they would abandon frontal attacks on Stalingrad at least of them had died and try to reduce what was left of it by concentrated artillery fire On other sectors there was an exchange of artillery and mortar the noon communique said Of fighting in Stalingrad the communique Official Statement In the Stalingrad area Soviet troops repulsed small infantry at- tacks On one sector a German Infantry company 300 men tried to penetrate a Soviet stronghold and were repulsed by machine gun and mortar fire It retired to its initial positions On other sectors there was an exchange of artillery and mortar fire dispatches reported that Marshal driving down be- tween the Don and Volga rivers to the relief of Stalingrad had again surged forward and captured a number of German strongholds The Germans fiercely tacked in efforts to regain the lost These dispatches said but the Russians hurled them back with big losses Northwest of Stalingrad the theater of Timoshenko's counter- offensive a Soviet unit repulsed five enemy infantry attacks and killed the noon communique said On another sector a Soviet patrol unit attacked at night killed 70 of the enemy and blew up an ammunition dump The communique also reported that attacks on the Mozdok area of the eastern Caucasus where the Germans were trying to drive to the Grozny old fields had been hurled back Company Wiped Out On one sector Germans ported by tanks thrice attempted to break through Soviet lines and were the communique said Soviet troops destroyed three tanks and wiped out a com- pany of infantry One Russian was ad- mitted southeast of Novorossisk the Black Sea naval base the mans occupied three weeks ago The Germans attacked an In- habited locality southeast of No- for five days and lost a battalion 500 the noon com- said Finally after ing up tank reinforcements the Germans penetrated the outskirts of the locality where fighting now Js raging Soviet troops are annihilating the enemy's the com- asserted Leningrad Action Soviet patrols and trench tars killed 200 Germans and knocked out four guns and two trench mortar batteries on the Leningrad front Antiaircraft See RUSSIANS on Page 11 Willkie Homeward Bound From China Prisoners Manacled In Canada Following Action Taken By Foe OTTAWA Oct the expiration of a noon deadline Canadian authorities issued an order today to start manacling German prisoners of war in re- for similar actions by the Germans against Canadians and Britons captured in the raid on Dieppe word had been received from Swiss to whom tho Canadian reprisal threat had been delivered last night for transmission to Berlin Canada proceeded in accordance with her ultimatum Government officials said that both Britain and Canada were prepared to manacle German of- and men equivalent to the number of British prisoners the Germans had already placed in is men and 107 officers of the prisoners taken at Dieppe Most of the prisoners taken hy the Germans at Dieppe were Canadians Canadians made up the bulk of the force which on August 10 made the sance in force at that French coastal city and fought the man defenders for hours CHUNGKING Oct 10 IF Wendell L Willkie was homeward bound today from a fact-finding mission in 13 countries during which he urged speedy ment of a second European front and Increased Allied aid for China He took off from Chengtu tal of province In tral China at dawn yesterday after sn inspection of some of Chiang front line troops The announcement was withheld until today for his safety to con- ceal his movements from the nese Willkie is expected to go directly to Washington to report to dent Roosevelt Inspection of the nese front on the Yellow river wound up the visit of Willkie who was an artillery officer in the World War He was flown Thursday from Sian to Chengtu arriving after dark He had dinner said his and went to bed at the drome hostel At boarded Senate Works Overtime To Pass Tax Action On Measure Is Expected By Night Barkley Says Oct 10 The Senate today adopted an amendment to the tax de- scribed by its author as in fect depriving wealthy of their present privilege of deducting for tax purposes any Josses In sideline horse racing Allies Smash Axis Airbases In Desert Area American Fliers Join With British In Heavy Raids 20 PLANES DOWNED Bombers Fighters In Daring Daylight Sweeps By LEON KAY CAIRO Oct 10 American air units joined with those of their Allies in a daylight smash at Axis desert airfields yesterday it was an- today sharing In a bag of at least 20 Axis planes shot down in the air and many more blasted to bits on the ground U S headquarters announced that American fighters carried out more than a score of sorties during the big desert sweep escorting bomber squadrons and engaging in missions The fighters reported shooting down one Messerschmitt 109 Two more were scored as probables and at least one more was damaged The fighters destroyed a number WASHINGTON Oct 10 senate works over- time today to pass the most gigantic tax in history including the stiffest income levies ever imposed on the ican taxpayer Foregoing its usual Saturday re- cess and meeting an hour early for the fifth consecutive day the chamber expects to complete tion Qn the be- fore nightfall Senate Democratic Leader Alben W Barkley hopes the job can be done in four hours After approving the five per cent victory tax on individual gross incomes over and rejecting President Roosevelt's re- quest for higher social security levies the senate was close to passage late yesterday But when leaders learned that Sen Robert M La Prog Wls had additional they final action Three Proposals La Follette has three proposals under consideration and may er all of them They 1 Repeal of the present tion allowance on oil and gas wells and certain mines in cordance with treasury dations to plug loopholes in existing law and raise more annually For oil and gas wells the present depletion ance is per cent for sulphur mines 23 per cent for metal mines 15 per cent and for coal mines 5 per cent 2 Increased individual surtaxes to raise another La Follette wants to ease the rate on the first of taxable in- come but increase it on the middle and higher brackets to a top rate of 85 per cent on income above This compares with a top surtax rate in the senate of 82 per cent 3 Higher estate and gift taxes to raise an additional The senate makes no change in existing rates Tax Too La Follette claimed that the ate by adopting the victory levy literally was taxing the bread off the poor man's table He said a man attempting to live on a little more than a week would have to give up food or dental care for his children On the strength of his argument he persuaded the senate to in- crease the tax on champagne to 10 See TAXES on Page 11 ARIZONA FLIER IS READY TO PAY BET Oct in OT American fighter pilots ants Edward A Tovrea of nix Ariz and William B nant of Vineland N J agreed when they arrived In England that the first one shot down or captured would have to pay the other Tovrea was shot down last Aug 19 in the battle of Dieppe and taken prisoner His squadron received a card from him today with this message to You win the twenty bucks Come and get of by gunfire and set afire some Nazi tanks on the desert Three or more gun emplacements were clown up Is First Score For the first time an American pilot flying an American plane Jn an American operational unit shot down a German plane in the desert He was 2nd Lieut William J Mount Osawatomie Kansas American heavy bombers it was revealed carried out an attack Thursday on a large tanker and fuel installations at Suda Bay Crete with excellent results They re- ported seven direct hits and five near misses oh the tanker and eight direct hits and five near es on the oil tanks All the planes returned safely During the big operation over the desert squadrons of gined bombers attacked the Axis shipping in Bengasi harbor ping several bombs on the outer mole and scoring several near misses A medium-sized merchant ship See EGYPT on Page 11 Argentina And Chile Protest Welles Stand Accusations May Result In Cancellation Of Bios Visit To U S WASHINGTON Oct 10 Chile's protest against Acting of State Welles speech in which he asserted Chile was being used as a base for Axis agents ivas conveyed to dent Roosevelt today by the Chilean ambassador Welles also attended the ence at the White House lasted for 43 minutes WASHINGTON Oct 10 The United States embassy in Aires has notified the Ar- gentine government that this country has cancelled credits extended by the Export-Import bank and the treasury department It was learned today SANTIAGO Chile Oct 10 The government's resentment over United States Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles remarks about Chilean and Argentine aroused speculation today whether President Juan Antonio Rios would cancel his projected visit to Washington Welles the Nation Foreign Trade convention in Boston day night that Chile and Argentina were letting Axis agents stab the See ARGENTINA on Page 11 Jap Position In Aleutians Weaker Yells Uncle Quisling arch traitor of Norway and German puppet ruler appealed yesterday to It to stop the reign of terror in Norway Instead of sub the Norwegians the harsh treatment by the Nazis has Intensified their hatred to the point of open 48 Nazi Ships Shot Down By U S Bombers Weak Reply Made To Attacks Yesterday On LONDON Oct The U S Army bomber com- mand tonight reported that American planes shot down 48 Nazi fighters during the Lille operation yesterday Previous unofficial estimates had credited the American fliers with 41 planes Another five were de- by Allied fighters Air raid sirens shrieked In the London area during the morning rush hour in the first daylight alarm in months when a lone enemy reconnaissance plane streaked across the home counties outside the city A lone raider bombed a southeast coast town Four attempting to at- tack a southeast coast town were driven off and jettisoned their bombs in open fields The German pilot on another plane which attempted an attack in the southeastern area bailed out to be made a prisoner when anti- aircraft guns smashed his plane and it was reported that two more planes had been downed RAP fcs Bad weather grounded the Royal Air Force heavy bomber planes of the night shift and conditions were unfavorable this morning for ations from the Allied day shift It was indicated that Germany had expected daylight raids sibly extending to the German In- Berlin announced last night that its broadcasting service would open a half hour this morning 9 a m 1 a m MWT instead of a m for technical reasons Jubilant crews of Army bombers claiming a bag of 41 German planes themselves in their attack on Lille yesterday in addition to five downed by escort fighters said they had given their answers to critics of American military planes The Army put into its attack perhaps the most formidable planes the world has ever seen in new Consolidated in action for the first time and Boeing Flying Fortress Escorted by their own fighter See RAIDS on Page 11 U S Attacks Gradually Breaking Foothold On Islands By WALTER LOGAN WASHINGTON Oct 10 analysis of recent Navy communiques indicated today that Japanese resistance on Kiska island in the enemy base in that becoming progressively i weaker The Navy's latest report on the situation describing an Oct 6 raid by Army dropped a total of 5 tons of bombs on enemy positions significantly mentioned no resistance One Jap seaplane was destroyed on the water but Navy made no mention enemy planes in the air Resistance Slight A communique on Wednesday said the islands of Attu and apparently have been abandoned by the Invaders that only slight anti-aircraft opposition was tered and all of our aircraft re- turned Six seaplane fighters were shot down in that encounter but previous communiques had mentioned crack Zero fighters in the area The lessening of resistance does not necessarily mean that the enemy is ready to pull out of the Aleutians On the they are believed to be digging in in preparation for further heavy at- Army ress and Liberator bombers The base at Kiska is too tant to be given up without a gle It provides a check on can movements in the Aleutians through aerial reconnaissance and more important provides a base where Japanese submarines may One Destroyer Is Sunk And Cruiser Set Afire In Guadalcanal Battle Biggest Jap Base Wrecked By U S Bomber Raid GEN MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS Australia Oct 10 machine shops supply depots barracks and defense installations of the greatest Japanese base in the southwest Pacific lay in ruin today after a shattering attack by Allied heavy bombing planes on Rabaul in New Britain island of the marcks Gen Douglas MacArthur put Into the attack the greatest force of heavy bombers ever used in this theater to smash a base which is a constant menace to the Marines in the Solomons and his own forces in New Guinea Driving through furious craft gunfire Consolidated lina medium bombers hit the baul area in the dead of night incendiaries throughout the target Biggest The biggest force of Boeing ing Fortresses ever sent against a target in up with GO bombs picking their targets by the light of fires and explosions the incendiaries had caused While some planes attacked base this zone followed tons of demolition and rearmed and fresh targets others blew up enemy gun crews put aboard Then too the batteries and searchlight positions enemy would lose face at home from Rabaul on The latest Navy communique re- See ALEUTIANS on Page 11 British Admit Nazi Prisoners Were Shackled Unauthorized Action Was Countermanded After Complaint Received By NED RUSSELL LONDON Oct 10 The Brit- ish government in a formal state- ment today said that the hands of German prisoners taken at Dieppe and also at Sark had been tied and that some of the Nazis cap- tured at Sark had been shot when they broke away and tried to give the alarm The statement said that the ing of prisoners hands at Dieppe was unauthorized and that the der had been countermanded when the German government com- The lengthy statement did not disclose whether German prisoners have been shackled in retaliation for the Nazi action in shackling British prisoners taken at Dieppe This action had been announced for noon today Reason Given The Germans taken in the raid on the isle Sark it was said had their hands tied so that their arms could be linked with those of their Some of the Sark prisoners broke away the state- ment said and attempted to give the alarm by shouting The Brit- ish raiders shot these men the statement said It was understood that Prime Winston Churchill was planning a formal statement to the house of commons on the shackling affair Political sources said that there was considerably more be- hind the German action than was apparent on the surface Edgar L Granville Liberal ber of parliament raised a demand See PRISONERS on Page 11 their way home the plane crews still saw the fires Beaufort ers the tough combat planes de- by the British Royal Air Force and North American medium bombers attacked the drome dispersal area and front supply depots at Lae on the north New Guinea coast Their 16 tons of bombs sent smoke and debris from fires and explosions belching hundreds of feet into the air The Beauforts raked huts buildings and gun positions with cannon and machine gun fire in face of a fierce enemy barrage A third force of planes dated bombed j drome runway and plane dispersal area at Buka northernmost of the Solomons islands Reconnaissance Fortresses troling over St George's channel between Rabaul and New Ireland islands in the Bismarcks shot down two of three intercepting Japanese fighters and drove off the WASHINGTON Oct 10 Navy announced day that a Japanese destroyer was sunk and a destroyer and cruiser damaged when dive bombers and torpedo planes at- tacked enemy warships backing up landing operations at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands The enemy succeeded in reinforcing his troops on canal site of the the Solomons despite Taking Toll Of Allied Shipping Off African Bulge By JOSEPH MORTON A UNITED NATIONS BASE IN WEST AFRICA Oct 10 IF new model German U- boats fought to a standstill in the north Atlantic are striking renewed blows against Allied shipping off the bulge of West Africa apparently plans laid years in advance and with the help of tries which are technically tral The names and of ships sunk and many other de- tails arc shrouded in censorship but flaming fact Is not arc off West Africa in number and are hard at work By visiting towns and native Tillages many miles of sun-baked coast questioning men from ships and talking to re- sponsible officials I am able to piece together the story behind much of the German activity Prom survivors of nearly n dozen torpedoed ships I learned that most of the enemy subs arc small sized craft mounting on their towers British Intelligence reports able to every Allied sea captain indicate this practice was cd only since the start of the war There arc restrictions on ing how much is known about the bases from which these Nazi craft operate but it is permitted to disclose that the focal point of mysterious activity is fabled Cape Palmas jutting into lie Sea at the extreme southwestern cor- ner of the African bulge In the fourth attack of a big day MacArthur's Lockheed Hudson dium bombers destroyed a sized enemy merchantman aged in a previous attack at in the Tanimbar lands off the north Australian coast In all these operations dented in MacArthur's territory not a single plane was lost On the land front the ians in the Owen Stanley tains of New Guinea contacted enemy patrols for the first time since they started their drive from village 32 air miles from Port Moresby more than one week ago Contact Effected Contact was effected in the koda gap area between Lake and village on the Port Moresby side and Templeton's Crossing which is just over the edge of the gap The enemy patrols were small and dispatches from the front reported and it was in- that the Australians would probe farther northward in light patrols in an attempt to determine how far the enemy were prepared to their retreat The Propaganda Front By WILLIAM L SHIRER As might have been expected Dr no man to miss an opening has jumped in with both feet and half a hundred powerful radio to exploit the ences of opinion between the three principal United tions over the second front Berlin's main propaganda aim has always been to split the United States from Britain and then Russia from the United States and Britain In many ways the latent anti-British feeling in some quarters in this country a similar anti-American sentiment in certain cles in Britain and above all Soviet suspicion of the two western capitalist nations and Anglo-American suspicion of the phenomena have eased the ganda task Recent statements by Stalin and Willkie and the lack of London and Washington made job gyen easier Moreover they have come at just the right time to help him out of a hole For he has had his hands full of late bucking up a sagging morale on the home front In this propaganda the Nazis it must be admitted have tried to be very astute They have at- tempted to kill two birds with one stone trying not only to widen the wedge between Moscow on the one hand and the other but at the same time to convince the world that the United States and Britain themselves are also at odds over the second front Thus Berlin and Rome hammered away all last week Charge false that Mr Willkie had placed for the failure to open a second front on Mr Churchill and that the British press had not been mitted to publish in full Mr Willkie's statement Great Britain then is made the main villain inthe of the ffi HO U S Britain Will Give Up China Rights Offer To Abandon Special Privileges Long Held In That Country WASHINGTON Oct 10 The United States and Great tain setting an example of cratic processes today announced their willingness to negotiate for abandonment of their rights in China The step was revealed by the state department last night A simultaneous announcement in London told of Britain's ness to surrender her privileges is a system whereby a nation maintains diction over its citizens who are in another country Thus citizens of the United States in China have been subject to the laws and courts of this country rather than those of China Similarly British zens in China have been subject to British laws and courts rather than Chinese Acting Secretary of State ner Welles notified the new nese ambassador Dr Wei Ming that this country wishes to negotiate promptly a treaty viding for immediate ment of this country's rights They were first acquired under a treaty negotiated in 1844 National Anniversary Welles statement came on the occasion of China's national an- It was accompanied disclosure of a letter sent by Seo CHINA on Page 11 Charged In Herlihy Case BISBEE Oct 10 counsel in the murder trial of Margaret Herlihy has filed an at- of bias and ana asked that a judge other than Superior Judge John Wilson Ross of Cochise county hear the case The affidavit was taken under advisement by Judge Ross Wes Policy and Frank Thomas Miss attorneys county attorney's office have agreed upon Judge Howard C Speakman of Maricopa county Miss Herlihy is charged with murdering Capt David Carr Fort rine corps A Navy communique describing the attacks which occurred earlier this week also reported that the enemy had lost a total of seven planes a small launch in recent actions as against the loss of two American planes Cruiser Burning The cruiser a vessel of the Kako class was hit by one pedo and several bombs and set afire It was observed still ing many hours after being at- tacked The communique added to pre- vious reports on Japanese bases in the northern Solomons the tion that concurrent with those at- tacks on October 5 in- which a fleet task force participated Army Navy and Marine corps craft had made at- tacks on enemy positions at Buka island Gizo island and bay all in the northwestern Solomons The task force the Navy had re- ported on Thursday damaged enemy ships of a concentration at Island in the Solomons Coordinated corps action it was disclosed day resulted in damage to several planes at Buka and in destruction of three and a small launch as well as damage to beach installations at Bay suits to Gizo were not observed Action Told Recounting the actions In which the Japanese destroyers and the cruiser were successfully attacked the Navy's communique said that on the night of October a force of six enemy destroyers was at- tempting to assist enemy landing operations at the northwestern end of Guadalcanal island These ships had been sighted by American planes Under cover of darkness Navy and Marine corps and torpedo planes made their at- tacks sinking one destroyer and damaging another Then on the night of October the enemy continued to reinforce his troops on Guadalcanal but the communique did not report any American for that night On the evening of October 8 however an enemy surface force was discovered northwest of It was covering landing operations on the northwestern tip of the island and consisted of the Kako class cruiser and five de- The cruiser was hit by one pedo and was further damaged by bombs and four enemy seaplanes were shot down during the sir battle which followed the attack It was at this time that the two American planes were lost The Navy said that airplane ob- servation on the afternoon of Octo- ber 9 showed that the cruiser was still afire The three ships reported hit In today's communique raised to 38 the total of Japanese ships an- as sunk or damaged In the Solomons campaign so far and latest plane loss reports raised total of Japanese planes destroyed in that campaign to 245 SUPERVISORS STUDY REQUEST FOR CLERK Plans for a stenographer in the office of Mrs Belle D Hall clerk of superior court are now being discussed by the board of supervisors Gladstone Mackenzie clerk of the board said Mrs Hall recently requested that she be given help as her work in furnishing certificates of marriage is falling behind These are re- quested by dependents of soldiers in order to obtain benefit ments which the government de- ducts from soldiers yap Japanese Evacuees Begin Cotton Work PHOENIX Oct 10 teers from the Japanese relocation center near Parker soon will begin picking long staple cotton m the vicinity of their camp Governor Osborn was advised Soldiers will guard the daries of the area In which the evacuees are working For the last few weeks fers from the Rivers relocation center near Sacaton have beea
