Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - October 18, 1942, Waterloo, Iowa Show You Lend Your Share FIRST WITH THE NEWS The Weather Little change in Complete forecast for and unrounding on 2 W ESTABLISHED 1854 WATERLOO IOWA SUNDAY OCTOBER IS 1942 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES PRICE SEVEN CENTS PLANES AIDING SOLOMONS FIGHT Moscow Reports German Tank Attacks in Stalingrad Fail to Make Gain BREAKTHRU AT ONE SPOT LATER IS WIPED OUT By HENRY C CASSIDY Moscow Sunday Russians said today that the Red army held firm again Saturday against the all-out German drive inside the strewn city of Stalingrad in which four soviet withdrawals had been forced in the previous 60 hours The midnight soviet que said German tanks carrying broke thru sian lines at one point near a factory but that all the tanks had been destroyed by the end of the day At another place within the city the communique said the Germans hurled large numbers of tanks infantry and planes against Russian positions but failed to gain The intensity of the fighting was indicated by the heavy losses of German tanks which the que fixed at eight Planes Destroy Tanks The communique said eight ad- enemy tanks de- London Regular Roya air force units are again operating from north Russian bases helping the Red air force protect convoys and hunt in Arctic waters stated Saturday night in a Moscow dispatch to the Express This report of renewed RAF action over the Russian theatre followed by several hours a Berlin cast quoting a Budapest que to the effect that Hungarian fighters had shot down two planes bearing British markings over the Don fiver area of southern Russia j Conference OK's Huge Tax Pennant for Scrap Champions SE PUSSES TO Esther Douglas an employe of the war production con- servation division holds the pattern for a six-foot pennant which the WPB is going to award to counties across the nation which produce 100 pounds of scrap a person in the newspaper scrap drive The are to be flown from courthouses The pennant is shown In Washington by Red air force day on various sectors of the front Northwest of Stalingrad it was said the Russians consolidated their positions and in some sectors ried out local attacks At one point about a company of German infantry was wiped out and an ammunition dump blown up In the Mozdok area of the casus the Germans launched two attacks against Russian positions after an artillery bombardment but both attacks were repelled the communique said The Germans lost about 200 men In the engagements In the sector northwest of Moscow Russian guerrillas were said to have wrecked two German troop trains killing 400 men Big Battle in Stalingrad The big battle however was in Stalingrad where the Germans were attacking with four Infantry divisions and one tank division some men seeking to tear the Russian defenses from the foundation along the Volga and complete the occupation of the eton city The Russian position was more serious than at any time during the siege The Red army had succeeded in halting previous German assaults along a line of barricaded ries and apartment houses in the northern suburbs Now that this line was and partly at least in enemy hands new lines of defense were raised to cushion the latest re- treats but these were limited in depth Gruesome Scene The Russians now face the natives of standing firm under German battering on the west bank of the Volga itself or striking hard at the flanks of the nazi salient if Stalingrad is to be saved Dispatches described the ground as a gruesome scene of chines burning in streets Bodies were piled in mounds across which the Germans came constantly in attack after attack The Germans said they entered the Red barricade gun factory which with the Red October tory were the last strongholds ol Russian defense Numerous strong points and dug in tanks were reported over run and troops northwest of Stal ingrad were said to be isolated and facing annihilation Japanese Emperor Is Weak and Cowardly Generals 9 Days Before War Copyright 1942 by Associated Press Chicago Adolf Hitler in a roaring speech to his generals nine days before Ayar begaii expressed the deepest con- tempt for the rulers of Italy and Japan and told bluntly Our strength consists in our speed and in our brutality What was said at this notable meeting on the heights of gaden was reported for the first time Saturday by Louis Lochner former chief of the Associated Press reau in Berlin Lochner's source was authentic His information came from a German officer who risked his life to give it to him The date of Hitler's diatribe was Aug 22 1939 Roll Call Vote Less Than Week After Cail by White House EXPECT APPROVAL BY SENATE THIS WEEK Safe Now Looking imperiously over his collection of glittering boots and cropped heads the fuehrer ed out what he thought about that nitwit of a king in Italy and the treasonable scoundrel of a crown prince Unequivocally he expressed his distrust of Japan is a counterpart of last he said Weak cowardly undecided May he fall a victim to the lution The pact with land the fuehrer said with a dor inspired by the walls and faces of stone around him was made only to gain time The agreement Continued on page 2 column Berlin Radios New for Japs to Jump News Feature Index Page Afterthoughts 11 Believe It or Not 11 Boys and Girls Page 26 Brady's Health Talk 4 Bugs Baer 27 Cedar Falls News 17 City in Brief 6 Classified Ads Comics 28 Editorial 4 Farm News 17 Markets 20 Merry-Go-Round in News 4 Northeast Iowa Events 16 Parsons Movie Talk 14 Picture News 12 Private Radio Programs 20 Serial Story 11 Society Sports Theatre Uncle Ray's Corner 11 Uncle 11 War Activities Directory 4 Waterloo News 13 Winchell on Broadway 25 New York Germany broadcast what appeared to be another invitation to her Japanese accomplice to jump on Russia's back While German blood again flowed freely in Stalingrad and in spite of the fact that Nippon's hordes seem busy trying to recover lost positions in the Solomons the lin radio once more painted a de- tailed if somewhat rose-colored picture of Russia's alleged ness in the Far East The nazi broadcast picked up by International News Service in New York made not a single mention of Japan But there was no taking that it was meant primarily for Japanese ears Crash of 2 Cars Near Sigourney Sigourney young persons from Delta la were killed Saturday night in the crash of two automobiles on way ID one mile west of here Deputy Sheriff C V Banes of Keokuk county reported Banes listed the dead all of whom were believed to be be- tween the ages of 18 and 20 Ward Dawson who was killed outright in the crash Ruth Rohloff who died en route to a hospital and Mrs Rex Rogers who died in a Sigourney hospital Banes said no details of the were immediately known DISPATCH FROM VICHY REVEALS VERY LITTLE New following dispatch was received by the ed Press Saturday night from its Vichy Vichy Oct wholly Dutch Master Garcia Corina lOc Clears advertisement SAVE A LIFE IN Traffic Toll in City of Waterloo This Year and Last Since Same Jen 1 Date 1942 1041 Number of accidents 348 345 Number injured 99 127 Number killed 2 6 Washington D C The house performing what one member called a able but necessary passed Saturday a making youths of 18 and 19 subject to the draft The vote was 345 to 16 The measure goes next to the senate A was reported out by the senate military committee just Friday and is scheduled for action this week The step was recommended by President Roosevelt only five days ago It was estimated that men thus will be made available for building up the army to a planned strength of in 1943 After the elimination of the ically ineligible and others army officials estimated that some 000 of the 18 and olds would be inducted May Finish School Year The provides that those who are in high school or college may finish the present But after next July educational de- ferment would be forbidden It also contains a provision in- tended to defer the induction of married men as long as possible It does this by laying down a policy that no married man with children may be inducted while the state in which he resides still has eligible single men or childless married men Childless married men would receive the same preferential treatment as against single men Selective service headquarters some time ago instructed state directors to follow the policy of calling all single men in the state before inducting married men The legislation would make the policy mandatory Must Follow Advice of Army While some representatives stormed against drafting boy scouts and called for the induction first of all of the swivel chair soldiers and red tape artists in ington member after member often with frank reluctance an- his intention to vote for the measure Rep Kilday ly voiced the majority sentiment with an assertion that congress in the present situation can only follow the advice of the army They have told he said that they need the dash and or and courage of youth in the army They have told us that without these we are not in a favorable sition to win the war On that ba- sis I will vote for this Opponents of the measure sought to amend it so that out not could be drafted The move was defeated by a vote of 155 to 55 Another defeated amendment would have reduced the maximum draft age from 45 to 40 One particularly nettlesome demand from some ments of the house that the army be forbidden to send men with less than 12 months training into disposed of early in the day It was settled by a vote ing procedure under which no such amendment could be of- The voles of midwestern Democrats Republicans Gwynne Jensen Lecompte tin and Talle Democrats against Republicans none Smiling happily ian Miller missing from her San Francisco home for two days told police at Grants Pass Ore that she arrived there with a man and woman whom she called my new and my At Red Bluff Cal Mr and Mrs B B DuBois were held by police and warrants charging the couple with kidnaping were sued in San Francisco Biddle Seeking Sliffer Penalty for Espionage Washington D ney General Francis Biddle day night asked congress to enact legislation providing penalties of death or life imprisonment for one committing acts of sabotage or espionage or otherwise aiding the enemy He sent to House Speaker Sam Rayburn a proposed which would plug loopholes in ex- isting laws and benefit internal security in time of war The inadequacy of present law was revealed by legal ties which arose after the recent capture of the eight nazi saboteurs and the arrest of their 14 ates ft TO BILLS Measure Goes to House for Final Action Tuesday Then to Senate VICTORY TAX STIFFEST SINGLE LEVY INCREASE Bag 8 More Axis Planes at Malta Cairo Malta's stalwart de- fenders bagged eight axis planes Friday to raise their total to 115 so far this month in the theatre's greatest aerial assault described by Rome as in- tended to screen movement of re- to north Africa Against the terrific German and Italian losses in virtually sky battles the RAF reported loss of 23 Spitfires with pilots of eight reported safe Washington D C UP House and senate conferees reached complete agreement Saturday night on history's biggest revenue which will cost the taxpayers an al yearly The agreement was reached after the conferees had reinstated a levy on freight to pick up more for the treasury The measure will go to the house for its final action as soon as the conference report can be will be acted on by the senate after the house voles It is an excellent tax said Chairman Walter F George of the senate finance committee as conferees ended a record-breaking week of meetings adjusting on more than 500 senate amendments It doesn't do all that the com- of congress wish to do but no tax ever he continued Result Satisfactory The result of the conferences with the house have been most factory and the net result has been an increase of about over the total yield of the senate Chairman Robert L Doughton D-NC of the house ways and means committee when asked his opinion of the measure which in- cludes the 5 per cent Victory tax I guess it's all good as we can do There is plenty in it I suppose no one understands The Victory tax devised by the senate is levied on all gross in- comes over a week and em- sodies the stiffest single increase ever imposed on the American payer The last-minute reinstatement of he freight tax approved by the louse at 5 per cent and eliminated by the senate on testimony by price officials that it would be ary was put back in at 3 per cent Abandons Tax on Bets Also at the last minute the house agreed to abandon its on pari-mutuel wagering anc the senate gave up a proposal to establish a joint committee to work out a plan for compulsory savings The ways and means committee will have to start work soon on OFFICERS TO EXPLAIN PLAN ON CAMPUS AT SUI WANT FUR FOR SEAMEN Los Angeles Cal Three hundred furriers of Southern fornia have launched a nationwide drive for the collection of worn fur garments to be made over into Kned vests for seamen who arc ing vital war supplies to the allies Iowa City board of officers will be on the Uni- versity of Iowa campus to Friday of this week to explain the plan for enlistment of college men in the enlisted reserve corps of the army navy marine corps and coast guard The services with the ment of these programs for college students will have a reservoir from which they may draw as the cies of war demand especially for officer training The war department ranks mail next to food as a for morale But cargo space is priceless lowing Britain's example batches of letters are graphed on microfilm flown to world-scattered bases Once there the letters are turned into enlarged prints before delivery The Classified ads will put your idea into small print scatter it to the four corners of the community with results that buck you up too Like this one that sold a living room MOHAIR Boom Suite Amber color Like new Ph COURIER CLASSIFIED GIRLS Phono 7711 Continued on page 2 column Allies Map New Drives Into Burma New Delhi The ies appeared Saturday night to be laying the groundwork for new operations in this vital theatre of the war It was disclosed that Lieut Gen Claude Auchinleck former British commander in the Middle East had arrived in New Delhi This coincided with the return of Gen Sir Archibald P Wavell British commander in India from a four-day tour of the Burma frontier The British broadcasting cor- said that Lieut Gen seph tV Stilwell commander of American forces in India Burma and China had arrived in New Delhi from Chungking and would confer with Wavell Sunday The purpose of Auchinleck's visit was not revealed but it was be- to concern the question of when to begin a major move to re- take Burma from the Japanese Since leaving Egypt Auchinleck has been somewhere in northern India Weather conditions in Burma gradually are becoming more for military action Torrential monsoon rains which recently have prevented both the Japanese and British from con- ducting extensive operations on the frontier are clearing up ly It appeared significant that America's air strength in India and China has been increased during the last two months Many new bases have been con- by hundreds of fast ing American and British engineers The British have been method of to cope with American In- dian tactics employed by the Japanese War Work Needs More Women in 1943 Defense Director James M Landis said that the nation's war tries would require more women in 1943 and intimated that most of them would have to be childless Landis said the new women workers would bring to the number employed in war plants He spoke before the Federation of Women's clubs He urged directors of the ation to spread among American womanhood a true sense of war and urged greater co-operation in campaigns to vage household wastes NAVY RESCUE BOAT NAMED SNATCH San Francisco boa now on the ways has been the U S S Snatch It's a navy rescue boat One of its functions will be to snatch seamen from rafts and life boats Where Allies Clashing With Japs STATUTE MILES BOUGAINVILLE I OCT 15 TROOPS GUADALCANAL OCT 13 TROOPS LAND CRISTOBAL SOLOMON IS American and Japanese land sea and air forces are locked in a gigantic battle for possession of Guadalcanal island in the Solomons maxing a four-day give and take fight in which both sides landed The navy said the action started Oct 12 Oct 11 U S time with U S air attacks on Japanese installations M far away as Buka Island and on shipping off New Georgia Island heavy U S reinforcements landed on Guadalcanal Oct 13 while Japanese air and oca units bombarded American positions on Guadalcanal Oct 13 and 14 broken line Japanese reinforcements landed on tha land Oct 15 Navy Reports No Major Land Fighting Has Developed Yet on Guadalcanal ANOTHER JAP CRUISER TORPEDOED REPORT SAYS Gen Mac Arthur's ers in airmen out the southwest Pacific war spent Friday and nights engaged in a grim sky war to relieve the pressure on American marines on in the This was revealed today when announced that four key Japanese strongholds in the mon islands and New Britain were blasted heavily by Flying Fortresses and medium bombers Meanwhile hard-fighting ian ground troops Crossing in the vital toda gap of the Owen Stanley mountains in New Guinea The veteran jungle lighters pushed back L the Japanese lace of heavy resistance cap- tured the crossing after several days of hard lighting x Drive Allied medium bombers ing the base at Buka Friday night of high in the dispersal areas and among grounded aircraft starting huge fires and apparently exploding munition and fuel Observers at headquarters said heavy damage was believed have been inflicted on Buka a place for enemy bombers and fighters bound for the Solomon battle cones i Meanwhile at Buin Flying For- tresses pounded the airdrome auxiliary installations starting great fires at this enemy base in the Solomons Grounded airplanes also were attacked At Shortland island in the area an allied armed sance plane bombed a large enemy transport from a low level with unknown results Meet Serious Washington D land sea and forces Saturday night were meeting a serious enemy sault in the Solomons and the navy announced that one more Jap cruiser had already been torpedoed a transport set afire and a second believed damaged by bombs The navy department's com- breaking a 24-hour silence on the progress of the raging battle for control of the strategic islands also revealed that the Americans are still using the vital Guadalcanal port despite repeated ing by enemy shellfire The navy said that no major land fighting had developed at latest reports and that U S losses have been minor so Jar But the department warned simultaneously that the outcome of the conflict is still un- decided and that in a battle of this nature losses must be ex- No mention was made of a enemy fleet concentration which had been previously said to be lying off Savo island to the north of Guadalcanal Second Group Sighted A second group of Jap ships in- eluding battleships and other heavy units had been sighted several days ago hovering ominously several hundred miles further north Only cruisers and destroyers screening transport movements in the southeastern section of the island were mentioned in Saturday's communique and except for the in- of sea forces among the defenders of the was no hint of surface naval action But army navy and marine men have been steadily carrying the fight to the enemy Amplifying news of the ly Jap air attack on Guadalcanal Oct 15 the navy stated three Jap bombers and Jap fighters were shot down during that action During the same night enemy surface vessels again bombarded American on UM but a torpedo hit was scored on a Jap cruiser when American naval planes attacked a group of vessels to the eastward ol
