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i 9• •fV I• *HISTORIC CITYi,I. .RECORD SCRAP HARVESTWEATHERtSlightly warmer tonight.# *SYRACUSEJo U RNALEDITION.VOL. GO, NO. 10,331.SYItACUSE, N. Y.j TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBEIt 20, 1012.HOME DELIVERY TWENTY-FOUR CENTS A WtZKSINGLE COPY ITVE CRITSChurchill Deprecates Talk About Time orPlace of 2d FrontAt Same Time, BBC Warns France Invasion • Is Surely ComingMADAGASCAR WONPrime Minister Says Last Remaining French Port Has FallenLondon, Sept. 29 UF).—Prime Minister Churchill voiced emphaticidisapproval of speculation on the time or place of a second front, as the subject cropped up in the House of Commons today and as the BBC broadcast to France that an Allied offensive “is in the making.”Church ill’s remarks were pro* voked by a question from Capt. Peter MacDonald which was pref* need by the assumption that “the period of offensive operations by tiie United Nations is. now approaching.”As Parliament met for the first time since Sept.. 11, a high officer ofthe British Army broadcast in French that “today more than ever before the possibilities of a Britishand Allied landing on French soilmust be foreseen.”The message followed the pattern of previous BBC broadcasts to Fiance. It told the French that there would be no advance warningof the day or point of attack butthat “the offensive of the AlliedNations is in the making.”} J ..Rebuke by Churchill, MacDonald was anxious lest someone with inside Information Indiscreetly tip off the enemy with too free talk. In response to the member's request for a \\ford of caution, Churchill said:”1 welcome this opportunity, of10 Boys Killed As Nazis Bomb , British SchoolLondon, Sept. 29 UP).—A German raider, diving out of the clouds this morning, bombed a boys' school In a small town near the south coast and killed at least ten boys and two teachers. Others were injured.Troops and townspeople who recovered the 12 bodies searched on for hours in the heaped debris for others who might have been killed or trapped. All but one of the school walls? collapsed.There were 100 boys In the school when the bombing occurred, and many still were unaccounted for.900 Tons of.Scrap TakenT o StationsWorkers Make Headwaj in Collection Task; More Metal NeededVILLAGE PILES RISEk •Marcellus May Exceed Its Drive Quota by Almost 100 TonsNazis Seize1,400 MoreU.S. Citizens*^____1,7S0 Now Held in Occupied France; Women Interned in ParisVichy, Sept. 20 (UP). — The United States Embassy learned through official channels today that 1,400 additional Americans—1,000 men and 400 women—have been Interned by German authorities In Occupied France.The new arrests brought to 1,780 the total of Americans now in German hands.The roundup began last Thursday when most of the internees were arrested, it was understood, butCity Hall Bell to Help Sound Requiem forWith announcement today of thegift of the City Hall’s historic bell, two and one-half more tons of precious scrap was added to the Syracuse metal harvest, a harvest steadily approaching the goal of 100 pounds per capita of.population. That 100 pounds means 10,-282 tons for the citizens of Syracuse, a total of 14,735 tons for Onondaga County. •More and more of the scrap needed to keep the country’s steel furnaces pouring it out, continued the urgent demand of War Production Board chieftains in Washington, as locally the gathering in of piles in front of homes and farms continued the priority pr5b-lem of salvage leaders. These tireless workers are making headway in their gigantic collection effort, and at the same time adding their appeal for continued search of cellars, garrets and lofts for the last ounce of metal.Thirty trucks gathered In 265 ad-ditional tons of scrap yesterday \ afternoon, trucks manned by Department of Public Works employes who rushed through their regular collection of rubbish only to jump into the salvage job, and trucks manried by volunteers. More than 900 tons, the campaign leaders say, are now in the six junkyards designated as depots.Village Piles MountingCommunity pi!es*are mounting In the villages.’Manlius started piling Its collective effort in front of a building on the main street and If the residents add much more to their scrap heap, they won’t be able to see the building. Marcellus hasSoviets Lash Foe on FrontOf 40 MilesOffensive Northwest of Rzhev Clears Germans From Volga BankTANKS BEATEN OFFCITY HALL’S historic 84-year-ohl bell, pift to the Scrap Harvest, held a partin': reception in the stately tower this loomin':. Bearing the naina of Syracuse’s ninth mayor. Charles-F. Williston, the date lS-lS, the two and onc-half-tou piece pies by order of the city’s 4.‘td mayor, Thomas E. Kennedy, to flic tear etTort. I-eft to rifdit in picture are Mayor Kennedy; Scrap Colonel William Ii. Stark, in cliarpe of scrap collection; Edward S. Barlow, campaign publicity chairman; (Scrap Majors Sherman Oslmrn and A. M. Chogull; F. Ware Clarv. countv salvage co-administratorj and L'itv Engineer XeNonF. I’itts.Ivey Heights Taken by Russians in DaringNight AttacksMoscow, Sept. 29 —A Russian offensive northwest of Rzhev i was reported today to have cleared the Germans from a bank of the upper Volga while Soviet troops expanded flanking attacks from i the lower Volga to the . Don bendiin an effort to relieve the em*[battled garricon of Stalingrad.A fre.sh German penetrationijfrcm the northwest added to the gravity of Stalingrad’s position. jNazi tanks pivoted and charged | within a workers ’settlement in ;nn effort to held the gains of a !b!oodv assault vestcrdav. Through-i — ▼ — ' ’i; out the city victory and defeatjwerc measured at times in yards.Whi Russian street tightenstruggled to hold their own, Soviet forr^' ncrthwo-t of Stalingrad ad-.ranted somewhat and captured several heights in swift night [assaults, the noon communique raid. It reported more than three companies of Germans were wiped out and prisoners were taken.( Front 40 Mile* WideField dispatches indicated that fighting flamed along a front of more than 40 miles as Marshal Semecn Timoshenko’s shock troops struck down against the Axis flank across the Don-Valga corridor. A Nazi-occupied stronghold and two villages were declared recaptured.It was Stalingrad's 36th day of siege.Rzhev sector fortifications which the Germans were II months
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Tue, Sep 29, 1942
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