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poal Man Among Those Charged With Interfering In Prosecution of War.

i GTON, Aug. 31 (U. PJ). o discharged war production officials and three dealers in machine tools were indicted iy by a federal grand jury here charges of conspiracy to defraud United States and interfere the prosecution of the war, pbert B. Rhoads, of Indians, and Ralph L. Glaser, New Conn., chief and assistant if, respectively of the available i tool section of the WPB tolls 1C until relieved: of “their es Aug. 4 also were charged in separate indictments with makp false returns to the government. pth were full time WPB employees | .annual salaries of $6500 each. Indicted on the conspiracy charge “with Rhoads and Glaser were Louis 5 merman, president of Louis E. 3 an & Co., Chicago, one of y 1 t machine tool dealers of 1h untry; Clarence J. O’Brien, a ¥ in the O'Brien Machinery elphia, and his nephew, L. O'Brien Jr., an associate : same firm. ution had been requested 1 Donald M. A of hn Lord. OBr WES §

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be two years’ imprisonhy 0.000 fine, or both. The Fou ‘charge carries possilaXimum penalties of 10 years’

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a I and Glaser, : the con3 indictment charged, con-

5 d with Emerman and the two i ns to prevent critically reA © machine tools from being 2 ated to war contracts. Rhoads LG) r additionally were charged

selling, at a profit of $30,000 hemselves, an option on machine § they received from Emerman. . false” returns indictment Rhoads and Glaser with 1g false returns for expenses 6h they charged to the governit on trips to Philadelphia, Chi- : ) and Qlsewhere in carrying out ed conspiracy.

; Machines Xdle. 6 ‘Weeks

i5 alleged in the indictment that piracy resulted in vitally I machine tools with a mare in excess of $150,000 to In idle ‘for a period of more } six weeks,” since no report on avaibility was made. indictment charges. that owned 71 used machine ‘which © ‘had been, but were no {Continued on Page Two) IDON ‘UNAWARE’ JF ISLAND ATTACK Aug. 31 (U. P)— ve quarters said today had no knowledge of a attempt” by British forces island of Antikythera north- [ Crete reported by. the- Italcommand, but military

believed if the attack’ oci 1t probably was a commando

* Ttalland reported that a [ enemy force which promptly julsed by our garrison” atid to land on the island, | the communique identified - Italian name Ceridotto, y night. observers said a comjo thrust might have been car- ; to destroy the island's

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Descendant - of John Paul Jones Reports at Smith College.

Two Indianapolis women, one a descendant of John Paul Jones, held “marching orders” today from WAVES, the women’s division of the navy. They were Miss Dorothy Elizabethe Paul, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Paul, 123 N. Hermann st, a descendant of the Revolutionary war hero, and Miss Misia ANdOMTS Harper 3 Ransburg, 4002)"

‘Both are to report to ‘Smith college, Northampton,” Mass. Ranked as an ensign, Miss Ransburg left ‘yesterday and Miss Paul expects. to within two or three weeks. Miss Ransburg graduated from ‘DePauw university in 1939, a major in psychology, and for the last two years has had charge of personnel work at the Harper J. Ransburg Co. Miss Paul worked her way through the University of Kentucky, gradu= ating in June, magna cum laude. She. has been employed at Lilly's.

F.D.R. MAKES FIRST OF 3 TALKS TODAY

Navy =" Medical Center at 3:30 o’Clock.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (U.P.).— President Roosevelt, in the: first of three speeches within a week, is expected to emphasize today that ef-

forts .to save the lives of Americans at war are being ‘carried ou as efficiently as the efforts to destroy enemy lives. He speaks this afternoon at the dedication of ‘the. new naval medical center at nearby Bethesda, Md., on the 100th - anniversary -of . the founding of the naval bureau of medicine and - surgery, His address will take 10° minutes on a 30-minute late afternoon radio. program which will ‘include ‘on-the-spot broadcasts from naval medical stations on. the fighting fronts. = -Follows the Motto

The white skyscraper medical center, ‘towering over -the Maryland countryside just outside Washington, symbolizes the growth of the navy medical service and the activation of the bureau's motto, “To keep as many men at as many guns as many days as possible.” : On Thursday the president will make what ds expected to be an im-| portant war address, speaking to an S|international youth conference here. - On Labor day Mr. Roosevelt will announce his new program to combat ‘inflation. Sending a’ message to

congress ‘ and . following it with a|

“fireside chat” to the nation.

IRUSS USE NEW GUN;

“SPEAKS WITH ROAR’

LONDON, Aug. 31 (U. P.).—The Exchange Telegraph agency

reported A is

the Russians have put a new secret

Weagon: into’ action—thé Katyushaiq :

The gun was said to have' been employed - with special success in the Rahev attack and was described

Sli desstan * that they had heard

PBL BACKS RUML'S PLAN,

9 Out of 10 Questioned in 18 Cities Prefer to Pay-as-You-Go.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—A hurried canvass of public opinion dis closes that the Ruml plan for pay-as-you-go income taxation is overwhelmingly popular with all classes of taxpayers. Newspaper reporters, polling people in all walks of life in the 18 cities where Scripps-Howard newspapers are published, found that about nine out of 10 persons questioned hoped the Ruml plan would Je adopted and believed it would benefit the taxpayers and the treasury alike, There seems to be practical unanimity for the pay-as-you-go principle among salary . earners and wage earners. Many of these admitted that they had been enjoy-

that they hadn’t been setting aside

that will be due next March 15. Favor Deduction Plan

tax deduction from pay checks. Here are some typical comments:

on us. Pay-as-you-go’ sounds “An Indianapolis —F 1 tH know dozens of taxpayers Whe' have to borrow money every year at high interest rates to meet their income

month and-avoid piling up a tax debt.” : ‘A Swell Idea’

a man can write a check for ‘any

him, but’ for the working man, I think it’s a swell idea. A Cincinnati Housewife—“I run my home on a budget. I have found the budget plan the best way to make ends meet. From what I have read of the Ruml plan, it seems to me it is close to a family budget plan. I don’t see why it is not

as we go.” In Evansville, Ind, seven comboilermakers, five printers, two layer said they were familiar with the plan, and favored it. It would make taxes “easier to pay.” Five oil field workers, three bartenders, two cooks and one waitress thought it “the easiest income tax plan to

Backs Old System Among the few dissenters to the Rumi plan, typical comments were: A Knoxville banker—“People are

just as well off without adopting this Ruml idea.” .A Houston lumberman—“The ig-

knowing he has to_meet his-annual income tax, he ought to put by enough money to pay it. . . ..Every individual should take care of his

of his income tax.”

U.S. BOMBERS RAID JAP BURMA. BASES

In Continued’ Drive. _. Bv UNITED PRESS American bombers have: blasted

two Japanese bases in Burma. Another attack was made on Lashio,

On land the offensive in Chekiang _ provinces

POLL REVEALS

ing boom earnings this year but]:

enough to meet the income tax:

They are strong, too, for regular]:

.. Wife of a Steel Worker in Cleve-|: land—“Incomes vary greatly from} year to year in the mills. ‘The pres-|: ent system always works a hardship |

taxes. I should think all of them: would rather pay a few dollars-every §

A Fort Worth Truck Driver—“If| amount, the plan might not help}

ladopted. We would then be paying] i

sheet metal workers and a brick-| i

accustomed to the old plan. I think|: the treasury department would be

dividual should learn to ‘save, and| %&

own problems, including payment| ii

Chinese Recapture Cities :

important north Burma SDPIY base 3

and American planes from both China and India carried out attacks on Myitkyina.

The first - ‘photos : of the v. S. marines invasion of the ‘Solomons have been received in this country. In this picture the marines go over the side of a transport into landing barges for the attack.

~~ From the tavasion barges the me cannon for attack on the interior of Gaudalcanal, one. of the key islands of the Solomons group.

mon laborers, six teamsters, four| i

Leathernecks advancing up Guadaicanal ‘beach in an amphibian tank. Using these sea-land radio controlled vehicles the marines were able to take the Solomons in two. days of ‘hard fighting. as :

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marines land eons.

HITLER HALTED FROM RZHEV TO THE CAUCASUS

| Stalingrad’s Defenders Reinforced by Tanks

Planes, Infantry. . MOSCOW, Aug. 31 (U.P.).—The

| Russians, stalling the Germans on

the 125-mile Stalingrad front and killing thousands in counter-attacks, indicated today that they had opened a counter-offensive around Kletskaya, 75 miles northwest of Stalingrad. “In the Kletskaya area, Soviet troops continued. active operations and advanced ‘somewhat,” the noon communique said. ‘Kletskaya is the German left flank on . the Stalingrad front, and they may have weakened it to throw troops across the great bend of the river Don, some 50 miles to the southeast. Thus, if the Russians could

#¥ | muster sufficient strength in the

Kletskaya area, they might succeed

‘lin an offensive that would ruin the whole German positiof.

For 48 hours, the Germans have

|been stopped or forced to retreat

along a 1000-mile front, from Rzhev, 115 miles northwest of Moscow, to the Caucasus mountains. Nazis Rush Reserves ‘The ‘noon communique did not mention the Red army’s central front offensive but it was believed here the Russians ‘were ‘advancing

Germ ns” had yushed up reinforcements. Rzhev is the ‘key to the Rezhev-Gzhatsk-Vyazma safacing Moscow. Northwest of Stalingrad, where line Russians had halted the most {threatening * German wedge, the noon. communique announced the destruction of more Germans. + %, One Soviet unit in the feourse of an engagement lasting several hours destroyed 12 German tanks, 14 guns and eight machinegun points and wiped out more than 400 Hitlerites, » it said® Cossacks in Action A counter-attack was reported northeast of Kotelnikovski, which is 90 miles southwest of Stalingrad. Tough cossack cavalrymen charged into the German rear south of Krasnodar, where the enemy has advanced close to the Russian naval base of Novorossisk on the Black

Another Russian counter-blow, seemingly of big proportions, threw the enemy back across a water

| barrier in the area of Prokhladnen-

ski, 85 miles from the :Grozny oil

a flelds, the noon communique said.

Defenders Reinforced

the: Volga river line were reinforced by Red Marines, new infantry and tank and plane reserves. It was indicated that the air offensive against Stalingrad had considerably slowed. Fires smouldered in some . sections, but municipal

munications. “There is a feeling here that the to feel un- ; out the slowing down their offensives is obviously experi-

|| encing,” the British Broadcasting

ARMY VETERINARIAN SAVES MEAT PACKER

| Applies Tourniquet to Stop Wound’s Blood Flow. A Hyena meat packer was in

The defenders of Stalingrad and

On the War Fronts

"By UNITED PRESS (August 31)

MELBOURNE—Allied troops turn back attempted Japanese invaders of ‘Milne bay area.

CHUNGKING—U. 8. planes from China "and India bases’ bomb

Myitkyina in Burma while Chinese troops storm Rinhws and Nanchang.

MOSCOW—Soviet armies stall axis attacks at Stalingrad and in the Caucasus. In the Rzhev area, Russians force two crossings of the Volga. Russian planes carry out another bombing mission over eastern Germans, cluding a raid on Berlin.

CAIRO—Middle East may become second front battleground; U. S.Vichy break believed nearing; Rommel’s supply depots bombed.

STEP UP. ACTION IN MIDDLE EAST

Desert May Become Second | Front; U. S., Vichy . Break Talked.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent Heavy assaults by United States and British air forces on German supply depots in western Egypt may foreshadow new land attacks of a

portions to the Middle Eastern war theater. In the forefront of trends affect-

of: : United States and Vichy that may flower into complete rupture in October or November. Some sources in Britain today hinted at the possibility of a major allied drive to sweep the ‘axis out of Africa.

Allies Watch Dakar

They suggested the possibility of a drive to seize the west African fort of Dakar and the north African French possessions. It was suggested that the African offensive may be the allied substitute for the long-awaited second front in Europe. Reports from Cairo said that United States four-engined bombers set fires in the axis-held port of Tobruk last Friday and Saturday nights that could be seen for 90 miles. : British bombing and torpedo carrying planes have hit at least four axis ships, including a large tankef, in attacks in the Mediterranean and have attacked their escorting ‘warships with cannon and machine-gun fire, a Cairo communique said today.

U. 8., Vichy Break Seen

Reasons cited by London sources for believing a United States-Vichy break may come soon included: 1. Reports of a threatened deadlock between Gen. Auguste Nogues, governor-general of Morocco and U. 8. Charge d’Affairs Robert D. Murphy regarding the shipment of supplies fo the axis through Tunisia. 2. Asserted difficulties between Washington and Vichy over the disposition ‘of French ps at Martinique. :

Vichy chief,. fo German demands for the anti-Jewish drive in Vichy, -4. Reports in Stockholm that Laval is ready to give the axis the use of Dakar and other West African ports. 5, Specifications that the entry into war by Brazil may lead to an attack on North Africa, - 3

Japanese bases at Lashio and]

nature giving “second front” pro-|®

3. The surrender of Pierre Laval,|.

ALLIED THRUST AT THO OTHER

Rescue Party Is Ripped to Pieces in Trap Laid By MacArthur.

By DON CASWELL United Press Stat Correspondent z: GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS, Auss tralia, Aug. 's1 ~—Japanese ine “ie vasion troops have suffered 8 disastrous defeat in the Milne bay area of New Guinea, it = was announced today. oa Reports indicated that allied forces might soon take the offensive against the two other big enemy bases in the island. Gen. Douglas MacArthur ame nounced in a special tommunique that a force of Australian shock troops had been secretely concens trated along the bay in anticipas “ tilon of the Japanese landing last Wednesday morning. ” The result was that the Japanese’ ; landed in a trap. The Australians ripped them to pieces. . A few were believed to have been evacuated by >

Mop Up Under Way . The remuinder “have bi . back to the narrow 35emifle sula on the north side of the &

of an enormous

The victory, the greatest in Gen. MacArthur's Southwest Pacifie zone, was announced at a moment when the New Guinea situation was a cause for extreme anxiety throughout Australia. : MacArthur had announced in his communique yesterday that the cruiser and eight destroyers had reached Milne bay and were bee lieved to have landed: reinforce ments. 4 Instead, it llevelaped, they were i making an attempt to rescue the A invasion force. by So serious had the enemy position become that well informed quatre ters even suggested that the Japae nese command might be faced soon with the question of Vihdiawing | entirely. from New Guinea, oF making a desperate attempt to ree inforce its garrisons on a major 3

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Battle in Jungles *

In his regular communique today, MacArthur reported sporadic fight ing ‘in the trick jungle country around Kokoda, which is inland from the enemy’s Buna-Gona base up the coast from Milne bay, in which Australian combat patrols repulsed enemy forces with heavy casualties. He said enemy ground activity’ 3 was increasing in the Salamaus area of the Huon gulf, farther wp the coast. :

Though the communique implied

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