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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 982

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A Weekly Sizeup ‘by the Washington Staff of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—Call your own shots on

Japan’s next move. Heads it will be an attack on Siberia, tails an attack on India. Whichever, it will come soon. x 8 #8 \ 2 x = = CALL YOUR OWN, too, on FDR's anti-inflation . message. Even those closest to him' aren’t -sure what will come out of week-end meditations., One possibility: -Use of wide presidential powers over . railroads to enforce price ceilings, priorities. (Shipments failing’ to comply with regulations could be halted.) - Another possibility: One more appeal to congress to restore farm ceilings to parity, but don’t bet on it. Roosevelt could take this action himself, by exercise of war powers; may do it. , Advisory board, which is in—out—in—out of picture, might have as its: members Governor Lehman as chairman, A. R. Glancy .of General Motors and formerly of NRA, Roger Lapham, San Francisco steamship executive, two labor members selected by Wm. Green and Philip Murray.

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Rommel’s Big Drive Hasn’t Started

MARSHAL ROMMEL’s all-out attempt to break through allied line in Egypt hasn't started yet; recent desert fighting has been preliminary only. Rommel want aerial reinforcements, probably will get them when fate of Stalingrad offensive is decided. When Rummel starts, Alexandria will be in: danger. Most offensives gain ground in initial stages, and allies have little to lose between * El'Alamein and the Nile delta. : = = . 2 8 = DON'T COUNT TOO much on the Spanish shakeup. Poverty probably will keep Spain neutral—unless; the axis really needs her help. But if it does, Spain will have to jump through the hoop as Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary did. ” t 4 ® ” 8 ” RECALL OF DY. Hu Shih, Chinese ambassador for several years, doesn't sit too well here. Small “palace revolution” in Chungking is said to be behind it. Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and Mme. Wei Tao-ming wife of Dr. Hu's successor, are said to be: close friends.

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‘Tires for Everybody’ Is Smith Progam

MICHIGAN Republican primary campaign is one of the country’s hottest. Gerald L.. K. Smith campaigns with slogan of “Tires for

Everbody.” Elton Eaton, Kalamazoo, who opposes him, calls this “vicious Nazi propaganda.” 8 » J ” o WATCH NEXT week for first WPB awards “soldiers of produc-

. tion.” Individual warkmen in various war plants will get recognition

for contributions to speeding up war production. "Re : : 8 2 » SYNTHETIC RUBBER is being made—but the men who are doing it say they still have to mix a little natural rubber to meet spegifications for military tires. They're getting a little from Ceylon and Liberia; hope synthetic will be perfected before this supply runs out. ” » 8 ® 2 » P CREATION of new manpower board—by legislation—will be asked in Senator Taft's new draft bill. Paul McNutt's setup was done by executive’ order. Taft plan would have labor shortages. handled by Fecrulting for | ‘war industries, on voluntary basis. Other half of the bill would make certain that men are called for armed services in this order: Single men, men under 37 with dependents other. than wife and children, men under 37 with wife, no children; men under 30 living with wife and children or children only; all others, including exceptional dependency cases. ss 8 8" i REP. MAY'S guess that 18-19-year-old group will furnish 2,000,000 men for army and navy is about: 800,000 ‘off, informed sources say.. ’ (Continyed on Page Two)

F. D. R. Completing Order To Create Economic Czar

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 w. P.)—~|Lehman of New York were most

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President Roosevelt today put the

finishing touches on . a sweeping executive order creating an economic czar with unprecedented powers to control wages, prices and other factors in the spiralling .cost ‘of living. His new anti-inflation program is virtually completed and will be out- ) the nation Monday night in a labor day “fireside” chat. Con. gress will learn its details in a special message at noon. Barring an 11th hour change, the program will call for appointment of an over-all administrator and a four-man board to formulate policy on wages, farm prices, wholesale and retail prices, salaries and other income. g Speculation mounted as to Mr. Roosevelt's choice for the job, Supreme Court Justice William O. Doulas and, Governor Herbers H.

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prominently mentioned. ~ Informed quarters said the president's order undoubtedly will entail rationing of additional commodities and. extension’ of price trol to virtually all items relaung to the cost of living. Farm prices, it was believed, . will be fixed in most cases below the 110 per cent of parity floor provided in the price control law. Some qu:rters, however, insist that the price law’s farm price provisions cannot be | overturned by executive order and that congressional legislation will be required.

Utilize ;Steel Formula

Stabilization : of wages: probably will be handled through the war labor board in accordance with its “little steel” formula which strives to restore purchasing power that existed Jan. 1, 1941. Reliable sources} said the board’s authority probably will be extended to include super-

vision of voluntary wage increases.

The salary feature reportedly was still undetermined but salaries may be controlled by application of the

71 “little steel” formula or: a rigid

freezing above specified amounts. No inflexible rule against an employse or Sificial segeiving increased is expected and con-| probadly will be exercised over the job rather than the man. Subsidy payments may be proi a Ticrwars 5 Teer would be unable to increase don within price lraitatio

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ERMA LL OWN WOUNDED,

The Last Man, Red

Star Asserts. MOSCOW, Sept. 5 (U. P.).—The

Stalingrad has been stopped in one of the bloodiest battles of the whole war and thousands of Nazis were killed by Russian infantry and ma-

said today. Apparently the drive from the

been stopped by soldiers, marines and a people’s army, who were making Stalingrad “a red Verdun.” For 24 hours, Soviet communiques had not mentioned retreats but spoke of successful counter-thrusts sapping the. strength of Adolf Hitler's most prized legions.

Destroy Tanks, Guns

“Northwest of Stalingrad, one of our units, after artillery and trench mortar preparation, .penetrated enemy positions and destroyed four tanks, six guns and nine machine guns and killed 270 Germans,” the Soviet. noon communique said. “On another sector, German infaniry and tanks attacked. Antitank rifles, grenades and fuel bottles destroyed five German tanks. "Southwest of Stalingrad, in tense

man tanks were Gostroveit A than 200 Germans wiped out. = The steppes over which the Girmans had advanced toward Stalijgrad were dreary .and devastats front-line dispatches said. Not: blade of grass remained.

Covered With Corpses

They were covered with thousands’ of corpses, hundreds of smashed tanks, armored cars and trucks. Wounded Germans. tried. to crawl back across the battlefield to the safety of ravines. Dispatches said the Germans had shot their own wounded if they refused to get up and attack again. Southwest of Stalingrad, the Germans had. attacked like wild men, ignoring the withering machine gun and rifle fire. They charged straight across the bare steppes and their

. “The defenders (of. Stalingrad) ale determined to hold out to the last man,” the army newspaper Red Star said. “They don't retreat. If the Germans advancéd in some places, they did so at a tremendous cost, walking over the corpses of our heroes who died the death of the brave. : “The enemy’s wild efforts testify that he is using up his last forces taken from other fronts.” As an example of the odds, one report said six Soviet anti-tank men countered 30 German tanks, wrecked seven: and damaged others.

375,000 Nazis. in Northwest

Fully 25 divisions—perhaps 375,000 -Germans—attacked on the northwest ‘approach. Probably that many assaulted on the southwest sector, &nd 1000 German planes tried to’ pulverize Stalingtad itself. Dispatches said. the grim : battle southwest. .of Stalingrad. began after 100" Germhan tanks and three divisions (45,000 men) hat, penetrated Soviet positions Ypetween a collective farm and a railroad and captured a small station. The Russians fiercely counter-attacked, and positions changed hands many times, but the enemy failed to advance. The Germatis then: Lbrought up up

machine gunners in trenches threw up =. wall ‘of fire. that mowed: the

New advances were repbried in the Russian offensive, on the central front against the German’ Rhey-Gehatsk-Vyazma sallent. ~~

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northwest—which dispatches said{ was the more dangerous—also had’

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The power and dai of the fight for Stalingiad. is eaught in: thls.s artist's’ conbeption of the battle, As: Genin roy and. tanks pound at the gates of the city with three-tp-one superiority, Russian soldiers ‘and . «civilian: fight side by side in a desperate efor to hold the Volga

John & . Sauter 4 Awa Posty; Tried to - Sa ve ve Dying: Pilot.

The ‘armypaid tribute today to an Indianapolis: boy—its: sending his parentsia:medal.: = 5 His budy also - paid: tribute letter tothe parenisy We are — of him,” he said. vx wo John F, Sauter, Toh. of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Sauter; 2254 Union st., was killed trying to. save the pilot and passenger. of Bi wrecked army plane last June. The army has awarded. him the soldiers’ medal, posthumously. - His buddy,’ Merton Holman of Michigan; wrote Mrs. Sauter:. . . Buddy Tells Details.

“This happened | on: ‘the morning| of June 16, about 10:25. When Johnny was waiting -for-a truck to take: him: to dif\per when it happened. ‘He was about 140 yards from: the planejiwhen it cracked. up.

[Without ‘any hesitation, he and-a

number of othe; ran, Led lend as-| They pulled ine gunner: clear of the wreck but’the pilot was beyond help. Johnny.and two others were trying to. stop’. the bleeding when the machine gun bullets started: to explode. All the.others took to cover: but those shige; they: ‘meant todo all they could “Then it was a 500-pound bomb that went

rushed . theme to the - hospital.heard ‘that ‘night ‘that Johnny ‘had} a fair ‘chance to pull through: Joe Hamblin was killed ‘insfantly. “In the morning an officer went to see how Johnny was, buf it was|

“He «died a true soldier and a hero. The coast. artillery -is very, proud of him. Johnny was one who i down is ifs Aor al

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too late, - Johnny had passed away.|

‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 (U} The lights in the Savy departie

out. ‘Somewhere’ in the darkn machine buzzed and suddenly:ithe beginning of the ‘battle of Midway, flashed onthe screen, ‘Por: a time that was impossible to judge--it seemed like only séconds— one almost lived through the riot of a color and noise and death that was a great Atherican victory... Japanese zero fighters roared in like angry hornets, ‘spitting steel and flaming tracers. “Bombers loosed their explosives and the ground shook and trembled.. Anti-aircraft guns fired so “fast no one could count, the rounds ‘Outnumbered: -marine fig hter planes took off in a roaring. chal-

Anti-aircraft ’ gunners fived . automatically, keeping their eyes trained on the skies. and’ their: guns on" ‘the Japanese. * One could hear the roar. of flames and almost smell the acrid smoke of burning oil stores. The detonation of bombs: and exploding oil {tanks ‘and. the sound of guns’ and planes made a vast, unforgettable super-noise.

, .{lenge: Planes from both sides—but | .'| mostly Japanese-—=crashed. in flames,

‘way battle coil never “adenriplih

what the official color filmis, made during the ‘attual’ fighting, did in a few minutés. Those who saw the

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ginfling to end. The picture: had no ‘plot. Tt was a plan of battle, First . there ‘were “the = patrol bombers returning with: news that} . an enemy. fleet had been: sighted. Army flying fortresses roared off to

1the .attack and ‘marine “and navy

fighters, bombers and: torpedo planes skimmed off the fynways.. TWO: ‘young men: fired a “anti-air-craft“gun with deadly #ntensity. From’ . ‘time to time thé" picture flashed back to them and they gave “dhe an odd. sort of comfort, firing’ steadily. and: coolly. : Later ‘the: fleet. went into. action. The cameraman: was on a. carrier and recorded the navy fighters taking off.% Japdnese’ planes 'dddged about; and: many, fell in flames. 5 “A few | got ‘through, one dropping a torpedo. . One "could ' see. what U. S. filers ‘were up against when they got. through to sink’ four’ car-

Lriers and: damage at least: 8: other

ships, =: - There Were a few shots of flaming Japanese. :vessels, ‘but’ not’ ‘many. (Continued on Page Two) -

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i 1 hic oF een of “on Marion county's 15 ‘draft boards. These articles will tell ‘what’ the manpower situation aud progpests are Is coh hoary.

_ By EARL 1 RICHERT

Draft hoard: 3 has. “bdlt up at “bank” of several hundred’ 1-a men by going back through’ its lists of men registering in the first two reg- | istrations (the oe wi ao and

picking out those married

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Navy commniages on the. Mid: 4

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side pd number of single men’ lefts : ~The ‘men who married ‘when “selection ‘was’ immine placed’ in’ 1-A regardless-of- ‘whether

their ‘wives dre | dependent ‘upon

Board 3 ‘has ‘adopted this “procedure in acedrdance ‘with ‘the service

men’s” .d nts ‘allowance act passed this. ner: which provides for deferment ot registrants ‘for ae

pendency when they maintain bona fide: family relationship * ol

their homes orquided. the status thi

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industrial center. Dertiead, hundreds of Nazi dive bombers blast endlessly’ at ‘Soviet trenches. and gun bumiers,

British Win Ground on Alamein Front; U. S. Tank Crews in Action. By LEON KAY United Press: Staff Carrespondent . CAIRO, Sept. 5—British imperial forces won ground on the Alamein front in ‘a sudden attack, threw back with leavy loss three German

counter-attacks, and forced a third

enemy withdrawal at the southern end of ‘the line, a communique said today. :@ = «© The imperial troops loosed their first big attack of the campaign, now in its sixth day, in the darkest hours of Thursday night and’ Friday morning in the central sector. : . Attacking to the “southwest, they gained: their objectives, a ‘joint communique of the Middle Eastern command and the royal air force sald.

Rommel: Driven Back

. ‘Field Marshal Effin ‘Rommel threw - his armored: forces-and ine fantry against the. newly won British positions three times yesterday. British - imperial infantry, antitank, tahk, armored car and artil-

time. heavy,” the - communique’ said. :

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lery ‘units drove them back each

“Enemy infantry: Josses ‘were|¢

Farther south around. the Hime-|' inat peak, British | mobile : forces =r supported by artillery, continued Pla their pressure on the main concentrations ‘of the: enemy's 15th "and (Continued on ‘Page Two)

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Russ ‘Fly 2000 Miles | Attack; Fortresses of

Over France.

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent

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weight of a co-ordinated allied bombing attack which struck from Bremen and Ki berg in the north to Vienna and Budapest deep inside the. Nazi lines. American flying fortresses over France today on a. ‘mission 4

south. coast British port saw t re flying over the channel, possi headed for the Dieppe area.

They were in groups of fours and strongly fino fighters.

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of ‘the war's heaviest 4 raging oh the defenses ¢ in and over the western ‘des Egypt. ; Reports from the Berlin radio 8 dicated that Russian planes out one of the heaviest night's ; bombing ever. atempled by. Soviet. i

"Bremen Has 99th Raid !

At the same time a strong fore of British bombers rammed ha their 99th attack of the war on! Lig German seaport of Brémen. ‘The present aerial warfare ra ed on a grand scale, unprecedented # the war, over an 800-mile front. ¢ Axis reports made it plain that t Russian planes, operating some 1 miles from their bases, had : not only Budapest and Vienna, 13% miles apart, but. north } towns in between. It was the: raid of the war on Vienne and I J ‘| apest. i

~ _. Breslau Bombed

The Russians also bombed Br in southeastern Germany between Vienna and the Baltic, heavily attacked Koenigsberg, tal of East Prussia, on the, . coast. Lok + Londan had a half-hour air alarm, apparently caused by passing of a reconnaissance pla great height. : pa i

tered Bremen since the royal force attacked it: four

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and some casualties. resulted. plane was shot down, it was.

Russ Fly 2000 Miles : Budapest's air raids

01:20 At first, it was evident the