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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 156
WARN WAR ON ALLIES MEANS ‘CONVULSIONS
- Petain and Jeanneney Hail : Liberty and Nazis put On More Pressure.
By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent A new battle cry of freedom . echopd across the borders of Naziplagued France today. It made plain that the spark of 'liery still was alive in France and indicated strongly that Frenchmen would fight beside the united nations ‘ in the coming battle to wrest control of Europe from Adolf * Hitler, The battle call came at a moment of rising crisis within France, just -as another ' apparently authentic
report said that Germany had demanded that France hand over
200,000 tons of merchant shipping in the ports of unoccupied territory. : ‘Liberty Doesn't Die’ The unprecedented indictment of the Vichy regime was signed by Edouard Herriot and Jules Jean-
Fneney, speaking in the name of
the republican France which had
almost disappeared from public view in the rush of events which
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Speaking in ur which was notable for its eloquence and fervor, Herriot/iand Jeanneney solemnly warned Marshal Henri Philippe Petain and Pierre Laval against any attempt to pull France inté the war against her former allies and at the side ‘of Nazi Germany. “It is impossible,” they said, “that liberty will die in the country of its birth.”
Warn of “Convulsions”
They charged that Petain had violated his pledges and illegally sought to bring an end to the third They ' solemnly warned that France may suffer “convulsions” if Vichy attempts to join Germany in the war, The parliamentary document was inspired by the action of the Vichy government in ordering the abolition of the permanent staffs of the French senate and chamber of deputies, an action which Herriot and Jeanneney characterized as
illegal. . If without authorization of parliament you iry to draw France intp war against our allies—which you yourself declared ‘honor: forbids,’ we, by this letter, protest in advance in the name of national sovereignty,” the statement declared :
I; was noted that the phrase employed was “our allies”—a plain indication that the parliamentari-
ans‘ considered France still bound
by her treaty of alliance to Britain and, others of the united nations,
Nazis Seek More Workers
Dispatches—datelined from the French frontier—revealed that the Nazjs are engaged in a widespread campaign to close down French factories in the occupied zone and then ship the French workers off to Germany on the grounds that they are-unemployed. Laval, it was said, hay been rebuffed in efforts to g an end to the pratice, Simultaneously, another Naziinspired development was arousing spreading anger within France. This was a widespread \antiSemitic campaign which, siting with a roundup of foreign Jews in both zones, had spread to French nationals of Jewish origin, but now seemed to have been halted temporarily as a result of Catholic op-
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On the War Fronts
(Sept. 9, 1942)
WESTERN EUROPE: French parliamentary.. leaders warn Petain and = Laval; of “convulsions” if
Vichy tries'fo. join Nazis: against |.
Seamer, allies; R: A. P. attacks Prankfurt-am-Main with several] hundred bombers,
RUSSIA: Battle of Stalingrad mounts to new fury as Germans “'win complete dominance of air. Novorossisk in greater danger, but peril to Grozny oil eases slightly.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Australians hold to positions in Owen Stanley mountains after Japs break through pass. American bombers attack Japs at Kokoda and Buna, hit enemy cruiser and destroyer near Milne bay.
CAIRO: Desert front quiet as both sides reorganize forces.
CHINA: Chinese repulse Jap attack at Hangchow in Kiangsi and continue assault on Kinhwa in Chekiang.
Draft Board No. 6—
SUPPLY OF SINGLE MEN RUNNING SHORT
Enough Left to Meet Calls Until Nov. 1.
By EARL RICHERT This is the sixth of a series of ‘articles on Marion county’s 15 draft boards. These articles will tell what the manpower situation and prospects are in each board.
Enough single men in the 35-to-44 and 20-year-old groups are left in Draft rd 6 to meet calls until the end of October, Draft Board Chairman John R. Ferree said today. After that the. board will start calling single men who are now deferred because they are support ing collateral- dependents--divorced wives, sisters, brothers, parents, etc. Shortly after the first of the: year, he predicted, the board will have to
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JAP NEW GUINEA PUSH IS ABATING,
MacArthur Holds... Strong Line: Despite Loss of
~ Mountain Pass.
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Sept. 9 (U. P. J) —Australian forces in the Owen Stanley mountains of New Guinea are holding strong: positions against a momentarily diminished Japanese push toward Port Moresby, dispatches reported today. It was confirmed that the Japanese had broken through the main pass in the mountains to reach a position approximately 50 miles from Port Moresby, the great allied advanced base on the south coast. But though it was indicated that the Japanese had passed over; the spine of the 8000-fgot mountains; the Australians held a selected line among razor-back peaks leading down to the south coast.
Allied Planes Dominant -
There was increasing evidence’ that the Australian defenders were strong enough: to hold the enemy in event that a frontal attack followed the present infiltratjon and flanking tactics of the tnémy combat forces. Allied planes, now dominant in the air over all New Guinea fighting zones, went to the attack rgdin yesterday in support of the ground
"| forces in the mountains.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced in a communique that allied fighter planes heavily attacked the enemy troops ahd installations in the entire zone leading back to Kokoda, on the north side of the mountains, with bombs and machine guns. MacArthur said also that allied planes had attacked a Japanese cruiser and destroyer Monday and Tuesday just north of Milne bay at. the southeast end: of New Guinea and it was believed the destroyer was damaged. Apparently the ships were those|{com which had shelled Australian positions at Milne bay and had then
turned northward.
Anti-War Evangelist Tries
Little Leesville's Patience:
BEDFORD, Ind. Sept. 9 (U. P.). ~—A 43-year-old wandering evangelist paced the floor of his cell in the Lawrence county jail today and deciared “prison walls will never make me change my mind about the war.” The: Rev. Eastman T. Burton had
~!| only a few jail prisoners and a turn-
‘key for an audierice, but the size of the audience didn’t disturb the|™° evangelist who claimed he “got in a lot of good licks” when he 7| preached a five-hour sermon against .the war, the drafi and kindred matters at the country church in little
Leesville, 10 miles ‘east of here. = | ; From 9 o'clock Sunday night until W
pitcher and shake his firsts. The citizens of Leesville, particularly members of the church, are patient people, they claimed. But one church elder, unidentified by
his brethren, said he lost his * “tem-|
perate mind” and -disputed the preacher's opinions on the church| steps about 2:30 o’clock in the} morning. The elder and Burton] ended ‘up in a fight thet amounted to two blows—both the elder’s, The evangelist was Jodged in. jail. He admitted he had net registered
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ALLIES HINT AT ALLOUT RAIDS ONNAZI EUROPE
Planes Set Huge Fires At Frankfurt.
By EDWARD W. BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Sept. 8 (U. P) ~The {war today appeared to be moving
to the verge of a new phase in which allied war planes and-—later—allied
land forces will strike at Nazi Eu-|
rope with unprecedented fury. London dispatches indicated that preparations may be in full swing to subject Germany and the occupied lands to all-out day and night bombardment. The bombardment would be followed at the earliest possible moment, it was clear, by moves to open a second land front _against Germany.
Fires Cover Frankfurt
Last night several hundred R. A.}
F. bombers attacked Frankfurt-am-Main, German railway center; and left fires which returning pilots said “glared as bright as hundreds of
searchlights.” By daylight American} = Boston ‘bombers had bombed the}
Nazi-held French ports of CherBourg and Le Havre.
great opportunity was presented just now to visit on Germany an aerial attack, which would eripple if it did
0 nring she TY dof the: : ‘ably nearer, i Now the allies firmly control the
air over Britain and that part of enemy-occupied territory . ‘which is within range of fighter planes based on Britain.
fee Huge Winter Battle
But aviation authorities foresaw a gigantic battle this winter for control of the air in these zones. Winter would release thousands of German planes from the Russian front to challenge .the royal and United States army air forces based -in’ Britain. In its ‘Dutch, language broadcast last night the London: radio gave hint of another kind of air operation against Germany. It quoted the Basle Nationalzeitung, a Swiss newspaper, as saying that the allies soon might be shuttling 10,000 bombers across the Reich, shuttling from’ British airfields to Russian sirdromes. and vice versa.
RUSSIA TOLD STALI, = CHURCHILL DISAGREE:
Speech Is Published.
MOSCOW, Sept. 9 (U. P.).—The Russian press told. the. public for
the first time today that a serious disagreement arose between Prime Minister = Winston = Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin during their! pa. conversations here. Previously the Russian populace had clung to a vague hope that| some arrangement had been reached for the opening of the much-de-sired second front. Publication of Mr. Churchill’s address to commons yesterday revealed his statement
‘{that the two leaders were not in
complete accord. - Revelation in Washington abd London that “a complete agreement in all fields of operation” had been) reached in London before Mr. Churchill's: trip to Moscow brought a disagreeable reaction here. It was interpreted as indicating that Rusfia Cis not being Sreated as 2 ull. fledged ally.
REPORT ROMMEL ILL
Aviation quarters believed that a
2d ‘Front Hopes Fade as|
‘The naval transport U.:S. 8S. Wakefield (shown above), formerly the United States’ liner Manhattan, suffered severe damage as a ‘result of a fire at sea Sept. 3. The captain who led a skeleton crew : back to the ship and put out the fire was Comm. Harold G. Bradbury
(below).
Victory Tax Approved as
Addition to Income Levy
‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (U. P.) —The senate finance committee today ‘confirmed its previous tentative action . adopting an additional 5 per cent “victory tax” on gross income to raise an extra $3,650,000,000
in révenue.
The proposed new tax ‘would be levied in addition to the proposed
higher: ‘regular income taxes. begining next Jan. 1 and would not
apply to earnings of the current
“The “victory tax” was chosen in preference to three treasury suggestions designed to telescope the. new tax into the «existing income | tax structure. The committee also adoplad. 5 resolution to set up a joint committee: to study further the problem of compulsory savings, indicating that principle would be left out of the pending tax bill as such. Chairman Walter F. George (D. Ga.), sponsor of the “victory tax,” said that the new levy, which would be collected by employers out of the pay checks of workers, would eliminate the five per cent withholding
tax in the Gm bill.
It would become effective on earnings,
Under that measure advance collections were to be made on 1943 income taxes next year, while taxpayers were making their regular payments on 1942 taxes. He said the commitiee also decided against requiring taxpayers to file returns on Jan. 15 each year, 2! voting instead to retain the present. filing date of March 15. The “victory tax” would apply to the earnings of all individuals in
{excess of $12 a week, $52 a month
or $624 a year. A single man would be entitled to a 25 per cent rebate on the tax, and a married man would be entitled to 40 per cent. The rebate, or refund, would be payable either (Continued on Page Twelve)
How John Smith Would Pay Proposed Victory Tax.in '43
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (U.P) — Here's how John Smith, $50-a-week war worker, would pay his 1943 victory tax if the proposed new levy on inoue. 13 shacied Ini aw,
ANKARA, Sept. 9 (U. P.).—A re-ic
port circulated in foreign
ling ‘withdrawing him from Africa.
‘LONDON; Sept. 9 (U. P.) ~United ‘| States army headquarters today announced the appointment of Brig.
HOOSIER AIDS ‘GEN. KE'|
he would be entitled to. aot ae per
BOLSTER NAZIS AT STALINGRAD
Germans Bring Up Fresh Units; Luftwaffe Rules
western approaches of Stalingrad reached new heights of ferocity today, with the Germans attacking in ‘greater strength and with more rapidity than ever, and with air superiority in such proportions that their planes cruised leisurely over Russian positions. German motorized infantry, after repeated attacks on a narrow sec
{tor, forced a Russian retreat yes|terday on the western approach—
the second retreat in that direction in 36 hours. The enemy had made no progress on the southwest in five days, but dispatches from the front indicated he was redoubling his efforts. Fresh reserves poured constantly into German lines, and their numerical superiority on land and in the air increased by the hour.
Russians Tired.
The Russians fighting west and southwest of Stalingrad and the Volga river line were weary and
fighting fresh Germans who far
outhumbered them. The terrain on
Former Manhattan Brou To Port a Hulk; Many
Civilians Aboard. Walter Cronkite, United ‘Press
newspaperman burning of the big naval transport. Wakefield and the rescue at ses: of her 750 crew members and $40 nounced by the navy today. By WALTER CRONKITE Copyright, 1942, by the United Press ABOARD A U. 8 WARSHIP ATLANTIC CONVOY, Sept. (Delayed)—The 24,289-ton U. navy transport Wakefield, form the American luxury liner Manha ship tonight and was abandoned on the Atlantic after her crew and 8 passengers were rescued by dai escort vessels. ; (A few hours later the Wakefiel was reboarded by a skeleton ¢ and the hulk was towed into. American east coast port. She the second big passenger ship American hands to burn this The other was the former
liner Normandie, . wrecked at New York pier).
The Pakclels posscrgus.
“dren who ‘had been si ‘Fighting on the ‘western ‘and south-
ded British isles and Eire since war gan, construction workers who been building American army ties in Britain, and some U.S. officers returning to the Unit States for advanced technical t: ing or to act as instructors. Two Burned Severely None of the passengers was jured but- several of the 750 ¢ members were burned, two se I could see the rescue yess cruiser and two dest: so close to the burning ship : as we later learned, their paint scorched and their hulls bruised they bounced against the Wake:
to take off the passengers by m
of rope ladders and improv
those approaches is unfavorable for| the flames.
defense; it is rolling hills and shallow ravines; with no forests and few villages. Deep dugouts protected the Russians against German dive-bombers, and they relied on artillery to stop German tank attacks. ;
Dispatches said the Russians were in imminent danger of being swamped by the Germans near the Black sea naval base of Novorossisk. Large scale fighting has de- { veloped in the Terek. river valley, into which German motorized in-
fantry had penetrated in’ great|
force, a dangerously short: distance from: the Grozny oil fields. Supported by Storniovik bombers, how= ever, the Russians were counterattacking and slowly forcing the
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