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Nazis Stalled For Third Day; Crisis Spreads In Norway

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RESCUE FORCE DRIVES NEARER

10 STALINGRAD

Hitler Throws Of Army, Best Prussian Shock Troops. .

By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent The battle of Stalingrad raged through its 45th day today wich Russian relief forces increasing

their threat to the Nazi besiegers

‘and Red army troops within the Volga city standing fast against almost hourly atfacks by Germany's best soldiers. The Nazis were making a determined effort to halt the progress of Marshal Semyon Timoshenko’s relief eolumn. Dive bomber squadrons and armofed forces attacked the Russians but they moved on south between the Volga and Don rivers, threatening the German flank and seeking to make a juncture with the Stalingrad garrison.

Not a Foot Gained

Inside Stalingrad the Germans threw Prussian shock troops, the . cream of the Reichswehr, into the

battle in an effort to break through in the northwestern sector of the gity:

Moscow said, however, that. the|

Germans had not gained a foot at Stalingrad in the past 24 hours and no gain has been reported in Soviet communiques for 72 hours. Moscow said three divisions: of the Prussian shock troops who consider themselves the world’s best fighters, ‘had made 10 attacks, supported by 100 to 150 tanks, and that every assault had been hurled back.

Nazis Admit Job Is Tough

After a day’s silence on Stalingrad, the Nazi high command briefly reported today that more ground had ‘been won in the city in heavy fighting. Northwest of]. Stalingrad, it was said, a Russian force -had been encircled ad an‘nihilated. . oe The German radio was making “little pretense concerning German difficulties. It quoted a correspondent as saying that some days the Nazi troops: made. no. gains at all and others they advanced only a few yards. - Frequently, this correspondent reported, the Germans _ would win a little ground and then be forced to spend the next day reconquering the same area. =

A New Timetable?

In London it was believed the Germans were under orders to take Grozny by the middle of October and’ to push on to the Caspian as rapidly as possible because of the approach of winter. “The Russians, however, admitted

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no néw German gains either in the|

Caucasus or at Leningrad far to the ‘north., The Russian radio claimed a Soviet advance at Voronezh, hinge of the Nazi line 350 miles north’ of Stalingrad, after a four-day battle. The London Daily Mail reported that Russian forces had crossed the Don northwest of Stalingrad .and that their pontoon bridges were being strafed by the Italians. "The Berlin radio said the Russians «independently of Timoshenko’s relief column—were attacking the an_chors of the German line on the t Volga north. and south 2 Stalin-

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Coshow, goodby as she left today,

A Kiss for the Big Sister

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Two 14-year-old twins kiss their big sister, Miss Jean Louise

with eight other women members

of the navy’s WAVES, for Oklahoma A and M sollegs, where they will study to become yeomen in the navy.

JAPS ABANDON 2

U. S. Keeps Up Its Daily Bombing of Kiska, Last Enemy Base.

anese gppeired.ioday to be Josing e eir grip on the western Aleutians—the first and only point of the Western hemisphere they have invaded. Their sole remaining position in the island chain—Kiska/—is -under almost . daily ‘atfack by American bombers now based in the Andreanof islands. They apparently have abandoned ‘the other two islands they occupied in June—Attu and Agattu. , Enemy withdrawal from Attu and Agattu was not regarded here as of great strategical significance, Naval observers pointed out that Kiska was the important island invaded' and so long as the Japanese can hang onto it ‘they can control the immediate area. Opposition : Reduced increasing signs,

‘There were

however; that Kiska—now enly an

hour's” flying time from American bomber - bases—is becoming less tenable for the enemy. “Only light anti-aircraft opposition was encountered” by ‘American fliers on their 12th raid in the last 11 days. It also was noted that there have béen no reports recently of landbased aircraft opposition to .planes raiding Kiska. Some’ experts suggested that a small landing ‘strip (Continued on Page’ Five) -

2: MEN INJURED IN MOTORCYCLE CRASH

+ Two men were injured this morning, one seriously, when the motorcycle they were riding crashed into an automobile at Pennsylvania and South sts. Joseph Turry, the driver, 321 Harbison st., and John Stutz, 5637 Julian ave, were thrown to the pavemant, Mr. Turry was cut and Mr. Stutz received severe head injuries. ‘Chey | were taken to Methodist hospital.

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Father Walked

to School;

Why Not Son gnd tar?

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (U. P)— and there's ‘reason why

ay's younger generation can't do

He asked state and local authorities olto revise school bus schedules on} the premise that the physically able! child can walk two miles to and

That was one of several .conser-

{vation measures which hie sald must

ALEUTIAN ISLES;

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 ww Py=f

from school daily “as his father and} |grandfather did before him.”

On the War Fronts

(Oct. 8, 1942)

RUSSIA—Germans halted at Stalingrad while Soviet counter-attack . from northwest makes new headway in bitter fighting.

OCCUPIED EUROPE—Tide of antiNazi revolt swells, with crisis in Norway; virtual street battlés reported in Oslo. German firing squads take new toll of ‘Norweglan, Preach, Jugoslay: afd ‘Czech . 1C— American reconnaissance ode find evidences Japs have abandoned hold on Attu and Agattu islands of Aleutians; U. 8. ' continues daily bombing of Kiska. Allied offensive in. New Guinea believed to have removed threat to Port Moresby by driving Japanese back across Owen Stanley mountains,

WARTHUR WINS 20 NEW GUINEA VICTORY

Japs Driven Back Across Stanley Mountains.

GEN. ; 'S ‘HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA, Oct. 8 (U. P.).—Gen: Douglas MacArthur's first big offensive operation in New Guinea has ‘been completed with striking success and all’ immediate danger to Port Moresby, the allied citadel on the south coast, has been removed, it was understood today. ‘Australian ground forces . had driven the Japanese, weakened and demoralized by huriger. and privation; back across the Owen Stapley mountains. The enemy forces had fallen into a trap and as the result had suffered their second major defeat in New Guinea in five weeks. The first had come when the = Australians, aided by a small force of American supply troops, had trapped a big enemy invasion force at. Milne bay. There was doubt whether the Japanese would now be able to offer a new threat to Port Moresby—or, through New Guinea, to north-| eastern Australia without risking a naval fleet in a frontal attack. ; At the same time it was implied

{that Gen. MacArthur, aware of the

“| difficulties involved, would not start a drive to, sweep the . enemy "from the invasion” bases along the north New Guinea coast without long and | horough preparation and probably the support of a fleet of his own.

FEDERAL SALES TAX SEEN. AS POSSIBILITY

‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (U. P)— Senate advocates of a sales tax said

today that if the treasury asks for|'

a new $6,000,000,000 tax bill as soon

as the pending one is passed a. fed-|

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IRATE GERMANS

SHOOT 15 MORE AT TRONDHEIM

Guefrillas * Strike ~ Narvik; Oslo Street Battle

Reported.

LONDON, Oct. 8..(U. P.).--Ger-man troops and gestapo agents have started a systematic search of Nore

sult of big scale patriot disturbances at Oslo, Trondheim and Narvin, Norwegian sources reported today.

mans might soon have to declare throughout Norway the state of emergency imposed on the Trondheim area, where 15 more hostages had been slaughtered by gestapo firing ‘squads in ‘the floodlighted courtyard of their headquarters, fo bring a two-day toll to 25.

Germans started house-to-house searches in- Oslo last night and continued. them today. Many persons were being arrested it was said.

Russians at Narvik’ Rescued

Norwegian advices reported that German soldiers and civilians had clashed in the northern sector of Trondheim area and at least two Nazis and 12 or more Civilians had heen. wounded. Thirty persons. were seized as many arrests - ‘were made among Ph found to. be hiding. or transporting arms. : Norwegian guerrillas operating in the key Narvik area, just above the Arctic circle, were reported to' have rescued a group of Russian war prisoners in a daring attack on a German base.

"Seek. to Find Snipers

It was reported that large stores of arms had been seized in Oslo, and that serious’ clashes continued between patriots and gestapo agents. “to A Norwegian government spokesman expressed belief that the Germans: had organized a deliberate terror. campaign in" an attempt to break Norwegian resistance, but said the plan was due to fear of an allied invasion.

triots arrested were men charged with transporting or hiding weapons and organizing sniper units to aid (any, allied landing. : Swedish newspapers openly sided with the Norwegians and called the execution of patriots obviously acts of terrorism. The Stockholm newspaper SocialDemokraten said: “This sort of justice has been applied to other countries. Now it has been applied to a kindred nation of our. own. Foreign and Scandinavian ideas of such justice must cause a wave of deepest indignation against the perpetrators and warm(Continued on Page Five)

3 TASK FORCES IN PACIFIC WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (U.P.).— The navy has three task forces operating in the Pacific, it was disclosed today in hearings made public by a house appropriations sub-

_{committee. Capt. V. H. Ragsdale,

representing the navy’s bureau of aeronautics, revealed the number of Pacific task forces in urging the committee to remove the present limit of 23 officers of flag rank in aviation.-

Tobin Declines

Of $100, 000

wegian ‘homes for arms as the re-|

It was indicated that the Ger-|

Advices reaching London said the

Advices were that among the pa-]:

POST-WAR HOME BOOM: FORECAST

Realty Association Head, ‘Sees Demand “for $6500 To $20,000 Properties.

Held back now by government restrictions, “American 'buildérs and home-buyers - will. move forward dt a: brisk pace ‘when . peace comes, W. Glenh Hamilton, president of the

{Indiana real estaté association, pre-

dicted here today. The ‘association - opened its 29th annual conyention. at the Hotel Severin. “Getting enough properties listed for sale is the biggest problem of the real estate man right now,” Mr. Hamilton, a Richmond. realtor, said. : “After the ‘war, I. believe we're going to have a demand for the better homes, say $6500 to- $20,000.” Warning ' that “Some “boom-time building ‘ areas, particularly ' those near war plants, face a valuation decline after the war, Mr. Hamilton said he believed that there ulready ' ‘(Continued on Page Five)

4 MORE MEN LEAVE POLICE DEPARTMENT

Already facing a: growing manpower shortage, the Indianapolis police department: is going to lose four more men to the armed services. . Sergt. G. Dean Schwartz and Patrolmen Orville Gleich and George Hughes, motorcycle policemen, will be sworn: in as second

+ felass naval’ petty officers assigned

to shore patrol. Investigator ‘Albert-A.: Kelly, 2332 N. Gale st., will report to the Great Lakes naval training station Saturday as a specialist, first class. : Sergt. Schwartz, who lives at 5221 E. Ninth st., will leave Oct. 15 for the’ Great Lakes where. his brother,| - Henry A. Schwartz, 4706 E. Washington st., is now in training as a seaman, second class. Patrolman Gleich lives at 2905 E, 16th st., and Patrolman Hughes; at

1223 W. 32d st.

Union's Gift. Florida Estate

The Teamsters’ union has Miami Beach mansion for sale and

Curfew Invoked To Curb Vandals

THE 9° O'CLOCK curfew law has ‘been . invoked by Sheriff Feeney in an effort to stop an increasing. TUBIGE: of halloween. + '|.pranks in suburban’ dress. Shefiff og ey said gangs of | young hoodlums have been run- | ning. around late at night in in-

pranks- that have damaged ‘some property. | Extra “squads of deputies will be assigned. to "suburban areas. and children under" 16 found on’ streets after 9 o'clock will be arrested, Mr. Feeney said. “These hoodlums apparently are taking advantage of their parents’ absence from home to work nights in war plants and are running wild,” Mr. Feeney said. “If the parents don't: know where their children are at night we are going to find out for them because deputies are going to wich 19 for them and bring them

WAR FUND WORKERS “POUND PAVEMENT

$150,000 Tomorrow.

WAR FUND FACTS Goal ...5..... de vanes ...$1,500,000.00 First report ... 150,576.48 Next meeting . Tomorrow Campaizy ends. . Oct. 23

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United war fund workers were “pounding the pavements” today for contributions to report at the second meeting tomorrow: noon in the Hotel Lincoln. The first xeport meeting yesterday showed ' that $150,576.48 has been ‘pledged, representing 10 per cent of the $1,500,000 goal. * Drive leaders hoped + to raise another $150,000: by tomorrow. The

Landon, who will discuss aid to Nazi-yoked Greece. It will be “Greek War Relief Day.” ‘The largest report -at yesterday's luncheon was the $108,588.80 from the special gifts division. The amount represented 52.52. per cent of the division's quota of $208,000. A. E. Baker, official of the ‘Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., is chairman. The division leaders who made

|e said the major defense job was {done by volunteers. #

reports yesterday were told during

for the defense council.would cover tal. expenses for six months.

| HOLD SOLDIER IN KILLING CAMP SWIFT, Tex, Oct. 8 (U. P.).—Pvt. George § Knapp, 33, was

creasing numbers recently, staging |

Hope to Report Another}

speaker tomorrow will be Hugh McK|' .

Pupils Pile Up the Scrap in City Drive

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Nine-year-old Ruth Biers of School 75 and David Chastain, 3, and Billy Biers, 5, School 5 pupils-to-be, filled this truck full of scrap they gathered in their neighborhood. : The dog is “Spot.” playing an important role in the scrap metal campaign.

The ‘schools are

ASSAILS LABOR RECRUITING FIN

: South: 4 Stil Fighting: civil

‘War, "Executive Says: of Agent's Arrest.

NEWARK, N..J., Oct. 8. (U, P.).— Samuel B. Freedman, a steel mill president ~whose . agent was fined $1000 for recruiting Negro labor in Georgia, protested in ‘telegrdms to President Roosevelf;-Chairman -Donald Nelson of the war production board, and the New Jersey delegation, in congress today that the south was “still fighting the Civil war.” A Freedman is president of the Special ‘Steels.Compounding Corp. His agent, who was fined by Superior Judge O. T. Gower in Cordele, Ga., Monday and ordered to get out of the state in 24 hours, is: Harold G. Weston, the corporation’s personnel manager.

Claims Workers Needed

‘Weston is on his way home. Freedman said he. did not know what had happened to Floyd Weaver, one of his Negro foremen, who

-|had first gone .to Georgia to get

workers. Freedman said his company was acutely short of labor and had fallen behind: on ‘deliveries of scrap metal. Weaver: suggested that he be sent scuth to hire Negroes. He was ‘authorized to offer them $30 to $40 a week. Within a few days, Freedman: got a lelegram. from Weaver, saying he had found a dozen men in Cor(Continued on Page Five) gh

BRITISH GIVE NAZIS 36-HOUR ULTINATUM

‘Unfetter Prisoners or We Chain Nazis’—London.

LONDON, Oct. 8 (U. P..~The British war office tonight served

‘Germany with a $6-hour- ultimatum

in which to release from manacles British prisoners of war seized by the Nazis at Dieppe. ‘The war: office: announced ' that , [unless the Germans unfetter British prisoners before noon Saturday they will place an equal number of Naz prisoners in manacles and chains. The announcement was made |

"|the luncheon that the Marion coun- | that _|ty civilian defense council will re- | turn “$6,000,000 worth “of service” | [to this area. Albert Stump, attor~ ‘{ney, spoke on the defense council's r|activities: He ‘said ‘the $6000 share _|of the United War Fund budgeted

FDR MAY ASK

CONGRESS FOR EARLY ACTION

It's a Young Man’s War, Ulio Says, Urging . Youth to Enlist. WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (U.

P.) ~The army is pressing

for immediate enactment of legislation to permit drafting

today. The war department twe weeks. ago submitted its request for reduction of the draft age to: the! budget bureau and if President Roosevelt approves, despite his an=: nouncement that this action would not ‘be necessary until next year,

fof 18 and 19-year-olds, con|gressional sources Tevealed|

the war department's letter will be

submitted to congress in a few days.. ‘Congressional leaders were notified yesterday that the administration's earlier plans to defer. revision of the draft law until January probably will be reversed.

House to Delay Action

The senate was expected to begin work on the war department's bill as soon as it is received. The house probably will not take it up until after the Nov. 3 elections, since leaders’ have: notified the member: ship that all controversial legislation will be postponed after the poll

fut eptaler isvdisposed of next

hi ++ ‘action’ immediately: Tollow= ing the elections was virtually assured if Mr. Roosevelt authorizes the war department to proceed with ‘its request. The change in plans to deter reduction of the draft age - was not brought about by an immediate shortage of men in the 20 to 45 inclusive age. groups; it was learned, but because younger men make the best soldiers,

Volunteering Urged Maj. Gen. James A. Ulio, adjutant general of the army, for the second time within a week, appealed today for immediate enlistment of 18 and 19-year-old youths in “this young man’s war.” He warned that “too many of us are still qualifying the conditions under which we will 80 all out to win the war. Ulio did not specifically propose that congress change the selective service act_to include the younger men. His statements was made in a radio interview over the Atlantic coast network and was similar to a plea he made last Sunday. “Today, endurance apd skill are the main tests of soldiers in battle —and both of these military attributes can readily be developed in young Americans,” he said. “In Britain today men 18 and ‘19 are serving with distinction. Rus= sians 18 and 19 years of age have been among the fierce fighters of Stalingrad. 'No doubt about it, this is a young man’s war and when the

final battle is fought it will be won *

by young veterans.” Rejections Combed

To meet the army's demand for men without dipping into established families and the 18 and 19 year, group, the selective service system has been compelled to comb its rejections for physical disability, and to call men right up to the 45-year-old military age ceiling. As a result the rate of physical disability under the strain of army routine hal been increasing.

The army has found this -situa-

tion to hinder its training program and ‘has reported to the White

House that it should not wait until January or February for the endctment of an 18 and 19-year-old draft. The decision to defer congres= sional cnactment of this draft was made by President Roosevelt in August.

HANDS OUT NEW NICKELS WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (U. P.)-

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