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By BERNARD COVITT United Press Stat Correspondent

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa,

cruelty and want--but never. in the history of the world have I heard of

such systematic campaign of

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she has conquered. This is starvation on the grand) scale—looting and ° deprivation re- ' duced to military logistics. It is,

Bernard . Covitt was a member of the former United Press staff at Manila and was capiured in December; 1941.

indeed, & part. of the Nippon: wartactics, for the military

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LONDON, Nov, 8.—Children's mouths smeared with poison at Rostov +s + 6700 old women and children, con- - valescents, suffocated by carbon monoxide at Krasnodar “u+« & hundred thousand starved or killed at Kharkov. . . ‘dynamite tossed into a cave where the terror-stricken populace of Pitanitskaya had taken refuge... : That | is part of a small Segment of the appalling record

of Gamat atrocities against the Russian civilian. popula: tion which Soviet sources placed before me today. Other glimpses into the Russian list of allegations: At Malayagat children herded into deep tank ditches, tommygunned and buried, whether alive or dead -. ; Phillip Kovalchuk of Pyatigorsk beaten with clubs for 16 days . . . Camp 205 near Stalingrad, 1500 bodies, many mutilated. . . . A statement from the metropolitan of

Kiev: “Not a single person in Vorovskry st. in Rzhev.

escaped with his life.” As

page of undiluted horror, the Russian spokesman at my

side murmured: “Hitler's Germany has so

awful whirlwind, H nas: been said that Germany cannot learn a lesson, This time there is good reason to believe her lesson will be burned deeply into the centuries of her

future history.”

FATHERS LAST. || DRAFT CHIEFS i” | INDICATE HERE

Cr J, 8, MARINES. BOU- | vost Childiess. Men. in War i stained wih the blood of ve- Jobs Face Call, State | Officials Promise. coal

By EARL RICHERT = | _ The policy of the state replace. ment schedule committee is to cut! the number of single men and nonfathers in war plants to the ahsolute minimum, Capt. 8. 8. Spring-| er, state adviser om occupational! deferments;, told representatives. of 11 county draft” bourds at a meets ge ing last night. : : “We! re thinking Just like you're thinking,” Capt. Springer told the board members, many of whom had| registered resentment - previously over the fact that they were forced to call fathers while single men and non-fathers. still are protected in their war plant jobs, “We've geared our policy to be very tough on single men aud nonfathers on the replacement schedules and to be very lenient with fathers,” he said. “There will always be isolated troublesome cases

Blood: Sand

Marines Died bu but Com“rades Landed on Bougainville. By GEORGE E. JONES

the blood of the Japanese they kitled to win it. It is now only five hours since I saw the most ferocious assault of my year's experience in’ the Solomons campaign. Iam writing this sitting -on an ammunition case not far from Cape Torokina where we came ashore, - ‘The assault -began two hours. before dawn. A marine from a shetl=torn— invasion boat just ahead of mine climbea out onto & bulkhead to dive in and swim ashore. As he stood, a Japanese machine gun rattled from the beach. He toppled into the water, ripped by slugs, “Shoot calmly, shoot fast and shoot straight,” the marines had been told by red-haired Rear Admiral T, 8. Wilkinson, commander

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that slip through. When they do, tell us about it, with facts to bear out your contention AS We oan do, Something about it." .

JAP WARSHIPS

By HELEN

. while the doors of the North Methodist church regretfully clog behind him, the doors of Detroit's largest church ll be wide open to receive Nim,

Dr. C. A. McPheefers Stent. ~ Forward, but Reluctantly

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from which the indictments will be drawn to carry o the tripartite pledge of the allied powers at Moscow th the axis war criminals would be punished for their ine ” human acts at the scenes of their crimes. : 1 asked the Russian: “What will it be, ‘an eye for an eye’? an “No,” he replied. “That would mean mass execution’ ~ of millions of Germans, but do not forget that under the ° {Continued on Page 9 Column §) -

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By LYLE C. WILSON United Press StaR Correspondent NEW: YORK, Nov. 3 (U, P): Republican leaders today jubilantly | New Jersey, |

Lewis, Ickes Confer Half Hour but Remain: Silent; U. S. Flags Fly Over Idle Coal Shafts; U.S. Steel May Bank 9 Furnaces.

RA proof “that “the fires sive “anti-New Dedl trend of 1942 was continuing Into a presidential |

By "UNITED PRESS Coal miners ignored President Roosevelt's backs to-work Scattered local contests also ap- order today although American flags flew over. the nationis peared to point that way, The New 3000 mines, showing that they were under government, ops Deal-Democratic coalition of con- ‘eration. inal

servative and liberal Democrats, | Laborites, Communists and other] The miners, who started the general strike Monduyj

left. wingers generally was over. refused to go back to the pits without an order from Presi whelmed In the contests where it] < . . existed, notably in New York and dent John L: Lewis of the United Mine Workers union. Ana the threat of crippled industrial production and cold

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New Jersey, ‘But, in méasuring the gitcome ols increased with every hour t SOCIAL SERVICE Lcoal men femained away from 2

the . balloting sgainst President! Roosevelt's - potential pulling power! Anning (as a fourth term candidate, some the diggings. rtm Y cautious observers reflected. that the | “With 330.000 United Mine workest {president himself was not directly stil on strike, Lewis conferred any of yesterday's or

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- 3298 Delerunents. Hers aan put, “devotion to young ‘people; warm Dewey, Wikikle Views z A —. M. W, president spent: . ndliness human understandin toward all-ef | tor, Pr. C. A. #3 = Sougainile nv Invasion. Fleet |, og soe i on hmm MePhesters : a ig so Fas totes New President ‘of Welfare pe to ha i041 “Wins Night En- {now deferred in war plant. jobs in “Today, Dr. MéPheeters announced Tils resignation to Wesume Ue confidence in the state admin. S$ p Limines, had given limited au 2 ins gy ig n- this gounty lotaied only 3308, 8.very pogin of one of: the largest and most influential Methodisy: Group ays War uts [lo negotiate a wage-hour contra} eT Ro = amy the total um ! 3 ghuyrch. of Detroit, Wendell L. Wilikie, 1940 Repub: : with the unio, igs lt sie r of registrant " 31 another Mop torre Ih the lican presidential nominee, said: Burden on Agencies. : No: Report on Tek | D I> RTERS,| He d out : Por oye “Pastor. “Returns from New York, New). (Phete, Page 17) : pl st Pacific, Nov, 3 (U. P.).—|such as egineers, will be kept in| A he v thiough | Jersey, Kentucky, Philadelphia and Neri i Whether the two men di a Pain. Nov 3 (5. F.(nach 8 agen, wil bn kot I EA at [ora ky: one way. The| By MILORED NEIMER ® contract formula or reached A Japanese surface force | tion. garing with reverenee at his fa- country is tired—very tired—of the| Social sgencies in Indiana and | Agreement for resumption of wark ‘lo Interfere yester-{ The draft board members niani- WN US: NEAR millar pulpit and affectionatiey present national administration.” many. other states now are faced {in the coal fields was not operations al,| Mmously passed & motion expressing Jaying hig hand on he somimanion Harrison E. Spangler, chairman with the wartime probiem of heavy Lewis in leaving Ickes' office res EL A A it. he ho a gh AAR ch oi TRNAS, WAVE, Tod or 3 Ay. ! . ee, he att or cash a WAS a8 “quite | Hitchcock, state director, and his! Expect “Anni itilation of Foe People Here Friendly the “light of the New Deal hes have declined, Joseph E. Baldwin, (U. P.).~Marvey Cartwright, some : * bei . — rersgbroeghighes buding, m- | “There is & great future in this ne I d little to say other ea westat prides Opera ——— rp ry Sa : ; : K. of P. ; | ts had Jitt ‘and destroyers hie or ~~ Capt. Springer also told the boa An Dnieper Estuary. in {ehureh," he explained, “and I'd like than in a of cnaratalations hare ‘of the Indians state confer-| all Fn United hs wed n toward | members of other steps A eI ‘Few’ Days.’ to be a part of it. Indianapolis is to their Republican opponents. ence on social work, union members refused to report big Jap-|in connection with the complaints known as the city of homes and Mr, Baldwin, who was elected to work this morning. which Gen. |of labor hoarding by industries : GOP Prospets Rise & A MOSCOW, Nov. 3 (U, P).—Cos- churches, and Indianapolis people yesterday at the 53d annual session] The miners «numbering apt form wera Plants Are Analyzed sack horsemen pounding across the I have found to be The G. O. P. gained It 26(h gov-lor the social workers’ organization proximately 7800—indicated they Aue E "warm, friendly and with a sincere lernor in New Jersey, where Waltei' | at the Claypool end Lincoln hotels, | would awsil word from their nas place at| He said that the war manpower|Nogaisk steppes swept the remnants interest in religion. I feel strongly |E. Edge, wealthy veteran of party |directs the Lake county welfars| tional representatives, : flar fleet | commision how 1s turnishing high- of beaten German armies into the the responsibility of my new posi. honars, won an easy victory by more work and succeeds Dr. Le Lay Tuten : units under Adm. William P. Hal pained Aviva LW determine) greqt sand wastes bordering thetion, and I miean to give it my| than 84.000 over Mayor Vincent J. han, pastor of the First Church of [eg to discuss the meeting or say sey’s South Pasile command nd whether - Moss a bp ng ult of| Dnieper estuary today and the com- et, { Murphy, of Newark, Democrat. Mir-| the United Brethren: in Christ, yy other or when the union's inter Sllie p! hee hye Bougaavine Eh oo hos 4 Tesul it of _ {plete annihilation of the enemy was Dr. JMcPhestats will preach his phy had united ‘Democratic; Labor Anderson. | astionas poiley committee id aot a series of naval and a dering the -ebiimittee of the re. |tXPected within the next several|last sermon Nov. 28, going and left wing backing, including] “Next year will be a crucial year to end the strike. tardment to cover the landing by placement schedule of one plant. days. to Detroit on . 1. He modestly Communist support, and the power for social workers,” the new leader Lewis and the committee had U. 8. marines on Empress Augusta Also, he said, the U. 8. employment Russians were eutting [sey he does not understand why (of Mayor Frank Hague, of Jersey said. “Then we will have most of failed to send the men back to the bay, along the west coast of the service is furnishing - trained in. the disorganised enemy col- | le was offered the Detroit pastor- City, state Democratic an [the necessary legislation for post- us despite the president's demand tery io ) umns with almost bewildering speed | ate, but his nine-year record here! The 26 states now =| War Umes falling in our laps.” that every. m “5 Planes Lost iewers to go into plants to learn is ry miner be “at his postof | personally whether a man for whom |*"d hemming the survivors into the 1s © Hon enough. Ae governed have a ——— 8 mar. | © Youth Problems Prom { duty” today. : ck unique sald the sea-alr |, geferment has been asked is an eadily-narrowing corridor between | He hax increased the membership ity of the electoral college Wit. to do shout aid for de As the nation's coal siockplle attacks, made al a cost of only five | oneia) worker the lower Dnieper and the Black sea of the North church #0 per pendent children is one of the Im 4windled. steel mills and ‘some ine planes and slight fleet damage and| “Tye reworks in last evening's| or the coup de grace. : during his pastorate; his tv's portant Jobs of the welfare worker, queria] plants began reducing ops | Casualties, “ef neutralized” | pipeting came over a prepared state. | Horsemen took over the pursuit in | evening Angelus Hour for I he amerted, “Nowsthe emphasis Is org jong, all of the nine major Japanese air-|ment read by Vernon M. Scott,|the Dnieper estusry region as the has received ‘nation-wide n toward getting job after the child! qme sirike today struck Ms Hist -dromes 1 chairman, in which he|soft sands threatened to hog down |tion and consideration as an Teaches the age of 18, but when the) oieniiy) plo Shasta pros 3 Shortland isiands to the south. charged the schedule | tanks. and motorised forses. ity for other Methodist ch “(war ends. public legislation may duction in the Pittsburgh distri! MacArthur had expressed hope [committee with either “lack of CR AA and the Woman's Society for Chris. have {0 be amended to furnish aid with an announcement a the Japs would be tempted to send | ability or lack of sincerity.” ZBOURBANAge [an Service Is the largest In’ the ke for youths from 16 to 18.% el Corp, that it will bank out their fleet against the convoy| As an example, he cited the case| Russian artillery was laying down state, SE ; According to Mr. Baldwip, it will nine blast furnaces within the next {landing on Bougainville to complete of a large local concern which had|a crushing barrage across the lower => ml Gen, William N, Haskell, Democrat, be up to the. social agencies and 24 hours. : 2 the ‘conquest of the Solomons and | obtained a replacement schedule de- hovl : by about 325,000 voles, That means community organizations to furn- Pix Ion Ouiput Down Zeid increase the threat to Rabaul, only | ferment of more than months] in a Descrioed ‘hy Bishop. Mian Lowe [tart If Dewey. drafted Rest year ,{ ish recreational end educational fu- rl 250 miles to the northwest. - ag he can turn the state over 10 & Re. cilities or Youth after the war and} The shutdowns, coupled with ‘He promised to “throw every- to help in readjustment back to t In bringing into proSting" svaiiahie agatnat them, Be tant factor in his favor Pat he in thing 1 ction = rg Bs gn 3 sults battle were not fully! McPheeters ac § ma now for | represent a cul pig iron proknown, but Tr ry "hestery nas social agencies to do is belp win the duction of roughly 25 per cent, the ships fled was indication they suf< . formal indorsement, plus the sup- war.” he added. “This can be done company announced. =. fered another bad beating. port of conservative Democrats, {by providing information .for selec-| The government acted to provide There were no new reports of American. Labor party, the Com- tive service headquarters, caring for householders with coal for their im. 1 omnis, * Howse, announced Ahi Kentucky Nip and Tuek ane soning tn hitnes to faa, riution . an of the exiiting supply fon] 4 advances on island staining Kentucky gubsinatorial eles : : adequate a and Cholssul, to mn ~ {ters® attention was called to- ro a promised fo be the! ery and pe oir ale oe and nothing was dane about. H closest in that Wate ince 185 vania 115000 miners stayed si FUND REPORT 10° Yin hing sends | aed 38 Page §—Colamn 3) home or: gathered: in litle’ trots

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