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VOL. XLVH.
No. 22.
Pittsburgh, N. Y., Saturday, September 12, 1942
PRIC3 THREE CfefiTS
U. S. Fliers Down 96 Jap Planes, Damage Two Warships
DEFENDERS OF STALINGRAD HALT NAZIS IN ONE OF
HISTORY'S GREAT STRUGGLES;NOVOROSSISK LOST
Japanese Thrust At Port
Moresby Is Halted In Efogi
Sector; Allies Blast Buna
Pattern of Axis Near East Thrusts'
Brilliant Aerial Victory is TWO EXPLOSIONS KILL Bayonet-Weilding Australians Battling Japs in
Achieved Over Jap
FIVE, HALT PRODUCTION
Mountain Slopes
Fighter Planes
HAOKETTSTOWN, N. J., Sept. 11
OT—Two explosions took five lives
(By CLARK LEE)
and temporarily halted war proAT SEA WITH THE TJ. S. FLEET duction today at the Hackettstown
OFF THE SOLOMONS, Aug. 24 plant of the Essex Specialty Com(Delayed) (IP)—The greatest air vic- pany.
tory of the war against Japan has
been won by American fliers who Four persons were killed outright
today shot down ninety-six enemy and the fifth, Charles Menzello, 45,
planes in a far-flung battle over of Berkeley Heights, Union county,
Guadalcanal Island and over our died several hours later in Dover
Navy task force. Our losses were general hospital.
Four other persons were injured,
eight pilots missing.
In addition, and without loss of three of them seriously.
Fire followed the explosions and
a single pilot, a small group of
TJ. S. dive bombers and torpedo the Army Ordnance Department
planes damaged a huge Jap battle- placed property damage at $10,000.
ship of the Mutsu class, and a heavy Captain D. B. MacMaster said the
former fireworks plant would reopen
Jap cruiser.
tomorrow.
Total's total was the largest number of enemy planes ever shot down
by our fliers in one engagement.
^ From the ship's, bridge I saw our
lighter pilots shoot down SI planes
and anti-aircraft down 24 more in
only ten minutes of terrific action. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (ff)—PreThose 55 were in an 80-plane Jap sident Roosevelt said today that the
formation trying to attack our sur- new rubber czar would -be named
face ships.
soon, probably on Monday, and that
Fifty-five Jap planes plunged in- most of the recommendations of
to the water trailing long smoke the Baruch committee which invesplumes, or exploded or disintegrated tigated the rubber situation would
in the air.
be put into effect simultaneously.
The most encouraging feature of
However, the nationwide gasoline
the battle was that Japanese pilots rationing is not expected to become
definitely were inferior to those in effective until later, due to the neprevious flights over the Pacific, cessity of preparing ration books.
and their planes continued to burst
In addition to rationing and othinto flames and crash when hit by er measures to reduce the mileage
even a few *bullets.
of the civilian motorist, the comDeath Crushed by the wing-tips mittee proposed the appointment
of our boys in the .daylight attack of a "rubber administrator, delegaton the large Jap naval formation. ing to him full and complete authLieut. (J. G.) Robert Elder, 24, of ority in all matters related to rubMilwaukee, Ore., related "there were ber, including research, developfour heavy cruisers, six light cruis- ment, construction and operation of
ers and six destroyers in the main plants."
formation. Over at one side, I sightMr. Roosevelt made it clear that
ed a huge battleship trying to he preferred to think of the new
sneak away."
program as a tire and mileage ra"The battleship changed its course tioning system and not as a gasoand started to run," Lieutenant El- line rationing proposal.
der continued. "The anti-aircraft . The President went on to say that
fire was coming pretty thick. It was he had determined for himself that
a beautiful evening; I oould see a motorists are disregarding previbig white circle on the deck of the ous appeals to save tires by keepbattleship. I pushed into a dive; held ing to low rates of speed.
my sights *11 the way and released,
then pulled out. My rear seat man
saw a big burst of smoke and flame
on the starboard side amidships,
just behind the funfiell and between
thti forward and after gun turrets."
Then he watched Ensign Robert WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (IP) —
Gordon of McCbok, Nebr., let go Congressional leaders laid before
with a bomb just off the bow. "The President Roosevelt today their difbattleship was turning to the left." ferences over the form of an antiElder jesumed, "and his bomb hit inflation bill but said the President
just to the right. It pieked the en- manifested little concern over detire bow- out of the water and gave tails so long as it granted the authit a big shove over. There was smoke ority he asked.
and fire ifrom my hit."
Of two forms which the legislaA moment later they saw Lieut. tion might take and over which
Harold (Swede) Larsen of Birming- the congressmen were divided, Senham, Ala., single out a cruiser. "Ho ate Majority Leader Barkley of
hit the cruiser amidships and i Kentucky reported that the Presicolumn of water spouted higher dent expressed no personal preferthan the ship's mast and splashed ence, saying that just so long as
over the well deck," Elder said. "It he got congressional sanction to
stabilize living costs he would be
was a terrific wallop."
Three more U. S. Navy pilots satisfied.
fought their way into the winger Some congressmen, particularly
circle of aces in the withering as- farm bloc members, want the bill
sault today on the 80-plane Jap to specify that the President shall
flight over Guadalcanal.
Each stabilize wages as well as farm
brought his total number of vic- prices, instead of leaving action on
tims to five, which constitutes ace wages entirely up to the executive's
ranking. They were Lieut. (J. G.) discretion. Others fear that such
Carlton Starkes, Memphis, Tenn.; a course would open the way to de
Lieut. B. M. Jensen, St. Paul, Minn., mands for specific mention of oth
and Machinist Donald E. Runyan, er factors in the inflation situation
Prawfordsville, Ind. Runyan got as well, leading to extended debate
and consequent delay, _ j _ i l W i <
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NEWMBBERCZARTO
BE NAMED VERY SOON
CONGRESS SQUABBLES
OVER ANTI-INFLATION
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, (Saturday),
Sept. 12 yp)—Allied bombers fired
a Japanese destroyer and left her
sinking off eastern New Guinea and
also blasted Buna, the enemy's supply base for the overland drive toward Port Moresby, a communique
said today.
The communique said "the enemy
has made no further advances" in
the Efogi area, 44 miles short of
Port Moresby, where bayonet-wielding Australians were fighting the
invaders.
A "very near miss'J was scored on
a second Japanese destroyer which
was probably damaged, the communique said. Both ships were encountered off Normanby Island
which is north of Milne Bay, scene
of a frustrated Japanese invasion.
"Allied heavy bombers," the announcement said, "attacked two
enemy destroyers, obtaining a direct
hit on one which was observed afire
and sinking'by the stern.
"Rafts and personnel were seen
in the water.
"Our medium bomjjers scored a
very near miss on t^Fsecond warship, probably damagmg it. All our
planes returned."
Both Australian and Japanese
troops fighting the shadowy war at
Efogi on the southern slopes of the
Owen Stanley mountains were believed to be reorganizing their positions.
Allied airmen continued to strafe
the Japanese, but also streaked
across the mountains to make two
heavy raids on the airdrome at
Buna where the Japanese first landed late in July for the cross country strike at Port Moresby.
"All bombs hit in the target area,"
the communique said of the attack
on Buna. "Three grounded aircraft
and a number of trucks were destroyed; several fires were started.
Heavy anti aircraft fire was encountered. There was no interception."
Buna is 76 air line miles behind
the Japanese salient at Efogi, and
considerably 'farther by jungle trail
through some of the roughest country in the world. The Japanese and
the Allies defending Pott Moresby
are using native porters to carry
food and arms to the Efogi front.
The supply problem is one of the
main factors in the present Japanese halt, but Allied headquarters
announced yesterday that close
combat had checked the invaders,
too, with heavy casualties on both
sides.
Allied
bombers
concentrated
mainly on New Guinea, but some
units operating over the seas northwest of Australia attacked a building and a small vessel "with unobserved results" at the island of
Teoen.
Less than 20 miles south of Efogi
is a rubber plantation known as
Itikinuma. From there a hard surfaced road leads on down to Port
Moresby. But to reach Iitikinuma
the Japanese still must cross several
mountain ridges as high as 2,640
feet.
The Australian Navy minister declared flatly yesterday that the Allies would hold New Guinea.
Speaking at Newcastle,
Navy
Minister Herman Makin announc(Conttaued on Page 6.).
Army of Over 500,000 Men, 1,000
BRITISH MOVE Nazi
Planes, Hundreds of Tanks, Ordered
INTO INTERIOR
to Take City at Any Cost
Saturday, Sept. 12 (AP)—Russian
OFMADAGASCAR troopsMOSCOW,
clefeudiiig Stalingrad under a "fight to the
death" order were reported officially today to have
stopped the Nazi tide in one of the greatest struggles
of history, hut the Red army of the Caucasus has
abandoned Novorossisk on the Black Sea coast.
Courageously holding their ground tinder constant'
artillery and dive bomber charges, the Red army west
LONDON, Sept. 11 (IP)—The Brit- and southwest of Stalingrad beat off constant Gerish advanced quickly into the in- man infantry charges, destroying 14 more Nazi tanks
terior of Madagascar against light
opposition today while the island and killing hundreds of the enemy, the communique
said.
government denied it was used as a
Laval Angrily Protests
American Endorsement
of British Campaign
Death at Russian hands was
secret Axis' base and Pierre Laval
promised for any Red exhibition of
in Vichy angrily protested the
New German drives-in Egypt linked with Nazi successes at Stalincowardice in the epic struggle on
forthright American endorsement of
grad shape the pattern of axis aims of joining forces in the Nearthe western bank of the Volga
the British campaign to take the
East by thrusting from one major objective to the next. Goals are
French possession out of the sphere MONTREAL, Sept. 11 (IP)—A spe- It was the first time the Russians
oil fields for thirsty Nazi war jnachine and communications centers
had stopped the Germans west of
and bases like Suez CaKal, Stalingrad and Alexandria. <v
of Axis intrigue.
cial dispatch today to Le Devoir
the city after the Nazis really beVichy dispatches said the British from Ottawa said Msgr. Ildebrando
gan moving in from that direction
forces had made their landings af- Antoniutti. Apostolic delegate to
this week. The Soviets had withter naval barrages and air attacks Canada and Newfoundland, "was
drawn four times in the previous
begun yesterday morning on the the object of an attempt on his life
four days.
west coast from Mozambiqune chan- on the even of his departure for
Soviet troops even counter-atnel and were advancing on the in- Moncton, N. B.
land capital, Tananarive, with the The dispatch said individuals tacked southwest of Stalingrad in
inhospitable terrain as their most "shot twice at the delegate, but for- one sector to throw the Germans
"back to their initial positions" afserious barrier. '
tunately' none of the bullets was ter several Nazi assaults had carThe dispatches said the British successful. One of them struck his ried the enemy into Russian dehad crossed the Betsiboka river valise. He was riding in an automo- fenses, the communique said.
some 90 miles inland from the coast bile at the time."
The Germans had claimed the
and were east of Mevatanana, less The dispatch continued:
capture of Novorossisk last Sunday.
than 130 miles from Tananarive. "It was learned that his Excel- The withdrawing Soviet units apThe occupying forces were engagBUFFALO, Sept. 11 (IP)—A flam- LONDON, Sept. 11 UP)—Duessel-ed'at a tributary of the Betsiboka lency suffered severe nervous shock parently retreated into the mouning airplane plummeted into the dorf on the Rhine lay pock-marked but apparently broke through light from the incident, but the Apostolic tains which sweep close to the sea
delegate did not wish to cancel his between Novorossisk and Tuapse,
roof of a building at the Curtiss- today in a pall of smoke left by opposition.
hundreds of British bombers last
trip to the Maritime provinces for 65 miles farther south along the
Wright airplane division plant late
night in the accelerating RAF ofthat reason. He will return to Ot- coast.
today, killing six workers and in- fensive to cripple the supply cen- The French told of a fourth major
approach to the west coast with the tawa this weekend."
Continued Russian success was
juring 47 others.
ters of the German army.
arrival of British warships off Tu- Msgr. Antoniutti went to Moncton reported at Mozdok on the Tere£
The pilot, J. Bertrand Purnell, 33, The 50th attack on the city cost lear, southernmost big port on the
to consecrate two new Maritime river 60 miles west of the Grozny
a Curtiss test flier since May, para- the British 31 bombers, but the Mozambique channel.
oil fields. Still fighting against Gerbishops.
chuted to safety two miles from the price was considered small compar- Laval said the defending 'forces
man units which had crossed ths
plant. He suffered burns.
river, the Russians were reported
ed to the fiery, explosfVe destruc- were "very insufficient—and I reNames of the dead were not im- tion left in the metal, machinery gret it," and the French on tne
to have killed 2,000 Germans and
mediately available.
destroyed 90 tanks in the last five
and chemical industries. It was the island were described as putting
The Curtiss Public Relations of- seventh large RAF attack on the up mere token resistance intended
days.
fice said damage to the plant was Reich in ten nights and the round "above all to save our honor."
The communique reported a re1
"very slight and confined to one tiip carried the big, black bombers The French chief-of-government WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (ff )—The sumption of fighting on two sectors
locality" and that production would 600 miles through stout enemy de- said the United States had "equal Army and Navy tonight formally far to the north, the Volkhov river
continue without interruption."
fenses.
responsibility" in the British under- announced they would refuse to ac- sector in the Leningrad defense
cept volunteers who were deemed of area, and also west of Moscow. SevWilliam Davey, general manager
Other objectives which the air taking, a statement which only
of Curtiss plants here, first an- ministry did not name were attack- repeated the announcement by the greater use in their jobs in essen- eral inhabited localities were capnounced about 60 workers were in- ed in western Germany. Fighters State Department in Washington tial war industries and in federal tured in the Volhov region, and ths
Germans lost 26 tanks in an unjured, but the figure was reduced meanwhile carried out offensive yesterday saying the United States agencies.
later by the Public Relations office. patrols over enemy occupied terri- was in full agreement on the neces- This was the second development successful counter attack, the Russity of securing Madagascar against of the day relating to the selection sians said.
Emergency wards in six hospitals tory.
of fighting men. At a morning press Battle dispatches said the total
were jammed as fleets of ambu- The air ministry said more thnn Axis machinations.
lances brought in the victims, sev- 100,000 incendiaries were dropped Laval then read a cable from conference, President Roosevelt ex- armies involved exceeded the 1,000,eral of whom were reported to be and they "did the work of the Governor Armand Annet of Mada- pressed the opinion that the draft- 000 men who fought on both side*
critically injured,
moon." The raid was ths heaviest gascar denying the charges of Brit- ing of 18 and 19 year olds would not in the battle of Moscow last year.
ish informants that the island's begin until after the first of the They said, too, that the most powerDavey said Purnell's plane caught ever made by the RAF on a moon• dfci» ful army that the Germans ever
remote coves had supplied Japanese year.
less
night.
fire "at a high altitude," from an
submarines for raids on shipping in Adoption of the new policy re- assembled in Russia, more than 500,Pathfinders,
the
specially
picked
unknown cause. Damage to the
the Indian Ocean and Mozambique flected complaints that some indus- 000 men, 1,000 planes and many
building into which the ship, plung- crews who find the target and light channel; that German spies had tries were being crippled by losses hundreds of tanks, had orders from
ed was "very slight," he added, and the way for the main forces, had operated there with the connivance of men to the armed services. Sec- Hitler to take Stalingrad, immedifires well kindled when the main
production continued.
of Vichy French officials, and that retary of War Stimson took note ately, at any cost.
attacking force roared in.
Purnell, who began flying in PhilJapanese planes, presumably car- of these complaints last week in
This, said the Army organ Red
Duesseldorf,
a
city
of
a
half
miladelphia when he was 13, is a vetrier-based, had made reconnaissance stating that the War Department Star, was revealed by captured Gerlion,
lies
just
outside
the
Ruhr
valeran, with more than 3,500 hours
flights over the southern part of was being "most careful" not to man documents.
in the air. He helped found the ley but belongs to the same indus- the island.
raid industry.
(The German high command 6aid
trial
concentration.
Montgomery, Ala., School of AeroThe new policy announcement the attacking forces had penetrat(The Italian radio broadcast a
"All
indications
were
that
last
nautics, flew the first plane on the
Tokyo dispatch Friday reporting a said also that "except in further- ed to the Volga both above and
American Eagle Line between Oma- night's raid will have done dam- Japanese submarine had sunk a ance of definite mobilization plans" below the city, and captured more
ha, Neb., and Wichita, Kas., and age on a vast scale," the air minis- 10.C0O ton British transport in Mo- no persons would be commissioned fortified positions south of Stallftwas an instructor at the Mississippi try said.
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zambique channel between Mada- or enlisted and then permitted to grad.)
Institute of Aeronautics, Jackson, The destruction at Duesseldorf, gascar and the East African coast, retain their civilian employment On
The Russians' defense was based,
24
miles
from
devastated
Cologne,
Miss., before joining Curtiss.
must have been enormous because apparently referring to a- sinking an inactive military status. Students now, on the two civil war orders
Patrolman Christ M. Nagle of the the Berlin radio broadcast this reported Wednesday in a German in recognized institutions were sx- which Joseph Stalin issued for the
Buffalo police said he saw the plane grudging admission from the Ger- broadcast quoting a dispatch to the cepted.
same city, then Tsarifeyn, in the
Italian newspaper La Stampa.)
shoot from the sky, pointed nose man high command:
1918 battle against the White Rusfirst at the building, and the pilot "Numerous conflagrations as well Several Allied ships have been
NEW YORK, Sept. 11. (IP)—Mr.sians.
bail out.
Then Stalin sent all the Volga
as damage to material and build- reported sunk in the last several and Mrs. Jack Dempsey, once faAnother eye-witness, Mrs. Cath- ings were caused, particularly in weeks in the vicinity of Madagascar. miliar figures in Broadway's glitter, river vessels up the stream, removerine Kirk, watched the smoking the residential quarters of Duessel- Prime Minister Ohurchill an- have become suburbanites. They're ing the only means of escape.
"Now, as before," said Red Star,
plane spin through the air after dorf. The civilian population suf- nounced the landings on Madagas- auctioning off their city apartment
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the pilot jumped,
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GERMAN SUPPLY
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Flaming Planes Falls Into Dusseldorf Attack Costs
RAF 31 Bombers; West
Roof of Plant at
Germany Also Attacked
Buffalo
DRAFTING OF YOUTHS
IMMINENT AFTER JAN. 1
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Red Army Beats Off Steady
Infantry And Tank Charges
West And Southwest Of City
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