Hwtiteramt Ballu StBpafrft «VKN-ΤΥ-ΚΙϋΗΤΗ VKAR ^~~~ΚΗ VU,mi) '* THIS SE^TIOX OF xp,:, Η CAROLINA AND V.RGlIT " ™ """? "bN')ERS0N' N· C- THL-KSLAV AFTERXOOV "I Ton. EXCEPT SUNDAÏ. Γ 1 V L· CENTS COPY NAZIS SMASH MOSCOW'S OUTER DEFENSES Strike-Closed Steel Plants Plan To Open Michigan Or· Guard Clor/.ng of Fiant Had Stopped Work on De fense Contracts ; Stride Call Issued For Walkout Monday in Captive M ines. i: l'Ile \ssociited Pros.) (hi' hundred Michigan slate pi.!: ι!ii-~ afternoon look u|i mut.I (lui·, il approaches lo the vli il ι I s···I plant of the viri'at l.akcs Steel Corporation aller ti r.iar.acciiient announced plan tu r 'Mimi' opérations. I In· plant has been closed for ci : ι ,!.n · ι walkout describ ed In enmpanv and CIO —Tl ■ - rials as ι "wildcat" strike. Sink ers asked a new cor.1 act. rein statement of their strike leaders and removal of a CIO regional official. '■ rrefuse·,", orders til' CIO ι un In whi!;. and tin ion of fic ' : -impended Hi strike lead c: ι leeled terms under which the ··> iid tliev would res uni" we: k the plant iii uburbnn t)e ;r.·· oped work by H.liiIII em )·!··> ' defense contracts for hu?i· Meanwhile seven larce steel ciimraniis today faced the piftc pe( t et strikes in their "captive" cnal mines next Monday mid night. while 20.000 Alabama coal miners remained idle in a wage ι dispute. The CIO I'nited Mine Vorkcrs last night issued a formal strike (.ill in the captive mines, renew iim their demands for a union simp. A similar demand last mi ml h caused a seven-day strike ni Γ! 000 workers, ended by a ,'i0-da\ truce arranged to permit lli. national defense mediation lni.ird to consider the dispute, ι' L"! .i)()(l of the miners live in v· · I'cnn vlvanin. The c;i|.tivc ι . .pel atvd l>y thi· H C. ■ Company (a sub tdiniy Steel ). ι ι Vounu' town S 1 ι Tube C i":n "v. :md lir'h e'■ '.Veirton, Wheeling, Ctueibl.' ..lui !;· " i;e steel cintpanie>. ■ William 11. Davi- ot tlv - ι. b Mi d said a recommi ti the ease would be madi by S. day. A' c.>.i 1 mine .iperators nic1 ■ i·. ith representatives of tin CIO Γ: ■ I Mm;· Winker for a dis eu. i the union's demands: a. (Ceiitiniied on Page Five) Petroleum Crisis Ends I c k e s Announces Gasoline Supplies Ac tually Greater Thar Those of Last Year. Washington. Oct. -3.— (ΛΓ) — I'etr(ileum Coordinator Ickes s-u:d improvement in the situât ·' Wa· attributed by Ickes to the p''1 £r::: ··: the petroleum c< rdinat"r' "Mire, ci.·.ipled with continued widt Spread warm weather which he! down the consumption of heatin oil. The announcrment said that shor •N alter the coordinator's progra λν:ι l'isaielred last summer, petro eu:·" -locks on the east coast wer •'■""".'"HI barrels less than at *1' i-amp · n-e last year, but that invei lorie- t.,, the week ended October! wed "this deficit rk>w has ber educed to 476,000 barrels ' for a oils. Russians See Carolina Maneuvers ' V* ··' ; ·~" ;» ·>►·; ·.»· · ·-·>-··· . -, /_ ..V ^^. -·- ' — . »» ΙΛ^ - — .. j>fc. jyj ι'ιίίί'ι·'*ί >-· ^*· · -. . . I Three Uu.-s:;.n army officer.- were given a military reception up..m their arrival at Camden, S. t\, to witness the United Stat'-s First Army's nianc.iv i ers in the Carelinas. Left t<· right: M;,j. Pavel I. Baraycv. assistant Uns-ian ! military attache: C't>l. Pavel F. îîc:-« /.m. a>si-'tant Soviet military attache for : air: Maj. Gen. Irving .J. Phillipsuii. ι ol the Second Corps. Area. United States Army, and Col. I. M. S a.--:stant Rus.· inn militaiattache U. S. Army Air Force To Expand Rapidly Franklin Case To Be Argued Daily Dispatch iturcau, 111 lilt- Sir VValli-r Hotel. 15.ν II I.N II \ VVIKII.L Kali ι; .. ι h t. L.''i. When ti se\ e j .m : 1.1 Carolina'. Suprca.i ! Court sit m solemn state next week 1" m.i appeals. the\ will hear oral ai 11 ii'tit on two ({uestions which pvrenially bob up tu plague jurist.» the country inn'. One l'a χ ■. a c i \ 11 action from j Franklin county, involves the much cii. );n:cl and ol'ten-a: .uueci matter of public operation n| | >wer plants. The jotlur, a criminal ca-e I'roin far-ofl Swain, will pu· ' nt the question ol slate vcr lis federal jurisdiction uver an Indian π -crvaiion. The Franklin case conies iron. Loui-burg where '.he city lathers de em.ri the municipal power plant needed expansion. ,\~ a result they intered into an agreement to pur chase some III,(MM) worth ol equip ment. Agril'xed citizens over whose prote t the decision had been made went to court about it, seeking to enjoin the projected purchase. Judg'· 1. ο fan derided lyailist them and t he ν have appealed to the supreme court. I'he plaiolitls contend that the pu relias'1 ι - ill \ la t : - ■; ι ol the con stitutional pro\i-ioir ain it incurniiti indebtedness, "it being admitted," according to their brief, "that tin amount of the indebtedness created ι i 'ont ι nued on Paee Kiv-p Secretary Stimson Re veals Preparations for Force of 400,000 Fly ing Cadets and Enlist ed Men by Next June 30th. Washington. Oct. 23.— ( ΛI * ) — Secretary Stimson announced War department preparations today U> expand the Army air forces to 400.1)00 flying cadets and enlisted men 1>\ next June l!0. nearly tripling their present strength. "Subsequent expansion, pos sibly to the 500.001) level, is pos sible he> ai:d that date." Stim son said. Ί lit· pre.· i iit organization o£ the air forces is based on 54 combat gnat)is, whereas the enlarged pro grain calls for 84 .-uch groups, each composed ni several squadrons. The secretary aid the 54-grou;i undertaking wa> "well on its way," . ι ; M ni it y. t completed. (.'oii.gres- wa told the original program provided for a force of 25, i)i)(l plain ·, but Stimson declined to state how many of these were in -erviee or how many were contem plated under the enlarged program. "Th - Dev. plan means wc have readied the point where our air forces are expanding ve:y rapidly," lie told a pre .- conference. Stimson announced at the same time a thne-lold expansion of a cour e for officer.·- in rifle and heavy 'Continued on Page Seven* More Reprisal Executions Unless Arrests Are Made Vichy. Oct. 23.—(ΛΡ)—The French - people must turn over to German ι authorities the two slayers of Lieu-I 1 tenant Colonel Paul Hotz, chief οI the : 1 German field gendarmerie in Nantes.! ' l-\ " dir .iit f> !>. m. EST) today, or 50 ι ii.nil· Frenchmen must pay with, tin ir 1 :\ - lor Hotz' death, ι Those arc the terms ot the Gor- , man ultimatum upon the French as ; s the assassination of a second Ger- 1 man officer within 48 hours, a jur Ί isd:cal co.mselor at Bordeaux, c.^u S rd the arrest of another lt)0 and ! raised tht grim prospect of st-ill fur • tlu r executions. i. Fifty pi ι-ons already have bi_«^:i - put to dc..!h foi the kill lis of the c commandant. tin latest m! reprisa! e in which naz ret .liât s'l'.iads li.i\e ι- taken quick vengeanc. on I'll Sj Frinchmen for llie dea!! of l'u 111 members of the German occupation " ! forces. I Marshal Petain himsel; told :'··.· nation \ί sins arc found, and. in trembling voice. ex hni'tid hi.·· peuple by radio to let m more harm befall France. "The tansom is l ight l it"|hi cried. The 50 executed so far for tin Nantes killing included some iron the Paris region. an authorize! source .-aid. but all were killed a Nanti s. This informant explained that th hostages chiwen for execution h:i< been taken f;om their home dis tricts and confined in concentratioi camps ii western France in the rc gion wher Hot? were shot. They were picked according to th gravity of the accustations again* tliem. lie aid. with alleged cumniu.' i-:- heading the li>1 \11 pre.-umabl d:ed simultaneously at several differ ent camps, he said. Beaverbraok Outlines Aid Promises I Britain and United States Committed to Make Up Russia's Losses in Tanks and Planes, House of l ords is Told. London. Oct. 23—ί.ΛΡΙ—Lord Beaverhrook told thi> house of lords tndav tliat the United State* and British missions to Hosia had proir>:S'd Josef Stalin to make lip Russia's losses in tanks and planes in »h<> war against Germany hv shipments from Ihojr two co"ntri"s Bea vrhrook, of sim ply and head of the British war aid mission to Moscow, declared (hat "ii'-sia has lost textile, monitions, and h"a.vv machine industries of rre?t value and compared th<- USSR's Position to that of Britain after Dunkcrque. Stalin told thv mission that the Germans had changed panzer tactic, in the attacks on Ιΐπ -:;i hv using ■mall numbers 111 > incident to "the administrai !'m. main purpiv" "I expunging the ne; trality act 1 r - < ! 11 the statute I» ·· >k ■ Cudahy appeared before the Sri ; te I'oivign relations committee in ιippiι.· ilion tn the merehant -!iiρ arm ai.u as C'apitnl Mill »· I White TTousi developments indieate'l that adminis .'tration forces wedd take the lead in urging the Senate to vxpand tin mea lire so a- to permit American shins to travel anywhere in th vol Id. Cudahy. who served in Belgium at , the time of the German invasion and also has been ambassador to Poland and minister to Treland. told report ers prior t > his committee appear ance that the House-approved arnv.i ship proposal "i another step edg ing lis into war by subterfuge." Directly before the committee ι only the repealer of the neutrality 1 act's ban against arming merchant ships, but Chain· ,n Connallv. Deal ocrat. Tt\x.i>. :«-M reporters he wa> having amend ents drafted t< • broaden the ·.■■ 'pi of the legislation Connnllv ■-Ή·· Ήο sending ο I American shin wherevei "'i ; in delivering aid to nations fightim i the axis. > I Another witne - John T. Flvnr 1 a col mini-·, -a d :n a statement tha ι while the a 11 · · i hip bill itself wa: (Continued on Page Seven.1 WEATHER. 1 FOR NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloud* tonight and Fri I day, cooler Friday. Debates Fate of Neutrality Senator Tom Connally, of Texas, chairman of the Senate Foreign i: a tions Committee, is shown (glasses) being questioned bv reporte! s out side the Senate ο dice as hi» gruup considered the questions of arming U. S. merchantmen and permitting them to enter combat 7.<'.> ι--. (Ccit t ral I'it >6) Lahorite Demands More Aid To Reds Burley Leaf Price Cited Lex'iiigt'.n. lv>.. Out. 23.— (AP)— i'obaceo ant: . . ! :· t 11.· : ι ί j 11 rot> \Vl r nid tud;i> · ' îl !» ·'. Keynoi.i - joinpany r. α ··;. .1 e r'.atn bui > y >baCCO \\ ; Λ .. Ill,r> ·,. 1 "\V* Ί-Shl rise m ν .il >· · ' . :·.>··! Ρ'· ee it liso farmer 4: -v.··." L. p. Μι-Li li.i. . ■ Key κild.·, declared : 1 . ; , · . jury that this leaf was known a> "ti ;..-h" and that it "liad · » ;i a ;n!.l Κ ynolds un id : 'ced C';i •igarotte, the first to conn..11 ,;ley. η 1L» 1 : :. McLondon recited that the bur ley blend cigarette acbi.■·. ed » i 1 . !a1 . ;y with the pul ·'·:>- that l 'a y it.i.l-' v-delcndaiit.·-. Ligl'i tt & My'..- and American Tobacco ιί-ih 1 ·. : -1 e . u ere c< ι η ι jelled ti 1 1.111. i\v licynoid- in prod icing burley blend-. Augusta, Ga. Is Raided , In Maneuvers W til tilt Τ : .1 1 . Mi ll .ill' I I'll M ( AP ) Λ · < : . λ : y ιΊ t:;. ; the Car':!.,. ·.·. ... 1 bruad tl.i> ' .1 ·. ·. ' t χ - mand. 1 he : ' ' · ed at 1!» 4.'· .. ..Ί; th..: 1!.,· bombers ά ■ ' a λ y. but nine ι ,11 ·, · 1 e Λ t two big Iï- 1 · ..τ the ι· ' \ .· blisir.e.NS d.M ' ' the no '■> ( Con tin ι..·· 1 " age Four) Congressmen Assail Strikes .. . ... "'· ··■ ! inu' ". ι ' ■ - \pv Three i eongi».· ^ .i >'■ ;k· ·= in 11a 1 tional defense inau i-'«s 'v Rep r s·::'. :..··· l'.<\ IVn ·ί· a:. Ooorçia termim; :'·«· wal . > t ·' . ··» di* c 1 hvi I - · a · . 1 t . . ■ existe; in th:- cf 11', y." I "And the -ha ' r".i; p; " i. . ,t . that neither the executive nor thi legislative branche.- .·! ' g λ e ·η n ent ■ i't doing aiythi'iu . ■ .{ I Cox told the Ho: 1 e "The · ic beginning to wonder wh· is :· . : (Continued oc Fuse Five) Full Dress Debate in House of Commons Brings Suggestions for Greater Help to Rus sia; Churchill Policy Praised. London. Oct. — (.AIM — Members of the house of com - liions in ;t war debate today sug gested attacks on Italy. ni:;ht landings on the continent by raiding parlies and sending Brit ish troops to the I krainc as a means of helping liussia. 1. to ·' ' J. Noel-Hake·· ·!·<··< !'"i' opposition in a full ■ îi i« "'i :!.> ι ·>;ir'uc1 ■ of th . dee!.., ·ί1 !!:·.: ,»Λ !Ί·.nitier «· the V"1 : · ;.· tod that !! .·. :·. the Middle East » · · 1 .1 :'t the Ku.-sians in tile V-·., Mr I bis countn is read\ for anv miti!':'' to help the Russians," he declared. "The army wants to light." Nu ' ··■'·: · ·■'.■ Vol:; •nd D'il ; 1·' · h tier, he ••aid. < χι ' · î · · th;.t "ti-. · sovcnimi'i ' t.:i;< . \va 11 ο t .-· ι ι ί : · ; ; 1 ■ ' ' \ ι : 11 - KM-est I), 1 ·.· solves." While pi·.,: M m -· Churchill : ,y .. trate.!.;v. ho d"c! · ■ die: and widespread anxii ty about the v: r in Hits da and ι it 1 list ! Tee- have d<·*■>·· tu lu ; i ' is i;. in her hour or net a. ' We 111 i\v hi'N r pi.\ it! ul i.-nvs in the Middle East." he .-aid. "md 1 ■ ei eve >tir people would bo very •••py if sorm part of these forces Ί he sent t>ι .-:;]ii. <1 Russian .' :· ■ !I in the 1Ί ne "While our 1 ;jjh:· ι - are doing . i work hero, they could be bot te" employed u I?; — i . if we want • -· -h the now e. "Γ the ] ftwaffe t get Spitl St kas in land battles wherever we Legion Aids Recruiting liailv ÏMspatoh Bureau, In till' Will" Rv HVVPY WVPTI I Raleigh, Oct· 2^. Λ llie re til ο a eai îpaign uniiiue in 1. is tor.λ the North Carolina departr ·■ "t the American Legion will Monda' morning present to the l'nifed State Navy a company of recruits, prob ablv "tie hundred strong. Appropriate exorcises will be he 11 at the eastern portico of the sta-. I ;C?utinued on Page Five) Fight Rages In Streets Or Kalinin Germans Reach Sev eral «omis Only 38 M iies from Soviet Capital; ! resh Ger man-Àîiied ï roops Enier Donets Battle. ι lî\ Τι ·* \ssm iated Press.) Adoll Hitler's liiati command, in ,i special !ommuniquc. assert < d toda\ tha1 na/i ml minis had sma^hcd flu <>■ ιl; it Moscow 's outer defenses on a broad front from the southwest and west. reach iut; several points onI> !iK miles troni the heleamieretl capital Si ι\ 11 -t (ίι- pate·! κ ■ ' ι ; i.. : 1 bitter '.ul.t.ui ·· ■ rat-inn ■ ' '· · i ; rriftdo'J streets ni' Kalinin. 95 miles north wi t ni Moscou. .ni.I that larse : ι frt · t. 11 : ι 'nan. I langarian nid I! ii'i.iii .η tr - (·· had been ' ! il i 'V. I ll - 1 ! it' '.! ( I'll I'l l 'lit 1 >ank! !"·!· Il:·· \ .ϊϋΙ I '■ ·>ί I it industrial Da - m. Kilssian < .n respondents said Red troops had fought off the Germans for naît d a \ s at Kalin in. uilli the lia/ s hurling masses of men and tanks into the as sault. "Now fighting is going on in the < it\ streets." reported Taas, the official Soviet news agency. "Anti-tank obstacles and bar ricadi■■■ ,i·· ί.-.-iiig el t-< ted in the -tret:- Sip.. :< . are iuirowed by trenches The -ti aggie goe- on i'o; ··. '-tv m»·! ■ ' s- \ .,·· land foi e\-ery treet, ,*\ « \ h ■ > m. Some city blocks aave chaiiKvd hands several times.'' Keports reaching London said die Germans, handicapped by winter's first snows blanketing the Moscow front, were taking to the air with parachute troops in great numbers. German transport planes were re " a ted landing light tanks, armored cars and .--mall lield guns behind the Soviet lines, while Stuka bombers :'ai ried out mas.·· raids on Red army ιimmunication lines. Λ bulletin l'roin Hitler's field head juarteis aid the break through wa.i : a. de ai a i>n..ad iront despite severe '.■father conditions. "Rain a .-n· v. by day and freez ing conditions at night' prevailed >ver the whole battleiront, according ι \v..rd rec-ived m London. Late-t S- ici Mary dispatches tckiiowledged that the Germans had cored a slight advance m the Ma lova-roslavets sector. 65 miles suuth (Contmued on Page Seven) I ΓΓ,« ^ 1 j 1 imosiienko Replaced ι General Zhukov Sup plants Soviet Marshal in Supreme Command oi . e< /one. Kuibsshev. Russia. o< t. — (Delayed) — ι \P)—General Gre gory Κ /liuUm lias supplanted .Marshall St uirun I imushenko in supreme inninund of the west ern / having tightened Mnscow s defense despite the admitted numereal superiority <>I German tanks and infantry being hurled in mass assaults at the approaches of the cits. Zhukov, ehiel el the Soviet gen eral stall and commander of the western array before Moscow, was η r; ι ; s< d b> Pi.ivda. the communiât •ii! :> ni ν »! ,|»·ι... ;ι ί ijjhting. ex pci oitci d . ider" and a- a soldior : ;. .lie -'· enemy There was ii" report here of a new i.V.n· tl<« (r.···· ι invasion be : .!..r·· : . !>·.. ί or Stal n !;\ ύ ii ! ι :·. · >.litv the defen-e all ..II.: .i · . v.: a'.e ·· marshals, " ii·.':. .;,nked y \ · !i :. \ · · : ι :: <■ η : th. entrust .t ν tli ' ι ;i ;ense nt Lenin grad, and Budyenny, commanding .ι .i.ii ι ί i-s -ι ii ι ·ιιthorn wing of the Kt d army in the Ukraine. iS:,i!m announced Sunday Zhuk f1 ov's new appointment and said h*» I should have charge of "defense and i ■ ! ι : : u it 'iic ;ii'i laches of ATos ■ ,·.η»At tin· -.mie time Lieutenant . C'icno ·ι Aito·. r\ wa- assigned to . I tommand the city's garrison. Nothing, i v \ ι v. iv ;,id · Timoshenko.) 1 j Pravda -«·id Zhukov had served tiio Red . y !'·ι yoar>. starting I :iv a private, and that this "gallant 1 .-y and o.'jrage arc widely known,"