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™ """? "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<l today that the prospect of a
sewre petroleum shortage in the
'ast about which he warned
often In recent weeks, now was
virtually erased.
(iasoline supplies now are ac
tually aliove last year. Ickes re
ported.
I'··: Ha· first time since he gloom
'l.v ι :l :..-1 summer ol possible gas
·· ■'■··· and homes with less hea
this '.v:nter, the coordinator declare·
fee outlook on the Atlantic seaboan
now Was "optimistic" but he d:·
tot say when rationing of gasoline t
: ' tu es would be ended.
Rai>: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 <terday that 150 Frencl
live.· may be tin· penalty unless thf
Nant: s and Bordeaux as.-a>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 <if tan'·.· with infan
try instead of in masse . Beaver-'
brook said in a long review of ths
Moscow conference.
Beaverbrook, who recently re
turned from the Moscow consulta
tions with Stalin and VV. Averell Har
riman. head of the United States
mission, disclosed that Stalin prom
ised Great Britain raw materials
from Russia to meet "many of our |
needs" and said the Russian leader
"agreed to supply us with pitcn,
chrome, potash, magne site, potassium
limber, and canned salmon.
"We promised him aluminum, cop
per, lead, zinc, brass, phosphorus and
nellac The Americans promised oil
and petrol from the United State,
and that was veiv gratifying.
"Stalin told us this wa'- was being
decided by tanks. He said it was a
tank war. 1 ask him about aircraft,
but he replied that it was essentially
I a tank war."
! Beaverbrook said "v. have mad .
I available tire October <r' -1 a of al
things promised by us in the agrc"
! ment signed in Mo cow."
Opposition
Is Heard
Cudahy Says Ship
Arming Bill Only In
cident to Repealing
Neutrality Act.
\V,i h ington. Oil ΤΛ. fAPI John
Cudahy. former ainbassndor I" Bel
gium. deelarcfl today that the pond
ing armed ship l<\taxation was ■ > 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 '<vj >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 /<me. it «as disclosed today,
and his torees Here credited al
reads λ\ i11> 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,"