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Drive to Seize
Stalingrad Over,
Nazis Indicate
May Content Selves
With Shelling City,
Germans Declare
t
(Earlier Story on Page A-l.)
By the Anoclated Pres*.
NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—The Ger
mans indicated today that after
45 days of costly and thus-far
unsuccessful siege they may
abandon attempts to capture all
Stalingrad by storm and instead
may content themselves with
destruction of the Russians’
Volga iRiver arsenal city with
dive bbmbers and siege guns.
A DNB dispatch quoting military
quarters, broadcast by the Berlin
radio, said:
The fight for Stalingrad has
changed.
"After the arrival at the strate
gic objective—that is after captur
ing the heart of the city and after
penetrating up to the Volga—the
remainder of the city need not be
stormed by infantry and sappers
but can be laid in ruins systemat
ically by heavy and heaviest artil
lery.’’ the broadcast said, quoting
military quarters.
Objective Declared Achieved.
Reuters, in London, heard the
flfrmin roHirt, cau “TV»e ienle
Objective at Stalingrad already has
b«en achieved. It is no longer neces
sary to send German infantry and
assault engineers into the battle
• • * The finishing touches will
how be intrusted to heavy artillery
Gnits and Stukas.”
The Germans previously had
Claimed to have reached the Volga
and the heart of Stalingrad, thus
creating a situation such as the
broadcast mentions. The Russians,
6n the other hand, have held the
Germans at Stalingrad now for 45
days, taking a sacrificial toll of the
besiegers, and apparently strength
ened their clutch on the city in re
cent days by threatening the Nazi
flank to the north.
8iege Hailed as Red Victory.
The siege of Stalingrad ’ already
has been hailed in some Allied
quarters as essentially a victory for
the Russians because of the delay
It has caused in Hitler’s timetable
of aggression and it may be that
the Nazis now feel that the cost
Is not worth it—even in the face
of Hitler’s own promise September
M that 8t«hngrad would be taken.
It was only eight days ago that
Hitler, speaking at the opening of
the winter relief campaign in Berlin
told Germany and the world:
"Now the situation at Stalingrad
must be brought to a conclusion.
You may rest assured that no hu
man being will be able to oust us
from there.”
“After the actual objective may
be considered arrived at,” the DNB
broadcast went on, "it is of .no im
portance when the moment arrives
that the last resistance has been
overoome in the great factories.
“The initiative in the final phase
of the fight for Stalingrad is com
pletely in the hands of the Ger
Halifax Says Air Blows
' At Nazis Will Increase
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 8—Lord
Halifax, British Ambassador to the
United States, promised today that
as the Allies mass more and more
planes in Britain “we'll give those
Huns more of a beating up and
make them realize war isn't such
a profitable business after all.”
Lord Halifax, here for a two-day
tour of war plants and an address
tonight at founders’ day exercises
at Carnegie Institute, made the
statement at a press conference in
reply to a request for comment on
reports of criticism abroad of Amer
ican war planes.
Explaining he had no technical
knowledge of the subject and could
offer no authoritative comment, he
said:
"In England they think very high
ly of your Plying Portresses. As I
see It the thing to do would be to
have your Plying Portresses engag
ing in precision daylight bombing
of Germany and lighting beacon
fires to guide our bombers at night.”
Late Races
Earlier Results aad Entries for
Tomorrow on Pago 2-X.
Laurel
SIXTH RACE—Purse. *1.500; claimint;
3-year-olds and. up: l 1-16 miles.
Bunny Baby (Trent) 8.50 4.80 4.20
Hast* Back (Barter) 11.40 8.30
Abrupt (Givens) 7.60
Time 1:47 2-5.
v. Also ran—Cacodemon. Detroit Bull. High
plaid. Caumsett, Woodvale Lass. Satin Cap.
Beaular, Tee Mldte,
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Belmont Park
SIXTH RACE —Purse. *2.500: allow
ances; 3-year-olds and upward: lA miles.
Redthorn (Mehrtens) 7.00 3.10 2.80
Rsmlllies (Lindber*) 2.80 2.40
Bun Dial (Lontden) 3.80
- Time. 1:43‘'5.
Also ran—Ubiquitous. Hers Ooes and
Aboynt.
Rockingham Park
SIXTH RACE—Purse. $400: claimint:
•-year-olds and upward; IA miles.
(Dtlara) 4.20 2.00 2.40
Career Olrl (Turnbull) 4.00 2 *0
vaidln* Zett^ (Atkinson) 4.00
_ jRy, ’ ran—Catomar, Oread**, biwurr,
Hawthorne
THIRD RACE—Purse. *1.000; claiming:
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Marine Lives After Japs Blast
Tank, Stab, Beat and Kick Him
Rest of Crew Killed by Grenade or Shot;
Comrade Said to Have Killed 30 of Enemy
The following account of ac
tion in the Solomon Islands, dis
tributed by the Associated Press,
was written by a Marine Corps
correspondent in the combat
zone. Sergt. Wright is the son of
Willis B. Wright. 3132 Seven
teenth street N., Arlington, Va.
By | SERGT. WILLIS B. WRIGHT.
A UNITED STATES OUTPOST
SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH
PACIFIC, Sept. 12 (Delayed).—Pvt.
First Class Eugene Oliver Moore,
U. S. M. C., is living on borrowed
time.
Sixty-five Japs trapped him in
his tank on Gavutu Island, ripped
open the hatch, threw hand gre
nades into it, and set it on fire.
Smoke and fumes forced Pvt.
Moore out of the tank after the
other crew members had been killed.
The Japs grabbed him, jabbed him
with a pitchfork, knifed him, then
picked him up and bounced him
off the side of the tank.
“I guess they thought I was dead,”
Pvt. Moore recalls. “I had quite a
bit of blood on me, and was un
conscious.”
Pvt. Moore, whose home is in San
Francisco, Calif., at first was be
lieved to have been killed in ac
tion. Rescued by his comrades and
skillfully cared for by Navy doc
tors, he is very much alive today,
after being evacuated from the
Solomons to this base with other
Marine wounded.
Visited by Forrestal.
He told his remarkable story
from his cot in the mobile base hos
pital which the Navy has stationed
here. One of the first to visit it
was Undersecretary of the Navy
James V. Forrestal, who paid a visit
to the hospital during a stop-over
on hfs tour of Pacific naval outposts.
(While the fight at the tank
was in progress another Marine,
Pvt. Kenneth Koon, was shoot
ing at the Japs with his rifle from
a position nearby. He was re
<See MARINE, Page A-9.)
Treasury Discloses
Byrnes Letter Hinting
Tight Wage Control
More Rigid Restrictions
Than President's Order
Showed Held Likely
(Earlier Story on Page A-l.)
By the Associated Press.
The Treasury made public to
day correspondence indicating
that the Government’s control
over the Nation’s wages and sal
aries may be more rigid than
shown in President Roosevelt’s
stabilization order of October 3.
Secretary Morgenthau released the
text of a letter from James P.
Byrnes, director of economic stabil
ization. in which Mr. Byrnes asked
the Treasury, to propose regulations
to enforce salary limitations.
In part, the letter advised the
Treasury as follows:
"Inasmuch as the recent emer
gency legislation seems to authorize
a broader and more direct control
over salaries, the regulations which
you may recommend to carry out
the President's objectives need not
be limited to Title III, Section 4 of
the executive order so long as they
come within the scope of the powers
granted to the President."
While Secretary Morgenthau de
clined to discuss his probable recom
mendations, he told reporters that
he had set his ranging experts to
work on the problems and hoped to
send a plan to Mr. Byrnes by Mon
day.
The rest of the letter to Secre
tary Morgenthan cited the Presi
o vtiuuci o dt/ciuciiicuu ui puiicy
that persons having salaries of $5,000
per year or more should not get
raises unless assigned to more diffi
cult work unless the raises were
specifically approved by Mr. Byrnes,
and also provided a ceiling of $25,000
on salaries after making provisions
for taxes, life insurance and fixed
obligations.
Mr. Byrnes said he was asking the
Treasury for its recommendations
because the administration of these
restrictions “is closely related to the
administration of the revenue laws.”
Title III, section 4, of the Presi
dent’s order provided that these sal
ary limitations should be observed
in the enforcement of the revenue
laws, price ceilings, and other gov
ernmental activities.
Stock Market Has
Million-Share Day,
First This Year
B> the Auoclated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 8—Better
war news and brighter prospects
for congressional corporate tax
leniency helped spur wide buy
ing in today's stock market on
volume of around , 1,000,000
shares, best for 1942 to date.
Favorites were bid up a few
cents to $2 or more a share and
the majority closed at or near
the day’s best levels. There
was an assortment of new highs
for the year. Demand was most
pronounced for plvotals in con
trast to recent activity in low
priced issues. Steels and mo
tors were in front of the move.
Bonds were selectively im
proved and commodities a trifle
irregular.
Nazi Gestapo Chief
Reported Receiving
Power to Rule Danes
War Declaration Against
Russia and Control of
Ships Is Demanded
BULLETIN.
LONDON WP).—Nine more
Norwegians have been exe
cuted by the Germans in the
troubled Trondheim area, the
German-controlled radio re
ported tonight. This brings
the three-day total to 34. .
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 8.—Signs that
Germany is about to take over
Denmark grew today with re
ports from Stockholm that the
Gestapo chief for Denmark,
named Kanstein, had gone to
Berlin to become Reichs commis
sioner and impose full, collabora
tion with the Nazis on the occu
pied kingdom.
The collaboration program, de
manded by the Nazis, it was said,
included a Danish declaration of war
against Russia and the arming and
virtual German control of the
Danish merchant fleet.
Scandinavian sources here viewed
next Monday—when a Danish Free
Nazi Corps is due to go to the
Russian front—as a critical day.
They said the corps might be held
in Denmark to implement the coun
try's Naziflcation.
70 Norwegians Arrested.
Reuters published a report from
Ct A/tlrKnltM i/t/lnit _l:_
have arrested 70 persons, mostly
young men, In the Norwegian port
of Molde, in another move aimed
at crushing mounting outbursts
against the German occupation.
The roundup, whose victims were
said to have included members of
a recently dissolved shooting club,
followed reports of hundreds of other
arrests and the shooting of 25 Nor
wegians in the past two days in
retaliation for alleged sabotage of
military works projects and food
factories.
At the same time Inbel, Free Bel
gian news agency, said the Ger
mans had issued an order for forced
(See SCANDINAVIA, Page 2-X.)
1). S. Soldier Given Year
For Assaulting 2 Girls
Bj the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 8.—United States
Army Pvt. Samuel F. Willis, 29, of
Lawton, Okla., was convicted by
general court-martial today on
charges of assault -on two English
girls on the same day, was dishon
orably discharged from the Army
and sentenced to one year of hard
labor.
One girl testified that Willis
picked her up on August 29 in an
Army car, parked in a public place
and was attempting to kiss her
when an English gjjilitary police
women intervened.
The second girl testified that Wil
lis picked her up later the same
day, parked in the country, made
advances, and when she refused,
drove her home.
Willis denied thair he attempted
anything against the girls’ wishes.
The case is subject to review by
higher military authority.
Waxey Gordon, Ex-Beer Baron,
I ndicted on Suga r Ration Cha rge
»t th» AuoeUted Ptwi.
NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—Waxey Gor
don, beer baron of Broadway ln the
prohibition era, was indicted today
by a Federal grand jury on a charge
of violating a rationing order regu
lating the sale of sugar.
United States Attorney Mathias
F. Correa, who announced the in
dictment, said be hoped It would
serve as a warning to bootleggers of
prohibition days that any attempt
to create “black markets” for ra
tioned commodities would be re
garded as sabotage of the war effort.
The indictment also named a
Simon Hlfahberg, described by Mr.
Correa as one of Gordon's lieuten
ants.
i
Mr. Correa said Gordon and
Hirshberg had a financial interest In
Vita Cola, a concern he said was
used as a blind, for Illicit distribu
tion of sugar.
"The old-time bootleggers are
sadly mistaken if they think that
the rationing laws afford a new
happy hunting grounds for profit
able crime,” Mr. Correa said. ‘‘They
will, find that aiding the enemy is
neither popular nor; profitable.”
Gordon was released In Novem
ber, 1940, from Leavenworth prison
after serving more than seven years
of a 10-year sentence imposed on
him for evading taife on his illegal
beer and narpotles feoome.
Sales-Tax Fight
'
Postponed by
Senate Backers
Will Be Revived, Byrd
Says, if Morgenthau
Asks 6 Billion More
By the Associated Press.
The fight for a Federal retail
sales tax was abandoned for the
time being at least today as the
Senate went into its third day
of debate on a new revenue bill.
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir
ginia told reporters he and other
sales tax proponents had dropped
plans to offer an amendment pro
viding for such a levy. At the same
time, however, he served notice the
proposal would be revived if Secre
tary of the Treasury Morgenthau
carries out his announced inten
tion to ask Congress for a new
$6,000,000,000 tax Dill after work is
completed on the current measure.
“It is very unfortunate that the
Treasury's grim determination to
defeat a sales tax in this bill will
necessitate another bill in three
months,” Senator Byrd declared.
"If a sales tax could have been
adopted in the first place, it would
have saved a great deal of confusion
and loss of time.”
Victory Tax Supported.
Mr. Morgenthau recently an
nounced that the Treasury wanted
to boost total annual taxation to
$30,000,000,000 to help finance the
war. The present bill, he estimated,
would bring annual collections up to
$24,000,000,000.
Senator Byrd said it was his judg
ment that a further increase could
be accomplished only by a sales tax
| but he said the only hope of getting
j such a levy into the bill now before
the Senate was as a substitute for
the 5 per cent “victory” tax on all
earnings above $624 a year. , He said
the victory tax appeared likely to
be adopted, since it would attract
support from nearly all sales tax op
ponents.
One of these, Senator La Follette,
Progressive of Wisconsin, declared
he would vote for the victory levy
"as the lesser of two .evils,” though
he said he did not like it.
Senator Downey, Democrat of
California, has proposed to amend
the victory tax to exempt earnings
of $1,200 a year or less, and raising
the rate to 10 per cent on larger
incomes. The Senate was expected
(See TAXES, Page 2-X.7
Britain's Indian Policy
Backed by Commons
(Earlier Story on Page A-8.)
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 8.—The House of
Commons demonstrated today over
! whelming support of the govern
ment's stand on the problem of In
j dia when it rejected, 360 to 17, an
! opposition motion calling in effect
for censure of the Indian policy.
The motion was made by James
Maxton, Independent Labor Party
member, after a debate in which
Labor Leader Arthur Greenwood
said British failure to exert every
effort to reach an amicable settle
ment of the Indian problem would
be “a blot upon our signature to the
Atlantic Charter.”
A government spokesman, how
ever, Indicated that no concessions
were in prospect.
ALASKA HIGHWAY TO OPEN SOON—An Army command car comes down a steep grade on the
new highway linking Alaskan strongholds and industrial cities in the United States. The grade
on this section was reduced by pushing earth and gravel to the bottom to make a fill. The road,
1,600 miles long, is expected to be completed and in use December 1. _A P Photo.
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Senators Consider
New Rubber Contracts
With South America
'Evidence of Ample
Supplies' Given to
Committee by Maj. Dove
By the Associated Press.
A renegotiation of contracts
for South American natural
rubber was discussed today at a
closed session of a Senate Agri
culture Subcommittee which
Chairman Gillette said received
“ample evidence of ample sup
plies” to meet United States war
needs.
Senator Gillette would not re
lease a statement given to the com
mittee by its witness, Maj. Wendell
Dove, until “his full testimony has
been cleared for publication by the
War Department.”
Meanwhile, authorization for the
Agriculture Department to increase
its plantings of guayule, a rubber
producing shrub, from 75,000 to
500.000 acres, was voted today by
the House.
The legislation was returned to
the Senate for action on minor
House amendments.
The House vote came shortly after
the Appropriations Committee made
public testimony estimating that
this one part of America's emer
gency rubber program, formulated
after the Japanese seized the world's
principal rubber resources, would
cost over $130,000,000.
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of
Oklahoma, said Maj. Dove was the
man he told the committee last
week had information that “all
or a substantial part” of United
States rubber needs could be ob
tained in South America. He said
Maj. Dove had spent 15 years in
South America.
Senator Thomas termed the call
iSee RUBBER, Page 2-X.)
PRESIDENT HONORS . SEAMAN HERO—President Roosevelt
today pinped the first. Merchant Marine Distinguished Service
Medal on Edwin P, Cheney, jr., 25-year-old Yeadon (Pa.) sea
man, The young quartermaster rescued several of his ship
mates from a burning tanker after it had been torpedoed by a .
submarine, Behind them is Rear Admiral Emory 8. Land,
chairman .of the Maritime Commission/ (Story on pact A-l.)
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Missing Son in Jap Prison,
Arlington Woman Is Told
Navy Reports Hearing Lt. Thomas Payne
Broadcast From Tokio That He Is Well
Lt. Thomas B. Payne, 33. whose
mother, Mrs. Mabel Potter Payne,
lives at 820 North Kenmore street,
Arlington, previously reported by
the Navy as missing, has been heard
in a broadcast from Tokio, the Navy
Department has announced.
Mrs. Payne was informed of the
broadcast in a telegram from the
Navy Department and Lt. Payne is
reported to have said he was well
and uninjured and was being held
prisoner at Tzentsuji Prison, Tokio.
He is a graduate of Western High
School and the Naval Academy and
lived in Arlington since he was 10
years of age. His wife and daughter,
Joan, 10, now are in Woodsville.
Mass.
The broadcast which the Navy
Department said was intercepted,
quoted Lt. Payne as requesting vita
min pills, coffee, chocolate and toilet
articles. Mrs. Payne was informed
she could send gifts to her son
through the International Red Cross
at Geneva, Switzerland.
Late News Bulletins
Roosevelt Sees 'This Is The Army1r
President Roosevelt attended a special matinee of “This'
Is the Army” at the National Theater this afternoon. The
performance was especially for servicemen, with the theater
full of picked soldiers, sailors and rharines of the Washington
military district. Mr. Roosevelt sat in a box and applauded
vigorously throughout the show.
House Passes 6 Billion Omnibus Supply Bill
The House passed and sent t$> the Senate today a $6,236,
956,621, omnibus supply bill, carrying funds for 14,611 naval
planes and for a variety of war projects ranging from de
velopment of guayule rubber to distribution of propaganda.
There was no opposition to the measure during a three
hour discussion on the floor and passage was on a voice vote.
(Earlier Story on Page A-l.)
Size of Army Discussed, Nelson Says
War Production Chief Donald Nelson said this afternoon
that discussions were going on to determine the maximum
size of the Army and the maximum amount of equipment
the Nation can produce. He added, however, no steps had.
been taken to slow down induction of men into the armed
services to relieve the serious manpower situation. Mr. Nelson
said the Nation was capable of equipping an army of ten mil
lion men but refused to estimate the time required to do
the job.
British Ship Sunk in Caribbean
The Navy announced today that a small British mer
chant vessel was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine
in the Caribbean area early in September. Survivors have
landed at a United States East Coast port.
AFL Backs Petrillo in Music Fight
TORONTO (JP).—The American Federation of Labor in
convention today declared “unqualified support” of the
American Federation of Musicians in its dispute with record
and broadcasting companies, and condemned the Depart
ment of Justice for bringing suit against the union. An ex
ecutive council report uhholdi£ig James C. Petrillo’s union
was adopted without debate.
Navy Flyer Gets Valor Award;
8 Others Cited for Heroism
By tba.Anoclftted Pres*.
NORFOLK, Va„ Oct, 8.—A Navy
Cross for his action against the
enemy was presented to a young
Naval Reserve flyer, Lt. Howard Q.
Bennlng of New York, and letters
of commendation for heroic acts and
“cool and meticulous co-operation in
action” were presented" to two other
officers and six enlisted men in cere
monies at the Naval Air Station to
day.
Three of the enlisted men received
their letters for their achievements
in cutting away and inflating a rub
ber life raft after their large patrol
bomber had been forced down at
aea, "undoubtedly contributing
greatly toward saving the lives of
the 13 men who abandoned the
plane," the letter read.
Capt. G. T. Owen swarded the
cross and read the letters, which
were sighed by Admiral K. E. In
gersoll, Commander in chief of the
Atlantic Fleet: Lt. Bennlng was
awarded the Navy Crow by Capt.
Owen, acting for the President, for
distinguished service, in the line el
his prolusion as pafrol plane com-;
mender, it cited his “calmness and1
judgment, his- skill as ft -pUdt and
his discerning use of the 'Jnetrn
ments and weapons available to
him.
Officers and crew of anothei
patrol plane, Involved in actior
against the enemy, received the
letters commending their cool ant
meticulous co-operation.” Those tc
whom the letters were read wen
Lt. John W. Sparkham, Lt. (j. g.)
John L. Liedecker of Marietta, Ohio
William N. Peek, aviation machinist!
mate, first class; Malcoljn K. Morris
aviation ordinanceman, first class
of Gastonia, N. C., and Regis H
Anderson, aviation machinists mate
second class. The home addressee
of Sparkham, Peek and Andericr
were not available.
The three whose heroic act ir
working gt the risk of their owr
lives to cut away the life raft franc
the sinking plane brought then
letters of commendation, were J, D
Pyle of Norfolk, aviation machinist)
mate, first fclass; L. S. Edalstein oi
Kingston, N. T., aviation radioman
first class, and C. E. Mil then ol
Btrisford. S. Dak., aviation ma.
chiniste mate, third class. Theii
onnamandlryg officer had reported
'earlier tw it was 'only through
their T^erhMjta eflorts that iin
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Father Finds Bodies;
Single-Shot Rifle ^
Loaded 3 Times ^
Mrs. Jean Gentry, 25, and her
two children, Ernest, 1, and ''I
Betty Lou, 3, were found shot to '
death invtheir house near Frank- w
lin Park, in Fairfax County (Va.) I
this afternoon, under circum
stances which led police to be- X*S
lieve that she had shot her chil
dren and then killed herself. \
The bodies were discovered by *
the husband and father, Ernest
Gentry, a carpenter employed on a x
War Department building project. j
He had left home earlier in the
day, he told police, to get some x
groceries and discovered the tragedy
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Children Shot in Forehead. ;
The children's bodies were found
in the bedroom, a bullet wound in >.
the forehead of each. Mrs. Gen- 3
try's body was found nearby.
The mother was shot through the >
temple and the .22-caliber gun *
which apparently had inflicted the
fatal wounds was found near her ''j
body. The gun was a single-shot *
rifle and had been reloaded after
each shooting. _
Wife in Poor Health.
Mr. Gentry, who is 33, told police ^
that his wife had been in poor 3
health and was extremely nervous.
He said he had been gone for “sev- >
era! hours” during the morning. •
The house in which the bodies
were found is deep in the woods
and can be reached only over a dirt
road. It is a small one story place, x
and the outside is partially covered i
with tar paper.
26 Canadians of Jehovah
Sect Sent fo Prison
By the Associated Press.
BUFFALO. N. Y.. Oct. 8.—Twen
ty-six youthful Canadians, de
scribed by the Government as mem- J
bers of Jehovah's Witnesses, were •
sentenced in Federal Court today >
to 75 days each in a penitentiary for ‘
illegally entering the United States.
Judge John Knight said he had ^
intended to impose 90-dav sen
tences, but took into consideration ~
the fact that the defendants, who 3
pleaded guilty Tuesday, had served
15. days since their arrest on Grand
Island September 22. 1
Assistant United States Attorney
Robert M. Hitchcock asserted the ^
men had crossed the Niagara River *
in rowboats to attend a Jehovah's
Witnesses convention in Cleveland 'I
and were on their way back to Can
ada when arrested. ,_
“The organization of which they i
are members,” he added, "is recog
nized officially in Canada as in- '■s
jurious to a nation at war. It has '
occasioned and, I believe, instigated
conduct on the part of its members 1
in the United States that has in
terfered with our war effort, par
ticularly referring to the application
of our Selective Service Act.”
Judge Knight, commenting on >
the question of conscientious ob
jection, said he believed that in
some instances it was an attempt to
evade Army service. • >
“That’s an unfair statement,” ‘
George Amos. 25, of Toronto, one „
of the defendants, said.
“I’m stating my opinion and not
questioning the sincerity of any ■»
particular individual,” the jurist *
asserted.
U. S. Moves to Dismiss
Mrs. Dilling's Appeal '
By. the Associated Press.
_>.c*II9AGO- Oct. 8.—United States 1
District Attorney J. Albert Woll to
day asked the United States Circuit >
Court of Appeals to dismiss the ap- ;
peal, of Mrs. Elizabeth Dillings. au
thor of “The Red Network,” who is >
fighting removal to Washington for
trial on a charge of conspiring to
undermine the moral of the Nation's ^
armed fgorces.
Federal Judge William H. Holly „
recently sustained a ruling by a ^
Federal commissioner who had di
rected Mrs. Dilling’s removal to
Washington, but stayed the execu
tion at a habeas corpus hearing,
pending appeal to the higher court >
Ih requesting dismissal of the ap.
peal Prosecutor Well contended that
under the law, in habeas corpus pro* >
ceedings, the defendant has no right
of appeal and that the Appeals
Court therefore had no Jurisdiction. ^
Markets at a Glance
NEW YORK. Oct. 8
Stocks firm; leaders advance on
volume. Bonds steady; some '
rails improve. Cotton higher:
piill and spot house buying. ^
CHJCAGa-Wheat, most of
early decline recovered; no ceil
ings announced. ’
English Clergymen
Asked to Wed Only
Yanks Who Have OK
By th* Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 8.—The dio
cesan chancellors of the Church
ot England recommended to its
clergy today that no marriage
' ** perform«i for
‘ or Canadian sol
aim who do not have the
formal permission ot their
°®cen1' u n
y””*1 ** "my regulations.
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