THE MICHIGAN DAILY . K Soviets Weaken Nazi Grasp On Stalingrad fr I MSC Paper Becomes Daily Tabloid Rssians Gain Fresh Ground In Epic Battle Axis Assault Stopped Cold For Fourth Day In Row After 33-Day-Old Siege 32 Assaults Crushed - BULLETIN- MOSCOW, Sept. 26-(AP)-Wen- dell L. Willkie said in a written statement today that "I now am convinced that we can best help Russia by establishing a real second front in Europe with Great Britain at the earliest possible moment our military leaders will approve." "And perhaps some of them will need some public prodding," Will- kie added. "Next summer might be too late." "Russian Intelligence reports show that our few raids on Ger- many to date have had a devastat- ing and demoralizing effect on the German people," Willkie said. "Russia wants thousand-bomber raids on Germany from England every night." * * * - By ROGER D. GREENE Associated Press War Editor Victory edged further from Adolf Hitler's grasp in the 33-day-old siege of Stalingrad today as the Red Arm- ies gained fresh ground northwest of the Volga metropolis, crushing 32 Ger- man counterattacks in 48 hours, and recaptured a strategic position within the city. By Soviet account, it was the fourth consecutive day that the German as- sault has been stopped cold. Hitler's field headquarters, long ac- customed to proclaim the swift fall of city after city, now focussed its attention on the capture of 'single buildings. "In the fight for Stalingrad, build- ings belonging to the Communist Party, situated near the bank of the. Volga, were torn from the Soviets in embittered fighting," the German. Command said. "Soviet relief attacks against the northern barrier were repelled." The Vichy radio, notoriously unreliable, asserted that German shock troops had driven through Stalingrad to the Volga "at several points." Dispatches to Red Star said the Germans were wearing out and that Soviet troops, fighting from street barricades, charred buildings and foxholes in the damp earth, were holding grimly. HELP WANTED Male or Female to work a few days during our school opening Book Rush. Ulrich's Book Store E Democrats May Rebel Against Governor'sSlat Detroit Delegates Wrangle Over Secretary Of State V4 Republicans Approve 'Unbossed' Candidates Democrats -BULLETIN - GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Sept. 26 --(P)-The Democratic State Con- vention, getting down to business after hours of maneuvering with a rebellious First Congressional Dis- trict delegation, this afternoon nominated by acclamation two un- cppcsed incumbents, Associate Jus- tice Raymond W. Starr of the State Supreme Court, and State Treas- urer Theodore I. Fry, as they be- gan the task of completing the Democratic Ticket for the Novem- ber election. Hitting high gear after the hours of political jostling. Gov. Van Wagoner's forces succeeded in nominating State Budget Director Leo J. Nowicki as candidate for Auditor General. John W. Babcock, Chief Assistant United States Dis- trict Attorney in Detroit, was nom- inated for Attorney General. Maneuve rs by Administration leaders succeeded in shifting the order of business so that the nom- inations for Secretary of State will come last. This expected to insure nomination of Maurice Eveland, the Administration favorite. , * * * By The Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Sept. 26-Re- bellious delegates from Wayne county's first congressional district threatened to revolt against Gov- ernor Van Wagoner's slate as the Democratic state convention open- ed here today. Republicans By The Associated Press DETROIT, Sept. 26-A Republi- can State Convention that side- tracked the influence of its tra- ditional bosses yesterday completed the slate with which the party will go before the voters November 3. With the insistence of Harry F. Kelly, gubernatorial candidate, that the nominees be the free choices of the convention, the following cand- idates werenanied for the lesser state offices:" For secretary of state - State Senator Herman H. Dignan, of Owosso. For state treasurer - State Sen- ator D. Hale Brake, of Stanton. For auditor general - Vernon J. Brown, incumbent, of Mason. For attorney general - Herbert J. Rushton, incumbent, of Esca- naba. For justice of the supreme court - Circuit Judge Earl C. Pugsley, of Hart. Enthusiastic Republicans hailed the full slate which includes besides Kelly for governor, Circuit Judge Homer Ferguson for United States Senator and Dr. Eugene C. Keyes, for lieutenant-governor, as one of the potentially strongest voter get- ters the party ever put together. They pointed particularly to the combination of the two circuit judges who played so great a part in the Wayne County graft clean- up - Ferguson and Pugsley - as bound to attract a heavy vote in Detroit and out-state. ' i y I I Rubber Czar Cuts Driving Allotments To Conserve Nation's Rubber Supply Jeffers Puts Entire Country On Gas Ration Japs Fall Back Through Jungles In New Guinea) EAST LANSING, Sept. 26-(4)- Michigan State College journalism reached an important milestone to- day as the State News, student publication, became a five-days-a- -week service to its more than 7,500 subscribers. Furnished the full night service of the Associated Press, the tabloid- sized newspaper which formerly was printed three times a week will be published every day except Sun- day and Monday, normally running eight pages. Congratulating the venture, Gov- ernor Van Wagoner lauded the col- lege "for rightly recognizing that' an American student cannot be- come a fully-educated citizen of the modern world without full knowl- edge of state, national and inter- national events." WASHINGTON, Sept. 26--()- Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers went the limit today and ordered nation- wide gasoline rationing to save tires. In his first public order since the issuance of the special rubber com- mittee report, the Union Pacific Rail- road President, charged with conserv- ing the nation's stockpile of rubber, directed the Office of Price Adminis- tration to extend to the entire coun- try the same restrictions now en- forced in the east. The date upon which the order will become effective, probably not be- fore Nov. 1, was left undetermined and Price Administrator Leon Hen- derson will decide whether the basic 4-gallon weekly ration will prevail throughout the United State8, as it does in 17 Eastern Seaboard states. At the same time Jeffers appealed to drivers to keep their feet off the accelerators and slow down to the 35-mile an hour limit recommended by the committee headed by Bernard M. Baruch, which went deeply into the whole rubber question. Jeffers was granted wide powers to save the nation's supply of the vital war material, and his directive ap- peared to settle the question whether the OPA or the Office of Defense Transportation would control the program. Jeffers said: 1-The Office of Price Adnniiistr4- tion is hereby directed and authorized to institute nationwide. gasoline ra- tioning on the same basic as the gas- oline rationing program now existing in the eastern states. 2-It will be understood that after the installation of a nationwide gas- oline rationing, the Office of Defense Transportation will review the pro- gram 'from 'the standpoint of its ef- fects upon; the transportation ser- vice of the Nation. 3-The existing arrangements be- tween the ODT and the OPA rela- tive to, rationsfor -commercial vehi- cles in accordance with general order ODT No. 21 will be continued and extended throughout the nation. HeavShipping Losses Inf licted By .British Subs By The Associated Press LONDON, Sept. 26-British sub- marines have sunk at least five and probably seven Axis supply ships re- cently in the Mediterranean and have seriously damaged another, the Ad- miralty announced today. The communique said the undersea attacks had dealt "further heavy losses on enemy sea communication," already hard-pressed to keep Axis armies in North Africa reinforced and supplied in the face of Allied attacks on ships and harbors. One of the ships sunk and one probably sunk were described as large and all the others as of medium tonnage. Swoop On Oslo By RAF Planes Scatters Nazis Daring Daylight Assaults By British Air Raiders Wreck Gestapo Buildings By The Associated Press LONDON, Sept..26-Striking at a moment of rising Axis dissension in Norway and violent new anti-Ger- man outbreaks in Oslo, the RAF made a daring daylight assault upon Nazi headquarters in the Norwegian capital yesterday and sent the fol- lowers of Vidkun Quisling's puppet regime scurrying to cover from a nearby rally. Four raiding British bombers swept in low and dropped their bombs from about 100 feet altitude to score hits on Gestapo buildings, the Air Min- istry announced. One British plane was lost and the Air Ministry said tartly that "German allegations that three of the attacking bombers were shot down confirms the effects of the attack." Quisling, who had summoned mem- bers of his Nationalist Socialist Party to the rally in Norway in an effort to quell discontent, denounced the raid in an address before his followers to- day as one by "RAF murder planes." Quisling anounced the raid cas- ualties as four. dead and 40 injured. Stockholm dispatches reported that another flight of 25 planes, believed to be British,' swept Thursday night across the Swedish west coast, which might well be in the region southeast of Oslo. While the Quislings were meeting over- the weekend continung out- Ibreaks were reported in Oslo. ,mamma r -_ /- /1', i Fire Sweeps Three Tankers At Raroad's Docks In Toledo By The Associated Press were wharfed opposite. Just how the TOLEDO, Sept. 26-Fire fed by flames started was not determined. crude oil and gasoline swept three Some witnesses told of seeing a flash boats in the Hocking Valley Railroad of fire race across the slip between docks here today resulting- in injuries the vessels tied up at opposite sides. to 12 men and damage estimated at Some of those rescued by the Coast $110,000. Guard crews had to be drawn through Two Coast Guard boats crept close portholes to safety. to the blazing tanker Transoil to res- Flames leaped several hundred feet cue seven of 18 crewmen trapped into the air and spread to the chan- abroad the vessel, which was loaded nel of the Maumee River. Coast wirhhousandssobarrelsofgasolin Guardsmen kept everyone from the The boat was ablaze from prow to scene except those fighting the flame: sten. band attending the njured. stern._____________________ The other eleven crewmen ran through flames and leaped to the dock. Four of the crew of a barge loaded with 17,000 barrels of crude oil climb- ed through portholes to the dock as flames enveloped the deck. Eight members of the crew of the tug William A. Whitney also escaped to the dock as flames spread over the Seriously injured were Captain John F. Grimm, of St. Joseph, Mich., Frank Rink, 54, Detroit, A. Cook, and Percy Wenman, 44, Sandusky, O. oiler. Others injured included George Stevenson, 39, of Sault Ste. Marie, first assistant- engineer on the tug Whitney, who suffered arm and neck bruises, and Albert Tallman, 40, of Cheboygan, a fireman abroad the tug. He also suffered severe burns. The tanker was berthed at one side of the slip, while the tug and 'barge wwww wwwwwww wi +wrw winrii iii w wn w . w' + ... . W4 Follow the Michigan Folm! 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