THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, SEPT. 26, 1.942 Soviets Weaken Nazi Grasp On Stalingrad Russians 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 Soviettroops, 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 l Democrats May Rebel Against Governor'sSlate Detroit Delegates Wrangle Over Secretary Of State; 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- oppo.ed 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. Maneuvers 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. * * * 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 were named 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 t 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. Jeffers Puts Entire Country On Gas Ration Rubber Czar Cuts Driving Allotments To Conserve Nation's Rubber Supply WASHINGTON, Sept. 26-(P)- 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 States, 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 Administra- 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 rations for commercial vehi- cles in accordance with general order ODT No. 21 will be continued and extended throughout the nation. Japs Fall Bach Through Jungle In New Guinea By The Associated Press Japan's far-flung invasion armies suffered twin setbacks inthe Battles of New Guinea and China today. On the New Guinea front, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters announced that Australian troops, fighting in a driving rainstorm, forced the Japanese to retreat from advanced positions in the Owen Stan- ley Mountains, 32 miles from the key Allied outpost at Port Moresby. It was the first officially reported Japanese withdrawal in this theater since the enemy landed at Gona Mis- sion on the southeast coast of New Guinea, July 21, and launched an overland drive against Port Moresby. Anzacs Use Artillery An Allied spokesman said the Aus- tralians now were using artillery for the first time, battering the Japanese with 25-pounders hauled up the tor- tuous jungle trails. On the China front, dispatches re- ported that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's armies, striking in two columns for gains of 60 and 40 miles, had driven past strongly-fortified Japanese positions and arrived at the gates of Chuki and Chengsien. Chuki is a key rail town only. 40 miles south of Hangchow, the most important enemy-occupied port in Chekiang Province. Chengsien lies 60 miles southeast of Hangchow. Japanese Retreat Simultaneously, a British broadcast quoted Chinese reports that a tank- supported column of 1,000 Japanese had been driven into retreat after an advance in Anhwei Province. American warplanes continued to blast the Japanese on widely scat- tered fronts. Lieut.-Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's headquarters in China said U. S. Army planes attacked an airdrome at Hanoi, Indo-China, and shot dowel three Japanese aircraft and probably destroyed two others. Other American fliers strafed Jap- anese truck columns in southwest Yunnan Province, in China, destroy- between. 12 and 20 out of 30 trucks in the line. in the southwest Pacific, the Navy announced that American Flying Fqrtresses bombed Japanese trans- ports and damaged two enemy bases in the northern Solomon Islands. MSC_.Pa per Becoi EAST LANSING, Sept. 26-W)- 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 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. Farm Parity Compromise Seems Certain House Holds Up Progress Of Bill For Stabilization Of Price,_Wage Levels By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 26-Senate Administration leaders-after a day of energetic campaigning - openly asserted tonight that they had mar- shalled a 2 to 1 edge to reject the farm bloc's proposal for new, higher farm parity prices in favor of a com- promise measure. Pushing that first obstacle out of the way, they foresaw speedy passage of the bill empowering President Roosevelt to stabilize wages, salaries and prices. But the House- already accepting the new parity formula- remained the doubtful factor in the push to beat the. President's October 1 deadline. Conference between wavering sen- ators and Administration leaders chipped the opposition men away from the farm bloc one by one. The Senate adjourned until Monday at the end of the day. Senator Alben W. Barkley, Democratic floor leader from Kentucky thought that the note might be taken at the next meeting or at the latest on Tuesday. Farm bloc leaders were busy, too, combating this effort to undermine their voting strength. On the floor they condemned what they termed "false statements" that they were endeavoring to "torpedo" the Pres- ident's anti-inflation program by in- sisting upon higher parity prices for farm products. Aid To Russia Hits New High Warstuffs Convoy Huge Anthony Eden Reveals LONDON, Sept. 26-(AP)-Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden declared to- night that the recent convoy to Rus- sia delivered the largest total of mu- nitions yet transported in a single voyage from Britain and the United States." The safe delivery of these goods, "Which included large numbers of aircraft, tanks, guns, much ammuni- tion and valuable stores of all kinds, was a great feat of arms," the For- eign Secretary said in an address at Leamington. "The convoy met the threat of air, surface and submarine attack," he continued. "The fact that it did so with such outstanding success was due to careful planning by the ad- miralty." ? ales Daily TabloidI 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." 1 / .. Heav Shiin Losses Inflicted By'.Iritish Subs By The Associated Press LONDON, Sept. 2-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. i / Y,. /// y L / .r~ \ / / 1 - " . . ,.'::, / 1/000, 5 w t 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 6ne 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- breaks were reported in Oslo. World Series Pool Liquidated By FBI In Chicago Arrest CHICAGO, Sept. 26-(P)-The Jus- tice Department claimed today to have virtually liquidated a million dollar lottery business just as it was about to 'run a big pool on the world series. Fifty-three operators were ar- rested in 32 cities. Special agents of the Federal Bur- eau of Investigation swept in, J. Ed- gar Hoover, Director of the FBI an- nounced yesterday, as the syndicate was preparing to pour out hundreds of thousands of tickets for a World Series lottery. ''ms"""s". -- Fire Sweeps Three Tankers At Railroad's Docks In Toledo ris Follow the Michigan Get the news of the team from its home paper. ... After the Miehigan State game ... at the Intramural Building, nine to twelve. SATURDAY, By The Associated Press TOLEDO, Sept. 26-Fire fed by crude oil and gasoline swept three boats in the Hocking Valley Railroad' docks here today resulting in injuries to 12 men and damage estimated at $110,000. Two Coast Guard boats crept close to the blazing tanker Transoil to res- cue seven of 18 crewmen trapped abroad the vessel, which was loaded with thousands of barrels of gasoline. The boat was ablaze from prow to 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 tug. Seriously injured were Captain John F. Grimm, of St. Joseph, Mich., Frank Rink, 54, Detroit, A. Cook, and Percy Wenman, 44, Sandusky, 0. 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 Darlan Fears Dakar Attack LONDON, Sept. 26-(P)-Axis re- ports that the Allies contemplate at- tacking Dakar, French West Africa, were followed today by others that Admiral Darlan, commander-in-chief of all Vichy French Armed Forces, had held a long conference with Gen- eral Auguste Nogues, governor gen- eral of Morocco. The Algiers radio, which announced their meeting, did not mention where it occured or what was discussed but the German radio broadcast simul- taneously that Lieut. Gen. Luis Orgaz Yoldi, High Commissioner of Spanish Morocco, was expected at Rabat with- in a few days to uuiifer with. Nogues. Spanish Morocco, adjacent to French Morocco, faces Gibraltar from fhn African cnrpm were wharfed opposite. Just how the flames started was not determined. Some witnesses told of seeing a flash of fire race across the .slip between ,the vessels tied up at opposite sides. Some of those rescued by the Coast Guard crews had to be drawn through portholes to safety. Flames leaped several hundred feet into the air and spread to the chan- nel of the Maumee River. Coast Guardsmen kept everyone from the scene except those fighting the flames and attending the njured, OCTOBER tioni (/14 3 BENEFIT BALL' SPECIAL1 $2.00 FOOTBALL RATE for The Daily mailed to your home during the season. Just send us a check and we'll mail you The ichigan Daily I! 11' A' i 'L TEXTOOKS-New & Used E '