Weather Warmer LY MfrP Ar t Editorial F DR Should Act In Indian Crisis .. . VOL. LII No. 49-S ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY AUGUST 22, 1942 2:15 AM FINAL Married Men Will Be Taken SoonByArnmy, Hershey Says Reclassification Probably Will Begin In October, Declares National Head Of Selective Service Points Out Great Need For Selectees1 By The Associated Press EVANSTON, Ill., Aug. 21.-Maj.- Gen. Louis B. Hershey, National Se- lective Service Director, today ad- vised men with dependent wives only to "begin making arrangements now" to enter the Army. Asserting that the "end is in sight" of the available supply of single men for military duty, the director said that reclassification of all married men would start "probably in Octo- ber and certainly by Christmas." "When the supply of single men is gone in the next few months," he said, "we must dip into the group of men with wives and secondary de- pendents." Gen. Hershey explained secondary dependents were those other than wives and children. Expressing his views at a press conference and in an address before the National Institute for Commer- cial and Trade Organization Execu- tives on Northwestern University campus, the director said that the number of able-bodied men in indus- try must be "drastically reduced in the very near future." "In the past, Selective Service has protected vital industries, but from ere on, when the Army needs the en there will be no waiting until )e is replaced," he said. General Hershey said Selective service needs men "at a rate which would have been considered super- human a year ago," but he declined to give specific figures on any phase of the draft program. * * * Dependents Of Service Men To Get Allowance WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-(I)- Some dependents of service men may receive their first government allow- ances within two weeks or less, the War and Navy departments indi- cated tonight after President Roose- velt signed the bill permitting the allowances to be paid as soon as bookkeeping can be completed. - The War Department said that checks covering the first applications would go out shortly after Sept. 1, While the Navy said it was "prepared to make payment almost immediately on all applications which have been received and approved." U. S. Curtails Gas Shipments *By Tank Cars By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-The government moved today to shift some of the burden of the East's petroleum shortage to other areas by forbidding local shipments of auto- mobile fuel by railroad tank car in 20 Midwestern and Southwestern states. The action is designed to re- DETROIT, Aug. 21.-(IP)-Mich- igan's supply of gasoline will be but little effected by the order in Washington today prohibiting the hauling of automotive gasoline by rail in 20 states including Michi- gan, oil executives here predict. The order was issued by Petrol- eum Coordinator Harold L. Ickes. Spokesman for large oil companies in Detroit said that "nearly all" the automotive gasoline reaching here is shipped to Detroit by water, and then trans-shipped by truck throughout the state. The amount shipped into Michi- gan by rail is so small as to be negligible, they said. I Nazis Attempt To Crack Don River Defense Drive Wedge Into Soviet Lines Near Stalingrad With Tank Squadrons By EDDY GILMORE Associated Press Correspondent MOSCOW, Aug. 22 (Saturday).- The Nazi bid for Stalingrad reached a critical stage early today with rein- forced German troops trying to erect bridgeheads across the Don 40 miles above the Volga city and attempting to exploit a wedge driven into Rus- sian positions northeast of Kotelni- kovski below the Don. The midnight communique said the Red Army-had repelled constant German attacks southeast of Klet- skaya on the Don bend, but acknowl- edged that Nazi tanks had breached Russian positions southwest of Sta- lingrad in the Kotelnikovski area. "Northeast of Kotelnikovski re- peated heavy attacks by tanks and mechanized infantry were repelled," the communique said. "In another sector the enemy sent 100 tanks into the attack. Only a few succeeded in breaking through. "The infantry which followed the tanks was cut off by Soviet troops. Its annihilation now is proceeding." The next 24 hours should tell much in the grim fight for Stalingrad. Twice in two days the Germans have thrown forces across to the eastern bank of the Don loop, but the Rus- sians said most of these shock troops were wiped out. Two Bombers In Air Crash Thirteen Dead. 'American Sea Fighters Deal Jap Forces Crippling Blow On Makin Island Base; Naval, Air Battle Rages Off Portugal Coast Fierce Struggle Reported' 200 Miles Northwest Of British Gibraltar U. S., Brazilians Track Axis Subs 'Second Front' Battleground For Heavy Air Fighting One As Is Bursts Into Flames Army Rescue Crew ImpededBy Forest 4> - BULLETIN - PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 21. -(P) -United States Marines mopping up Japanese in the Solomon Is- lands killed 670 of an enemy force of 700 and captured the remainder yesterday, a communique issued by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, U. S. Pacific Fleet Commander, said to- night. By The Associated Press LISBON, Aug. 21 -- A fierce Naval and air battle was reported raging to- night off Cape Saint Vincent, the southwest tip of Portugal 200 miles northwest of British Gibraltar. There were no further reports late Friday night. Presumably It was an engagement between German longe-range bomb- ers operating from Southern France, and British ships traveling the Bri- tish-Gibraltar sea route, but no par- ticulars were given, Such clashes have been frequent. A Reuters dispatch quoted the Vi- chy radio as saying that a British cruiser and four destroyers had left Gibraltar traveling northwestward toward the Portuguese tip. U.S., Brazilians Track Axis Subs RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 21 -(A)- The loss of 169 Army officers and men in the recent Axis torpedoing of the coastal vessels Baependy, Itagiba and Araraquara was officially an- nounced today as UnitedhStates and Brazilian airmen searched off the 5,000-mile coastline for Axis subma- rines, including one which accosted a small vessel with demands for fuel and food. The three ships were among five whose sinking in a space of three days was announced by the govern- ment last Monday. Eighty-eight sol- diers were saved. There were no ac- curate figures on civilian losses, but it appeared certain that civilian and military victims numbered more than 600.. Other reports of U-Boat prowlings were vague, scattered and somewhat confused, but the U. S.-Brazilian air forces carried on relentlessly to in- crease their known toll of three sub- marines sunk since the intensifica- tion of U-Boat raids last week which has cost Brazil six ships. Dispatches from Fortaleza told of the sinking of the third submarine by patrol planes and identifieid the attackers only as U. S. airmen- 4~ KIE N 0RT , HELGOLAND* .S E Ais ENGL ANDBREMEN LONDON SOUTH4AMP0TON pOTSO0 ~OSTENDE o BRusSELS GERMANY fC U ¢om - F .3 PARIS 2 While commandos in England and Nazi defenders along the French coast line licked their wounds, eleven American flying fortresses pounded six of Germany's highly-touted Focke-Wulf 190s in this North Sea area. Uncle Sam's squadron suffered no casualties. No announcement was forthcoming from official quarters as to the aim of this American aerial thrust-the fourth blow struck by the big bombers since the United States started air operations in this theatre of war five days ago. - " r Marines, Navy Participate In Second U.S. Attack On South Pacific Base _i BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 21.-- (P)-Two Army bombers crashed in mid-air at the outskirts of Baton Rouge tonight and state police re- ported that 13 persons had been killed and one injured. In announcing the crash, the Army air base at nearby Harding Field said the planes involved normally carry between four and 16 men. The planes crashed to the ground after the collision about seven miles north of here, near Zion City, strik- ing earth about 400 yards apart. One burst into flames immediately, the other becoming deeply embedded in the ground, according to Army men. Army rescue crews rushing to the scene were hampered in reaching the planes by the thick woods, and upon arrival through heavy underbrush, by extreme heat from the flaming plane. Crash trucks, ambulances and fire- fighting apparatus were immediately dispatched to the scene. The Harding Field public relations office said the names of those killed, three officers and four enlisted men, would not be released until the next of kin had been notified. Zeta Psi House Bought By U' For Barracks New Administration Bldg. Future Plan For Site, Fraternity Head Reveal, The University has purchased the Zeta Psi house and property at 512 South State St., Edwin R. Menz, '44, president of Zeta Psi fraternity, said last night. Menz said he understood that the fraternity house would be used tem- porarily as barracks for ROTC offi- cers and that the property would be used after the war as a site for a new administration building. Col. William Ganoe, head of the University ROTC unit, could not be reached last night for comment, but Menz said that he had been over to the fraternity house several times "looking the place over." The purchase was made with state- appropriated funds, Menz said. The Zeta Psis have purchased the old Phi Kappa Sigma house at 1443 Washtenaw and will move into their new home at the beginning of the fall term. Flying Fortresses Blast, Prized German Fighters Purpose Of Raid Is 'Accomplished' By WALTER B. CLAUSEN Associated Press correspondent PEARL HARBOR. Aug. 21.--Amer- ican sea fighters, with Major James Roosevelt, son of the President, among them, belted the Japanese a crippling hit and run blow on Makin Island in the Gilbert group Aug. 17, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, United States Pacific naval commander, said today. The marines, supported by hard- punching units of the fleet, landed on the northernmost island of the Gilbert group in an operation aimed at clipping the claws of enemy forces in the archipelago stolen from the British. Major Roosevelt was second in command of the marine raiders. He and other top officers came off with- out casualty, the admiral's communi- que said. By WES GALLAGHER Associated Press Correspondent London, Aug. 21 - The Dieppe demonstration of Allied air mastery over a chosen zone of operations was followed today by Allied vic- rtoy in a qualitative test of Ger- many's newest and best fighting planes against the Flying Fortresse of the United States Army Air force. Eleven of the big, four-motored B-17's were over the North Sea when 20 to 25 of Germany's prized Focke- Wulf 190's tackled them. In the 20 action-filled minutes that followed six of the attackers were destroyed or damaged. Not one of the Fortresses was lost. although two engines of one were de- stroyed and a shell from one of the I I 3 w «.... ... 'Damned If We Didn't Make It' Rangers Returning From Dieppe Hail, Success Of 'Suicide Mission 9 By DREW MIDDLETON Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 21 - The Com- mando raid on Dieppe "looked like a suicide mission" to four American Rangers attached to Lorad Lovat's command, but, as Corporal William R. Brady, of Grand Forks, N. D., put it today: "Damned if we didn't make it." The suicide idea occurred to Bra- dy and his companions when they were ordered to storm a 75-foot cliff north of Dieppe. The others are Staff Sergeant Kenneth Stemson, of Rus- sell, Minn.; Sergeant Alex J. Szima, of Dayton, 0., and Corporal Franklin M. Koons, of Swea City, Ia. First on French Soil The four said they believed they were the first United States troops to fight on French soil in this war. They believed they were ahead of other Rangers in the raid before they were assigned to a unit which was ordered to go forward and knock out a six-gun battery (apparently but damned if we didn't make it," he said. "I was the last man over and found the first pillbox empty," he contin- ued. Machine-gun bullets were spray- ing the ground from Nazi .5'0 calibre guns in another pill box. The party halted beside the first pillbox and, as Brady said, "What the hell! We though we'd go get the other one." They started for it, but then paus- ed while Bill Phinney, a'British Com- mando, thoughfully climbed a tele- graph pole through a hail of bullets and cut the wires. Aided By Planes As they neared the pillbox two spitfires came to-their aid. The Bri- tish planes swooped low and "neu- tralized" the pillbox with machine- gun bullets. All this time the group was under fire from German snipers. "We let them go ahead-we didn't lose a man," Brady said. They moved forward then to a cross roads wehre they encountered temson was in the same party which was roughly handled by the Germans. Four of the British were killed and three wounded. None of the Americans attached to Lovat's unit were killed and Amer- ican casualties in the entire raid were light. RAF Praised Koons praised the "wonderful job" done by the RAF to cover his aprty's landing. Under this cover they reach- ed a. ravine used by bathers in hap- pier times to get down the cliffside. There they found barbed-wire with a sign in German'and English read- ing "Attention, mines." "We figured this was a bluff, so we said 'To hell with it' aind went right through after blowing up some wire with a bangalore torpedo." Koons said. The party moved about 600 yards through good cover to an orchard. Szima said there was an anti-air- craft gun there and "we were about to fire on it." WPB Suspends Utility Building Construction Work Halted To Conserve Power WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. -G)- The War Production Board readjust- ed its entire wartime power expan- sion program today, altered or sus- pended work on 85 public and private power projects, and announced flatly that the move had "substantially en- hanced the probability of widespread curtailment" in civilian use of elec- tricity. By closely trimming the amount of power available for war work as well as essential civilian needs, the revi- sion tied in closely with WPB's an- nounced policy of stopping construc- tion of most new war plants which cannot be completed by mid-1943. Indicating that luxury uses of pow- er would be barred by the turn of the year, WPB declared that de- mands of the program made it im- possible to "preserve the standards of reliabilhity of service observed in peacetimes" and that "civilian incon- venience and sacrifice must be ex- pected, particularly during periods of drought or other adverse weather conditions or in the event of serious accidents affecting utility systems." Among the projects listed as "halt- ed or suspended in whole or in part," with the listed "plant or location," were: Consumers Power Company, Wea- dock, Mich. Traverse, City, Traverse City, Mich. Coffee Consumption Focke-Wulfs' cannons exploded in the cockpit, killing the co-pilot and injuring the pilot. "The Fortress was hit in many' other places," the U. S. Army Air Headquarters communique added, "but no other casualties were suffer- ed." The North Sea foray, objedtive un- disclosed, was the fourth by the For- tresses in five days since the United States Army started bombing oper- ations in the European theater. Fortress crews, familiarizing them-. selves with the European ,theater, previously executed precision attacks on German railway yards at Rouen on Monday, on the big flying field' at Abbeville on Wednesday in con- cert with the combined operations against Dieppe and on railway yards at Amiens yesterday. These actions cost not a single plane. The North Sea battle found the Fortresses unescorted for the first time. The British have been amazed by the bombing accuracy of the For- tresses at the great heights where they operate. Nevertheless, air ex- perts had doubted their ability to beat off attacks if unescorted. The value of the combined opera- tions raid against Dieppe on Wed- nesday and possible future stabs at te occupied coastline as a means of forcing the German air force into great battles of extermination was receiving increasng attention. By bringing Hitler's air force into a full-scale fight the raid had ac- complished what RAF sweeps over occupied territory had rarely suc- ceeded in doing in recent months. But at the same time qualified aeronautical experts discouraged any belief that a single such battle could compel the Luftwaffe to withdraw any substantial strength from the Russian front. Axis Barkaritie Scored By7FDR 80 Japs Killed At least 80 Japanese were killed in the Makin Island attack, seaplane installations ashore and two sea-. planes on the water were destroyed, while American naval guns succeeded in sinking one small enemy transport and one gunboat, Nimitz's communi- que said. After the purpose of the attack was "accomplished in its entirety"the raiding force was withdrawn. r. (A Tokyo radio broadcast earlier today said a force of 200 U.S. ma- rines had attacked Makin Island, but had been forced to withdraw.) It was the second offensive stab at the enemy's South Pacific holdings since the night o Aug. 7, when United States Marines and Allied Naval units under U.S. Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, attacked the southern Solomon Islands' in an operation Which left the Americansea-soldiers firmly in possession of emplacements and installations the enemy once held. In Gilbert Group Makin is the northernmost of the Silbert group, being located approx- imately 1,100 miles northeast of the Solomon Islands. It is almost in a direct line between the Solomons and Hawaii. Admiral Nimitz's communique in- dicated the raid caught the Japs so -ompletely by surprise that they added to their own losses by bomb- ing their own aircraft with bombers from nearby bases. Purpose of the action seemingly was to neutralize bases developed by the Japanese in the British-owned Gilbert Islands after a.United States 'quickie" raid on the islands last February. Near Jaluit a Makin Island is only about 300 miles south of the long-developed Japanese base at Jaluit, in the Japa- nese-owned Marshall Islands. A few hundred miles north of Ja, luit are Taroa and Wotie, strong Japanese bases which were blasted, together with Jaluit,' in the U.S. Naval foray on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands last February. Makin Island. an atoll 16 miles long, also was hit during the Febru- ary raid, and a Japanese supply ship and enemy planes were destroyed there. i 1. Widow Of Dodge To Relate Story Of TragicQuarrel, DETROIT, Aug. 21. -(M>-Mrs. Dora MacDonald, widow of John ]Du- val Dodge, who died of a 10-inch skull fracture Aug. 13, will describe to a coroner's jury Monday the bloody and bitter quarrel she had with her husband just a few hours before his tragic death. Prosecutor William E. Dowling an- nounced this today, adding that neighbors in the vicinity of the home where the quarrel took place also would be called as witnesses. Miss Mignon Fontaine, 33-year-old unemployed decorator, graphically lease 5,000 to 7,000 tank cars for hauling 100,000 more barrels of fuel oil a day to the East. The order, by Petroleum Coordi- nator Ickes, will take effect Monday in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala- bama, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennes- see, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Ne- By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Pres. Roosevelt warned enemy nations in a formal statement today of "fearful1 retribution" to come for what he call- ed their "barbaric crimes" againsti civilian populations in Axis-occupied7 countries. The chief executive issued his warning after Secretary of State Hull had given him a communication from