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Germans in
Threat of Full Scale
Attack on U. S. Forces
Greer Garson
Denies She Is
To Be Married
New U. S. Excise
Taxes to Go Into
Effect Sunday
qualified to
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the eligibles, would vote.
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Associated Press
United Press
AP Telemats
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The) Allies
More Than Half-Mile (
Advance Reported on
North Side of Salient
numbered Red army forces.
The Germans were reported to
have withdrawn their light tanks
from the battle of Stalingrad. Red
Star said heavy losses inflicted on
the machines by Russian anti-
tank guns had forced the enemy
to substitute heavy tanks which
rolled into the streets in groups
of five to eight, firing their guns
while in motion.
A Russian communique declared
1,100 Germans were slain yester-
day in vain attempts to expand
invasion salients toward the Volga,
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Tenants in the Gainesville de-
fense rental area, covering Cooke
county, are advised by Ray Winder,
area rent director. that any col-
lusion with landlords to evade rent
ceilings is a violation of the fed-
eral law and carries the same pen-
alties as other violations.
The rent director pointed out one
of the principal reasons for rent
control is to keep tenants from
bidding against each other for
housing accommodations, and
when a piece of property becomes
vacant in an area where shortages
exist there is usually a tendenry
on the part of some renters to o-
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CAIRO, Oct. 31 (AP). —
The British 8th army main-
tained its gain in the Egyp-
tian desert yesterday and
beat off a number of axis
counter-attacks with losses
to the enemy, a British com-
munique announced today.
Allied .airmen, meanwhile, on-
• tinued to hold control of the skies
Warn Tenants to
Abide by Rent
Ceiling Prices
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Of Federal Law
I NIMITZ DECORATES GUADALCANAL HEROES—
On a visit to Guadalcanal island early this month, Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz of the U. S. navy pins a decoration on
Second L ieut. James Jarman of the army air forces, one of 24
defenders of the island so rewarded. ► "
vote Tuesday. Allow-!
than the usual num-
and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Richard
Wergin, the other two defendants,
met in the Froehling dining room
and conversed in German. Gruoy
said he did not take part in the
discussion.
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packs of cigarettes.
Only in the case of cigars, where
a contemplated OPA regulation
will approve a 80 per cent price
increase which will include rising
labor and raw material costs, is
any new expense other than the
tax to be charged the consumer.
Generally speaking, the tax in-
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August 8 to a nearby Jap-held is-
land. A Jap ignited the vehicle
with gasoline. A grenade killed
some of the crew.
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This is 15,000,000 or more under |
the record-breaking turnout in the
presidential year of 1940 and is al-
so below the total vote for con-
gress in the off-year elections of
1938. Some estimates placed this
year’s probable vote even lower—I
at the level of the congressional
elections of 1934 when only 32,800,-'
000 cast ballots. •
An Associated Press compilation
of official registrations and unoffi-
cial estimate:! of eligible voters by
states showed that 53,613,052 had
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•draft in July, 1941.
Haupt’s visit to the FBI
agent was disclosed by Spe-
cial Agent Ralph J. Gregg at
the treason trial of- three
middle-aged Chicago couples,
including young Haupt’s par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Max
Haupt.
• Testimony also disclosed that
before going to the FBI offices
here, Haupt had registered for the
draft—last June 22—almost a year
late, and had explained his failure
for the delay by stating that he
had been in Mexico digging gold.
Gregg testified that Haupt had
shown him his registration card
and also told him he had failed to
register on July 1, 1941, because
he had been in Mexico. Gregg said
that notes he had taken from
Haupt’s card now were in FBI
files.
- The government, seeking to es-
tablish that the six defendants
gave aid to the 22-year-old Haupt,
one of the six nazi agents executed
in Washington, Aug? 8, also of-
fered testimony intended to prove
that Haupt also carried out other
instructions he received at a Ger-
man ‘sabotage school with seven
other saboteurs.
i One of the two surviving mem-
bers of the nazi gang previously,
testified relating to Haupt’s or-
ders and the gang’s plot to de-
stroy many of the gnation’s vital
war plants.
Sought War Plant Job
Two officials of a Chicago firm
“I killed one Jap who stuck his
face into the turret of my tank,
firing my .45 right at him.
Crawis Out of Tank
"I knew I was either going, to
get burned to death or shot, and
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poked him with a fish spear.
The 22-year-old former Huron,
8. D., high school football player
got the beating of his life, but he
lived. His outfit. wiped out the
CHICAGO, Oct. 31 (AP).—A Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation agent testified before a U. S. court yesterday that
five days after the secret arrival in this country of Herbert
Hans Haupt and .three other nazi saboteurs, the former Chi-
cagoan discussed with him his failure to register for the
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After Battling 50 Japs
OAKLAND, Calif., Oct 31 (AP).—It was a case of frying or
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the war, it was calculated that 34,-
826,841, or about 65 per cent of
Estimated 35,000,000
To Vote Next Tuesday
in General Election
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—A'canvass of the best available sources
indicated today that because of the war and an apparen general
apathy toward politics only between 33,000,000 and 35,000,000 persons
are likely to vote in next Tuesday’s elections. War developments could
Crete Is FBI Agent'Testifies
Blasted by Nazi Saboteur Talked
TELLS OF JAP TREACH-
ERY—Sergt. Barton S. Hill
(above) of Mineola, Texas,
told of Japanese treachery in
the Solomons fighting upon
his arrival at a South Pacific
hospital base. Hill, who was
hit by a Jap sniper’s bullet,
said the Japs worked the
"dead dog” trick, set booby
traps and pulled fake surren-
ders. - .
These defensive accomplishments u
were reported chalked up after ~
three successive retreats byout-
Russian Lines Are
Reformed and Are
Fighting Fiercely
MOSCOW, Oct. 31 (AP).-
Reformed lines of the* Red
army were reported holding
in fierce fighting for the Nal-
chik plateau of the central
Caucasus today while Ger-
man attacks were repelled
again by the defenders of
Stalingrad in their 68th, day
of siege.
A battalion of sub-machine gun-
ners, supported by 60 tanks and
armored cars, was repulsed during
attack after attack upon a com-
munity in the Nalchik area and
some 22 of the machines were de-
stroyed, the Soviet information
bureau announced at noon.
240 Axis Troops Killed .
“In another sector," is said, “a
Soviet unit repulsed two German
attacks, killing 240 of the enemy.
Twenty German trucks with am-
munition were destroyed by Soviet
artillery."
posedly secret Norden bombsight
for warplanes, testified that Haupt
in company with his parents, vis-
ited them last June and he had
applied for employment at the
concern! where he had worked until
he left this country in May, 1941.
They were Andreas Conrad Gru-
nau, manager, and Heinrich Koch,
assistant superintendent, both of
whom said they were natives of
Germany. ’
Alfred Henry Grunow, of Min-
neapolis, a cousin of Walter Froeh-
ling,.one of the defendants, testi-
fied that last June 20 he visited
Froehling, whose wife also is a de-
fendant, and that young Haupt
fighting against fantastic odds. * .1
And so Private Eugene O. Moore of the U. S. marines came out of
his disabled and blazing tank to do hand-to-hand battle with more
than 50 bowling Japanese. C
The Japs .used bullets, grenades,
clubs. fists and feet One even
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eight tanks were, disabled or
burned, 16 siege batteries were si-
lenced and 18 planes were shot
down.
Local combat persisted north-
west of Stalingrad.' The Russians
said their troops broke into enemy
lines and wiped out a company in
hand-to-hand fighting while Red
army men on another sector re-
pelled attacks, killing 180 Ger-
{
and blasted repeatedly at enemy
airdromes, fortified positions and
other targets, the bulletin said.
One formation of allied heavy
bombers was reported to have
winged its way across the Medi-
terranean to attack Crete.
Enemy Panes Shot Down
At least four enemy planes
were shot down over the Egyptian
battlefrcnt yesterday and many
others were damaged, headquar-
ters said. Four large enemy air-
craft were reported destroyed by
twin-engined fighters which at-
tacked the airdrome at El Adem.
Badly Battered Japanese
British Eighth Army Holding E
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Transportation Fares,
Liquor, Cigarettes
And Cigars Affected
Bv KENNETH L. DIXON
WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (APL—
The nation’s biggest Hallowe’en
hob-goblin—the new excise taxes
aimed at hiking the treasury’s take
by $50,000,000 during November
alone—scared customers to the
counters in last-minute buying
sprees across the country today.
Put the semi-luxury nature of
most articles hit'by the heavy fed-
eral levies which take effect to-
morrow kept the purchasing lines
reasonably short as compared to
the pre-rationing runs on such
commodities as coffee and sugar.
Under terms of the record tax
bill which became law less than
two weeks ago, Nov. 1 heralds in-
creases in excise taxes on liquor,
beer, wines, cigarettes, cigars, lu-
bricating oil, slot machines, pho-
tographic apparatus and train, bus
and plane fares.
In most cases, machinery to shift
the burden off the shoulders of
manufacturers, wholesalers and re-
tailers was already set up, ready to
hand the burden of price increases
directly to the consumer. However,
the former were warned by the of-
fice of price administration not to
tack any additions to the exact
amount of the tax increases.
OPA announced the new taxes
would be passed on to smokers and
drinkers at rates revolving around
a half cent a package on cigarettes
and 50 cents a quart on 100-proof
whisky. Buyers must be permitted
enough purchases to even out the
then," the pallid defendant testi-
fied. "I was numbed-* mentally
and physically. My only emotion
was horror at what I’d done. I
simply haven't what it takes to
be a killer. . .
Speaking slowly and with com-
posure. Coneys related how he hid
in the attic while police searched'
the house after the slaying and
how he remained there -almost
starving and suffering from cold
—during the winter months.
The house was occupied by mem-
bers of the Peters family part of
the time, so the attic dweller was
able to keep alive by taking food
from the icebox.
. < stayed at the Froehling home that
3 night j
The next night he testified,
Haupt, his parents, the Froehlings,
vote for house candidates in 1938
or 2,834,834 below the highest na-
tional total that year which in-
cluded senatorial and guberna-
torial votes.
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Officials based their light vote
predictions on the fact that hun-
dreds of thousi
armed forces and few will take the
Military Building
Spurt Concluded
DALLAS, Tex., Oct 31 (AP).—
Maj. Gen. T. M. Robins of Wash-
ington, chief of engineers, U. S.
army, said here last night that the
big spurt in military building is
over. ,
America’s military establish-
ment including camps and fac-
tories, is 90 per cent completed,
he declared. .
Gen. Robins is making a plane
tour with Col. Robert R. Neyland,
Jr., Southwest division engineer.
They will attend the Intercoastal
Waterways association meeting at
Harlingen and inspect projects at
San Antonio, Waco and Ft. Worth.
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- Father of Richard
Ney Had Announced
Wedding for Sunday
HOLLYWOOD, Oct 31 (AP).
Film Star Greer Garson and Actor
Richard Ney, now an ensign in the
U. S. navy, both professed surprise
early today when informed that
his father hid announced in Lake-
ville. Conn., that they would be
married tomorrow.
“When and if we decide to
marry III be the first to announce
it,” said Miss Garson at M-G-M
studio, where they were attending
a showing of her newest film.
“Further than that I can say noth-
ing.”
Ensign Ney’s father, Erwin Ney,
had said they would be married in
California and would honeymoon
at Miss Garson’s Pebble Beach
home.
Ney. a comparative newcomer
to the screen, played the part of
Miss Garson’s son in the film.
“Mrs. Miniver,” although there is
not much disparity in their ages.
She was divorced in Lea Angeles
May 8, 1940, from Edward Alec
Abbott Snelson, a British ciyil em-
ploye. They were married in Lon-
don Sept. 28. 1933, and separated
the following Nov. 3. She came
to Hollywood in 1937. Ney. com-
misrioned only last Wednesday, is
here on a short furlough.
At Guadalcanal Passes
General MacArthur's Bombers Continue to .
Hammer at Enemy Shipping Base, Hitting Warship
Twice, Setting Another Ablaze and Damaging Two
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (AP).—Uncle Sam’s grip on
the vital Guadalcanal airfield clenched tighter today as Ja-
pan’s fighting vessels disappeared from the Solomons battle
scene with at least two more of her ships, and probably four,
heavily damaged by allied aerial bombs.
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' This 65 per cent compares with
about 75 per cent in normal off-
year voting and 80 to 85 per cent
in presidential elections. The vote
estimate, necessarily rough be-
cause of lack of information on the
extent of absentee voting and other
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•ONE-MAN ARMY’—Cap-
tain Henry J. Adams, Jr.,
(above), former . under-sher-
iff of San Diego, Calif., is one
of the many “one-man ar-
mies" in the Solomons, re-
cently killing 15 Jap soldiers
in an engagement on Tulagi
island. With members of his
eight-man patrol he assisted
in slaying 13 others.
Bludgeoning Case
Expected Reach
Jury Saturday
Former Advertising
Salesman Accused of
Slaying Old Friend
DENVER, Oct. 31 (AP).The
strange case of a man who blud-
geoned an old friend to death and
hid for ten months in the attic of
his victim's house was expected
to reach a district court jury to-
day.
The prosecution seeks the death
penalty for Theodore E. Coneys
for the slaying of aged Philip Pe-
ters, and the defense contends the
killing was not premeditated.
Coneys, 59-year-old one-time ad-
vertising salesman, insisted from
the witness stand yesterday that
he had not planned to murder
Peters when the elderly man sur-
prised him in the Peters home Oct.
17. 1941.
The defendant, who was the only
defense witness, said he had
sneaked into the house in Septem-
ber and was living in the attic
without the owner’s knowledge,
when Peters returned home unex-
pectedly and caught him stealing
food from an icebox.
Confession Read to Jury
Coney’s confession, as read tn
the jury, said the two struggled
and Coneys beat his adversary
with a gun and stove poker. Fi-
nally the 73-year-old Peters fell
to the floor and Coneys fled up-
stairs to his 27-by-57 inch cubby-
hole.
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avy Quits Solomons
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' * There was no indication of how
far the allied troops have moved
through the maze of axis mine
fields and desert strong points or
n how soon the expected clash of
major tank units would come, but
the general situation appeared to
be developing favorably for the al-
lied cause.
One report said that allied in-
nfntrymen had pushed back axis
troops more than a half-mile on
the northern side of their salient
Wednesday night. Many enemy
tanks were destroyed and many
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tial number of conscripted Poles,
Slovenes and former }rench for-
® eign legionnaires.")
There were reports of sharp en-
gagements between British and
axis tanks, but the opposing tank
armies have not yet been tested
in strength.
Although axis air activity was
reported increasing, the allied air
forces, including U. S. bombers
and fighters, still ruled the sky
over the desert battleground.
Texas Leads Bombers
Col. Edward Backus, 36, of Ver-
non, Texas, commander of one unit
#9of.. 8. bombers, said that while
his men are getting “plenty of
opportunities" they still “scrap
like hell for assignments.” TH
a men are from all parts of the
• United States.
“Lome of these boys are having
their fift combat experience, but
they are acting like veterans be-
cause their hearts and souls are
in the fight to the finish with the
enemy wherever they find him,”
Buckus said. 1
Delayed dispatces from the front
said hand-to-hand fighting broke
out frequently during the advance
Wednesday night and early Thurs-
day as one enemy strong point
after another was taken by British
infantrymen, who charged shout-
ing into the battle.
Enemy gun positions far back
of the lines were shelled by allied
artillery in an attempt to keep
them quiet as the allied troops
moved forward yard by yard
through the barbed wire and
f mines.
ponese naval assault to re-
capture the stubbornly - held
island airbase was dispelled
temporarily even as bombing
planes under Gen. Douglas
Mic Arthur’s Australian
command again plastered an
enemy shipping base with ex-
plosives, hitting a warship
twice, setting another vessel
ablaze and probably damag-
ing an aircraft carried and a
cruiser.
Proudly, Secretary of the Navy
I Knox told yesterday of the. retire-
ment of the Japanese warships
from the Guadalcanal area leaving
a gallant force of United States
marines and soldiers in possession
of “every inch of ground we ever
controlled" on the battle-ridden is-
land. .
Some of the Rising Sun’s ships
had returned to their bases, Knox
said, and others departed to undis-
closed destinations. But he made
it clear there was no telling when
they would return for a stab at
Guadalcanal or at American bases
in the New Hebrides, New Caledo-
nia and the Fiji islands.
Knox Proud of Navy
While cautioning against regard-
ing retirement of the Japanese
fleet too optimistically, the navy
secretary expressed “a great feel-
ing of pride in the way our men
have met the onslaught.”
“They have done a superb job.”
he said, adding that “we are in as
complete control of the situation in
Guadalcanal as we ever have
been.” ,
Some quarters expressed belief
the Japanese battleships, cruisers,
destroyers and transports had left
the embattled Solomons area to
bring back more troops for rein-
forcement of their Guadalcanal
forces whose efforts thus far have
failed to retake an of the ground
the marines captured in early Aug-
ust
At the end of round one, as Knox
called it on departure of the enemy
fleet the Japanese, since opening
of the battle of the Solomons, have
lost at least 14 ships with three
more probably sunk and 64 dam-
aged.
The U. S. navy has announced 14
vessels sunk and one damaged.
Japanese losses in the Guadal-
canal ground-fighting and aerial
combats about the island also have
been reported much heavier than
that of the Americans.
About 1,000 invaders were de-
clared newly added to the axis
death lists during the see-saw
fighting for the western Caucasus,
the victims of Red army troops and
Red marines.
Hitlerites on Defensive '
“Northeast of Tuapse our troops,
overcoming stubborn enemy resist-
ance, slowly advanced," the com-
munique said. “In the area of one
height the Hitlerites, after futile
attacks lasting many days, went
over to the defensive.”
In narrative style, the commu-
nique told of the Red army’s fight
to hold the forested upland about
Nalchik from which fan out trails
to the high slopes of the Caucasus,
to Wolfram and Molybdena mines,
to the Georgian military highway,
to the Grozny oil fields. Fruit and
horse-breeding farms dot the re-
gion.
“Our troops fought defensive
engagements against enemy tanks
and infantry,” it was announced.
“In the area of a height, one unit
repulsed fierce enemy attacks. Two
tanks were disabled and about a
company of infantry was extermi-
nated. L.
“By the end of the day, under
the pressure of numerically super-
ior enemy forces, our troops re-
treated to a new defense line."
Baltic sea units of the Red
navy were credited with sinking
two more German transports to-
taling 20,000 tons.
trouble to vote although where
possible they may do so by mail.
Reports received here at one of the
campaign headquarters said that
out of 6,000 men in the armed
services from one unnamed Penn-
sylvania county only 250 had ap-
plied for ballots.
General disinterest, migration of
workers who have not lived in
their new states long enough to
qualify and may not trouble them-
selves to vote by mail in the old:
gasoline and tire rationing—all
will serve to keen the balloting
light, officials said.
President Roosevelt yesterday
urged all citizens to go to the polls
Tuedsay because, as he put it, bal-
lots were as necessary as bullets
in keeping democracy alive.
Leadets Call for Big vote
The chairmen of the two major
party committees also have joined
in calling for a big turnout, term-
ing this one of the most important
elections in history.
.Registrations have been below
normal off-year figures in many
states this year, although Califor-
nia and Massachusetts gained over
1938. New York had a virtually
complete registration of onlv 5,-
167.272, or 392.604 under 1938 and
1.801,438 less than 1940. Pennsyl-
vania’s was 4.642.363 compared
with 4,656.823 in 1988 and 5,022,-
523 in 1940.
SURGEONS TO MEET
: SAN ANTONIO. Oct 31 (AP).
Hie 50th annual convention of the
Association of Military Surgeons
of the United States will be held
here Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day of next week with highest
ranking officers of the U. S. army
and navy and representatives of
the armed forces of Canada, Eng-
land, Brazil Peru, Chile, Paraguay,
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prisoners taken, these reports
said.
(A Reuters correspondeut with
the South African forces in the
decert said there had been de-
sertions from Rommel’s army in
last few days. “It has been con-
firmed.” he sid, “that the axis
desert army contains a substan-
Says That Sumner
* Welles Blundered !
DALLAS. Oct 31 (AP). — Un-
dersecretary of State Sumner
Welles made a great blunder by
pointing at Argentina and Chile for
harboring enemy spies and allow-
ing espionage agents to operate
within their borders. Dr. A. B.
Deter, former missionary to Bra-
zil. told the Baptist Student Un-
• ion’s state convention last night.
“Latin Americans must be treat-
Zed with absolute equality if the
’ good neighbor policy is to survive,"
he said. .
“If we speak of faults, it must
L be ours and not theirs,” he de-
• clared. “To retain friendship of
those peoples, we must be friend-
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and tell Ms story.
The lean, six-foot-three marine
was gun loader in a tank that was
lightered! from Gavutu Island last-
HERO’S SON TO WEST
POINT- Blucher Stanley
Tharp, Jr., Amarillo youtn
whose father commanded the
lost battalion of the Texas
National Guardsmen in Java,
is going to West Point. His
father, Lieut. Col. Blucher S.
Tharp, is listed by the War
department as missing in ac-
tion. Young Tharp was ap-
pointed by Senator W. Lee
O’Daniel. ;
Temperature: High yesterday,
70; low last night, 43; noon to-
day, 57; high for yoor, 101; lowi
for year, 5.
Egypt Desert
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