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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
RommeI' S Tanks
Hurled Back in
New Offensive
10 Axis Planes Reported
Downed in Egypt as
Armored Battle RACES

CAIRO. Oct. % (UP).-Allied
forces. making steady progress
through the Axis Notifications on
the Alamein line, have thrown
back tank forces of Field Marshal
Erwin Rommers Afrika Korps in
the heaviest armor battle of the
new offensive, IL was announced
today.
Front dispatches indicated that
both sides were making increased
use of tank forces as the forward
lines were being cleare dof mine
fields. creating space for the big
10 maneuver.
Yesterday an armored clash
OF larger scale than hitherto de-
veloped," a communique issued
by the middle east command
and the Royal Air Force said.
After heavy fighting, the en-
envy was driven of with consid-
cradle loss.
BRITISH LOSSES LIGHT
Tie NOfIliilufilHuN Sdlh Ioi l'iSi
tank losses were comparatively
light.
There was brisk fighting along
the entire Alamein line and Allied
air forces. with American bombers
and fighters in the vanguard,
hammered the enemy mercilessly
from the air.
Front reports said Is Axis
planes had been shot down Mon
day, including three Stuka dive
bomberS.
Radio Rome SAID the British
eighth army was attacking
strongly and tenaciously. re-
gardlesS of lis losses" Radio
Berlin said numerous reserves
were being thrown into the bat
tie by the Allies.
The Italians claimed that an
unnamed American general
who arrived in Cairo two
months ago had planned the
Allied offensive in conjunction
with Field Marshal Jan G.
SHUTS, South African prime
minister. who gave the signal
for its start)
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u. 5. Clamps Lid
On All income
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less than eight workers were ex.
empted from the order but 'un-
reasonable" increases still will be
disallowed.
The War Labor Board was given
jurisdiction over all wages and
salaries under $1,000 covered by
labor contracts and going to en-
ployes mot employed in a bona
fide executive, administrative or
professional capacity" Control
over all other salaries went to the
treasury department.
Any raise for an income, wages
or salary. over $25,000 is banned
automatically.
ALLOWABLE RAISES
The new regulations provided
however, for raises in salaries
without prior approval of the
treasury in these categories:
individual promotions or re-
cisssifications, individual merit
increases within established sal
airy rate ranges, operation Of an
established plan Of salary in
creases based on length OF serv-
Ice, increased productivity under
Incentive plans, operation of .
trainee system"
Exceptions TO the SIS 900 ceiling
included customary charitable
contributions" with 1941 as a
yardstick year, and also pay
ments on life insurance policies
and fixed obligations which were
in force on Oct. 3. 1912, and past
income taxes due"
GROSS OF $4,000
The SIS. 900 limit as outlined by
Byrnes meant that a man must
earn over $4,000 gross TO retain
at least $4,000, out of which state
and local taxes must be paid.
Byrnes disclosed that Mr.. Roose,
Welt, while he is exempt from the
because his $4,000
salary is fixed by statute. has in
Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr.. TO make
out Presidential salary checks in
the future ''in compliance with the
Byrnes acknowledged "impracti-
CAL administrative reasons which
would prevent application of the
SOS. 900 limit before Jan. l, 1943.
but specified that. lin the mean
time. increases in salary levels at
this level without the approval of
the treasury are forbidden along
with other salary increases.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28

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mir activity over Northeastern
India.
At the same time. Toxic
broadcasts indicate that the
japanese consider the posi-
,biilty that such q drive may
be I'm the making.
I. Informed opinion in New
Delhi is that the offensive
win be attempted, but there
10 no indication Of when it
will be started. The posi-.
bilities were believed TO have
been eanvassed at the recent
Conference there OF the
British. American and Chinese
military commanders In India,
including Gen. Sir Archibald
P. Wavell and 1t. Gen. Joseph
w. Stilwell, American COM
nandsr.
Both Wavell and Stilwell
previously had promised that
the japanese would be driven
out Of Burma. However, like
fhe second front in Europe.
the time Of the offensive de-
pends on the extent of Allied
military preparedness.
If THE Allies do not move
ven before next May. they
win have to wait another year.
The probability of 4 Japa-
asse offensive II not con-
sidsred very great in the
immediate future. The Japa-
ness Are estimated to have
only about Ave divisions. or
between 10000 and $4,000
men m Burma, which In not
sufficient for an invasion Of
India.
e. Neither has any Japanese
naval activity been noted In
the Bay Of Bengal or the
Indian Ocean. The Japanese
Rect most probably Ia too
heavily engaged in the South
western Pacific to spare the
force necessary for on attack
ion India.
japanese aerial activity
most likely IL intended TO
hamper or discourage any
United Nations preparations
for an attack.
: The United Nations have a
large army in India and q
rapidly expanding air force.
There ID the Indian army, the
British army in India, an
hnspeci6ed number Of Ameri-
Dan ground and air forces,
hnd eontingents Of Australian
and other Empire troops.
A CURRENT visitor to the
United States h Maj. Rajendra
Singh, d. 8. o. Of the Indian
Army. He reports that the
indian army il approaching a
strength Of 1,500. 900 men. 1t
- entirely q volunteer army.
The Indian army also has
its own air force. Much of
the army's equipment Ia pro-
duced by India. The output
of small arms In great and
India also In turning out
artillery, ranging a. high as
fospounders.
According to Singh, there
b little apprehension in India
over the prospect Of q Japa.
ness invasion. On the con-
trary, the feeling is for the
offensive.
WHEN IT starts, It In ex.
peeted 10 be q combined land,
air and sea operation. I'm
portant units of the British
navy already are In the Indian
Ocean. The land drive would
be over the difficult mountain
barrier from northeastern
India to the negotiable Chin
dwiH and Irrswaddy River
valleys.
By sea, the attack would be
On kangoon, from where a
movement could be attempted
Up the coast and air bases
established az the ground
forces progressed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
OTHERS DAMAGED

Additionally an unnamed car.
rier was severely damaged" two
destroyers were damaged and
lesser" damage was suffered by
other unidentified warships.
There still was no indication
that any major United States
naval surface forces had gone or
are going into action in the Solo,
mons.
Vice Admiral Richard s. Ed
wards. chief of staff 10 Admiral
Ernest J. King. commander in
chief Of the United States fleet,
said the navy is now strongly
outnumbered in the South Pacific. f"
He said the latest losses in that
area were serious but not unex-
pected.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28

Order The Detroit Times
mailed daily and Sunday to your
man In the armed. forces.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
laps Pushing
East Toward
American Bases
Threaten Hebrides. Fiji
Supply Lines; Yanks
Hold on GuadalcanaI
Continued from Page One)

South Sea islands has come from
the navy than the report last night
that non-combatant units Of
A merican naval forces are in
action.
Two American minesweepers en-
gagged three japanese destroyers
near Guadalcanal until naval and
marine aircraft joined the fray and
sank two of the destroyers.
In another action on the same
day Sunday, a japanese de-
Stroyer sank the u. S. S. Seminole,
affecting, and small harbor
patrol boat near Tulagi. The de-
stroyer was badly damaged by
shore batteries which scored three
hits and Grum m m wildcat"
fighters from Guadalcanal which
strafed the ship as it fled
Monday orning American
bombers and fighters on Guadal-
canal took off for the third time
in two days to attack an enemy
task force of cruisers and de-
Stroyers that has been in the
waters north of Florida Island.
DIRECT HIT ON SHIP
On their third trip. the Ameri-
can airmen scored a direct hit on
an enemy cruiser. The day before
they had hit and stopped cruiser,
hit another cruiser and left burn
ing and dead in the water a light
cruiser.
But the latest development
seems TO be the presence Of ap-
parently large enemy surface
forces about 400 miles northeast
OF Guadalcanal-fa from the ma
jor scene OF action.
There was no official explana-
ton, but it was pointed out that
from the point where those forces
were intercepted by American air
men. the japanese could have
struck at Espiritu Santo. an
American base in the New Heb
rides, or at the Fiji Islands.
A short sailing distance TO the
east are the Samoan Islands, an
other major American base and
key point i'm the supply line be-
tween Hawaii and Australia.
BLAST JAP CARRIER
The last action against that en-
envy force was Monday night
when navy Consolidated "Cata-
linas" attacked it. The force was
the same one believed attacked
the day before by a naval carrier
air force east of the Stewart
Islands.
The night attack OF the "Cata-
linas" resulted in a torpedo hit
on an enemy carrier and two
bomb hits on an enemy cruiser
Those were administered in the
midst of heavy anti-aircraft fire
during which one American plane
was damaged.
The navy revealed further re-
ports on the earlier air battle
with presumably that same force
earlier in the day. One enemy air.
craft carrier was badly damaged
and another damaged. One enemy
cruiser was badly damaged and
one battleship was hit.
The last communique raises the
total japanese warssip casualties
to TIP sunk. three probably
sunk and 81 damaged-since Au-
gust z. In that same period the
navy has acknowledged the loss
of Is ships-three heavy cruisers,
the aircraft carrier Wasp. six de-
stroyers, four transports and a.
feet tug.
OTHERS DAMAGED
Additionally an unnamed car.
rier was severely damaged" two
deStroyers were damaged and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
Ndzis.Lose 1000
For Slight Gain
Inside Std|ingrdd
Timoshenko OHen,ive
in Northwest Driving
Foe From Trenches
BY HENRY SHAPIRO
unisss rre.. stsH CsEresps~dent

MOSCOW, Oct. 28.-The Ger
mans, pouring masses OF men,
arnored forces and planes into
another drive for victory at any
price, advanced slightly in two
streets of northern Stalingrad to-
day, losing 1000 men and five
tanks.
Northwest OF Stsfingrad. Mar
shall Semyon Timoshenko's relief
offensive slowly drove the Germans
and Rumanians from trenches and
dugouts, front-line dispatches re-
ported. Axis defenses in this area
were in considerable depth and
firmly held.
The Germans redoubled their ef-
forts TO drive through a workers
settlement and factory districts IN
northern Stalingrad to the Volga
In the last "a hours. they have
left at least 1900 men dead and
the wrecks of II tanks on ap-
proaches to this area.
STRIKE NEAR TUAPSE
Soviet counter-blows Jared the
Germans on the closely connected
western Caucasian battlefronts
around Tuapse and Novorossisk on
the Black Sea coast.
Northeast Of Tuapse. second
airy Soviet naval base, Soviet
troops struck suddenly in a ravine
and killed 400 Germans. East of
Novorossisk, which the Germans
occupy, Red feet marines drove
into a village and killed so Ger
mans. Shippers killed 272 more
Germans yesterday.
The Soviet army newspaper Red
Star said the ajor enemy effort
in the Caucasus now was to cross
the foothills and seize 2Tuapse.
The Germans have not been able
in six weeks to reach the high
way that runs IS miles down the
coast from Novorossisk to Tuapse.
The government organ Izvestia
reported that Soviet submarines
in the Baltic had sunk two enemy
totaling 1900 tons.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
BY Hide MARCHANT
wn.,.a for the un...a rte...


LONDON, Oct. 2S.-Gold braid
and brass hats are thwarting
Eleanor Roosevelt in her genuine
attempt to see the British people
at war.
She is surrounded by govern
ment officials, ministry of infor-
nation watch dogs and members
of the American embassy. She has
been kept definitely under wraps.
She has seen the British people
at 10-foot range.
Here are some instances:
When she went to see the Aux
Hilary Territorial Service in camp,
she asked them if they were COM
Portable and if they enjoyed army
life. With the commanding officer
of the camp at her elbow and red
tabled staff officers standing by,
what could they answer but yes?
NO TIME TO TALK
She visited yesterday that most
active service, civil defense. With
her went Herbert Morrison, min
lister for home security. and Ellen
Wilkinson. his assistant
She saw the Air Transport
Auxiliary with the organizations
head who made a speech of well
come from the daiS.
Let's consider yesterday more
closely.
Eleanor Roosevelt saw the little
people of London who saved their
own city-the typistS, shop girls,
clerks and plumbers of civil de-
Tense. But she did not have time
to talk with them. The band was
playing and she was watching the
brilliantly efficient full-dresS ex-
ercises they were putting on.
HAVE STORIES TO TELL
I talked with those people later
"a man who had earned the
George medal for tossing de-
layed action bomb from a bridge
"a girl clerk who had motor
cycled through a wall OF flame
to show Mrs. Roosevelt how she
carried dispatches in the blitz
days-a rescue squad leader who
had saved the lives of at least
20 trapped persons.
And these people have stories
to tell Eleanor Roosevelt-and
through her TO Americans.
l know she wants TO bear their
stories. 1t is not her fault that
she is not given time to hear
them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
Raid Hongkong
For Third Day

LONDON, Oct. % GNS).-The
Toxic radio announced today that
the former British crown colony of
Hongkong was raided by Allied
aircraft again this morning. but
that only few bombs were
dropped.
1t was the fourth aerial attack
in there days against Japanese
occupied Hongkong. American
bombers based in China bombed
detectives at Hongkong on both
and Monday.
THE raiding force was COM
posed of seven North American
BIS bombers escorted by five
Curtiss fighters" the Toxic an
nouncer said.
NEW DELHI, Oct. 28 (INS).-
Big formations of japanese bomb
ers and fighters were disclosed to-
day TO have raided American air
fields in the Dibrugarh area of
India, near the
Burma frontier. on Sunday and
Monday. destroying or damaging
American transport planes under
repair.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-28
The War
Today
Toxic Fearful
OF Allied Drive
Against Burma

WENDELL L. WILKES
plea for a United Nations
drive into Burma to relieve
pressure on China comedies
with news of renewed Japanese
mir activity over Northeastern
India.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-11

John Smith and Fred Castatoi
today neared the end OF their
primary election fight for a seat
on common council.
Every voter probably knows
that THE John Smith and THE
Fred Castator are dead.
Nonetheless, the names which
were so familiar to Detroiters
through so many eventful years
will be found again on the ballot
at the primary election next
Tuesday.
When he ran for the council a
year ago, the new Fred Castator,
who is a DSR bus driver, placed
sixth in the primary and lost the
ninth council seat in the Novem-
Der election by only a few hun
dred votes.
SMITH LONG IN POLITICS
Although not known TO the
voters, and never before a can
didate for elective office, Candi-
date Smith has been In politics
since his twenty-first birthday,
which was II years ago. That was
the year he entered the employ
of the city election commission. He
Is now assistant chief clerk in that
office, serving under Election
Supervisor Oakley E. Distin.
Until recently. employees OF the
election commission were not I'm
der civil service and it was not
secret that biennial electioneerin0
was necessary to hold job.
Hence. at 35, Smith il veteran
of nearly a dozen campaigns.
During his IL years in city hall
.he has become familiar with the
functions OF all city departments.
He feels. therefore. that IL the
theory of civil service is sound,
requiring election Of candidates
trained for their jobs. he IL en-
titled TO seek the office.
He has been endorsed by Lab
'or's Non-Partisan League, the Met
ropolitan Civic Club, the First
Congressional District Civic Club
and the United Council Of Clubs.
BORN IN SCOTLAND
Smith was born in Scotland and
was brought 10 Detroit when a
child. He attended Wayne Univer-
sity three years and has been
studying law at night at the De-
troit College OF Law. He hopes to
graduate next June.
II knew tho original John
Smith WELL" he said. Tho sim
ilarity OF our names will DO .
terrific break for me. But j feel
1 am well qualified. have long
had this ambition, but would
not have run II Councilman
Smith were alive"
Castator is a nephew OF the
late Fred w. Castator, former city
clerk and former councilman. Re-
lying on his name, he has not been
making an active campaign.
Leading candidate in the race Is
Frank Cody, retired superintend-
ent of schools. city hall politicians
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-11
Famous Names Race
Fred Casfator and John Smith Both Dead
but Another Pair Seek Sests in Council

expect Cody to head the primary
ticket.
Other candidates are Herman
w. Greene, a resident OF Detroit
81 years, who Is a salesman and
a former associate in the real
estate business with the late
Councilman william Bradley: c
IS. Houston, executive secretary OF
the Michigan Plant Owners Asso-
citation; DR.. Thomas Howard Rob
|ertson, physician; Virgil r.
Chandler. a clerk; Haywood G
Maben, a barber, and Walter W.
Phillips, attorney, who is former
corporation counsel OF Ham
|tramck.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-11
Kelly Pledges
About Support
10 Roosevelt

y BATTLE CREEK, Sept. l.
CUp)-Secretary Of State Harr!
F. Kelly. who has begun his cam
paign in opposition to Governor
Van Wagner for the Michigan
governorship, said at a meeting
sponsored by the Calhoun Count,
Republican committee that he re
GREETED there are those in thu
state who would confuse the wal
issue with false political issues
Two rivals for the United States
Senate, Judge Homer Ferguson
and Elton r. Eaton, Plymouth
publisher, made their bids for sup
port OF the Calhoun County Re
publicans, in joint appearance
here. also.
"When the people vote for
governor next November, they
will not be voting on the war
Leadership Of the President and
II IL an insult to patriotic citi-
xens OF the state 10 say that will
be so," Kelly said.
president Roosevelt r. my
commander In chief and I will
give him complete cooperation
and support I'm winning this war,
whether I am elected governor
or not.
To-day the people want elm
mated all selfish interest OF In
dividuals and groups that i'm
pede the war effort" Kelly con-
tinued. "They want no false
yardsticits Of measurement, po-
litical or otherwise.
"They want the truth rs 70
problems and accomplishments
OF their state In these hours OF
crisis and they arc entitled 20
all information that win not aid
the enemy
WAR ISSUES FIRST
Ferguson said:
/, at II no time for name-calling
and frivolities, when issues M
fsr-resching NJ the war. stabili-
xation or farm prices and wages
are before the country.
"Pve seen government In
alleys and under tables and In
hack room and 10 didn't make
mo lose my faith In representa-
tive government"
Eaton remarked II was more
fitting for public officials elected
to important offices TO remain or
the Job In such critical times.
Eaton often has criticized the alb.
sence from Washington of Demo
cratic Senator Prentiss M. Brown
EFT n unfortunate for Mlchi-
gan that our Democratic sena-
tor II 80 enmeshed In the Demo
cratic political machine that he
has to give a large portion or
his time TO patronage hunting
for his supporter" Eaton said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-11

Three Comic Pages every day
I'm Daily Detroit Times.
Evening star., 1942-03-15

8aS'Es

BLOWING through snow and slush
L with cold, wet feet lowers tenn
perature. Such disturbance of your
body's heat-regulating mechanism
reduces the blood supply of your
mucous smembranes-incTeases
their mucous secretions. Your nose
first feels dry. then runs copiously.
You con Ashs this symptom of a cold
byhelping nature enormalize your foot
temperature quickly. Rub your cold,
wet feet briskly with Absorbine Jr.
This active linimentation stimulates
your circulation more quickly than
rubbing alone. And. as a fresh sup
ply of warm blood flows through
your feet, that cold, clammy feeling
disappears.
Don't fail to take this simple pre-
caution when feet get wetl Do same
with children. See if you don't re-
duce the misery of running noses
this winteri Keep Absorbine Jr.
handy. $l.2S at all druggists. FREE
sAMPLE-write w. F. Young, Inc.
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Evening star., 1942-03-15
.Mee< THE BOSS
\ oo9cOND CLOSEUP OF DONAlD NELSON

His best friends in Washington are
Leon Henderson and Milo Perkins. He
sees them frequently for both business
and pleasure. On the whole, though,
his social life is limited. He doesn't
leave the Office until 6 80 or TOO and
he usually spends dinner with an aide
working out WPB problems. An anna
teur photographer. he converted one
room of his apartment into a dark
room. But he hasn't much time to use
it now.
NELSON is one of Washington's most
popular men. Reasons, aside from his
Importance: he's never jumpy, irri-
table, fiurried; he's open-minded, sure
of what he wants and why. Nothing
gets him down. When in the middle of
hot argument, with words flying. he
sits calmly. shows no excitement. He
explains:
1--WE discovered that when you
nave an argument, the man who loses
his temper loses the argument. figure
if l can keep mine thirty seconds
longer, I'll win the argument"
Another pet Nelson axiom: "On any
job like the one we have to do. you're
going to make mistakes. All / ask is
that guy be right little more than
half the time.
"If you spend most of your time
checking and clearing, you'll make no
mistakes - but you'll get nothing
done, either"
And the WPB is getting things
done. That poster on Nelson's wal,
(see Page p isn't kidding.
- JERRY mason
Evening star., 1942-03-15

BEST DESCRIPTION of Donald Nelson,
War Production Board head, comes
from an assistant: He's an open-faced
watch" That's it exactly. He is no
subtle. deep-thinking philosopher. He
is simply very intelligent business
man who has a job to do - and is
doing it.
He starts work at $50 AN. He
drives down from his medium-size
bachelor suite in fairly swank apart
ment hotel. He spends two hours in
staff meetings. From then on, he has
no routine. He drives his secretaries
nuts by continually postponing dicta-
ton. They object that he makes him
self too easy to see - 20 to 25 callers
get in every day.
He usually has lunch at his desk
because: ~ he can avoid the brass
hats in the Executive Dining Room;
(2) he can work and eat at the same
time.
Lunch is NUT salad and glass
of buttermilk. But he goes to town on
breakfast and dinner. Here's the menu
for the breakfast he got into the habit
Of eating once week: fruit. T-bone
steak. kidney stew, fried hominy, muf-
fins, coffee "a pot). Dinner is just as
filing. But he's a big man - six-foot-
four. 25O pounds - and he needs it.
He's not fat, just broad.
HIS RAvoRITE RELAXATION is a
pipe. He keeps 8 or 10 of them - with
the biggest bowls he can buy - on
his desk. Last Christmas his secretar-
les, tired of looking at litter of scat
tered pipes and tobacco cans, bought
him a pipe rack and humidor.