The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-09-17
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Travel Curbs Asked
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s;,,;on tire miles a day, Leon Hend-
srson. Federal Price Administrator,
uroed The extension of reduction in
motor travel to the entire country,
instead of the II States of the At
,.rt,c Seaboard as at present. He
smphasized statement in the re
nort of the Baruch Rubber Com
,ittee to the effect that 'tires ON
eivilian cars are wearing down at a
rate eight times greater than they
are being replaced" From the Of
fire of Defense Transportation came
an order forbidding the use of spec
,al trains to large football games
and other sporting events. Similar
rostrictions will be placed on any
increase in bus travel that would in
terfere with the movement of those
engaged in essential war industries
Germans Lose Heavily
Moscow-Although Russian troops
have been forced to give ground in
their heoric defense of Stalingrad,
thew announce that every foot of adj
vance by the Germans has been at
fine expense of uncounted thousands
Of lives. 1T is believed that Hitler,
realizing that another severe winter
of warfare faces him, has given Or
ders that Stalingrad must be captur-
ed at any cost in lives or equipment.
he is entering an area where some
of the higher mountains have al
ready had snowfall, a certain sign
Of bitter Russian Winter.
Japs Still Attack
Washington - Twenty Japanese
planes were shot down in continued
operations designed to recapture the
Solomon Islands, now securely held
by q. s. marnes.
Mystery Shrouds Plane Crash
Buffalo, N. with 10 dead and
IS injured at the big Curtiss-Wright
airplane plant, mystery still sur
rounds the crash of plane without
a pilot into the busy factory. Ac-
cording TO the pilot, who ba1ed out
With severe burns, the plane sudden
y burst into flames in the course Of
routine test flight and the intense
heat made it impossible for him to
land on the nearby field. FBI. OPP
eratives are studying the possibilities
Of sabotage.
British in Madagascar ~
London Reports from Madagas-
car indicate tftt the British occupa-
ton of the big French island is
meeting with little opposition by the
troops supposedly loyal ito the Victy
government. + go. 49,, !
Intensified Air Activity IL.
London Although there is no mil
itary commitment as to a second
front in Western Europe, the fact
remains that air raids are of almost
nightly occurrance over Occupied
France and industrial Germany. A
Nad radio commentator operating
directly under orders from Goebbles,
Hltlers propaganda chief, admitted
mat he was shocked at the ruins
caused in the once beautiful city of
dusseldorf, with a population of
100000 people" by a series of raids
IN which American planes had an
active part. r.. .-
New Doyle Story Found
London-The discovery of an un-
published story by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle has aroused unusual interest
among the millions of followers of
the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
aitnough critics rate it as worthy
Of It's authors great reputation, his
SON IS opposing its publication be-
cause OF a note on the manuscript
u Sir Arthur's handwriting indicat-
Ag That it twas not up to scratch. u
Newspapers Raise Price =
FHtsburgh-Following the prece-
oent set in New York and other
afge cities, the local newspapers will
increase their price from cents per
opy to 4 cents mornings and even
aS and from 10 cents to II cents on
sunday. Elsewhere in the country
W Increase has been confined to
SUBURBAN areas, but here applies to
"e city circulation as well.
Mystery Fire on Transport
New York City-Although her
ioUo passengers and crew were taken
ui without loss of life, local mari
aane circles are mystified how the
N'"Vo ton transport Wakefield, for
aseiy the U. S. Lines luxury liner
manhattan, could have suffered the
nage she did from fire which
suited her on her return trip from
lVerlng one of the largest contin-
setNs OF American troops thus far
eut abroad. Had the fire happened
VI ner outbound trip and in a rough
Sa' 1t would have proved the worst
maritime tragedy in our history
upied with the burning last win