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Evening star., 1942-10-10
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERN, Switzerland, Oct. 10.-An
eyewitness account of the battle of
Stalingrad by a German officer, who
compared attempts to capture the
city with reaching for the moon, was
relayed here today from Berlin.
where it was published in the
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
Although the city has been bonn
barded heavily for many days and
large sections have been reduced to
ruins, "the Russians not only have
held defensively but have unleashed
attack after attack" the officer was
quoted as saying.
His account, republished in the
Basel National Zeitung. declared the
continued Russian resistance was "a
riddle to military experts
I'm three days" the officer said
1--WE advanced 1900 yards. Yester-
day and today we were only able to
turn in our holes in the earth. AS
Columbus first saw land. so we look
toward Stalingrad, of which we are
talking as one talks to the moon"
He said obstinate infantry battles
had been raging for days for pos
session of the center of the city and
reported that Russian reserves were
Evening star., 1942-10-10

They also recalled that the very
day Mr.. Welles spoke Argentina had
decided to impose special control
over radio, telegraph and cable
communications ito protect the Sc
curity of neighbor nations on the
American continent"
The Argentine Foreign Office
characterized Mr.. Welles' speech as
"lnopportune' and "crude."
In his speech in Boston. Mr.
Welles did not refer to Argentina
and Chile by name, but said the two
American republics still maintaining
relations with the Axis were per
mitting their territory to be utilized
by the officials and subversive
agents Of the Axis as a base for
hostile activities against their
neighbors."
He added that "as result of re-
ports sent by these agents" ships of
other American nations have been
sunk without warning. and he ex-
pressed the hope that the two
countries in question would not
long continue to permit their sister
republics to "be stabbed in the back
by Axis enmissaries" operating in
their territory.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
I'D Rather Be Rioht'
WIIkie, Made World Figure in Three Weeks,
May Emerge as First United Nations Leader

runs from the humblest peasants
hut in China to the floor of the
House of Commons in London.
How odd that the last presidential
candidate of the Republican party
in the United States should become
the man to head up all these forces
simultaneously. That is what is
happening.
As a result, Wendell Willkie is
riding the hottest horse in the race.
Nothing can stop him, because the
forces behind him are valid forces.
Somewhere on the road he has met
the democratic upsurge, and he has
recognized it.
theological Weapon.
That Is all that Is necessary to
make man great. The world will,
make any man great who reads it's
aspirations correctly. You cannot
invent this stuff. You have to feel
it. Mr.. Willkie has merely read the
faces of plain people from Los An
geles to London to China, and has
thus been moved to ask for second
front, a worldwide offensive, free
China, political offensive to win
the common man and a timetable
for the end of colonialism in the
Pacific.
He has become suddenly powerful,
not because he is charming man,
but because he has read it right,
and said it straight.
The Willkie trip is a turning point
In the war. 1t has synthesized dis
contents around the world into pro-
grammatic form. It has, for the
first time, given us an theological
spear more terrible than Hitler's.
1t is interesting that ultra -isola-
zionist newspapers in America have,
instinctively. become the first to
sense this development; they have
leaped on Mr.. Willkie with extraor-
dinary hatred; they are trying des-
perately. pathetically, to make him
appear a comic figure. They know.
They get 1t. They know that the
thing he might bring back with him
is world unity.
But I am more concerned with
signs that certain Government fig
ures are testing out minor slaps at
Mr.. Willkie. would say be careful.
The man who opposes him now
opposes the great forces to which he
has suddenly given expression, and
Will inevitably find himself pushed
toward the wrong path in conse-
quence. This is one war you can
not toy with. 1t is bigger than any
body.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
BY HELEN LOMBARD.

The Vichy Embassy, once anxious
to grasp every opportunity to ex-
press the point of view of the
"Marechal," is now avoiding pub
licity. The Embassy has retired into
voluntary social obscurity. The
Ambassador, CASTOR Henry Haye,
gives small dinners at which he
gathers some of his neutral diplo-
matte colleagues and few Ameri-.
cans who knew him when he was
Mayor of Versailles. These informal
dinners end with a few rubbers of
bridge.
Vichy diplomats are no longer
placing their hopes on Marshal Pc
tain. It is the French fleet which
Is mentioned now as the last "ace,"
the final hope for the continuance
of Unoccupied France.
Information coming into Wash
ington indicates the Nazis for the
present are less concerned over
grabbing the French Navy, which is
about as anti-Nazi as it is anti
British, than they are about forcing
labor into the Reich. The Germans
seem to be going on the theory that
once the French have been forced
into full collaboration on land, most
OF the units of the homeless fleet
will have to follow suit.
Would Shift Factories.
The Nazis have fixed October IS
as the deadline for the response of
French labor to their demands. Not
only is the migration of skilled
workmen envisaged, but the removal
of complete factory units into the
Reich Is also part of the plan.
Pierre Laval is being asked to de-
liver machines as we'll as men.
Tools, engines and workers are be-
ing demanded of the French.
Official Washington has several
explanations for this method of pro-
cedure. One is that 1t falls into
long range plan for a new European
industrial setup. There also Is the
question of ractability-French
workmen will be easier to handle
when taken out of their own sur
roundings. And finally, the re-
moval of French industrial equip
ment into the Reich will make it a
less easy objective for Allied bombs.
At any rate the Nazis are deter
mined to transport French work.
men with substantial part of their
tools into the remoter regions Of
Germany and even into Poland and
Austria. Buildings are already being
erected to receive the transplanted
units and 1t is believed here that
actual production can begin within
few months after the trains have
left French territory.
The appeal to French workers to
volunteer" for work in Germany
has met with so little success that
workers in both Occupied and Un-
occupied France are now being
threatened with drastic measures.
The line of demarcation between the
free zone" (unoccupied France) and
the rest of the country is being ig-
nored and posters In factories in
both regions bear the signature Of
Laval.
Honey Turns Bitter.
The Nazis have tried the Nazi
conception OF honey in order to at
tract French workmen. The workers
Evening star., 1942-10-10
HitIer's Plans in Russia
Heow Withdrawal Of Airpower From stoIinerod
For More Pressing Purposes Forecast

that he has had to quit large
scale bombing of Britain, John
Bull naturally has been free to
get ahead with the business of
piling up resources.
4. In order TO throw every
ounce of weight he could into the
assault of Stalingrad, the Fuehrer
even stripped Rommel of air pow
er. This not only deprived the
Nazis of strength to continue the
offensive against Egypt but also
placed them in a most uncom-
Portable defensive position.
There is an ever-growing dam
ger of Allied attack against the
Axis Army in Libya and Nazi war
planes must be sent there.
S. Indications are that the Nazi
chief hopes to be able to drive
eastward along the foothills of
the Caucasus Mountain range to
the Caspian Sea in an effort to
cut the Russian transport line
from the Persian Gulf. This
would call for more air power
since the Reds have been holding
we'll in that area.
Big Air War Seen in Spring.
6. Apart from all these cons.d-
eretions, there is one which basic
ally is of even more pressing i'm
portance. Hitler must at cnce
begin to prepare for the great
war of the air which most cer-
tainly will be waged next spring
over Western Europe. That bat
tie is likely to determine the
course of the war and length Of
time it will last.
Hitler's air losses in Russia
have been terrific. In addition,
he has had his first line war
planes in such constant action
that his entire feet is badly in
need of rest and overhauling.
1t will take him from now until
spring to repair the damage and
replace the losses. Indeed it's
quite likely the intervening six
months won't give him the time
he needs especially since he may
be called upon to conduct large
scale operations, both defensive
and offensive, during the next few
months.
The cold fact is that Hitler
made a great contribution to the
Allied cause when he tied such a
great portion of his air force to
infantry operations in the Cau-
casus.
OF course, he is gambling
greatly at a decisive moment in
the war. If he made a quick kill
and swept down through the
Caucasus into the Middle East,
thereby securing the oil and other
supplies and threatening the
whole structure of the British
hold on the Mediterranean he
would have gone far toward win
ming the war.
On that basis history may say
his Russian gamble was justified,
but the fact remains that in the
exertions of his now-or-never
spring the Fuehrer has spiked
himself badly.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Argentina and Chile
Protest We||es' Stab
In the Back Speech
Both Deny Charges
Countries Are Used
As Bases by Axis
BY the Associated Press.


BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 10.-Ar-
gentina and Chile, the only Ameri-
can nations maintaining relations
with the Axis, formally protested
today assertions by Acting Secretary
of State Sumner Welles that the
two countries are being used as
bases by Axis agents.
Both governments issued strong
notes categorically rejecting Mr..
Welles' statement in Boston Thurs
day night that ship sinkings in
American waters have been due in
part to the activity of Axis spies
operating within their borders.
They declared they were loyal to
their American neighbors and that
Mr.. Welles had painted false pic
ture of their relations with other
Western Hemisphere republics.
Observers here expressed belief
the official reaction of the two gov
ernments had dealt a virtual death
blow to Allied hopes that they
might soon carry out recommends
tions of the Rio de Janeiro confer
ence by severing all ties with the
Axis.
1Mr. Welles, at press confer
ence today, refused to comment
on the Chilean protests)
Chilean Foreign Minister Ernesto
Barros Jarpa noted in a formal
statement that Mr.. Welles' speech
came just as President Juan An
tonic Rios was preparing to visit
the United States. Government
sources here speculated on the pos
sibility that the President might
postpone his trip pending an ex-
PLANTATION from Washington.
In any event. informed Argentine
quarters said, the speech has re-
suited in definite cooling Of rela-
tions between the United States and
the two South American republics.
In connection with Mr.. Welles'
statements, these quarters recalled
that only this week three Germans
charged with operating a secret
radio were expelled from Chile and
that Argentina had ordered dissolu-
ton OF the German Cultural Circle.
which Deputies had accused of car
rying on activities of the outlawed
Nazi party.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
BY SAMUEL GRAFTON.

Wendell Willkie has made himself
world figure in three weeks. That
is sign Of how much room there
is at the top.
He has done this by saying a
number of simple ordinary things,
things which are said at thousands
of dinner tables, things which are
thought by thousands of minds.
Only he has broken with peddlers
Of cant and dispensers of mush-
mouth talk to say these things out
loud.
He stands today as the best white
spokesman for the aspirations of
Asia. And he has clearly become
the spokesman of the most aggres-
sive -the-war forces in the West.
His is curious position. History
may call him the first United Ma
tions statesman; man without
power in any country, who has sud-
denly developed enormous power in
all free countries.
He has spoken in each country
as If he lived in it. Is that bad?
Another week of it and he will be
the unofficial President of the
United Nations. He is already the
closest bond linking us, next to
Hitler.
When a man is abruptly whirled
to such a position as this, in
matter of days and hours, we may
be sure that great, unchannelized
political forces are loose on earth,
struggling for outlet.
Too Slow for 10 Years.
There is that dull ache in the
West, that consciousness, almost
like feeling of sin, that we have
for 10 years been too slow, too late
and may be too slow, too late again.
That feeling has never found a
leader. The natural opposition in
this country, which might have
given it expression, has too often
choesn, instead, to assure a sick
world 1t needs sales tax.
Then. there are Russia and China
(each of which, says Mr.. Willkie,
has had 100000 casualties) both
feeling that the West has been,
and, perhaps still is, insufflciently
willing to assume risk.
There is, further, sparkling i'm
patience around the world with our
wooden complacency on the colonial
question, our policy of drift and de-
fense, our pathetic endeavor to save
as much as possible of the old
world, though we have lost half of
it; a river OF impatience which now
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Symphony VioIist to Play
Preceding Bible Lecture

George Wargo. American violist
who has been heard in this city
with the National Symphony Or
chestra as solo violist, will be heard
at 7:45 pm. tomorrow in Constitu-
ton Hall, preceding the Bible lecture
by Evangelist Robert L. Boothby.
Mr.. Wargo will include in his
group, Hymn to the Sun" and the
Schubert Serenade."
Beginning his musical career at
the age of 7, Mr.. Wargo later be-
came a scholarship student at the
Philadelphia Conservatory of Music
and then became a member of the
faculty OF that school. In 1881 he
took the chair of solo violist with
the National Symphony Orchestra
In Washington, and the following
year he became professor Of viola
at the Peabody Conservatory of
Music in Baltimore.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Father and Son Killed
As Train Strikes Auto
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MUNCY, Pa, Oct. 10.-A father and
son were killed yesterday when their
automobile was struck by Pennsyl-
vania Railroad passenger train at a
crossing here.
The victims were Robert Baysore.
Al, and Kenneth Baysore, II. of
Muncy. The engineer, w. I. Hahn,
said they apparently failed to see
the train approaching.
Evening star., 1942-10-10

taken at the
o p e n l n 6 Of
Wa S h / n g tons
S t a ge D oor
Canteen.
You undoubt-
edly saw it, be-
cause it is the
type of picture
that every news
paper will print.
But in case you
didn't, it showed
War Production
Oard Chic
Dona1d Nelson
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Conference Will Discuss
Soviet Jews Arms AppeaI

A conference of all Jewish organ
izations In Washington will be held
at 2 pm. tomorrow at the Jewish
Community Center, Sixteenth and
Q streets NV, to discuss an appeal
OF Soviet Jews for 1000 planes and
500 tanks for the Red Army. u
Prominent Jewish leaders and rem,
resentatives Of such organization As
the american Jewish Congress and
the Bnai Birth are expected to at
tend the meeting.
The goal Of planes and tanks was
set by the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist
Conference which met this year in
Moscow. The group formed here to
carry on the work has been named
the Allied Conference for Tanks and
Planes for the Red Army. -
Evening star., 1942-10-10
By CONSTANTINE BROWN.


There is q strong feeling in
many quarters that a course in
elementary strategy would be ex-
tremely beneficial for those who
provide newspaper and radio
comment on day-to-day military
developments.
Since 1t became evident that a
second front in Europe would be
delayed popular imagination has
been fired by the idea of sending
daily waves of a thousand planes
over the Reich and thus Destroy
ing Germany in so or 80 days.
This proposal is frequently dis
cussed and Endorsed by commen-
tators. No country in the world
could withstand such attacks,
but at the same time none of the
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Trying to Take StoIingrod Like
Reaching for Moon, Nozi Says

crossing the Volga nightly by RATS
and canoes to enter the conflict.
First we take five houses and
then we must give up two the ac-
count went on. Thus the fighting
RACES back and forth
The soldiers talk of what they
would do if Stalinsrad were behind
them. Already it is growing cold.'
Evening star., 1942-10-10
ADVERTISEMENT.
Voice of Home
INSULATION

Two men were talking on the
train. One was explaining how
Johns-Manville Home Insulation
saves fuel. He used an example
that We all can understand. Two
houses were side by side. On one,
the roof was covered with snow.
On the other roof the snow had
melted. That second home
had actually melted snow with his
furnace. You see, in this house
without insulation the heat was
leaking out through the roof, melt
ing the snow. In the insulated
house the heat was kept inside,
where it belongs, by JIM Home
Insulation. That's one reason why
more than half million homes to-
day are Johns -Manville insulated.
If your home isn't insulated, send
for the Home Insulation Book,
Write United Clay Products Co..
Investment Bldg, D. O.. or Phons
Dt. 0787.
Evening star., 1942-10-10

bonbardment
rather than
in f a ntry to
complete the
operation of
reducing the
city W o u Id
seem to cover
a much more
important is
sue than ap-
pears on the
surface.
There is a
sound reason,
in NV view.
Evening star., 1942-10-10

National Capt.
tai. Gus t o m-
arily, a time like
this begets con-
siderable excite
ment, if not Bit
terneSs. But the
existence of a
state of W a r
m ore or less
cramps the style
OF Jne orators on
the attack and
l n h | bits he
officials who are
on t he defen-
Evening star., 1942-10-10
Bee Smoshes Four Cars

AUBURN, Calf. (P.-When a bee
got into the cab of Floyd Marsh
fields truck Marshfield took a slap
at 1t. Soon afterward officers were
untangling four-car highway
smashup, In which one man was
seriously injured. ....
Evening star., 1942-10-10
BY DEWITT MACKENZIE.
Wide World War Analyst,

LONDON, Oct. 10.-Hitler's an
nouncement that he has achieved
his main objective at Stalingrad
and therefore will depend on
Evening star., 1942-10-10

THE opinions OF the rers this page their oton
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented The
Stars effort to all sides OF questions OF interest to its
readers although such opinions may contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
British Vessel Sunk
BY the Associated Press.

By the ASsocIated Press. ~
LONDON, Oct. 10.-The 4,290-ton
British anti-aircraft cruiser Coven-
try has been sunk. the Admiralty
announced last night. The Coventry
t-A a corr~'e~~--,- Of Aoo r--.n.
Evening star., 1942-10-10
FiresideChut
May Serve to
Spur Votes
News of Possible
COP Gains Heard in
Democratic Circles
BY DAVID LAWRENCE,

Three and a half weeks more to
election day. This simple fact seems
to be causing a bit of mental dis
turbance in various quarters in the
Evening star., 1942-10-10
McLennore
Husbands Won't Like
THIS Picture
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

One Of the most regrettable pic
lures ever snapped since Monsieur
Daguerre told his first customer to
Watch for the birdie" was that
Evening star., 1942-10-10

HOHty IuTHS bIGtGT.
The Nazis have tried the Nazi
conception OF honey In order to at
tract French workmen. The workers
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25
Allied Filters
Fly Over
Dutch Indies

MELBOURNE, Australia, June
% Capitalized planes have eX
tended their reconnaissance flight:
into the heart of the Netherland.
East Indies with a flight to the
Kendari area of Celebes Island
Gen. Douglas Macarthur an
nounced today.
Operating more than $50 mile!
from Darwin, the big Australian
north coast base, the Allied plane,
conducted their reconnaissance
and fought off three enemy planes
Kendari is on the southeast
coast of CelebeS. at the tip of the
eastern arm of the island. 1t wa:
an important Dutch base, with ar
airport. before the Japanese SeiZeC
the Netherlands East Indies.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25
Confidence
Vote Asked
In Commons

LONDON, June Is 1NS).-Sir
John Sydney Wardlaw-Milne, sup
ported by 20 other members OF
Parliament. today lodged in the
House of Commons a motion de-
claring non-confidence in the GEN.
trial direction of the war.
1.-THE House." the motion sets
forth, "while paying tribute to
the heroism and endurance of
the armed forces of IN e crown
In circumstances of exceptional
difficulty, has no confidence In
the central direction Of the
war"
A move will be made for the
adoption of the motion during the
forthcoming debate on the Libyan
situation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25
DEBATE ON LIBYA

Sir Stafford Grips, lord privy
seal, announced that the govern
ment had decided 10 hold debate
on Libya and the Mediterranean
on terms of Wardlaw-Milne'S mo-
ton. The debate will be held on
the second and third sitting days
of the next series Of House sit
tings, during which Prime Minister
Churchill will speak.
BY debating Wardlaw Milne
motion the prime minister, now
comforting with President Roose-
welt in the United States, makes
the issue one of confidence or non
confidence in himself since
Churchill, as defense minister. is
personally responsible for direction
of the war.
The signatorics Of Wardlaw-
Mines motion were representa-
tive of all parties in the House.
They included most of Churchills
severest critics, INCLUDING Leslie
Hore-BeliSha and Sir Roger Reyes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25
Camp for Mothers
Has Room for More

There are still some vacancies
for under-privileged mothers and
mothers with small incomes at tho
Baycourt Camp. on Lake st. Clair
near New Baltimore, Mrs. Dorothy
McCabe. the camp social worker
said today. The fee for three
weeks stay at the camp is 81 per
person per week.
Mothers wishing to 60 to camp
August II. should contact Mrs.
McCabe at 81 West Warren ave-
nue., Monday through Friday, 9
a. m. 10 noon.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25
20 u. ). Counts Hit
Adrian Truck Firm

Andrews Truck Lines of Adrian,
Mich, is charged with violation
of the interstate commerce act
in 20 criminal informations on file
today in federal court.
In eight of the informations the
firm is charged with granting rate
concessions illegally, in the others
it is charged with making ship
ments between certain points
without ICC authority A hearing
has been set for July before
Federal Judge Ernest A. O'Brien.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25
1000 Executed Daily
Poles Say Germans Outfit travelling Le+hel Gas
Chambers for Use in Killing Jews

LONDON. June % (UP)s-A
spokesman for the Polish national
council said today that report.
first published by the Daily Tele-
graph. had been received asserting
that Germans had fitted out motor
vans as mobile gas execution
chambers and were killing an
average OF 1000 Jews a day in
Poland.
The spokesman said secret in
formation had been received from
Poland that 90 persons could be
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-25
Rubber Flash
It's q Secret, but Hot Tip
TO Drive Collectors

! Note 10 scrap rubber collectors
If it weren't for serious conse-
quences which would result from
stealing federal property we could
tell you where to find some easy
pickins in the rubber collection
drive.
A casual inventory OF three
floors of the Federal Building to-
day disclosed the following items
Forty cuspidor mats in corridors.
Nine floor mats under impor-
tant official desks.
Twelve rubber ash trays holding
official cigars and cigarets.
Nine rubber seat cushions hold
ing the officials.
Location of the items Is with
held because of the nature Of the
case and because offices of federal
Judges. United States attorneys
and FBI agents are involved.