The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1942-10-15
A Week Of The War


Cupied France, shot down AZ NaZi
planes, probably destroyed 3s1
more and seriously damaged at
least 10. Never before had 60
many Gearman planes been shot !
down in a single operation over
Western Europe as were brought
down by the massed fire Of the I
American Flying Fortresses and
Consolidated B-24's. Only four
American ships were lost and the
crew of one was saved. The bonlb-
ers made q destructive attack on
the Lille industrial area.
Gen. MacArthur's headquarters
in Australia announced October
IL that Lockheed medium bomb
ers scored two direct hits on a
large Japanese seaplane tender IN
the Solomon area between the Bis
marok and Solomon Islands. The
Navy reported on October 10. a
Japanese destroyer was sunk and
a heavy cruiser was damaged by
American airmen during continu'
ed enemy attempts to land rein
forcements on Guadalcanal. The
enemy under cover of darkne ss
made several small landings in the
Solomons, but U. s. forces shot
down 81 Japanese planes, torpedo
ed a cruiser, bombed and strafeh
enemy troops and equipment on
Guadalcanal. General MacArthur's
headquarters also announced that
the biggest force of Flying Fort
resses ever sent against a target
in the Australian zone made an
unusually destructive raid on the
largest Japanese base in this area,
Rabaul. Australian troops continu-
ed to drive the enemy back into
the Owen Stanley Mountains ami
removed the threat to the Allied
Base of Port Moresby.
From new bases in the Andren-
of group of the Aleutians, Army
bombers. escorted by Airacnbra
and lightning fighters, Kept Jap
anese-held Kiska = less than an
hours flying time away under
"continI&l fire" during the week.
The Navy reported aerial recon
naissance showed the Japanese APP
parently had given up their hold
on both Attu and Agattu in the
Western Aleutians and concen-
trated on Kiska.
War Taxes
The Senate passed and sent to
conference with the House the
1912 War Revenue Bill which the
Treasury estimated will yield 50
billion in new revenue annually. OF
this total, approximately $1,7O6
million would be refundable be-
cause the bill provides an extra 5
percent "victory tax" on all indi-
vidual incomes above $12 a week
part of which would be refund
ed as a credit on other taxes a
year later or as a postwar refund.
The new bill will make AZ to A
million persons subject to Federal
taxes, compared with % million at
present, and will bring total Fed
eral e up to $26 billion a
year.
Rationing
Price Administrator Henderson
announced a five-step Govern
ment plan to keep every passen-
ger car "rollingfor essential mile
age" throughout the war: az Ra-
~tioning of used tires and recaps,
and new tires now in stock, to
provide as far as possible the
minimum essential mileage to
each of the nations passenger
cars. (2) Actual control of each
cars mileage through the ration
ing of gasoline to prevent I'M
necessary driving and to hold the
national average down to 5000
miles per car per year. 90 Com
pulsory periodic inspection of all
tires to guard against abuse and
to prevent wear beyond the point
where they can be recapped. (4)
Denial of gasoline and tire re-
placement to cars whose drivers
persistently violate the national
35-mile-an-hour speed limit. (5)
Capacity use, through car sharing,
of every car on every trip so far
as possible.
Maximum Prices and Rents
The OPA reported October IL
that it is extending the Govern
ment rent-control program to en-
brace practically the entire urban
population of the country, and or
ders reducing and stabilizing rents
on November l for all living quar-
tiers Of 81 more defense-rental
areas are being issued immediate
ly. The orders bring under federal
control the rents in every large
81. in the country with the excep-
ton of New York City. Rents are
being cut back to the levels pre-
vailing last March l in all the
' areas except one-Orlando, Fla,
where the maximum rent date Ia