Tucson Daily Citizen
TUCSON, ARIZONA, THURSDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 22. 1942
JAP FLANK ATTACK REPULSED;
Minor Thrust
Is Halted In
Solomons Area
By SANDOR S. KLEIN
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. (U.P)—American forces defending
the vital island of Guadalcanal in the Solomons have repulsed
a "minor" Japanese thrust, which may have been a
preliminary to the long-expected all-out assault.
In announcing the action in a communique today, the
Navy said that otherwise "no report of any ™tenal change
in the military situation in the Solomon islands has been re-
ceived.
The minor Japanese assault was against the.western
flank of the American positions on Guadalcanal the navy
-said, and occurred Tuesday. Solomons
time.
Bomber Downed
The toll taken by American airmen
and anti-aircraft defenses of
Japanese planes was raised to 353
the night of Oct. 20-21 (Solomons
time), the communique disclosed,
when an enemy bomber believed
to have been on a reconnaissance
mission was shot down by antiaircraft
fire over Guadalcanal.
Allied forces Are
Poised For Drive
Vichy Says Americans
Among Troops Near
Lake Chad
LONDON, Oct. 22. (U.P) -
The London Daily Mail today
quoted Madrid reports from
V i c h y asserting that very
large Allied forces have been
concentrated north of Lake Chad,
presumably for a northward drive
across the African desert into
Libya.
Blizzard Now Sweeping Over
Russian Front
Reds Penetrate Second
Defense Line North
Of Stalingrad
SNOW HITS STEPPES
German Attacks Weaker
On Besieged City,
Soviet Says
By HENRY SHAPIRO
MOSCOW, Oct. 22. (U.R) —
Marshal Seymon Timoshenko's
forces, driving through
the first blizzard of winter on
the desolate steppes northwest
of Stalingrad, captured an important
hill today and penetrated the
the second German defense line,
battlefront dispatches said.
Agrees With Stimson
That Prohibition
Is Dangerous
DANGER TO MORALE
Lee Insists He Will
Seek Passage Of
Amendment
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. (U.P—
Sen. Josh Lee, D., Okla., today
told the Senate that defeat of his
amendment' to the 'teen-age
draft bill to ban sale of alcoholic
beverages at Army and Navy
camps would "fan the flame for
national prohibition."
"This is a very mild measure
and yet its passage would take
away the best argument the so called
'dry' forces have," he said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22
(U.R)—C h a i r m a n David I,
Walsh (D-Mass) of the sen-,
ate naval affairs committee
said today after a telephone
conversation with , Secretary of
Navy Frank Knox that the Navy
shares the Army's opposition to
the Lee prohibition amendment to
the pending bill to lower the draft
age to I8
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