Current Events October 7, 1942; NEW JAPANESE TROOPS LAND IN SOLOMONS

                Joplin Globe


.JOPLIN, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1942.—

WILLKIE CALLS FOR ALLIED
OFFENSIVES ON ALL FRONTS;

IS IMPATIENT OVER DELAY
HE HOLDS BELIEF
KNOCKOUT BLOWS
CAN BE DELIVERED
Opinion Based on What He
Has Seen in Travels That
Have Taken Him to Many
Parts of World.

DEMANDS MORE ARMS
FOR RUSSIA AND CHINA
LUNGE BY NAZIS
AT STALINGRAD
IS BEATEN OFF
Twelve Tanks Out of Huge
Formation Break Into One
Block, but 11 Are
Destroyed
.
THREAT TO GERMAN
FLANK IS GROWING
By EDDY GILMOBE.
Twenty-Four H o u r s P a ss
With Nazis Making No
Progress and Red Lines
Holding Firm
Moscow, 0ct. 7 . ~ ( W e d n e s d a y ) —
(AP)~Twelve Nazi tanks out of a
huge formation beating at the Russ
i an defenders wedged in the ruins
of Stalingrad broke into a single
city block yesterday, but 11 of them
were destroyed by nightfall, the
R u s s i a n s announced early today on
the forty-fourth day of siege.

MORE JAP TROOPS
LAND IN SDLOMONS
YANKS BLAST AT SHIPS, HITTING
CRUISER—DOWN 11
PLANES, LOSE 2.
Washington, Oct. 6.—(/P)—T h e
Japanese have succeeded in land-
ing new troop reinforcements o n.
Guadalcanal island in the Solomons,
despite valiant American
aerial opposition, and a new enemy
effort to capture the United
S t a t e s airbase on the island obviously
is in the making.
A navy communique said tonight
that the troops had been put ashore
by a force of destroyers and a
heavy cruiser on the. n i g h t of October
3-4, following a daylight attempt
by a small group of bombers
with extraordinarily heavy
fighter protection to bomb the
American base.
Air Raid Repelled.