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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-18
Yanks' New Type 'Chute' Bomb Blasts laps
Besef by Mud. JapS
In New Guinea, Yank
Dreams of Wife Here
BY PAT ROBINSON
International News ser,ice stan Writer

s O NJ + w II f r + IN y l. w
GUINEA, Dec. 1S.
We'll" said Pvt. Paul Ullrich,
there I am almost buried i'm
swamp mud, with tall kunai
grass all around me-and that
stuff can cut like a knife-and
hazy-loOking moon max es
everything sorta ghosty.
There's a little stream over
on the left and I'm the thick
Jungle brush on the other side
there's Jap sniper. i know the
blankety-blank is there, because
any time I move he takes "A shot
In my direction.
Back behind me / can hear
our mOrtars banging away and
somewhere off to-the- right
there's machine-gun fire. Come
daylight our fellows are going
To bust ahead on the right, 80
all we have 10 do II sit tight.
Well, sir, it's sure funny what
runs through your head. danger
or no danger,
THINKS OF HIS WIFE
There I am, dog-tired, wet
and hungry and l get 10 think
ing about my wife, Eleanor, back
In Detroit and about Nom and
Dad and my brothers and sisters
back in Armada, Mimi, and
then 1 remember It's only few
days to Christmas and get blue
as can be.
Merry Chris tma s-and I
wonder how merry this ones
going 10 be-and peace on earth,
good will to men and here we
are and those Jap so-and-sOs
and there isn't much peace or
good will either. -------------
Then l get TO thinking we
gotta knock the tar -outa these
so-and-sos TO make sure every
OOuN tdH nave ittiIN tuiiNA-
masses for all time and live the
way they want 10 without
bunch Of crazy men telling us
how we can live.
Just about then move
around some, trying 10 find
dry spot. but there isn't any
and that COMPOUNDED sniper fires
a few more rounds over my head
and I catch a fash and fire back
and after that l am not both
cred.
DREAMS OF HOME
$50 I am feeling pretty good
but I wish those mortars would
lay off for awhile, but you get
used TO noise and 1 20 dream
ing about home and snow on
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-18
Wdrship, 4
ZerOs Shattered
At New Georgia
Yank Fliers Attack
Central SoIomons Base
9Th Consecutive Day

WASHINGTON. Dec. 1s- INS).
Sledgehammer blows by Amer
ica's Guadalcanal air force have
shattered a japanese cruiser or de-
'Stroycr and wiped out a Japanese
intcrccpting force of l. Zeros, the
navy revealed today.
Douglas DauntleSS dive bonrbcrs
damaged the warShip in another
attack aimed az breaking up Jap
installations n-the New Georgia
Island area of the central Solo
mons, where the JapS are trying TO
lLtttI1 an mir field ---------
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-18
STEADY ARTILLERY FIRE

The touC n eS hghtlng was
around the Buna Mission and the
Buna air strip. where constant
ARTILLERY barrage helped Allied
ground forces IN their attempt 10
wipe out this last important Japa-
lnesc toe-hold in eastern New
Guinea.
The Mission area Was pounded
from the air Thursday Martin
B-26 MartianS scored hits with
3O0-pound bombs q
At the Mambarc and KumBsi
River mouths up the coast from
Buna, Douglas A-20 attack planes
took over the Strafing OF tho
remnants OF the estimated, 25C
japanese who made il TO shore in
enemy navy attempts al rein.
forcement earlier this week.
81 TONS OF BOMBS
II was revealed al headquarters
that fighters and bomberS made
.l34 sortieS. firing 10000 round,
Iof cannon and machine gun bul
lets and dropping more than s.
tons Of bombs, in the furiou,
attacks Sunday and Monday Il
wipe out the landing party al The
Mambare Estuary.
Thirty-four attacks were mad,
on the two cruisers and three
destroyers tho enemy riSked 4
land the small reinforcement.
4 On Timor Island. northwest o.
Australia, medium bomberS at
4 a k q the JapaneSe-occupiet
town Of Mindelo.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-18
Russians Drive
To Within s. Mi.
OF Smo|ensk
Threaten 10 Cut Rail
Line From Germany
Supplying Nazis in North
CONTINUED from Page One)

Continued from Page 0ne)
ing that the Russians were at or
near Belly was issued in scorn OF
an announcement from Adolf Hit
lerS headquarters that $4,000
Russians had been surrounded and
wiped out near Toropets, 30 miles
northwest of Moscow.
There has been no fighting in
the ToropetS area since last WIN
ter. when the Russians hurled the
Germans back more than A. miles
to the west and 60 miles to lie
south, the Soviet communique
said.
"Tf there are any Germans
now near TorOpets, II is only in
the capacity of war prisoners"
the communique continued. "In
reality, fighting has lately taken
place, not In the TaHapets area,
hut in the area OF the town of
Rely: the offensive here Is he
ing conducted by Soviet troops
and not by Germans"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-18
DREAMS OF HOME

$50 I am feeling pretty good
but / wish those mortars would
lay off for awhile, but you get
used TO noise and 1 go dream
ing about home and snow on
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-18
TheWar
Today
Germans Lose
Initiative Oh
Russian Front
By NATALIA RENE

International New, service star Writer
MOSCOW, Dec. IS While
the Soviet army pushes ahead
relentlessly with its winter
offensive on battlefronts west
and south Of Moscow, unlm-
peachable military information
from the fighting zones today
proved that German forces
gradually are losing both mo-
mentum and initiative, al
though their capacity for
skilled resistance is far from
broken.
These reports, particularly
from the central Stalingrad
front, showed that the Ger
mans are trying obstinately
TO repair their badly shattered
fortunes by fiercely resisting
the Red army advance.
But stimulating news that
repeated German counterat-
tacks at Verkhne-Lumski,
Cossack village southwest Of
Stalingrad, had failed entirely
proved TO Moscow observers
that the Nazis have lost their
momentum and now are un-
able 10 launch successful
counterattacks.
THE BATTLES at Verkhne-
Lumski lasted several days
and nights with the enemy
seemingly successful when he
wedged himself into the Soviet
concentrations. But the Rus
SLAMS started some energetic"
flank attacks and the enemy
would have been glad TO flee
but he was unable TO escape
from the powerful pincers
being executed.
The large Soviet pincers,
which was drawing the Ger
mans into death embrace
from the southwest and north
west of Stalingrad, is work
ing slowly as any big pincer
operation must, considering
the terrain, German fortified
tions and resistance. Then
there are always numerous
smaller pincers within any
large one.
On the central front. the
Red army is gnawing through
the most powerful German de-
Tense lines strung out in
depth. The German defense
here is most active and most
stubborn and is combined
with fluid maneuvering of
reserves.
AT PRESENT, the Red
army command is emphasizing
the great Importance for the
Red army TO Immediately for
tify any line taken so as TO
be able not only TO attack
enemy Notifications but to be
able TO resist enemy counter
attacks. The Russian in
-fantry has been supplied with
necessary implements TO build
Notifications in the frozen
winter earth.
Another case where the
Germans have lost the initia-
tive is in their drive through
the mid-Caucasus toward the
rich Grozny oil fields. The
visions of the oil wells are
disappearing like desert mi
RACES.
The enemy attempt 10 seize
the Grozny-Tuapse pipeline
obviously failed and battles in
the region northeast of Tuapse
are now moving back to-
ward Novorossisk, the Black
Sea naval port held by the
Germans.
- - N |. - - ~
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-18
HIS PLUM PUDDING

opium pudding" said Pvt Earl
Tucker of Lock Springs Mo,
very firmly. I'VE always had
MUM nudding
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-18
NAZI AFFAIRS WORsEN

In the course Of this fighting
the 33d German tank regiment,
l2l6th infantry regiment and 18th
Ichasseurs battalion were utterly
routed, the communique reporte cd
Seven thousand Germans were
killed and they lost 40 tanks, 81
guns. 100 machine guns. $50 trucks
and 10 trains Of supplies.
The Russians lost 1000 killed,
.115 missing. 70 tanks, AS guns
and 3l6 trucks
THE publication Of one more
false report by the Germans Is
very significant" the commune
que said. ut shows that the
HitleriteS' affairs are going
from bad to worse The Hitler
lite command Is afraid of telling
the Germans the truth about the
situation"
In factory area Of Stalingrad,
the noon communicate said, Soviet
storm troops surrounded and blew
up seven German firing positions
and their garrisons.
Repulsing infantry and tank
IcounterattackS.- the Russians dis
abb five tanks northwest Of
IStalingrad, then attacked and
killed more than 200 Germans
The Russians repulsed two coun-
IterattaCks southwest OF Stain
grad destroyed eight tanks, killed
$50 Germans and captured impor-
tant booty.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-18
New Allied Drive
On New Guinea
Expected Soon
Macarthur Deeorates
IL. General Kenney
FOR His Invention

GENERAL MACARTHUR s
HEADQUARTERS. Australia.
Dec Is UPl Renewed Allied
patrol activity around Salamaua,
key japanese base. and highly ei-
.fective luSc of a new parachute
REORGANIZATION bomb against the
enemy a, Manila indicated today
that a now Allied drive was In the
making IN New Guinea.
Gen. DSug laS Macarthur
awarded the Purple Heart decora-
ton TO 1t. Gen. Gcofgc {. kcnney,
commander Of Allied air forces IN
the Southwest Pacific. in rocosnl-
ton az mcrljoriouS service Mn
venting the new bomb.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-18
BREAKS Up LANDING

II was revealed that hundreds
were dropped from levels as low
as - feet on Japanese harCeS and
landing points IN the breaking up
OF the enemy landing attempt al
the mouth Of the Mambare River
Monday.
The augmentation devices also
were used. il was said, in the Buna
area and in some OF the StraflnC
raids on Lac and Salamaua IN
which many planes were destroyed
.on the ground.
No description Of the parachute
bomb was given here II was said
only that Kenney devised the i'm
provement and that the A-20s arc
able 10 swoop very low. dropping
these bombs with greater accuracy
and augmentation, causing greater
damage per ton of; explosive.
The daily headquarters commu-
niQue said that in the Salamaua
sector Our patrols maintain pres
stire-on enemy -outpOStS and are
protecting friendly natives.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-18
~ ZERoS DOWNED

Even more amazing was the feat
ot a group OF Flying FortreSses
over the same area in shooting
down an - land-type Zeros that
intercepted them. One Fortress
was lost, but the crew was res
.cucd.
The neW action, bringing both
enemy planes and enemy warShips
.ol snmc- lize-Hte he Central Solo,
mons picture, apparently dis
counted reports that the Japs had
Withdrawn their forces TO Gem
trial Pacific base to prepare for a
now thrust at Guadalcanal Island.
The reports were given currency
brcduse the navy had announced
that raiders on two successive
DAYS had encountered no Jap oppo-
,luon IN the New Georgia area,
$50 miles northwest of Henderson
FpiG ON GuadalCanal
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-18

the ground--niCe, white faky
snOw-and no mosquitoes,
"And just about now Nom
would he planning the Christ
mas dinner and getting presents
ready for the iceman, the milk
man and tire Ietterman and gosh
how / wish l was home. And
that Christmas dinner! Turkey
and stuning and cranberries and
pumpkin pie"
HIS PLUM PUDDING
'"Plum pudding" said Pvt Earl
Tucker of Lock Springs Mo,
very firmly. I'VE always had
plum pudding"
Pumpkin pie for me- con-
tinued Ullrich, "aDd lotsa coffee,
hut we kids always had milk.
Then we'd hang TIP our stock
ings on the manteIpiece and
Nom would hustle rs of 10 bed
~ she and Dad could IA up the
presents and Christmas morning
we'd all he mp early, shouting
and yelling and everybody
laughing, and maybe I'd have a
sled or skates or "A baseball bat.
Those were the days.
Then we'd all 20 10 the
Evangelical Church and back
home for turkey"
Midnight mass for mr., said
Tucker. land ! can remember
how beautiful the singing was
and the church all III up and
candles burning and the incense
and we'd all get up early too,
Just like YOU said"
That's thr- JapS Smelling III
and l haven't much time from
then on 10 think about Christ
mas. But | am convinced more
than ever now that the only
way we can all ever have "A
merry Christmas again Il 10
knock the spots off Of them and
teach them lesson, heCatISe YOU
can't reason with a rattleSnalte.
You gotta Kill them or cage
them. Isn't that right"
"Ynn said u . said -Fteftt-r.
Order The Detroit Times
mailed daily and sunday 10 your
man in the armed forces.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-12-18
7TH CONSECUTIVE RAID

-'fhe Vow Georgia attacks oc-
lurcd on December is east long
imdcl. II was the seventh conSec-
utNc day that a rain Of explosives
had been dropped on the thInly
held Ian 94-nl-l.-i44f bases from
which they hope some day 70 chal-
Icncc America $ hold on the South
Crn SoioTonS.
--I,Ap American affn1en- no* nave
destroyed 6i9 japanese planes
since sciZing Guadalcanal and have
sunk or damaged l42 Japanese
ships In the anne area.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15
Former Argentina
President Passes

BUENOS AIRES, July Is. CUP)-
DR.. Roberto M. Ortiz, Sc, former
president of Argentina and one of
the United States staunchest friends
in this country, died today.
DR.. Ortiz died at $50 am. tEWT)
of bronchial pneumonia, 20 days
after he resigned as president.
His health and eyes had been fail
ing since 1910, and on July of
that year, he turned his duties over
to Ramon S. Castillo and retired
to his summer palace, hoping that
rest and medical treatment would
cure him. Twenty days ago, how
ever, it became apparent that nei-
ther his eyes nor his health we're
improving and he resigned. Castillo
became president.
DR.. Ortiz contracted influenza sew
eral days ago, and, subsequently
Bronchial pneumonia. His physicians
abandoned hope early today, and
MonSignor DAndrea administered
extreme JUNCTION.
FRIEND TO LAST
Even in his illness, DR.. Ortiz had
expressed his support of the United
States and its allies, while the Cas-
tillo administration was cautious in
rebuking Germany for sinking sew
eral Argentine ships. Argentina and
Chile never have broken diplomatic
relations with the Axis, as have
every other nation in North, Central
and South America.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, July is. tUpD-Rus-
sian shock troops in counter attacks
at Voronezh, on the Moscow -RostoV
railroad, have thrown the Germans
back in one sector, a communique
said today.
The Russians beat back a long
succession of strong enemy attacks
on the vital front and then went
over the top in sudden counter
attack.
In fight which lasted for hours,
the communique said, the Germans
were forced to retreat, leaving hun
dreds of men dead on the field and
IL tanks behind
Germany was hurting more men
and machines into the Voronezh
front, after losing upwards of $4,000
men killed or wounded in 10 days,
in an attempt to take the city which
the Red army was defending street
by street and house by house.
The noon communique reported
that the enemy losses had been SO
enormous that the German COM
mand was compelled to send several
reinforcing divisions numbering
about $4,000 each, into the action.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15

ing for the proper types, and wher
the genuine officers came into the
sound stage the assistant director
told Director Alexander Hall these
were the actors sent over for rs
approval.
Hall walked up to the astonish-
ed Britishers, who we're mostly
blonds. They're not right" he
barked. Il want LatinS. Get these
guys outa herer'
At this point Miss Russell intro
duced them.
Incidentally, when the actors ar
rived they included a Cuban, a
Mexican, two Spaniards, a lad from
Wisconsin and one Brazilian. A
Brazilian vice consul told me the
North American was the one typi-
cal Brazilian of the lot.
SIGN OF TIMES
With slanted eyes and other
makeup. Abner Biberman plays a
Japanese agent in Submarine
Alert" The disguise requires about
half an hour to apply, so he can't
remove it before going to lunch
He lunches at boulevard drive-in,
and during his first day on the pic
ture he was made uncomfortable
by hostile stares. Unpleasantries
are avoided now by a windshield
sticker reading American Born
Chinese" People still stare, but
they smile now.
Men in uniform are welcomed by
the studios these days. Stars are
equally gracious to recruits and to
bemedaled veterans. But the lat
ter are true celebrities. 1 saw one
participant of the Midwa- battle
surrounded by Paramount players,
director and studio official or two
while production came to a dead
stop This happened on three sound
stages. At lunch, he said wistfully
III kinda like to see how they
make MOVIES
At Universal. Nigel Bruce was
guiding four R.C.AF. instructors.
all veterans of active service, on a
tour of the lot. With a short leave
from remote field in Canada, they
had driven down to see some CLAM
or. And they'd found it mostly on
the set of Arabian Nights where
six Bagdad beauties in costumes
Crudg'ngly okaTed by the Hays Of
flee reclined in a harem.
1t was a long scene to light for
the color camera, but the flyers
30
They'd stand and stare a while
60 to meet some real stars. then
return to eye the Csliph's cuties.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15

envelop it. 1t was admitted tnat
big enemy tank and infantry units
now were fighting within the city
limits.
TANKS ATTACK
More than 1000 German tanks and
several picked infantry divisions,
trained throughout the winter Tor
a spring offensive, we're thrown into
the attack. A dispatch from cor
respondent of the newspaper Pravda
said the Russians were inflicting
heavy losses on them.
1t was reported that the 3rd Ger
man motorized division was with
drawn from the line after only one
day in action because of heavy loss
es and was replaced by the 168th
which previously already had been
battered.
German spearheads we're consid-
erably less than 80 miles from Ros-
tov, key to the Caucasus, and con-
siderably less than 100 miles from
the Stalingrad industrial area on
the Volga, 1t seemed certain.
GERMAN GOALS
In their drive, the Germans ap-
peared to be trying to take in all
the big bend of the Don, to reach
a point only 35 miles from Stalin-
grad and to storm RoStov at the
Don's mouth which they held brief
ly last fall before Marshal Semyon
Timoshenko, who is leading the Rus
sian defense, threw them back.
From the Boguchar Lisichansk
sectors at the southern end of the
battle line, the Germans had one
spearhead pointed directly toward
Rostov.
Uondon heard reports that the
range guns at Taganrog, go miles
west of Rostov on the Sea of Azov
coast, and we're bombarding the
Russian lines, apparently prepar-
atory to new drive on the city,
The Russians still were counter
attacking northwest of Voronezh
threatening the enemy left flank.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15
Contract Agents to
Be Investigated

WASHINGTON, July Ia. CUP)-
Chairman Carl Vinson, D., Ga, of
the house naval affairs committee,
announced today that the committee
will begin an inquiry tomorrow into
the astronomical sums" paid to
agents who obtain war contracts for
private firms.
The inquiry will be part of the
hearings on Wilson'S bill to outlaw
contingent fee" commissions, under
which agents or brokers are paid a
fixed percentage of the value of the
contract.
A group of unidentified manufac-
turers' agents and representatives
have been subpenaed as witnesses.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15
Mass Movement In
India Proposal to
Obtain Freedom

WARDHA, India, July Is CUP) -
A non-violent mass movement on q
wide scale was envisaged by Ma
tionlist leaders today If Great Brit
ain refuses to accept a resolution
of the working committee of the
all-India congress calling for i'm
mediate end of British rule in In
dia.
The resolution, sponsored by Mo
handas K. Gandhi. agreed to reten-
tion of Allied forces in India in
view of the threat of japanese
invasion.
Gandhi emphasized the Congress
desire to avoid violence but indicat-
ed that 1t might prove impossible
to avert riots in carrying out the
resolution.
1t threatened that If its appeal
for home rule failed IT would be
reluctantly compelled to utilize all
the violent strength II might
have gathered since 1920" inform
ants said.
1t called a meeting of the all
India congress committee August 7
at Bombay to give a final decision
on it's resolution.
LIP SERVICE
In its resolution. agreed on in
final form after days of discussion.
the working committee of the con-
gress, or executive, denied any in
tention TO jeopardizing the defense
capacity of the Allied powers and
agreed to the stationing of Allied
forces in India to ward off agrees
sion and protect China.
But, informants said. it then en-
phatically expressed the opinion,
in the name of the congress. that
British ruel in India must end at
once.
Either the British recognize the
independence of India or not, y
Gandhi said. IF so, many other
things can happen including negot-
iations regarding what follows
But, he added, free India would
begin to function from the day
Britain relinquished its rule.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15
RommeI in Third
Assault on Line

in two previous smaSheS at the
line, Rommel sent his forces in
cluding units of the German Afrika
Korps, against the hill west of Ell
Alamein late yesterday
Fighting continued into the night
with the result still in doubt.
The Axis forces attacked a sec
ton of the line where Australian
infantrymen and tank, armored car
and artillery units of Gen. Sir
Claude Auchinleck's 9th army hurl-
ed back the Germans and Italians
Sunday and Monday.
NAZIS STRONGER
A dispatch from Richard D. Nc
MILAN, at the battle line, reported
that at dusk Monday the Germans
were bringing up reinforcements.
On the relatively quiet central
and southern stretches of the front.
extending down to the Qattara de-
preston, minor patrol and tank
column forayS were noted in a COM
munique of the Middle Eastern
command and the Royal Air Force.
Ii Wdo IIulCdJcu JlldG flOlll1lcl
might be feeling out the British
strength there.
British and South African air
forces, using fighter bombers and
light bombers, continued their day
and night attacks on the enemy.
Last nighI nc medium bombers,
in an attack on Tobruk, Axis base
on the Libya coast, started series
of fires.
The Allied planes were reported
to have scored heavily in attacks
on Axis tanks and troop carrying
trucks.
They knocked out all but one
vehicle in a convoy of Is made up
of armored cars, trucks and one
tank Other tanks were destroyed
in similar attacks.
AT least four enemy planes were
shot down by Imperial fighters
yesterday and three more were de-
Stroyed over Malta, against the loss
of three Imperial planes. The pilots
of one of the Imperial planes was
saved.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-15

at Midway" the communique said.
1t was recalled that an undisclosed
number of planes were destroyed
on the ground during the surprise
attack on Pearl Harbor in Decem-
ber.
This is the Navy's recapitulation
of the damage inflicted on enemy
ships.
Four japanese carriers-the Kaka
C26,90O tons) Akagi C26,900 tonS Il,
Soryu 10,500 tons), the Hiryu co.
500 tons sunk.
Three battleships damaged by
bomb and torpedo hits, one severe
ly.
Two heavy cruisers-the Mogami
$500 tons) and Mikuma (8,500
tons)-sunk; three others damaged,
one or two severely.
One light cruiser damaged.
Three destroyers sunk and sew
cral others damaged by bombs.
At least three transports or auxil-
iary ships were damaged and one
or more sunk.