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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-06
BY CHARLES z. GUS" DORAIS
Athletic Director and Head Football
Coach NJ University of Detroit

1t was freely prophesied after
the numerous upsets each Satur-
day that by mid-season there
would be no unbeaten team.
This would have been a new
record in football. We are now
at the mid-season mark and a
fine thin line of unbeaten teams
still remains.
Each section except the
Pacific Coast has a Representa-
tive left. In the East the stand
out team that seems to be
getting stronger each week Is
Boston College. The high flying
Eagles meet Temple tomorrow
and seem to be in little danger.
Here in the Middle West Wis
consin-is the lone standard
bearer. The Badgers have been
touted as the conference dark
horse for the last three years
and have finally hit the jackpot,
aided and abetted by two Of the
seasons best BE- cks. Leroy
Hirsch and Pat Harder Iowa
will attempt to stop the Badgers
onrush tomorrow. and while the
Hawkeyes are no pushover, 1t
looks like Wisconsin to keep
going.
GEORGIA HAS TWO
The South Is the only section
xxv,sE y,zA.n tLaA Av,a xtv.hAotnn
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
Germans Deporting
Many Frenchmen

ON THE FRENCH FRONTIER,
Oct. 3-UP)-German authorities
in Paris, it was reported from
France today, have already deported
5000 persons, most of them Jews,
and are rounding up thousands
more hostages in an unsuccessful
attempt to halt a growing wave of
anti-Nazi bombings and attacks in
Paris.
Despite Nazi reprisals of the
harshest nature, it was reported,
four more attacks have occurred
in the last few days in Paris.
Most of the persons deported to
Eastern Europe, it was said, have
been Jews but the hostages include
many French subjects. The orig
inal reprisals were ordered after a
bomb exploded in the Rex theater,
in Paris, a movie house reserved
for use by Nazi troops. Seven Ger
mans were killed and six wounded
In the attack,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
Internal Crises
Rockin9 France

Premier Pierre Laval has just
emerged from the severeSt cabinet
crisis of his regime in which rumors
circulated that he might be re-
placed by Vice-Admiral Charles
Platon or Fernand Debrinon, Vichy
delegate at Paris.
LABOR DRAFT CRISIS
Laval with the support of Mar
shall Henri Philippe Petain and
other members of the government
has taken a stand against use of
forcible measures by Vichy to COM
pei French workers to go to the
Reich. However, Vichy agreed TO
use all measures short of force to
speed the recruiting of French
labor for Nazi war factories.
Deouard Herriot, president of the
defunct chamber of deputies, has
been placed in forced residence, 1t
was officially announced.
UNITED Press advices from the
French frontier revealed Friday
that Herriot had been interned IN
his residence, the Chateau Brotel
near Lyons, because of his refusal
to give written pledge not to try
to leave France. Ten police lnspec-
tors were assigned TO watch him.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
Planes Of Seven
Nations Blast Foe

without loss.
1t was the 18th bombing attack
by the fortresSes. They had shot
down in their first - raids 25
German fighters, and their bag of
yesterday brought their total to 38
Only two fortresses have been lost
in all operations.
Yesterdays fortress formation was
the largest since operations were
started with the raid on Rouen,
France, Aug. II.
The Air Ministry revealed that
yesterdays operations had been
carefully planned to give the bomb
er planes the best possible pro-
lection. Allied fighters dominated
the skies over a great area, dron-
ing over every German air base
within range watching for enemy
interception attempts.
The Canadian ace who led the
Spitfire fighter escort for the for
tresses which attacked Meaulte saw
bomb flashes all around the target
area. He reported that the fighters
were able to keep off strong chal-
lenging enemy forces on the way
home. Pilots of the st. Omer escort
saw the fortress bombs hitting the
target there also.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
Reds HurI Germans Back

divisions were thrown against Stall
ingrad two months ago. Later this
force was increased to 80 divisions
t750,000 mem, Red Star said, and
the Germans were losing more men
than they did at Verdun in the
World war.
TWenty-three marines stole out
from Stalingrad, and waded up to
their necks for hours in the icy wa
ters of the Don river until they
got within hearing of enemy patrols.
Then they loosed neavy mines above
German pontoon bridges. Two par.
allel bridges ad ferries loaded with
tanks, telephone and telegraph ca
bles, were blown up. All the marines
returned safely
NO GAINS
Adolf Hitler had promised the
German people that Stalingrad
would be taken, and the all-out drive
in the northwestern section, opened
four days ago, appeared his supreme
effort to make good.
Dispatches said the Germans fail
ed to gain yard today. In several
previous days, they had achieved
only minor successes and at a tre-
mendous cost.
An encircled Soviet unit was try
ing to break out, and front-line
dispatches said it was taking heavy
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
EagIets in First
Air Action Under
American Flag
BY SIDNEY ]. WILLIAMS

HEADQUARTERS, United States
Army Air Force, England, Oct. 3,
CUF)-A message posted today on
the bulletin board of the Eagle
squadron headquarters told the
story of the part fighter planes
played yesterday in the biggest day
SO far of the Army Flying Corps.
Congratulations on a splendid
show. 1t was a good omen for the
future under your country's flag.
Brig Gen. Frank O'DriScoll Hun
ter. commanding the fighter COM
mand. had sent the message after
receiving reports of the work OF
the Eaglets, American volunteers
in the Royal Air Force who had
been transferred to the Army Air
Force, in the great bomber-fighter
raid over northwestern France.
THREE NAZIS BAGGED
In their first raid under the
American flag, the Eaglets shot
down without loss three German
Messerschmitt-190 by themselves
and a fourth in company with
Wing Comdr Duke Wooley OF the
Royal Air Force.
Capt O. H. Cone, Lieut.. S. M.
Anderson. Lieut.. G. B. FetreW.
and Lieut.. j. A. Clarke were the
Eagle men who shot down German
fighters. One of them. which one
was not known, and Wooley fired
into a German plane at the same
instant.
Mai. w. j. Daley and Lieut..
Brewster Morgan were credited
with damaging German planes.
ESCORT FORTRESSES
The Eaglets won their victories
over the st. Omer flying field and
the nearby Longuenesse airdrome,
escorting fortresses and making a
diverSionary sweep.
1T was our first trip since our
transfer to the army" Daley said,
and I think it was almost worth a
celebration.
Anderson saw his Hun crash in
flames. Coen saw his man bail
out FetreW set fire to one plane.
1--WE met Is Focke Wulff 29OS
about 18 miles inland from Calais"
Wooley said
I'VE were at about $4,000 feet.
OVER SHORTLY
I'VE saw six more 1000 feet below
us but obviously they were a BOBBY
trap so we ignored them. Instead
we attacked the Is others which
passed in front Of Us in struggling
formation, at about our own height
We waded in and the whole fight
was over in about two minutes
One of the American pilots and
fired at the same time and blew
the tail off a Focke Wulff."
The Douglas Boston attack on the
Havre docks was described b.
Lieut.. Col. Fred Dan, ST. Peters
burg, Fla, first American to leac
a wing of army fighters into actor
over Europe.
There was a lot of antiaircraft
fire over the target but I didn't
see a single Hun plane either 60
ing or coming" he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
BY LIMITED PRESS

Reports from the French. frontier
Saturday presented a picture of a
nation racked by internal crisis,
Nazi deportations, spreading anti
Nazi terror and efforts by the Vichy
regime to appease the Germans and
guard the strategic port of Dakar.
Highlights of the dispatches:
Admiral Jean Francois Rarlan has
dispatched a submarine squadron
from TCulon to Dakar to aid in
defense of the West African port
in any eVentuality.
The German command has de-
ported 600O persons from Paris,
largely Jews, III an attempt TO halt
a spreading wave of anti-Nazi at
tacks and bombings. Thousands
more are being rounded up as hos
tages but the attacks are increas-
ing rather than diminishing.
VICHY YIELDS
French government agents have
arrested II persons alleged to be
undercoVer British agents in the
south of Fl, ,ance.
Vichy yielding to NaZi pressure,
has turned over seven prominent
German anti-Nazis to the Gestapo'
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04

enemy forces to hold it. A whole
German infantry division $4,000
mem was operating in one district,
vainly trying to enlarge its base
and improve its positions.
Soviet guards commanded by Cen
eral Rodimstev, an outstanding hero
of the battle, held powerful thrust
of tank and infantry prices pushing
toward the Volga. Then he counter
attacked the Germans flank, flung
them back, and began clearing them
from houses they had seized.
TANKS HALTED
Another Russian unit withstood
successive attacks by German
infantry division. The Germans gain
ed slightly, then the russians hurled
them back
Among reoccupied points was one
large, four-story building, dominat-
ing an important industrial district.
So stout was Soviet resistance,
dispatches said, that concentrated,
attacks b. 45 German tanks with
detachments of tommy gunners on
a narrow street failed.
The Soviet noon communique re-
ported that tank unit x broke into
enemy positions and Destroyer two
tanks, a number of guns and $50
Germans.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
THE PRESIDENT ESCAPES
HIS IVORY TOWER

Ever since some genius with words call
ed Abraham Lincoln the lonely figure
in the White House." the term has been
applied with varying degrees of accuracy
to other incumbents, Franklin d. Roose-
welt among them.
Any president is undoubtedly commit
ted to lonely life, insofar as personal
friendly contacts are concerned.
With President Roosevelt, it may be
more than that.
An astonishing thought, an almost un-
believable possibility, develops from the
Presidents two-week inspection trip
across country. 1t is the thought that
the President, while in Washington, is
not kept informed of the true state Of
feeling among his people.
The possibility would explain much
that has been mysterious up to now.
One instance alone is not enough to
bear out such a strange thought The
fact that the President had to make
tour of the nation to discover what hun
dreds of newspapers and radio commen-
tatorS had been reporting for months
that the people as a whole are far ahead
of Washington politicians in the war et-
fort-would not by itself indicate that
vital information is being denied the
President But it is not the only instance
of its kind.
On Tuesday, Aug. II, the President
made a remark in one of his press con-
ferences which was without precedent.
A reporter, preparing to ask question
about strikes in war industries, briefly
outlined the matter he was interested in
1t dealt with the number of strikes IN
war industries.
"Why doesn't someone tell me these
things ?" the President asked, when he had
heard the figures which were, even then,
more or less common property.
If he is not told these things, not only
the President, but the people, have right
10 know why.
Any clipping bureaus compilation OF
comment during the last six months
would have told the President that Wash
ington was the most backward city in
the United States in meeting the war
emergency The same would have been
true of the increasing number OF strikes
since Pearl HarbOr.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
CROSS COUNTRY TOUR
MAY BREAK BARRIERS

If President Roosevelt's cross country
trip brought him up to date with public
opinion, as he said it did, we can expect
a number of very stern measures out OF
the White House for the next few weeks.
The people are tired of seeing their lead
ers hesitate, play politics and delay ac-
ton until after election. They are tired
of halfway measures which quite appar-
emily are not whole measures because the
politicians are afraid to go all the way.
The people, in short, are tired OF lead
ers who have not enough confidence IN
them to believe that they can meet
crisis as we'll as anyone else.
The next trip the President takes should
be of another sort 1t should take him
among the middle class, average Amerl-
cans who are not in war industries. For
it is only among these people that he can
get the peoples true viewpoint on labor
legislation. He cannot get it IN the war
plants, because all workers there are
required to be union members, and all
union members are apt to be afraid to
voice their true opinions for fear OF re-
prisals.
Now that the President has deserted his
ivory tower of solitude to find out how
the American people really feel, it Is to
be hoped he keeps up the practice-at
least to the extent of demanding true
reports on public reaction.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
No. 1912 In Probate

No. 1872 In Probate
NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE
OF HEARING PETITION TO ES-
TABLISH BIRTH
IN THE MATTER OF ESTAB-
LISHING THE BIRTH OF MILD
RED HELEN GERKEN.
Notice is hereby given that
James p. Connor has filed in the
above entitled Court petition pray
ing for an order establishing the
birth of Mildred Helen Gerken, ref
erence to said petition is hereby
made for further particulars.
And notice is hereby further
given that the hearing of said pc
tition has been fixed by the Clerk
of said Court for Friday the 10th
day cf october, 1912, at 200 O'Clock
P. M. of said day at the Court Room
of Department No. 9 of said Court,
at the Court House in the City of
Ell Centre, County of Imperial,
State of California, and all persons
interested are notified then and
there to appear and show cause, If
any they have, why an order should
not be made establishing The birth
of Mildred Helen Gerken.
Dated this 23rd day of Septem-
ber, 1912.
(SEAD w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk
BY Citha Lamson,
Deputy
mo. 19) (S25-O6)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
Germans Display
Growing Worry at
Biu Losses of Men
BY UNITED PRESS


Growing anxiety among German
government and army leaders over
the frightful casualties the Rus
slams are eXacting on the eastern
front was disclosed Saturday in
German broadcasts announcing rad
ically increased benefits for wound
ed men and for relatives of those
killed
A joint decree by the supreme
German command and the Nazi
party provided:
No wounded or disabled German
soldier will be permitted to drop
beneath his former social standing
because of disability.
Wounded still capable of work
will be given special transitional
financial support during the period
of their "reschooling" if necessary.
1t will be arranged to make up
the difference between former
earning levels and present earning
capacity. Fully disabled men are
guaranteed rs per cent of their
former income up tc 375 marks
($150 month"; for bachelors and
$50 marks ($180) for married men.
Pensions to widows and orphans
Of war victims are increased to
prevent them from dropping to
lower social standing" Widows are
to get a maximum of 270 marks
C$1O8) month, children who lose
their fathers will get 54 marks
($G1 60 and children who lose
both parents will get 90 marks
($30)
Parents of soldiers killed will get
bounty of 300 marks ($120), in
addition to any other allowances.
The decree also provides for in
crease in the allowances paid to
victims of the first world war
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
Rv HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW. Oct. 3. tUP) - Inc
heroic Red army has hurled back d
desperate all-out German drive at
two points on the critical north
western Stalingrad sector while So
Wet tanks crashed into enemy posi-
tions along the Don river 90 to 70
miles away. communiques and front
line dispatches said today.
The government newspaper lzVes-
lin reported a general improvement
of the Russian position at Stain
prad in tn 4Oth day of one OF the
bloodiest battles in history.
Red Star. the Soviet army news
noner. said. 1000 to 5000 Germans
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
French Send More
Ships to Dakar

ON THE FRENCH FRONTIER,
Oct. 3-tUPJ-Advices from France
reported today that French naval
reinforcements have been dispatch
ed TO Dakar, vital West African
coastal base.
1t was reported that Admiral
Jean Francois Darlan ordered a
submarine flotilla transferred from
Toulon, the south of France naval
base, TO Dakar September 20.
The submaunes, it was said, sue
cessfully passed through the Gil
graltar straits and were reported
now TO be at Dakar
It was recalled that French sub
marines played an important role
in repulsing the British-Degaullist
attack on Dakar in September 1910.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
JAPANESE EMBLEMS
co ON SCRAP HEAP

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 3. UP)-
DR. j. B. Harris, widely-traveled
physician of Sacramento, was proud
of three Japanese sacred storks,
wrought of pure copper and center
ornaments in his fish pond. They
clanked onto the state employees
scrap pile today, which has been
dubbed The most beautiful scrap
pile in America" because it is sur
rounded by flowers and faces a giant
fountain in front of the Capitol
building.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
RV DON CASWLLL

GEN. MACARTHURS HEAL
QUARTERS. Australia, Oct. 3. CUP
Allied bombing planes have set
fire to two big japanese transports,
probably hit cruiser and an un-
identified vessel and possibly dam
aged a second cruiser in day OF
shattering attacks on enemy bases
in the northeast Australian zone,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

What's the truth about this strike
situation? Reducing it to a table,
which doesn't tell the whole story,
it looks like this for the past II
months:
A-All new strikes; B-New strikes
in war plants: C-Workers in war
plant strikes: Oman days lost.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
AIRDROME BOMBED

They also bombed the big Rabaul
airdrome and blew up an ammunl-
ton dump.
Consolidated Catalina bombers, in
night raid on the faSt-groWlng
BUN base on Bougainville Island III
the northern SolomonS, attacked a
second enemy cruiser with results
that could not be observed because
of the darkness.
They scored direct hits on the
plane dispersal area OF the Bum
airdrOme.
At Buka Island, northernmost OF
the Solomons, Just aoove Bougaln-
vile and 1876 miles southeast OF Ra-
baul. another force of Consolidateds
made two night raids on the air
drome.
JAPS DRIVEN BACK
While Douglas A20 attack bomb
ers and fighters were bombing and
machine cunning enemy positions
along the trail through the owen
Stanley mountains, Bell Airacobra
fighter planes equipped with bomb
racks almost destroyed the Wairopi
bridge which had been damaged
several times.
The Australian ground forces who
had driven the enemy back from
the Ioribaiwa village area 32 air
line miles from the Allied base
of Port Moresby in New Guinea
passed Menari, last japanese base
on the Port Moresby side of the
mountains, yesterday.
They had scaled the 3,500-foot
razorback peak between Naure and
Menari, descended a steep 1,5OO
foot slope to take Menari and start
ed upward again, caked to the knees
with mud and dripping with rain
and sweat, toward a 1850 foot
ridge and the 7500-foot hump of
the mountains.
NO RESISTANCE
The Japanese were retreating with
all speed at last reports leaving all
sorts of light equipment and sup
plies, and, for the first time, the
bodies of their dead, mostly killed
by Allied planes.
No contact had yet been made
with the enemy main b/ly and
snipers alone impeded the Austral-
ian advance except for the formid-
able natural barriers which confined
progress almost to a crawl.
The Australians were now some
81 miles from the IoribaiWa village
sector, the limit of the enemy ad-
vance toward Port MoreSbT and
only about five long and difficult
miles from the hump Of the noun
tainS.
1t was evident that the japanese
must soon make stand or retire
to the northern slopes of the noun
tains from which they started theil
drive toward Port MoreSby last
month. There was some expectation
that they might defend the hump
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
UGOSLAV PATRIOTS
CAPTURE VILLAGE

MOSCOW, Oct. 3-tUP)-A COM
munique said today that Jugoslav
patriot troops had captured the
town CT Zaitse in Bosnia after kill
ing 600 German and italian troops
and wiping out 100 enemy firing
points.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
ONE INCIDENT MAGNIFIED
A MILLION TINES

If the President can cross the country
unoticed, under a cloud of censorship,
it is easy to see how far dictatorial CEN
sor could go if he had complete control
of the nations news mediums.
Suppose such a censor, for instance,
were acting as the agent for a political
group. He could prevent publication OF
so much as one line Of news or opinion
favoring the opposition, and he could
order daily publication of news and opin-
ion favoring his superiOrs. He could, IN
fact, prevent the general public from
knowing that the opposition party, If
there were one by that time, had even
nominated a candidate to oppose his own
chief as the nations leader.
Complete control Of news would soon
set up complete control of public opinion.
Guided in only one direction, such opin-
ion would, Of course, serve to keep the
reigning party in power. 1t would, as it
has done in Germany, make the people be-
lieve that their dictator was a god, and
his enemies all rascals.
Don't think this is not possible IN
America. We have seen, in one Outstand-
ing example, how possible it is. The one
example did not HARM it might even
have done some good, if it awakens a sui
ficient number of people to the realiza-
ton that knowledge of facts is necessary
for the preservation Of freedom, and
free press is necessary to knowledge OF
facts.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foIloIDtn0 edit
Oriais are presented as interesting Opin-
ions UOiced by editors elSeLChere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion ef
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-04
FACTUAL DEMONSTRATION
OF CENSORSHIP PERIL
a Newspaper Week EditOriaD

Censorship is just a word to a lot of
people They've never taken the time to
study out what it means.
There are lot of different types of
censorship.
We have one type with us now. 1t is
voluntary censorship by the news med
iums of information which might be OF
Importance to the enemy. 1t is the gen
tlest form of censorship. relying largely
upon the good sense of the newspapers
for enforcement
The opposite extreme would be COM
plete official censorship of news and
written opinion.
We can draw from President ROose-
velt's recent tour of the nation an idea
of what complete censorship would mean.
1t is an ideal example that even the most
important of events can be successfully
hidden from the public at large. 1t
should prove, to those who consider it
logically, the danger Of allowing any
thing like fixed compulsory censorship
to obtain a hold on the free press OF
America.
President Roosevelt's trip was hidden
from the general public because of the
danger always following the commander
in-chief in wartime The newspapers
and press associations co0perated will
ingly in Withholding news of his visits to
various localities. In that case, the CEN
sorship was voluntary, even though it
could have been enforced, had that been
necessary, because of the chief executives
military position. His movements are
regarded as military movements, and IN
regard to those, another sort of censor
ship prevails.
Opinion differs as to the wisdom of
the total censorship which surrounded
the Presidents trip. We have no desire
to enter that controversy here. We are
more inclined than not to believe the
silence was justified.
The point we wish to stress is that this
single item of censorship proves how
thoroughly the American public could
be kept in the dark, if the press were to
lose It's freedom.