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Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18
BY REUEL S. MOORE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 CUP) -
No one here appeared ready today
to take issue with the suggestion
made in London over the weekend
that British four -motored bombers
are superior machines for the par
ticular function for which they
were designed-dropping the maxi
mum weight of bombs on Germany
in night raids.
Nor was anyone inclined TO make
any apologies for the qualities and
performance of Americas two fore
most heavy bombers the Boeing
BIZ Flying Fortress and the Con-
solidated B-24 Liberator-fast, long
range bombers capable of high pre-
cision daylight bombing.
The British have four new heavy
hauling bombers-the four-motoreo
Lancasters, Halifaxes, and Strings
and the twin-motored Manchesters
Last week the British publicized the
Lancaster as the biggest and fast
est heavy bomber in the world, car
rying eight tons of bombs for g
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 18.-You've
heard about few movie villains
who write music or raise dahlias
or otherwise reveal incongruous and
gentle virtues. But today we have
Mr.. Porter Hail. whose life is the
greatest contrast of all. On screen
you've seen him as a lowdown, dou-
decreasing, cold blooded champion
of evil. But here in Hollywood he's
deacon of the First Presbyterian
church and an all around, practic-
ing Christian
He not only raises flowers, but
the Hall rose and the Hall dahlia
developed by his father, are horti-
culturally famous. The actor does
MT drink or smoke. He long has beer
happily married. He hates guns.
In his current role in Columbia s
super western, "The Desperadoes,
Hall is two-faced scoundrel who
arranges with gang to rob his
own bank and then tries to commit
a murder to facilitate his getaway
with the townspeoples' life savings
Off-screen, however, he is the high
ly regarded treasurer of the pros
porous Screen Actors Guild.
About the only comparable as
pect of Porter Halls professional
and private lives is his prominence
Everybody knows him. On Broad
way, before coming into movies, he
won the Critics Circle award for
his work in might Hostess" Later,
in Hollywood, he got the Screen
Actors Guild award for the years
best character performance, in THE
Plainsman."
OH, DEATH
In the course of some 40 movies.
Hall has died many times and has
done-in lots of worthy citizens. He
hasn't always been a villain. but
his best roles were full of dark
deeds. He played everything on the
stage and was comedy detective in
The Dark Tower when Producer
Hunt Stromberg saw and summoned
him to Hollywood to become the
ruthless killer in the first Thin
Man picture.
Porter Hall came by his religious
convictions through his own think
ing and counter to his boyhood en-
vironment. Through a couple of
dramatic circumstances both his
grandfather and father had become
embittered against ministers and
churches, and he went through COL
lege and into business in Cincinnati
with no liking for preachers or
formalized worship. 1t was his wife.
he says, who led him around to re-
ligious thinking.
GUN-HATER
His wife was no proselyting psalm
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18
BY WALTER LOGAN

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UP) -
The U. S. Navy has scored major
sea victory in the Solomon Islands
in one of the few engagements in
the Pacific war in which surface
vessels were pitted against surface
vessels.
The last important battle in
which surface vessels slugged 1t
out was during the battle of Java.
The United Nations came out Sec
ond best.
More recent battles-those of the
Coral Sea and Midway Island -
were victories for American forc-
es, but airplanes inflicted all the
damage and the opposing fleet units
never came within range of each
other.
Although the battle in the Solo
mon Islands was not of the mag
nitude of the Coral and Midway
battles, its results may be as i'm
portant. Defeat of the Japanese
destroyers and cruisers resulted in
successful occupation by U. S. Ma
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18
HoIIywood's
FoncieS
By Paul Harrison

shouter, either AS Geraldine Brown
she had become an actress with the
encouragement of her mother and
dramatic training at the American
Academy. She and Spencer Tracy
were playing the leads in a stock
company when Porter Hall joined
the troupe and met her. They were
married in 1927, have an II year old
son, and are about to become parents
again.
The bad man of the movies had
one boyhood experience which he
hasn't been able to rget; he yank-
ed the triggers of a double-barreled
shotgun, narrowly missed a play
mate and blew big hole through
the front door. Hall still loathes
firearms.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18
Marines Score Historic
Victory in SoIomons

hope that the Marines were in the
Solomons to stay until they and the
Allied troops of Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur started northward to oust
the japanese from the south seas.
IN STRONG FORCE
The Washington navy communi-
que and dispatches from the south
Pacific fleet headquarters of Vice
Adm. Robert Lee Ghormley left
little doubt that thousands upon
thousands of marines were now
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18

established was believed to mean
that the United States forces held
all key bases in the southern Solo
mons which they set out to seize.
Japan was expected to fight Bit
terly to prevent further expansion
of the American footholds, and if
possible to rewin the areas which
the marines had taken under the
guns and planes of the Pacific
fleet.
But there was belief as we'll as
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18

Kletskaya, 80 miles southwest and
rs miles northwest of Stalingrad
respectively, was still being held.
On one sector southeast of Klet-
skaya, the communique said, 5000
Germans have been killed and 80
tanks knocked out in the last few
days.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18
BY DON CASWELL

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia, Aug. 10 -
tUP)-United States naval and ma
rine forces won historic victory in
the first phase of the 12-day Solo
mon islands battle, dispatches indi-
Gated today
A navy department announcement
at Washington that the shore posi-
tions taken by the marines had
been developed and we're now well
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18
Nozis Retreat, Dig In
AS Reds Hold StdIinQrud

of the Soviet Black Sea fleet since
the fall of Sevastopol, is SO miles
southwest of Krasnodar
The communique indicated, how
ever that an all-out German ef-
fort to close a pinchers on indust-
rial Stalingrad and break the Volga
river line, from Kotelnikovski and
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18
US. Bombers Fire
Merchant Vessel
In Egypt Convoy
BY HENRY T. GORRELL

CAIRO. Aug. 18-CUP) - United
States army bombers set fire to a
large enemy merchant ship in an
attack on an Axis Mediterranean
convoy and hammered the import
ant Axis base Of Matruh in a night
bombardment, it was announced to-
day.
The successful attack" on the
convoy was carried out by American
bombers on Saturday, it was stated.
Another announcement reported
the night raid on Matruh by U. S.
medium bombers which have joined
American heavy bombers and fight
ers in action on the Egyptian front
The merchant ship was conveyed
by two destroyers. A direct hit was
scored on the ship, forcing it to
stop, and other formations of bomb
ers reported it burning.
HABOR WRECKED
The Matruh attack was carried
out by American heavy bombers -
probably fcrtresses and Consoli-
dated B-24s-which wrecked harbor
installations that were serving a
most useful purpose as mooring
places for torpedo boats" the COM
munique said. All American planes
returned safely.
During the raids several enemy
aircraft were seen, but none of
them attacked The announcement
said that "it appears the heavy
offensive armament of our heavy
bombers has caused the enemy to
refrain from attacking"
FIRST ACTION
United States medium bombers
manned by American crews par
ticipated in recent raids for the
first time.
"They flew through heavy though
ineffective ack-ack fire and dropped
their bombs on targets illuminated
by the RAF," the communique said.
"All ships returned"
They swept westward over the
Alamein battlefront Wednesday
night to bomb Matruh, on the coast
110 miles west of Ell Alamein. and
started fires in addition to caus-
ing damage by direct hits with ex-
plosive bombs.
A ccmmunique of the middle east
ern command and the Royal Air
Force announced that British fight
er planes had shot down three
enemy fighters in intensified air
activity over Malta yesterday.
The communique said there was
nothing to report on land opera
tions since Sunday nights patrol
activities. Air activity over the
battle area was on a reduced scale.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18
Italian Cruiser
Severely Damaged

LONDON. Aug. 18-CUP) The
admiralty reported today that air
reconnaissance has disclosed that
one of the Italian cruisers torped-
oed in last weeks Mediterranean en-
gagement suffered severe damage to
its bow.
The communique said:
"One of the two Italian cruisers
hit by torpedoes by cur submarine
in last weeks Malta convoy battle
had go feet of her bow missing.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18
1870 -
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, Aug. 18-(UP) = The
Germans have suffered SO many
defeats in their all-out assaults
southwest of Stalingrad and the
Volga river line that they have re-
treated several kilometers and are
entrenching themselves in new de-
fense lines, front-line dispatches re-
vealed today
The Russians have attacked on
several sectors and occupied new
positions northeast of KOtelnikov-
ski. including many important
heights, these dispatches said.
Kotelnikovski is 80 miles south
west of Stalingrad.
The Germans, however, we're con-
tinuing to probe the Russian lines,
trying to find weak spot.
OTHER LINES HELD
Not only had the Germans with
drawn southwest CT. Stalingrad. to
the northwest, but in the Klet-
skaya area. rs miles away. maSsed
Russian artillery moved down Nazi
shock troops and tanks, and the
Soviet noon communique indicated
that both prongs of the frenzied
Nazi offensive on Stalingrad were
being firmly held.
But German forces that had
crashed through strong defenseS
and crossed the Kuban river, near
Krasnodar, in the north Caucasus,
at two points, gravely menaced the
best remaining Soviet Black sea
base of Novorossisk. less than So
miles away. The Russian propa-
ganda chief warned that the Sow
let's peril was greater than in 1941,
when the Germans drove to within
13 miles of Moscow
BATTALION KILLED
The communique said a battalion
of German infantry Q,000 mem was
wiped out in bitter fighting for
locality northeast of Kotelnikovski,
which is 80 miles southwest of Stall
ingrad
Dispatches from the Krasnodar
front said the Germans, who had
crossed to the south bank of the
Kuban river, after a week of cost
ly attacks, had apparently brought
up substantial reinforcements and
were increasing their pressure near
two inhabited points, where the
Russians were barring the way to
Novorossisk.
AS a result of the river crossing,
at two points. fighting became more
violent en- all sectors of the Kras-
nodar front. Except for the points
at which the Germans crossed, the
Russians held on all sectors and
were communicating in an eff
fort to overwhelm the whole enemy
position on the north bank of the
Kuban.
SUPERIORITY TELLS
The Kuban river defenses. in the
Krasnodar area, had held for days
and the corpSes of thousands of
Germans and the wreckage of doz-
ems of pontoon bridges had floated
down the river to the sea.
But last midnights Soviet COM
munique revealed that the numcr-
ical superiority of the Germans
finally had told. They crossed the
river in two places and were attack
ing in force around two inhabited
points. Novorossisk, the best base
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18
MORE COMING

1t was indicated clearly that on
every day and night when weather
permitted. American and British
planes, bCmbers and fighters, would
be on the attack until German cities
had been leveled one by one.
The pattern of the combined Of
fensive was clearly indicated yester-
day when the Boeings made their
first attack, u centering on Rouen,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18
Full Force Air
Assaults Begin.

six more conducting, diversional OPP
erations and all returning safe.
The fortresses attacked by day
light at high altitude, using to best
advantage the American bomb sight,
the best in the world, which per-
mits the army air corps to engage
in precision bombing from high al
titudes impossible to any other air
force.
British, Canadian and American
fighter squadrons protected the
fortresses, but one of them shot
down a Focke-Wulff-1 1870 fighter, one
of Germany's best, and the escort
fighters shot down two challenging
enemy fighters for the loss of one
of their own.
ACTED LIKE VETERANS
1T could not have been more
successful" said Maj Gen. Carl
Spaatz. commanding United States
air forces in the European theater
Il think they all behaved like
veterans. Everything went accord
ing to plan. This is a real start.
Well keep it up whenever feasible"
The first joint communique of the
U. S. army headquarters and the
air ministery said:
United States army air force
flying fortresseS (B-175KS) escorted
by Royal Air Force, Dominion and
Allied fighters, made high alti-
tude attack on the railway marsh
alling yards at Rouen late yester-
day afternoon.
ALL ON TARGET
"The attack was successful all
the fortresses releasing their en-
tire bomb loads on the target.
Enemy pursuit planes were en-
countered and one was shot down
by a gunner of flying fortress.
Brig. Gen. Ira c. Eaker, COM
manding general of the United
States army air force bomber COM
mand. led the attack in a flying
fortress.
Meanwhile other escorted fort
resses were conducting diversional
operations. All the fortresses re-
turned safely.
The eScorting fighters had many
combats with enemy fighters, two
OF which were destroyed. Two of
the escorting fighters are missing"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-18
BY WILLIAM b. DICKINSON

LONDON, Aug 18-CUP) - Un-
tied States and British air forces
joined today in a 24-hour day Of
fensive against Germany and Ger
held territory.
Gigantic explosions heard along
the Dover coast from the shores
of Occupied France starting at day
break gave their tacit announce
ment that the day plane forces had
taken up the attack which Boeing
flying fortresses of the American
army air force and heavy bombers
of the British air force had pur-
sued throughout yesterday and last
night on Germany and occupied
territory Fighter planes were cros-
sing and re-crcssing the strait in
streams.
Royal air force bombers, includ-
ing Lancasters and Strings which
carry eight tons of bombs, attacked
the German Rhineland in force
during the night only a few hours
after United States army flying
fortresses. in their first raid on
western Europe, had made a perfect
high altitude precision attack on
Rouen in Occupied France.
BERLIN SPEAKS
Berlin, giving the first detailed
report of the British raid. said the
RAF planes attacked areas on the
vitally important industrial area
on the right (east bank of the
Rhine, centering on the great
Rhineland-Ruhr railroad and war
factory center of OSnabruck, last at
tackled on the night cf Aug. 10 by
a force of upwards of $50 planes.
Germany admitted that explosives
and incendiary bombs had caused
fires and said, as usual. that resi-
Dental districts especially suffered.
Twelve of the U. S. army Boeing
flying fortresses. the precision
bombing Bits. dropped every one
of their tons of bombs in a heavily
defended target area at Rouen, 81
miles northwest of Paris and Sc
miles eaSt-southeaSt of lie Havre.
MORE COMING
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-05

Saginaw, his brother, Pvt. Harold
Charles Klenke. =
Robert Avis of Box Is. Brighton
his son, Pvt. Robert ]. Avis.
Mrs. Edith Joslyn OF 26721
Huron street, Center Line, her son
Pvt. Earl r. Joslyn.
John Rybachok Of S13 Watson
street, S. W., Grand Rapids, his
brother, Pvt. Walter Rybachok.
PVT. ARTHUR r. KoAN
Mrs. Arthur F. Koan of 81 East
Alexandrine avenue. her husband
a private.
Mrs. Frances Pytel OF 1852 Nor.
walk avenue, Hamtramck. hei
nephew, Roman r. Alberidge.
Mrs. c. c. Arnold of Lafayette
o., her son, Pvt. Lloyd II. Arnold
Fannie S. Allen of 1885 Max
avenue, her brother, Pvt. George
<. Allen.
Max Whisky Of 1851 Gladstone
avenue. his brother, Pvt. II. S.
Whisky.
Mrs. X. Mckay of AS Highland
avenue, Alma, her brother, How
ard j. Anderson
Mrs. Julia SarNuas of S20S
House avenue. her brother, Pvt.
Martin j. Mast.
Mrs. John n. Knier of Hotel
Paul Revere, her husband, a
private.
PVT. GERALD sEIPP
Mrs. J. II. Seipp of 1924 Sara
toga avenue. her son, Pvt. Gerald
II. Seipp.
Mrs. David White. Of 1880 Ho-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-05

Fifty more readers In the las,
three days have identified Mich.
igan soldiers in pictures from
Dproad published recently in the
Ines.
The Times will mail TO each OF
these people a Photographic print
of the picture in which he rec.
ognized a soldier son. brother OF
husband.
Prints have been mailed TO II
others who requested them earlier
this week under this offer by the
Times:
A Photographic print. one TO
the family, will be sent free of
any picture made abroad i'm
which a reader sees any one
who went into the service
FROM HIS IMMEDIATE
HOUSEHOLD. Mail to The
Picture. Editor. Detroit Times.
a clipping of the picture, your
soldier marked with a circle,
and include a. note giving his
name, rank. your name, address,
telephone number and relation
ship.
THOSE IDENTIFIED
These Times readers wrote that
they had identified these soldiers
en- route TO or In Australia:
Mrs. T. j. Walsh of 4501 Palmer
street, Dearborn, her brother In
law. Pvt. Harold Walsh.
Pauline Gonski Of 1852 Dane
street, her brother. Pvt. Ignatius
Gonski.
Gus Klenke Of 2415 Rust street.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-05
80 Readers Identify Relatives,
Friends i'm Soldiers Pictures

garth avenue, her brother. Pvt
Richard o. Slack.
Mrs. Leona Wyatt OF 1922 Kay
street. her son. Pvt. Wallace B
Cloutier.
Mrs. Nellie Piotrowski Of 6S0e
Harper avenue, her son, Corp. Ed
ward j. Piotrowski.
Mrs. w. r. Courier Of 1880
Third avenue, Highland Park, her
husband. a private.
Mrs. Germaine Manzagol of 701;
Barrie avenue, Dearborn, her son
Pvt. Victor II. Manzagol.
Mrs. Lynn Armstrong of Box
I1214, Van Dyke. her brother, Pvt.
James Howard Lewis.
PFC. JOSEPH sCHEIK
Therese Scheik OF 1924 Nine
teenth street, her brother, Pfc.
Joseph Scheik.
Mrs. Emil Draheim of 756
Cherry street. Wyandotte, her son,
Pfc. Clinton Draheim.
Mrs. Pearl Burns OF 22lO6
Pleasant avenue. st. Clair Shores,
her son, Pfc. Glenn Burns.
Mrs. Sarah Yonkovich of 973
Garfield aveiue, her son, Pvt. Ray
mond Homich.
Mrs. Ruth kirkpatrick of 3405
Eighteenth street, her brother,
Pvt. William Meeker.
Mrs. William Mathew of 9le
Plum street. Wyandotte, her son,
Pvt. William Mathew.
PVT. PAUL JEssUP
Mrs. LuelIa Middleton of 2201
Lawndale avenue. her son, Pfc.
Thomas X. Middleton.
Mary Sargent of 1903 Grinnell
avenue, her uncle, Pvt. Paul j..
Jessup.
Matte Wray OF SO west Evelyn
avenue, Hazel Park, her brother,
Pvt. Kenna Fields.
Russell L. Rose of 1865 Gardner
avenue, Berkeley, his brother, Pvt.
Robert L. Rose.
Mrs. Virginia Z. Merkowitz of
Clare. her brother. Pvt. Harold S.
Norton.
Miss Lillian Bojarsh of 1892
Charest street. her brother, Pvt.
Walter J. Bojarski. -
Miss Margaret Craig Olive OF
55S8 Fairview avenue. her brother,
Pvt. Lester J. Koge.
SGT. RICHARD HENDERSON,
NJ. Toy Henerson Of 9115 la
Sale boulevard, his brother, Sgt.
Richard d. Henerson.
Frank Shaltz of 1414 Delaware
avenue. his brother. Anton Shaltz.
Eleanore Cenowa of 7251 st.
Thomas avenue, her brother, Pvt.
Valentine Cenowa.
Michael Martin OF 17139 Greedy
avenue. his brother. Pvt. Stephen
Martin.
Mrs. r. M. Dormey of 1T East
Buena Vista avenue, Highland
Park, her brother, Pvt. Mark Wal
lace.
Mrs. William Hewitt Sr. of 373
Locust avenue, Highland Park. her
son. Staff Sergt. William Hewitt
Jr.
Patrolman Peter p. Supina Of
343S Evaline avenue. Hamtramck,
his son, Pvt. S. J. Supina.
PVT. WILLIAM SCHILLER JR.
Mrs. William Schiller Sr. Of
$1,000 Inkster road, Plymouth, her
son. Pvt. William Schiller Jr.
Mrs. Wilfred Lewis of sol South
Dean street, Bay City, her brother,
Pvt. Arthur Pacholka.
Mrs. Anna Stanley Of 1856
Trombly avenue, her son, Pvt.
Richard Stanley.
Mrs. John Check Of r. F. D. 8,
her son, Pfc. Robert Check.
Monica Fleming of 6173 Field
avenue. her brother, Pfc. Richard
f. Fleming.
Mrs. Mary Malkowski OF 1895
McDougan avenue, her son, Pvt.
Benjamin Malkowski.
Anne Bies of 1920 Sumpter
road. Belleville, her brother, Pvt.
Blase Bies.
Mrs. John Opalewski Of 1875
Pelkey avenue, her son, Pfc. Carl
F. Opalewski.
In addition TO these, Mrs. Lottie
Kolodzi of 2412 Virginia Park
recognized in a Times-published
picture from Ireland, her son, Corp.
Henry j. Kolodzi.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22
Coffee ApIentY;
Transport Tieup
Nedrs Solution

NEW YORK. Oct. % qNS).-
Americans were assured TO d a y
that theEe is no shortage of coffee
in the United States, nor is there
likely TO be.
The statement was made by
George c. Thierbach, president OF
the National Coffee Association
in explaining the causes for what
he termed tho retail store short
age" Of coffee i'm some areas.
Although the country has or
hand its normal amount of greer
coffee, Thierbach said, restrictions
on manufacturers deliveries. cou'
pied with the difficulties encoun
tered by manufacturers in chang
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22

ing their packaging methods, has
temporarily slowed distribution ir
certain sections.
However. 'Thicrbach added, this
condition may be considered very
temporary in nature. and an i'm.
provement in deliveries can be eX.
peCted shortly.
Thierbach said that so far as
coffee stocks are concerned. ra'
tioning is unnecessary. Rationinl
may come. he conceded, but ther
only ito control boarding"
panic buying Of coffee at the
present time" Thierbach de-
fare d us not only unwar-
ranted, hut foolish. Coffee Is a
highly perishable product and
persons buying large amounts
will find that by the time they
come to use the coffee, II will
have lost It's flavor and aroma.
while fresh coffee will at the
same time he freely available In
retail stores"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22
Liberia Axis Break
Reported by Rome

LONDON, oct. % (UP).-Radio
Rome reported today that Liberia,
breaking off Diplomatic relations
with the Axis, had asked AXIS
representatives TO leave the Coun-
Try.
1t had been reported last week,
when American troops were said
to be in the West African republic,
that Liberia would publish an
adherence TO the United Nations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-22
a Bund Leaders
Get 5-Yf. Terms

NEW YORK. Oct. % 1NS).-
FiVe-year prison terms. maximum
penalty provided by law were
melted out yesterday to "A fermer
leaders Of the German-American
Bund convicted OF conspiracy 10
violate the Selective Service Act.
Those sentenced included Fritz
Streuer, Detroit bund leader.
Others sentenced included Ger
hard Wilhelm Kunze of New York,
former national bund leader, al
ready sentenced 10 Is years in
prison on an espionage charge
Wilbur V. Keegan, former bund
counsel; August Klapprott former
eastern leader, and DR.. Otto Will
lumeit Chicago bund chief.