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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-19
LiquOrBan
Delays
1873 Draft

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 INS)
TO draft youths Is
and 19 years old today was threat
ened with delay in the Senate
because of a move to insert ar
amendment for establishment oil
anti-liquor zones around army
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-19
cut loose a rowboat tied along
side and started rowing away.
"They opened on me with ma
chine guns but again missed"

SheC ohN St"''SN 'OVshe away
"They opened on me with ma
chine guns but again missed"
Causes boat had 40 machine
gun holes in the side when he
reached Corrigidor
When the surrender of Corrcgi-
dor appeared imminent. Cause To-
Gated a native banca. or small
raft and showed off from shore and
headed for the coast of Luzon
Island. A storm which came up
during the night upset the boat
and he drifted along holding on
the the upturned craft until day
light when he was able TO get
ashore.
WIRELESS MESSAGE
Working his way southwark
through treacherous- Jungle coun:
try without shoes. Cause finally
was able to get 10 another island
where he learned. through tho
bamboo wireless" about Osborn 5
presence somewhere on LuZon.
The pair exchanged bamboo
wireless-grams" and month later
met and planned Joint escape
Utilizing a native-built motorboai
with a cranky Diesel engine after
obtaining what fuel and food wa:
available, they set sail for Aus
tralia last August IS. They hac
only National Geographic maps
and a compass TO guide them.
Moving through storm after
storm from island 10 island al
ways with an American flag flying
from the aft rail OF their 22-foo'
boat--they ploughed steadily to-
ward Australia.
SO DAYS AT SEA
By a remarkable feat of navi
gation-and Osborn paid tribute
Ito Cause for his skill IN Skipper
ing" the tiny craft-they landed
within Is miles Of their planned
destination, after So days at sea
Once they were in danger Of
being spotted by Jap WarshlpS
Another time they were machine
gunned by bombers. They survived
a two-day typhoon during Sep
tember and were in monsoon
weather almost all OF the time
When they ran short of fuel
Osborn and Cause used coconu'
oil, which they mixed with small
supply Of regular oil they had left
cit made n very nice mixture
1t works all right" said Os-
born.
Supplies and food were obtained
from natives on various islands
along the route 10 Australia.
Both men are well and happy
after their narrowing experience
and look forward eagerly 10 seeing
their families.
The skin OF both Cause and
Osborn was turned a deep bronze
and' their formerly dark brown
hair was bleached almost white
by the merciless beating of the
sun
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-19
The War
TODAY
Only Leaders
Know Truth
On Solomons
By MAI. PAUL c. RABORG

service and The Detroit Times
THERE Is no question but
that desperate and terriheally
bloody fighting is taking place
at this time on the island OF
Guadalcanal. The navy IN
forms US that there have
been no reports of enemy
landings on that island since
October Is. This is practically
all we know and all we should
know until government re-
leases give us as much of the
true story as can be told.
Nevertheless, yWhere
many persons are asking
questions and some are at
tempting TO state what Is
actually taking place. Some
of the most frequent inter-
rogations are: Where is our
navy? Why do they allow
Zthe-Japanese to-land-reln-
forcements on the island Of
Guadalcanal? How is ii
that Nipponese battleships,
cruisers. and destroyers can
escort landing forces to the
shores Of Guadalcanal? Why
doesn't our air force eX-
terminate these Japanese sea
reinforcement expeditions %
No one except the supreme
and high command know or
should attempt TO explain
what is now happening. AL
most any information given
out at this time is of vital
assistance 10 the enemy.
WE DO know, however, the
grand strategy which is being
followed on both sides. The
Japanese, TO make secure
their present gains, in par
ticular the Dutch East Indies.
must capture Australia and
cut our lines of supply TO
Australia.
This is definitely the reason
for their desperate about at
tacks in the Solomons at this
time. Further, they want to
save face" because of our
recent very considerable sue
cesses in the Pacific.
On the reverse side, the
United Nations still must hold
wherever they are in this area
with the troops, supplies, and
material that is on hand. For
example, we cannot be sue
cessful on Guadalcanal at the
cost of endangering the future
Of Australia.
In other words, we can't
send achievements TO Guadal-
canal which would so weaken
the land down under" that
the Japanese could attack it.
Remember, that is the main
Nipponese objective-to cap
ture Australia.
Only the military high COM
mand on the spot can esti-
mate the situation and then
make the distribution of the
available United Nations, land,
sea, and air forces TO meet
this about Japanese effort.
A lth ough the Nipponese
battle in the Solomons is de.
cisively effective for them, it
is not so for the democracies.
This is because we have estab-
lished strong bases south of
the Solomon Islands as back
stops for them from which
we can protect our supply
routes.
THEREFORE, OUR loss
Of Guadalcaual, though seri-
Gus, would by no means
open the road 10 the Japa-
nese TO continue their south
ward move and attack our
all-vital sea route from Hawaii,
or our West Coast, TO Sydney,
Australia.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-19

"fOur Own Horoscope" by
Frances Drake. IL one OF many
famous features In The Detroit
Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-19

For the Inside News" OF
Washington, Follow Paul NAL
Ions Column I'm the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-19
Registered U. s. Patent ONCE

American airplanes lies between
1.-The two extremes OF believing
American airplanes are the bes'
in the world and believing British
German and japanese planes are
superior.
The report cautioned thai
American air forces have yet only
slightly engaged the proficient
German luftwaffe and have only
barely begun the offensive against
the Japanese.
I'm this war, the United States
has just begun to fight" it said.
Tn the months TO come battles
may be lost and crushing defeats
may be suffered. 1t seems GER
tain that as our offensive ac-
tivity Is stepped up, casualties
will increase and the losses In
aircraft will rise with the speed
of our participation.
When we meet reversals
and the pull to victory seems To
grow long and hard. Americans
will do well II they indulge to
the full their genius for critical
self-analysis."
DETAILS KEPT HIDDEN
The OWL study disclosed none
| of the shortcomings of American
aircraft not already known by
enemy and Allied experts. But il
carefully shielded details of planes
being developed which, in so m e
cases, carry sensational promise
of battle performance"
1t dealt frankly with the prob
lem of airplane engines. Develop
ment OF the Allison, the only liquid
cooled engine of American design
now in mass production, was late
in starting and was carried on
under great difficulties. II has not
yet caught up with Britain's Rolls
Royce. also being manufactured in
this country, and Germanys Daim-
ler-BenZ.'
However, according 10 the re-
port, air-cooled engines built by
Wright and Pratt & Whitney are
uneQualed for horsepower out
put, ruggedness and altitude per-
Torrance.
The report said the Allison en-
CINE is a vastly better engine than
many Of its critics have made 1T
out.
NO GOOD INTERCEPTORS
The United States went 10 war
without a good interceptor plane,
capable of climbing rapidly on
short notice and intercepting en-
envy bombers. Owl said.
"Our entry into the war with
out such an invaluable piece Of
equipment can be explained only
by failure to give due considera-
ton TO the possibility of full
American participation In aerial
war overseas" the report stated.
Subsidiary explanations are
shortage for development funds,
In peacetlme years, the failure
of pivotal power plant to
measure up to expectations, and
the prevalent faith OF the public
that the country could avoid in
yoIyement I'm foreign war;
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-19
London Halls
Raj Destructive
lie Creusot Raid
Vichy Admits 40 Dead
in Daylight Assault on
French Arms Factory
BY JOHN +. LEE
International News Service star Writer

LONDON, Oct. 19.-The wars
most destructive daylight raid-a
concentrated seven-minute as
Sault by "a Raj Lancaster bomb
ers on the Schneider armament
works at lie Creusot, France--was
acclaimed as a sensation in
London air circles TODAY.
THE Vichy government an
nounced that 100 casualties, IN
Guiding 40 dead and so injured.
had thus far been counted a. a
result Of the big British raid
on lie CreuSot Saturday. The
com mum que stated that
among distractions wrought
were numerous workers houses
and a hospital. Ii said one
raider was shat down.
Covering a round-trlp distance
OF 900 miles by sunlight without
fighter escort, the huge four
motored LanCaStorS leoSed hum
-dfeds tons of high-eHfslt.-++++-44s-5
including the two-ton block
busters on the Sprawling ord
nance factory. Only one raider
was lost.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-19
Big Battle RACES
For Airdrome
At Guddd|(dnd|
U. S. Destroys Squadron
OF IA Jap Bombers
Attacking in Solomons
By JOSEPH A. BORIS
International News service stan writer

International News service stan writer
WASHINGTON, O c (. 19.-
American and Japanese land. sea
and air forces today were locked
in titanic struggle for possession
Of Guadalcanal airfield in the
Sulomons. with United States OPP
position stiffening as the enemy
made final preparations for an
anticipated about ground assault.
As the Japanese counter-of-
fensive moved into its eighth day,
both sides cautiously deployed
their reinforced land troops and
supporting naval and aerial units
| for the showdown fight that may
determine the fate Of the south
west Pacific.
DESTROY II BOMBERs
United States fighter planes and
anti-aircraft batteries destroyed
entire squadron at-least
IA Japanese bombers which at
tempted another raid on Guadal-
canal October II. Two of the
teight asserting enemy fighter
planes also were destroyed.
The navy, in its latest COM
munjqaet pointed out grimly that
| that:
THE Japanese are continuing
10 bomb our airfield and shore
positions on Guadalcanal and 1t
IL believed that enemy troops
and equipment are being dis
posed for . strong assault
against our airfield."
REPEATED ATTACKS
To counteract this, army Flying
Fortresses and navy and marine
corps aircraft repeatedly at
tackled the enemy troops and
equipment which have been as
sembled in force on the northwest
end of Guadalcanal," the navy
said.
The Solomons battle, however
held the attention OF Official
Washington following the navy's
statement that "our land, sea and
air forces of the army and navy
are engaged in meeting serious
enemy assault. the outcome OF
which is still undecided"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-19
AIRMEN TELL DETAILS

This was announced late today
by the air ministry m releasing
details of the attack cleaned from
the reports OF participating air
men.
In staging the FIRST raid ever
to strike the vast Schnciderpworks.
the LancaSters BrtainS ~gest
bomberS for the first time emu
lated the example OF their Amer
lean cOuntorpartS. the Flying
FOTtTCSSpS ana f-1bCTaI0Ty TrdT
have attacked Nazi targets IN
force by daylight ana Without cs-
Cort.
Like the FortresScs, tho Lam
casters DEMONSTRATED their fight
ing a. We'll aS bombing prowcSs
when they encountered and fought
OF enemy iHteHeeRteF-- 0He Lt-4-
caster the air ministry an
nounced, was attacked by three
German Arado Float-planes and
shot down two Of them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-19
FLEE JAP PATROLS

Osborn was with a Filipino unit
on Bataan when the heroic de-
tenders of the peninsula surren-
dered.
But Osborn, a Filipino lieuten-
ant and two Filipino privateS
seeking their opportunity to es-
cape. went into the mountains
and zigzagged their way along
safe reute-to-t he-Shore beyond
the japanese patrols, In a native
boat, they rowed for Is hours
across Manila Bay.
Hiding by day and working
their way southwark by night
they finally found refuge in wilc
country near Taal Volcano. The
group separated then and Osborn
began a two months existence a!
a hermit. living off the land.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-19

good their escape SIX months alter
the fall of Corregidor.
Travelling for two months on
foot, by motor and sailboat, they
finally made their way to Aus
tralia. They skunk through jungle
growths for weeks on end to
avoid japanese troops searching
for them after they made their
original escape from Bataan
Peninsula and Corregidor under
the hail Of Japanese bullets.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-30
Embassy in Move
To Aid Internees

doing its utmost to aid the arrested
Americans held in the Paris region.
They are providing comfort facili-
ties for the women, and furnishing
food to augment the German army
fare.
NO HARDSHIP
Life at Vittel is montonous but
not uncomfortable, according to a
British citizen who reached Vichy
after escaping from the Vittel COM
pound
A quarter of the health resort
has been converted into vast
compound, the escaped internee re-
ported, by strigning barbed wire.
Within the compound area are some
of the resorts finest hotels, with
gardens, parks and tennis courts.
The internees are permitted to move
at will SO long as they stay inside
the barbed wire enclosure, which
is guarded by German sentries.
The escaped internee said that
there are no German guards within
the compound Meals are prepared
in hotel kitchens by French cooks,
but the internees make up their
own rooms. Doctors are the only
persons permitted to enter the COM
pound, and proprietors Of French
businesses in the area were obliged
to shut up their shops and move out
when the compound was establish
ed
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-30
BROKEN PROMISES

Tabulation of California primary cleo
tion returns shows one interesting fact,
among others.
Attorney General Earl Warren, who
scored almost two to one over Governor
Culbert L. Olson in the total votes cast,
received a majority of the Townsend par
ty votes cast in the primary.
The fact is interesting because Cover
nor Olson has made many gestures to-
ward the pension people, Warren has
made few. Olson has made many prom
ises to the aged and broken most of them.
Evidently the elder generation runs
true to American form. 1t prefers one
who maintains silence to one who prom
ises, and then ignores his promises. 1t
feels that it can trust the man who is
careful what he promises; it knows it
cannot trust the man who gives out prom
ises as an orator exudes words-and pays
as little attention to them afterWard.
One of the greatest drawbacks Olson
faces in the general election in November
is the promises he has made, and broken.
He is on the way to find out that you
can't stay on both sides of the fence at
once.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-30
German Bomb Hits
Boys School. Kills
q, ,|njures Others

LONDON, Sept. 80. UP)-The
death toll of a single German bomb
er that attacked a boys school OIL
the south coast yesterday reached
% today, and "a injured were IN
hospitals.
Twenty of the dead were students.
The others were the head mistress,
a teacher and the woman manager
of a nearby laundry. All injured
we're students. Seventy persons were
in the school when the bomb hit.
1t was the first attack the town
in which the school was located had
suffered. The first bomb exploded
in the laundry. The second crashed
through the school and fell into the
fireplace, where it rested a few
moments before exploding.
Run, boys, rum" the head mis-
treSS shouted.
Those who ran were not killed.
The head mistress stayed until her
students got out and was killed.
Rescue squads, who had dug all
night, believed that several children
were still buried. The majority OF
those killed were between seven and
IL years old.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-30
Admiral Says Air
Force Missed Bet

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 30. CUP)
American fighter planes missed
their chance at Pearl Harbor and
again at Luzon," Admiral Thomas
C. Hart said today in a Saturday
Evening Post article reviewing the
early phases of the war with Japan:
THE first day or so was our
chance in the air and we missed it,
said the former commander OF the
u. S. Asiatic fleet. From there on
it was backward all the way, on the
sea. on the land, under the sea and
over both"
The article reveals that while the
JapS were marching on the East
Indies our light surface ships made
four attempts to attack the enemy,
succeeding in one at MacaSSar Strait
because for once we achieved a
combination OF adequate informa-
ton, excellent staff work, favorable
weather conditions and good luck.
THE main offensive power OF
the Asiatic fleet lay in its submar-
ines" the admiral added. The sum
total of their bag of enemy ships
euualed that of all other units which
were brought against the japanese
during that entire Far Eastern
campaign"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-30
NO MIRACLE WILL
HARVEST |. v. CROPS

Imperial Valley farmers desperately
need more farm laborers.
Five hundred Mexicans are waiting in
Mexicai, Just across the international
boundary, to work in valley harvests.
The fact was first established last
week There was no action to get them
across the line. Instead there were de
mails, in some quarters, that they were
in Mexicali at all.
Today it has been established beyond
any doubt that the denials were lily con-
sidered The laborers are there. They
want work, and want it badly. They
came from many of the interior states of
Mexico, because they had heard that
laborers were needed in this country. The
international boundary, and the red tape
of two governments, stopped them at the
line.
They don't know how to go about get
ting across the line, these laborers. They
are uneducated, unSchooled in diplomatic
dealings, ignorant of the formalities re-
quired of them. When a Post-Press re-
porter talked with many of them, no one
had even advised them to apply for cross
ing cards He was the first to do so, and
they were eager to listen to his suggeS-
stion
: These men are facing hunger; they are
already stepped in poverty. They have
mot enough money to go back where they
came from, or the disappontments they
have met would already have sent them
shack For their sake, if for no other
consideration, there should be some def
> Unite action taken to relieve their situa-
= tion.
There is another consideration, how
ever
Our farmers need those laborers. If
they don't get them, the farmers them
selves are liable to be faced with econo-
: mic extremity Along with the farmers
the whole country will suffer, for their
produce is vitality needed to feed a nation
at war.
If nobody else will take the lead in get
ting these men across the border-in cut
ting through red tape and official lethar-
gy-the farmers of Imperial Valley must
take it. The situation as it now exists is
broader than the need in Imperial Valley.
The disgraceful ignoring of a willing,
potential labor supply does our national
leaders no credit.
If need be, the fight must be taken to
Washington, and there is no time to be
lost in the doing of it.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-30
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 1865

Estate of BARBARA S. WHEELER,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, M. D. Zinn, Public
Administrator, as administrator OF
the estate of Barbara S. Wheeler,
deceased, to the creditors of and
all persons having claims against
the said deceased, that within six
months after the first publication
of this notice they either file them
with the necessary vouchers in the
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of the State of California, in
and for the County of Imperial, or
exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers to the said M. d. Zinn, as
administrator of said estate. at the
office of d. B. Roberts, 207 Bank
of America Bldg, Ell Centre, Cali
fornia, the same being the place
for the transaction of the business
of the said estate in the County of
Imperial, State of California.
Dated at Ell Centro, California,
this ID day of September, 1912.
M. d. zINN,
Administrator of the Estate of
BARBARA S. WHEELER,
CNo. I'D S16-23- -30-OD
Deceased
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-30

VICHY, Sept. 30-UP) = The
United States embassy appealed to
the Swiss government today to OBJ
tain the names of approximately
400 Americans rounded up in Oc-
cupied France by German authori-
ties since last week and interned.
The embassy is depending upon
the Swiss for information because
that nation has taken charge of
American interests in Paris and
the occupied zone. United States
officials said that the first infor-
nation on the subject may be sent
directly to the Swiss legation at
Washington.
1t was learned here that the
first group of American women ar
rested in Paris was moved yester-
day to Vittel where they were in
termed within a barbed-wire COM
pound where more than 1900 Brit
ish women have been detained since
December, 1910.
SOME LIBERATED
Some of 1000 American men held
at Saint Denis for classification
also have joined the first lot OF
$50 American internees at Com
piegne. A few others have been
liberated and permitted to return
to their Paris homes because their
status was judged satisfactory by
Gestapo questioners.
A few stragglers continue to be
picked up for internment, includ-
ing some American veterans of the
first World War who remained in
France when demobilized, married
French women, and raised families.
Several American Nuns also were
arrested. and are likely to join
British Nuns in hotel designated
for them at Vittel.
A group OF American women who
married into French nobility and
now have French citizenship Is
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-30
THE JAP CASE
Stockton Record)

Church groups have shown concern
over "inj Justices" to japanese sent to evac-
uation centers. The good people evidenc-
ing this concern can we'll afford to heed
the words of Dr. Daniel A. Polling, one of
four educators and clergymen named by
the army to make an impartial study of
the assembly centers. After examining
the Portland center, the Christian Her
aid editor and head of the World Chris
tian Endeavor Union asserts that the CEN
ters are a necessary evil of the war.
"The thing had to be done" he adds.
"When there is a choice between defense
of country and personal interest, the an
swer must always be defense of country
DR.. Polling uncovered personal TRACED
les among the evacuees, as was to be
expected But, he states, despite Japan
ese attitudes toward their plight, the sit
uation is dictated by military necessity.
Whatever DR.. Polling and his group set
forth in their final report, they cannot
improve on his informal statement. He
has said it all. Meanwhile Americans,
with their own personal tragedies caused
by overseas japanese treachery aggres-
sion and harsh treatment of prisoners,
have no reason to stay awake nights wor-
rving about these pawns of circumstances
being we'll cared for in West Coast evac-
uaton centerS.