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Evening star., 1942-10-31
BY MAI. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.

oy MAI. GEOHJE FIELDING
ELIOT.
In yesterday'S article I pointed
out that the final decision in the
Solomons depends in large part
on our ability to build up and
maintain stronger forces at the
end of our long line of communi-
cations than the Japanese can
at the end of their line of COM
munications, which is also a long
one-though not as long as ours.
One of our main advantages so
far is quite similar to an advan-
tage possessed by the United Ma
tions forces in the Middle East
while our line of communications
is longer than that of the enemy,
the enemy's line of communica-
ton is under direct attack and
ours is not.
This is an advantage which we
may not be able to retain in the
Pacific, as previously pointed out,
providing the Japanese can ex-
tend their naval operations into
the Fiji-Samoa Canton area
from their advance bases in the
Gilberts.
Carriers Dwindling.
In the last analysis, therefore,
it is on sea power that we must
depend in the Pacific to protect
our line of communications and
maintain the fighting power of
our land and air forces at the
farther end of that line. More
and more this is becoming the
responsibility of our fighting
ships on and under the surface
of the ocean.
The number of carriers on both
sides is dwindling rapidly, which
means, of course, that island
bases for aircraft are increasing
IN Importance. OF this, Guada-
canal itself is an outstanding ex-
ample. But there can be no
question that in this phase of the
Pacific war surface sea power is
proportionately much more i'm
portant than it was before the
battle of the Coral Sea.
1t follows that both sides will
try to cut down the opposing
surface power by seeking to lure
it within range of shore-based
aircraft, and on the other hand
both sides may be expected to
increase their efforts to use the
really terrific fire power of their
battleships effectively, but under
conditions of comparative safety
for the battleships as far as
shore-based aviation is con-
cerned.
Hitting Force Demonstrated.
We have already seen, in the
bombardment of Henderson Field,
the amount of damage that bat
tleship fire can do when it gets
chance; and it is not impossible
that the destruction of our three
heavy cruisers in the night action
of August 9 may have been part,
at any rate, the work of an enc
my battleship.
Under these conditions, it will
naturally be to eur advantage to
bring about as strong concen-
tration of naval power in the
Pacific as we possibly can. We
must NOT forget, of course, that
we are fighting a global war in
which our Navy has many re-
sponsibilities.
Evening star., 1942-10-31
Workers, Soldiers March
In Utah Victory Parade
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 31.-Iron-
muscled men who dig for war-vital
metals and soldiers who'll fight with
the stuff they dig have date for q
production parade" up Main street
past Mormon Temple today.
Approximately 1000 mine and
smelter workers from Nevada. Idaho,
Montana and Utah have come to
this important american non fer
rous metal mining center and 1000
soldiers have been counted OF to
march with them.
With q produce for victory war
cry, the workers have 50 juggled
their shifts that no production
time would be lost. w. Earl Green.
ough, chairman Of Utah's Labor.
Management Co-ordinating Com.
mittee, commented that 1T appears
as though this viii be the greatest
labor mobilization ever held In this
area"
I'VE want them to rub elbows with
the soldiers who are participating
to zee the Army equipment made BY
the metals they arc digging" Mr..
0Feenoush said.
Evening star., 1942-10-31
BY SAMUEL GRAFTON.

End of the silly season: am
so delighted with the reaction of
the British press to the Willkie
speech that could sing. Where did
we get the thought, anyway, that if
one American spoke a sincere criti-
cism the entire British press and
people would burst into tears, men,
bers of Parliament would refuse
their porridge, and the officers of
the British general staff would drop
the fight against the enemy and
spend the day in bed, to a man?
That is an American, not British,
conception, it turns out. 1t does not
flatter our Allies to suppose they
can take Hitler's bombs for many
months, but will be knocked fiat by
a comment. Come! They are not so
tender. 1t is profound misconcep-
ton of the organic bond between the
American and British people, and
all good people everywhere in the
world, to view our alliance as a kind
of formal tea, whose participants
can be set on their beam-ends by a
faux pas, a sneeze or an overhead
whisper.
But Mr.. Willkie has uttered the
| word India" loud and clear, and,
so far as I can learn, no Englishman
has called for his hat, stick and car.
War Has to Be Talked About.
If we are going to speak about the
British reaction, we ought to look at
it: The London Daily Telegraph
calls Mr.. Willkie candid friend
1t regrets he did not visit India. But
it says no one can resent his advice.
The Times of London, in an editorial
obviously written by a quite calm
editor, agrees that worldwide ex-
pansion of economic opportunity
and security are needed. Those may
be empty words, in the context of
lack of action, but they are not
hostile ones.
The Manchester Guardian says
evenly: Let us hope the British
government will read between the
lines and see in Mr.. WILKES careful
phrases how badly our failure in
India reacts on the common cause. "
Isn't that odd? I could have sworn,
from reading some American COM
ment, that the Guardian would say:
See here, we are proud people and
won't stand for any mention Of
India"
Evening star., 1942-10-31
Sea Power Is Pacific Kew
Maj. Eliot Says Navy Must See to 1t
Our Troops and Flyers Are Protected

Probably its most important
responsibility is. In cooperation
with the British Navy, keeping
open the sea lanes between the
United States and Great Britain.
There is also the Arctic branch
Of this route to the northern
ports of Russia to be kept in
mind, and the Cape OF Good
Hope run, which supplies the
United Nations in the Middle
East. The enemy's vigorous use
Of his submarines has made it
necessary for us to convoy all
OF our coastwise and inter-
American shipping.
The convoy service uses up a
tremendous number of destroyers,
corvettes, patrol vessels and vari-
GUS types of aircraft.
The existence of a strong Ger
man naval concentration off the
coast Of Norway also requires the
presence in the Atlantic of a
certain number of large surface
vessels, though it would seem
that the British Navy should be
strong enough to take care of this
part Of the job.
Duties Of Navy Heavy.
just what the present distribu-
ton of the larger units of our
fleet may be, is not. of course, a
matter of public knowledge.
Judging from the tone of the
official communiques, we are in
ferior in surface strength in the
Pacific, though the variable and
unknown factors of the number
OF ships under repair, and the
number required for our respon-
sibilities in the Atlantic make the
actual Pacific situation obscure.
One thing is certain, and that
is that final success in the South
western Pacific will depend on
our establishing and maintaining
a clear-cut naval superiority over
the enemy as an essential factor
in building up our striking power
to those distant waters.
The duties of our naval forces
in the Pacific are many and
heavy; conveys must be escort
ed, patrols maintained, enemy
task forces dealt with and the
enemy's shipping and bases kept
under constant attack.
Every commander will be torn
between the constant demands of
his subordinates for reinforce
ments and his desire to keep a
reserve in hand to deal with un-
expected moves. which, paradox
cally, must always be expected
from the persistent and energetic
enemy which we have to face in
the Pacific.
The decisions which COM
manders of areas and COM
manders of task forces must
make will not always be easy
ones, and we need not expect that
they will always be the right de-
cisions.
Mistakes will be made, of
course; We can only hope that
our commanders will make fewer
mistakes than the enemy, and
that We shall be quicker and
bolder to exploit the enemy's
mistakes than he is to take ad-
vantage of ours.
> When all is said and done, de-
cisions in war are likely to de-
pend on maintaining a favorable
balance In these respects.
Copyright. 1912, New York Tribune, Inc }
Evening star., 1942-10-31
This Changing World
MocArthur's Political Ambitions Discounted;
Winning Battles Declared His Sole Interest

this is going to be a long war
and If he lives through 1t, he will
be too old to embark on q political
career for which he has never
been properly prepared.
Objected to Split Commands.
There is no question that Gen.
Macarthur is dissatisfied with
the manner In which the South
Pacific situation has been treated
by Washington. The splitting
of one strategic area into two
zones was considered by him as
a direct slap from the high COM
mand.
Gen Macarthur and the former
naval commander, Admiral Rob-
ert L. Ghormley, co-operated 100
per cent, according to all ac-
counts. 1t is possible that the
general strategy of the Solomons
campaign may have not been
sufficiently well prepared be-
cause of this divided command.
But from the day the action start
ed Gen. Macarthur never hesi-
tated to give his colleague his
full support.
The Flying Fortresses of the
Australian command were doing a
splendid job against the enemy.
If troops from Gen. MacArthur's
command were never sent to
Guadalcanal the reason is that
the Navy has never asked for
them. A division of command
has its drawbacks in the con-
ception of strategy. But once
the battle begins two men can
cooperate with each other with
out difficulty.
Nevertheless, Gen. Macarthur
is said to feel strongly what he
believes to be opposition from
Washington. The battle in the
Sol mons has shown many
things; in some instances there
was some faulty or timorous
command. But one of the prin-
cipal causes of our difficulties in
that area was the lack of ade-
quate tools and supplies. And the
blame for this cannot be laid to
either the naval or military chiefs
who are directing on-the-spot-
operations.
Gen. Macarthur wanted to be
In supreme command of the entire
area south of Hawaii He brushed
aside the objection advanced that
he might find himself in diff
culties with the naval chieftains.
He felt he could get along with
Navy men as we'll as he could get
along with the men under his
orders. He was disgruntled when
his arguments did not prevail.
But Gen. Macarthur is a soldier
regardless of what human faults
he may have and his principal
objective is to defeat the enemy.
The situation in the Solomons
is now a trifle easier. If by some
miracle we are able to hold the
Japs, it is believed in some Wash
ington quarters that Gen. Mac
Arthur might yet be given su-
preme command in that area.
Evening star., 1942-10-31

$4,000 and $4,000 in off years, is not
expected to run more than 10000
this year. Less than so absentee
ballots had been requested by 7th
district men in the armed forces
up to last Monday.
Mr.. Mays labor stand is the lone
issue in the race which has COM
manded most of the Kentcky in
terest in an otherwise uneventful
camDaipn.
Evening star., 1942-10-31

w viz AuAA~"
mental purpose
for which the
resent war is
Being f ou g h t
that it becomes
important to OBJ
serve the man.
ner in W h / C h
the administra-
ton in the midst
of war has just
sought to curtail
the ci tize n S
legal rights.
rN.1{~f1r W.
Evening star., 1942-10-31

compacts an q
il lipstick k s, but
$she h as only
scratched the
surface In her
!: ::drive for war
;:materials.
!: w hat Mrs.
White should do.
!: and right away,
lis to urge the
Egals Of our II
Estates to empty
their handbags
and then sum.
Evening star., 1942-10-31
GIuss Wustes No Words

Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vir-
4 Hinia was brief and to the point In
filing his preliminary report Of cam
paign expenditures with the Senate
secretary. Not a farthing received
or disbursed," he wrote.
Evening star., 1942-10-31

HE opinions OF the vriters this their o,Dn
necessarily The Stars Such opinions presented The
Stars effort to gve all sides OF questions OF interest
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars.
Evening star., 1942-10-31
OrderCurbs
Recourse to
Courts
intimidation Of
Citizens Seen in
Wage Ediet
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Wages ana salary limitations may
be material things but the right of
a citizen under the Constitution to
exercise his legal rights is so close
Evening star., 1942-10-31
McLemore
Handbags Would Yield
Mountain Of Scrdp
BY HENRY McLEMORE.

Mrs. Mary B. White Of the War
Production Board is on the right
track when she asks American
women to turn in all their extra
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-21

Rhyme your way to War Saw
ings Stamps today!
Daily, including Sunday. The
Times prints five different rhymes,
pays 81 in War Savings Stamps
for each rhyme printed.
You take the first two lines Of
nursery rhyme. then complete il
in your own manner, being SURE
TO write about War Savings
Stamps or Bonds.
You may submit any number of
rhymes: you may win more than
one time. Entries should be sent
TO Rhyme Contest Editor, The De-
troit Times, 1870 Cass avenue.
Detroit. Mich. Verses submitted
WILL NOT be returned. Decisions
OF the judges are FINAL.
Todays winning rhymes:
Submitted by Mrs. K. Johns.
100l6 Meyers road
There WAS q man I'm our town,
And he was wondrous wise;
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-21
For Women Only?
No. indeed. Men Can Win ST Rhyme Prizes. Too
Even Though Wives Took All Today's Honors

He joined the 1919 Club,
To help our great Allies;
And when he saw what he had
done.
With all his might and main
He bought an extra War Bond
To help them out again.
From Mrs. Susie Holmes, 46$
Polk street, River Rouge:
Wee Willie Wrinkle, runs through
the town,
Upstairs and downstairs, In his
night gown;
We must excuse Wilhe's appear
ance on the street
Because he's out buying War
Bonds,
To speed UP Axis defeat.
Submitted by Mrs. Leah Cross,
5797 Harding avenue:
Az Tommy SHOCKS and Bessie
Brooks
Were walking out one Sunday,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-21
Runaway Boy
Found in Toledo
POPPIN

Thomas Cantwil, Is, of 25703
CubberneSs avenue, st. Clair
Shores, the lad who had Arizona
in his blood and a black and white
pony under him, was in the hands
of juvenile authorities today after
being returned from Toledo by his
father.
Young Cantwil had been missing
since Friday when he rented a
pony from the Finley Stables at
Nine-Mile and Kelly roads. The
pony was found Sunday in a ga
rage on jefferson avenue and the
boy in Toledo with his grand
mother.
The boy told police he had plans
for selling the horse. but couldn' [
find the right man to buy it
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-21
By Gene Ahern

They made a pledge that they
would buy
War Bonds a week from Mon
day;
We've got to help our soldier
boys,
To win this war, you see,
BY buying War Stamps and
Bonds
To keep our country free!
From Mrs. Vera Hollenbeck. AL
gonquin Hotel, Port Huron
Barber, barber, shave a pig,
How many hairs TO make n wig
Eighteen seventy-fve, that's
enough!
That bought the barber War
Bond
Instead Of snuff.
Submitted by Mrs. George Gil
655 Ann street, BirTning'
ham:
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,
Jack jump over the candle stick
Stop that jumping, and no delay,
You must buy War Bonds and
Stamps today.
For five more winning rhymes,
see the Times tomorrow.
For the 1nside News of
WHy--Al--S~- U~U~x., U.,.y MI
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-21
By Chic Young
By Billy De Beck
By Paul Fogarty .
BY Olsen s. Johnson

ERE pleasant little game give you message
every day 1t numerical puzzle designed spell out
fortune Count the letters
OF letters subtract II the number
add The result your key number upper
OF the every
numbers left to right Then read the letters 1g
the checked figures
Jd by King Feature, s,nd L.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-21

For the Tnside News" of
Washington. Follow Paul NAL
Ions Column I'm the Times.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-12
Slaughter House Worker
Held for Murder Trial

PONTIAC, Mich, Sept. ~
Up Justice John j. Schultz,
Jr., ordered Selden Drake, 81,
Walled Lake slaughter house
employee, bound over to circuit
court yesterday g. a charge of
numbering his pa -year-old
step-son, Jack Creech. Drake
was held without bond.
A murder charge against the
child's mother, Mrs. Mabel
Drake, 20, was dismissed on the
motion of Prosecutor Charles L..
Wilson.
Coroner Leon y. Cobb testi-
fled at brakes examination
yesterday that the child died
of a fractured skull and inter-
nal injuries that apparently
were the result of a beating.
Other witnesses were neighbors
Of the brakes.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-12
BY JAMES
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

OTTAWA, Sept. IL - Every
body in Canada must now
work except the very old. the
very young and the disabled.
A severe manpower short
age brought job freezing and
strict manpower and woman
power employment regulations
aimed to provide "the largest
armed forces possible, the opti-
mum of war production, the
minimum of civilian services,
and the minimum of agricultur-
al production in keeping with
the needs of Canada and of
Britain" according to Labor
Minister Humphrey Mitchell.
There is little idle labor left
in the Dominion. Only 10000
men between Is and 50 are not
employed, and about one quar-
ter of this number are unem-
playable. Few of the remainder
can be used in war work.
More than $50, 900 persons
are to be added to the fighting
services and war industries be-
fore the end of the year. All
men have been registered and
complete control is now exercis-
ed over labor to place workers
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-12

The new National Selective
Service regulations affect prac-
tically all Canadians, exceptions
being women domestic servants,
provincial governments e m =
ployees, clergymen, farmers,
fishermen, hunters and trap
pers, teachers, nurses and pro-
bationers, and students.
Other Canadians are not al
lowed to quit their jobs or to be
discharged without seven days
written notice by either en-
ployee or employer. No employ
er may interview or hire any
worker unless that worker has
a permit from the Selective
Service local office to look for
employment. Neither employers
of labor nor persons looking for
work may advertise for jobs in
newspapers without the approx
al of the Selective Service Of
ficer of the locality.
For the duration, the age-old
privilege of every Canadian to
look for work or quit his job as
he pleased, has been suspended.
He can still quit his job, but in
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-12
PriOrities
Basis of


First claim of damage to small
business, based Apon q manu-
facturer's failure to deliver pro-
ducts covered by Federal build
ing priorities, Friday resulted In
award of a $500 judgment to
the Glefke company, Mount
Clemens furnace and tinsmith
firm.
The case, Ringing originally
upon a claim of $75.75 entered
before Justice of the Peace Dom
aid Parent by the Detroit Safety
Furnace company. shifted in the
defendants favor when Wilbur
F. Held, attorney for Glefke, en-
tered a cross-declaration assert
ing that the furnace manufact-
urers had failed to deliver eight
furnaces for which Glefke had
filed proper government priori-
ty releases. Held maintained
that the Glefke firm had suffer-
ed loss of business and had de-
pleted its stock in executing
contracts for which the eight
priorities had been issued.
Glefke did not deny that he
owed the Furnace company the
$75.75 and the justice court jury
returned the $500 award, less
the S75.75 claim Of the manu-
facturers, who were also order
ed to pay court costs.
Held maintained, In arguing
the cross-claim, that small bus
mess stands with its back to the
wall and the failure Of man
ufacturers and distributors to
make delivery under govern
ment priorities seriously endan-
ger small business concerns.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-12
NavPrObes
Air Crash

ANN ARBOR, Mich, Sept, II
-tP)-Officers of the Navy air
base at Crosse lie conducted an
investigation today into the
crash of a training plane on a
farm near Saline with the loss
Of two lives yesterday.
Victims of the accident were
Ensign Warren T. Umbright of
Chicago and Robert E. J. Moran,
23-year-old Navy photographer.
of Detroit. Morlan, who enlisted
more than two years ago upon
completing his education at
Lawrence Institute of Technolo-
gy, leaves a widow in Detroit.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-12
A OFFICIALS
WELD z POWER

Nor can a Canadian now look
on his own for a job. He must
have a permit and when he APP
plies for such a permit, most
likely the Selective Service Of
flee will suggest some places in
essential industry which can
use his services. The job-seek-
err can still pick and choose his
job, with limitations.
However, Elliott M. Little, di-
rector of National Selective
Service, has considerable power
to place Canadians where he
thinks they will be able to do
the most for the war effort. I'm
der the regulations the Selective
Service officers can order any
person for an interview at the
local office, can order any per-
son who has been unemployed
seven days to take any suitable
full-time jobs. Only persons
placed in jobs by the Selective
Service officers may not quit
their jobs without permission of
the Selective Service officer.
The various local and region
al Selective Service offices open
ed throughout Canada receive
lists of persons . leaving their
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-12
Canada's population Of H.

Canada's population of H.
100000 (abOut 0ne-twelfth
that of the United States) has
been modified for war. More
than 10000 men and women
are in the fighting forces;
100000 are producing war
weapons; 1,350,000 are on
farms; 100000 are employed
in essential utilities and min
ing, and 100000 remain in
civilian industries. As quickly
as possible all persons who
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-12
100 Dairy Farmers
NAY Quit Milk Trade

CHICAGO, Sept. 12-<RE
The war has hit the dairy farm
ers of the Chicago milk shed ~
hard that 1,7o0 of them may 60
out of the milk business this
year.
Arthur H. Lauterbach, gem
eral manager of the Pure Milk
association expressed that opin-.
ion today and explained:
IF this war lasts another two
or three years I think somebody
will have to take dairy hands
out of war plants, or even out
Of the Army, and bring EN-
back to the farm" Il
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-09-12

There is little idle labor left in Canada for the DOminion,s new
federal employment control laws are putting every man and
woman possible to woFk-in either the armed services or in es-
sential war industry. The Canadian pictured above works in a
Pacific Coast shipyard. At right is Elliott NJ. Little, GEAR" Of
Canadian workers. As Selective Service Director, he has tremen-
dous powers to put them to work where he thinks they'll do the
most good.