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Evening star., 1942-11-01

naval forces which, in addition to
aiding in the bombardment of Amer
icap shore positions, had covered the
landing Of troops and supplies, ap-
parently has left the Japanese land
forces on Guadalcanal dependent on
previously landed materiel and men,
excepting that which can be run in
under cover of darkness. That situa-
tion for the Japanese, it was con-
cluded here, must prevail until
enemy sea forces attempt return
appearance.
Both sides have tanks and ar
tillery ashore at Guadalcanal Navy
communiques, with frequent refer
ences to successful enemy troop re-
enforcement operations, have indi-
Gated the enemy has numerical ad-
vantage on the island. But con-
slant repair work has kept often
bombarded and bombed Henderson
Field in use and American air power
has counterbalanced. in some meas
ure. the Japanese superiority in land
power.
With this condition prevailing,
Washington waited to see whether
the American forces would launch
a counteroffensive at the Japanese
while the enemy was without
substantial source of additional sup
plies or whether the Japanese would
use their numerical advantage and
supplies on hand to renew the as
sault on the American positions.
Evening star., 1942-11-01

by medium units which made up
the second of the three waves Of
that attack. These bombers scored
a hit with a 500-pound bomb on a
heavy cruiser or battleship. The
communique did not make clear
whether this was the same heavy
cruiser reported hit by the first
wave or was another vessel.
Today's pre-dawn attack was
made at low, altitude. Despite
heavy anti-aircraft fire and search
light opposition, all Allied planes
returned safely to their bases.
Two Vessels Hit.
For the second straight time,
planes struck at Dill, harbor town
in Portuguese Timor. The medium
bombers attacked with unobserved
results.
In the heavy bomber attack on
shipping at Rabaul, direct hits were
observed on two vessels which were
swept by flames. All planes re-
turned from Rabaul.
A daylight reconnaissance plane
was attacked by II Zero fighters
near Rabaul. 1t shot down three,
completed its mission and returned.
Evidencing the widening effort of
Gen. MacArthur's planes, Allied me-
dium bombers dropped light explo-
sives on the runway and dispersal
areas at Lac, vital japanese base
on the northeast coast of New
Guinea and machine -gunned build
ings at Salamua.
Buna, another japanese base ITS
miles below Lac, was visited also by
Allied medium units which strafed
enemy installations.
Allied ground troops, pushing the
japanese back toward Kokoda in
the Owen Stanley Mountains. ad-
vanced toward Isurava while ahead
of them supporting planes bombed
and strafed the reeling Japs.
Jap Navy Move Expected.
In official Washington quarters
there was a growing belief that a
new move by the japanese Navy was
imminent, but the focal point for
| that effort was uncertain.
Secretary of the Navy Knox, in
telling press conference Friday of
the disappearance of the japanese
fighting, transport and supply ships
from the Guadalcanal zone, said
that while it was known some of the
vessels had gone to japanese bases,
he was not sure that all had re-
turned to various ports.
That left the possibility that units
of the enemy force which had not
returned to base might be reas-
sembling elsewhere for a new try
at joining with japanese land forces
in reducing the American defenses
at Guadalcanal-or that they might
rendezvous with another enemy task
force for some fresh assignment.
1t was not Immediately clear here
whether Japanese naval vessels
bombed at BUN were components of
the fleet that withdrew from the
Guadalcanal zone or were units of
another force.
Supply Situation.
The withdrawal of the Japanese
Evening star., 1942-11-01
Private Construction
OF War Housing
To Be Resumed
Suspension Of Priorities
Is Revoked by WPB
Following Protests

Blythe Associated Press.
The War Production Board and
the National Housing Agency have
reached an agreement by which
construction of privately financed
war housing may continue, WPB
announced yesterday.
Priorities aid for private war hous-
ing was suspended temporarily last
week with the explanation that ma
terials tentatively allocated for de-
fense housing had been exhausted.
The shutdown brought protests from
home-builder organizations and
members of Congress.
The policy agreed on between
WPB and MIA calls for strict ad-
nerence to the new building code
issued by WPB for all war housing
and for compliance with new regu-
lations governing the use of pri-
vately built housing.
Prompt Action Seen.
Policy details remain to be worked
out, WPB said, but the agreement
will provide basis for prompt
action by the WPB Requirements
Committee to permit resumption of
issuance of preference ratings for
private housing under the new
standards"
The Requirements Committee,
which allocates materials for mill
tary and civilian uses, is expected
to make some additional steel and
other materials available this year.
The new construction standards,
limiting the size of dwellings and
the amount of materials used in
them, are expected to end COM
plants of WPB officials that private
housing is more wasteful of ma
terials than publicly financed con-
struction. The code covers both
publicly and privately built dwell
ing units.
Protest Meeting Called OFF.
Representative Boykin, Democrat,
| OF Alabama, chairman of a House
War Housing Subcommittee, said
that in view of the WPB action, his
subcommittee would not hold pro-
test meeting which had been set for
tomorrow
Representative Hebert, Democrat.
of Louisiana, of the subcommittee
said that when Congress appropri-
ated additional money for war hous-
ing it had been assured that "pri-
vate industry would be given an
even break with public building"
Evening star., 1942-11-01
Mrs. Harold Mccormick
Weds Californian, 80
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 31.-Mrs.
Adah Wilson Mccormick, widow Of
Harold Mccormick, Chicago capital
ist, and George Tat, II, of Santa
Monica, Calf, were married here
today.
When the marriage license was
obtained, Mrs. Mccormick gave her
age as 38 and her residence as Bev-
erly Hills, Calf. Mr.. TAFT gave his
age as 30.
The bride was the third wife of
Mr.. Mccormick, chairman of the
board of the International Harvester
Evening star., 1942-11-01

Co. The others were the late Edith
Rockefeller and Gamma Walska, the
opera singer.
Mrs. Mccormick. once a nurse to
Jean Harlow, nursed her husband,
long partial invalid, for several
years before their marriage in Los
Angeles in 1888.
Mr.. Mccormick died in Beverly
Hills, Calf, october Is, 1941, at the
age of SO. Under terms of his will,
his widow was granted 10000 an
nually for three years, at the end
of which time she is to receive the
income from one-half of his estate
once estimated at $7,500,000.
Evening star., 1942-11-01
40 American Bombers
Reported at GibruItur
3Y the AssaciatAd PraSS

By ASSUCIaCtu PTeSS.
LONDON, Oct. 31.-Reuters to-
night reported that the Vichy radio
broadcast a dispatch from La Linea,
Spain, saying that 40 American
bombers landed today at Gibraltar.
The Vichy report as carried by the
British agency added the British
battleship Rodney, the British air
craft carrier Furious, IA destroyers
and 18 seaplanes at present were
anchored in the port, where, the
report said. several merchantmen
have landed a large contingent Of
American troops and big quantities
of war material. .e.,
Evening star., 1942-11-01
BY OLEN w. CLEMENTS,

ASSOClaCcu EICSS wal SoAAccboAASA'e'
GUADAtCANAL, Solomon
Islands, October IL Delayed.
Night comes swiftly on Guadalcanal
Island
And with it comes a bowling hell
that American fighting men create
and share with the best that the
Mikado can throw in there. Only
the young and the very brave can
stand it for long.
Guadalcanal Is q primitive and
predatory land. On its shores the
bloodiest battle the United States
has fought in the Pacific Is raging
and had been raging for weeks.
Men are fighting with all the saw
ageness that men who hate can
put into it. They do most of their
work after dark. Their implements
are made of steel-cold and hot.
For the vanquished there is but one
relief-death.
We landed in this turbulent,
equatorial land an hour before SUM-
set and went straight to visit the
stockade for Jap prisoners. Marine
Pvt. j. D. Dupre of Durham, N. c.,
who stood guard, pointed to them.
Separated From Workmen.
There they are" he drawled,
indicating the prisoners of war who
were separated from Japanese work
men interned when the Marines hit
1ooro1 m Arr,1cf
And" chimed in Corpl. John T.
Benton of Butler, Pa, that's all
there are out of the 5000 Japs we
have met"
That is the story of Guadalcanal,
a mountainous island where neigh
Dor feasted on neighbor until mod
ern blitZ war drove the cannibals to
the high hills.
But Guadalcanal with all its
bloodshed has it's lighter moments
even after dark. From the prisoner
stockade we went with our pilot
1t. Clyde S. Shields Of Aberdeen
S. Oak, to the mess tent. AS we en-
tered, the American bomber pilots
saluted 1t. Shields with Hi. fel-
low! We thought you were dead
1t. Shields recently went down at
sea, but made land on raft.
1t. Shields grinned, slapped
Capt. N. Whitaker of Kentucky on
the back. and said:
Hey, White, heard you smacked
13 Jap zeros with two bombs at
Buka today. How could you tell
there were 1872
He Counted Wheels.
Capt Whitaker swallowed hunk
of salmon and shot back:
"Counted the wheels and divided
by two,
A mile away in the front line
American and Japanese machine
guns began to chatter. Rife shots
, echoed up and down and reverber-
ated against the mountain range
at the Japs' back.
Everybody went on eating. The
lights popped on. for strangely the
nearer the front line you get the
brighter the lights, until an air
raiu starts.
Say" hollered 1t. M. v. Smith
of San Bernardino, Calf, guess
the name of the song leading the
Hit Parade this week"
1t. C. H. Mcconnell, fresh from
Oahu, frightened.
That's easy he shouted. Say
a Prayer for Pal on Guadalcanalr
And they all laughed.
Back down the way, the marine
artillery opened up on the Japs
and the big shells whistled over
! head The bomber pilots filed out
Evening star., 1942-11-01

MARINES TURN JAP SAFE INTO FLAPJACK GRIDDLE-With
characteristic ingenuity marines turned Japanese sale into
field stove after they had captured Jap position Guada
time at all until these two Leathernecks
turning hapacks for hungry comrades This picture
made before the opened their current offensive in
poSitons-A Photo Marine Corps.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02
AIDED MAYNARD YOUTHS

Piccone was one of Is boys who
Barber, from time to time, took
into his home after his own son
left the farm 10 years ago to work
in Pontiac. The boys were usually
teen-age youths who had got into
minor scrapes and who Barber
thought could be saved from
criminal careers by the farm
environment.
AL Becant, a youth from a boys
home, was living at the farm When
Barber was killed. He came to
Piccone,s cell today and shouted
through the iron bars at him:
you dirty skunk. You muir
dered the only father 1 ever had.
He was wonderful to me-"
He turned away sobbing.
While the search was going on,
Oakland County officials took pre-
cautions for their lives and their
families from previous threats of
the killer
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02
TriDle Killer SurrenderS
When Trapped by Troopers

than 100 miles southwest of the
Barber and Potter homes.
First Thorpe drove southeast
through Pontiac and nearly 10 De-
troit Then Piccone changed his
mind.
Come on" he told Thorpe,
"we're going north"
I'VE drove clear TO Cadillac"
Thorpe said. "He had some
money and we spent about S12
for gas here and there. At Cad
lilac he told me TO turn around
and we started south again.
BACK TO DETROIT
I'VE went through Lansing
and Jackson and then to Detroit.
We got there about daylight. He
told me then TO drive back to
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02
u. S. Chart

Detroit and vicinity-slightly colder lat,
tonight. Fresh 10 moderately strong winds
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02
for which he got only three and
one-half to four years"
CITIZEN


Mckenzie was one of the leading
citizens of Concord, a village of
$50 persons. At the time of his
murder he was secretary of the
board of education and justice OF
the peace. He had also served as
Concord Township supervisor, was
manager of the towns baseball
team, a leader of the Lions Club
and was active in Boy Scout work.
His death has so aroused the
people of the township that they
are demanding special punishment
for the slayer and Ernest Rogers,
Jackson County prosecutor. has
declared that mo matter what
happens" in kland County
courts, Piccone will be charged
with murder in Jackson County.
1--WE are going TO see that this
fellow stays in JAIL" Rogers said.
He never should have been out
I'm the first place"
UNDER DOCTORS CARE
McKenzie's wife, Gladys, has
been under a doctors care since
she learned of her husbands muir
der, but friends said she felt no
anger or desire for revenge when
told that the man who killed her
husband had been arrested.
"He should just be put away
now so that IL can never happen
to any one else" she told MIR
and Mrs. Hatch.
Nothing will do any good
now"
At one time Mckenzie lived in
Detroit and was employed here as
a salesman for life insurance
company. He left here, however,
in 1916 and returned to his farm.
A sister, Mrs. Clarence PAUL, lives
in Detroit.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02
Girl Back at Job,
Cleared by Union

Genevieve Samp. IS, today is
back at her defense job. cleared
of charges that her conduct was
"unbecoming a union member"
In a rapid succession of confer
enceS and exchanges of formal
statements, the nationally-spot-
lighted union trial of Miss Samp,
pretty UAW-CIO member sus-
pended from her defense job at
the National Stamping Company,
came 10 an abrupt end.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02

one decent meal. We started
back toward Oxford about 1880,
toward my house, and we drove
right by Potter's and BARRIERS
home because we saw traffic on
a road we wanted to take.
ION M-24, north ~ Oxford,
we pulled of the road and tried
10 get some sleep. At about
1880 a. m, he told me TO get
moving again-that we were go
ing back TO Cadillac"
Two ana half hours later
Troopers Perkins and Godlewski
sighted the car near Otisville
Thorpe and Piccone sighted the
police car at the same time and
Piccone ordered Thorpe 10 speed
up.
After a three mile chase. Per-
kinS. driving the police car, caught
Thorpe's car and started pushing
it from behind. bumper TO bumper
Godlewski leaned out of the
right side OF the car and shouted
at Piccone:
i've got you covered. Stop"
Godlewski said he was afraiC
that if he shot he m / & h hi
Thorpe.
"Okay. Stop" Piccone told
Thorpe, and the murder tour
was ended.
The troopers jumped in Thorpe
car with drawn pistols, grabbed
Piccone's gun from him and hand
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02

jackson, that he knew a friend
that had a cottage up there. We
turned south at jackson toward
Concord. We pulled Into q side
road where there was a little
shack.
"He told me that IL anyone
came to tell them nothing; that
IL they got too troublesome he'd
fill them full OF holes.
He said we would get some
sleep and made me lay down I'm
the back seat while he curIed
up In front. There was a crank
on the floor In the back and I
wanted to grab IL and hit him
but was afraid that he wasn't
asleep and would kill me II I
moved. He kept the gun on his
lap"
An hour later Mckenzie drove
up TO investigate the strange Cal
parked at the shack, which was
on a farm owned by Frank Hatch
his father-in-law. Mckenzie, &C.
cording to Sheriff Harvey A. Cap.
ron, lived at another farm owned
by Hatch, two miles north of Con.
cord
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02
Found Hanged in Factory

Joseph Ernat. as, of so10 Town.
send avenue. foreman in a door
factory at 6511 Strong avenue, was
found hanging from a beam in the
factory early today by his son,
Norbert, who went to the factory
to search for his father when he
failed to return home. Norbert
could not give police any reason
why his father should take his
own life.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02

Said Ray Thorpe, forced at gun
point TO drive his own car on a
900-mile. 30-hour crime tour on
which his captor, Dominick Pic
conc, killed three men:
II was being so careful with
my tires. i only drove my car
when II WAS absolutely neces-
sary. And then I had 10 drive
900 awful miles at top speed"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02
Cowdn Threatens
Exposure of
Bowling Club

County Auditor John c. Cowan
threatened today 10 expose" an
asserted political organization OF
Prosecutor William z. Bowling
when he presents the defense OF
custer charges being heard before
Judge Maurice f. Trip of Adrian.
The question OF such an organi-
cation arose yesterday in the cross
examination OF Walter Gutnan,
former purchasing agent for the
county.
Prosecutor Bowling elected from
the witness the fact that as pur-
chasing agent he was given tickets
to social functions of the Cow
boys Cadets" group OF county
building supporters Of Auditor
Cowan, 10 be sold 10 persons doing
business with the county.
CHAWKE STIRS Juror
DeIeIlSe dllOIIltN liOliluS :
Chawke began cross-eXamination
with questions relative to the
Modo Club.
He asked the witness whether
he knew that the club was a
Bowling organization.
Prosecutor Bowling jumped 10
his feet charging that Chawke was
testifying rather than interrogat-
ing the witness and that II ChaYkel
would take the stand he would be
glad to cross-eXamine the attorney.
In heated debate Prosecutor
Bowling denied that the organiza-
ton had received either his sane
ton or support and offered to-
refute the charges If properly
presented by the defense.
Eugene Denk, chief warrant
officer for the auditors, another
witness, testified that he handled
the finances of moonlight excur-
sions and made returns OF the
profits to Cowan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02
TRIED TO BREAK IN

ElCCOut got up dItCf MI muir
and walked around behind the
shack" Thorpe said. "He broke
In a window and tried to kick
the door in. Then heard some
one say What are you boys do
Ing around here @"
1t was Mckenzie. Piccone tolc
him he and Thorpe were squire
shooting and Mckenzie told then
to get off the property.
HE told Piccone that he
thought he'd have to take the
license number of my car"
Thorpe said, "and he started to
walk back toward his car.
"Piccone opened up on him
when he was about so feet
away. IL was horrible. He
emptied the gun at him and I
can still see the bullets hitting
the mans leather jacket.
TRIED TO ESCAPE
"The man reached the car and
tried to crawl In. Piccone kept
firing. He walked up and fired
more shots through the wind
shield.
THE man gasped, stop, stop,
I've had enough
"PiccOne told me to get In the
car, that we were moving quick"
Thorpe said Piccone told him:
Can your old woman cook:
She's going to cook me at least
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02
THREATENED JUDGE

iii Catching W MIL Ill Nuil OddeC
George B. Hartrick and William F
Dohany. former assistant prose.
cutor. for their part in sentencing
| him to prison four years age
for assaulting a Highland Park
teacher.
Dohany secured a permit tc
carry a gun and Judge Hartrick
asked for protection from Royal
Oak police. Sheriff Spencer C.
Howarth's wife and their 10-year-
old daughter, Jean, spent the night
under protection in the Oakland
County Jail.
Sheriff Howarth, following Pic
cones arrest, recalled the earlier
arrest of the youth in 1888 for
brutally beating a Highland Park
recreation teacher on the head
with a gun butt after kidnapping
her and forcing her to drive to
the Barber farm.
AT that time" Howarth said,
al wanted to send him back to
Highland Park to face the more
serious charge of kidnapping. He
was only 10 then and the ward
OF Wayne County Juvenile au-
thorities. They refused to waive
on him, so the only thing left
for us to do was to convict him
on the felonious assault charge,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02
BATAAN sHELLED

"YOur Own Horoscope" by
Frances Drake, IA one OF many
famous features in The Detroit
Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02
Continued from Page one)

Perkins and Joseph Godlewski,
who made the capture.
HE told me, Come on, keep
her moving. You know what will
happen II YOU don't do what 1
tell YOU
Thorpe was so terror-Stricken
that il was several minutes before
he could speak or stand unassisted,
Picconc's murder tour started
when he vanished from his home
at 120l0 Cameron avenue, High
land Park, on Monday. He hitch
hiked 10 Oxford, carrying his -
cahber rifle and several loads OF
ammunition with him. He bought
the gun al a secondhand store, he
said.
Arriving at Oxford. he walked
10 the Potter farm in Coates road
and entered ii al about 9 p. m.
because, he said. he was cold and
his feet were wet.
Piccone knew Potter because he
had worked as chore boy on the
next door Barber farm where Pot
ter often visited.
Asked why he had killed Potter
he said casually:
"Oh. that was nothing. We
just had n quarrel. I didn't want
10 do him any harm. 1 had the
gun with me and he made some
crack about IL. He tod me he
knew what 1 was going to do
with the gun, that i was going
10 kill Barber with IL.
Gle told me to get out, that
he didn't want me there because
of the gun. He grabbed hold OF
Ii and he got shot in the scuffle."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02
Artillery Duels
On Manila Bay
CONTINUED from Page One)

a6O ohNJ
the offensive launched early last
week.
The communique reported that
the newest day and night bombing
raids on Corregidor caused little
damage because Jap planes were
forced by our anti-aircraft fire to
fly at extreme attitudes and conse-
quently the bombing was inaccu-
rate and ineffective"
Concerning the artillery bonn
bardment. the communique said:
Hostile batteries on the
south shore of Manila Bay
shelled Corregidor. No damage
was inflicted by either the bomb
Ing or the Smelling. Our forts
returned the fire Of the enemy
batteries"
BATAAN sHELLED
No mention was made by the
army of further activity by Japa.
nese naval units which appeared
yesterday in the China Sea and
shelled Lieut.. Gen. Jonathan NJ
Wainwright's Bataan positions or
the west coast.
In commenting on the eneny's
fury General Wainwright stated
simply:
"No material change in the
situation resulted"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02
LET HIM HAVE IT

81 said TO him Hello there,
Barber, I'm back to pay my
compliments and let him
have IT,"
After the Barber murder, Pic
cone. with the terror-stricken
Thorpe at the wheel started on an
din1fess tour which brought them
20 hours later TO the scene of the
third killing near Concord, more
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02
SHOT THROUGH HEART

Potter was found on his kitchen
floor with a shot through the
heart.
Piccone then halted Thorpe's car
in the road outside the Potter
home.
He jumped out of the bushes
at me-" Thorpe said. land asked
me where / lived"
Thorpe said Piccone then told
him:
Keep moving. I've already
killed one old lug and I've got a
big tub of lard down here to kill.
I'm perfectly fair. If you do as
i tell you you have nothing to be
afraid of. II you don't I'll I'LL
you so full Of holes your wife
will never recognize YOU"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-04-02
WATCHED KILLING

Thorpe drove to the nearby Bar
Der home and with Piccone's CUR
at his back was forced to watch
while Piccone shot down Barber
without warning as he sat in hi!
kitchen.
"He fred once at him and
when Barber started TO rise he
fred twice and then twice
more" Thorpe said.
In his confession. Piccone said
81 had a grudge TO settle with
Barber and j settled II. i told
him 1 would and 1 did. I had a
quarrel with him when i was
a chore boy out there, I was
about IL. We had a fight and
after Mrs. Barber stopped IL 1
went into the house and Barber
hit me over the head with a
stick.
II told him that I'd get even
with him. i was waiting for my
chance as soon as i got out of
prison.