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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-12-03
NEW GUINEA:
Jdps Lose DESTROYER

The battle in New Guinea had
been hard. Despite the loss of
destroyer, the Japs had succeeded
in landing additional troops under
cover of darkness. But that didn't
prevent the Allies from closing in on
all sides of the enemy positions at
Buna.
Dispatches from the battlefield re-
ported that the Jap destroyer and
two smaller craft were sunk by
medium bombers. Other medium
bombers supported ground troops by
bombing and strafng the enemy.
Some Australian units managed to
get into Buna itself for a short
time, inf1icting heavy damage be-
fore retiring. American forces were
said to be threatening the japanese
from three sides, apparently sever
ing the enemy communications to
Coma, IL miles northwest. U. S.
dive bombers blasted the Jap air.
drome at Buna with more than 100
allied aerial sorties in one day,
aimed at softening up the enemy
base for knockout blow.
The destroyer sunk in late action
was the third warship the Japs have
lost at Buna. Previously when a
reinforcing Jap fleet appeared and
attempted to land help, Allied
bombers sank a cruiser and a de-
stroyer, forcing a third destroyer to
flee.
From Washington came word that
an additional American destroyer
had been sunk in the great naval
battle of the Solomons in mid
November. This brought the total
of American losses in the action,
which smashed Jap invasion
armada, to two light cruisers and
seven destroyers. The Japs lost %
ships, Is of them warships and IL
transports.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-12-03
COMPULSORY LOANS:
Congress May Decide

Legislation in the new session of
congress will be topped by plan
for compulsory loans to the govern
ment, Sen. Walter F. George d.,
Ga.), chairman of the senate finance
committee, said in an interview.
George commented that congress
should take the initiative if the
treasury and other agencies are not
ready with a program shortly after
the first of the year.
Various estimates of the amount
covered by such a program range
up to Is billion dollars a year. Re-
ports indicate it would involve such
pronounced increases in levies as
to take almost 80 per cent of the
income from citizens in the low in
come brackets.
AS far as possible, George said,
he intended to see that taxation did
not become unbearable for individu-
ais and corporations. He pointed out
that the legislation might involve
some readjustments of present high
tax rates to compensate for the ex-
pected compulsory savings demand.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-12-03
METEOROLOCY:
offered I8-l0-Year OIds

A new program offering training
leading to commissions as meteoro-
logical officers in the army air
forces, particularly to the 1919 age
groups was announced in Chicago
by the University Meteorological
committee, representing five univer-
sites.
To be eligible, a man must be
between Is and 30 years of age with
high school diploma or it's equiva-
lent.
He must have completed high
school course in trigonometry, ana
lytic geometry and college algebra.
The course will include pre-meteoro-
logical training Of II months for
high school graduates and six
months for college freshmen and
sophomores. Men will be paid $50
month plus $2.35 day for ra-
lions and quarters.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-12-03
Weekly News
Allied Forces Sodfy Gains Violent Fighting RACES in Tunsa

claimed it would have a direct bear
ing on the whole outcome of the
war. For most, however, it was too
early to make such a claim definite
ly. A more complete report of the
Nazi losses had to be heard from a
neutral source before such reason
ing could be accepted.
One thing was clearly evident:
the Russians had been taking adj
vantage of the long lull in the fight
ing by carefully preparing their op-
erations. Further, this campaign
was timed to harass the Germans
just as the British and American
forces were blasting their full
strength at Tunis and Bizerte in the
North African theater.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-12-03

Climaxing long series of moves
by the Vichy government, Dictator
Pierre Laval revealed that his
French government is seeking an
open alliance with Germany as the
sole guarantee for peace in Eu-
rope"
In his first speech since being in
vested with full political powers by
Marshal Henri Petain, Laval said
that ut is in the interests of France
and peace in the future that we are
seeking with Germany reconcilia-
ton and an entente. 1t is to try to
save our territory and our empire
thatwe are following this policy. 80"
Laval, the Quisling of France, rid
iculed Allied promises to return the
seized portions of the French en-
pire in the future, pointing to the
British possession of French Can
ada and parts of the West Indies
long ago.
son the other side of the world"
Laval continued, Japan, an old ma
ton by it's history and a young one
by its dynamism, has just taken
from Britain and the United States
immense territories, treasures and
raw materials.
1T is with complete independence
of action we are choosing this
course. 7 am convinced GERMANY
will be victorious"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-12-03
BRITISH CABINET:
Shake-Up

In an unexpected shake-up, Sir
Stafford Grips stepped down from
the British seven-man war cabinet
to become minister of aircraft pro-
duction. Capt. Anthony Eden took
over Grips leadership in the house
of commons while Herbert Morri-
son, minister of home security, re-
placed Grips in the war cabinet.
Just why Grips left the cabinet
was not Immediately made clear but
for some time he is known to have
disliked certain phases of the war
effort and it is felt he may have left
because he could not agree with
many actions of Winston Churchills
advisers.
That there were stronger motives
in the action was the belief of many
observers who pointed out that this
was bad time politically for Grips
to disassociate himself from Church
ill. British successes in Egypt and
elsewhere in Africa have given
much strength recently to the
Churchill government. Other sources
claimed that Grips had been want
ing to get out of the cabinet for
some time but had refrained from
doing so previously to save embar-
rassment for Churchill.
When Grips left and Anthony
Eden took over his leadership in
commons, many British citizens saw
a further grooming for Eden to some
time succeed Winston Churchill as
prime minister.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-12-03
AIR ACTION:
Hits Japs

While the Jap has had plenty of
reason to feel the impact of United
Nations airpoWer in the Southwest
Pacific, until a few weeks ago he
had been getting off fairly comforta-
bly, in Burma and China. But now
a new air offensive in these areas
seems to be taking shape. Both the
Chinese and American bomber COM
mands are taking part in it.
Two Chinese bomber squadrons
countered a Jap drive in Central
China by blasting munitions ware
houses and an airfeld near Shasi.
This air force gave needed strength
to the Chinese ground forces which
were putting up stiff resistance to
an about Jap attempt to push them
out of the area.
Meanwhile, in Burma, the largest
force of U. S. bombers yet to attack
the Japs there, blasted the railway
center at Mandalay. Enemy de-
lenses were reported weak and
large fires in warehouses and in the
railway yards were started.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-12-03
OFFENSIVE:
Russia Moves

For weeks there had been little
important news from Stalingrad ex-
cept that the Soviet forces were
holding their positions within that
stronghold city. Then a special
communique from Moscow told of
the beginning of the Russian drive
which was to rip open two wide
gaps in the Nazi lines ringing the
city and then push the Germans
steadily westward, away from the
Don river.
First reports Of this struggle said
that $4,000 Germans had been killed
in it's opening phases and that the
Nazis had retreated 40 to SO miles.
Also $4,000 prisoners were taken,
said the Russians, while even Ger
man sources were admitting that
their troops had been forced to take
new strategic positions further away
from the Don.
This latest campaign began just
three months after the Nazis began
their siege of Stalingrad and during
that time they had often claimed it
for their own. Now the Russians
had the initiative and for the first
time were meeting the Germans on
a basis of near-equality Of manpow-
er and equipment. Front line dis
patches said that these forces were
taking the enemy's full measure by
outfghting and outgeneraling him in
all sectors.
This Russian victory was looked
upon as one of great Importance by
military strategists, many of whom
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-12-03
BUTTER:
Frozen

One-half of all cold storage butter
reserves in the IS principal markets
Of the United States has been set
aside for the exclusive use of fed
eral agencies upon order of the War
Production board.
The move was taken to assure
butter for the armed forces and for
lend-lease requirements. War de-
mands and increased civilian con-
sumption were said to be respon.
sible> for the shortage.
DR.. Roland Vale of the Office of
Civilian Supply in Washington said
that present prospects indicated that
rationing would not be necessary.
However, he urged housewives to
conserve butter by using other fats
and oils for cooking.
The order will be felt primarily
by bakers, ice cream manufacture
ers and others using cold storage
butter, he said. By January or Feb
ruary increased production is ex-
pected to meet demands.
The nations reserve supply of
butter has shrunk to an estimated
$4,000, 900 pounds, lowest since 1882.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-12-03

Advanced training will be given
at the University of Chicago, Uni
versity Of California, California In
stitute of Technology, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and New
York university.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-12-03

Corp. Bernard J.. Kessel, Brook
lyn, N. Y, was one of the crew of a
General Grant tank which went on
rampage, ramming and destroying
75-mm. guns and so motor vehicles
in Oran after being separated from
their unit. They penetrated the city
hours before other Allied units en-
tered, emerging without undue mis-
hap.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-12-03

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of Western Newspaper Union
news analysts, and not necessarily of
this newspaper.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-12-03
Ron,mel's Race

Mobile armored units of the Brit
ish eighth army were reported 35
miles from Ell Agheila, which Of
fered Marshal Erwin Rommeps tat
tered Africa Corps its best chance
to make a stand. But Rommel knew
he would find no rest from Allied
bombs.
Bad weather prevented Allied air.
men from maintaining their deadly
attacks on the retreating Germans.
A British military commentator
pointed out that eff the Axis armies
still are planning to make fight OF
it, it certainly will be at Ell Ag-
heila - He said there was con-
siderable evidence that the Axis
forces were close to exhaustion aft
er fleeing across North Africa at
such fast clip. But he added that
Rommel apparently had received
some tanks which had been left at
rear line repair stations.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-24
Little Bears
Drill Against
zup'sA|I.5tars
CoIIesions Practise
Behind Locked Gotes
for Season Opener

EVANSTON, H., Aug. "a -
(P) - The man at the gate of
the Dyche Stadium practice field
stared suspiciously before say
ing:
"You can't 60 inside unless
Bob Zuppke says you're all
right"
College all-stars, in their an
nual August battle with the Ma
tional League Champions, have
held "secret practices before,
at which half the Northwestern
University campus often was in
attendance. But they never be-
fore battened down the doors
like they did this year.
DROOPY DRAWERS
Inside, Zuppke, the former
master mind Of Illinois gridiron
teams, stalked around as in old
en- days in a droppy pair of old
pants. He squinted around the
field where his coaching as
sistants - Lynn Waldorf and
Burt Ingwerson of Northwest
ern, Homer Norton of Texas
A. and NJ, and Lon Stiner of
Oregon State - busted them
selves.
"Hey, where's Stiner," Zup-
PIKE shouted at an equipment
boy. Tell him the Little Bears
are waiting for him."
There's one of the best yarns
out of the training camp:
In previous years the all-star
coaches have been beset by a
dozen or SO collegians who
couldn't measure up to the 9TH
er three fourths of the squad.
They were lads doomed almost
from the first day to get no
more fame than a few lines of
type in the program. Usually
they have been nothing but a
pain in the neck to the busy
general staff.
LITTLE BEARS
But this year Zuppke sorted
out his lesser lights and dubbed
them "The Little Bears" Lon
Stiner was nicknamed George
Halas" and sent out to teach
the Little Bears the T forma-
ton as operated by owner-coach
Halas and his pro league champ
ions. Their duties are to show
the all-stars what to expect Fri
day night in Soldier Field.
The Little Bears responded to
their new role with unexpected
gusto. Today they're the noisi-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-24
Site for Playof
Game IS Shifted

Bar 50, indicated in city
softball play, and Sears
Clowns will meet tonight at
the Covered Wagon diamond
in a game which may decide
the Blue Division sOftbaIl
title.
If the tavern team wins,
the playOffs are over with
Bar 60 facing Hubarth
g. SchOtt in the inter-league
series tomorrow. If Sears
team, once defeated in the
playOffs, wins, the series will
be extended one more game.
The game has been shifted
from st. Mary's because Of
wet grounds.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-24
DoubIe-Loss
SpoiIs Benefit.
Browns Bolster 4th;
50,758 Help Fund

DETROIT, Aug. "a - (P1 -
In near-perfect party. baseball
fans of Detroit and Michigan
Clipped in yesterday with $685.
172 for Army and Navy emer-
gency relief at Briggs Stadium
where the only unpleasantness
was a double defeat handed the
Detroit Tigers.
Before Commissioner X. M.
Lands and 50,758 spectators,
largest home crowd since their
1910 pennant days, the Tigers
had the opportunity to catch the
st. Louis Browns for fourth
place by sweeping the double
bill. Instead the Browns captur-
ed pair of hard fought games
and increased their lead to four
full games, fairly ample for this
time of the year
NIGGELING WINS 18TH
Knuckleballer Johnny Mig
Ceiling achieved his 18th victory
in the opener, 2 to /, by taking
advantage of a pair of unearned
runs to beat Lefty Hal New
houcer, who suffered his tenth
defeat against seven victories. In
the nightcap the Browns scored
two runs for Bob Muncrief in
the tenth Trace to defeat Paul
Dizzy Trout, to 2. 1t was
Trout's 18th setback.
The double defeat ended a
four game winning streak by
the Tigers, who had taken 10 of
IL starts in a bid for a first di-
vision berth. The Tigers open
their last Eastern trip with
twilight-night double-hea d
against the Athletics at Phila-
delphia Wednesday. Exhibition
games are scheduled en- route at
Allentown, Pa, today and Lam
caster, Pa, tomorrow.
There was plenty Of sweet
music at the turnstiles, how
ever in the relief bill. Aided
by cash donations of $500,
the Tigers were able to turn
more money over to the serv-
i've funds than any other city,
save New York. The total ex-
ceeded BrOOklyn'S cOntribu-
ton by several thousand dol
lars.
The twin victory sent the
Browns half a game from third
place.
The Tigers will be absent
from Briggs Stadium until La
Dor Day when they meet st.
Louis again. The Tigers still
have a 10 to 9 edge in the sea-
son series.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-24
He's Francisco SECURE of Ecuador
Good Neighbor Who's Really
Good Snogs Grass Net Title

he accomplished his purpose his
native city of Guayaquil took
over the financial responsibility.
1t was in Guayaquil that he
learned the two-fisted fOrehand
drive which distinguishes him
from other court characters.
When Francisco started playing
as youth Of ten his father,
manager of the club, warned him
not to break the racket by drop
ping it and the youngster grab
bed it with both hands to make
sure it wouldn't escape.
He's been polishing the style
ever since.
Segura had added IL pounds
during the past year and the
added weight, plus the pointers
given him by Mulloy, have
brought him to the top this sum-
mer.
And just to prove that he's
learning his lessons in diplO-
macy as we'll as he is on the
court, Segura told his inter-
viewer please put in the pa
per that I'm from EucuadOr
and Miami University the
people in Florida will like
that"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-24

athletic association for men to
replace coaches lost to the armed
forces or private industries.
FEW DROP CARDS
Although we were unable to
make any recommendations"
Forsythe said, Il don't think
that more than two or three
schools will be asked to be re-
lieved from their schedules. Most
of the affected schools will draft
coaches from less experienced
ranks and carry on"
Curtailment of transportation,
he said, will exert considerable
pressure on interscholastic foot
ball, but even more will come
from the acute farm labor short
age which prevails in Michigan.
Many schools are expected to
follow the precedent set by the
Howell public school system last
week when it announced an in
dividual recess plan TO help
neighboring farmers obtain la
Dor for the fall harvest, Forsythe
indicated.
THAT won't mean practices
generally will be cancelled when
large groups of boys are excused
to help on the FARMS" he said,
but it will handicap many
coaches and probably will re-
suit in some games being drop
ped"
HARVESTING COMPLETES
Forsythe said he was satisfied
that even schools in farming
areas would play "some kind of
schedule" during the coming
football season. "Fo- many
coaches" he said, competition
between football and fall har-
vesting is nothing new and they
will be able to make the best of
it,"
Practice for approximately 25
Upper Peninsula high schools
started Aug. II, while drills for
Lower Peninsula prep squads
will begin Sept. 1, three weeks
before their opening games.
Forsythe was replaced as di-
rector last week by Julian w.
Smith, veteran member of the
State Athletic Council and Prin-
cipal of Battle Creek Lakeview
high school.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-24
BY HAROLD CLAASEN

NEW YORK. Aug. 24-P)-
Francisco (Pancho) Segura,
five foot for and pigeon-toed,
is a good neighbor who's really
good.
The listed Ecuadorean is
likely to bat into the coming
National Tennis Tournament
what life the 62nd Annual Clas-
sic will display. 1t gets under
way at the West Side Club in
Forest Hills on Thursday and
runs through Labor Day.
With a majority of the name
players of recent years unavail-
able, either because they were
in the armed services or be-
cause they had turned pro, the
tourney officials needed an at
traction.
DEFEATS NAVY MAN
Segura became that by defeat
ing Lieut.. Gardnar Mulloy of
the Navy, his former amateur
coach, for the Longwood Bowl
title yesterday, 6-3, GA, 10, SO,
81. 1t was the first time a male
South American had won a
ranking United States grass
court tourney.
Throughout the spring Segura
stormed his way north from Mi
ami University in Florida where
he is studying to be a diplomat,
by romping through clay court
meets. When the tennis nomads
hit the grass circuit about a
month ago, however, he all but
skidded out of the picture.
His triumph in the Longwood
at Brookline, Mass, only his
second win over Muiloy in all
their meetings, was his first ma
jor one on sod this year and i'm
mediately the West Side Club
caretakers began oiling the turn
stiles.
STUDIES FOR DIPLOMACY
Segura came to the United
States two years ago at 10 on a
subsidy from The Eucuadorcan
Ministry of Foreign Education
with the instructions to study
hard-and win the U. S. tennis
crown.
When that help ran out before
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-24
Forsyihe Says
Prep Football
Will Continue
Form Labor Needs
Serious as Cuts
in TRANSPORTATION

LANSING, Aug. 24-(P)-
While all the "worry-bird" pub
licity goes to their collegiate
brethren, Michigan high schools
likewise have tossed aside rose
colored glasses in peering ahead
to the rapidly-approaching foot
ball season.
The state has 425 football
playing high school and although
the first year of the war isn't
expected to make sharp inroads,
take it from Charles E. Forsythe,
former state athletic director,
it has caused a general tighten
ing of belts.
Forsythe, borrowed by the
Navy for its physical fitness pro-
gram, reported Sunday before
leaving the post he held for 13
years that "a dozen or so"
schools appealed to the state
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-24
Dairy Nine Eliminates NVB to Enter County Loop Final
18th Straight Title
Sighted for Locals
But Center Line Must Be Detected
Twice in Row to Coin Championship

Mount Clemens Dairy nine maintained the cys chance Of
capturing County Baseball titles
by edgng the combination New HavenNew Baltimore
81 to the right to face Center Line in the finals of the
two-game knockout playoffs.
teams of four which entered the series
the of the AT that time the MINE
ranked the top of the standings but defeat by Center Line
yesterdays loss dropped them following Richmond
Line and the Dairy nine will meet next Sunday in
which will the title the south county outfit they
loss for them however will throw the payoffs into final
clash with the of that tilt taking the title for the last
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-24

-
Playing at New Haven yester-
day, the Dairy team seized a
one-run, 10 lead in the first
inning and were never headed
nor tied. At the same time, an
inability to hit in the clutch -
IL hits brought in only three
runs - might have cost them
the game; eight runners were
left to die on the bases by the
locals.
The first score came in the
opening frame when Lorne Du-
bay singled, advancing on
George Bannow's infield blow.
First baseman Willard Farris
single scored Dubay to give a
lead. In the second, Dottie Mac
Donald singled, taking second on
an error and crossed the plate
when catcher Chuck Owen
singled off Walter Randall, NH
NIB hurler. Though none were
out when Owen got his safety,
he was unable to reach home,
despite another single, by Willie
May. In the sixth inning, Tommy
Harrington singled, advancing
on Macdonald double and
scoring on an infield boot of
Ovens blow; again Owen, along
with Macdonald, was left on
base.
LAST FOR CENT?
The losers had a number of
scoring chances, but were never
able to get to Billy Cent?, pitch
ing his last game for the dura-
ton for Mount Clemens, for
enough hits to threaten serious
ly. A double play, Bliss to Du-
bay to Farris, shut off one scor-
ing chance in the second; the
only run came in the fourth.
That was when shortstop Bob
Mellen tripled - the longest
hit of the day reaching home
on catcher Adams single. In the
eighth, Mellen doubled with two
out but the third man up struck
out.
Cent?, incidentally, famed
nine men, giving up only one
walk. Randall whitfield eight
and likewise issued only one
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-08-24

ATHENS, Ga, Aug. 24-(P)-
The success of University of
Georgia football team this sea-
son will depend largely on
frankie Sinkwich, All-America
halfback, says Coach Wallace
Butts.
IF we're not hit too lard by
injuries and If SinkWich can
have another great year, then
we will be pretty good" he adds.