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Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-17
Raj Raids German
industrial Areas,
Loses 80 Bombers

LONDON, Sept II. CUP) - A
very strong force of ROYAL air
force bombers smashed Germany's
industrial Ruhr last night, and 80
failed to return.
The air ministry. announcing the
Ruhr raid said light bomberS began
the nights activities by attacking
industrial objectives in the Wies-
baden area, south Of the Ruhr.
The loss Of SO planes was the
largest in recent weeks and COM
pared with the losses suffered dur
ing the 1O00-l-ane raids of the
early summer. Average losses in
large scale air operations are about
five per cent OF the raiding force,
indicating that at least 780 planes
were involved in last nights raids
Many fires were started in the
Ruhr. heart of Germany's war in
dustrieS. and several very large"
conflagrations still were burning
when the pilots left for home
Last nights loss was the heaviest
in the RATS current series of at
tacks and the biggest since the
plane raid on Bremen on the
night OF June 1926. when 50 bomb
ers were lost.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-17

WASHINGTON, Sept II CUP
- Wendell Lund. director of the
WPB's labor production division
said today that Lex Of definite
manpower policy endangers the war
effort and makes it impossible to
determine the largest and most ef-
ficient army that can be serviced
by the United States.
So long as voluntary enlistments
are permitted, no positive policy on
the division of manpower between
industry and the armed forces can
be made effective by the selective
service system, he said in a state
ment prepared for presentation to
the special house defense migration
committee.
As yet no machinery or princi-
piles have been established by which
we can determine the largest and
most efficient possible army which
can be fully serviced by those who
are left outside the armed forces,
he said Our government agen-
cies are preparing themselves to
make that decision. But until it
is made. twin dangers face the ma
tion's war effort
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-17
BY Nj. s. HANDLER

MOSCOW, Sept. II. tUP)-The
Russians were locked in deadly
street battles with perhaps 100000
Germans and Rumanians in the
northwestern outskirts of Stain
grad today, nine to II miles from
the center of the city.
The Germans are now fighting
like devils" the government news
paper Izvestia said.
German losses were huge, and the
Soviet noon communique acknowl-
edged no German gains. but 'front.'
line dispatches revealed that the
Germans made one dangerous pen
etration and almost drove into the
city. before they could be hammered
back.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-17
BY ROBERT G. MILLER

MARINE HEADQUARTERS, Sol
omon Islands, Aug. 2l-CDelayed)-
cUPl-The tanks turned the battle
of Tenaru-the first serious Japa-
nese attempt to regain foothold
en- Guadalcanal iSland-into mas
SaCre.
The battle has been raging since
about 3 o'clock this morning and
the marines have penned the Japa-
nese landing force into a coconut
grove on a beach.
watched the tanks come roll
ing down the road and out onto
a sandbar that constituted no mans
land.
Every marine in our outfit let
out a yell when the tanks appear
ed and the whole American side
of the Tenaru front sounded like
the bleachers at EbbetS Field
when the Dodgers win a close one.
TWO ALTERNATIVES
The tanks rumbled down in single
file toward the coconut palms
where the japanese were hidden
among the trees and brush.
There were only two things the
japanese could do. They could
scramble and run-and be moved
down by machine guns. Or they
could lie low in hope the tanks
would miss them as they roared
back and forth, blasting the ground
as they moved.
1t was pitiful to watch the Japa-
nese try to fight the tanks. They
fired their rifles and machine guns
at the armor plating and the bull
lets pinged off harmlessly.
Needless of stray bullets, the
American marines climbed out of
their positions and watched as
the tanks methodically went about
their work
The show was over when the
tanks had finished.
PATROL CUT UP
The japanese landing party of
75O had been wiped out. American
casualties we're % marines killed
and 7z wounded.
The scene of the battle was the
beach near Tenaru river where the
United Nations forces first landed
on August 7. Forty-eight hours
earlier an advance reconnaissance
party of Japanese was cut to bits
by a patrol led by Capt. Charles II.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-17
DELAY DANGEROUS

Churchill'S visit to Moscow was
regarded as taking this a step
further. Personal relationships
among London, Washington and
Moscow are most important.
However, from the Russian view
point, the question arises whether
the Soviet peoples view has been
affected as a result of the delayed
second front.
1t has been emphasized that the
second front has nothing to do
with the Russians unWeakening de-
termination to fight on to victory
but it might outWeight and erase
the progress already made toward
mutual trust on the global battle
fields and collaboration in the post
war world,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-17
Second
Front
Talked
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS

LONDON, Sept. 17-UP)-The
epochal battle of Stalingrad has
sharply revived the question of the
timing and direction of the coming
Allied offensive blow from the west
and has brought out as sharply
Soviet fears that delay will not
only vastly prclong the war but
change the course of history.
The net results of the recent weeks
of Allied discussions and Prime Min
lister Winston Cnurchill's visit to
Moscow may now be summed up
clearly:
Premier Josef Stain wants an
iron-clad agreement to launch an
Anglo American offensive in Eu-
rope On the greatest possible scale
Immediately, but the British and
Americans-without rejecting 1912
invasion-failed to reach an agree
ment in line with the Russian desire
or an adequate substitute for it.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-17
TANKS DESTROYED

"On another sector, as result
of furious fighting frequently de-
veloping into hand-t o-hand clashes,
up to 2,20O OF l:Ic enemy were wiped
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-17
NO BULIC PLEDGE

AS far as the present phase of
the war is concerned, it appears
that the British and Americans
have made up their minds that
the best way to, overcome difficult
ties and win the war is not likely
to change, in a major sense, as a
result of eastern front develop
mentS.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-17
RUSSIAN POSITION

This does not prevent an Allied
offensive on France tomorrow
morning and it also means there
will be no weakening of coopera-
ton in supplying war materials to
Moscow. But it leaves no doubt of
the Soviet view that the time has
come for the Allies to defy any
difficulties and face the longest
struggle to come to their aid
1t has been pointed cut that the
Russians and the British and Amer
leans have lived in an atmosphere
of mutual suspicion since the Boil
shevik revolution. But the present
struggle has gone far to eliminate
the Russian distruSt as Anglo
American war supplies arrived to
bolster the Red army, which arouS-
ed Allied admiration and evoked
praise from the former severe crit
les of the Soviet Union-such as
Churchill.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-17

oIt.
Southwest of Stain grad, Soviet
troops repulsed enemy infantry and
tank attacks. On one sector alone,
Soviet troops destroyed II tanks,
three armored cars, Is motor vehi-
cles loaded with war materials and
killed up to $50 of the enemy
The German general attack on
Stalingrad was in its eighth day,
and, although it was from the be-
ginning one of the worlds blood
lest battles, it was growing steadily
in fury.
Perhaps 45O,0OO storm troopers
were beating at the northwestern
defenses, and probably 100000 al
together were engaged i'll the assault.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-17
Miller Tells How
Tanks Beot Jdps

Brush CT Jersey City. The patrol
surprised the Japanese landing and
killed 18 of them in an action sew
eral miles east of Tenaru.
The main action started early
this morning. Japanese scouts,
shortly after midnight, opened fire
on our outposts located in a COCO
nut grove on the west side of the
Tenaru.
The Japanese tried to infiltrate
behind our positions by crawling
down the beach, swimming out in
the ocean and wading the shallow
river upstream.
About 3 a. m. the main Japanese
attack opened, supported by heavy
machine gun and mortar fire. The
Japanese charged down the beach
and tried to cross a Sandbar at the
mouth of the Tenaru.
BODIES PILE UP
But a murderous fire from cur
light and heavy machine guns, ar
tillery and rifles moved down every
japanese who raced out of the
coconut grove.
The japanese bodies piled up on
t.e sandbar like sandbags on a
Mississippi river flood dixie.
The Americans, under Lieut.. Col.
L. B. Cresswell of Mississippi then
swept up on the japanese while
forces under Lieut.. Col Edwin A.
Pollack, Augusta, Ga, penned them
along the Tenaru river front.
That put the japanese in a pock-
ct and their position was desper-
ate. They could not advance across
the river, the ocean held their right
flank and Cresswells men bottled
them up on the land side. Cress-
wells men then cut through to the
Ilu river to complete the encircle-
ment of the coccnut grove. 1t was
a death trap for the Japanese.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-17
RAIN COMES DOWN

The Germans, after making the
penetration on a northwestern Sec
tor, established themselves in the
easements and garrets OF buildings
still standing and tried to halt
the Soviet counter-attacK. The Rus
slams took each house separately.
killing the Germans or making them
retreat.
The Berlin correspondent of a
Stockholm newspaper wrote today
that the Germans admitted that
continuous rain was soaking the
battlefield at Stalingrad.
CThe rain, he quoted German
military quarters, was somewhat
impeding military operations, but
at least was a momentary, and not
a serious, handicap.D
"On the northwestern outskirts
of Stalingrad, enemy automatic ri
flemen, supported by tanks, attack
ed positions defended by rifle unit
N the noon communique said Our
troops repulsed the attacks. Six
German tanks were disabled and
burned out by anti-tank guns, gren-
AIDES and fuel bottles. A detachment
of enemy automatic riflemen was
encircled and wiped out.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-17
FALSE teeth
Need Not Embarass
That Loosen

Many wearers Of false teeth have suf-
fered real embarrassment because their
plate dropped. slipped or wiggled at just
the wrong time. Do not live in fear OF
this happening to you. Just sprinkle a
little FAsTEETH. the alkaline Cnon-acidD
poYder on your plates Holds false teeth
more firmly. 50 they feel more comfort
nhle. Does not turn sour. Checks plate
odor'' (denture breath. Get FASfEEfH
at any drug store,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-17
DEATH TOLL HUGE

Large numbers of planes were
thrown into the battle. More and
more tanks assaulted, and their
blows fell one on top of another.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
LUNCH

oyster stew - made OF
SKINNED milk $50 calories); 2
soda crackers (75 calories); l
cup tea-no cream or sugar.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24

STIRRING example of the kind of cooperation which
n will win the is afforded by the Commercial Air
Line Pilots Of America.
Recognizing the wartime necessity for efforts and
service in excess of normal practice the 1000 commercial
armen affiliated with the Air Line Pilots Association
have endorsed plan TO increase their monthly flying
hours from So 100 and more whenever military pur-
poses require
Since the maximum legal flying time is fixed by law,
bill has been introduced in Congress by Rep Clarence
F. Lea of California to broaden this vital field of service
and the pilots themselves officially and unanimously
behind the measure.
The beneficial effect is obvious.
Practically all the civilian airmen military reserv-
lists and the additional duties assumed by those remain
ing in the service of the commercial air lines will release
many capable fers badly needed by the armed forces.
IL ADDITION many hours and thousands of miles of
service will be performed in of the normal opera
tons of planes and men.
From every standpoint, then the program is sub
stanal contribution national enterprise and to victory
in the
point not to be overlooked in this connection is the
vital Importance of the airlines to the effort.
They provide the nation with its fastest medium Of
transportation and major medium OF cargo transport
as we'll.
War does not lessen the need of the country for
mercial air service, but increases it enormously.
Therefore the civilian pilots performing essential
defense servces-and by devotng hours to these
services than the law now requires they are dong the
extra things which all Americans must do to win this
and hasten it to its victorious conclusion.
HE example of these is patriotic, it is wholesome
and it plainly the conception of duty which
should and must become the fixed standard of all Ameri
cans in all fields of enterprise.
Few occupations have better for legal limit
working hours than air line pilots.
AS President David L. Behneke of the Air Line Pilots
Association says, the law limiting airmen to 85 hours a
month enacted the interest Of public safety because
"a tired pilot is unsafe pilot
But when nation is fighting for its life, for free
ND raCp
and principles the allotted duties of everybody must
increase and services beyond ordinary practice be per-
formed and sacrifices beyond usual requirement be made
This basic patriotism in wartime has been appropri
aely and splenddy recognized by the commercial pilots
of America.
1t should be example and inspiration to other
Americans in all calngs wherever extra hours of work
and extra service and extra production necessary to
build the materials of and to get them to the battle
fronts and into the hands of our fighting
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
Roosevelt AII-Ou+ on Job.
No Time Left for Worry
BY HUGH S. JOHNSON

4 BILITY 10 relax is a rare
"A quality. Not one man in
10000 has it. These are the
reasons why so many men in
important jobs in the emergency
war organization are fretful.
irritable, don't get their work
done and also why there is so
much back-biting and lack Of
cooperation.
This is not necessarily a
permanent condition. 1t tends
to cure itself as the organiza-
ton shakes itself down." 1t Is
doing that now. Every recent
step of reorganization has been
in that direction.
The country has not been
shown enough of it to see the
far-reaching effects of the recent
army reorganization-especially
of the supply side under Somer-
veil.
He has very full authority
under Nelson's very general
supervision over the procure
ment of all kinds of supplies by
the army bureaus and of the
men who are to do the work.
They must do it as Somervell
sayS-or else, and he is no
siSsy-britches in making the "or
else" mean something.
IF THE navy goes as far, then
Il Nelson's job will be reduced
TO a minimum because. with a
Joint army-navy munitions board
ironing out by conference and
agreement all but irreconcilable
conflicts, Nelson will have only
the few toughest nuts TO crack
and can devote himself to his
real job.
That Job is not to do any pur-
chasing at all, but to ration
scant supplies where they are
most needed and TO see that
army, navy, lease-lend and the
maritime commission get what
they need of both supplies and
facilities, exactly when and
where they need 1t.
That plus conversion OF plants,
conservation of material, SUBJ
stitution Of plentiful for scant
materials and . care for the
civilian population is Nelson's
job-that and very little else
beside.
1t is exactly that Job that he
hasn't as yet been able to do,
partly because he doesn't seem
fully TO understand how to do it
and partly for all the other rea-
sons stated here.
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Reproduction in whole OF In part
strictly prohibited,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
THE NAVY

IHE NAtf
CALLING in a mixed Ameri-
~ can and French fleet the old
Bonhomme Richard commanded
by John Paul Jones met the new
British ship-of-the-line Scraps
off the east coast Of England,
September %, 1779.
Opening with a broadside fired
at the Scraps, the Bonhomme
Richard was soon outgunned by
the faster, bigger British ship.
1t wasn't long until it was in a
sinking condition.
During a lull in the sea battle
when Jones yelled, Il have not
begun to fight"-the two ships
laid next to each other until
Jones unanswered the Richard
around and dashed his sinking
ship to the Scraps.
Jones began clearing tn e
decks Of the British ship with
e-pounders and muskets and
then a lucky hand grenade shot
exploded a large pile of ammuni-
ton. With their ship on fire the
English surrendered to the
American crew.
The Americans boarded the
Scraps, captured the British
battleship and extinguished the
flames just before their own
Bonhomme Richard began sink
ing below the waves.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24

ONE reason for some Of the
W confusion, caterwauling and
mutual heel-biting at Washing
ton is becoming very apparent.
Some OF the big shots have
wearied and worried their nerves
into frayed ends.
Part of this is because there
have been so many lightning
changes In responsibilities and
authority without warning and
with more changes threatened
every minute. Part Of it is due
to faulty organization, uncer-
tainty OF authority and poor
selection OF subordinates.
Most of all this boils down to
a single cause-men attempting
to do too much in too few
hours with too little competent
assistance.
These ambitious gents have
run themselves ragged. They
are breaking down physically
and nervously. Between fits Of
exaltation and dips into despair,
they just aren't normal.
MIR. B. M. BARUCH recalled
AVA to my mind something that
I had forgotten. With a couple
OF brilliant exceptions, the men
of the 1918 war industries board
were all well under so years
of age. Mr.. Baruch was as.
The present writer was 33.
In the preceding year of trial
and error and cut-and-try, the
older men-some very brilliant
ones-had been forced by medi-
cal advice to give up and go
home. The exceptions were or
6diilLdllOiidl cope - "itii VII
usual qualities of endurance
who knew how to divest them
selves of detail.
Today the President Is an
example of another kind of
gifted character who can stand
the gaff. He once said to this
writer:
During my waking, working
hours, I give the best I have In
me and neglect rs little as pos
sible. When time comes for
rest and sleep, i can reflect that
I could not have done better II
I had IL all TO do over again,
except for hindsight which
simply does not come at the
same time as the problem.
There Is nothing left for me but
to close my eyes and I do II and
am asleep. 1 have no time for
worry" "a g
His mother once CONFIRMED
this TO me in very similar cords.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
Diet of Meat
Regaining
lis Popularity
Blame for Many Ills
Later Disproved
BY DIR. LOGAN CLENDENINd

BY DIR. LOGAN CLENDENINd
I ALWAYS have liked meat
better than any other form
of food. and the only person
I ever knew well who preferred
vegetables to meat borrowed SIS
from me in 1915 and has never
paid it back. so 1 am suspicious
of people who say they prefer
vegetables to meat.
This favoritism of mine to-
wards meat was once a difficult
thing for me to defend.
Meat got a bad name among
nutritionists about the time that
Doctor Haig wrote a book called
Uric Acid, in which he ascribed
nearly all diseases to the ac-
emulation of uric and ascribed
that accumulation to the eating
of meat.
This long since has been dis
proved as a scientific doctrine,
but the superstition fingers on.
AS short time as Is years ago,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-24
Labor, Beware!

UXYIHAT is Communist? One who has the yearnings
w for equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or
bungler BOTH he is willing fork out his copper and
pocket your shilling. "-Ebenezer Elliott in 1881.
Dispatches from Washington tell that Sir Walter
Ctrne secretary of the British Trades-Unon Congress
and a radical eft-winger, will be his way to
America to ask the AFL to lift its ban cooperation
with "tradeunionists" in Soviet Russia.
Sir Walter it is said will further urge the founding
Of brand international trades-union' which will
consist of British American and Soviet labor unions.
Such alliance would be the worst thing that could
happen not only to America whole, but particularly
to American labor unions
1t would reduce workers the level of the slave
unions of Soviet Russia are labor unions in name only
They more free than organization Of
laborers in Sing Sing
a N INTERNATIONAL federation Of trades-unions Of
a which we would be part would compel us to COM
pete with the lowest paid labor in Europe well the
forced labor levels in Russia for of course such inter-
national group would not have competing wage-scales
Matthew VOL vice president of the AL said in 1898
n an RdSss at oslo N9W WT4p that RADE nRl0N y
FORM OF TOTALTTARIANISM ARE A DENIAL OF
THE BASIC FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF FREE
LABOR MOVEMENTS"
That truth should be obvious to every sane American
who belongs 10 union.
THE proposition that is a-stewng in the head of Sir
Walter Ctrne is nothing more or less than colossal
attempt to COMMUNE the labor of the word-incud-
ing American labor-as preliminary coup for the dicta
torship OF the proletariat, directed from Moscow.
That there is worldwide hookup in this conspiracy
against free labong classes again evidenced by the
fact that Vncente Lombardo Toedano president of
Mexican GIN, whose Moscow eanings we'll known,
has recently been in and out Of AFL national head
quarters
MEXICAN union workers, whether AFL or Go
should make every effort NOW to squelch this
Citrine- MoscowT drive on our labor unions
The American worker, under our 150-year-od Ameri-
system has achieved the highest level Of wages and
living in all history.
He does not crawl and trenbe before government or
commissars OGPUs or cominterns
He is not used tool by any political party as the
Soviet desunionsts' used by the Communist
Party of Russia-or else
Our present military alliance with the Russians who
doing valiant work against enemy does
not obgate to accept Soviet Russas ideas Of govern
ment or the ugly pattern Of her "trades-unions"
We should think that the Messrs Citrine and Tole-
dano have all they attend 10 home in these busy
times without coming here TO shanghai unions into an
"internationa" body that will be controlled by Stains
forced labor" unoneers.