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Giraud
Forms
New Army
ReElstered y. 8. Patsnt ories
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Fighting and Vichy French lead
ers. had accepted military leader
ship under him was expected TO
react in Darlsn's favor
Radio Vichy broadcast a procla-
nation by Marshal Petain calling
Giraud a traitor. and ordering
French African forces not TO ac-
cept his orders.
British sources reported that
Gen. Maxine Weygand. Allied
generalissimo when France fell
and former Vichy commander in
chief in North Africa, had been
arrested in Vichy France by order
of the Germans.
Advices from Switzerland said
the Italians who had occupied
French Corsica were meeting
strong resistance by guerrillas who
were firing installations calculated
TO be useful TO the invaders.
NEW PACT HAILED
Radio Morocco read a proclama-
ton by 1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark,
second in command OF the United
States African forces, expressing
pleasure that agreement had been
reached with Darlan and other
French military leaders.
Clark said the only purpose of
the United States was 10 drive
the enemy from African soil and
restore the unity and independ-
ence Of the French empire.
Darlan. in his first order n the
dav. appointed General Giraud
military chief in North Africa and
directed all French soldiers to ac-
cept his orders.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
Byrd Demands
Government Cut
Civilian Forces
Releases Would Aid
Msnpower Problem,
Senator Declares

WASHINGTON. Nov. Is (UP).
Harry F. Byrd CD of
Virginia. chairman of the joint
congressional economy committee,
will begin hearings soon on his
charge that the federal govern
ment is the "chief offender in the
waste and boarding of manpower.
In a statement, Byrd accused
the government of "recklessly
employing vast numbers of un.
necessary workers needed else
where in the war effort and OF
wasting millions of dollars. He
said at leafs one-third of the
100000 employees in the, fedora
civil service could be dismissed
without harming war agencies.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16

your Own Horoscope" by
Frances Drake, Is one of many
famous features in The Detroit
Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
HINT RoMMEL IN TUNIsIA

Stockholm provided both the re-
port that Rommel had gone 10
Tunisia and the news that he had
escaped capture al Tobruk.
II was said he was at his tenn
porary headquarters there when
British tanks raced up and forced
him 10 flee in his shorts and shirts,
leaving his uniform coat and his
scarf behind.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16

and possibly by sea in Tunisia,
and the British Broadcasting Cor
poration reported that Axis forces
in Tunisia might total 10000.
General Anderson. the British
LIST Army commander designated
10 lead the attack on Tunisia, said
his army was 90 per cent British
and 10 per cent American and that
the Germans were trying TO build
up their air force in Tunis to halt
the Allied advance but British
planes from Malta were attacking
them.
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10 his hips and a tomm!
gun under his arm.
General Patton, one of the
most picturesque generals in the
United States Army. first ac-
quired the habit of wearing two
,i5's strapped TO his hips when
he was serving under Pershing
in the expedition into Mexico
against Pancho Villas bandit
warriors
81 am sorry we had to fire on
YOU" Patton said TO MiChelier.
ITS all right" The French
admiral replied. You did your
duty: we did ours"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16

anti-aircraft guns At one point. i
had strange feeling Of unreality
as | saw shells suddenly burst
with vicious black puffs near by.
They rocked our ship. but Doc
little nonchalantly shrugged his
shoulders and remarked:
They don't matter. They
can't touch the Fortress"
over Casablanca We saw the
35,000-ton French battleShip Jean
Bart. two French cruisers and
several destroyers smashed up ir
the harbor. The stern of the
Jean Bart was burned out and
the broken battleship was listing
She showed the holes OF two tor.
pedoeS made by United States
torpedo planes.
The city of Casablanca itself
was untouched by the battle.
In Casablanca. learned some
hitherto undisclosed details of the
action in Morocco,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
CLASHES REPORTED

Fifteen German and Italian
planes had been shot down In two
days over Bone and Bougie. the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
ASKS STRRENDER

The man of the hour was Col.
William Wllbut, who landed with
the first assault force took a jeep
at Fedala and motored all the way
to Casablanca through the lines.
Arriving in the city. he asked
pedestrians. the location of Admiral
headquarters, tn n
walked up to the door, presented
himself and asked for an interview
with the admiral. saying:
"We come As friends. VIII
YOU give up without fighting 2"
The admiral refused to see the
American colonel. who then went
back through the lines 10 Fedala.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-16
PATTON CARRIES ASS

When The armiStice was finally
arranged last Wednesday. Novem-
Der II General Patton walked
into tho headquarters Of the Casa
blanca commander, Admiral Mic
heller. with two rs revolvers
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TARGET FOR ACK-ACKs

As VIC flew down the coast Of
Morocco we were fired upon by
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i. ). Warship
Goes 10 Bottom
Collision Claims
New Worship

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28-(P)
Fog shrouded waters of the
Atlantic today had claimed the
u. S. Destroyer Ingraham, a re-
latively new warship which was
built only slightly more than a
year ago at the Charleston, S. c.,
Navy Yard.
The Navy gave no details. The
sinking was announced as a part
of communique 113, which had
only this to say about it:
Atlantic
3. The u. S. Destroyer Ingra-
ham has been sunk as a result
of a collision in a fog in the
Atlantic.
THE next of kin of those lost
have been notified"
The normal complement of the
ship was ITS.
Other parts of the communi-
que dealt with the sea battle off
the Solomon Islands and report
ed withdrawal of Japanese sur
face forces from the vicinity of
u. S. positions in the Tulagi
area.
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1S from Board No.. )
Take Army Oath
Awoit Coll TO Service
at Fort Custer

Eighteen selectees from Ma
comb Draft Bo rd No. 3 were
at their hor1es today awaiting
orders to rerort to Fort Custer
after they passed Us. Army
physical examinations Wednesday
at the Detroit induction station.
The men we're indicted and
placed in the Army of the United
States Reserve pending the time
they report TO f'ort Custer.
They are: Ember MCGUIRE,
Richmond; Russell Kuechen,
Lenox; Leonard Gabler New
Baltimore: Bernard Stark,
Mount Clemens; Frederic Biel-
sky, Armada; Daniel Hiben, Van
Dyke; Arth, Eldred, New Ha-
ven; Roy Tucker, Mount Glenn
ems; Samuel Howcroft, Jr.,
Utica.
Donald c. McCallum, Detroit;
Frank Catlado, Mount Clemens;
Anthony Elandt, Utica; Douglas
Murphy, Romeo; Chester Bliss,
Mount Clemens, and Jack Mil
lie William E. Macarthur,
George Albrecht and Arthur
Trembath, all Utica.
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Kings
Engaged to
Canteen Worker

LONDON, Aug. % - (P) -
The mother Of. June. Morris,
dark haired, 17-year-old can
teen worker, said today that a
newspaper report that her
daughter was engaged to the
Hon. Gerald Lascelles, 18-year-
old nephew of King George vi
was correct.
eyes, they are engaged, and
there is no thought of calling it
off," said the girls mother. She
added that 'the way circum-
stances n now, they will just
have to wait until Gerald is 81"
The first edition of the tab
loid' London Daily Mirror pub
lished a report of the engage
ment, describing Miss Morris as
a Jewess, but the story was
eliminated without explanation
from a later edition.
Young Lascelles is a son of
the Princess Royal, the only sis
ter of the King, and is 10th in
order of succession to the
throne. He turned ID only last
Friday and soon is to leave a
factory job in northwest Eng
land to join the Army.
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Raj Aids j.. ).
in Sea Patrol

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28-(R
The Navy announced today
that British planes and filters
have joined the anti-submarine
campaign in the western At
lantic.
The official statement said:
Aircraft of the Royal Air
Force coastal command are CO.
operating with the United States
Naval and Arm. aircraf in shti-
submarine operations in the
western Atlantic and have al
ready eng ge' the enemy"
The reference to aircraft
was interpreted by Navy spokes-
men to mean both planes and
personnel had been dispatched
from the British Isles to the
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SOlOmOns
Continued From Page ID

planes, troops, supplies and fuel
dumps.
General MacArthur's Austral-
ian headquarters reported that
Allied airmen .hot down IL or
IA enemy planes during the day
in fights over Milne Bay and the
Japanese base at Buna, 100 miles
up the northeastern coast of New
Guinea. Earlier Japanese losses
at the sWampy Milne Bay land
ing including a transport, prob
ably a carrier and six landing
barges.
Meanwhile, terse Navy De-
partment communique reported
that Japanese surface forces APP
pear to have withdrawn from the
vicinity of our positions in the
Tulagi area"
While modern naval warfare
might result in turning a with
draWal into another large scale
invasion attempt in a matter of
days or even hours, the enemy's
disappearance was regarded gen.
orally as a victory for u. S. Ma
rines and American Naval and
Air Forces.
The first eyewitness account
of the Navy-Marine raid on Ma
kin Island in the Gilberts, about
1900 miles northeast of the Sol
onions, told of the destruction of
$50 Japanese, their ships and in
stallations.
At Pearl Harbor, Commander
John M. Haines who led the
raid, and Major James Roose-
welt, son of the President. dis
closed that Japanese planes
strafed and bombed indiscrimi-
nately, shooting some of their
own men but failing to harm the
American attackers. Roosevelt
was the target of snipers but
was uninjured in the 40-hour
hand-to-hand fighting.
The New Guinea battle cost
the Japanese eight Zero planes
over Milne Bay and four more
at Buna, MacArthur's head
quarters reported. Two others
were believed destroyed at Buna
and three damaged. A single AL
lied fighter was lost.
While the Navy earlier an
nounced at least ID Japanese
warships damaged in the Solo,
mons encounter, a Reuters New
Zealand correspondent reported
that Japanese wounds in the
weeks affra", severe and an
noying as they are to the enemy,
do not probably touch the main
strength of the Japanese naval
force"
Allied losses, as yet undetail-
ed, included the 1,600-ton u. S.
Destroyer Ingraham which the
Navy said was sunk in a COLI
sion in an Atlantic fog. The YES
sci was launched Feb. Is. 1941,
and had a normal complement
of ITS. Whether any had been
rescued was not stated.
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Continued From Page ID
noted he left to take a better job,
but Sherman could not remem-
Der the name of his new en-
ployer. He said the plant is near
hi: Detroit home.
DR.. E. j. Scully, who treated
Sherman's body was not other
man apparently had been hit on
top of the head, possibly with a
Blackjack. He suffered a possible
conclusion, a broken nose, a
bruised mouth and cuts about
the head.
Because DR.. Scully said that
Germans body was not other
wised marked, Winters ruled out
that the possibility he was the
victim of a hit-run driver.
Sherman told Winters he has
no known enemies. His wife,
Marie, was summoned to his bed
side.
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Maxim
Continued From Page y

Commander (John NJ Haines
(of Coronado, Calif.) who pre-
sented it to Admiral Nimitz (Ad-
miral Chester w. Nimitz. COM
mander-in-chief of the Pacific
fleet"
HEORIC ACTION
Lieut.. Oscar F. Peatross. of
Raleigh, N. c., led a group which
got caught behind the Japanese
lines. In a close exchange, they
fought it out with a Jap patrol.
and lost three men but cut in
from the rear, shot down Jap
runners, burned trucks and de-
stroyed a radio station.
Colonel Carlson lauded il as
zone of the coolest bits of hero
ISM 1t was Lieutenant Peat
ross baptism under fire.
A Jap bomber was caught by
Marines while attempting to flee
the battle scene but the invad-
ers shot away two of its engines
and from 100 feet up it crashed,
killing all aboard.
Major Roosevelt summed UP
what he thought of the raiding
force this way: Il don't think
there is a finer group of men
in the world"
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Russia
CONTINUED From PAGE u

sian last ditch stand there, dis
patches declared that in one
salient presumably northwest
of the city, the Russians had
hurled the Germans back in To-
cal counterattacks, recapturing
three settlements.
The defenders were hardest
pressed from the southwest
where the Germans were re-
ported charging over mounds of
their own dead.
Pravda reported that a strong
force of Nazi parachutists who
landed behind the Stalingrad
line and seized temporary con-
troll of a road junction had been
wiped out.
Fighting for the Caucasus ap-
peared moving at a lower pace
now that the battles had moved
into mountain passes more east
ly defended.
Red Army men fell back
again in the Prokhladnewski
area of the Caucasus, but held
firm at a Junction of mountain
roads south of Irasnodar, the
midday communique ANNOUNCE
ed.
Without identifying the forti-
fications seized in the 16-day.
old push west of Moscow, the
communique reported Htwo
tanks were destroyed and more
than 100 Germans were killed
In another sector our troops,
developing the offensive, occu-
pied seven populated places" II
was announced. I'VE destroyed
Is German tanks, 10 anti-tank
guns and 25-trucks- and-cap-
tured two tanks, one armored
car, several guns and other war
materiel."
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Rally
Continued From Page ~

The First Regiment of Women
Air Raid Wardens, of Detroit,
will send a uniformed platoon
headed by their Commander,
Augusta Phelps Munro to this
meeting. Commandant Munro is
women's representative on the
staff of Civilian Defense. De-
troit, and each member of the
first regiment is a certified air
raid warden. Commandant Mum
70 will speak on the part women
can play in Civilian Defense and
the platoon will offer five min
utes of military drill.
Others on the program in
clude the nationally known
Cameron Mclean, baritone, and
Prudence B%utterfield, pianist, as
we" as Henrietta Kominarek.
Yvonne Londry and Ruth Kar-
narek, soloists.
No admission will be charged.
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Greyhound Speeds
Gratiot Service
Mount Clemens Buses
Toke Foster Route

In order to speed up service
to Mount Clemens, Roseville,
East Detroit and the communi-
ties between Mount Clemens
and Port Huron and Detroit and
Inlay City, Greyhound buses in
leaving the Detroit terminal will
turn north in Washington Blvd,
and follow the regular route
over Park Ave, Witherell ST.,
Madison and Gratiot AYES.
The service over the new
route went into effect Friday
morning, p. l.. Radcliffe, gen
eral traffic manager announced
today. Buses inbound to the De-
troit terminal will follow the
same route they have in the past.
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Nelson Cracks Whip Over
Army, Navy Priority Power
WIPE Chief Follows Demands Thot
He Take OF Kid Gloves on Job
WASHINGTON, Aug. ga

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28-(P)
donald NJ. Nelson, urged on
Capitol Hill to become a Simon
Legree, has cracked a whip over
the flow of war materials by
stripping the Army and Navy of
their authority to issue priori-
ties.
The War Production Chief an
nounced last night that effective
Sept. 2 power to grant priority
ratings will rest solely with
WPB district offices. He de-
scribed the new procedure as a
step toward "a much stricter
system" of distributing critical
materials.
AS he spoke. Senator Brewster
(R-Maine) a member of the Tru-
man Defense committee, told re-
porters that he commended Mel
sons decision to "get tough"
"These are times" Brewster
said, "that require a regular ST.
mon Legree who'll play no fav-
orites. Nelson obviously is the
man to do the job if he reilly gets
tough. He's fitted by back
ground and training"
Brewster, asserting that "this
crisis cannot afford pocket pat
riots" also suggested that Mel
son could dispense with a few
of the dollar-a-year men in
WPB.
people must realize" he said,
..that no matter how important
they are, Nelson a order them
around without impugning their
patriotism. Mealy-mouthed pro-
cedure is out"
Under the old system hun
dreds of Army and Navy Pro-
curement officers and inspectors
were empowered to grant pri-
e S automatically p on
awarding a contract. AS a result
priorities sometimes were grant
ed for materials that could not
be obtained.
"There has been no careful
accounting of the quantities of
materials to which ratings were
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Army Grants
County Contract

The War Department announc-
ed yesterday that the Detroit en-
gineer had awarded a contract
for the installation of steam dis
tribution, sanitary sewer, water
distribution and water main ia
cilities costing between $50, 900
and 500 600 in Macomb Coun-
ty, Mich, to Drake Avery Co.,
Dearborn, Mich. 1t is understood
that the contract lovers expan-
sion work at the Chrysler Tank
Arsenal in Warren township.
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(1ech Staff Officers
Executed by Germans

LONDON, Aug. 28-CR-The
execution of nine former Czech
general staff officers by the Ger
mans was announced today by
the Czech government here.
A spokesman for the govern
ment said the officers had been
sentenced by q German court OF
Prague on char -es of commit
ing high treason against the Ger
man Reich and against the order
created in Bohemia and Moravia
as leaders of a high reasonable
organization"
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Man, Is, Jailed
to Rest Up

John Moseley, rs, no home,
today was sentenced to serve 90
days in the county jail where
Justice Donald j. Parent knows
he'll eat regularly.
The elderly man was arrested
by Patrolman Pat O'Grady as
he begged money from several
youths. When Parent noticed the
man had not eaten lately, the go
day sentence followed.
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issued" Nelson said.
He planned to dispatch WPB
priorities specialists immediate
ly to district offices in various
parts of the country to issue the
ratings.
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United States to aid inter silica
ton of the war on the U-boats-
a war which naval officials say
has been increasingly successful
in the las. two months.
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Raids
Continued From Page u

y Wis, 80 Hoss
ers hit a source of Messerschmitt
fighters and the site of the Naxis
biggest Locomotive foundry.
To reach it, they speared 80
miles deeper into Germany
from their home bases than the
Ruhr and Rhineland regions
which have been hardest hit in
recent months.
(The German high command
acknowledged material dam
age in residential quarters" and
some civilian casualties in the
KasSel attack.
The loss of 80 bombers indi-
Gated that some 600 of the RAF's
big planes made the raid. Brit
ish losses on night raids have
been roughly five per cent.
POWERFUL THRUST
The raid was the heaviest CT
nine on Kassel since the start of
the war and its coStlinesS to the
attackers, British sources said,
could be attributed partly to the
bright light of an almost full
moon which helped Nazi night
fighter and ground defenses.
Kassel is 80 miles northeast of
Frankfurt, one of the targets
which the Raj hit Monday in its
last night raid on Germany, and
its principal factories include the
Henschel locomotive works, said
to be the largest in Europe; the
Henschel aircraft engine works
which make Daimler and Benz
engines; and the Fieseler air
craft works which turn out Mes
serschmitt fighters.
While the big bombers we're
striking at the root of Nazi air
power, fighters were maintain
ing almost c~easeless offensive
patrol over Nazi-occupied France
and there were indications of
possible Naval encounters in the
English channel and the Katie
gat.
ROLL OF GUNFIRE
Watchers on the British South
east coast reported the heavy
roll of gunfire from out In the
,mists of the Strait suggesting 10
some a sea battle in the region
of the entrance to the North Sea.
i liar cannonading was
heard at Varberg, on the West
coast of Sweden. Swedish re-
ports said it appeared to come
from Warships embattled some
where in the narrow waters of
the Kattegat through which Ger
man vessels would have to pass
between the North Sea and their
home bases.
Nazi radio dispatches said
British raiders smashed over
night at West, Central and
Northeast Germany, conceding
damage in several localities, but
did not mention specific targets.
Although the raiders were de-
scribed as British, the wide
sweep of the attacks suggested
that the suddenly renewed Rus
sian air offensive against Ger.
many might have accounted
again for the pounding of the
Nazis' Eastern cities.
German bombers, meanwhile,
followed up light night attacks
on Northern England with a SER
les of daylight raids on widely
separated areas.
LUFTWAFFE STRIKES
Two enemy planes bombed
Bristol during the forenoon, un-
loading bombs which an Off
cial statement said caused some
damage and some fatalities.
Four persons were killed and
a number injured in a Northeast
coast town where the raiders
dropped many high explosives
and new type fire bombs. Sew
eral delayed action bombs also
fell.
Later a lone Nazi plane bomb
ed a town in West England,
wrecking three buses loaded
women and children died in the
flaming wreckage.
One German fighter was re-
ported shot down off the South
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Though hand join in hand, the
wicked shall not be unpublished:
but the seed Of the righteous
shall be delivered. Proverbs
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He disappointeth the devices
C the crafty, SO that their hands
cannot perform their enterprise.
job 5:12.
SO comes a reck'ning when
the banquet's Ger, the dreadful
rcck'ning, and men smile no
more.-Gay.
Evening star., 1942-05-12
| rain Engineer
| Shot, Youth Held
| In SABOTAGE Plot
By the Associated Press.

oS tHc ASsOCidbcO ffeSS-
CLEVELAND, May l2-The
United States District Attorneys
office announced today that Don
aid Kintner, 20, would be charged
with sabotage-the shooting of a
locomotive engineer in an effort to
halt a trainload of war materials.
The maximum penalty on con-
viction under this charge is 80 years.
imprisonment plus a $4,000 fine.
Jerome N. Curtis, assistant dis
trict attorney, said Kintner would
be accused of hitting r. j. Becker,
New York Central engineer with
20 caliber bullet last Friday near
Elyria, Ohio. His fireman took over
the trains controls and brought 1t
to the next station. Mr.. Becker suf-
fered head wound but Is recover-
ing.
''Kintner was interrupting the,
flow of war materials to help the
German cause. and he conceived the
idea Of wrecking trains" Mr.. Curtia
said.
D. w. Taylor, chief of police for
the New York Central, announced
Sunday that Kintner, whose home ID
at Elyria, admitted he took a shot
at the engineer" and also that he
had fired several shots into q signal
tower mechanism last week.