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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-02-18

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09
1880 British
Axis Prisoners
Trs w! KrS ss's s,Nl,s, In, WI rights 'e'r't

LONDON. Sept. 9 CUP).-Sir
James Grigg, secretary of state
for war. told Commons today that
up to August IS, the government
had been notified that 77l90 Brit
ish war prisoners were in Axis
hands.
He said that figure did not in
clude prisoners taken in Malaga or
most of the other Far Eastern
ltheaters, or prisoners captured in
recent operations.
Army prisoners total 70,526, of
which 81. 788 are held in Germany,
ll4,655 in Italy. 3,olS in the Far
East and the others elsewhere.
Navy prisoners totaled 1929 and
Royal Air Force prisoners 3,l35,
most OF them being held by the
Germans.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09
BOnlbings
Cripple
ROIlllllel

CAIRO, Sept. 9 GNS).-Rein-
forced with new tanks. Allied
forces in the Middle East today
were ready for the next phase OF
the desert battle.
Scores of armored fighting ma
chimes, not long off production
lines, we're ready 10 be thrown
into the combined British and
American forces that face the Axis
divisions Of Nazi Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel.
Depletion of the German Afrika
korps and Italian mechanical
forces was due in great measure
to continued bombardment from
the air.
A Royal Air Force announce
ment stated that 2S9 sorties had
been carried out against the enemy
since August 81. In the course of
these assaults, more than 1000 900
pounds of bombs were dumped on
the Axis troops and supply bases.
Shattered enemy tanks. motor
transports and supplies, left in the
wake of Rommers hurried with
drawal were cited as evidence OF
the effective bombing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09
Navy Casualties
August 1880
Listed as 437
Rescue Of Missing
From Isolated Spots
Reported Still Possible

Casualties of United States
naval forces during the period OF
August 13 to 80, inclusive. total
437. the navy department an
today, The total includes
dead, missing and wounded.
These casualties, covered by the
navy departments List No. H."
cover those reported to the next OF
kin in all states except Delaware,
Nevada and South Dakota.
The Territory of Hawaii is in
Guided and none was reported for
other territories or possessions.
SIT MISSING
Covering personnel Of the navy,
marine corps and coast guard, the
announcement lists 103 dead, BIZ
missing and II wounded.
The official navy announcement
explains that large portion oil
the casualties resulted from direct
action with the enemy. but in
cluded are names of those who
were lost in accidents at sea anc
in the air on duty directly con-
nected with wartime operations.
Natural deaths or accidents not
connected with operations against
the enemy are not included.
Some of those classed as missing
may have been rescued at sea oil
have landed at isolated spots oil
otherwise have made their way In
safety to places from which they
have been unable TO communicate
with naval authorities, the an.
explained.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09
Tuscany Grand Duke S
Reputed Kin in Army

Piero Chiesi. Al, Saginaw fac
tory worker, who says he is the
great-grandson of the Grand Duke
of Tuscany, today is in the army.
ready TO fight his one-time blood
brothers.
Indicted yesterday. Chiesi said
he would prefer not 10 fight
against the Italians. but that If he
was ordered to. he'd do IL. His
relatives, however. said they did
not know the grand duke was a
member of the family.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09
Battle
RACES for
Sea Base
Registered U. S. Patent onics
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
German tank drives and then held
the enemy forces in check.
On the central front. west Of
Moscow, the Red armies main
tanned the offensive and reported
capture of three more inhabited
localities.
Only in the Mozdok area. in the
central Caucasus, did the Russian
communicate claim a success for
the hard-pressed Red armies. Here
a tank force that crossed TO the
south bank OF river was beaten
back and faced humiliation in a
Russian flank attack which cost
the Nazis $50 dead.
Both sides were reported throw
ing fresh troops into the exhaust
ing, bloody battle on the APP
proaches to Stalingrad.
"a Stockholm dispatch to the
London Daily Express reported
that Soviet Marshal Semyon
Timoshenko had brought up new
tank and infantry divisions to
the sector directly west OF Stall
ingradD
Planes OF the Russian Baltic
fleet attacked a German airdrome
on the northern front and de-
stroyed 10 German three-motored
planes, said a dispatch from that
sector.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09
ADD THRILLING CHAPTER

How they fought last week in
their initial major action against
the desert-wiSe Germans adds a
thrilling chapter TO American eX-
PLOTS in this war.
Take, for example, the story oil
Sgt. Barney Rossi of Brooklyn
Here's the way Rossi tells it:
II was rear gunner in our
tank. which moved up to battle
before dawn on August 81.
Under heavy shellfire and the
pounding of Stuka dive bombers
we could occasionally hear an
enemy shell bang against the
tank, but we didn't get target
to fire at until $3.50 p. m.
"Then 25 tanks appeared. j
fired one round and heard three
shells hit our tank. I fred
second round and saw an enemy
tank flame Up.
BLASTS 8 MORE TANKS
"The battle was going at Its
hottest. l was firing as fast as
possible, and hit three more
enemy tanks, all of them going
up in smoke.
"But the next day was still
hotter. In one miXup the enemy
moved up to within 500 yards
before we opened up. 1 lined
out the sights against q NaZi
Mark III Special and saw her
burst into flame"
Sgt. Harry L. Walters Of Butler
Pa. was gunner Of another tank
which received II hits during the
battle.
"The British units with which
we were attached encountered
Sc Nazi PanZers. We had a hot,
furious time for awhile. Finally,
when the smoke cleared up, we
could see eight enemy tanks
aflame on the battlefield.
"A British lieutenant named
Allen was wounded, so we ma
neuvered our tank into position
to shield him from shellfire, to
enable him to crawl safely TO
our own lines"
Only few minor casualtie!
were suffered by the Americans.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09

AN EAST COAST PORT. Sept 9--QNSl-Sun-
burned prinning warriors of the American Volunteer
Group which made monkeys out of the japanese in the
Far East came home today prasng American fighting
planes and relating how they knocked the numerically
superior Japs out of the sky almost at will.
Curtis Smith of Augusta Ga, former captain
in the Marine Corps, reporting on one Christmas Day
hattie over Tongoo Airport, declared that American
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09
T. Planes Can Outright Jap Zeros, AVG Filters Report

Randolph Field whose home is at Marion, Ia, held
similar opinion
Reed whose bag of Jap planes II, also de-
cared that the Jap Zero was highly maneuverable,
adding but believe those American planes can take
punishment"
"The Zero far lighter is cinch for machine
gun bursts but the Japs have learned that American
planes can be shot full of holes and still fly" he said
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09
.Yanks Hammer
laps in Burma

NEW DELHI Sept. Q (1NS).-
The United States Army Air Force
carried the war TO Japanese occu-
patton forces in the Burma region
September by smashing Bhamo
and katha. communicate issued
by Brig. Gen. Clayton Blssel re-
vealed today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09

pilots and planes took on lis Jap fighters and bombers
and brought down q without the loss of one AVG
plane pilot
Smith described the Jap Zero planes as damn
good stunt planes and maneuverabe as the very devil
but added that ''the P-40s using are much
more sturdy and we thanked our stars for that many
times in dogfights"
William Reed %, former army lieutenant at
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09
New Seating Plan
Prepared by DSR

The drastic action of the Office
of Defense Transportation is ex-
pected 10 result in a seated load
order for buses, il was said today
by DSR General Manager Fred A.
Nolan.
This system, which requires that
no bus move unless every seat is
taken somewhere on every trip
has already been experimental
with in New York, Nolan said
II believe the plan could be
carried out i'm Detroit. IL would
not result In a slowing down OF
schedules, but in fewer bus runs
at certain hours of the day." he
declared.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09
The War
Today
Allies Must
Defeat Nazis
On the Ground
Nv FREDERICK c. OECHSNER

By FREDERICK c. OECHSNEf
United Psss Central EurOpean Manager
PRESIDENT ROOSE-
VELT'S declaration that the
power of Germany must be
broken ION the battlehelds OF
Europe" will represent TO
many persons a heartening
grasp of the realities involved
in this war-"the toughest
war of all time
I cannot recall a single
qualified neutral observer OF
Germany's military establish
ment who ever felt that the
Nazis could be defeated de-
cisively anywhere except on
the ground.
Air-bombing. yes; by all
means and in ever-increasing
strength as we gradually
assert our air mastery over
the western theater of war.
Thousand-plane raids to
strike and cripple German
war production at vital points.
such as the most recent blow
at Duisburg, the Reich's great
inland waterways harbor,
should be continued.
But it remains the con-
viction of most foreigners who
know Germany from the in
side that the nation can no
more be subdued by air power
alone at the present stage OF
its development than a Magi-
not Line fort could be reduced
by Nazi Stuka pounding alone.
1T WAS always the ground
troops which knocked them
'out after preliminary soften
ing up from the air, and the
same thing will doubtless be
true of the fort that is Ger
many.
In other words, invasion at
one or more of those dozen
points" the President referred
to-invasion when our mill.
tary leaders are convinced
that we have assembled enough
strength to do it successfully
Defeat Of the Germ
forces in the field is also
an imperative psychological
necessity.
Hitler told the German
people and convinced many ol
them that they had not mill
tarily" lost the war of 1914
1918, when German troops
retired in perfect order under
an armistice; he told then
that what had cost them the
victory was being stabbed in
the back at home by Jews and
Socialists.
This time there must b.
no uncertainty about il; the
pride and prestige of German
arms must be lowered ir
battle.
THE SIMPLE truth re
mains that the Germans hav,
not yet reached the poin'
they had hoped and planned L
reach last winter.
A year ago in Berlin, per
sons in a position TO know
the general outline of German
tactics were speaking of thu
"A-A line" (Archangel 4
Astrakhan) which they would
be satisfied" 10 reach snC
hold for the winter.
1t is still too early to reckon
on what the coming winter
may mean for the Germans
but last winter bit deep into
the morale of the troops anc
the nation at home.
Out there on the eastern
most front the weather will
already have begun to sharpen
noticeably and snow may fall
In spother month. 1
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09
SWEEPING POWERS

One ODT official pointed out
that the order is of such sweeping
proportions as to give the agency
power to direct all operations of
commercial vehicles.
He expressed the belief that the
ODT could, for instance, even di-
rect that a truck ordinarily used
for delivery of ice cream, be di-
verified forthwith TO essential war
use.
The order clamps down the
rigid restrictions on approximately
SIS 900 taxicabs. 100000 non-mil-
itary trucks. and $4,000 buses.
Recently the agency banned the
cruising of taxicabs and launched
an extensive program of truck
conservation. Today's order was
designed to enable the agency to
enforce the earlier orders.
Meanwhile. a presidentially-ap-
pointed committee he d e d by
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09

Order War Stamps delivered
TO your home by your Detroit
Times carrier.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09
Ydnks
Await Mightier
Tanks in Desert
Reveal Battle Exploits
Against Rommel With
Newer Machines Coming
BY GEORGE LAIT
International News Service stan Writ

International News Service stan Writer
ADVANCED BATTLE HEAD
QUARTERS IN THE EGYPTIAN
DESERT. Sept. 9.--Stirring tales
of American resourcefulness in
smashing mechanical battles on
the narrow Egyptian battlefront
were told today as il was dis
closed that new and still more
powerful United States tanks
soon may be battering the Axis
desert army.
Mighty new armored mastodons
have arrived in Egypt, though they
have not yet gone into action,
International News Service is able
to reveal.
Meanwhile. the stories that
husky American fighting men,
members of tank crews that dealt
terrific blows to the Axis invaders,
are telling must bring feeling
of pride to every resident Of the
United States.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09

port 10 President Roosevelt on the
gasoline and tire situation through
out the country.
While the -ODT insists that
private automobiles now have be-
come just as important for public
transportation As commercial We
hicles, il was believed that il re-
Trained from bringing passenger
cars under any control TO await
the Baruch committee report and
possible action by OPA rationing
authorities.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09

Order War Stamps delivered
to your home by your Detroit.
Times carrier.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09
REPORT GAS PURCHASES

The order provides:
All vehicles affected must
obtain a certificate of war ne
cessity in order to operate.
. Gasoline, tires, repair parts
and accessories will be rationed
to commercial vehicle operators
according TO the terms OF the
certificates.
Operators must make re-
ports of gasoline purchases.
Certificates may be revoked
by the ODT if the order is vio-
lated.
Exempted are:
Commercial vehicles ope-
rated by the fighting forces.
Commercial vehicles ope-
rated by dealers solely for the
purpose of selling the vehicles.
3-Motor vehicles having a
capacity of not more than seven
persons which vehicles are used
in group riding to haul persons
TO and from work, if such We
hicles are not used in any other
service for compensation.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-09
u. s. Limits Use
Of Trucks. Buses
Gas Rationine Plan Presaees
Curbs on Private Motorists
BY JACK VINCENT
International News service stan Writer

WASHINGTON. Sept. 9,-Fore-
nationwide restrictions
on pleasure driving, the Office of
Defense Transportation o d y
planned TO set up 100 more re-
gional Offices to enforce its drastic
order controlling use OF the
nations 100000 trucks, buses
and taxicabs through gasoline ra-
tioning.
The ODT announced a new pro-
gram underwhich all buses, trucks
and taxicabs must obtain certifi-
Gates of war necessity for opera
ton after November Is. The GER
tificates will limit mileage and
ultimately gasoline consumption,
even in areas outside the l7-state
rationing area along the eastern
seaboard.
Since the ODT clamped down
so hard on commercial vehicles,
il was forecast in informed circles
that restrictions OF some sort also
would be ordered for pleasure
driving. 1t was pointed out that
the ODT ruck-bus-taXicab order
will not go into effect until No
vember Is, or more tn an two
months hence.
Evening star., 1942-01-11

RUBBER hos become one Of Americas
" erovest problems Uncle Som, foeed
with the possibility Of hovine supplies from
the Far Eost cut off, hos stepped out to
meet the situotion with substitutes ond
rotionine.
Production Of domestic rubber on Ioree
scoIe hos been ordered into full speed BY
Secretary Jesse Jones under plon spon-
sored BY WiIiom O'Neil, president Of the
General Tire and Rubber Co. 6uoyuIe. q
scrub growth indigenous to Mexico. pro-
duces rubber little different chemically
from the imported Heveo type. Mr.. ONeil
believes this shrub con be cultivated here
to the extent Of supplying O greet port Of
our crude rubber needs Every ovoiloble
GuoyuIe seed hos been ordered into the
ground.
Heveo in peoee times con be imported
profitobIy for 10 cents pound. 0uoyule.
in our smoIl- scoIe production todoy. costs
IS to l9 cents. Moss production would
lower this rote. The plont motures in
seven yeors to its moximum rubber con-
tent, but moy be harvested otter lS
months growth. Mexico horests onnuolly
obout 100000 pounds Of gum. The
United Stotes must hove thousands OF tons
to meet her needs.
Evening star., 1942-01-11

This seeding moehine Is
working overtime to produce
seed and more seed. one-yeor
plonts produce at q rotio Of 10
to I. Estimotes pIoee our seed
supply high enough to pIont
10000 ocres.
Seedlings ore tronspIonted
to ioreer fields with this "Rube
Goldberg" eontroption. It fur
rows os men drop pIonts.
Wheels at reor tomp soil
Ground pIont. eoch mon con
pIoce 50 seedlings q minute.
Evening star., 1942-01-11

Soil is loosened Ground seeding plonts
for tronspIontin9. Beeouse the existing
pIonts in SoIinos ore used for developing
seed there hos been no horest for months.
Evening star., 1942-01-11

Pulp from crushed pIonts is ploeed in
huge vots with cork. Rubber and cork rise
ond rubber IS skinned off. In onothsr op-
srotion voter is forced into cork. mokin9 il
sink, leaving loyer Of rubber.
Evening star., 1942-10-14

mission would be ready anytime the
President requested it. He admitted,
however, that there was q general
disagreement among members OF the
commissions Management Labor
Policy Committee over certain safe
guards, including unionization, mass
shifting Of labor, the right OF man.
agement to hire and fire and pres
ent seniority rights.
He said the manpower problem
was being met without compulsory
legislation far more adequately
than the public knows" He ac-
knowledged, however, that the prob
lem would be much tougher" next
year.
Meantime, Solid Fuels Co. ordina- =
tor Ickes reported that the Goa
mining industry had begun to hire
women because Of a progressively
worse manpower situation. He esti-
mated that the industry had lost
more than $4,000 men since Janu-
ary l either to the armed forces or
other industries.
Mr.. 1ckes said he had been noti-
fed that the Union Pacific Coal Co.
had hired y women to work in the
mines shop and to pick slate on mine
tipples at Rock Springs, Wyo.
Evening star., 1942-10-14

Buy War bonds and when tn,
war is won. cash in-on freedom.
Evening star., 1942-10-14
School instruction
On venereaI Disease
Is Urged by Group
Social Hygiene Society
Also Coils for More
Hospitol Facilities

The Board Of Directors Of the
Social Hygiene Society met yester-
day and passed resolutions which:
l. Called for adequate instruction
on the subject OF venereal disease in
District schools:
2. Urged prompt provision OF ade-
quate hospital facilities for treat
ment Of infected prostitutes;
3. Condemned suggestions that
prostitutes here be "roughed up" by
police.
Claim Children Infected.
The resolution on venereal disease
education charged that several
hundred teen-ase children have
been excluded from schools because
OF venereal infections"
These great menaces to youth
should be dealt with In the same
scientific, impersonal type Of in
struction as blindness, tuberculosis,
heart disease and accident preven-
tion are taught.
This is particularly important at
present when our youth and young
adults are so urgently needed in
the war effort. Syphilis and eonor-
rhea are two of the greatest youth
dangers-the highest incidence of
syphilis being in the 18-23-year age
group. Certainly our school system
has been derelict In its duty through
failure to instruct and protect the
boys and girls intrusted otis care
DR.. Cannon Gives Views.
Commenting on the society's criti.
cism Of the schools handling OF
venereal disease instruction, DR.
James A. Cannon, physician mem.
Der Of the Board of Education
said, Pretty soon they will be want.
ing us to give \ complete medica
course to high school youngsters
Detailed instructions on venerea
disease do not belong in 4 high
school education course any more
than detailed instructions on pneu.
mOnia or heart disease"
DR.. Cannon, who is chairman o
Evening star., 1942-10-14
Free Press Held Basic
To u. ). Democracy by
treasury Official
Morsenthou Spokesman
|, Addresses Advertising
Executives Association
By the Associated Press.

~ eAS hooOChNtS0 IIooos
CHICAGO, Oct. 14.-One Of the
cardinal principles Of American de-
mocracy. believes Peter Odegard.
special consultant to the Secretary
Of the Treasury, is free press.
Without 4 free and courageous
American press, democracy could
not function" Mr.. Odeeard said yes
terday in an address at the fall con-
ference of the Newspaper Adver-
tising Executives Association.
Mr.. Odegard declared that the
freedom Of the American press was
due to the competitive nature Of
the economic interests represented
In their advertising pages"
That is to say press free to cru
sade and criticize, free to expound
and expose, free to report events as
they come without fear or favor" ?"
said Mr.. Odegard, who represented
Secretary Morgenthau at the con-
ference. THE Importance of such a
press to American democracy can
scarcely be exaggerated.
Now free press is solvent
press. It's solvency, and therefore
in a special sense its freedom, de-
pends pretty largely on the work
OF its advertising departments.
There are exceptions, 1 suppose
but as general rule I'm sure it
can be said that the loss of finan-
cial solvency and independence is
incompatible with freedom.
An insolvent press or press
that owes its solvency to political
subsidy or subvention is likely to
become service press. This would
be almost equally true if newspapers
were to owe their financial existence
TO any single economic interest.
Il am persuaded that the freedom
OF American newspapers is in a
large measure due to the multi
plicity and competitive nature of
the economic interests represented
in their advertising pages, upon
which their solvency depends, and
to their refusal thus far to accept
governmental subventions or SUBJ
Sidies."
Mr.. Odegard announced that Col
Leroy w. Heron, advertising di-
rector of The Washington Evening
Star. had been appointed chairman
OF a committee of newspaper ad-
vertising men to work on War bond
advertising and would act as 4
liaiSon man with the Treasury.
Evening star., 1942-10-14
WAKE Up TINE NATURAL SPARKLING BEAUTY
HIDING IN YOUR HAIR

Powers girls are often called the
Million Dollar Models because 30
many look like a million, marry
millionaires or become top flight
Stage and Screen Stars.
These gorgeous creatures are
famous for their naturally lovely,
silken- sheen hair-always 50 ex-
quisitely coiffured. And this
amazing hair beauty is now large
ly due to John Robert Powers
advice to always wash their hair
with Kreml Shampoo.
etvs Ye.r nasr This
1o-Aaissts elsmeus Bath
Do you envy smart 'hAirdo's" on
other girls but feel you never
could fix your hair 50 attractive
"? Well. Powers girls have dis
covered It's much easier If you
hrst give your hair = glamour
hath with Kreml Shampoo.
Kreml Shampoo lathers
Evening star., 1942-10-14
Phone Protocol
Steals Time Here ,
LoGuordio Saws

Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of
New York estimated yesterday that
at least 5000 man-hours q day"
are lost in Washington in what he
described as telephone protocol. !"
The Senate Small Business Com
mittee roared with laughter as the
New York Mayor went through a
pantomime of trying to get Wash
ington official on the telephone.
Il want to talk to Mr.. K" the
Mayor said, speaking into an imag-
mary telephone.
who are your" he mimicked a
responding voice from Washington.
This is the Mayors ONCE in New
York"
We'll, put your party un"
mo. you put your party on
That goes on and on" the Mayor
explained. 1T drives you nuts!"