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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17
WitherspOOn Learns
Commissioner Accompanies Policewomen on Tour,
Gets First-Hand Idea Of Problems

The minor summoned by the
law from a downtown movie
house. where he was illegally
a continuous movie al
2 a. m. today, had a right 10 fee.
privileged because the police COM
missioner himself had a hand ir
the affair.
In line with his policy Of first
hand observation of police &C
tivities. Commissioner John H.
WIltherSpoon accompanied two
policewomen on regular tour of
duty ending at $3.50 a. m
With Policewomen Helen CALM
and Zelma Arney, the minor was
elected from the showhouse, an
other from beer garden and
a woman was taken from a down
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17
War. Politics. Diet
I'm The Sunday Times

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WHAT CONGRESSMEN, OTHER LEADERS, SAY ABOUT
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17
5PoIi(e Injured
As Autos Collide

Five policemen and a civilian
were recovering today from in
juries received shortly before mid
night when a police scout car
collided with another car at Seven
Mile foad-aHd- PaPltside-avenae
Patrolman Marc Davis, scout car
driver, said he was taking the
other four policemen TO their beats
from the Palmer Park station,
when he received a call TO investi-
gate a burglary. II was while
speeding TO answer the call, he
said. that he struck the car OF
William Boice. 26. of Ferndale
Treated at Harper Hospital and
released were Davis. Boice. Patrol-
men John F. Downes, Theodore G..
Hamilton and Harold Jarvis.
IPatrolman John Kalosis was kept
at the hospital for X-rays for q
possible skull fracture.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17
Housing Units
o..
Ready Nov. |, I

November ! and 2 will be NOV
ing days for 2l9 Detroit families
when the first units Of two hous-
ing projects are ready for occu-
pancy. II was announced today.
Charles +. Edgecomb, director
secretary of the Detroit housing
commission said that on November
/ the first 100 units of the John
w. Smith housing project would
be ready and the following day
119 families will begin moving into
the James Herman Gardens units
Families for the Smith project
have already been selected. When
complete the project will house
$50 families. The Herman Gar
dens project will house 2,150 fami-
lies,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17

Richard w. Slocrn1, chairman
of the newspaper committee, as
sured Nelson that newspapers
throughout the country would
gladly work to stimulate the
flow of industrial scrap into war
channels.
He said his group would discuss
the problem at once and, together
with newspapers in all parts Of
the country. work out plans a.
swiftly as possible.
Nelson said:
"The job that the newspapers
have done Is absolutely unpre-
cedented In thfs country. It has
been magnificent. Tho results
snrpass the fondest hopes that I
entertained when / asked the
publishers to como In . few
weeks ago and discuss the prob
lem of our materials shortage
and how the newspapers could
help"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17

town hotel and booked on a dis
charge.
Explained the commissioner:
81 am not trying to be n
policeman. i merely went along
as spectator"
"Since I have to make deci-
slons every day that involve the
police department, I feel that
learning first-hand the problems
that face the officers will per-
init me to make better deci-
siOns.
II want to hearn how the
policewomen's division operates,
what problems confront IL and
how they solve them"
Commiss oner Witherspoor
previously spent a night with tn,
vice squad, and visited precinc
stations throughout the city.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17
Charity Group
Wins Bond Flag

A bulls eye flag. awarded by
the treasury department for 100
per cent war bond participation,
today flew over the Volunteers
of America Building at 1913
Bellvue avenue.
Presented by Frederic Schader
OF the MICHIGAN War Bond COM
mittee. the flag was given for the
deduction weekly of an average of
II per cent OF their pay by the
employees. II was accepted by Col.
Leo II. Kelly. head of the organi-
cation in Detroit. II was the first
presentation made TO a charitable
organization of the kind in Amer
lea, officials said.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17
COrrigan?
Tries Wrong Way TO Get
on Street Car

Dominick Morass. 81. tangled
with DSR rules for entering a
streetcar,- and as a result police
charged him today with malicious
destruction of property.
Morass of 1916 McDougall ave
nue.. attempted TO board a Charlie
voix streetcar at Mack and st
Aubin avenues by entering through
the exit door.
The conductor refused 10 permit
him entrance that way, police said
so Morass raised (his) cane anC
smashed several streetcar win
dows.. One passenger was cut
slightly by flying glass.
81 just got mad when he
wouldn't open the door. ! had
had some drinks" he told 1t.
Charles D'Hondt of Hunt station.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17
Heart Attack Fatal
To Priest in Pool

The Rev. Anthony S. Wisniew-
ski, assistant pastor Of st. Stanis-
laus Roman Catholic Church. died
of heart attack in the pool of the
Oakland bathhouse and not from
drowning. it was declared today.
The announcement was made by
Deputy Coroner Foster Knobloch
following an autopsy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17
Gets Uniform
But It's Prison Issued for
Fake Sergeant

Leroy s. Andreasen. 80. will
wear a government uniform-but
IL will be that OF a prisoner- in a
federal prison. 10 which he was
sentenced today. and not the tech
nical sergeant's uniform he adj
mitted illegally wearing.
Andreasen. who lives at 657
Selden avenue. was given a six.
month sentence by Federal Judge
Edward j. Monet. FBI agents
informed the court that Andreasen
had taken leave OF absence from
a tool and die plant and had
bought the uniform to explain the
leave. He told his employer and
fellow workers that he had beer
10 Washington on secret mission
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17
Jews Pray for Russia

Jewish synagogues in Detroit
are holding prayer services today
for victory of the Russian army
in accordance with a nationwide
appeal from six leading American
rabbis. The rabbiS also called fol
aid TO the Jews of Russia through
the Russian War Relief Fund.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17

done that sort of work before"
he wrote.
"She has been running a
beauty shop for some time but
she realized this was hardly es-
sentiaI TO the war effort, 80 now
she works I'm the plant all day
and does n little work In the
beauty shop nights.
Despite all this talk about
women, war workers making
good money. she was making
good money before and actually
made a financial sacrifice to go
into a plant.
POWER TO THEM
ct think this Is a pretty, good
example of the sacrifices many
of the girls are making these
days to help us win the war. 1
say-pOwer TO them"
The private's girl friend is onll
one of the scores of individual
nominations which have been made
since the search for MISS VIC
TORY started 10 days ago.
Actually, however. the winners
in each plant must be selected by
a general balloting of the workers
in that plant or else by com
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17
Flood Recedes;
AtLedst 15Dead,
Mi||ionsDdmdge
Washington Slaves OF
Loss by Sandbae bikes;
Hundreds Homeless

WASHINGTON. Oct. II (UP).
The rampaging Potomac River
began receding slowly here today
after hitting record levels and in
undating several sections Of the
capital.
Early reports indicated flood
damage here would be compare
lively negligible, largely because
hurried erection of sandbag bikes
in two vulnerable spots-around
the city's sewage disposal plant
and between the Washington
Monument and Lincoln Memorial
grounds.
In Maryland. Virginia and West
Virginia floods along the Shenan-
doah, Rappahannock and Savage
rivers-as well as the Potomac
already had caused at least Is
deaths and property damage run
ming into the millions.
The Rappahannock also was re-
ceding at Fredericksburg. Va. one
of the hardest-hit towns.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17
Pupils Scrap Plant

CHICAGO. Oct. IT (INS). -
Thirty-six pupils of Hirsch High
School were all in today after
Eight hours of labor dismantling
an abandoned factory of the
Champion Manufacturing c. M
lpany to add reserves to the ma
tons scrap pile.
The pupils put on work gloves,
rolled up their sleeves and went
to work at 8 a. m, ripping out
boilers, metal plates, rods, wheels,
gears and other equipment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17
Digger Killed by Gas
On Bottom Of Well

MT. CLEMENS, Oct. 17-Over.
come by gas while digging at the
bottom of a 40-foot well, Frank
Beiber, AZ. of Harrison Township,
is dead today. The accident oc-
CURED while Beiber was working
on the George Duff farm, 2433
South River-read, MI Clensnx------
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17
DRIVEN FROM HOMES

In the three-state area. where
thousands were driven from their
homes, Fredericksburg and Fal-
mouth in northern virginia were
the hardest hit. The rampaging
Shenandoah and Rappahannock
rivers covered towns, highways,
communications and power facil-
tiles in the area.
Fourteen persons were believed
dead in Fredericksburg.
President Roosevelt toured the
flood section Of Washington yes
terday and ordered officials 10
spare neither effort nor money TO
protect. the city"
Civilian defense workers were
placed under partial mobilization
and sandbag barriers were being
erected around sewage pumping
stations and across low points. The
national airport was not expected
TO be flooded but highway trans
portation TO the field was partly
blocked.
Fredericksburg was temporarily
without communications or lights
as the waters surged II feet deep
through the downtown area. Al
Falmouth. at least 450 persons
were homeless and marines from
the Quantico base brought in field
kitchens. cots and blankets TO care
for $50 refugees sheltered in the
Falmouth High School.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17
RICHMOND PERILED

Along the James River at Rich
mond, an army Of 300 workers
sandbagged low points of the levee
protecting Virginia's capital.
Fredericksburg officials est J.
mated the water supply would last
only few hours. The city's sup
ply of,typhoid serum was used up
quickly and an emergency call for
further supplies was sent TO Wash
ington.
The city's hazard was increased
by a danger of fire from several
gasoline tanks which broke loose
nj the edge OF the city and COW
cred the river with tons Of fuel
The Potion c's crest could
almost be charted by the disrup-
ton to communications. Tele-
phones TO Harper's Ferry went out
early last night and those TO Point
of Rocks soon afterward.
Water in the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad tunnel at Point of Rocks
was reported seven feet deep.
Island farms on the Potomac
were swept of everything movable
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-10-17

T don't know which plant
she's in but / know she's never
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-28

role in the current battle of the
Atlantic Promised and hoped
for: An underwater ballet in Col
umbia'S Cover Girl" with Rita
HayWorth, Janet Blair and Jinx
Falkenburg leading troupe OF
glamermaidS.
The cycle of filmusicals has gain
ed such impetus that studios are
hiring permanent choruses of cuties
Metro believes Alfred Lunt will
play Nero in Quo Vadis." His only
previous movie was The Guards
man."
BERTH FOR BAER
Max Baer, who no longer trains
in night clubs, is angling for :.
physical instructors berth in the
Army :. John Carradine gets 500
a minute for a l5-minute stunt III
THE Adventures of Mark Twain :"
Producer Jesse Lasky insisted only
Carradine could play Bret Harte,
Romance department: Sentiment
alists insist that John Payne and
Anne Shirley are recOnciling :.
Hedy Lamar and John Howard
have resumed where they left off
before her engagement to George
Montgomery . M-G-lM is insisting
on a name change for Carole Gal
lagher, and SO is Dick Foran, who
believes "Foran" would be good
one.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-28
Japanese Retreat
As Chinese Push
Chekiang Attacks

CHUNGKING, July % CUP) -
Japanese forces are letreating be.
fore a strong Chinese drive near
Kiangshan in western Chekiang
province, / Chinese high command
communique said tonight.
In the Tahung mountains of
northern Upeh province, the COM
munique said, the Chinese are hold
ing off more than 5000 Japanese
troops, including cavalry, attempt
ing to force mountain passes.
The new Chinese successes were
reported as new China's confidence
in the United States Army air force
was strengthened as the result of
the repulsing of last nights Jap
anese air attack on this Chinese
capital by American fighter planes.
DISGRACE FOR JAPS
The attack was called IAN un-
precendented disgrace" for the Jap
aneSe.
For four years the Japanese have
bombed Chungking at will but yes
terday, in their first attempt to
reach the capital this year, they
met the new United States air force
of China and were repulsed. Of so
japanese planes that took off from
Hankow, only four reached Chung
kings outskirts and no bombs fell
on the city proper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-28
Two-Prong Drive
Hits at RommeI

day.
The enemy was staggered by he. W
blows inflicted by South African
Australian, and United Kingdom
troops driving from two directions
southwest of FL Alamein.
The South Africans and English,
attacking from the east, and the
Australians. driving south from
their positions around Tel FL Elsa,
squeezed the Axis troops in a limit
ed pincers operation, United Press
Staff Correspondent Henry Correr
reported from the front.
ENEMY RETREATS
Six and a half hours after the
limited offensive opened Sunday
night the enemy was in retreat, Cor
rell said. British artillery opened
the way for the infantry that
charged and engaged Axis forces
in hand -to-hand combat. Sappers
cleared a path through the enemy
minefield a few miles south of Ell
Alamein.
The battle on this northern,
coastal end of the Ell Alamein line
continued.
Guns of both sides thundered in
constant dueling as tanks, armored
cars and infantrymen battled.
British fighter -bombers and light
bombers, supporting the ground
forces, heavily attacked enemy posi-
tionS in the northern zone of the
battle area, the communique of the
Middle Eastern command and the
Royal Air Force said.
Fighter planes, intercepting a for
nation of German Stuka bomb
er planes, shot down three, accord
ing to the communique, and night
fighters shot down two German
Heinkel-111 planes which attempted
to raid the Suez Canal zone.
Medium bombers last night at
tackled targets at Tobruk, enemy
base on the Libyan coast, and the
air neld at FL Daba, on the Egyptian
coast Is miles west of the Alamein
line, the communique said.
British fighter planes shot down
II and damaged others of a fleet
of Axis planes which attacked NAL
ia, it was announced, and some of
the planes were downed before they
dropped their bombs.
Reports received here last night
said that in the early phase of the
fighting the British had taken pris-
oners, and it was believed that in
the present phase of the battle the
Axis forces were trying to regain
lost ground on dominant ridges and
hills.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-28
BY SIDNEY ]. WILLIAMS

LONDON, July 28-(UP)-British
night fighter planes and a new
secret antiaircraft gun downed at
least eight and damaged many more
of German vengeance fleet which
ranged during the night over Brit
ain and northern Ireland where
American troops are based, it was
announced today.
THE night fighters had a field
night in the brilliant light of the
full moon," the air ministry said.
But III the London area at least,
the new guns played their part in
smashing at least eight of an enemy
plane fleet estimated to have totaled
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-28
IRELAND ALARMED

Sirens walled over northern Ire
land, where tens of thousands of
American troops from all over the
United States are awaiting the sec
ond front signal, as the German
planes crossed the coast.
There was no report that bombs
had been dropped or that anti
aircraft guns, searchlights or Allied
night fighter planes were in action
Berlin broadcast a special Ger
man official news agency dispatch
during the night that in one at
tack alone 200 German bombing
planes attacked Birmingham, in
the western English midlands and
said very heavy bombs as well as
many incendiaries were dropped
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-28
Axis Reinforces
Russ ian Attacks

MOSCOW, July 28. CUP)-Axis
reinforcements, including IL fresh
divisions (probably 10000 mem
from Holland and France, pounded
at Red army defenses on a 250mile
front today in an offensive aimed
toward the key rail communications
of the Caucasus and into the east
ernmost bend of the Don river only
40 miles from Stalingrad.
The enemy drives, pushed at high
cost to overcome persistent Russian
counterattackS, were headed through
fallen RostoV on the main rail line
southWard toward the Maikop oil
area, across the Don river near
Tsimlyankaya toward the vital
Tikhoretsk- -Stalingrad railroad and
in the direction of Kalach, where
the Don twists closest to the Stain
grad industrial center.
"a Berlin communlque claimed
that the Axis front south of the
Don-already threatening to cut the
Tikhoretsk Stalingrad line - had
been expanded and that advance
forces were fighting both north
west and south of Kalach. The
Nazis did not say how close they
were to Kalach, however,
COST is HEAVY
Front line dispatches said the Red
air force, bolsLp:eG Dy American
built bombers, was strongly attack
ing German columns and river
crossings and that Russian artillery
had taken a tremendous toll of
enemy dead on the banks of the
Don.
German Whippet tanks landed
from big transport planes behind
the Russian lines on the northern
Caucasus front have been destroyed
by Russian guns, one dispatch said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-28
Jap Patrols Push
Within 55 Miles
OF Port Moresby
BY BRYDON u. TAVES

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS. Australia, July %
CUP)-Japanese patrols advanced
today through interior New Guinea,
apparently intent on establishing q
base only 55 airline miles from the
great Allied advanced base at Port
Moresby on the south coast opposite
Australia.
A communique issued at Gen.
Douglas MacArthurs headquarters
revealed that Allied patrols had
clashed with enemy forces at the
native village of Oivi, only five
miles from Kokoda in mid-NeW
Guinea
Kokoda, ca a plateau at the
eastern base of the formidable Owen
Stanley mountain range which
forms the backbone of that Papuan
end of New Guinea, is SIS miles from
Port Moresby.
In one day, since the first clash
between the Allied jungle patrols
and the japanese from the new
Buna-G base on the north
coast, the enemy forces had ad-
vanced about 80 miles.
Anxiety over the new enemy ac-
tivity increased throughout Aus
tralia.
Though no immediate threat was
foreseen to Port Moresby, the Jap
anese had again seized the initia-
tive in ground fighting and they
had suddenly intensified their aer-
ial activities.
Darwin, the big Allied North Aus
tralian coast base, was raided twice
last night by small enemy plane
forces, and a single flying boat
jettisoned its bombs, under inten-
sive anti-aircraft gun fire, outside
Townsville on the North Australian
coast, which had its first raid Sat
urday night.
Gen. MacArthur's planes struck
q iCW, iidiu oiOW dI Iiic CiiCiiiy
Buna- Coma base when dive bomberS
first put into action last week,
blew up an ammunition dump, while
other planes made two strong night
raids on the Japanese base in the
Koepang area of Timor island, i'm
the northwestern Australian zone,
and started fires with direct hits
on airdrome buildings, barracks and
other installations.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-28
Raj IN ACTION

LONDON, July 28-(UP) - The
RAF disabled many German trains
in northern France during the night,
including two knocked out by an
American member of fighter
squadron, the air ministry said to-
day.
The American was Pilot Officer
c. Mehrhof of Jamaica, N. Y, who,
the air ministry said, attacked three
trains on the important rail lines
in the Lens area. He succeeded in
stopping two of them.
RAF fighters shot up engine after
engine drawing trains of war ma
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-28
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-28

ed batteries, including girls of the
army territorial service.
1t is possible to say now that
this gun is the secret one, hailed
as deadly menace to raiding
planes, which the government plan
ned to announce recently.
Accredited newspaper correspond
ents were permitted to inspect it
but the day before their stories
were to appear, the London Daily
Mail angrily denounced the author
tiles for revealing war secrets and
the war office ordered all stories
killed.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-28
Ry LEON KAY

CAIRO, July 28 CUP) Imperial
troops of Gen. Sir Claude Auchin-
leck inflicted heavy casualties on
the Axis in hand-to-hand fighting
on the northern end of the desert
front and took a substantial num-
Der of prisoners, dispatches said to-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-28

terials along the railways between
Paris and Lille in northern France,
the communique said.
Many Of the trains were dis
abled,' the air ministry said. There
are long lines of wagons Tailroad
cars) blocking the way and throw
ing traffic out of gear for miles"
The raids, concentrated apparent
ly on German communications with
their invasion coast garrisons, were
a continuation of almost daily
sweeps against Nazi communication
and defense installations through
out northern France and the low
countries.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-28
fNEA TelephotoJ

don, where very slight damage was
done by incendiary bombs.
Eight enemy aircraft were de-
stroyed while attacking this coun-
try and one was downed over Hol-
land. A number of others were
damaged but the destruction can
not be confirmed"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-28
BIG-SCALE RAIDS

BIG-SCALE RAIDS
A joint air ministry home secur-
ity minister communique said:
Enemy action last night was on
a somewhat larger scale than for
some time past. Fires and damage
were caused in the Birmingham
area, where there were also a num-
Der of casualties, There was some
damage elsewhere in the midlands
and the eastern counties.
THE attack was spread over a
wide area, including greater Lon