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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24
10th Heavy Bombardment Group
Destroyed 600 Japanese Planes
BY JAMES CULLINANE


WASHINGTON, Dec. "a -
One of the wars greatest fight
ing stories-of the u. S. Army's
10Th Heavy Bombardment
Group and its year of continu-
Gus action over the Pacific -
has been emblazoned across far
horizons in trails of smoke, the
white streaks of tracers and the
soaring flashes of demolition
bombs.
But the action-packed and
militarily important records of
the organization twice were
destroyed, in the Philippines
and Java. So now. for the pur-
poses of a formal report, the
story of the fighting 10th is be-
ing told by the members them
selves. The whole Group was
called home so that Intelligence
officers can piece together the
details of the epic adventure,
and so that the flyers can pass
on some of their vital expert
ences to Air Force fledglings.
CAN'T RECALL THEM ALL
However, no matter how
much the young men prod their
memories and tn UNI b their
diaries, some particulars never
will be fully known. For ex-
ample, the 10th is credited with
the destruction of more than
600" Japanese planes, and the
figure is called conservative. OF
Warships, transports and cargo
vessels sunk, the number is high
but indefinite. And only TOTO
could approximate the death
and ruin that the big bombers
rained on Jap bases and troop
concentrations.
What happened to some of
the personnel of the 10th Bonn
bardment Group is uncertain.
too, because of course not all of
them came back. A few, such
as Colin Kelly, were seen to die
at full throttle and in a burst
OF hell and glory. Others are
listed as missing-such as Capt.
Don Strauther, who flew on Is
bombing missions in % DAYS
and didn't return from the last
one. And some fell, or disap-
peared, while fighting as in
fantrymen on Bataan after
there were no more planes for
them to repair and Fly.
They were in action from the
very beginning, and at first the
future Of the 10Th seemed hope
less. The Group had just started
TO assemble in the Philippines
when the Japs struck. Twelve
bombers en- route from the
States arrived in Hawaii and
landed in the midst of the at
Jack. In one of them was the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24
Housewives May
Slice Own Bread
Course Moy Be Detected
to Avoid Rising Costs
BY IRVING PERLMETER


WASHINGTON, Dec. 24-(P
"A plan to force people to slice
their own bread took shape to-
day as a prelude to board pro-
gram of holding down the cost of
living essentials where neces-
sary by eliminating frills.
Officials, who declined to be
quoted by name, said the bak-
ing industry already has given
general assent to a program of
reducing the manufacturing and
service costs of bread as a
means of preventing price in
crease and still maintaining
quality.
Although bread has been re-
garded historically as "the staff
of life" in the present case the
proposed changes in baking
practices were view as funda-
mental for the additional reason
that they may provide pattern
for many other commodities.
The bread situation is this:
AS the prices increase on wheat
and flour or other ingredients,
on labor and machinery, it may
become impossible for bakers
to sell bread as cheaply as they
do today.
Normally, the price would be
put up a penny or two a loaf.
But the government Is commit
ted to a broad program of hold
ing down the cost o. living, and
doesn't want bread prices, above
all other things, to go up.
Therefore, the alternative sug-
gestion has been made and ten
tatively approved, it was learn
ed, to eliminate some normal
costs of the baking industry and
mold prices unchanged.
Slicing is just one of the costs
that bakers might eliminate.
Some others include fancy wrap
4 DcTS, uIluSudl Sizes diIu SIoPCS,
some types of deliveries.
James F. Byrnes, economic
stabilization director, was re-
ported to favor Thu device to
forestall price increases instead
of government subsidies, as had
been proposed by other officials
previously. Action, when it is
taken, probably will be the re-
sponsibility of secretary of ag-
riculture Wickard in his new
capacity as food administrator.
Byrnes, Wickard and the office
of price administration, under
Leon Henderson, have been dis
cussing it.
OPA recently authorized de-
partment stores to discontinue or
curtail such services as wrap
ping, credit, deliveries, and mer-
chandise returns without de-
creasing prices. This action was
a recognition OF the necessity of
conserving MAJ power and truck
tires.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24

Fort with a hole in it big enough
to put your head and shoulders
through. But we patched it,"
LAST STAND IN JAVA
The Group stayed in Java
until Dutch demolition squads
arrived to blow up the base. On
its last bombing operation
there, using three BITS, two of
the planes left the field with
only three engines operating.
From Java, where the records
again were burned, the 10Th
went on to Australia and re-
formed for the third time.
However, with new planes and
fresh pilots arriving from the
United States, it was the first
time that the hard-pressed
Group had been built up to full
strength. 1t fought in the Coral
Sea, Milne Bay and Solomons
battles, and in the New Guinea
campaign.
1t was during a raid on Ton
delayo harbor in the Solomons,
while the Marines were landing
on Guadalcanal, that the 10th
discovered and wrecked a new
weapon of the Japanese navy.
1t was a battleship stripped of
its superstructure, a u PIP e d
with extra guns and intended
for battering shore installations.
1--WE spotted it lying in the
harbor with big merchant
shin and we hit both of them
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24

Group Commander, 1t. Col. Rich
ard H. Carmichael, of Austin,
Tex, who now is only % years
old.
HAWAII TO AUSTRALIA
Many of the planes were de-
stroyed on the ground. But out
of the wreckage they patched
up a few ships and roared off to
meet the enemy in the Philip
pines. When the American were
driven from Luzon, the Group
fought on from Mindanao,
where one of the Fortresses
picked up Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur and flew him to Aus
tralia.
AS the Japs began to overrun
Mindanao, the bonn b ERIN en-
burned their records and went
on to Java. Until March, they
had Keen fighting with early
BITS, which lacked tail guns
and the heavier armor of the
new models.
even after the new planes
began to arrive we continued to
use the old Forts" recalled Maj
John E. Dougerty, 26-year-old
operations officer, of Minneapo-
lis. Following a bombing job,
officers and men would work
all night cleaning guns, patching
bullet holes and switching
motors to get some Of the ships
ready for another operation.
Don Strauther brought back a
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24
Colin KeI|ys Outfit All Heroes after Year Of Wal

The 77th Congress in session
in 1912 appropriated $225, bill
lion, more money than was ap-
propriated by all rs previous
Congresses combined.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24
Florence Nightingale wa .
born May Is, 1920.

There are $4,000 licensed
dogs in New York City.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-10

fought in the Battle Of st. Mihiel
in July, 1913, as sergeant in the
326th' Infantry, 82nd Division AEF.
He later was gassed in the Ar
gonne Forest. The medal was
presented TO him at meeting OF
the City of Detroit Post No. 334
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
by Commander Francis Nipple.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-10

The Detroit Times has far more
nationally famous features than
any other Detroit newspaper.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-10

$52-s-Month State Aide
Fired for Politics
Times stan Correspondent

LANSING, July 10-State civil
service commissioners took a
strong stand against political ac-
tivity by state employees by max
ing an example today of So
per month bridge operator for the
highway department.
The employe was Max Schoenlts
who unSuccesSfully ran for re-elec-
ton as alderman in Cheboygan
contrary 10 civil service rules.
Now without either job, Schoe-
nits moancd he had been hired
and fired by telegram" He said
a wire from the highway depart
ment put him on the job January
Ia and another wire from the
civil service department fired him
April 10.
Its all very confusing" he
told the commission. II heard
something about political activ-
ity of state employees, but never
knew II was this serious.
think every state employe should
be told about this"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-10
Pi(kets Picket
PiCkets in Union
Row at Winery

II was picket picketing picket
today as members of the Brewery
Workers Union, Go local 80,
picketed members Of the AFL
Union local 337. pick
citing the Risdon Wine and Cham
payne Company at 137 East
Woodbridge street
Pickcting of the winery was
started by the transfers union
after John Curran, an organizer
for the union. asked Charles r.
Risdon. president of the company,
to have the drivers and shipping
employees who are
members OF the Go. shift over TO
the AFE, RiSdon said.
The 80 employees are operating
under a Go contract signed last
February which runs until October
4. They continued 10 work despite
the picketing.
"Curran wanted us TO disre-
gard the CIO contract we have
and said ID was not legal" Ris-
don said. II told him we couldn't
do that. The teamsters have also
told bottle and cap manufacture
ers and our sugar supply people
not TO deliver to our winery"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-10
u. ). TdkesHdnd
In Hotel PdyRoW

At the request of the. Detroit
Hotel Association, DIR. John II.
Steelman. head of the federal
service, today assigned
a federal conciliator 10 the dispute
between the association and the
various unions to which hotel
employees belong.
According 10 John n. Anhut.
attorney for the association. the
unions have made 'prohibitive
demands upon the hotels in the
light of the recent rent-freeZing
order" He said between $500 and
5000 employees OF the five major
hotels are asking for an average
raise of 10 per cent in new con-
tracts.
They have threatened 10
strike, and II they do the Book
Cadillac, Detroit Leland, Fort
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-10
Suspend Licenses
Of Three Druggists

The state licenses Of three De-
troit druggists, convicted of viola
lions OF the Federal Narcotics Act.
were suspended by the state board
of pharmacy in Lansing today
according TO Assistant United
States Attorney S. Vincent Fordell,
Two of the druggists. Bernard
Piakowski. 5546 Michigan avenue,
and Stanley p. Schultz, 1914 Mt.
Elliott avenue, lost their state
narcotic licenses. The third, Harry
FiSchoff, 1904 Grand River avenue.
lost both his narcotic license and
his drug store license. The men
were fined and placed on proba-
ton in federal court.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-10
shelby, fuller and statler hotels
would be closed down"

Anhut and representatives Oh
the various unions are to meet al
2 p. m. today. Negotiations have
been conducted since Tuesday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-10
Driver Held in Death
OF Boy on Bicycle

Harvey Boyer of 1876 Poinciana
avenue. Redford Township, was
held today for investigation of
negligent homicide in the death
of John Leskowski, 10, of InkSter
road. Garden City.
The boy was knocked from his
bicycle on JOY road near his home
by Boyers heavy semi-trailer
truck
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-10
Taxpayers Pay
IfWdgesR Rise,
Chrys!er Insists

Approval by the National War
Labor Board OF the UAW-CIO's
demand for increased wages would
mean increased taxpayer bills. the
Chrysler Corporation sets forth to-
day in defending its refusal TO
grant union demands.
1.-THE corporations war con-
tracts I'm the main contain esca-
lat0rs relating to wages or are
on the basis of cost plus n fixed
Fee" said statement forwarded
10 the Washington board that
will review the dispute.
Accordingly, increases I'm
wages II this board imposes
them must be passed on TO the
government and taxpayer"
"ALREADY HIGH PAID"
The corporation says further IL
can find no justification for wage
increases. Chrysler employees, the
statement contends, already are
among the highest paid workers in
the world.
Supporting this claim. bureau OF
labor statistics are submitted TO
show:
The average hourly earnings OF
workers in all 90 industrial CLASH
fications in April were $.S19.
The average hourly earnings for
employees in the automobile indus
try were Sl.133.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-10
World War | Hero
Finally Gets Medal

Gassed in the Argonne Forest
in World War /. Irving Pollock,
Al. of 1862 Richton avenue. finally
has the medal of the Order of the
Purple Heart today.
Pollock. a food Inspector for the
state department of agriculture,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-10

June 8. The corporation says it is
paying approximately $4,000
hourly rated employees about
81 500, 600 weekly Tor munitions
production.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-10
No Press Conference

WASHINGTON. July 10 (UP).
President Roosevelt today can
celed his regular Friday morning
press conference. No reason was
given.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-10

World Famous Comics! Three
pages every day In Daily De-
trOit Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-10
CHRYLsLER SI.22s

The average for employees of the
Chrysler Corporation was 81 .229.
There can be no reasonable
basis for increasing the wage
level of people who already are
the best paid workers In the
whole country" continues the
statement. land this Is true
whether the increase results
from n general wage increase or
through raising rates in differ
ent classifications.
THE effect Is the same, 90
accelerate the cost OF living
spiral. TO widen the differential
between automobile wages and
wages In other industries, and
to further complicate the wage
and anpower sterilization
programs"
The unions demand for 81 a day
wage increase is the main point In
Ia demands served on management
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06
We MUST NOT FAIL
ON THE HOME FRONT
AN EDITORIAL =

Corregdor has fallen Thus officially ends the battle
Island fades the light from the stage OF Bataan
The steadfas tenacy American forces which have held
their small foothOd at Manila bay for five long months
against awful odds, al last is broken
This event wrings blood from the hearts of all Amer
cans Defeat is bitter and always will be bitter Call it
what we may this is defeat is not defeat for the heroic
men and women under Macarthur and Wainwright; IL
their tenacty their courage their determlnaton te
logged persistence against CHASTITY odds and IN the ds
of lonely isolation which comprised the only brightness
in the entire historic episode Those people were and are
true heroes
The stigma of defeat is to be placed at tha doors OF
IT,, United States as a whole 1t stands black monu-
ment warning against placidy arrogant
equally arrogant unpreparedness almost not actual GRIM
na oblivion to the dangers of the Far Eastern develop
ments We YES all we want to by claims
of surprse attack" undeclared war; and the like but
deep down inside of know that had we oen alert we
would not have forced those courageous souls on baaa
and Corregidor to cruelty themselves of in
accesssbtv All failures are always excusabe Through
out life defeats marked by alibis But albls don
win wars, don't make for success in anythng we wan
and need plausible as they may De
This nation not built by explanations why thngs can
be done built by demonstrations that things CAN
be done! -
Let us resolve now that when all this is over we shall
not forget There need to harp now Our thoughts
arc turned ahead not Backward We must TOR the nonc
let the past its dead while we plan that this snail
If Corregidor had to fall it is we'll that falls now
right when all the United States in the midst OF unVer
sal drive for pledges purchase bonds to provide the
funds of carrying forward this struggle IN every CITY,
and hamlet all workers are pedging to do their small
Actually pedging approximately 10 per cent Of your you;
paycheck is small matter alongside the blood ana pam
dor and Bataan and at Pearl Harbor-and wnch Will De
suffered probably by hundreds of thousands OF others De
fore this cup of bitterness has passed 5.
Let no one permit the small things of everyday existence
to interfere with this, duty Illnesses doctors pills
debts hard-tmes for dark outlook for otheIstese
may be real to and of true serious they
are small in comparison to the necessity that we an 90 o
ALL to reach eventual success and victory mere mos'
There must be no failure the home-front
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06
Nv. Wins Praise
For Scrap Drive

Imperial Valley Wednesday had
been cited for ''meritoriouS service"
for its cooperation in the nation
wide campaign to convert all avail
able scrap metal into disable war
materials.
The citation" was made to Ell
Centre junkman Sam Naliboff at a
conference Monday in Los Angeles
with steel mill and government Of
ficials, Naliboff said.
Since the drive started here, APP
proximately 80 tons of scrap have
been turned in by farmers and bus
mess concerns, and rushed by Mali
boff to the smelters on the coast
Latest contribution to Uncle
Sans scrap war chest" came from
the California Electric Power Co
Officials of the COMPANY, using the
firms own trucks. Wednesday had
unloaded 1880 pounds OF iron at
Naliboff's yard on Broadway aven-
lie. In addition the power concern
released 500 pounds of copper. ITO
pounds of pure aluminium and $50
pounds of brass.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06

.tlOTUIleIl UP Vi hldQdSdoCdl.
The exhausted, battered and hum
CRY men-probably 1000 in all
under Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright
surrendered the forts dominating
Manila bay after q days of heroic
resistance that held the vastly SUI
perior enemy back and interrupted
the japanese offensive throughout
the Far East. Three U. S. mine
sweepers and two gunboats were
lost during the battle preceding sur
render.
Artillery of 94-inch caliber which
the japanese had moved to the
Bataan hills smashed for hours at
the American positions and then
enemy shock troops in steel barges
crossed three miles of water to
storm the beaches against Defend
ers weakened by heavy casualties,
lack of food and lack of sleep.
OTHER FRONTS ACTIVE
The fall of Corregidor conceded
with important developments on the
Burma front, where the Japanese
were driving into China and moving
closer to India, and on the NADIA
gascar front, where heavy fighting
was in progress II or around the
town of Diego Suarez and the at
jacent AntSirane naval base.
The British air, land and sea
forces attacking the Madagascar
naval base to keep it out OF Japa-
nese hands were officially reported
to have pressed forward 20 miles
through sweltering heat and to be
attacking Vichy French positions.
The defense forces, which Vichy
said number newer than 1000 men
against $4,000 British, were reported
stiffening, however, and furious
battle was in progress. Details were
lacking either from London or from
Vichy and Axis sources.
Vichy, reported howevdr, that
the French cruisers Marseillaise and
Lamotte Picquet were missing"
since the battle of Madagascar. 1t
was said that Vichy officials did
not know whether the two cruisers
had gone over to the British or
were trying to rejoin the French,
possibly in Indo-China. Much of
the French navy has been reported
to be pro-allied.
Developments on other fronts in
Guided:
BURMA-Japanese claim to have
advanced to Akyab, within 100 miles
of India, and to have cut midas
communications with China; dis
patches from Cnungking report
heavy fighting in Yunnan province
of China as Japanese mechanical
units drive up Burma road toward
Paoshan, an air base for American
volunteer group American flying
fortresses bomb airfield near RAN
Continued on Page g. Column a
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06
Senate
Action
Sought
Officials Declare
Rubber Situation
Will Grow Worse

WASHINGTON, May 6.
(UP) = Seven high-ranking
government officials, assert
ing the rubber situation is
"perilous from a military
standpoint" urged the senate mil
itary affairs committee today to
approve legislation authorizing the
requisitioning of automobiles and
tires.
The officials presented picture.
of the rubber situation which was
so serious that the committee sug-
gested that President Roosevelt eX-
plain it to the nation in a radio
broadcast.
Committee Chairman Robert r.
Reynolds, D., N. c., said that every
ounce of available rubber" must
be procured IF we are to win this
war" ~
year rom today there will be mo
rubber available for civilian uses"
So-called essential" civilian users
will have to depend upon whatever
stocks they have, he said.
Reynolds said the discussion cen
tered around the general problems"
and that no indication was given
of the extent to which automobiles
might be requisitioned. Other COM
mittee members said nothing draS-
tic" would be done in the near fu-
ture.
One committee member believed
the bills were desired to impress
the American people with the nee
essity of conserving their automo-
biles and tires, and that there prob
ably would be little requisition.
The officials urged the committee
to approve three bills-one to au-
thorize the President to acquire, by
requisitioning or otherwise, automo-
biles and parts Including tires)
one to authorize the government to
requisition automobiles that exceed
a 40-mile speed limit; and one to
establish a nationwide speed limit
OF 40 miles an hour.
Hundreds of thousands of pounds
of rubber are being unnecessarily
consumed on the highways of Amer
ica," Reynolds told reporters.
Reynolds said people with more
than five tires per car would prob
ably be compelled to turn the extra
ones over to the government.
The mechanics of requisitioning
were not discussed Reynolds said,
Under the bill sponsored by Sen.
Sheridan Downey, D., Calif.-the
automobile owner would be COM
pensated at reasonable" price.
The officials who appeared before
the committee were Undersecretary
Of War Robert P. Patterson, Price
Administrator Leon Henderson, Dep
uty Petroleum Coordinator Ralph
K. Davies, Transportation Coordi-
nator Joseph B. Eastman, Arthur
B. NeWhall, representing the war
production board, F.. Eberstadt, rep
resenting the army and navy NUM-
tions board, and Budget Director
Harold D. Smith.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-06
Bus Drivers in War Plant
Area Strike Over Wuqes

LOS ANGELES, May Cup -
Drivers of the Bay Cities Transit
Co. which furnishes transportation
to several war industry plants in
GLIDING Douglas Aircraft company,
went on strike today and put out
of action from 80 to 100 busseS.
The Santa Monica Municipal
system Immediately put more bus
SEES in service in an effort to avert
a slowup in transportation of work.
erS.
Approximately ESQ men, members
of the AFL Amalgamated Street
Railway Employees of America,
walked out in what Jack Rowley,
Pacific coast business agent of the
union. termed an outlaw strike.
The strike is a climax to long
dispute regarding hours and wages.
Last August the union won five
cent pay increase. from so to IS
cents an hour, after two week
walkout, but did not withdraw its
demand for pay ranging from rs
to IS cents.
The strike vote was taken month
ago but a Walkout was called off
when DR.. John r. Steelman, de-
partment of labor conciliator, ap-
pointed Edward Fitzgerald to be