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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-16

Sunday in The Sunday Times, continuing Mon
day and daily thereafter in the daily Times.
Early in 1912 Americans with pride and
admiration read in limited newspaper accounts
about three navy fiers and their desperate
struggle against death after falling into the
ocean in enemy-infested waters. Now comes
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-16
Allies Score Hits
On 7 Jap Supply
Ships in Indies
Tally Of Ships Blasted
So Far in Battle for
Port Moresby Up TO 3
By LEE VAN Alta

International News Service stan Writer
NERAL MacARTHURS
RTERS IN AUS
TRALIA. Sept. l6.-Allied bomb
erS smashed at Japanese bases on
"a ! ,500-mile front from the TENNIS
Der Islands 10 Rabaul, and scored
direct hits on two enemy ships
carrying supplies to Japanese
bases threatening New Guinea.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's head
quarters reported today.
II was the third straight day
that Allied aircraft attacked en-
envy supply ships off the Tenimber
Islands where one cargo vessel OF
two bombed had earlier been left
in flames by a direct hit.
The assault on Rabaul marked
a resumption Of the air offensive
against this strong enemy base TO
the east of New Guinea.
BOMB STALLED JAPS
AS Flying Fortresses and other
heavy aircraft ranged out over the
seas south and east of the island,
fighter planes and bombers ham,
mered enemy positions on the
south slopes Of the Owen Stanley
range in New Guinea where the
japanese drive on Port Moresby
has been stalled for the last week.
Increased patrol activity was re-
ported along the mountain trails
leading from Efogi to Port
Moresby. but the invaders were
not able TO advance towards the
Allied base on the southern shore.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-16
APP Man Is Captured
By Italians in libya

LONDON. Sept, l6 QNS) $3.50
The London Daily Sketch re-
ported today from Cairo that the
American newspaperman I h
Italian high command claims &c
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-16
The War
Today
,.'Nazis Clothe
For I'd Winter
nIn Cold Russia
SET.
. BY CAPT. JOHN II. CRAIGE


by CAPT. JOHN II. CRAIGE
"A r,t,.n Especially TOR international Newt
w" service and Detroit Times
WITH THE seasons first
!, SHOWS falling in the passes
aief the Caucasus and autumn
rains slowing up the Nsn
,.dtive for Stalingrad, the eyes
ssof the Red army high COM
mand are turning 10 the
i''north, hoping for the early
appearance of Russia's two
historic allies. General Mud
and General Winter.
The appearance of General
:. Winter last year stopped the
NGerman campaign for Mos
COW and opened the way for
the counter thrusts of the
S6piets.
Now Stains generals are
shopping that history will re-
peat.
NEWS DISPATCHES indi-
date the Russians are not
Malone in anticipating winter.
d-s Advices filtering through
from Germany tell of elabo-
vAfate preparations to shelter
Axis soldiers from the killing
Weather that is expected.
The German people seem
resigned to another winter of
tYar in Russia. but casualties
sDn the scale suffered last year
would strain their morale to
the breaking-point.
According TO information
: released in London, Hitler
sshas appointed three of the
isssmartest members of his brain
tfust-Generals Halder, Jacob
!, and Wietersheim-to organize
y shelter, clothing and food suit
ssAble for the coming Arctic
'amonths.
.Seif,
$50 = u AUTUMN AND winter in
ssRussia are likely to vary by
ssas much as couple of months
'hfIrm year TO year.
Ordinarily heavy gales and
-.-drenching rains begin late in
September, growing in severity
Z through October, to be sue
cseded by a short Indian
.stspmer. prelude to the ar
trivial of heavy SHOWS and
paralyzing frost.
But sometimes the rains do
not begin until November. and
occasionally real cold does not
arrive until Christmas.
THE SEASON of mud is
haps more completely
{alyzing to modern war
bAn the season of extreme
Ed.
Eastern Russia is a fat
country and there are few
SsrQads.. In the summer tanks
Nd wheeled vehicles can cut
Bkross the baked prairies at
CIVIL.
But when the rains come,
these are turned into bottom
less boys.
REAL WINTER cold varies
between 5 degrees above
and zero in the Leningrad-
Moscow-Smolensk area, with
20 inches of snow on level
ground, 10 a 20-degree- above
average for Astrakan and
Baku of the North Caucasus,
where the snowfall is light.
But these averages include
periods when the mercury
dives TO 80 or 40 degrees be-
low zero and stays there for
weeks.
TStatementS and opinions
berein are private TO the
writer and are not to be con-
Hued as rejecting the views
the navy department.
IA uVWV
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have captured in the British raid
on Tobruk was Larry Allen, "a
for the Associated
Press. of Mount Savage, Md.
Allen won the Pulitzer prize in
194l for a story on the German
bomber attack against the British
aircraft carrier IllustriouS.
"The Wishing Well" has
message in cipher for you. Daily
and Sunday Times.
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Mdssed Tanks
Pushing Closer
To StdGngrdd
Knockout Of Volea City
Fooled, Reds Say as Nazis
Claim II Has Fallen
By JAMES T.. BROWN

International News service stan Writer
MOSCOW. Sept. 16 Mass at
lacks by hundreds OF German
tanks and fresh infantry reserves
have succeeded in making slight
gains west of Stalingrad despite
terrific losses inflicted by Russian
achievements, the Soviet high
command announced today.
The Russian noon communiquc
admitted loss of some ground. y
The defenders OF Stalingrad, from
line dispatches Said, had smashed
repeated Nazi attacks which APP
parently sought TO deliver a knock
out blow against the city from the
west
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-13
Notes

UTICA-The sewing class of
the Utica Red Cross unit will
meet at the Methodist church
parlors on Friday, Oct. l6, at
100 o'clock. Mrs. Donald Mi
chael has accepted the chair
manship and she will be assisted
by Mrs. Sam Beauchamp and
Mrs. Earl j. Mcclellan. Owing
to lack of material and other
matters the class has not been
functioning. 1t now will be re-
built and all women who can
find it possible to help are asked
to do so.
A Civilian Defense Fund Ben
eft by the Utica Tuesday Club,
will be held at the home of Mrs.
E. A. Schwarzkoff on Thursday,
October %, at 8 p. m. There will
| be cards and refreshments and
a social evening. The public is
invited.
A meeting is called for We'd
nesday evening, Oct. IA, at 7:30,
at the high school, for the pur-
pose of organizing another Red
Cross first-aid class. Mrs. Harold
Engel will be in charge and
asks that anyone interested be
present.
More than 80 persons were In
attendance at the first meeting
of the club year of the Utica
Farmers Club at the Methodist
church on Wednesday evening.
The evening was a most enjoy
able one with Stanley Peltier,
M a o m b County chemist, as
guest speaker.
The musical portion of the
program, which was in charge
of Mr.. Albert 'Barke, was fur
nished by pupils of Mrs. Blanche
Grimm of the Utica Music Shop.
Ray Frank sang two baritone
solos, Stout Hearted Men" and
Three for Jack" in fine voice.
Patriotic numbers were played
by the ensemble.
A violin duet by Phyllis Shar-
row and Clarence Grimm was
first followed by accordion solos
rendered by Thelma Parker and
Irene Klinghammer. Leonard
Witt also played guitar solo,
and every number was well-re-
! ceived.'
Peltier spoke earnestly and
entertainingly dealing with the
effect of disease upon the course
of history. Great defeats had
been caused by the ravages OF
typhus, cholera, yellow fever
and otrer similar plaques. He
held the audience with him as
he traced his subject through
medical history from the dark
ages up to the present day.
County Agricultural A g e n
William Murphy, also of Mount
Clemens, told of the progress
of agriculture during the %
years he had been associated
with Macomb county.
Refreshments were served al
the close of the program by Mr..
and Mrs. Barke, Mr.. and Mrs
/ William Drake, Mr.. and Mrs
Harold McVittie, MIR. and Mrs,
Loren Frank.
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OF BRIGHTNESS GONE
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with that barrel of Der forfeit
yet. The rest of us are dying of
dry-rot, waiting"
That propect didn't seem to
dismay Henderson. "Y' know, /
kinda wish you would" he said
cheerfully. You'd force me in
to bankruptcy to fork over 50
for barrel of beer when you
can get stinko tomorrow at the
Hartshorne-Corby nuptials at
Papa Hartshorne's expense. Pa
pa Hartshorne, they say, is pro-
viding even champagne.
Candace J ad stiffened. Shut
up, she thought wildly. Shut up!
But Quincy's had already gone
on to other things.
What are you doing here?"
he asked Jepperson. Where
Hi-hat Bech? Isn't she supposed
to be on? Not that ! don't prefer
YOU" he added lightly. "Bech
always makes me feel nine
years old, unwashed, and late
for school,"
With the change of subject,
Candaee could breathe again
She emerged from behind the
screen, rather pale but appar-
emily otherwise unruffled.
Good evening"" she said with
vinegary sweetness. Il see our
dear little cheerful cherubs are
with us again"
Jepperson giggled nervously
and the two boys murmured
confused apologies and skunk
abashed from the room.
Peter Strengthened moment
from the wound he was dressing.
You're bushed, Jep," he said
casually. go on, Bech will take
over"
When she had gone and Can
dace stood beside him he grin
ned at her companionably. I'D
hate to see what would happen
if one of the young squirts
around here got up courage
enough to dare say boo to you"
he remarked.
Candace stared frostily, raised
warning eyebrows over the pa
tents head.
"Oh, he doesn't speak Eng
lish," Peter explained. What
mean is" he went on, "you have
every man-Jack scared of you
when, if only they had brains
enough to see it, you're the one
who's really scared. Scared stiff
that life will find you out, force
you out of that hard shell
you're so busily growing"
She had struggled hard to put
their relationship on a profess
ional, strictly impersonal basis
and it had seemed that she had
finally won. 1t was a long, long
while since a really personal
remark had passed between
them. She was angered, and
wounded, that Peter should pre-.
sumo today of all days. She said
sharply, you're SO clever, Doc.
tor. You read me just like ar
open book, don't you? But then
you should, since you've seen all
the pages"
Save the sarcasm" Peter ad-
vised mildly. cts mighty eff
fective weapon in most cases
and I've come to admire the way
you use it. but I'm SO thick I'd
blunt it. Resent it or not, it's
still sound advice to you to pu,
that perfect machine you've be-
come under dust covers once liz
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FRAZIER AND-BECH
CHAPTER XVII
BY HOLLY WATTERSON


AT Good Samaritan you said
Frazier-and-Bech as naturally as
at table you said salt-and-pep-
per. bread-and- butter. You said
Frazier-and- Bech are in Pedia-
tries, or Gym, or Surgery, as
they progressed through the
months of their rotating serv-
ices.
That doctor-nurse combina-
ton had begun three years be-
fore, back in interne-probation-
er days, more or less by acct
dent and it had continued by
design-Dr. Peter Frazier's de-
sign-straight on into Emergen-
cy, DR.. Frazier's last service be-
fore he would 60 into private
practice. \
For the first time in months
Candace found herself resenting
it. In the beginning, longing to
run away from anything or any
body that even remotely sug-
gested Martin, she fought Bit
terly against that enforced con-
tact with Peter; but circum-
stances and Peters quiet will
had been too much for her.
She would have said that she
had completely forgotten Mar
tin. That he was to her now
simply "a doctor who had once
been an inferno at tho hospital
and was now a consulting staff
member who appeared occas-
ionally on important cases. That
would be true again after to-
morrow; but today he was more
than that, much more. He was
the man she had once loved, and
who was to marry on the next
day another girl.
She had come on evening duty
a few minutes before, to find
Emergency busy in the after
math of street fight in near
by foreign neighborhc I'd. Being
shepherded up to a ward under
the watchful eye of policeman
was a sullen group sporting as
sorted bandaged knife wounds
and blackened eyes, while on the
table, wincing under Peters
probing fingers, was still an
other late belligerent.
Jepperson, the nurse she was
relieving, was a good one as far
as care and kindness went, but
not particularly quick or effici-
ent. Candace thought, Jeppy'll
be all night at this mess if I don't
clear it, and she set quickly to
work to rid the corner behind
the screen of the stained swabs
and gauze, leaving to Jepperson
the less arduous task of passing
instruments to Peter.
She was still cleaning back
there, out of sight, when she
heard two of the internes on
ambulance duty-riding the bus,
as it was called-come into
Emergency, arguing cheerfully.
She recognized them from their
voices as Henderson, the rather
flip good-looking one, and fat
Quincy.
"It's three days since that
baby was born in your bus,
Quincy was saying. Three days
and you haven't come across
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a while and come out for air. At
least when you're off duty"
IF ever should need or want
your advice, Doctor" she said
stiffly, "I'll come to you as a pa
tient and ask for it," Her face
was white and her voice shook.
but the well-trained hands that
furnished him with implements
never wavered.
"You must know" she broke
out furiously again after mo-
ment, that resent this spying
on me all the time. That ! hate
having to work with you. Hate
it, hate it. Yet you've somehow
managed 1t on every service.
Why"
ooh, it's for a very selfish rea-
son." Peter said lazily. Because
you're a perfect machine. With
you, one never has to be consid-
ering the personal equation. 1t
makes things very easy-for me.
I'm afraid it's bad for you,
though. Keep every human emo
ton too long in leash and one
day they'll turn on you and rend
you."
Candace laughed, sharp and
hard. With a deliberate effort to
be insulting she said, II never
thought you'd be guilty of such
cheap advice, Doctor - That
emotion rending business I
thought only the cheaper in
ternes trying to interest some
nurse in a convenient affair used
that one"
She had succeeded in annoying
him finally. IF you're insinuat-
ing that I'm advising an affair
for you-I'm not. Even to an af-
fair one must bring something;
and you're fast getting to the
stage where you're just an emp
ty vessel"
Empty vessels make most
noise,' she quoted. That's
what was always told as a child
when I prattled too much. But it
seems to me that you're the one
who's doing hte prattling just
now. Prattling the sort of advice
that goes over big with neurotic
lady patients. The type of pa
tients who really pay. You'll be
a big success at that rate, Doc
tor" Abruptly she stopped.
Exactly that was being said
about Martin, that he was build
ing up that kind of a practise
The thought of Martin came as
shock. She realized, with al
most a feeling of gratitude
toward Peter for having so dis
tracted her, that the day she had
so long dreaded was almost over
and she had been forgetting to
think of Martin, that she had
not once, since coming on duty,
imagined him practicing for that
scene in the church tomorrow.
And now, she knew thank
fully, she'd have no time to
think of it. Because she was
hearing the siren of a police
mans motorcycle, the sound of a
speeding car coming to a grind
| ing stop in the courtyard out
side. The emergency warning
gong began to sound.
There was the familiar faint
squeak of the stretcher-car-
riage's wheels, the muted foot
steps of attendants on the cork
floor of the corridor. The car
riage reached the door of Emer-
gency, paused an instant to ne
gotiate the turn, then Martin
Corby was wheeled in.
(TO Be Continued)
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SANTA BARBARA, Calf. -
Business is red hot, practically
blazing, in the West coast match
industry.
G. w. Zuren, a field represen-
tative, explained one reason why
business has doomed since Pearl
Harbor.
More men are smoking pipes.
They require more matches than
cigars or cigarettes.
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up from the circled warriors, but the
Japanese only squinted his black
eyes at the second hand of his watch.
The runner who was sprinting
forward with the precious gasoline
was Monigau, the fleetest man in
the tribe. He could run like deer,
and now. urged by the clamorous
voices of his friends, he gave every
last ounce of energy to sprinting
dash. They heard the thnd thnd of
his bare feet on the loamy soil of the
Jungle, heard the crunch of gravel
beneath his bare toes, saw him enter
the circle of freight.
Slowly, almost reluctantly, the
japanese lowered his gun as the
GREATNESS man dropped the five
gallon can of gasoline. 1.-TWO sec
onds," the Japanese said to Taya,
and laughed uproariously at the
great joke of Fate.
Other runners came up with more
cans, and there was the splashing of
liquid. The Japanese were now in
high humor. But the hostages were
not liberated. The motors roared
out. The five fires marking the path
way out OF the valley blossomed into
red, guiding beacons. Then, and
only then, did the japanese holster
his gun and enter the plane. leaving
the hostages behind.
The Japanese aviator had plotted
the course we'll, and now, as the
plane waited with motors idling,
Talaywa knew that these men we're
very cunning. The fires were so large
that once they came to full blaze,
they could not be extinguished in
time to keep the plane from finding
its way out of the valley.
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THE FALSE FIRE

head, smiled as though at some great
joke. ''Seven-thirty soon," he said,
and laughed. Five minutes later he
took his gun from its holster.
1t was just as he was raising it
that the first runner broke through
the concealing growth of the jungle.
Holding his torch high, he shouted,
81 am here"
Talaywa felt a great surge of re-
lief. you see," she said, "the ancient
gods are not naked and powerless."
But the Japanese did not put
his watch in his pocket. Holding it
so the fire light was reflected on its
dial, he steadied his weapon. Forty
seconds" he said, and his harsh.
staccato laughter rang out. A great,
spontaneous shout of protest went
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ued for several seconds after the eyes
of the watching tribesmen saw the
binding sheet OF fire which spurted
forth high on the mountalnside.
Then after this flame had been burn
ing for several seconds, the delayed
sound of the droning motors abrupt
ly terminated in a terrific crash -
so long had it taken distant sound
to be borne to their ears. After that
all was silent, save for the chant of
the widow of kilban, mourning for
her dead.
A few moments later great shout
went up from the tribe. Mana
haut! Manahaut!'
Java and his party of young war
riors returned in the early light of
morning.
"Manahaut," Gawa confessed
with grin, lis naked, but he is still
powerful. All he needs is a little
assistance. Waiting up the trail, l
diverted the last three runners with
their cans of gasoline. We prepared
decoy fires. and sprinkled this gaso-
line upon them so that they would
burst into quick fame"
Talaywa regarded him with tired.
thoughtful eyes.
THE young men who helped you
in this matter can be trusted" she
asked.
They can be trusted"
ut is well. Let us say nothing.
There is no reason to destroy the
faith of the people in Manahaut, the
Great Deceiver"
Il have already given ORDERS"
Gawa said.
The End
TW-l7-S-42
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Strings Oh three, lHcs I'll
the side of the noun
tain, fires in the precipi-
tous side gorges which
led. not out of the val
ley. but up to the steep.
jagged rocks of the tow
ering crests.
The motors of the
plane showed that the
big warbird had droned
over the first of the
guiding fires - over the
second guiding fire it
flew, not distracted in
the least by the confu-
sion of other decoy fires
over the third. 1t was
all but out of the valley
now.
Then suddenly the
sound of the motors
changed. Listening,
Talaywa knew that the
aviators had missed the
fourth fire. They were
heading straight toward
one of the decoy fires,
which marked a short,
steep side canyon.
The sound Of the
droning motors contin-
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But it seemed the Japanese had
ideas of their own on the subject.
Later in the afternoon they came
and took Talaywa herself as addi-
tional hostage.
The japanese with the automatic
Kissed and smiled, but his meaning
was unmistakable. when motors of
airplane make noise" he explained
in his simple English, fires are lit.
If no fires are lit, these two men die
and you die. Explain please to
your people. Very great importance
of having fires lit to guide way of
airplane from valley"
Talaywa caught the hopelessness
in the eyes of her grandson. She
turned to her people - but what
she said, in the dialect of the tribe,
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Abruptly the motors roared to
surging power. The plane moved
slightly, the wheels crunching over
the gravel. Great gales of wind
thrown back by the propellers
whipped at Talaywa's hair, sent the
embers of the tribal fire scattering
into darkness. The motors roared
into deep-throated droning power,
and the plane was off, speeding away
to notify headquarters in Manila of
the presence of the American feet.
i ALAYWA said bitterly, 20 Mana
haut, art thou indeed powerless:
Art thou as Gawa has said, naked,
unarmed god, conquered as thy
people have been conquered? And
the words were as bitter salt in her
mouth. But abruptly strange thing
happened. Other fires flared into
brilliance, until it seemed that there
we're more than a dozen fires in
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the sacrifice. No matter how hope
less they considered it, apparently
they were following her instructions,
appealing to the ancient gods of the
tribe. Shortly after seven O'Clock
great shouting went up. Watchers
stationed in strategic places had
spotted the runners coming down
the trail at trot, carrying cans of
gasoline. Another hour and they
would arrive with the precious fluid.
HE Japanese who seemed to be
in charge addressed himself to
Talaywa. ''Old woman" he said
with his toothy, nervous grin, ut
makes no difference. please, if gaso-
line arrive at eight O'Clock. Your
grandson dies seven-thirty. Delivery
of gasoline must be expedited enor-
mously. Very sorry please. but ex-
plain to people that seven-thirty
brings death of grandson"
Talaywa explained. But the faces
of the tribe, illuminated by the
rudy glow of fire which had been
built on the graveled island, showed
only the apathy of utter impotence.
There was nothing they could do.
Relays of men stationed to bring
down the gasoline were straining
every muscle. Even as Talaywa
breathed an appeal to Manahaut.
the Deceiver, she realized that Cawa
was right. The old gods had indeed
been shorn of power.
Coming down the mountainside.
could be seen the writing serpent
of little spots of illumination - the
torches carried by the runners who
were bringing the gas. The Japanese
took out his watch. He nodded his