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Evening star., 1942-11-28
Planes Attack on BottIeship
Left Only Oil Slick

WITH THE UNITED STATES
FLEET IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC,
Nov. II Delayed (P.-Lt. Albert
P. Coffin submitted the first report
of how one small squadron of tor
pedo plane pilots torpedoed kon-
go-class japanese battleship, two
cruisers and four transports.
1t. Coffin, who was graduated
from Annapolis in 1884, was leading
his fight through some protective
clouds when he saw the enemy bat
tleship, accompanied by a cruiser
and four destroyerS, steaming slowly
past Savo Island off the northwest
coast of Guadalcanal. 1t was the
morning of Friday, the 18th.
(He was to learn later that the
battleship had been hit earlier
that morning by torpedo from
a Marine Corps plane)
1t. Coffin's squadron climbed for
torpedoing position. The planes
then dived and swooped down from
opposite sides for their prize. Col
umns of water funneled into the
air as the Americans torpedoes
struck the ships vitals. The battle
ship stopped dead in the water.
This action occurred when the
battleship was only about 20 min
ute sfrom position to shell Hem
derson Field on Guadalcanal, where
American Marines and Army troops
were expecting Japanese Often
sive to recapture the island.
May Have Saved Day.
BY stopping this battleship short
of its objective, 1t. Coffin and his
fellow flyers may have saved the
day for the Americans in their sea
victory over the Japanese fleet dur
ing the November 1915 fight. Navy
officers said that if the battleship
had succeeded in shelling Henderson
Field, it might have been impossible
for our planes to use the field for
takeoffs to help the surface ships
during the fight.
1t. Coffns torpedo squadron
scored more hits on the battleship
| and, when last seen that evening,
the ships stern was afire and men
were abandoning the vessel. The
| next morning. the scene was marked
only by an oil slick 2 miles In diam
eter.
That was November IA. That day
more Japs ships were intercepted by
the squadron which torpedoed two
Evening star., 1942-11-28
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Evening star., 1942-11-28
Postwomen Get Shoes
To Replace Boots

London's postwomen are now
assured shoes-two pairs Of them
which must last year. Not that
haven't had shoes before. The
shoes replace boots as ofncial foot
wear. Each woman mail carrier
receiving the full uniform and two
pairs Of shoes must Surrender 10
ration coupons, but should b able
to keep on her uppers for u
monthA
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without air protection the Japs
retired and quickly reorganized a
surface striking force to move into
the Solomons in sufficient numbers
for a frontal assault supported by
heavy night bombardment by bat
tleships, heavy cruisers and de-
stroyers.
1t was an A, B, c maneuver. The
battleships, cruisers and destroyers
would lie out $50 miles out of reach
of our aircraft and protected by car
riers farther back At 4 o'clock in
the afternoon they would begin
steaming in at high speed for their
night shelling.
On the afternoon Of November IL,
25 Jap torpedo planes and eight
fighters struck at our cruisers
screening force and transports at
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Evening star., 1942-03-22

Comparing notes. When these visiting
British Tommies ond Uncle Sons boys met in
New York reereoton center they rounded up
pionst and roised their voices in song
something obout army life, no doubt. A. p Photo
Evening star., 1942-03-22

Shortage rumors. Unconfirmed re-
ports will start and for time there
will be whispers about no more bobby
pins, carpet tacks, ice cream cones,
etc. This stimulates buying at the
five and dime. Here's crowd Of
panicky buyers stocking up on greet
ing cards after hearing that there
won't be any more Of these tender
sentiments owing to paper shortage.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-08
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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26
'TANKERS':
Getting Tests

Uncle Sans tank troops will get
medical tests to see whether they
can take it's
The tests have been started, and
consist of running about 200 men
daily through the following ordeal:
They man tanks which are ''but-
toned up" as though for combat,
and then are run through a field of
land mines, not carrying sufficient
charge to destroy the tanks, but
enough to give the jolt and the noise
of going into artillery fire.
After this sort of thing, the men
are examined by physicians to see
what happened to the mems insides.
Only those who come through all
right will be deemed fit for actual
combat.
Suitable men are expected to
come through this test without bat
ting an eyelash."
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26
HEROES:
Of u. S. JungIes

The medal of the DISC. finally
was awarded to one of the selectees
in the first draft when General Mac
Arthur pinned it on the chest of Ser
geant Leroy c. Anderson of the tank
corps, a lad from Milwaukee.
All Anderson did was to eagerly
request permission to take his unit
of small tanks and smash a nasty
group of Japanese machine gun
nests.
Permission was granted. Ander-
son didn't ask his mates to go where
he would not, but made his own
reconnaissance tour first. Then he
moved with the other tanks to the
attack.
The enemy guns and crews were
wiped out. Anderson's own tank, in
the forefront of the battle, was put
out of action. He and his crew dis
mounted, continued the fight with
rifles and grenades. He was slight
ly wounded.
Frank Hewlett, a correspondent
who stayed with MacArthur's fight
ing heroes, wrote:
"Our boys have hurled back JAP
anese assaults that a few weeks
back would have driven them into
retreat
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26
-Weel1ly News Analys
H. s. War Production Gains Mon,enm Churchill Under Fire
By Edward G. Wayne

"Our men are now seasoned war
riors. They have been FLOODED and
have stood the test"
To the question of where is the
main japanese naval strength" the
answer had come when Australian
hiers reported they had found them
off the coast of New Britain island,
300 miles north of Australia.
At the same time American flying
fortress planes had begun bombing
attacks on Jap ships in the Macas-
sar area, reported setting one large
ship afire and having damaged an
other.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26

Gen. Claire Chennault, leader of
the American ''Tiger" squadron ON
the Burma front, as his fiers
downed IS Jap planes in two days.
Chennault became Chang Kali
shek's air force advisor early in 1941.
Playing the game of war as college
lads play football, General Chinese
Army Clair Chenault, former Texas
school teacher, and his American
'Tiger" squadron flying for Chang
Kai-shek reported they had downed
1875 Japanese planes during two
months on the Burma front.
They were the boys assigned to
keep the Burma road open and free
from attacks by Jap bombers.
The Japs sent over formation Of
so. The Tigers got 48 of them in
two days. Only three Of their men
were lost-in two planes.
All his pilots were trained in U. S.
flying schools, and all held flying
commissions with the U. S. army.
being released before we went into
the war to fight for China.
They were organized last sum-
mer. On Christmas they celebrated
with bag of 48 planes.
The first Jap flight Of 60 planes
went into fight with the Tigers pur.
suing them far back into Thailand.
and downing nearly half of them. The
Japs came back the next day with
70 planes, and again squadron Of
10 Tiger ships shot them to pieces,
accounting for two-day total OF 48.
CReleased by Western Newspapers Union.l
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26
ECONOMIC:
Economy Demanded

Led by Senators Byrd and Tyd-
ings, a wave of criticism of nom
defense spending had followed ear
lier attacks on OCD ''boondoggling"
and was meeting with considerable
interest from people in general who
were seeing one commodity after
another taken from their reach by
lack of supply.
Jesse Jones and Donald Nelson
told the people that the rubber situ-
alton was indeed severe. Senator
Brewster of Maine, in a statement,
had promised the public that the
Truman committee was conducting
a rubber investigation which would
"tear the lid off the situation"
Nelson's WPB ruled that all pro-
duction of mechanical ice-boxes
must stop April 30, the refrigera-
tors following automobiles out of the
public picture.
LaGuardia, having resigned from
the OCD, proceeded to urge that
most of the activities of Mrs. Roose-
velt's end Of the OCD be trans
ferred to other agencies.
The WPB announced it was going
into the "auto graveyards" of the
country, to which hopeful owners of
secondhand cars were looking for
parts, in order to get scrap metal
The petroleum situation, with
many tankers sunk by U-boats on
the eastern seaboard, was getting
serious, and oil was starting to
move by rail, 1000 tank cars roll
ing over the rails daily.
AS to the rubber situation, Nelson
and Jones said:
''The rubber we have today, plus
the rubber that is on its way here,
plus the rubber we shall eventually
make in our new synthetic rubber
factories, is all the new rubber we
can count on.
There is about enough to COM
plete our armament program. But
there is not going to be any to spare.
We dare not waste any"
Meanwhile it was announced in
London that Britain's clothing ra-
ton probably will be reduced soon
by an additional rs per cent.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26

troops, while the Raj. bombed sup
ply bases of the enemy.
Washington: Heavy compensation
for civilian workers in plants who
lost their jobs while the factories
were being retooled for war produc-
ton was being assailed in con-
gress as a $500, 1000, 900 bill went I'M
der consideration.
New York: A short commence
ment address had been given to 1855
naval cadets graduated here. "Rou
up your sleeves and give the enemy
hell'' was the parting word as the
youths became U. S. navy officers.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26
DEATH:
Penalty Extended

It had now become the death pen
atty for any Frenchman to allow
Americans to hide or to escape from
the German occupationists in north
ern France.
The capital penalty also had been
extended to any French prisoners
escaping from internment camps,
or for French prisoners who did
not have proper release papers.
The Nazis formerly had exacted
this penalty only for persons actually
sheltering escaped prisoners or
members of enemy armed forces
such as Raj. pilots who had been
forced down in French territory.
American observers at Vichy be-
gan to fear for the safety of Amer
lean nationals, civilians, still resid-
ing in occupied France.
The safety of Americans in occu-
pied France now is in grave doubt.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26

Washington: Senator Vandenberg
headed a group which demanded a
probe of the Normandie disaster,
calling it second only to Pearl Har-
bor."
New Orleans: The famous Mardi
Gras had been called off, and in
stead of the annual million-do1lar
spectacle, the populace marched to
bond booths and loaned their money
to Uncle Sam.
Cairo: The British finally had
stopped their back-pedaling on the
L1byan front, and mobile columns
began again harassing Rommeps
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26

competence.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26

A second time, nearly a week lat
err, British artillery tore the cause
way in two again.
And once more the Japs made
the repairs and sent trucks and men
on to the attack on the island.
The japanese admitted obstinate
resistance" and "counter-attacks,"
but even the most sanguine British
commentators considered the odds
utterly prohibitive.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26
BLACK:
NetUs of Var

Much Of the news Of the war was
gloomy. The fall of Singapore gave
Churchill his biggest headache since
the fall of France. The prime min
lister admitted this ''heavy and far
reaching defeat" in a broadcast to
the world. Reverses in Libya and
the escape of the Scharnhorst,
Gneisenau and Prince Eugen from
Brest heightened the gloom.
Why, screamed the British press.
Why, echoed the imam in the street"
throughout England. Why, re-echoed
the commentators in the United
States.
It was a trip1e-barreled question
concerning the German warships.
Why was not the British feet capa-
BILE Of bottling up these ships? Why
had 66 bombing attacks failed to
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26
RUSSIANS:
Fight Out of Shoes

So fast and furiously were the
Russians fighting, according to one
of their own communicates, that their
soldiers "fe1t shoes were wearing
out"
The Russians, however, admitted
that the Nazi resistance was stiffen-
ing all along the line, and that many
counter-attacks were being launched
On the northern front, they said,
German and Finnish ski troops took
part in one of these attacks.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26
BROWN:
And Censors

Cecil Brown, radio broadcaster
and war commentator from Singa-
pore, had flown 1900 miles from
the besieged stronghold to Sydney,
Australia to tell the world the rea-
son for the blackly gloomy battle
Of Malaga.
Significant of the bitterness of
Australia toward the British conduct
of the Far Eastern preparations was
the fact that Brown, barred from
broadcasting at all over the Singa-
pore radio because he wouldn't paint
rosy picture of things, was freely
permitted to talk when he got on
Australian territory.
His story was not pretty. It start
ed way back in Penang, when the
British, he said, evacuated only the
white, leaving the natives to fend
for themselves. When this Informal
ton filtered through to the main
land, the British had plenty of trou-
bles with the natives there, said
Brown.
Then he took up the scorched
earth policy, declaring that far from
destroying everything, the retreat
ing British had left one important
air field so little damaged that
the Japs were using it themselves
two days after the British left it.
Singapore was being bravely de-
Tended while he had been speaking.
He paid high tribute to the valor
and fighting qualities of the British
defenders.
But Singapore, he limited, was
Britain's Pearl Harbor-a story of
complacency, of unreadiness, of not
needing warnings.
The Bombay (India) Chronicle
added that Churchilps policy has
been marked by indefensible COM
placeny, unpreparedness and in
competence.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26
JOHORE:
And Singapore

The story of the Johore causeway,
that granite pathway which con-
meets Singapore with the mainland,
was being pieced together from Brit
ish admissions and Japanese claims,
and was believed major factor in
the black military page in Britain's
book that was the Malaga campaign.
The entire British defending army,
believed clipped down to some 3d.
000-odd fighting men during the re-
treat down Malaga, was moved over
the causeway to carry on the siege
Of Singapore.
Stories at the time related how
the intrepid engineers remained I'M
til the last to blow up and destroy
the causeway.
The Japs declared the British only
preached it, making a brief
break in the causeway which the
little men from Nippon repaired by
night, and then swarmed across to
drive the British back.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26
WATERFALL:
Rushed to Fronts

America was launching war
ship every day and rushing men and
material of warfare to all fronts as
the determined national effort to win
the war with superior military pow
er gained momentum even as the
black news from the Southwest Pa
cific and other areas continued to
make American spirits even grim
mer.
Stories from the fronts of one ma
jor setback of another We'd for head
line space with great stories of hero
ism from those same fronts of the
men who were carrying the Stars
and Stripes into action.
One week-end's schedule, on the
home front, saw 6,000-ton cruiser
launched on Saturday, destroyer
on Sunday, and a 35,000-ton battle
ship on Monday.
Naval authorities pointed out that
launching a day would soon be
followed by the placing of war
ship day in commission.
At the same time, from half a
dozen ports of embarkation, train
loads of tanks, guns and munitions
Of war were going into black-hulled
merchant ships, to be conveyed to
the scenes Of action.
Coincidenta1ly, President Roose-
welt, in his White House office was
comforting long hours with II mill
tary and naval experts of the world,
putting teeth into the war effort.
Back of it all, from coast to coast,
men in the newest registration were
being called to the colors, to raise
our army of LOO. 900 men to 3.600,-
900 or even more.
From the Ford plant in Detroit
had come the first airplane engines
produced after nearly a year Of
''tooling up'' for this eventuality.
Benson Ford and other engineers
came to an eastern plane factory
for the first air tests.
The test pilots scared aloft. In a
few hours they were back. "Phe-
nomenar' was the word they used
about the performance.
The Ford engineers assured the
factory heads that they would not
want for engines for their ships
from now on.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26

damage them? Why had the British
come out of the channel sea and air
battle with AZ planes down against
IS for the Germans, and with their
quarries sailing safely off to the
Heligoland Blight?
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns. they
are those of the news analyst, and not
necessarily of this newspaper.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1942-02-26

Five months desroyers,
ghD the USS Gherardi
river Philadelphia The launching preceded
baleship
the hailed launching
o
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27

regular pipes, the organ is linked
with cymbals, wood blocks, TOM
toms. chimes, harps. and score
of MISUNDERSTANDING even
grand piano.
Keeping the huge instrument
in perfect adjustment is the full
time job Of William Eichler, who
is in charge of organ mainten-
ance at the Music Hall. While
Richard Liebert, chief organist,
is "out front" playing the three
manual keyboard, Eichler is busy
behind the scenes making sure
that everything is going all right.
AS there is no other organ in
the world like this one Liebert
had TO make a special study of
it before he took over the play
ing OF the giant instrument-just
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
Details Of the

front. with it's compact and we'll
ordered bank of keys, it is al
most impossible TO imagine that
eight separate rooms are re-
quired TO house the workings Of
sound effects set in motion by
the musician seated at this huge
console.
No less than S6s keys, stops,
and pedals are needed TO touch
off the electrical apparatus that
makes this musical monster func-
ton. There is more electrical
wiring skillfully built into the or
gan than is TO be found in all the
skyscrapers that make up Rookie
Teller Centre.
The pipes" vary in size from
that Of a pencil-like flute TO one
30 feet long. In addition to the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27

strument can produce a study
had TO be made of the Music
Hall auditorium before the organ
was built in. Improperly in
stalled pipe-organs have been
known to shatter windows be-
cause Of the force Of their sound
waves.
Few people, unfamiliar with
the engineering problem that the
organ presented TO it's designers
and builders, could possibly UNI
derstand the maze of machinery
and wires that is housed in the
eight-room loft. The picture
showing Eichler adjusting a lit
tie wire on just one of the panel
boards gives general idea of
the complexity of this great
music box.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-27
ila1 AQM-M MAN 3000-PIECE ORCHESTRA

as did his assistants who are
ready to make music in the alb
sence Of the chief organist.
The men whose job it is TO
pick out melodies at this $500
pound console claim that the
scope of the sound effects the
instrument is capable of produc-
ing is limitless.
They estimate that an orches-
ira conductor would have to have
at least 5000 musicians under
his baton il he had any hope of
duplicating and competing with
the various sounds that can be
produced Sby this gigantic music
box.
Although the organ, itself, is