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his sights for the upper house again this year.
 Virtually all the members who served last session from the other Divisions are reported planning to file again. In the Second, Senator LeRoy Sullivan's term is up Lone Republican of the Senate. he'll prob ably seek reelection. 0. D. Coeh- ran is the holdover Tn the House from the Second were Frank Whaley Stuart Stangroom. Leonard Smith and Howard Lyng, all probable can didates to succeed themselves. Sen ator Don Carlos Brownell is up for reelection and the House members. probable candidates. are William Egan, H. H. MeCutcheon. Amer Pc terson and Harvey Smith in the Third.
 Up in the Fourth, Senator c. Fl. LaBoyteauX's term is up and Ala bam', the gentleman from Liven- good. probably will be in there pitch ing for reelection. House members from the Fourth who probably will seek reelection are Frank Gordon. Leo Rogge, Jesse Lander and Charles Herbert.
 Dope is that Walter p. Sharpe. who has been Executive Director of the Unemployment Compensation Commission, may file for Labor Commissioner. A. P. Walker. former House member now living at Pelican City, may be a candidate for the House again.
 Candidates must file with Clerk of Court by the first of February.
 k *
 Gov Gruening has vigorously pro tested the 45 per cent increase in freight rates, declaring it the rank est kind of discrimination against the people of Alaska He is being supported by all Alaskans through newspapers, Chambers of Commerce, various other groups and individuals Delegate Dimond is following up the protest in Washington in a deter mined manner but it probably will take some time to get adjustment Like victory over the Axis, adjust ment of those prohibitive rates will have to come or Alaska business will fold, and with it the Territory will lose much of it's population.
 Alaska Defense Command comes
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 TAKES OWN LIFE

KETCHIKAN - Larry MeCann. 36. orchestra leader and music teacher, was found dead at his home here last Sunday night. Investigat- ing authorities held no inquest. as it appeared he had taken his own lie. He had been Respondent recent ly because of i'll health.
 The year before he came to Ket- chikan he directed an orchestra on the steamer North Sea on the AL aska run
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
Raid ROutS
Quisling
At Rally

LONDON, Sept. 26 GNS).-
With Gestapo headquarters among
the buildings hit. great success
ives reported by the air ministry
today in the raid yesterday by
British bombers on the Norwegian
capital Of Oslo.
1t was the first attack on this
city in more than a year.
Nazi headquarters were at
tackled at the same time A Nazi
Party meeting was in progress,
the air ministry said. Reports re-
ceived by way of Stockholm said
that puppet Premier Vidkun Quis-
ling was making an address at the
time. He and his NaZi colleagues
and their bodyguards scurried for
the nearest bomb shelter.
Returning pilots said they
bombed the Gestapo building from
an altitude of only 100 feet. A
number of hits were seen clearly.
One British plane was lost.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
j. 5. Filters Blast
Invasion Fleet
Off So|omons
Jsps Messing Troops
as Reports Indicate
Huge Sea Battle Near
By WALTER LOGAN
nlted Press Siaa Correspondent

WASHINGTON. Sept %
japanese reinforcements continue
to move into the northern Solo
mons. apparently in preparation
for the expected large-scale at
tempt 10 dislodge Americ "a n
marines from their hard-won po-
Sitions, latest reports from the
South Pacific war zone indicated
today.
The navy disclosed in a commu-
nique last night that army Flying
Fortresses located fleet OF enemy
transports near Southland Island,
$50 miles north of the main
American base at Guadalcanal, on
Friday and scored three hits on
the vessels. One of 20 Zero fighter
planes sent up for protection was
shot down.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
Attorneys Wife Asks
Divorce, Gets Writ

Her husband, Martin J. Cronin.
Hamtramck attorney, was pc
nurious and made dispsraging
remarks about her. Mrs. Blanche
Cronin, Hamtramck housing COM
mission employe, charged in Q
divorce complaint on file today in
Wayne County Circuit Court.
Circuit Judge Joseph A. Moyni-
han granted an injunction enjoin-
ing Cronin from disposing of his
property. Mrs. Cronin set forth
he has safe deposit boxes in
Windsor and Chatham, Ont, and
Montreal.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
Canadian Filters
Blast 4 Subs

OTTAWA. Sept. 26 0NS).-
Probable destruction of four en-
envy submarines by Canadian air
force planes was revealed by Air
Minister Charles Power.
Dates and locations were with
held by Power, but he indicated
that the U-boats were sunk in
recent operations.
J. L. Francine Of Philadelphia,
since transferred to the United
States Army Air Corps. was Co
pilot of one of the giant "Canso'
flying boats that apparently
killed" a sub, Power said. The
attack made by the plane in which
Francine participated was typical
of the four probable sinkings,"
Power added.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
Newspapers and Officia War News Policies

sioning damages to other battle
ships which the administration not
even yet will permit to be re-
vealed, though they have been
largely repaired and publication OF
this fact could have been safely
made months ago. Such publication
would have given to the American
public that true appraisal OF the
state of the war which Mr.. Doug
las urged the newspapers TO give,
as IL the power rested with them
TO do so.
The same repressive news policy
has perverted reports of succeed
ing engagements.
Pollyanna of the headlines can
trace both her parents TO govern
ment Offices in Washington.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
Laval Dismisses
Aide as Potter

YICHY. France, Sept. 26 (UP).
Chief of Government Pierre La
val today dismissed Jacques
Benoist- Mechin, secretary of state
for German relations, from the
cabinet and the presidency OF the
Tricolor Legion on the charge that
Benoist- Mechin had plotted against
him in Paris.
Benoist- Mechin vigorously but
vainly resisted the dismissal order
THE Tricolor Legion is that
formed TO provide volunteers"
TO fight with the Germans
against Russia.)
Laval charged that he had
caught Benoist-Mechin in a plot
TO interest the Germans in a new
Vichy cabinet which would elimi-
nate Laval.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
p Canned
Goods Put
On Ration

WASHINGTON, Sept. &c UNS).
To prevent boarding by house
wives, the War Production Board
today is placing 70 canned fruits
and vegetables under indirect ra-
tioning control
The WPB announced a program
to put rigid control over the
amount of canned foods TO be
released to retail outlets.
The WPB explained that 49,
100000 cases of the 273,000. 900
cases of canned fruits and vege-
tables in the 1928 pack have
been ordered set aside for the
armed forces and lend-leaSe.
IL added:
This will leave about 20O,-
900, 900 cases, or IS per cent. for
civilians about one and one
half cases (S6 cans) per person"
To prevent Gamers or whole
salers from releasing all of the
pack as quickly as the market
demands, the WPB ordered that
the canned goods be released
methodically.
Approximately 69,751 900 cases
will be released up to November
30. another 69.751 900 cases from
December / to March 81. 1943,
and the remainder, 59,786, 900
cases. after April /.
1t also is possible. the WPB said,
that store owners, to keep their
from emptying too fast,
will limit the. number of cans al
lowed each customer.
The % canned fruits and vege-
tables affected are: Fruit cock
tail, peaches, pears. asparagus,
lima beans, string beans. sweet
corn, peas. tomatoes, tomato cat
sup. tomato juice, beets. carrots,
apples, applesauce. apricots, red
sour pitted cherries. sweet cher
ries, pineapple juice, prunes.
peaches, pineapple, pumpkin and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26

formation on which headlines and
analyses perforce must be based.
Take the case of Bataan. which
he mentioned, in relation 10 Pearl
Harbor. which he did not mention.
When General Macarthur $
forces retired 10 Bataan, all well
informed reporters in Washington
knew the United States could not
reinforce them or supply them
with the food. ammunition and
medicine required to maintain
their defense. They knew the Jap
anese had established naval
blockade which made this impos-
sible. Also they knew why the
Japanese were able 10 establish
this blockade and why the navy
could not break it.
FORCED TO BE SILENT
But silence was imposed on them
until senators revealed the breadth
as we'll as the height of public ig-
norance by demanding that Mac
Arthur be reinforced and supplied
This correspondent. for one, then
asked and obtained permission
from the war department TO pub
liSh some of the reasons why IL
could not be done.
The department did not volun-
teer the information; the news
papers were obliged TO initiate the
effort themselves. IL that was not
an attempt, in so far as the mill
tary censorship made II possible
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
BY ARTHUR KRoCK
From I'm the Nation" In the New York
Times.

From I'm the Nation" IN the New York
Times.
Whenever discussion OF the ac-
tual trend of the war arises in an
group these days some
one is pretty certain TO charge the
press with gliding the ugly truth,
Mr.. Justice Douglas of the SUI
preme Court of the United States
in a recent speech TO newspaper
publishers in Oregon urged his
hearers TO report the facts as they
are, and analyze and headline them
with brutal candor. His context
seemed 10 imply that too few
newspapers are doing that, and
that all could.
"If the war Is already practi-
cally won," said Mr.. Douglas,
land the enemy about to col
lapse, readers OF rosy hued head
lines may we'll ask, why build
this huge army. why convert our
peacetime economy into an ar
senal:"
SPOTLIGHT ON HEADLINES
This mention OF headlines is
never omitted from criticisms oI
the treatment Of war news by The
press as whole: therefore. II car
be accepted that hesdlining anc
display Of war news are the chic
source Of most Of the complaints
what IL the average reader
10 think inquired Mr.. Douglas,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
.Rumanian Resigns
His Cabinet Post

BERLIN, Sept. 26 German
broadcast recorded by UP at New
York; Gen. Nicholai Stonescu,
Rumanian minister of finance, re-
signed from the cabinet today. the
official DNB GERMANY news ag-
Iency reported from Buch hare st.
IDNB said Stonescu was succeeded
by Alexandra Neagu, a member
OF the board of directors Of the
'Rumanian National Bank.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
Grips Tells War Aims

LONDON, Sept. 26 UNS) =
Firm conviction that basic ele-
ments of Christianity such as
equal rights and freedom for all
men, must dictate the war policies
of the United Nations as well as
the peace precepts that will follow
was expressed today by Sir Stat
ford Cripps, lord privy seal.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26

to prepare the country for the
grim defeat we faced" on Bataan,
and to perform a clear job OF
analysis" what was it?
But the press was not then, and
it is not yet, permitted to explain
to its readers why the Japanese
were able 10 blockade the Philip
pines and range freely through the
Pacific areas at other times.
The answer is 10 be found In the
statistics of naval
losses at Pearl Harbor, losses
which were sustained in a few
hours more than six months ago
and have long been known TO the
Japanese who inflicted them.
ONLY PART OF TRUTH
So far as the newspaper reading
public has been informed by the
secretary of the navy, we lost one
battleship. the Arizona; one old
training ship, the Utah; the mine
layer Ogalala, the destroyers Cas-
sin, Downes and Shaw, and. army
forces included. 1887 officers and
men and the temporary services OF
the battleship Oklahoma, which
capsized.
This is all true, but IL Is only
patr of the truth. And that other
part explains why the japanese
blockade OF the Philippines could
not be challenged.
IL coBcerns heavy. decommis'
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26

"when. after days and days OF
overenthusisstic headlines, news
OF q distinctly snticlimactic ma
ture hits him? He remembers
the boys on Bataan. AT the time
a good portion of the press told
us only Of their heroism, and did
not prepare the country for the
grim defeat We faced.
"The wartime job Of the press
IL not only TO report victories
but to analyze them coura-
geously and constructiveIy."
The justice said that lin the
broad field left open TO il by mill.
tsry censorship" the press has al
the facilities IL needs TO perform
a clear job Of analysis that vii
give 10 its readers the facts of the
war in their true proportion anc
prepare them for any bad new,
these facts may foreshadow.
SHUTS EYES TO FACTS
At this point. like most critics
of the handling OF war news in tht
press. Mr.. Douglas shut his eyes
or failed 10 see that he was sttrib
uting TO the middleman all blame
for flaws in articles delivered {,
him by a manufactures with mo
nopoly of production.
That manufacturer is the gov
eminent itself. on which, because
Of military censorship and tn
Icanslization Of nonmiliiary news
the press muSf depend for-the in
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26

So far, Matheson said, the pinch
of street car and bus shortages has
not really been felt, but the hun
dreds of thousands of workers who
will not get enough gas to drive
their cars to work will create a
problem. Since all workers can
not be carried to their jobs at
the same time. Matheson pre-
dicted that most businesses will
have to stagger hours to avoid the
damned condition of peak periods,
when there simply are not enough
buses and street cars to go around.
Motorists, he said, have been
expecting gas rationing. Travel
10 southern resorts has been al
an all-time low this fall, he said,
because the vacationists will not
take the chance of being stranded
with no gas to get their cars
home.
RUSH TO BUY GAS
When rationing was announced
in the East, motorists set an all
time record for gasoline purchases
in the two-week period before II
went into effect. The same re-
action is probable all over the
country until the law is enforced
Matheson believes, pointing out
that many families will use their
last chance to drive to an army
camp to see relatives who are in
service, or TO make some trip that
they have been postponing until
later in the winter.
THE nationwide rationing will
end the practice Of drivers In
rationed areas, who could save
up their coupons until they had
enough to get beyond the
rationed area and buy all the
gas that they wanted, ss long as
they stayed away from the
bOrderline where gas was not
available" Matheson said.
people who try to evade the
order by boarding gas In sd-
vance Of the enforcement face
double trouble, in that they are
violating federal rationing laws,
and conflicting with local ordi-
nances that forbid the storage
OF any inhammable liquid In or
near q dwelling place"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
Gas. RdtioniinQ
In November
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starting gasoline rationing, it was
said, are November Is or u. Ra-
Itioning of motor fuel started in
the 17-state shortage area in the
East on July ~.
LETTERS also urged nationwide
speed limit of IS miles an hour,
Pending official rationing and
acts cutting speeds,
LETTERS called for volunteer con-
Iservation of gas and tires. declar-
ing that every citizen lis a soldier
in this rubber war"
EASTERN RATIONING
Under the eastern rationing
plan, the average non-essential
driver is allowed an "A" coupon
book giving him about four gal
Ions of gas a week for a total
mileage of $3.50 miles a year.
More essential drivers are given
"B" books allowing $40 miles a
year, while essential motorists
such as doctors or nurses are
allowed &C" books covering needs
over that amount.
The nationwide gasoline ration
ing under the eastern system will
affect only passenger cars--not
the nations 100000 trucks and
vehicles. The latter
will be governed by an ODT plan
for so-called mileage rationing."
Under it, every truck owner will
be forced to obtain a certificate
of war necessity" from the ODT
by November IS in order to
operate.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26

WASHINGTON, Sept. rs 1UP).
Traffic lights may differ, but
red is red anywhere.
So ruled Traffic Court Judge
George d. Nelson in the case OF
Miss Lucille Jordan, 80, charged
with jaywalking. Miss Jordan,s
defense was that the traffic lights
were different down in North
Carolina. She paid a 81 fine.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
The War
Today
Steel, Concrete
Show Strength
At StoIngrod
" CAPT. JOHN II. CRAlGE
r,tt.a for International News Service
and Detroit Ttnaes

and Drtroh Itnaes
INTERESTING SIDE
LIGHT on the desperate battle
of Stalingrad, now entering
its second month, is the fact
that the modern steel and
concrete building is proving
as useful in war as 1t is
efficient in peace.
Its supple and strong net
work of beams and girders
takes up the shock of high
explosives better than any
other structural form known
TO man.
You cannot knock it down
with even a heavy air bomb,
and you cannot blow it up
with a land mine.
Even when part of its
UNDERMINING is m a n gle d,
other supports take up the
strain and the greater part of
the structure remains stand
ing, and can still be used as
a fort.
Upper stories may be
smashed and mushroomed by
bonn b-hits but the debris
masses on top of the remain
ing stories and forms a shield
that takes up the force of
succeeding hits. Business in
the remaining stories goes on
about as usual.
THIS is a potent factor
In the defense of Stalingrad,
because many of the new
buildings in that town are
of steel and concrete con-
struction.
Dwellings in the old town
Of czarist days were of wood.
even as most Of the homes of
more recent construction.
Official structures of pre-
revolutionary days are of
stone. which is about the
worst imaginable material
when air-bombing is in ques-
ton. Wood has the fatal
defect of being highly in
iammable.
Probably about 20 per cent
OF Stalingrad's built-up area
consists Of modern steel and
concrete warehouses and other
structures, mostly strung
along the Volga.
They are by no means sky.
scrapers according to Ameri-
can ideas, averaging from FIVE
to eight stories in height, but
they are high enough to stop
bombs and afford secure
shelter.
AROUND THEM and the
Volga cliff that faces the river
on the west, the defense of
Stalingrad is built.
Moscow dispatches estimate
the losses of Marshal Won
Books army at $1,000 a day.
That would mean 80 divisions
lost to date, with perhaps as
many more doomed TO de-
structon before the nut can
be cracked.
Statements and opinions herein are
private 20 the writer and are not 20 he
construed az rejecting the Views OF the
NAVY Department.D
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
JOINS FIGHTING FRENCH

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. &c
CUP Jules Blondel, Vichy am
bassador to Bulgaria, has joined
the Fighting French in Syria, it
was said authoritatively today.
Blondel took advantage of an
invitation of the Vichy ambassador
to Turkey for a personal confer
ence at Ankara 10 reach Turkey
and continue on TO Syria, 1t was
Said
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
Oddities
Schools Out
For War Stamps

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26 (UP)
ANY student who wanted to buy
war stamps, announced Principal
Charles f. Neville, would be ex-
cused from class long enough to
make the purchase. Sales jumped
600 per cent at the Jay Cook
Junior High School when 1,200
pupils took him at his word.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
BIG OPERATIONS SEEN

"AII this Is In preparation for
largo scale military operations
by the United States In q for
eign continent.
In Nigeria ever new coDtin-
gents of United States troops
are arriving. Their transports
are coming via North Brazilian
ports.
I'm Brazil itself expeditionary
forces numbering 10000 men
have been established and
equipped with United States
arms. These forces have been
recruited from an area approx,
mating. as TO climatic conditions,
the African theater."
LONDON, Sept. rs GNS).-The
Paris radio was quoted today by
Reuters as declaring that the
Allies are blockading Dakar. and
soon will attack the potential Axis
invasion springboard in French
West Africa.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-26
Salvage Trucks
To Work All Day
Registered o. s. Patent ono.
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the southeast district for the de-
partment of public works, SAID
four times as many men could oe
used as had reported.
Overcast skies and chill
ldrizzle apparently discouraged
many of the volunteers.
Manner by Legionnaires, air
raid wardens, business men anc
other patriotic citizens a few OF
the trucks meantime began leav-
ing the stations. Sponsors hope 10
obtain enough funds from the do
mated scrap to purchase three go
ton tanks.
Led by Edwin J. Anderson,
chairman of the Wayne County
salvage committee, and his small
band of workers, the DPW trucks,
augmented by many hundreds
from the brewers, bottlers, coal
dealers and other private business
concerns, began the task of gath
ering in at least 10000 tons of
scrap before nightfall.
The pickup will continu e
through the day and into the
night, Anderson predicted, and
possibly would have to be pro-
longed until Monday to bring in
every bit of metal and rubber
gathered by patriotic house
holders.
PICK UP VOLUNTEERS
The trucks modified at $50
a. m. and were sent TO the zones
to pick up the hundreds who had
volunteered to man them for the
day. Rich Thompson of the DPW
was in charge of the trucks.
The drive got off TO good
start yesterday when the six-ton
tank, which the Crosse
Pointe American Legion post had
at 17145 st. Paul, was thrown into
the pot. The Legionnaires dedi-
Gated their World War 1 relic TO
the new Buy a Tank" campaign.
Householders spent last night
in carting out as much OF the
metal and rubber as they could to
the curbs, ready for the trucks to
pick them up. In many sections,
central scrap heaps had been &C
during the week by
30 Scouts and Junior Com
msndos and offered good contribu-
tons to the drive.
The gasoline dealers. who have
been maintaining scrap heaps for
some time, had about 500 tons
to add to the fund.
While the trucks were securing
the streets. the salvage committee
cruised the streets to see that no
section was missed.