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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-21

EoThe industry can still supply the public
from reserve stocks made during peacetime
and thus continue to account for moro
than a billion dollars in taxes every year.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-21

Is there any sugar used by the
beverage disiiIIing industry in making
whiskey or war oleohol2
Sugar is never used in making whiskey...
il is distilled from grain. And the beverage
distilling industry is also making war alco-
hol exclusively from grain.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26

new positions. A communique re-
ported continual Allied aerial blows
against enemy positions around the
beachhead and on the north and
cast coasts Of the island.
On the New Guinea end of the
southern Pacific battlefront. Aus
tralian troops threw back two enc
my counter-attackS along the Song
river north of the japanese strong
hold at Sltclberg, 10 miles north
west of FinSo1hafen on Huon pcnin-
sula. Forty C'ght japanese, includ-
ing four officers. were killed.
The Australian veterans had
driven to within a quarter of q mile
of Satelberg. which is ON high
plateau. the spokesman said. This
represented a gain Of a quarter mile
from. last reported positions. Enemy
air attacks on Allied positions Tues
day and Wednesday caused little
harm.
Thre- waves of Libcrator bombcrS
attacked the .GaSmata area ON the
south coast of New Britain for the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26
PREPARE INVASION

1t was possible the powerful navy
force which protected the Gilberts
landings last Saturday would con-
centrate now on the Marshalls to
smash another section of Japan's
mid-ocean defense lines on the sea
lanes toward Tokyo.
CTokyo radio. heard by the FEC,
predicted a decisive and final"
clash with the U. S. fleet. 1t con-
ceded the Gilberts operation had
cut into the strategic zone of our
naval forces.")
The carrier division which sent
the bombers against Jaluit was the
same which defeated japanese air
forces trying to interfere in the
Gilberts, NinitZ' Pacific fleet head
quarters spokesman said in expend-
ing on a press release.
Up to Wednesday, the division
presumably several carriers - had
lost only four aircraft. including
three fighters and a torpedo plane,
in shooting down "a Zero fighters,
nine bombers and three four
engined patrol Seaplanes.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26
DOWNS 20 ZEROS

The spokesman said that all
figures are not available" but that
this represented the efficiency with
which the naval force under Vice
Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
covered the landings. One group
of carrier fighters shot down 16 of
20 Zeros without loss in battle
and 10 more were brought down of
Is other planes which raced to the
aid of their fellows.
The enemy's land based planes
were believed to have come from
Taroa airfield on Maloelap Atoll
in the Marshalls because other
fields on nearby islands have been
rendered imperative by such air
assaults as the carrier plane at
tack on Mill Nov. %. in which
nearly 200 tons of bombs were
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26
Allies Know Name
OF Nazi Butcher

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Nov. 26. (UP)-The name OF
the German officer responsible for
the slaughter of SO innocent men
and boys at Bellona, Italy, was
believed today already inscribed on
the list of war criminals marked
for postwar punishment.
The completeness of the details
of the massacre of Bellona as told
by British officer here left no
doubt that the allies know the
identity of the man who must an
swer for the atrocity.
The only crime" of the So vic
tims-a 54th died of illness as he
stood before the firing squad-was
that they lived in the little town
four miles north-noreast of Capua
where one of their townsmen killed
one German soldier and wounded
another who attempted to attack
the % year old daughter of a nat
uralized American.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26
Nazis Issue Last
Warning to City

LONDON, Nov. 26. tUP)-Ihe
Germans have issued a last warn
inc" tnat they will razc Grenoble,
a city of nearly 100000 inhabitants
in southeastern France, unless sab
otage and terrorist attacks on Ger
man troops cease, Franco-Swiss
border reports SAID today.
The last warning" followed Il
new outbreak of patriot activity,
including the seyering of high ten
sion wires furnishing power to
Nazi war factories at Grenoble and
the Staying of two German soldiers,
a Bern dispatch said.
All Hautc-Sayoie province in
eastern France has been placed
under All 8 pm. to am, curfeW
as result of patriot activity.
The Nazi Paris radio said that in
l8 days gendarmes had killed Or
arrested 95 persons for anti-Vicny
activity in France and seized 90
machine-guns. 780 rifles, 528 pistols,
four arms caches and much explos-
i've.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26

chinegun and mortar fire. he said,
capturing half the island by night
fall the first day. Natives deserted
the Japanese to report enemy posi-
tons. During preparations for one
charge, Col Gardiner Conroy, COM
mander of the 165th infantry regi-
ment which was formerly New
Yorks famous fighting 69th, was
killed in action at p. IN. Nov. 20.
A naval barrage lasting several
hours preceded the attack on Tar
ava by six waves of marines who
rolled ashore in little more than
All hour onto three beaches under
heavy fire, Worden said Conquest
of the three islands which secured
victory in the Gilberts took rs
hours
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26
|D0riino
Action
Is old

! AN ADVANCED SOUTH pa
CIF1C NAVAL BASE. Nov. 26. CUPD
Capt. Arleigh A. t31-knot) Burke.
commanding a light American ma
val force which sank four japanese
warships and damaged a fifth in
a two-hour battle Thanksgiving
morning, led his victorious fleet to
the very approaches of powerful
Rabarl harbor before turning back
his ammunition nearly exhausted.
The triumph Of the small Ameri-
can destroyer flotilla which carried
out one of the boldest actions of
the war at sea in the southwest
Pacific, assumed greater proper
tons today when it was disclosed
that two OF Ile Snemy vessels
might have been light cruisers.
ENGAGES ENEMY
Captain Burkes numerically III
ferior forces engaged the enemy in
waters he nominally controls south
east Of Rabaul, New Britain. The
Japanese veSSels-Six in all-were
divided in two groups Of three
each. Burke's ships sank two of
the first group with torpedoeS and
gave chase to the other, which was
badly damaged.
The crippled enemy ship joined
the second group which also fled
from the salvoes of steel and ex-
plosive Burkes ships were hTrling
from a distance of about 5000
yards. Burke gave the order to
polish Off the cripple. 1t was
sunk by a part of the American
fleet which Burke ordered detached.
Meanwhile the other ships of
Burke's force chased the fleeing
enemy and closed the range to
three thousand yards. Shells from
the enemy were falling all around
the American force
GIVES CHASE
The enemy group turned and
started north" Burke said. We
were chasing them with all the
speed we had and finally closed
the range to 5000 yards. The chase
was IS minutes old when they
started firing torpedoes. I thought
one of my ships was hit, but the
explosion came from a torpedo as
it ended lis run llal...iesSly."
Burke said one of his shippers
reported that at this point in the
pursuit mis- engines had been driven
harder than any American ships
ever had been intended to turn.
The commander ordered his few
ships in various formations and
they started getting hits. The en-
eny began 20 scatter, apparently
thinking he had been attacked by
the entire U. S. navy. One of the
ships disappeared damaged, SO /
Burke concentrated on the second +
of the group, which was one OF
the larger ships and might have
been a cruiser
MANY COLLAPSE
II knew we were getting hits with
our five inchers from 1000 yards,
but he wasn't slowing down.
Burke said Our boys were firing
so fast that many collapsed from
gas fumes in their turrets and from
sheer exhaustion.
FINALLY we got close enough SO
I knew the shells from three ships T.
were hitting him He was burning
and exploding all over. Just as We
prepared to open up with torpedoes
he sank with terrible explosion.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26
SHELL SHOCK CURED

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Algiers,
Nov. 26 CUPD-Lt.-Gen Sir Alex
ander Hood, director general of
British army medical services, said
today that 80 to 90 per cent of all
victims of battle Strain-sh shock
can be cured and returned 10 the
front lines in less than a week
through methods now employed in
ITALY
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26
Mrs. FDR Predicts
A Brighter Year

NEW YORK, Nov. 26 CUP Mrs
Eleanor Roosevelt believes that the
year ahead will be brighter for the
Allied Nations.
She made the prediction yester-
day in a Thanksgiving Day address
to the Women's International Ex-
position of Arts and Industries in
Madison Square Garden.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26

fifth straight day Wednesday, at
tacking supply dumps at the mouth
of the Baroke river with So tons Of
bombs. The new assault brought to
400 the bomb tonnage nloadcd on
the Gasmata area opposite the AL
lied-held New Guinea coast during
the series of attacks.
Four waves of Marauders, Mitch
ellis and Havocs dropped 81 tons of
bombs on an enemy barge staging
area at Sio. above FinSchhafcn.
Most of nearby Kalasa village was
destroyed On a 2,200-mile round
trip. LibcratorS attacked Weda Bay
at Halmahcra in the MoluccaS,
Damaging an 3,500-tCn freightCr.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26
46 Japanese Planes Fall
PEARL HARBoR, Nov. IS. CUP),

PEARL HARBOR. Nov. IS. CUP)'
"A new series Of air blows on the
Marshall islands was revealed to-
day by Adm. Chester w. Nimitiz
headquarters which reported sin
gle carrier division shot down as
japanese planes in the Gilbert5 in
vaSion phase of the U. S. mid
Pacific offensive.
Both carrier-borne and land
based bombers made the latest as
saultS on the Marshalls, aiming at
Jaluit Atoll, enemy center some 300
miles northwest of conquered Ma
kin, northernmost of the GilbertS.
The carrier blow first by such
planes since Feb. ., 1942-waS car
ried out on an unspecified date.
Army Liberators, which have hit
Jaluit several times, raided Imieji
island, part Of Jaluit, on Tuesday.
Pilots saw three enemy float fight
ers in the air but none attacked.
One bomber was damaged by
ground fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26
GilbertS.'

A pooled dispatch from cores
pondent William l.. Worden at sew
enth air force headquarters reveal
ed that tanks were landed on Ma
kin to aid n roCt:~C tie Japanese
trcm tough detenSeS.
Assault forces of the army Iii
The beaches through enemy ma
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26

IUIl ISN'
The press release said mopping
up operations were being COM
pleted on Maxim, Tarawa and
Abemama Atolls in the Gilberts,
adding this postscript to the bitter
fighting which st the enemy
possibly 5000 Go2-:
Few live japanese @cILain i'll the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26
APPOINTS JUDGE

SACRAMENTO. Nov. 26 CUPp--
Gov. Earl Warren today announced
the appointment, subject to APP
proVal of the state bar, Of John j.
Ford of Les Angeles as Los An
geles municipal judge succeeding
the late Oda Faulconer
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26
ATTACK INEFFECTIVE

Bombing arts3ls against Ameri-
can positions on the invaded Solo
mons stronghold were ineffective.
Dispatches from Admiral William
F.. Halsey's South Pacific Head
quarters said that after the enemy
assaults from the northeast were
repulsed. American Marines and
soldiers pushed forward to seize
Imperial Valley press., 1943-11-26
yonks RepuIse New Enemy
Blow on Bou9oinviIIe Isle

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, South
west Pacific, Nov. 26 up Ameri-
can troops smashed a Japanese
countCr-attack on the Bougainvillc
beachhead in an all-day artillery
and infantry battle Monday, gain
ing new ground over the bodies of
1O4 enemy soldiers. it was disclosed
today.
The enemy dead abandoned on
the field brought Japanese losses
in ground fighting at Empress
Augusta Bay since Nov. TO at
least 1000. Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur'S spokesman said, while an
other 1000 have been killed in sea
and air warfare. including battle
Thanksgiving Day off the north
end of Bougainville i'll which four
enemy destroyers were sunk and a
fifth damaged.
Japanese troops trying to reduce
the beachhead on the western
coast of the island attacked after
long aerial and artillery prepara-
ton. The enemy used field pieces
up to rs millimeterS but met re-
plies from heavier U. S. guns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-13

It is time for Commander-in-Chief
Roosevelt, who is an acknowledged ex-
pert on popular psychology, to do some
thing about the disturbing breakdown
in naval public relations. Admiral King
Is fighting man. He Is not a publicist.
Nevertheless, taking advantage of divided
authority in connection with the dis
semination Of war news, he persists in
sitting on the lid and overruling the con-
sidered judgment of experts who know
as much about public relations as the
good admiral knows about fighting wars.
1t Is not uncommon gossip in Washing
ton that the Office OF War Information,
which is stated with competent news
papermen some of internationally
recognized caliber is at bitter odds
with the Navy about the Withholding OF
important war news. The owl men
know, from long experience, the terrific
kickback which can come from foolish
censorship.
Word has been spreading of late that
Nazi U-Boats were concentrating in great
numbers in American near-coastal wat
ers It is understood that many of these
are of the newest, most formidable type.
Such concentration of such submarines
could hardly fail TO do great deal OF
damage, both by actual sinkings and by
delaying those conveys which do sue
coed in getting through That would be
a serious development. 1t would awaken
the public to a greater aWareneSS OF the
tremendous sacrifices we have not yet
begun to make - of the urgent necessity
for stepping up every phase of our war
activity. The public is not satisfied with
devious semi-denialS, camouflaged as
half-truths. 1t has long since learned
that it cannot expect to get straight
forward information from the Navy
There are and always will be, while the
war lasts, certain facts which must be
held up, and very, very few which can
not be made public at all. Nobody asks
that anything really helpful to the enc
my be publiciZed. But the Navy starts
out by delaying for argued reasons, and
too often winds up by fatty forbldding
the release of news which no longer
could help Hitler. The Navy attitude
as to news seems to be "This is our bus
mess and none of the public's. You
have an awful nerve to ask questions"
If Elmer Davis Is worth his desk space,
he knows more about what should be
publicized than Admiral King ever will
know. Only firm word from the Pres
ident is needed to straighten out this
mess.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-13
Views Of The Press

pirate II the recipient were Harvard
or Columbia. No collection such as
this one has any business being per-
manently located east Of the Mis-
sissippi river. unless 1t be at the
University OF Chicago. Other suit
able places would have been the
Universities OF Minnesota. Colorado
and California.
To bring this collection TO Yale Is
on a par with William Randolph
Hearst's purchase and transfer of a
Spanish castle TO America. The
castle Just doesn't belong here.
Neither do the intimate papers OF
men and women who conquered the
West belong In these anemic sur
roundings.
The students Of history. political
science and social problems who
pour over this material need to know
the West In order properly to I'M
derstand 1t. No one could ever CON-
prehend India OF Russia without
living In those places. While the
West Is not so different as those
countries, It has flavor of its own.
The height OF appropriateness
would be Tor scholars who have
never been west Of Buffalo. except
for a swing through Yellowstone In
the summer. to dabble In the Coe
documents. Since the material seems
irrevocably consigned TO foreign soil.
the least 1t should get Is the UNDER
standing study by people who have
breathed the spirit of the West and
find themselves unable TO lose its
spell.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-13

Possession may be nine points Of the
law, but up In Hartford Republicans
aren't so sure that they like Il that way.
They control the legislative and execu-
tive scenes this year In Hartford Too
much So they are finding out 10 their
sorrow. Right low the situation Is any
thing but one designed to help along
Connecticut's war effort. As compared
to the peaceful administration of ex-
governor Robert A. Hurley, this of Gov.
Raymond Z. Baldwin Is blitZkrieg. And
the Democrats In office aren't the only
ones who are objects of the about poll
tical offensive.
Any comparison of the first admins
tration of Gov. Baldwin with his present
one Is almost unbelievable. o. course
four years ago there wasn't great war
being fought by American soldiers and
American equipment all over the world.
But even after eight lean years Republic
cans didn't act as hungry or unruly In
1899, as they have this year. Republican
Party leadership Is apparently pretty
shaky these days. The state expected
more from the Baldwin regime and 1t
may be that we are premature In our
CTILICSHl, AlGST I'LL WLldJ JdhSS pAuCS
during legislative session can't really be
said to be the measure of the ability of
the party In power.
The fact remains, though, that COP
legislators are imbued with but one idea.
To get job or to provide one for Re-
publican. And they aren't satisfied with
the ordinary type of job whose tenure
may be two, four or perhaps six years.
Tife tanurt inhS arn hninp created so that
If all this political nonsense does come
to a sad ending and the Democrats once
again return to Hartford, they won't find
too much left for them. Maybe the DEM
ocrats wouldn't be any different II the
situation was reversed, for the politician
Is much the same, whatever his persua-
sion, but at least the Connecticut elector-
ate should be convinced by this time that
the Republican Party Is not necessarily
the lifeline Of the republic in this crucial
period of our history.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-13
The Jeffersonian Standard

Most everything that could be said has
been said about Thomas Jefferson VINO
is nationally honored today. Columns
have been written about his public and
private life. There is a play on Broad
way in which he is featured as a great
patriot. Sketches and biographies have
been, presented over the radio. Schools
have held appropriate programs.
We have delved into history embracing
two centuries, and centered on the days
and years that followed April Is, l743,
which makes today the Sesqui-centennial
of q very great American. We have
learned within the week much that we
did not know before, or which we had
forgotten in an existing world on many
happenings
Anything we might say will seem repe-
titious, but highlighting Jefferson in
q few sentences we thumbnail him as
the author of the Declaration of INDIE
pendence, spiritual father of the Bill of
Rights, and architect of American liber
ty. We venture to say that no biograph
ical sketch on any quiz program today or
Yesterday could find or result in wrong
answer.
Our own city and community joins
with those all over the country in OBJ
servance of this day, and subscribe to
the sentiments expressed in a general
proclamation that says In part: To-day
more than ever before, Jefferson lives in
the hearts of the American people. For
he held that all men are created equal,
that they possess certain inalienable
rights, and that governments derive their
Just powers from the consent of the gov
crned. These truths, and the nation
founded upon them, are now challenged
by the hosts OF tyranny. And to defend
them, our countrymen have taken up the
sword OF freedom. It is fitting, then,
that this 20Oth. anniversary Of Thomas
Jefferson's birth should be celebrated as
a day Of redidlcation to the truths which
he first proclaimed and established >, I:
For, SO long as we cherish, maintain and
strengthen the democratic principles Of
Jefferson, the United States win remain
what he conceived 1t to be-the worlds
best hope
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-13

education, DIR. Jose M. Gallardo
has just received an acid repri-
mand from Secretary OF the In
terror Ickes, who said:
II am confident that the
President would not have ten
dered you this appointment II
he had not had my assurance
and yours that this bleaching
Of EngliSh) would be the key
stone Of your school policy.
am gravely disappointed and I
shall, Of course, fulfill my OBJ
legation 10 advise the President
rs 10 my feelings"
The whole question OF teaching
English on the Spanish speaking
island OF Puerto Rico flared into
the open when the Chavez
Senatorial Committee visited the
island and Senator Taft UNI
earthed a letter Of the Presi-
dents written TO Commissioner
Gallardo In 1887 urging: "It In an
Indispensable part Of American
policy that the coming genera
ti0n Of American citizens In
Puerto Rico grow up with COM
plete facility Of the English
tongue"
However, Commissioner Gallardo
told the Committee that teaching
both English and Spanish was
extremely difficult and had not
ben carried out In the lower grades.
Most Puerto Rican children do
not progress beyond the sixth
grade so this Is equivalent to
emitting the teaching OF Eng
lish altogether.
Since then President Roosevelt
has written to Senator Chavez
reinforcing his earlier position re-
garding the English Language. and
1t looks as II this would be one
of the hot spots In the probe OF
the so-called india Of the West
ern Hemisphere"
Copyright, 1913. by United
Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-13

The child who. alter q ilrst IAN,
stretched himself out on the moor
and refused TO walk any more would
lie on the floor or on a bed TO the
end Of his days. There are some
people who can never pick them
selves up after failure. Many q per-
son worries about past sins until he
literally brings himself 70 the edge
OF the grave. Repentance is neces.
sary for salvation; but there Is a
world Of difference between repent
ailce and remorse. ReniOrBe leads us
to wiring our hands and cry out IN
despair: repentance leads as 10 for
sake our ain. make restitution Tor
our evil doing II posslbles and then
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-13

Litchfield, our neighbor, had fairly
disastrous fire Sunday morning, the CEN
ter of conflagration, one of the buildings
of the Forman School on the Norfolk
road. Considerable damage resulted but
i: was noted that the nearby historic Har-
riet Beecher Stowe dwelling was saved
from too much damage No doubt Helen
(Harriet) Hayes, who is doing good job
with the Stowe family in current New
York production, will be glad to learn
that Harriet's former home was saved
from destruction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-13
This Doesn't Parse

More than half of the land leased for
guayule production has been released by
the government. The explanation Is
that this acreage is needed more for rails
ing food than for rubber, in view OF
current progress with the synthetic pro-
gram.
The explanation does not hang to-
gether. Food shortage Is attributable
more to manpower and farm machinery
shortages than to that of land, To be
sure, the irrigated areas leased for qua
yule probably would give high food yields
per man-day or per machine hour. But
this merely emphasizes the original error
made when irrigated land was taken over
for guayule, though more arid SOIL UNI
suitable for food crops and available by
the square mile, would have been better.
The whole rubber program still appears
to be up In the air.