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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-09
Hattie S 49 Bills
Win Senate Derby

WASHINGTON Jan. 8 up
Senator Hattie ". Caraway ID
of Arkansas. who deluGcd Senate
clerks yesterday with 10 new bills,
today emerged as undiSputcd win
ncr in the Senate'S biennial first
day legislative derby
Her 40 bills. weary clerks an
nounced, clearly outnumhered the
output Of her leading opponents
Senate Republican Leader Charles
L. McNary Of Oregon and Senator
Pat McCarran (D) of Nevada. Nc
Nary sent only 81 bills 10 the
clerks desk; McCarran was third
with 80.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-09
Yank Rangers i'm TuniSia
Must Spot NaZiS First Or

are loaded down with weapons
and ammunition. You cant
carry much food. either.
During the day we can find
an Arab hut and build "a hrf'
and get warm while we ars
waiting for nightfall. Then the
cold sets in. Remember we
have 10 go straight over the
mountains in the dark. You stay
Oft roads because they are death
traps.
THE fighting Is the easiest
part of II. The cold II the bad
part of It.. We shake for days
with the cold when we get back
from a lOng-Tange patrol.
last night IL was 50 cold my
boys Just didn't care and for the
last Is miles back they started
singing at the top of their voices.
III the Germans heard us they
must have wondered what was
up. But we didn't meet any one
and the American songs sure
sounded good"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-09
TELLS ECONOMY PLAN
special TO THE DETROIT TINES

NEW YORK Jan. s. Senator
Harry +. Byrd lD) Of Virginia
chairman Of the Joint committee
on reduction of federal CXpcndi
lures, today outlined a prospcc
tive course Of action for Congress.
that included drastic budget
SlaShing and the Curtailmcnt q
vast burcaucracieS.
Senator Byrd said;
THE new Congress comes 10
Washington with certain very
clear mandates from the people.
One of the first il Ia stop the
shameful waste of public money
in nOn-essential spending, and
this applies equally 10 unneceS-
Sary waste In the expenditures
for defense.
"In 104S the American tax
payers will bear a crushing bur
den of taxation and they are in
no mood 10 tolerate useless pub
lie spending"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-09
Income Tax Questions
To Be Answered in Times

no YOU understand the new income tax regulations?
- If YOU have problem, here's your chance to have
an expert solve II for You.
Giles Kayanaqh nitcd States collector Of internal
at Detroit will answer in the Times all questions
readers have on the new income tax laws.
Simply mail your question to the Income Tor Edtor
Detroit Times The Times Will publish representative
questions and answers as service for all readers
Please do not ask for individual answers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-09
1871. Term Faced
In Union Fund Theft

NEWBLRGH. n. " Jan. s
GNS).-Convicted on % Of 80
counts in two indictments, Samuel
Nuz2o. 40. chief business agent of
local II. International Hold Car
rlcrs and Common LaborerS Union
CAFL). today was in Orange
County jail awaiting sentence for
transportation of union funds.
lie faces possible maximum SON
tcnce of 1872 years IN addition 10 a
81 600 fine on charges Of having
taken more than $4,000 in union
funds.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-09
THEY START FIRES

BPS American bomberS, escorted
by Lockheed Lightnings. attacked
the German-held airdrome and
barracks at Gabcs and scored hits
that started fires. A raid on
kalrouan by A-20S and P-4Os
Showered high explosives and in
cendiareS on German troop con-
centrationS.
Reconnaissance over SfaX YES
terday showed that BoeinG Flying
FortresseS which raided the area
Monday had destroyed the city's
power station.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-09
WJR,6 Other Stations
Honored for War HeIp

NEW YORK, Jan. S (INS).-
Seven radio stations in Missouri,
Oregon North Carolina, Pennsyl-
vania, Michigan, Georgia and On
tario today held Variety Maya
zines plaque awarded for out
standing wartime service.
Tho seven stations receiving the
award for Showmanship in boost
ing tho war effort were KOIN.
Portland, Ore. KMBC. Kansas
City. Mo: WIT. Charlotte. ~. c.;
WHIP, Harrisburg, Pa WJR, De-
troit; WSB Atlanta, Ga, and
CkOC. Hamilton. Ont.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-09

broad. 1t is as though the North.
ern TuniSian front was slumped
down Squarely in the center of
the great Rocky Mountains. The
mountains are swept by bitter icy
gales and the temperature is about
that of the Blue Ridge Mountain
country in January.
When Martins patrols run. into
the Germans there are fierce short
battles.
HOW TO KEEP ALIVE
"The way TO keep alive Is TO
catch the other guy first" Mar
tin told me.
1--WE are gone for several days
and nights" Martin said. ITS
walk walk, walk, with every
step perhaps death trap. We
patrol at night. During the day
we have 10 lie up. If you're
spotted by the German patrols
you're done.
THE cold Is absolutely hell.
We can carry no blankets. We
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-09
MOST DANGEROUS JOB

A good many of Capt. Mark T..
Martins men have been lost, for
their job is the toughest and most
dangerous of the war. II is their
Job 10 seek out and maintain con-
tact with the Germans in no
mans land that is 40 10 so miles
deep and which is located in ter
rain of terrifying nature for war
fare
The country is mountainous
with precipitous slopes dropping
TO valleys, some narrow. a few
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-09
Prince OF Iran Dies

LONDON. Jan s lUP) - Prince
Mohammed HaSSan Of Iran q.
brother az the late Shah Sultan
Ahmed. collapsed IN the street last
night and died before reaching tho
hospital.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-09

workers, said il was impossible 10
make full use of the aGencXs
facilities because OF congressional
limitations on pay rates and
training policy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-09
ANS RETAKES HEIGHT

Allied bOmbcrS scored hits on z
depot at TGnis during the night
Wednesday and Thursday. anc
started big fires at SousSe, where
an AXIS ship was reported hit
Lampodusa Island, between Malta
and Tunisia, was attacked by
bombers seeking TO knock out The
airfeld.
InaSmuch as Allied fighters ma
chine-gunned the Afrika korpS 40
miles east OF Tripoh, il seemed
evident that Marshal Erwin Rom
mel would not try to make a stand
anywhere 10 the east.
Radio Vichy, controlled by the
Germans, said there was "excep-
tional activity" by II. Gen. Der
nard L. MontGomery'S British
Eighth Army. near Misurata, 12C
miles east Of Tripoli
Radio Paris quoted German re.
ports that British troops had con.
tactcd Italian and German force,
ar several points along the Gull
Of Sirte, Just below MiSurata. anc
said 1T may mean the beginning
Of a new offensive by MontGom.
cry
Axis radio tranSmitters wore
broadcastinG again about a mann
moth convoy being assembled al
Gibraltar A tranSocean dispatch
broadcast by Radio Berlin said
more than 80 cargo ships. includ-
ing 10 tankers, were assembled
at Gibraltar. and three British
battlcshipS. two aircraft carriers
two cruisers y destroyers and JIG
IGunboats were going 10 convoy
them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-09
z BY ROBERT G. NIXON
International News service stan Writer

WITH AN AMERICAN RANG
Err PATROL IN NO. MANS
LAND, TUNISIA, Jan. S.-This is
tho land Of the quick and the
dead
"If you're lucky YOU see the
Germans frst--if they see YOU
first, you're unlucky." 1t Leo
Taylor of Council Bluffs, Ia,
said to me.
Taylor, stocky, rosy checked,
who has Just grown his first mus
.tach, is in command OF this small
p a trol of. American Rangers,
'counterpartS Of the British Com
mandos. He Just won his lieu
tenancy for gallantry in action IN
the toughest game IN the world.
They go out into this forbiddinC
country of wild precipitous noun
tainS where the bitter January
wind has the edge of a whipSaw
and the cold shakes you like the
ague and stop the Hun. II is
Indian fighting, and the American
boys from the Middle West arc
showing the same clevorncss and
fortitude of their grandfathers.
STRANGE LAND
had gone out with this partol
on the first day of what for them
was TO he long range excursion,
.CroSs-Country I h r o Il & h the
StrangeSt no mans land this war
has produced, to seek contact with
the Germans and establish the
enemy's position.
These Americans are part OF a
combined Anglo American init
They are dressed in British battle
uniform though they are plnine
for their American uniform. and
they carry fighting equipment. It's
the kind of deadly stuff you need
for close-in fighting.
The last American forward units
lay several miles behind as We
had come 10 this point on a high
rolling road when January storm
broke in all its fury and drove US
TO cover at a small farm.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
Jap
Sub s
r: Falling i
MACAPTHUR'S

GEN. MACARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Austria
iia, May Z. (UP)-Japanese
submarines trying to block
ade Australia S a k five e
freighters in 13 days for record
blow at Allied shipping in this war
zone but failed to dent the flow of
supplies from America, a communi-
que said today.
The communique reported land
and air successes. Allied troops took
Bobduri village, threatening to cut
off considerable enemy forces south
of Salamaua in New Guinea. and
destroyed nine japanese planes in
raid on base in the Aroe is
lands
The sea losses were first fruits Of
the Japanese submarine campaign
against the Allied lifelines an
nounced May /. Victims were a
medium sized u. S. freighter max
ing her maiden vo"age, one large
and two small Australian merchant
men and a small Norwegian vessel.
Most OF the crews we're saved in
cluding all the American crew
Our shipping continues to oper-
ate in virtually undiminished vol
ume under protection of or naval
and aircraft units" Gen. Douglas
MacArthur'S communique said
Definite time and location of the
ever, the original revelation of the
submarine drive placed it in the
waters east of Australia.
Never before had the Japanese
succeeded in sinking SO many YES
sells in such a short period. And
the American ship was the first
transpacific vessel sunk enroute to
Australia.
Observers believed the determin-
cd Japanese effort to hem in Aus
tralia with a screen of underseaS
raiders reached in a 1000 mile arc
from Rabaul New Britain. south
ward to New Zealand They may
have launched the campaign be-
cause of the failure of air attacks
Oh Allied outposts north of New
Guinea and belief that the Allies
finally are building UP strength in
this area to ward off an expected
enemy all-out offensive.
On the vital northeast New Gui-
nea coast, the capture Of Bobduri
put Allied ground troops only five
miles southwest of the enemy base
at Salamaua.
The seizure was made in a sur
prise attack, the communique said.
in which enemy outguardS we're
scattered. 1t posed a threat to the
japanese supply lines southward to-
ward Mubo, near which Allied forces
have been locked in a struggle for
days with a small entrenched enemy
force.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07

10 miles northeast of NovoroSSiSk,
captured with 10 other towns in the
initial Soviet break-through.
The Germans were fighting des-
perately as they fell back toward
Novorossisk, but front dispatches
said Red air force fighters and
bombers we're paralyzing the enemy
defense with mass raids.
HAVE NO CHOICE
Once they reach Novorossisk, the
Germans presumably will have no
choice except to attempt a Dunkirk
like evacuation of the Crimea.
NovoroSsisk already is threatened
from the south by Russian troops
that thrust into the outskirts sever
al months ago.
Thus the enemy's Taman penin-
Sula bridgehead, which he preSum-
ably had hoped to retain as spring.
board for an offensive toward the
Maikop oil field, appeared in immi-
nent danger of complete annihila-
ton.
CThe Vichy radio reported as from
Berlin that the German high COM
mand plans to shorten" the line
west of Krymskaya further because
of an imminent new Soviet offens-
i've. A German broadcast reported
that Soviet attacks against the Ger
man bridgehead were repulsed and
said 81 out of 30 attacking tanks
were destroyed in one sector. Eight
cen Soviet boats mid-Stream, the
broadcast said, and II Soviet ferry
boats were destroyed by German
bombers in the Sea of Azov.)
GUNS SILENCED
The Soviet mid-daT Communique
credited Russian artillery with de-
stroying two German tanks, silenc-
ing 20 artillery batteries and more
than 80 machine gun nests and
wrecking many earth and timber
forts.
The Germans are suffering heavy
losses in manpower both northeast
of Novorossisk and along the Kuban
river, the communique said. In one
town alone, more than $50 enemy
dead were counted, while in an
other, 200 wounded officers and men
were captured.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
Leon Henderson
In New Position

WASHINGTON, May 7 UP) -
Leon Henderson who resigned under
congressional fire last winter as
price administrator, a job in which
he imposed regulations on business.
will become chairman of the board
of editors of the Research Institute
Of America May 10. job in which
he will interpret government regu-
latiOn5 for business.
The institute. which represents
$4,000 businesses including giant
corporations and small enterprises,
announced HenderSon'S affiliation
yesterday but did not reveal what
salary he would draw. From the
government he received $4,000
yearly.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07

IncOngruous Hollywood: George
Sanders, who has been i'll with the
flu, returning to work to die" for
a scene in Columbia's Appoint
ment in Berlin" Paulette God
dard made sure of good newspaper
breaks during her last visit to
Mexico City. She received the
press in her hotel room wearing a
bathing suit! Paramount
SNEAK" previewed For Whom the
Bell Tolls" over the week -end and
the customers, they say. left the
theatre raving and tired The pic
ture runs three hours and II
minutes, and probably will be cut.
. Macdonald Carey is now a sec
ond lieutenant in the marines.
Leon Enrol is pressing Laurel and
Hardy for first honor5 in the Latin
American field. They're even nam
ing theaters after him in Chile.
Alan Hales fire extinguisher fac
tory is now producing thousands of
gallons of insecticide and spray guns
for the Army. Alan himself is in
uniform for Irving Berlin's This Is
the Army Even the cowboys
are going to sea these days. Tex
Ritter will play a fighting marine
in his next film. Freddie Bar
tholomew is seriously i'll with a
strep throat in the Army hospital
at Amarillo, Texas.
Promised and hoped for: War
ner's film biography CT Al Schmidt
the marine hero of Guadalcanal
who killed 200 Japs. Lieut.
Comdr Robert Montgomery will re-
turn to the screen soon in a propa-
ganda short. He's back from the
South Pacific on sick leave. 3.
Robert Cummings will be commits
stoned a captain in the Army Air
Corps within the month. Eddie
Carr reports the Army has devised
special test for prospective Com
mandos. Any guy who can stand
next to Lana Turner for five
minutes without moving is ready
fol immediate duty.
Ida Lupino, the amateur song
writer, has turned out a new tune,
Hes High Falutin' When He's Not
Salutin' the Major" Ted
McMichael of the Merry Macs has
been rejected by the Army because
of athletes heart. Now that
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
HOLLYWOOD
BY ERSKTNE JOHNSON

Linda Darnell is headed for her
first roundup. She'll play the
feminine lead opposite Joel Nc
Crea in Producer Harry Sherman's
million dollar goth Century Fox
western, Buffalo Bill" It's her
first hoss opera. Jimmy Walker,
former mayor of New York City,
will be named soon as film CO.
ordinator for Hollywood in Wash
ington He will fight moVietoWn's S
battles at q salary Of $50 .
veal.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
Edwards Appointed
US. Staff Chief

LONDON. May I. CUP)-Maj
Gen. ldWal H. Edwards has been
appointed acting chief of staff Of
United States forces in the Europ-
can theater. headquarters announc-
ed today.
Edwards is an air officer with
wide experience in military aVia-
ton. He succeeds Brig. Gen Charles
II. Barth, killed in the Iceland air
plane crash that took the life of
Lieut. Gen. Frank Andrews.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07

and Soviet bomberS of the Red air.
force destroyed or damaged 40 air.
craft in mass daylight raids on Ger
man airfieldS elsewhere in occupied
Russia.
The Germans threw large forces
of reserves, tanks and aircraft into
five bitter counterattacks Is miles
northeast of NovoroSsisk yesterday,
but failed to arrest the Soviet ad-
vance and front dispatches said the
Russians threat to the big Black
Sea na19l base was growing hourly.
GERMANS LOSE 1900
In one sector alone. the Thurs
day midnight communique said, the
Germans lost 1900 dead. six tanks
destroyed and Is guns, 33 machine
guns. 13 trench and six supply
dumps captured.
The main Soviet advance was
through a mountain pass running
southwestward from Neberjaiskaya,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
Fascist Admits
Invasion Fears
BY UNITED PRESS

Carlo Scorza, Fascist party lead
er, in a speech at Rome betrayed
Fascist fears that italy may fall
before an Allied invasion and ad-
mitted that disloyal party mem
bers had been Weeded out in re-
cent days, the Office of War Infor-
nation reported Friday. The
speech was given in a Rome radio
broadcast.
IF We mist fall" Scorza said,
I'VE will see to it that we fall with
fine dignity, with honor, so that
those who follow us may continue
to live with dignity and honor"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
Sub Commander
Heroic i'm DeQth

WASHINGTON. May 7. CUP)-
The navy revealed today how a
mortally wounded u. S. submarine
commander ordered his craft to dive
to safety while he remained top5ide
after a night surface engagement
with japanese gunboat.
The skipper was Cmdr. Howard
w. Gilmore, a native Of Selma, Ala,
and a resident of New Orleans. His
last words as nc lay wounded on
the bridge of his craft were:
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07

Kay Kayser has discovered Georgia
CAROLS singing voice (and Georgia
CARROLL two studios for whom she
once worked are bidding for her
SCI vices Benny Goodman
makes his singing debut in his next
film. The Girls He Left Behind"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
NEED FOOD LOCKERS

WASHINGTON, May 7 UP)-W.
r. Ogg, legislative representative of
the American Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton, told a senate agriculture
subcommittee today that a larger
number of lockers for frozen food
arc needed to preserve fresh yege-
tables.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
WAS ON DECK

Gilmore was on Geek with other
members Of his crew when the Jap
anese gunboat bore down on his
craft to ram it. Skillfully evading
the onrushing japanese craft, Gill
more turned the prov OF his craft at
the japanese and at a speed of II
knots rammed it.
AS the glnboat began settling
III the water, the japanese opened
fire with heavy machine guns Gil
more was struck by hail OF bull
lets.
Members of the crew sought to
carr him below. He declined their
aid rather than expose the sub
marine and its company to further
gunfire. He ordered all hands below
and then, turning to the officer of
the deck, he gave the simple COM
mand.
Take her doWni"
The order was obeycd. The sub
marine dived, the dying skipper
still on deck
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
Germans Facing
Caucasus Dunkirk

MOSCOW, May 7. (UP)-The Red army, backed by a
powerful air fleet and massed artillery pushed steadily
sOuhwestward through the Caucasian mountains toward
NOvorossisk today cutting vital highway and occupying
a chain of hills Meantime, fast twn-engned American
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
Russ Accusation
Lowers Hopes of
Mending Relations

MOSCOW, May 7-UP)-Depu-
ty Foreign CommisSar Andrei J.
Vishinsky charged today that Pol
ish diplomats and high ranking
army officers had been guilty of cs-
pionage against TIC soviet Union.
Many have been tired and pun
ished or expelled from Russia, Wis
hinsky told Anglo-American news
paper correspondents at press
conference. Among those expelled,
he said, was Gen. Romuald Will
oowski, fomer head of the Polish
military commission to Russia and
one who PLAYED an important part
III espionage work i'll the us.
S.R."
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
SANK SHIP

IjIl Wdn D"'Eb VII llibD VIC Dtt anu
lost aS the submarine dived.
SANK SHIP
The navy noted Gilmores brave
act in a communiq1e reporting that
his submarine, on its fourth war
patrol, had sunk a medium-5i2ed
Japanese cargo ship, damaged a
medlun-si2cd cargo ship and prob
ably sank the Gunboat which was
his last adversary.
These actions raised the score of
American submarines in the Pacific
to 156 ships sunk, IS probably sunk,
end 43 damaged.
Gilmore was awarded the Con-
greSsional Medal OF Honor post
hulnously The award, highest
which can be bestowed by this coun-
try on its heroes, was the first CIV
Ell to a submarine man in this war
Gilmore previously had won the
Navy Cross and a Gold Star in lieu
of d second Navy Cross, for previous
successful war patrols.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07

sound military; or utter the salty fght-ring
idiom like gentleman He got the call when
Romme was charging into Egypt and the mid
die east armies came alive, confident because he
had sand on him." Soft-spoken Sir Harold
says "a battle is never lost until it is won" The
foe is finding out fast 4..,., ~ gD43s4eSs
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07

Take ncr down."
The crew obeTed and the skip
per was swept off into the sea and
lost aS the submarine dived.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07
FOLLOWS LETTER

ViShinSky'S statement came only
"a hours after publication of let
ter from Premier Josef Stain had
raised hopes that the break in re-
lationS between the two govern
mentS could be mended soon. Stain
said Russia desired a strong and
independent Poland after the war
The Polish government in exile
refused to permit Polish army to
fight Germany on the Russian
front, ViShinSky said, violating Ar
ticle 7 of the PoliSh-RuSsia friend
ship pact of July 30. 1911, signed
soon after the Nazis invaded Rus
sia. Under this article, a Polish
army was to be organized on So
Wet soil from Polish prisoners seiz-
eel when the Red army occupied
the eastern part of Poland coinci-
dental with the German invasion
of Western Poland in 1899. The
army was duly organized but has
never fought.
The agreement, he said, set the
Polish army at 10000 men and the
Soviet government loaned the Poles
3OO,O00,O00 rubles to provide for the
force, division of which was to
have been sent to the front but
never was. Later inquiries drew
promises that were unfulfilled, he
added. The actual Polish force
was said to total d ,66l men.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07

ZEN. SIR HAROLD r. L. G. ALEXANDER,
~ who plots the moves of allied ground troops
in North Africa, al SO is one of the wars young
est big-tme commanders. An 1rish-born Brit
Usher, "attack, attack, and attack again" Alex
ander is the they turn to when desperation
rules He can say "Oh. rawther" and make 1T
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-07

talleS,