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along the jungle trails.
CThe japanese radio acknowledged
that its forces had suffered 1000
casualties in the battle for Lac.
Salamaua and Finschhafen, but
said the Allies lost 1900 men,
MaeArthur's bombers also attack
ed enemy lines in the Ramu river
valley northwest of Finschhafen
and near Madang, 165 miles up the
New Guinea coast. The raiders
blasted supply roads in the Madang
area and their explosions touched
off number of landslides that
piled tons of debris along the main
coastal highway.
BOMB CRUISER
Other Allied planes bombed and
damaged a Japanese light cruiser
north of New Ireland before dawn
Friday and pounded enemy supply
dumps at Gasmata, on the south
coast of New Britain.
japanese air bases in the north
ern Solomons also came under the
Allied bombSightS. The Kara air.
/ drome on the southern end of
Bougainbille island was hammered
three times in a single day, de-
stroying five grounded planes and
ripping up runways, buildings and
anti-aircraft batteries.
Big fires and explosions also were
started on the nearby Kahili and
Ballale airdromeS, and six of Is
/ intercepting enemy fighters were
shot down at a loss of three Allied
| planes.
| Choiseul island, southeast Of
Bougainbille, was bombed and
strafed four times, causing extern
sive damage TO barge depots and
shore installations.
Northwest of Australia, Allied
medium bombers made a night
sweep over Koepang, Timor island,
starting explosions and fires.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
AUSTRALIANS REGRET

The people of Australia, as mirrored
by their newspapers, are disturbed about
the question that has arisen whether Gen
eral Macarthur is being subordinated to
= Lord Mountbatten. Some, at least, re-
gret the generals statement even though
they sympathize with his feelings. The
whole unfortunate situation probably
would not have arisen but for the at
tempt, presumably without MacArthur's
approval, to build the hero of Bataan into
a Republican presidential candidate for
1914.
After every MAJ or war at least one mil
itary hero has been promoted for the
presidency, sometimes successfully Blu:
no hero has been pulled off the fighting
front, in time of war, to win that high
office. The very fact that general
would divert his energies, at such time,
probably would not only cost him the
election but also decrease his popular
stature
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
laps Using Wolf
Pack Sub Tactics

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25 UP)-
The Los Angeles Times today said
japanese submarines adopting Nazi
wolf pack" tactics, are harassing
shipping lanes between Hawaii and
the mainland.
Crews of returning vessels told
of heavy attacks, but reported no
sinkings.
One tanker was attacked twice,
the Times said, with many" tor
pedoes fired each time. All missed
the ship.
Another tanker was attacked by
submarines but adopted successful
evasive tactics, the newspaper said.
The navy public relations office
said it had approved the story for
publication but would neither con-
firm nor deny it.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
SIGNS OF The TIMES
est. Louis Post-Dispatch)

(St. Louis POSt-DlSpatch)
A cafe proprietor has had the legend
Waitress Wanted" permanently lettered
in gold leaf on his front window, along
with the name of the restaurant. The
gentleman is probably no less right than
rain in assuming that mattresses will be
wanted for the duration. Still other
signs of the times might be lastingly let
tered, with very good chance that they
will remain appropriate some little
while
please Garry Your Own Bundles -
"Cook Wanted" Maid Wanted" rs
This Trip Really Necessary" Standing
Room Only" 'No Liquor Sold in Bottles.
yard Man Wanted Driver Wanted"
Buy War Bonds" "Save Waste Fats. y
"Housekeeper Wanted"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
PLANS FOR DEFEAT

Some two million Americans came
home from France in 1888 with the
story that the major German weakness,
as fighters, was lack of Imagination, in
itiative and the ability to eXtemporize
in a hurry.
When World War II began, it appear
ed for time that two million dough
boys were wrong or else German mental
ity had been completely revamped in a
mere % years. Nazis invading Poland,
France and the Low Countries showed
great capability whether in the mass
under skilled officers, or off on their
own in little units ranging down to IN
dividuals.
Now we learn that the AEF was cor
rect. Germans can not fight except ac
cording to plan. They resemble a foot
ball team under an autOcratic coach.
They are given a wide variety of plays,
each to fit a particular need, and are
drilled intensively in recognizing the oc-
casion for each play and executing it
efficiently
So long as no emergency unforeseen
by the war college strategists arises, they
look good-and are good. The moment
a set-up arises for which they were given
no play, they can think of nothing except
to fight blindly and take whipping.
These thoughts arise from new details
about the 1910 Battle of Britain which
have come to hand. If the Nazis had
been completely dependent upon slavish-
ly following elaborate plans, Britain
would have fallen three years ago and
the Axis would have won the war.
The invasion of Britain was to follow
a minutely-scheduled air blitz-so many
days to demoish coast fortifications, so
many days to destroy the airfields, so
many days to break morale by running
London and to smash the islands COM
munications-fiv weeks of bombing, and
then the end of the British Empire.
But the schedule was trifle off. The
blitz left the coast just as it was about
To achieve its objective there; it left the
airfields just as it threatened to tie them
up disastrously, it failed to break Brit
ish morale by the damage to London.
A little variation in that plan-or bet
ter yet from the dictators' standpoint, a
last-minute shift to substitute summer
invasion for the preliminary blitz-and
there would no longer be an England.
1t is comforting to think about such
things 1t is because of them, and Hitler's
errors, that we are on the way to victory.
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!
1t was the greatest mass attack
of the New Guinea campaign, and
a spokesman at Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur'S headquarters indicated
that casualties ran high among the
enemy troops covering in their
jungle positions.
The bombers, striking out in
support of embattled Australian
troops who have been holding off
repeated japanese attacks in the
area for the past week, hit the
surprised enemy early Thursday.
SATELBERG HIT
The main weight of the attack
fell upon enemy buildings, supply
dumps and troop huts at Satelberg,
10 miles northwest of Finschhafen,
and Wareo, about five miles nearer
20 the coast.
Explosions and fires ripped
through the Japanese positions and
when the bombers roared away it
appeared as if the entire target
area had been beaten flat.
The enemy concentrations around
Satelberg and Wareo had been try
ing to break through the Australian
lines to rejoin their main body on
the coast above Finschhafen. Part
of them were believed to be re-
Inducements from the north who
arrived too late to join in the. de-
tense of FinSchhafen.
A second enemy force, apparently
trying to cover that operation, dug
in on a line about three miles
north of Finschhafen after losing
heavily in repeated attacks on the
Australian positions there.
POUND ENEMY
Australian artillery, mortars and
machine-gun fire pounded the enc
my relentlessly and the spokesman
said the japanese had been forced
TO abandon many of their dead
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
MERCHANT MARINERS

During the next year a minimum of
$4,000 additional experienced officers
and seamen must be found to man the
American merchant marine, if we are to
maintain our record of meeting every
invasion need, the War Shipping Admin
istration says.
In the past year the personnel has
been increased from 10000 to 115,000
men. By year from now we must have
at least 175000 seamen. About half of
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
Successor Named
For Mountbaften

LONDON, Oct. % CUP) -- Brig.
Robert E. Laycock, 56 year-old
leader of Mediterranean commando
forces, will succeed Adm. Lord Louis
Mountbatten, now head of the
Allied forces in southeast Asia, as
Britain'S chief of combined opera
tions, it was announced today.
Laycock, who will have the act
ing rank of major general, won
commendation for his leadership of
commando forces which ranged
through the eastern Mediterranean
theater in l94l.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
Ruin ofkuSSeI
Almost Complete

Its 669th air raid alarm of the war
Bombs fell in several suburbs,
causing casualties.
The raid came just after dusk
and was the earliest since the Ger
mans abandoned their "blitz" on
London in 1941. Prime Minister
Churchill just had arrived at an
anti-aircraft battery when planes
were reported approaching and
watched while the guns shot eight
rounds into the sky.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24

drawal to the line half way across
old Poland from which the Nazis
launched their invasion of Russia
in July, 1941.
The Germans are believed to have
280 divisions presently in Russia
with 70 to 80 divisions-approXi-
mately l,G50.O0O to 1,350,O0O men
in the area between the Pripet
marshes and the Sea of Azov.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24

The bitter lessons of the last quarter
century have proved that we have gone
beyond the point where we can be indif
ferent to what happens beyond our own
borders in carrying out our economic
polcy.-Navy Secretary Frank Knox
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24

LONDON, Oct. 25 CUP)-A great
force of British bombers dropped
an estimated 1000 tons or more Of
blockbusters and fire bombs on the
battered German arms and aircraft
center of Kassel last night, while
smaller raiding fleets hammered
Cologne and Frankfurt.
Flying 10 miles beyond the ruin
ed Ruhr Valley, the RAF night
raiders gave Kassel its second heavy
battering of the past three weeks
and its 14th of the war, turning
vast areas of the sprawling factory
city into a flaming shamble5.
CLEAR OVER TARGET
Bad weather hid the bombers all
the way to Kassel, but the skies
were clear over the target and re-
ports of returning crewmen in
dicated the attack was we'll con-
centrated.
The loss was the heaviest suf-
fered by the RAF in weeks, but it
was believed the raid had more or
less completed the knockout of
AdoSCl, dlllllS llleiO OllCC- C-SiCdU III
dustrial center to the long and
growing list Of German liabilities"
The city housed the big Fieseler
plant, one of the reich's major as
sembly units in the manufacture of
Focke-Wuld 100 fighter planes,
and many other aircraft factories.
1t also embraced the Henschel
locomotive works, largest in all
Europe, and the stoppage of pro-
duction at that plant would great
| ly increase the strain on Germany'S
already disrupted transportation
system.
ACKNOWLEDGES DAMAGE
Berlin acknowledged that Kassel
had been damaged badly in the last
Raj raid on Oct. 3, when the
British dumped an estimated l,500
tons of explosives on the city.
Many night fighters battled the
raiders enroute to the target and
several were destroyed by the
British gunners.
Raj fighters ranged over the
continent on supporting intruder
operations destroying one enemy
plane, and other planes laid mines
in enemy waters.
German planes rounded out a
week of feeble nightly raids on
London last night to give London
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

Now that European politics have been
supplanted by world politics, all island
nations, including our own, must see to
it that no nation spreads out its power
to dominate the great world land areas.
President Dixon Ryan Fox of Union
College
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
NEW ANCHOR

The new German line presumably
would be anchored in the south at
Cetatea- Alba cn the Russo-Ru-
manian border and run northwest
ward along the Dniester and the
Bug river to the Baltic states with
the northern anchor at either Riga
or Memel.
This would incur q German with
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
Editorials and Comment

the $4,000 that are needed can be trained
The result must be pulled from less i'm
portant shore jobs to which they have
retired" from the sea.
Don't let anybody tell you that the
shipping crisis has been licked. It's down,
but it isn't yet out.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-24
Allies FIotten Nip
Guinea Positions

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, Oct
% UP)-Aed Iberator bombers flattened enemy posi-
tons and force of several thousand Japanese troops
centrated northwest of Fnschhafen New Guinea under
the weight of 221 tons of explosives, communque dis
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lick Britain-a much more COM
pact target than vast axis Eu-
rope = and even the Russian
offensive did not quite even the
score in 1912 or 1913 for the
Nazis' summer victories.
Allied com bat experience
largely has been confined TO All
ca, where it is noteworthy that
German Marshal Erwin Rom
mers strength seldom, II ever,
exceeded six German divisions
plus a fluctuating number OF
Italians.
Despite this comparatively
little strength, Rommel has
managed to maintain field
against the allies for fiv months
against forces which uniformly
were larger than his.
For the Tunisia showdown,
Rommel is believed TO have had
about eight divisions, against
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QUICK POSSIBLE BUT IMPROBABLE
Experts Declare Odds All Against Defeat of Hitler in 43

which the allies massed two full
armies - the British first and
eighth =,stifened with four
American divisions plus the
American fifth army held in
strategic reserve.
These figures are most reveal
ing when placed beside the fore
es Germany has available for
the defense of Europe. Best
estimates indica that Germany
and Italy have between 800 and
325 vi;ions - probably $780,
900 to 100000 fighting men.
In addition. they have possibly
so satellite divisions numbering
roughly 10000 troops who
probably are able to stand front
line combat. plus considerable
others lacking in equipment and
experience.
RELIEVED PRESSURE
II the Germans went on the
full defensive. the eastern front
probably could be held with $50
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Crippled Fund
Drive Begins
Rotorions louneh
Annuol Compoign

The Rotary Clubs annual
{ 'ippled Children's Fund drive
got underway today, following
the kick off meeting at the Me-
dea Thursday noon.
A goal of $4,000 is set for
this years drive, of which Oscar
Watz is general chairman. A.
D. Brewer is drive chairman, and
the membership is divided into
teams, the Army and Navy,
headed respectively by Bert V.
Nunneley and William T. Kelly.
DR.. George F. Moore substitute
ed for Nunneley in a pep-talk to
the Army team and Kelly ad-
dressed his team
A letter from Henry O. Chap
oton expressed re- let at his ina
bility because of illness to par
See ROTARY-Page 2
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Fraser Boy, Is.
Turns Bandit
Hotdsup Druggist;
Robs Till Of $24.60

A l3year-old Fraser boy was
held in the Detroit Juvenile De-
tention home today after he
looted the till of the Fraser Drug
store of S24.60 yesterday while
he held the proprietor at bay
by Stimulating possession of a re-
volver.
The boy, whose name is with
held because of his age, was ar
rested by troopers from Center
Line shortly after he strobe in
to the drug store at $50 D. m.
and confronted w. d. Patterson,
the5e-year-eid= proprietor.
Stick 'em up. This is a stick
up, the five foot tall. 116 pound
boy commanded. Patterso n
laughed.
I'm not kidding. stick 'em
up" the boy repeated without
a trace of nervousness.
While Alexander looked on
the boy scooped up the money
AID fled. He was reco. nized by
the proprietor and the arrest fol-
lowed quickly.
The boy told troopers he lott
cred in front of the store for
three hours before l got my
courage up" He said he was des-
perate for money after the dis
trict agent for Detroit news
paper complained to his parents
because he failed to pay the $40
he owed for. newspapers.
The troopers said the boy had
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Nazi divisions, plus score OF
satellite divisions. That wouid
mean a withdrawal TO the Dniep-
CT line TO shorten the front suf-
ficiently so that the current ra-
ton of one division per 10
miles could be maintained.
The axis now has about 80
divisions stationed in Norway
and the Balkans and il presumed
that regardless of where the al
lied invasion hits. il would be
necessary to continue this num-
Der of occupation troops. How
ever, if the invasion hit either OF
those points, occupation troops
could be drawn in for front-line
fighting.
II therefore is believed that
the axis has available something
like 200 divisions roughly
5000, 900 troops. - which would
be available for meeting the al
lied western threats.
See PROSPECTS-Page .
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Macarthur
M0urns Lost
Bataan Army

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRAL-
IA, April 9 - (P) - General
Douglas Macarthur, in a state
nent today marking the first
anniversary of the fall of Ba-
taan, spoke sorrowfully of the
Philippines under the japanese
heel and said that from the
bottom of scared and stricken
heart ! pray that merciful God
may not delay too long their re-
demption."
The American and Filipino
soldiers prayed as they fought on
Bataan peninsula, his statement
said, and their prayers were
reduced to simple formula rem
dered by hungry men through
cracked and parching lips: Give
us this day our daily bread. The
See BATAAN-Page 2
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Allied Warships
Blasted, Japs Say
Tokyo Makes Sweeping
Claims on SoIomons Clash

Britain: and Finschhafen, New
Guinea.
On the Burma front. British
headquarters rep or I d no
change in the battle along the
Bay of Bengal coast, where the
Japanese are attacking Field
Marshal Sir Archibald p. Wav-
ellis forces not far from the
frontier.
In the skies. American heavy
bombers dropped l3 tons of
high explosives on the Japanese
headquarters at Toungoo. set
ting fires visible for 20 miles,
and u. S. fighter planes destroy
ed an enemy supply dump at
Ningam in Central Burma.
Raj bombers also pounded
the enemy, strafing Japanese
positions along the Mayu PENN
sula and raiding other targets
inland. including the airdrome
at Shwebo.
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HighIights
Of Sweeping
Order by FDR

WASHINGTON, April S-tR
Tersely summarized, Presi-
dent RoOsevelt's hold the line"
wage and price order provides
for:
No general wage increases
above the Little Steel formula
except to correct sub-standard
living conditions.
Ceiling prices on "all COM
modities affecting the cost OF
living"
Rolling back Of prices now
"unreasOnably high, unfair or
inequitable."
No new rises in ceilings except
to the minimum extent permit
by law.
No increases in transportation,
power, gas and other utility
rates.
No moving of workers from
one job to another to get more
money.
In addition, Sterilization Di-
rector James F. Byrnes was en-
dowed with all the anti-infla-
tiOnary powers conferred on the
President by the act Of October
2 to permit him to act quickly,
by directive, to stabilize the
economy, boost production and
aid in the effective prosecution
of the war"
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BY HARRISON SALISBURY

unued PresS starr Correspondent
LONDON, -A~rif- 8-WP- -
Hitler can be beaten in 1943.
hut the odds are strongly against
it, a synopsis of the best mill
tary and economic opinion here
showed today.
This realistic view is based on
the hard facts of war - the
fighting experience of Britain,
the United States anu Russia
thus far against the Wehrmacht,
an assessment of Germany's po-
tential war ma rial reserves and
a factual analys sis of the num-
Der of troops Hitler still has
available for opposing an allied
invasion of Europe.
Experts are inclined 10 think
that the jokers in the woodpile
may be allied air over and the
Red army's recuperative power.
But at the same time they point
out that Nazi air power did not
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OPtinlists
Install New
Officers

New officers of the Optimist
Club. installed at Tuesday's
| lncheon meeting at Gordon's
Grill, are Stanley Worthington,
president; Lyle Hackett, first
ce-president; Nathan Gray.
second vice-president; Alfred
Schunke. Jr.. secretary; and Al
bert Bellman, treasurer.
These officers. with Stanley
Cady and Howard JarchoWs
form the boarc OF directors -
the organization.
Kenneth Hill. retiring pgoue
dent, was presented with, ~ -
mond past PRESIDENTS PIN -
Worthington with the pgoCQD4
presidents pin. Retiring el1oob
ers conducted the inslol1oooun I
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C.A.WiIdt Heads
KNIGHTS TempIar

Charles A. Wildt was named
Imminent Commander of Mount
Clemens Commandery No. 81,
Knights Templar, at the annual
conclave of the organization
last night, succeeding Retiring
Commander Elmer G.. Luth.
At the same time members
elected r. E. Howard to a 18th
year as recorder of the COM
mandery and selected the fol-
lowing additional officers:
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Imperial Tokyo headquarters
asserted today that strong Japa-
nese Naval and Air forces sank
or damaged Is warships and
transports and shot down 81
planes Wednesday in an attack
on an Allied fleet 25 miles
North of Gladalcanal island in
the Solomons.
Only six japanese planes
which "crash-dived into enemy
detectives" were lost, the Tok-
20 communique said.
SHARP CONFLICT
The Japanese claim sharply
conflicted with y. S. Navy
communique yesterday. refer
ring TO the same action, which
said American fighters shot
down 81 of 90 japanese planes
when the enemy attacked ship
ping near Guadalcanal.
The Navy listed seven u. S.
planes lost, and made no men,
ton of damage to Allied ship
ping nor Of Japanese warships
in action.
Tokyo's version declared a
cruiser, destroyer and 10
transports were sunk and three
other transports damaged.
On other far Pacific fronts:
C n. Douglas Macarthur $
headquarters announced that
Allied filters, striking at Japan
csc supply lines, blasted a flo
tilla of enemy barges in an hour
long attack off Dutch New
Guinea and strafed other Japa-
nese coastal vessels near the
ArOe Islands.
Fires were started on three
barges and an escort boat, and
other barges were severely dam
aged.
MAUI AIRDROMES
Allied airmen also raided
Japanese airdromes and bases
at Imika. Dutch New Guinea;
Saumlaki, Tanimbar island; Ka-
vieng, New Ireland; Unili. New
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Death-Hearing
Is Postponed
Romeo Housekeeper
Held as Fugitive

Action on Mrs. Amanda Rose
Durant's fight to escape extradi-
ton to Arkansas to answer
charges of first degree murder
in the death of her husband was
delayed today until Monday by
Circnit Judge Neil E. Reid to
give officials from her former
home in Calico Rock, Ark, time
to arrive here to testify.
Mrs. Durant, "A, domestic
employed in a Romeo home at
the time of her arrest, today was
held in the county Jail on a fugi-
tivee warrant issued this morn
ing by Justice Frank E. jean
nette and signed by Sergt. Ed
gar Welsch of the Romeo State
police post.
The warrant alleges she fled
from Calico Rock after murder
ing her husband on or about
last Dec. l.
The warrant, authorized by
Assistant Prosecutor Fred Van
Fleteran, answered charges of
John H. Nunneley and Jewell
West, attorneys for Mrs. Dur
ant, that the accused woman
was illegally held.
The body of her husband,
who had been missing since last
December, was unearthed Sum
day in the yard of the Calico
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