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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
Hill Fight
At Burma
Registered U. s. Patent offics

WITH THE BRITISH ARMY
IN BURMA, Jan. II OUPl tde-
layed) British and Indian jungle
fighters in Burma today began the
second week of assault on three
temple-studded hilltop positions
from which the japanese are de-
Tending Rathedaung, strategic VIII
lage on the Mayu River, 25 miles
north Of Akyab.
This is the first fighting In the
Rathedaung area TO be described
as more than patrol activity. but
even yet the action is what British
officers call "a small show. "
British forces, supported by the
Royal Air Force. are attacking
Rathedaung with mountain guns
Bren guns and machine guns
while the japanese fight back
with heavy guns, trench mortarS
and hand grenadeS.
Britain'S score stands al "a hill
and a half down and a hill and z
half 10 GO An Indian unit. exc.
cutting brilliant thanking move.
ment, January 10 captured one OF
the Rathedaung hills, and British
forces three days later entrcnchcc
themselves on the slopes of z
second. They have yet 10 gain Z
foothold on the third hill.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
THREAT REMOVED

The occupation OF the position
by army troops removed the last
Immediate threat 10 American
positions on Guadalcanal and
drove the enemy farther westward
and closer TO eventual annihila-
ton.
Several enemy artillery pieces,
mortars, machine guns and small
arms of all types, as we'll as am
munition, were captured IN the
drive.
Seven enemy counterattacks TO
recapture a hill which dominates
the ridge were thrown back with
heavy losses.
The American attack was made
under the most difficult condi-
tons, through dense jungles and
against prepared positions.
In spots the terrain was so
rough that three days were re-
quired to get out the wounded.
All but the most serious cases
were forced TO walk TO the rear.
many getting off their litterS over
the worst, spots of the trails!
This action was the first all
army offensive on Guadalcanal
and part of a campaign designed
ultimately to drive out the enemy
from the western end OF the is
land, where several thousand are
still holding out.
1t was the first time under fire
for most of the army men. who
moved in against japanese vet
Grams of Java. Malaga and the
Philippines-supposedly the cream
of Hirohito's forces.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
Grim Contrast
Soldier Who Wrote on labe
Killed in New Guinea

A message In grim contrast 70
the light-hearted note her soldier
son wrote on the label of a tomato
can was received by Mrs. Amelia
! Cipriano. 2020 Cortland avenue,
today.
The message was from The war
department and reported the son,
Ralph Carpinelli, 80. killed in New
Guinea action November 26. He
was member of the 32nd division.
According 10 this information,
Carpinelli was dead when Mrs.
Cipriano received his novel letter
at Christmas time. He has been
in the service since April. 1871.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
New Kaiser Ship
Splits and Sinks

PORTLAND. Orc, Jan. 1S
ClNS).--The twisted remains, OF
1.-THE tanker Schenectady, intended
for the nations merchant marine,
lay on the bottom of the Villa
mette River today after splitting in
two and sinking at the Quitting
dock of the Kaiser company's
Swan Island yard in Portland.
Investigators reported the steel
plates in the 16,500-ton vessels
hull were ripped apart with a roar
Mat led yard employees TO believe
that the vessel had exploded.
The keel was unbroken when the
vessel split up. Only injury, Of a
minor nature, was 10 an unidenti-
fed sailor, as the crew abandoned
ship.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
Detroit Couple Fetes
50th Anniversary

Surrounded by their thre e
daughters and five grandchildren,
MIR. and Mrs. j. S. Tackabury to-
day observed their golden wedding
anniversary at their home, 1858
West Philadelphia avenue Mr.
.Tackabury, affiliated with the
jerks e. Muir division of Murray
corporation for "a years, and his
wife are IS wears old.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
DOWN : ZEROS IN CHINA

CHUNGKING, China. Jan. 1S
UNS).-Challenging force OF
japanese Zero fighters and bomb
ers which outnumbered them three
10 one, American P-40 Warhawks
destroyed at least seven of the
enemy craft and possibly five
others when the Japs attacked
an Allied airdrome in western
Yunnan Province, it was an
nounced today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
PLENTY or AMUSEMENT

This center provides the men
with a constant supply of refresh.
mentS. informal Entertainments
ping pong. billiards. card rooms
writing facllities--in short, "a
home away from home. "
Says Captain MoesSner:
THE city of Detroit and the
people Of its metropolitan area
have been wonderful to us.
They've shown wonderfully
cooperative attitude and great
interest I'm this center-the boys
really appreciate the treatment
they are receiving.
Many -DetroiterS who meet per.
sonnet of the 72Sth do not realize
the men are members OF the Corps
of Military Police because they
do not wear the blue and white
MP arm band, which the public
knows as the marking Of an MP
on special patrol duty.
These men, on the other hand
are not here to see that visiting
soldiers behave themselves on De-
troit Streets They are here fol-
the protection of our important
war plants and the protection o.
the community,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
MILNE BAY BOMBED

The japanese retaliated yester-
day for Saturdays smashing raid
on Rabaul, in which no Fortresses
or escorts were lost. by attacking
Milne Bay, scene of Japan's first
land reversal in the Southwest
Pacific.
Twenty-four MitsubiShi bombers,
escorted by 20 Zeros, struck at the
Allied airdrome in the heaviest
raid the Japs have made in several
months.
Damage was declared TO be
negligible. however, and the raid
ers withdrew when Allied fighters
challenged them 10 battle.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
RiVeterS Wanted
War Plants Send Out SOS to Vocational Schools
Established in $40 With H. S. Funds

reached our peak last February
when we had 26,0i6 enrolled.
That was at the time when most
OF the major plants were send
ing us their men for conversion
training, men who had been
working on automobiles and
would In the future be worKing
on planes and tanks" Clarity
said Saturday.
NO FEES CHARGED
NO fees are charged for the
courses, and "A wOuld-be student
has only to get a referral slip
from the United states Employ
ment Service To he enrolled"
With Offices al 1874 Broadway
the vocation training department
conducts its classes in every high
school, intermediate school snc
school in the city a,
we'll as in 20 plants.
Courses are offered i'm machine
tool operating. riveting. inspection
arc welding and any special need,
that war industries may require
Also a matter Of pride with the
j. its safety RECORD
which shows .057 man hours los
per 1000 man hours as compared
with tho average Of 1888 for ]
industries.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
Detroit Has DUN Army Camp---IMP's at River Rouge
Cor ps Trained
TOPrOtect CITY
pictures on Picture Page
BY JERRY PETIT

With Fort Wayne converted into ordnance
CENTER and its personnel made up largely of civil
ians these days, most Detroiters look upon Sefridge
Field and Fort Custer as our nearest army bases.
Little do they salize Detroit has its army
post where security force is maintained for the pfeee
ton of this great production and where hundreds
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
Five Jap Ships
Shattered in
Raid on Rabdu|
Tons Of Bombs Dropped
on Huge Jap Base
by Flying Fortresses

UNITED NATIONS HEAD.
QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA. Jan
18 UNS). - Flying FortreSses
raining tons of demolition and fire
bombs on the big Japanese base
at Rabaul. New Britain, in a four
hour night raid, sank or seriously
damaged five enemy merchant
men, il was announced officially
today.
Penetrating heavy anti-aircraft
fire, the Boeings accounted fol
$4,000 tons of shipping in the bar
Dor and left fires blazing or thu
enemy airdrome visible so miles
away.
American and Australian ground
forces at Sanananda, meanwhile
brought the fall of that last re-
naming Jap Papuan stronghold
nearer by smashing through 10 the
enemy'S rear TO cut the MAR
supply road at two places thu
communique from Gen. DolGla:
Macarthur announced.
KILL I22 JAPS
Killing 122 enemy defenders, In,
Allied jungle fighters occupied
road positions at points 1000 ant
1000 yards from the beach.
(Reuters quoted Gen. Sir
Thomas B amey. Australian
ground force commander, as
saying that japanese losses in
naval personnel that attempted
TO relieve Japanese Papuan
army exceeded all losses in
battle. in which its army was
not only defeated but was prac-
tically exterminated."
General Macarthur has esti-
mated that $4,000 Jap troops
were killed in Papua during the
Buna-Gona campaign. General
Blamey's statement, contained
in a Melbourne dispatch, would
bring the total ground and sea
losses of the Japs TO more than
10000.
General Blamey was quoted
as adding that the remaining
Japanese in Papua have been
driven into a corner and will be
liquidated gradually
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
HEATED BY STOVES

These are small, portable struc-
lures made of wood composition
building material. tar paper, etc.
Zach is heated by a small pot
bellied stove.
Commanding officer is 1t. Col
Victor l.. Colson, Corps Military
Police. Capt. Karl r. MoesSncr
&C. NJ. P) is executive officer and
acting commanding officer during
the absence of Lieutenant Colonel
ColSon.
Officers and men OF the unit
wear the insignia OF the Sixth
Service Command on their left
shoulder.
The 72Sth is ono OF the military
units at the disposal -on a mo
ment'S notice of Col. August NJ
krech. commanding officer 81
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
10000 ENCIRCLED

Mai Gen. Piotr kotelkov re-
ported that, the remnants Of the
enemy divisions were boxed In n
triangle measuring approximately
220 square miles.
He estimated tho encircled
forces numbered between $4,000
and 100000 men.
A special communiQue OF the
Soviet Information Bureau placed
the figure al 10000. Originally
they numb ered approximately
2O0. 600.
The Russians hold the entire
section of the Stalingrad-Likhaya
rail line between Stalingrad and
the Don. with the exception of
sevcn-mlc stretch Immediately
west of the city.
German commanders have stiff
fened the resistance OF their men
by matchmaking them with the
fear that the Russians would not
take them prisoner but would
slaughter them all.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
Jap Forts Taken
On Guada|(ana|
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
were killed and some taken
prisoner
The capture OF Mount Austen
last japanese position dominating
Henderson Field. makes the United
Nations position in The Pacific
war more favorable than at any
other time since the marines first
splashed ashore here five months
AGO
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19


ACCORDING TO Moscow
{, communiques, the German
, armies which were defending
= ,1agodarnoe are fleeing in
E;sorderly retreat, abandoning
further positions on the roads
and railroads leading towards
Rostov.
. That city is the key to the
whole German campaign to-
wards the Caucasus. Its cap
ture by the Red army would
be a disaster of major pro-
; portions TO Hitler's forces.
But much difficult territory
remains 10 De penetrated.
Taking of Blagodarnoe
probably means the early
capture, or at least the en-
circlement. by Red army
forces, of Petrovskoe. another
important Nazi hedgehog CEN
ter and junction of roads and
railways.
If Petrovskoe is lost to the
Germans, it will probably
mean a withdrawal, voluntary
or forced 10 the vicinity of
Armavir. key to the Maikop
oil fields, overrun by the Nazis
last summer.
IT is likely that Hitler's
generals will fight desperately
TO retain Maikop and Armavir
from which a pipeline runs
TO Rostov, about $50 miles.
The Maikop oil fields produce
several hundred thousand tons
of crude oil per annum. This
lis an important item in the
...Nazi war budget, but even
Z; more important is the fact
that Maikop oil yields very
high grades Of lubricating oil
3 and grease, of which Germany
is stringently short.
AS the Russian winter Of
fensive rolls into its third
+. month in high gear, the Nazi
Y retreats on the Caucasus front
and that before Stalingrad
total from 100 to $50 miles.
&. The powerful German
Eighth Army, estimated by
Russian reports at a strength
of 70 divisions, has been en-
circled between Kalach and
Stalingrad itself and is being
Systematically pounded.
! SOMETHING SIMILAR TO
this happened last winter, hut
There are number Of funda-
mental differences between
what is happening this year
;.and what happened u months
:ssso.
Quite surprising, for ex.
ssAmple, is the apparent ease
se&3th which Red army forces
.sthis winter succeeded in cap.
.turing important hedgehoe
points in the German forti
ications system.
.x>Mornzovsk, about $50 miles
: vast of Stalingrad on the MAR
{. road and rail line from thai
!. town TO Kharkov. was taker
/. ia. four days. The Russian,
announced that it had beer
|. deliberately fortified while il
! Nazi hands.
: Another vital junction pom
or road and rail communica
lions was Kotelnikovsky, o
which Moscow announced tn,
capture approximately 2
hours after revealing that j
was under attack.
Last year not a single Ger
man hedgehog fort Of msio
Importance was taken durinj
The entire winter campaign
In all probability, it signifie
The development OF RussiaI
heavy artillery capable o
rbeing moved through winter
Snow and ice
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19

MR.. GREW does well to tell his story to the
1'i American people.
But it is not the people who have shaped the
policies and made the military and strategic de-
cisions that have disposed our forces so thinly
throughout the world that they have not as yet
been able to dominate any front, and are particu-
larry and dangerously unable to dominate the
Pacific front WHERE OUR OWN NATIONAL
EXISTENCE IS AT STAKE.
Mr.. Grew is right that in the Pacific we are
"face to face with a powerful, resourceful utterly
ruthless and altogether dangerous enemy"
He is right that: 1--WE must defeat that enemy
cOnclusiyely.' H, W.
But it is not the American people who have
miscalcuated the Japanese. The people have never
wanted to conduct war of attriton against Japan,
but have always wanted an immediate and crush
ing DEFEAT of Japan, of nature to end the
menace of Japan to our land and to civilization
altogether and forever.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
Russians Doom
10000 Ndzis in
Std|ingrdd Trap
Reds Capture Airport,
Last Source Of Supply;
II Divisions Encireled
BY VI. 8. HANDLER
United Press stan Correspondent

WITH the RED ARMY IN
SOUTHWEST STAIN GRAD,
Jan. 18.-Russian forces extermi-
mating the remnants OF p German
divisions encircled between the
Don and the Volga rivers have
captured the Pitormik airfield on
the outskirts of Stalingrad, sound
ing the death knell for 10000 men
whom the Nazi command chose
to sacrifice rather than surrender.
The airport Vas their only con-
tact with the outside world.
Transport planes. which had made
AS many as 500 flights a day in a
desperate attempt TO supply the
trapped divisions. thus lost their
last base, leaving the battered
forces to struggle on with what
remains of their supplies.
From the south, west and north
west thc Red Army is attacking
the encircled divisions. inflicting
terrific losses. The Russians have
reoccupied about 50 per cent OF
the area.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
The War
TODAY
Reds Advance
AtFdster Pace
Than Last Year
BY CAPT. JOHN II. CRAIGE

BY CAPT. JOHN II. CRAIGE
Writes for International New, service
BY THEIR capture Of
Blagodarnoe. Russia's armies
Of the Caucasus, which con-
stttute the southernmost arm
OF the multiple pincers low
squeezing the Nazis, have won
a strategic strong point.
which should insure further
advances Of from 50 10 100
miles.
Blagodarnoe. situated al a
junction Of railways and road
transportation, was one Of the
best-fortified and most i'm
Dortant units of the German
hedgehog system Of de-
? s7-es built 10 pin down Nazi
\ los of the summer against
/ "A army siege during The
- Russian winters
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19

Internal Security District Number
| of Michigan, and the officer in
charge of the tactical defense OF
this area in the event OF invasion
or internal disturbance. District
No. | includes the entire Lower
Peninsula.
Pride OF the 72Sth Is the
battalion band, which includes in
its personnel several musicians
who formerly played with name
bands OF the nation. On a recent
visit here. Capt. Wayne King
music supervisor or The Sixth
Service Command. termed this
band the best military police
musical unit / have heard"
Picked members of the band
make up a swing dance orchestra
which plays at weekly functions al
the Rouge Recreation Center
which was set up by Detroit's De.
partment of Parks and Recreation
in the colonial mansion which
OVeClOOkS the river.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
u. s. Filters Blast
ffipo|i;5Bfitish
90 Miles Away
Submarines Torpedo
} More Ships, lombard
Train on Italian Coast

LONDON. Jan. Is CUPl.-Brit-
'iSh submarines have torpedoed and
.Shelled three more enemy supply
ships in the central Mediterranean
and have bombarded a freight
train on the Italian coast, the
admiralty announced today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19

There Is an immediate need for
5000 rivcters in the war plants Of
Detroit, and though every eXperi-
enced riveter is now at work the
need Will he fulfilled in short
order.
Source OF supply in this crisis as
well as IN every instance when the
war plants OF the arsenal Of
democracy send out a hurry call
for skilled laborerS is the voca-
tional training department oil the
board OF education
Established in 1910 with federal
funds and placed under the direc-
.tion - Warren Bow, then deputy
superintendent of schools. the
vocational depM tment has trained
more than l60VbO men and women
for specialized jobs on the hrme
front.
RETAINS HIS INTEREST
Vow Superintendent. Bow. re-
talns his interest In the project
although William r. Strton and
Thomas GarTity. director and as
Sistsnt director. respectively, have
been given direct supervision.
AT present We have an en-
rollment 81 about $500 studc nts,
about IS per cent women. We
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19


admiralty announced today.
LONDON, Jan. Is CUP).-The
British Eighth Army has driven
TO within 90 miles of Tripoli and
american heavy bombcrS have
damaged the mole and other tar
gets IN a daylight sweep against
tho harbor of that big Axis base.
front dispatches said today.
Gen. Sir Bernard l.. Mont
IgomeryS Eighth Army. on the
march again in pursuit Of the
/ Afrika korpS, has advanced 90
miles since the start OF its latest
offensive. The advance continues,
a Middle Eastern command COM
munque said, and prisoners are
/ falling into British hands.
The attack on Tripoli harbor by
heavy bombers attached 10 the
United States army air force oc-
curred yesterday, and was part Of
a general Allied air offensive all
along the North African front.
Mai. Gen. James II. Doolttle's
18th United States Air Force,
Operating chiefly over Tunisia.
reported it held a two to one
superiority over AXIS alrmcn since
The Allied occupation of North
Africa. A total of 1874 Axis planes
have been destroyed against a loss
Iof 81 for the Allies.
Allied planes, paced by fighters
and fighter-bombers. maintained a
might and day offensive far ahead
Iof the main army, SCATTERING re-
Treating enemy transport with
bombs and guns.
/ A Joint CommuniQue issued at
Cairo by the Middle EaSSrn COM
mand and the Royal Air Force an
inounced the Eighth Army had adj
ivanced yesterday from the Biz
Tala-Sedada line 10 a line based
on Beni-Oulid, Biz Dufan and
lTauorga, which meant a 40-mile
gain IN a day.
ROAD TO TRIPOLI
From Benz Guild a road leads
ion 10 Tripoli.
At the positions given In the
Cairo report, as of yesterday, the
British line ran northeaStward 40
miles from Benz Guild TO Biz Du-
fan. then 30 miles east to Tauorga.
on the main coastal road only %
miles south of Misurata, the great
German base.
1t was believed that at any
moment the Eighth Army. with
Its tanks and armored cars rang
ing miles ahead, might effect con-
tao, with the Fighting French
column that, had advanced north
Through the Aibyan Desert from
Lake Chad in French Interior
Africa
TRANSPORTS ATTACKED
The Tauorga Biz Dufan Benz
Guild area is approximately &C
miles northwest of Buerat 81 Hsun
where the Axis Fem Fem defense
line had been anchored.
Planes raided Tripoli yesterday
in the day time and hit two enemy
vessels off the east TuniSia coast
Other planes bombed the airdromt
on ltaly's Lampedusa Island. Of
the east coast. Five planes failec
to return from all operations.
Six enemy planes bombed The
Tobruk base, 600 miles behind the
battle line, and four of them were
shot down. three by night fighters
one by ground guns.
The admiralty announced tha
hight British naval forces Saturday
sank a medium sized enemy sup
ply ship 100 miles north-northwes
of Tripoli and damaged one OF it!
escort ships. without Suffcrin:
casualties or damage.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
MILLEROVO FALLS

MOSCOW. Jan. rs tUP).-Rus-
STA announced new gains today on
five major battle fronts along the
550-mile Red Army offensive line
between Voronezh and the north
ern Caucasus.
on the south NoroncZh front
Rcd Army men were within 10
miles of kharkov; on the DonetS
River front they captured the
railroad junction Of Millerovo; in
the Stalingrad area tanks. in
fantry and cavalry were ripping
INTO the remnants of % German
divisions now numbering only
about 10000 men; on the lower
Don front Russians were within
Is miles OF Salsk junction. and
"a the Caucasus they were only
SO miles from Armavir. whence A
railroad leads through the Maikop
oil fields 10 the Black Sea.
COLONEL CAPTURED
Driving ahead throughout the
night south of Voronezh. the Rus
slams took several inhabited places.
wiplng out almost the entire gar
rison OF one fortified town and
capturing l.255 Germans including
a colonel in storming another. the
noon communique said.
On the Donets front, the Rus
slams took three towns in single
sector They killed about 1000
Germans. the noon communique
reported knocked out seven tanks
and 20 field guns and captured 300
prisoners, two tanks, 20 field guns.
50 trucks and two war supply
dumps
Several towns and two railroad
stations were aiken during the
night on the north Caucasus front.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-19
YEAR OLD TOMORROW

Some afternoons 50 to 100 OF
the men al a time arc taken "a
Selfridge Field for shotgun prac-
tiCe.
The 72Sth Military Police Bat
talon was formed a year ago this
week, with a cadre from the Fifth
Division at Fort Custer. Tomor-
row the unit celebrates Organiza-
ton Day tthe army's term for the
birthday anniversary Of any unit,
There will be special ceremonies
at the flagpole in front of head
Quarters at 2l700 JOY road, and
a de luxe feed at noon, including
turkey with all the trimmings.
The battalion moved into Rouge
Park last August 2, and wa,
housed in tents. Later on they
were ''winterized five TO a build
ing, in little huts which are callec
I"hutments."