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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27
The Greatest Air Sea
Victory of the War
The Wiping Out of the Jap Convoy of Twenty
two Ships Off the New Guinea Coast

THE victory the Bismarck Sea- off the coast of New
Guinea, japanese convoy of II transports and
10 naval vessels has been hailed the greatest arsea
victory of the war.
The convoy had been assembled at Rabaul the port
in New Britain which the Japs their principal
base in the Southwest Pacific
1t spotted shortly after sailing from Rabau on
March and thereafter Swallowed for the remainder
of the day The convoy then consisted of three cruisers
four desroyers and Transports the following daV
it was joined by eight ships.
On the second day the Allied attack began as the
convoy entered the Vitaz Strait between New Britain
and New Guinea For the first "a hours the attack was
carried out by Flying Forresses and Lberaors; by the
end of the day they had sunk damaged nine enemy
ships.
During the ensuing night the survivors were shad-
owed by Catanas the remaining vessels Of the convoy
passed through the strait and at dawn poughing
through the Huon Gulf only 80 miles from Fnschafen,
another Jap base the New Guinea coast
Then the full weight Of the attack developed when
every available type Of aircraft thrown in. When
was over not single transport or warship had survived
the onslaught and addition Japanese losses in troops
and seamen are thought to number some 1880
The largest previous japanese convoy comprised the
II ships which brought the first landing parties to Lac
and Salamaua year ago The last attempt to reinforce
Lac for which 10 ships were used cost the japanese 100
planes and three ships.
THE battle of Bismarck Sea was truly great Mac.
al 1Iui victory as the LONDON sphere says.
But the Japs are not disnaycd
They are assembling 100000 strong on the adjacent
islands
They have enlarged their fleet They have greatly
increased their air power.
They will attack again and in superior force
~, Meanwhile American ships are being sunk American
planes are being continually destroyed.
Australia is alarmed Macarthur has warned Of
danger and begged for aid.
Is America busy in Africa that it will lose the
fruits of MacArhur great victory and let the japanese
- length succeed where they failed?
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27
Quick Questions

TRUE or false. The length Of a
dollar bill is five and a half
inches?
2-What Atlantic Coast cape is
known for its stormy weather?
3-What is the largest desert in
the world?
4-What everyday product is de-
rived from the abalone she'll?
5-What is the worlds largest
bird?
ga flying buttress" is (a) a
football term: (b) building
support; (c> large war plane?
7-Ismet Inonu is the president of
what country
ANSWERS on opposite page)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27
knowledge Test
BY DR.. SABINA II. CONNOLLY

What three emperors were at
the Battle Of Austerlitz?
Burma: (a) On how many
sides are mountain ranges :?
tb) What is It's most important
river? Cc) What is the chief
religion?
3-What name Is given 10 Cal
the capital of Argentina? Cbl
Northern Lights? (c) Atom
ment for Jews.
4-Name it: (a) the chief port of
Ecuador; tb) the chief city Of
Cuba; tc) the capital Of
Czechoslovakia.
Choose one answer: (a) Was
the Styx a mountain or a
river? (b) Were the Amazons
men or women (c) Was
Ulysses married TO Penelope or
Helen?
6-What is the English term?
(al cortege. lbl ragout;- tel
connoisseur.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27

Ia convoy joined BY SECOND
and moves through Ntidz Strait
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27
etters
To The Editor
TO THE EDITOR:

~ III Eli OHs
r AM WRITING to you in de-
Il Tense of our own beloved
America. l can't understand
why, and l never will. how for
eign people can come 10 the best
loved country in the world and
treat us Americans the way
they do. I have a son. a nephew
and brothers who are fighting
and risking their lives every
day that we may have free
and peaceable country. but ask
you. are they fighting for a
country where foreign people
may come and treat us Ameri-
cans like dogs, or even worse?
have neighbors that claim our
land (even after being surveyed
throw papers on our yard, near
" break my cats back, park
their car in front of our house
when there isn't thing in front
of their own, and million other
mean things. when we have
never said a mean or harmful
word TO these people in all our
life. but they resent us because
we are Americans. Now / want
10 know if this is what my loved
ones are fighting for.
1t breaks my heart, when my
boy writes home and says,
Mother, it's kind Of tough in
here. but us boys don't mind, as
long as we can keep our Amer
lea safe"
But is IL going to be safe =
wonder. know at least dozen
men of foreign birth that have
bosses of their own nationality
that have been deferred, and in
one family there are five work.
ing that aren't married. They
have paid for a lovely home
since December 7, 1871 and they
still get deferred, and then take
their money that they make in
this good old soft-hearted Amer
lea and send as much as they
can spare TO the old country.
Well, | could write on and on,
but what's the use? The only
thing that worries me is, what
are my loved ones fighting for?
b. II. VI.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27
TO THE EDITOR:

A BOUT three months ago I
"A sent-you-a- ietter-ALthe
time | was very ashamed Of
Detroit, my home. But now
things seem a lot better.
Detroit is doing a fine job
and I'm proud 10 say that I'm
from Detroit. When l sent the
last letter / was at the port
of embarkation. That is not a
very cheerful place And when l
heard about the strikes. II made
me very Disguised with the
whole affair. To think that men
could let their country down at
a time like that.
I'm now in the South Pacific
area. And using a lot of the
equipment that Detroit puts
out. 1t is the very best in the
world. You are doing a fine
job Detroit Keep IL up. I'm
proud to say that I'm a De-
troiter.
PVT. TOM FERGUSON.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27

60 ALSO with fuel oil. which
~ is not A part of the present
controversy.
Transportation Director East
man has announced that next
winter the seaboard will he get
ting 100000 barrels Of oil a
day through new pipe lines and
otherwise.
This would he enough 10 per-
NIT abandonment Of rationlng,
but the army and navy are sup
posed 10 be taking heavy guam
titles from the Seaboard supply.
Stocks here are much lower
Soon the armed services will
demand one-third 10 one-fourth
of all that the seaboard gets,
they say.
Thus you have a similar con-
flict of expectations between
government departments as 10
what the civilian will get. Piece
meal government publicity-and
even the slanted OWL roundup
material-merely adds 10 public
confusion.
NO WAY ever has been found
~ TO make a government pub
licity department harmonious
and efficient. Mr.. Davis came in
here with a reputation for COM
mon sense.
His radio broadcasts indicated
he was not welded 10 any par
ticular ideologies. Az the outset,
il appeared he had A better
chance to do a straightforward
reporting job than any of the
others.
But evidence developed by con-
gressional committees show his
organization is permeated with
many left wingerS and ideologist
promoters in key positions as
well as good newSpapermen.
The Dies committee has found
a 24-year-old man in charge Of
foreign language newspapers in
this country who reads no for
eign language.
The current newspaper curb
stone Joke in Washington holds
that the OWL press plant is
merely a national government
edition Of the famous leftist
journal PM in New York.
MANY employees of that I'M
WI precedented newspaper are
still working under MIR Davis as
ton ranking division heads.
Mr. Davis now finds himself
defending acts Of his bureau
which he would causticallv' de-
nounce II he were still an i'm
partial commentator.
a housekeeping in Owl and
a clearing of the atmosphere
over tho gas and rubber pro-
grams, therefore, seem on the
wav.
The government publicity may
not be much better after the re-
organization, but il will al least
be different and certainly less
leftist and less political.
Distributed by Kins Features synd.. Inc
Reproduction In whole or In part
strictly prohibited.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27

M'ArfIlur'S Great Bismarck Sea Victory
Described Technically IL LOnGlOnSPIlere

Battered remnants Of
Jap convoy discovered
heading for RABAUL
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27
Rubber Setup
ImperiIed by
New Demand
Patterson Asks Supplies
Needed by LETTERS
BY PAUL MALLON

WASHINGTON, April 27-Jef
w fers' scrap with Elmer
Davis Owl was just the usual
government hair-pulling over de-
tails, but his row with War In
dersecretary Patterson will be
costly TO motorists in gasoline
and rubber.
The JefferS-DaviS controversy
developed when one of Mr.. Davis
bright young men concocted a
Sunday feature story on the
basis of old figures from letters
department. and gave them so
black a slant as 10 challenge the
fulfillment Of the letters rubber
program.
All except one Of the facts
were more or less straight in the
owl handout. This one, sug-
costing that even essential mo-
florists will be unable TO get SYM
theuc tires before September.
1914. was killed out of the OWL
announcement when the mistake
was called 10 Mr.. Davis atten-
tion, and before the facts were
printed in the papers.
MIR. JEFFERS could survive
w this critical publicity from
the official government cenSors,
but whether his full program can
survive Mr.. Patterson's demands
is still a question.
The army and navy are sub
hitting increased demands not
only for gasoline but for fuel oil,
and dSrupting the established
civilian programs.
The PatterSon-Jeffers argyll
ment probably will be settled by
Mr.. letters sacrificing a portion
of the machinery and valves
which were TO be used in syn
thetic rubber production. for the
military production OF alrplane
gasoline.
Much Of the Jeffers program
will no doubt survive.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27

HIGHLIGHT OF THE ATTACK
on the convoy; Mitchell medium
bombers, piloted mostly by Ameri-
cans, putting up their amazing bomb
ing performance. After the action by
Allied bombers against the japanese
convoy, only floating pieces of
wreckage and occasional barges and
lifeboats remained to tell of the holo-
caust. Pilots of Mitchell medium
bombers reported that the whole area
of the sea was covered with wreck
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27

NO LESS an authority than
~ OWL SubStantiates this opin-
ion in another Sunday feature
roundup on spor tation,
saying:
1T Is In the field 81 local
transportation :. 4. getting Amer
lean workers to and from their
jobs that the most serious
wartime passenger transports-
ton exists. BY the end Of 194S,
about four times more Amer
leans will be going 10 work
every day as can be carried at
any one time in all available
public vehicles"
No stronger demand for gas
oline and rubber for civilians
has been made, even by Mr..
Jeffers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27

age and with men struggling in oil
from sunken ships. The wafer teemed
with sharks, which could be observed
all around the RATS and lifeboats.
During the fighting, in addition to
the % vessels sunk, no fewer than SO
Jap aircraft were also shot down.
The Mitchells especially distin-
guished themselves, going in at mast
height time and again to drop their
bombs on the vessels below.
-DrdlCiHg BIZ Roland Diaries.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-04-27
0EfRBHsgl NES

Published every Week Day Evening ana
Sunday Morning by The Times Publishing
Company at 1928 Times Square. Detroit.
MichiRan
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01
Censor's Dream

being Cpl A Dickinson published in "The
Transme official magazine of the c. & P. Telephone Coz
After leaving where before left for here
couldn't would here not Nevertheless
now and not there.
The weather just is this but of
quite where before here We
good The is like it would be here
where
people here just like they look but don't look to be
they from From there to here just
as from here to there.
feel just like should for this kind of weather here but of
all there for the kind of weather there So
is nothing to be alarmed about.
way here is just like the way everyone
there here OF had to bring everything had
what would here which is not
what we would The whole thing quite
like what like where before
like the time they had there only diff
all probability this somewhat too
letter before much valuable information
suppose by already know that in Africa So
good hope which isn't bad at
get about every other night The only trouble here it's
walk home and street
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01

she is glad to be able to do her
shared in this job of winning the
War; Her address is: 731st WAC
Post, CAT, Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Pvt. Brondel c. Shilling, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. r. Shilling, 635
Summit Avenue, who has been
serving with our Armed Forces in
New Caledonia 1--WE published a let
ter from his commanding officer in
our Dec 10, 1912 ,issue), has now
landed out in Australia. Shilling
has birthday coming up on July
30th and we are sure he would well
come birthday greetings from
friends at home. Here is his ad-
dress: No 33199265, Weapon Troop
112, Cavalry, APO, care Postmaster,
San Francisco, Calf.
Jvt. Donald Trovinger, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Preston Trovinger, 70
Wayside Avenue, who his taking his
basic training at Camp Shelby,
Miss, writes home that he is getting
along OK. He says that the food is
good. but that those at the end of
the line sometimes fall short. $50
far" he adds, II have been pretty
lucky" He says that the basic
training consists of one or two hikes
a week sometimes five miles, some
times 10), instruction in map read
ing and the use of compasses and
other instruments, and of course
plenty of instruction in the manual
of arms, with frequent trips to the
rifle range.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01

when this war is over, have to set
tie many an argument as to which
branch of the Service is the best,
as one of their sons is in the Army
Air Corps, another IL the Navy.
Now the situation is becoming more
complicated, as a third son, having
passed his sixteenth birthday, has
Joined the State Guard and natur-
ally he is going to stick up for the
good old infantry. The three boys
are: William o., Jr.; David Thomas,
and James A.
Second Lieut.. William 0. Cotting
ham, Jr., who enlisted in the Army
Air Corps in August, 1941, entered
an officers training school last July,
at Spence Field, Moultrie, Ga. On
April 30, 1943, at the first formal
graduation exercises held at the
field, young Cottingham received
The coveted "Silver Wings" of a
pilot and was commissioned a Sec
ond Lieutenant. Following his
graduation, he enjoyed Today fur
Tough at his home here and then re-
ported to Tallahassee, Fla, for or
ders. Right now. Lieutenant Cot
tingharn is at the Barlow Air Base,
taking a special course on Psi
Fighters, at the expiration of which
he win return TO TALLAHASSEE, from
where he will be assigned to fight
er squadron. incidentally, the leu
tenant celebrated his twentieth
birthday, last Thursday, June Gath.
His address is: seth Fighter Squad
ron, Barlow Fla.
Seaman Second Class David
Thomas Cottinghan, who enlisted
in the Navy last Spring, has just
completed his boot training at
cambridge, Md, and is one of a
group selected to take a special col
1ege course. David is awaiting or
ders to proceed to the University
of South Carolina. Columbia, S. c.,
and will probably be there by the
time this appears in print David,
by the way, made the headlines in
the cambridge Mainsheet'' last
week, which had this to say about
him: .The pride of Company 100
is Dave Cottingham. who came
through with a SO in his Get. and
100 in the math quiz"
James A. Cottingham, just 16
years of age, has joined Co. B OF
the Maryland State Guard. and is
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01
Horse and Buggy
Days
By the Old Lamp Lighter

Editors Note-The Old Lamp
lighters column has, for many
years been a feature of the Ha-
gerstown Globe. If you would
like him to dig up some special
old time information, or if you
know of some interesting item
out of the past, why not drop
him line. Address your letters
to the Old Lamplighter, c/o
The Globe Independent, Ha-
gerstown, Md.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01

the Mayor and Council, the follow
ing additional names were added to
the committee on new charted: BY
Councilman Mogensen, VIM. Martin,
j. Grady MCGOWAN and Stephen
ellsworth; by Councilman Randall,
E. B. Hartle, H. A Bester and ]. II.
Middlekauff; by Councilman Hoover,
d. M. Hurley, G. M. Gruber and N.
M Munson, and by Councilman Bes-
ter, Charles M. Dancer, Harry e.
Beachley and J. w. Draper.
1912
Alex. Armstrong, Jr., on behalf of
the First Hose Company of Hagers-
town, reported to the Mayor and
Council that the company had re-
ceived the automobile fire engine
ordered from the Robinson Com
pany. The committee registered its
approval of the apparatus.
City Attorney Strife submitted a
statement on the status of the litiga-
ton between the Mayor and Coun-
Gil and the Water Company.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01

Cpl Martha E. Schnebly ,daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter J..
Schnebly. lit North Avenue, is a
radio technician at the Carlsbad,
New Mexico, Bombardier School.
Corporal Schnebly enrolled in the
WAAC on January 9th and took her
basic training at Des Moines, Iowa.
She expected TO be assigned to a
Motor Corps, as she had had some
experience along that line, but in
stead, she was selected to take a
13-week course in radio repair work
at the radio school at Kansas City,
Mo. The course completed, Cor
poral Schnehly was member of
the first class to be assigned di-
rectly from school to active duty.
In a recent letter home, Corporal
Schnebly gave her parents some
idea of her work, which, briefly, is
as follows: The radio repair section
works in two shifts a m. to 3
p. m, and p. m. to II p. m.-All
radios are checked in and out of the
field, and when only minor repairs
are necessary, the work is done
right in the plane. Corporal
Schnebly writes that the WAAC's
have comfortable barracks and that
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01

the corner fro m
Franklin street: H.
Kyd Douglass, cap
tain; S a m u Ell F.
Croft, first lieuten-
ant; Alex. M. Rob
erts, second lieu
tenant; j o h n L.
Bikle, sergeant ma
jor; p. A. Wilmer,
ord erly sergeant;
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01
OUR CITIZENS IN UNIFORM

Washington County and who
serving with the Armed Forces
you have serving any branch of the
information about him or her. that
items to The Hagesown
Independent" Hagersown Md it the
phone Gu S 39l1
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01

Cream of milk soup has tend
ency to form a skim on the top as
it cools. If it is beaten just before
it is served. the froth protects it
against skin formation.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01

his colored helper below.
'fYou-all bettah be careful up
dere," the helper shouted up. you
done made me bite nah tongue"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01

Aviation Cadet Roy Richard
Beard son of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy r.
Beard, 902 Salem Avenue, who en-
listed in the Army Air Corps last
February, and who recently has
been stationed at the Air Corps
Classification Center at Nashville,
Tenn, has now been classified as a
pilot and transferred to Maxwell
Field, Ala, for further training.
Young Beard. who before enlist
ing, was employed in the tool de-
partment at Fairchild's, received his
basic training at Miami Beach and
then took special course at Fem
College, Cleveland, Ohio, at the
completion of which he moved on
to the Classification Center. In a
letter home, telling of his transfer
to Maxwell Field, Cadet Beard said
that when he heard his name called
in the pilot classification" he
wouldn't have traded that moment
for a $1,000 bill (it's the spirit of
lads like Beard, that is giving the
United Nations supremacy in the
air).
Cadet Boards address is: Group
X, Squadron A, A.A.FP.F,S. pilot,
Maxwell Field, Ala.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01
1880

The following were officers of
The Hagerstown Light Infantry Co.,
Maryland National Guard, which
met in the Roulette building on
North Jonathan street, just around
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01
Hard Bounce.

A bricklayer working on top of a
high building carelessly dropped a
brick which landed on the head of
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01

In this column, in our April is
sue, we commented on tne fact that
MIR. and Mrs William Cottingham,
sos Hamilton Boulevard, would,
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01

Released by U. s. War Department
Bureau Of Public Relations
FIRST INDIAN CHAPLAIN
A Comanche Indian born in tepee
near Ft. Sill, Okla, is Chaplain
First Lieutenant) James Collins
Ottipoby, first of his race to be APP
pointed a chaplain in the u. S.
Army. He is 43 years old, a grad
uate of Hope College, Michigan,
and theological schools. He entered
the chaplaincy from the pastorate
of the Christian Indian Mission,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1943-07-01

counting the days till he joins his
company for a weeks training at
Fort Meade this summer. Nice
work Jimmyl
Detroit evening times., 1943-12-28
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I@ Honor Roll
~ Official Casualty List

Lists Michigan issued afer next OF kun have been
notified hN Tie eQXGTnment
Detroit evening times., 1943-12-28

B") The things need for )oef The ") bone Broken color and
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-09-24
Raymond Clapper Says:
A New War Is Sighted
Before This One Ends

We insist on unconditional sur
render. But there must be many
determinations about all kinds OF
questions. The full Italian ar1ni-
stice terms cover many pages al.
though the surrender was uncon-
ditional.
Churchill is not exaggerating
when he says that no meeting dur
ing this war could carry with it
so much significance for the fu-
ture of the world as a meeting
between the heads of the three gov
ernments., He puts it a bit milder
than Lippmann n d Simms do
when he says that without close,
cordial and lasting association be-
tween Soviet Russia and their Al
lies we might find ourselves at
the end of the war only to have
entered upon period of deepening
confusion. Churchill naturally
doesn't use the naked word. But
you can get his idea from the ref
erence to deepening confusion and
it is a grim and SOLDERING outlook
unless these three men can estab-
llsh true community of interest
and purpose