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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-09
Duel AcrOSS Channel
Afraid Alarm Sounded in London Area After
British and Nazs Swap Coastal Gunfire

LONDON. Feb. 9 UP).-A
brief incidentless air raid alarm
sounded in the London area Today
after a night in which the great
British and German coastal guns
roared in a furious bombardInent
across the Dover Strait.
During the night German planes
b m b d and machine gLnneo
south coast towns at roof-tor
level. One of them was shot
Gown.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-09
q Adrift
83 Days
Rescued
BY JOHN HENRY

WITH THE UNITED STATES
FLEET AT A BRAZILIAN PORT.
Feb. 9.-An astounding saga OF
the sea in which an American
bluejacket and two Dutch seamen
survived SO grueling days adrift
on a life-raft was revealed today
after their rescue by a United
States submarine chaser.
Basil Dominic Izzi. 20, seaman
second class. of South Barry,
Mass. Cornelius Vanderslot. 81. of
Rotterdam. and Nick Hoogendam.
II. of Vlaardingen. Holland, lived
mainly on birds. fish, rainwater
and courage during their ordeal.
1t was believed the longest. or one
of the longest, periods Of time hui
man beings have drifted on the
ocean.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-09
Spain Denies Troop Reports

MADRID. Feb. 9 (UP).-The
Spanish MINISTRY of foreign
affairs issued a categorical denial
today of reports from London that
German troops were being con-
centrated at the Spanish frontier
and that Germany had sent an
ultimatum 10 Spain demanding
transit rights for troops across the
country.
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TWO COMPANIONS DIE

Two others, an American en-
sign and a seaman. died. The navy
withheld their identities until their
families have been notified.
Their passenger vessel was en-
route from Capetown TO the
United States when it was tor
pedoed November =. The raft.
by 10 feet and constructed of wood
buoyed up by two oil drums. was
picked up approximately 20 miles
off the Brazilian coast after drift
ing more than 1900 miles.
The RATS occupants looked like
skeletons with skin wrapped on
them said 1t. Clifford c. Ewing
of Armenia. n. Y, commander of
the vessel which rescued them.
The long-bearded. -parched
men were clothed in rags. fash
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-09

The Dover Strait bombard,nent
started at $40 a. m. when the
British guns opened. They fired
about 30 rounds within half an
hour. Then the enemy guns re-
piled, striking at the Dover area.
The German radio announced
under Paris date that the Nazis
had ordered the evacuation OF
Lorient. the submarine base on
the French coast which was
bombed yesterday for the sixty
fifth time. and eight surrounding
ldiStricta.
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on the japanese communicate.
He said there had been no fur.
Their news of the air-sea engage
ments going on in the SoIomons
area.
so far rs I know the same
preliminary plays are still going
o.i." Knox added. referring TO
previous navy statements that
both air and surface forces OF
each side were skirmishing.
IL suspect it's possible that
this might be a denomination tn
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-09
Most Baked Goods
To Cost More Soon

WASHINGTON. Feb. Q (UP).-
Here is more bad news for the
housewife - bakery products. ex-
cept bread and cookies. will be
to Is per cent higher in price after
next Saturday.
The Office Of Price Administra-
ton has strapped the present
March. 1912, price ceilings for pies,
pastries. doughnuts. sweet yeast
raised goods and all cakes other
than cookies.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-09
AIR. SEA FIGHT RECALLED

AIR, SEA FIGHT RECALLED
Knox said that the ar-sea
engagements which have been &C.
curing in this area for more than
a week might be in part an effort
TO cover the withdrawal of troops
from the island.
THE South Pacific story
might have been vastly different
for the last three or four
months had we not established
ourselves In the SolOmOns sue
cessfully," Knox observed.
Knox began the press confer
ence by recalling that when he
returned from his recent tour of
the southwest Pacific he had
made an estimate that significant
resistance on Guadal-
canal had collapsed. Then he
quoted from the Axis broadcast
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-09

GUADALCANAL, Jan. de
layed) Armed with a rife, bay
onet and one hand grenade. Q lone
Detroit marine corps private ST.
fenced an enemy machine gun and
killed or frightened or all Of its
crew in a hand-to-hond struggle
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-09
Eight Axis Spies
Shot in N. Africa
Photo by In,ernational News Photo,

LONDON. Feb. q fUP).-Radio
Morocco said today that eight
spies who parachuted from an
Italian transport plane over North
Africa had been shot. One was
French.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-09
GUADALCA|VA FALLS
Japs Retreat by Sea
Ship-P|ane Battle
Covers Up Escape

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9-(UP).-Secre-
tary of the Navy Frank Knox said today that
United States forces finally had smashed all
organized Japanese resistance on Guadal-
canal Island and were now in position to
strike the enemy's most important bases in
that part of the world
Knox told reporters at press conference that
"al resistance on Guadalcanal apparently has
ceased" except for a few small isolated troops.
trapped in jungle defiles and valleys.
He said information from Guadalcanal where
American forces landed for the first time last August
Z, supported Japanese reports that they had with
drawn troops from that most strategcaly important
of the Solomon Islands,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-09
The Weather

4 The sun viii set a. s,5T .. m today,
And rise tomorrow a. s.35 m
The nfoon wil SCI AZ i2:73 o m to-
morrow and rise tomorrow AZ ~ noon.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-02-09
Rostov Forts
Smashed as
Reds Advance
Russian Armies Have
One Of Biggest Days.
Gaining on 3 Fronts

MOSCOW, Feb. 9 CUP).-The
Russians reported new gains north,
east and southeast Of threatened
Kharkov today. while at Rostov
they captured series of German
fortified positions by storm after
smashing desperate counter
attacks.
Yesterday had been one Of the
most glorious days Of the winter
campaign. The fall of Kursk, 125
miles north OF KharkOv, endan-
gered the entire German anchor
line based on Kharkov. and at
Rostov the Russians cleaned out
the Yeisk Peninsula. to the south
west, and made important gains
east of the city.
DANGER STRESSED
The danger TO Kharkov. indus
trial capital Of the Ukraine, in
tensified by the fall OF the great
fortified base Of kursk. was en-
phasized today in the noon COM
munique which reported victories
in the DonetS Basin, Kupyansk
and Belgorod areas.
In this fighting the Russians
routed or killed upwards of 5000
German troops.
In the KramatorSk sector Of the
Donets Basin front, l03 miles
southeast of Kharkov. the Rus
SLAMS captured a number OF in
habited places, disabled five tanks
and destroyed 20 infantry trucks.
RESISTANCE SMASHED
German resistance was smashed
In the Gastischevo sector, Is miles
north OF Belgorod. by Russian
troops who drove ahead 10 capture
several defense points along the
main-north-south railroad.
Some 400 Germans were killed
and five tanks and IL field guns
were disabled. Belgorod is az miles
north of Kharkov and SO miles
south of Kursk.
In the Kursk sector a Red army
unit killed about 1000 Germans.
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west of the Matanikau River be-
fore sunrise.
The Detroiter, Pvt. John T
YakSich, 20, emerged from the fray
without injury. His only worry
ne admitted. was about the pos
Sibility Of A reprimand from his
platoon leader. because he failed
TO obtain permission before under
taking the job.
pet. John T. Yoksieh enlisted
in Detroit Dee. IS, 1871, and re-
eeiVed his training IN San Diego.
Marine recruiting office records
show that he has also served in
the army. His NEXT Of kin is
listed as has mother, Mary, Of
I7I75 Orleans strset.)
TELLS HOW HE DID 1T
The young leatherneck, a fringe
OF black beard decorating his chin
described his experience in this
fashion.
I'VE were advancing along a
knoll when we ran into five or
six Jap machine guns. II was
late, 80 we dug I'm for the night
-. somebody had 10 get them
out Of there. Seven men volun-.
teered TO go, hut we were dis
appointed when permission was
refused.
II had an idea I could do some
good. Just before the sun came
Up went out alone. I wasn't
trying to pull fast one. I guess
shouldn't have done IL, but I
knew n asked to 20. they
wouldn't let me. SO I told my
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Continued on Page Four
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DefrOifer Wipes Out
.JapS and Gun Nest

IAN 3 Cde- west of the Mataniksu River be
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-08
By DAVID LAWRENCE

lust why President Roosevelt raised at this
time the question of scrapping the syn
thetic rubber plants rather than give tariff
protection after the war is puzzle
Here the American taxpayers have just
paid out approximately $3.50 900 TO build
synthetic rubber industry and the execu-
tives and staffs of these organizations are ex-
pected to work with maximum effort and en-
thusiasm to give the American automobile
drivers some tires soon, and the discouraging
news is given them that they may expect no
future in that business.
Is it possible that, while the President is
opposed to tariff, he will advocate subsidy
and thus keep perhaps 900 tons year of
synthetic rubber production so as to enable
America to protect herself against exorbitant
prices which may be charged by the British
Dutch cartel? This question is suggested as
one key TO the Presidents declaration of pur-
pose on the rubber tariff.
CERTAINLY the American people will not
- feel happy at surrendering their synthetic
rubber plants and returning to a position OF
dependence on rubber supply 10000 miles
away in the Dutch East Indies.
1t is understood, moreover, that the ac-
is small part of the total tire cost.
1t is said for instance that the cost of
the synthetic rubber if protected by tariff
would not be more than few cents per tire,
whereas the cost of the tire itself is many
times that sum because Of the other materials
and the labor involved.
1t cannot be, therefore, that the opposi-
ton to a rubber tariff is based on desire to
save the American tire purchaser any large
sums of money. 1t is more likely that the
American automobile owner would rather
have an American source of supply for his
rubber than to depend on a foreign country
which might become involved in war.
THE fact that Mr.. Roosevelt not only dis
cussed rubber when the President of
Haiti was here but permitted his remarks
to be quoted the next day is looked upon as
significant.
Did Mr. Roosevelt feel he had to reassure
the British and Dutch interests that they need
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-08
knowledge Test
BY DR.. SABINA II. CONNOLLY

Who was she: (a) she was
led captive in golden chains
10 Rome; CD she founded
Mt. Holyoke College; tc)
she financed the voyage OF
Columbus?
2-What war fronts are these:
(a) Kiev: OBJ Volturno
River: (c) Rabaul?
3-USe another word: -la)
amphibious attacks; (b) for
mer ally; (c) hampering
communications.
4-What country has this cook
ing: (a) haggis; CD dolma;
(c) knopli?
Sin what line did he gain
fame: (a) Jan Kubelik; (b)
Jose Iturbi; (c) Booth Tark-
ington?
6-What color is: (a) flag
of truce; lb) a flag Of
danger; tc), a flag of quar-
antine?
What war is here: (a) "A
Farewell TO Arms" Heming-
way; (b) Northwest Pass
age" Roberts; (c) Gone
With the Wind" Mitchell.
ANSWERS on Opposite PareS
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-08
The Wheels Must Not Stop

ITO A nation on wheels, anything that
i slows or halts the wheels menaces its
welfare. Especially is this true Of Detroit,
where more than 50 per cent Of all war plant
materials is transported by truck.
For months the trucking industry has
been warning that the motor transportation
system is cracking up for lack Of service,
tires and parts, as well as drivers. The
warning has been little needed by our govern
mental agencies.
Now the warning is almost too late. The
cTackup is here. II isn't just around the
corner. II isn't next week It is NOW.
II UNDREDS Of trucks in the Detroit area
i are laid up, hundreds more may soon be.
War goods and foodstufs are piling up
on docks and at terminals because the com
mon carriers, the overnight haulers and con
tract transports cannot keep trucks operating.
Collapse Of the nations motor industry
il near. Something must be done NOW.
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have no worry about the future OF their rub
Der market?
Did Prime Minister Churchill put the
matter up TO the President as one means Of
finding out whether the trade barriers which
Secretary Hull talks about will be removed?
If it was in response to British influence
that the President has taken his stand then
some counter measure to assure fixed price
is in order.
Will the British government agree to hold
the price of rubber down TO an average of its
prewar prices if the United States gives up its
synthetic rubber plants after the war?
This is another question that will have to
be answered before the Congress disposes of
the matter, for it is in the two Houses of
Congress that il will finally be settled.
There is some talk about the Presidents
desire to stimulate rubber production in Gen.
trail and South America and that he is much
more DESTROYS of seeing a rubber industry
built up there than to resume purchases in
the Dutch East Indies.
Vice President Wallace has expressed
opposition to rubber tariff because he
thinks production in other parts of this
hemisphere should be encouraged.
THE rubber problem has been kicked around
i a good deal since 1889 and 1910, when
American oil and rubber companies begged
the American government to help them build
synthetic rubber plants.
But even at that time-before Singapore
fell-the American companies felt it unwise
TO risk their own capital because the life of
the synthetic rubber industry was felt to be
precarious.
1t is said that all the time that there was
pressure for synthetic rubber plants to be
started, the President was hesitant because
he foresaw the emergence of tariff con-
-trepersy, -
This point of view is believed TO have
been largely responsible for the Presidents
early disinclnation to approve the expendi-
ture of government money for rubber plants.
Synthetic rubber has some uses for
which it exces natural rubber, but the Amer
lean industry can hardly be expected to be
efficient If its morale is to be depressed by
the anneuneement" that all the time and
money already invested are TO be scrapped
the moment the war is over
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-08
Quick Questions

/ First book printed in Eng
liSh related to: la chess;
CO. baseball: CO. skiing; I'D
contract bridge?
Second largest city in British
empire. and one of worlds
greatest ports, is located 80
miles inland on Hooghly
River, is (a) Birmingham;
(b) Liverpool; (c) Calcutta;
cd Melbourne
3-Scriabin is the real name
of the spokesman in the
Moscow conference of (a)
Britain CD u. s. s. R; tc)
Free France; I'D China?
4 Prof. Alexander Fleming.
Briton, is credited with dis
covering the greatest thera-
peutic drug Of all time"
which is (a) insulin; (b)
aspirin; Co penicillin; I'D
quinine?
5-The Pilgrims sighted land in
America first, Nov 8, 1920,
at: (a) Cape Fear; Ch)
Cape York: (c) Cape Cod;
td) Cape HatteraS?
6-When FDR was elected TO
his first term. Nov. 8. 1882,
his opponents were: ta)
Landon; lbl Hoover; te}
Thomas: cd FOSTER
What states slogan is "All
for our country; ta) Maine;
CHI Vermont; Co Texas; cd
Nevada?
s Today is the birthday Of
Katharine Hepburn, actress.
whom you guess 10 be: Ca
25: tb) 30; Co "a (d) 43
years old?
9--Who. arc the three highest
p" ranking persons Of L. S..
Navy?
10 Strictly speaking, there's
no such thing as sailors,
floors. ropes and kitchens in
the navy. What does II have
instead
ANSWERS on Opposite Page
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-08

AND here again, the resentment of the
IA people was acute and the judgment of
the people against the New Deal was over
whelming.
Rejecting the same trend, the City of
Philadelphia in Pennsylvania elected Repub-
lican mayor over a trusted friend and ennis
sary of President Roosevelt
The city of Hartford in Connecticut
elected the first Republican mayor in many
years.
But probably the most significant OF all
was the election in Kentucky.
In a state where a Democratic guber.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-08
The Election Returns

material nomination has always been tanta-
mound to election. the Republicans ran the
New Deal into the ground"
Plainly, the people of Kentucky have no
more stomach for the New Deal than people
elsewhere.
The simple truth is that the American
people EVERYWHERE not just in former
Republican strongholds, are as Mr.. Farley
says tired of being pushed around"
They have had their fill of it's incompe
tenee, extravaganza and arrogance.
They are tired of its bureaucratic
bungling and inefficency.
They are sick of its financial and
economic fallacies.
They are in revolt against its autocratic
defiance and contempt for democratic proc
esses and constitutional restrictions on execu-
tive power.
THEY are THROUGH with it's brazen
Il assumption of and exercise of totalitarian
authority seized under the pretext of war
necessity but employed in a manner that has
hindered the war effort and nullified the
pdtrlOUC SdCT1lCeS ana services OF the people
and has harried and bounded the people in
their employment. in their homes and in all
the duties and rights of their private lives.
The rising tide of indignant and resent
full public opinion, already made devastatingly
articuate in the key political states of New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Con-
necticut will not recede until it has swept
the country and has swept the discredited
New Deal out of power.
1t is remorseless. 1t is RIGHT. It is not
to be denied.
The American people are aroused at last
from the lethargy and-indecision of the de-
preston years, and of the prewar years.
They have seen their free American
institutions and their historic democratic
processes achieve the pattern for victory in
the present war. They are no longer content
to have those institutions and processes
ignored and debased by New Deal politicians
and bureaucrats who have never had real
faith in democracy and have always been
incapable of good -gnYenment.---
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! NEWS
BEHIND
The News
By Paul
MaHon

WASHINGTON, Nov. s-The
w first cold, detailed military
accounts of Russian fighting
are beginning to come through.
They show a picture 6 tao
tical skill and power developed
nv the Russians so far beyond
accepted military practice that
il probably will constitute
basis of all military texts for a
generation 10 come.
II is far ahead of the German
blitz efforts which so recently
revolutionized warfare, although
il evolved from that, as the an
swer and counterStroke. If the
Germans had the blitz, the Rus
SLAMS have a zitz.
THE Russians are working
Il anC reworking il out from
experience in stopping and then
communicating the blitZ sys-
tenn Of breaking through mill
tary line with tanks and ar
mored units 10 circulate swiftly
in the rear of the enemy and
demoraliZe resistance (France,
Polandl.
Strangely, il relies mainly on
motorized artillery guns and
tanks TO the declining use of
planes and foot soldiers. Prob
ably the Nazi dive-bombing idea
cannot be employed widely be-
cause the Russian system OF
generations and pocket inden-
tations is so swiftly changing
that the battle line not only
runs like constantly wriggling
snake. but perhaps is indistin-
guiShable from the air.
The basis of initial attack is
the concentration of big guns.
The Reds have used 80 TO
kilometer. These, concentrated
upon particular points in the
NaZi lines, literally have blasted
them out of existence. Through
Niit gap ldlihS pun.
ITO MEET this the Germans
Il have, at critical points, con-
Structed second. third, fourth,
and even fifth lines, each
screened by mine fields in front,
and each spaced about four
miles apart, just at the end of
the Russian effective artillery
range from one line to another.
In short, the Nazi defense
line against the Russian mode
is sometimes 20 miles wide. The
Reds must penetrate this dis
lance in order TO break through.
Naturally, they seldom do, as
the Germans start counter
attacks driving contemporaries
into the Russian lines when they
can on either side of the gap.
So the Russians have worked
out the swiftest system for
abandoning their attacks, SIM
ultaneously starting another at
tack at wholly different points.
On one occasion their plan of
attack called for five alterna-
tive attacks at different sections
of the line, and not until the
fifth were they able to break
through to find weak second and
third German lines for an APP
preciable advance.
TTIIS kind of warfare makes
Il for mechanical melee.
The carnage is terrific. The
Russian guesseS on Nazi losses
runs from $4,000 to $4,000 per
day-that is more than two
whole divisions killed to a man
in a days fighting. lost gener-
ally in these pockets and
contemporaries along the 700
mile battlefront.
The Russian general staff will
call off an attack in a minute
and start another, even though
commitments of thousands Of
men and much material have
been made within enemy lines
and must be left. No sentiment
favoring personal methods of
generals or the lives of men and
the value of materials is sppar-
ent.
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-08

ELECTION returns in New York, New Jer-
L. sey Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Ken
lucky indicate that the national New Deal
Administration no longer has the confidence
of the American people, and is no longer able
to command majorities at the polls.
The election of Joseph r. Hanley as
lieutenant governor in New York is impress
sively significant
The New Deal Administration purposely
and methodically made test of its strength
in this contest.
II effected temporary truce among its
own disputing factions to bolster that pur-
pose including such incompatible elements
organization, the Farley forces and tie
fourth-term New Dealers.
1t demanded election of the Democratic
candidate, William N. Haskell as a vote Of
confidence in President Roosevelt.
Mr.. Haskell was defeated The vote of
confidence in President Roosevelt was not
forthcoming.
The election Of Walter f. Edge as gov
ernor in New Jersey is equally significant.
Here again. the issue of confidence in the
New Deal Administration was deliberately
raised. AS in New York, the New Deal closed
its ranks for the vital test. The state Demo
cratic organization and the notorious and
odious Hague machine made common cause
for the single purpose of putting a founda-
ton under the forthcoming fourth-team
campaign.