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Serli Leader
Thorn to Hitler
Mandolin-Playing Mihailovich,
Directs Great Guerrilla Fight
This is the first article in a scries by Bob Considine, famous
magazine writer and author of "MacArthur the Magnificent.” about
the indomitable leaders whose countries have been overrun by
the Axis but who are fighting boldly on for the eventual exmancipa
tion of their countrymen; leaders who would rather die fighting
than surrender.
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<Copyright, 1912. by International News Service)
The greatest guerrilla action in history—one that has out
witted and outgamed seven Axis divisions and hundreds of Gestapo
agent* —is led by a tall, blond, sensitive, mandolin-playing Serb
on whose delicately chiseled head the Nazis have placed a price of
51,000,000.
He is Draja Mihailovich. 47-year-old career officer whose well
groomed mustache and delicate features hide the grim resolution
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OKNRR.IL MIHAfIOSIf H
In Yugoslavia had been crushed for all time!
REJECTS AMS OFFER
Tjra ja as the low liest of his men call him—re jected the Ax<«
ofT»r. His "invisible arms ’ marched its ghostly way again, and in
the.r rage over the successes of a foe who seemed supernatural the
Nazis smeared their hands for all time with the blood of innocent
Yugoslav nationals. *
When the Chetniks stalked and slaughtered a Nazi garrison at
Shabatz. 50 miles from Belgrade, and then escaped from the mech
anized division which rushed to the garrison s aid, the Nazis butchered
20 neighboring villages in the vain
hope of killing Chetniks.
A countless nyrnbcr of those
slaughtered were tortured first, in
an effort to wrAt from them the
secret of I>raja‘s whereabouts.
Many of these were members of
the vast, country-wide espionage
*>stem he has painstakingly built.
None squealed.
INSPIRES HIS PEOPLE
Terhaps never in history has
one man been able to inspire a
conquered nation a« Draja has
inspired his battered Balkan peo
ple.
Incredible punishment has been
meted out to the common folk
for the depredaiions of the Chet
niks
Big cities, held by Axis forces,
have been cut off from food. The
country's railroads and communi
cation systems have been syste
matically sabotaged
The Germans bombard the na
tives incessantly with propaganda
aimed. at iom nt ing them
their troubles spring from Draja.
in Nazi-occupied Europe where the
Axis still meets with organized
opposition Mihailovich s men have
even made sorties into Italy as
far as Trieste and Fiumo.
MINISTER OF W AR
By a royal decree on June 10.
Yugoslavia's 19-ycai-old King
Peter, who has been visiting the
United .ates. proclaimed Mihalo
vieh minister of war and chief of
staff.
By that act, the high command
of Yugoslavia's military forces was
officially transferred hack from
exile in Cairo to "somewhere in
Yugoslavia ' w here Mihailovich has
his headquarters—and the little
Balkan nation became the first
and only Nazi-occupied country to
have its war minister and chief
of staff actually operating on its
own soil.
Mihailovich's domain is 23.000
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‘THE UNCONQUERABLES’
of a patriot who,refuses to be
conquered in a conquered land.
His "invisible army” of 100,000
* men and women—ragged remnants
of the crushed Yugoslav army,
as well as peasants, clerks, soldiers
of fortune and plain lovers of
liberty—has cost the Nazis and
Italians millions of dollars worth
of material and thousands of
picked troops.
Ry last October the Chetniks,
as Mihailovich’s indomitable guer
rillas are called, had caused the
invaders so much woe that the
Yugoslav puppet government,
headed by the Quisling. Milan
Nedich, sent an emissary’ to
Mihailovich's eyrie in the Suma
iija Mountains and pleaded for an
armistice. /
This was the emissary of an
invader who had flatly announced
fix months eaflier that resistance
square miles of wild mountainous
territory into which no enemy can
set foot with any assurance of re-i
matning alive.
The area is called the "Island
of Freedom.” It issues its own
passports, has its own form of
democratic government, its own
communications and road-marking
systems and a newspaper named
Borba (The Fight).
MOUNTAINOUS REGION
It is a land of dizzy heights.
<tark ravines and caves in which
Draja and his nondescript fellow
patriots plot the dced« which
have sorely harassed the invaders.
It supplies its military needs
by capiuring arms and general
war gear from the enemy. It cul
tivates the needs of its own
'tomach. There are times when as
many as 90.000 of Draja’s men
and women work tiny, scattered
Chetnik farms. But their guns
arc always nearby, and well-oiled
Chetnik women fight as
staunchly as men. Upon her re
turn to this country recently
Ruth Mitchell, sister of the late
Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell, who
lived in Yugoslavia befote her
capture by the Germans, revealed
that women Chetniks "are just as
fierce and active and just as
brave as their men.”
FIGHT IN FRONT LINE
The American woman, who
months in Na/i concentra
tion camps, estimated that 2.000
Serbian women were serving in
front line fighting.
"The wotnrn fight with any
thing available.” she said. ‘ They
do hand-to-hand fighting with
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No Draft Cards,
10 Men Arrested
All men of draft age must carry
their selective cards ***ith them at
all times or face s idden arrest,
they were warned following
a series of swift forays on bars,
pool rooms and night clubs early
yesterday, in which police and
selective service officials seized 10
men who were unable to
their cards.
"The law requiring every man
to carry his draft card on his
person will he strictly enforced
from now on,” Police Lt. Harri
son Moody of the special investi
gation squad said.
All the men arrested were re
leased within a few hours when
their cards were brought to the
police station by relatives.
DETRDWI)§pmMES
Only Detroit Newspaper Carrying Both - $ International News Service and United Press
42N0 YEAR, NO. 321
DOOUTTLE IN BRITAIN:
BERLIN WONDERS WHY
Soviets Attack
On 3 Fronts,
Lose Oil Field
Hold at Stalingrad
but Suffer Setbacks
in Caucasian Fighting
VICHY. France, Aug 17 (INS).
The Viefiy radio reported today
that Axis troops had reached a
point only 75 miles horn the Cas
pian Sea.
BERLIN. Aug. 17 (German
broadcast as recorded by UP in
London).—A high command com
munique said today’ that Russian
forces were attacking in five sec
tors on three mam battle fronts.
Ruvsian attacks weie reported
in the Volkhov ar**a. 80 miles
southeast of Leningrad on the
Moscow railroad; southeast of
Lake Ilmen. HO miles southeast of
Leningrad; Rzhev. 135 miles west
northwest of Moscow; cast of
Vyazma, 125 miles wc*t of Mos
cow; and Vononezh. midway along
the 600-rmle stretch of the Mos
cow-Rostov railroad
The entire Don basin is firmly
in hands of German trooj>s
and their allies after the crushing
of Soviet resistance in the big
bend of the river west of Stalin
grad, the high command added
By HENRY SHAPIRO
I nli*<| I’rraa staff ( «rrra|>onrt*-ii»
MOSCOW. Aug. 17.—The Rus
sians announced today that they
were holding against a supreme
German offensive southwest of
Stalingrad and that the Nazis were
bringing up reserves, because of
their heavy losses.
The Soviet high command last
nignt announced the abandonment
of Maikop, in the Caucasus 185
miles south of Rostov, and its
demolished oil wells.
The Germans previously had re
grouped their forces, brought up
reserves and started an all-out
drive to take Stalingrad. impor
tant because of its heavy indus
tries. and cut the Volga River
line. The Soviet noon communique
did not say whether this effort
had failed, but it asserted:
"Northeast of Kotelnlkovski
<95 miles southwest of Stalin
grad). Soviet troops repelled
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For Detroit ..
and vicinity:
Continued
Today's pollen count is 182.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN. MONDAY. AUGUST 17. 1942
Epidemic
| Battled
At Eloise
1 A grim battle, which already his
cost the lives of five men. is being
waged today at Eloise Hospital
between stale health department
expert* and a tiny bacillus.
In their emergency trailer
la bora lory, the health depart ment
men are working at furious pace
to find the source of the infection
'responsible for a dysentery epi
demic which struck the institution
last Wednesday and has affected
37 patients so far.
"We’re convinced," said Dr.
Frederick R. Leeder, assistant
director of tHe health hoards
dep a r tment of epidemiology,
"that some food handler In the
building which house* chronic
debility case* I* responsible for
apreadlng the germ."
‘CARRIER* SOUGHT
With this to start on. Doctor
Leeder and Bacteriologist William
Ferguson have begun the task of
finding out which one of the more
than 60 food handlers is acting as
a "carrier.”
Meanwhile. h**<pital authorities
have brought a new drug into use
in treating the 32 patients who
now have the disease or are be
lieved to have it. The patients
have been placed in an isolation
ward.
The drug is succinyl sulfathia
zole Newest of the "sulfa” drugs,
it has been on the market only a>
few days. Its major advantage
over others of the type is that it
can be taken in much larger doses
without ill effect, a.cording to
Dr. Charles Smyth, medical direc
tor of the William J. Seymour
Hospital.
results shown
"It** too early for any conclu
sive report.” Doctor Smyth said,
"hut the new drug apparently
has been quite effective. Only
two of the 32 patient* now are
cla**ed a* critical.”
The epidemic began Wednesday.!
when five patients in the chronic,
debilfty section were found to have
the disease All the patienis thus
far have been men, most of them
elderly.
Two died Wednesday. They were
Frank Smith. 69. and Joseph Rris
com, also 69. Both had been in
the hospital more than a year and
a half for other ailments.
Five more contracted the dis
ease Thursday. There was one
death—that of Bruce Elliott, 17
years old. who had been confined
to the psychopathic department
for two years.
William Strell, 68. died Friday
and Frank Reinhart. 58, succumbed
Saturday.
5 Michigan Firms
jCited for Outputs
Two Detroit and three outstate
firms have been awarded the new
joint army-navy production award,
a Washington disjratch said today.
I Cited for efficiency among 46
| industrial plants throughout the
country arc Chevrolet Oar and
Axle and Electromaster. Inc., of
Detroit; the Duplex Printing Press
Company of Battle Creek. Federal
Screw Work at Chelsea and AC
iSpark Plug division al Flint.
A NAVAL BLIMP CRASHING INTO A STREET
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A PATROL AIRSHIP FALLING INTO A SAN FRANCISCO SUBURB
The last few seconds of the
fall of an unmanned United States
Navy patrol blimp into a residen
tial street of Daly City, Cal., its
gasbag buckling just before it
Cattle, Apples
Freed in Crash
State trooper* worked four
hour.* early today to clear Grand
River avenue at Eight-Mile road
where a collision between two in
bound drueks scattered livestock
and 281 bushels of apples over the
area.
Five calves were shot after be
ing pinned under the blazing
wreckage of one of the trucks.
The crash occurred when Rob
ert A. Decker, Grand Rapids, al
legedly do/rd and hit the r#ar of
the truck of William Clemence of
Battle Creek. Clemence was tak
ing 24 calves, six hogs and eight
sheep to market
A naval recruit and hi* com
panion were seriously injured
when their ear went out of control
at 14-Mile and Lahser roads.
The victims were Rurl Lcow, 20.
of 15326 Rutherford avenue, the
sailor, and Eugene Griffin, 19, of
15333 Mansfield avenue.
Empty Blimp i rashes
Drops on City Street in San Francisco Suburb
With Riders' Whereabouts a Mystery
1 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17
(UP). Naval authorities sought
today to unravel the mystery of a
riderless blimp while crews
searched ashore and at sea for two
men known to have been aboard
The observation blimp crashed
yesterday on a street in suburban
Daly Cif>, five miles from central
San Francisco, after scraping
housetops and losing one of its two
high-explosive depth charges.
The two crewmen left their
parachutes neatly racked in the
blimp's gondola. Their life i aft still
was in place.
It was assumed both men were
wearing their life jackets, which
would keep them afloat if they
were in the ocean.
NO MEASADF. HEARD
The blimp was in a routine off
shore patroL it car ried radio but
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THREE CENTS
struck the wires that sheared off
the gondola. The Navy made its
anti-submarine bombs harmless,
probed mystery of what happened
to the crew. The flag was unhurt.
no messages were received to in
dicate the craft was in difficulty.
Unconfiimed reports that men
were seen parachuting were re
ceived from various sources.
Ida Ruby, telephone operator
who was riding horseback near the
beach, saw the blimp drifting in
from the ocean. She said she
watched it with binoculars and
was “quite sure” she saw three
men in the gondola.
ONLY 1 ABOARD
The navy said it had confirmed
that only two men were aboard.
The blimp slithered across a
housetop in Daly City, tangled
electric wires and caused a great
flash as they were short-circuited,
then collapsed in the street. The
gondola rame to rest at a steep
angle with the engines smashed
against the street
They Fight On I
Against the Axis
EDITION
COMPLETE WANT ADS
Nazis Vision
Giant Yank
Army Coming
Flying Hero's Visit
Stirs Speculation on
Immediate Attack
By LEO V. DOLAN
l»l'l »w« ServW Stall ( orTfopmlMt
LONDON. Aug. 17. Specula
tion regarding the likelihood of
immediate major American par
ticipation in large-scale air raids
on Germany swept Europe today
with the disclosure that Brig. Gen.
James H. Doolittle now' is in
London.
The speculation embraced the
whole continent—including Berlin
—according to information in Lon
don, mainly because it waa
“Jimmy" Doolittle who led a
squadron of American B-25 two
motored bombers in a devastating
raid on Tokio. ,
General Doolittle himself waa
averse to speculation regarding hia
visit beyond the fact he is here on
“military duty.”
It was revealed authoritatively
that he came to London 10 daya
ago and plans to return to the
United States shortly.
(United Press reported that
General Doolittle had conferred
w-ith Maj. Gen. Carl Spaatz,
commander of the American air
force in the European theater,
on United States air bases.)
BELIEVE TIME IS NEAR
On every side was heard the
conviction that the time for
American participation in force in
raids on Germany and the occu
pied countries of Europe is rapidly
approaching.
Coincidentally with disclosure
that Doolittle was in England, a
copy of a new weekly publication
called British Ally, prepared by
the British embassy in Kuibyshev,
reached London.
It contained a statement by Air
Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Har
ris. chief of the British bomber
command, which said that aid
given to Russia by mass bombings
of Germany "is only the begin
ning.”
“Soon the American will join
us,” he said.
Meanwhile, it was disclosed that
German newspapers have begun to
warn its public that a
invasion of the European continent
by strong American foroes must
be expected.
GERMANS WARNED
The Berlin correspondent of the
Zurich newspaper. Neue Zuercher
Zeitung. advised his newspaper
that the Berliner Boer sen Zeitung,
organ of the German army, had
published a warning that vast con
centrations of American force*
based in Britain are preparing fol
a continental invasion.
‘•Nowhere outside the United
States are there such big con
eentrations of American expedi
tionary forces as there are In
Britain,** the Berlin paper said.
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