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BONDS • STAMPS
GERMANS FALL BACK
ON STALINGRAD FRONT
Police Decent
To Dodge,
Soldiers Say
Dowling to Question
Other Witnesses in
Motor Heir's Death
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A statement by two Fort Wayne
soldiers that ‘’the cops were pretty
decent" to John Duval Dodge the
night the motor scion apparently
received the skull fracture that
caused his death was being studied
by Prosecutor William E. Dowling
today as he prepared to question
more persons connected with the
case.
The two soldiers are Privates
Frank Pinchcra. 31, of 3365 Supe
rior street, and Louis Pinchero, 23,
his cousin, of 4130 Moran avenue,
both Mationcd at Fort Wayne.
They were In McClellan station
la>t Tuesday night for investiga
tion of a minor offense when
Dodge was brought in.
TELL OF DODGE ARREST
Inspector John O. Whitman of
•he homicide squad and Lt. Harold
Robert Rranton. one of his aides,
who questioned the two soldiers,
said they both agreed:
“Dodge was swearing like
everything when they brought
him in. This lieutenant (William
Woodworth) smiled at Dodge’*
language. The lieutenant told an
officer to take Dodge Into an
other room because tie was talk
ing to a lady on the phone and
he was afraid she would hear
what Dodge was saying.
“We couldn’t see what went
on In the other room where this
officer took Dodge hut we did
not hear any scuffle. There was
an officer In there with him
alone. Then, after a hit. he was
carried out on a stretcher.
“We thought the cops were
pretty decent to him."
MISTREATMENT DENIED
Officers at McClellan station
have reiterated that the former
millionaire was not struck or mis
treated during his stay at the sta
tion after his temporary arrest on
suspicion when he was found in
the empty home of a friend in Van
Dyke place.
If he received his skull fracture
in the station, it was when he sud
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The Weather
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and »ft tomorrow at 12 17 a m
I ORLCAST
For Detroit
and vicinity:
Not much
change in
temperature
tonight:
slightly
w armer
tomorrow.
S \ K
Today'* Tollen Count I* 193.
The Unconquerables:
Chian g Typifies
China's Courage
Inspires His People to Forget
Meaning of the Word ’Surrender'
This is the second article in a series by Boh Comidine, famous
magazine writer, about the indomitable leaders whose countries
have been overrun by the Axas but who are fighting on against
overwhelming odds for the eventual liberation of their countrymen.
By 808 CONSiniNE
• Copyright, 1942. by International News Service
Die most horrifying battering any nation has taken in this,
the vastest and most vicious war in history, has been suffered by
China. Yet China lives and fights.
For five full years Japan has ravaged China until now the
Japanese are in command of almost every largo city, every large port
and harb •r. The invader’s
tentacles reach through a quarter
of China’s territory, embracing
about half of her 450.000,000
population.
The stark terror of Nanking,
one of the most sickening pages
in world annals, has been dupli
cated and is being duplicated by
the invader in hundreds of vil
lages that stretch along Japan’s
taut supply lines and along the
navigable rivers the invader holds,
including much of the Yangtze.
Chinese have been bombed,
machine-gunned, tortured, raped,
bayonet ted and starved ever since
July 7, 1037. when the Japanese
struck. There are 2,000,000 war
orphans in China today.
For four of these five years
we and other democracies sold
war supplies to Japan, fattening
up the wolf which eventually
turned on its thoughtless bene
factors.
Yet, when the Japanese struck
at Pearl Harbor and at Manila
last December, a great man of China asked America with sincere
simplicity:
"W hat ran we in C hina do for you?"
And later he told his dauntless people*
“You have sufleretl four and a half years for \«>ur*elvrv Get
Home Rule Put
On State Ballot !
LANSING, Aug 18 (UP).—
The Wayne County home rule
amendment today was certain of
a place on the November ballot,
after formal certification of peti
tions by the state liourd of can
vassers.
The Not ember ballot also w ill
carry the constitutional revision
amendment, which comes up before
the voters automatically every 16
years, and the milk marketing
referendum. *
The board of canvassers voted
to place the constitutional amend
ment in the No. 1 spot, with the
Wayne home rule proposal second
and the milk marketing referen
dum third.
Secretary of State Harry F
Kelly said 305.000 names had been
submitted for the home rule pro
posal. while 203.000 were needed
to place it on the ballot.
TODAY—In the Times
Pim Pat*
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• Buo<" Barr 12 PitlaM* at Lava 23
C«miei 23. 24. 2) W«*tbri*ok Pa«lar 12
Croit-Wnrd Puffl* 24 Radio Pr*prpm* *
Daily Short Story 24 Piplay ?S
Oafanta Notai 23 Elm Rehinaan It
editorial Pata 12 M S. Rakayaar IS
C V Dar'lfif 13 Daman Ranyon 12
Financial IS Sarvlra Nntaa 23
Matla'a Cartoon 13 Sarlaty 10
Mora and No* 0 Sparta 13. IS, 17
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Ida loan Rain II Vital Stailatlea It
Lattara to Cdltar I? Want Adi
Matatma Pa«a 13 It. 20. 21. 72
Pau< Nation 17 Winchall 1.3
NrLamora 12 Wlahlnt Wall 73
Movla Proprami 17 What'a tha AntwtrT 71
Ohltuarlaa I* Woman a Paa*o It. II
Pattara I*
‘•DoolittU’s
in England
to sptod
things up.”
DETfiWIgIPTTMES
42ND YEAR. NO. 322
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V ‘ '^r
JKM ''*' ■ ' *4r
GENERALISSIMO CHI ANG
ready now ."tnd au/Trr e\en
longer for the sake of your
Allies."
That man was Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek. Today, from
Chungking, symbolically deep in
the heart of free China, he directs
and inspires one of history’s most
phenomenal military actions.
HEFCSES TO Ql IT
His fiery black eyes, set in the
bald, bland countenance of his
scholar's head, burn defiantly as
he sends his ill-equipped peasant
army against the modern might of
the enemy.
He refuses to quit, and he has
made 450.000.000 of his countrv
mcn feel the same indomitable
way.
“Let them drive me bark" he
said recently when the Jaj»anese
rolled over his almost bare
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Kaifler Asks I’av
m
Adrian Youth in Flying Fort Attack in France
Lands Safely, Inquires About His Wages
“Now, do we jjet paid tomor
row, captain?”
This was the first remark of
Spt. Robert Watkins. 19, of Adrian,
after he and fellow United States
airmen in Flying Fortresses had
bombed to destruction the Rouen.
France, railroad yards, according
to Edward W. Beat tie. United
Tress foreign correspondent.
A member of the air corps for
only sijc months. Sergeant Wat-|
kins left for England, his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Watkins. s«iid
today. "Mimctimc after June 2.”
Born in Tecumseh, 12 miles from
Only Detroit Newspaper Carrying Both
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18. 1942
Jap Fleet
Crushed in
i Solomons
Big U. S. Guns Force
Defending Warships
so Flee Seaward
By H. K. REYNOLDS
International .Ntat Vr»ltt MafT Writer
WASHINGTON. Aug. 18.—
Crusning defeat of Japanese naval
forces in the Solomon Islands,
where United Str.tes marines are
now well established after 11 days
of furious fighting, was announced
today by the navy department.
Enlarging upon earlier reports
of the spectacular landing opera
tions by the marines, the navy
said the American forces quickly
smashed the bitter Japanese re
sistance on the beaches and took
many prisoners.
Reports on Japanese naval
losses in the Solomons fighting ar-*
still inconclusive, but at least 36
Japanese warplanes were listed as
destroyed so far.
NIGHT SEA BATTLE
The navy comrr. inique. the first
in 72 hours on the Southwest
Pacific offensive, disclosed that
Japanese cruisers and destroyers
were driven from the Tulagi har
bor area on the night of August
8-9. Since then they have not at
tempted another engagement with
the warships under Vice Admiral
Robert Ghormley.
Shortly after the American am
phibious attack was launched,
Japanese ships tried to attack the
American invasion armada of war
chips, troop transports and supply
ships.
Intercepted and brought under
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\o Padlock
City Blamed for Alleged
Disorderly House
Placing the owner under 51.000
bond. Circuit Judge Guy Miller
jtoday refused to padlock an al
leged disorderly house at 5924
Hastings street which the city has
been unwittingly financing through
welfare payments.
Twice arrested and once con
victed on disorderly charges. Paul
and Corine Jennings have been
receiving 525 a month from the
welfare dcjiartment and using it
for rent.
In opposing the police petition
to close the house. Judge Miller
lashed welfare representatives
orally for insufficient investigation
of the couple.
The owner was warned he
would bo in contempt of court if
his house were rented for illegal
use again.
2\dtian. Sergeant Watkins at
tended the Adrian High School,
then obtained a job in the Bohn
Aluminum Company plant, in
Adrian. But after the war started,
he couldn’t wait to get in. so he
enlisted last January 28.
“We’ve had three letters from
him since he left this country,”
his father said. “He like*, it all
right, hut he nays It rains an
awful lot over there.”
Watkins Senior is a driver for
the Michigan Producers Dairy
Company. He has two other chil
dren, Kenneth, 11. ami ArTcnc, 6.
International News Service and United Press
Yanks, RAF Batter Nazis,
Blast Path for 2d Front
By LEO V. DOLAN
Int’l .Vf»i Service Staff ( orrmpunilfnl
LONDON, Aug*lß.—A carefully
laid pattern of aerial attack to
break up German defenses against
a second front emerged today as
the Royal Air Force raided the
Nazi-occupied coast following a
devastating night assault against
•the Ruhr industrial city of Osna
bruck.
The all-American raid by Flying
Fortresses against the Seine River
city of Rouen, where vital railroad
yards were smashed, and unceas
ing sorties which blasted Nazi
icommunications centers of the
Reich and occupied centers were
believed to be having a major ef
fect.
The Flying Fortresses attack was
led by Brig. Gen. Ira C. Eaker.
commanding general of the United
States army air force bomber
command.
NAZI JITTERS SENSED
(United Press pointed out that
the Flying Fortresses bombed
their targets at high altitude,
using to best advantage the
American bombsight, the best in
the world, which permits the
army air corps to engage in
precision bombing impossible to
othpr air forces.
• Rntish, Canadian and Amer
ican fighter squadrons protected
the Fortresses, UP said. One of
the Fortresses shot down a
Focke-Wulf 190 fighter and the
escort fighters shot down two
other challenging fighters at a
cost of one of their own.)
It now is becoming apparent,
well-informed quarters said, that
<•- in 'h< se raids the
Judge Censures
Beaten' Youths
While the prolocutor investi
gated their charges that they were
arrested with brutal treatment by
police. Recorder s Judge Arthur E.
Gordon today found two youths
guilty of disturbing the peace and
censured them sternly.
“This Is a striking example of
anting youth with more money
than it knows what to do with,"
said Gordon, in convicting Ralph
Moore, 21, and Donald Sokol
nicki, 19.
The two and Thomas Hayes. 17,
have charged that they were
beaten by Patrolman Stanley
West gate, a jiujitsu export, after
an argument in a filling station at
Grand River avenue and Meyers
road.
Two witnesses testified that the
youths drove recklessly when they
entered the gas statoin and pro
voked the fight with West gate.
Prosecutor William E. Dowling
declared that he would question
all persons involved in the alter
cation. Five persons have signed
statements protesting Westgate’s
treatment of. the boys and four
have complained formally.
Boys, 18-19, Face Call
'lf Needed'-Hershey
ALBANY. N. Y . Aug 18. (INS).
—The army will draft boys in the
18-19 age group when it becomes
necessary-. Maj. Gen. Lewis B.
Hershey. national selective service
director, said today.
Hershey said, however, that this
move woulc not be made in ’ the
'immediate future.**
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Will Shorten the War*
UNITED STATES ARMY AIR
FORCE HEADQUARTERS IN
BRITAIN, Aug. 18 • INS).—lnde
pendent raids by all American air
squadrons against Germany can be
expected within a short time, it
was disclosed today by Maj. Gen.
Carl Spaatz after the first raid by
United States army bomber crews
against Rouen in occupied France.
General Spaatz, commander of
United States air forces in the Eu
ropean theater, also said that the
strategic plan devised by British
and American air chiefs for inde
pendent raids would “shorten the
war."
The attack yesterday by 12 Fly
ing Fortress bombers, led by Brig.
Gen. Ira C. Eaker. chief of the
groundwork of a second front
offensive by the Allies, and signs
of jitters among German mili
tarists are noticeable.
The attack on Osnabruck was
an Obvious and undoubtedly suc
cessful attempt to cripple German
communications. This city lies on
a direct line from Berlin and the
great northern industrial areas of
Germany to occupied Holland.
Troop reinforcements and supplies
rushed to the Low Countries in
event of an Allied invasion must
pass through Osnabruck unless
valuable time is to be lost. It is
also the site of large iron and steel
works.
Day and night raids now being
earned out by the RAF and the
United States Army Air Corps in
Drarilv Aim
Woman Bounces Bottle Off
Patrolman's Nose
Patrolman Peter Rajkovich, 31,
of 17596 Feeland avenue, a former
Detroit Lions fullback, has 10
stitches in his nose today, inflicted
by a woman with a hot sauce
bottle.
The burly patrolman told fellow
officers that the woman gave vent
to her w-rath when he accidentally
bumped her and her hoy friend
as he was leaving a case at 7400
Puritan avenue early today.
The aim and velocity of the
flying bottle was such. Rajkovich
said, that he was knocked to the
floor and unable to get even a de
scription of the assailant as she
and her companion fled.
Off duty and in plain clothes,
he received first aid at Mt. Carmel
Mercy Hospital.
Eyeglass Probe Soon
WASHINGTON. Aug. 18 (UP>.
Chairman Homer T Bone <D)
of Washington, of the Senate
Intents committee, said today
that the committee would soon
begin an investigation of the
fluorescent lighting and eyeglass
industries
Full Dinners for All
State Changes Expense Accounts So Some Aides
Won't Be Limited to Blue Plate Lunches
Tlntf* M«ff ( iifrf«|iiinilfnt
LANSING, Aug. 18—A mixup
in expense account schedules
which Deputy Atty. Gen. R. Glen
Dunn said forced some employes
,to cat "blue plate luncheons" while
others on the same assignment
ate regular dinners was rectified
today by the state administrative
board.
' “It'a all very embarrassing,"
THREE CENTS
United States bomber command in
Europe, set a milestone in the
rapid progress for a full scale air ;
offensive by both the Royal Air
Force and United States army air
force in preparation for a land as
sault against the continent.
After a conference with General
Spaatz. British Air Vice Marshal
Richard Peck announced that air
cover support for any continental
invasion would be supplied by both
the American and British air force.
“Up to now,” Peck continued,
“the American** have formed a
part of the British scheme for
bombardmrnt of German tar
gets, but It I* soon expected there
will be independent raids by the
American air force alone."
Europe are now designed not only
to slow down enemy armament
production but to disrupt strategic
centers of communications which
the Germans would have to utilize
for rapid movement of troops.
GERMANS BEWILDERED
Military observers in Lonoon
believed that German bewilder
ment over how and where to meet
a second front was apparent in
recent developments, such as the
stepping up of cross-Channel gun
duels, increasing German naval
sorties in the Straits of Dover and
the English Channel and persist
ent nuisance raids and recon
naissance flights over the East
Anglian coast.
These experts said it was in
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'Tropical Heaf
Bothers Nazis
!
BERLIN, Aug. 18 (German
broadcast recorded by United
Press in London).—The German
communique today complained of
"tropical heat" in the Caucasian
battlefield but claimed German at
tacks there were "continuing suc
cessfully."
Abbott of Comic Team
Sued by Pawnbroker
Suit for SL-000 against Bud Ab
bott of the comedy team of Abbott
and Costello, for two diamond
rings allegedly bought by Abbott
10 years ago but not paid for. was
on file today in Circuit Court.
The complainant is Max Siegel
of 1410 Abington avenue, operator
of a Detroit pawnshop. Papers in
the suit were served on Abbott
last night as he participated in a
war bond rally at Hamtramck.
Dunn told the board “Our In
vestigator* get on** rate for
meals and our assistants an
other. While working together,
one always takes a licking.
“I don't know why an investi
gator can’t have a room with
hath if an assistant attorney
general can."
The board agreed that some
thing was wrong, upped the lower
rates to conform with the higher
NIGHT
EDITION
COMPLETE WANT ADS
Soviet Seizes
Heights in
Second Sector
Red Artillery Mows
Foe Down; Nazis
Gain in Caucasus
t ( Moscow Conferees Certain Russia
Can Last the Winter, Page 2)
By HENRY SHAPIRO
United Prfii Staff Onrrespondent
MOSCOW, Aug. 18.—The Ger
mans have suffered so many de
feats in their all-out assaults
southwest of Stalingrad and the
Volga River line that they have re
treated several kilometers and are
entrenching themselves in new de
fense lines, front-line dispatches
revealed today.
(A kilometer is about five
eighths of a mile.)
Not only was there a German
retreat, but, in addition, the Rus
sians have attacked on several sec
tors and occupied new positions
northeast of Kotelnikovski, Includ
ing many important heights, these
dispatches said.
Kotelnikovski is 90 miles south
west of Stalingrad.
The Germans, however, were
continuing to probe the Russian
lines, trying to find a weak spot.
NAZIS MOWED DOWN
* «
Northwest of Stalingrad, in the
Kletskaya area, 75 miles away,
massed Russian artillery mowed
down Nazi shock troop 6 and tanks,
and the Soviet noon commuhlqtie
indicated that both prongs of the
Nazi offensive on Stalingrad were
being firmly held up.
But German troops who had
crashed through strong defenses
and crossed the Kubsn River, neap
Krasnodar in the north Caucasus,
at two points, gravely menaced the
best remaining Soviet Black Sea
base of Novorossisk. 63 miles
away.
The Russian propaganda chief
w-arned that Russia’s peril was
greater than in 1941, when the
Germans drove to within 13 miles
of Moscow.
“Particularly heavy losses
were inflicted on the enemy by
our artillery southeast of Ktet
skaya In tense, defensive fight
ing,” the noon communique as
serted.
BATTALION DESTROYED
The communique said a battal
ion of German infantry (1.000
men) was wiped out in bitter fight
ing for a locality northeast of
Kotelnikovski.
“In the Krasnodar area, So
viet troops were engaged with
tanks and motorized Infantry,**
the communique said. “In the
area of Minerainye Vody (140
miles from the oil fields of
Grozny) Soviet units repulsed
enemy attacks.”
As a result of the Kuban River
crossing, at two points, fighting
became more violent on all sectors
of the Krasnodar front. Except for
the points at which the Germans
crossed, the Russians held on all
sectors and were counterattacking
in an effort to overwhelm the
whole enemy position on the north
bank of the Kuban.
Peggy Wilson Seeks Divorce
HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 18 HNS).
Peggy K**n» Wilson, wife of
radio announcer Don Wilson, said
she would leave for Las Vegaa,
Nev tomorrow to seek a divorce