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THE BATTLE CREEK. ENQUIRERand'NEWS The Weather Possible Showers and Cooler MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VOLUME XLVIII NO. 27 BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN, SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1942 PRICE 5 3JII SHHULS Germans Begin Dutch Reprisals; Execute Five Leaders alvage Crew To Work Today At Wreck Scene Strewn Scene Where Nine Army Airmen Died Action Follows Several Enemy Ships Damaged In Navy Attack Washington Reveals Attack on Fleet in Harbor at Kiska; Installations Battered. Army Plane Crashes; Fear 24 Aboard MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y.

(AP) A large army plane, bound from Camp Pope, to Camp Edwards, crashed last night at Peru, it was reported at Mitchel Field. It could not be determined immediately how many persons were aboard. At nearby Pittsfield, Police Chief John L. Sullivan and State Police Corporal Louis Perachi reported the plane had struck Peru mountain, one of the highest peaks in the Berkshire hills, and that they understood the plane might have been carrying as many as 24 mew 19 soldiers and the crew. State police subsequently reported at least four men in the crash were alive.

It was said at Mitchel Field that the plane probably was one of 11 cargo transport ships which were making the flight together and had stopped here en route. Threat to Kill 1,600 Hostages Failure to Deliver Saboteurs of German Troop Train Brings Gestapo Killings. JEWS SUFFERING AGAIN LONDON (P) Five prominent dutchmen were stood before a stone wall and shot dead Saturday in Nazi reprisal for the failure or refusal of their countrymen to deliver to the occupation forces the saboteurs who wrecked a German troop train August 7, and the lives of many more hostages were declared forfeit. The executions were reported here by the Netherlands government-in-exile on the basis of an announcement by Gen. Friedrich Christiansen of the occupation forces, who said: "The perpetrators of the high explosive attempt In Rotterdam have been too cowardly to give themselves up." The Germans previously had said the lives of 1.600 hostages would be forfeited if the saboteurs were not given up.

Count Is Victim Those executed were William Ruts, director general of Rotterdam; the Count of Limburg Stirum of Arnhem; a Mr. Waalde, an attorney of Rotterdam: Christopher Bennek-ers, former police inspector of Rotterdam; and Alexander Baron Schimmelpenninck Van Der Roye, former president of the Netherlands Olympic committee. One hour after the executions. Premier Pieter S. Gerbrandy of the Netherlands government in exile, made a broadcast to the Dutch people, telling them this Nazi act would remain "a -stain on the honor of the German people." (Please Turn to Page 8, Column 2) Nationwide Gasoline Rationing Demanded WASHINGTON OP) Senator Byrd demanding nationwide rationing of gasoline, asserted Saturday that it was "grossly unfair and destructive of public morale" to permit citizens in 31 states to obtain all the gasoline and fuel oil they needed and to ration those in 17 states.

"Each day It becomes more evident that we must have nationwide rationing of gasoline." Byrd declared in a statement. "We are short of rubber and short of transportation for oil and gasoline. The only obvious and just thing to do is to ration these necessities on a nationwide basis." The senator added that "there is growing discontent among the 17 rationed states as to this injustice, and properly so." BURGLARS TAKE 1,100 CAS RATION BOOKLETS BOSTON U.R More than 1.100 gasoline rationing books enough for an estimated 6,000.000 miles of driving were stolen Friday night by burglars who broke into the South Boston rationing board offices, it was disclosed Saturday. A policeman who discovered the robbery reported that the burglars broke open an iron gate, forced a window and pried open a door to reach the inner offices where the rationing books were stored at the Simonds school. A check showed that 524 books and 570 books were stolen in addition to an undetermined number of and books.

Remnants to Be Cleared Away By Bomber Plant Workers; Clues Sought. JURY HEARS WITNESSES A salvage crew from the Willow Run bomber plant today will clean up the scattered wreckage of the huge four-motored B-24 army bomber that crashed Friday night on a farm 15 miles north of Battle Creek on M-37 killing four officers and five enlisted men. Army air force officers will examine the wreckage, which was scattered In hundreds of pieces over an area 250 yards long and 200 feet wide, in the hope that they ran find some clue to the cause of the tragic crash. "In the Line or Duty" A coroner's jury at Hastings yesterday afternoon returned the following verdict: "All died by accidental violence In a crash landing of a large airplane in Baltimore TRIBUTE TO AIRMEN HASTINGS (Pi A Barry county coroner's jury, investigating the crash of the huge four-motored army bomber near here Friday night. Saturday paid simple tribute to the nine men who lost their lives in the tragedy.

At the completion of its inquest, the Jury reported that the men had died "in the line of their duty and for the defense of America." The jury found that the men had died "by accidental violence," adding details as to the time and place of the accident. awnship, Barry county, between hours of 10 and 11 o'clock Friday. August 14. In the line of their duty for the defense of America." Witnesses at the inquest held in the municipal courtroom at Hastings were Coroner C. P.

Lathrop. Undershcriff Leon Doster and Vere Harrington, a special deputy. Members of the Jury, impaneled at the scene of the crash Friday night were Fred Haywood, Fordyce Matson, John Chandler. Lyle Ingram. A.

A. Turnes and Steven De-Mund, all of Hastings. The salvage unit cleaning up the plane wreckage today consisted of two large trucks and personnel. A Tokyo Bomber Type Witnesses told of hearing the plane "apparently In trouble" flying low over Hastings, nine miles north of the crash scene, a few minutes before the plane crashed to earth in a burst of flame on the farm of Guy Schermehorn on the east aide of M-37 about a mile north of Dowllng. The statement of these persons established the time of the crash as about 10:15 p.

m. The only statement yet to come from the army air force was that the plane was a B-24 bomber operating on a routine training flight from the Willow Run bomber plant near Ypsllanti. The plane was the same as those flown in the United States air lorce raid on Tokyo. The area of the crash was carefully guarded and civilians wete not permitted on the field as crews cleaned up the wreckage. Those persons who saw the field tatd it looked as if a tornado had struck.

Where the plane first hit the ground, a distance of about 250 yards west of the Schermerhorn barn, there was a hole four feet deep and about 10 feet in diameter A twisted propellor was half buried In the ground at this point. Hits Trees. Culvert With the first impact the plane apparently started to come apart as it bounded. Small pieces of the plane, some of them twisted bits of metal no larger than a butcher knife, were scattered over a wide area from the point of impact to the place where the plane hit two willow trees and a concrete culvert. JH At this point one of the wings was Please Turn to Page 8.

Column 5 MANY FIRES ARE STARTED WASHINGTON (P) A Japanese destroyer and two cargo vessels were severely damaged and an-' other cargo vessel was sunk-in a raid on Japanese installations on Kiska island in the Aleutians August 8 and 9,. the Navy disclosed today. The destroyer, the navy disclosed, was left standing and burning outside the harbor when the task force withdrew. It was in a fleet of about 10 enemy cargo ships or transports, and four submarines observed in the harbor before the bombardment by the task force. Sweep Through Camp In addition, the navy said large fires were started which swept through the enemy's main camp on the little island far out on the tip of the Aleutian chain.

More than 3,000 shells were hurled from navy guns into the enemy's camp In the initial attack August 8 made simultaneously with the first thrust against the Japanese in the Solomon islands in the south Pacific. A secondary enemy camp to the southward and anti-aircraft emplacements at several locations also were heavily bombarded and all shore batteries were silenced, the navy said. The new damage reported Saturday brought to 22 the number of enemy ships sunk or damaged since the Japs first attacked Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians on June 3. The enemy losses Include 14 warships and eight transports or cargo vessels. The text of the report follows: "Further reports of the August 8 and August 9 raids on Kiska now (Please Turn to Page 8, Column 8) German Super -Plane Could Bomb New York LONDON (UP) Germany has a new super-bomber believed capable of carrying 1,000 pounds of bombs to New York and returning to the French occupied coast, Wing Commander Max Aitken, son of Lord Beaverbrook, said in a broadcast.

Aitken said his squadron of Czech airmen in the Royal Air Force had shot down one of the planes, Heinkel-177, Germany's heaviest plane. The Heinkel has a range of 2,000 miles with a bomb load of 3,000 pounds, Aitken said, but could make the flight from Brest, France, to New York and return with 1,000 pounds. Experts commenting on Aitken'a statement said that it was believed Germany did not have many super-Heinkels now. It was believed that Heinkel production had suffered heavy damage by the four smashing raids the RAF made on Rostock in March. Janitor at Yale Sells $200,800 in War Bonds NEW HAVEN, Conn.

lP) A Yale university janitor, Adolph Fleisch-man, who works nightly in the Sterling Memorial library, has sold $200,800 In war bonds and stamps. Fleischman, who is striving to reach the quarter million mark, undertook the work of being a salesman for Uncle Sam on his own. In addition to his night work, he devotes eight hours a day to the task of helping his country even going so far as to forego lunch, relaxation and a two-week's vacation. Wreckage Enquirer and Newa Photoa. Along this 250-yard stretch of wreckage-strewn farmland near Dowllng, nine army airmen met instant death Friday night when their huge four-motored B-24 bomber crashed during a rainstorm.

Striking first at the top of a slight rise in the meadow, the plane scooped a hole four feet deep and nine feet in diameter. The picture above shows the path the plane made as it bounded and rolled after crashing in a flash of flame. The wings were torn off and smashed to bits when the plane swiped the willow tree seen at the left of the picture. From that point, the fuselage apparently rolled and whirled, throwing crewmen clear and scattering wreckage over a 200-foot wide path. Every part of the plane was torn to bits except the fuselage shown at the and indicated by an arrow above, which came to rest bout 75 feet from a barn in Guy Schermchorn's farm yard on M-37.

Benefit Bill Showdown Requested WASHINGTON (JP A member of the senate military affairs committee suggested Saturday that a compromi.se might be arranged under which accumulated benefits could be paid Uie dependents of service men any time after October 1 a month earlier than permissible under present law. The senator, who requested that his name not be used, stressed that such legislation, if passed, would not guarantee that the allowances and allotments would be paid exactly on October 1. It merely would replace a section of the law which prohibits such payments before November 1. However. Senator Clark Mo.) called for a showdown in the senate Monday on house-approved legisla tion which would knock out the November 1 deadline entirely.

He said the dependents of some soldiers and sailors are in desperate financial straits and need the money for loon and rent. The allotment and allowance law became effective as of June 1. which would mean that a four months accumulation would be payable to dependents on October 1, if that date is decided upon. being sent to England. The pilots, however, complete their training on the other side in order that they can learn the British technique.

He also said that "in every way we can are standardizing our equipment with that of our Allies" for interchangable operations. Arnold several times referred to American pilots as "youngsters." Asked about it. he said that in fact is what they are. He said the ideal age for pilots was around 27 years. Except for the American Volunteer Group's record, Arnold's fig ures on results of aerial combat with the Japanese included only actions by the U.

S. armv air tPlease Turn to Page 8, Column 1) 20,000 Attend Rebirth Of Old 83rd Division Daughter of Officer Shoots Army Captain Report Marines Occupying Bases U. S. Forces in Solomons Are Believed to Be Consolidating Newly-Won Positions. General Mac Arthur's Headquarters (JP) The Japanese bave reinforced their positions "somewhat" in the interior of New Guinea in the Kokoda sector, an Allied spokesman said today following issuance of a communique stating simply that enemy pressure was continuing there.

General MacArthur's Headquarters, Australia (P) Fighting leathernecks of the United States marines were believed today to have captured important coastal bases in the Solomon islands in triumphant conclusion of the first phase of that great battle still raging in the southwest Pacific. The failure of Japanese quarters to make any but a negative reference to their land forces, coupled with a Washington announcement that the marines are consolidating shore positions in the Tulagi area, led qualified observers here to the belief that the Nipponese had been dislodged from the bases. The Japanese-controlled radio stations failed to refer to ground forces on the southeastern Solomon islands yesterday, but an intercepted Domei report from Batavia, occupied Java, admitted that a "small enemy force was left on one Solomon island." (Japanese in recent days have become curiously quiet on the Solomons battle, but a report from Tokyo reaching London by a German broadcast acknowledged fierce fighting at one point. fighting is reported to be taking place between Japanese forces and United States marines who have landed on one of the Solomon islands," the Tokyo dispatch to DNB, German news agency, said. While Australian Army Minister Francis M.

Porde warned his countrymen again that Australia still is in danger of invasion quarters familiar with the topography of the Solomons attached optimistic sig- (Please Turn to Page 8, Column 4) Mediterranean war- flame, poured ton or nign explosive into Mussolini's early today. left behind on this squadron or war the harbor for (Please 12 minutes in one I have The Rhodes guns and Italian fleet they could my ribs as big and near misses from the mouths scorched through exploded with In this most since the fleet shells Into Tripoli Fascists in Rhodes "naming onions" force while British the airdromes and after the sea Rhodes looked when the fleet Crossings Blocked By Stalled Freight A broken airline on an eastbound Michigan Central freight train about 7 p. m. Saturday resulted in one of the worst traffic tieups Battle Creek has had in recent years. Crossings all the way from West Michigan avenue to Elm street were blocked for nearly a half hour.

The breakdown occurred while the locomotive was on the big curve Just east of Elm street There is a grade Just beyond this point and new tracks, which make engine traction difficult so that the locomotive was unable to pull the nearly mile-long, heavily loaded train out of town. A Diesel switch engine had to be called from service at the Kellogg and made the run to the Rumely yards where it switched over to the east bound tracks and helped push the freight over the grade. The stalled freight blocked the Grand Trunk tracks for a time and delayed departure of a westbound freight over that line. Automobiles on the East and West Michigan avenue. McCamly, Northeast Capital avenue and Division street crossings were at times backed up by traffic for three or more blocks.

CITY GOES 103 DAYS WITHOUT AUTO DEATH The goal that traffic officers here have been striving to attain; for the last several years was reach- ed and passed last week more than 100 days since the last traffic fatality. Saturday was the 103rd day since the last traffic death on May The year's totals now stand at four fatalities compared to 13 in the corresponding period of 1941. It has now been more than three months since the black flag, denoting a traffic fatality within the last i 24 hours, has hung beneath thej American flag on the pole at Monu- ment Square. White flags, e'enot- ing no death in 24 hours, have been changed every other week in police i efforts to keep a clean flag Hying. AN 'ISPATRIOTIC ROLL ASHEVILLE.

N. C.JP Begin- ning Monday, the names of motorists convicted of speeding will be placed on a public "unpatriotic roll'" by the Buncombe county Aiheville) rub- oer rationing ooaxo. FRANKLIN. Ind. (U.f The old 83rd division, credited with saving Italy in World War I.

was reborn Saturday in reactivation ceremonies at Camp Atterbury. A crowd of 20,000 persons witnessed the reactivation, officially calling back into service a division inactive since the close of the First World war. The division first was organized 25 years ago at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, and comprised draftees from Ohio, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The old 83rd landed in France in June, 1918, and was ordered to the Le Mans area but did not see front-line service as a unit. The division's 32nd infantry, however, was sent to Italy to bolster Allied morale.

GANDHI'S SECRETARY DIES BOMBAY tPh-A Bombay government communique today said Mahadev Desai. secretary of Mohandas K. Gandhi who had been under detention with the Indian nationalist leader, had died. Desai long had been an outstanding Congress party member. Lose Something? Don't Worry Advertise for It! Like so many losers, you may recover it promptly and easily through an inexpensive ad in the Enquirer and News Classified! LOST lolly's Hamilton wrist watch In vicinity of First Mrthodlft church.

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Next time YOU lose something advertise for it Nothing Is lost until Classified has failed to locate it. Just Phone "If 1 THE -CLASSIFIED" for this service DOUGLAS, Ariz. P) A charge of assault with a deadly weapon was filed against Miss Margaret Herlihy. daughter of E. G.

Herlihy, in connection with the shooting early Saturday of her fiance, Capt. D. D. Carr, 25, attached to an anti-tank division at Fort Huachuca. Police Chief Percy Bowden said the shooting occurred about 1 a.

m. at the Herlihy home in the presence of Mrs. Herlihy. Three bullets were fired, he added, one striking Carr in the neck, another in the chest. The third went wild.

Carr is in a critical condition at the Douglas hospital. Bowden said Miss Herlihy was in the Cochise county hospital, under police guard, suffering from shock and hysteria. The police chief quoted the 21-year-old daughter of Colonel Herlihy, Fort Huachuca tank company commander, as saying the shooting was the out-growth of a quarrel which began as they were en route home from an evening spent across the Mexican border at Gua Prieta. Mrs. Herlihy said the two were to be married September 15, Bowden related.

PELLEY MAILS NOTICE OF CONVICTION APPEAL CHICAGO lP) Mailed notice that William Dudley Pelley would appeal his sedition conviction and 15-year sentence at Indianapolis last week was received Saturday by the clerk of the U. S. circuit court of appeals. The court, in summer recess, will reconvene in October. The notice also covered appeal intentions of Lawrence A.

Brown, editor-associate of the former Silver Shirts leader, who was sentenced to five years, and of Pelley's Fellowship Press, fined $5,000. FACES DEATH SENTENCE LONG BEACH. Cal. 4U.R William Leva Hough, 47. awaited death today in the state lethal gas chamber for the confessed murders of his wife, Inez, 35, and Frederick L.

Culp, 34. of Philadelphia. Sentenced to die by Superior Judge Leslie E. Still, the shipyard worker bowed and said "Thank you, your honor." Spectacular Bombardment of Italian Island Described by Reporter on British Warship Air Chief's Figures Reveal U. S.

Pilots Surpass Japs BY LARRY ALLEN Aboard a cruiser with the British Mediterranean fleet, bombarding Rhodes, August 13 (Delaved) UP) The long sleek guns of Britain's shiDS. snouting sheets of Si white Rafter ton shells Dodecanesan stronghold of of the most thrilling surprise bombardments ever witnessed. heavy shore batteries and anti-aircraft torpedo boats flung everything at the muster. My heart crashed against enemv shells sprayed over this cruiser made huge geysers while fire gushed of the ship's (runs and projectiles the air under the starlit skies and shattering force ashore. spectacular bombardment of the war pumped thousands of armor-piercing on April 24, 1941.

the Nazis and sent up thousands of multi-colored in an effort to trace the attacking and American bombers pounded and other targets ashore both before shelling. like a maze of Christmas tree lights sailed up to a broadside position. It Rhodes They fvleastern Mediterranean ls-IJland huge fires, battered WASHINGTON rUR Henry H. Arnold, commander of the armv air forces, disclosed Saturday that 1.110 U. S.

army planes have met 1.4.i9 Japanese craft In aerial combat and have shot down 190 of thrm with a loss of 104 American ships. The figures did not include operations of the American Volunteer Group In China, which up to the time It was disbanded on July 4 shot down 218 Japanese planes with a loss of 84 of its ships. These figures Included only verified losses of both sides. Also, planes destroyed on Uie ground in bombing or strafing attacks were not taken into account. Arnold said that a steadv stream of American pilots and planes is seaplane bases ana ctokcu barracks and harbor The ships, commanded by near Admiral Philip L.

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