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1 Navy To Release Thrilling Color Movie Of American-Japanese Fight In Midway Battle EIGHTEEN THE PADUCAH SUN-DEMOCRAT SEPTEMBER 6, 1942 Japanese Occupy Several Islands In Sunda Group By HAROLD GUARD SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Sept. 5- (U.P). Japan, seeking to strengthen its position in the zone northwest of Australia, has occupied several islands in the lesser Sunda group extending westward from Netherlands Portuguese Timor, it was revealed today. Japanese reports broadcast by Axis radios said enemy landing parties had been sent from Timor to take over the islands. Only Lomblen Island was mentioned specifically as having been occupied but it was indicated that other islands, in the group, such as Flores, Andonara, Solar, Pantar, Alor and possibly Wetar and Kambing farther east had probably been taken or would be.

Previously Japan had occupied the Tanimbar, Kai and Aroe groups between Timor and New Guinea. News of the occupation explained the persistent reconnaissance of Allied planes over the northwestern zone, reported each day without comment in Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communiques. Japanese, smarting under humiliating defeats in the Southern Solomons, where United States Marines had established offensive bases, and in the Milne Bay area of New Guinea, where Australians had smashed an important invasion force, thought wise to guard against a possible Allied attack from the northwest Australian zone. Though the new occupations brought the enemy no nearer to Australia, the Japanese hold on the eastern tip of The Netherlands East Indies was strengthened and there were new forces to back up the Japanese at Timor.

MacArthur's communique today, after reporting the usual reconnaissance over the northwestern zone, reported that an Allied medium bomber unit had attacked a Japanese cruiser southeast of New Guinea with unknown results. Illinois Draft Heads Will Meet Today To Problems SPRINGFIELD; Sept. -State Selective Service officials have been notified to meet here tomorrow to discuss the state's manpower situation, according to an announcement by State Director Col. Paul G. Armstrong.

It is believed the meeting will be in relation to drafting of 1-A men before calling on men in the 3-A group, men with collateral dependents and married men. Armstrong, who will preside at the meeting, said he will discuss with22 officers on duty at Springfield and Chicago, recent confidential information received headquarters Washington. from, Also slated for discussion, Armstrong said. are "various current problems concerning Selective Service administration," Because much of the discussion at the meeting will be confidential, no report of the proceedings, Armstrong said, will be available for the press. It was said the meeting, which will be held at the Hotel Leland, will last through Sunday afternoon.

OFFICES TO CLOSE FRANKFORT, Sept. 5-(P)- States of ices wIll be closed Monday for Labor The local post office will make no deliveries that day. 1 Everything Safe But A Jap! 3 HOUR PARKING SMITH PARKING LOT 118-122 So. 3rd St. We'd Have Moidered Dem If We'd Had New Tanks By HARRY CROCKETT CAIRO, Sept.

5-(P)-Buck Private Barney Rossi of Brooklyn came of the desert today after a battle out in which American armored forces whipped a German tank outfit and, with true Brooklyn spirit, had this to say: "It we'd had our newest tanks, we'd have moidered dem bums." Rossi and his comrades, still clothes, their victorious enwearing their, dusty, battle-torn counters in the past few days. "We're going back for another crack at Jerry and his pals," said one, The first German attack against the Americans came just before said Sgt. Alfred Broer of Randolph; Nebraska. "We had been them all day and we had tanksexpecting, mostly General Grants--in perfect condition but were under orders to hold fire until the big Mark threes and Mark fours were at close range;" he went on. "It was a thrilling sight," put in Sgt.

Jerome Petano of Chicago, "to sea that wave of tanks coming across the desert. Every gunner had his finger on the trigger and we just waited for what seemed like hours while the enemy kept coming closer and closer. "Then finally our commander announced, very calmly, 'You may fire now'." "Then, boy oh boy, did we fire!" Petano said. "We really gave them hell. Even though plenty of their shells bounced off our tanks not a one of our men was killed and very few were injured.

"After a short time during which the air was filled with shells, and shrapnel, the Jerrys turned around and beat it." In the second battle, which started more or less by surprise at 2 o'clock in the morning, Lieut. Allen Anderson of Phoenix, and his boys were credited with accounting for a number of German vehicles. Sgt. Clyde Goodnight of Houston, Texas, was in one tank crew credited with definitely knocking. out three German tanks in the first battle and one in the second.

"We can't say for sure exactly how many each of our tanks got but we sure gave them plenty of trouble," said Corp. Harcy I. Walters of Butler, Pa. "At daylight after the first battle I know that I saw a number of German and Italian tanks directly in front of us. Most were German.

We held our fire so long that at times we were shooting at almost point blank range." Almost all of the Americans had their own individual impressions of the fighting but agreed on general points. of all, Tourerest they said, was the waiting period while they had to hold their fire as the enemy tanks approached. "Believe me I sweat my head off that period but once the shooting started everything was great. because we were all too busy to think about anything except shooting those Jerrys up," said one tank-riding doughboy. All were high in their praise of British tank crews working alongside them.

CAIRO, Sept. 5-(Passed By U. S. Military Censor) tank crews who successfully battled Axis armored forces last and Tuesday in western desert held their fire for so long they feared the enemy had come "too close," Alford Broer, Randolph, commander of one of the crews hold the United Press today. But Broer's crew destroyed three enemy tanks.

"We found American tank crews with this outfit saw plenty of action both Monday and Tuesday," Broer said. "We repelled an enemy attack first day and waited all Monday attacked the following German attack, which finally started at p. We were ready for them and saw numerous enemy tanks advancing. "We waited for the order to fire. CAMPUS STYLED CLOTHES For Going Back to School Styles you young fellows demand.

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"Jewish women were seen to throw their babies out of sixth floor windows and jump after them, screaming wildly Jews were dragged from their homes. Others were ejected from hospitals Among patients thrown out of the Rothschild hospital was a cancer case, operated on 12 hours previously, also a woman beside whose bed police stood while she gave birth to a child," the Fighting. French headquarters said in an official statement. Detailed reports, including eyewitness statements, received by secret channels were cited as authority for the statement. It was noted that French people were horrified and that they helped Jews and hindered police.

(United Press reports from the French frontier had reported earlier this week that when Vichy, at the demand of the Germans, started a roundup of Jews in unoccupied territory so they could be deported to Eastern Europe, French people resisted the police.) Fighting French headquarters said the occupied zone roundup was started in earnest July 12, two days before Bastille Day, the great republican holiday, and that by Bastille Day 28,000 men, women and children had been herded into the Princes Park and the Velodrome D'Hiver sports center, The statement, angrily phrased, called the roundup a "Pogrom" and compared it in horror to the St. Bartholomew massacre of Protestants in France Aug. 24, 1572, when 50,000 Huguenots were massacred, though in this case the idea was not to kill but deport Jews. for slave labor for Germany. At the Rothschild hospital, the statement said, a Gestapo agent Jewish concentration camp at Comnotorious for, his cruelty at the piegne "personally directed the evacuation with a whip in his hand." An eye-witness was quoted as saying: "I was in a long queue outside a butcher's A girl about seven years old raced down the street, shouting: 'Please give me food for mama.

The police are taking her "Every woman in the queue gave the girl something from her shopping bag. "A few minutes later two policemen came down the street dragging the mother. Several women clasped the girl, 'Fear nothing madame, we will take care of your daughter. Nothing will happen to the women cried. "The police were revolted by their orders." After the Papal envoy to Vichy, Msgr.

Valerio. Valeri, had made one of a number of protests to Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, it was said, the Vichy propaganda minister issued an order to newspapers: "On no account should mention be made of the Vatican protest to Marshal Petain in favor of the Jews of France." "French Catholics demonstrated in several ways that they were aware of the Vatican attitude," the Fighting French statement said. It was charged that though the Germans had demanded of Laval 10,000 foreign Jews refuged in unoccupied France he had arrested "many times that number" and that at least 10,000 already had been deported to Germany. "United Press reports from unoccupied France, covering arrests up to Aug. 31, said Vichy was having the greatest difficulty rounding up foreign Jews, and that of 13.000 demanded by Germany before Aug.

26, about 6,000 in concentration camps were deported in cattle cars while police had been able to seize only about half of the remainder I demanded.) SPECIAL! THIS ONLY WEEK TRUCK RELINERS In The Following Sizes 7.50-20/34x7 6.50-20/32x6TT 8.25-20 7.00-20/32x6HD 9.00-20 GOODYEAR SERVICE STORE GOOD YEAR TIRES 614 Jefferson Phone 741 Bill Burnett, Mgr. Rides. With Queen We waited so long we thought they had come too close. "Then we opened fire. The fightraged for more than three and hours and the engagement was broken off at 8:30 p.

m. "All four American-manned a General Grants were intact. "We held the same spot throughobtain better fire, My the, battle, moving, slightly to tank put three of theirs out of I saw flames pour out two of them, while the crew of the third bailed out. "The fighting started up again at 6 8, m. Tuesday in another locality, but this time we attacked.

They were ready for us and we met terrific fire. It was an awful hot battle for a half hour, when the fighting became less mtense. I really think we came off best. crew consisted of the driver, Howard Michels, Detroit, the radio operator, Norbert. Pugniak, St.

Louis the 75 (cannon) loader, William Rinn, Detroit, and two British gunners who replaced Americans recalled just before the battle. "This was our first battle, but we all were darned calm about it, I expected to be excited, but wasn't. We took it real nice, I'd say. "The British are swell fighters. "Though we must not underestimate the enemy, we can handle him any time.

I think we gave them more than they gave us and our 'tanks are superior." Rinn, the American who manned the cannon, said: "I didn't see much -I was so busy loading the 75. "Early in the battle our aerial was shot off, while -another hit scored on our turret, but with surprisingly little effect." Rinn said he had not seen any excitement and wants to return to the front, but not as a cannon loader. Corporal Harry I. Walters, Butler, tank gunner said that "at 2:30 a. m.

August 31 we heard Jerry coming." was in one tank with a U. S. crew," he said, "the remainder of the squadron was British. "We had been dug in at a position on a hill. We were hit several times as the battle swung back and forth through the day by 5 p.

m. we had one enemy tank opposing us which had been set afire and burned up while the crews of four other tanks bailed out when they were it. personally was in the fighting for three hours, steadily, from evening until dark when our squadron was ordered to withdraw. However, as our radio was damaged, we did not receive the order and stayed on all night, subject to artillery fire. However, we started back the next morning and rejoined our squadron, "On the way back in lorries we were subject to shelling and machine gunning from four Jerry tanks.

We jumped out, dug trenches with our hands and stayed for two hours. Then the British tanks came up and engaged the enemy. The. British tank crews are tough babies all right. "What I look forward to mostly is a bath which is a luxury on the desert." Waltersa said knocked his squadron, en- atemy tanks.

Society Of Friends Ends Conference WILMINGTON, Sept. 5-(P)- Ninty-three delegates representing 110,000 members of the Society of Friends in the United States ended a five-day conference with on post reconstruction today pledge to seek wider diffusion of the benefits of this country's productive economy to build a new world. The conference was sponsored by the American Section of the Friends' World Committee for Consultation and Peace. Delegates also urged recognition of the basic unity of the world and world reorganization, either through international cooperation or a fedeworld government with limited and delegated powers. Touching on racial and minority problems, the conference urged intensifying efforts to bring the full fruits of democracy within the reach of every group in the country.

By WALTER LOGAN WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. (U.P) The lights in the Navy Department's projection room dimmed and went out. Somewhere in the darkness a machine buzzed and, suddenly the beginning of Battle of Midway flashed on the silver screen. For a time that was impossible to judge it seemed like only seconds one almost lived through the riot of color and noise and death that was a great American victory.

Japanese Zero fighters roared in like angry hornets, spitting steel and flaming tracers. Bombers loosed their explosives and the ground shook and trembled. guns fired so fast no one could count the rounds. Outnumbered Marine fighter planes took off in a roaring challenge. Planes from both sides but mostly Japanese crashed in flames.

Anti-aircraft gunners fired automatically, keeping their eyes trained on the skies and their guns on the Japanese. One hear the roar of flames and almost smell the acrid smoke of burning oil stores. The detonation of bombs and exploding oil tanks and the sound of guns and 3 Charged With Not Registering As Japan's Agents NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (P) Charged with acting as unregistered agents of the Japanese government and receiving more than $125,000 in cash from the Japanese consulate here, two men pleaded guilty today before a Federal Commissioner and a third was held by Federal Agents. Joseph Hilton Smyth, former newspaperman and free lance writer, of Old Lyme, and Irvine Harvey Williams, British subject, of Noroton, entered guilty at their arraignment before United States Commissioner Edward H.

Fay in Brooklyn. Both were held in $10,000 bail for grand jury action. The third man, Walker Grey Matheson, a former news analyst in the office of the Coordinator of American Affairs, was are rested in Washington and be taken to Brooklyn for arraignment later. All three were seized on warrants accusing them of failure to register AS agents of a foreign principal, as required by federal law. and they face a maximum penalty of.

ten years imprisonment and $5.000 fines. P. E. Foxworth, assistant director of the FBI, said that most of the $125,000 was paid by the Japanese consulate for the operation of the magazine "Living Age" from June, 1938, to August, 1941. In.

1938, Foxworth said, Matheson and Smyth were given $15,000 by Shintaro Fukushima, a Japanese vice-consul in New York. to purchase the magazine. Fukushima agreed, Foxworth added, to pay $500 a month to Smyth and to make Matheson's salary the same amount. The Japanese government also I guaranteed the deficit of the publication in the amount of $2,500 a month, the FBI said, in return for which the magazine was to publish material furnished by the DR. W.

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"Everybody, every payday, Ten Percent," is the slogan on the home front. Are you doing your share? U.S. Treasury Department The Paducah Sun -Democrat planes made a vast, unforgettable super- Navy communiques on the Midway battle could never accomplish what the official color films, made during the actual fighting, did in a few minutes. Those who saw the pictures fought the battle from beginning to end. The picture had no plot.

It was plan of battle. First there were the pat ers returning with news that an enemy fleet had been sighted. Army Flying Fortresses roared off to the attack and Marine and Navy fighters, bombers and torpedo planes skimmed off the runways. Two young men fired an antiaircraft gun with deadly intensity. From time to time the picture.

flashed back to them and they gave one an odd sort of comfort, firing steadily and coolly. Later the fleet went into action. The cameraman was on a carrier and recorded the Navy fighters taking off. The guns fired round after round and one realized what is meant by a "curtain of steel." Japanese planes dodged about and many fell in flames. A few got through, one dropping Eugene H.

Patton, Former Paducahan, Dies At Somerset Word was received here Saturday of the death of Eugene H. Patton, 55, a resident of Paducah-15 or 20 years ago. Mr. Patton was stricken with a heart attack and died suddenly at his residence in Somerset, Ky, Friday. At the age of 13, he became an employe of B.

Weille Sons, clothters, where he worked for 25 years. He left Paducah to accept a traveling salesman's postion with the Storrs-Schaeffer Company of Cincinnati, later going to Somerset where for a number of years he had conducted a laundry and dry cleaning establishment. He was well known politically in that section, having been a city commissioner, a member of the school board and of the Somerset Chamber of Commerce. He WAS an Elk and a Mason. He is survived by his widow and three daughters.

Funeral and burial services will be held this afternoon in Somerset. Lincoln Registration Thursday, Sept. 10 Advance registration for Lincoln high school students will be held on Thursday, September 10. All pupils who have attended high school. and all who have been promoted to the junior high, are requested by E.

W. Whiteside, prin- Japanese and adopt a favorable policy on all Japanese questions. Williams later entered the agreement and became president and general manager of "The Living Age Publishing Company," Foxworth said, the three men holding the stock of the periodical, which was established in May, 1844 and was one of the oldest monthly magazines in the United States. Foxworth said Matheson, who is 40, was born in Alberta, Canada, Smyth, also 40, was born in Plymouth, the FBI said, and began a writing career after attending Harvard University for one year. Williams, 39, told the FBI he was born a British subject in Kobe, Japan, where he lived until 1923.

torpedo. One could see what S. flyers were up against when they got through to sink four car riers, and damage at least 28 other ships. There were ea few shots of flaming Japanese vessels, but not many, The men bombing the ships were too busy to take pictures. Then the camera flashed back to the.

two anti-aircraft gunners OKI Midway, but this time there was only a crater where they had been, The battle presently was over and there were scenes on the island. Wounded were placed in ambulances. The hospital was smouldering ruin- a few twisted beds and the huge Red Cross on the roof were recognizable, The dead were being buried at sea. Some ludicrous birds, called gooneys, waddling like drunken penguins across the beach sands and the narrator gravely said: "These are the natives of Midway, Tojo promised to liberate them." The film, believed to be the first battle picture ever recorded in color, will be released Thursday to. 15,000 theaters in the United States.

The picture was released by request of President Roosevelt. PRIVATE ORA A. FOSTER (above) who thumbed a ride with Queen Mother Mary of England, said that he did all the talking at first and that the Queen Mother identified herself when her car reached the village of his destination. The 22-yearold soldier's home is near Pontiac, Mich. Recruits Are Sought For Naval Training School Near Memphis The Navy's School of Aviation Maintenance at Millington, near Memphis, needs 10,000 enlisted men between 17 45 to train for Aviation Machinist's Mates, Aviaand.

tion Ordnancemen, and Aviation Radiomen. In addition to this student personnel, instructors and men for the "ship's company" are needed. Instructors are the first need and graduate. of a who is vocational or trade school, recommended by officials of the school as teacher material may be qualified to train as an instructor. High School Shop teachers also fall into.

this classification. Those accepted as instructors will be away for training, -some to the Navy's Teacher's School in Chicago. Applicants must have at least a high school education. Experience as a teacher of airplane structure, aviation engines or accessories is desirable. Men: for the "ship's company" needed are automobile mechanics, painters, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, bakers, and cooks, -in fact all men with a trade or desirous of learning one.

Those accepted as members of "ship's company" will be given about five weeks of training at Great Lakes. Naval Training School near Chicago before being returned to Millington as their first assignment to Help Win This War. Young men desiring to learn one of trades which are to be taught at the school--aviation mechanics, or aviation ordnance--will be enlisted as apprentice seamen. They, too, will be sent Great Lakes Naval Training School for preliminary training. After completion of courses at Millington, many of the graduates will be rated as Petty Officers, third, class.

The length of time required to learn these trades varies. Aviation Machinist's Mates will be given a six course, and Aviation Ordnancemen will be schooled for four months. Information may be obtained from the Navy Recruiting Office, located in the post office building in Paducah. Kentuckian Honored By Gen. MacArthur GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Sept.

5-(P) Capt. George E. Kiser of Somerset, was one of two United States airmen who received Distinguished Flying Crosses today from Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Kiser's citation for action at Darwin, Australia, in April said: "While commanding a flight of four fighters, Kiser intercepted an enemy formation of 24 bombers.

He immediately engaged the bombers and at almost same was attacked from the rear by twelve enemy fighters. "Disregarding the fighters, he continued the attacks on the bombers, disrupting the formation, and succeeded personally in destroying two. He then engaged the fighters in combat and succeeded in destroying one and then landed his flight intact." German Losses In Russian Campaign Set At 4,200,000 By United Press European reports from sources said to originate within Germany estimated Saturday that the Nazis have lost 4,200,000 men killed or wounded so severely as to be permanently out of action in the Russian campaign up to August 1. This estimate placed the total German dead at 1,700,000 and said that from January 1942 to August 1st casualties numbered 710,000 killed, wounded and missing, including 215,000 killed. LOSE WEIGHT Lose three to five pounds while taking one bottle of these tablets.

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