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BLIC LIB Egg Weather Report Somewhat warmer Friday POLLEN COUNT. THURSDAY 7t ROPOLITAN AUG 23 12(2 FIMVL EDITION DETBOIT On Guard for Over a Century- Friday, August 28, 1942. No. 116 112th Year 26 Pages Three Cents JlL JV TO nil JV Lines of Counterattack in Russia Victory Indicated KALININ If for Fleet, Navy Says Enemy Has Quit New Clash Afler Guadalcanal Defeat SYCHEVKAMOSCOW f-- 1 flTtlfT5" -t i i i vVZMA 1 1 1 BRYANSK fS V- Cbntl. VJ --Z KUIBYSHEVV- YVlvOONtZM.

Prsnt SAHATOvK. SLjSAI' Astrakhan! i -gi'VRASNOOAR rwvoRossisKsAN Caspian Black VrokhladnenskiI vGROZny New Tork Time Serlr WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 The strong Japanese naval armada which attempted to assault American-held positions in the Tulagl area of the Solomon Islands has broken off the engagement and appears to have withdrawn, the Navy Department announced tonight. The announcement indicated a second major success for the United States in the Solomons, a Jap naval thrust at the Island of Guadalcanal having been repulsed earlier. There has been no new action in the sea battle off the Solomons In more than 24 hours, the communique said.

The terse official Navy announcement indicated that once again, as in the Coral Sea and off Midway, American forces had defeated powerful enemy forces and forced them to abandon the field licking grievous wounds. Naval experts suggested that the enemy's withdrawal might be but a temporary maneuver to enable him to reform his battle line and then resume hostilities. JlL RUSSIA SO IOO ISO that she would Drove sunerlnr to anything that either the Jap anese or me uermans could Duila, with all their stealth. As the gigantic hull of the 880 foot warship splashed into the waters of the East River, a great cheer rose from thousands of Navy yard workmen, a few hundred naval officers and their families, and a handful of civilians, who had been admitted for the occasion. It was answered by a roar of enthusiasm from 10,000 spectators clustered in a park on the Manhattan side of the East River.

The Iowa was launched seven months ahead of schedule, only two years and two months from the day her keel was laid. Many months of arduous labor perhaps a year must elapse before the steel-clad turrets, the mighty sixteen-inch guns and the delicate fire-control apparatus can be installed on the armored hull that went down the ways today. But Rear Admiral E. J. Mar-quart, commandant of the yard, pledged that her builders would make every effort to cut many days, or even weeks, from the period before she joins the fleet.

Mrs. Ilo Browne Wallace, wife of Vice President Henry A. Wallace, was the official sponsor of the Iowa. Associated Pre Wire nhoto The Russian counteroffensive has swept into tte outskirts of Rzhev (open arrow) while their defenses have checked the German drive (black arrows) on Stalingrad. In the Caucasus, German tank units are attempting to break through in the Prokhladnenski and Mozdok areas while Soviet gunners are holding mct of their hill positions south of Krasnodar, Broken line indicates the approximate present battlefront.

Dodge Death Is Declared Accidental Coroner's Jury Finds No Crime Involved; Free Press Writer Cleared of Contempt John Duval Dodge, whose last conscious hours were spent drinking, pursuing a woman, beating his wife and hurling curses and defiance at the police, met his death accidentally in the McClellan Precinct Station and without any crime being committed. That was the finding Thursday ef a coroner's jury under Dr. Edmund J. Knobioch who, incidentally, delivered twin babies, a boy and girl, to a mother in St. Mary's Hospit while the jury was deliberating.

Free Tress Worker Cleared The case closed with Ray Pear-ton, assistant city editor of the Free Press, being cleared of a contempt citation sought by Prosecutor William E. Dowling in connection with a story Pearson had written about the case for Sunday's Free Press. Pearson's story presented a nomewhat different version of how Dodge was handled in the McClellan Station by Patrolman Alex-inder Gabriault than that told from the witness stand. Called as a witness himself, Pearson refused, in accordance with traditional Free Press practice, to disclose the source of his information, whom he had promised to protect. Before being printed, however, the story was verified by Jack Weeks, Free Press reporter, in a telephone conversation with Gabriault and Sergt.

John Carnaghie, to which B. E. Maidenburg, Free Press Sunday editor, listened in on an extension. Reporter Gives Testimony Weeks was called as a witness Thursday by Paul Marco, Free Press attorney, and testified that both Carnaghie and Gabriault had confirmed the Pearson story with the exception of an allusion to the use of a nightstick to break Dodge's hold on the lieutenant's dfsk, an allusion that was stricken from the story before publication. "Gabriault said no nightstick had been used," the writer testified, "but Carnaghie did not deny it.

He asked that it not be mentioned in the interests of the Police Department. He said that they already were having enough trouble with prisoners at the McClellan Station because of the Dodge story and remarked, The more you stir a mess the worse it Maidenburg Affidavit Read An affidavit by Maidenburg, 'ho has left the Free Press for service in the Army Air Forces, was read in substantiation of Weeks' testimony that Carnaghie and Gubriault said the rest of the Pearson story, outside the nightstick reference, was "all right." Attorney Marco stated to the Court that the affidavit was introduced to make it clear that the Free Press does not publish news without careful reporting and verification. It was brought out that In 15 years of newspaper reporting Weeks never has been involved in a libel suit. On cross-examination, Prosecutor Cowling questioned the witness Turn to rage 4, Column 2 Mig1itiestMan-of-War Launched by U.S. Navy The World Today (AUG.

28, 1942) (Pre Trrnt reader with relatlTe nr frieudH in the nation' fighting ervtrei fttmmd can kern them Informed of world event by ellpnlnc and mailing: thii dallj feature to them.) THE WAR Jap naval armada withdraws from unsuccessful assault on American-held Solomon Islands; Allied land and air forces attack Jap invaders in New Guinea. Russians bomb Berlin and other German cities, setting large fires; American and British fliers pound French and Dutch coasts. Red Army wipes out German spearhead driven into Stalingrad defenses and battles Nazis in streets of Rzhev In central-front offensive, but falls back in Caucasus. American destroyer lost in collision In Atlantic fog. Japs abandoning Chuhsien, site of China's biggest airfield.

It is becoming increasingly apparent that a campaign to run the Axis Army out of Africa in order to gain control of the Mediterranean, thus imperiling the Nazis in Russia, is under way, says Royce Howes in his article on Page 13. 25 TEARS AGO TODAY The British attack southwest of Langemarck, astride the Julien-Poelcoppelle road, was developing successfully despite almost impossible weather conditions. NATIONAL AFFAIRS WPB Chairman Donald Nelson bans issuance of priority ratings by Army and Navy procurement offices. USS Iowa, 45,000 tons, United' States' largest battleship, launched. Army raises maximum enlistment age from 45 to 50 years as plans for drafting youths 18 and 19 are discussed.

Gov. Van Wagoner reassures President on Michigan war production. IN MICHIGAN Senate race warms up in Michigan, as Ferguson, Eaton and Smith canvass outstate for votes. Resolution In United States Senate demands investigation of Petrillo's ban on broadcasts from National Music Camp at Interlochen. IN DETROIT Death of John Duval Dodge held accidental by coroner's jury.

Recorder's Court clerk fired because of shortage in bail bond funds as audit is started. American Bar convention delegates slap Thurman Arnold's patent statements and offer program to end patent abuses. City receives first gas masks for sir raid wardens Friday as 920 masks, part of an order for 43,000, are to be delivered, SPORTS Baseball votes to give American Red Cross and USO good portion of World Series receipts. Chalky Wright knocks out Joe Marinelli in second round and Carmen Notch wins decision from Lew Jenkins in feature bouts at Arena. Chicago Bears favored to defeat College All-Stars in ninth annual football classic at Chicago Friday night.

Marjorie Row and Mrs. Don Weiss advance to finals of Women's District golf tournament. Cleveland Indians score 4-2 victory to snap Boston Red Sox winning streak at nine in a row. GOP AIDE DIES NEW YORK, Aug. 27 (API-Miss Katherine Byrne, 62 years old, Republican national com-mitteewoman from Connecticut, died today at Roosevelt Hospital where she underwent an operation several weeks ago.

She was a resident of Putnam, Conn. On Inside Paes JV Allies Bomb Nazis from Both Sides Red Fliers Attack Berlin; Set Bin; Fires as British and U.S. Hit France and Holland Bjr the Aiaoclateil Prena LONDON, Aug. 27-The Russians from the East and British and American Allies from the West are engaged in a whipsaw aerial pounding against German-occupied Europe, it became apparent tonight, with Soviet raids on Berlin and East German towns to which Ruhr and Rhine-land industries have been moved and continued attacks launched from England. Large fires were set in Berlin and other German cities, In their sixth big foray against the enemy in Europe, American Flying Fortresses bombed shipyards at Rotterdam and again all returned home safely this afternoon, a Joint United States-RAF announcement said.

This latest combined aerial operation against Germany's might in Western Europe came within a few hours after Russian planes fanned out over Eastern Germany in destructive raids 09 at least eight cities and towns, penetrating as far wut as Berlin. Hit German Cities The Russians announced that their planes hit Berlin, especially its Treptow suburb, Danzig, Koen-Igsberg, Tilsit, Stettin, Stargard, Fuerstenwalde and Schneldemuehl in raids last night, despite the weather. All planes returned safely to their bases, Moscow said. All these towns have been reported receiving some industries moved out of the Ruhr-Rhineland section. They make planes, motors and submarine parts for U-boats launched at Danzig.

Many Fires Reported The Soviets reported that nine large fires were counted in Berlin and Danzig and 10 in Koenigsberg, East Prussia. Explosions were observed in Koenigsberg, the Russians added. (The Germans acknowledged a Russian attempt to raid Berlin but said officially that only one plane reached the outskirts of their capital. (A Reuters report from Stockholm said the Berlin suburbs of Zehlendorf and Dahlem were bombed. Another Stockholm re-Turn to Page 8, Column 7 Senate Votes 15 Million to Equip Home Guards WASHINGTON, Aug.

27 (AP) Legislation authorizing the War Department to equip state and territorial home guards with clothing, arms and ammunition at a cost not exceeding $15,000,000 was passed today by the Senate and sent to the House. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said that the bill would provide for a present strength of active state military forces of 150,000 men. "It will he necessarv to pet the King's consent," Miss Morris was quoiea, "Dut ir mat is not possible we shall have to wait until after the war and then get married abroad the same as the Duke of Windsor did." Lascelles is a son of the Princess Royal, Mary, only sister of King George. She was married Feb.

28, 1922. to the Earl of Hare- wood, at that time Viscount Lascelles. The girl was reported to have iauen in love with young Lascel les upon seeing mm on a bus. Later she met him at a dance. Lascelles, who became 18 only last Friday, is now working in a factory in Northwest England ana win join tne Army soon Gerald is tenth in line for the Eritish throne.

At lunch hour at the factorv. the Daily Mirror correspondent wrote. Gerald told him. "Yes, we are engaged all right, as far as we are concerned. "But it is not official.

Families can be very difficult. I don't think there will be any wcddirg until after the war." ZZ3 Fliers Priorities Reins Taken hy Nelson jr the Awocl.trJ Pre WASHINGTON, Aug. 27-1n-ald M. Nelson's new "gloves-off" policy in dealing with the materials shortage bore fruit tonight in withdrawal from Army and Navy procurement officers of all authority to grant priority ratings on individual Army and Navy contracts. The War Production Board chairman vested the authority, effective Sept.

7, solely In the hands of WPB district offices, in order to establish a comolete. unified control over the distribution of critical materials. Hundreds Had Power The old system save to each of many hundred Army and Navy procurement officers and inspectors the power to grant priorities automatically upon awarding a contract. Nelson said that the new procedure was "a step toward a much stricter system" of governing the flow of materials and of guaranteeing the most efficient possible use of "every ounce of scarce material and every critical subassembly." WPB will Immediately send priorities specialists to its various district offices armed with authority to issue priorities certificates, upon recommendation by the Army and Navy officers who sign the contracts, on the basis of approved directives specifying what rating shall be assigned, to each type of war goods. Notification was sent to the armed services, it was announced, in letters from Nelson to Undersecretary of War Robert P.

Patterson, Undersecretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal and Ferdinand Eberstadt, chairman of the Army -Navy Munitions Board. Under the new system, WPB will havo a constant nationwide check on the outflow of critical materials and will kno the exact status of the various shortages, rather than being forced to make loose estimates. Alcoa Union toDcfyWLB Union employees of the Detroit plant of the Aluminum Company of America voted unanimously Thursday to reject a War Labor Eoard decision denying their demand for a 51-a-day wage increase, officers of Local 11, Aluminum Workers of America (CIO), announced Thursday night. A.

A. Daniels, vice president the local, said that the vote empowered the union's international officers to call a nationwide strike if they deemed it necessary. Approximately 2.000 men participated in the vote, Daniels said. Workers in seven Alcoa plants in the nation were voting Thursday night on the WLB issue. 'FRENCH r.Lri Elir FAILS VICHY.

Aup. 27 (AP) Thi monument in Virhv to th Frem-n Republic was torn by cr i v. i s.ran Reds Hurl Nazis Back at Stalingrad Stone-Wali Stand Crushes Spearhead; Russians Cain on Central Front BY HENRY SHAPIRO United Pre Correspondent MOSCOW, Aug. 28 (Friday) Russian troops are hurling back the. Germans with "huge" losses in a stone-wall stand before Stalingrad, and they have swept through several more towns and into the streets of Rzhev in a growing counter-offensive northwest of Moscow, the High Command announced today.

One German spearhead has been smashed on the approaches to Stalingrad, the communique said. In another sector southwest of the city, the Russians laid down a shattering artillery bombardment and beat back two attacks by German tanks and motorized infantry. Red Drive Gaining The offensive northwest of Moscow, aimed at reclaiming the Rzhev-Vyazma railway and blasting out the German salient pointed at the Russian Capital, was still gaining momentum in its sixteenth day. Coincident with the announcement of new Red Army successes on the Rzhev-Vyazma front, it was announced that the commander of the western offensive, Gen. Gregory K.

Zhukov, had been appointed first vice commissar for defense to serve as Josef Stalin's right-hand man In that department. Storming Rzhev Previous front reports said Zhu-kov's offensive was developing swiftly as his men stormed Rzhev house by house in fierce fightirfg at close quarters and mopped up German strongholds on a broad front west of the Capital. To the south, Soviet forces pushing down below Sychevka were reported threatening to envelop the powerful German garrison at Gzhatsk, on the Moscow-Smolensk highway midway between Mozhaisk and Vyazma, while other Russian troops cleaned up the area between the Volga and the spur line linking Rzhev with the Moscow-Leningrad railroad. Informants said the Germans kept at least nine divisions posted at Rzhev alone and a huge concentration of tanks along the central front, in apparent hope of eventually using the tip of the salient as a springboard for a new onslaught against Moscow and Kalinin. Russians Fall Back Far down In the Caucasus the Russians fell back to new defense positions after stubborn fighting in the area of Prokhladnenski, 85 miles northwest of Grozny.

The High Command had announced 24 hours earlier that the Germans driving down the Rostov-Baku railroad had reached the region of 32 miles beyond Prokhladnenski. (At London Reuters quoted the Vichy radio as saying that a German-Rumanian column was within 20 miles of the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossisk. South of Krasnodar in the Northwest Caucasus, the communique said, fierce fighting raged for one strategic height which changed hands several times. At the end of the day, a Soviet unit held the height firmly. Reports from Berlin (The German High Command said the Russians carried out bitter counterattacks against a German spearhead west of Stalingrad, but were repelled and 40 Soviet tanks destroyed.

It said strategic mountain positions in the Caucasus were taken after stubborn battles. (Official Berlin reports said numerous Red Army attacks in the Rzhev area "collapsed with heavy losses to the enemy," 40 tanks being wrecked at one point. They added that other Soviet attacks were repulsed in the Kaluga and Medyn areas southwest of Moscow.) Army Comes First on Raid Souvenirs New ork Tinie Sertire WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 If air raiders come and their bombs miss you, don't gather the fragments a anitvenirs. Director James i Landis of the Office of Civilian Defense warned today that this tendency to collect souvenirs might I deprive the armed forces of vital i.nuuniiatiuFl.

Nonetheless, on the basis of information which the Navy has released to the press up to the present, which Includes no men tion of any losses which our forces may have suffered, the meeting has proved another victory for the United States and, specifically, American fliers. Tonight's communique made no mention of the situation in New Guinea. A dispatch from Gen. Douglas McArthur's headquarters in Australia, dated early Friday, said, however, that Allied planes, attacking the Japanese who have invaded the Milne Bay area of New Guinea, shot down 11 enemy planes Thursday and lost only one of their own fighters. The communique said that ground action was "developing" at Milne between Allied troops and the -Japanese who landed there.

Allied fighters machine-gun ned Japanese barges, supply and fuel dumps in the newly-invaded area, which is 225 miles east of Snipers Miss James Roosevelt By the At.orlnted 2'rrw PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 27 Snipers shot at Maj. James Roosevelt when he participated In the U. S. Marine-Navy raid on Makin Island, in the Gilbert group, recently, it was revealed today.

The President's son was second in command of the Ma-ripe contingent in the forty-hour raid, In the course of which 350 Japs were wiped out and enemy installations were destroyed. Maj. Roosevelt was uninjured. the Allied base of Port Moresby. In the Solomon Islands actions, enemy naval forces endeavored to attack our forces established on several islands, but particularly on Guadalcanal Island, where we have air bases.

Whether our reconnoissance units spotted the major enemy force, which included at least two carriers and one battleship, before or after the attempt of a lighter Japanese force of troops, cruisers, and destroyers to assault Guadalcanal Aug. 24 has not been made clear by the Navy. Official communiques of the last two days have, however, made two things clear. There were at least two separate engagements involv ing considerable numbers of Jap. anese war and other vessels.

In one, our land-based aircraft repulsed an enemy thrust against Guadalcanal. In the second, in what the Navy termed a large- Turn to Page 8, Column Briton Advocates Air Cargo Fleet New Vork Time Foreign Berilr LONDON. Aug. 27 A fleet of 5.000 air transnnrta that bring 1,000,000 men to Britain in nours ana mane me irans-At-lantic round trip every four days, or move 150,000 tons of freight weekly each way was advocated today by E. C.

Gordon-England, chairman of the Engineering Industries Association. "History," England told the Institute of Export meeting, "will condemn us for our blindness in not setting up a ministry charged with the sole responsibility of creating an aerial merchant service." BABOONS APE GUERILLAS CAPETOWN, South Africa, Aug. 27 (UP) "Guerilla" warfare raged today in the city of Simonstown. The population gave battle to 40 ba noons who invaded tl.e town from the surrounding mount. 'i pi.

isl and be; an lootir: New York Timet Servlee NEW YORK, Aug. 27 Heralded by Ralph A. Bard, assistant secretary of the Navy, as (a weapon that might some day "take part in that final climactic operation of all the war the invasion of the continent of Europe or the islands of Japan," the 45,000 -ton battleship Iowa, largest man-of-war ever built, slid down the ways of the Navy yard in Brooklyn today. The Iowa, first of six ships of her class to reach salt water, will prove to be "far advanced over the battleships that were sunk at Pearl Harbor," Bard said at the brief, war-time ceremony that marked the launching. He said he would guarantee U.S.

Destroyer Sunk in Crash inAtlanticFog Br the tnlted PreM WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 The Navy tonight announced the loss of the one-year-old destroyer In-graham as a result of a collision in fog in the Atlantic. The disclosure was made in a communique which gave no other detail other than the next of kin of those lost have been notified. The Ingraham was commissioned July 17 last year. It was launched Feb.

15, 1941, and named after Capt. Duncan N. Ingraham. The Ingraham was a vessel of 1,630 tons and normally carried a complement of 175 officers and men. Senator's Office Has Bomb Scare WASHINGTON, Aug.

27 (AP) A parcel-post package from Alabama addressed to Senator Lister D. Hill, Alabama Democrat, threw his office force into a dither today when an accompanying letter indicated that the parcel contained a bomb. Without opening it, Miss Margaret Stevens, an office aide, rushed the package to a War Department office in the Senate Office Building basement for examination by officers there. The package, from a North Alabama inventor, contained a model of an aerial bomb. The I trouble was that the inventor forgot to say in his letter that the drvite contained no ex- King's Nephew to Wed Jewess, Paper Asserts Traffic Dealhs Drop 17 Pet.

By (he Antorlated rre CHICAGO, Aug. 27 Traffic deaths in the United States are declining sharply but, unless they are reduced even more, the 1942 total will exceed 30,000. That was the gist of a summary imed tonight by the National Safety Council in reporting that nuch improvement had been shown fclt that there still was no room f''r complacency. In the first seven months of this J'ar, 16,870 lives were lost a decline of 17 per cent from the total a similar 1941 period. City safety leaders through the '-ven months, with their rankings as figured by the were: -'roup one (over 500,000 populate Wilwaukee, 7.9 per 100,000 population; Group Two "'-Yifuioni providence, R.

1 hi- Group Three Citv. 3.4; Group 1 Mount Ver-r -v and Mcdford, Br the Auotlated Prei LONDON, Aug. 28 (Friday) The London tabloid Daily Mirror carried in its first edition today a long story reporting that the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, eighteen-year-old nephew of King George VI, had become engage! to June i de scribed as a slim, dark-eyed Jewess, also 18, of Leeds. The story was dropped complete- ly from later editions without explanation.

Members of the families involved could not be reached i i- I. (ierald atply for comment. The Mirror's story said that Gerald's father, the Earl of Hare-wood, hd written to the girl's father opposing the immediate Merry-Go-R'd 6 Newton 6 16 6 21 25 7 12 Parade Quillen Racing Radio Reporter Ret roes Ruth Alden 12 Royce Howes 13 Sports 13-19 Stafford 18 ThpI'iiH Cohh 10 The Stroller 15 Town Crier 26 Ward 19 Washington 13 Women's 8-12 Am's'nts 14-15 Bingay 6 Chatterbox 9 Clapper 13 Classified 22-24 Collyer's 21 Crossword 22 Diary 11 Edgar Guest 6 Editorial 6 Fashions 11 Frank Gill 14 Fip.HfKiHl 20 Horoscope 7 Iffy 26 Lyons 26 I.ippmann 1.1 Leo Shaw 11.