untried a. WAKE BLASTED TO WRE WRECKAGE GE BY LARGEST CARRIER FORCE BY MALCOLM R. JOHNSON The bombers Hellcat that made fighters, our Dauntless aerial dive bombers force flew and 830 Avenger sorties Aircraft Carrier Flagship Off Wake Island. Oct. 6-(De- up striking Aboard an concentration of aircraft carriers in the history the two day attack.
And the entire force hurled 774 tons of laved) -The warfare largest, just finished a two-day battering of Wake island, explosives into the three coral islets- Wake, Wilkes and Peale--that naval still alive there have to rebuild their mid-Pacific make up the wishbone shaped island commonly known as Wake. the abandon it. The bombing planes dropped 320 tons of that destructive total, while Japanese outpost or the first day's attack from the flight tower of this car- the escorting cruisers pumpednin 373 tons and the destroyer screen I witnessed more than 31 hours today I had a bird's eye view added 811 tons more. based Navy Liberators that joined rier. And attacking Navy torpedo bomber that bombed the attack dropped an additional undisclosed tonnage.
for of the the enemy base. Throughout the raid the Japanese failed to send a single defense second from an and back to the wreckage that existed in Decem- ship to interfere with the American task force, leaving the defense strafed Wake has the Japanese overpowered its tiny U. S. Marine garri- of the island been blasted when to coastal batteries, anti-aircraft guns and fighter planes. ber, Rear Adm.
Alfred E. Montgomery, the task force commander. said 1941, son. operation of an unprecedented scale, and it that about three-fifths of the Japanese water storage facilities and a an This was to the enemy that a new air-sea technique good deal of their oil. warehouses.
barracks and administration builddemonstrated from explosively increased American strength--a technique that ings had been destroyed. has used against them again. In addition, he said, the island's main radio station probably was been island probably could have been captured and the surprised wrecked and damage was inflicted on three power plants and two will be evidently believed that Wake garrison was our intention. for they water distillation plants. Japanese scuttled a ship in the channel in order to block a landing.
The Navy's new Grumman Hellcat fighter proved itself against the the naval high command apparently does not want Wake at Japanese fighter defense on the first day. Except for a few enemy hurriedly and there was no landing. We simply bombed and shelled caught aground on the first pre-dawn bombing Tuesday, the But this into uselessness as a threat to American operations on the western Hellcats accounted for all 31 Japanese aircraft trapped and destroyed time, it of Japan's defense perimeter. on the runways and shot down more than 30 in aerial combat. fringe To the best of my knowledge.
the Zeros failed to down a single through a heavy cloud formation over Wake without meeting any Navy fighter, although it is possible that one or more Hellcats may fighter opposition, although light -aircraft guns on the ground threw have been "tagged," as the fate of missing carrier planes is seldom up a fierce barrage as soon as we penetrated the overcast. definitely known. One huge fire already was burning from the previous wave's attack Thirteen American planes were lost in the two day assault. Seven as we started down from 3.000 000 feet. I had trouble relieving the preslater were rescued from the water.
sure on my ears until the bomb bay opened at 800 feet and a I looked airmen down at the target. The pain was forgotten as I caught a quick During the first half hour of the initial raid Tuesday, Cmdr. Leon- of dozen bombs the target. ard B. Southerland, Fort Payne, air said glimpse of our string a spraying "dogfights broke out all over the sky like Hellcats group, Not a single bomb landed in the water.
It looked like a string of firecrackers exploding on the ground, except on a bigger scale. knocking down every Zero in sight. Then A hit what have been huge oil or it happened. bomb must a The first bombing wave left this carrier flagship in the pre-dawn gasoline tank and a great cylinder of orange flame and black smoke darkness Tuesday morning and, although Wake island was known to spurted up toward us. The flame kept pace with the smoke until it be heavily defended, the raiders met only light anti -aircraft fire.
reached a high of 400 or 500 feet. The Hellcats cleaned up every Japanese plane in sight by 9 a.m. of Then we got out of there, leaving seven big columns of smoke and the first day, but the enemy either moved in a number of dive bomb- four burning oil buildings behind ers and fighters during the night or brought reinforcements out of Among the outstanding fighter pilots who cleared the way for the underground hangars. These were knocked out promptly today. bombers by their quick clean-up of the enemy fighters were Lieut.
Among the 61 or more enemy planes destroyed were 10 out of a (j.g.) Mark Bright, 24, Anderson, and Lieut. Mayo E. Hadden, group of bombers caught by our fighters today while en route to Holland. Mich. reinforce Wake.
Bright and Hadden each downed a Zero over Wake in the first I went along on today's repeat bombing in a torpedo plane piloted dawn battle. Hadden was wounded in the left leg by shrapnel and by Lieut. Cmdr. Paul E. Emrick, Butler, a veteran torpedo squad- he brought his fighter back with more than 150 machine gun slugs ron commander.
and five cannon holes in it. A veteran of the North African invasion, We took off at 8 a.m. at the head of an attack formation and broke Hadden was wounded in the right leg in that campaign. EDITION Unchanged FINAL WEATHER PORT HURON ON TIMES IS HE HERALD PORT DAILY HURON HERALD FOUNDED AUGUST 1. 1900 TIMES, MARCH 23, 1872 THE CHEST, WHAT'S WRONG WITH POLICE? Study Promised By Commissioners oners What are the 1 weak points of the Port Huron police department? This question.
prompted by a formal report from City, Manager Leonard G. Howell that five members of the department have quit within about two months. provoked a lengthy discussion Monday night among members of the city commission. discussion, started by Commissioner Thomas E. Woods, ended The with most of the commissioners they ought to find out more about the training.
attitude and morale of the police force. As a first step, the city manager was instructed to arrange a special meeting of the commission and the civil service board to talk over the possibility of filling vacated police jobs temporarily, so that they can be saved for some of the men who will return from military service after the war. The discussion brought out an ebservation by Commissioner Woods that "there may be problems of long standing" in the department; a report by Mr. Howell that the turnover of police personnel here is one of the lowest in the state, and admissions by Commissioners Carl E. Muir and Leonard F.
Meade that the five resignations have stirred up considerable discussion and rumor. Wonders About Resignations Woods wondered what caused the five resignations, stating that there may exist in the department such conidtions as lack of incentive for advancement; tion with the quality of leadership; too-low salaries; below-level requirements for employment, or inadequate training among recruit policemen. know there are a lot of things happening that we as a commission should do something about and work with our manager to find out he declared. Commissioner James M. Mactagtart felt that five resignations among a force of 90 men is not abnormal at a time when employes in private business and industry are switching jobs at a quick pace.
Howell took up the case of each resigned policeman. Patrolman Harold A. Bills had long wanted to go into railroad work, got the opportunity recently, and left police work, he said. Patrolman John A. Harmon, with the department one year.
quit to take a higher- paying job in private industry. PatrolSee POLICE. Page Two Lift Censorship Restrictions On Weather Forecast Washington. Oct. 12-AP-Lifting of censorship restrictions on weather forecasts demonstrated for the second time In a week today how confident the high command has grown in the safety of continental United States from enemy air attack of any magnitude.
Byron Price, director of censorship, announced Monday night "improved defense and other war conditions" made it possible to relax the rules against publication and radio broadcast of weather forecasts. Effective last midnight, official forecasts are usable except for mention of wind direction and barometric pressure. Newspapers had been confined to publishing weather conditions within a 150-mile radius. Reveal Aussie Flyer Was Jap Samauri Victim Canberra, Oct. 12-The Allied airman whose beheading was disclosed in a dairy found on a dead Japanese in New Guinea was an Australian.
Prime Minister John Curtin revealed Monday. He refused to disclose the flyer's name. The account of the atrocity issued at Douglas MacArthur's headquarters did not give the flyer's nationality. "The name will be unpublished by the "as this is government." said. Curtin a private and intimate I associated with deep grief.
matter feel sure all fellow Australians will agree which the extent of circle in matter sorrow is known is a their for themselves to judge." Fellowship Dinner be held Fellowship potluck dinner will A by members byterian church and of their First friends p.m. Wednesday in the assembly room of the church house. PORT HURON, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1943 FOURTEEN FUND CLOSE Remember Wake Island! A small tanker is seen burning Wilkes island in this photograph and ships of the Pacific fleet. (AP in the channel while a bomb made during the bombardment of Wirephoto from U. S.
Navy). Kiev Battle Flames As Mud Slows Italy Russian and struggle for Kiev. military base, as Slowly but against desperate German forces were engaged today climactic ancient capital of the Ukraine and once-great Nazi the Red army forged ahead on the long Soviet front. surely the Russians were gaining the upper hand Nazi attempts to prevent full collapse of the Dnieper river line. Entire Russian ions were ferrying the river to enlarge big and firmly held bridgeheads.
Kiev's semi-circle of defenses were blasted open but the Germans threw masses of men, tanks and planes in counter attacks from Kiev southward to Kremenchug, 115 miles down the Dnieper, in a fruitless effort to stop the Russians. In White Russia 150 miles to the north. Russian artillery pounded Gomel, hinge of enemy defenses. from across the Sozh river, the east bank of which had been cleared. The Red army hacked out further advances toward Vitebsk.
Slowed by rain, mud and stiffened German defenses, the AngloAmerican Fifth army hauled up artillery to the south of the Volturno river in Italy to jar loose the German line. Volturno at Flood Stage The stream. narrow and shallow normally, was roaring at flood stage and sloshing over its banks in places, delaying a mass crossing. The artillery preparation was calculated to shake loose the enSee WAR, Page 12 Richmond Garage Attendant Struck By Tire Rim, Dies (Special To The Times Herald) Richmond. Oct.
12-Lorenzo D. Andrews, 66, was fatally injured Monday in an unusual accident while inflating an automobile tire at the Donald Foster gas station here where he is employed. The tire rim flew off when the tube exploded and struck Andrews in the forehead, causing a large deep gash. He died at 7:45 p.m. in St.
Joseph's hospital, Mt. Clemens. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Bauer funeral home with Rev. William Pryor, Methodist pastor, officiating.
Rev. H. H. Cheney, Memphis pastor, will conduct services at the grave in Memphis cemetery. He is survived by his widow.
Mrs. Lena Andrews; two sons. Ray Andrews. Dearborn, and George Clare Andrews, Ferndale, and four grandchildren, PAGES TODAY PRICE FIVE CENTS TO GOALS BRITAIN GETS AZORES NAVAL AND AIR BASES Portugal Hands Over Vital Positions In Startling War Development London. Oct.
12-Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced today that Portugal is immediately giving Britain air and naval bases in the Azores. The agreement does not affect the Portuguese desire to maintain her neutrality "on the European mainland," Churchill said. Britain agreed to provide assistance in supplying the Portuguese armed forces and maintaining the national economy. Portugal maintains the sovereignty of the Azores, strategic islands in the Atlantic. and all British troops will be withdrawn at the conclusion of hostilities.
Approved By U. S. In Washington, the state department announced today that U. S. government "approved" the arrangements by which Great Britain obtained use of the Portuguese Azores islands for naval and air bases for the protection of allied shipping.) The Azores island group lies 800 miles off Lisbon between Portugal and the United States.
Amid numerous rumors that the Portuguese, who now are engaged in the biggest military maneuvers of the war. might declare hostili- See PORTUGAL, Page 12 Sheriff Asks For Quarters To Hold Diseased Inmates A request by Sheriff Ferris E. Lucas for assistance in solving the problem of providing special quarters for jail inmates afflicted with venereal disease was referred by the county board of supervisors to its health committee this morning. At the present time, five, possibly six. of seven women in the jail, and two men.
have venereal diseases. Sheriff Lucas told the board. In order to segregate the diseased prisoners from others, Lucas said he must have more equipment or special quarters to house them. The problem of diseases inmates is not new. but the number of such prisoners is increasing, he declared.
During his talk. he cited cases of two 15-year-old county girls afflicted with venereal disease. One was taken into custody, but released shortly after, and the other was not taken into custody--this because the girls were too young to be sent to jail, he said. Carl E. Muir, member of the Port Huron city commission, said "the whole situation is very serious, and suggested joint action by the board's health committee and the city of Port Huron.
The health committee will meet at 10 a. m. Wednesday. and later will make a report to the board. The board Monday referred to its expenditures committee a request for $1.000 from the Michigan Children's Aid and a request for an appropriation of onetenth of a mill from the Soldiers Relief commission for relief work among war veterans and veterans' widows.
An invitation from the Port Huron Rotary club for members of the board to attend the club's lucheon meeting Oct. 21 was accepted. Rev. R. D.
Richards, Detroit, will speak on "What America Has Meant to Me." He came to this country from Europe 14 years ago. Pleads Not Guilty Driving While Drunk Orville J. Franks, 42. of 4504 North River road, pleaded not guilty this morning before Municipal Judge George T. McInnis on a drunk driving charge.
He was released on $300 bond pending trial Wednesday, Oct. 20. He was arrested Monday night by Patrolman Vance M. Schaller and John Nyquist. after a car driven by Franks struck a car driven by Harvey Steadman.
Lansing. at Thirteenth street and Lapeer avenue. PORT HURON HAS $7,123 TO RAISE County Lacks $1,500 To Achieve $25,000 Goal; Leaders Anticipate Additional Confident Quota Will Be Reached Within Few Days The 1944 United Community War Chest for Port Huron, Marysville and Port Huron township lacks $7.123.08 of reaching its goal of $108,150. This was what the scoreboard revealed at the final report meeting of the 11-day campaign Monday night in Hotel Harrington. One hundred and fifty campaign workers attended.
It marked the first time since the Community Chest was started here five ago, officials said, that the annual goal was not achieved when the formal campaign closed. There is a reasonable expectation, said Francis Kiefer, campaign general, that the goal will be virtually, audited, reached chiefly when because final figures several industries and business and professional divisions have not made complete reports. $17,414 Report Funds for relief agencies that provide comforts for American fighting men and food, shelter and clothing for war destitute civilians in other countries, and 11 home agencies that continue to serve the young, the agent sick in time of war over $100.000 the mark because of a final day's efforts by several hundred workers who collected $17.414.08 to add to the previous total of $84.635.72. The contributions in Port Huron, Marysville and Port Huron township represented the greatest humanitarian effort by its residents in history. The 1943 campaign surpassed its $77.600 goal by more than 25 per cent, putting the total in the neighborhood of $100.0000.
Topping the six divisions in the campaign was the advanced gifts division. under the leadership of Major Generals George C. Higgins and E. W. Kiefer who reported $43.336 including a final day's tally of $5.171.
This was more than $10.000 more than was collected in the division for 1943 campaign. From Francis Kiefer down See CHEST, Page Two Pedestrian, Struck By Automobile, Dies Leonard M. Vincent, 78. of 1808 Stone street, died this morning in Port Huron hospital of injuries suffered at 8 p.m. Monday when he was struck by a car driven by Lewis Wisner.
69. of 2539 Forest street. in the 1800 block of Stone street. Wisner in a statement to Eugene O'Brien, chief assistant prosecuting attorney, said that he failed to see Vincent who was crossing the street in the middle of the block. Wisner was released after questioning by Patrolmen Vance M.
Schaller and John Nyquist. Coroner Arthur E. Smith who investigated the accident said this that an inquest will be morning, Vincent suffered internal injuries and fractures of both legs. A resident of Port Huron more than 50 years, was born in Clyde township, Sept. 17, 1865.
He was a member of Fort Gratiot lodge No. 374, F. A. M. and St.
Paul's Episcopal church. He is survived by his widow. Mrs. Florence Vincent, Port Huron; a brother Wesley Vincent, North Street. a sister, Nellie Mcnu*tt, Port Huron: two nieces, Mrs.
Archie Baker, Port Huron: and Mrs. Ralph Young, North Street, a nephew Frederick Vincent, North Street. The remains are in the Arthur E. Smith funeral home where funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday.
Rev. H. H. Firth. rector of St.
Paul's church. will officiate. He also survived by a daughter. Miss Elizabeth Ann Vincent, Port Huron. Donations County Workers Assured Of Goal In Final Reports ASKS FEDERAL TAX ON SALES C.
of C. Expert Blasts Revenue Plan Of Administration Washington, Oct. 12-'Ellsworth C. Alvord, chairman of the federal finance committee of the U. S.
Chamber Commerce, today urged congress to adopt a federal sales tax with no exemptions in place of the administration's 500.000.000 revenue program, which he described as a "political expedient which will support neither a fiscal program nor a bomber." Alvord. appearing before the house ways and means committee, contradicted administration arguments against a sales tax. He said such a levy: 1-Is capable of reasonably simple and effective administration. 2-Would be desirable deflationary. 3-Would bring in substantial revenues, without imposing unbearable burdens, from those receiving four of the national income.
4-Would not discriminate in favor of high-income groups and against low-income groups. 5-Would make unnecessary the sharp increases in certain excise taxes advocated by the treasury. 6-Would a highly desirable supplement, at least for the duration of the war, to our present tax laws. 7-Would be an effective aid in stamping out black markets. Alvord did not propose a specific sales tax rate.
he said, however, that a 10 per cent levy would yield more than $6.000.000,000 during the calendar year 1944. Alvord said that if a sales tax is enacted, in order to prevent imposition of too great a burden on low income groups, existing personal exemptions for individual income tax purposes should be increased somewhat and the first surtax bracket should be established somewhere above the first $1 of taxable income. Draft Dodger Turns Down Invitation To Leave U.S. New Haven, Oct. 12-AP -A federal judge pointedly invited an American citizen who failed to report for induction to leave the United States forever, but the invitation was turned down promptly.
After Stanley Mocarsky, 23-yearold arms plant worker from Hartford had pleaded guilty to failing to report induction, Judge Carroll C. Hincks. suspended sentence in the case Monday "on condition the defendant shall accomplish his removal from the United States and thereafter shall remain outside its borders." Mocarsky, married and the father of a child born last May, informed the court through his lawyer, Joseph P. Cooney, that he had decided to turn down the proposal that he quit the United States and asked for immediate imposition of sentence. The judge, however, continued the case for 30 days so that the accused and his family might have time to think it over.
Mocarsky, the court was told, refused to report for induction because he felt that the American people hadn't done anything for him: and that while he failed to obey the induction order. he stood ready to defend the United States if lit was invaded. every assurance of complete success in attaining its quota of $25,000 "when every penny collected has been turned St. Clair county's United War Fund citizen army, 500 strong met Monday night in Goodells park to celebrate the close of the drive that has netted the National War Fund 500. in a 10-day campaign.
The citizen army of St. Clair, led by Fred W. Moore, colonel, and Justice Frank D. Beadle and Frank Miller, majors, exceeded its quota of $3.500, highest in the county, by $1,500, with "more to its officers reported. "Over the top in every township" was the triumphant report from Zone 1, with State Representative Roy T.
Gilbert, Algonac, as colonel, J. J. LeClare, Starville, and Miss Charity Schnoor, Fair Haven, lieutenant colonels. Clay township (including Algonac) with Mrs. Stern, major, exceeded its $1,200 quota by over $700; Ira township, with B.
J. Latour, major, exceeded its $800 quota by Cottrellville township, with Albert Sharrow, major, went over its $400 quota by $88.75. The grand total for Zone 1 was $3.271.24. All But One Zone 6. led by Frank V.
McCabe, colonel. and Mrs. Jesse S. Sherrard, Riley township, and Mrs. Gilvie Gibbs, Goodells, lieutenant colSee WAR FUND, Page Two has just hit near storage tanks on Wake island on October 5, by planes BUILDING FOR YOUTH CENTER Old School Is Suggested As Possible Location Business Women To Honor Gold Stars At Dinner Tonight In celebration of National Business women's week, the Port Huron Business Professional Women's club will hold a banquet at 7:30 p.m.
today in Hotel Harrington. Mayor George C. Higgins has issued a proclamation urging citizens to co-operate with the business and professional women in their local observance. In his proclamation, the mayor that the theme of week is "living on the home front." and it should be the concern of all our citizens. know that before our country can win the war and the peace in the world, we must win it on the home front, in our own country." Port Huron Business Professional Women's club is composed of women who are accustomed to bringing their business training to bear on the problem of their business and their families.
They are planning to bring this same experience to bear on some of the problems with which we are struggling here at home." Clifford O'Sullivan will be principal speaker. Mayor Higgins will be toastmaster. Frank O. Staiger. secretary-treasurer of the Michigan district of Kiwanis International, will lead group singing.
Gold Star Mothers of World War II will be honor guests. Weather- Hourly Temperatures Monday Today m. A a. m. m.
m. m. m. m. A 5: 111.
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60 000 p. m. 10 p. m. 59 11 p.
m. 66 Midnight 66 Highest 74 A. 111 a. m. 56 10 a.
m. 11 a. m. Noon Lowest Detroit and vicinity: Continued warm tonight. cooler Wednesday forenoon with showers.
Moderate tO occasionally fresh winds. Lower Michizan: Continued warm tonizht. showers and cooler Wednesday forenoon Increasing wind. The sun sets today at 686 p.m. and rises tomorrow at 7:42 4.
2. The old Taylor school at Court and Seventh streets, now occupied by the county welfare offices. received the indorsem*nt of Circuit Judge Fred W. George, at a board of education meeting Monday night in the Junior college building, as a prospective center for the Youth Advancement movement. Judge George suggested that the building, if obtainable and usable for this purpose, has an assembly hall that could be utilized for parties and has second floor rooms that could be used for pool tables.
ping pong tables and other games and he also suggested that the Public library had offered to open a branch library or reading room in such a center. Judge George suggested that the enthusiasm and energy of the young people back of the Youth Advancement movement could be used to good advantage in the actual work of rehabilitating the building. This. he argued, would give the young See CENTER, Page Two Accused Attacker's Trial Is Postponed Circuit Judge Fred W. George Monday afternoon postponed indefinitely the trial of Adam Schneider, 15.
of 1337 Francis street. on a charge of criminally attacking a 15-year-old girl. Judge George in postponing the trial said the physical condition of the complaining witness in the case does not permit her to testify at this time. Because of the postponement, Lawrence Russell. Kenneth Clumfoot, 17, and David Langolf, 16, members of the gang of criminal attackers serving 15 year sentences in State Prison for Southern Michigan.
brought here to testify in the trial. will be returned to prison Wednesday, Sheriff Ferris E. Lucas said. Greater Grand Jury Secrecy Is Promised Lansing. Oct.
12-AP-Greater secrecy will mark the windup of the state's one-man grand jury investigation of the legislature. Attorney General Herbert J. Rushton said today. Macomb Vice Inquiry Ordered Lansing, Oct. 12-AP-The state administrative board today ordered an investigation by Attorney General Herbert J.
Rushton of charges by the St. Clair Shores Methodist church men's club that gambling and vice flourish in Macomb county. The board acted on the motion of Lieutenant Governor Eugene C. Keyes, who had demanded that the agency move for a grand jury investigation of law enforcement in that county until his colleagues on the board convinced him that this was beyond its powers. The Rev.
A. Morris, pastor of the church, led a delegation before the board to demand immediate action serving notice that propose to keep after this until something is done." The clergyman made much of a report he said had been made to the attorney general department by a special investigator but of which no trace was found. The report was submitted to James F. Shepherd, deputy attorney general. a day or two before he died of a heart attack and it has not been determined whether the report was made orally or in writing.
Governor Kelly announced he is instructing the state police to make their own investigation and "if these conditions exist to correct them immediately." Where To Find It-- m. a. m. m. Classified 13 Comics 10 David Lawrence 6 District News.
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