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- able to move the car, he jumped.
emy Resumes Attacks in - Solomons; Foe Also Hit in Aleutians.
; Ee —_— Nov. 12 (U. P.) — Brican filers shot down 17 of 50
bombers and fighters in
> battles marking resumption of
enemy air attacks on Guadalcanal, Sis navy announced today.
‘the air fights, which took place
y (island time), the Amercans probably downed five addienemy planes, the navy said,
‘while losing seven fighters of their
The - Japanese unofficial total since the Solo-
campaign opened Aug. 7 to
Previously, American airmen had struck new blows against the en‘emy at both ends of the long Pa-
‘oific battlefront—in the Solomons
~ While U. S, marines, supported by
army planes, continued their offensive east and west of the air-
fleld on Guadalcanal island, other
Kiska islands in the Aleutians, de-
ing enemy cargo ships. Using Attu Again Last night's communique con-
tained the first mention of action
in the Aleutians since Oct. 23 and
nade on Kiska. It also revealed ‘that the Japanése again are making
~yeported on Oct. 7 had apparently ‘been abandoned temporarily by the - enemy. The most recent American raids on the Aleutians occurred last Monday. Army bombers destroyed seven float type zero planes on Holtz bay, Attu,” but met no opposition. A Navy spokesman said there was no
evidence of enemy activity on Attu]
Atself. It was believed the Japanese were using Holtz bay for a plane
od Kiska, some 200 miles to the east.
2,000,000 COLORS
. DAYTON, O. (U. P.)—Using an electronic instrument which can distinguish between 2,000,000 shades of color, the materials laboratory of
ardization of colors through the use of color curves produced by the device, instead of using colored chips or samples. The latter fade under different temperatures and handling
relied upon to give the same shade of colors at all times. The instrument being used is a photoelectric spectrophotometer, . produced by General Electric engineers. At present, the studies apply par-
camouflage colors, color characteristics of luminescent materials, and measurement of light transmissions
tics.
LEFT IN THE LURCH
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12 (U, P). =Mrs. Homer Clifford sat calmly in a stalled automobile while her husband struggled to push it from the path of a freight train. Un-
Mrs. Clifford suffered back injuries, shock, severe cuts and bruises, but physicians said she would recover.
losses brought
‘army fliers were raiding Attu and
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CROSSING CRASH KILLS MILLER
Train Hits J. L. Davis Auto At Seymour; Report Wife Recovering.
Times Special SEYMOUR, Ind, Nov. 12—-J. L. Davis, president of the local Blish Milling Co., was injured fatally yesterday when his car was struck by a 'B. & O. freight train at a crossing west of here. Mrs. Davis, who. was riding with ‘him, was hurt but her condition is not believed to be serious. Mr. Davis graduated from Yale university in 1897 and three years later organized the firm of Lack & Davis which transacted business in Manila. He-served as export manager for the Pacific Commercial Co. in New York and was sent to Australia as resident manager. In 1922 he became resident representative of the Whiet Motor Co. with headquarters in the City of Mexico and Havana and in 1926 became general manager of the Blish Co. A member of the Columbia club in Indianapolis, he served as vice president and a member of the executive committee of the Southeastern Millers’ association, vice president of the Indiana Taxpayers’ association, was a member of the board of the Indiana Chamber -of Commerce, director of the Indiana Manufacturers’ association, vice president of the American Millers’ association and a director of the National Soft Wheat Millers’ association.
RESTRICTS RUBBING FLUID
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (U. P.) — The war production board today prohibited all sales of rubbing alcohol except to persons with written physicians’ prescriptions and to professional users.
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GAIN TOTALS 53
Demoorat Senate Majority Cut to 19, and House Edge to 13.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (U.P.) — Final returns in the Nov. 3 election gave the Democrats a final 13-man majority in the house with 222 members to 209 for the Republicans. In the senate, final returns showed a Republican gain of 9, leaving the balance at 57 Democrats, 38 Republicans and one Progressive. Republicans picked up 44 seats in the house, making a total congressional gain of 53. The new lineup: Present Senate—77th Congress
(Before Nov. 3 Election)
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ROMMEL LOGE HEAVILY IN AIR
6 Troop Transports Among 23 Enemy Planes Downed
- Over Desert.
By LEON KAY United Press Staff Correspondent CAIRO, Nov. 12 (U. P.).—The British 8th army neared Tobruk today in its. deadly pursuit of the shreds of Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps, and an imperial
communique reported that allied planes shot down 23 axis aircraft yesterday, including at least six big troops transports. Earlier front-line reports said American and British. fliers shot down 22 axis planes yesterday, almost completely destroying formations Rommel had put into the air in a desperate effort to slow the advance.
the 23 reported in the communique and those mentioned in the front reports were duplications.
Bomb Transport Columns
Allied fighters and fighter-bomb-ers attacked dense axis transport concentrations without let-up yesterday between Bardia and Gambut and on the Tobruk by-pass. Allied bombers blasted Tobruk, further destroying it as a refuge for Rommel Tuesday night, and besides Tunis, bombed the island of Sardinia, axis base off Tunisia, for the third successive night. Ten planes failed to return from all operations, the communique said. The victorious eighth army, ad-
capturing numbers of prisoners in Libya.
GEOLOGICAL PROJECT
FOREST GROVE, Ore. (U. P.) — The “Road of Ages” of Pacific university here has received the latest addition to its famous geological
Mining Co., it was announced. The newest specimens represent-
isphere are examples of pink rhodochrosite ore, weighing 80 pounds. The ore will be added to the collection placed at intervals along the main. campus drive and will be studied by the university's geology classes, Dr. Walter Giersbach, president, said.
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of the Jess Owens’ home where she tore out furnace and water pipes
‘before leaving for Main st.
Frightened residents ran helter-|grass.
skelter before her. One woman,
Mrs. Chauncey Kessler, 50, a houseducked into a drug store through whose open door came the roasted peanuts. Modoc ought her 2500 pounds to bear against the door and followed Mrs. Kessler, who hid behind a
wife,
smell « sniffed,
counter.
Modoc pushed over the soda fountain, tables and chairs and a glass display case. Waving her trunk, she picked up Mrs, Kessler, gently placed her back on the floor and nudged her along with her feet. Mrs. Kessler was treated for minor
cuts and bruises:
By this time, Jacobs and six of his helpers were trailing Modoc. 1 They were joined by Chief of Police Frank S. Gurtner and Wabash of-
the “back door of: die: oie. and headed for the outskirts of town. On the way she chased Arthur Stuart and knocked Ezra La Salle into his yard before trampling his
From there the trail led through the spacious residential district and across the gently rolling greens of the Wabash country club. The elephant hunters were joined by state police in four squad cars and more than 50 volunteérs. But Modoc escaped through the sycamores along the Wabash river. At 10 p. m. the volunteers were called back because Jacobs believed they excited Modoc. Jacobs said Modoc always had been -well-be-haved and “good-natured.” Jacobs, Chief Gurtner and a handful of searchers continued the elephant hunt. The spoor led them
brush-covered Wabash valley toward Lagroo, six miles east. The trail was lost until early this morning when the police depart-
ficers. But Modoc crashed through
Sa
out of the woods along the hilly,|ing
complaints. from farmers that their
cows, horses and other stock were panic stricken and running loose over the countryside through broken fences. One startled farmer reported seeing a “monster” cross his pasture. “It’s an elephant,” Desk Sergt. Fred Aukerman explained. - “Well, whatever it was” the farmer replied, “my cows don’t like it. They hightailed it off in
the opposite direction when they saw it.”
Sergt. Aukerman said the elephant was somewhere in the neighborhood about four and a half miles east of Wabash and that it would be captured sometime this morn-
“If it isn't” he said, “there'll be hell to pay.”
But the morning passed and
Modoc was still uncaptured.
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McNutt Manpower Commission.
(Continued from Page One) that he believed the committee's intention was to provide for straight-time pay up ‘to ‘48 hours, with overtime in excess of that paid in bonds instead of cash. The report carried no suggestions with respect to details of lengthening the work week. “The manpower problem ‘is too difficult and. complex to be solved by any simple solution such as creating a manpower czar or authorizing by statute a government agency to determine by coercion where each employee shall work,” the report. said. : In a long series of detailed recom-
er and war production, platis against over-all manpower resources, with o
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