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Vignettes in khaki
By Florence Fisher Parry
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Flynn hearing draws recess
Girl tells of meeting actor at Hollywood party
Hollywood, California (UP) –
The preliminary hearing at which screen actor Errol Flynn has been charged with statutory assault by two teenage girls was interrupted today to give all participants, except the accusers, who are too young, an opportunity to vote.
The first session yesterday ended with Flynn’s lawyer Jerry Geisler, one of the best-known criminal attorneys in the West, getting into the record his client’s initial reaction to the story told by Miss Betty Hansen, movie-struck girl from Lincoln, Nebraska.
Flynn said, according to his lawyer:
It’s all a horrible lie.
Meet at party
The hearing will be resumed tomorrow morning.
Miss Hansen told of meeting Flynn at a Hollywood party and of being introduced by a friend who said Flynn could help her movie career.
The Press will report certain details of the Flynn trial as it progresses but most of the direct testimony will not be used as it is unfit for publication in the opinion of the editors of this newspaper.
Court to rule on trial
The other girl involved in the case, Peggy LaRue Satterlee, is expected to testify later.
The hearing before a municipal judge is to determine whether Flynn shall be held for Superior Court trial.
Flynn sat with downcast eyes, drawing doodles on a scratch pad, while Miss Hansen testified.
Agnes Toupes, an oriental dancer who performed at the party, testified as a state witness, saying she was whirling so fast during her dance that she could not tell exactly what went on.
Dressed as schoolgirl
If Miss Satterlee appears before the jury that will try Flynn some weeks hence as she appeared yesterday, she will be an impressive witness because yesterday, in addition to two long pigtails, she wore a schoolgirl skirt and low-heeled wedgies, very little makeup, and looked like a child. Two weeks ago, cameramen went to NTG’s Florentine Garden where she dances in the chorus, to take her picture and she posed in a brief, skintight, divided bodice, sequin-spangled costume with high heels, a hat cocked over one eye, and her hair done in buns behind each ear. She looked considerably older then.
She said:
I dress for myself.
…shaking her pigtails, when asked about the change.
Miss Hansen didn’t look the same, either. Before, she had worn brown slacks and a heavy makeup. Yesterday, she wore a demure tan dress, very little makeup, and carried a schoolgirl’s trench coat.
W. G. Chandler appointed WPB printing unit chief
Scripps-Howard executive named successor to George Renard
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Spaatz sees King George
London, England –
Maj. Gen. Carl Spaatz, commander of U.S. Air Forces in the European Theater, conferred with King George today at Buckingham Palace.
Torpedo ‘trap’ got destroyer, crew reveals
O’Brien’s skipper calls it ‘miracle,’ for not one man was lost
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Rear attack on Axis desert army urged as second front
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
Here’s what rear attack on Rommel would mean if the Allies invaded Morocco (1) and struck into Tunisia where fliers could cut the Axis supply line (2) while land forces executed a pincer move on Rommel’s army after taking Tripoli (3) and the British Eighth Army continued a drive from Alamein.
Washington –
A second front in Morocco and along the rich North African coastline, to take Marshal Rommel’s forces from the rear and annihilate them, might well be decisive, according to Dr. Cyrus French Wicker, former U.S. chargé d’affaires in the ancient Sharifian empire.
Dr. Wicker was the last diplomatic representative of the United States in Northwest Africa prior to its being turned over to France. He knows both the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts thereabouts like a book. Said he:
Foremost in our minds is a will that the second front be made decisive. So vast an expenditure of blood and treasure as will be required should not be wasted upon some mere delaying action.
The Morocco route offers exceptional opportunities to catch Rommel from the rear and crush him between the hammer of the advancing columns and the Army of the Nile.
A railroad runs along this route and, for great distances, a highway, with buses. Always, there is the sea at no great distance, with all that implies in the way of communications, water for bathing and distillation, naval and air support and supplies.
The whole Atlantic coast of Morocco lies open to the American Navy and air-supported forces from the sea. The whole Mediterranean coast is equally open to a United Nations air-and-navy-supported invasion taking off from Gibraltar. No effective enemy attacks off either of these coasts need by feared; no inland defense-in-depth exists or, if contemplated, it has not yet been carried out.
Spanish Morocco intervenes, opposite Gibraltar, 180 miles long by 40 wide. But it can be bypassed.
It offers a route adequate for the safe transit of armies. It is nowhere confined or threatened by mountain passes where dive bombers can slaughter hemmed-in troops. The road is an open plain, with occasional low hills where troops can spread out or take cover from air attacks and again concentrate behind massed and mobile tans.
Our American part in this opening of a second front is clear. This is our job.
Army Air Force develops gadgets for better flying
Wright Field experts putting to hard use scores of new aviation devices designed to deflate Nazi squadrons
By Frederick C. Oechsner, United Press staff writer
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End of an infiltration by Jap troops behind U.S. Marine lines on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons is marked by these four bodies of Jap soldiers. The infiltration attempt took place in the Battle of Raiders’ Ridge Sept. 13 and 14. The destiny of these Jap troops was the same as most of their companions in the engagement.
U.S. Navy Department (November 4, 1942)
Communiqué No. 181
South Pacific.
On November 2, U.S. forces on Guadalcanal Island continued to attack the enemy to the westward of our positions and made some small gains. Army and Navy planes gave close support to our ground forces by bombing and strafing enemy troops and positions. About 20 enemy machine guns and 2 small artillery pieces were captured. The advance to the west continued during the morning of November 3. No report of troop activity on the eastern flank of our positions has been received.
There is nothing to report from other areas.
Brooklyn Eagle (November 4, 1942)
Rommel retreats as Allies launch all-out air drive
Axis quits Alamein positions after heavy losses in tank battle
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Smoke fells 30, 250 rescued in Long Beach fire
New law affecting volunteers handicaps department in fight
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Hold Gen. Wainwright in China camp, Japs say
Tokyo radio today made assertions, which, if true, would constitute the first indication of the whereabouts of Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, Commander-in-Chief of American forces captured in Bataan, and Lt. Gen. A. E. Percival, British commander in the Malay Peninsula.
A Tokyo broadcast said Wainwright and Percival were in a Japanese prison camp in Taiyuan in Shansi Province of Japanese-occupied China, about 300 miles southwest of Tientsin.