The Sheboygan Press
SHEBOYGAN, WIS., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1942
CAPT. RICKENBACKER RESCUED
Naval Battle Rages Off Solomons
Noted Airman
Found On Raft
In Samoa Area
World War I Flying Ace And Two Crew
Members Are Picked Up By Catalina
Flying oat 100 Miles From South Sea
Island — Locate Others On Small Island
Washington. — (AP)—Dauntless Eddie Rickenbacker has
been rescued, in good condition, the navy announced today,
three weeks after Ins airplane radioed that it was about out
of gasoline and then vanished in the Pacific.
Rikenbacker, America's ace of aces in the first World
war and tho country's embodied proof that you can t keep
a grood man down, was picked from a raft bobbing in the sea
by a navy Catalina flying boat along with two of his crew.
Thev were 600 miles north of Samoa.
Thee other army fliers who were with him on a survey
of Pacific war zone air force operations have been located on
an island The rescue of one was announced yesterday and
the seventh man of Rickenbacker's crew died in the long
wait for rescue .
Colonel Hans C. Adamson and Private John F. Bartek
were Rickenbackers two companions at the time of rescue.
Adamson also was in good condition, the navy said, but
Bartek is in serious condition. He is expected to recover from
the suffering of exposure.
One Died Several Days Ago
Losses Are
Suffered By
Both Sides
Series Of Engagements
Started On Thursday
Still In Progress,
Navy Announces
Washington.-(UP)-- The
United States and Japanese
navies are engaged in a continuing
battle in the Solomons
and "both sides have
suffered losses," the navy announced
today.
The fight started Thursday
night (island time) after
American warships had shelled
enemy positions on Guadalcanal
for 10 hours in a
daylight attack on Thursday.
A navy communique described
the fighting as "a series
of naval engagements"
and again as a "battle," but
gave no indication of its magnitude.
"No details will be reported
while the battle continues,
the navy said, adding that
"to announce details of these
actions while the battle is in
progress would furnish the
enemy with information of
definite value to him."
Get All But One
Campaign In North Africa
Has Given Favorable Turn
To War, Says Joseph Stalin
(Editor's Note: Less than six weeks ago, Henry C. Cassidy
chief of the Associated Press bureau in Moscow, scored o journalistic
coup when he obtained from Joseph Stalin a written
statement expressing for the first time the Soviet premier's views
on the Second Front question. Now Cassidy has scored again by
obtaining from Stalin his reactions to the Allied thrust into North
Africa,)
(By HENRY C. CASSIDY)
(Copyright 1942, By The Associated Press)
Moscow. — Joseph. Stalin gave high praise today to the
American and British campaign in North Africa and declared it
had created the prerequisites for a Second Front in Europe and
shifted the political and military situation in Europe "in favor of
the Anglo-Soviet-American coalition "
In his second letter to this correspondent in six weeks, the
Soviet leader said the operations in North Africa could have been
executed only by "first rate organizers" and pledged that "
Red army will fulfill its tasks with honor as It has been fulfilling
throughout the war."
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