Current Events October 19, 1942; CRITICAL POSITION AT GUADAL CANAL/ GESTAPO TO ENFORCE LABOR IN VICHY FRANCE/ U. S. TROOPS IN LIBERIA:

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HUNTINGDON, PA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1942. THREE CENTS

ZERO HOUR IN SOLOMON ISLANDS BATTLE

U.S. FORCES READY

TO MEET JAP DRIVE

FOR GUADALCANAL

American Airmen And • Anti-Aircraft

Gunners "Dealing It Out" To Japs-

Navy Reveals Position Critical

—Losses To Be Expected

By SANDOHS. KLEIN,

United Press Correspondent

Washington, Oct. 19. —The zero hour was at hand inji

the Solomon Islands today.

American marines, soldiers and sailors were braced toj

meet a "strong assault" by heavily-reinforced Japanese^

troops on Guadalcanal Island,

American, airmen were "dishing it out." They and;'

anti-aircraft gunners bagged 17 more planes with the loss/

of only one of their own. But the Navy made no attempt

to hide the fact that the

Americans' position is critical

and that "in a battle of

this nature losses must be

expected."

The battle was for the airfield

on Guadalcanal—a clearing:

chopped out of the dense jungle by

the Japanese and captured By U.

S. Marines early in August before

the enemy had a .chance to use it.

The battleground was a 25 mile

stretch of ant-infested beach between

Cape Esperance at the

northwestern tip of Guadalcanal

and Tenaru, near; the middle of the

north shore.

AXIS ASTIR OVER

ARRIVAL OF U. S;

FORCES IN LIBERIA

No Confirmation As Yet

From Washington On

Reported Landing

Of Troops

By NED RUSSELL

United Press Correspondent

London, Oct., I8. — Dispatches

from Vichy said today that the

reported arrival of United States i

troops in. Liberia, ..on -the .west

coast of Africa, .was a source 'of

provocation" and a menace to the

west and Equatorial French African

colonies especially Dakar,

still loyal' to Vichy.

LAVAL CALLS IN

GESTAPO TO FORCE

LABOR FOR NAZIS

500 Agents Get French

Citizenship To Give

Them Full "Legal" Rights

By JOHN A. PAUKIS

-United Press Correspondent

London, Oct. 19. — Vichy chief

of state Pierre Laval was reported

today to have called in the

dread Nazi Gestapo in his frenzied

efforts

to force French' workers' to

take jobs in German 'war factories.

There were reports in fighting

French circles here that Adolf Hitler

was displeased with Laval's

services to the Axis cause and

would soon call him to account

for increasing anti-Nazi sentiment

in France. It was believed

Laval might be dismissed.