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Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-02

captured PctrozayGdek, capital Of
Karclia on the west shore of Lake
Omega The claim had been am
nounccd previously By the Films.
The nigh command said tl.at Ital-
ian troops between Sept 28th and
30th, in thc course of cnc!rclemont
operations previously reported, cap
turad more than 900 Russian pri5-
cpcr" lnd inflicted nc5vy casual.
ties
Tho luf.Watlc the hiah command
SAID, again carried out night at
taelis on military obiccJ.ycs i'll Mo-
anW and liniu-rad
Newspaper dispatches reported
that German almored forces were
pushing forward in wedge forma-
ton, presumably from the Poltava
area 80 miles southwest Of Kharkov.
and were "approaching' the Doncts
river basin.
It was said that German planes
were intensIlying their attacks on
gaiIro1ds, suYNlv columns Hnd troop
concentrations
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-02
Telegraph Merger
Permits Favored
WAcII1MC.rON Ont . IL

WASHINGTON, Oct, , rUPl
A senate mt1r5tatc commerce sub
committee recommended TODAY that
congress permit the merging of do
nestle tei2wanh companies WIN
provisions TO protect workers thru
dismissal nay and pensions.
Tho subcommittee also recon-
mendcd ihat American Intenal.0u-
nj Telegraph companies Lc pormit-
ted 10 merge. Il recommended that
.ae"e be no MERGER between 90
mcst.c and international c19rier~.
The subco'nmittee, headed b;
Chairman Barton x. Whcolar. y.
Mont, filed its report with The
senate on Il resolution that author
zod a complete study OF the IN
dUStlY. which employs more thar
10000 persons. The industry crosses
about S130OOO.000 annually
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-02
Reds Take Four Villages
I'm Biz Counter Attack

MOSCOW. o. % a-Pr 4 sppria.
di2l,at"h To -. pa3 paH"~ EH,stia
reported tods. 'aaf Pn.-.1a force,
lad icrapfusad tur E.tIa.rs ald g.
Ill oil crcaf tactical uugrpaa~c in
{ BIZ counar-afteeE IL tie 5sr@-a
RHssa %tca nr." -. IMea. 1859
miles south of lrnmeeaa
Il was udIctfr6 .aa' 'hc Russian
attack Wa Gnn g.. i series Dciue
developed il ,uc s'a=4tu Pu.sa lou~.
EartlY TO reiir,c G1.auN pres.>rr
on Lonm.rad
a war rommun.aaa Md he Ru~-
ians had routed I've German rcE.-
aent totalnL 1000 men. n one
battle. md L}o captured tr1 large
and TWO smaN fss.sz and 4 large
supply column transporting ammu-
MT on.
I Wo indicated fha' the battle
t9ot place III the Lenmuad area.
The cOmmInIWle said -" Ger
a.ars cneaeod were lar.olr - tho
29let infantry dlYisian aHa les. at
lest COO men.
ATTACK REFUSED
n one sector Of t4. Iaanuad
f1n' it Was asaerfe1. 'h. 1t lahs
arow back a heaVg Go.lau at'act
9Th the los Of hundreds q Ger
Ham. Ellled or wounded.
Il vas asserted that tE" Russians
captured POO prisoners. s.X tanks
L heavy machine guns ana six light
machine guns in the cn2agcment
The early c0mmaniapc reported
that planes Of the RuaIan Black
sea fleet had shot down 10 German
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-02
NdZiS Minimize
Rus sian Reports

BERLIN, Oct, . oUP) - Soviet
forces aided by an armored train,
were reported today to have car
ried out repeated attacks upon one
Nazi division in the Leningrad
region.
The German reports said that a
fierce battle was fought in which
the Russians suffered heavy cas-
ualties and were forced to turn
back with their armored train which
was damaged.
The high commands report on
the Russian front again was br!ci
reporting merely that "oneratioa
arc proceeding according to plan
The high command claimed, how
ever, that Finnish troops. adyanc-
ing from the south and west, have
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-02
ImperlaI V alley Press

. Established April -, l"ul.
Published every afternoon except
saturday and sunday saturday
afternoon issue nov succeeded
by the sunday Post Pre-. cs
tablished 1880 by tho lmp"I j.,l
valley Publishing company, 20
state street, Gl e.entro, Calf.
Paul Jenkins, publisher; n G.
Johnston, vicc'-prcSidcnt and gem
eral manager; L. A. FitzhuEh
secretary and managing editor
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post office as second class mat
ter.
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-02
Mother Of | Y Men
Dies in Europe

News of the death of Mr.. ACNE,
Kaiser Odcmatt. &c, in CT. IuE.
switzerland, Sept. Is was received
by relatives in Imperial Valley
Thursday.
AZ the time of her death she was
preparing to celebrate her forty
first Wedding anniversary IN Oc-
tobcr. She lived all her life on hey
own farm.
Surviving her in America are two
=ore. Adolf ol Imperial and Waite:
o. Tacoma, Wash; a daughter
Mrs HedWig SchaH of Holtville.
and brother Arnold Kaiser Of
Modesto; and other relatives. Sur
ylying her in Switzerland are lei
husband, Adolf Odermatt. sr5 three
daughters. One son, and sister
Allaa Marie Klisrl.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-02
Britain 10 Boost
Fat, SUGAR Ration

IONION. Ocj ,. CUPD Britain
vi! increase Iaj aid sugar rations
effective No. II. it vas announced
todar.
We age ttc only balligcrent coun-
cry that III the third year of the
va he increased rationS," an
official ouaounccmcnt said.
il sad ia; acemning Nov. II
the LIT ration Woild be increased
p per II. .!om eight ounces to
10. ounces.
Th" ~lear ration will be increased
ID p'" crH from eight ounces to
- oUuces.
Increased tat and sugar rations
Viii roman IN effect until March,
el2vinl thc country through the
winter n'aat.s "hcn the strain Of
the blacEout Is se2ardcd as at its
worst
OGIolals recalled that only last
week Italians we're forced to tighten
their belts when "allouine OF bread,
cGm mcG and even clothing was
ordered.
An official source said that the
incriasI - rations. especially sugal
WIS due 10 very gcncrout "assis-
laucC RON the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-02

&4ng more 'Aaa s0) officers 1ud
men and eapt@-ms a9" aaage,
Of ammuri'ion aaa !pplca.
Another mi' demolished sesen
bridges and kid :uora .aaa 100
Germaus b" miHas "Gas a vas
asserted
Tn. "nummq9e sud IL 30 day,
Russian planes hea Shot asyn }3
Ge.man plancs on thr LsnungraI
front and had de1troT"c L. raundrd
planes. 10 field Qps and / anti
aircraft guns. Fifteen plane were
severely damaged. II Na. sald IN
another Russian rad ID lie Ipu!u
grad zone a Russian .qalfar d.
stroycd 10 German plane It va
asserted
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-02

planes and three Glider planes.
'Fl'is was thc first mention of Ger
n1au use Of gliders in Russia.
There was no indication of the
sector IN which the gliders were
legged but it was assumed that
'as| lad been shot down near Odes-
-. in the Crimean peninsula. or
.ang the shore of the Black sea in
tie direction OF tho sea Of Azov.
WHOLE FRONT ACTIVE
To5,;.9 afternoon cOmmuniquc
seHo"ted fighting throughout last
nlghj all alone the front.
7 reported steadily developing
Russian guerilla activities in the
Odessa area One guerilla unit made
Il raids on German columns in
september, the communique said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-02
THIEF STEALS
SAINTS CROWN

SAN FRANCISCO, OCj. up
Somebody stole the gold-platcd crown
off an angel in St Patrick" church,
Father Leo Powleson, pastor, re-
ported to police today.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-02
BY UNITED PRESS

Great Britain and Russia have
decided to start a JOINT propaganda
campaign in an attempt to organize
secret resistance to Germany in oc-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-02
GERMANS CLAIM ADVANCE

BERLIN. Oct ? CUP, - The Off
cial DNB news agency reported
from Budapest tonight that Hun
garian conmlnique claimed Ger
nan-Hmeayian forces had advanc-
cd beyond The Dnieper to IAN i'm
portant railroad junction of the
Dono.S linc possibly LOsoyaya.
Evening star., 1941-08-24

all right. Garand spends about half his
time at his desk, supervising group of
designers-he has about Is men under
him-and half his time in the shop
supervising actual work on the ma
chimes. Recently he was given the title
of principal ordnance engineer of the
armory.
Since he Is regular civilian en-
ploye of the Army, his work on the
rifle has not brought him any windfall
of money. A measure is pending in
Congress to give him special 100000
award. Garand thinks that would be
nice, but isn't particularly expectant or
eager about it..
He goes home every day at 4:30, fire.
quently stopping off at the Winchester
Square Checker Club for a game Of
checkers or chess. Since guns became
profession with him, he has not done SO
much recreational shooting; his main
hobby has been figure-skating. During
his bachelor years he used to go down
to New York every week end and take
expensive skating lessons from crack
professionals.
The sport got him so that one day
he put down canvas on the floor of his
living room, flooded 1t with 100 gallons
of water, opened the windows and let
it freeze, and skated merrily away in
his parlor.
After some years of such carefree
Evening star., 1941-08-24
Americas No. / Rifle Man

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Aug. 23-
John Garand's first notable experience
with rifle came when he and his
brothers as young boys used to shoot
pennies from between each others fin
gers at 80 feet with a %.
THAT was tricky" he acknowledges
with modest scientific detachment
with such small target, little bit
Of air or variation in the powder could
throw you off :"
In later years ne amazed spectators
at Coney Island shooting galleries by
hitting the bell on the swinging pendu-
lum seven times on one swing-shooting
from the hip! He got that skill by
much practice: He vouchsafes casually
that he once spent s100 in Coney Island
shooting galleries in one day.
Obviously Garand, the man behind the
U. S. Army's new rifle, is far from being,
as he has been depicted on occasion,
plodding mechanic at the Springfield
armory who suddenly came through
with a bright idea.
Physically, he might fit the picture.
He is of average build and average ap-
pearance, with the quiet shyness of the
absorbed technician. OF French-Cana-
dian birth, he has shock of wavy black
hair and the rugged high cheekbones
and long jaw of the oWn-Easter His
strong individuality is shown in the
fact that although he has lived in New
Evening star., 1941-08-24

This would yield about 100000 tons OF
nickel. Most of the remainder is iron.
For many years there was a con-
troversy as to what created the Can
yon Diablo crater. 1t is shaped like
volcanic crater, nearly a mile scross,
its side several hundred feet high. But
it is not now part Of any mountain.
There is not lava enough to justify be-
lief in volcano.
Meteor Evidence.
AS hole dug by giant meteor or
maybe the head of comet, the crater is
almost incredible. Nevertheless, scien-
tiic evidence now points to this explana-
ton. Around its sides there are count
less little nickel-iron meteors. Rocks
have been pulverized to the consistency
of flour, as would be expected from
a huge impact.
Where the meteor theory originated
Is not clear. 1t was already full blown
when the first man seriously trying to
exploit the mining possibilities heard
of the place.
He was Daniel Moreau Barringer, ST.,
Philadelphia geologist who died in 1929.
His interest dated from a day in the
late 90s when S. j. Holsinger, a United
States Forest Service employe, wanted to
arrest him for cutting timber from a
Government owned forest. d.
Evening star., 1941-08-24
By Logan Reavis.

and controls on the flight or upper deck.
Less space was given to the maneuver
ing of the plane though there were
advantages to the pilot.
The British Admiralty evolved one
flush-deck carrier, the Furious, which
still is in operation, but from the
Hermes-originally designed as an air
craft carrier-England has placed its
reliance on the island design.
The Ranger, our first ship to be de-
signed specifically as an aircraft car
rier, was planned as a flush-deck vessel,
but after launching, was transformed
into a modified flush-deck carrier. This
change resulted from important tests
made on the Lexington and Saratoga
and, perhaps, the influence Of the Brit
ish decisions s-.~.=~ ---.-
80 Control Quarters.
The control quarters displayed no high
visibility, stacks were placed aft where
they could be elevated or lowered as
conditions might indicate, and all arma-
ment was removed directly from the
surface of the flight deck.
Successive designs exhibit different
treatments in handling the superstruc-
ture, but the armament has not re-
Evening star., 1941-08-24
Comparing u. S. and japanese Plane Carriers

The United States aircraft carriers.
the sister ships Lexington and Saratoga,
are awe-inspiring vessels and command
the admiration of naval designers for
their combination of speed plane stow
age and armament sufficient to engage
the carriers greatest enemy, the cruiser.
They were developed from plans orig
inally intended for battle cruisers which
we're outlawed by the 1922 Washington
Naval Treaty.
Previously, both England and the
United States had experimental with
a different and smaller type carrier, the
Argus and the Langley. These ships
were designed from the pilots view
point, with smooth decks permitting
no impeachment to landing and taking off
and were supposed to possess minimum
tendency to roll with adverse winds.
1t was conceived, however, that a
carrier might be caught alone without
the protection of heavily armed friends
and that it should be capable of de-
Tending itself.
Other problems were smoke elinina-
ton, posts high up for navigation and
air and gunnery observation. Hence
the development of the island" the
isolated superstructure embracing guns
Evening star., 1941-08-24
By GLADDEN. Hill.

impressed that Garand was invited to
experiment at the Bureau of Standards
and spent the rest of the war working
there. After the war he got bid to
the armory here.
When the Army adopted the Garand
rifle many people got che idea that it
was radical new invention. Actually,
guns aren't created that way. They're
developed by long work on the basis of
previous models. Headlines in local
papers as far back as 1924 tell of man
named Garand up at the armory working
on an improved .30-caliber rifle.
Any one with good knowledge of guns
can design a new one, and it will prob
ably work. The Army's problem, how
ever. is not getting a gun that will work,
but one also light enough for soldiers,
durable through unusually long and
rough use, simple enough in design and
easy enough to manufacture in quantity.
Those were the points that Garand and
other gun experts had to spend Is years
working out.
To layman the Garand rifle looks
pretty much like other rifles Its main
difference is that instead of the soldier
having to stop after every shot and click
a new cartridge in, this is done auto
matically by pressure of discharge gases.
The sudden public interest in his rifle
has not altered Garands life much. He
Evening star., 1941-08-24
Meteor Crater May Hold Fortune in Metal

They became friends, and In Tucson,
later, seated in sidewalk hotel chairs on
q hot Arizona night, they discussed min
ing. Presently Holsinger began spinning
a story about a crater that had been
caused by a falling star.
Barringer displayed immediate inter-
est. Where is it?" he asked.
up North, near Canyon Diablo."
Barringer, knowing the potential min
eral value filed four mining claims, call
ing them Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and
Venus.
He organized stock company. One
stockholder was William F. Magic, now
retired, then head of the Princeton Uni
versity physics department and later a
faculty dean. The two had been class
mates at Princeton.
Barringer reported his find at meet
ing of the National Academy of Sciences
at Princeton. In the midst of his lee
ture ne saw one of his hearers wink at
another.
TT was all I could do" he related in
later years, ito finish that paper"
One of the eminent scientists, at least,
did believe him. He was DR.. Elihu Thom-
son, founder of the General Electric
Co.
LET them laugh" Thomson said,
you'll prove that you are right"
Evening star., 1941-08-24
Feeding the Kiddie
By Basil Gordon.

Feeding the kitty is a comparatively
simple job In the first place there are
only two things with which it can be fed,
money or chips representing money, and
in the second place, the feeder is under
no legal or moral obligation to nourish
it at all. Many man, when he sees a
mere pair of deuces before the draw,
hesitates to assume anv financial re-
sponsibility for the kitty, fearful lest he
be unable to raise it later, after the draw,
in the style in which it may have to be
raised If it is going to have even chance
of belonging to him. Instead, he throws
in his cards and calls it a deal
Feeding the kiddie is something else
again. The law says you have to do it,
if it is your kiddie, but doesn't tell you
how. That's where the mother comes
in. She does tell-and how!
The modern child, it seems must have
above all else a balanced ration. The
original balanced fation was perhaps the
famous egg which Columbus managed to
stand on end to prove something or other
but which has no relation to the balanced
ration of today. The modern version con-
sists Of proteins for the muscles, carbo-
hydrates for whatever Is their speciality,
iodine for the brain, iron for the blood
calcium for bones in the head and else
where, and especially vitamins, which
act as general pepper-uppers and make
the child twice as noisy as it would be
without them, and three times as rest
less All this is way over fathers head;
all he knows Is that If he doesn't bring
home the bacon, no one will eat.
In the good old days there was no bal
anced ration problem. Children then
had real appetities, and there was little
risk of q carbohydrate shortage when
they ate everything but the kitchen stove
and kept bowling for more. Now they
are finicky, as a general rule, and care
must be taken-or so the mothers say
to balance meat against vegetables and
fruit against cereal, with vitamin pills in
reserve to restore any overloaded In
equality.
Evening star., 1941-08-24

WINSLOW, Ariz., Aug. 23.-What some
geologists believe to be a fortune in
nickel, which plunged into the earth
from outer space in great meteor
near Canyon Diablo. Ariz., again in
trigues exploiters because Of shortages
in Americas critical war minerals.
Nickel is one, and if estimates are
correct, there is enough in this meteor
to last the Nation perhaps 10 years.
Added to the lure is report by Vim
cent w. Vandiver, a Government geolo-
gist, that possibly the meteor contains
$10O,000,000 worth of platinum and
iridium.
No one ever has seen the meteor.
1t lies buried hundreds of feet deep.
where it has defied four decades Of
intermittent efforts to verify its exist
ence and tap its fabulous wealth.
From numerous good evidences, the
meteor is nickel-iron. There are only
two kinds of meteors, the others being
stone
Meteoric iron and other minerals are
notable for their purity. In meteors,
the nickel runs around per cent OF
the total mass. The ore of the worlds
largest nickel mine, at Sudbury, Ontario,
yields only IL per cent.
Ten million tons is the average guess
about the size of the Arizona meteor.
Evening star., 1941-08-24

turned to the flight deck. The size and
disposition of guns as on the Lexington
have never been repeated.
A new addition to the fleets array of
carriers-the Hornets soon to make
its appearance. The character of its
silhouette is still withheld from the
public, nor is there any intimation of
the trend to be followed in the II new
ships of the Essex class ordered in
1910. They will be commissioned in
1943, "A, As and As.
Coincidentally with the fitting out of
the Lexington and the Saratoga. there
emerge from the japanese naval yards
two singular craft which were transfor-
nations of battleship and battle
cruiser. They were the aircraft carriers
Kaga and Akagi. N~~r Ia. ..sa
Evening star., 1941-08-24

But, while some scientists now agree
with Barringer, the last laugh hasn't
been heard yet. More than half-million
dollars has been spent in seeking the
buried meteor and no one has reached
it, Barringer's companies worked at it
before the World War and after.
Barringer, and astronomers and geolo-
gists, came to believe that the great mass
entered at an angle, so that the iron
lies buried south of the rim.
Barringer once declared he had proved
to his own satisfaction that the meteor
hit at this angle by shooting a rifle bullet
into the mud of the Delaware River at
low tide. On the south rim of the me-
teor crater the sedimentary rock had
been pushed up as though by a giant
hand. The same sort of pattern was
created, Barringer said, in the river mud.
The United States Smelling & Re-
fining Corp. did some drilling to locate
the meteor. The experts found evidence
Of it about where Barringer said it lies,
But no one has succeeded in sinking
a shaft to the place where the buried
iron is supposed to lie. Water has been
a main obstacle. 1t seems possible that
in its impact the meteor packed the sides
and bottom of its great grave so that
they hold underground water.
For only few miles away there
seems to be no such supply of water.
The Santa Fe Railroad had drilled thou
sands of feet looking for water without
finding an adequate amount.
An exploitation company in which the
Barringer estate is interested carries on
some research. A son, Daniel Moreau
Barringer, jr., has not given up hope.
An airline flies over the crater. Pas
sengers of the Santa Fe can look across
the Arizona landscape to see the top of
the crater rim about miles away. An
auto road runs close to the natural
wonder.
Perhaps the prices and the shortage
Of WARRIOR the United States has vir-
tually no nickel of its own now-will
supply the funds to solve the meteor
mystery.
There are other supposed meteor
craters on earth. but nothing 50 huge
as this. Barringer, jr, discovered two
apparent meteor craters near Odessa,
Tex, in 1926, and the Works Progress
Administration has been helping to ex-
plore that field.
In Siberia, in 1908, the greatest meteor
of modern times fell, and its plunge
was verified by the scorched, fattened
forest later found about it. Conclusions
knocked farmer down so miles away
and tremors were recorded In Europe.
But this great meteor left no crater
worth mentioning
Canyon Diable is in class by itself.
Its vicinity still supplies bits of meteoric
irons which hawkers at Winslow Airport,
Grand Canyon, and at the crater sell to
tourists. You can buy one for quarter.
Evening star., 1941-08-24

Displacing 26eo0 tons (the Lexington
displaces $4,000 tons) and with lengths
of 715 and 1853 feet, respectively, they
were dedications to the pilots perform
ance. There are no islands, stacks or
guns on the flight deck. Controls are
housed along the sides, as is the arm
ament.
The Kaga has trunks which stream out
the sides to positions near the stern
from which the smoke may be emitted
without clouding the flight deck with too
much vapor in unfavorable winds.
The Akagi has an arrangement Of
what may be called turned-down spouts
for smoke election. A certain advan-
tage, japanese engineers believe, lies in
the convenience of developing smoke
screens