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Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26

Chinese attacks have been par
tcularly heavy in the southern and
western suburbs of the ancient
town, which the Japanese captured
last spring when they made their
drive south from Hangchow to clear
the Chinese from coastal areas that
could be used by the Allies as
bases fer direct bombing attacks
on Tokyo.
Chuhsien, Kinhwa, and Lishui
were the three most important air
fields and the enemy took all of
them. Now, the Chinese have driv-
EN- the invaders from Is county
seats in Chekiang and Kiangsi pro-
vinces and are besieging Chuhsien
and. Lishui.
Chuhsien is en- the Hangchow-
Nanchang railway and its capture
would represent further progress in
clearing the japanese from that
route to the south. At the height
of their drive the Japanese held
all but about 90 miles of the rail
line, but today they have been
cleared from a stretch of apprcxi-
mately l35 miles, military spokes-
man said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
President to Speak
On Labor holidav

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. UP)-
The White House announced today
that President Roosevelt would send
message to congress and deliver
radio address to the people on
the cost of living, probably ON Labor
day.
White House Secretary Stephen
T. Early said Mr.. Roosevelt, who
has been studying anti-inflation
measures for some time, would send
the message to congress, If congress
is in session, and then talk to the
country by radio.
The president said yesterday he
expected to deliver the message and
talk to the people around Labor
day Early added today that "it
probably will be on Labor day"
The president, meanwhile, sum-
moned CIO President Philip MUIR
ray and AFL President William
Green to discuss with them prob
lens of wage stabilization He has
held similar meetings in recent
weeks with farm leaders, discussing
the initiation problem.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
laps Lose Naval
Supremacy, Claims
London Newspaper

LONDON, Aug. 26. CUP) = The
London Star reported from Sydney
today that reports from the Solomon
Islands battle show very clearly
that Japan has finally lost naval
supremacy in the southwest Pacific y
The Star reported it could be as
sumed that the man fleets Of both
the United States and japan are
massing for a decisive showdown
in the SolomonS area.
The battle may be so big that
the future may show it to have been
asother Jutland."
DIVE BOMBERS USED
The Star asserted Allied dive
bombers and torpedo bombers are
playing an important role in the
sea conflict and that Japanese loss
es thus far indicate they no longer
will be able to carry out any de-
cisive challenge to the American
supply lines to Australia and New
Zealand.
THE japanese" said the Star,
ARE still able to get through small
reinforcements but any ambitious
large-scale counter invasion appears
to have failed"
The German radio carried a re-
port, heard here, that an American
cruiser had been lost in the Solo
mons and that japanese crhiser
had suffered damage but still was
in action.
"The Japanese attacked an Amer
ican squadron commanded by Vice
Adm. Robert Lee, Ghormley with
superior sea and air forces and
forced Ghormley to give battle"
Berlin said.
ON JAP SIDE
"The battle has the character of
a combined air and sea battle with
the advantage up to now on the side
of the japanese.
"CeaSeless attacks by Japanese
low level bombing planes compelled
the United States commander to
give up his battle order and continue
the combat in formations of single
units.
"The japanese air forces are re-
ceiving continuous remforcements." D."
This dispatch might indicate that
the Japanese may have taken heavy
punishment in the Solomons battle.
Admission by Japan that it had
cruiser burning, and a claim to
the sinking of only one American
cruiser, would be sensationally un-
precedented. But Berlin is not above
letting bad news about its Axis
friends leak out because such leaks
make Germany appear superior.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26

f japanese planes heavily bombed
their own men. believing they we're
Americans)
Planes of Gen. Douglas MacAr-
thurs southwest Pacific command.
which does not include the Solo
mons, attacked a small Japanese
convoy yesterday off the Trobriand
Islands, $40 miles north of the Tula-
gi area of the Solomons and 2l0
miles cast of the new Japanese base
in New Guinea, in the Buna- Coma
area.
A japanese gunboat was destroy
ed by a direct hit and two transports
evidently carrying reinforcements.
were heavily machine gunned.
There was no indication where the
japanese convoy was bound, wheth-
er to enemy bases somewhere in
the northern Slomons, to the south
ern Solomons, or to the Buna- Coma
area.
MacArthur's planes, in attacks
which also fitted into the general
Solomons Islands picture. made
heavy attacks on the Rabaul and
Gasmata bases in the Bismarck Is
lands, east of New Guinea ana
northwest of the Solomons.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
Local Issues Set
Pace for South
Carolina Votinq
BY UNITED PRESS

Local rather than national issues
dominated Tuesdays primary elec-
tions in South Carolina and Mis-
sissippi where light voting followed
the pattern already set by other
states in the offyear contests.
Pre-war isolationist records, q
major campaign issue in other
states, were not factor. -,
South Carolina Eugene S. Blease
former state supreme court justice
led Sen. Burnet r. Maybank, in
cumbent, by slight margin for the
Democratic senatorial nomination
Unofficial returns from all except a
few precincts gave Blease 104,09C
votes and Maybank. l02,620. Gov
Olin D. Johnston's denomination ap-
peared assured when he piled up
mere than a $4,000 margin over
Wyndham M. Manning on the basis
of unofficial incomplete returns.
Mississippi: James o. Eastland
who served 80 days in the U. S. SEN
ate after the death of Pat Harrison
held a 10000 vote lead over his
closest opponent today. but faced
run-off primary on Sept. Is fol
the Democratic senatorial nomina-
ton which is equivalent to election
Sen. Wall Doxey appeared to have
won the right to meet Eastland, but
Rep. Ross Collins, Meridian, was g
close third and might yet eliminate
Doxey. A majority of the total vote
was necessary to win the nomina.
tion.
Thomas G. Abernathy. Oklahoma
defeated Rep. Aaron L. Ford for the
Democratic congressional nomina-
ton in the 4th district All othel
incumbent congressman were re.
elected.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
kIIied Planes Knock
Out Lehayre Port
With Mass Raids

BERNE Switzerland, Aug 26 -
tUP)-Private adviceS from authen-
tic sources in unoccupied France
said today that Allied planes had
knocked out the port of LeHavre
in peace time the third ranking
port in France, that Allied troops
planes and warships had inflicted
heavy damage in the raid on Dieppe
and that United States army fly
ing fortresses had smashed the big
locomotive repair shops at Rouen.
Two Allied raids on LeHavre de-
stroycd the last workable lock
gates. according to the advices, with
The result that the entire port is
useless to the Germans.
Without the locks, the ship basins
dry each time the tide goes out
In last Wednesdays raid on Dieppe,
.h' advices said the Allied forces
destroyed the fortified Grand Hotel
u gina and tobacco factory and
started more than 40 fires in other
centers with incendiary bombs.
The flying fortresses, in their
raid on Rouen, 33 miles inland from
, eppe, which was prelude to the
rad berause it struck at the near
est big railroad reinforcement CEN
ter, scored a direct hit on the Sot-
te lille locomotive repair shop. the
1iceS said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
Another Wife
Claims Dead Man

MANCHESTER, N. H.. Aug. 26.
UP)-The tangled love affairs of
slain Capt. David D. Carr, q, a
member of U. S. antitank forces at
Fort Huachuca, Ariz., we're compli-
Gated further today when another
woman claimed him as her hus-
band.
Mrs. Florette Bellerose Carr, q,
brunette now employed in shoe
factory here, vanished soon after
making the claim. In her apartment
last night was found note that
read.
I'm going away and don't know
when I'll be back"
Captain Carr was shot and killed
Aug. l6 allegedly by Margaret Her.
lihy, an army colonels daughter to
whom he had been married secretly
in June at Aqua Prieta, Mexico.
While authorities investigated the
case, Mrs. Ruth E. Carr of Phoenix
City, Ala, claimed the slain officers
body and said they were wed in
January.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
Russians Hold off Nuzis
At Gates Of Sta|in9rod

MOSCOW, Aug. 26. (UP)-The
Russians nave checked a German
tank wedge driven into their depth
defenses directly northwest of Stall
ingrad, front-line dispatches said
today.
Huge German panzer and infan-
try forces had crashed through
Russian lines, bulwarked by reserve
forces which Marshal Semyon Timo-
shenko was sending into action.
The wedge advanced straight for
Stalingrad and the Volga river line,
with the Russians desperately ham
mering it. Finally, after IAN excep-
tionally heavy battle" with Soviet
tank forces near inhabited points, "
it was checked, dispatches to the
army organ Red Star said.
SITUATION GRAVE
Nevertheless, the situation grew
more grave by the hour. German
planes bombed Stalingrad. a city of
29O, 1000 people, in waves, trying to
reduce it to the rubble and ashes
in which they had left the Crimean
fortress city of Sevastopol.
(The Italian radio said Stalingrad
was burning after the heaviest Ger
man air attacks Numerous build
ings in the city have been destroyed
after repeated hits and are fiercely
burning" it said. "The Central rail-
way station is aflame.o
German losses were fearful, but it
was not doubted that they would
pour more men, more tanks, and
more planes across the great bend
of the river Don in an effort to
take one of Adolf Hitler's most CO.
veted objecCves.
Can Italian radio broadcast said
the suburbs of Stalingrad, sprawling
on both sides OF the Vo.ga, had been
evacuated, and every house turned
into a fortress)
The Soviet noon communique gave
lew ucCdllS Vi CIle CTlUlCdl IlBIlIlIlS.
DEFENSIVE FIGHTING
I'm the area northwest of Stalin-
grad, Soviet troops engaged in tense
defensive fighting against enemy
tanks and infantry" it said.
"One unit repulsed several fierce
enemy attacks and destroyed six
tanks and more than $50 Hitlerites.
"On another sector, Soviet infan-
try supported by artillery and trench
mortars successfully repulsed enemy
attacks and killed up to 400 of the
enemy"
Northeast of Kotelnikovski, 90
miles southwest of Stalingrad, an
other German spearhead continued
its steady drive. Of that front the
noon communique reported:
Mort beast of Kotelnikovski,
trench mortarmen shelling enemy
tanks and trucks destroyed four
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
Axis Propaganda
Centers on Dakar
BY UNITED PRESS

A sudden splurge of Axis propa-
ganda interest in Dakar Wednesday
aroused suspicion that Germany
may be taking the first moves in a
campaign to bring the vital West
African base under Nazi control.
Both the Berlin and Rome radios
broadcast a series Of rumors that
American or Allied action against
Dakar is imminent. Other propa-
ganda dispatches claimed that an
invasion of Tunisia or move
against French Guinia is in pros
pect.
The propaganda drive was keyed
to Brazil's entry into the war and
Axis sources repeatedly noted that
Dakar lies only LIS sea miles
across the south Atlantic from the
Brazilian bulge.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26

origin.l marine landing, we'll in
formed quarters said today.
A navy communique issued at
Washington yesterday made it plain
that the japanese, despite their
heavy losses in the battles of the
Coral Sea and Midway. had thrown
an important naval formation into
a counterattack on the Tulagi-
Guadalcanal area of the Solomons
which Che Marines with Navy and
air force support, seized in the first
big Allied Pacific offensive.
JAP NAVY THREATENED
A setback for Japan in this bat
tie, it was asserted here, might
reduce the Japanese navy to point
where it would not be able agair
to challange a United States flee
which is growing steadily in power
The Solomons battle was being
fought out in an area where, or
Guadalcanal, the marines had seizeo
the only air base in the southern
part of the islands.
United States carrier borne plane.
were supported by army flyint
fortresses, based on emergency air.
dromes hacked out of jungle palm
forests in South Sea islands who's,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
British Royalty
0urns Death of
King's Brother

ONDON, Aug. 26 CUP) - Brit
d S ROYAL court began four weeks
~ mourning today for the Duke of
&alt, King Georges youngest
1other who was killed on duty
R.l Is others in an airplane crash
- erday
he giant Sunderland flying boat
sking the 39-year- old Duke to
ee and crashed in desolate coun-
Hg in northern Scotland only 60
miles from its take off, it was
anderstood today
With the Duke died his private
saeretary, Lieut.. Kohn Lowther,
ne.r to the Viscounty of LH"Wther,
I'd his Royal Air Force aide,
Michael Strut, second son of Lord
selper. and husband of the former
hrpella Frazer, of Detroit and
Newport. RI
Mrs. Strut is the daughter of
Joseph Washington Frazer, former
9fTysler Motors executive and head
9i The WHY'S Overland Co. of To-
edo.
strut worked in Wall Street in
New York for time He enlisted
IN Canada after the outbreak of
var.
Search parties were sent out to
aunt the countryside and the bod
ies were recovered. Arrangements
Nere made to bring the Dukes
b1oy to LonGon. 1t was reported
lat the Dukes body was now
ing in a Scots highland castle.
it was understood definitely, the
sh was not due to enemy ac-
on. Other planes have crashed at
8'most the same dangerous spot.
King George and Queen Eliza
beth were expected to return to
ihc London area from the country
- receive the Dukes body.
one of the Kings first acts af-
=, he received the news of the
arath of his youngest, gayest bro
aer, was send personal condol-
ices to families of the others
kued.
The Dukes widow, the former
2rinceSS Marina, was still in the
eountry with her three children
d it was understood they had
1at been informed of their fathers
islth.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
Churchill Takes Dip
InMediterranean

CAIRO, Aug. 26-(UP) - 1t was
terribly hot in the Ell Alamein sec
tor.
The swirling desert sand had filt-
cred through his siren suit, under
his sun helmet and behind his dark
glasses. The wind and sand had
put out his cigar.
Then Winston Churchill, touring
the Egyptian aront lines. came
upon soldiers bathing in the Medi-
terranean.
He stripped, and plunged in fer
a swim.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
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WOMEN WHO ARE
HARD OF HEARING

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Store.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
Fleets Battle in Pacific

HEADQUARTERS, United Statess
Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Aug. 26.
WP)-A determined japanese at
tempt to dislodge the United States
Marines from their offensive base
in the southern Solomon Islands
is developing into large scale air
and naval battle overshadowing the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
BEING EVACUATED

(The Italian radio said civilians
were being evacuated from Novor-
ossisk)
Dispatches reported sitter Rus
sian resistance in the Prokhladnens-
XII region. although the Germans
still advanced on several sectors to-
ward the oil fields of Grozny, IS
miles from Prokhladnenski, and to-
ward the Caspian sea, 1875 miles
away.
The noon communique said the
enemy had tried to lay a pontoon
bridge across river in that area.
Russian guns blew it up and killed
two companies of infantry.
The Germans had suffered heavy
losses trying to capture an import
ant point of Soviet resistance. At
one they were SO badly hammered
they had to stop their assaults and
wait for reinforcements of tanks
and motorized infantry They re-
sumed their attacks on the outnum-
bered garrison then, and finally
reached the edge of the point, a
village. counterattack held them
at the villages edge.
The Russians repulsed 80 tanks
trying to drive into another in
habited point. But the Germans at
tackled again and finally an ad-
vanced unit got inside the village.
Russian artillery and anti-tank rifle
fire all but wiped it out, and the
remainder of the Germans with
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
&C. Store Has New
Assistant MANAGER

VI. L. Foxworth of the LOS An
g les district office of Sears Roe
aurk company, is the new assistant
11anager of the Sears Roebuck
sore in Los Angeles.
lie had been with the company
TO seven years in the merchandise
a. and operative departments. He
SIS accompanied to Ell Centre by
J. wife and child
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
Dog Poisoner Kills
Pet, Takes Own Life

WASHINGTON, Pa, Aug. 26. CUP)
"A man who had a mania for pois-
oning dogs, killed his own dog, then
fatally shot himself.
Within less than a day after his
arrest on charges of poisoning Is
or more dogs, Charles B. Hunt. 66,
a hardware merchant of West Alex
ander, was found dead yesterday
beside the lifeless body of his own
large, black German police dog"
Beauty" Both were shot.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
Chinese Forces
Attack Jap City

CHUNGKING, Aug. 26-CUP) -
Chinese forces are attacking the
walls of Chuhsien, an important
airport center in Chekiang province,
and already have captured several
strategic points around the city, a
Chinese army communique said to-
JaN
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
1t isn't TABOO any more
for girls to know these truths

Girls today can be grateful that
some subjects are discussed more
frankly thai they used to be.
That's one reason why thousands
of women have come to know about
CARDUIs 2-way help. Some take
it, as directed. three days before
their time" to help relieve periodic
pain due only to functional causes.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26

Others take 1t as tonic to stimu-
late the appetite and aid digestion
by increasing the flow of gastric
juices, thus helping build up
strength : NJ energy for those de-
manding days to come.
A SO year record says CARDUI
MAY help. Try it, won't you?
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26

drew.
The noon communique reported
that the Germans had attacked
north of Voronezh, on the upper
stretches of the Don, but had been
repulsed, losing $50 men.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26
CAME FROM CAROLINES

This made it seem possible that
the japanese fleet had steamed
first from Caroline Islands bases to-
ward the Gilberts, in the belief that
the Navy and Marines were making
an invasion attack there, after the
American raid on Aug. II a fleet
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26

ocations are military secrets because
there is every indication that the
japanese do not know where they
are.
The result was that new Navy
dive bomber and torpedo-carrying
planes together with the flying
fortresses and other army craft, were
believed here to be loosing a devas-
tating attack.
No attempt was made, however, to
deprecate the Importance of the
enemy attempt to rewin the south
ern SolomonS, or to minimize an
apparently serious threat to the
marine position.
Since they landed Aug. T. the mar
ines had had nearly three weeks to
consolidate their positions and
communicates had revealed that they
were receiving reinforcements and
supplies.
MAY HAVE FIGHT
! 1t was evident, however, that in
addition to opposition from the Jap
aneSe on the islanoS, whol.i they had
driven inland into the hills, the mar
ines might still have to fight a de-
fenSive battle against new enemy
reinforcements.
Adm. Chester w. Nimitz, COM
manding the Pacific fleet, had an
nounced the beating off of one re-
Enforcement attempt by Japanese
troops who on the night of Aug 20
landed men from speed boats. In
that engagement the japanese
landed TOO men. The marines killed
$40 and took the remaining 30 pris-
oner.
1t was noted that the Navy's COM
munique on the new, big battle said
that the japanese approached he
southern Solmons from the north
east.
Maxim Island at the north end
of the Gilberts, where on Aug. II
the marines and Navy smashed one
of the big Japanese bases in the
South Seas in perfectly executed
one day operation, is about 1.3Sn
miles northeast of the Tulagi-Guad-
alcanal area.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26

tanks and 16 trucks. One Soviet cav
airy unit broke into a locality that
had been captured by the Germans.
In the course of fierce engage
ment, they wiped out more than 100
Hitlerites.
The communique also acknowledge
ed another withdrawal on a sector
of the front south of Krasndar, in
the north Caucasus. There the Ger
mans had driven dangerously close
to the Soviet Black Sea base of
Novorossisk, which is SO miles from
Krasnodar.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-26

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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-09-18
Y. M. H. A. Elects

Officers of the Y. M. H. A. were
elected at a recent meeting held
on September 10 in the "Y'
home ON Third Street. Elected to
office were: Ira Stein, president;
Leon Shapiro, first vice-president;
Abe Diamond, second vice-presi-
dent; Sam Wolfson, treasurer;
Mike Reiders, financial secretary;
and Itz Greenberg, recording Sec
rotary.
Elected on the board of direc-
tors were: Hyman Selber, 1. M
Lieberman, Abe Newman, Alex
Brest, Lou E. Wolfson, Joe Beck
er, Hal Lehman, Philip Selber
Joseph Hacked, Harry Brolda'
Maxwell Sobel, Nathan Newman
D. H. Lasarows and Max Meyer.
Following the meeting refresh
ments were served.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-09-18

fered so far, as compared to the
defeat and humiliation of France,
the suffering and starvation of
Greece or the bombed cities of
England?
This will be year in which our
fate may be decided. We may
have to endure many hardships,
we may have to go without many
things. We may have hours and
days Of anxiety regarding the
whereabouts of our dear ones. Are
we strong enough to make these
sacrifices? Have we enough
stamina, enough character to de-
fend our homes and our lives :?
Do we have as much zeal to de-
fend America and its democratic
institutions as have those who are
fighting to destroy them? Shall
we capitulate to the barbarians,
or shall we rise up like men and
safeguard this goodly heritage
which is America? America
needs the spirit of sacrifice.
Without it, no nation can endure!
On Rosh Hashonah we Jews
come to the Synagogue for guild
ance and inspiration. Our pray
ers, our hymns, our scriptural
readings in this day speak to us
if the courage and strength of our
ancestors, of their noble charact-
ers, of their devotion to truth and
righteousness and of their readi-
ness to sacrifice themselves and
their children for their faith. Let
us be imbued with their spirit.
Let us be the first to heed the call
of our government to make the
necessary sacrifices, small and
large, to secure victory for our
selves and our allies. LIE us do
everything in our power to help de-
feat the enemies of America, the
enemies of Israel and the enemies
of civilization. May God grant
our prayers this day and send
peace with victory to the United
Nations during this coming year.
Amen.