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Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
Germans Declare
Only One Nest Of
Reds Holding Out

BERLIN. Oct. Il. German Broad
cast recorded by UP at New YORK;
The high command said an COM
munique today that German troops
had entered the Red barrlcade
gun factory, one of Stalingrad's last
two nests of Russian resistance.
The communique added that nu-
merous strong points were also
taken with the aid of incessant air
attacks.
The communique reported that
German forces advancing north
ward had cut off Soviet forces
northwest of Stalingrad from their
communications, and said they faced
annihilation.
The high command said Russian
artillery emplacements east OF the
Volga had been the target OF heavy
air attacks.
The NaziS we're reported to nave
destroyed number of Russian troop
trains in the Kalinin sector.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18

in a dispatch filed by United Press
war correspondent William Tyree
from IAN advanced United States
air base in the south Pacific" on
Get 7, before the current battle
started. He revealed that more
marines had been landed on Quad
alcanal, which together with Sec
retary of War Henry L. Stimson's
announcement that regular army
units had been landed, indicated the
extent to which the Americans had
been prepared for the japanese as
Sault.
He also revealed that on the eve
ming of Oct. 6, the marines on
Guadalcanal had captured num-
Der of pieces of japanese rs milli-
meter (3-inch) field pieces. The
navy communique yesterday said
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
Hitler Moves TO
.0penIyList Italy
As German vassal
By DANA ADAMS SCHMIDT

ISTANBUL, Oct. Is. CUP)-tDa-
layed)-High diplomatic quarters
received reports today indicating
that Adolf Hitler intended to seize
effective control or actual command
of the entire Mediterranean, North
African and Balkan areas from
Benito Mussolini during the winter.
They said Hitler apparently was
! eXaSperatcd by italian bungllng on
all fronts and the steady decline OF
Italys morale, and that he had
determined to put an end to con-
slant wrangling with MusSolini over
the debated duce'S jealousy nurSed
prerogatives.
The reports said also that the
reason a scheduled conference be-
tween Hitler and Mussolinl was
not held last month was that Mus
solini had heard of Hitler's plans
to extend his domination, and that
Galeazzo Ciano, MussOlini's son-ln-
law and foreign minister, also cam
celled a visit to Berlin.
THE FIRST STEP
According to diplomatic lniorma-
| ton, Hitler intends to take as his
first step one most painful to Italy
seizure of control of Trieste and
Fiume on the Adriatic and the cor
ridor leading to them from Austria
through Italy.
Informants suggested that Hitler
would establish a naval headquar-
! terS at Trieste and, with a German
| HEADQUARTERS already existing IN
Bulgaria, control naval operations
in the Aegean, Adriatic and Black
seas and supervise all convoy oper-
ationS to North Africa.
Secondly, it was asserted, Flelc
Marshal Erwin Rommel made his
recent visit to Germany partly tc
insist he nave unqueStioned control
over all Italian generals in NortE
Africa hencefortn, and the probab-
ility was that he would get what ne
wanted.
JUGOSLAV PROBLEM
Diplomatic quarters said tha'
thirdly Hitler would soon explode
the fiction that the Croat part O.
JugoSlavia is an italian sphere anc
the resident German commander
Gen. Won Gleist Horsenau, Woulc
assume full control.
This decision, informantS said
and Hitler's insistence that NOR,
Croat troops be sent to the Russian
front, caused the recent resignation
of Marshal" Saldko Kvaternik, tn
Croat puppet regime commander il
chief.
Effective today by German orders
boys and men between II and 5
years of German origin in Croati
are to be mobilized, and those unde
35 are to be sent to Russia to figh
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18

enemy's sources OF information as
to the dispositions o. American
forces would be faulty.
The great scope of The battle was
again emphasized b. todays COM
munique from Gen. MacArthurs
headquarters revealing that long
range American bombers, evidently
supporting the American forces in
the southern Solomons, had blast
ed a Japanese transport in the
northern Solomons. Yesterday, he
reported that American planes had
heavily damaged a japanese light
cruiser. II was recalled that in
the battle of the Coral sea, his
bombers gave strong support to
American naval forces.
MARINES PREPARED
More revelatory information came
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18

WASHINGTON. Oct. 17-CUP)-
The critical battle for the strategic
area around Guadalcanal island III
the southern Solomons ragged on to-
dav with the japanese throwing
great land, sea and air forces into
their determined campaign to drive
out American marines and soldiers
There was no word on how the
fighting was going in what was evil
IDENTIFY the greatest battle TO date
in the southern Pacific. To date,
navy department communlqueS
have revealed several landings OF
Japanese troops on Guadalcanal,
the latest. reported yesterday, along
with artillery. and the presence OF
huge enemy flet, including bat
.leships.
But the communiques have had
very little to say about the actiVl-
ties of American ships. The only
American naval vessels acknowledge
ed by the department to be par
ticipating in the battle were the
little PIT torpedo boats which TOOK
such a conspicuous part IN the
defense of the Philippines. Nothing
at all has been said of the marines,
recently reinforced with army un-
its. Very little has been report
ed of the activity of American
war planes operating from the air
base on Guadalcanal which the
apanese built before they were oust-
ed in August
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
u. s. Viii! Launch
Aircraft Carrier

CAMDEN, n. J., Oct. IT. CUPl-
The aircraft carrier USS Princeton
will be launched tomorrow at New
York Shipbuilding Corp. the second
carrier to slide down the ways of
the Camden yard in the past two
and a half months. The carrier In
dependence was launched Aug. 8.
The Princeton, named after the
New Jersey college city where a
major battle of the Revolutionary
war was fought in TIT, will be
sponsored b. Mrs. Harold Dodds,
wife of the president of Princeton
university.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
IF YOU FEEL
DEPRESSED
S0UR..SUNK
Because of insufficient Flow
of Bile from the Gall Bladder

Try stepping up your Liver Bile flow
this easy sensible way.
Go to Clements and Central Drug stores
or your druggist today and ask him FOR
a 1-ounce bottle of KrusChen-thc famous
English salts now made in the L. ). a.
all good druggists have this.
Take half tcaspoonful in glass OF
water (hot or cold half an hour before
breakfast and keep it up for days
This may be just what you want and
need to help release the flow OF That pre-
cious digestion aiding bile juice. Try 1t
to relieve such symptoms as sick head
ache and the sour sick feeling OF so
called bilious indigestion when due to
this cause-as well as relieving constl-
patton.
Get Kruschen today-sce If you're not
ioyfully surprised. A I all progressive
drug stores
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
MOUNTAINS OF DEAD

Enemy tanks are burning in the
streets, in the fields and before our
lines" the government organ IzVes-
tia said. Here and there are
mountains of enemy dead
In the Stalingrad area, Soviet
troops repulsed repeated enemy at
tacks. the noon communique said.
German infantry supported by
40 tanks attacked a Soviet unit
defending one street in Stalingrao:
Twenty three tanks were destroyed
and $50 of the enemy killed. On
another sector, a Soviet unit re-
treated to new defensive positions
Guards mortarmen burned four
German tanks and 20 trucks ana
wiped out three companies '6oo
mem of infantry
FLANKERS REPULSED
The new retreat was not III the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

We were a wealthy nation grown fat
and indolent. We set out to win this war
the easy way-with our money. 1t is not
until we all begin to fear that we wall
lose this war that we will settle. down IN
earnest to win it. The Yankee is always
at his best when the chips are down
Rear Adm. Clark II. Woodward, L. 5.
n retired.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
CHRISTMAS CARDS
CARRY WAR THEME

NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-tU.P1-
Christmas cards appearing in shop
windows today carry carfcatures of
Hitler, Hirohito and Mussolini, with
such headlines as: Seasons greet
ings. let's stamp out the dictators." +"
Al least one war stamp is requir-
ed ON each card 70 compete the
SentiM ent.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
WIllKIE

Wendell l.. Willkie, an astute man,
undoubtedly realizes that he is sacrific
ing whatever political hopes he might
have in order to meet his duty, as he sees
it, in Americas drive to victory over the
axis.
Old-line Republican die-hards have
frowned so long and hard at the mention
of WILKES name that they are acquir-
ing permanently corrugated foreheads.
They think he has cooperated too much
with the Democratic administration.
New Deal Democrats would undoubt-
edly vote Mr.. Willkie their No. l choice
for unpopularity-they cannot forget the
"a million votes he got, and they do not
like the irreverent way in which he oc-
casionally punctures some New Deal
brain bubble with few frank words.
All in all, Willkie is becoming more and
more unpopular with the politicians of
both parties. How he stands with the
public is, of course, an unknown quantity
but it doesn't make so much difference
in the political field. The public can't
vote for man if it doesn't get chance,
and the politicians have a way of control
ling the votes of delegates who name i'm
portant candidates for national office.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
WASHINGTON
SIMPLIFIChTION

Varieties of heavy forged hand
tools, anvils, sledges and the like,
have been cut from 1000 to $50 g.
Production of radio batteries has
been cut two-thirds and these will
be allocated to farms Flashlight
battery production has been cut
half The 27C00 tons of steel
that used to make 600 million coat
hangers can now make three heavy
cruisers Jackrabbit pelts are
wanted to meet the demand for
more pelts International post
age stamp traders now must get a
business permit from office of Cen
Sorship.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
StaIinsrod Reds
In 18th Retreat

workers settlement of an indus
trial area from which the Russians
withdrew yesterday, after 25 bru-
tai attacks.
On the sector that formerly en-
compassed the settlement, the Rus
slams repulsed attempts to flank
them north and south, dispatches
said, and compelled the badly
mauled Germans tc regroup. On
other sectors. however, the enemy's
thrusts were unslackening and the
situation steadily growing more
acute.
The Germans threw two divis-
ions 10000 mem against the work
ers' settlement yesterday, and lost
at least 5000 of them and 43 tanks.
The army organ Red Star said
they had filled the gaps in the di-
visions with fresh corceS.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The follolCtn0 edit.
oriois are presented as interesting opin.
ions UOiced bg editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion Of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
CONTROL OF AIR?

But it was pointed out that the
navy would hardly report on these
matters during the progress OF a
continuing battle lest it provide the
enemy with information it couldn't
Get otherwise. There was reason to
believe that the Americans retained
control of the air-from Australian
and New Hebrides bases if not from
Guadalcanal and aircraft carriers
and without control of the air. the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
RUSSIANS CONFIDENT

There was no attempt in Mos
COW to conceal the gravity OF the
situation, in the 54th day Of Stall
ingrad's siege and almost that
many DAYS of around-the-clock
battle. but the Russians noted with
confidence the almost incredible
feats of the defenders.
on individual sectors, Marshal
Samyon Timoshenko'S counter-oi :
fensive above Stalingrad progressed
firmly and persistently deepening a
wedge in the German left flank,
dispatches said. Tie latest Russian
success there was the capture OF
fortified positions along an entire
sectC:.
The noon commUnique, however
reported only reconnaissance and
small-scale hand-to-hand fighting
in which about 200 of the enemy
were killed. 1t said that the Rus
slams also had destroyed two guns
and six machine guns and blown
up several pill-boXes and dugouts
OIL ATTACK REPULSED
The Russians continued to ham
mer back, with big enemy losses
German attacks on the MozdoF
area of the eastern Caucasus, aimed
at the nearby Crczny oil fields.
:" Soviet unit in fierce
fighting destroyed three tanks ane
two armored cars and killed 1oj
of the enemy the noon commu'
nioue said. "One Soviet detach
ment repelled attacks OF a com
pany of the enemy, after which
battalion 1000 mem of the ehem,
attacked. They likewise were fore
ed to retreat. after 200 were killed.
A slight German advance, TIT
first in days, was admitted south
east of the Novorossisk naval base
on the Black Sea in the western
Caucasus where the Germans Wer
trying to drive down the east t.
other ports.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
NON-WAR COSTS
STILL TOO HIGH

Welcome news is President Roosevelt
announcement that New Deal non-War
spending has been reduced 35.6 per cent
below the peak year of 1889, from S6,5l6,-
100000 in that year of orgies to S4,f94,-
100000 during the current fiscal year.
The American people, facing the stiff
est tax ever imposed upon the people OF
this nation, gladly welcome any and all
reductions made in non-war spending,
and will pay the measure of tribute which
is deserved to those responsible for the
reductions.
The current reductions are a step in
the right direction They are only step,
however.
Non-war spending still costs much too
much in the United States.
We are glad that the appropriations
for the National Youth Administration
have been reduced. We would be happier
still if that agency of the government,
conceived originally as relief bureau,
were abolished altogether.
The same is true of hundred and one
other federal agencies, all OF them con-
ceved to meet peculiar economic prob
lem which no longer exists. 1t is true
that most of them have been revised in
an attempt to fit them into the newly
emerging economic structure, but the re-
visions still have too much resemblance
to an attempt merely to keep lot of
people on the federal payroll.
What should be done, of course, is to
revise completely the setup of federal
bureaus and agencies. The mess is so
involved now that anyone wanting to
deal with his Uncle Sam has got to hire
a $4,000 a year expert lust to tell him
which federal agency deals with his kind
of problem-and then he finds out that
the expert probably doesn't know, either.
In fact, most of the time the federal
bureaus themselves don't know.
We realize, of course, that such reor-
ganization would be a major task beset
by all manner of political upheavals and
pressure Probably it should not be at
tempted at a time when the nation has
more important business on foot. But its
necessity should be kept in mind, for ac-
ton at later, calmer date.
Meanwhile, abolition of few more
patiently useless bureaus would bring the
non-war cost of government closer to
where it should be.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
SUPPLIES DESTROYED

Not one step back, Every line
street and stone must be fortress
Smash the attacks Cf tie bloody
Nazis!' Red Star exhorted the de-
lenders.
The government organ 1zVestla
said the retreat from the settle
ment had been carried out with the
best possible order, everything the
Germans might find useful having
been destroyed.
The most vioient battles ragged
along the new Soviet positions
where the defenders were fighting
with their backs to the Volga.
Swarms of dive bombers darken-
ed the sky-they made 1000 sorties
yesterday-but dispatches said their
effectiveness did not correspond to
the enormous loads OF bombs they
dropped, because the Russians were
SO we'll covered and camorflaged.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
TREMENDOUS TRIFLES

The way a few insignificant
words can shape up international
affairs was never better illustrated
than in the case of this classic
runaround given the United States
by the Chilean government. The
recent speech of Under Secretary of
State Sumner WelleS in Boston
brought this situation to a head,
but the events leading up to that
showdown make story OF tremend-
Gus trifleS in themselves.
In its Oct. issue, the Foreign
Commerce Weekly, overseas trade
magazine of the Department Of
Commerce, printed an article
captiOned WARS Effect on Chile
an Economy" First paragraph of
that article follows:
Chile, the second largest cop
producing country in the world,
| possesses ore reserves estimated at
more than 1,250000,000 tons, Al
though the Chilean government has
not yet severed relations with the
axis powers, the Chilean mining in
duStry is shipping to the United
! States thousands of tons of copper
and other strategic metals vitality
necessary to our anti-aXiS often
sive."
The article then went on in rou-
| tine style to outline ChilC'S domes-
tic conditions, foreign exchange,
agriculture, manufacturing and SO
on Copies of this article appar-
emily were rushed to Santiago. Al
most Immediately thereafter, lead
ing Chilean newspapers appeared
with obviously INSPIRED
editorials, quoting the paragraph
given above and then going on to
say that in view Of this official
U. S. view of the situation, it would
not be necessary for the Chilean
government to break relations with
the axis powers.
When this official state of mind
was reported back to the United
States things began to happen.
Under Secretary Welles made
his speech denOuncing Chilean
aid to the axis, the Chilean GOV
ernment protested and then the
facts came out on the participa-
ton of Chilean citizens in N2Zi
spy ring furnishing information
to axis submarines.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-10-18
CIVILIAN ARMY

The U. S. War Department now
has more than 100000 civilian en-
ployeS, making it the lowest en-
ployer in the country. This means
the War Department has one civil
lian emoloye for approximately
every four men in the armed SER
vice.
If that figure looks high. the
Army thinks it has iustifiable
explanation. The civilian clerical
force of the War Department in
Washington numbers only 46,500.
or about one clerk for every 100
soldiers. That leaves 1,O53,500
civilian employees to account for.
They're scattered all over the
helpers i'm government owned and
i United States rs machinistS al
operated ordnance plants, as con-
StructiOn worker at Corps of En-
gineers Army camp projects, as
Quartermaster Corps stOrekeepers,
storage or maintenance employees,
and so on.
This million or more worker
does not include any of the peopl
working for private employers VIII
have War Department contracts.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-03-09

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-03-09
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-03-09
CHAPTER THIRTEEN


PROFESSOR VERRAZANO
made an ironically low bow when
Ancttc walked into his studio late
that afternoon What a | DO for
you, Mrs. Peyton?"
Teach me to be a dramatic ac-
tress in six easy lessons She
walked to one of the huge leather
chairs, stretched at full length in
it and ploppcd her feet out before
her. Have you seen the papers,
Yes. I've seen them. Sit up
straight and stop cramping your
lungs"
She obcyed instantly. She made
up all that sllsh to give the we'd
ding importance. She even dragged
YOU into it. The eminent V%errazano
claims the young embryonic &C
trcss his most talented pupil! y
Stormy topaz eyes met the dim
ones of the dramatic coach.
Quietly he told her, Il do. Not
that I've " said so to anyone,
and certainly mol to August. But
| do"
For a moment she was unable to
speak. you don know how happy
that makes me" she was silent a
while longer, then her hands began
to shake uncontroiiably. But they
don't think so. They think it is fun
ny Larry said it was a joke. He
he laughcd.' SIZE murmured be-
meath her breath, then clamped he,
upper teeth against her lower liz
to steady it. I'll show them"
Yes, yes. You'll make them cal
their words. | know everything
that is gong through your mind
And you probably Will. Stars are
not made by pats on the back. They
are made by hunger, ridicule, al
sorts of heartDreak." He moved tC
a vermilion and gold Chinese cup.
board and came pack with two tiny
glasses of wine "Blackberry. No
ven your grandmother could have
dIsapprOVed of this" He took {
chair beside her. we are not going
to work today, Anette. You're t
calm down and come back tomor
row. Today we visit" He saluteC
her with his glass.
The girl took a minute sip, ther
stcadicd the glass in the palm o
her empty hand. "Wasn't l a sigh
IN the photographs, Professor Yer
%razano? And August-just the op
posite, so alive, so vivid"
Yes. AS dynamic as lightning il
a summer storm. But she has ha,
years Of practice, Anette." Still
deeper creases set into his fore
head as he froWned. You at leas
should have kept on your leopar'
coat"
Anette's unhappy voice inter
ruFted, I'm glad didn't Larr.
hates it so. He said-oh, it doesn'
matter what he said. I'm to buy
new n this afternoon and throN
this one away"
The teachers comment was DR.
AM somewhat a astic. Tina
sounds fair enough. But just re
member, nothing photographs bet
ter than spots, checks ana stripes.
Ard orchids, You notice sh
bought bg bouncing orchids tc
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-03-09
SYNOPSIS

ANETTE WINSLOW. It. beautiful,
and aspiring to fame on the stage.
meets
LAURENCE PEYTON, ~top-ranking &C
tor. and
AUGUST DRAKE. Peyton's leading
lady. Larry in turn introduces her to
i~icireSs
LOIS LYNDON. and her brother.
JIMMY.
YESTERDAY Anette learns in the pa
pcIs that. in order to give the mar
rage more Importance, August
told them that she had named Larry
Peyton's bride the most promising
young actress.