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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09
Nv HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, July tUP) - The
Germans. having broken through
Russian defenses west of Voronezh.
TODAY were reported developing a
drive on Svoboda. 56 miles to the
south. junction of the Moscow
Rostov, Kuibyshev and Don Basin
railroads.
Front-line dispatches, dated yesi
terday. said small units OF more
than a dozen German tank and mo-
torized divisions storming the So
Wet defenseS around Voronezh had
succeeded in creashing through. If
Voronezh is taken - the Germans
already have claimed 1.-THE last
important railway between Moscow
and the oil of the Caucasus will
have been cut.
The threat of Svoboda, an even
more strategic point, because some
of the most important railway lines
in Russia join there, developed af-
ter Soviet forces withdrew from
Starr Cskol. 65 miles southwest of
Voronezh. The Germans apparently
now intended to drive 80 miles
southeast to Svoboda and establish
solid front between there and
Voronezh cutting the Moscow Ro-
stov railway at another point. as
we'll as the Kuibyshev and Don
Basin line.
TANKS ADVANCE
Dispatches said that upwards of
1000 German tanks pushing toward
the Don continued to widen the
Salient in the Voronezh region and
at a point near Starry OSkol. Soviet
counter attacks forced the Ger
mans from several villages north
west of Voronezh.
The noon Soviet communuique
said, last night our troops fought
battles with the enemy west of
Voronezh. On other sectors there
were no important changes
quoting late reports, the Soviet
army organ Red Star said the sit
uation west of Voronezh and in the
Starry Oskol region remained most
grave, that a vastly superior enemy
was unremittingly attacking and
compelling the hard-pressed Rus
slams to retreat.
CROSSING SOUGHT
Especially was fighting fierce in
the Don Basin. Red Star said
Masses of more than 800 German
armored vehicles were trying tC
Ford the river.
I'm order to achieve quick, de-
cisive results, the Germans have
thrown in every reserve they can
spare from the southern front in
Guiding a full Hungarian corps
Rumania nand Slovak troops and
the crack first brigade of the Ger
NAM SIS corps" Red Stor said.
The Germans attacked two popu-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09
Heroism of 25
Airmen Reward ed

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA,
July 9. UP)-Lieut. Gen. George
H. Brett. Allied air commander in
the southwest Pacific, today decor
ated 25 American and Australian
airmen for meritorious service since
+ the outbreak of Pacific hostilities.
Distinguished Service Crosses went
TO Capt. George E. Kiser of Somer-
set. KY; Capt. Robert L. Morrissey
of Tecumseh, Neb.: 1st Lieut.. James
B. Morehead of Washington, Ala
and End Lieut.. A. T. House, jr., of
Long Beach, Calf.
Brett paid special visit TO base
hospital TO pin silver star on the
pajama jacket of Brig. Gen. A. L.
Sneed of Maxwell Field, Ala, who
is recovering from Dangue fever.
Most of the other awards were
presented at a small airfield well
within the operations area where
American and Australian fliers and
their ground crews, in oil-stained
field uniforms, formed a hollow
square for the ceremony.
only by efficient labor, careful
work and intense interest from the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09

Mrs. Gerda Melind, a., pretty
brunette who was brought here
from Chicago, was seen coming
and going from the department
ton of tn" justice department
building in which the trial is be-
ing held. She was accompanied by
militar yguard at all times She
called off her engagement to Haupt
after his arrest.
TRIAL SHUT OFF
The trial began in one of two
FBI class rooms. At both ends.
wooden doors have been erected
about u feet from the regular
swinging glass doors setting off the
FBT section Of the building.
Anyone enJc-ing through tho
wooden doors must show a card
to a building policeman and FBI
agent. 1t is signed bv FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover and the provost
marshal The credentials must be
shown again when passing through
the soldier guarded glass doors be-
yond. This pass precaution affect
ed Hoover, Biddle and other Off
cials, as well as witnesses, messen-
gers and stenOgraphers.
The soldiers were attired in full
field kit, including steel helmet.
One stood outside each office door
way across from the hearing room
to prevent occupants from peeping
into the corridor. These occupants
were forced to pass through
string Of officers TO get TO their
desks
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09
Soviet Sub Chief
Damages Tirpitz

has a star record of SinkngS of
enemy transports and patrol YES
sells in the northern sea.
FIRST ATTACK NEWS
The announcement of the torpe-
doing was the first Allied word of
action in the Barents Sea, off the
Arctic coast, where German claim
ed it had sunk 80 out of a convoy
of 38 ships in an Anglo-American
CONVOY en- route to Murmansk.
The midnight communique said
Our submarines in the BarentS
Sea hit the battleship Tirpitz with
two torpedoes, inflicting' serious
damage
1t reported at the same time the
sinking of a German transport in
the Barents Sea and the damaging
of another in the Gulf of Finland.
The communique was supple
mented by official information that
the Tirpitz, probably the most
powerful battleship afloat, and be-
lieved to be of more than 10000
tons, had left Norwegian harbor
several days ago with its cruisers
and destroyerS to prey on a big
Allied convoy.
SENTRIES POSTED
1T was indicated that the Rus
sian naval intelligence had received
word that the German squadron
was at large and had posted sub
marine and perhaps other sentries
to watch for it.
london revealed that the Brit
ish admiralty had known that the
Tirpitz had left Trondheim, Nor
way, to operate along the convoy
route to MurmanskD
Although the battleship was
protected by a screen of destroy
ers," an official statement said
Capt. Lunin decided to break
through and attack the Tirpitz.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09

men on the ground is this made
possible" Brett said.
The awards covered acts per-
formed in all phases of the Pacific
war-in the Philippines, Java, Aus
tralia. A highlight was the citation
Of House who, after downing Jap
anese Zero and with his own guns
jammed, discovered another enemy
fighter on the tail of his squadron
commanders plane. House dragged
his wing tip through the zero's
cockpit, cutting il in half, and
brought his own plane safely to
base with four feet of the wing
missing.
A silver star was awarded to 1st
Lieut.. Varian K. White, Los An
geles.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09
Jap Oil Storage
Tanks Left AbIaze
ByChina Raiders

CHUNGK1NG, July Sup -
American and Chinese warplanes
striking at Japan's key base alone
the Yangtze river, left eight large
fires burning in a heavy raid or
oil storage tanks and wharves al
Hankow last Monday a communi-
que from the headquarters of Lieut.
Gen. Poseph w. Stilwell said to-
day.
The communique confirmed that
several japanese planes were de-
stroyed during the July fourth raid
on Canton. Previous accounts of
the attack said results were un-
determined because of poor visibil-
ity.
Mondays raid was the second on
Hankow in less than a week. In
the first attack On July 2, Allied
bombers destroyed II grounded
planes at the Hankow 'airfield and
sunk an enemy gunboat az its
Yangtze river dock.
JAPS LOSES PLANES
The Allied attackers were cred
tied with destroying II japanese
planes in their first three raids last
week on enemy bases at Hankow,
Nanchang and Canton.
A military spokesman said that
10000 Japanese troops were being
concentrated in new enemy drive
southwest from Nanchang in an at
tempt TO seize the 200-mile Kiangsi-
Human railway
The enemy forces, he said, were
attacking from the east, aiming at
Chinese positions in the Yuhua
mountains along the east shore of
the Kan river and south of Chang
shu, as miles southwest of Nam
chang.
The towns of Changshu and Feng-
chang. on the railway about 30
miles southwest of Nanchang, still
are in Chinese hands, the spokes-
man said. He acknowledged. how
ever, that the Japanese had reach
ed their outskirts.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09

SMITHFIELD, N. C., July 8
CUP) - Army air corps officials
picked up the widely scattered
wreckage of an Army bomber over
an area of nearly Is acres of cot
ton and corn fields today seeking a
possible clue to the cause of the
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09
300 Raj Planes In
Attack on German
North Sea Base

LONDON, July 9-UP)-A strong
force of Royal Air Force planes
estimated to number upwards o.
300, attacked Germany's North Ses
naval base of Wilhelmshaven durine
the night, the air ministry an.
nounced today.
Fighter command planes attack
ed enemy airdromeS and other OBJ.
jectives in occupied France ano
shot down two German bombers
which they intercepted.
-Four British bomberS were LOST
in the nights operations.
1ST SINCB BREMEN
1t was the first raid by the lone
range bombing planes since the
night of July 2-3, when Bremen
was the target.
Berlin, in its first report of the
raid, said that the British planes
dropped high explosives and in
cendiary bombs on the north Ger
man coastal area.
1t admitted damage in the EStu-
airy of the Weser river, which lies
to the east of Wilhelmshaven, and
as usual, said that most of the
damage was done to residential
quarters.
Berlin said that three of the
raiding planes were downed.
Wilhelmshaven was last attacked
on the night of February 81.
PATTERN FOLLOWED
Last nights raid gave additional
emphasis to the recent pattern OF
Royal Air Force attacks in that
corner of northwest Germany lying
on the North Sea just east of the
Netherlands.
1t is an area filled with airplane
and other wa. factories and with
naval shipyards most of which are
building submarines.
The last eight raids in force on
Germany have been concentrated
on this area.
First Emden was attacked June
10 by perhaps 300 planes, and 300
plane raids were made on it the
next two nights
Then the Royal Air Force open
ed on Bremen June Is with a raid
of more than 1000 bomber planes,
and it followed up with 300-plane
raids on the nights of June 27,
June 20 and July 2.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09
ImperioIs Hdross
RommeI's Forces

envy south and southwest of the
point at which the German line
bends westward in the desert dust
bowl, it was reported.
FORCE POCKETED
At present the German force is
pocketed in an area of several
square miles, it was said.
The Germans were reported max
ing frantic attempts to break out
as the mobile British striking col
umnS drove in on them steadily.
The report OF the pocketing OF
the German force came direct from
the front in a dispatch by Henry
E. Gorrell. United Press correspon-
dent with the Royal Air Force.
Gorrell said that the Imperials,
already strongly reinforced, were
gaining strength hourly as EN-
couraging numbers" of fresh tanks
reached the front He quoted an
officer at eighht army headquarters
as saying:
1T is possible the Germans may
tvy a mass attack in an attempt to
crack our defenseS. If they do it
will be suicide. We are read- for
them
LULL REPORTED
At the northern section of the
front. toward El Alamein on the
coast go miles west of Alexandria,
there was a comparative lull yes
terday. but it was a "lull" in which
British mobile columns were hitting
the Axis forces at many points.
The front still was fluid and
both sides were maneuvering for
positional advantage.
Day and night the British light
ming columns consisting of tanks,
guns and motorized infantry were
moving out into German-held ter
ritory in local scale attacks
1t was indicated that German
Field Marshal Erwin Romnlel, the
Axis commander in chief had elect
ed to stand on the present line,
hoping for reinforcementS which
would permit him TO resume a drive
on Alexandria and the Nile. rather
than withdraw.
SUPERIORITY GROWS
1t was emphasized increasingly
that Allied air superiority was
growing
The combined Roral Air Force
by a force of United States Army
and South African air force, backed
air corps bombers. was consider
ably stronger than when the cam
paign started six weeks ago.
Despite all losses. the Royal and
South African air forces were able
to put more fighter and bomber
planes into action than on the
opening day of the campaign, and
the sorties made over enemy ter
ritory actually totalled thousands.
In six weeks of fighting. it was
as tvted OFFICIALLY, the Germans
had lost nearly 300 planes for
certain and it was probable that
additional planes running into the
hundreds had crashed behind the
enemy lines. OF those known down.
ed l34 were destroyed in air fights
more than 100 aground and more
than 40 by anti-aircraft gun fire
In the same period, the Allies
had lost a little more than 200
planes, it was understood, of which
the pilots of ITO had been saved
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09
Crash Scatters Plane Is Acres

crash which brought nine men to
flaming death.
Names of the dead were not avail
able.
The plane fell yesterday after
noon and exploded when it hit the
ground.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09
BY LEON KAY

CAIRO. July 9 (UP) - British
empire patrols destroyed numerous
Germans guns, killed some of the
enemy and took prisoners in a sue
ceSsful night raid on the Aalamein
front, a Middle Eastern command
communique said today.
ROYAL Air Force planes extend
ing their offensive more than $50
miles from their nearest land bases,
attacked the big Axis base at Mes
sina, Sicily, Just across from the
italian mainland. and started a
large fire, ii was revealed.
Fighting patrols of tanks. guns
and motorized infantry harrssSed
the enemy all day yesterday on
the front before e Alamein, the
communique said, especially at the
southern end of the line.
BOMBINGS CONTINUE
Despite interference by dust
storms. the air force. completely
dominant, continued its attacks
over the entire frontal area and
the German rear.
Fighter bomber planes made an
other big attack yesterday on the
enemy landing ground at FL Daba.
30 miles west of FL Alamein, and
scored direct hits on refueling en-
emy planes.
Enemy vehicles were attacked
and forced to disperse.
British offensive aerial patrols
shot down seven German and Ital-
ian planes. the communique said,
adding that an eighth was shot
down when three enemy planes at
tackled the Alexandria area during
the night without causing damage.
MALTA RAIDED
A ninth enemy plane was shot
down by night fighters, which also
damaged one plane. Six planes.
bringing the one dav total to Is.
were shot down in raids on Malta
Six British planes were lost in
all operations including the Sicily
raid and the Malta fighter de-
tense.
Dispatches from the front report
ed that Imperial troops had poe
keted a big force of German tanks,
guns and transport trucks on the
Alamein line and were closing in
on them despite desperate enemy
attempts to escape.
In combined army and air force
operation, the Imperials of Gen. Sih
Cluade Auchinleck's eighth army
succeeded in surrounding the en-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09
Germans Shotter
Red Defense Line

lated places west of Voronezh eight
times in one day, the noon COM
munique asserted. Toward night,
two companies of infantrT made a
ninth attack. The Russians let
them get close, then counter-at-
tackled and wiped out the whole
force.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09
COUNTER-AT

Marshal Semyon Timoshenko was
counterattacking on the German
flank at Crel, $50 miles north of
Voronezh, but there was no i'm
mediate report on his progress.
CThe Germans admitted a Soviet
drive at Orel, saying the Russians
had broken into main German de-
fens lines after attacks by heavy
tank forces.)
Though last years numerical in
feriority of Russian tanks appeared
greatly reduced, the Germans still
were able to employ superior num-
bers on the Voroneah. or any other
front they chose to strike.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09
YICHY ATTEMPTS TO
CURB FOOD SABOTAGE

VJCHY, July o. CUP)-Death was
decreed today for anyone caught
burning food crops. either in the
field or after harvest. in a drastic
effort TO curtail sabotage OF the
nations food supply.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09
NOW MANY WEAR
FALSE Teeth
WITH MORE COMFORT

FAsTEErH. a pleasant akoline (non-
firmly. To eat and talk in more COM
fort, just sprinkle little FASTEETH
on your plates No gummy gooey, pasty
taste or feeling Checks plate odOr".
fdeniure BREATH. Get FASTEETH at any
drug store,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09

jtood guard at the main entrances,
,ut there were no huge crowds or
,oncessionaires as there were yes
terday.
News cameramen loitered patti
entity across the street from the
vest enhances, waiting for shots
)f the windowless patrol wagons
IN which the prisoners are trans
ported to and from the district jail
under heavy guard.
Henry Paynter, a representative
of the office of war information.
appeared at the justice department
but said he had not received any
word from Mai. Gen. Frank Mccoy,
president of the military commits
sion, as to whether there would
be any news released about the
trail. Paynter said he had instruc-
tions merely to stand BY and wait
such time as Mccoy might send
for him.
WITNESSES CALLED
He passed the time by playing
solitaire in the justice department
pressroom. just around the corner
from the trial room.
Among the witnesses apparently
heard yesterday by the seven Army
generals who hold the power Of
life and death over the accused
were several federal bureau Of in
vestigation agents. the eX-fianee Of
Herbert Haupt, one Of the accused,
and four coast guardsmen, includ-
ing three officers.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09

MOSCOW. July 9 tUP) - An
ace Russian submarine commander
seriously damaged the giant Ger
man battleship Tirpitz with two
direct torpedo hits, and saved 2 big
Allied supply convoy from disaster,
it was announced today.
Capt. Nikolai Lunin. commanding
a Red fleet submarine. sighted the
Tirpitz, three German heavy crui-
sers and eight destroyerS as they
were trying to intercept an Allied
convoy in the BarentS Sea off the
Arctic coast on the way to Rus
sian port
Despite the almost impossible
odds against him, Lunin decided
at once to break through the
screen of destroyers protecting the
Tirpitz.
He did so and plunged two tor
pedoes into the great German bat
tleShip, it was asserted officially.
GERMANS WITHDRAW
AS the result, it was said. the
German naval formation, with its
chief unit stricken, was forced to
turn back and the convoy arrived
safely in port.
At last report the German fleet
was making its way back to the
Norwegian Fjords from which it
had emerged to carry Allied ship
ping on the Murmansk supply line.
Lunin is one of Russia'S most
daring submarine commanders. He
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-09
Trial of Soboteurs Goes
Into End Day in Secrecy

WASHINGTON, July UPD -
The trial of eight German sabo-
teurs landed on American shores
from submarines went into its sec
ond day today, still cloaked II
deepest secrecy.
"Al you can say now is that the
trial has started, justice depart
ment spokesman said as Attorney
General Francis Biddle. director j.
Edgar Hoover Of the federal bu-
reau of Investigation and other aid
es entered tn suite in the justice
department building where the
trial is being held before a special
military commission
A short time later the White
House revealed that Secretary of
War Henry l.. StimSon and Direc-
tor Elmer Davis of the new office
OF war information had arranged TO
see President Roosevelt together
There was no information on the
subject of the meeting but there
was speculation that it might be a
showdown on whether some infor-
nation should be made public about
the progress of the trial.
EXCITEMENT SUBSIDIES
The public excitement created by
the proceedings appeared 10 have
SlhSided somewhat since the trial
opened yesterday. There were scat
tered groups OF curious persons
about the streets flanking the
bulldlng, and yigilant policemen
Evening star., 1942-07-02
This Changing World
British Held Unlikely to Stop Rommers Forces;
Optimism Based on Fatigue Of Nozis Secuted

weeks the Raj has been fighting
gallantly and desperately there,
hut it was only defensive action.
These rather slim considera-
tions-Nazi fatigue and hopes to
intercept Nazi reinforcements-
are the basic reasons for the
optimism that remains in Brit
ish communiques.
1t is not known whether the
Nazis, taking advantage OF the
confusion which rules British
ranks in Egypt, have been able
to transport fresh troops in re-
cent days to relieve the soldiers
of the Afrika Korps, who have
been marching and fighting for
more than a week, virtually
without interruption.
Bombings of Alexandria and
other centers have caused panic
among the populations, which
are not used to active warfare.
1t is reported that in Alexandria,
where fifth columnists have been
particularly active, panic was in
describable after the first few
raids.
Native Sabotage Feared.
The Egyptian and Levantine
population of that port, one of
the largest in the world, has been
thoroughly frightened by ru-
mors spread by Hitler's and
Mussolini's agents. The rumors
were backed by Axis raids and
augmented by orders to evacu-
ate individuals and some of the
services established there.
There seems to be less con-
fusion on the surface, at least,
in Cairo. But this apparent
Evening star., 1942-07-02
Wi||kie Refuses 10 Run
For Governor Of New York
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 2-Wendell T..
Willkie has joined James A. Farley
in eliminating himself as an entry
in the New York governorship race,
leaving Republican Thomas E.
Dewey and Democrat John j. Ben
nett, jr, as chief contenders for
the nominations. e
Mr.. WILKES declaration yester-
day that he was not a candidate
and had mo intention of becoming
one" served to strengthen Mr..
Dewey's chances, although Mr.. Will
kies formal statement was openly
critical of the former district attor-
ney's political views.
The powerful American Labor
party. which held the balance of
power in the last State election and
enabled Gov. Herbert H. Lehman
to defeat Mr.. Dewey, meanwhile
complicated the Democratic picture
when its State Executive Commit
tee affirmed a resolution favorinr
either 1t. Gov. Charles Poletti or
Senator Meade for Governor ana
opposing Mr.. BENEFITS candidacy.
Mr.. Farley removed himself Nom
day from among the Democratic
dark horses and championed Mr..
Bennett, who, like Mr.. Dewey, has
been pledged the support Of a ma.
jority of delegates to the State con.
vention.
Evening star., 1942-07-02

to the heads of War or Navy De-
partments or Ministries of Defense
but to the Prime Minister of Brit
ain and the President. 1t is doubt
full whether these two men would
override the decisions of such a
group.
The British and American peoples
then would know that decisions are
being made by the men who know
most about war and who are not
beholden in any way to factions or
group interests but are effectively
concerned with the making of a
broad strategy which 1t would be
the duty of all armed services to
consummate no matter what the
risk or the costs.
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