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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
Leaders Confer
On Second Front

LONDON. July 81. (UP) - The
possibility of an Allied second front
in Europe to aid the Red army,
particularly if Japan strikes at the
Soviet Union in the Far East, arouS-
ed mounting speculation today as
a result of secret conferences among
American and British officials.
The conferences. in which Prime
Minister Winston Churchill was un-
derstood to have participated, coin
cided with statements by British
quarters that Japan had massed
about half of her armies in the
north and was prepared to attack
Siberia by merely pushing but
ton" whenever she chooses.
The Russian situation resulting
from the German offensive against
the northern Caucasus admittedly
had become so grave that some
sources feared the Germans and
Japanese were ready to attempt a
stab in the back" in hope of knock
ing the Red army out of the war
and making an Allied second front
in 1943 too late to be effective.
Various plans for second front
operations to aid the Russians have
been advanced, but official sources
remained silent after earlier efforts
to discount agitation for an invasion
of western Europe until American
forces in the British Isles were great
ly strengthened.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
POWER TO THE NAVY

AS soon as 20th-FoX can rush him
through submarine training school
story titled Crash Dive" Tyrone
Power Joins the Navy. Another actor
who has been deferred-reluctantly
as far as he's concerned-is Tim
Holt. RKO got him held out OF the
Air Corps long enough to make six
hurry-up westerns. He'll be fitted
for a uniform by the time you read
this.
Perhaps the greatest financial
shock was provided by Gene Autry.
Republic Studio has made for
tune from Autrys career, and for
the 1942-43 season had slated him
for four top-budget musicals and
four program westerns. Bells OF
Capistrano" is his last before join
ing the Army Air Service as non
commissioned officer.
Victor Mature, Robert Stack
George Montgomery and JACK
Briggs are other important actors
recently lost to Hollywood. Mickey
Rooney, I understand, Will put on
Navy uniform soon.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
2Japanese Ships
Sunk in Yangtze
BvU.S. Bombers

CHUNGKING, July 81 UP) =
American bombers have sunk two
Japanese vessels totalling perhaps
1000 ions in the Yangtze at Kiu-
kiang, it was announced today as a
military spokesman revealed that
in the battle for southeast China
that japanese had recaptured the
port of WenchoW.
The headquarters of Lieut. Gen.
Joseph w. StilWell, commander in
chief of the American forces in
China, announced that the United
States bombers, with pursuit es-
cort, sank the two vessels, each OF
from 1000 to 1000 tons, in a raid
yesterday on the river port 80 miles
north of Nanchang in Kiangsi pro-
vince.
PLANES UNFRAMED
The American planes returned to
their base without damage, the
communique, 10Th issued b. Still
well, added
Wenchow repeatedly was lost
again only "a hours after the
Chinese had retaken the seacoast
city from the invader.
The Chinese high command yes
terday announced that WenchoW
and the neighboring port of Julian
had been retaken by the Chinese
after week of japanese occupa-
ton. Most of the japanese gar
rison was evacuated by naval craft,
the Chinese had said The remain
ing troops we're surrounded and
faced annirilation.
Wenchow is 225 miles below
Shanghai on the sea route to Hong
Kong and Singapore.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
Torpedo Explosion
Kills Is Men

A GULF COAST PORT, July 81
CUP) - Fifteen men were killed by
a torpedo explosion or were drown
ed when a medium sized American
cargo ship was sunk in the Carib-
bean on June 3, the eighth naval
district announced today.
There was only time to flast one
SOS after a torpedo blasted open
the ships bunkerc, the naval dis
trict said. Thirty survivors, includ-
ing an unidentified gun crew, were
picked up early on the morning OF
June by naval vessel and taken
to Trinidad. Most of the survivors
were brought here later.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21

HOLLYWOOD, July 2l-UP) -
ACTORS wanted. Experience desir-
able, but not essential. Must be per-
sonable and reasonably handsome,
but should have physical handicaps
such as wooden leg, leaky heart or
10 per cent vision. Special prefer
ence given married men with large
families. Ages 25-40 favored, but
men up to so considered Excellent
opportunities for fame and fortune
while working with stars such as
Hedy LAMAR Ginger Rogers, Doro-
thy Lamour, Rita Hayworth, Gene
Tierney and others. Applicants
should get into little -theater or
stock companies to be judged by
talent scouts"
Movie companies haven't got
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
Nazi Supply
Target for Planes
In Desert Action

CAIRO, July 81. CUP)-British
and South African planes have in
flicted heavy damage on the Axis
forces in raids on airdromes, tanks,
troops and supply vehicles, it was
announced today.
Long range planes carried out
an attack on enemy barges, protect
ed by fighter planes, northeast of
Sidi Barrani in the zone near the
Libyan border, and plane crews saw
them aflame, a .communique of the
Middle Eastern command and the
Royal Air Force said.
In a large scale attack on the
enemy airdrome near Fuka, go miles
west of the Alamein battle line, I'M
perial planes scored direct hits,
started fires and damaged about 30
enemy planes, the communique said.
One Italian fighter plane was shot
down in a battle and others were
damaged.
ATTACK AT NIGHT
Medium bombers caused fires and
explosions among tanks, trucks and
grounded planes in the battle area
in heavy night attack.
A German Messerschmitt-1
fighter plane was shot down by
British fighters over Malta, it was
said.
Loss of five British planes in all
operations was admitted, but the
communique said that pilots of two
were known to be safe.
AS regards ground operations, the
communique merely noted that they
we're confined yesterday to patrol
activities.
The British forces appeared to
have strengthened their position
along the Alamein line after seiz-
ing dominant ground and taking
in II days, 5000 prisoers.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21

LONDON, July 81. CUP)-Speedy
spitfire fighters, some manned by
an American Eagle squadron, and
four-motored wellington and Amer
ican-built Boston bombers attacked
enemy installations from lie Havre
to northwest Germany last night as
the Russians reported that their
bombers had blasted Koenigsberg
industrial capital of northwest Ger
many last night as the Russians re-
ported that their bombers had
blasted Koenigsberg, industrial cap
ital of northwest Germany.
Radio Moscow said that a large
group of planes set 38 fires in
Koenisgberg, important port on the
FriSches Haff, a protected bay of
the Baltic. 1t is famous for its iron
foundrieS, machine shops and loco
motive works which now probably
are turning out submarines.
Seventeen large fires were started
in the center of the city and Ia in
the southwestern outskirts (the port
district, Radio Moscow said. Large
explosions followed, including three
in the northwestern outskirts, that
started seven fires. All the Russian
bombers returned safely.
MILITARY TARGETS
Moscow radio did not say when
the raid occurred but the German
radio previously had admitted So
Wet bombings of Prussia last Satur-
day night.)
The Spitfires, almost 200 of them,
shot up every military target they
could find in low-level raids from
Octeville, near LIE Havre, to LIE
Treport, 70 miles to the north. The
American Eagle Squadron went along
to bomb the radio masts at Fecamp
and attack a factory where IAN ex-
ploSion and a lot of smoke" was
observed.
The BostonS attack a power sta
ton in the same general area. The
Wellingtons attacked objectives in
northwest Germany, the air minis
I try said without elaboration. AL
the Wellingtons and Bostons re-
turned. One of the fighters did not
Targets attacked by the Spit
fires, according to the air ministry
included two factories, several gun.
posts, a number of German army
billets, railroad signal boxes, a rail
road engine, an antiaircraft tower
the railroad station north of Diepp,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
BIGGEST ANTELOPE
WEIGHS 148 POUNDS

SAN FRANCISCO, July 81 CUP)
- The largest antelope killed in
California during the recent short
season weighed 148 pounds, j. S.
Hunter chief of the bureau of
game conservation, reported today.
Four hundred and fifty two marks
men hopefully went forth into the
woods and 402 were successful in
bagging their quarry, Hunter said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
Reds Garry Out
Planned Retreat

stroyed Is enemy tanks and many
field and machine guns, the noon
communique said
In another Voronezh area the
Russians broke through a strong
German defense line to capture a
Don river crossing and cut enemy
communications.
In a third, 900 Germans were
killed, three tanks and two ar
mored cars disabled and 5000 land
mines captured, the noon communi-
que reported.
The communique noted small
scale fighting on the Kalinin front
northwest of Moscow and said that
the Russians killed $50 Germans
when they broke into one enemy
position.
RESISTANCE STIFFENS
Despite the new withdrawal in
the south, there was every indica-
ton that the Russians had intenSi-
fled their resistance.
A special dispatch to the Army
newspaper Red Star said that the
Russians definitely had slowed the
pace of the enemy advance.
The battle was mounting in vio-
lence and the front was widening,
Red Star said. 1t admitted that
German armored forces continued
to break through the Russian line
at various places
American-made Douglasses and
Boeings aided the Russians on the
Voronezh front, special dispatch
to the Newspaper Pravda said. They
we're credited with destroying "a
German tanks and 43 munitions
! trucks and shooting down seven en-
emy planes in their latest opera
tionS
Red Star reported that the Rus
slams had gained further ground
at Voronozh and asserted that
northwest of the city the Russians
had trapped a considerable Ger
man force. First the Russians cut
off the Germans from their re-
serves on the west bank of the
Don. Then when the Germans re-
treated southwark they found
themselves facing a strong Russian
force which had crossed the Don
Saturday, the dispatch said.
This dispatch was datelined Vo-
ronezh The Germans last week
claimed capture of the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21

Various quarters in Washington
have urged that important actors
not subject to early drafting re-
main in Hollywood and help the
movies in their morale effort. But
they're not remaining.
Jimmy Stewart, David Niven.
Richard Greene, Robert Montgom-
cry, and Douglas Fairbanks we're
among the early departures and
nobody was much surprised. But
Clark Gables enlistment was some
thing else again. He's Al And Err
rol Flynn, who was flatly rejected
because of a bad ticker, is flying
east again to try to persuade the
Army he can do something useful.
Cary Grant is heading for an Air
Corps job as soon as he finishes
"Once Upon a Honeymoon Rudy
Vallee, who at 81 started a real
career of acting, enlisted as a pri-
vate.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
Imperial alley Press

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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
Bombs, Bullets
Rain On Germans

and an armed trawler in the Somme
estuary.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21

Like inlaid! Colors go
clear through to sturdy
felt back. Waterproof
stalnproot. Seven dis
tinctive pat erns.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
ACTION, NOT MORALE

Hollywood needs actors who are
almost certainly immune from the
draft and are unlikely prospects
for volunteer service. The studios
frankly want men with types of
immunity which will allow them to
be publicized as actors without apol-
ogies for their not being in uniform.
The time is not far off, l believe,
when pictures will certify that: "All
male members of this cast have sat-
isfied their military obligations
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-21
Paul Hurrison'S Column

around to advertising for greasei
paint recruits, but every major
studio has talent scouts combing
the country for actors in the classi-
fications outlined above
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13
Sno-0wl Skiers
Win Competition

SEATTLE-The host club Sno-
Owl Skiers won the second annual
Pacific Northwest Ski association
ski patrol contest yesterday at
Government hill, Snoqualmie pass.
The competition was between two
man teams which administered
first aid 10 accident victims" and
escorted them to shelter on tabog-
gans.
Ted Welsnder and Lee Start
scored s7e6 points for the winning
team. Other results: John and Pat
Mcnamara. Yakima No. 2. Sc;
Hans Culland and Roy Britton,
Olympic Ski club, s0.55: Harold
Thomas and Jim Simmons. Mt
Hood No. /. Portland. 1855: L. Bar
tholomsw and Owen Mccarthy
Naches Pass. Seattle. 1914: Dean
Beckley and Ralph Hatfield. Mt
Hood No. ?. 1881: Robb Darling
and Don Emery. Yakima No. /
1917: Nick Franklin and Tony
Rhodes. Stevens Pass, wenstehee
1899.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13
Sports Parade

event won't be held That
incorrigible morning glory, The
Chief. IL being touted as n dark
horse for the $4,000 Widener
challenge cup :.
Billiard circles have reached
the riot stage in arguing the new
rule which permits a player TO
tee off with either cue ball. The
graybeards hold this is the same
as permitting a basketball team
to shoot at both hoops. or, I'd
say, permitting Louis to tee off
on his opponents with both
hands
The next time you play golf,
don't be surprised If you're greet
ed by caddy who is only IL or
lS years Of age. The USGA has
taken cognizance of the draft
and il schooling boys who are
far under the limit :.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13
BOWLING

Tacoma teams captured all win
ming places in the annual handicap
tournament of the Broadway
alleys, staged for feminine trund-
lers of the northwest. Sunday on
Tacoma's Broadway alleys.
Hotel Lassies, first half cham
pion Of the Commercial league and
one Of the city's outstanding fem
mime combinations. took first
place In the A class. which in
eluded all teams with averages Of
$50 or over. The Hotel team rolled
27ie. including 1s1 pins handicap.
Rau's Coliseum team won
first place In the II division,
scoring total of 1860. In
Gliding lis pins handicap.
Other winners in the Class A
group were: Bakery Ladies 27ie:
Emma Decker's Specials 24e3. and
Little Paris 2491. There were IA
teams In the stronger classified
ton and five In the C group.
The winning scores:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13
Contest First
Of City Events
Exposition Holl TO
Be Scene of Bottle

Bellsrmine Lions and Stadium
Tigers will 20 into Tuesday night
opening city prep league game
n Exposition hall on practically
even terms. an analysis Of the
records OF both teams reveals.
The Bella have won eight
Eame- and lost two while the
Tigers have won sir and lost
pair. BeIiarmine lost 10
o'Dea IN cverssms and 10
Clover Park while Stadium
stumbled On MaryyiIle and
Puyailup.
Extensively the Lions have a
three-point edge. having averaged
1851 points per game while the
Bengals have only scored SIS
points per encounter. Bellarmine
has scored at least 10 points In
every game.
Defensively the Bellsrmine edge
In even greater with the Lions
having held ten opponents TO 27.s
points per game while Stadium
has given up 81 tallies per game.
However. Stadium's record
has beoa against some Of the
toughest teams In the state
while Bellarmine's opposition
has consisted chiefly Of Pierce
County league quintets.
Jim Bischsel. Bellarmine's top
individual scorer, has averaged
81 points per game while Bob
Fincham Of Stadium has tossed
IN s.25 points per game.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13
Clover Parks Names
All-Time Quintet

L. \ v W O O D-Cioyer Park
picked its all-time all-stsr basket
bali team at the Golden Bah game
last Friday and three Of the stars
were members Of the current War
nor basketball team. Il was an
nounced by Coach Bill Lennon.
Bob McClenaghsn. Yves Ssxton
and Eyert Pitmsn Of the 1912
Warriors were named on the hon
OF squad along with VEN Hill Of
1888 and Jack Ellis 81 the 1871
team
Honorable mention waa &C
corded 10 Roy Lopez. Art Staples.
harv kasemeier and Don Hersey.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13
Heavies Apply
For Navy Jobs
PORTLAND

PORTLAND - The navy was
considering 74s pounds Of Drawn
upon application for enlistment Of
two Rose Bowl players William
N. Halvorsen. weight ESQ pounds.
and Glenn NJ. Burlington. 2io
pounds. both of the Oregon State
Bevers and Robert c. (Tinly)
MeKeown. 2es. of the University
Of Washington football squad.
Halvorsen and Mckeown have
applied for training as deck Of
ficers and Burlington seeks train
ing as a naval flying cadet.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13
WI Not Sure
Of 1912 Play
Wor Mukes Plons
Rother Indefinite

Directors of the Western Inter
national Baseball league today
awaited Qualification of problems
arising from the war before max
ing definite plans for the 1912 sea
son.
At meeting here Saturday
night they decided to convene again
Feb. 81. At that time national
baseball leaders were expected to
have decided how TO meet sucn
problems as daylight saving time
and crowd restrictions.
President Robert b. Abel
said. however, ne did not be
lieve there would be a serious
player shortage.
Other officials attending the
meeting were William Ulrich and
Milton Hanauer. Spokane; Wilder
Jones and Charles Garland. We
natchee: Bob Brown, Vancouver.
B. c.; Roger Peck. Tacoma; How
ard Maple, Salem. and Ed Hughes,
Yakima.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13
By JACK GUENTHER

NEW YORk-A free ride on
the sports merry-go-round;
Now that the United States
Golf assosition has abandoned it's
1912 tournament schedule, the
next blow to sports will be the
cancellation of night baseball
games.
Most club owners in eastern
cities already are resigned to
such a ruling. which will hit the
Pacific Coast league hardest Of
all .. Commander John Wechel.
the new navy grid boss, once
coached a u. s. s. Idaho football
team quarterbacked by Boxer
Ken Overlin =.
The turf grapevine Ia buzzing
with reports that sun Again. n
three year-old Kentucky Derby
hopeful. h the best horse In the
Calumet Farm barn by three full
lengths - not excepting Whiri-
away.
Incidentally, the hard boots In
Kentucky are shying off Alsab
as Derby prospect already be-
cause Of the jinx which always
smacks down great juveniles in
Col. Matt Winn's run of the
roses. The boots are on the Ed
Bradley bandwagon again. this
time with Bless Me. n colt who
has won four races and finished
second In his other two -.
Historical note: The first thing
Joe Louis does when he returns
TO his dressing room after fight
is eat big, shiny apple. That
gives him a chance to null over
reporters questions In between
bites. Buddy Baer. quite sppro-
pristely, sucks on lemon
The odds against golfer
smaclsing n hole In one are In
the nelghborhood of 4.7s6 Ia I.
hut the ace which Horton Smith
hoied out before the Los Angeles
open was his sixth -
Whatever became of the ex-
perts who predicted that Don
Bulge and Fred Perry would
slap Amateurs Bobby Riggs and
Frank Kovacs smash-silly IL ever
they met on a tennis court? At
last reports Bulge was far from
holding his own ON the Thomp-
son transforming tour and Perry
was suffering from eye strain
from watching the placements
fit by D. Recommended for this
week - Ray lSugah) Robinson.
the 1--WE hep jazz man from Har-
lem. versus Grsndpsppy Fritzie
Zivlc
Lew Fonseca shot 81 900 feet
OF film to get the 1000 he un-
reels in the American league
promotional movie. The Ninth
Inning" The film shows the
startling differences in the bat
ting techniques used by Joe Dr.
Maggie and Ted Williams :. Di-
Mag accents wrist action while
Williams gets his power from a
fun arm swing -.
Sammy Snead has lost his
chance 20 win the national open
every way now-this year the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-01-13
First Champ
To Take Step
Goes to Comp
Upton Wednesday,

NEW YoRk-Joseph Louis Bar
row. formerly Of the Alabama
cotton fields and now Of Madison
Square Garden and points west,
wrote a chapter in rne annals to-
day when ne became the first
world heavyweight champion 10
enter this eountry's armed forces
while still holding the title.
Louis put his million-dollar body
under army stetheseopes for a
physical examination. preliminary
to induction. and when physicians
finished pounding and testing the
200-odd pounds of muscular might
that built up a S2.263, 7s4 IS
fortune in IS fights. he was handed
ticket for the 1870 a. m. We'd
nesday train to Camp Upton, Long
Island.
There, Louis viii undergo
the final induction details such
as innoculations, issuance ~
uniforms and equipment. and
assignment TO a training base
with the impartiality accorded
any other recruit.
Army officials refused to discuss
where Louis would be stationed for
his six weeks Of compulsory train
ing and where he would be sent
for the duration. There was little
doubt, however, that he would 60
eventually, if not Immediately. into.
the army's morale division.
NO OBSTACLES SEEN
Col. H. Clay NJ Supplee, morale
officer of the second corps area,
intimated there should be few OBJ
stacles in the way of future Louis
fights because army relief organi-.
cations need money as much as
any other branch of the services.
Louis, already on an all
time pugilistic pedestal be-
cause of his amazingly potent
fists, rename practically
emotionless under a torrent Of
congratulatory kilograms fol-
lowing his enlistment. He
went 10 bed early last night.
saying he had no preference
for any branch Of the service.
II hardly think I'll become a
boxing instructor he said. You
see, I'm still taking lessons-from
my trainer. Jack Blackburn. I
just hope I can do as well for
Uncle Sam as did for Uncle Mike
Jacobs"
Jacobs said Louis future fistic
sctivities-in the ring. at least
were all uncertain. Joe was get
ting ready for March battle
with Melio Bettina or Gus Lesne-
vich and a return match with
Billy Conn had been reported. but
that was before Louis. pugilist.
became Louis, buck private.
No, / haven't planned anything
with anybody yet" Jacobs said.
Wen talk about those things
after Joe's in the army a while"