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Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
BY BRYDON TAVES

| GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Somewhere in Austria
liza, Nov. 10. = (U.PD = Australian
troops today were smashing Jap
anese resistance along the Kokoda-
Brna trail in Southeast New Gui-
nea with an encircling movement
which inflicted heavy casualties on
the enemy and carried the Aussies
to within 45 miles of the import
ant Japanese base at Buna.
The Australians advanced at least
six miles closed to the Japanese
coastal stronghold in the Buna-
Coma area on the north coast,
which automatically reduced the
distance separating them from
American troops driving toward
Buna from an undisclosed point
to the southeast
BY cutting south of the village. of
Oivi, where fighting still is in pro-
gress, an Australian force engaged
Japanese at Gonari, another tiny
jungle valley, six miles east of
Oivi, communique from Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's headquarters
said.
JAPS ENCIRCLED
Thus, Japanese in both villages
and strung cut along the connect
ing stretch of trail, were threat
ened with destruction. A military
spokesman said the main fighting
in the latest action was raging a
few miles south of Gonari between
the village and a second jungle
track south of the main Oivi-Wai-
ropi-Buna trail. The Australians
also were believed to be executing
new encircling maneuver east of
Gonari.
The advanced Australian units
now are halfway between Oivi and
Wairopi, which is strategically i'm
portant because of its bridge across
the Kumusi river.
JAP TRANSPORT HIT
Allied attack planes supported
ground operations by bombing and
machine cunning Japanese front
line positions, Macarthur reported,
while strong fighter and medium
bomber forces pounded enemy rear
lines of communications.
Heavy Allied bombers crippled
5000-ton Japanese transport bound
for the Solomons off Capt st.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
Aussies EncircIe
Japanese Troops

George on the northern tip of New
Ireland island, while Catalina fly
ing boats plastered runways and
plane dispersal areas at the Ka-
vieng airdrome at the extreme
southern end of New Ireland.
A United Press dispatch from an
advanced Allied base in New Gui-
nea revealed that the operations
of United States troops transported
to the island by transport planes
in September partly was inspired
by an Allied plane crash
A Hudson bomber the report said,
made forced landing in head-high
grass some distance south of Buna
two months ago. Natives cut
swath through the grass which en-
abled the bomber to take off again.
and this makeshift airfield later
proved invaluable as Allies first
aerial beachhead on the north shore
of the Papua peninsula.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
By EDWARD w. BEATTIE

LONDON. Nov. 10. tUP)-Ameri-
can tanks pounded into Casablanca
and Oran today. a high-speed mo-
bile column raced out on Algiers
toward the Tunisia border. and
dramatic moves which may bring
Admiral Jean Francois Darlan and
other high French officers into the
Allied camp appeared to be in prog
reSS.
The United States offensive in
North Africa was in high gear and
reports both from Allied headquar-
ters and the Vichy and axis radio
indicated it rapidly was nearing the
mop-up stage.
Frantic efforts were under way by
Vichy and the axis to eounteract
the fast moving Allied operation.
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain as
sumed the supreme command OF all
French armed forces and Premier
Pierre Laval was reported attempt
ing to negotiate full peace with
Germany, probably preparatory to
an effort to take France openly into
the war as a Nazi ally. One rumor
circulated that Laval, Adolf Hitler,
and Benito Mussolini might hold a
Joint conference on ways and means.
There was spreading naval action
both in the Mediterranean and the
Atlantic.
The British admiralty reported
hat a British submarine had tor
Of
Sicily and A. V. Alexander revealed
hat 40 Nazi submarines had been
sunk or damaged in the last three
weeks, many of them presumably in
attempts to attack the armada of
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
Churchill Says
FIR Planned Blow

ordinated drive of the Imperial
Eighth Army in Egypt.
Britain and America, he said,
have entered North Africa with olG
purpose alone-"to gain vantage
ground with which to open a new
front against Hitler
COORDINATED PLAN
Churchill told guests at the Lord
Mayors banquet at Mansion House
that the British assault upon ROM
mel in Egypt and the "momentous
enterprise undertaken by the Unit
ed States at the western end of
the Mediterranean were part of a
coorinated plan to destroy Axis po-
sitions in Africa.
He emphasized anew Britain's
lack of "acquisitive designs and am
billions in French North Africa and
elsewhere and asserted his faith
that France will rise again-free,
strong with her empire gathered
around her and Alsace-Lorraine re-
stored"
PRESIDENTS PLAN
President Roosevelt, he said, con-
ceived the plan for the North Al
rican offensive and in "all of it
have been his active and ardent
lieutenant
Churchill characterized the sue
cess of the Eighth Army in Egypt
as giving good prospects of be-
coming decisive and final SO far as
the defense of Egypt is concerned" !"
While renouncing any British
territorial ambitions, Churchill as
serted strongly Britain's intention of
holding what she has.
I'VE mean to hold our own he
said. II did not become Prime
Minister in order to preside over
the liquidation of the British en-
pire."
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
VOODOO ON THE SCREEN
(The New Republic)

cine New RepQDllc)
Newsreel theaters have recently been
showing a short subject dealing with
palmistry, produced by Paramount Pic
lures. Contrary to what you might sup
pose, this motion picture accepts palms.
try seriously as a reputable branch of
science. Not only that, but it shows the
palms of the chief axis dictators and in
dicates that they are doomed, by the
lines in their hands, to certain failure
There is, of course, absolutely no scien-
tific foundation for palmistry whatever.
It is a piece of pure voodoo, on plane
with astrology, tea leaves, and crystal
ball gazing. No reputable motion-pic-
ture company should ever take it serious
ly; but it is ten times worse to do so in
the middle of war, with the implied
argument that we need not exert our
selves in order to win, since fate has al
ready done the job Paramount Pictures,
which has produced many fine movies in
the past, should be thoroughly ashamed
of tbic ono
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
French Admit U.S..
Troops in Second
Major Objective

VICHY, Nov. 10. (French broad
casts recorded b. UP in Londom-
American tanks have entered Oran,
second major Mediterranean objec-
tive of the North African drive, it
was announced officially today.
American tanks rolled into Oran
at 1l:45 am. (5:45 am, EWT) af-
ter the French garrison there had
offered stubborn opposition, a COM
munique said.
Earlier dispatches from North
Africa had recounted the stubborn
resistance the French were. offer
ing at Oran and said that although
only three shore batteries still were
in operation, ship had been sunk
in the bay, blocking the entrance
to the harbor.
PLANES OVER TOULON
Radio Berlin said American
landing forces occupied height
and Fort Santa Cruz, near Oran,
which dominates the entire bay.)
Havas news agency reported that
three American planes flew over the
naval base at Toulon, France, where
much of the French fleet has been
reported concentrated. The planes
crossed the Toulon roadstead last
night, Havis said, and turned away
as anti-aircraft guns went into ac-
ton.
The French were stiffening their
resistance at Casablanca, front re-
ports said. An enemy column ad-
yancing from Fedala, north of the
city, was held throughout yester-
day by a violent artillery defense
supported by gunfire from the 35, 500
ton battleship Jean Bart.
Three destroyers and five trans
ports were reported patrolling off
the coast of Casablanca.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
WASHINGTON PLATINUM

No more platinum jewelry for the
duration, after present stocks in
stores are sold out. . Machine tool
builders still have 81 billion
backlog or orders. Professors Of
dried foods have been asked to swap
trade secrets to increase produc-
ton. Further production is pro-
hibited en- furniture made of white
ash, beech, yellow birch, rock elm,
gum, hard maple, oak, poplar and
walnut. Migratory farm work
ers must get certificates of war
necessity TO nave in trucks TO new
locations.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
2Canadians Take
Enemy Submarine

AN EASTERN CANADIAN PORT,
Nov. 10. tUP)-TWo Canadian naval
men captured a German submarine
b. leaping from the Canadian cor
Vette Oakville to the deck of a sink
ing U-boat and shooting it out with
the NaziS, the navy revealed here
today.
The sub had been rammed three
times by the Oakville following a
hot gun duel.
Sub-Lieut Harold Lawrence and
Stoker Petty Officer Arthur Powell
were the boarding party.
Lieut.. Cmdr. Clarence A. King,
skipper of the Oakville ran his ship
alongside the sub. 1t was rolling so
that only Lawrence and Powell
succeeded in leaping to her deck.
They shot and killed two Nazis who
rushed at them, knock q third over
the side, and compelled the rest of
the crew to come up out of the hull
and surrender. Lawrence and Pow
ell drove the Nazi crew into the
sea at gun-point, then dived in
themselves. A few minutes later the
sub sank.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
American Tanks Batter
CasabIanca Resistance

chiefs to the allies was regarded as
of great significance.
1t was announced with emphasis
that Darlan is being entertained"
by the Americans in Algiers. The
language was said TO have been
chosen carefully.
The announcement was believed TO
mean Darlan is considering throw
ing his lot with the allies. Gen. Al
phonSe Pierre JUN. French land
commander, probably is pondering
the same decision.
With the famous French war hero
Gen. Henri Giraud already on the
Allied side. it was thought the forth
coming decisions may have strong
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
British Sub Gets
Italian Cruiser

LONDON, Nov. 10.-U.P)-The
admiralty today reported that a
British submarine has torpedoed
an Italian cruiser off the northeast
coast of Sicily.
The admiralty said the Italian
warship was six-inch gun cruis-
er
The British submarine was COM
manded by Lieut.. j. F.. Stevens.
'The cruiser subsequently was
seen TO have halted with anti-sub-
marine craft and tugs standing by"
the admiralty announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
Reds on Offensive
In Caucasus Area

MOSCOW, Nov. 10. tUP)-Front-
line dispatches today said the Rus
slams had seized the initiative in
the Nalchik area of the Caucasus.
These reports said that the Ger
man offensive against Stalingrad
had exhausted itself, and that only
occasional small groups of Germans
attacked now. The Russians were
enlarging their initiative there and
improving their positions.
Southeast of Nalchik, where the
Germans have been stalled for more
than a week in a drive toward the
Grozny oil fields and the Georgian
military highway at Ordzhonikidze,
the initiative was reported to have
passed to the Russians.
Soviet communicates for several
days have reported Red army forces
conducting active operations Sat
tacking-southeas of Nalchik.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10

influence on Admiral Jean Esteva,
encouragement of Tunisia, and the
Bey of Tunis.
Gen. Giraud had been delegated
by Lieut.. Gen. Dwight d. Eisen-
hover, commander-in-ch of Al
lied forces, to organize a French ar
my which the United States will
equip. Eisenhower said he would be
in charge of military and civil af-
fairs" in North Africa, which would
make him ruler of French North
Africa.
+. Giraud was expected here to be
worth many divisions; his prestige
with French soldiers and civilians
is enormous.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
PUSSY-FOOTTNG POLITICS
HAVE NO PLACE HERE

On this manpower board there is one
man who has taken over large measure
of control. 1t is questionable if even the
other members of the board know all his
activities. kilograms to the board come
to his office, and kilograms from the
board go out of his office. He is on the
executive board, and is at least partly
responsible for the so-called executive
meetings" which are barred to anyone
except members of that board
1t was this man, and one other who
raised loud outcry recently because
the news was published that Dick Neff,
Of the Carpenters union, had been ap
pointed to the manpoWer board. 1t was
he who later publicly thanked Neff for
the wonderful work he was doing.
1t was he whose secretary recently
brought the wrong telegram to news
paper reporter and who, when he discoV-
cred the mistake snatched the telegram
rudely away and informed the reporter
that the newspaper would be told what
he wanted it to know.
1t is not the reporters feelings we are
interested in. That man was telling 10000
people in Imperial Valley, in effect, "Pll
tell you what think you ought to know
We have no objection to withholding
military information of value to the enc
my. Neither, we believe, do the people
as a whole object to that kind of censor
ship. 1t is part of war.
But censorship domestic news, SO some
individual or clique can put over some
idea which might be knocked down by
publicity, is another thing again. 1t is
the essence of dictatorship. 1t is the
stuff on which the Nazi party feeds in
Germany.
1t is not what we want in America
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
Yanks 0utnunber
laps in So|omons
Island Fighting

WASHINGTON, Nov 10.-U.P.D
Lieut.. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, COM
mandant of the Marine Corps, re-
ported tcday that Americans hold
ing Henderson Field still outnum-
Der Japanese troops trying to re-
capture that vital base on GCadal-
canal island.
Holcomb. who appeared at q
press conference with Secretary of
Navy Frank Knox to describe Il
recent tour of inspection through
the entire Pacific area, added that
the Guadalcanal situation is "shap-
ing up rapidly in favor Of our
forces.
AERIAL VICTORY
He disclosed that one Marine di-
vision is on the island, aside from
Army forces A Marine C9rps
spokesman said the size of a di-
vision is a military secret.
Holcomb, who met with report
ers on the 167th anniversary of the
corps, reported that on the day he
left Guadalcanal - October 23-
Marine fighter planes and anti
aircraft guns brought to 80 the
number of japanese planes shot
down in combat over the island
since it was occupied last August 7.
He said US forces have lost 62
planes during the same period, max
ing the ratio exactly five to one.
Holcomb said he saw an entire
squadron of 90 zeros destroyed on
October G3 with no American
losses.
IN GOOD CONDITION
THE American Marine and the
American soldier individually is
better than the japanese soldier,
although we have feared otherwise
at first" Holcomb said. He added
that the same goes for American
aircraft.
Although Marine and Army
troops on Guadalcanal have been
in combat approximately three
months, considerably longer than
any us. force ever stayed on the
line in World War I, oCr troops
are in surprisingly good physical
condition, Holcomb said.
Holcomb said he made the tour
with seven other Marine Corps Of
ficers "to find out just what is go
ing on out there" and particularly
ito see how they are fixed on Quad !,
alcanal.'
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
German Spy Dies
ByFiring Squad

HAVANA, Nov. l0.-U.P0-The
German spy, Heinz August Luning,
was executed by firing squad to-
day in the Principe prison yard.
He died with defiant glare in
his eyes, refusing a blindfold which
the sergeant of the death squad
offered him.
Luning, who entered Cuba on a
Honduras passport in August, l94l,
posing as a Honduran business
man, ~as convicted in September
of transmitting information to
Axis submarines which resulted in
the sinking of Allied vessels. His
appeal to the supreme court was
rejected and President Fulgencio
Batista refused clemency.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
IMPOSSIBLE TASK

Administratively the problem
of separating the younger men
from the older men and keeping
track of service records to make
sure that no soldier was sent over
seas before he had gone through
mis- year of training, would be al
most impossible And SO far, no
one has proposed that there be
entire divisions of 13 and 19-year-
old boys trained together for a year
before being sent abroad.
There is a certain leavening in
fluence of older men on younger
men when they are thrown to-
gether, and the young men ma
ture faster when mixed in this
way.
If the young men under 20 can't
be trained for active service by
next summer or autumn, it means
that half million more Older
men must be taken from trades
of various skills, thus further
draining the manpOWer reserve.
For the mothers of the l8 and
l9-year- boys there is the final
safeguard that Army physical and
psychiatric examinations will see to
it that none physically and mental
ly below standard will be called
upon to serve. 1t has taken all
these centuries for the generals to
learn that a dead soldiers or sick
soldier or an unframed soldier is
no good. But the idea has appar-
emily caught on now, and there
should be no restriction en- the en-
ployment of trained men when they
are fit.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
IT'S STILL THE
PEOPLES BUSINESS

There's a strange disease that seems
TO get hold of some petty office holders.
Some Of our Imperial Nalleyites are no
exception. A few Of them have got il
bad.
It's the censorship disease It's most
prevalent on the new wartime boards,
and it's direct outgroWth Of the Goeb-
bels-lke dietatorial complex We talked
about the other day.
The strange thing is that the very
ones who feel themselves divinely ordain-
ed to withhold information from the
public in their own little sphere of actiV-
ity are the ones who shout most loudly
against silly censorship in Washington
They seem incapable of realizing that
they've got the same disease which af-
flicts the bigger officials in Washington.
1t has never penetrated their intelligence
that it's no different to withhold infor-
nation of manpower developments tfor
instance) in Imperial Valley than it is to
withhold similar information, on a big
ger scope, in Washington.
We have no right to cry about Wash
ington's muddling, nor to rave about the
capitals failure to keep up strong NOR
ale among the people, if we allow the
same kind of cockeyed reasoning to go
unchallenged here at home.
The United States is made up of COM
munities like Imperial Valley, and if
every one of those communities submit
ted supinely to officiously illogical big
heads at home, the whole country would
be ideally prepared for dictatorship in no
time at all
We're not talking theory.
Since we've already mentioned the
the manpower board, let's stick to that
fao oct hnr Of 1a,h I'd oil
right Nelson Correll, chairman, is as
fine man as you could get on an agency
of that kind; he deserves applause for
his efforts. But the best of efforts can
be nullified if no check rein is kept ON
those who have failed to grasp the basic
principle of Americanism-the right Of
the people to make their own decisions.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10

LONDON, Nov. 10. = tU.P)-
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
today named President Roosevelt
as the author" of the American
offensive in French Africa, and
declared Marshal Erwin Rommel
has been defeated, routed and
very largely destroyed" in the CO.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10

Britain is near the limit of her resourc-
es and manpoWer But she still can i'm
prove-and is improving-in the organ
ization and ALLEGATION of resources
British Minister for Home Security Her.
bert Morrison.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

There are nearly 10 million wage earn
ers in industry whose products are used
for direct civilian supply. It is estimat-
ed that over seven million can be or have
been moved into war work. This gives a
realistic picture of how little will be pro-
duced for civilians, how much for our
fighting forces.-Harry Hopkins.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO ASSESSMENT
(TAX) PAYERS.
IRRIGATION DI

IRICT ASSESSMENT FOX
1912 NOW DUE
Office of Assessor and Collector Of
Imperial Irrigation District,
November l, 1912.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
I have received the Assessment
books for the year 1912 and that
the assessment for that year is now
due and payable. The Directors of
the Imperial Irrigation District have
determined by resolution that the
said assessment shall be payable
in two installmentS.
Pursuant to law and the said
resolution the said assessment levied
within the said District is due and
payable on the first day of Novem-
ber, 1912 The first installment
thereof (one-half of said assess
menD will become delinquent at six
5000 o'clock pm, on the last Mon
day in December, 1912 and unless
paid prior to that time, ten G0%)
per cent will be added thereto. The
second installment of said assess
ment dhe remaining one-half of
the entire assessment will become
delinquent at six (6:00) o'clock pm.
on the last Monday in June, 1943
and unless paid prior to that time.
five (5%o) per cent will be added
thereto.
Said assessment will be received
at the office of the Assessor and
Collector of the said Imperial Irriga-
tion District located at lab South
Sixth Street masonic Temple Build
ing) in the City OF FL Centre. Coun-
ty of Imperial, State of California,
every day from the date of this
notice (holidays excepted during
legal business hours.
w. A. MeFADDEN,
Assessor Collector.
mo. BID lN3-10-1D
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10

We now have AZ million men doing the
same job that could be done by % mil
lion if they worked II hours per day and
seven days per Week.-Sen. Lee O'Daniel
Of Texas.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10

Allied forces assembled for the Afri-
can drive. Washington sources SAID
the armada was the largest in world
history)
The Nazi replied with an asser-
ton that q U-bat had sunk Brit
ish battleship of the Queen Eliza
beth class in the Atlantic.
on the fighting front in Africa
the situation was this:
Vichy reports said that American
tanks had battered into both Oran
and Casablanca and there was every
indication these key cities of Algeria
and Morocco would shortly be in
full u. S. control.
Gov. Gen. Auguste NogueS, in
charge of Moroccan defense, fled
his headquarters at Rabat for some
interior point, possibly the famous
French military headquarters at
Meknes.
The Frenc orts said the attack
on Casab' gas being made by
super - of U. S. tanks, CO.
ordin lg their drive with a heavy
air ardment. Only to the east
of ty was French resistance
ST ed, aided by some of the
m tteries of the unfinished
F. 5leship, Jean Bart.
V reported that an Amer
lean c. striking southeast from
Algiers " cling toward Blu Saada,
lis miles eI cute to Tunisia.
It was believed in London that
the American force soon would hold
The entire Mediterranean coast Of
French Algeria.
In connection with the drive on
runisia the possible adherence OF
Oarlan and other French military
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10

Editorials and Comment

EDIT0R,S NOTE: The FOLLOWING edit.
oriais are presented as interesting opin.
ions Uoiced By editors eisechere. They
do not necessarily reflect the epinios Of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-11-10
Canada Breaks Off
vichy Relations

OTTAWA, Nov. 10. CUP)-Prime
Minister Mackenzie King announced
last night that Canada had broken
diplomatic relations with the French
German puppet government" of
Pierre Laval at Vichy.
King said the decision was taken
at a cabinet meeting last night and
that Rene Ristelheuber, French min
lister to Canada was informed i'm
mediately of the action.
The prime minister said severance
of relations was not directed at the
French people themselves.