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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-06
News I+ems About
Valley Residents

Members of the White .#
Social club will meet at the
of Mrs. Leroy Little on West
enth street in Calexico Tuesday .
pot luck luncheon and cards. Th1
luncheon will be served at 1890
pm.
Mrs Frances Thompson, new
president of the Ell Centro Business
and Professional WomenS club
called an important business meet
ing for Tuesday night at which
time she will appoint her commit
tee chairmen ior The year The
meeting will be held in the Barbara
Worth hotel at 8 pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-06
LET'S GET TOUGH
ABOUT THIS WAR

We didn't ask for il. II was
showed down our throaty
We're all darned mad, so let's
get tough about it, Let's serve,
work, give with all the
fighting fury that is our heri-
tage as Americans. Lets get
tough"
Evening star., 1942-08-23

tional Archives Building for 81
members of the Archives staff
Graduation exercises will be held
tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock.
The class was instructed in fire
defense, gas protection, duties Of
air raid wardens and first aid.
Sixteen Of the group also completed
advanced first aid training
Their instructors. who won the
approval of DR.. Douglass, included
Col Adelno Gibson. Chief of the
OCD inspection service; Dan Lacy,
assistant defense co-ordinator of
the building: Arthur E. Kimberly.
chief of the Archives division of
repair and preservation and Mrs.
James A. Minogue of the same di-
vision.
The problem of training the city's
30 900 wardens. which has been un-
der Leonard Rucker, executive as
sistant to the chief air raid warden
and author of the streamlined
course. will be dropped in the lap of
z. Alvin Biggs, recently appointed
superintendent Of warden training.
as soon as he comes back from
his vacation.
Evening star., 1942-08-23
Rs the Associated Press.

BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. GA
plan for opening millions of square
miles of virgin rubber tracts in
Eastern Colombia has been put for
ward by the United States Govern
ment's Rubber Reserve Corp, it was
learned today.
Corporation officials are now dis
cussing the project with the Gov
ernment and Avianca Airlines for
construction of landing fields in the
jungles to take out the rubber.
An announcement in newspapers
that contracts already have been
signed was termed inaccurate by
officials who declared the negotia
tions were still in progress.
The territory which would be
| opened for exploitation is roughly
bounded by the Rio Meta. the Rio
Putumayo, the Brazilian boundary
and the Eastern Cordillera de Los
Andes. This vast triangle covers
almost half of Colombia's area.
With present transportation meth
DDS, it takes at least two months to
reach the most accessible parts
near the Brazilian border. Most
of the territory has never been ex-
| plored by white men.
The RRC plan calls for the build
ing or use of existing small airfields
within 375 miles of one another in
the area. Two Douglas DC-3 cargo
! planes are ready for use as trans
Evening star., 1942-08-23
Wurdens
Continued From First Page.l

volunteers that DR.. Douglass
decided he didn't approve of it.
Col. Lemuel Bolles, executive di-
rector of District civilian defense,
said DR.. Douglass had told him the
warden course was a fragmentary
one which he approved as far as it
went. The colonel held it was
going in the right direction"
1t is just coming to light, he said,
that we've been training at the top
instead of at the bottom" He in
dicated that a number of wardens
don't know what is in the warden
handbook land if they don't know
that, they can take courses till hell
freezes over" and they wouldn't know
what they have to know.
MY whole emphasis is on the
grass roots" he said. The hand
books have had the least emphasis
from practically everybody, but a
man can be a swell warden If he
just knows what's in the handbook" :"
This Is Third Version.
Col Bolles' idea is apparently the
third version of what every warden
should know" DR.. Douglass, who Is
president of American University.
said he is working on a visual
course with movies to show the
warden's job. The streamlineo
Evening star., 1942-08-23
Air Transportation Of Rubber
From Colombia Jungle Studied

ports from these fields to Villa
Vicencio at the eastern base of the
Andes, where the Avianca now has
a base. Bogota can be reached by
road from Villa Vicencio, but it is
likely the rubber would be ferried
out by plane direct to the coast.
A preliminary survey disclosed the
great jungle area has untold guam
titles Of rubber but exploitation has
been retarded by absence of trans
portation which is limited chiefly to
rivers.
With rubber stations scattered
throughout the jungles it lis be-
lieved the contractors could begin
gathering great quantities of rubber
from the natives.
The newspaper Ell TEMPO said the
United States may lend Colombia
money to complete a highway be-
tween Medellin and Turbo on the
Golfo de Uraba thus opening addi-
tional rich Colombian areas con-
tanning rubber. This project is still
being studied.
Evening star., 1942-08-23
Crash
Continued From First Page

standing student, officials reported.
About pm. yesterday, he took
off with Mr.. McCrosky for his final
check flight before being graduated
from the primary course and being
sent to West Virginia to take the
secondary course.
Another student, Richard w. Kel-
ley, 20, 1917 S. Pollard street, Ar
lington, Va, and another fight in
structor. Arthur Klein, %, who lives
at the Congressional Airport, took
off at the same time in the second
plane.
The planes had been flying in the
same area for about half an hour.
Mr.. Kelly was going through ma
neuvers and the two planes kept
close together.
Witnesses said the two ships
light Piper Cubs-were swooping
close to the ground One farmer
said the planes came so low that
trees near his house swayed in the
breeze they created.
Cellided at About 500 Feet.
The plane in which Mr.. Kelly and
Mr. Klein were flying was on a level
course when the other ship came
up under it, witnesses said There
was collision and the wing on the
lower plane was damaged
II could see them 60 into spir
Evening star., 1942-08-23
Fortress
Continued From First Page.


got her down without even bounce.
All this time the pilot did not cry
out or say one word except to ask for
water"
When the rest of the crew reached
the ground they heard for the first
time that the co-pilot had been
killed and the pilot gravely wounded.
Sergt. Simmons got one OF the
three confirmed Nazi planes. He
fired a 150-round burst from his so
caliber machine gun which he sup
posed would be good for only IS
round burst.
Great chunks came out OF the bar
rel but the gun held together, Tech
nical men at the field called the
showing "a tribute to American
workmanship"
Sighted Going Down.
II let fly with everything I had
from about 300 yards and the wings
started falling off the Focke Wulf
190,' Sergt. Simmons said. Il caught
q glimpse of her going down but I
was so busy right then firing at other
ships that I didn't see her end
Other members OF the Johnny
Reb" crew were Second 1t. Harold
Evening star., 1942-08-23

under u.s. said Mr.. Kelly. At that
time, the planes were about 600 feet
from earth.
Witnesses said they could see the
wing on the plane fold back gradu-
ally. The ship went into slow
spin. Then its nose dropped and it
plunged to earth.
The engine of the ship was buried
in the ground OF a pasture on the
farm of Lawson King. Both men
were killed instantly, the body of
one being partially buried by the
impact. Their seat straps had not
been unbuckled and they had not
had opportunity to use their para
chutes.
The other plane, it's underside
merely scraped by the collision,
circled over the spot for a minute
then returned to the airport to re-
port the crash.
Several Saw Crash.
A number of persons were watch
ing the planes when they crashed,
attention having been drawn to
them by the air antics which pre-
ceded the accident.
The accident occurred about $40
pm. and the Gaithersburg Rescue
Squad was summoned Immediately
Mr.. Reiss had been living at the
YMCA and was supposed to have
entered the Army Air Service on
completion of his studies.
Friends of Mr.. McCrosky said
Mr.. Reiss was the last student under
him and that he was to have gone
to work for Transcontinental-W West
ern Airlines shortly.
Evening star., 1942-08-23
Midair Bomber Crash
Death Toll Fixed at Nine
g. the Associated Press.

Z. tHe Associated PreSS.
BATON ROUGE, La, Aug. d.
The Army officially listed nine dead
today in the mid-air crash of two
medium hombers as rescue workers
continued searching the wreckage
in thick woods just north of Harding
Field, near here.
Wlngtips of the two planes, part
OF flight of five bombers engaged
in an "operational MISSION became
engaged and they plunged to earth
last hight. The other three planes
landed safely.
The Army announced the dead as:
Second 1t. William J. Dover, %,
pilot. Robbinsdale, Mimi; Second
LIT. Wilbur r. Weber, %, pilot, Ken
more, N. Y; Second 1t. Marvin A.
zahn, %, pilot, Merrill, Wis: Second
1t. Bill P. Mayhood, 26, pilot, Sacra-
mento Calf; Corpl. Frederick c..
Edmonds jr, %, engineer, Bradley,
Pa; Pvt. first class Philip J. Peter
son, %, radio operator, San Diego,
Calf; Pvt. (flrst class Vernon R.
Davis, 26, bombardier navigator,
Little Rock, Ark; Pvt. first class
Frederick A. Spiess, 25, engineer,
Davenport, Iowa, and Pvt. FIRST
class Clyde E. Warden, 25, plane
mechanic, Fresno Calf.
AS the two planes struck ground,
one bomber caught fire and ma
chine-gun bullets and shells ex-
ploded from the heat. The other
plane was embedded in Is to 20 feet
of soft earth, the Army said in an
official description of the disaster.
War has revived an interest In
child welfare in Latin America.
Evening star., 1942-08-23

Spire, of Los Angeles, the navigator;
and Sergts. Roy N. Allen, of Owens
boro, KY, John M. Hughes, OF
Whitestone, N. Y. William Adams,
of Easley, S. c., and William
Schimke, of Manistee, Mich.
Second 1t Malcolm K. Andersen,
"a, of Hixton, Wis. navigator of an
other Fortress, Bat Out of He'll"
flown by Captain Robert Coulter, %,
of La Grange, Ill, claimed another
of the Focke- Wulfs.
II fired a burst and the German
plane seemed to start disintegrating
in midair," he said.
The flight of four Fortresses which
engaged in all the fighting was led
by Capt. Rudolf Flack, Is, of Los
Angeles.
This fight proves beyond all
question the ability of the Fort
resses to fly escorted or unescorted
anywhere" Capt. Flack said. Some
Germans pressed home the attack
from close to 300 yards but we beat
them off"
Yankee Doodle" in Raid.
Capt. Flack flew the Yankee
Doodle which Brig Gen. Ira C.
Eaker, commander of the United
States Bomber Force in Europe,
piloted in the Fortress raid on Rouen
last Monday.
Col. Frank A. Armstrong of Nash
vile, N. c.. who took part in the
Rouen raid, echoed Capt. Flack S
sentiments:
THE Germans must have been
amazed they could not knock the
F'ortresses down." he added.
Among others participating in the
raid were First 1t. L. S. Rolfe, IS
of Virginia, ILL.,, co-pilot who said
"our ship got four holes in it but we
gave out more than we received
Second 1t. Joseph Wolff, 26, O.
Omaha, Neb.. bombardier, said AL
we did was to get 'em in the sights
and let 60 as they were coming
from all sides
Sergt. John H. Stoltin. Is. of Endi-
colt, Neb., waist gunner, said he
got plenty of shots but didn't SEE
anything come down.
Sergt. Raymond c. Lewis, 20, OF
Middleville, Mich. tail gunner sale
Il think I got one plane. 1t started
smoking and the last I saw il
headed toward shore close to the
water"
Sergt. Edward J. Waibel, 80, ol
Baltimore, Md, waist gunner
claimed two probables."
Second Its. James T. Wilson, "a, o!
Danville, Ohio, and Howard Snyder
"a, of Fort Wayne, Ind, also took
part in the fight.
Evening star., 1942-08-23
Gasoline
Continued From First Page


Of reducing gasoline consumption
below present levels. He said
further Is per cent reduction would
make possible the transportation
of about $4,000 barrels day of
additional oil to the East.
The official admitted that re-
duction of the gas unit value would
throw on OPA and local rationing
boards a tremendous administrative
burden. He said. many essential
users now need only A books. They
would be unable to get by on shorter
rations. 1t would be necessary to
give these car owners B books,
tailored" to fit their needs.
Evening star., 1942-08-23

course being given by the warden
service itself through its 66 in
structors goes into bombs and gasses.
The warden examination, however,
takes all the wardens duties into
consideration.
Col. Bolles said that "all the
training they are taking will be add
ed up and wardens will be given
credit for it in obtaining their GER
tificates. To get the certificates,
which come only on the approval
of DR.. Douglass. they must satisfy
minimum requirements Of national
OCD. Without the certificates, they
cannot use the equipment promised
by national OCD.
DR.. Douglass. who has been head
of training since May, said he had
approved the police and fire courses
and a. course in emergency hous-
inf and feeding. He said he had
"disapprove da lot OF them He
old not go into what steps he had
taken to secure training for the
wardens.
The only warden class he has ap-
proved was one given at the Ma
Evening star., 1942-08-23
r-Figure Raids
On Reich 10 Increase,
Sinclair Pledges
Normal Attacks Now
Surposs kozi Peck,
Air Minister Says
E, the Associated Press.

Fy the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug 22.-More 1000
plane raids on Germany were prom
ised today by Air Minister Sir Ar
chibald Sinclair in a carefully word
ed speech emphasizing that soon
"the four-fgure raid will be less
infrequent occurrence"
you must not expect four figure
raids to be frequent occurrence, y
he told a public gathering at Swan
sea, Wales. Rather, he stressed,
they would be less infrequent.
Sinclair said that with the help Of
the United States air forces the AL
lied bomber strength is increasing
steadily and already the zest of the
German people for war has begun
to fall under the pressure of aerial
offensives.
But, he warned again. the Nazi
war power is still unbroken and
when the weather breaks in Rus
sia the Germans may bring their
bombers back here"
Dieppe Battle Biggest.
"Already, in a normal raid like
the one on OSnabruck the other
night, when the size of the force
was such as we could send on any
suitable night to Germany, our flyers
dropped heavier bomb load than
the Germans dropped in any single
night of the blitz on this country" D."
(The size of the attacking force in
the most recent raid on Osnabruck
was not StatedD
Sinclair said the commando raid
on Dieppe developed the biggest
air battle Of the war with the RAF'
flying 5000 sorties, or single plane
missions. OF SO German planes
confirmed as shot down in the
Dieppe battles, 48 we're Focke-W
1905 and % were DO 217s, the
latest and most formidable German
fighters and bombers.
In a comprehensive survey of
Britain's air policy, Sinclair de-
Tended the plan for systematic pull
verization of German industry. as
serting, for example, the destruc-
ton of the Renault and Matford
plants in France had deprived the
Axis of rolling stock for five arm
ored divisions at the cost to the
Raj of ''25 gallant lives"
Damage to Malta Great.
He said bombers had destroyed
between quarter and third OF
the whole of Cologne-third city in
Germany" and destroyed or
damaged more than $50 factories
there. Nine days after the big at
tack, he said. Cologne still was cut
off from telephone and telegraph
communication and no mail was al
lowed to leave for week. Even
then it was censored.
On the other hand. Sinclair said
in April more Axis bombs fell or
British Malta in the mid d-Mediter.
ranean than on all Britain itsel1
during any one month of blitz
Twenty thousand houses. including
three-quarters of Valletta, wer,
destroyed.
Concerning the battle of the At
! lantic, Sinclair said the Raj wa
assuming even a larger share o
the responsibility for keeping oper
our sea routes" and disclosed tha
three submarines had been de
stroyed in their slips in raid OF
one German shipyard which woul'
be felt for months to come IL
| U-boat production.
Evening star., 1942-08-23
Fleeing Cossacks Take
Livestock, Leaving
Little for Germans
Refugees Clog Roods
In Moss Exodus TO
Caucasus Mountains
Ry HENRY c, CASSIDY,


MOSCOW, Aug. 22.-Their faces
black from the rays of the burning
sun and the dust of battle, hundreds
of old Cossack warriors, with their
women and children were driving
an endless stream of livestock into
the Caucasus mountains today
rather than let them fall to the
Germans.
The Cossacks have been in many
wars" growled 80-year-old Nikolai
Dmitrivish Onuprienko to a Red
Star correspondent. They never
have become prisoners"
His daughter tugged at the old
mans jacket that bore four ancient
crosses of ST. George and one of the
Red banner.
Come along, father, we must
hurry" she told him. The grum-
bling old warrior trudged along
while the women and boys rode
oxen and cows, driving their sheep,
hogs and chickens ahead.
The Red Star account was the
first story of the mass exodus of the
Cossacks from their beloved Kuban
villages.
Refugees Rush to Mountains.
The roads are hot. The sun beats
down. The trees are still green and
the lush fields of wheat, corn, sun
flowers and tobacco still wave
gently in fitful breezes as the sad
dened columns of refugees hurry
toward the sanctuary of the noun
tains
A bedlam of noise was reported
over great areas as the long columns
moved down the roads. Women.
children and old men constantly
were hurrying along believing cows.
hogs and bleating sheep.
The CoSSacks were moving everv-
thing movable int othe mountains
determined the Germans would get
nothing, the army newspaper said.
They even hastily raided laden
trees in the orchard.
Red Army trucks carrying bombs.
shells and wounded flashed up and
down the roads, threading the lines
of refugees. The report said the
refugees were clogging some high
ways. This is easily understand
able to any one who has Travelled
a Russian road.
Military trucks slow down for
nothing. Some of the world s
widest drivers operate them. When
a civilian sees truck coming he
gets off the road "sechas
ing Immediately.
Village Sent 400 Men.
The refugee columns passed
through Cossack villages whence
hundreds have gone to fight since
July. At one village, the people
told the Red Star reporter thai
horsemen galloped off in saddle.
belonging to their grandfathers anc
| swinging sabers that had passed
down to them through the genera
tions.
Petro Putrusenko was one O.
these. He told how his village hae
sent 400 men, some of them 5,
years old, to the front.
Sadly the columns moved on to
ward the high Caucasus mountains
Some women complained tina
they wanted to stay at the front
pointing out that the Cossacks don
belong in the rear when wars ar
about. But wiser counsel persuade,
them that this is the way to VIII
the new type war-what you can
not burn you take with you, leavin
the invader as little as you can.
| Above the noise of the cattl
along the dusty roads bearing tn
footprints OF war came cry lik
a chorus. eve will be back"
| Onward they went, disappearin
into long shadows of the snow
capped Caucasus ranges.
Evening star., 1942-08-23
Publisher Joins Marines

DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. % (P-
Lewis B. Rock, president of the
Journal-Herald Publishing Co., pub
fishers of two newspapers here, was
sworn into the Marine Corps Re
serve today as major Maj. Rock
served in the first World War as a
Evening star., 1942-08-23
Alfredo Du Silva Dies

LISBON, Aug. % (P).-Alfredo Da
Silva, Portuguese industrialist, died
today. Senator Da Silva, 10 years
old, owned shipbuilding company
and many other large Portuguese
industries which he managed per-
sonally until his death. He also
owned large interests in Portuguese
Guinea, Angola and Mozambique.
Evening star., 1942-08-23

MACON, GA. RANGER
CARRIED HER PHOTO
Here's Beck Wadley, red
headed Macon girl, whose
sweetheart, Capt. Roy Murray
of the United States Rangers,
told press correspondents in
London his personal success in
the Dieppe raid was due en-
tirely to the fact he carried
her picture. Becky, who keeps
two of Capt. Murray at home,
says she really hoped those
pictures he has of me were
what brought him such luck"
A. P. WirephOto.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
Estate Disposition
Argued Before Court

OLYMPIA - Disposition of the
$50. 900 estate Of Patrick Hough,
former Clark county school teach
er. was argued Monday before SUI
perior Judge d F. Wright.
Houghs will said the money
should be used TO build and oper-
ate an agricultural high school.
Since the amount VAS insufficient.
trustees OF the estate want 10 give
the money 10 Battle Ground school
district.
Mondays suit Was filed by
Charles W. Shumway, James J.
Okeane and Charles W. Hall. the
trustees. against Attorney General
Smith Troy. Troy sought 10 have
the school district directors made
trustees ex-offieio under the viii
and use OF the money be limited
10 investment IN general ohliga-
ton bonds Of the state or counties.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
Rites for Melton
Tuesday at l:3O

Final rites for Guy Raymond
Melton will be held Tuesday at
l 80 p. m. from Piper chapel. with
Tacoma Aerie No. 5. FOE IN
charge. Burial will be in Tacoma
cemetery. with U.S.S. Tacoma
post. WV. officiating.
Active pallbesrers will be Balm
Browse, l. Z. Stringfellow. Eddie
Spahr. Gus Partridge. J. Z. Houk
and F. y. Mowry.
Honorary pallbearers include
John Sehlarb. Robert Gleason, Gil
bert Peterson, Claude Kelly, o. D.
Parker. Frank Hobbs. l. W. Craig.
DR.. Ross Z. MacPhail. Harry Sat-
terlee. A. r. Hardy. Lee Croft. A.
L Scott. D. I. Flowers and George
Thomas.
Chairman John sehlsrb of the
county board announced that all
county offices that NAV be closed
viii close at o'clock 10 permit
employees To attend tn. services.
Courts and fee offices viii Be open.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1942-03-24
Conscription
For All Urged
President Could
Droft Men. Women
WESTINGHOUSE. Theodore

WASHINGTON-Sen. Theodore
G. Bilbo. D.. Miss. Monday intro
duced legislation to empower
President Roosevelt 10 assign all
American citizens. men and wo-
men alike to essential war tasks
either In the armed forces, war
Industries or home defense.
The measure. similar TO one
recently introduced In the
house by Rep. J. Percy Priest
d., Tenn. would provide uni
yersal registration of all men
and women Is years of age
or older. The bin also would
authorize the government to
requisition any property
deemed vital to the war pro-
gram BY the president.
Bilbo offered his bill as an
agree ment 10 the selective service
act. The president would be en-
powered TO assign registrants. not
eligible for military service. to
work in government or private
plants and home defense tasks.
Priests universal CONSUMPTION
measure was greeted generally in
the house as premature" Priest
does not intend to press for action
on il at this time. and il was not
known Immediately whether Bilbo
would seek senate acton.