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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
Military Government
Of Occupied Zones
Vital, Says Patterson
Undersecretory Addresses
Graduates of School
At Charlottesville

The imperative need of having
trained force of men to handle
the military government of areas
IN war zones to be occupied by
United States forces was stressed
in an address today by Under
secretary of War Patterson. He
spoke at the graduation exercises
of the School of Military Gov
eminent at Charlottesville. Va.
For the first time, said Mr.. Pat
terSOn. we have been forehanded in
planning against the day when mill
tary government Of occupied terri
tories might become a necessity
He called attention to the fact
that when the United States forces
moved into Germany in 1918 this
Government had no plans and no
organization of officers who had
given study to the manifold diff
culties that would be met.
Single Authority Needed.
Military government" he ex-
planned, rs the government that is
necessarily incident to the opera
tons of the army in an occupied
territory"
He pointed out that instances may
arise where military operations may
be turned into disasters because of
the division Of authority in the
battle zone between the military
leader and the governor of civilian
affairs. Whatever may be the merits
of cooperation in other fields, he
continued there is no place for it
in the theater of active military
operations The job is military
one, he said.
Task Is Essential.
1--WE have no use for imperialism. -
Mr.. Patterson continued That is
no part of the Army's policy. But
the Army is confronted with an
essential military task. It will be
called on to preserve order among a
dlSaffected OF confused people. 1t
will be called on to operate a water
system, or an electric power system
II will be called on to attend to the
distribution Of the necessaries of
life
For all of this we need to have
officers trained to manage such mat
tiers. and we also need civilians with
appropriate technical experience
Many of the policies vii be the con-
Germ of other agencies of govern
ment. But the execution of the
policies will be the responsibility OF
the military commander, until the
conflict will have moved far enough
away or will have ceased altogether.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
Joliet Prison Break
Described by Seized
Touhy Gangster
Gunner Used Guards
As Shields in Escape,
Fugitive Tells FIJI
Earlier Story on Page AID

tEdrllcr StOry OH rage ALI
BY the Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Dec. 29.-Matthew
Nelson, one of the men who
escaped from prison in Illinois
with Roger Touhy and Basil
The OWL Banghart, decided to
be a good boy when Minneapolis
city detective Ed Ryan and
agents OF the FBI entered his
room at the Hennepin Hotel in
Minneapolis at $50 pm, De-
cember 16.
A spokesman for the FBI here
today said Nelson had been located
in Minneapolis and officers sent to
his room found MIN lying on bed
when his door was forced He
reached for gun under his pillow,
then thought better of it and sur
rendered without struggle.
Nelson who has been held by the
FBI here since his arrest will prob
ably be returned to Joliet, Ill, prison
Described Prison Break.
When he escaped he was serving a
20-year term for robbery, having
been committed in November. 1899
He also was serving a fiat 20-year
sentence as a habitual criminal. His
true name is Martlick Nelson.
The FBI spokesman said Nelson
gave this description of the prison
break and subsequent events:
He did not know of the plan until
early the morning of October 9
when Edward Darlak, his cellmate
and his pal, William Stewart, both
gang members, told him. He was
told to be at the wall" at l 80 pm
The signal for the break came when
Touhy, assisting the prison yard
truck driver, slugged him.
Others exercising in the yard rush.
ed the other guards and disarmed
them, then using the guards as
shields, fled to a tower and scaled
the wall.
Took Victims Draft Card.
Nelson said he and the others
spent the first night in woods near
the prison. He claimed he left them
the next morning and went to Chi
cago by street car. He had about
(See TOUHY GANG, Page 2-KJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
7 Drivers Die in Flames
In Grand Rapids Wreck
By the Associated Pres

BY the Associated Press.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Dec. 90.
The drivers of City Coach Line
bus and heavy truck burned to
death today when their vehicles COL
lided on a hill and the bus took
FIRE
Police said the truck driver was
pitched through the windshield of
his cab and through side window
Of the bus and thus trapped in the
flames with the bus driver.
After the collision the flaming
bus crashed into the porch of a
house and passersby fought I'M
Rvailmgly to aid the trapped men.
The bus driver was Harry A. Lille.
SO, of Grand Rapids Identification
of the truck drivers body was not
Immediately possible. Mr.. Lille
was the only occupant of the bus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
Two Chicago Papers
Increase Sole Price
BY the Associated Pres

bS INe ASSOClHteu PTeSS,
CHICAGO, Dec 29.-Two Chi
cago afternoon newspapers an
nounced today that because of 'in-
creased operating costs due to the
war they were raising their prices
from to 4 cents copy. Saturday
editions will continue to sell for 3
cents.
The Daily News will cost penny
more beginning Thursday and the
Herald-Ameican beginning Mon
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
Msgr. Ryan Warns
Disaster Threatens
u. 5. Wage Garner
'Bourbons of Our Time
Have Learned Nothinq,'
Says Social Action Head

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 29.-Declar.
ing the authentic Bourbons o.
our time" have Learned nothing
and forgotten nothing" the
Right Rev. John A. Ryan sale
today the status and influence
of organized labor, and therefore
of the whole body of wage earn.
ers,' is threatened with "a dis
astrOuS decline"
Msgr. Ryan is director of thu
Department of Social Action of tn,
| National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence at Washington. D. C.
Labor MAY Lose ALL"
In an address prepared for deliv.
cry before the American Catholic
Sociological Society. he said labor
may lose all the advantages thai
1t has obtained since June, 1888,
and continued:
This will undoubtedly happen i
it can be brought about by the
dominant economic groups anC
their associates and satellites. Tha
such is their deliberate desire anc
| design is clearly indicated by Ger,
tain significant events: The declara
lions of the National Association O
Manufacturers, the attitudes ant
utterances of the majority of tn,
metropolitan newspapers, the pro
nouncements and performances O
the most powerful of the farm or
CARNATIONS and the reactionary at
titude of the majority of the re
Gently elected Congress.
These persons and institution
! are the authentic Bourbons of ou
time They have learned nothing
and forgotten nothing.
Assails Reactionaries.
IF the Republicans elect thei
candidate for the presidency il
1914 and if they are able, with tn,
assistance of Democratic reaction
| al lCS, W COlllioi bOtll llOuSCS "
Congress, the status and inf1uenc,
of organized labor, and therefore
the whole body of wage earners, viii
undergo disastrous decline.
CAS- a matter of fact, this com.
bination of Republicans and reac.
tionary Democrats already domi.
mates the House of Representa-.
tives-that is, the body that was
elected the Sd of last month.
Except for two obstacles, the
most important recent gains Of
labor would all be swept away within
the next six months. These OBJ.
stac]es are the Senate and tn,
President, and We cannot be to-
confident about the Senate. 81
long, however. as the present occu
pant Of the Whit, House remain
there, no fears need be entertaine,
for the cause of labor or the caus
of social justice"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
Rush for Vaccination Follows
Spread Of Small pox E pidemic

Meantime, three new cases were
reported in the Kishacoquillas VAL
ley Amish farming district of Milf
fin County where the outbreak
originated a week ago, bringing to
81 the total number of persons
stricken there.
However, DR.. S. j. Dickey of the
State Health Department said the
general situation was improving and
he relaxed somewhat regulations
which have quarantined some 5000
persons in the valleys 40 square
miles.
Thirty-six permits we're issued for
truck drivers and others having
necessary business to pass through
State police lines established at each
end Of the 20-mile valley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
liechtenstein Prince
Reported Engaged

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN From German Broad
casts. Dec, GA dispatch from
Baduz, Liechtenstein, reported the
engagement today of Franz Joseph,
I'd, reigning Prince of Liechtenstein,
to Countess Georgine Wilczek.
The Prince is SO and the bride
to-be 81. Liechtenstein, one of the
smallest states in Europe, has 10000
inhabitants, 1t lies between Ger
many and Switzerland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
Late Bulletin
Tank Cars Frozen

The Office of Defense Trans
portatiOn announced this
afternoon that all tank cars
hauling oil into the East were
to be frozen into that service
and could not be Withdrawn to
serve any other part of the
country. The action affects
nearly One-half Of the Ma
TONS $4,000 tank cars, and
Is part of the ODT drive to
increase oil shipments into
the East by 20 per cent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
Gen. JUN Heads
Trench Forces
| In North Africa

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec. 29.-Reuters said
the French Army headquarters in
North Africa announced today that
Gen. Alphonse JUN, former mill
tary aide to Gen. Auguste Nogues.
Governor General of Morocco, had
been appointed commander in chief
of French forces in North Africa.
Gen. JUN thus would succeed
Gen. Henri Giraud. who has sue
ceeded Admiral Jean Darlan as
high commissioner in North Africa.
He was Vichy's commander in chief
In North Africa when the armistice
was signed at Algiers after the
Allied landing ]aet r-~~th.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
British Merchantmen Sunk

The Navy announced today that a
medium sized British merchant
vessel was torpedoed and sunk by an
enemy submarine late in November
in the Atlantic of the northern
coast Of South America. Survivors
were landed at a United States
Gulf coast port.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
LANCASTER, Pa, Dec. 29.-Scores
OF persons rushed to physicians
ofnces here today and were vacci-
mated on wholesale scale as they
sought to escape a smallpox out
break that spread from an Amish
wedding in another county and has
made total of IS persons i'll.
Although only four cases have
been reported here, lines began
forming at doctors Offices last night
and reappeared today. The city's
three hospitals closed their doors
to visitors except in extreme emery
encies." One announced a free
clinic for persons unable to pay for
vaccince.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
South Africa to Aid
Soldier Students

BY the Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 2e.-Stu-
dents who left school to serve in the
armed forces of the Union of South
Africa will be granted 5000 in cash
anG a loan of $500, repayable in Is
years, to enable them to resume their
studies after the war, the Civil Re-
employment Board announced to-
day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
U. S. TROOPS GIVE UP MEDJEZ-EL-BAB HILL
Daily Double
AT Tropical
| Pays $7,288
~ the Associated Press.

TROPICAL PARK, Fla, Dec. o.
An otherwise dull afternoon was en-
livened here this afternoon when
the daily double provided payoff
of 81 ,28820 for two, easily highest of
the current session but not close to
F1orida's record return of more than
$1,000, made at this track some years
ago when a Jersey truck driver
named Harry Topser had the lone
winning ticket.
Five tickets were sold on today's
long-shot combination of True Lass
in the first race and Sure Fire in
the second. Johnny Breen was
astride both winners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
New Orleans

SECOND RACE-Purse. $500: claiming;
5.year.olds and upward; s furlones.
Bird High tHart $50 400 800
Chief Bud Clark $40 4 90
6alladine tGuerin) 400
Time 49,.
- Also ran-Rodis, Black Walnut. Cloe-
Elisht, Gummed UP, Juliet C., 0uinlan,
Z1ree Bangs.
tDailY Double paid s43so)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
Nozis Report U. S. Stob
Deep in Central Tunisio

BERLIN From German Broad
casts, Dec. 29.-The Berlin radio
said today that United States troops
have entered Gafsa. in Central
Tunisia, some 200 miles southeast of
Tunis.
Gafsa is deep inland. far behind
the active Tunisian fronts, but the
German report may mean a new
Allied thrust toward the Gulf of
Gabes coast to try to prevent any
possible junction between the en-
emy's Tunisian army and Marshal
Erwin Rommel's forces from Libya
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
Markets at q Glance

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (R.-
Stocks irregular. tax selling
heavy. Bonds mixed: reorgani-
cation rails in supply. Cotton
easier; profit-taking and hedge
selling.
CHICAGO.-Wheat. / to 13s
cents higher, new season top:
prospect higher -four ceilings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29

FIFTH RACE-Purse $500; allowances;
2-year-ods furlonrs
joe Burger tThompsonl $50 $50 80
Good Lawyer (McCombs) $50 go
Momentito tWricht 80
Time, l:11+s.
Also ran-Rewarded, This Is II, In the
RouRh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
Late Races
T ropicuI Park

Additional Results. Selections and
Entries for Tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29

tSee AFRICA, Page TX.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-29
Weather Report

Moderate temperature tonight gentle winds
Temperatures today-Highest 43, at 1901 am
lowest, 49, at LAS pm; Al at 3:45 pm. Full re.
port on page Ais.
ppei OIL consumption should be ss per cent
OF allotment for period ending January 4,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24
FANTASTIC STORIES

4 AN L 10 IL
The Nazi high command reported
that strong Soviet counterattacks
were in progress and that the bat
tie was being waged with "undim-
iniShed bitterness" The Trans
ocean Nazi News agency reported
that the Stalingrad defenders had
a big advantage over the attackers
due to their prepared fortified pos
itions.
Rome circulated fantastic stories
about ingenious Soviet defenSeS,
claiming the Russians had erected
invisible bridges across the Volga-
bridges built under water so that
they could not be seen from the
air. Another Italian story told of
Soviet troops disguised as SheaveS
of wheat.
The tenacity with which the Red
army was holding on at Stalingrad
led British military observers to
express increased hope that the de-
fense of the Volga city might prove
successful.
Reports that Field Marshal Fed
or Won Book had been dismissed
as German commander in charge
of Stalingrad operation continued
to circulate in Stockholm despite
strong denials from high Berlin
sources.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24
SON IS KILLER

After relating details of the mur-'
ders, Nash was given a breakfast
of scrambled eggs, toast, fruit and
coffee and was then taken to the,
scene, where, police said, he re-
enacted the crime. !
The fight started, young Nash
related, when his father upbraided
him for Indebtedness and for squan-
dering money he had loaned him to
finance his electrical business. .
The NaSn FAMILY lived quietly and
was highly respected. Nash attend-s
ed Mcbride high school, a private
denomination institution, while a.
younger brother, Charles A. Nash.
ir., studied for the priesthood. The
brothers were friendly. neighbors.
said, and Robert seemed to be a.
quiet soft-spoken young man. 1t was
their impression that his parents.
had spoiled him.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24
Desert Training
Proves Worth, So
Army Wants More
Continued From Page

Continued From Page II
ver% modest camps are contemplated
in order that the number of troops
here on the desert may be increased.
The camps will be simple because we
want to keep close to field condi-
tions and avoid the luxury of per-
manent camps"
The high army officer said that
current war games had not changed
tactics materially but had proven
valuable in working out mechanical
details and providing officers and
soldiers with knowledge they would
have been unable to obtain from
books or from terrain other than
this
In sense" he said, I'VE have
an army of Commands"
Gen McNair added that Il think
very definitely our army is over
transported. Every sergeant thinks
he has to have a jeep. There is
such a thing as having too many
vehicles"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24
Eleven |. When
Enlist in Navy

Eleven men left Imperial Valley
this week for enlistment in the
Naval reserve. Navy recruiting Off
GERS said Thursday.
Those who went from El Centre
included Samuel G. Hall. Ebert
Roland Neel, Hugo r. Dacumos, and
T. NJ. Madrid. Edward G. Ormand
and Paul E. Lear were in the Holt
vile grouD. James r. Sweeney
went from Brawley, Charles K. Lu-
kenS from Calexico and Eugenio U.
Ortiz from inland.
Henry T. Arnett of FL Centre and
AdrianI r. Prescott of Brawley were
scheduled to enlist Friday,
Roy F. Richter of El Centre, Ri
chard L. Cantwell. and Jack L.
Hamilton. both of Brawley, applied
for enlistment in the Glass vi
Naval Reserve accredited college
program. Upon enlistment they will
be placed on inactive duty to COM
plete their college educations. The
three men are junior college stu
dents.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24
.V.Cities Vie TO
Lead Collections
Continued From PAGE |

Continued From Page II
wide drive there until the first of
next month. Calexico has the county
road yard full of scrap metal and
has started an additional scrap pile
down town.
Ell Centre city employees will donate
their time Sunday -or quick clean
up of scrap metal donations in the
city and the city administration will
donate the trucks.
The crews will start early Sunday
morning and hope to have the pick
up completed within few hours.
ReSidnts of Ell Centro we're asked
to start collecting their scrap metal
Immediately and put it in the alleys.
Lots of this metal was missed IN
the drive last Sunday because resi-
dents neglected to collect 1t and
pile it in the alleys.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24

ST. LOUIS, Sept. "a. (UP)-Rob-
ert Smith Nash, 26-year- -old electri-
cal shop operator. calmly related
today how he killed his father
Charles A. Nash, SO, a supervisor
in the internal revenue department,
and then hacked his mother to
death when she struck at him with
her fists.
The murders occurred west of St
Louis Monday night in an exclu-
sive residential district and the
bodies were found in the family
car, eight miles from Springfield,
H., Tuesday niglr. Nash said he
had driven toward central Illinois
to dispose of the bodies but tire
trouble forced him to abandon the
machine.
Mrs. Eleanor M. Nash. 40, suf-
fered numerous wounds from a small
hatchet welded by her son.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24
ROAD READIED

now are planning to have traffic
moving over its 1000 miles by Dec
and continue until April l, l943,
when spring thaws probably will
make it unusuable for heavy traffic
for two months.
The highway begins at Dawson
Greek. B. c.. north of Edmonton
and extends northwest to White
horse. Yukon, and then westward
across the Alaskan boundary.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24
Senate Approves
PetriIIo Inquiry

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24-tUP)-
The senate today passed, by unan-
imous vote. a resolution ordering a
full-dress investigation of the ban
on recorded music by James C.
Petrillo, president of the American
Federation cf Musicians (AFLD. The
resolution granted the interstate
commerce committee $4,000 for the
investigation.
The resolution directs the COM
mittee to investigate Petrillo's order
banning members of the union
from making records and electrical
transcripticns, used by radio sta
tionS and in iuke boxes.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24
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situation:
Stalingrad: Moscow said that a
supreme Nazi effort to crash through
the city with 200 tanks had been
smashed
Northwest of Stalingrad: A power
full Soviet counterattack rolled
through the first Nazi defense line,
driving the Germans from a town
and fortified positions. The attack
appeared to be gaining in momen-
tum.
Rzhev: Berlin admitted that
waves of attacking Russians were
pushing forward. One unconfirmed
London report said the Russians
had by-passed Rzhav and were ad-
vancing westward.
North Caucasus: Moscow report
ed German pressure easing at some
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24
Actor Confesses
Lyinq About Films

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. UP
Lionel Atwill. veteran motion pic
ture actor. today pleaded guilty to
perjury charges, admitting that he
had in his possession and exhibited
lewd motion pictures in his beach
home during the summer of l940
In pleading guilty. Atwill said
that while he was guilty of the
charges, he had Lied like gentle
man" in previously denying the
charges to protect his friends.
The sudden change in plea came
when Atwill appeared before ST.
perior Judge William r. Mckay and
said he wished to plead guilty be-
fore the case came up for trial next
Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24

Sure, you've get 10 stretch yesr food ssdsef fhsss
doy, and you have 70 serve plenty OF "eur''h "s
foods 70 keep your fomily ~. You'll find your Aa'
Market the right place TO serve you on both counts
Our morkesins shortcuts keep prices right dow" 'e
earth so our prices ore low every dey ~ fhe
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24
Soviet Repulses
Major Onslaught

points, presumably due to diversion
of forces to the Stalingrad sector.
Some German positions were aban-
doned and the Russians believed
the Grmans were losing their op-
portunity for decisive results before
winter grips the Caucasus.
The batt.e Tor Stalnigrad was in
its 3lst day.
Reports emphasized that no pre-
vious conflict of the war matched
it in fury. The model city of Stall
ingrad itself was almost entirely in
ruins but each side fought on in
the cover of ruined buildings.
Soviet dispatches indicated that
actually two main battles were be-
ing fought in the Stalingrad Sec
tor One was that which ragged in
the city streets. The other was a
clash of even larger forces north
wSt and southwest of Stalingrad in
the more open country.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24

WASHINGTON, Sept "a. CUP1-
The Canadian Alaskan military
highway a vital link in Alaskan de-
fenses and a supply line for the
series of air bases stretching across
Canada, will be ready for use about
Dec l. Several months ahead of
schedule, Secretary of War Henry
L. Stimson announced today
u. S. Army engineers, who have
been building the road since March,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24
Scanning !. Y.
News Horizon
DAUGHTER OF CALEXICO
COUPLE SUCCUMBS

Lassielee Golf, %, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe H. Goff of CAL
exico, died in San Diego Wednes-
day. The body was scheduled to
be taken to El Centre Thursday for
funeral services and interment
there Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24
FLKS ATTENDING
FRESNO CONVENTION

Nolan c. Smith, Norman Deaton
and Lee Nuffer, attending the Elks
convention in Fresno, are expected
to return to Ell Centro Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-24
Pensioners Can
Add TO Incomes

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24-(UPD-
California cid age pensioners today
had official sanction to add outside
income TO their $40 monthly pay
ments from the state.
Under liberalized rules adopted
by the state social welfare board in
session here late yesterday, pen
sioners need only show that the
combined income is necessary to
meet living cots based on the in
dividual pensioners requirements
The new ruling is effective immed-
lately.