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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14
British RepuIse
RommeI Attacks

thrusts against small Axis outpost
groups.
Dispatches said that in a three
hour attack Sunday night on To-
bruk, the Axis base on the Libyan
coast, medium and heavy bombers
dropped bombs at the rate of one
a minute.
Fires started by the first wave of
planes guided others to the tar
gets. A direct hit was scored on an
Axis ship, several hits or near misses
were made on others and docks were
damaged heavily.
The raid was a follow-up to a
heavy and successful bombardment
by light British naval forces and
planes of fleet air arm on Matruh
the Egyptian coast town between
the present line and the Libyan
border.
NO LOSSES
The naval forces withdrew with
out loss after blowing up an am
munition ship, damaging other
croft, attacking Italian motor tor
pedo boats with unknown results
and starting big fires in the Matruh
harbor area.
Australian fighter -bombers were
reported to have downed a German
Fieseler Storch light communlca-
tions plane, such as is generally
used only for carrying officers OF
the German staff-including Field
Marshal Erwin Rommel.
Just as the German plane was
taking off, a Hurricane fighter
bomber dived, destroyed 1t with
machine gun bullets and. 1t was
believed. killed all its occupants.
When a Fieseler Storch was shot
down in the early days of the last
German offensive Gen. LudWlg
Cruewell. commanding the German
tank forces, was made prisoner.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14
Chinese EncircIe
Enemy Garrison

manned active in the central Chi
neSe fighting and has captured in
tact the first japanese Zero fight
er plane seized since opening of
the Burma China campaign. The
pilot was forced to land the ship
in a fight over Hengyant, 100 miles
south of Changsha.
The Zero, fastest and most ef-
ficient fighter plane, was cut off
during the combat and when the
American planes forced it down
Chinese surrounded it and captured
the pilot before he was able to burn
it. -
The unofficial report did not say
when the incident occurred, but
it was understood the plane was
being carefully studied by American
and Allied officers and that the
pilot was being questioned closely.
GUERILLAS OPERATE =.
The Chinese Central News agency
said today that Chinese guerillas,
who have been active all summer
on Hainan island, are operating
from the mountains against shore
based japanese and efforts of the
enemy to drive them out by aerial
bombardment have failed
japanese bombers have tried to
break up the camps and strongholds
of five finger mountains. the
agency said, while Chinese detach-
ments, slipping in and out of the
mountain hideaways, are constantly
fighting the invaders.
(Hainan is an island approx
mately 120 by 110 miles off the
south China coast in the gulf of
Tcnkin. 1t is separated from the
mainland by the narrow Hainan
straight and is directly east of Indo-
China)
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14
Bv HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW July ID (UP) - A
Russian counteroffensive pushed
the enemy back" northwest of Vo-
ronezh, the Red Star reported to-
day, but German mass attacks surg
ed into the outskirts of the city and
thrust menacing pinzers south
ward to within less than 100 miles
of the Rostov gateway to the Cau-
CaSuS.
The army newspaper said that
counteroffensive had been in pro-
gress for several days on "a wide
front west of the Don river and is
pushing the enemy southwark
Huge forces of tanks. infantry
and cavalry were said to be de-
livering crushing blows" against
the Axis north flank. Soviet tanks
sought out weak spots in the Ger
man defenses and penetrated en-
emy positions" in order to batter
at the flank of enemy troops at
tacking yoronezh.
GERMANS ADVANCE
But the outcome of the Russian
counterthrust still was uncertain
and the Axis offensive south of
the Don river bend had surged 100
miles from Rossosh along the rail-
road to a point south of the juno
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14

ton of Millerovo, on the road to
Rostov. Still another Axis advance
pushed farther eastward in the
Boguchar sector, less than 100 miles
from Stalingrad, on the Volga.
Fighting was intensified on vital
sectors of 700 mile front stretch
ing from the Kalinin area, where
a battering Russian counterattack
put the Germans on the defensive
135 miles northwest of Moscow, to
the Don river bend, and thence
southwark to within perhaps 80
miles of RoStov.
ROSTOV FLANKED
Two German columns were at
tempting to close in on the city of
Rostov by flank attacks. One had
moved southeastward from Khar-
kov and was beyond Lisichansk,
only 40 miles from Voroshilovgrad
and a little more than 100 miles
from RoStov.
The second column, moving down
from the north along the Voronezh-
Rostov railroad, was reported to
have advanced about 100 miles be-
low RoosoSh and the Don river
bend to and beyond the junction
of Millerovo. where a spur leads
westward to Voroshilovgrad and Lii
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14
Reds Counter attack as
Germans Push Offensive

sichansk. Thus the two columns
apparently were attempting to
make junction, possibly by at
tacking Voroshilovgrad from both
east and west before trying to con-
tinue southwark in pincers
against Rostov)
Dispatches from the front ac-
knowledged that both the south
ward drive toward Rostov and the
eastward push below the Don river
toward Stalfngrad had gained
ground despite strong Russian re-
sistance, but on the Kalinin front
northwest of Moscow the Red ar
my reported success.
On two sectors of the Kalnin
front (around Rzhev) the Russians
said they had made successful
counterattacks that reduced the
size of the area taken by the Ger
mans and had compelled the en-
emv to take up the defensive.
THE hostilities revolve' around
a very strategic road, the shortest
route liriz,ng two lartk enemy
groups and the enemy is trying to
maintain control of this road" one
dispatch said. In two days OF
heavy battle the Russians drove
them from many villages and cut
the road at several places.
"The Germans are constantly
pouring in aircraft, which they must
withdraw from other fronts, to
cover their infantry. Their efforts
to advance have been very costly.
The battle area, southwest of Rzhev,
extends to about 125 miles north
west of Moscow at the junction of
Important roads and railroads.
The fighting around Voronezh
was comparable to the siege OF Sc
vastapol in it's fury and in the cost
which the Germans have paid for
advances into the city's defenses'
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14
BY LEON KAY

CAIRO, July 14-UP) British
Imperial forces have beaten off new
Axis attack ON their coastal line,
it was announced today
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
threw his men, Germans with Ital-
ian infantry. against the new Brit
ish battle line west of Ell Alamein,
anchored on the hill of Jesus and
a strong ridge to the south.
AS the infantrymen debouched
from their trucks and made toward
the Imperial line they were met
by artillery, machine gun and rifle
fire and the attack was broken.
1t was the second time in two
days that Rommel attempted to
regain--perhaps for renewed Of
fensive against Alexandria and Nile
the positions he lost in the Brit
ish attack of last week.
TANKS CLASH
Today's joint communique of the
middle eastern command and the
Royal Air Force, also reported that
toward the southern end of the
line. which ends at the Qattara salt
bogs, British ant German tank and
armored car columns were clashing
in the desert dust bowl.
The communique noted that aer-
ial activity was intensifying in the
battle area, with the British and
South African forces evidently re-
tanning their domination.
Imperial fighters, fighter-bomb-
ers and light bomberS attacked the
Axis landing grounds at Ell Daba,
just west of the present line, and
bombed and machine gunned a big
concentration of vehicles, the COM
munique said.
All attacks were described as sue
cessful and it was said that some
tanks were destroyed.
PLANES DOWNED
At least six enemy planes were
shot down in air battles in addi-
ton to others destroyed on the
ground, the communique said. In
addition, at least five enemy planes
we're shot down and others damaged
in attacks yesterday on Malta. For
UIllS UOll vi dU lC6tob IL pioiASc W.
initely downed and others damaged
the British forces lost only one
plane.
Allied planes. from fighters and
the new fighter -bombers to big
four -motored heavy bombers. main
tanned a day and night attack on
Axis positions, supply lines and
bases.
Despite the Axis attacks at the
coastal end of the line. the I'M
perials generally held the initiative
both there and along the remainder
stretching down to the Qattara
| bOeS.
ENEMY HARASSED
Small battle groups of tanks,
armored cars and motorized infan-
try roamed through the frontal area
to haraSs the enemy lines and in
fantrymen continued their night
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14
Communist Press
Warns Of Danger
From German Drive

MOSCOW, July Ia. (UP)-The
Russian press warned today of the
dangers of the German drive and
appealed to all to strain every nerve
to crush the enemy and save the
fatherland.
Pravda, official publication of the
Communist party, urged editorially
that. every Red army man, every
worker, engineer and peasant 'Strain
every nerve"
Grave dangers hang over the
fatherland, which calls you, sons
of its own blood, to crush the ter
rible war machine of the hated
enemy, halt him, smash his attacks
and bleed and pulverize the Nazi
bandits" the paper said.
Red Star, the army organ, declar-
ed that a battle of life and death
was raging on the southern fronts,
and urged the application of Lenin's
slogan, Victory or Death"
I'VE haven't any other choice"
the paper said.
Ilya Ehrenburg, prominent nom
official commentator, said in Red
Star that "the enemy is pushing
toward Stalingrad = the country's
solar pleXus."
They threaten Rostov and are
approaching Kuban and the north
Caucasus" he wrote. 1T is criminal
not to see the danger and it is
criminal to let the danger depress
our spirit. We shan't lose. 1t is
time we were remembering Peter
the First's words: 'ProcraStination
equals death
I'VE have withstood for one whole
year and we will continue to with
stand. The enemy won't break
through to Stalingrad and the Cau-
caSuS."
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14
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Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14
NavyPatroI Boat
Aground Near ST.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 14-CUP)
"A small naval patrol craft went
aground early today at Seal Rocks,
outside the Golden Gate, the navy
announced.
All 13 crew members were removed
safely with breecheS buoys and eff
forts were to be made at once to
refloat the vessel. The $50 foot
craft went aground at 2 a. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14
Jungle Animals
Hazard to FEers

find out if the lien was somebody's
pet. He certainly wasn't mine"
At one airport full-grown
giraffe wanders all over the place,
Dawson said. Many places deer are
as tame as goats. At one airport
they had to chase away a herd of
elephants before the planes could
land Dawson asked a British Off
Ger what happened if the elephants
didn't shoe.
We'll" the British officer re-
piled, eve never have any trouble
unless there are young with them.
Then we Just stay in the air until
they decide to leave"
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14

the Free French - renamed tn,
fighting French to include patriots
resisting in France-had advised
against violence.
De Gaulle laid a wreath, in the
center of which was white lily of
France, on the statue of Marshal
Ferdinand Foch at Victoria.
Six members of the newly formed
French CommandoS encircled the
statue with fixed bayonets, but thou
sands of Britons, shouting "vive Ia
France!" broke through a police
barrier and milled around De Gaulle
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14
Soldiers AIibi
bestin World

FORT DEVENS. Mass, July IA
CUP)-"It had better be good" the
captain said when Pvt. Charles
Mitchell said he had good reason
returning late after three day fur
lough
We'll, I was about to get on
bus" Mitchell explained, when 1
heard a band playing The Star
Spangled Banner I turned tc.
stand at attention and face the
direction of the music.
when it was over the bus was
gone
The explanation was accepted.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14

CHUNGKING, July l4-UP) -
The Chinese high command an
nounced today that its KiangSi pro-
vince counteroffenSive had pushed
the Japanese back to Linchwan, i'm
portant river town and highway
junction los miles south of Nam
chang, and that the japanese gar
rison there was encircled.
Between TOO and 800 Japanese
casualties were inflicted in the bat
tie for the approaches to the city
and many more are now inside an
iron ring that the Chinese have
thrown around the community.
Some of the japanese slipped
through the encirclement. the Chi
nese acknowledged, but they said
that the moose now was closing ON
the remaining troops of the invad-
er's garrison and that the advanc-
ing Chinese were within three miles
of the city.
JAPS THWARTED
The fight for LinchWan was an
extension CT the battle in which
the Chinese last week trapped 3d.
| 900 Japanese troops around Chang
shu, 80 miles west of Linchwan. The
success of the Chinese counter-of-
fensive temporarily thWarted the
Japanese plan to push west of Nam
chang along the Nanchang- Chang
Sha railroad.
The communique said that despite
the stiff resistance of Chinese
troops, the japanese had driven to
the environs of WenchoW. import
ant south Chinaseacoast port 230
miles below Shanghai in Chekiang
province. The fighting continues
in that area, according to the COM
munique.
The United States air force re-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14
Bosti||e Day Uprisinss
Plague Nozi 0ppressors

and Pas de Calais, France. and
Belgium, announced yesterday that
he had seized a large number of
hostages"
BY a reasonable attitude and by
helping to prevent acts of sabotage.
the population of Belgium and the
north of France can save the lives
Of their fellow citizens who are be-
ing held as hostages" he said.
THREATS UNHEEDED
1t was doubted that such threats
would discourage patriots, although
Gen. Charles de Gaulle, leader of
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14
Pot-LuCk Dinner
Wednesday Night

The monthly pot-luck dinner OF
the First Methodist church is slated
for Wednesday evening at the
church social hall at Eighth and
Olive.
The Rev. Lee Rustin. newly ap-
pointed pastor of the Brawley Meth
odist church is to be the main
speaker of the evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14
BY JOHN A. PARIS

LONDON, July IA. CUP)-The an
niversary of Frances BaStille day
was a signal for demonstrations
throughout Europe against Aris op-
PRESTON today, and in Yugoslavia,
the chief of the German Gestapo,
Major Helm, was reported shot and
killed as he walked along Zagrebs
main street.
Yugoslav officials here reported
the shooting and said other Gestapo
agents walking with Helm fired at
passersby and at the window from
which they believed the shots which
killed Helm had come. They also
reported that patriots in zagreb,
Gradski and Podrum, throwing hand
grenades, had killed and wounded
about 700 of the enemy.
GERMANS DEFIED
A French underground army,
promised a second front, early de-
liverance and revenge on their op-
pressors, we're defying the Germans
on an increasingly large scale.
Bombs had exploded in the offices
of the French Tricolor Legion and
jacques Doriot'S Peoples Fascist
party in Bourges. Much damage was
admitted, but there were no immed-
late reports of casualties.
French gendarmeS, accompanied
by German police, had taken ter
rorists' nest in Pas de Calais de-
partment in the north of France.
One patriot was killed and a by
Stander wounded.
Other reports said that railways
had been blown up at Monchy, near
the mouth of the River Somme, and
at Anviaux.
Lieutenant General Niehoff, Ger
man military commander at Lille,
announced that SO Communists had
been deported for sabotage. mas
much as executions and deportations
are German companion repriSals
for sabotage it would appear that
some patriots also had been shot
FAMILIES EXECUTED
1t was against this rii33..::::s .ide Of
disaffection and the prospects that
it would increase on Bastille day
that General Oberg, chief of the
Gestapo in France, ordered all male
members over 18 of the families of
French patriots accused of sabotage
and attacks on Germans executed
within 10 days if the patriots did
not surrender All women would be
sent into forced labor and all chill
| ~,
definition of family included couS-
inS and SonS-in-law.
Lieut. Gen. Alexander Won Faux
enhauser, German military COM
mander of the departments of Nord
Imperial Valley press., 1942-07-14
Introducing, Sea Ranger Bomber

Boeing's
new ship,
shown here
during
water tests
on Seattle's
Lake
Washington,
expected
to have
longer range,
larger bomb
load than
any naval
plane now
in service.
Ship is
powered
by two huge
Wright
Cyclone
engines.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-11
Stymie Postwar Slump:
Grid for Era Of Planes
BY DAMON RUNYON

TT MAY seem a trifle prema-
u ture 10 talk about after the
war" but see a spot where
this government by being a bit
forehanded can save itself ter
rife headache from the unem-
ployment that always follows a
great conflict and at the same
time make reach for the mil
lennium in aeronautics.
The forehandedness woul d
consist of making plans in adj
vance for the continuation OF
the work in all our great air.
plane factories on the produc-
ton of cargo and passenger
planes to replace other forms Of
freight and human carriers as
far as possible.
If this is done. the letup in
factory activity after the war
would be comparatively brief.
BY the time the war is over,
In my opinion. some of the fac
tories will be turning out type
of plane that will be capable of
carrying more freight than a
box car and more passengers
than a couple Of day coaches,
and that will travel from New
York to Los Angeles in eight
hours, and from Los Angeles to
Honolulu in the same time.
TT WILL be a plane for war
L purposes. Of course. but there
is no reason why this type Of
plane cannot be produced for
carrying freight and passengers
Immediately after the war, with
only a certain interim 10 enable
the factories TO make necessary
changes N their equipment for
the transition.
Thus the employment redue-
ton would be fairly light as far
as the plane factories are con-
cerned.
1t has been demonstrated in
this war that Europe is just a
ferry boat ride from these shores
for planes. For less than the
price of a luxury liner. enough
planes can be built to carry
more passengers than the larg-
est ocean-going ship. and for less
than the price of big merchant
vessel, enough planes can be
built 10 pack a greater tonnage
in freight.
And as against the days il re-
quires for the water travellers
TO negotiate a trip across the
Atlantic, the planes bring il
down TO a matter of hours.
This is not at all a dream, as
you will see when the possibili-
ties of the thing are made clear
by the INTERPRETATIONS of our
plane makers for the war. Out
OF the weller of war will come
the ultimate in the conquest Of
the air.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-11
What War Bonds Buy

The life of many an American
sailor has been saved by the in
genious breeches buoy. Particu-
larly in heavy seas where the
buoy is used in taking men from
sinking ships. These life-saving
devices are not expensive. they
cost about S18, or the equivalent
of one Series f War Bond at
$1S.75.
Your purchase OF War Bonds
and Stamps will help save the
lives of many naval officers and
men by aiding in the purchase
of these breeches buoys for use
in the navy and coast guard.
You owe il TO your country. In
vest at least 10 per cent Of your
income in War Bonds and
Stamps every payday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-11

THE constant study and ex-
l. perimenting of today by the
aircraft engineers made neces-
! sary by the swiftly changing
battle of the clouds will prob
ably solve many problems that
might have taken much longer
in time Of peace.
Already the advances in plane
construction have been greater
in a few months than in the
several years preceding the war.
1 am firmly convinced that
with government encouragement
and cooperation the decade
that follows the war will see the
complete revolution of all trans
portation methods in this coun-
try and perhaps the civilized
world.
What seems fantasy today will
be made reality by the plane
manufacturers If they are given
the opportunity.
T,HE present cumbersome sys-
Il TEN of transporting and
handling freight and merchan-
disc, requiring vast docks and
yards, will. in my opinion, be a
thing Of the past inside of 10
years after the war.
In that period, too, ! think,
the dream of plane production
for private uses on the scale of
automobile ownership may be
realized, though / do not con-
slider that as important as the
other.
The plane factories are today
among the largest employers of
skilled labor in the world, but
of course when war planes are
no longer required they will
have TO cut down their number
of employees unless the govern
ment exercises the forehanded-
ness l suggest.
The plane makers will be
ready for the new era when the
war is over If the era is ready
for them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-09-11

WASHINGTON. Sept. IL
W Those in Congress, and in
the army and the navy, who for
so long prevented the creation
of additional military and naval
academies, as repeatedly urged
by Mr.. William Randolph Hearst
in his newspapers, are now be-
ing revealed as abundantly
equipped with that most COM
mon of human attributes, hind
sight.
That Mr.. Hearst was right,
when he first began pointing
out the urgent necessity for the
creation of at least one addi-
tional West Point" and one
additional Annapolis" on the
west coast, is coming to be gen.
orally conceded in Congress.
How long it will take Con-
gress to override the prejudice
of the army and navy against
the establishment of schools,
similar to those on the Hudson
and the Severn. one cannot say.
But il is no longer argued at
the Capitol that additional
schools for the training Of thou
sands of necessary officers to
lead our armies and command
our fleets are not required.
WEST POINT and Annapolis
w have become terribly con-
gested. They have proved in
adequate to the task OF furnish
ing a sufficient number of off,
GERS for our expanding army
and navy, Just as Mr.. Hearst
predicted they would.
At a time when these news
papers foresaw the day, even as
recently as last year. before
Pearl Harbor, when the Pacific
Ocean would become a theater
Of action vital to the defenses
of this country. and urged the
establishment of a naval acad-
envy and military academy
somewhere on the West Coast,
the naval authorities countered
by going TO Congress and OBJ
tanning large appropriation 10
expand the existing facilities at
the naval academy at Annapolis,
notwithstanding there was in
adequate room for this expan-
sion.
The result has been tragic. in
view OF the enormously increased
need for trained officer person
mel for our naval and air fleets.
AS a result OF the policy.
which opposed the establish
mept of an entirely new naval
academy on the Pacific Coast,