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Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
HITLER
OUIETS DOWN
(San Bernardino Sum

(San BernardlnO SUM
Gone are the days when the pompouS
Adolf Hitler would take himself to the
nearest microphone and broadcast to the
four corners of his third reich assurances
that a successful campaign was being
brought to conclusion, and telling faith
full Germans that the enemy was near eX-
termination.
Wien his Russian campaign went awry
in the fall of 1941 and the six weeks Of
fenSive he had planned was extended into
months. he appealed to the folks at home
for continued sacrifices so that final vic
tory could be won the following spring.
Spring came and dragged into summer
and still no victory. Summer gave way
and with the advent of fall, the fuehrer
again was forced to go to the microphone
and plead for "the fullest sacrifices IN
order to tide the German army over an
other uncertain winter.
This year he makes no prediction OF
victory before or after winter. He mere
" points out that "at the start of the
fourth year of war which the German
people are waging in order to be or not
to be- it is necessary that civilians share
some of the hardships of the soldiers IN
the field.
The axis is by no means beaten. but
it has had much of the overconfldence
shaken out of it by the determination of
+bo ITnitod Nations
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27

man strength northwest of Stain
grad. Their positions were studded
with large numbers of antitank
guns and big artillery, and they
were doing their utmost to stop
the counteroffenSive.
TANK TOLL HEAVY
The Soviet army organ Red star
reported Checker board defense
system was proving unusually Sue
cessful inside Stalingrad. Cannon
are set up to cover every approach,
and when tanks try to advance,
Red Star said, they are met by
concentrated stream of fire from
every angle that brings them to
StandStill
one German tank unit lost Is
tanks in a two-hour test of the
checker board" system. 1t re-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
vichy Ambassador
Joins Free French

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 10. tUP)
Jules Blondel, Vichy ambassador
to Bulgaria, has joined the Fight
ing French in Syria, it was said
authoritatively today.
Blondel took advantage OF an in
yitation of the Vichy ambassador TO
Turkey for a personal conference
at Ankara to reach Turkey and then
went on TO Syria, it was said.
Blondel, 55, served in the last
World war. He was in Dublin when
the present war broke out. Last
year he was transferred to Bull
garia.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
Axis Asserts U.S..
Rushing Army for
Assault on Dakar

LONDON. Sept. 26-CUP)-AXis
radio propagandistS played persist
emily today the theme that an Al
lied attack was imminent on Vlcny
Dakar. on the African coast, l,1lo
sea miles across the south Atlantlc
from the bulge Of Brazil.
The German controlled ParlS
radio said that Dakar was already
under blockade and the French
Ouisling commentator added
THE Allies will attack Dakar
soon. They will take its sugar ana
timber and cotton as they already
are doing in equatorial Africa.
Berlin radio broadcast long
transocean ageny dispatch from
Lisbon. saying that United states
aspirations for central and south
ern Africa are becoming ever more
apparent.
BUILDING ROADS
The dispatch said American
troops were now stationed IN BTU
ish Sierra Leone, 500 miles down
the coast from Dakar; in the
Negro republic of Liberia south OF
Sierra Leone, and in the BRUSH
gold oast territory, British Nigeria
and the fighting French Cameroohs
(all on the gulf of Guinea
1t was said that the Americans
we're building roads across Africa
to the east coast.
The presence of United states
troops is also reported from the
Belgian Congo and now, accorolne
TO latest reports, United StateS
troops have even put in an appear
ane in the South African unloh'
the dispatch said.
YANKS LANDING so
"All this is in preparation loi
large scale military operations py
the United States in foreign con-
tinent. .,.,.,
"Tn Nigeria ever new contlngent'
of United States troops are arrlViile
Their transports are coming VIC
North Brazilian ports. ,.-
"Tn Brazil itself expedltonarS
forces numbering 10000 men nave
been established and equipped WIFI
United States arms. These 1orceS
have been recruited from an are'
concentrating, as to climatic con-
ditions. the African theater.
Irresponsible military eXperE
think these Brazilian troops VII
nrove their mettle in Africa
AIR FIELDS PUT IN
particularly remarkable is TN
reinforcing of the United States al
force units in Africa. Since july
Tho number of bomberS and tlghI
ors stationed at Cookhouse snea
tho southeast tip Of South Africa
has been multiplied. .,
also at Duala Fighting frenci
Cameroons) airdromes nave peei
established and United States al
force contingents have been Sta
toned there. This former capita
of the German Cameroons CtaKei
from Germany after the last Worl'
war had been made a mllitar
The dispatch emphasized thl
area as the junction point Tor I'M
nortant strategic roads, one nov
extended to Egypt. -,
at other points in the sam
area military bases have been eS
tabIsshed." the dispatch salc
Everywhere one meets numerou
American soldiers ~
FACTORIES ESTABLISHED
The dispatch went on to speak Q
the establishment Of munitions FAC
tories in Allied African territor
around the gulf of Buinea and sal
that shipping experts sent b
Henry J. Kaiser were constructor
motor torpedo boats and sma
freiphters near Capetown, Sout
"C;iant United States plane
equipped for transport of air born
troons are stationed in South Al
RIGA" it was said.
at present, however, no NOR
Than $4,000 10 1900 United State
troops are in South Africa, man
Of them Negroes in special unit
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The FOLLOWING edit
oridls are presented as interesting opin.
ions roiced bv editors eiseIChere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion Of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
Reds HurI Nazis Back

turned for a second aiitthHt'
five more tanks ana .ellreu
New armorcd naval units pil5t-
eipally high speed motor hoaHs.
icined the battle of aialnsfaa.
Coursing up and down the Nolea.
thev attacked German afihifa5
and tanks at short range ana heiH-
ed monitors 70 protect rfuaatuHa
against dive bombers-
LINE BROKEN
dispatches reported SOVIET SUE
cesses at other points along tlae
battlefront. Russian forea aaVan1-
ed ON a sector near Voronezh 80
miles northwest Of Stalingrad. and
killed 800 of the enemy south oi
Voronezh. the Germans attacked
several times, but were beaten OF
with heavy losses.
on the western front presum-
ably in the Rzhev area northwest
cf Moscow. Soviet troops supported
by heavy tanks and artillery drove
the Germans from an inhabited
locality and broke their second line
of defense.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27

There was never any intent either dir
ectly or indirectly to set up even the
slightest resemblance of Gestapo meth
ods in planning gasoline rationlng.-Prlce
Administrator Leon Henderson.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27

1t is obvious from the very magnitude
of the toll in deaths and inj juries that
accidents constitute one of the serious
impediments to our war effort.-Presl-
dent Roosevelt
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
BY DON CASWELL

GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS. Australia, Sept. 70
CUPD-Australian forces supported
by new artillery are driving the
japanese from their outpoStS IN the
owen Stanley mountains 80 miles
from the allied base of Port Mores-
by in New Guinea, it was announc-
ed today.
1t was revealed also that rain is
falling heavily in the battle area,
complicating the Japanese supply
problem and thus aiding allied
planes which for the 18th straight
day have hammered at the enemy
communication lines and bases.
A spokesman at Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's headquarters announc-
ed the arrival of artillery in the
Australian lines in the IoribaiWa
village zone of the mountains TO
which the enemy had advanced
from Buna, the north New Guinea
base. and KoAoda village on the
northern mountain slopes.
PATROLS HARASS JAPS
The guns which Macarthur has
been able to move forward Tor the
Australians include some OF the
crack 25-pounders which so greatly
aided British empire forces to
smash the recent German offensive
in North Africa.
MacArthur'S communique discloS-
ed that the Australians still main
tain paarol forces in the heart OF
the Japanese invasion area on the
north New Guinea coast.
japanese, trying to drive the
Australian jungle fighters from
their outpoSts in the Salamaua-
Lac area of the coast, on the Huon
Gulf, sent forces inland on drive
southwest of Salamaua. But the
Australians, after withdrawing into
the interior made counterattack
that won back all their positions.
AIRDROME ATTACKED
Boeing Flying Fortresses and Cur
tiss Kittyhawk fighters maintained
the steady allied aerial offensive
against the japanese supply lines
along the 60-mile track between
Buna and Kokoda.
The FortresSes attacked the Buna
airdrome dispersal area. They
destroyed an enemy bombing plane,
silenced an anti-aircraft battery
and bombed other targets with re-
suits they could not see because OF
darkness.
The Curtisses, in heavy attack
on the Wairopi village area 16 miles
from Kokoda, smashed completely
one end of the important bridge
on which the Japanese depend to
move supplies over a swift, deep
stream, and set several stores ana
huts afire with incendiary bullets.
FORTRESSES ATTACK
Complete interruption of bridge
traffic, even temporarily, meant
serious embarrassment to the Jap
anese in supplying their forces on
! the Port Moresby side of the noun
tains, especially as the rains deep
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

We are going to have to spend more
and more to tell the public to buy less
and less. - Morton Simpson, Birmng-
ham advertising executive.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
ZEROS SHOT DOWN

They bombed huts which the
japanese were using to house troops
and supplies
Lockheed Hudson medium bomb
ers raided Dill, at the Portuguese
end and shot down two of four en-
emy Zero fighters which challeng-
cd them. They returned without
loss. This was theh first enemy
attempt at interception in some
weeks.
The japanese in their only aerial
offensive activity in days sent two
planes last night against Darwin,
the allied base on the North Aus
tralia ncoast. Their attempt at
bombing was feeble, reports to
headquarters said, and the raid was
without effect.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27

1t will not be desirable, in my opinion
and it would be highly undesirable-to
ration everything = Leon Henderson,
price and rationing administrator
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
Aussies Use Big
Guns Against Foe

cned the mud along The always
treacherous trails.
A force of flying fortresses, after
probably sinking an 5000 ton en-
emy ship at Rabaul in New Britain
island Thursday returned to the
attack yesterday a nd driving
through heavy gun fire scored a
hit on a medium sized cargo vessel.
Results of the bombing of other
targets could not be observed.
An allied fighter unit was sent
against the Ambasi area on the
north New Guipea coast, where
signs of enemy activity had been
observed
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
va nks
Bio st
japs
By FRANK HEWLETT

AT AN ALLIED ADVANCED
BASE IN NEW GUINEA, Sept. 26
1UP)-United States Army troops.
in action for the first time in the
Australian zone against japanese
ground forces. helped the Austral-
ians under Maj. Gen. Cyril Cloves
to smash into fleeing fragments the
japanese invasion units landed at
Milne bay, it is possible to reveal
today
American antiaircraft artillery
men. going into action as volunteers,
lowered the sights of their potent
.5O-caliber machine guns, hitherto
used only against low flring Japa-
nese Zero fighter planes, and gave
the Japanese one of the biggest sur
prises of the Milne bay action.
Fifty-nine japanese dead were
piled up in one heap by the Ameri-
cans
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
PLANES SHOT DOWN

On a visit to the Milne bay battle
field. I saw a captured japanese
|lis inch gun through the barrel of
which the Americans had put one
of their so caliber armor piercing
bullets.
/ One American unit, defending the
| Milne bay airdrome from enemy
plane attack, downed six japanese
Zero fighter planes; another downed
| three.
An army unit of a special anti
aircraft outfit. composed entirely
of volunteers from regular antiair-
craft organizations, had the honor
of giving the japanese ground troops
the first United States pasting in
Gen. Douglas MacArthur'S south
west Pacific zone.
They went into action under Capt.
Thomas H. Corey, Los Angeles, for
merly a Warner Brothers decorative
lighting expert.
The boys were eager for action,
he said
CHANGE HATS
Corey especially praised the lead
ership of two of his aides, Lieut.
Thomas H. Patton, Aurora, Ill, and
Lieut.. william Gribble, Charlotte
N. c.
For the occasion, the Australians
gave the Americans some of their
own broad -brimmed campaign hats,
fearing that in the melee the United
States troops, with their new style
steel helmets, might be mistaken
for japanese.
The Americans liked the hats so
much that many of them are still
wearing them.
Apparently the Japanese were
not expecting to meet fire from such
/ deadly guns as J-loSe Of the Ameri
can antiaircraft men when they
advanced boldly on a partly fin
iShed airdrome at Milne bay.
But the Australians, who made
up the great bulk of the force. and
| the Americans were awaiting them
The Americans were sandwiched
| in among Australian infantrymen
and trench mortar men.
So accurate were the Australian
mortar gunners, Capt. Corey said,
that they would groan when they
failed by a few feet to hit a target
they had selected.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
FIGHTING IN CITY

1t was the 33rd day of the battle
of Stalingrad, and front-line dis
patches said the Russians, in bit
ter hand to hand battle, had driven
the Germans from a number OF
blocks inside the city.
Moreover. the Germans tailed 10
advance in frenzied efforts to take
vidal intersections. Soviet anti
tank weapons, firing from behind
barricades. were proving superior
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
GERMANS WITHDRAW

The Germans, squeezed between
Timoshenko's growing counteroffen-
sive and the stiffening resistance
inside Stalingrad were withdrawing
men and tanks from their futile
attempts to take the city and try
ing to stop the counteroffensive.
The only results so far have been
the loss of scores OF tanks and
thousands of men.
After a bitter battle over one
hill, the Germans retreated ana
left the wrecks of II tanks. The
Russians remained in possession OF
the hill
Three thousand Germans were
killed in attacks on another hill the
Russians rewon and IA more OF
their tanks were knocked out.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-09-27
FORTRESSES ATTACK

Complete interruption Of bridge
traffic, even temporarily, meant
serious embarrassment to the Jap
anese in supplying their forces on
the Port Moresby side of the noun
tains, especially as the rains deep
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-27
B. T. w. Study Club
Still Carries On

The Booker T. Washington Study
Club has held its regular meetings
as usual. On Tuesday, November
8, Mrs. Linnie Hall was hostess to
the club members. Mrs. Lena
Wormley read a paper at that meet
ing entitled American Negro Sol
diers Are Winning the War Of Dis
elimination Abroad"
November IT was another meet
ing date at the home of Mrs. Matte
bearing. Mrs. Lucille Cratic, the
president, gave a report on the
meeting attended of the Minneapo-
lis Defense Council and Mrs. Edna
Boswell read a paper on Thanks.
giving" Mrs. Helen Grever, who
will be hostess for the meeting on
December l, was given a gift fol
her second grandson.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-27
In Washington: Mrs. Lucille

In Washington: Mrs. Lucille
shivers, 1921 4th Ave. So, re-
turned on Sunday from Washing
ton, D. C., where she spent a week
visiting with her daughters, Misses
Lorraine and Lucille Shivers. Lu-
ellie is working in Arlington, Vir-
ginia, and is the only colored girl in
her department among sixty others.
Lorraine is employed by the War
Department, Army Bond Division.
The parents and friends of Mrs.
Bobby Murphy Nash, Misses Alice
McElroy, Beneta Yancy and Mildred
Shull will be happy to hear that
Mrs. Shivers reports those Mime
apoitans are doing well. Mrs.
Shvers visited many of the gov
eminent buildings and found the
Smithsonian Institute the most
fascinating.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-27
Robert Marshall,
Junior, to Wed
Millicent Burgess

Engagement Announced: Mr.. and
Mrs. M. R. Burgess of $40 Rondo
Ave-, announce the engagement of
their daughter, Millicent, to Mr..
Robert Wells Marshall, Jr., Tech
nical Sergeant in the U. S. Army
Air Corps at Tuskegee, Alabama.
Miss Burgess is a senior at the
University of Minnesota and Gram
mateus of Eta Chapter, Alpha Kap-
pa Alpha Sorority. Sgt. Marshall
is the son of Mr.. Robert Marshall,
ST., 1850 Fourth Ave. &c., Mime
apolis, and Mrs. Irene Marshall of
Great Falls, Montana. The mar
riage will be solemnized the eve
ming of December % at the Burgess
home. Miss Crystal Burgess and
Mrs. Betty Session have been
chosen by the bride-elect as maid
of honor and bridesmaid respective
ly.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-27
Alpha Phi
Alphas Hold
Monthly Meet

Mu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha
held its regular monthly meeting
in the form Of a Smoker at the
home Of John R. Lawrence, Jr., 947
Iglehart Avenue, on Saturday eve
ming, November 81. The Smoker
was in honor of Thomas Monson,
old Fuller Avenue, who enters the
U. S. Army on the 18th. Mr.. Mon
son has been serving as Core
spending Secretary of the chap
ter.
DR.. Earl Weber was the main
speaker and tributes were paid also
by other members present. Mr..
Monson made a very touching re-
Spouse. A letter from 1t. Lloyd D.
French, who was initiated into Mu
Chapter in 1910, was read. 1t.
French was commissioned in Au-
gust after entering the army in
January; he was assigned to the
366th Infantry, Fort Devens, Mass.
Mr.. Martin Brookins of Kansas
City, who has been pledged to AL
pha Phi Alpha, was a guest at the
smoker. Mr.. Brookins is enrolled
in the College of Agriculture at the
U. He resides at 1916 Clinton Ave
nue., Minneapolis.
Members present included Thorn
as Monson, DR.. Earl Weber, VIII
liam Cassius, Raymond W. Cannon
John Lawrence and Il. GarricI
Williams of Alpha Chi Chapter
Nashville. Next meeting will be
with s. V. Owens on December 10
This will be a social meeting.
Six members of Mu Chapter are
now serving their country in the
armed forces.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-27

Green, 982 Iglehart avenue, enter
tanned with a miscellaneous shower
Local SIG Ladies' Auxiliary will
hold its monthly business meeting
on Thursday, December 8, at the
Locals Headquarters, Rondo and
Arundel.
The Ladies' Auxiliary to the
Sterling Club met in regular ses-
sion, Tuesday, December l, at the
Clubhouse.
The AdeIphai Club met Tuesday,
December 1, at the home Of Mrs.
B. F. Edwards, PA W. Central ave-
nue.. A Quiz Program featured the
afternoons program with a social
hour following.
Noticed among the attractively
gowned women at the Sterling
Club silver anniversary on Tuesday
evening of last week were Mrs.
Joseph E. johnson in black crepe
accented with beaded embroidery
on a pastel background, Mrs. Fred
erick D. McCracken in black crepe
and lace with a corsage of taIsman
roses, Mrs. J. Walton Crump in a
block print of Kelly green on black
with a matching jacket, Mrs. Cora
Vaughn in brown crepe with gold
nail head trimming, Mrs. William
O'Shields in steel gray crepe, Mrs.
E. Blouedorn, formerly of New
Jersey, in Victory blue lace gown,
Mrs. Charles Hill from New Or
leans, Louisiana, in black taffeta
and red velvet with a corsage of
red talisman roses in her hair, Mrs.
Ralph A. Ward in a powder blue
crepe with gold kid trimming and
twin gardenias in her hair, Mrs.
Clarence W. Wigington in black
crepe and lace with a corsage of
baby pompoms, Mrs. Ethel Max
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-27

StovalPs, Sr., 3741 Fourth Ave. So.
Mrs. Rose Minis, AIT Colfax Ave.
No, received the nine pound turkey
given away by the Maple Leaf club,
an auxiliary of the S. NJ. T. lodge,
at the home of Mrs. Cecilia Patter-
son, $40 Bryant Ave. No.
Sailor Boys Entertained: The
Jolly 16 club of St. Peter A. NJ. E.
church entertained 10 Sailor Boys
last Sunday evening at the Citizens
Headquarters, 345 E. 18th St.,
Minneapolis. From 6 to 9 p. m. the
sailors, other guests and club mem
bers played games, visited and lis
tened to music. Refreshments were
served. Members Of the club are:
Mines. Hazel Curry, Lucille Nc
Adams, Mary Louise Cannon,
Flossie Harris, Lillian Carter, Leila
Thomas, Helen Lyon, Harriet
Jones, Allie Wilson; Misses Lu-
cinda Hill, Eleanor and Esther
Byers.
Rev. Robert Kelly, pastor of Bor-
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1942-11-27

Carlyle Anderson Robert Edward
Hill, George Brooks III, George
Stansell, Jerry Thomas, Joyce Vas
sar, Emily and Carol Clark, Sondra
Jean and Lydia Nelson, Archie An
derson, Jr., Gayle Schofield, Wood
ford Mills, Jr., Darwin Mills,
jeanne and Dorothy Davis, Philip
Brooks, Joan Marie Walker, Cath
crime Walker and Carol Jean Ma
son. The honoree's mother was as
sisted by Mesdames C. L. Mason,
Homer G; Anderson, Ann Seymour
Thomas and Estyr L. Bradley.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Ridley, 815
St. Anthony avenue, had as their
dinner guests on Sunday, November
Is, Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Hall and
family and Mrs. Ida Mae Murphy
and family. Incidentally, Mrs
Ridley is again in tip top shape
after an operation recently.
Mrs. o. A. Gum, 638 St. Anthony
avenue, entertained on Tuesday eve
ming of this week with a bridge mis-
cellaneous shower to honor BRIDE
elect Miss Evalyn Austin whose
marriage to Mr.. Andrew Brent was
an event Of this week. Also to
honor Miss Austin, Miss Devonia
Coleman and Mrs. LaPurcelle