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Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1943-09-10

Jau anksciau buvo ziniu kad
Lietuvos ukininkai patys ma
zina- gyvuliu skaiciu, mes Wis
wen is ju neturi naudos, O tik
padidina sau prievoles. Be to
ukininkai neturi pakankamai
daroininku gyvuliams priziu-
reti.
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1943-09-10
Raso Zigmas Janlkauskas.

leidimui lauko negavus, musu
Lietuviski arai atskrenda i
William Penn aerodroma, Phi
ladelphijon, penkiu mailiu at
stume nuo pikniko lauko; is
ten autu atvaziuoja'i Vytauto
Parka. Pribuvus ir istyrus
nusileidimui lauko vieta, jie
atrado kad zeme nera pakan-
kamai sausa ir permazai vie
tos. Nusprende pertaisyto sa-
vo orlaivio tolimam skridimui
nerizikuoti cia nusileisti. Juos
piknikieciai kaip if .pereita
meta, apspito sveikinti, kalbin-
tt. Lakunai susimaise su pix
nikieciais, ir taip praleido su
Philadelphieciais Lie u V a / S
smagiai paskutini syki pasima-
tymo su jais diena.
Nuo 6 valandos vakare, pro-
gramo vedejas, ]. V. Grinius,
pasake izangine kalba, oficia-
liai perstatydamas lakunus su-
sispietusiai zmoniu miniai. Cia
jjiems piknikieciai gausingai
nuplojo. Graudingas atsisvei-
kinimo kalbams lakunams pa
sake M. Mankelevicius, q. Jan
kauskas ir A. Tvaranavicius.
Darius ir Girenas nuo saves
atsisveikindami piknik e c i u s
giliai dekojo uz sirdinga val
singunna ir suteikta jiems pi-
nigine pagalba skridimo reika-
lams. Paskutiniai atsisveikinl-
mo zodziai ir pasimatymas su
lakunais istrauke susirinku-
stems asaras. Nors lakunai
reiske vilties neuzilgo vel pasi-
matyti, bet leidziantis tok1on
ilgon ir pavojingon kelionen
Lietuviu sirdys buvo neramios.
Po 8-tos valandos vakaro,
grazus Geguzes menesio va
karas baigesi ir geguzine pri-
ejo gallo. Musu lakunai nuvy-
| ko VIM. Penn aerodroma, Sc
do Lituanica, perskrido virs
sVytauto Parko paskutinl kar-
TIA, ir pasileido tiesio orc hnlJa
New Yorko linkui. TrumpoJe
akyvaizdoje jie dingo is musv
akiu skaistaus dangaus mely-
neje.... Ir nuo to laiko mes
ju gyvu daugiau nemateme. +.
Is sio parengimo lakunai ga
vo S295.85.
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(Tesinys is pereito nr.)

"sI sAvO SKRIDIMA AU-
KAUJAME TAU, JAUNOJI
LIETUVA'
(Dariaus ir Gireno Testamen-
tas)
Lietuviu Tauta laukia is sa-
vo SUM ir drasesniu zygiu.
Butinai reikia ir jos sunams
prisideti prize bendrojo darbo:
Tirti dar mazai zinomas ziemiu
Atlantiko Vandenyno ir orc
sroves. o taip pat naujai isras-
tus navigacijos budus ir prize
mones pritaikinti kas d emf
MANS reikalan1s. Mes, gwen
dami tokiais laikais kada oras
stengiamasi panaudcti zmoni-
Jos reikalams, laikome sau uz
pareiga Tautos vardu ta darba
garbingai atlikti.
Jaunoji Lietuva! Tayo diva
sios ikvepti, mes stengiames 81
pasirinkta uzdavini ivykdyti.
Musu pasisekimas tegu sustip-
rims Tavo dvasia ir pasitikeji-
ma savo jiegomis ir gabumais!
Bet jei Neptunas ar galingasis
Audru Perkunas NUNS butq
rustus - pastOs NUNS keliq i
Tavo krasta ir pasauktp Litua-
MICA pas save, tada Tu. Jauno-
il Lietuva, turesi isnaujo ryz-
tis, aukotis ir isnaujo pasiren-
gti Tavo pastangomis, pastry
zirnu, kad nekviestu Taves j
Didyji Teisma.
I.ituanicos laimejimas tegu
sustiprina jaunujq Lietuvos
sunu ir dukteru dvasia ir ikve-
pia jiems naujiems zygiams ir
pasiryzimams! Lituanicos pra-
laime jimas ir nugrimzdinas
Atlantic Vandenyno gelmes te-
GU aukleja jaunuju Lietuviu
atkakluma ir ryztuma, kad
Sparnuotas Lietuvis butinai l.
veiktu klastingaji Atlantik;aa
Tevynes Lietuvos garbei! Tai
ri ST savo skridirna skiriame ir
aukojame Tau, Jaunoji Lietu-
va! Ta didyji bandyma pra-
desime, tikedamiesi Dangaus
palaimcs!
Lakunas KapitOnas
STEPONAS DARIUS
Lakunas STASYS GIRENAS
Geguzes IA, 1888, kokia svar-
bi ir istoriska PhiladelphiJos
Lietuviams diena! Pirmutinlal
Lietuviai lakunai pasirenge oru
pasiekti Lietuva, musu tevQ
zeme! Ia bandyma jie dairy
sia palikdami net savo testa-
nenta Tai buta pirmas Lie
tuviu istorijoje Xxi siol neil
nomas ir negirdetas atsitlkl-
mas. Kas galejo tiketis kao
25 metal atgal jauni Lietuvia1
ateiviai pasieke laivu Laisves
Stovylos uosta Shame kraste
isauge vyrus ir kovodami uz
gyvenima sioje didzioj Kolum
bo zemeje, po tam tikro Lake
gales gryzti oru i savo gimtl
nj hasta, dabar jau laisva Il
nepriklausoma Lietuva?! Jie
nei iu tevai, nei kiti apie ia
nei sapnuose to realizavimo ne
galeio sapnuoti. Bet daba
ia diena artinesi.
Geguzes 14-ta - Jaunyste
ir grazaus pavasario smagumu
linksmybss ir gyvybes meme
sio diena. Ia menesl visa gy
via veisiasi ir nori gyventl l
gyvenimu dziaugtis, = tai 81
du Lietuviai drasuoliai rengia
ST savo gyvybe rizikuotl Wis
Lietuviu - savo tautos - gai
bei. Kokis pasiaukojimas Sc
vo atgimusiai, jaunai Tevynel
.ATSKRENDA!
Nustatytu laiku, IL valand
ryto, Central Airporte, Can
den. N. j., musQ garbingl Wy
raj savo lektuvu nusileidzla
IL,
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.yAUTI RE0GAl?
VISIsKAI PALENCVINSITE SAU
--SIUO MODERNISM SVELNiU

q Kuomet fankinates viduriu uzkietejinu--
zaruos neveiklios, skauda galva, nera ener-
ijos-palengvinsite sau siuo modernism
budu-kramtykite FEEN-A- MINT. 81 sko-
ninga kranltoma guma vidurius liuosuoja
sveniai ir tikra Milijonai zmoniu naudoja
FEEN- -AMINT Tx pakramtykite FEEN A.
MINT einant guilt, naudokite tiktai pagal
nlrodymus ant pakelio. Sekanti ryta ma
Iopus palen gvinimas jums pagelbes vel jau-
sits puikIai
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1943-09-10

ATIDELIOJIMAS SKRIDIMO
DEL NEPALANKAUS ORC.
LIETUVIQ NERIMAS.
IsSKRIDIMAS. LIUDNOS
Dariaus ir Girano isskridimo
laiko nors negalima buvo nu-
statyti, taciau kaip jau buvo
skelbiama, jie turejo isskristi
apie pabaiga Geguzes, kada
naktys visai sutrumpeja. Sis
praejo. Prasidejo Birzelio ir
tas praejo, bet lakunai kaip
neisskrenda taip neisskrenda.
zmones lauke nekantriai ir
ir pagaliau pradejo ivairiais
apsnekejimais lakunus neigtl,
leista gandai apie abejinga Ia
kunu kompetentiskuma toklam
zygiui. Blogos valios asmenys
pradejo leisti nepalankius gan
dus kad jie kaipo lakunai toll
mann skridimui netinka, kad jie
tik pasipinigavo is lengvatikiu
zmoniu ir kur tai dingo. ,
Skridimo atideliojima SUI
prato ir zinojo tie kurie buvo
arciau susipazine su lakunais.
Jie ir lauke tos valandos kada
musu orc riteriai pakils su Ii
tuanica j Kauna, bet jie lauke
kantriai ir rsniai.
At5jo ir Liepos menuo. Ne
aiskics zinios karts nuo kartc
paplisdavo kad Darius ir Glre'
mas jau visai pasirenge isskri'
sti bent kuria diena. Visi jies
kojo ziniu, klausinejo vieni XII
tus: kada? Niekas negalej<
pasakyti. Sveikiausias atsaky
mas ka galima buvo glrdetl
tai "Turek daugiau pakantru
ko, supratimo, ir lukek. W
girsi."
stai atejo Liepos Is, 1913;
metu. Netiketai zinios pasiro
de Angliskoje spaudoje kad-
"Du Lietuviai Lakunai isskri
] do per Atlantika is New Yor
/. ko j Kauna viena valanda pas
lkiau Amerikieti lakuna Vile
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here. He said Bowles will have
full authority to hire and fire, and
he predicted that many high rank
ing employees of the agency will
have to be dismissed under con-
gressional mandate that only those
be placed in price jobs who have
had business experience.
Brown met reporters after Lou R.
Maxon, head of detroit advertis-
ing agency, had resigned as OPAs
chief information officer, charging
that the agency would fail unless
it purged itself of young lawyers
and "Slide-Rule" theorists. Maxon
had been considered for the Gen.
eral managers post.
The Administrator answered only
two of the many charges against
OPA made by Maxon in a Hotly-
worded statement explaining his
resignation. He denied MaxonS
charge that OPA has no fixed Food
Policy, declaring the one in force
is Clear and Unmistakable"
He rejected also MaXon's state
ment that clique in OPA is pro-
posing that the government take
Continued on Page 8, Col. a.
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yunk Purutroops
Become Veterans

jackasses appeared.
The fact that we always have
had food and water as we'll as am
munition and other vital supplies
is due almost entirely to the in
genuity of the combat teams sup
ply officer, Maj Edward Maj from
Hamtramck, Mich. No request
seemed beyond his powers to full
fill.
One group of six parachutists,
later augmented to IA, headed by
1t. Richard Janney, 26, Baltimore,
and Sgt. Carl Hearn, 25, Columbus.
Ia, knocked off half dozen pill
boxes along the coast.
Sometimes our men were wound
ed or killed, but more often it was
the enemy. There was the case of
Pvt. Robert Games of Norfolk. va,
A Headquarters Clerk. He should
be dead. Attacking pillboxes, he
crept in close when the enemy fired
70 rounds, then pitched three hand
grenades at him, knocking him un-
Continued on Page 8, Col. a
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Don't Know Girl
Fonda Declares

HOLLYWOOD, July Is up
From aboard destroyer in the
Pacific, Henry Fonda denied to-
day that ne is the father of Bar
bara ThOmpsOn's baby daughter.
"I don't even know her." said
Fonda, who dropped his role Of
bashful film hero to join the
navy a year ago.
Mrs. Thompson, a divOrcee
with three other children, said
she went TO FOnda's hotel room
at El Centre, Calf, last fall to
have drink and checked out
three weeks later.
She was attracted, she said, by
the simple charm of his shyness.
Mrs. Thompson filed a paternity
suit Tuesday demanding $1,000 a
month from Fonda for GuppOrt
of her month old daughter,
Sharon.
She said Fonda seduced her
while on leave from the navy to
complete his part in "The I'M
mortal sergeant"
Fonda was reached for comment
through the Navy Public Rela-
tiOns office at BremertOn, WASH,
where he was stationed before
shipping to rea on destroyer.
He is quartermaster. third
class.
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Less Than Half of
Cars in Area Have
Gas Ration Books

Ell Centre ration board
clerks, assisted by volunteer
workers, Wednesday night
completed issuing new "a
gasoline books for all appli-
cations that had been previously
submitted to the board and Mrs,
Margaret Foster, secretary of the
organization, expressed fear that
countless automobile owners who
fail to apply for such books early
will be unable to purchase motor
fuel after July 81, expiration date
of "A" coupons currently in use.
LESS than half the car owners
in our district have been issued
new books" she said in urging mo-
torists to turn in applications i'm
mediately.
OF all applications submitted to
the board approximately one third
Continued on Page 8, Col. u
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BY JOHN THOMPSON
Representing Combined United
States Press.

Distributed by United Press
With American Airborne troops
in Sicily = date unspecified-It's
quiet today, oddly quiet in the cool
shade of our Sicilian orchard. The
noise of battle has passed and over
head drones the spitfire patrol
which appeared yesterday for the
first time, replacing what seemed
to be ever present enemy fighters
and bombers.
In this strange and unaccustomed
quiet you glance through the grove
at tired men improving their slit
trenches or cleaning their guns, and
you marvel again at the ability and
stamian of the American soldier
particularly these airborne soldiers.
You have just seen them in their
first combat. They parachuted
through the night into Axis strong
points. They battled their way
along the coast and inland, fighting
as guerrillas, and they were drawn
together into a small combat team
and reinforced by tanks and artil-
lery.
FOUGHT WELL
They fought as well as any Yanks
have ever fought. 1t was their
first fight, but you would have
thought they were old hands at it..
Some mistakes naturally were made,
but these shock troops distinguish
ed themselves brilliantly.
Industrious parachutists have
been coming up to this area in
everything from captured Italian
tankettes, trucks, hearses, and bicy-
cles to peasant carts, sedans, motor
sycles, horses, and jackasses. They
had to appoint a stable officer and
establish q picket line when 30
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SoviietS
Go on
Timoshenko Is
lie eadins Reds on
Front Near OreI

LONDON, July Is. (UP)
The Red army, launching
its first summer offensive OF
the war against the German
salient anchored on Orel, an
iDunced today that it had smashed
two great gaps in the Nazi lines,
advanced up to q miles, and killed
more than $4,000 enemy troops.
A special Red army communique
broadcast from Moscow IL days
after the Germaus undertook their
unsuccessful drive on the Orel-Bel-
gorod front said the attacking So
Wet forces had captured more than
ITO inhabited places and more than
1000 prisoners in three days of vio-
lent lighting north and east of Orel.
the hinge of the southern and CEN
tral fronts.
SLASH AT BULGE
The communique said the assault
forces slashed into the German
oulge anchored on Orel from the
north and east.
tThe German Transocean News
agency said that Marshal Semyon
'Iimoshenko is leading the huge
Russian offensive)
Above the big German base the
Russians pierced a strongly forti-
fled defense line on a 25-mile front
and drove ahead 81 miles in three
days since the drive started.
The drive from the east into the
nose of the salient cracked it's de-
lenses on an 18-mile front and car
ried forward IL to Is miles, the
broadcast communique said.
In continuing the offensive, the
Russians were reported to have
wrecked 100 German tanks and de-
stroyed 294 planes and 46 field
guns, besides capturing 40 tanks
and 21O guns.
The Soviet announcement of the
IL scale offensive depicted it as
rivaling in intensity the two great
winter campaigns by the Red army
Continued on Page 8, Col. a.
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Drua Smuggling
On upsWing Here

Smuggling Of narcotics from
Mexico into the United States has
increased in recent months, border
officials declared Thursday. be-
cause of the difficulty of getting it
from the orient in wartime.
Frank Steucy, 90, Negro laborer.
was turned over to the federal
grand Jury for trial on charge of
smuggling marijuana cigarettes in
package of regular cigarettes.
Claude Milton, AZ, Negro, was
given six month Jail sentence.
The sentence was suspended and
he was placed on probation for five
years. He was caught smuggling
in II ounces of opium.
Agnes CURL, 38, Negro housewife,
was sentenced to the county Jail
in Ell Centre for smuggling in 12
ounces of opium. Arthur H. Cook
so, another Negro, also was ar
rested at the port of entry on a
charge of smuggling narcotics from
Mexico. His case is still pending.
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Mexico Redeems
DefauItd Debt

NEW YORK. July Is CUP)-U. S.
investors began receiving payments
today from the Mexican govern
ment on its public debt, which has
been in default for Is years.
The International Committee
Bankers of Mexico announced that
the first allotment was a semi
annual payment, out of a national
fund of 100000 pesos S2,050, ,000, 4,
under an agreement with the Mexi-
can government. The committee Is
headed by Thomas w. Lamont,
chairman of j. P. Morgan &
Co., Inc.
The Mexican congress ratified
agreements on Dec. 90, 1912, to pay
S40,000,000 in settlement OF all
United States claims, except that
involving appropriated oil prop
critics.
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Allies Begin Big
Drive to Gust Foe
from Guinea Coast
Americans, Australians
Attack Mubo Defenses;
Way Open to Salamaua

ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Southwest Pacific,
July Is. CAPITALIZED troops,
opening the all-out offensive
to drive the japanese from
their bases on the northeast New
Guinea coast, attacked the Mubo
defenses today in an assault to
break the main bastion before Sala-
maua.
Their path opened by aerial
bombardment, jungle fighters closed
in on Mubo "for decisive action"
a special announcement from Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's headquarters
said.
Fall of Mubo would lay open the
japanese line extending northeast
ward 10 miles to Salamaua, an i'm
portant coastal base and a major
objective of the offensive begun
June 80 to roll the Japanese back
from both the south and south
west Pacific.
JOIN ASSAULT
The new action on the western
end of the 750-mile line of opera
tions came as field dispatches re-
ported American tanks had Joined
in the assault on Munda, biggest
Japanese base in the central Solo
Continued on Page 8, Col. 50
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First Woman Wins
U.S.. Soldier Medal

WASHINGTON, July Is (UP)-
Heroic conduct in saving patients
from a hospital fire brought Army
Nurse 2nd 1t. Edith Greenwood of
North Dartmouth, Mass, the first
soldiers medal ever awarded a
woman, the war department an
nounced today.
1t. Greenwood gave the alarm
and with PFC. James j. Ford, of
Madrid, Iowa, tried to eXtinguish
a fire in the early morning last
April II in station hospital at
Yuma, Ariz. Failing to check the
blaze, they removed all the patients
to safety. Ford also won the SOL
dier'S medal.
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War Production
Down End Month

WASHINGTON, July IS CUP)-
War production in June fell sub
stantially below schedule for the
second successive month, Acting
Secretary of War Robert P. Patter-
son said today.
During the next six months, he
said, the nation must produce ap-
proximately three fifths of overall
army supply requirements for 1943.
Patterson said statistics for June
include aircraft. In May, although
other production was below sched-
ule, aircraft output increased.
Large increases in production
must be made during the coming
six months if army requirements
for 1943 are to be met" Patterson
said. "It Is evident from examina-
ton of production totals for the
half year period that hard job
lies ahead. The carrying out of
this timetable is vital to the defeat
of our enemies"
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Production Board official fly here
from Washington to probe the
shortage of farm equipment.
Sen. Downey was accompanied to
Ell Centre by Army and Navy Off
cials who were serving under him
as a farm subcommittee of the
Military Affairs Committee of the
U. S. Senate.
Half a dozen. valley farmers and
implement dealers testified that
production in the area would fall
sharply unless number of large
tractors were made available to
growers. Rudolph Miller, head of the
county U. S. Department of Agri-
culture War Bo<rd, conducted the
hearing and called witnesses.
Elmer Hartzog, chief engineer for
the Imperial Irrigation district, and
Harry Maddox, business manager
of that organization, presented evi-
dence in support of their applica-
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BRITISH 9TH Army APPROACHING CATAN|A
1ST SMUGGLERS

First of the alleged liquor SNUG
glers born of the wartime liquor
shortage in the United States were
arrested at the Calexico port of
entry Thursday with Sc pints of
liquor from Mexico
Staff Sergeant James MCGEE and
Corporal Freddie Smith, Negro
soldiers from Camp Lockett, were
caught at the port with the liquor
in an automobile, officials said, and
were charged with smuggling.
They were scheduled to be ar
ranged before United States Com
missioner Dorsey WhitelaW in Ell
Cetro on Thursday afternoon.
Port inspectors found the liquor
when they made a routine check OF
the automobile when it entered the
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DELINQUENCY
DRIVE PLANNED

"far greater value than just one
committee operating out of the
state war council"
Meanwhile, Assemblyman Lorne
d. Middough of Los Angeles, chair
man of an interim committee in
vestigating juvenile delinquency,
urged an appeal to the federal gov
ernment for funds to help combat
the problem.
He said his committee will
sponsor such request at the eX-
pected special session of the legis-
lature, asking for funds which
would be matched by the state.
Middough said he had found de-
linquency very acute in Cali
forria, probably worse than in any
other state except New York.
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eastern plateau between Syracuse
and Gla was in Allied handS.)
The capture of another airdrome
by the American forces raised to
six the number that they have seiz-
ed since the start of the invasion
five days ago. Some already are
being used by Allied fighters.
Ranging far ahead of advancing
ground forces, Allied planes from
both the northwest African and
Middle Eastern command were pull
verizing enemy bases and troop
concentrations with more than 200
Continued on Page 8, Col. q
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SACRAMENTO, July Is (UP) -
Attorney General Robert w. Kenny
said today that he had recon-
mended TO Gov. Earl Warren the
appointment of a statewide COM
mittee to dovetail and direct the
work of other state and local
agencies in campaign against
juvenile delinquency.
He said the main groups func-
ton would be to eliminate friction
and overlapping of effort, but not
to interfere with existing organiza-
tionS which have already made
headWay toward solving the
problem.
Kenny said he agreed with War
rem that such a plan might be OF
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Fl Centre Girl
Dies in Accident

KINGSBURG, CAL. July 15.-
(UP)-Miss Dorothy Meadows, II
Ell Centre. was killed last night on
the Golden State highway when a
tire on her car blew out, causing
the automobile to overturn.
James Mainard, 81, also Ell Gen.
tro, who was asleep on the back
seat, was treated for minor injuries
at the local hospital Miss Meadows
and Mainard were members of a
crew accompanying a box-making
machine from Ell Centre to Fresno.
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Spend Honeymoon
At Ration Board

SAN DIEGO, Cal, July Is.
(UP)-PFC Wallace Peterson,
stationed at the Marine Corps
base here, was married Tuesday
night to Miss Helen Lecher OF
San Diego. Yesterday he had
liberty for a One-day honey
moon, but his bride, a ration
board clerk, was right in the
middle of the A gas ration re-
newal.
Appointing himself One-man
task force, Peterson advanced
upon the ration board office,
signed up as One-day vOlun-
teer and together with his wife
accounted for 500 of the books.
Today with the honeymoon
over PFC Peterson was back on
duty at the Marine base.
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planes up to July 13, including 101
June 30th.
The American losses 'were not
announced but apparently were be-
tween 25 and 80.
The Japanese by massing avail
able air forces in the south and
southwest Pacific probably could
attain quantitative superiority at
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-15
CASUALTIES LESS IN SICILY
THAN EXPECTED-PATTERSON

WASHINGTON. July Is (UP)
The conquest of Sicily has pro-
ceeded far more rapidly than the
Allies had expected and casual
ties are far less than anticipated,
Acting Secretary of War Robert
p. Patterson declared today.
"Thus far Allied forces have
overcome all resistance without
difficulty" he said.
However, Patterson warned that
hard fighting was in prospect
against Axis forces numbering
upwards of 800 900 which can
stubb0rnly defend positions in the
northern part of Sicily. Axis de-
tenders include about 10000 Ger
mans.
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moved that Fire Commissioner P,
L. Moore accompany Fire Chief c..
S. Reed to the parley and that the
expenses of both delegates be paid
by the city. 4..
A tense atmosphere developed
around the council table as the
minutes clicked away and no sec
ond to the motion was offered
Councilmen Wesley He'll and Char
les Bratton cast coy looks at each
other but remained verbally quiet
Only other councilman (aside from
Mayor r. w. Hatton) who could
have seconded the motion was the
intended delegate himself-Pren
Moore. He too chose to remain mum.
Finally Mayor Hatton seconded the
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:munlque announced today.
During the last "a hours, ground
forces have made considerable gains
under the command of the 18th
army group" the communique said.
Informants in London placed the
British Eighth army only Is miles
south of Catania and the Americans
in the neighborhood of Agrigento,
on the south Sicilian coast, with
the capture of both towns believed
imminent. They said there was rea-
son to believe that the entire SOUTH
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any given time and place but such
efforts would be costly. Japanese
losses in the last two weeks have
been considered too costly for the
results obtained, the spokesman said.
He said that there was no sign
that the enemy had been able to
reinforce his troops at Besieged
Munda, on New Georgia island.