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Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18
Whiriwinds Blast
Axis Shipping and
French Positions

LONDON, June 18 (UP'- British
fighter and medium bombers blasted
and strafed an airfield. railroad
targets. barges and motor torpedo
boat in an offensive to disrupt Nazi
communication in northern France
last night while a German raider
touched off a spectacular fire that
partly demolished London post
office.
A German broadcast reported that
Allied aircraft were over Germany
last night, but gave no details.
A German communique described
the planes as nuisance" raiders.
No bombings were reported, it said
Whirlwind bombers maintained
the regular delivery Of bombs" on
Poix airfield, near Amiens, the air
ministry said. One of the bomberS,
which attacked from low level, ma
chine-gunned hangers after drop
ping bombs in the middle of a
runway.
Whirlwinds Ttyphoons and Mos
quitOeS teamed in attacks on rail-
road targets and barges. A Mos
quito pilot reported that his attack
set off explosions on two trains,
possibly from ammunition. Similar
explosions were observed at 81
track k-side shed
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18
DOING A PUBLIC SERVICE
Nevada State JournaD

Nevada State JOurnaD
What ordinarily would have been moth
ing but local incident in a Maryland
community has become of national inter
est and also important because a Mary
land state official did some chiseling,
then tried to bluff a small town news
paper editor and wound up very much
in disrepute
The state controller of Maryland, who
evidently thought gasoline rationing was
for the other fellow and that his politi
cal Importance entitled him to special
privileges took a 1600-mile trip in a state
car to attend the wedding of his son in
Georgia. He took his entire family along
and claimed that the trip had been APP
proved by the clerk of the rationing
board in his home community.
The editor of weekly newspaper in
Somerset. Maryland, called attention to
the action of politically powerful state
official and was promptly charged with
criminal libel by the controller and was
arrested. He furnished bailsand in the
next issue of his newspaper. which is a
small publication he related further de
tails of the violation by the state official
of the ban on pleasure driving.
Whether it wanted to or not the Incl
dent created such an uproar that the re-
ElO0d1 VI "A OlIlCe WAS lOTCeu 10 ldkc
notice and ordered public hearing. The
state controller backed away in a hurry.
admitted his guilt and requested the
OPA dispense with the hearing. The re-
gional OPA attorney recommended that
the controller be deprived of any gasoline
for personal use for substantial period
and that a part of his official ration be
suspended for the duration of the war
or until gasoline rationlng is abandoned
entirely.
The libel charges against the editor
are still pending but they will be dis
missed, no doubt, because of the absence
of complaining witness in the person
of the state controller, who will gladly
walk from now on if the whole affair
can be forgotten.
The incident is important because it
serves as a warning to those who think
their station in life entities them to spe-
cial consideration and it demonstrates
again that freedom of the press is some
thing that all patriotic American should
cherish and prOtect
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18

broadcaSts have reported large
American detachmentS also are in
he middle east. but there has been
no Allied confirmation of this.
KEEPS SPY HEADQUARTERS
Germany is known to maintain
espionage headquarters near the
Turkish Syrian frontier for the sole
purpose of keeping a watchfA eye
on Allied troop movements in the
middle east. Their field agents, in
Guiding dissident Syrian elements,
slip back and forth across the FROM
tier
Meantime. European advices said
INVASION jittery Italy, as well as
Germany itself, was taking steps to
stamp out the possibility of a peace
coup provoked by Allied air raids
or invasion.
Premier Benito Mussolini was said
to be purging his army, the Italian
government and the Fascist party
of all anti-War elements and mus
tering an army of personal body
guards ready to shoot at the
? slightest provocation"
Radio London relayed a Swedish
report that Germany is training
special detachments of storm troops
for street fighting on the home
front to put down any revolt
against Nazi rule.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18
RAID SICILY

can Italian cOmmunique, broad
cast by Radio Rome, said that AL
lied planes yesterday raided local
tiles in Sicily and southern Italy
as well as the "Vesuvius area, in
Guiding Pompeii." The later refer
ence presumably was to the Brit
ish raid on NaplesD
Formations of four-engined bomb.
ers from the 9th U. S. air force re-
ported direct hits on hangar at
the northern end of the airdrome
at Comiso, on workshops to the
south and runway to the east
Dispersal areas also were covered
with bomb bursts.
At BlScari, the bOmbers dumped
their explosive cargoes on the north
eastern and northwestern airfields.
British long g-range fighters yes
terday damaged sailing vessel off
Delos Island in the Aegean sea with
many cannon shells and machine
gun bullets.
A three-engined Italian bomber
was shot down b. a long range
fighter off Cyprus Wednesday night
and the crew later was seen in the
water.
From these and other operations
all Allied aircraft returned safely"
the communique said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18

it was claimed.
Tic shift of Nazi attention to the
Eastern Mediterranean followed a
series of enemy broadcasts that Al
lied ships, landing barges, thou
sands of airplanes, and hugh
army maSsing in North Africa for
an attack on Sicily or the Italian
main land. Except for an Italian
report that Axis air attack on
these concentrations continued the
Sicilian three ~a6 not emphasized
today.
S--GWS CONCERN
The ANS was. however. still
showing concern about Turkeys fu-
ture position. asserting that both
Vichy and Ankara had officially de-
MED reports of a break in rela-
tions as result of GeStapo seiz-
ure of Turkish diplomatic pouches
at the French-Swiss border.
The Nazis also publicized Ru-
manian denial that peace feelers
had been put out by Bucharest.
CRadio Moscow quoted Bern
quarters today as saying that Ger
man authorities had closed the
Brenner Pass between Germany and
Italy to all traffic. The broadcast,
reported by us. government mon
itors, speculated that the action
might have been made in prepara-
ton for the evacuation from Italy
of industrial equipment, capital
and other valuables."
The ban on travel between Syria
and Turkey was lifted at 6 am
Thursday. it was disclosed. and the
Taurus express, an international
train from Syria and Iraq, was ex-
pected to arrive in Ankara Saturday
morning, two days behind sched-
ule
Both the British Ninth ano
Tenth armies are in the middle
east and presumably would partici-
pate in any invasion of Axis-helo
Crete or the Dodecanese islands
stepping-stones to Greece. Axis
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18
THE RIGHT WORD

Marysville Appeal-Democrat
In a time of such gravity we all may
hope that there is something more wor-
thy behind the talk of transferring Lit.
Gen. John L. Dewitt from the western
defense than his attitude on the question
of readmitting japanese to the west
coast. 1t is we'll known that the general
has strenuously opposed such plan In
that he is only adding his own voice to
the consensus of Pacific coast residents.
For the time being the War department
will do well to get on with the war and
let other still-important influences con-
troll the quality of state populations. At
best the problem of japanese readmis-
sion is one to come through victory over
the enemy in the Pacific.
Gen. DeWitt's record as a soldier and
his understanding that this is a peoples
war rather than exclusively a game for
the War department, suggests belief in
the sincerity of Secretary of War Stim.
son when he says the story of the gen
erals removal because of a difference OF
opinion on the japanese question is mon
sense"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18
Sicily, Southern
Feel Fury
OF Allied Bornbinq

CAIRO, June 19. UP)-AmeriCan
heavy bombers from the Middle
Eastern command took over the
daylight offensive against Sicily
Yesterday, dropping tons of bombs
on the important Comiso and Bis
carl airdromes, a communique an
nounced today.
tThe daylight attacks followed
q raid Wednesday night by British
wellington bombers from the north
west African air forces on the docks
at Naples, Italy's main supply port
for Sardinia. Daylight operations
of the northwest African air forces
Yesterday were confined to routine
patrols
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18
STRINGENT BUT
NECESSARY

The War Manpower Commissions
availability plan which is going into eff
feet here, and which is part of the federal
plan to freeze wages and employment
may not meet with everyone's approval,
especially the approval of those en-
ployes whom it will directly effect. But
it deserves everyone's full cooperation.
1t will limit the freedom of individuals
to move from one job to another. And
the mere restriction OF movement may
create desire to move where otherwise
no such desire might exist
Those affected by the plan should be
broad-minded enough to consider several
very vital facts.
Private enterprise is having hard
time existing Yet it will evolve upon
private enterprise to maintain the ma
tion during and after the war. One of
the greatest economic difficulties is the
inefficiencies created by constant move
ment of workers. The more workers
move, the harder time concerns will have
in maintaining operation.
Essential industries are the businesses
chiefly affected by the plan. They are
termed essential because their contribu
ton to the war effort is of outstanding
importance. Inc worker may not llke
the rule governing him, but employers
are even worse handicapped by countless
regulations. Rules governing employees
are child's play compared to rules gov
erning the employers.
Initiation will effect workers more Sc
riously than anybody else and this is an
essential part of the program to battle
initiation. Whether the program in its
vastness is right or wrong is for all to
decide, but we have that program whether
or no, and each must do his part and sub
nit to his share of the rules, to give it
the best chance of success.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18
Greek GueriI! as Said Now
To Control Entire Area

LONDON. June 18. UP)-Ger-
man propagandists. seeking clue
to Allied invasion plans, shifted
attention to the Eastern Mediter-
ranean today where Greek sources
reported that guerillas had ignored
Nazi ultimatutn to lay down their
arms and had seized Almost all of
the province of Tnecsclly, in East
ern Greece.
The Greek claims Of rtr guerilla
successes conceded with German
TranS-Ocean agency broadcast spec
ulating on why. British attention
was being centered more and more
on the Eastern Mediterranean.
POINTS TO OFFENSIVE
The dispatch quoted Swedish cor
respondents or Stockholm sources
and added: Everything now is
pointing to a coming Balkan often
sive in An attempt to conquer Crete
and the Dodecanese Gtalian is
lands"
Greek sources said that guerilla
forces in Thessaly, which lies north
west of the Dodecanese invasion
path to Eastern Europe, had ignored
a German ultimatum to lay down
arms last month and the guerillas
were interrupting Axis operations
For the first time, they asserted.
the guerillas control the plains as
we'll as the mountains of Thes-
sally.
Their grip is so strong that any
person passing from one side of the
province to the other Must have a
special permit from the guerillas,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF CALL FOR REDEMP-
TION OF BONDS OF IMPERIAL
IRRIGATION DISTRICT

NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN
that pursuant to law and the pro-
Ceedings of the Board of Directors
of Imperial Irrigation District, all
OF the bonds of Imperial Irrigation
District subject to the Plan of
Composition confirmed by the Unit
ed States District Court for the
Southern District of California No.
1912, dncluding all unpaid bonds
Of the District of it's First Issue,
dated January 1. 1915. and its sec
ond Issue dated July 1, 1917, and
its Third Issue, dated October |.
1919, and its Fourth Issue, dated
July l. 1922. not heretofore ex-
changed for bonds of the First Re-
funding Issue of the District. but
including unpaid bonds of any of
said first four issues which may
be hereafter exchanged for bonds Of
the District of it's First Refunding
Issue. all of which are subject to
said Plan of Composition. and in
cluding all unpaid bonds of the
District of its First Refunding Is
sue', consisting of $13315, 900 prin-
cipal amount of bonds, are hereby
called for redemption on July |,
1943. and will be paid on said date
at the par value thereof and ac-'
crued interest thereon to said date
at the coupon rate specified there
in as provided in said Plan of Com
position.
The holders of said bonds here
inabove described are further noti-
fled to present the same for re-
demption and payment on July /,
1943, at the office of the Treasurer
of Imperial Irrigation District, in
Ell Centro, Imperial County, Cali
fornia. If any of said bonds here
inabove described are not presented
for payment on July l, 1943, in
terest on all such bonds will cease
from and after said date.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT.
ANNA y. McMANUS.
Treasurer of said District.
Dated May %, 1943.
! mo. TO M28-J4-11-t8)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18
laps Claim, u. s.
Lost & Planes
BY UNITED PRESS

Japanese planes sank seven Al
lied transports and a destroyer and
shot down 80 planes off Guadalca-
nal Wednesday, losing 20 of their
own aircraft. Tokyo said Friday in
apparently reporting the same bat
tie which Washington revealed cost
the enemy " bombers and fighters.
The Tokyo broadcast of the Jap
aneSe communiqUe was preceded by
the playing of navy march used
to herald major naval victories.
Admission that 20 Japanese
planes failed TO reach base was an
unusually high rate of loss for To-
kyo to reveal. The customary Jap
anese claims put Allied losses at
about 10 to one.
The Washington report of the
battle said IS zeroS and 80 bombers
were shot down in the engagement
with a loss of only six American
planes.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18


Mikhail Galaktionov. writing in
the new review, War and the Work
ing Glass. reported indications that
the German army is contemplating
seriously abandoning its bank
rupted bltzkrieg strategy" to pre-
pare for a long, drawn-out position
al campaign as result of its failure
to defeat either Britain or Russia.
REDS ESTABLISHED
LAS result of its winter cam
paign," Galaktionov wrote. "the Red
army is established in favorable
positions on all decisive sectors of
the front The Red army is steadi-
ly growing stronger and is ready
to renew mighty blows such as last
winter shook Germany to its foun-
dationS."
Germany'S position now was lik-
ened by Galaktionov to that of 1915
with this differenCe-in the east
the Germans are facing a powerful
Soviet Russia; Britain has not yet
thrown in all its forces, and United
States production already is at a
higher level than toward the end
of the last war"
He warned, however, that only
new mighty blows from the east
and west on Germany itself will
knock Germany out OF the war.
Principal fighting on the Russian
front centered on the Mtsensk sec
tor above Orel, where the Germans
were throwing fresh reinforcements
into battle
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18
POINT THE WAY

Ell Centro's Elks club (Which includes
members from Holtville and 1mperiaD
has pointed the way to bigger and better
things in the way of concentrated sales
of war bonds.
By topping their announced goal of
$4,000 in a 20-day campaign by COM
Portable margin of $125, 900, the Elks have
set pace which other fraternal and SER
vice organizations will have a difficult
time matching.
The clubbers set their sights on med
ium bomber to put in action over Berlin
or Tokyo but by the time they got through
they had sold enough bonds to buy
light bomber also.
The S300,250 in bonds sold represented
actual cash value and not the face value
of the symbolic bits of parchment.
By dividing members into teams and
appointing captains, the officials of the
lodge were able to instill rivalry which
sent totals soaring. 1t was the same
American rivalry which makes members
of Flying Fortress crews do their utmost
to outstrip other bomber crews in plant
ing deadly eggs" on Axis targets.
And the young ladies who gave their
time and effort in the campaign must
not be neglected. Twenty one of them
spent many hours securing the city and
urging prospective buyers to ballot for
them with the votes that the purchase OF
each bond enabled the bond-holder to
cast
There is little doubt that many an un
decided citizen succumbed to patriotic
feeling when pretty smile was flashed.
1t was a game all right-a game which
should be unending and with Tojo al
ways on the losing side
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18
NAZl OPPOSITION TO
CHRISTIANITY GROWS
Ey UNITED PRESS

Articles in Nazi publications in
occupied Europe indicate increasing
opposition to the Catholic church
and Christianity, the Office of War
Information reported Friday.
owl said that European press
dispatches quoted the publication
Storm" issued by the Dutch Nazi
party, as blaming Catholic priests
for an intense" general strike
against a German order making
Dutch soldiers war prisoners.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foiloUing edit
orioIs are presented as interesting Opin-
ions UOiced bg editors eiseUhcre. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18

No government will allow unemploy-
ment. It will step in with public works,
and put great numbers of people on the
federal payroll, and they will tend to
perpetuate themselves there.-C of C..
President Eric Johnston
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 1863 In Probate
NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE OF
HEARING PETITION TO
ESTABLISH RIRTH


IN THE MATTER OF ESTAB-
LISH1NG THE BIRTH OF GUY
TORRANCE WEATHERBIE.
Notice is hereby given that Guy
Torrance Weatherbie has filed in
the above court petition praying
for an order establishing his birth.
Reference to said petition is here
by made for further particulars.
And notice is hereby further
given that the hearing of said petit
ton has been fixed by the Clerk of
said Court for Friday the End day
of July, l943, at 200 pm. of said
day at the Court Room of Depart
ment One of said court at the Court
House in the City of Ell Centre,
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, and all persons interested
are notified then and there to ap-
pear and show cause, if any they
have, why an order should not be
made establishing the birth of Guy
Torrance Weatherbie.
DATED this 18th day Of June,
1943. 'WS m
w. J. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
(SEAL)
BY Dorothy S. Reynolds,
Deputy.
mo. 75) (J16-27 Inc.)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18

We're not fighting this war for the per
petuation of want, misery. hunger and
unemployment think the world can dis
pense with those things permanently.
Ralph NJ Heintz, vice-president Jack
e. Heintz of Cleveland. O.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-18
Reds Hold Firm,
To New Positions

MOSCOW, June 1S. (UP)-Red army troops seized
trenches fortified height in surprise assault
south of Lake linen and held firmly TO river brdgehead
above Ore today prominent Soviet observer reported
signs that the Germans have reached "stragic dead
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L ne Globe IrOtter BY cliff Mackay

ganda might be, but it is also
effective and thus far neither
Churchill nor Roosevelt have dis
turbed themselves to offer count
propaganda program.
BRITISH POSITION STUPID
On the contrary, if reports be
true, Churchill stupidity believes
that the British after the war can
move back to Hongkong, will again
rule Shanghai, that they can re-
fuse to accept China as an equal
partner In the peace negotiations
that the British will continue to
hold our own in India and Africa.
After vehementIy denying
that the Atlantic Charter ap-
piled to the Pacific, the two
great charter makers, Churchill
and Roosevelt, have not yet felt
the growing need of a Pacific
Charter guaranteeing complete
independence to the Asiatic
world.
Failure to mention it during dis
cuSsion of the Chinese exclusion re-
peal, indicates that Mr.. Roosevelt
is perfectly satisfied to continue
discriminatory barriers against the
immigration of any of the world
colored peoples, but carefully Sc
lected handful from China.
NOTHING rs OFFERED
No mention is made of self-de-
termination for the Asiatics, the
Indians and the Africans as has
been pledged for white Europeans.
No program of reconstruction COM
parable to that drawn for the peo-
Piles of Europe has been decided
upon. Nothing is being done to Of
fer these millions of people any
hope that victory would mean
making real to them all of the
noble war aims promised by the
United Nations.
Here is the real weak link in
our Pacific offensive. It can
prove to be a graver political
mistake than was made in North
Africa. One sees here again the
laundering refusal Of America
and Great Britain to c0ura-
geously face the issue Of racial
equality, the basic cause Of all
the world wide discomfort.
Evasion, feeble gestures and
timid pledges are not enough. A
bold fortnight stand rnequivocably
guaranteeing full equality Of oppor-
tHnity- and treatment to all of the
worlds peoples is the answer. Un-
til 1t is Forthcoming, the United
Nations, continue. to add fuel to the
already blazing Japanese propagan-
do fire.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1943-11-06
General Ebolle
Host To Meeting
OF Governors
Capital Chosen
In Recognition
Of His Loyalty
BY CHATWOOD HALL

MOSCOW IA N Pl-- Another
honor is coming to the plack GOV
ernor general of French Equatorial
Africa. Felix Ebou, with the an
nouncement in diplomatic quarters
here that all the governors OF
French African territory have Sc
lected Brazzaville, Eboue's capital,
as the site of a forthcoming general
meeting.
Among the governors who will
attend are those of the French
Congo, French West Africa, De-
honey, Ivory Coast, Algiers terri
tory, French Sudan and other
areas.
Asked why the governors chose
Brazzaville as The site OF The pow
pow, one informant stated that it
was selected because of Monsieur
Eboue's splendid example Of patrio-
tism and resistance TO the Viohy
government.
He aided that it was Ebou's
courage and loyalty to the French
republic and F-ench people which
made Brazzavilie the capital, and
French Equatorial Africa the sole
base the Bree French nave under
General Charles DeGaulle.