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Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
Million German
Civilians Dead

LONDON, Oct. 28. = UP)-A
Zurich dispatch said today that l.
200,036 civilians were killed or re-
ported missing in Allied air raids
on Germany up to Oct. l and other
continental advices told of wide
spread defeatism and dependency
in the Reich.
An exchange telegraph dispatch
from Zurich cited a member of the
German government statistics Of
flee as authority for the air raid
casualties. He said 6,953,000 Ger
mans had been bombed out of their
homes or evacuated.
The Gazette De Lausanne was
quoted by the London Daily Tele-
graph as saving that pessimism and
mistrust have replaced confidence
in victory in Germany, due less to
the unfavorable military develop
ments on the eastern and southern
fronts as to the increasing Allied
air offensive
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
General Strike in
Coal Pits Again
Threatens Nation
Wildcat WalkOuts in 8
States Spread; Lewis
Dislikes WLB Proposal
BY UNITED PRESS

Indications that the Unit
ed Mine Workers will reject
the War Labor Boards for
mula for settling the long
coal wage dispute increased the
threat of general coal strike
Thursday as wildcat walkouts spread
in eight states.
President John L. Lewis OF tine
UNIV termed the formula a wage
reduction" in kilograms to district
presidents of the union. Lewis is
scheduled to meet with the UMWs
2Oo-man policy committee Monday,
presumably to discuss the formula.
The WLB meanwhile considered
turning the miners case over to
the president.
Indications pointed 10 the gov.
ernment seizure of the mines un-
less strikes involving more than
10000 miners are ended shortly.
Under the last order from the UNIV
policy committee, the miners are
supposed to work until Sunday, the
day before the policy committee
meets again.
CRIPPLE PRODUCTION
1t was expected, however, that
wildcat strikes which have crippled
production the past two weeks
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
; Million Men TO
Be Used in West

DENVER, Oct. %. - (UP)-An
estimated 100000 men will be in
need of jobs in the II western irri-
cation states when the clouds of
war are rolled back, commissioner
Harry w. Bashore of the Federal
Bureau of Reclamation today told
the delegates to the 18th annual
convention of the national reclama-
tion association.
That figure represents the num-
ber who will be demobilized from
the armed forces and war indus
tries" in the western region, he
said, and asserted that the reclama-
tion program will cushion the i'm
pact of the transition from a war
to peacetime economy.
Bashore disclosed that the bureau
of reclamation has outlined tenta-
tive plans for an expenditure up to
$3,000,000,000 for the conversion
over period of from to 10 years.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28

of the board. 1t is high noon. At
midnight the night before, I. F. Dix,
Southern California director of the
WPB had arrived in Ell Centre with
100000 rounds of emergency am
munition to aid the long suffering
farmer.
Charles H. H. Small, executive
secretary of the board here, and
Dix, had worked many weary hours
drawing up plans for the individual
allotments. The work was done.
And, with a smile on his tired
countenance. Secretary Small broke
wanted ammunition. They were 30
rifle shells!
But, where are the shotgun
shells, Mr.. Dix? asked Small in
feeble voice.
What shotgun shells? demanded
the irritated Dix.
"W-h-y, s-shotgun shells, to shoot
ducks, weaklT suffered Mr.. Small.
Il didn't bring any. What differ
ence does it make? These are shells,
amt they? You said you wanted
shells and here l am with them"
righteously declared Mr.. Dix.
Mr. Small sighed.
But the WPB will always find
way-the good old WPB is always
op the job.
So, for the time being, rifle shells
it will be, they determined.
So now comes a, new technique
in ridding fields of blackbirds and
Continued on page 2, col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
Turkeys Unfrozen
In Imperial Valley

The order freezing turkeys for
the military buyers was relaxed
this week and growers may sell
their birds to whom and where they
wish, Assistant Farm Advisor H.
Lee Landerman said Thursday
All the turkeys needed by the
military have been purchased and
the remainder may be sold to
civilians.
Il advise valley turkey growers to
hold back their best birds for
breeders" Landerman said, and
then take all the orders they can
fill for the holiday trade. Growers
should make certain they are get
ting the best prices possible for
their turkeys"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
Committee Turns
Down Sales Tax

WASHINGTON, Oct. -CUP)-
TIL house ways and means commit
tee today rejected proposals for a
national retail sales tax.
According to chairman Robert L..
Doughton, the committee settled the
long-fought issued by voting down
motion by Rep. A. Willis Robert
son, D., Va, to impose 10 per
cent modified sales levy for the
duration of the war.
This eliminates the possibility Of
a sales tax of any kind in the rev.
enue bill which we will report to the
house" Doughton said
The action practically assured
that the committee will send to the
house a $2,000,000,000 program of
excise and excess profits taxes in
lieu of the administration request
for $lO,500O00,0OO program of in
come, excise and estate levies.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28

The thrust into the northern Sol
onions, if confirmed, would all but
outflank Buin-Faisi, which lies at
the southern tip of Bougainyille is
land, and constitute the opening
wedge in drive to open the eastern
flank of acknowledgements Pearl
Harbor of the south Pacific
An Imperial Japanese headquar-
ters communique broadcast by To-
kyo radio and heard by government
monitors in New York said the
allied forces landed on Mono, in
the Treasury group, early Wednes-
day morning. Japanese naval air.
craft attacked the allied convoy,
sinking one warship and damaging
another, it said.
NO CONFIRMATION
There was no immediate confir-
nation from Allied sources, but
Thursdays communique from Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's headquarters
revealed that Allied airmen dropped
500 tons of explosives on Bougain-
vile and the Treasur- islands in
a four-day attack that may have
been intended to soften the enemy's
defenses for an amphibious assault.
The Japanese were known to have
had artillery and probably small
garrison in the Treasury group,
of which Mono is the largest island.
MacArthur's forces on New Gui-
nea have been closing the western
arm of the allied pincers around
Rabaul with drive up the north
east coast of the island to Finsch-
hafen-70 miles from the western
tip of New Britain.
The Allied bombing offensive OH
the Buin-Faisi sector began last
Friday. B. Monday, the big Kahili,
Kara and Ballale airdromeS on
southern Bougainville apparently
had been knocked out and the AL
Continued on page 2, col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28

Despite stiffening German re-
sistance, which slowed down the
general movement against the Mon
dragone-Vasto line, the United
States troops sliced forward a mile
east of the main road to Rome and
captured Riardo. In the Apennine
and Adriatic sectors, the Eighth
army drove toward the key junction
of Isernia at the center and forced
further crossings on the Trigno
river.
PROGRESS SATISFACTORY
Allied progress was described Of
ficially as satisfactory" but spokes-
men warned that with the Germans
digging in on the little Rommel'
line, the fighting from now on
could be expected to be increasingly
bitter.
Riardo is above Franchise and
in front of the Mount Massico Sec
tor of the line. To capture it, Amer
ican troops beat down stiff Ger
man opposition aimed at Tending
off the approach to their vital posi-
tions. f-si
The British likewise fought fur
iously for Torella, mountain village
in the central sector before Isernia,
and eight miles northeast of Cam
pobasso.
Torella commanded the salient
which the Eighth army hacked out
of the German positions. With it
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
Nations Cooperate
To Save Cotton in
MexicaIi Valley
U. S., Mexico Join in
Solving Labor Problem
Below the Border

Officials and farmers of
the United States and Mexi-
co cooperated this week in
getting sufficient labor to
harvest the bumper cotton
crop in the Mexicali Valley, Farm
Labor Director George Carrigues
said Thursday.
Those on the United States side
of the international border refused
to hire Mexicans who have no pass
ports SO that they would go back
to Mexico and help harvest the
cotton crop.
SURPLUS is MYTH
Because of the continued warm
weather this fall" Garrigues said,
labor demands on the American
side have not been up to normal
The reported labor surplus in I'M
perial VALLEY, however, proved to
be a myth and farmers are having
difficulty in getting a sufficient
number of lettuce trimmers.
we believe that it is important
Continued on page 2, col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
New Print Enters
Into Island Case

NASSAU, Bahamas, Oct 28-
(UP)-A second fingerprint was
admitted as evidence today against
Alfred De Marigny on trial for the
murder of Sir Harry Oakes, but de-
fense attorneys Immediately began
attacking discrepancy in the
testimony of the fingerprint ex-
pert who introduced it,
The witness, Capt. James o.
Barker of the Miami (Fla) police
Identification bureaus, admitted un-
der cross-eXamination that the
print, allegedly removed from a
screen in the room in which Cakes
were murdered, was not taken from
the area of the screen which he had
previously specified in a prelimin-
ary hearing.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
US. Air Losses in
Europe Under Five
Per Cent AVERAGE
Stims0n Declares Great
Britain's Losses Also
At Very Small Figure

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.
(UP)-Despite heavy losses
in some raids, American air
plane losses in the European
theater have averaged less
than five per cent on each mission,
Secretary of War Henry l.. Slim
son said today. '''7 '',-'
The five per cent, Stimson said,
covers all American fighter and
bomber operations since the Eighth
air force went into action in 1912.
British losses also are running
below five per cent on an overall
basis, he said.
Stimson said a final evaluation
of enemy losses in the Oct. Ia raid
on SchWeinfurt, in which the Amer
leans lost 60 heavy bomberS, indi-
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
British UnduIy
SenSitive-SoIon

Tending their right to discuss war
matters, Russell repeated his report
in open session today, "to clear the
atmosphere and make plain my
own views"
He showed resentment at British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
for commenting in the house of
commons about advice from
abroad" and criticized indirectly
British press caricatures of the five
senators. The British cartoon de-
picted the five senators as monkeys
says Il saw no good, I heard no
good, I said no good, / meant no
good, I'm up to no good"
COVERS POINTS
In what he described as las close
as possible" repetition of his re.
port at the secret session, Russell
covered virtually the same points
attributed to him in press reports
at the time. These included
charges that the British were using
U. S, lend-lease goods to build
British good will" abroad. Rus
sell said he doubted that recipients
were always aware of the fact thai
the United States was the true
benefactor."
His open report" covered his
criticism of the British press as
failing to give the United States
full credit for its share in the war
effort, and criticism of over-use of
American petroleum reserves as
compared with reserves of the
British.
Russell also urged the need of
America obtaining postwar avia-
tion rights, including rights in Ice
land, Dakar, and in New Caledonia
in the southeast Pacific particularly
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28

who escaped from the Trinidad
camp about three weeks ago. He
was captured near Las Vegas. N.
NJ, and the snapshots were appro-
priated by the sheriff.
1t was disclosed that groups OF
prisoners have been working in the
fields east Of Trinidad near the
homes of the japanese families.
They were understood TO have been
kept under heavy guard during
their work.
The director of the war Intern
ment camp earlier had described as
greatly exaggerated" the published
reports OF romance.
(The FBI In Denver confirmed
that an investigation was under
way)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
Needed Aircraft
Workers Deferred

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 up
Mobilization Director James F.
Byrnes announced today that
"the selective service system is
arranging to defer, and will defer
all necessary workers in West
Coast airplane plants, including
their production subcOntractOrs."
Byrnes explained that the work
ers on the West Coast aircraft
factories would be divided into
two classes:
81. Those currently fireplace
able, and
"2. Those currently replace
able"
The irreplaceable workers ARE
deferred for period OF SIX
months" and will be eligible for
additional deferment If they re-
main irreplaceabie to production,
Byrnes explained.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28

the agencies included in the drive
is United China Relief
Still another organization en-
dorsing the combined Community
and War Chest campaign is the
Catholic church which has urged
it's members to unite in support of
this appeal.
The campaign in Ell Centre will
open officially on Nov. 8: in Braw-
ley, on Nov. 4, and in Holtville,
Nov. 10. Other communities will
announce their campaign dates in
the near future.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
GERMANS RETREAT IN WILD DISORDER
Macarthur Won't
Be Retired at a.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.-(UP)
Secretary of War Henry l..
StimsOn today said he knew of
no plans whatever for the re-
tirement" of Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur, commander of Allied
forces i'm the southwest Pacific
despite the general policy of re-
firing officers who pass the statu-
tory retirement age.
Macarthur will be GA years
Old-the statutory retirement age
for Officers of his rank-neXt Jan.
26.
Asked if Macarthur could vOlun-
tarily retire on that date, StimsOn
said that during wartime he is
prevented from doing so unless
granted special permission.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28

WASHINGTON. Oct. % (UP) =
Sen. Richard B. Russell, D., Ga,
told the senate today that ''our
British Allies have become unduly
sensitive" in taking offenses over
his report on a tour of the world
this summer.
Russell was chairman of COM
mittee of five senator's who visited
war fronts and reported their find
ings to a closed session of the
senate three weeks ago. Besides de-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28

Wherever Interviewed, district
'employes have been enthusiastic in
their support of this combined ap-
peal for funds to aid the nations
Fighting men, the agencies on the
home front and the starving chill
'dren of the allied nations, some 26
agencies being included in this
campaign.
Other groups which have lent
their support to the campaign in
clude the committees which have
been organized among the Chinese
residents of the valley, for among
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28

HNiilS III IillS dlcd.
Five Japanese women, members
of families allowed to move here
from the Amache, Colo, war relo-
cation center, were being held in
Las Animas county Jail for ques-
tioning in connection with their
associations with the Nazi war pris-
oners.
The inquiry was started after a
Denver newspaper carried reports
of romance between the girls and
the war prisoners, and printed
snapshots showing a tall Nazi kiss
ing and embracing a Japanese girl
and another showing a prisoner
standing beside an automobile with
his arm around Japanese girl.
The pictur'S were found on a
prisoner, Cop. Heinrich Halder
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
Entire Group to
Support Drive

Imperial Irrigation district employees, will unit,
participate 100 cent in the Community War Chest cam
paign according to plans worked out by Evan T. Hewes
chairman of the district board of directors and Warren
Currier. county chairman for the drive.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
Nozis. Jap Gals
In U.S.. Spoon

TRINIDAD, Colo, Oct %. (UP)-The Federal Bureau
of Investigation and military authorities today continued
investigation into reports that German prisoners
at the ntenment camp here had sufficient freedom tina
they able to meet and spoon" with Japanese girls
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
Allies Capture 8
Additional owns
In Italy Fighting
Americans, British Drive Wedges into
Maxi Defenses Before New Line; -Four
Miles Is Lonoes+ Gain Made on Front

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Algiers Oct. %. (UP)-
Americans of the Fifth army and the British their
right drove sharp wedges into the swayng German de-
fenses Italy yesterday in advances to four miles
whcih eight towns in front of the Naz battle
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
THE BEST SHOTS
WPB Thinks |. V. Has 'em

Imperial Valley has the best>marksmen in the world
At least that could be the inference drawn from the
WPBs widely pubiczed allotment of shells to farmers
for the eradication Of crop destroying birds.
The setting of this little is in the Ell Centre office
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
D AMsL'Ne
~ EpORTER

The Starr
Ladies and Gentlemen, we take
great pleasure in introducing the
star of the present duck season.
None other than Massey Horton
himself.
Massey was hunting ducks early
one morning with John kepley,
Paul Jenkins, and Earle Davis.
Six ducks flew by Massey.
Massey fired one shot.
Three of the ducks fell.
Excitement knew no bounds. Mas
sey was reduced to a state OF glbber-
ing glee. The other members OF tne
party were awed. Imagine that,
Massey on the beam.
How did you do it? What have
YOU been drinking?" the three wit
nesses whispered.
Just good old irrigation ditch
water" Masse; said, sticking out
his chest (the upper one) and
strutting. They all secretly resolved
to stick to ditch water hereafter.
That same night Massey had re-
covered somewhat. At any rate he
had recovered sufficiently to go
hunting again. This time he went
with Kepley, Ben Herring, and
Wade Ramsey. The reached their
favorite pond and, since they con-
sidered Massey the greatest marks
man of all time, stood back SO
Massey could get his gun out of the
car first.
He had forgotten to bring it!
Massey insists he did not intend
to capture the ducks with his bare
hands but didn't take his gun be-
cause he didn't want to embarrass
the other hunters.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
Allies Make Stab
At RubuuI, Radio
Tokyo Announces
Enemy Declares US Troops Have Made
Landing on Island in Soomons. Trying
To Ou+f|ank Great Naval S+ronohoId
By UNITED PRESS :

Allied amphibous forces have landed Mono island
only 80 miles southwest of the BUN Faisi base
last major Japanese stronghold in the Solomon islands,
Radio Tokyo said Thursday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
Million Germans
MoyFoce Death
In South Ukraine
Cossacks Storm Across S+eppes in Drive
To Cut Off Crimea. EncircIe All Enemy
Troops in Dnieper Bulge: Nazis Panicky

LONDON Oct. 49, UP)-The acknowledged today
that German
fighting MetopO, high command ad re-
a
MOSCOW, Oct. %. (UP)-Battered German forces
broke and fled in wild disorder along 90me front today
powerful Cossack armored units the No
gaisk steppes prOnged drive off the Crmea
and complete the encrclement of the Dnieper bulge
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
Not So Dangerous

Not So Dangerous
A Negro wanted a divorce from
his wife. In Imperial county super
ior court he told a pitiful story.
He declared his wife kept sticking
him with a knife and that he had
TO sleep in his car to keep her from
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-28
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday 80, minimum
Thurs. 81: s am. Thurs. Ga, humid
ity AZ; noon Thurs. IS, humidity 30;
S pm. Wednesday 81, humidity 35.
Evening star., 1943-09-08
\XE:'f \X2:; :: e. 5:
"
MOONLIGHT HIKE,

Wanderbirds' Hiking Club from
Sycamore Station to Cabin John,
Md, meet at Sycamore Station (stop
80 of Cabin John carline), at s
o'clock tonight
RECREATION.
Walsh Club for War Workers, 4
pm. to IL o'clock tonight. Rhumba,
tango and conga dance class, $50
O'Clock tonight.
FOR MEN IN THE SERVICE.
Stage Door Canteen, Belasco The
ater, tonight: Fort Washington
Dance Band, Betty Baum and the
4th Army Service Forces Band from
the Army Medical Center.
Tickets 80 shows and sports events,
THE Hut" E street at Pennsylvania
avenue NV, pm. to $50 o'clock
tonight.
Pepsi-Cola Center, $50 am. today
to 1890 am. tomorrow. First three
floors open to servieeW omen.
Masonic Service Center, pm. to
II O'Clock tonight. Dance, $50
o'clock tonight.
OIuCerS.
Officers Club of the United Ma
tions, Burlington Hotel, 10 am. to
1890 o'clock tonight. Introductory
cards to entertainment.
Dance, officers Club of Washing
ton, 8:15 o'clock tonight.
Servicemen.
Tennis, games, Roosevelt Center,
5 pm. today.
Tennis, Mcfarland Center, S pm.
today.
NBadminton, Sixteenth and Colo
Evening star., 1943-09-08
District Army Officer
Among Four Awarded
Medals for Services

Four Army officers were given
awards yesterday for exceptional
services. They were 1t. Gen. Hugh
| A. Drum, commander of the 1st
| Army, with headquarters at New
| YORK; Maj. Gen. Orlando Ward,
Macon, Mo-; 1t. Col Benjamin B.
Cain, Washington, and Capt. John
w. Carpenter, Sd. of Binghamton,
N. Y.
Col. Cain, As, of 1920 Thirtieth
street NV, and Capt. Carpenter
were awarded the Air Medal for
meritorious achievement while par
ticipating in flight over Tonoloi
Harbor, Solomon Islands, on Octo-
Der 80, 1912" Despite bad visibility
and intense antiaircraft fire their
bomber sank an enemy battleship.
Gen. Drum was presented an Oak
Leaf cluster to the Distinguished
Service Medal by Secretary of War
Stimson. His leadership, judgment,
and high professional attainments'
as commander of the 1st Army were
noted in the citation for the award.
Gen. Ward received the Distin-
guished Service Cross from 1t. Gen
Lesley McNair for extraordinary
herois.n in action in Tunisia." The
award took place at ceremony at
Ground Forces Headquarters in
Tunisia.
In order to obtain personal knowl-
edge of the combat operations and
enemy defense measures, the award
said, Gen. Ward coined an infantry
battalion in a night attack, and di-
rected their attack throughout the
night, despite face wounds inflicted
by direct enemy fire"
Col Cain came to Washington
from Texas, where he attended the
University of Texas and was asso-
ciated with his father in the Short
Line Railroad Association. He also
practiced law. He served with the
Texas National Guard and the Army
in the last war, returning to active
service as captain in June, 1941,
in the Army Air Force Intelligence
Division He left Washington for
foreign duty in October. 1941. He
became a major in March, 1912, and
was raised to his present rank last
C~tober. 1
Evening star., 1943-09-08

RADIO avenue NV, $50 o'clock to-
night.
Square dance and bridge class,
Central Center, 7::30 O'Clock tonight.
'Ping-pong. NE, USO, Sixth and
Maryland avenue NE, 7 o'clock to-
night.
Spanish, 7:3O o'clock tonight,
community sing, o'clock; NE. USO,
1912 North Capitol street.
Amateur camera and movie guild,
NCCS (USO), 926 G street NV,
7:30 O'Clock tonight.
Dances, Servicemen's Club No. !
Jewish Community Center tUSo)
8 o'clock tonight.
Song fest" dancing, YMCA
(USO), $50 O'Clock tonight
Square dance, symphonic hour
Evening star., 1943-09-08
Governor Of Mississippi
Orders Job Registration
BY the Associated Press.

toF IKE hhSUCldtEu FIeSSs
JACKSON, Miss, Sept. 8.-Gov.
Paul johnson has issued an execu-
tive order calling on those not en-
gagged in essential industry in
Mississippi to register with the
United States Employment Service.
and has requested peace officers to
enforce the States vagrancy laws.
"Idleness can not, and will not, be
tolerated while our sons are fighting
and dying for the principles we
hold SO dear and there is need for
food, ships and weapons of war"
the order, issued yesterday, declared.
The State law, as cited in the
order. applies to all persons able to
work who have no visible or known
means of "a fair, honest and
reputable livelihood"
1t mentions specifically tramps,
bootleggers, gamblers, beggars, dealers
in stolen property, prostitutes or
their agents, and persons 16 to 81 not
In school.