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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-07
BY DON CASWELL

GEN. MacARTHURS H E A D =
QUARTERS, Australia, Feb. g.
CAPITALIZED planes, including a
new Dutch squadron, sank or DAM
aged six Japanese ships and started
fires visible 100 miles in a series
of shattering attacks on an 1900
mile front covering the entire Aus
tralian zone, Gen Douglas MacAr-
thur announced today.
United States Air Force BIS
Liberator heavy bombers left a
lO,O00-ton ship ablaze from end to
end and seriously damaged two
ships Of 5000 tons each in an at
tack on the enemy-held Neither
lands Indies naval base of Ambon
and shot down without loss five and
probably six of the planes which
challenged them.
OTHERS SUNK
FLYING FortreSseS sank one me-
d;um- sized ship and damaged an
other off the Admiralty islands
northeast of New Guinea and a
Liberator sank a l000-ton enemy
vessel in the same area.
In the Ambon raid the Liberators
started great fires throughout the
town and harbor area.
Flying Fortresses made one of the
most Furnishing raids since the war
started on Aabaul in New Britain
island northeast of New Guinea,
the biggest japanese base in the
Australian -SolomonS island.
For three hours the giant planes
made haraSsing attacks on the base,
which has been attacked each day
for a week, dropping incendiaries
and demolition bombs, and then
came the main raid.
TARGET LIGHTED
The first Fortress on the spot
found lights on at the big Vana-
kanau airdrome and planted bombs
which started fires. These fires
lighted targets for the planes which
! followed formation by formation.
Fires were started all over the
Japanese occupied town and flames
at the airdrome were visible 1OC
miles away.
In addition B-24 Consolidated
and CO Catalina patrol bombers
flying boats made three attacks
on the airdrome at Gasmata, on the
south coast of New Britain island
and started fires visible almost a:
far away as those at Rabaul.
BPS Bitchell medium bomberS
manned by pilots of the Neither
lands East Indies air force, made
their biggest raid on the Jap
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-07
nv WILLIAM b. DICKINSON

LONDON, Feb. 6-(UP) - British
shock troops have been driven from
heights in the Djebel Mansour reg
ion of TuniSia, it was announced
today, but Axis radios expressed
the fear that the British eighth
army was about to attack at the
other end of the North African bat
Tie line.
Diebel Mansur is rs miles south
west of Tunis. A spokesman at AL
lied headquarters said Axis and
Allied troops had been sparring for
position and added 1t probably will
continue for some time; the ground
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-07
Bfereton Named
Air rForceChief

CAIRO, Feb. 6-tUP)-Maj. Gen.
Lewis H. Brereton of the U. S.
Army Air Corps was appointed COM
manding general of all U. S. arnA
forces in the Middle-East today. "
He succeeds Lieut.. Gen. Frank NJ
Andrews, another air officer, whose
appointment as commander of the
u S. forces in the European theatSR
was announced yesterday.
Brereton has been sewing as COM
mander of the American air forces
in the Middle-East He formerly
commanded the American air forces
in India.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-07
AMERICANS ARRIVE
IN BELGIAN CONGO

LONDON Feb. 6.-UP)-Ameri-
can troops have arrived at Thys-
Vile in the Belgian Congo, and
have been received by the commits
sioner for the Lower Congo, the
Belgian news agency announced to-
day. Crowds of natives cheered the
troops and shouted Long live the
Americansl" the agency said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-07
Italian Shokeup
StortIes Europe

years ambassador to the United
States where he has many contacts.
AT Ankara Rosso would be able to
effect contact with Laurence A.
Steinhardt, American ambassador,
whose friend he was when both
were stationed in Moscow
SCAPEGOATS
Germany as well as Allied cOu
tries was slow to comment on MUS
sOlini's action. But it was Sug-
gested that Galeazzo .Ciano, dis
missed as foreign minister, and the
others who lost their posts weR
being made scapegoats for the df
asters which had cost italy its en-
tire African empire and made it
the butt Of ridicCle in Germany as
well as in Allied capitals.
With new men. all veteran FaS-
ciStS like those who went, it was
suggested, MuSsolini would try to
rebuild his shattered personal pres
tige.
The appointment of Rosso as am
baSSador to Turkey interested diplo-
matte quarters almost as much as
the cabinet Shake-up.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-07
SMALL-SCALE ACTION

might even change hands again to-
morrow"
SMALL-SCALE ACTION
The Germans infiltrated through
heavy scrub, suddenly burst into
the pen and drive the British from
the heights.
They used the same tactics we
used in driving them from the hill
in the first place" the spokesman
said. 1T was only a small-scale
action. We are still in the area,
but we have yielded the high
ground"
Bad weather limited air activity
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-07
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The folloiotn0 edit.
oriais are presented as interesting opin.
ions Uoiced by editors eiselchere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion 81
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-07

The handwriting is on the wall If we
had more weight we'd get the Japs sooner.
-Adml. William F. Halsey.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-07
BY JOHN A. PARIS

LONDON, Feb. 6-UP)-A CO.
ordinated offensive was reported be-
ing prepared today by Europe's un-
derground armies following the
first appeal in several months by
the Allied governments for increas-
ed resistance
Patriots in all occupied countries
it was learned, have been warned
that the time is fast approaching
when they can aid the Allies.
It was understood that secret in
structions have been sent to under
ground leaders in recent weeks to
increase sabotage and guerilla war
fare.
GUERILLA BANDS
The Dutch we're urged by radio
to build up their resistance tactlcs
now that the Germans were tied
down in Russia, while French I'M
derground leaders were asked 70
organize additional guerilla bands
TO attack communications. FTench
patriots also were requested TO hide
foodstuffs.
In the Balkans, YugoSlavia and
Russia were reported attempting 70
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-07
BY ROBERT DOWSON

LONDON, Feb. 6.-CUP)-Diplo-
matte sources in Sweden said today
that Premier Benito MusSolini
shook up the Italian cabinet to nip
plan for a separate peace by his
son-in- law, Count Galeazzo Ciano.
and two other prominent Italians.
Ciano, whom MuSsolini removed
as foreign minister, Count Dino
Grandi, discharged as justice min
ister, and Marshal Pietro Badoglio,
former chief of the general staff,
were reported to have demanded
that Mussolini withdraw from ac-
tive politics to enable them to pave
the way to peace" Stockholm dis
patch said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-07
NAZIS TAKE HAND

The Germans, however. inter-
vened and threatened immediate
military occupation" the dispatch
said. Yesterdays shake-up thus
was believed the result of German
interference.
Badoglio, who often has openly
shown his distate for Fascism, re-
signed as chief of the italian gen.
eral staff in December, 1940, and
has taken no further part in World
War II. He is known as Italy's
ableSt soldier and was responsible
for the Italian conquest in Ethiopia.
Besides Ciano and Grandi, the
latter a veteran Fascist, MusSolini
discharged seven other cabinet
members yesterday in a shake-up so
sweeping it startled Europe, appar-
emily even Germany, and touched
off wide range of speculation.
MONARCHISTS HIT
A Swedish Telegraph Bureau dis
patch from Rome interpreted Gran
dis dismissal as move against
the "monarchist influence" in the
government.
1t was believed here that more
startling moves were to come, but
well-informed quarters warned that
Mussolini was SO thoroughly in the
clutches of Adolf Hitler that any
open move away from him was
hardly possible
The cabinet changes, most drastic
in their significance in Mussolini's
&c years in office, followed imme-
diately upon the dismissal of Mar
shal Ugo Cavallero as chief of the
Italian general staff and the sur
prising dispatch to Ankara as am
bassador of Augusta Rosso, many
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-07

might even change hands again to-
!
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-28
Brown Defends
Policy of 0PA
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2. 1912. congress directed that wages
and prices be stabilized at the level
of Sept 10, 1912. Since that time, he
said. the cost of living has gotten
away from us, cutting into the pur-
chasing power not only of the wage
earners but of every other group,
including the dependents of our
fighting men,
We cannot hold the line by Civ
ing ground" he said. This time,
therefore. we are taking the offens-
i've. We arc retaking the price
ground we have lost We are rolling
back the cost of living to the level
to which we were directed to hold
it."
Brown noted the growing volume
Of criticism Of OpA and regretted
that much of it was "intemperate. $
He said the attacks have come from
Representatives of retailers, whole
salers. producers and consumers.
He said the very fact that the clam
or comes from all quarters per-
suades him that OPA'S general
course is right.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-28
e Tons of Bombs
Loosed on Lac

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Aus
tralia, May % CUP> - Allied fliers
using one-ton bombs for the sec
ond straight day, raided the Japa-
nese base at Lae yesterday and at
tackled a long stretch of the New
Guinea coastline, a communique
said today.
Twenty-eight tons of explosives and
fire bombs were dropped on Lac.
on Huon Gulf along the northeast
New Guinea coast. Fires visible IS
miles were set in supply dumps
and direct hits were scored on two
grounded enemy planes.
The planes at tree-top height
strafed Japanese installations with
10000 rounds of machine gun fire.
Intense enemy anti-aircraft fire
cost Gen. Douglas MacErthur's
fliers one fighter Of the force of
Liberators. Mitchells and Beau
fighters that made the attack.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-28
Russions Cain i'm Fierce
Bottle Near III ovorosSisk

LONDON, May %. - (UP)-The
Russians announced titanic air bat
ties over the Caucasus today. claim
ing that l3- enemy planes have been
shot down in two days, and Axis
broadCaSts said that at least 10000
Soviet troops were pressing a large
scale ground offensive against the
shrinking German bridgehead.
A dispatch from Moscow said the
Russians had reported the destruc-
ton Of lis German planes in air
battles northeast OF the Black Sea
naval base of NovCTo5Sisk Wednes-
day and Thursday. Anti-aircraft
gunners were credited with account
ing for 16 other enemy planes.
while Soviet losses were given as 49,
MOSCOW SILENT
Though Moscow remained silent
on ground action in the Caucasus.
Axis reports said that reinforced
Red army troops we're aSSaulting
the northern end of the Caucasian
bridgehead with renewed fury after
Na2i colnterattackS had restored
most of the two square miles of
territory yielded in the face of the
initial Soviet onslaught Wednesday.
The Germans claimed to have dc
Stroyed nearly one-third of the 200
planes and ITO tanks with which
the Russians launched their Often
sive early Wednesday, but ac-
knowledged that vast Soviet rein
forcemcntS were available.
The Thursday midnight Russian
communicate said there was fighting
in the area northeast of Novorossisk,
but the midday communique re-
turned to the customary report that
nothing of Importance" had occur
red anywhere along the eastern
front. The midday commumique
added that Soviet warships and
planes had sunk two self-propelled
enemy barges in the Black Sea.
BOTH REINFORCED
However, both the Germans anc
| the Russians we're known to have
reinforced their armies in the eau
casuS and a battle long has beer
believed imminent. The SoVietS
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-28
Officials Renew
Plea for Captives

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ed the government might attempt
to send Japanese to this area.
The employment service chief
also revealed that his department
had ordered him to remain in Ell
Centro to direct the placement of
civilian employees in military camps
in this section. He said he would
also handle the placement of work
ers in essential war industries in
the district.
F'inney was notified several days
ago that after July l the placement
of farm labor, one of his chief func-
tions in the past, would be handled
by the Agricultural Extension Ser
vice.
With this phase of his work elimi-
mated Finney said his office force
would undoubtedly be cut down.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-28
Memorial Day
Service Planned
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in the ElkS hall with Commander
Ed Walsh of the Brawley American
Legion in charge.
The Brawley Mems Glee club
under the direction of E. Swami
will sing appropriate selections.
WILL SPEAK
Judge Vaughn N. Thompson will
deliver the Memorial Day address
and Charles Nice will talk on the
subject. This Is Nj" Country"
At Riverview cemetery the Amer
ican Legion and Veterans of For
eign Wars graveside rituals will be
followed. A firing squad from the
artillery stationed at Camp Laguna
will fire the volley over the graves.
Calexicans will assemble at city
hall at $3.50 am and drive to Mt.
View cemetery for services there
at am. Commander J. B. Brazie
of the American Legion will con-
duct the regular Legion graveside
ritual The Legion will be assisted
by the VF'W and auxiliary men,
bers of both organizations.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-28
Senate Committee
Tables KiIday Bill

WASHINGTON, May 28.-CUP)-
The Senate military affairs COM
mittee today unanimously shelved
the Kilday bill which would have
made it mandatory to induct sim
gle and childless men before ia
thers
The bill, sponsored by Represent
ative Poul j. Kilday. Democrat,
Texas, was approved by the House
last month.
Chairman Robert r. Reynolds,
Democrat, North Carolina, of the
Senate committee, told reporters
that the members voted to table
the bill indefinitely.
You know what happens i'll 999
cases out of 1000 to bills that are
tabled" he added Such action
amounts to killing the bill
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-28
Stimson Fails to
Chance Policy

WASHINGTON, May % up
Despite pleas from a trio of con-
greSsmen for revocation of the army
ban on participation of soldier
students in intercollegiate sports,
Secretary of War Henry L. Slim
son today had reiterated that no
change in the war department
rulings was being considered.
The navy agreed recently to allow
its trainees to compete if such ac-
ton did not interfere with their
training.
Three former football players
now in congresS-Reps. A. S. Nike
Monroney, D., Okla; La Vern r.
Dilweg, D., Wis; and Samuel A.
Weiss, D.. Pa.-forwarded de-
mand for the change in army
policy. which brought Stimson's
statement.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-28
Chinese Battle to
Halt Jap Push

CHUNGK1NG, May 28.-UP)-
Chinese forces were reported fight
ing stubbornly today to halt a Jap
anese westward push through HUI
peh province and end threat to
the Yangtze river forts.
Japanese front dispatches broad
cast by Tokyo radio said 10000 Chi
nese troops were trapped south OF
Ichang, 295 airline miles cast OF
Chungking. in the offensive which
started last Monday0
The Chinese 9ir force caused
heavy damage in raid on Japanese
positions near Changyang, south OF
the Yangtze river about Is miles
from Ichang, the Central News
agency said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-28
Exc Order
Shifts Authority

tlon Setup to assist ByIneS CompriS-
ed Secretary of War Henry L. Slim
son, Secretary of Navy Frank Knox,
Chairman Harry Hopkins of the
Munitions Assignment Board Chair
man Donald M. Nelson of the War
Production Board. and Fred M Vim
son. VinSon. former Democratic
representative from Kentucky and
more recently a justice of the Unit
cd States Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia. was deSig-
mated today to succeed ByrneS as
economic Stabilization director.
DELEGATES POWER
Mr.. Roosevelt's executive order
specifically delegated to VinSon the
power that ByrneS formerly had to
settle controversies which arise be-
tween the Office of Price Admins
tration and the War Food Admin
iStration or the Agriculture Depart
ment. VinSon. however. will Op-
crate under ByrneS in the new set
up. so there appeared to be no doubt
that the final authority still rests
in Byrnes' hands.
The President explained that the
war mobilization committee has
been purpoSely kept small so that
it can function most effectively
But" he added. the heads of
the various departments and agen-
Cie5 will be asked to sit with the
committee whenever matters Of spe-
cial concern to their departments
or agencies are under consideration.
The committee will lay down uni
fled policies and develop integrated
programs and will see that the poll
cies established and programs de-
veloped are expedited"
It was noted that heads of sew
eral top war agencies were not on
the committee including Chairman
Paul V. McNutt of the War Man.
power Commission. War Food Ad-
ministratOr Chester Davis, and OPA
Administrator PrentiSS M. Brown.
All of these agencies have been in
volved in heated controversies re-
Gently.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-28

nave been anxious to wipe out the
Nazi bridgehcad before the Ger
mans could use it as a springboard
for a renewed drive toward the Mai
kop oil fields.
Axis reports indicated that the
Soviet offensive was aimed at Tenn
ryuk aud the Taman peninsula.
whose capture would cut off the
German bridgehead army from its
shortest area route of reinforce
ment and supply across The Ker-
ChenSki strait.
The Nazi Paris radio said that the
initial Russian attack carried Ia
miles into the German defenses on
a front two miles wide, but later
German broadcasts claimed that
savage Axis counter-t -thrustS re-
gained the largest part of the evac-
uated territory"
II PLANES DESTROYED
SCventy-onc Russian planes were
shot down and 81 tanks were de-
stroyed in the fighting Wednesday
and an additional l8 planes in the
early hours of Thursday, the Ger
man radio said, but the Broadcast
added significantly:
Despite their heavy losses, re-
ports available here Thursday eve
ming indicate that a continuation
of the large-scale Soviet attack
must be reckoned with since the So
viets have massed such a large
number of troops behind this sector
that the Soviet commanders have
probably not given up their plan
of reaching Kerch strait at any
cost"
Altogether the Russians were le-
ported employing at least 10 infan-
try divisions. supported by five tank
brigades. A special German COM
munique said the main attack was
launched by six infantry divisions
and three tank regiments on a mar
row sector of the front northwest
of KrimSkaya, l6 miles northeast
of Novorossisk and 40 miles south
cast of Temryuk, after a two-houl
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-28
Hawaii Gets New
Army Commander
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guished Service medal by Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz. Pacific COM
mander.
Hawaii's major projects either are
completed or VIII be soon. Emmons
said lie said ne would return TO
the United States as soon as Rich
ardson takes over.
The citation by Nimitz said En-
mons quickly erected a strong de-
fense of the Hawaiian area" allow
ing the Pacific fleet to take early
action against the Japanese.
Richardson will automatically be-
come a lieutenant general when he
steps into Emmons job. He is so
years old. a native of Charleston,
S. c.. and q 1904 graduate of West
Point
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-28
PROBATION GRANTED

Leslie Grant was granted two
years probation in superior court
Friday for failure to provide ard If
he fails to live up to the probation
terms, he will have to spend a year
in the county jail. Meanwhile he
will have 10 contribute $50 week
for support of his four small chill
dren. He also viii have to give his
family half Of anything over 5000
a month that he may earn.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-28
48.Hour Week for
Southland Urged
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lowed a thorough study of the cur
rent labor market and labor needs
of war industries in Southern CAL
ifornia.
EXTRA MAN HOURS
1T is estimated that the 49-hour
week in Los Angeles county alone
will provide additional man hours
equivalent to a labor force of 30
600 to $4,000 new men and women
workers.
The committee and the director
recognize that further drains must
be made on the existing labor sup
ply by Selective service. Under the
iO-hour week this would mean a
new worker would be needed to re-
place each man called to arms,
BY institUting the 48-hour week
the replacement need will be ma
terially leSsened and the dwindling
labor supply will be available to
help fill critical shortages now ex-
isting."
1T is recognized that most firms
actually engaged in the production
of war materials now are working
a 48-hour week or more. BY fol-
lowing suit firms performing es-
sential work of another character
or work not recognized as essential
will avoid competing with the war
material producers for the needed
workers coming into the labor mar
ket."
Employers covered by the ruling
must file with the VINO director a
report on the number of employees.
description of duties. number of
hours worked, number of new work
ers now needed, number needed un-
der a 48-hour week. and reasons
why it would not be feasible to
lengthen the work week
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-28
100000 Blaze
Sweeps Oakland
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Chemical Company No. /, suffered
a broken leg and possible internal
injuries when he fell through the
roof of house set afire by sparks.
In helping the injured fireman
from the building. Patrolman Ray
Pierce lost his footing in debris
on a stairway and suffered serious
injuries, including a possible brok-
en- leg.
Cause of the fire was not deter
mined Immediately, although Fire
Marshal Fred Carlson and Assistant
Chief Manning BaSch said they
were investigating possibility of in
cendiariSm.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-28
California Tire
Quota Reduced

LOS ANGELES. May % CUP)-
With the second high quota since
tire rationing, Southern California
drivers will received 46,007 Grade I
tires and 23,271 Grade III tires dur
ing June, OPA Chief Paul Barks-
dale DOR announced today.
The total is approximately $1,000
under last months Grade I record
peak