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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1943-11-11

strong German resistance tied down
Fifth army, Bulgarian gucrrillas were
reported fighting Axis Greek troops
were operating with British on island
of Samos. Strong German forces We're
being used against Yugoslav army.
Destruction Of German radio and
weather base on island of Greenland
was reported by T. S. Navy. Japs
persisted in reinforcing garisons on
Bougainville. Enemy reinforcomcnts
were under heavy bombing as we'll as
positions at Babaul and other in
stallations. Sixty Nazi U-boats was
Allied toll in three months.
THURSDAY - German troops in
Italy opened heavy countcr-attacks
against Americans but without sue
cess. Reinforced Nazis had orders to
hold line below Rome. British pushed
ahead on Adriatic coast. Forres>es
and Liherators made daylight attacks
on d bearing plant in northwest italy,
and the port of Genoa. Ruman;a,
alarmed at Russian army approach
began to withdraw from area which
Germans gave them after invading
Russia Over 500 planes We're across
English Channel in daylight to attack
targets in France and Belgium. Loss
of three Z. s. destr0yers. two in Pa
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-UP)-
President Roosevelt, back at the
White House after preliminary talks
with Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, today held series of
meetings with top advisers in pre-
paration for his full dress confer
ence with Britain's chief executive
at Quebec.
He conferred over the luncheon
table with Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull shortly after Hull told
press conference that neither he
aor any other State Department Of
fetal planned, at this time, to par
ticipate in the Quebec conferences.
Hull added, however, that if his
presence was requested he would at
tend the meetings. The same, he
said, would apply to Undersecretary
of the State Sumner Welles. He
made the comments in answer to
questions about reports that either
he or Welles would accompany the
President to Quebec.
These reports were based largely
on disclosure that British Foreign
Minister Anthony Eden plans to at
tend the Quebec meetings 1t ap-
peared logical that if Eden was to
be there, his opposite number
Hull-or Wells also would attend.
Hull was asked whether it had
yet become apparent whether poll
teal phases of the world situation
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
Faces Charge on
Drunk Drivinu

John Gilbert Oftelie. 25-year- old
Ell Centre welder, Monday was
charged with drunk driving for al
legedly plotting car off the
Calexico highway early Monday
and striking a car which was park
ed two feet off the pavement.
Dick Wilson, II, Brawley, suffer
ed a broken arm and broken COL
lar bone. He was an occupant of
the car parked off the highway
Highway Patrolman w. L. Tackett
said.
After a complaint charging Of
telie with a felony was signed, Of
ficers said. He was released on
bail.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
Nothing More
On Ration List
Except Coal
OPA General Manager
Bares Situation
TO NeWSmen

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16
: (UP) Chester Bowles,
general manager of the Of
flee of Price Administration,
said today that OPA is not
considering the rationing of any
additional items, with the possible
exception of coal.
81 hope that at any cost we can
avoid additional rationing." he told
a press conference. He added that
about a month ago OPA almost had
to ration certain commodity but
the program was cancelled at the
last moment.
He also told newsmen:
THAT he has appointed James
F.. BroWnlee, formerly an official of
the General Foods Corp, as OPA
deputy administrator in charge of
prices.
2.-OPA has no intention of at
tempting to control business profits.
3.-He is trying to simplify price
control in the whole retail field
4.-He felt that 95 per cent COM
place with the price program could
be obtained voluntarily, with OPA's
enforcement unit devOting their
time to the really bad eggs.
6.-He intends to retain three
policy making professors in nom
policy making posts and he. hopes
to convince congress that it was
wrong in decreeing that no profes-
sors should occupy top-ranking
OPA jobs.
BroWnlee, the newly appointed
price chief, has been director o1
transportation in the War Food Ad.
mlnistration since May and is the
first businessman to be substituted
for professor in a policy-makine
post under the congressional man.
date requiring this action.
BoWles said that Brownelee'.
sound business background oualifie.
nm to be the key man in the OPA
program of making price contro
practical and effective"
BroWnlee succeeds Donald II
Wallace who, with two other price
division heads without direct busi-
ness experience, will be retained TO,
the present as economists.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
FDR Planning
Quebec Talks

would require his presence or the
presence of any other state de-
partment official at Quebec. He re-
piled that SO far as he was aware
at present his presence would not
be requested.
Hull was asked about reports that
Eden and Welles might go to Mos
COW to acquaint Soviet Premier
Josef Stain with the results of the
Quebec meeting He said he had
not heard such proposal discussed
either at the White House or in the
State Department but that he would
not undertake at this ime either to
deny or confirm the report
Hull said he had no information
regarding reports that Rome had
been declared an open city.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
GREAT SNAKES

Mrs. M. X. Mccoy didn't have
snakes in her boots but she did have
a snake her house Sunday.
She was thrown completely out of
gear and reduced to state of terror
when she saw snake, live snake
scuttle through her living room.
True to womanhood, Mrs. Mccoy
hoped up on the davenport for
safety.
Come out to my house." she
telephoned the county sheriff's Of
flee. There's poisonous snake in
my house"
Deputy Sheriff Ray Rowe rushed
to the rescue. He discovered that
the snake, known as King snake.
had slipped out through slot in
the wall where sliding doors oper-
ate. He recommended that some
one shoot some poison gas into the
slot and eliminate Mr.. Snake.
Even snakes know 1t Is more COM
Portable in a house with a cooler
going.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
Nuziis
I'm Hot
Corner
American Infantry
Troops Bypass
Cape Milazzo
BY C. r. CUNNINGHAM

WITH AMERICAN 7th
ARMY, Sicily, Aug. 10
(UP)-Crack American in
fantrymen, pressing the Sic
ilian camp aign to an early
finish, by-passeS Cape Milazzo early
today and fought their way to with
In Is miles of Messina, the Axis
last escape port.
Americans advancing eastward
parellel to the islands north coast
engaged in brief, sporadic clashes
with German forces trying to delay
the final decision as long as possible
and to salvage as manT men and
as much equipment as possible.
FIGHT IN STREETS
: One Yank regiment fought run
ming battle through the streets of
a. town just east of Cape Milazzo.
during an eclipse of the moon. Ac-
cording to last reports, it also was
an eclipse of the Axis, for the
Americans had driven clear through
the town. ...as......... ..-...,-.....
BY early morning, the Doughboys
we're almost within sight of Mes
Sina.
The Seventh Army had advanced
rs miles East of Falcone along the
coastal road by Sunday, meeting
very little resistance until it reach
ed small town.
At Bacellona, we received an
ovation which was, If anything.
more enthusiastic than that at Pa
lermo. There was no resistance at
Bercellona, an indication that the
beaches to the north had been en-
tirely cleared of the enemy.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
Russ
I'm New
Guiins
Soviet Troops
Drive Nazis Back
In Great Push

MOSCOW, Aug. 16-(UP)
: Russian troops surging
through the newly-captured
defense outpost of Karach-
ev, flung the Germans back
across the Snezhet river today and
drove through dense woods to with
in 20 miles of Bryansk, strongest
Axis Bastion on the central front.
Soviet columns also were converg-
ing on Bryansk from the Northeast
along the Moscow -BryanSk railroad
and from the Southeast.
Some $50 miles to the South,
other Soviet forces hammered the
Germans back through the outskirts
of Kharkov, block by block, in
bloody hand-to-hand fighting and
posed new threat of encirclement
by storming across the Northern
Donets and capturing three viii
lagos Southwest Of Chuguev, %
miles Southeast of the city.
COUNTER ATTACKS
The Germans, rallying from their
initial defeats, were reported
counterattacking constantly and
with mounting strength on the
Kharkov and Bryansk fronts, as
we'll as in the Spas Demensk sector
farther North, but nowhere were
able to more than slow the pace of
the Russian advance.
Substantial reinforcements have
reached the Germans in all three
areas, field reports said.
The capture of KaracheV, last
railway station East of BryanSk on
the line from Orel, laid open the
big central front BaStion to a
frontal assault and some observers
believed the Russians would reach
its Eastern outskirts as rapidly as
they overwhelmed Orel after knock
ing out Mtsensk, Orels Northeast
ern defense anchor.
The Germans were expected to
fall back through boggy Wood
lands West of Karachev to the
West bank of the Desna river, i'm
mediately before Bryansk, for a
Continued on Page 6, Col. T.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
Correspondent to
Talk to CIubmen

ROTARY and Kiwanis club mem
bers of FL Centre Friday will have
the privilege of hearing Bruce
Thomas, war correspondent for the
San Francisco Chronicle, tell of his
experiences in war fronts all over
the world.
He will speak promptly at 1890
p. m. Friday at joint meeting of
the two clubs III the Barbara Worth
hotel. Luncheon will not be served
at the hotel because the manage
ment was unable to find success
sor to the cook who resigned re-
Gently.
Thomas was born in San Fran
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
Enemy Fields In
Frunce G BI oSted

LONDON Aug. 16.-UPO-PoW-
erful formations of Flying Fort
resses smashed today at German air
fields in occupied France to round
out exactly year of United States
heavy bombcrs operations against
Axis Europe.
CThe German controlled Vichy
radio said American planes bombed
Paris today, but the early dispatches
from Cronkite failed to identify the
days targets except that they were
air fieldS)
The daylight bombardment by the
FortreSses followed a Royal air force
attack on Milan by night, in which
British heavy bombers dropped more
than 100 two-ton blockbuSters on
industrial and railway targets at
Milan.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
Aviation Cadet
Examining Board
Will Meet In |. Y.

The aviation cadet examining
board will meet in Imperial Valley
Wednesday night to examine ap-
plicants, 1t was announced Monday
by 1t. Peter j. Schartz, of the
United States Civil Air patrol
1t Schartz, head of the I'M
perial Valley unit of the Cap, said
announcement of the boards visit
to the valley was made by Major
Harry L. Wilson. Several men are
interested in enlistment in the army
as aviation cadets, It, Schartz said.
He has application blanks and adj
ditional information which may be
obtained If those interested tele-
phone him at Ell Centre 1896.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
Police SkepticaI
Over Confession

CLEVELAND, Aug. 16.-(UP)-
Police expressed skepticism today
CT the confession of Henry William
Hagert, II, that he shot and killed
a Is year old boy last March in adj
dition to the Staying of two twin
brothers four days ago.
A coast guardsmen assisted police
in dragging the Cuyahoga river,
where Hagert said he tossed the
weighted body of Edgar Pugh after
killing him, detective inspector
Frank w. Story said there we're
Loose Ends" TO the confession.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
REMEMBER THE FLOOD

Don't get too enthusiastic about
this rain. Remember the mess we
were in during the big flood in
early September to 6, 1899? Row
boats all around the valley! Fish
swimming along the curbs on Main
street, Ell Centre! (They did too.
We saw them)
George Bucklin thinks the storm
will break the heat wave. Jerry
Dermody thinks 1t won't but is will
ing to go along with George If 1t
will help any.
Personally we think 1t already has
helped whale of lot. Bring on
your rain.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
48 JAP PLANES
ARE BAGGED BY
U.S.. AIR men
Allied BOmbers Brave
Bad Weather To Make
Attack On Salamaua

ALLIED HEADQUART-
ERS, Southwest Pacific, Aug
16 = (UP) - Forty-eight
japanese planes were shot
down in the Southern Pac-
ific area during the weekend and
Allied bombers braved bad weather
to make another heavy raid on
Salamaua it was announced today.
American fighters brought down
% Zero fighters and IL dive bomb
erS, while losing two of their own
number. in series of dogfightS
from Kahili airdrome on Bougain-
vile, in the Northern Solomons, to
Vella Lavella in the Central New
Georgia group.
"a Tokyo RADIO broadcast said
SIT planes had raided Bougainville
the past month and 168 were shot
down. Tokyo said 2,939 Allied
planes were shot down or destroyed
on the ground in the Pacific area
in the last year
MANY CLAIMS
(Tokyo also claimed the sinking
of three Allied transports in the
central Solomons Friday and the
shooting down of six planes over
Rendova, off New Georgia.
Seven were brought down over
Kahili, where the enemy lost 43
planes on Friday. On New Georgia
island, American troops edging up
on the japanese Bairoko Harbor
Garrison turned aside to attack a
pocket at Zieta village, four and
one-half miles from the harbor
The other aerial victory was over
Continued on page 3, col. d
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16

American headquarters announced
that considerable number of
German fighter planes were shot
down in the daylight raid.
Heavy traffic over the straits of
Dover throughout the day continu-
eel into the evening. At least two
strong formations flew over the
Southeast coast in the direction of
France. Among them were bomb
crS.
The RATS Milan raid was the
third on the city in 70 hours, and
the air ministry said it was heavier
than the one on Saturday night.
Other reports said the inhabitants
were panic stricken and clamoring
for the Italian government to make
peace
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
Negro Is Robbed
Bv Two Soldiers

Pink Willbrick, Negro, was robbed
of SIS by two Negro soldiers who
manhandled him at 221 Main
street during the week-end, he told
FL Centre police.
The Negro said the soldiers bang
ed him around a while before they
took his money from him. He pro-
vided police with a description of
his assailantS.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
RAIN SWEEPS OVER I.v.


Centre Sunday was LOG degrees and
the minimum was 81 degrees.
Total rainfall for Imperial Valley
since January / was .97 of an inch,
the irrigation district records at
Imperial showed.
HUMID WEATHER
Humid weather blanketed the
coast area Sunday. Rain fell in the
mountains west of Imperial Valley
at intervals Sunday.
The sky was still overcast Monday
and the humidity was high
throughout the desert area.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16

cisco and was graduated from the
University of California In the
class of 1923. Before the war he
travelled widely and later became
n war correspondent. He made
many movie travelogues,
He will discuss his experiences
with the British Commandos, the
prelude TO unconditional surrender,
the second front, the truth about
Britain, the truth about the Irish
sea bases, the Mediterranean death
grapple, Russia, and convoy trips
to Russia, and American bases In
Alaskan waters.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
y AMBllNe
NEpoR1ER
THE TRAVELLING SNOWMAN

You should attend one of John
De Paoli's travelling shows. He has
a portable motion picture outfit
these days and plays regular
schedule in the various mountain
resorts west of Imperial Valley.
There is a funny thing about
Johns shows. Many of those in
his audience take pillows with them
to pad the benches.
"By golly," said Senator Ed
Fletcher in Julian one night, this
is the first time I ever had to take
my own chair with me when I went
to the movies"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
0PA Violations
Being Aired in
Fl Centro Court

Officials of the Office of Price
Administration Monday began a
series of hearings in Ell Centre on
charges that group of Imperial
Valley residents had violated gas
rationing rules.
The hearings were being con-
Quoted in Judge Elmer Heald's
courtroom and were expected to
continue throughout the day. No
decisions are being made at this
time but we're to be announced
later, officials said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16

swept in from the east Saturday
afternoon.
A heavy shower deluged Eel Cen
tro Sunday morning but only light
shower fell in Calexico and only
few scattering drops in some OF
the northern sections of the valley.
RAINFALL GIVEN
Records at the Imperial Irriga-
tion district in Imperial showed a
Sunday morning rainfall total of
81 of an inch. The fail at Ell Cen
tro was las as reported by the
weather bureau sub-station in the
county seat.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
Former Seaman
CoIlapses in {. {.

Earl Potter of st. John, Kans.,
seaman with an honorable medical
discharge from the navy, collapsed
In Ell Centre early Monday.
A navy ambulance called for
Potter and navy physicians took
charge of him, transporting him to
navy hospital for treatment and
observation.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16

Rain deluged FL Centre Mon
day morning during thunder
and lightning storm which began
shortly before noon and continu-
ed for some time. The electric
power went off in several places
for short time but the service
was resumed after a brief time.
Ell Centrans waded through pud-
dies and welcomed the cooler
weather which followed the storm.
Light showers fell in Imperial
Valley earlT Sunday morning in the
wake of a terrific dust storm which
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
Study
Rome
Fate
Chiefs Insist on
Ac cep+ance Of
Surrender Terms

QUEBEC, Aug. 16. - CUP)-
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
was reported without official con-
formation today to have predicted
the end of the war within the
next six months.
The report was published i'm the
influential French language news
paper Catholic Action and was
understood to have been made be-
fore the Quebec cabinet, presumably
early last week before Churchill
left for his three day conference
with President Roosevelt at Hyde
Park.
The newspaper published the re-
port as "rumor" but it also had
been known confidentially' by
number of persons for the last sew
eral days.
The report, if true, would be al
most revolutionary for the con-
servative churchill, who consistent
ly has promised his people nothing
but blood, sweat and tears" and
would support previous predictions
that tremendous blows are planned
against Hitler's European fortress
within the next few weeks.
STATEMENT IN FRENCH
The newspaper said Churchills
statement was made in French and
was to the effect the war would be
over 'D'ici a une demi douzaine de
mois"-or, literally, from now to
within six months.
The prime minister's prediction
was supposed to have dealt only
with Germany and not the war
against Japan.
The dispatch was written by
Lorenzo Pare, the newspapers
regular Ottawa correspondent now
assigned to the conference, and did
not refer to the Pacific war.
The prediction regarding Ger
many came we'll down in the story
and was in connection with British
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's
forthcoming visit to the conference.
1t said the Allies can now look
forward to the defeat of Germany
at the beginning of 1914 and that
one of the jobs of the conference
would be not only to win the war
but to win the peace.
QUEBEC, Aug. 16-(UP)
The fate of Rome will be
decided by Wednesday, it
was believed in Quebec con-
ference circles today.
The chiefs of staff of the United
States and Britain were under
stood to have decided not to ac-
cept the italian declaration that
Rome has been declared an open
city, unless Marshal Pierto Badoglio
accepts the Allies unconditional
surrender demand.
The Allies were said to be con-
sidering a decision not to occupy
Rome and not to use 1t for any
military purpose.
In such case, the Vatican, the
International Red Cross, and pos
Continued on page s, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
Seek Agreement
On Developing
East Mesa
District and Reclamation
Bureau Chiefs Working
On Farming Project

Imperial Irrigation dis
trictors and II. w. Bashore,
United States commissioner
of reclamation, Monday at
tempted to reach an agree
ment for developing the east mesa
after their first tentative agreement
begged down.
Bashore wrote Chairman Evan L.
Hewes of the district board that
the bureau could not approve the
district board that the bureau
could not approve the straight To-
year leasing of 10000 acres of the
east mesa to Imperial Valley far
mers because of a clause in the
Boulder canyon development act
which gave veterans a 90-day pri-
ority in filing on the land when
opened for entry. Bashore sug-
gested that they attempt to reach
an alternate agreement of some kind
and asked the district directors for
ideas.
5-YEAR LEASE
AS his first alternative suggestion,
BaShore proposed a five year lease
with the right of termination at the
option of the bureau should the war
end before the termination o. the
lease. He said this would protect
the interests of the veterans.
Hewes said that the five-year
lease probably would not be ap-
proved by the farmers as it would
not give them time to realize ON
their investment on the 10000 acres.
1t also would fail to give enough
time for the farmers and the dis
trict to prove that the east mesa
lands are productive and this dis
proved soil survey which set forth
that large sections of the east mesa
lands are not productive. The dis
trict board and officials are work
ing on alternative plans to send
Bashore.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
BULLET

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 16.-UP)
The American Seventh and
British Eighth armies drove for
ward along the North and East
coasts of Sicily to within artillery
range of Mcssina today, and the
triumphant end of the campaign
was reported officially to be at
hand.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16

LONDON, Aug. 16.-(UP)-MOrc
than 100000 Allied troops are
prisoners of the japanese, includ-
ing 10000 to 10000 American
soldiers, an authoritative source
estimated today.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16

LONDON, Aug. 16 up An
American communique said tonight
that flying fortresses raided lie
Bourget air field outside Paris and
other airpocts in occupied France
toda", shooting down at least 81
German fighter planes.
LONDON, Aug. 16.-UP)-The
Vichy radio said American planes
bombed Paris today.
BERN, Aug, 16. - UPl--All
Telegraph and Telephone COM
munications from Switzerland to
Italy were cut off today. No Of
fetal explanation was forthcom-
ing Immediately.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-16
WEATHER

Maximum Sunday 95, minimum
Sunday 80; 8 am. Sunday 81, hui
mitlity "a; noon Monday 81, humid
ity 10; pm. Sun. 80, humidity 81.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-24
ZiviC TrounCed
AT Own Game

PHIL a d r LPHIA. Aug -
GNSj Despite laSrmautc
rally staged by Fritzie ZNlc light
Weight champion Bob Nontgom-
cry today held a l0-round decision
oNer thr former WeITcrWeight
kim. gained -a-hrHtaES smuggling
contest before 1880 fans -Mhn
paid S6e 9e4 TO watch the non
title match.
Starting his onslaught in tho
second round Montgomery. the
heavy betting fayorIte kept the
battle on the inside. bobhlng
and always advancing 60 wham
-Stcadity at tho Pittsburgh vet
Grams face aad- -hod&,
Two nffICIHtS, referee fIAing
kuiCher and nudge Frank knarcS-
borough gave Tho 20-NraT-p
IlNC ]uSt tWo rounds the first
and the ninth While the other
nudge. Harry LaSilN gave him
Three. the first fnh and ninth
and called the third and tenth
eVon-SteNcn
Nevertheless. the PlttShu ( h
Panther scored IN enough spots 10
win a fcw booS az the decision
from PhuadclphlaS largest fight
crowd since Joe Louis slaughtered
al Ettorc in 1886 Fritzie not
only lost the match. bat also
dropped S7O0 he bet on himself
That loss AZ least should be off,