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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-16
KISKA ATTACKED
 8 TIMES IN DAY
Americans Still Bombing Jap Bases at Both Ends
 of Pacific

Washington, April l6-(UP) - American flyers continued to apply pressure on Japanese bases at both ends of the Pacific battle front smashing at Kiska in the Aleutians eight more times and sinking Q small enemy vessel during three raids iil the Solomons, the Navy announced today.
 These actios were announced fin a communique today as further word was awaited from Allied headquarters in Australia of gus- tained American bombing attack on a Japaness convoy seeking to supply the enemy's air base at Newak. New Guinea.
 The latest series of forays against Klska occurred on Wednesday. The previous day U. s. flyers had cons ducted 10 air attacks on that base.
 As in Tuesdays assaults. the land plane runway nearing com. pletion on Kiska was again the ma for objective of the American at. tacks. The Navy reported bomb lifts or the camp area. on the runway and the protective works. Heavy and medium bombers and fighters participated in the assaults.
 Kiska has been hit from the air l7 times this month. a rate of bet.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-16
"A CRIMINALS
 ESCAPE PRISON
OverpOwer Three Guards Power Plant Wrecked;
 Two Recaptured

Reidsville, Ga., April ie.-tUP)- Twenty.four convicts, led by two notorious escape artists, Leland Harvey and Forrest Turner, escaped early today from Tattnall prison - 0eorgla's Little Alcatraz"-in one of the greatest mass prison breaks in state history.
 Two of the group were recaptured Q few hours later when Q truck carrying lo of them overturned near Lyons, Ga. One of the convicts was placed in jail at Lyons and the second was held ct nearby Vidalia.
 Because the two men obviously gave sheriff'S deputies - who cap tured them - assumed names, they were not identified immediately. Prison guards were en route to the two towns, about 25 miles north Of here, to return the fugitivcs.
 Other prison employees were rushing to the scene with blood hounds in an effort to apprehend the remaining convicts who had been riding in the truck. Warden 1T. R. Duvall said he expected the re-capture of most of them.
 The remaining i've fugitiveS were believed heading northwest toward Atlanta in a coupe which they conmandeered after abandoning the automobile in which they lied from Tattnall.
 The break occurred shortly after midnight when 10 of the convicts, housed in a fourth floor cell block reserved for what officials described as worst" prisoners, overpowered 8 guard and locked him in cell.
 The ten proceeded to the third floor, where they freed i4 of their fellows. The group then 0verpow- cred 8 second guard and several went to the prison powernouse, where Q third guard was seized and bound. The convicts wrecked the dynamo. throw ing the prison into darkness for 20 minutes.
 Meanwhile the convicts had ob- tained four pistols ard Q shotgun (Continued on Page 4)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-16
GERMANS LOSE
 500 MORE MEN
l3 Tanks Also Captured By Russians in Taman
 Peninsula Occupation
By HENRY SHAPIRO Limited rPess Stan COrrespOndent)


 Moscow, April 16.-(UP)-Tne Red Army, hammering back the Axis bridgehead in the northwest caucasus, stormed and occupied m Axis stronghold on the Taman Pen insula today.
 All German attempts to restore the situation were hurled back with big enelny losses, the Soviet mid day communique said. Two Ger man tanks, six guns and other booty were captured.
 The Russian success followed @ series of strong German attacks yesterday which cost the enemy 600 men and lS tanks without gaining any ground. The Germans slowly were being driven back on the Black Sea and Sea of Azov with an evac- uation to the Crlmea the only al- formative 10 annihilation. Above Chuguev, 9 miles Soutil- east of Kharkov, the SovietS threw back a German attack and then advanced in a counter attack. the mid-day comnTuniQue said. Ninety enemy dead were counted on the battlefield.
 German infantry, supported by tanks, also attacked the Soviet lines without success on the Leningrad front. losing POO officers and men, two tanks, two guns, four mortars and five trucks. Stormovik assault planes destroyed l3 German planes with bombs and cannon fire and touched off six fires in a raid on an enemy airdrome.
 Six German planes were shot down by Red Air Force pilots and anti-aircraft batteries on the ape breaches to Leningrad. Soviet force on the Smolensk front, west of Moscow, were re- ported digging in and consolidating their newly-won positions. Ger man infantry attacked the Russian lines in one sector. but were driven back to their initial positions with heavy losses.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-16
THREE JAP SHIPS
 IN CONVOY LOST
Allies Concentrate on New Guinea Survivors; !; Enemy
 Offensive Looms
BY DON CAswELL
United Press Staff Corresponds

NgtaksG0 HGCSo 0S3sA OVasCaAsVAASSsaS
 General MacArthur,s Headquart- CTS. Australia, April l6. = (UP) - Allied heavy bombers smashed anew today at the remnants of Q nine- ship Japanese convoy seeking to reinforce Wewak, New Gluinea. for its part in what General Douglas MacArthur believes may be an i'm minent large-scaie offensive.
 Three of the six supply and transport ships in the convoy were wrecked in three mast-height at- tacks from dusk to midnight last night and new relays of bolnbers took over the assault early this morning, concentrating on the sur- vivlng merchant ships and three es- corting warships, believed a light cruiser, a destroyer and gunboat
 The dispatch of the convoy to Wewak served to underline the warnings from Macarthur, Prime Minister John Curtin, General Sir Thomas Blainey and Air Minister Arthur S. Drakeford that Japan is massing 100000 men and a big air fleet in the 2,500-mile island fringe north of Australia for new invasion thrlsts in the Southwest Pacific.
 To counter the threat, Macarthur sent his air Commander Lieutenant General George c. Kenney, to New Guinea to personally direct defense
 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-16
Spain's World Peace Plan Offered Today
Foreign Minister DenOunces Communism as 'Oravest Menace"; Hull Says U. s. Sole Objective Is
 Unconditional Surrender for Axis

Barcelona, Spain, April i6.-(UPl Foreign Minister Gen, Count Fran- cisco Jordana announced today that Spain is ready to offer her good ofilccs In order to achieve a restora- ton of world peace immediately.
 Jordana said the Holy See and neutral countries should collaborate toward restoration of peace.
 Dispatches from London and Stockholm recently had again pre- dicted some Axis-inspired peace move would be launched through a neutral channel, but there was no belief in British quarters that such q move would meet with any suc- cess ct present in view of the AL lied demand at the Casablanca con- ference for unconditional Axis sur- reRderO ..
 Jordaiia denounced Communism as the grayest menace to world peace"
 He spoke on the 450th anniver- sary of the return of Columbus from the new world.
 (The NaN proaganda line in re- cent weeks have repeatedly tried to hold up Communism" as a threat against which the western European nations should unite. This had gen. orally been regarded as an effort to divide the United Nations and an attempt - so far futile - to enlist support of anti-CommuniSts in Britain and America.)
 Suggestion Answered
 Washington, April l6.--(UP)-Sec- retary of State Cordell Hull today answered a suggestion that Spain was willing to use her good offices to negotiate world peace immedi- ateIy by asserting that this govern ment's sole objective is uncondi- tional surrender for the Axis and her satellites.
 President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill agreed on the unconditional surrender ob- jective at Casablanca.
 Hull's statement was inspired by new dispatches reporting that Span ish Foreign Minister Gen. Count Francisco Jordana had asserted that Spain was ready to offer her good ofiiceS to achieve a restoration of world peace.
 Hull said he had received no ofElcial word of this suggestion and that he was not referring specifical- ly to it. He added he could only repeat what the President and other leaders of the Uni.ed Nations have said - that they are determined on unconditional surrender of the Axis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-16
Body or Eight Months
 Bride Found Ln Truck

they drive to Q vacant lot and park. He admitted entering the vacant pie truck with her. and striking her in a minor argument some time later, police said. An autopsy showed she had been drinking heavily.
 Death was caused by . basal skull fracture.
 Kelly said no and his wife came here eight months ago immediately after their marriage In Milwaukee. She had been married twice before, he said. and had three children.
 She had been employed in the clerical department Of meat eom- pany here.
 cleaners marks on her expensive clothing, neatly piled beside the body. Led ofaceEs to Kelly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-16
FOOD SUPPLIES THIS YEAR MAY BE SLICED 3% Civilian Shortages From Time to Time to Cause
 Inconvenience
 MILITARY DEMANDS
 OFFERED PREFERENCE Adequate Diet for Health and VigOr Assured By
 Government Heads
BY ARTHUR F. DEGREvE (Unlsed Press staff COrrespOndent)

United Press staff COrrespOndenN
 Washington, April 16. - (UP) - The government ad- vised civilians today that their food supplies this year probably will be three per cent greater than the 1885, 39 average but six percent under 1942, when farm pro- duction reached a record high. There will be ade- quate food to maintain health, ci- vilians were assured, but shortages from time to time will cause "lncon- venience" and "exaSperaslons'
 Tn Q long-delayed and contro. versial study of the nations larder, the Office of War Information said that "the best Judgment" as of April weg that 1t would be difficult to meet the original io4S food goals-- eight per cent above io43 produce tion-unleSs weather Is better than average.
 Coed Weather Needed
 Even if favorable weather and adequate supplies of machinery and labos should combine to bring about sharply Increased production, mili- taTy demands will make less food available to civilians this year than last the OWr said, adding that "like other wartime problems. the food situation Is serious"
 Nevertheless, 1t added, food sup- piles will be sufficient to provide civilians with an adequate diet for health and vigor."
 The report as finally released, with agriculture department approval, was q considerably altered version of a document prepared sometime ago. The original draft painted . much more gloomy picture, challenged production estimates made by Sec. retary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, and cautioned against stripping the American lardey through lend-leasc shipments.
 The revised report was criticized as "sugar-coated' by some of i4 oWr writers division employees who resigned.
 OWI Director Elmer Davis de- cribed the report as the best which could be presented at this time and on the basis of statistics available to the agency. He said delay had been caused by conflicts in data submitted by two branches of the agriculture department. He de-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-16
ROMMEL PLANNING SIEGE IN BIZERTE
Natural Defenses Fit Nazi Strategic Plans; DOgged
 Stand Expected
By HARRISON SALISBURY

(Unlee0 Press Seaw C0greBpOn0emtD
 London, April l6-(UP)-Military sources here believe Nazi Field Mar snal Erwin Rommel is preparing for . siege within the fortified bastion of Bizerte plus as much of the ad- Iacent area of Tunisia's comm corner as he can hold.
 Experts hold that Rommers na- tural and artificial defenses are con- siderably more iInpregnable than the public realizes. This belief consti- tutes . warning that Hommel should be capable of holding on in the most dogged fashion at Bizerte if this as 1t is generally assumed-fits the Nazi strategic plans.
 Sources familiar with the Tunis- ian terrain and defenses estimated hat RommeI should be able to hold he outer permiter of Q line hinged m Pont du Fans with about 100000 troops.
 This line runs north by west from Font du Fans to the Mediterranean toast west of HizeFte and east from Pcnt du Fans to the B0u Ficha- Hammarnet area.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-16

Los Angeles, April i6.-tUP) - 4 pretty red.haired woman whose nude body was found in a parked pie truck was identified today as thrice. .married Margaret Kelly. 26, who came here as q bride eight months ago from Milwaukee.
 J. D. Kelly. q bookkeeper. identi- fled his wife after police traced her home address through laundry marks.
 Henry Sanudo. 23-yeaF-old dis- charged army private held on stls- picion. said she picked him up" In a beer parlcr, and when he starred to drive her hQme. she refused to tell him where she lived.
 Insteaa. he aaia. she suggested
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-16
LONDON ALERT

London, April l6. - (UP) - An air alert sounded today in London The ali clear was sounded after a brief time during which there was no incident. The alert was caused by a plane at high altitude over the Thames Estuary area. Distant gun fire was heard at sea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-16
KILLIAN PROMOTED

Cambridge. Mass. April l6-(UP) James R. Killian. Jr., executive assistant ot the president of Massa. chusetts Institute of Technology, has been appointed to the newly created post of executive vice-presi- dent of the institute, effective July 1.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-16

Business Thinning ana Che War. aienogFapherS. Typlsts, Accountants
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-14
I.V. Schools Buy
2b Jeeps in Year
For Armed Forces

Uncle Sans fleet of war
vehicles received 26 jeeps as
gifts of the schools of lmpe-
lial county working under
the nationwide Schools Al
Wa program this year, Deputy
School Superintendent Florence
Finney announced Wednesday,
Rural school children of the coun-
ty sold enough war bonds and
stamps to buy Is jeeps and city
school children sold enough to buy
IL of them.
SALES ARE LARGE
In this great bond and stamp
selling campaign the rural school
children of the county have solo
$26 6,873.6l worth of bonds and stamps
and the e are nine more rural
schools which have not filed re-
rorts of their sales with Mrs. Fin
ney Some of the rural schools
bought other types of equipment tol
the armed forces.
B:awley and Calex!co school chill
dren bought eight jeeps, four Tor
each city. Calipatria, inland, and
Ell Centro schCo. children bought
one jeep for each town. Nine rural
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-14
FiIIet of Dohbin
Put under Ceilinc

WASHINGTON, April IA
UP)-In an order designed to
keep more horses on the hOOf,
the Office of Price Admins
tratiOn today placed hOrsemeat
under uniform dollars and
cents ceiling prices.
The maximum prices, which
the OPA ordered effective April
20, will be ''lOw enough to dis
courage the purchase and
slaughter of horses still able to
serve a useful purpose
The maximum price for
horsemeat, whether sold for hui
man or animal food. is IA cents
a pound for the carcass of a
horse or any portion or cut.
18 cents for bOneless cuts, 10
cents for ground bOneless horse
meat, IL cents pound for
horsemeat ground with the
bone.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-14
4 Die in Sudden
Alabama Storms

hTL ANITA. Ca, Anril 14.-OIPp
Communities in Alabama, Mis-
sissirpi. Georgia and Florida today
dug out of the debris of the sea-
sons first tornadoes, aided by Red
Cross workers who ministered to
the needs of more than a thou
sand storm victims.
The twisters reaped toll of fou1
persons killed, over hundred in
jured, and property damage esti-
mated at almost $500,000.
Hardest hit was the village OF
Hackelburg, Ala, which was 80 pei
cent destroyed. Four deaths oc-
Cured there and over 400 persons
were being cared for by the Local
Red Gross chapter.
Three Red Cross disaster experts
were assigned to Cullman, Ala.
where 275 persons were reported
homeless.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-14
Three Cities Sell
S81,498 in Bonds

April war bond sales in Brawley,
Calexico and Holtville totalled $751;
498 when compiled last Tuesday,
Ben Herring, secretary of Imperial
county'S war bond committee, re-
vealed Wednesday.
Additional sales since Tuesday
have swelled the total for each
community, Herring added.
OF the three communities Braw-
ley led in the war bond sale, having
disposed of certificates valued at
$56,905. CaleXico sales were counted
at $17,562 and in Holtville S7O3l
worth of the documents had been
sold.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-14
Army to Reveal
Shanuri.La Site

WASHINGTON, April A.
(UP)-The location Of the
Shangri-La from which Maj.
Gen. mes II. DOOlittle's
squadron bombed Japan last
April Is, will be revealed by
the army soon, Information Di-
rector Elmer Davis said today.
The army's report also will
disclose other secrets of the
raid, which threw Tokyo and
other Japanese cities into panic.
Davis also said the army has
called on his agency for 300
trained newspaper and radio
reporters and other experts in
psychological warfare to serve
in the North African battle
area. He said 35 already have
been dispatched.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-14

Ihe cOrnered German and Ital-.
ian troops even undertook counter
attacks in scattered areas west of
Bizerte, but they appeared to be
mere feints to delay the full scale
Allied onslaught.
PREPARED DEFENSES
British troops pushing northward
IL the east coastal area ran into
the Afrika Korps prepared de-
fenses along the mountain fringe
south of Tunis which are anchored
in the area of Enfidaville. Fresh
troops from the north were reported
to have joined the Afrika Korps.
(The Morocco radio said We'd
neSday night that the British
Eighth army had occupied Enfida-
Vile, in east Tunisia 81 miles above
SousseD
The Allies were throwing aerial
punches at Axis Europe from all
sioes, concentrating on Italy-the
nearest continental soil to the Tuni-
sian battle-ground.
Allied planes were striking from
Britain, from northwest Africa, from
the Middle East, and from Russia
in an assault On Germany and Italy
and their occupied territory.
SMASH BASE
Home-based British bombers
smashed in strong force at the Ital-
ian naval base of SpeZia. Flying
FortresSes swarmed up from north
west Africa to pound Sicilian air
bases. Raidelo from the Middle
East hit Pale.m mo and MesSina, the
key Axis strong points in Sicily
Allied armies advanced in all
the key sectors of Tunisia, drawing
the moose on the German and Ital-
ian troops pocketed in the Bizerte
and Tunis area, where the crucial
battle Snape~ up rapidly.
The Blush Eighth ana First arm
les were moving up to Marshal Err
win Rommels mountain line some
so miles south of Tunis, where he
showed signs of making his first
stand since he was thrown out of
Wadl Akarit, far Gown the coast.
OCCUPY HEIGHTS
ASAiS4l OiOOlo CllC
cupation of strategic range of
heights eaSI ana northeast Oh Kai-
rouan and pushed on to join in the
grand assault of the Allies against
the Tunis-Bizerte fortress area.
The left wing of Lieut.. Gen. K.
A. N. Anderson's First army chip
ped deepe.' into the hills above the
Medjez-El-Bab sector, overcoming
stiff Axis opposition.
Allied headquarters reported the
destruction of at least las Axis
planes in trip-ha..lmer blows syn
chronized with the land operations
and Softening up the front and
rear lines of the enemy.
Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle's
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-14
Gov.
Pledges
Faith
Mexican Leader
Extends Hand
At &c. Luncheon

81 return to Mexico with
more faith in my heart and
the assurance that the peo-
piles of America love each
other" were the words of
Gov. Rodolfo Sanchez Taboada of
Baja California in an address at
a good neighbor luncheon sponsor
ed in El Centre by Pro-America
Wednesday.
He spoke to more than 100 resi-
dents of Imperial and MeXicali
Valleys at a meeting dedicated to
the friendship between the United
States and Mexico.
SENDS TELEGRAM
Gov. Earl Warren of California
sent telegram of greetings and
best wishes to his friend, Gov. Ia
boada, and his official party and
congratulated the two nations on
their friendship and good neighbor-
illness.
Working courageously together, y
said Gov. Taboada, I'VE will erase
the last vestige of violence. After
that, closely bound together and
deeply comprehending, we will en-
Joy the fruits of victory and peace.
He brought to the meeting the
greetings and best wishes OF the
women of Mexico to the women
of the United States and thanked
Pro- America, a patriotic organiza-
ton of women, for giving him the
opportunity to speak.
GREATEST SON r
1T is the task of the kindlier,
gentler sex to work increasingly for
peace and goodwill on EARTH" he
said. AT this moment the most
noble and tie greatest son the wom-
en- of America can produce is the
love and harmony between the
peoples of this continent"
joan B. Ketcham, new American
consul at MeXicali, declared that
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-14
By PHIL AULT

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North
Africa, April IA CUP)-The blood
spilled on Tunisian battlefields has
turned the American soldiers in
North Africa into crafty, hating,
killing fighting men.
Gone is their egotism, their
foolish bravado, their aimless joking
about the enemy being a pushover
Gone is the boastfulness foreign
soldiers sometimes think is typical
of the Yankees.
War is a personal thing now
They've seen men die trying to
surrender. They've had enemy SOL
diers who walked up with hands
upraised chuck grenades at them
They've seen the enemy'S ingeniC,'s
BOBBY traps turn men into smashed
pulps. 1t all has served to make
haters and killers for the duration.
LIVED ON FRONT
I have just returned from two
months on the TuniSian front. I've
lived with Yankee soldiers, bounced
around in their jeeps, halftrackS
and tanks and watched them trad
ing death blows with the Germans
and Italians at Kasserine, Gafsa,
Sened, MaknaSSy and Ell Guettar.
One thing know-they now are
thoroughly mad. They thought at
first the war was a nuisance and
the enemy a rather vague body of
men waiting to be chased away
They thought one American was
worth five of the enemy anywhere,
anytime.
They felt like than when they
first faced enemy fire outside Oran
on Nov. g. But no more. They
have a deep rooted vengeance in
their hearts as they sit in their fox
holes and count the dead. Their
enemies they know as ruthless pro-
fessional soldiers living only for
the battlefield. So they have de-
cided to forget the peaceful life in
offices and schools back home
until they wipe them out.
MUST KNOW MUCH
They realize they must know a
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-14
AXIS BRACES FOR final ALLIED ATTACK
HEIRESS QUITS COUNTRY
Blames Newspapers and Lawyers

BUENOS AIRES, April l4.-CUP)
Merry Fahrney, patent medicine
heiress, who has quit the United
States for good pleaded today to be
left in peace in the Argentine.
Aren't they divine" she said.
shifting eucalyptus flowers while
recovering from a massage at her
Doctors
What do you think I got out of
the country for-I'm SO sick and
tired of the beastly scramble for
my money by lawyers and un-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-14

at the bicycle shop.
1t was nc emil Clark had been
seized and a suitcase removed from
his room at a boarding house that
police learned he was swindler. Al
ter studying n:s effects, Harrison
identified him as a forger wanted
in many states and called the FBI
to take over the case.
Among fake official papers and
identification cards contained in
the suitcase detectives found a copy
Clark told detectives he had writ
ten the letter in an effort to "salve
Hoover's vanity bit" ana grease
the way" for himself if he were
caught.