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Evening star., 1943-10-03
British Have Trip|ed
Bomb Concentration
SO Tons Per Minute
Hit Hamburg, Berlin
b. the Associated Press

b. the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sunday, Oct. 3.-In the
short period of Is months the Roval
Air Force has boosted its concen-
tration of bombing-the amount
dropped in a given time which now
is regarded as a major factor in
the success Of a demolition raid
from 171a to over so long tons (2,24O
pounds per minute, the Air Min
istry revealed today.
The following tabulation released
by the Air Ministry shows the date
of the attack, the target city and
the weight of bombs dropped per
minute:
May 30, 1942-Cologne, 17ls tons
per minute.
March 5, l943-ESsen, 25.
April 26, l943-Duisburg, 30.
May %, l943-Dortmund, near
ly 35.
June II, 1943-Dusseldorf, near
ly 35.
July "a, l943-Hamburg, over As.
July 25, 1943-Essen, As.
July 81, l943-Hamburg over so.
September 3, 1943-Berlin, 80.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
jap Sub Thot Blasted
West Coast Is Sunk

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 2-The sinking of
a large japanese submarine which
SIX survivors said was the one which
bombarded the Santa Barbara
(CalifD coast in February, 1912, was
announced by New Zealand's Min
lister of Defense M. F. Jones, a
Reuters dispatch reported today.
The New Zealand corvette Tui
damaged the japanese submarine
with depth charges. and other
charges from planes sent the craft
to the bottom as it tried to escape,
the announcement said.
The craft displaced 1858 tons and
normally carried a crew of 81. The
announcement did not say where
the action took place.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Sunday, Oct. 3.-The bitterly de-
Tended air and sea base at
FinSchafen in Northeast New
Guinea was captured at II
o'clock yesterday morning by
Australia S famed 9th Division in
final charge that drove the
japanese defenders before them
Supported by a damaging aerial
assault by American attack and
dive bombers, the Australians at
tackled the village from two direc-
tions and overcame opposition from
the enemy's pillbox defenses.
japanese marines who defended
the base held on as long as pos
sible and then scattered before the
Australians rife and machine gun
fire
Some japanese took to the hills
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Germans Arrest 1,60(
Jews in Denmark;
SWedes Offer Haven
Widespread Purge
Reported Throughout
Entire Country
By the Associated Press.

rN me ASSOClaleG Press.
STOCKHOLM. Oct. 2.-The
Danish News Service said tonight
the Nazis had rounded up 1900
Of Denmark'S 5000 Jews in a
reign Of terror which already has
prompted Sweden to intercede
with an offer of haven for the
victims and a warning for the
German oppressors.
Jews of all ages were said to have
been seized and Jewish home for
the aged raided. Three German
transports were anchored off Copen-
hagen, the news agency said. the
ships apparently being intended to
transport the Jews east.
German officials announced the
Jews were being removed from
public life in Denmark. Wide
spread arrests, made only after
Storm Troop and Gestapo reinforce
mentS had been sent in to Den
mark, were begun on the night of
September 30 and early Yesterday.
coinclding with the Jewish holidays.
Swedes Give Warning.
The Swedish Minister to Berlin.
the Swedish governments an
nouncement said tonight, formally
offered refuge for Danish Jews. at
the same time telling Nazi officials
that the purge would have what he
described as serious repercussions"
in Sweden.
A Foreign Office spokesman in
announcing the Swedish offer said
he was not prepared to comment
On the nature of the repercussions.
The Swedish government is pro-
viding care for Jewish refugees who
already have fed to Sweden. Three
hundred reached Sweden yesterday.
Although the state of siege in
Denmark continued in full force.
establishing a record length of
more than a month. Danish re-
slstance to the Germans appeared
to be hardening instead of slacken-
ing.
To Release Soldiers.
Today's German announcement
Of the purge said that Danish SOL
dlers interned during the period of
open revolt against the Nazis in
late August would be released soon.
Danish sources here said that Prince
Viggo, nephew of King Christian
/ and an active officer in the Hussars.
is the only member of the Royal
Family still interned.
Today'S German announcement
issued in Copenhagen said:
"Interned Danish soldiers will be
released within a few days by
order Of competent German quar-
(See JEWS paoe Az,
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Plane Output Near
5000 in September
Navy Fighter Production
309o Above August Total
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Informed officials estimated last
night that aircraft production mar
rowly missed totaling 5000 war;
planes in September.
To reach that goal, aircraft pro-
ducers would have had to deliver
3S8 more planes than they turned
out in August.
Nevertheless. the months record
will show good gain in the total
weight of aircraft produced, one Of
fetal predicted, indicating satisfac-
tory progress in the trend toward
heavier types.
Estimates based on partial re-
ports for the first three weeks of
September showed production ahead
of the August rate each week.
Bomber production was well
ahead, but the most remarkable
gain was indicated in Navy fighter
output which was reported as ap-
proximately 80 per cent above the
August total.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Large Allied Drive
On Aegean Islands
Reported in Turkey
Campaign Carried Out
By British and Greeks,
Ankoru Understands
PS the Associated Press.

~ inc Associated Press.
ANkARA, Turkey, Oct. "A
Iarge-Scale military campaign
for control of the inner islands
OF the Aegean is in progress Just
out OF earshot of Turkey. but
amazingly few details of the bat
tie reach these neutral shores.
Passengers on a Turkish steamer
returning from Izmir on a voyage
along the Turkish Aegean coast re-
ported rumors that Allied forces had
occupied the Greek island of Khios
(Chlos>, and said they heard can
nonadlng from the direction of
Mytilene Lesbos, another Greek
island near the Turkish shore.
khios is about midway between
the Italian Dodecanese Islands and
the Dardanelles, and Mvtilene is
only about so miles south of the
Dardanelles.
No Americans Reported.
Watchers along Turkeys eastern
coaStllne are able to hear the distant
rumble as the Germans bomb islands
already in Allied hands and as the
Allies concentrate on new obiectives
in the island-dotted sea.
The campaign apparently is a
joint effort Of the British and Greeks
who have been trained in the Middle
East. There are no reports of
American participa ton.
British military personnel sta
toned in Turkey became indignant
over reports from Turkey that Lero
and Coo in the Dodecanese and the
Greek island of Samos 10 the north
had been captured almost a week
before the occupation was announce
by the Allied Middle East command
at Cairo. British military officials
refuse to discuss the fighting, either
with American or British CORE
spondents.
Watchers along the coast south of
1zmlr witnessed a heavy German
tSee AEGEAN. Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1943-10-03
CzechosIovukiu Wants
Russian Aid Pact Now

By the Associated Press
LONDON, Oct. 4.-The Czecho-
slovak governmental n-exile today
announced its desire for a mutual
assistance pact with Russia despite
the desires of both Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden and the Polish gov
ernment for a delay.
Mr.. Eden has asked Eduard
Benes, President of the Provisional
Czech government, to hold off his
trip to Moscow until Mr.. Eden has
another opportunity to confer with
Soviet Foreign Commissar Vya-
cheslav Molotov.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
British Liner Lost
Without Trace:
| 500 on Board

BY the Associated Press
CAPETOWN, Oct. News of
one Of the worst ocean tragedies
of the war-the sinking without a
trace of the 18,70O-ton British liner
Ceramic with more than 500 passen-
gers aboard last November-was of :
flcially released today by naval au-
thorities.
The Ceramic was sunk. presum-
ably by an enemy submarine, some
where in the Atlantic while en- route
(See CERAMIC, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1943-10-03

MOSCOW, Oct. 2 LP).-The Allied
occupation of Naples was announced
to the Russian people in four-line
dispatch on the back pages of Mos
COW newspapers today.
Evening star., 1943-10-03
Pushing Nazis
From Caucasus,
Moscow Claims
Red Army Drives
Toward Dnieper
On Brood Front
Bv the Associated Press

LONDON, Sunday, Oct. g.
Battling mounting German re-
Slstance in White Russia, Soviet
divisions smashed through road
less forests and swamps toward
the upper Dnieper and Vitebsk
yesterday, while 700 miles to the
south the Red Army was slowly
squeezing the Nazis from their
last foothold in the Caucasus
Moscow said today.
German reports, meanwhile. told
OF a mighty Russian thrust in the
South Ukraine aimed at clearing
the Crimea.
The Russian midnight commun-
lque supplement. recorded by the
Soviet monitor. said the Germans
launched six counterattacks in thei,
frantic efforts to protect the ap-
proaches TO Mogilev. Dnieper Rive,
town in Eastern White Russia. But
Soviet gains up to II miles were
reported AS the Germans fell back
from position after position.
800 Nazis Killed.
Moscow dispatches called resist.
ance in this sector exceptional
and reported 10 German counter.
attacks in one area alone. The Rus.
slams were last reported some q
miles east Of the town at the Pronys
River.
The Soviet forces also were beat.
ing toward Vitebsk to the north
where advances continued and 4Ot
Germans were killed. Towarc
Gomel, in Lower White Russia, sew.
eral German counterattacks were
Warded off and the Red columns
advanced on the heels of the re-
treating Germans, Moscow said
Eight hundred Nazis were killed
and war material captured.
On the extreme southern end OF
the battleline in Russia. in territory
that offered almost the same natural
obstacles of marsh and wilderness
the Russians won the fortified town
OF Starotitarovskaya, less than &c
miles from the western tip of Tamar
peninsula and only about 80 miles
from Kerch in the Crimea. 500 Ger
mans were killed in the battle, the
communique said.
Mentioning the German Kubar
bridgehead for the first time in sew.
eral days, the communique said the
Germans were trying to beat back
the Soviet advance by counterattacks
and artillery and mortar barrages
One unit of Russian sappers in
seven days fighting removed $4,000
German mines.
Claim Red Repuke.
Two other defense points were re-
ported captured as the Germans fell
back toward the Kerch Strait escape
route into the Crimea.
A Berlin broadcast reported fresh
Russian attacks in the Kuban area
as we'll as enveloping attempts un-
dertaken from the sea- which it said
were defeated.
Only the Germans mentioned
what appeared to be one of the
most powerful Soviet drives on the
Russian front in several weeks
that in the South Ukraine. The
Germans claimed on Friday they
had defeated five-day push by Il
Soviet divisions on a 7O-mile front
around Zaporozhe, where the Dnie-
per River bends far to the east ir
the Southern Ukraine
Later Berlin broadcasts admitted
the Russians took to the attack
again early yesterday with three
armies. or about II divisions, plus
special troops. tank formations and
motorized units.
"A fresh and particularly massive
(See RUSSIA, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1943-10-03

Radio Programs, Pe. DIG
Complete Index, Poee Az
Evening star., 1943-10-03
d Lines Report Naples Fall

(See JEWS, Page A-5D
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(See ITALY, Page A-5.)
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(See GALLINGER, Page A-l6J
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(See RUSSIA, Page A-6.)
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tSee AEGEAN. Page A-6J
Evening star., 1943-10-03

(See CERAMIC, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1943-10-03

(See SHOOP, Page A-16.)
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(See WAR BONDS, Page AID
Evening star., 1943-10-03

lSee SOUTH DAKOTA. Page A-3
Evening star., 1943-10-03

The Evening and Sunday Star is
delivered in the city and suburbs at
S0c per month when 4 Sundays; 90c
per month when Sundays. The
Night Final Edition and Sunday
Morning Star at 90c when 4 Sun
days; $100 when S Sundays.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-22
Russia Makes Strong Bic
For Allied Sec ond Front

MOSCOW. June %. Russia.
making its strongest plea yet for
the early opening of a second front.
said today that a successful Anglo
American invasion of Europe not
only was necessary for victorr. but
could bring the war to a speedy
conclusion"
The official Soviet information
bureau pleaded The urgency of an
Allied offensive in the west in a
4.o00-word review marking the sec
ond anniversary of Russia S entrance
into the -'sr.
LISTS NhZI LOSSES
IL said the Red army already had
fundamentally shattered" the mill
tary power of Germany by inflicting
these enormous" losses on Ger
many and her satellites in the past
two years
6,4o0 officers and men killed or
captured.
$500 guns of various Calibers de-
stroyed or captured.
42,400 tanks destroyed or captur-
ed.
$4,000 aircraft shot down. de-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-22
Forts Stdrt Fires
I'm italian Raids

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North
Aprica. June % tUP)-Allied bomb
er fleets led by about 100 Flying
Fortresses started more than 25 big
fires, caused q mile-Wide flash of
burning oil. and wrecked many tar
gets in a series of day and night
attacks on Naples, Reggie Calabria,
and the entire Italian supply center
for Sicily.
Twenty-Five bx.s fighters were
shot down, including 20 by Ameri-
can bombers from the middle east
command. In a 30-minute running
battle over CanCellG, near Naples,
Fortress gunners knocked down
three of about 20 Axis fighters at
tacking them. Two Allied planes
were lost in all operations since
Sunday night
The Naples area were given 2
heavy pasting. About so per cent
OF the railway tracks were destroy
ed al Cancello airport and several
buildings were blown up. Railroad
areas. gasoline dumps, and indus
trial buildings were wrecked
The daylight attack yesterday by
u. S. heavy bombers of the 9Th Air
Force on Reggie Calabria, at the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-22
Dead Pilot Wins
ColoneI's Praise

SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH
PACIFIC, June 10. CUP)-Delay-
ed-Maj. Walter F.. Kimball, USMC
Coronado. Cal, killed last October
in an attempt to get bombs and
ammunition to Henderson Field on
Guadalcanal, has been praised pos
thumously by Col. p. K. Smith, COM
mander of a marine aircraft unit,
dispatch revealed today.
Kimball, former transcontinen-
tai and Western air pilot, repeated
ly piloted navy transport cargo
planes into the Solomons carrying
bombs, high explosives and gasoline.
unloaded them and took off in hos
tile skies and a load of wounded
marines, Col. Smith reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-22
Cuts Wrists, Leaps
Off CIiff;Lives

SAN FRANCISCO, June % CUP)
Police reported Joseph G.. Colgate
drank poison, slashed his wrists.
dived off a 1,000-foot cliff fronting
the ocean today-and lived.
PasSersby found COlgate's aban-
doned, expensive automobile near
the edge of the cliff on Oceanshore
highway in San Mateo county. Of
ficers Walter owope and Paul
Winesshenker of the military police
investigated.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-22
Retail Allowance
On Rice Is llpped

WASHINGTON. June %. up
Price Administra tor Prentiss 3.
Brown today ordered an increase in
allowable retail prices of rice. pic
kles, rellshes. and certain canned
fruits and vegetables to restore III
part price reductions following
President RooSevelt's hold the
line" order.
Not affected by the order are
canned peaches. pears. plneapples.
fruit cocktail corn. peas. green and
wax beans. tomatoes and tomato
juice All other canned fruit and
vegetables will show an increase
in price of one to two cents large
can over the current price. OPA
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-22
Oriental Fruit
Moth intercepted

SACRAMENTO, June % tUP)-
New interruptions of the Oriental
fruit moth, enemy of deciduous trees,
have been mace n Los Angeles,
Riverside and Kern counties. the
state department of agriculture an
nounced today.
H. M. Armitage, III charge of the
moth control program, said the new
interceptionS have led to imme-
diate action by the department to
prevent further infeetation. Eradica-
ton by removal of most trees will
hc started in all outlying spots
where the moth has been found
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-22

The victory, in witch the Japa-
nese lost nearly three-fourthS of
fleet of 36 aircraft. brought the
two-day toll of enemy planes to
AZ. Most of them were destroyed.
Ia PLANES DOWNED
Fourteen of the craft in the Lac
| fight crashed or exploded in the
air and the communique said de-
struction of the other nine was
most probable" Despite odds of
two-to-one, not a single American
Lightning of the force in the fight
was lost.
A spokesman raised enemy losses
in a battle over Darwin, Australia,
the previous day to "a with the ad-
dition of two bombers shot down.
The record of that fight was IL de-
stroyed, two probably destroyed and
10 damaged.
After the Lightnings Withdrew in
triumph from Lac with only slight
damage, A-20 attack planes swept
through the area on the New Guinea
northeast coast starting fires with
bombs and machinegun fire on
Malahang and Lac airdromes.
LONG RAID
The communique reported two
and one-half hour raid by Austria
liam and Dutch pilots in Hudsons,
Catalina flying boats and Mitchells
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-22
Birthday Party
OF Celebrated

Imperial Valleys traditional
birthday party, the anniversary of
the natal days of Andy Preble, AL
Casner and Bob Davis, will take
place Sunday at the Lee Little
ranch. five and half miles south
west of M6Xical.
Throughout the years the men
whose birthday anniversaries fall
on the same day have entertained
great crowds of friends at barbe-
cue dinners to make the event The
joint celebration began in early set
tlement days and have continued
annually.
Friends annually assemble from
points throughout California and
Arizona to talk over old times.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-22
Shipyard Workers
Ask Wage Increase

SAN FRANCISCO. June % CUP)
ALL shipyard workers affiliated
with the Pacific Coast Metal
Trades council will request a gen.
eral wage increase and other
changes in the west coast shipyard
stabilization agreement at meet
ing here July IL, it was announced
today.
The shipbUilding stabilization
committee, consisting of employer,
union and government representa-
tives. will convene to consider pro-
posed changes in the master agree
ment, which was ratified shortly
after outbreak of the Pacific war
tn stabilize labor relations in west
coast shipyards.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-22
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stroyed on the ground or captured.
Russian losses for the two-yCar
rcriod were listed as 100000 men
killed or missing and $4,000 guns,
10000 tanks and $4,000 aircraft lost.
Everything nov depends on the
manner in which our allies will eT-
plot the favorable situation for
creating a second front in Europe
as victory over Hitherto Germany
is impossible without a second
front" the statement said.
SAVED GERMANY
The absence Of a second front
in Europe saved Hitlerite Germany
from defeat in 1912
TO delay opening a second front
against Hitlerite Germany would
prolong the war and mean a col
Ossal increase in casualties. On the
other hand, TO open up a second
front in Europe during the present
ear would bring the war to a
speedy conclusion and therefore
mean a colossal saving in life for
the anti 5itler coalition"
The statement said that the al
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-22

fleet was not disclosed, but the
average per cent loss ratio indi-
Gated that it may have totalled 800
bomberS.
The loss equalled. that suffered in
the 1000-plane raid on Cologne last
year However, most of the force
which attacked Krefeld was believ-
ed to be four-engined Strings, Hal
faxes and LancasterS, whereas the
Cologne formations included large
proportion Of tWo-engined planes.
ALL TYPES BONES USED
Every type bomb from two-pound
fire bombs to 8000-pound super
block busters was unloaded on Kref-
ED, which was one of the first cities
in Germany to feel the impact of
the four-tOn missiles. ReconnaiS-
Sance photographs showed that one
OF the four-ton super block busters
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-22
Local. Imported
Mexicans Fight

ONTARIO, Cal, June %. CUP)-
MexicanS imported to aid in agri-
cultural work and local Mexicans
have been fighting over feminine
companions, police said today.
I'll feeling was climaxed Sunday
night when a carload of California
born Mexicans drove up to dor
mitory housing Mexican nationals
and warned them to stay away from
local girls, firing several shots into
the street for effect. No arrests were
made.
Deputy Sheriff Cecil S. Never
said the local Mexicans resented
the itinerants attentions to their
girl friends.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-22

lance among Russia. Britain and
the United States was growing
stronger as the war progressed.
The armies of the freedom-lov-
ing nations have grown i'll numbers
and power and their fighting Soli-
darity has been strengthened
Our allies are giving ever-in-
creasing assistance in armament and
supplies Powerful blows by the
Red army in the cast are merged
with the blows of our allies for the
rout of the Italo-German armies in
North Africa. At the same time, the
Allied air force is inflicting ever
more telling blows on Germany and
Italy"
The might of the Red army has
grown while Germany has detefior-
ated sharply both militarily and
politically the SovietS said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-22
Yank Filters Drop
70 Tons of Bombs
On Jap Munda Base

AN ADVANCED SOUTH pa
CIFIC BASE, June %. UP)-
American dive bombers. torpedo
planes and fighters dropped 20 tons
of bombs on the japanese base at
Munda, New Guinea island, in the
Solomon group yesterday, the South
Pacific command announced today.
DauntlesS dive bombers and Aven-
ger torpedo planes attacked Munda
during the afternoon, protected by
Wildcat fighters. Large fires and
explosions were observed. Several
enemy anti-aircraft positions were
silenced and a barge was machine
gunned.
ALL RETURN
All planes returned.
A headquarters spokesman dis
closed that Wildcats had destroyed
twin-cngined japanese bomber
on reconnaissance 20 miles north.
west Of Florida island yesterday
Munda has been pounded re.
peatedly by Allied planes. 1t is on,
OF the enemy's chief operationa
bases in the SolomonS and lies Il
the northwest of Guadalcanal.
The spokesman said that as faI
| as is known, the Japanese hav,
been unable to use the Munda ali
field for some time except for land
ing damaged planes in emergencies