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Evening star., 1943-09-13
The EVENING MONDAY. SEPTEMBER R

road NV, and Charles Garmire
Hoyt, Medical Corps, former inferno
at George Washington University
Hospital.
Second Its. Francis Ignatius
Wood, adjutant generals depart
ment. 5605 Thirty sixth place, Hy-
attsville, Md, and George Joseph
Geiger, Air Forces, 1926 Worthing-
ton street NV, have been promoted
to first lieutenants.
The War Department also an
nounced the appointment of Samuel
Loeb Haber, 1900 Russell avenue,
Mount Rainier, Mo. as captain in
the Special Reserves.
A native of Los Angeles, Calf,
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is now stationed Capt. L. NJ. Tierney.
at Fort Mason, San Francisco, Calf
Three Years in Service.
1t. Wood, 20, native Washing
tonian, is on duty here in the Ad-
jutant Generals Office. He has been
in the service for three years and
was commissioned in December on
graduation from the Officer Candi-
date School at Fort Washington, Md
A graduate of st. Johns College, 1t.
Wood was formerly employed in the
Special Delivery Section of the
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woodward has been in the Ali
Forces since May, 1912. His wife
Mrs. Ina May Woodward, resides
at the Woodley road address.
Maj. Mclean, 81, former Wash.
lngton attorney, was commissioned
into the Army as a first lieutenant
in June, 1912. He is on duty with
the civil affairs division, Office OF
the chief of staff. A native OF
Elizabeth, N. j., Maj. Mclean at
tended Amherst College and Yale
University law school. His wife
Mrs. Martha T. Mclean, and g.
year-old son Donald III live at the
N street address.
Veteran of Last War.
A native Washingtonian, Maj. Col
man, 48, is veteran of the last war
when he was one of the first pilots
to go overseas. Formerly District
lawyer, he was called to active duty
in April, 1912, and sent overseas in
July, 1912. Participating in the
North African campaign, he was
awarded the Air Medal for "meri-
torious achievement while on a mis-
SION"
Maj. Colman returned from the
Middle East last July and is sta
toned at present at Harrisburg, Pa.
He is graduate of National Uni
versity law school. His wife, Mrs.
Peggy Colman, resides at the
Brandywine address. A son, Pvt.
Basil Colman, 20, is a member of a
fighter squadron medical unit some
where in the South Pacific. For
merly pre-medical student at the
University of Maryland, he was in
Quoted into the Army last Decem-
Der and sent overseas in May. An
other son, Ronald, 18, expects to
enter the Army shortly.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. William
E. Birgfeld, 211 Bradley boulevard
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Methodist Church on Georgia ave-
nue.. Silver Spring, from 8:45 am
to 1:30 pm. Wednesday.
A quota of $50 pints of blood
has been set. Persons wishing to
give blood may make appointments
by calling the Silver Spring branch
American Red Cross, at Sligo 1888
or Mrs. Whitcomb. blood donor
chairman, Silver Spring 0690.
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ployed as principal economist for
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce. A native of Kensington,
Md, he has been resident of the
District for many years. His wife,
Mrs. Louise Birgfeld, and 8-month-
old daughter Barbara live at the
Connecticut avenue address.
Maj. ToWey, 81. who is stationed
in Washington as assistant chief of
the inner staff. first entered the
Army in the Engineer corps in De-
cember, 1910. In June, 1941, he was
transferred to the Signal Corps and
later assigned to the Air Forces. A
native of Minneapolis, Mimi, Maj.
Towey is graduate of the Univer-
sity of Minnesota. Prior to entering
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olldLlei, SL, Is
stationed with
the Army Air
Forces Finance
Department at
Patterson Field,
Dayton, Ohio. A
native of Balti-
more, Md, he
W a S formerly
employed as au-
ditor Of Com
mercial Credit
in that city. He
is a graduate of
t h e University
of Maryland.
His wife, Mrs.
Po11loh Fa
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trict for three years and was for
merly employed as special Govern
ment representative for the Inter
national Business Machines. Maj
Franks is a graduate of Colgate Uni
'versity. His wife, Mrs. Helen Franks,
and their 6-year-old son Stanley, jr.,
resides at the Piney Branch Court
address.
Capt. Tterney, %, who is now on
duty at Camp Abbott, Ore, has been
in the Army since June. 1912. A
graduate of Maryland Park High
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MAY. woodward,
AZ, who is sta
toned with the
Flight Control
Command a t
Winston Salem,
N. c., formerly
was employed by
the Civil Aero
nautics ASsocia-
ton as a cardio-
graphic engineer.
He is a graduate
of the University
of California and
has held a civil
ian pilots license
since 1925. Mai.
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oCilDUi, iiC was
at the time of
his induction, a
senior at the
Univer S / ty of
Maryland where
he was a cadet
colonel in the
r o T C. His
brother. William
Joseph Tierney.
jr., %, aviation
chief rate hour
technician, u. S.
NJ, is on sea pa
troll.
Capt. Heritage
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IIle pTOlIlOClOn OF
M a ]. G arrol
Conrad Barrick
formerly of 1924
N ort h Rhodes
street, Arling-
ton, Va. to lieu
tenant colonel.
Those who re-
ceived promo
tions from cap
tain to major
a re: eorg e
Shurtlef Wood
ward, Air Forces,
2 8 90 Woodley
road NV; DON
aid Holman Nc
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y II e v y CndSe
Md, Maj. Brig
field, 81, is now
on duty in the
Office of tn e
gu ar t ermaster
general here in
w a S h | n g t on,
Prior to entering
the Army in
May, 1912, Maj,
Birgfeld, who at
tended Central
High School and
the Georgetown
University school
of foreign .serv-
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Beulah Shaffer, is with him in
Dayton.
Now on duty in the Office of the
Quartermaster General, Maj. Franks,
SO, has been in the Army over a
year. A native of Walworth, N. Y,
he has been a resident of the Dis
Evening star., 1943-09-13
II Officers in Army
From District Area
Win Promotions

The temporary promotions of II
men from the Washington area
were announced today By the War
Department. Among them was
Evening star., 1943-09-13

Buy War bonds today so that you
can face your fighting sons when
they come home and say, II did
my share toward victory, too"
Evening star., 1943-09-13
GIVE YOUR
COLD THE AIR

Open up that cold-clogged nose. Feel this
rea! prescription-type medication soothe,
shrink. Caution: Use only al directed.
Be sure you demand Penetro Nose Drops.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
Glider Bomb Sinks
Canadian Vessel

OTTAWA, Dec. 3. (UP)-A Nazi
aerial glider bomb, appearing to
dive under its own power, passed
through the Canadian destroyer
Athabaskan and exploded in the
water 20 feet clear of the ship to
kill five men and wound IL, Royal
naval authorities said today.
The Athabaskan was the senior
ship in group operating in the
Bay of Biscay last August when
the bombing took place, the an
nouncement said, adding that she
had now been repaired and was
back at sea.
The glider bomb, the navy said
is one of the type known among
British seamen as "chase me
Charlie" because of their graceful
maneuvering.
Commander G. r. Miles said the
bomb was the third projected from
a group of some 20 Nazi planes,
estimated to have been 1000 feet
away at an altitude of 5000 feet
when it was launched.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
Valley Awaits
More Butter

"a little more butter has been
pried loose for Imperial Valley TO
alleviate the growing butter short
age problem here and should arrive
this week end," Leslie Mcconnell,
of the Imperial Valley Milk Pro-
ducers association advised Friday.
Mcconnell said the War Food
Administration tWFA) had agreed
to send this one shipment to the
valley pending the OPAs decision
regarding the protest that was for
warded this week. The protest was
made after an OPA directive cut
the wholesale price of butter from
ASA cents per pound to as cents,
and this directive caused the flow
of butter from Los Angeles to the
valley to cease.
The VITA mas more butter but
cannot send it unless the OPA
hearing which is scheduled in Los
Angeles this week gives authority
The food administration was SYM
pathetic, Mcconnell said, to the
valley butter manufacturers and
distributors problems.
The past few weeks only 1900
pounds of butter have. been avail
able for the county's $4,000 citizens.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
Curtin, Macarthur
Map jap Finish
Prime Minister Returns to Canbera
To Announce Momen+ous Meet;
Spells Disaster forsAlI Nip Forces

CANBERRA, Dec. 3 CUP)-Prime
Minister John Curtin announced
today that he just had completed
an important conference" with
Gen. Douglas Macarthur at which
southwest Pacific strategy presum-
ably was discussed in the light of
the crush Japan" decisions at
Cairo.
Curtin indicated that new Allied
offensive blows keynoted the con-
ference, which was held at Mac
Arthurs headquarters somewhere
in Australia"
THE war effort of Australia is
now entering upon a new phase,
Curtin said in a statement on his
return to Canberra. THE defensive
stage has passed, and the initiative
has been gained from the enemy.
Il have assured General Mac
Arthur that AuStralia's war effort
will be the maximum of which Aus
tralia is capable the Cairo
declaration tells the Australian
people quite clearly that there is
no short cut to victory in the
Pacific"
Macarthur, as we'll as Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz, American COM
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
By UNITED PRESS

Hundreds of RAF heavy bombers
swung back over Berlin Thursday
night and set the Nazi capital blaz-
ing anew with 1900 to 1900 tons of
bombs, >amid increasing speculation
that the United Nations leaders
are drafting an utlimatum to Ger
many to surrender Internationally
or face total destruction from land
and air.
Resumption of the fog-bound
bombing offensive on Berlin came
as Allied armies sent the Nazis
reeling in retreat from their broken
winter line below Rome and power
full Soviet forces smashed into the
defenses in White Russia and the
Dnieper bend.
The RAF night raiders, returning
to the attack after five-night lull
imposed BY bad weather, lashed
out against Berlin under a bright
bombers moon that spotlighted
their sprawling target clearly and
at the same time cost them their
heaviest losses of the current bomb
ing offensive,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
Col. McQuade
Gets New Post,
To Leave Soon

Col. T. j. McGuade, station COM
manding officer at the Ell Centro
Marine air station year and a
half, this week received orders to
report to Miramar station to await
transfer to a combat zone.
He was instructed to leave the
Ell Centre station soon for his new
assignment.
Widespread regret was expressed
when news of Col. McQuade's trans
fer was announced. He is well and
favorably known to many Imperial
county residents, especially in Ell
Centro.
MY tour of duty in this area has
been exceptionally happy Col. Nc
Ouade said F'riday. There were
many things accomplished which
were due in large part to the gener-
osity and splendid cooperation evl-
denced b. all civilians in this area.
I appreciate the cooperation OF
the civilian authorities, the busl-
nessmen of the various communities
and everyone else with whom l
have dealt.
Il not only appreciate the man
ner in which my personal contacts
were received but I appreciate the
reception and treatment this branch
of the service has been accorded
in Imperial Valley. I always shall
remember the valley and its resi-
dents with pleasure"
Mrs. McQuade and their two
children plan to remain in Ell Cen
tro for a time.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
District Fills
Vacancies,
Says Chairman

All positions in the Imperial 1rri-
CATION district are Adequately
manned" irrigation district officials
said Friday as the first week oil
the strike of electrical employees
came to a close.
I'VE discharged total OF 64 dis
trict employees who were taking Or
ders from the union instead of from
their department superintendents,' -
Evan T. Hewes, chairman OF the
district board said Friday. Ten
new employees have been hired on
program to recruit the district
forces SO that we may continue to
carr on normal operations. The re-
mainder of the vacancies are filled
by loyal employees and volunteer
farmers and will be SO filled until
such time as the district working
strength is brought up to normal.
At present all positions are ade-
quately manned"
Pickets still were on duty at the
district headquarters in Imperial
Friday and at the district yards
in Brawley.
C. D. Downs, the United Press
reported, informed the war labor
board that the district is filling
jobs with inexperienced help. In
case of storms there is serious
danger of power Interruptions to
military bases, agriculture and in
dustrial Establishments vital to the
war effort" Downs was quoted as
saying.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03

render Internationally or suffer
total destruction by bombing.
The German DNB news agency
broadcast a report attributed u
Lisbon that the conference opened
on November % and was ending
today.
THE main point is to appeal to
the German people to surrender
Internationally and remove the
Nazi leadership" DNB said, quot
ing what it described as advices
from Reuters office in Lisbon. "A
communique is being drafted, and
contradictory interests of the par
ticipants apparently make it diff
cult to draft"
NEAR RUSS LINE
The dispatch, bearing the censor
ship notation, passed for publica-
tion," was carried by the British
Exchange Telegraph agency and
said that, according to news from
Ankara, the big three" had begun
their historic conference at Tabriz,
$50 miles northwest of Tehran and
only go miles south of=the Russian
Caucasian border.
A broadcast by the Nazi Vichy
radio also said the meeting had
begun at Tabriz and asserted that
Mr.. Roosevelt and Churchill we're
accompanied by Gen. Sir Bernard
l.. Montgomery commander of the
British Eighth army now in Italy.
There has been widespread specu-
lation that the three heads of states
would discuss details of an Allied
squeeze on the Balkans with Brit
ish and possibly American troops
hopping off from Italy, the Levant
or Africa and the Red army thrust
ing from the east, Montgomery's
troops now hold Bari and Brindisi.
the two main ports of southeastern
Italy from which Italy began her
invasions of Jugoslavia. Albania and
Greece.
ARMY PLANS MOVE
General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
supreme Allied commander in the
Mediterranean, presided over
meeting of some of his Mediter-
ranean staff in Egypt Immediately
following the Roosevelt Churchill
Chang conference, but there has
been no confirmation that Mont
gomery was present.
A United Press dispatch from
Ankara said the newspaper illus,
Continued on page 6, col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
Russ Onslaught
0verruns Road
To Polish Line

MOSCOW, Dec. 3. CUP)-General
Konstantin Rokossovsky has driven
the Germans from commanding
road junction~northeast of Zhlobin
and pinned them back against the
Dnieper in strategic victory pre-
saying the capture of the White
Russian rail hub, front dispatches
reported today.
Attacking in force at dawn Thurs
day, Red army assault forces over
ran the vital highway system above
zhlobin and now are threatening
to ortflank the town in maneuver
to squeeze out the Germans and
break open the road to- Poland.
NO USE TO NAZIS
The attack neutralized Dovsk,
which controls the Mogilev- Gomel
and Krichev Bobruisk highways.
The threat to zhlobin, junction of
the Leningrad-O Odessa and Gomel-
Minsk railroads, was so keen that
it had virtually lost its value as a
gateway for the Germans with
drawing from the Gomel sector.
A blackout was clamped on the
crucial battle of the Kiev Bulge in
the Korosten, Cherniakhov and
Brussilov sectors, which had not
been mentioned since the Russians
fell back from Korosten.
The Germans were believed to
have undertaken a powerful new
thrust, with the result still hang
ing in the balance. So far as was
known, the Germans, though fore
ing theRuSsians to make several
Withdrawals, still had failed to
break through.
Farther south the Russians drove
into the northeastern suburbs OF
Znamenka, rail junction controlling
one Of the main German lines OF
retreat from the Dnieper bend.
Stepping up their attacks south
west of Kremenchug with a slight
improvement in the weather, Gen.
Rodion Malinvosky's forces seized
Dmitrovka, six miles north OF
znamenka, and six other towns and
villages and pressed on toward the
big junction itself.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
Raj Again Hits,
Fires Berlin

Swarms of German night fighters
and hundreds of antiaircraft batter
les slashed at the British armada
all the way from the North Sea
to Berlin and back, shooting down
Al of the 600-odd bombers involved
in the main assault and in subsid-
iary light attacks on western Ger
many
Early reports indicated the raid
had added heavily TO the devasta-
ton created in Berlin during the
past two weeks.
Observers believed Air Chief
Marshal Sir Arthur T. Harris. chief
of the Raj bomber command, now
is committed to a series of 1000 10
1900 ton raids against Berlin until
the capital has been knocked out.
Unofficial reports said a stern
warning Of that impending de-
struction will be delivered TO the
Nazis by President Roosevelt. Prime
Minister Churchill. and Premier
Stain at a war strategy confer
ence that may already be In prog
ress in Iran.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
Kenny Confers
With County
Official Unit

Attorney General Robert w. Ken
ny met with southern members of
the California District Attorneys
association at a zone conference
in Ell Centre Friday to consider the
extradition of fugitives and the re-
lation of county taxes to property
and land acquired by the federal
government.
The attorney general is informing
himself on the problems confront
ing the district attorneys and will
discuss the matters over with Gov
ernor Earl Warren and then inform
the district attorneys of Gov. War;
ren's policies in the matter.
SERIOUS PROBLEM
This problem of extraditing fugi-
tives from one state to another is
an important one in California at
present." Kenny said. Since April,
1910, California has received 1885,
600 new people and the adjustment
of their personal affairs with their
former home states has become a
veXing problem to district attor-
neyS."
Several district attorneys present
asked about the correct handling
of the taxes on land and property
taken over by the federal govern
ment.
Kenny explained that some fed
eral agencies had policy of pay
ing the county in which the land
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03

mander in the Pacific, was con-
spicuously absent from the Cairo
conference, though both he and
Nimitz presumably will play lead
ing roles in the smashing of Japan's
empire.
MacArthurS next amphibiouS
lunge may be against New Britain
and Rabaul, the Pearl Harbor" of
the southwest Pacific.
Referring to the Cairo declara-
ton, Curtain said his discussion
with Macarthur had particular
reference to the sentence referring
to prolonged operations" and were
condition by their joint realization
that final victory in the Pacific
must wait on events in Europe.
Curtin acknowledged aid from
Britain and expressed thanks to tho
United States who sent naval, lane
and air forces to this theater Of
American strategic responsibility"
Curtin's statement recalled that
the government recently decided to
re-balance Australia's entire war
effort to prepare for the offensive
period and to remove some of the
stresses and strains which dire
neceSSity imposed"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
BY LOWELL BENNETT
Fer Combined American Press

A BRITISH BOMBER STATION
IN THE MIDLANDS, Dec. l. (UP)
Berlin is going to be attacked
again tonight by hundreds of four
engined bombers which will ava
lanche down tons of explosives and
incendiarieS into the Nazi heart
and capital.
1t may be one of the most con-
centrated raids of the war.
1 am flying in one of three Lam
casters which alone will drop hun
dreds of incendiarieS as well as
4,000-pound cookies"
With scores of others rising from
surrounding airdromes we are about
to take off in the late afternoon
to join a vast stream laundering
toward the European coast in the
darkening sky. This report is be-
ing made after our briefing meet
ing.
1t is written before we leave in
the event that "B for Bolty," (Ben-
nett's plane), and myself do not
return to make a fuller eyewitness
account of the raid and its effect.
That attack will be carried out as
planned and prepared, it seems cer-
tain to this observer, for the thor
oughness with which the whole as
pect of defenses, route, and weather
was studied precluded failure.
And much more important to the
airmen who are leaving - among
some thousands who are partici-
pating in the vast offensive - was
their own certainty that the raid
would be a success.
The captain of "B for Bolty" is
Scottish flight lieutenant. The
Continued on page 6, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD
United Press Staff Correspondent

WITH THE FIFTH ARMY IN
ITALY, Dec. 3.-American fighter
bombers unleashed a terrific dawn
to-dusk attack against the center
of the German winter line today,
blasting a 10-mile stretch of the
Nazis mountain defenses with more
than 100 tons of high explosives
and hundreds of augmentation
bombs.
British and American spitfire pi-
lots provided a tight fighter cover
for the U. S. invaders and War
hawks which pounded the enemy
lines all the way from North Vena-
fro to Mont Casino.
From a front-line observation
post, l watched the attack through
field glasses and saw the effective
ness of the American bombing and
strafing.
One German mule-pack caravan
Z was caught in the open while
struggling up the sides of "bare-
bottom hill' SO called because of
its complete lack of trees or shrub
berry. The fighter-bombers swept
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
yonks Blast Ndzi
Lines in Italy

down at low level and wiped out
the caravan in burst of machine
gun fire and augmentation bombs.
The attack planes carried out 280
sorties and hit almost every noun
tain side in the area, while Allied
artillery supported their fire with
a heavy bombardment of the Nazi
gun positions.
The Luftwaffe made no attempt
TO interfere with the daylong aerial
bombardment although a few
German planes attempted sneak
raids against the fifth army posi-
tions from time to time.
Among the German mountain
positions battered by the fighter
bombers were Mount Trocchio, just
southeast of Casino, and the San
Ambrogio region directly south of
Mount Trocchio.
Maggiore Hill, the northernmost
German position in this area, was
blasted by Warhawks with eight
tons of high explosives, while the
invaders hit the same target with
both high explosives and frag-
mentation bombs and then ma
chine-gunned mule trains and other
road traffic around the hill.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-03
Valley Pioneer
Dies in Pasadena

Paul B. Steintorf, 81, native of
Madison, Kansas, and a Calexico
pioneer, succumbed Wednesday at
his home in Pasadena after an ILL
ness of several months.
Mr.. Steintorf came to the county
in 1904 with his father the late
j. F. Stentorf who was active in
lumber and banking in Holtville
and Calexico. The 320-acre ranch
in the Bond Corner area is still
owned by the family.
He was one of the organizers
of the Calexico chamber of COM
merce in 1922. From 1918 to 1923,
inclusive, he was city recorder.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed Saturday at 11:00 a m. at the
Turner and Stevens Mortuary, 95
North Marengo avenue, Pasadena.