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Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21

river, only 80 miles to the west, and
drove a wedge through the main
line of German defenses between
Gomel and Kiev.
Gen. KonStantin RokoSsovsky's
army of the central front forced the
Desna before Chernivog and with
a skilful outflanking maneuver
after three days of fighting" took
the city by storm today, Stains
order said.
DEFENSES OVERCOME
Thus the German defenses pre-
pared by them on the western bank
of the Desna have ben overcome by
our troops along the whole course
of the river, and the German plan
to halt the offensive of our troops
at the river Desna position must be
considered a failure" Stain added
At Chernigov the railroad run
ming across the extreme northwest
ern tip of the Ukraine joins the
Gomel Nezhin ling. Highways
radiate to Kiey, Gomel and Kre-
menchug.
The topping of the German de-
fense Bastion heightened the Red
army threat to the Dnieper river
line, as well as unhinging the outer
defenSeS of Kiey and Gomel.
MOSCOW, Sept 21.-CUP)-Red
armies, clearing the Germans from
1000 villages a day, pounded west
ward within 10 miles of White Rus
sia, is miles of the Dnieper river,
27 miles of Kiev and 80 miles OF
Smolensk today in the greatest
Soviet offensive of the war.
The Germans were being thrown
back to the Dnieper river at such
pace they had no opportunity to
Continued on page 6, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
S1,204,700 IN
WAR BONDS SOLD
IN THIRD DRIVE

Imperial county's third
war loan campaign gained
momentum Tuesday when
bond officials reported that
S1,204,700 worth of certifi-
Gates had been sold out of Sep
tember quota of $3,260,600.
In revealing the figure, Ben Her
ring. county bond secretary, pointed
out that only slightly more than 4
third of the quota had been sold
TO date and emphasized the need
for greater activity among bond
statesmen.
In an effort 10 reach the county
quota a number of special events
are being planned by communities
and firms throughout the district.
TANKS ON DISPLAY
In FL Centre the Sears -Roebuck
store has cleared away stock from
the front portion of its nursery in
the 600 block on Main street and
has on display there two army
tanks. obtained through the cooper
alton Of officials of the u. S. army
ordnance desert proving ground at
Camp Seeley. A, crew of workers
from the Sears store will be sta
tened near the tanks and persons
purchasing defense stamps or bonds
viii be allowed to inspect them.
Children must purchase at least
81 each In defense stamps for the
privilege of peering into the yehi-
cles while adults must purchase an
Continued on page 6. col 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
Defen nd s
Italy
Actions
New Front Soon
To Come; yanks
Now in Sardinia

LONDON. Sept. 21-(UP)
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill, hoping for a meet
ing this year with Premier
Josef V. Stain and Presi-
dent Roosevelt. declared today
that the time is coming" for
mass invasion of Europe on a sec
ond front, but strongly warned
against optimistic hopes for an
early ending of the war.
Churchill said that America and
Britain would select the right time
for second front and that import
ant arrangements had been made at
Quebec and London "for closely
correlated policy and action between
the Soviet union and Great Brit
ain and the United States" He
gave no hint that the second front
would come this year.
LONG REVIEW
The Prime Minister'S lengthy re-
view of the war, delivered to a
crowded and enthusiastic House of
Commons, lasted three hours and
10 minutes.
Churchill said that:
1.-The coming meeting of Amer
lean. Russian and British foreign
ministers or their representatives
would survey the whole war situa-
ton but leave any differences to a
later meeting of Churchill, Roose-
yelt and Stain, which he hoped
before the end of the year would
be of outstanding Significance for
the future of the world The date
and place of the meeting will be
secret until it is ended, he said.
"A potential second front in
Europe-separate from the Medi-
terranean third front"-has not
been actively opened but it exists
potentially and is rapidly gathering
weight"
3-Charges of costly delay in tht
invasion of Italy which permitted
the Germans to seize much of thai
country are untrue. Benito Mus
solini was rescued by Nazi para
troopers only because his Italiar
Caribineri guards failed to obey
Continued on page 8, col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
Our Troops Set to
Carry War to Foe.
Marshall Declares
Chief of Staff Hopes
Early Conclusion of
War to Be Possible

OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 81.
(UP)-Gen. George C. Mar
shall, army chief of staff,
said today that Americas
armed forces = having used
only a small portion of their COM
bat troops-Were now ready to carry
the war to the Axis with power
and force that we hope will bring
this conflict to an early conclu-
SiOn."
He warned, however, against over
optimistic interpretations of war
developments and said that the Of
fensive against the Axis was just
beginning.
Marshall told the annual Ameri-
can Legion convention that he be-
lieved there was "some misunder-
standings as to the degree of
success we have attained" and that
recent moves had been regarded as
final steps in the conflict"
NEARLY COMPLETE
He reported that most of the past
year and a half had been spent
establishing bases for future oper-
alton and that those preparations
were nearly completed.
The army has prepared in North
Africa, Sicily, the United Kingdom,
and the Pacific, and is about to
pre- pare in Italy, for the supply
and maintenance of heavy air and
ground forces, Marshall said, while
at home formidable forces have
been built.
Save for assaults in the air, only
a small portion of our combat
strength has been engaged" he said.
Nov at last we are ready to carry
the war to the enemy, all overseas,
Continued on page 6, col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21

In IL ne OII6TS himself DIS JIlc
G. O. P. nominee-or as a worker
in the ranks-if the Republican
party will drive heart and soul for
liberal detectives"
There was no surprise here in
WILKES ambition again to be the
Republican nominee. But there was
much interest in the spectacular
prominence given him in the maga-
zine which is published by the
Cowles family, which also is a major
factor in midwest politics, news
papers, and radio. It is in the mid
west that Willkie finds, also, some
of his most bitter opposition That
is led by another publisher, Col.
Robert R. Mccormick, of Chicago.
The Look Splash was regarded as
the opening of WILKES campaign.
COWLES FAMILY
Look is run by Gardner Cowles,
jr., president, and John Cowles,
chairman of the board, sons of an
Iowa publishing dynasty with Bed
rock foundations in Des Moines
and Minneapolis.
1t is not news that Willkie Is a
candidate for the 1914 nomination,
but Washington assays the Look
layout as the formal opening of the
campaign. Gardner Cowles was
WILKES companion on his two re-
cent journeys outside the United
States, to Great Britain in l94l and
around the world last year.
WILKES article was based on q
series of direct questions submitted
by the magazine, in one of which ht
was asked whether he would be
available for the 1914 nomination
He replied:
IF the Republican party intends
TO drive heart and soul for liberal
objectives such as I seek to out
line 3. I shall give it my complete
and undertaking service whether as
the conventions nominee or as @
worker in the ranks"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
First Invasion Of
French Soil Made

front. and the streets were decked
with F-ench. American. British. and
Russia. en t,ems.
The DIR. DrIif on the hillsides on
both sides of the harbor entrance
were aflame where German planes
had dropped incendiary bombs. But
the Germans stayed away from the
town.
The warships which carried the
Moroccans had TO dodge one Ger
man U-boat's torpedo and were
spotted by at least three enemy re-
connaissance patrols.
The naval units which carried out
the shock troop landing were a
Submarine which arrived at Ajaccio
at dawn on Sept. i3. followed by
destroyers at midnight.
1t was the first invasion of
French European soil and the first
all-French operation by the re-
created French army and navy IN
Africa. The French used their
fastest warships TO skirt Sardinia.
to the south OF this island.
Excited Corsians told me that
Continued on page 8. col So
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21

he declared LnaJ ne is having
trouble with many white and Negro
men who refuse to work on valley
farms urged to accept employment
there Most of the Mexican farm
laborers are good about accepting
work" he said, land of course there
are some whites and Negroes who
are conscientious about accepting
employment on the farms.
MANY REFUSE
But there are too many men who
aren't helping us farm even though
they are deferred from military
service" Garrigues said.
Tuesday morning four Of the
five men rounded up from saloons,
bars, and pool halls to fill an order
for five men, refused to work. The
prevailing wage is so cents an
hour but the farmer offered the
men 81 and half cents an hour
because it was a special job for a
short time. A Mexican went to
work, three Negroes refused to go,
and one Negro tried to sneak out
before I could get chance to talk
w iiAiii aOooo Jo0. L 6oV iiAAii VIC
fore he could get away and took
him to the farmer The Negro
wouldn't work.
He said that some of the men he
tried to get to work on the farms
would tell him they didn't want to
do farm labor out would rather
load hay for a few days for So or
$40 and then loaf the rest of the
time.
GREATER PROBLEM
AS the fall planting season ad-
vances the demands for farm labor
will increase, making the problem
still greater.
IF these men were deferred from
military service to work on farms, "
Garrigues said, they ought to be
made to work or sent to the army
It isn't fair to the men in the
service and it isn't fair to the farm
ers to permit these men to loaf
around and work only when they
take a notion or when they have
Continued on page 6. col 81
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friend-to.Friend
Sales Punishable

Ell Centro War Price and Ration
ing board officials warned Tuesday
that persons who violate Office of
Price Administration ceiling prices
in selling second hand refrigerators
washing machines and similar used
household goods, even on "a
friend -to-friend" basis, are subject
to penalties provided under federal
regulations.
In many instances, rationing Of
ficials pointed out, little or no at
tention is paid to existing ceiling
prices when such sales are made.
The Ell Centro rationing office
will supply list of ceiling prices
on such commodities if sellers re-
quest it.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
Libs Smash Deep
Into Reich Heart

CAIRO. Sept 2i-(UPl-Amer-
lean Llberator bombers from the
middle east smashed deep into
italy yesterday 20 bomb a German
air field near Venice and the COM
munications terminal OF Peseara on
the Adriatlc - miles from Rome,
a communique announced today.
The big. four-engined bombers hit
the Castelfranco Veneto airfield q
miles northwest Of the ancient port
Of Venice. rocking The area with an
explosion Poor visibility prevented
extended observation
No planes sere lost IN either at
tack. Il reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21

HItIl were organized year ago
under the emergency farm fire
protection program. Because of a
fear of sabotage, the farmers made
haste to build up the membership
in each rural area SO that there
would be a trained group to fight
fire.
Two pieces of fire engines were
allocated to the rural areas, one
located in Brawley and one in Ell
Centre, and arrangements made for
the city firemen to man the trucks.
In addition a truck load of hand
fire fighting equipment was allo-
Gated to the county, including sew
eral hand spraying machines.
Each area in the county has an
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
Russians CrunnpIe
NQzi DeSnuLineS

LONDON, Sept 21.-UP)-Rus-
sian assault forces crumpling the
last section of the German defenses
based on the Desna have burst
across the river 80 miles above Kiev
and captured the railroad junction
of Chernigov in three days of fierce
fighting, Moscow announced today.
Premier Marshal Josef Stain
hailed the capture of Chernigov in
an order of the day. describing it
as the most important center of
German resistance on the lower
teaches of the Desna.
The fall of Chernigov laid open
the Red army way to the Dnieper
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
Kingsley Wood
Dies in Britain

LONDON, Sept. FL. - (UP)-
Sir Kingsley Wood, GA, Chancellor
of the Exchequer and former head
of the air and health ministries,
died today.
Wood suffered a heart attack
at his London apartment.
He had been expected to an
nounce soon in Commons the
introduction of a pay-as-yOu-go
scheme for workers to meet in
come taxes.
Wood. nicknamed "Cherub" and
one of Britain's most energetic
statesmen, became Chancellor of
the Exchequer in May, 1910, after
serving two years in the air min
istry while Britain was preparing
for the air battle against Ger
many. ;
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
BY DANA A. SCHMIDT

AJACCIO, Corsica, Sept. H.
tDelayed) - CUP) = Dark-skinned
Moroccan Fusiliers landed at this
island capital one hour after mid
night today in a naval operation
supporting the landing of French
shock troops four days ago Neither
force encountered any opposition
here.
l accompanied the second force
AT a place within sight of Ma
poleons birthplace, watched
French officers hurrying the tough
Moroccan mountain troops down
the gangplanks.
Crowds of Corsicans gesticulated
in wild enthusiasm at the water
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
ALLIES BEGIN OFFENSIVE TO TAKE NAPLES
What Difference
Does Il Make?

JOLIET, ILL.,, Sept. 21.-tUP)
Roger "the terrible" tOuhy was
amused and Indifferent today at
the selection of jury to try him
and two associates for aiding Ed
ward Darlak in an escape from
the Stateville prison last Oct. 8,
when T0uhy and six others fled
over the prison wall.
The Chicago gangster, who with
Matthew Nelson and William Ste
wart faces a sentence of 1879 years
in addition to the So he is serv-
ing now, maintained cynical
attitude and said:
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21

area fireman and an assistant TO
head the work.
Because many persons have left
the county, Winright said, ''it will
be necessary TO confer with the
area firemen and If necessary as
sist him in building UP his mem-
bership to a safe level. Also We will
check over the equipment and see
that it is in good order"
Winright said he planned to get
committees organized before fire
prevention week and with these
committees visit the different areas
during the week during which the
whole nations attention IL direct
ed toward the prevention OF fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
Medium Bombers
Strike Near Paris

LONDON, Sept. 2l.-CUP)-Am-
erican Marauder medium bombers
opened new series of Allied air
attacks on Axis Europe today with
a raid on the Tile airdrome at
Beauvais, 35 miles north of Paris.
Strong formations of other bomb
ers also swept across Dover straits
toward north France on offensive
missions. One formation took nearly
half hour to cross the English
southeast coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
New AIIotments Of Mexican
Workers Promised Valley

Farmers of Imperial Valley have
heen virtually assured of suffi-
lent labor to carry out fall opera
tons with receipt of word from the
Mexican government that large
armber of Mexican nationals will
arrive in the district for work on
farms in october, it was revealed
Tuesday.
The Imperial Valley Farmers as
sociation made requests for two
separate groups of Mexican nation
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21

the Italian mainland front.
In late dispatch from the Sal
erno front, south of Naples, United
Press War Correspondent Reynolds
Packard said an Allied offensive
was we'll under way and several
more towns had been captured. The
Americans and British were showing
the Germans back to the north. The
Nazis we're resorting to demolitions
as they retired, after vainly attempt
ing counterattack near Salerno
On Corsica, where Allied destroy
ers and submarines were shelling
forces held Ajaccio, the capital on
the west coast, and are pushing the
enemy back to fortified positions
on the east and south coasts. Ger
man bombers started big fires in the
brush country around Ajaccio
BRITISH INvDE
Cairo dispatches said the Ital-
ian Dodecanese islands of Cos, LerOs
and Samos in the eastern Mediter-
ranean, near Turkey, had been held
by British land troops for several
days, presumably after landings
from Syria. The islands provide
important air bases, outflanking the
Germans on Rhodes and Crete.
There was no further indication
that the seizures were the begin-'
ming of an invasion of the Greek
area although Nazi broadcasts re-
Gently had suggested such move. } i
Their enmity temporarily forgot
ten in a common hatred of the
Nazis, the Italian garrison of 4O,-
600 officers and men, neWly-landed
French commandos and hundreds of
native guerillas joined in an Of
fensive to win Corsica as an Allied
springboard for possible invasions
of south France and northern Italy
German forces on the island at
last reports totalled only 10000 men,
but it presumably would be possible
for German Marshal Erwin ROM
mel, commander of area, to put re-
Inducements ashore through the
Nazi-held port of Bastia on the
northeast coast.
The landing of French comman-
dos on Corsica was announced by
Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, French
commander in chief, in a commune
que that reported events had taken
"a favorable turn"
On the Fifth army front on the
Italian mainland American and
British troops expanded their Sal
erno-Agropoli bridgehead and drove
s.,1a
Battipaglia to capture Eboli, Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhowers communi-
que reported.
CONTINUES ADVANCE
The British Eighth army, which
already had made a junction with
Lieut.. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth
army, continued to advance in
the face of light resistance" the
communique said.
While the direction of the Eighth
army's advance was not announc-
ed, it was presumed that Anglo
Canadian troops were pushing in
land from the west coas. in an
effort to complete occupation OF
all southern Italy below line from
Salerno on the west coast to Bari
on the east. Bari was captured last
week by the British Fifth corps
after landing at laramie on the
south coast.
Front dispatches said the Fifth
army was meeting little resistance
in its drive eastward into the in
terror from it's hard-won beach,
head, but had run into stiff opposi-
Continued on Page 6. Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21

ais for October. The organization
requested 500 for arrival between
Oct. lilo and 500 for arrival be-
tween Oct. 1920. The exact num-
ber of workers to be sent has not
been stated but farm leaders took
the granting of the request to mean
that numbers near the original re-
quests would be sent.
Although extremely heavy opera
tons begin In October, efforts will
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21

be made to keep a number OF
Mexican farm workers In the valley
throughout the winter months. The
workers will come 10 the district
under terms of an agreement reach
ed last year between the govern
ments of Mexico and the United
States. Their arrival in October
will mark the second year Mexieans
nave imported for Use as farm
iaborers.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21

LONDON, Sept. 81. UP)-All
the west part of Corsica now Is
liberated, a French communique
broadcast from Algiers said to-
day in reporting that French
forces which landed On the island
were giving vigorous support to
patriot armies fighting the Ger
mans,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
DodecQneSe Isles
Token by British
AS Front Widens

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa, Sept. 81
(UP)-Allied forces broadening their Mediterranean Of
fensve have seized three strategic Dodecanese islands, TAX
Sardinia, driven the Germans back in Corsica and
battling toward the Naples plain after capturing Ebol
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
RuroIFire Dep'ts
Will Be Revomped

Reorganization of Imperial county's 23 rural fire de-
partments will take place during national fire prevention
week Oct to g. Assistant Farm Advisor George Wnright
announced Tuesday.
These fire departments with total membership of 230
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
Draft boord Told
Of Farm 'Loufers'

81 going to give the selectve service boards the
Of who refuse to work the farms in Imperial
Valley they deferred from military service because
they alleged they farm laboers Farm Labor Direc-
tor George Garrigues said Tuesday,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
WiIIkie to Seek
COP Nomination
Former Republican Nominee Will Again
Be in Presidential Race IF Party viii
Trv for Lib eral Obie c+ives. He Declares

WASHINGTON, Sept. q. (UP)-Wendell L. WILKES
that he is out after the 1914 Republican
presidential nomination the nations neWsstands to-
day between the slick paper of Look, magazine
with publishing deep in the fertile Mississippi Valley
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-21
WE IIER

Maximum Monday llo. minimum
Tuesday 20. ) am. Tuesday =. ha-
midity II noon Tuesday Ieai hn-
midiiy 35. ; pm. hon. le5. hum. ~
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-14
Mt. Cory School Notes

Chapel was in charge of Mr.. Sim
kins, Tuesday. The following pro-
gram was given: Group song, "God
Bless America;" Devotionals, Dottv
Bowersox; Short speeches, Wanda
Montgomery of Ohio State University.
Eloise Bowersox of Bliss Business
College in Columbus, and Edith Stu
Der of Bowling Green university;
Talk-"Panics," County Agricultural
Agent, Forest G. Hall.
Graduates who visited the school
during their Christmas vacation were:
Richard Herman, Robert Haas, Wan
da Montgomery, Eloise Bowersox,
Edith Stuber and Bernita Holmes.
George Bass has enrolled as a third
grade pupil from the Leipsic school.
Miss Olive Obee has obtained 300
county library books from the Findlay
Public Library as additional reading
material for the high school pupils.
A 500 bond and S25 bond were
sold last Wednesday. s21.60 worth
of stamps were also sold.
hTere will be an intramural girls
basket ball game played before the
Liberty game scheduled to be played
Friday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1943-01-14
Beaverdam

Harold Murfn of tn u. S. Navy
stationed at Rhode Island, was calling
on friends the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Koogler were
Wednesday visitors of Mr.. and Mrs.
10 Heffner and daughter near La
| fayette.
| Russell Downey entertained the
members of the Epworth League of
the Methodist church at his home on
Thursday evening"
Mr.. and Mrs. Gross and family
moved last week to Uniopolis. Mrs.
Dora Roberts is moving into the
property vacated by the Gross family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pendleton Solomon
are at Ada caring for James Phillips
who is seriously i'll. @
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Strayer and
daughters of Kalida were last Sun
day dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. 7.
". Stirn. *
Mrs. Edwin Keiffer spent the past
week with her husband at Camp Van
Darn, Miss. Ge
DIR. and Mrs. Gail Miller, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. J. Lutterbein, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Crawford of Lima were Mon
day evening dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gail Arnold.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Odle of Wapa-
koneta are the new proprietors of
the Shell gas station. u 81 rsH
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Clark and
family of Lima were last Sunday eve
visitors of Mr.. and Mrs. John Clark
and Ellen.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. C. Arnold Of La
fayette were Tuesday afternoon call
ers of Mr.. and Mrs. Merrill Anold.
The Women's Society of Christian
Service held an all day meeting on
Thursday at the home of Mrs. Ed
Cook. The ladies spent the day in
sewing for the Red Cross. A covered
dish lunch was served at the noon
hour.
/ Sgt. Joe McHenry of Camp Perry
spent the week end with his mother,
Mrs. Rose McHenry.
Pvt. Walter c.. Beck and wife of
Camp Dix, N. !. are spending the
wee kwith the latter's mother, Mrs.
Mae Bailey.
/ Ensign Lloyd F. Fowler was grad
uated January 7 at Purdue university
where he received intensive Laboratory
instruction in advanced Diesel engine
theiry.