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Revision Seen
in S'~~ly of
War Material

Washington, Sept 25 ms
Large scale revision OF the nations
war production program doomed to-
day under the direction OF mil
itary board OF high Army and Navy
officers responsible directly to the
joint chiefs of staff.
By-passing the civilian.controlled
WPB, President Roosevelt announ-
ced the creation OF joint produc-
ton survey committee Of two Army
and two Navy officers TO plan fu.
ture production programs in the
light of changing military strategy.
The committee will intensity cur
rent efforts TO reexamine the over
all production picture. eliminate
unnecessary programs and bal
ance the output of war material
with actual battlefront require.
ments which are constantly SHIFT
Ase.-
STypical OF the problems TO be
handled by the military board and
the results TO be obtained are:
J. Cancellation OF contracts for
construction OF bases in the Carib
bean area in view of the decreased
enemy threat to this sector,
2. Review OF the United States
coastal defense program in light
OF lessened invasion possibilities.
3. Suspension OF operations OF
fifty million dollar armor plate
mill in Barry. Ind. following a
cutback In the tank program
War Mobilization Director James
F. Byrnes said there would be no
diminution in the overall produc-
ton effort. but that only items OF
primary Importance would be
produced.
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Wheeler Draft Bill May be
Turned Back to Committee

en- into before men with children
are indicted.
I. The $4,000 workers OF draft
age on government pay rolls.
2. The S,412.0OO men in class
At, OF whom two million could be
taken FOR Army service by lowering
physical standards.
3. The 1,50S, 900 non-fathers now
holding occupational deferments IN
industry.
4. The 275,000 men between IS
and - released from the Army by
presidential order.
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Bond Sales
Still Slow

Ypsilanti's faltering bond sales
moved forward slightly Friday.
adding s12,6is to the bond total,
bringing the city's score to 1885.
1877 OF the S1.17O,00O quota. Plans
for raising f bond sales 10 com
pare with sales of investment Sc
curities we're underway today, as
retailers planned to hold Retail
ers Bond Night Monday evening.
with concentrated effort in all re-
tail stores on the sale OF f bonds.
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London, Sept. 25-UP 49, Lord
Beaverbrook, outspoken proponent
OF a second front, was returned 20
the British cabinet as lord privy
seal today in re-shuffle believed
designed TO strengthen the raven.
ment for postwar planning.
Thote was no immediate indica
ton nf what task Beayerbrook
would be given. but 1t was assun-
ed tina: Prime Minister Churchill
would assign him an active rather
than passive role outside the i'm.
mediate scope OF the war cabinet
Despite his agitation for an early
invasion Of western Europe. II was
learned authoritatiyely that Beaver
brook will not have a seat in the
inner or war cabinet. Morning
newspapers avoided speculation on
Beavorbrook's assignment and
some referred to him as the "mys-
te man" in the cabinet.
Comics houphf traded sold
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Beayerbrook. millionaire publish
er OF Inc London Daily Express and
Evening Standard. left the govern
ment IS months ago after holding
four portfolios under Churchill, the
most important Of which was air.
craft production minister during
the crucial days OF the battle Of
Britain AS supply minister he ac-
compsnied Churchill on his historic
visit 10 Moscow.
Other cabinet changes announe.
ed by Churchills Office today were:
Chancellor OF the exchequer-Sif
John Anderson. former lord presi-
dent Of the Council, in succession
to the late Sir Kingsley Wood.
Lord president OF the Council
Glenn ant r. Attlee. former dominion
secretary, in succession to Ander-
son.
Domlnions secretary Viscount
Cranb1fne. former lord privy seal,
in sue ession TO Attlee
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CHfCAGO-UP 49, The doctor
shortage will grow more acute than
ever. the American Medical Asso-
citation Journal said today. PreDar-
ed from a survey by the t. s. Pub
lie Health Service. the War Man
power Commission. the Federal
Works Agency. and the AMA's Pro
curement and Assignment Service.
an article in the journal said the
armed forces have commission 81
only slightly more than 50 per
cent OF their stated needs.
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BUFFALO. N. Y.-UP-A Civil
Air Patrol plane, converted into :
flying hospital to carry 13-day-old
Beverly Helen Primus to Fall Riv-
er, Mass, y have her upside-down
stomach righted. took off from
Buffalo Airport Friday for Provi-
dence n. l.. after an overnight stop
TO renleniNh its OXYGEN supply.
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swAsTIKAs SPUR TRAINING

FORT JACKSON. S. C.-UP -
Men e.! the Tooth Division, recently
on maneuyers, were surprised TO
peet two tanks cruising around the
held with the Nail swastika blsz-
oned on their sides. when the order
came - Are, they put heart and
soul into destroying them. Officers
had swastika-ed the tanks TO give
the sham battle more realism.
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Beaverbrook Returned to British Cabinet

Minister OF state-Richard l..
Law.
Attlee will continue as deputy
prime minister in his new capacity,
Anderson will continue as a mem
Der Of the war cabinet and Gran
borne will continue as leader OF
the House OF Lords, the announce
ment aid.
Certain consequential appoint
ments will be made known later,
IL added.
Beazerbrook and Anderson are
known as two OF Britain's best
organizers and this. coupled with
tho raising Of Law. parliamentary
foreign undersecretary. 10 minis
terlal 3 atus. indicated that Church.
III was oyerhauling his government
10 meet pre-reconstruction prob
lens.
Law represented Britain at both
the Hot Springs food and the Der
muda refugee conferences.
o. 90 Effs afrCraff ian. fonLa
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AUSTIN. Tex.-UP-R. J. Tho
mas. president OF the United Az
tomoble Workers and vice presl
dent ~ the 10 went to court in a
test case today to show cause why
be should not be held in contempt
OF court for soliciting union mem.
berships without a license.
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Americans Smash ForUard
on Naples; Reds Threaten
Key 7owns Along Dnieper
Key Jap Base
Now Believed
lettering

New York. sept. 2S-iNs-- The
regular eommunIque OF the German
high command to-day confirmed aH
earlier report by the DNB agency
that Mari forces had evacuated
Smolensk and RosIsVl on the cen.
traI front In Russia, the FEC re-
ported.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-09-25

WASHINGTON-INS- Comptrol
ler-General Lindsay c. Warren re.
ported to the Senate Small Bust
ness Committee today that war
agencies are settling claims OF war
contractors by illegal and loose
methods that may cause the gov
ernmont huge losses. Warren fol.
lowed,this blistering criticism with
a proposal that Congress make the
general accounting ofilce-the one
big government accounting agency
final arbiter OF claims OF war con.
tractors.
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Flashes Of
Late News
THE WEATHER: Tonight:
Little change

WASHINGTON - UP - Plant
guards who are members of the
Coast Guard police must obey
Navy Department orders without
regard to union contracts, the War
Labor Board held today in a de-
cision of Observation-Disclosures i'm
portance. The ruling was made By
the board In a decision ordering
the United Automobile Workers
CuiO) and the Brewster. Aeronauti-
cal Corp. to sign an unusual con
tract covering workers at the COM
panys three eastern plants.
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FALL RIVER, Mass.-UP- Four
physicians at Truesdale Hospital
were to examine IA day old Beverly
Helen Primus today to determine
when they will operate to correct
her upside-down stomach. The
baby, brought here in IN oxygen
tent on a cross-country flight from
Des Moines, Ia, will be the young
est person in medical history to
undergo an upside-down stomach
operation.
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fBy International News Service
United Nations forces. on three
widely-separated battlefronts. con.
tinued today to register important
gains as the Axis found Its posi-.
lions in Italy. Russia and New
Guinea rapidly deteriorating.
The American Fifth Army con.
tinued its about offensive against
the Germans In the Naples area
and smashed relentlessly forward
Yank and British troops under
Lieut.. Gen. Mark W. Clark drovs
a salient OF more than three miles
Into the Nazi positions north OF
Contursi as Allied and German IN.
fantry locked in fierce combat 10
control the vital west coast ltal.
Ian port.
In Russia. powerful Red Army
forces smashed into German posi-
lions all along the Dnieper River
defense line. increasing the threat
TO Smolensk Kley and Dnieprope-
trovsk. In many places the river
was reached and, according 10 the
Nazl agency DNB, forced llitler's
troops TO eyaeuate the huge opera
tlonal base at Smolensk.
Forced to Withdraw
Berlin also admitted that Nazi
forces had been forced TO withdraw
from Roslavl. important rail town
on the Smolensk Bryansk line.
Even IS the fall OF these German
stronghods awaited confirmation,
Allied observers anticipated the,
impending capitulatiou Of Finscht
hafen. key shipping base OF tho
Japanese in New Guinea.
Australian jungle troops, land
cd several days ago from an amphl-
hious task force. were reported Of
ficially to have seized the landing
field adjoining the port and to have
taken up positions on the nearby
Bumi River
BY far. OF course. the greatest al
tention focused upon the Allied
troops surging up the Italian PENN
sula.
Intense Firing
Intense artillery fire from both
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-09-25

WASHINGT0N-UP- Chairman
Tom Connally. D., Tex, Of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee
was reported today to have the
backing of the State Department II
his determination to delay Senate
debate on postwar international
policy. Connally's committee has
before II more than a dozen reso-
lutions dealing with the subject
and Is being pressed for action.
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Wanted Experienced seamstress
SINCE Shop. 81 y. Huron. 9i2-N
Adv. 925
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NEW YORK-lNS-The Veter-
ans of Foreign Wars placed them
selves beside the American Legion
today to demand that the next
peace be made permanent. At a
press conference preceding the nd.
tional encampment which opens
Tuesday, Commander-in-C Chief Rob
ert T. Merrill. of Havre, Mont.
said: The veterans OF the present
and Of World War One want no
more dates with destiny. Con.
gress. he added. SHOULD tell the
people today that this country is
ready TO join with other nations
to maintain peace-by force II
necessary"
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/ Hot Point electric range. Basin
cite. Teeter- Babe, occasional table,
straight backed chairs. 1899 Nor
folk, Willow Run Village. Adv. 925
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OPENING FOR CARRIDR BOY
APPLY DAILY PR-SS
Adv. 924
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Comics bought. traded, sold.
Hobby Shop, 5t9 W. Cross Adv. s7S
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and war stamps. Bond officials
have stressed that the great need
here in the bond drive is to pro
mote the E bond sale, which they
declare is far behind its quota.
Investment securities bonds sold
TO date total S632.654, while E bond
totals are S202,54S. A total OF
s334.s03 remains to be sold Of Up
silantfs bond quota. and both gal
lants and investment securities
statesmen are concentrating their
efforts on the sale OF E bonds.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-09-25

CHICAGO-INS-Allied military
government will be ready to as
sumo jurisdiction Immediately as
each Axis occupied country has
been liberated, Maj. Gen. John II.
Hildring. chief of the Army Civil
Affairs Committee, said in Chicago
today. Details of tailor made
governments to fit individual needs
are being worked out now by ex-
perts familiar with the problems OF
each occupied country so there will
be no delay in setting up the AMG,
Gen. Hildring said.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-09-25

NEW YORK-INS-Mrs. Flea
nor Roosevelt. much-traveled First
Lady, was scheduled to return 10
Washington today. The Presidents
wife spent day and a night rest
ing at her New York apartment
after returning yesterday on the
last lap of an air journey which
took her to New Zealand, Austria
liza. and other South Pacific islands.
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See CURRENCY-Page 5
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See WAR Page ;
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LONDON-UP- Benito Musso-
lini's return to North Italy started
new waves of sabotage against the
German armed forces supporting
his new Fascist puppet regime,
Swiss reports said today. A Bern
dispatch said an official German
announcement acknowledged out
breaks throughout North Italy and
it was understood Nazi Field Mar
shall Albert Kesselring had lined
rail routes with troops in an ef-
fort to maintain communications.
CHICAGO-INS- The fine of
two officials of the c. A. Burnette
Company, Chicago meat packers,
today were set at $4,000 by Federal
Judge Michael l.. Igoe. Peter C.
Petersen, superintendent of pork
sales, was fined $2,125 and Albert
B. Housley, superintendent of beef
sales, was fined 1915. The pair,
pleaded guilty to charges OF yiolat-
ing oPA price ceilings.
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COLUMBUS, S. GINS Police
today praised the action Of John
H. Smiley. IS, OF Greenville, in
overturning his huge trucktrailer
and preventing what might have
been a serious traffic accident.
The truck and trailer outfit was
loaded with 100 drums of gaso-
line by-product weighing 200
pounds each when it started to
roll backwards down a steep hill
late yesterday. The vehicle was
headed for heavy traffic when
Smiley swung the cab around and
upset it. He escaped unhurt.
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See SCRAP-Page s
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-15

be entirely justified in holding off
acceptance of the declaration until
every last condition had been met.
First word of the government
declaration was broadcast from
Rome by the official Stefani news
agency. Swiss frontier advices con-
firmed it.
"The government was awaiting
notification of conditions under
which this declaration would be ac-
cepted
IN view of the repetition of air
attacks on Rome. the center of the
Catholic world, the italian govern
ment has taken the decision to
declare formally and without wait
ing further developments that
Rome is an open city,
American bombers raided Rome
for the first time on July 10 and
repeated the attack yesterday. The
detectives were the same both times
the Littorrio and San Lorenzo
railroad yards and airfields
The first impression gained from
the new italian broadcast was that
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-15

total victory over our enemies. .,
In a statement simultaneously
commemorating the second ami
versary of the signing of the At
lantic charter and the Eighth ami
versary of enactment of the United
States social security law, the presi-
dent said the Force of Liberation"
already are making "A living real
ity" of one principle enunciated in
the charter-self-d determination of
peoples.
The charter was signed by Mr..
Roosevelt and Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill two years ago on a
Warship off the Newfoundland coast.
That was the first of their historic
meetings. Now they are about to
hold a sixth conference, in Quebec,
for a full-dress military review of
strategy for victory. Since 194l,
the Atlantic charter has been en-
bodied in United Nations declara-
ton, signed by representatives of
all the Allied Nations.
LINKS DETECTIVES
Linking the charters objectives
with the purposes of the American
social security laW-Which he said
should be eXtended-Mr. Roosevelt
asserted that:
1--WE recognize the fact that our
enemies are not only Germany,
Italy and Japan: They are all the
forces of oppression, intolerance,
Continued on page 3, col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-15
Young Hitck-hikers
Often Troublesome

Mrs. Leona Jacobs, county proba-
ton officer, Saturday warned dis
trict residents against offering rides
to youthful hitch mixers, stating
that in many cases such action aid
ed youths in committing crimes and
often created expense to counties
in which they were apprehended.
She cited case in which two
girls, one 16 years old and the other
only IA, hitch-hiked to Ell Centro
and were finally arrested by police
authorities after breaking the law
and returned 60 their homes III
northern California at the expense
of the county.
In cases where rides are given
to juveniles auto drivers usually
unknowingly contribute to crimes,
Mrs. Jacobs saio.
The probation officer also re-
vealed that a 22-year-old colored
trusty from the sheriff'S office
who was working at the county
detention home, Leroy Bell, had
been sent to San Quentin for CIV
ing young girls there cigarettes
and matches.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-15

sell him cigarettes, and decide
whether she loved him.
only she never could decide"
said Mrs. Eddington, wrapping pies
for the retail trade. "She couldn't
decide whether she loved Mr.. Flynn,
or whether she just loved the
glamour that surrounded him. She
told me so Saturday night, when
1 put her on an airplane for Mexico.
Yes, she went at Mr.. Flynns invita-
ton. Yes, she went with my bless
ing. Nora is girl with good
head on her shoulders. I'm not
worrying about her"
Mrs. Eddington said she under
stood that her daughter and Flynn
were staying in Acapulco at the
home of countless, whose name
she did not know. The telephone
operator reached the curley-haired
Flynn at the seaside towns leading
hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-15
Record Raid on
SQIQmuuu IS Mode

down with the loss of one Japanese
aircrafto
While the hombers hit the air.
drome its heaviest blow thus far,
80 enemy planes attempted to
intercept but II were shot down,
including six by the Uberators
themselves, for a loss of two Allied
aircraft.
The advance by the southwestern
flank of the troops ringing Bairoko
harbor. lost enemy stronghold on
New Georgia, brought American
troops within three and one-half
miles of the japanese garrison on
that wing. The resistance at Zeita
village was crushed TO permit the
shove forward through the jungleS.
TAKES POUNDING
The enemy's Villa Airdrome, on
Kolombangara island just north
west of New Georgia in the central
Solomons, took a 36-ton pounding
from Liberators, Avengers and
DauntlesS dive -bombers. Villa is
expected to be the next objective
of the conquerors of Munda as soon
as New Georgia resistance is ELI
minated
The heavy air attacks followed a
lifting of stormy weather that had
hampered aerial operations in aid
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Eden May Attend
British.American
Par|ey in Quebec
Military Heads of Staff
Arrive for FR-Churchill
Meeting on War Subjects

QUEBEC, Que, Aug. a
(UP)-The arrivel here of
the United States chiefs of
staffs was accepted today
as indicating that the new
Allied war council would soon get
underway.
Observers in London said that
Foreign Minister Anthony Eden is
likely" to come here to attend the
Roosevelt Churchill conferences
They thought the president and
prime minister might take especial
measures to increase Anglo-Am-
erican collaboration with Russia
but were not certain whether Eden
later will go to Moscow
The time of arrival of the princi-
pies was a closely guarded secret.
Admiral William d. Leahy, who
has offices in the White House
and is in constant communication
with Mr.. Roosevelt on all military
matters as chief of staff to the
commander in chief, headed the
American military personages ar
irving for the conference.
OTHERS INCLUDES:
The others were: General George
c. Marshall, chief of staff, U. S
army; Admiral Ernest j. King, COM
mander in chief OF the fleet; Gen
eral II. H. Arnold, commanding the
army air force, and General Brehon
b. Somervell, chief of supplies.
The announcement of their ar
rival said Brig. Gen. John F.. Dean
secretary to the U. S. army chiefs
of staff would at once settle down
to working out the master military
strategy with the British experts
who arrived with Churchill which
it is hoped. may knock the Euro
pean Axis out of the war this year
They were also expected to study
plans whereby the war may be
carried to Japan, while not relent-
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MexieaIi Enjoys
Greatest BUILDING
Boom Of History
Scores of New Stores,
Homes Going up Across
Border in Old Mexico

MEXICALI, Aug.14
This border city is enjoying
the greatest building boom in
its history with a score of
new, modern residences and
business buildings nearing COM
pletion.
One of the largest and most
ornate of the new structures is the
store building being constructed on
Madero street by Mario Hernandez
prominent border merchant who
will stock it with hardware and
dry goods. Another store which
Hernandez operated on Guerrero
street was recently destroyed by
fire. In that location, however, g
new building is rising that will bt
occupied by drug store.
Two new theatres are fast near.
ing completion on Reforma street
Both are being constructed OF
concrete and will be considerably
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-15

ALLIED HEADQU ARTERS, South
west Pacific, Aug. IA (UP)-Record
air raids spreading ruin in the
enemy Salamaua base and wreck
jng 43 enemy planes at Bougain-
vile and a one-mile advance hack
ed out through Japanese resistance
around Bairoko harbor on New
Georgia island were reported in a
communique today
Dropping nearly four tons of
bombs a minute for As minutes.
Liberators, Flying FortreSses and
Mitchells unloaded $4,000 pounds
of explosives on Salamaua, wiping
out part of the much bombed
town.
Ground troops were poised only
few miles from the northeast
New Guinea coastal base, waiting
to plunge in on the garrison. The
air attack, which caused big fires
and explosions, was the largest
ever staged in the southwest
Pacific.
NO INTERCEPTION
The bomberS met light anti-air-
craft fire and no interception. One
explosion on the Salamaua Isthmus
appeared to have occurred in a
munition or fuel dump while the
whole area was covered with dust
and smoke that rose 6000 feet. The
communique said "the whole area
is in ruins"
At Bougainville, in the northern
Solomons, Liberators, escorted by
Corsairs and Warhawks, dropped
&c tons of bombs on Kahlll air
drome Thursday and pictures show
ed 80 of AZ enemy bombers and
fighters were caught on the field
and destroyed or badly damaged.
"a Japanese communique broad
cast by Tokyo radio admitted some
damage to the BUN area of Bou-
gainville in the raid but said "a of
So planes participating were shot
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Cavalry Battle
Nets General

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 14.-tUP)
The British Eighth army reveal
ed today that it had Won the only
Cavalry battle of the Sicilian
campaign, without casualty.
The Battle" was spirited but
brief engagement between an
Eighth army Provost Marshal and
an Italian Generation Donkey
back.
Two suspicious looking char
acters bObbing along on DOnkeys
were sighted lettering on the
heights overlooking the British
advance. The Provost Marshal
boarded his long cared steed, set
his spurs and gave chase.
The characters fled up the slope,
but the superior horsemanship of
the Marshal helped him overhaul
the strangers. One revealed he
was General Fiumara, of the
NapOli division, who was i'm civ
ilian clothes. The other was his
aide.