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probably about 25 mics south OF
the smoke columns that rose over
Naples, but aerial reconnaissance
showed that the Nazis apparently
counted on abandoning the third
city of Italy and were trying to
make certain that the port would
be of little use to the Allies for
months.
Virtually all ships in the harbor
have been scuttled, docks have been
blocked, and the port area is blast
ed and burning.
The Allied front south of Naples
.as Strengthening out slowly as the
Germans fought to hold hill posi-
tions north of Salerno but fell back
in the sector "a miles east of Saler-
no and in the southern part of
Italy.
The towns of Acerno and Con-
tursi, "a miles east of Salerno, were
brought into the Allied advance,
despite Nazi rear-guard and tank
opposition and the 9Th army took
Avigliano and pushed two miles
east of Auletta, to Caggiono. The
9th army front now extends through
Ginosa, Gioia, and Bari and is be-
ing advanced northWard.
On Corsica, the Allied air and
naval forces we're tightly blockading
the north and eastern coasts to
prevent Nazi evacuation from the
island, where French, American and
Italian patriot forces have smashed
the enemy back toward the north
eastern corner after an important
victory at Solenzaro, about 20 miles
north of Port Vecchio on the east
coast The Germans suffered heavy
losses in men and material.
Reports said the enemy did not
appear to be attempting large scale
evacuation from Corsica now al
though some air evacuation has
been reported and one convoy was
heavily bombed by Allied planes.
The Allied Fifth and Eighth arm
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-23
'PoItava Capture
Is Announced
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pressing an assau-5 arc against
Kiev, capital of the Ukraine after
approaching the Dnieper river on
both sides of the city. A spearhead
was only five miles from the river
below Kiev, Moscow said, suggesting
that the Nazi account of the So
viets reaching the river might rep
resent a fresh advance in that
quarter.
Between the northern and south
ern extremes of the White Russian
frontier. the SovietS moved steadily
westward. closing in on two main
immediate objectives, Smolensk and
RoSlavl.
(The official German news agen-
cy in a Berlin broadcast reported
that Nazi troops had evacuated the
railroad junction of Poltava, 85
miles northwest of Dniepropetrovsk
and 185 miles southeast of Kiev,
according to plan after all military
installations were destroyed
"a Madrid dispatch said we'll
informed sources in Berlin were
expecting Smolensk to fall moment
arily. German troops have begun
pulling out of southern Russia from
Poltava to the Crimea to prevent
possible encirclement If Kiev is
captured, the dispatch added)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-23
Giraud Visits Isle of Corsica

les south of Naples, gathering mo-
mentum as the Germans withdraw
their inland flank, advanced up to
IA miles along a zig-zag front
stretching from a point slightly
north of Salerno on the west coast
to Bari on the east.
The Americans, British and cam
adams were forced to pick their
way. through thick minefields and
over blown-up roads as they pressed
steadily northward
"a German communique broad
cast by the Berlin radio said the
Allies had brought up fresh forces
in the eastern sector of the Italian
front, but had not yet begun furth-
erer offensive operationS)
The days advances moved the
Allied lines as much as IA miles to
the north in some sectors, spokes-
man revealed, and Reynolds Pack
ard, United Press war correspondent
with the Fifth army, said that AM
erican troops now held saddle-like
heights east of Salerno dominating
inland plains, from which they
were sweeping German positions
with mortar and artillery fire.
Both the Fifth and Eighth arm
les continued to advance" the brief
ground forces communique said
The enemy continues to cling hard
to his positions in the western sec
tor, while tending to withdraw his
left flank"
Allied Mitchell and Marauder
medium bomberS attacked enemy
concentrations, positions and COM
munications behind the fighting
lines east and north of Salerno in
support of the Fifth army, while
fighters and fighter -bombers swept
back and forth across the front
virtually without opposition from
the German LuftWaffe.
The Germans sent a few tanks
into the area, where their rear
guard is covering withdrawal on
the left flank.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-23
Allies Battle to
Take Finschafen

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tack by Libera;or5 on Cape Glou-
cester, New Britain, nearest enemy
base to Finschhafen, blows by
medium units against Gasmata,
New Britain and steady strafing
passes at Finschhafen iself, nearby
islands and the New Guinea coast
near Madang.
Four more bridges were destroyed
south of Madang, making eight
knocked out in three days. A 1900
ton enemy freighter was sunk in
the Bismarck sea and three others
damaged in various forays.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-23
UNDERGO CHANGE

Observers here believed that if
Marshall is appointed to the Global
command post, the Anglo-American
combined chiefs of staff the
board of directors" of the war
will undergo a change in compost
ton and perhaps in function.
Some quarters were skeptical,
suggesting that Marshall was in
valuable as chief of staff. Moreover,
these circles said, Washington-not
London-is the logical center for
direction of a war raging in Asia
as we'll as Europe.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-23
King Warns laps
OF New Air Blows
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ed and coordinated IN overwhelm-
ing assault"
King, apparently answering crit
icism that the naval high COM
mand has failed to give aviation
its due, said that -minded dness
in the navy is by no means the ex-
elusive property of the naval avia-
| tor"
He said that American naval
aviation is the most efficient in
existence and has earned the praise
and envy of foreign powers.
ut is the particular business of
the navy to gain and to keep con-
troll of the seas for the support and
execution of our national policies y
he said. ITO accomplish this duty,
we of the navy must be prepared to
defeat the enemy wherever he may
be found on those seas or on the
coasts bordering them"
Previously the Legion had charg-
ed that Rep. Hamilton Fish, r., N.
Y, miSused his congressional frank
ing privileges for dissemination of
propaganda inimical to the United
States"
In a sharply worded resolution,
delegates to the Legion's 23rd an
nual convention charged that Fish
permitted certain groups and in
dividualS, including George Syl-
vester Viereck and the America
First Committee" to use his free
mailing privileges.
The resolution urged Attorney
General Francis Biddle to take
such actions and steps as are
necessary to put an end to the
misuse of the franking privilege
The Legion's committee on AM
ericanism urged in a resolution that
all functions of the War Relocation
authority, and the control of Japa-
nese within the United States and
its territories, be placed under war
department supervision.
Other resolutions proposed by
the Americanism committee adj
vocated:
Continuation of the Dies COM
mittee; rigid discipline for con-
scientious objectors; requirements
for a full years course in U. S.
history for high school students,
continued active duty with full
rank and pay for war veterans
until their education is completed;
assurance that war prisoners in the
United States will be returned 10
their native countries after the
war; and the immediate granting
of citizenship to aliens serving with
the armed forces.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-23
NOTABLES ROBBED

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 23.-CUPD-
Film Stars Dorothy Lamour and
Mickey Rooney matched burglar
stories today. The lady of the
Sarong was out one petticoat, and
the pint-sized Rooney almost lost a
Cadillac
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-23
General Use Is
Stimson's Subject

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strategistS here of developments on
their fronts.
Questioned as to whether tho
commands of Macarthur and Lord
Louis Mountbatten, recently named
chief of the newly created SOUTH
east Asia theater, overlapped, Stim-
son said. Il have never heard that
suggested"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-23
Next !, {. /, J,

NcNt .
It Wouldn't have taken Bert
Chambers and family so long to
move if they hadn't been bothered
by callers they didn't know.
All the time they were moving
strangers kept coming into the
house and saying.
Are you moving in or out?"
rs this house going to be
vacant?"
rs this house for rent?"
Wed like to rent this house if
you are through with it"
Has this house been rented yet?"
The homeless nomads on the
prowl for a roosting place.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-23
Two Nazi Aegean
Conveys Destroyed

CAIRO. Sept. IS. CUP)-Lignt
Allied naval forces destroyed two
enemy conveys in the Aegean Sea,
sinking the escort of one ana dam
aging that of the other, it was
announced officially today.
The Allied naval forces suffered
no loss. the announcement SAID.
The convoy assault was in addi-
ton to close cooperation in the
Dodecanese islands with the Royal
air force and the army.
CThe reference to naval cooper
alton in the Dodecanese was no.
amplified. British forces have oc-
cupied some of the Italian islands,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-23
Rambling Reporter

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graveyard equipment plant on Main
street. El Centre. 1t was never
found. He suspected ghosts.
A week ago he missed another
200 FOUNDER. The next day it was
found in the backyard of a house
in the 1900 block on He'll street. He
no longer suspected ghosts.
Its a heck of a note" Potts
fumed. when we have to lock up
our tombStones especially when
they're not engraved"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-23
Mrs. Cora Smith
Passes in &c.

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six grandchildren, Mrs. Charles
Hostetter and Mrs. Ed Blackman
of Ell Centre, Mrs. Coy Watson, jr..
of Lo sAngeles, ,sTommy Beynon of
FL Centre, nnd the Misses Ruth and
Rosamond Anderson of Ell Centre:
and two great grandsons. Harry
Blackman and John Hostetter, both
of Ell Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-23
MT. SIGNAL CENTER
TO MEET FRIDAY

The Mt. Signal community center
meeting will be held at the school
at p. m. Friday with bond rally
and a victory garden roundtable
scheduled. DR.. c. M. Rick, gard
EN- specialist from the University of
California, and Assistant Farm Ad-
visor II. Lee Landerman will talk.
Refreshments will be served.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-23
Milk Picture in
L.V. Is Muddled

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pendS on how great the demands
of servicemen will be.
The establishment of several new
dairies in the county will contribute
to the supply of grade A milk. One
man who will soon open large
dairy in the Caliltltria area is pur-
chasing milk COWS in the valley but
is buying them from grade B dairies
and will maintain a grade A dairy
so that milk produced will be raised
in standard.
Milk production will be further
increased with the arrival of cooler
weather. A cows productivity is at
it's lowest ebb during hot weather.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
Doris Duke Gets
Divorce Decree

RENO, New, Dec % (UP) =
Blonde Doris Duke Cromwell, tobac-
co heireSs, held a divorce decree
Wednesday from James H. R. Crom-
well, former U. S. minister to
Canada, but faced the possibility of
a legal battle with the courts of
New Jersey.
Judge William McNight granted
the divorce Tuesday after an II
minute closed session, which in
cluded introduction of charges that
Cromwell had demanded sums up to
s7,000,000 from the once richest
girl in the world" for personal uses
and campaign expenses" after their
separation in 1910.
(The New Jersey chancery court,
in which Cromwell filed a counter
divorce action, recently ruled that
it would refuse to recognize any de-
cision of the Nevada court. Crom-
wells attorney, John E. Toolen,
charged last night the decree was
'valueless" and said his client was
prepared to carry the litigation 10
the U. S. supreme courtD
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
YuIe Mail Peak
Passes in T. {.

The Christmas mailing peak has
passed and has been disposed of
by the El Centre post office. The
volume of mail handled was the
largest in the history of the post
office mere, employees stated. and
receipts are $4,000 above last year
Monday was the peak letter mail
ing date with more than 10000
pieces going through ths cancelling
machine. For more than ten days
5000 pieces of flat letter-mailings
have been handled.
The parcel post mailing also has
been exceptionally heavy. The past
ten days or more it has taken 160
mail sacks to carry the parcels.
Post office receipts are running
more than $4,000 over the month
of December receipts for 1912.
Tuesdays total for the month
showed $4,000 which compares to
the entire months receipts of ap-
proximateiy $1,000 last year.
The local office commented, not
without pride, that they have held
up no mail and that all has been
dispatched daily. The fact that
they have handled a large volume
of free-franked servicemen's mail.
Magazines have been held up at
terminals to accommodate the free
flow of first class and parcel mail,
and have been in many cases two
weeks late, the post office clerks
stated.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
LETTUCE SHIPMENTS
REACH 40 CARS

Brawley leads the counsJ in car
load lettuce shipments with SO cars
being routed out of that place since
the season opened.
The Southern Pacific reports 10
cars shipped Tuesday with six out
of BraWley, two from El Centro
and one each from HoltVille and
Calexico.
The total valley shipments to
date are 49 carloads as compared
to $50 shipments by December
Goth in the 1928 season.
Lettuce sales FOB. shipping
points Monday was slightly weaker
at Phoenix, crates Ass. Iceberg
type, S275 $500, mostly around
$500. Yuma market was about
steady mostly $500. Los Angeles
market firm mostly $500, some as
low as S375.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
Rail Men Boost
Raise Rates
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ed a strong case, based on gross
inequities, for a greater increase
than the four cents recommended
by the board.
The board had limited its award
to four cents because of Vinson' S
decisions affecting the 100000
incorporating employees.
The operating groups counter
proposal was approved by the
executive committees of the unions
shortly before noon. The commit
tees then stood by for possible call
to the White House.
Mr.. Roosevelt has met for three
consecutive days with officials of
the big five" operating brother
hoods in an attempt to settle their
dispute within limits of the wage
stabilization program. But new
complications were added last night
when the Is incorporating unions
announced a strike for Dec. 80, the
same date fixed earlier by the op-
Grating groups.
Since the president already has
intervened in the case of the big
five, it was believed he would take
similar steps in response TO the
incorporating strike call. Up to this
time, the two cases have been ham
died separately under procedure set
up by the railway labor act, but
officials now assumed final settle
ment would be based on single
formula.
nIor
that he had proposed compromise
settlement in the operating case
allowing a four cent hourly raise
as payment for overtime. This
would be in addition to the foul
cents already approved by stabili-
zation director Fred M. Vinson as
the maximum allowable under the
little steel formula.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
bombers Blast
Germany in
Endless Raids

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French coast Tuesday led air OBJ
servers to speculate that German
rocket gun emplacements in the Pas
De Calais area may have been
bombed.
The 9th u. S. air force disclosed
late Tuesday that more than 500
Flying Fortresses and Iiberators,
with the largest fighter escort ever
sent over Europe. participated in
Mondays raid on Bremen, drop
ping more than 200 tons of bombs.
A small but determined number
of German planes flew over the
London area last night, giving the
capital its third alert in as many
nights. No bomb damage was re-
ported in the metropolitan area,
but antiaircraft shell splinters sent
west end crowds scurrying for sub
ways.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
VIA MOVES TO RELIEVE
HOG MARKET JAMS

WASHINGTON, Der. %. (UP) =
The war food administration, in a
move TO relieve jammed markets,
has extended its price support
program on hogs to include good
and choice animals weighing be-
tween 270 and 300 pounds.
Price supports based on s13.75 a
hundred pounds at Chicago have
been in effect on hogs weighing
from 2C0 to 270 pounds. Support
prices at other markets have been
slightly lower.
The extended program will sup
port hogs weighing from 270 to 300
pounds at the same price as those
of lighter weights. It becomes ef-
fectiye at 1901 a. m. Dec. %.
VIA officials said they hoped
the action would induce hog feed
ers to keep their hogs on farms a
little longer until slaughterers are
able to catch up with the present
rush. which this week has set an
all-time record for receipts at ma
jor markets.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
Judge Declares
Divorce HoIiduv

OMAHA, Neb.. Dec % (UP) -
Judge Herbert Rhoades, urging a
return to the spirit of Peace on
Earth, Good Will Toward Men, an
nounced Wednesday he would grant
no divorces during the Christmas
holidays.
Rhoa6es, vic handles divorce
cases for the entire Omaha district.
declared a divorce moratorium
from the close of Wednesdays ses-
sion until December 81.
The jurist also recommended that
ANY man suing his wife for divorce
shall take her out to Christmas
dinner. buy her flowers and become
reconciled," and that ANY woman
suing a man for divorce should in
vite him into the home for Christ
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
IN POLICE COURT

William Rector. sc, charged with
intoxication, dismissed by Police
Judge w A. Lorenz and insanity
charges filed.
Karl Boerlin, So, Calipatria, on an
intoxication charge paid fine Of
$1,000.
Rosa V;yeros noa 26, and Alicia
Badilla, 26, Mexican women from
Mexieali, who were picked up on
the suspicion Of petty theft and
charged with taking two coats from
The M. o. King Store, one OF which
was valued at $4,000, appeared be-
fore Judge Iorenz anG pail was
piaced at $500 and hearing to be
held Thursday, December %.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
Russians Peril
ley Junction

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a vain German attempt to break
through the Soviet lines below
Zhlobin. while 600 troops and "a
tanks fell victims to accurate Soviet
fire near Korosten. A battalion of
infantry-normally 1000 men-was
wiped cut on the approaches to :
strategic hill southeast of Kirovo-
grad
The Russians also confirmed the
liquidation of the German bridge
head on the east bank of the Dniep-
er estuary opposite Kherson and
said that 1000 of the enemy were
killed and q tanks and 80 field
guns wrecked in the final phrase
of the fighting. The Germans an
nounced the evacuation" of the
bridgehead two days ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
ARMY FLIER MISSING
YUMA ARMY AIR FIELD. Ariz.

Dec. % (UP)-Captain Clarence F.
Terry, chief of the modification
section of the western procurement
district in Los Angeles, Calf, was
reported missing Wednesday on a
flight from the Yuma Air Field to
San Diego Calf. Captain Terry
left the Yuma field Dec 18 alone
in a light bomber and is believed to
have been forced down between
Yuma and San Diego near U. S.
Highway 80.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
0PA Plays Santa
On Pork Points

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. CUPl-
(UP)-The Office of Price Admin
istration today issued meat "divi-
dendn for the holiday season by
granting the public five extra points
for use in buying pork.
Price Administrator Chester Bowl
es said that beginning Wednesday
and continuing through midnight
January l, spare stamp No. one in
ration book four would be good for
five points worth of pork.
Bowles said the dividend was
made. possible because of an unex-
pectedly large supply of hogs and
the danger of spoilage due to
shortage of freezer space. He said
present meat rations were 29 per
cent higher than last March. when
rationing began.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
GETS DIVORCE

LOS ANGELES, Dec. %. (UP)-
Socially prominent Mrs. Mona Gil
ford, daughter of R. H. Walker of
Denver. former member of the
Colorado supreme court, was di-
Vorced today from Max Clifford,
Hollywood attorney, on grounds he
criticized her housekeeping. He
found fault with every phase OF
the way I ran our house." Mrs. Gill
ford told Judge Walter S. Gates.
They were married at Reno July g.,
1889. Mrs. Clifford was awarded
custody of their daughter, Susan, 3.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
CounciImen 0keh
Sewage Plans

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the problem as the main lines west
of that point Cnear Eighth street,
to the river could be placed in the
upper soil thus avoiding the quick
sand. The uphill pumping would
be approximately equal to the pres
ent final lift-pumping done at the
sewer plant.
Councilman Bratton and Mr.. Hop
kins were instructed to make a
complete survey of the soil condi-
tions in regard to the relocation of
the sewer plant and a survey east
of there to the Alamo river.
The purpose of survey to the
east and north to the Alamo would
be made with the possibility of To-
eating a gravity system after the
war ends. The city has been inform
ed, however, that sewage could not
be emptied into the Alamo under
state health regulations. An aerat-
ing system or disposal plant would
be necessary in case line was run
TO the river, Hopkins said
The emergency repair system will
work satisfactorily until some fu-
ture date when permanent repairs
can be made, Mr.. Bratton believes.
The big problem, according to C. K.
Patton and Clyde Lee on the office
staff, will be the maintaining of
the pumps which must run practi-
cally continually due to the fact
that they have no reservoir to
pump from.
The survey will be made of the
entire area but as the present sys-
tenn can function the city contem-
plates no haste in correcting the
faulty system which has given trou-
BILE on three occasions since it was
laid in 1885. The original line was
laid through the quicksand strata
against the recommendation of
engineers at that time.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
BELIEVES HE'LL GET
MORE SLEEP IN NAVY

LONDON, (UP)-Ronald Pike
18, comes up for his British navy
medical examination soon, and his
mother hopes they'll take him
SO he can get some sleep.
Pike gets up at 4:30 each morn
ing to get to his 12-hours- day
job running a heavy derrick in a
paper mill. Several nights a week.
like thousands of his countrymen,
he goes directly from work to an
all-night Home-Guard shift. He
gets through with that just in time
to get to work.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
GARRY FEED PAYMENTS
iMOUNT TO $4,000

Rudolph Miller, secretary of the
Imperial county Triple-A, an
nounced Wednesday that payments
in this county Under the Dairy
Feed Payment Program totaled
nearly $4,000 on December l.
This payment was to producers
based on October sales. Miller also
stated that the payments were very
well spread out with no large pay
ment to any one producer.
The dairy subsidy program will
end December 81 but payments for
November and December would still
be made.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-22
SUES FoR DIVORCE

Filberto Navarro Tuesday sued
Loreto de Navarro for divorce, ask
ing the court to restrain her from
interfering with his so year old
mother. He also said his wife took
his car keys and since he needs the
car to go to work. he said, he wants
her forced to return them to him.