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Evening star., 1943-08-25
American-Born WAAF
Held as Stowaway

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Aug. 25.-A 29-year- -old
Michigan woman, member of the
British Women's Auxiliary Air
Force, today awaited a hearing next
Tuesday on charge of violating
the Stowaway Act.
Mrs. Alice Piper of Lansing and
two merchant seamen charged with
aiding her as stowaway were ar
raigned in Federal Court yesterday
after they had been arrested when
their ship docked.
Mrs. Piper was released in the
nominal bail of 81 to immigration
authorities and the seamen, James
j. Zilembo, 30, of Stockton, Calf,
and Melvin J. Carr, %, of Trenton,
N. j., were ordered held in $1,000
each.
She told United States Commits
sioner William C. Rogers that she
met the two sailors in an unidenti-
fed country and arranged with them
to be smuggled aboard the vessel
before its departure for the United
States.
Mrs. Piper said she gave herself
up after 10 days at sea when gun
crew beoan firiro directly above the
gun casing in which she was hiding.
The FBI said Mrs. Piper deserted
from the WAAF last May.
Evening star., 1943-08-25
Chicago Fears Spread
OF InfantiIe Paralysis
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug 25.-Dr. Herman
N. Bundesen, president of the Board
of Health. describing Chicago's epi-
demic of infantile paralysis as the
worst in the city's history" believes
the outbreak of the disease has by
no means reached its peak"
With l3 new cases reported yes
terday, the total in the city since
July reached 200. with an addi-
tional 86 in Cook County Thirty
deaths have been attributed to the
disease.
DR.. Bundesen said that from Au-
gust Is to August 81 in Chicago 81
cases occurred, exceeding the previ-
Gus all-time weekly high of 10 cases
reported in 1917.
He said that of the last Is cases
reported, 9 were adults. whereas of
the first 100 cases reported, only 3
were adults.
Health officials said Illinois, with
lit new cases this week, ranked
third in the Nation, with California
and Texas having greater incidence.
The latter States, however, they
said. have reached their peak and
cases are decreasing.
Evening star., 1943-08-25
By the Associated Press.


MIAMI BEACH. Fla. Aug. 25.-
The Army Air Forces have plans for
the battle seasoned men who will
come back after hammering the
Germans and the japanese.
A new command, first of its kind
in the United States, has been set
up to receive these airmen, study
them as individuals and send them
to jobs for which they are best
suited.
At present these arrangements
naturally will be fighting jobs. But
the command, looking forward to
victory, is preparing to become the
nucleus of rehabilitation machinery.
I'm 1918 the soldiers were dumped
back into civilian life" said Col.
Luther l.. Hill, commanding officer
of the Miami Beach station, Army
Air Forces Redistribution Center.
1T won't happen that way this
time"
Col Hill said the center. with
stations here, at Atlantic City and
another to be established in the
West, follows closely pattern laid
down recently by President Roose-
welt.
Evening star., 1943-08-25
Cakes Widow Is Due
To Testify Tomorrow
In Murder Hearinq
By the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated Press.
NASSAU, Bahamas, Aug. 25.-
Lady Eunice Oakes is expected to
testify tomorrow in a hearing to de-
termine whether her son-in- law. AL
fred de Marigny, must stand trial
for the bludgeon Staying of her mil
lionaire husband, Sir Harry Cakes
The prosecution revealed yester-
day that Lady Oakes would be
called toward the end of the long
hearing
She came to Nassau Monday for
the first time since her eldest
daughter, l9-year-old Nancy. was
married to De Marigny more than a
year ago.
Previous witnesses have testified
there was ill-feeling between Sir
Harry and De Marigny, apparently
stemming from Oakes' disapproval
Of the marriage.
Nancy, who has steadfastly con-
tended that her 33-year-old husband
is innocent, did not meet her mother
at the airport here, and there has
been no word that they have met
since Lady Oakes' return from the
United States.
At the hearing yesterday, Nassau
Police 1t. John r. Douglas testified
that De Marigny inquired of him,
while officers still we're investigat-
ing the killing, whether a man could
be convicted of murder on circun-
stantial evidence.
He said he told De Marigny: Yes,
I think So"
Later, 1t. Douglas testified, De
Marigny asked Whether in British
courts, a man could be convicted
if the murder weapon is not found"
1t. Douglas also said De Marigny
told him That guy, Sir Harry. the
old -. should have been killed
anyhow"
The conversation took place. 1t
Douglas said, while he was carrying
out orders to keep a close watch on
De Marigny the day Oakes' body
was found.
Evening star., 1943-08-25
Air Force Sets Up Command
To Plan for Flyers Future

"Our immediate duty" he de-
clared, lis to institute a system of
rotation of officers and men on over
seas duty"
He said each returning flyer, officer
or enlisted man will go to one of
the stations for a careful personal
study before being reassigned.
Our organization will provide
screening process" he said. Each
man fits best somewhere and we
will find that place He will have
a period of recreation to iron out
the kinks left by rugged combat
duty. While he is resting and re-
aligning himself we will give him a
thorough physical check and an
examination by classification ex-
perts.
There will be no rules. Every
man will be treated as an individual.
I'VE want them to know the Air
Force is thinking of them and their
future
Evening star., 1943-08-25

measures to help industralize the
country, it is revealed in Kabul.
Special concessions are granted me-
chanical plants using not less than
10 horsepower and employing a min
imum of 10 persons and to handi-
Evening star., 1943-08-25

craft enterprises with not less than
10 workers
Grants of land in urban areas at
low rates with payments extended
over 10 years and free in other areas
are authorized, all tax-exempt.
Evening star., 1943-08-25
l2-Cor Troin Carries
Allied MuiI in Africo
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Aug. 25.-Head-
quarters announced yesterday that
a new 12-car mail train was now
carrying letters from home to Allied
soldiers across North Africa at the
rate of 250,000 pounds a month.
The train, devoted exclusively to
mail carrying. supplements sea and
air transportation. A total of 4.744
pouches were moved to the soldiers
in the first two weeks of August.
Evening star., 1943-08-25
Afghoniston Adopts
industrial Promotion

Afghanistan, almost wholly agri-
cultural, is adopting many new
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-27
Naples
Hard
Hit
Airdromes, Rail
Lines Shattered
By Allied Bombs

ALLIED HEADQUART-
ERS, North Africa, Aug. q
-(UP)- Allied planes of
all types exploded a broad
side offensive against air
fields and railways in South italy
yesterday, shooting down 10 planes
and Wrecking scores aground.
All-American fleets of Flying
Fortresses, Mitchell and Marauder
medium bombers, Lightning fight
ers, and invader assault craft
smashed at select targets around
Naples, Reggie Calabria across from
Sicily and Locri under the toe of
the Italian boot.
Shifting the main weight of the
nonstop campaign from devastated
Foggia to the Naples region, the
Allies sent powerful fleets of Fly
ing Fortresses, Marauders, and
Lightnings against air frields near
the city.
The Fortresses strewed thousands
of augmentation bombs and tons of
high explosives on the Capua air.
drome Is miles North of Naples, de-
stroying many parked planes.
In companion blow Marauders
struck at the neighboring Graz
zanise air base, blowing up an un-
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-27
Churchill. FDR to
Resume Parley

QUEBEC, Aug. 27 UP)- Prime
Minister Winston Churchill will go
to Washington early next week to
resume war conferences with Presi-
dent Roosevelt, it was announced
today at the Citadel.
Prime minister. with his daugh-
ter. Mary and Mrs. Churchill now
is resting and fishing at an unan-
nounced camp in the Laurentian
mountains in Quebec province
Earlier, a British spokesman at
the Citadel announced that
Churchills radio speech, first set
for tomorrow, then postponed to
Sunday and again tentatively to
Tuesday will be delivered Tuesday
but he did not say where the Prime
Minister would speak. The an
nouncement that Churchill was
going to Washington "early next
week. indicated the prime minister
might speak from there on an in
ternational radio hookup
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-27

DOWcI Ill WcSCcl III LuI ODC.
British bombers rested at their
home bases Thursday night as the
Allied air offensive against the con-
tinent went into temporary lull,
possibly because of weather condi-
tionS.
A review of the Allied air war so
far in August showed a new high
was reached in the plan to smash
Germany and Italy from the sky to
render their military machines in
effective. The months work has
set a pace that may be difficult to
maintain as the weather becomes
more uncertain this fall and winter.
ALL IN RANGE
The two-way plan of attack-from
both Britain and North Africa
this month brought almost every
military objective in greater Ger
many and the occupied countries
within range of the Allied bomb
ers.
Home-based British planes car
ried out Is bombing missions so far
this month, including II against
Germany and eight against North
ern Italy. Berlin was raided eight
times but only one of the attacks
was a full-scale assault by heavy
bombers. The devastation of Ham
burg was completed and the italian
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-27
Red Recognition
OfFrench Total

recognition of the French COM
mittee, jointly headed by Gen.
Charles De Gaulle and Gen. Henri
Honore Giraud. The Russians had
recognized De Gaulle's fighting
French organization and it had
been anticipated that they would
go farther than the western Allies,
which they did.
EXPRESS QUALIFICATION
Frenchmen here and abroad ex-
pressed qualification at the Anglo
American action, although there
were private observations that it
seemed unnecessarily involve
qualified and sharp in tone.
American and British displeasure
at the activities of De Gaulle, who
has become the dominant person.
ality in the French committee. was
behind the qualifications. The
statements make it plain that eff
forts to obtain De Gaulles coopera-
ton along the lines desired by
American and British leaders have
not been successful and that more
complete recognition will be with
held until a greater degree of con-
formity is achieved.
The success of such policy will
not be determined Immediately. The
qualifications will make it possible
to withdraw or nullify recognition
from the French committee if it
adopts a course not approved by
the United States and Britain.
But even limited Anglo American
recognition was expected to ad
vance the cause of French unity
and to submerge the factionalism
which has plagued Frenchmen
everywhere since the fall of France
First evidence of that was an
nouncement that the fighting
French delegation here would
Continued on page s, col ~
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-27
Finney Is Deputy
District Attorney

District Attorney Charles c..
Halliday Friday appointed A. C.
Finney of Ell Centre a deputy dis
trict attorney to fill vacancy
existing in his office.
The appointment will become ef-
fective September /. He was sworn
in by County Clerk w. J. McClel-
land Friday morning.
This is not the first time Finney
has been connected with the dis
trict attorneys office in Imperial
county. He became a deputy there
April IL. 1924. He was elected a
Judge of the Imperial county SUI
perior court in November of 1927
position he held for six years At
one time he was assistant chief
counsel of the Imperial Irrigation
district.
From 1925 to 1927 he was Cali
fornia assemblyman from Imperial
county. and put over the first legis-
lation in reference to the construc-
ton of the All-American canal and
Boulder dam. Finney came to I'M
perial county in 1920.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-27
Essential Firms
Face Shortage Of
Manpower Oct. |
Hundreds of Men Must
Return to Farms Where
They Will Be Needed

Essential industries in I'm
perial Valley, other than dir
ect farming operations, will
face a serious manpower
shortage on October /, u. S.
Employment Service director Tom
Finney revealed Friday, when sew
eral hundred workers who hold
limited availability certificates will
be called back into agricultural
work.
Persons who we're engaged in
agricultural activities last spring
were granted certificates that en-
abled them to work in other es-
sential industries until Oct. / only
at which time increased farming
operations will require their serv-
ices, Finney stated. They had been
granted the certificates when farm
work slackened.
SENDS APPEALS
In an effort to thwart the effect
of such a shortage Finney has sent
appeals for workers for essential in
dustries to all U. S. Employment
Service offices in the IL western
states. Finney said, however, as
these requests have thus far failed
to result in single persons COM
ing here for work, the appeals
would be relayed to all employ
ment service offices in the nation.
Only hope of Warding off severe
setback in the operations of essent-
ial firms this fall will be the mi
grafton to the district of large
numbers of farm workers who will
be sufficient in numbers to re-
lease men for other type work.
MAY BECOME CRITICAL
Finney said it also might be nee
essary to have the area declared
critical labor" district and put
into effect the 48-hour work week
He hopes to avoid such action, how
ever, because of the many restric-
tions that the program applies.
The employment director urged
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-27
Mrs. D. K. Johnson
Dies Suddenly

Ell Centrans we're grieved Friday
at news of the death of Mrs. Peggy
Lien Johnson, former Ell Centran,
who died in Huntington Park
Thursday after an illness of almost
year.
She is survived by her husband,
D. K. (KimD Johnson; three child
rem, Janice, d. K, jr., and James;
her mother, Mrs. B. H. Lien of
Sacramento; sister. Mrs. Frank
Fosdick of Seal Beach, and two
brothers, George and Harold Lien,
both of Sacramento. Mrs. johnson
was sister of the late Mrs. c. G..
Mousseau of Ell Centre.
Funeral services were scheduled
at 6348 Seville, Huntington Park, at
10 a. m. Saturday. Cremation will
take place at the Angelus Abbey
mausoleum at Compton.
Mrs. johnson was daughter of
the late B. H. Lien, prominent
real estate dealer and well known
Democratic party member in early
settlement days in Imperial Valley.
She attended elementary and high
schools in Ell Centre and later
taught in the Ell Centre schools. She
lived in Ell Centre until 1925 and
was a devoted member of the
Christian Science church.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-27
Threat TO FDR
Brinqs on Arrest

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. q OUP)
The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion today announced the arrest in
Denver, Colo, of Harry Kendall
Hamilton. Sc, on an extortion
charge of writing letters threaten
ing the lives of President Roose-
welt, members of the cabinet, j.
Edgar Hoover and other persons.
Nat J. L. Pieper, director of the
San Francisco FBI office, said
Hamilton wrote a letter to the
Jackson, Miss, chamber of COM
merce Sept. "a, 1912, saying that
the resident and the White House
cabinet will never live to sleep
peacefully" and that labor would
revolt in 1945. He wrote that
Hoover, director of the FBI, is ION
my undertaker's list" Pieper said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-27

PLEASANT trlp-the longest OF her
many journeys as the first lady
encountering good weather all the
way.
(The Auckland dispatch referred
to the Press conference as being
held on Aug. %, indicating that
Mrs. Roosevelt arrived in New
Zealand that day.
Mrs. Roosevelt said she brought
from the president a message of
good luck and thanks to the serv-
ice men throughout the Pacific. Her
observations confirmed an intima
tion that they are doing a grand
job, she said.
Her arrival took most of New
Zealand by surprise. since only IL
days ago she helped her husband
entertain Prime Minister Churchill
and his daughter Mary at Roose-
welt estate at Hyde Park, N. Y,
some 10000 miles away.
CAME BY AIR
5 Though there was no official
oAiiiOullSCilICiiO vi Vi
travel, it was obvious that she flew
to New Zealand)
Responding to speech of well
come by Walter Nash, New Zeal
and's Minister to Washington, Mrs.
Roosevelt said she brought the
presidents greetings. e>
II know he'd like to be here with
me-" she said. Long ago, you were
kind enough to ask me to see the
work of the women of New Zealand.
1t is great privilege. Last Autumn
I saw the work of the British wo-
men and I am pleased now to see
your achievements"
Mrs. Roosevelt also expressed
pleasure at seeing so many Amer
Continued on page 6, col d
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-27

| diiiy diIu navy OIIlCldlS.
Among those with whom the ex-
pert on amphibious warfare talked
were Secretary of Navy Frank
Knox, acting Secretary of War John
j. McCloy, Gen. George C. Marshall,
army chief-of-staff, and Gen.
Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army
air forces.
Mountbatten spent two hours with
the army leaders, then conferred
with Knox for half hour.
There was no official comment
about any of his conversations, but
there appeared to be little doubt
that they involved plans for the
anticipated drive as well as the
composition of his staff. It was
understood that he already had OBJ
tanned an important U. S. army Of
ficer for his deputy chief -of-staff.
TO BE BRITISHER
His chief of staff undoubtedly will
be Britisher. Gen Dwight D.
Eisenhower picked an American for
his chief of staff and British Gen.
eral for his deputy.
Mountbatten's primary mission
will be to push the Japanese out of
Burma so that supply routes to
China may be reopened. But it
was expected that his operations
will be coordinated with those in
the Southwest Pacific under Amer
ican command.
While much has been done in the
way of planning and getting sup
plies to India for the Burma cam
paign, observers here cautioned
against expectations that Mount
Continued on page 6, col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-27
u. s. Storerooms
Bulqing at Sears
With Gov'tFood
Slaughterers May Be
Forced to Cut Kills
AS Storage Unavailable

CHICAGO, A ug. 27 :
(UP)-A jammed condition
in the nations cold storage
bins may force slaughter
ers to decrease meat produ-
ction unless more refrigerated
space can be found Immediately,
meat packing sources said today.
However, there has been "ab-
solutely no decrease in slaughter to
date" these sources said.
Department of agriculture figures
for the seven months ending July
81, and those available thus far for
August indicate that there have
been decreases in the number of
cattle and calves slaughtered under
federal inspection, but this de-
crease was offset by increases in
the slaughter of hogs, lambs, and
sheep.
HUGE STOCKPILE
storage bins in most large cities are
One packing company official as
serted that the government had
built up stockpile of stored food
idA SC SiOt6i W supply SoNCiluIiCilC
needs for 10 months to year. The
food spokesmen defended the gov
ernment's policy of maintaining
these huge larders.
Food, SO far, has been part of
our war diplomacy" an executive
said. The government must be we'll
supplied in case of emergency. For
instance, If Italy surrendered to-
morrow, most Of this stored food
would be shipped out Immediately.
Although it is vital that the gov
ernment stock up ahead, this never
theless has tied Up our cold stor-
age space. A crisis looms unless
more freezing room can be located"
A packing official, who has been
appointed by the government to
find this vital space, reported that
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-27
Giant Raids Smash
Italians and Japs
D AMBLlNe
1\EpoRTER
I'VE BEEN WORKING ON .

Like dItiful husband, Bob john
son followed the instructions of his
spouse and drove to inland to meet
his wife when she was due to ar
rive on a train from Los Angeles.
This is a CHASTITY hour for train
to arrive" he thought to himself
as he drove along in the soon-after-
midnight hours. He parked the
car by the station in INLAND, pock-
eted the keys, and walked up and
down the platform to keep awake.
Along came one of those long trains
from the coast and stopped at the
station.
Peering anxiously around in the
gloom, johnson realized to his in
tense alarm that Mrs. johnson had
not left the train.
whats the matter here?" john
son said to Negro porter he saw
standing by the train. my wife said
she'd be on this train and she
hasn't gotten Off" The porter said
that passengers frequently went to
sleep and did not wake up. He sug.
gested that johnson get on the train
and hunt for his wife as the train
was going to switch around in the
yards bit. johnson did and began
searching through coach after coach
as the train moved about.
Suddenly he heard very rapid
"clickity- -click-c -clickity click" an d
realized the train was in rapid mo-
ton, heading eastward for all it
was worth.
stop this train" johnson in
structed the conductor. The con-
ductor refused.
IF you don't stop it I'll take a
poke at you," babbled Johnson.
Where are we going? How far
from inland are we?"
Were going to Yuma" said the
conductor as he stopped the train,
land we're five miles from inland"
A lonely figure in the darkness,
johnson started picking them up
and putting them down. He was
haunted by the fear that his wife
would find his locked car and re-
Continued on page 6, col a.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-27
Record
Fleet
Nip Supply Line
A+Hasna Bay Is
Broken by Blow

ALLIED HEADQUART-
ERS, Southwest Pacific,
Aug. 27 -UP),- A crush
ing blow by the largest Al
lied bombing fleet ever as
sembled in New Guinea left huge
gap in the vital Japanese coastal
supply line at Hansa Bay today as
ground troops scored gains at both
ends of the Southern Pacific front.
Nearly 100 Liberators, Flying
Fortresses and Mitchells, escorted
by Lightnings, blasted Hansa Bay
Wednesday with 180 tons of bombs,
raking the area for an hour and
setting a five-mile- long mass of
flames along the shore.
NO AIRCRAFT
OF two freighters and more than
81 barges destroyed or damaged by
Allied fliers during the day, one
ship of between 4,500 and $500 tons
and As small cargo craft fell VIC
tim. The planes met no enemy air.
craft and suffered only slight dam
age from ground fire.
The first definite news from New
Georgia in more than week re-
vealed American troops had seized
most of the shoreline of Bairoko
harbor, the last japanese nest on
that central Solomons islands, and
had hemmed the garrison into a
small area of the beach. The posi-
ton represented three-mile ad-
vance.
The important Hansa bay link in
the enemy's New Guinea supply
route along the Northeast coast lies
$50 airline miles North and West
of Salamaua where Allied troops
edged forward for indefinitely
stated gains to increase the threat
to the strongly-held airdrome.
The bombers set huge fires in the
Bivouac and dump areas at Awar
and Nubia plantation adjoining
Hansa Bay, exploded several am
Continued on page 6. col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-27
Fascists Plot to
Seize Italy Again

LONDON, Aug. 27 tUP)-German
soldiers disguised as civilians re-
main in Rome despite Italian at
tempts to make it an open city for
the purpose of aiding Fascist plot
to seize the government when
Allied troops start an invasion, a
Spanish traveller from Italy said
today.
A Barcelona dispatch said Mar
tinez Bugeda. who arrived from
Rome by plane, reported that the
disguised Nazi soldiers numbered
In the thousands. 1t was not
known If the plotters hoped to re-
store Benito Mussolini. y
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-27

flights with scouting squadron in
the South Pacific.
While in combat with enemy
Japanese forces in the Solomon
Island area. September 16 to Octo-
Der 10, 1912, Beaman expertly main
tanned RADIO equipment in operating
condition despite great difficulties
and was alert in detecting hostile
ships and aircraft and transmitting
the reports to his base. He cour-
ageously remained at his gun posi-
tion during fights, and by the dead
ly blasts from his weapons, repulsed
determined enemy aircraft attacks.