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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-01-21
Manager Blasts
Cover Up for
EdMottd Victory
BY LEO MACDoNELL

Mike Capriano, manager Of Jake
LaMotta. is burning up at what
he charges is a conspiracy on the
part of Mike Jacobs and the
Madison Square Garden match
making staff 10 cover up for
Jackie Wilson's defeat at the
hands of LaMotts.
"They aIibi that LaMotta out
weighed wilson" Capriano
stormed. "Sure, he did. Was that
our fault.
"They say Wilson. being In the
army, had no chance to train. 1t
Is not for me to criticize Wilson
or any soldier who IL doing his
bit. but Jackie trained at Still
mans" (Stillman's is the lead
ing gym patronized by fighters
in New York;
The truth of the matter. accord
ing to Capriano. is that Jacob:
and his boys outsmarted them
selves.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
u. s. Pilots Hit
Germany Anew

LONDON, Dec. 20. (UP)-A pow
erful force of United States Flying
FortreSses, Liberators, fighting off
a Commute running attack by Nazi
fighter planes, raided northwest
Germany by daylight Monday and
left a heavily defended enemy tar
get wreathed in flames and smoke.
Kherson was the southern an
chor of the German defense line in
the Dnieper bend. It's fall was fore
shadowed earlier today when the
Berlin radio announced that Ger
man troops had abandoned their
bridgehead on the west bank of the
Dnieper opposite the city, explain
ing that the river had frozen over,
rendering the bridgehead useless.
The United States aerial offensive
was put on a concerted, two-way
basis with the bombardment of
unidentified targets in northwest
Germany after 1t. Gen. Carl A.
Spaatz's heavies had carried out
their second raid of the war on
Nazi soil.
The Eighth air force sent its
fighters to support the bombers
flying by daylight into the region
studded with many of Germany's
prime military targets such as the
often-hit naval bases of Bremen,
Emden and Wilhelmshaven.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
Rains Keep Crop
Workers Idle

The heavy rains have caused
casualties to the labor report lists
of G.. w. GarrigueS, Farm Labor
manager of the Extension Service,
with only $3.50 laborers reported
working last week and 6150 idle
due to the condition of the fields.
Of the 1900 lettuce thinners re-
ported working part time the pre-
vious week, only 500 were reported
active the past week, the peak labor
requirement for this work is 1000.
Hoeing and thinning carrots now
requires $50 but only 300 were able
to work. Pea picking and melon
covering was at normal employment
levels.
The thinning of lettuce is esti-
mated at 80 per cent complete, sugar
beets 10 per cent complete and pea
picking 60 per cent finished. Hoeing
carrots has just begun and is about
25 per cent complete as is covering
melons.
The next activities are picking
tomatoes and harvesting lettuce
The peak period in these two is ex-
pected to be reached between the
period from December 20 to Decem-
ber 81 for tomatoes and March 20
for lettuce.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
vichy Reports Eisenhower
I'm Britain for Invasion
Decl ares Preparations in Full
Swing for Second Front as
Convoys Pile Up Vast Supplies

state of preparedness of European
defenses" and reported he had ar
rived at the headquarters of Mar
shall Gerd Won Rundstedt, German
commander in France.
PLANS OUTLINED
I'm addition to holding discus
sions, Rommel will undertake eX-
tensive inspection tours to examine
the defensive strength of the At
lantic wall and the striking power
of German reserves stationed
there DNB said.
CA German broadcast heard by
CHS referred to Marshall Albert
Kesselring as commander in chief
of all German forces in Italy" Rom
mel formerly commanded German
troops in northern ItalyD
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
Veteran Assumes
Marines Post

Lieutenant Colonel Karl Voelter,
United States marine corps re-
serve and for the last 10 months
executive officer at the Ell Centre
marine air station, Monday was
named commanding officer of that
station to relieve Lieutenant Col
onel T.. j. McQuade, who recently
was detached from the station.
The new commanding officer was
born in Little Rock, Arkansas, but
calls Chicago his original home.
Since he lived in Miami, Florida,
II years, he also is inclined to re-
fer to Miami as his home. He was
educated in the middleWeSt and
started flying 26 years ago. Since
that time he has been a national
figure in commercial as well as mil
itary aviation.
Prior to joining the marine corps
in 1881, Colonel Voelter was sales
promotion manager for the Curtiss-
Wright Flying service. During this
time he organized and operated the
Curtiss- Wright racing team then
composed of the nations best
known racing pilots. He competed
nationally and has unique collec-
ton of air race trophies.
Subsequent to joining marine
corps aviation in 1881 and his at
tachment to the naval air station
at Miami he also operated COM
mercial aviation enterprise from
Miami municipal airport.
Two years prior to Pearl Harbor,
Colonel Voelter disposed of all his
aviation holdings to give full time
to marine corps activities and
shortly thereafter took command of
the marine aviation detachment at
the old naval reserve aviation base
in Miami.
In March, 1912, he was transfer
red to the then new Cherry Point,
North Carolina, marine corps air
station where he was operations
officer In July, 1912, h was
transferred to the new naval air
station at Peru, Indiana, where in
addition to commanding the marine
air detachment, he was officer in
charge of all flight training. He
remained at that station until he
was transferred to Ell Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
YANkS HEAD FOR PLAINS BEFORE R0m|
Capital Par|eys
On Rail Strike
Fail in Solution
Question of Overtime
Involved in Talks;
Plan Meeting Tuesday

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. CUP)-
President Hoosevelt's efforts to pre-
vent a disastrous wartime railway
strike were believed Monday to GEN.
ter on an overtime proposal to
boost the earnings OF 100000 oper-
ating employees by about eight per
cent.
Mr.. Roosevelt and his two chief
home front lieutenants, War Mobil-
ization Director James F. Byrnes
and Sterilization Director Fred M.
Vinson, conferred for nearly five
hours Sunday with presidents OF the
five operating bortherhoods and
Is management representatives in
an effort to avert a strike, but failed
to break the deadlock. The carriers
and the unions decided tentatively
to meet again Tuesday.
UNDER STRIKE ORDERS
The 350,000 members of the five
unions already are under orders to
begin a strike December 80 in
protest against the four cents an
hour wage award of an emergency
board. They had asked minimum
increases of So a day. And while
the board said it believed the en-
ployes merited greater increases be-
cause of gross inequities," it never
theless limited its award to four
cents because of precedent set by
Vinson in the wage case involving
the 100000 members of the nom
operating railway unions.
The administration appeared to
be ready to approve concessions to
the brotherhoodS but in manner
not to sacrifice it's wage stabiliza-
ton program. Informed sources un-
derstood that one suggestion dis
cussed called for overtime payment
to the rail employees after 40 hours
of work per week.
Overtime pay now begins after
48 hours in accordance with the
railway labor act. The wage-hour
law, with the 40-hour limitation on
Continued on page 8, col A.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20

LONDON, Dec. 20. CUP)-Prep-
arations for the opening of a sec
ond front in western Europe were
reported in full swing Monday and
Radio Vichy said General Dwight
D. Eisenhower, whom Washington
dispatches have predicted will COM
mand invasion forces, has arrived
in Britain.
CA CHS broadcast said tremend-
Gus conveys have been piling Ameri-
can troops into Britain for the
past six months. In some places, it
said, whole English villages have
been evacuated to make space for
the thousands of troops, while the
huge concentration of equipment,
landing bargeS, tanks and planes is
obvious to the most casual dock
side Observer
REMAIN UNVERIFIED
The Vichy broadcast could not
be confirmed officially, but it was
obvious that the second front COM
mander would have to come here
soon if the invasion is to begin
within the next three and a half
months, as anticipated.
General Henri Honore Giraud,
commander of the French Army of
Liberation, also will come to Eng
land from Algiers shortly, the Nazi-
controlled Vichy station said. 1t as
serted that Gen. Sir Harold R. l..
G.. Alexander, Allied commander in
Italy and deputy Mediterranean
commander, would succeed Eisen-
hover as supreme Mediterranean
commander.
The London Daily Mail said it
now could be disclosed that British
railways were engaged in the move
ment OF troops, equipment and sup
plies to base points for the invasion
of western Europe, "the most gigan-
tic transport operation they ever
have undertaken"
WARN..-,G CITED
This huge task underlies the
grave warning repeated Sunday
night that people must keep the
railways clear during the Christ
mas PERIOD" the Daily Mail said.
War Transport Minister Lord
Leathers had backed the warnings
of the railway executive committee
with all his authority"
The movement of troops and war
supplies has taken precedence over
the transportation of mail, the Daily
Mail said
German preparations to parry
the invasion of western Europe also
appeared entering an advanced
stage with carefully -worded DNB
dispatch tacitly confirming recent
Swedish reports that Marshal Erwin
Rommel will direct the defense of
Adolf Hitler's citadel.
The broadcast said Rommel had
been commissioned "to examine the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
Nine Returning
Pacific AirImen
Killed in Crash

HAMILTON FIELD, Calf, Dec.
20 (UP) = Nine army airmen re-
turning from the Pacific war zone
on Christmas leaves were dead
Monday, victims of the crash of
their -engined heavy bomber
within few miles of home base.
Hamilton Field officials reported
Bodies of the nine men were re-
covered from scattered and charred
wreckage of the plane, which
smashed into a hillside near Sau-
salito, Calf, few score feet
beneath the peak, Sunday.
Heavy fog was believed respon-
sible for the tragic ending to a
trans-Pacific flight, although q
formal army investigation will be
held to determine the cause of the
crash. Identity of the men was
withheld pending notification of
next of kim
SauSalito firemen who eX tinguiSh-
ed the blaze caused by the crash
found the body of a small dog, the
crews mascot, in the wreckage.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
Printers Union
Officials Face
Walkoufs Quiz

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (UP)-
The War Labor Board Monday or
dered typographical union members
to return to their jobs on Washing
ton newspapers and called on the
International union officials to ex-
plain why they condoned repeated
violations of labor'S no-Strike pledge
by their members.
The board acted as the work stop
page, affecting all four Washington
newspapers, resulted in no after
noon newspapers publishing. The
dispute was referred earlier to the
WLB by the labor department.
Officials of the local union and
Washington publishers were called
to a hearing at pm. for an in
quiry into "the cause and effect" OF
the strike.
DIDN'T SHOW UP
The local union began a "contin-
uous meeting" Sunday which result.
ed in no members reporting for
work. The action came as the climax
to long dispute over a union de-
mand for a $1-a-day pay increase.
The publishers had offered 70 cents.
The WLB went beyond the local
dispute in criticizing the Interna-
tional union. The board said it had
given consideration to the several
strikes of members of the Interna-
tional Typographical union which
have occurred by authorization of
the executive council of that union
or which have been called and ac-
lively prosecuted with no apparent
disavowal by the executive council
of the union"
STRIKES CITED
The several strikes mentioned in
the telegram to Baker included
stoppages, affecting newspapers at
Newark, N. j., Salt Lake City. San
Mateo, Cal, Provide, r. l., and
Washington.
Washington's three newspapers
with afternoon editions, the Star,
News, and Times-Herald, joined
with the Post (morning) in broad
casting news over local stations
Monday. Ten page editions of the
Post and Morning Times-Herald had
been published but no editions of
the afternoon newspapers appeared.
SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec. 20. CUP)
"A reported wage freezing edict by
the War Labor Board Monday re-
suited in vote by more than 1000
San Diego aircraft workers to petit
ton the National Labor Relations
Board for permission to conduct
strike vote January 10.
The workers, all members of the
Aeronautical Mechanics Lodge
(AFL), local 1125, voted unanimous
ly to petition for a strike ballot af-
ter discussing the wage policies of
the WLB and a rumored freezing of
all present wage ceilings.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
$4,000 RUSS SEE
NAZIS EXECUTED

KHARKOV, Dec. 20. CUP)-Amid
cheers from some $4,000 Russian
men, women and children, three
German army officers and one
Russian traitor-convicted In the
first war criminal trial of World
War I-were hanged Sunday In
the market square of this war-blast-
ed city.
At 11:15 am, four Ford trucks
moved away from the gallows, leav-
ing the condemned men dangling
at the end Of the nooses TO which
they we're sentenced for participate
ing in the mass butchery of thous-
ands of Russian prisoners and civil
ians.
A vengeful crowd pressed against
Gordon OF Red army officers as
the doomed men--a Gestapo cap
tain, storm troop commander.
police corporal and a Russian chauf-
feur for the Nazis--were driven into
the square In closed trucks.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
Arizona Will Face
Fiqht on Water

and has been forwarded to Secre-
tary OF the Interior Harold L. Ickes
for his signature.
DUAL PROTEST
Regarding the proposed instru-
ment Mr.. Hewes stated that the
opposition of this state will be
predicated on the basis of two pro-
positions.
THE legal angle will be debated"
he said. 1--WE don't believe that the
secretary of the interior can enter
Continued on page 8, col. u
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
TWENTY MADE CITIZENS
AT COURT HEARING

For the first time in the history
of Imperial county, all applicants
for United States citizenship passed
the official examinations at pro-
ceedings held for that purpose in
Imperial county superior court.
AS result of showings made by
the applicants at the hearing late
last week, the United States ac-
quired 20 new naturalized citizens.
Two of the applicants originally
scheduled to take the test asked to
have their hearings continued until
a later date, leaving 20 men and
women to take the examination
given by Judge Vaughn N. Thomp-
son and Edmund H. Giles of the i'm
migration and naturalization service.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20

California will protest the exec
ution of any presumed contract or
instrument granting Arizona g.
100000 acre-feet of water annually
from the Colorado river" Evan T.
Hewes, chairman of the board of
directors of the Imperial Irrigation
District said Monday morning.
A proposed Arizona contract for
an annual allotment of nearly three
million annual acre-feet, plus half
the surplus, has the approval of
the u. S, Bureau OF Reclamation
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20

'Loiiooii newspapers puDllSIleQ re-
ports attributed to the Algiers radio
that the British Eighth army had,
captured Ortonga and Orsonga, key q
towns which anchor the Adriatic
end of the German defense line.) u
New gains against weakening Ger
man resistance brought the United
States vanguard within six miles
of Casino, key milestone on. the
Via Casilina to Rome, and gave
promise of an early advance in
strength onto the tableland between
them and the capital.
Behind the Americans lay the
deSolate rubble of what was the
village of San Pietro, from which
the bloodiest struggles since the
United States invasion of ITALY
drove the Germans 1t feel Satur-
day, and the strategic victory was
announced yesterday.
Beleaguered San Vittore lies two
miles west of San Pietro on a slope
a mile north of the highroad north.
Six miles to the northeast is Cas-
sino, which the Germans were re-
ported to be using as an anchor of
their next winter line"
After the Germans were broken
at San Pietro, the Fifth army moved
up in what amounted to a general
advance on its front. West of Vena-
fro another two miles were gained
against stubborn German resistance
IN the mountains in the sector
where the French were fighting
their first battles of the war on
the continent alongside the allies.
In their advance, the Fifth army
units found many unburied Ger
mans who had been killed by Amer
ican artillery. The situation was
a tip-off to the speed of the Allied
advance, since the Germans usually
bury their dead before pulling out.
On the Adriatic front, General
Sir Bernard l.. Montgomery's Eighth
army overran enemy positions, in
fllctlng what communique said
were heavy casualties" and
strengthened its hold on the Orsona
-Ortona lateral road with the cap
ture OF ConsalW, six miles north
east of Orsogna.
French troops on the central sec
tor of the Fifth army front also
hammered out a two-mile gain in
the mountains north of Venafro,
where they were attempting to
break through pass.
The capture of San Pietro, three
miles southeast of Vittore, late
Saturday after a three day battle
threw open the Liri river valley
to American tanks and paved the
way for full-scale drive toward
Casino, next defense bastion ath-
wart the high road to Rome, some
10 miles to the northwest
The Germans still resisted fur
iously as they fell back along the
road, but official reports from the
front said they were showing signs
of collapse under the triphammer
blows of Allied artillery and air.
craft.
San Vittore, three miles beyond
San Pietro and on spur road one
mile north of the Rome highway.
was not expected to hold out long.
The Americans suffered only
moderate casualties compared to the
enemy's losses in the battle for
San Petro, official sources said. In
the wrecked, booby-trapped, mine
town, the Americans captured guam
titles of small arms and ammuni-
ton
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
FLU EPIDEMIC WAVES
By UNITED PRESS

The nations larger cities report
ed Monday that the siege of in
fluenza which has caused war plant
absenteeism and forced many
school sto close was lifting rapidly.
Only a few scattered areas reported
an increase of new cases. Cleve-
lands health department said in
fluenza was spreading in the metro
politan area. At Houston, Tex
doctors estimated 1000 persons were
suffering from the infection and the
situation was becoming more pre-
valent and more severe"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (UP)-
A new foray by German submar-
inc into the Gulf of Mexico was
revealed Monday when the navy
announced that a medium sized
United States merchant vessel was
torpedoed and sunk there early in
December.
Only one other ship has been re-
ported sunk in the gulf area this
year. That was a small Norwegian
ship lost in April, Prior to that
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
u Boot Invudes
GuIfof fMexico

the last sinking in the gulf was
in September, l942.
The latest sinking brings to 40
the number of ships sunk in the
gulf since the submarine offensive
started.
The navy gave no details about
the latest sinking except to say that
the ship was torpedoed by an enemy
submarine.
The survivors have been landed
at Galveston, Tex, and at Key West
and Pensacola, Fla.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20

west bank of the Dnieper river
estuary.
MOSCOW, Dec. 20. (UP)-Gen.
Ivan K Bagraman's Baltic front
army of Siberian veterans swung
southwestward and outflanked Wit
ebsk Monday after crashing the
German iron wall" line below Ne
vel in a great break-through touch
ing off the long delayed Russian
winter offensive.
Paced by powerful armored units
and ski detachments, tough Red
shock troops who fought at Stall
ingrad, before Moscow, and on the
Don, chopped hole so miles wide
and 10 miles deep in the thick net
work of defenses in which the Ger
mans had set themselves up for
the winter.
On the first five days of fierce
fighting the Russians overran more
than 500 communities, killed 10000
German troops, and captured 1000.
Berlin acknowledged the loss of
the German bridgehead across the
Dnieper estuary from Kherson at
the other end of the front, which
apparently meant the Nazis had
given up the entire eastern bank
of the lower Dnieper except for a
toehold opposite Nikopol
CA Nazi communique reported de-
termined Red army attacks in halt
dozen sectors of the front. 1t
said the Russians were trying to
break through east of Vitebsk, in
an apparent extension of the Nevel
offensive and both south and north
west of Newell strong Soviet attacks
continued.)
First accounts of the Baltic front
offensive said that after smashing
formidable German defenses on a
wide front south of Nevel, the main
weight swung down in a wheeling
maneuver aimed at cutting the
Vitebsk- -Polotsk railroad and isolat-
ing Vitebsk, vital junction of the
Moscow-Riga and Leningrad-Odes
railroads.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
TWO OFFICERS KILLED

SAN MATEO, Calf, Dec. 20 (UP)
Two army lieutenants were killed
and four injured when their jeep
crashed into a ditch on San Bruno
avenue, near Bayshore Highway
Monday. The state highway patrol
identified one of the dead as Lieu
tenant Lowell Hougan.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
y AMBL'Ne
~ EpoRTER

Thank You Letter
Remember when Billy Shuts,
training with the navy at Norman
okla. asked the Ell Centre chamber
of commerce for a Bruin nag LOT
the USO canteen there and Secre-
tary Ben Herring OF the chamber
sent him one?
Here is Billy's letter of apprecla-
ton.
Dear Sirs-I received your pack
age this afternoon and I want to
thank you very much. When l un-
furled it inside my barracks feel
ING of pride and admiration for my
home state came over me. l nave
two friends from Long Beach and
San Francisco bunking next to me.
We looked at it for almost an hour,
talking about home We heard a lit
tie unfavorable comment about our
flag from Iwo boys from Florida
and we stopped that very quick. Our
state is everything FLORIDA is ad-
vertised to be and more. Well, |
close, thanking you one and all
and till peace reigns once again
over our country, l remain your
good friend. Thank you, Billy
Farewell To Thee
Some persons can slip out OF
town without anyone noticing put
such did not happen to Mrs. Bill
Mitchell, alias Velma.
On her last day on duty in the
Imperial county district attorneys
office prior to moving to Santa
Ana, Velma was startled to receive
an official looking legal document
headed Order to show cause and
restraining order"
She gulped and thought to her
self, what have l been doing
now,"
The document went on with
lot of jabber I'm the matter OF Vel
ma Mitchell, John Doe Mitchell,
Alfonso Mitchell, Emiliano Mitchell,
and all other possible little Nit
chells of the second and third gen.
Grafton, ct al"
With her eyes popping and her
breath whistling excitedly, she went
on to read:
You, and each of you, meaning
all of the above-named persons, are
required to appear in the above
entitled Court on Friday, December
"a, 1943, at 6 o'clock am, and show
cause, If any you have, why the
Court should not make it's order
restraining and enjoining you from
deserting, abandoning and leaving
the District Attorneys Office and
surrounding territory; and further
to show cause why you should not
make apology in open Court for
even thinking of SO deserting or
abandoning same; and restraining
you from exhibiting interest in other
Continued on page 8, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
DEPOT BURGLARIZED

The railway depot at Seeley was
burglarized during the weekend,
Sheriff Robert w. Ware was in
formed. Two blankets were said to
have been the only loot taken.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-20
Fifth Army Puts.
On Speed Down
Strategic Valley
New Gains Against Weakening
Germans Place Americans
Near Key Milestone on Road

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algers, Dec. 20. (UP)-
American troops struck down the Lr valley toward
plain before Rome Monday advancing two miles after cap
turing San Pero in their toughest fight since Saerno
and laying siege to the mountain village of San Vittore