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Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16

rivers, northwest of Altavilla.
Lieut.. Gen. Mark w. Clark, COM
manding the 5th army, praised the
splendid achievement of the Amer
ican and British forces, declared
that "our beachhead is secure" and
that "side by side with the British
9th army we will advance and oc-
cupy Rome, Naples and other cities
to the north and free Italy from
German domination"
The Allied bridgehead is now at
least eight miles deep and the
British 9th army, coming UP from
the south, is around so miles from
juncture with the 5th army.
The attack by American and
British troops in the center of the
Salerno-Agropoli bridgehead south
of Naples was launched after a
period of crisis in which elements
of five crack German tank and
motorized divisions threw every
thing they could muster into a
vain attempt to destroy the Allied
invasion Spearhead. 81.
On Wednesday, the enemy coun-
Continued on Page 8, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
Two Sentenced for
Leaving Children

Mr.. and Mrs Samuel James
Payne of the area north east of
Holtville were sentenced to six
months in the Imperial county Jail
Thursday, and placed on probation
for two years during which time
they must take good care of their
six children.
The Jail sentence was suspended
in Holtville justice court but they
will have to serve it if they neglect
their children during the next two
years.
They were arrested early Tuesday
when it was found they had LETT
their six children, the Oldest nine
years of age and the youngest a
three-months- nursing baby,
alone all day Monday without any
food. The Payne family lives 10
miles north east OF Holtville.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
JAPANESE RESUME AIR
ATTACKS IN SOlOMONS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-OUP)
Japanese airmen have made
two Intellectual bombing attacks
on American positions in the
southeastern Solomons, the navy
announced today. The raids might
indicate a renewal of aerial ag-
gression in the southwest Pac-
ific.
The Lunga point area on Quad
alcanal and Russell island, site of
an American air base. were at
tackled on Monday night (SOlO-
mons time).
The navy said minor damage
was sustained in the Linga Point
area, which is close to Henderson
air field.
Only one enemy bomber attack
ed Russell, and it caused no dam
age. There we're no personnel
casualties from either raid.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
Council to Create
Improvement Fund

The Ell Centre city council We'd
nesday night passed an ordinance
for the creation of capital out
lay" fund which will be used in the
future for public improvements.
Under terms of the ordinance no
council will have authority to use
the fund without two thirds
majority vote of the residents of
the city. The measure provides,
however, that money from the spe-
cial fund may be dispersed for
making improvements or repair
work in the city water department
without vote of the people.
The council also authorized the
city clerk and city treasurer to pur-
chase 100000 worth of war bonds
providing funds in that amount
are available.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
Yuma Police Chief Denies
All Charges in Rape Case

torney Ed Hervey, "did you even
make any improper advances to
Mary Monica Doyle?" Polhamus, Il
did not-not on the entire trip"
Polhamus also stated that he had
signed statement for Capt. Blake
Mason of the sheriff's office, that
he had caressed Mrs. Allen, with
the understanding from Mason that
he could plead guilty to a misde-
meanor, pay a fine and return home
the same afternoon. He said the
statements made were not true.
He said that at the time of the
trip, his wife was in San Diego
spending the summer and that a
son, in the coast guard, had just re-
ceived six days liberty"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
Out Of Jail. in
Jail in 4 Hours

Out of the county Jail in Ell Cen
tro at 10 am Wednesday, arrive at
Calexico at 12:45 pm, booked at
the Calexico police station at $50
pm, was the itinerary of Alfredo
Rodriguez, 35, Calexico laborer.
THAT county Jail is going to
pieces without you to hold it to-
gether," Police Judge w. H. Lorenz
said when Rodriguez was brought
before him in police court Thursday
morning So you can go back to jail
for six months and take things in
charge there again. The charge
against Rodriguez was vagrancy.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
= AMBLlNe
~ EpORTER

Perfectly Clear
A little boy was in an Ell Centro
store with his mother to select a
pair of school shoes.
Russell Briggs put a pair of shoes
on the boy and asked him to walk
around to see how they felt.
How do they feel?" Briggs ask
ed the boy.
"They feel fine" beamed the boy
teetering back and forth from toe
to heel, but they're little tight
around the elbows"
Wrong Game
Daubber Johnson, the painter, is
q strong believer in the correct
stance while hunting. He talks
more about his hunting stance than
golfer does.
And what a stance!
He grabs his gun, shuts one eye,
squints with the other, and slumps
into crouch that looks as though
he is sitting down with nothing to
sit on
Johnson adopted this monstrous
stance while dove hunting the other
day. Along came a Swiss hunting
dog. The dog stopped in frozen
borrow when he saw johnson. Then
he took large sized nip right out
of the most exposed portion of the
johnson anatomy.
That spoiled the stance.
Now We Know
Remember when Romeo Smith
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
Suspect Held for
HITTING Woman

Ell Centre police were holding
Thursday a negro soldier suspected
of breaking into several homes
Wednesday night and hitting one
woman when she screamed for help
after she discovered him in her
home.
Officers said four separate calls
were received during the night.
Mrs. j. A. White, 755 Park street,
reported that she discovered a negro
soldier in her home and when he
saw her she was told that if she
called for help she would be killed.
Despite the threat she creamed,
she informed police, whereupon the
soldier hit her a blow in the face.
Officers hunted for the suspect
throughout the night and arrested
him shortly before a. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
II Men Trapped in
Mine Disaster

HARLAN, KY, Sept. 16.-UP)-
Seventeen men were trapped in a
mine explosion today at the three
point Goa company, Is miles south
west of Harlan. Rescue workers
were unable to establish immediate
contact with the men and could not
say whether they were alive or
dead.
Rescue squadrs from the Harlan
county coal operators association
and from the state department of
mines were at the scene.
Mine officials said coal gas ex-
ploded, trapping the workers. The
entombed men were part of a
work force of $50 miners.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
Gardens Will Be
Subject of Talks

Home gardens, home poultry
flocks, home meat production, and
home dairy production will be the
main topics of discussion at two
public meetings in Imperial county
Thursday and Friday of next week.
The first of the two meetings was
scheduled at Hoober hall in Cali
patria at p. m. Sept. % and the
second in the supervisors room in
the court house in Ell Centre at 2
p. m. Sept. "a.
DR.. Charles M. Rick, garden spe-
cialist from the division of truck
crops, will discuss gardens. Men,
bers of the extension service in I'M
perial county will discuss poultry
flocks, home meat and dairy pro-
duction.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16

IlOuIlCcU CIlc CdpJuIc Vi INOVOIOSolok,
last base for German operations in
the Kuban foothold to which the
battered Axis forces clung stub
bornly after they were penned up
by the Red army offensive last win
ter.
Novorossisk fell after five days
of fierce fighting to the army of
ported by Warships of the Black
Sea fleet taking part in an amphib-
ious assault.
NEW OFFENSIVE
Coincident with Moscow'S report
If the capture of Novorossisk, the
Berlin radio said, that the Red army
had launched a large scale offensive
on the Leningrad front 1850 miles
to the northwest.
The Russians we're trying to
smash the northern bolt of the
German encirclement front before
Leningrad," the NaZiS said, acknoWl-
edging powerful onslaught preced-
ed by an intense artillery lombard
ment.
Between the two ends of the blaz-
ing front, the Germans were re-
ported fleeing in disorder toward
the Dnieper river on broad front
as the advancing Russians threat
ened the last major bases east of
the river.
The fall of Novorossisk apparently
bore close relation to the Soviet
Continued on Page 8, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
Allies Seal Doom
Of Lac laps When
Aussies Advance
Troops Only Two Miles
From Beleaguered City
On New Guinea Coast

ALLIE D HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Southwest Pacific,
Sept. 16. (UP)-Australian
forces were only two miles
east of Lac today as Allied
troops to the west advanced to at
tack a fourth enemy plantation
strongpoint after blasting through
three others near the japanese
New Guinea coastal base.
A third Allied column pushing up
from the south had advanced 10
miles in pursuit of beaten enemy
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 16.-fUP)
Defense attorney Ed Hervey to-
day rested his side of the Issac
Polhamus rape case after Super
iOr Judge l.. N. Turrentine sus-
tained prosecution objection to
bringing in character witnesses.
IL was believed the case would 60
to jury tomorrow morning.
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 16.-CUP)-
Isaac Polhamus, 50, police chief oi
Yuma, Ariz., today took the stand
In his own defense and flatly de-
MED that he raped, or even caress-
ed 14-year-old Mary Monica Doyle
Allen, while he was bringing hel
and two other Juveniles to Sar
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16

Diego.
Polhamus told the jury that he
had received a telegram from the
San Diego probation office asking
him to bring the children over.
Enroute, he testified, the boy,
Glen Spaulding, is, expressed de-
sire to drive the car. After he
took over, Polhamus said he sat in
the back seat with Mrs. Allen.
"The Doyle girl jumped up and
landed in my lap" Polhamus said.
II reached down and showed her
off.
"I then told Spaulding to stop
the car, and I drove all the way
into San Diego"
Under direct questioning by at
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16

NUMBER OF eaCn grade
Grade one tires, 243 grade three
tires, 355; passenger tubes, 408;
truck tires, 1866; truck tubes, 1873;
implement tires, "a; recapped truck
tires, 49, used truck tires, one.
One hundred fifty five number
one war food books were released
by the board during that period
while ITS number two books were
issued.
Sugar issued to industrial users
amounted to 22,366 pounds and to
institutional users, 41,717 pounds.
The board released 1,109 pounds of
canning sugar during the month,
the report showed.
Managers of institutional con-
Germs received 359.969 points for
the purchase of foodstuffs and
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16

619,089 points with which to obtain
meats and fats.
Six automobile certificates we're
released in August as were certifi-
Gates for the purchase of six bi-
cycles. The board released three
rubber boot certificates and % spe-
cial shoe stamps we're issued.
The following gasoline books we're
released in August:
"a" books, 3l3: "B" books. 1913:
"B" special books. 2o2; 20" books.
794: &c" special books, 55, IT.
transport books, 70; d. motor
cycle books. 16; 'E" non-highway
books. 10; "R" non-highway books,
III. Bulk gasoline consumers we're
issued 46,484 gallons during the
period.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16

troops from Salamaua and rapidly
was closing the pocket on the trap
ped Lac garrison.
A spokesman estimated the Japa-
nese had suffered 300 casualties at
Lac UP to Tuesday, 100 of them
dead at Whittaker's plantation sew
Continued on Page 8, Col.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
Former Governor
Of Massachusetts
Held for Frauds
Ex-MayOr of Boston, 5
Other Prominent Men,
Indicted by Government

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.
(UP)-Rep. James M. Cur
ley, D., Mass, former COVER
nor of Massachusetts and
three times mayor of Boston,
was indicted here today by fed
eral grand jury on charges of mail
fraud, in connection with an alleg-
ed war contracts brokerage racket
the justice department announced
Indicted with Curley were five
other officers and directors of En-
gineerS' Group, Inc, of which Cur
ley was president and director from
the time it was organized in June,
1941, until Dec. 30, 1941.
Maximum penalties in event of
conviction on all 81 counts contain
ed in the indictment would total
102 years in prison and 10000 fines.
Twenty counts, based on individ-
ual instances of alleged mail fraud,
carry maximum penalties of $1,000
fine and five Tears' imprisonment
each. The 21st count, charging con-
spiracy, carries penalties totaling
$4,000 fine and two years in pris-
on.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
SONIA SKATES

Supporting Sonia Henie, the
scintillating star of the the Post
Press and United Artists war bond
show Sept. 30, is long list of FAM
Gus motion picture stars.
Jack Oakie, Cesar Romero, Carole
Lands, and Woody Herman and his
orchestra head the list. Sonia
skates as Woody plays. War heroes
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16

tackS on Nazi air bases in France,
and the Royal Air Force followed
through with night raids on Berlin
and the rubber plant at Montlucon
northwest of Vichy.
The blow at Berlin appeared to
have been a stinging attack by
swift twin-engined Mosquito bomb
ers on picked targets. Other planes
made raids on northwestern Ger
many and northern France.
Unloading possibly 1000 tons of
Continued on Page 8, Col. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
American Nurses
On Europe's Soil

WITH FIFTH ARMY, Italy, Sept.
13.-Oelayed-(UP) Fifty-Seven
American nurses arrived in this
battle area today and the first
soldiers who noticed them wading
onto the beaches turned to his pals
and shouted:
Wow! Wonderland here!"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16

will star in a stage show if it can
be arranged.
Admission to the big stage and
screen show will be a war bond
purchased from the Post-Press. Fill
in the war bond blank in the news
paper, mail or take the blank and
a check to the Post-Press office.
The bond will be delivered along
with a ticket to the bond show.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
BASEBALL
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AMERICAN A

BY UNITED PRESS
AMERICAN
Philadelphia 900 100 O0O-1 q 0
New York 900 010 40x-5 IL
Far:is. Ciola ard w; sner; Russo
ana Dickey.
NATIONAL.
First game: Ri f.
Philadelphia .003 04O 002--9 l3
Boston ...........0 600 900 O02-2 7 |
Rowe, Lee and Seminick; Tobln,
Cardoni and Mast.
Second game:
Philadelphia .............-......0O0
Boston ................ ........--...... 300
Mathewson and Seminick; Javery
and Poland.
Chicago ................--.....-....-00
ST. Louis .........--................-11
Bithron and Livingston; Breechen
and w. Cooper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16

Draft
Age?
Possibility Of
Taking I7-year-
Olds Is Seer

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.
(UP)-The possibility of
drafting 17-year-old youths
was injected into a senate
military affairs committee
hearing today when it was dis
closed that to meet their goals the
armed services must induct an
average of 100000 men a month
for the remainder of this year.
Committee Chairman Robert R.
Reynolds, D., N. c., asked Rear
Admiral Randall Jacobs, chief of
navy personnel and witness be-
fore the committee, for his opinion
on drafting 17-year-olds.
Jacobs, who said the navy had
enlisted 58,742 youths between II
and 18, did not answer directly but
said the navy has not accepted all
17-year-old volunteers because
many boys don't mature as rapidly
as Others
MORE REFLECTIONS
Jacobs expressed the opinion that
a 17-year-old draft age would re-
suit in a higher percentage of re-
jections because of varying matur-
ity. But he added that the younger
men were more adaptable because
they had no "preconceived ideas, +"
and that, lacking a trade, they
could be trained in work where
they were most needed according
to their abilities. -+' "e IS
Reynolds apparently advanced the
idea of drafting 17-year-olds as one
possible means of delaying the draft
of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers.
The committee is hearing high
Continued on Page 8, Col. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
OTHERS INDICTED

Others indicted were;
Donald Wakefield Smith, WASH
ington and Pittsburgh, former
member of the National Labor Re-
lations Board, who was assistant
secretary and treasurer of the firm.
Marshall j. Fitzgerald, formerly
of Chicago and Washington, secre-
tary and director.
James G.. Fuller, 43, formerly of
Washington and native of King
ston, N. Y, executive vice president
and director, now serving five years
in a federal penitentiary for send
ing fraudulent securities through
the mails.
James Barton Underwood, 45,
Continued on Page 8, Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
1477 Tires Issued
Here in August

The Ell Centre price and ratonng board issued
certificates for the purchase of 4 tires and tubes during
August according to figures contained in report ac-
vities the board during that month released Thurs
day. Following the various grades ratoned and the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
Novorossisk Falls
1oSoviet Forces
Stain Announces Capture Of Black Sea
Naval Base After Five Days ofFish+ins;
Nazis Say New Northern Red Push on

LONDON Stain
Gcrma de-
O ne nd of
LONDON, Sept 16. (UP)-The Red army recaptured
the great Black Sea naval base of NOvorossk today doom
ing the Germans brdgehead in the northwest
laying open the Crmea to Soviet attack the
Kerchenski straits. Premier Marshal Josef Stain an
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
LID. Voters Are
Giving Approval
To Firm Purchase
Voting Light on Bond Issue But District
Officials Confident Buying Holdings of
Opposition Company Will Be Approved

Although voting in the Imperial Irrigation districts
special election dealing with the issuance of s6OO00OO
worth of bonds for in purchasing power proper
ties in this belonging to the California Electric Power
company extremely light during the morning hours
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
Reinforcements
Pour into ItaIy
ToAid Cen. Clark
8+h Army Reported Only 81 Miles from
Junction with Hard-Pressed yanks in
SaIerno Region; Germans Falling Back

LONDON. Sept. I6-UPEThe United Nations radio in
North Africa reported today that The British Eighth Army had
reached sap the coast Of Italy 81 miles from Aero
poll and junction with the Fifth Army
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North Africa Sept 16
(UP)-The American 5th army, reinforced by sea and
supported by naval guns and powerful aerial fleet seized
the offensive the Saerno front today and drove the
Germans from their positions between the See and ColOre
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-16
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday 110, minimum
Thurs. 73; 5 am. Thurs. IS, humid
ity 78; noon Thurs. 100, humidity
40; pm. Wed. 100, humidity 26.
Evening star., 1943-11-30

brief, with the nominating con-
ventions held late in the year.
The Republican retort Is that Mr..
Walker and all the New Dealers
would prefer not to have any
election at all; that they would
like to have the administration
continued in Office indefinitely,
much as the British are holding
on to Winston Churchill today
with no general election of the
House of Commons.
Despite the fact that there has
been no general election in Brit
ain, however, there has been a
change in the head of the gov
ernment there during the pres
ent war, when Chamberlain went
out Of Office and Mr.. Churchill
became Prime Minister. Under
the Constitution of the United
States a presidential election
must be held next year. So far
the Constitution stands.
A week ago, Chairman Spangler
of the Republican National Com
mittee took to the air to attack
the Roosevelt administration and
to gloat a bit over the results of
the elections in Kentucky, Con-
necticut and New York, all won
by Republicans on November 2.
During the course of his address,
the Republican chairman said
that President Roosevelt - he
called him Candidate Roosevelt"
ran two and one-half per cent
ahead of the Democratic congress
sional ticket In 1910 all across the
country. In these recent elec-
tions, he continued, the Repub-
lican vote showed an eight per
cent gain over 1910. He argued,
on the basis of these figures,
that had Mr.. Roosevelt been run
ming on November 2 and had he
shown the same greater pulling
power over other Democratic
candidates, he would have been
decisively defeated.
Walker May Reply.
Mr.. Spangler added that he
had been told the Democratic
National Committee headquar-
ters today is a "morgue," vir-
tually inactive, while the fourth
term movement is directed from
within the White House by Harry
Hopkins and other palace ia
vorites." Perhaps Mr.. Walker
will be able to prove to his Re-
publican opponent that he is mis-
taken and that the Democratic
Committee is active. Whether
Mr.. Walker will let drop any sig
niflcant words indicating a
coming drive for a fourth term
remains to be seen. There seems
no doubt, however, that there is
considerable activity, and has
been for months, looking to a
denomination of the President.
Today the voters in the fourth
congressional district of Ken
lucky are going to the polls to
elect a successor to the late Rep
Evening star., 1943-11-30
I'd Rather Be Riqht-

stead Of a green one, or the mutter-
ing of special form of words.
The proposal for identical foreign
policy planks is not proposal that
the two parties shall adopt the same
approach to the world.
Identical planks could become a
device for running away from the
real issues in our foreign policy,
rather than a device for agreeing
on them.
I have listed some of the real
issues above, and there are going to
be many more. Why adopt a method
which issues certificates to a horde
Of miscellaneous candidates, declar-
ing them all to be pure and above
reproach on matters OF foreign
policy, when most of them have not
even opened their mouths on the
key questions?
Implicit in this approach is more
of that same formal fustiness which
recently led us to bust out in a
great, big debate about a world
police force, when the real and
breathless question Of the moment
was whether we were going to be
able to come to an agreement with
Russia on military strategy.
Evening star., 1943-11-30

high enough to keep our former
comrades-in-arms from selling us
SO much as button hook.
If that candidate were told he
was muddying up our national for
eign policy, he would have a clear,
indignant defense: mo, jackson"
he could say. Both parties now
have the same foreign policy. Look
in the book"
Or a Democratic candidate could
set up a sudden zip for American
possession Of large number of
islands in the Pacific. 1t is not
probable that the identical planks
would mention islands.
Would Be "Pickled" Policy.
The identical planks would not
be about tariffs or islands, or any
Of the thousand retail elements that
make up the going business called
foreign policy. The identical planks
would be about something called
foreign policy" itself; foreign
policy" pure and abstract; foreign
policy" on the wholesale level. But
I don't know land nobody else
knows) what foreign policy" means
when 1t is separated from the
myriad realities which give it life,
and is then preserved and picked
as in bottle.
One Of the retail questions of
foreign policy which is sure to come
up is that of the disposition of the
Baltic states. which were taken
from Russia at the end Of the First
World War, restored to her at the
beginning of this one, then taken
away again by the Nazis, and now
about to be retaken by Russia's own
armies. Will the identical planks
on foreign policy mention the Bal
tic states? No, friend, because that
would make an argument. Yet our
attitude toward the Baltic states is
likely to determine the whole course
Of our relations with Russia. The
two parties are likely to agree COM
pletely on foreign policy" Gin
bottle) and then perhaps disagree
completely on the Baltic countries.
They could have gorgeous and
disruptive quarrel, while at the same
time it would be officially certified
that they were of absolutely iden-
tical minds concerning foreign
policy"
We still tend to think too much
OF choice Of foreign policy" as
merely the taking Of an attitude,
the making Of a gesture, the de-
cision to wear a blue necktie in