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Evening star., 1943-07-12
US. boTnbers Hit
-Four Jap Bases
In South Pacific
81 Tons Of Explosives
Biost Main Jop
Base at Mundu

BY the Associated Press. ..s
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
July 12.-American bombers
yesterday pounded four widely
separated Japanese bases In the
Southwest Pacific, striking most
heavily at Munda, the enemy's
key defense point in the Central
Solomons.
More than l76 tons of bombs were
loosed on the Japanese strongholds
and at least nine Zeros which at
tempted to interfere were shot down.
One Liberator and two Allied fight-
ers were lost.
Torpedo and dive-bombers smashed
So tons OF heavy bombs on anti
aircraft positions and bivouac areas
near Munda. Stormy weather ham,
pered the Avengers and Dauntless
bombers as they roared in on Munda
in another of the series of raids
designed to soften the sector for
ground forces already gathering in
the jungle to storm the japanese
stronghold.
Results Not Observed.
The communique from Gen. Doug
las MacArthur's headquarters said
results of the attack we're unob-
served. Pilots who took part in the
raid, however, were certain their
bombs found their intended marks.
A headquarters spokesman said
the ground situation at Munda was
unchanged. Latest reports said
American forces were closing in on
the outer perimeter of defense,
with the nearest troops only 3 miles
from Munda.
Liberator bcmbers over Bougainville
Island dropped 40 tons of bombs on
Kahili, the enemy's largest air base
in the Solomons. Several large fires
were started. Three Japanese night
fighters attempted unsuccessfully to
intercept. .......
Liberators and Flying Fortresses
teamed up for a night assault
against Vunakanau Airdrome at Ra-
baul Their IS tons of bombs start
ed five large fires, two of which were
visible go miles away. Many smaller
fires, followed by number Of heavy
explosions, also were observed.
Five Fighters Downed.
In the .Salamaua area Mitchell
bombers, escorted by P-38's.- dropped
down almost to tree-top levels to
deliver devastating attack on vii
lagos along the trail from Mubo to
Salamaua. Forty-nine tons of bombs
were dropped and the Malolo village
area was heavily strafed. American
Lightnings shot down five enemy
fighters which attempted intercept
ton, but two of our fighters were
missing.
A Liberator bomber was lost In
a daylight raid on the airdrome at
Bobo, Dutch New Guinea, but others
in the formation started extensive
fires in the building area and shot
down of 10 Zeros which rose to
intercept them. One other Zero was
listed as probable and another
was damaged.
Allied surface units-probably PIT
boats-intercepted and sank four
loaded supply barges off Cape Ger
hards, east of Lac on Huon Gulf.
There was no further report of
enemy naval forces on which bomb
ers scored two direct hits with 500
pound bombs near the mouth of
Kula Gulf Saturday. They were
believed to be heading for the Faisi
area under cover of a storm.
Evening star., 1943-07-12
YichY Cobinet Summoned

LONDON. July IL (P.-The Ger
uncontrolled Paris radio reported
that Marshal Petain had summoned
his cabinet at Vichy to hear Chief
of Government Pierre Laval make q
long statement today on foreign
policy. ...
Evening star., 1943-07-12

BY the Associated Press.
VALLETTA, Malta, July H.
1t. Gen. George S. Patton, jr., is
commanding American forces in
Sicily, while Gen. Sir Bernard
L. Montgomery is commander in
chief of the British forces, an
official statement said today.
The full list of senior officers COM
manding the present combined op-
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Final Drive on Munda
Believed Near; Enemy
Air Force Weaker

fCommuniQues yesterday and
today announced continuing
progress in the American dripe
to eliminate the japanese from
their air base at Munda, on the
northwestern tip OF Ne,D Georgia
Island. In the tolloaoing delayed
dispatch an Associated Press
,1dr correspondent reports in
greater detail on the battle
Evening star., 1943-07-12

GEN. B. L. MONTGOMERY.
Grafton in the Mediterranean under
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower follows:
Commander-in- -chief of the Med
iterranean-Admiral Sir Andrew
Browne Cunningham.
Naval mmander-Admiral Sir
Bertram Ramsay.
Deputy commander-in-c chief, Allied
forces-Gen. Sir Harold Alexander.
Commander in. chief, British
(See PATTON, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1943-07-12

fSee AXIS, Page A-3J b
Evening star., 1943-07-12
Hospital Ship Sunk

(See JOBS, Page A-4.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
JaDs Experts at
War of Nerves
In South Pacific

WITH U. S. FORCES, Out
side Munda, July 11-(De-
layad)- (UP) The battle
for Munda is one of knives
and nerves-and if an Am
erican sometimes stabs a buddy in
the dark. it is chalked up as an
other score to settle against the
Japanese.
Americans, under orders to
swing their knives first and make
inquiries later, sometimes nick an
Cnsuspecting comrade.
Most of the stabbings, which are
a large portion of the total casu-
alties down here, come from Jap
aneSe knives.
Few of the knife wounds are
critical. One man cut five times
survived. But the japanese night
warfare, first practiced on Amer
ican troops in guadalcanal and
embellished on this island, doesn't
benefit the nervous system.
SWING FROM TREES
japanese soldiers swing from
Continued on Page 6, Col. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
Dispute Disrupts
Ford Production

DETROIT. July 21.-(UP)-A dis
pute between union shop commit
teemen and foreman disrupted
production of aircraft engines at
the Ford Motor company's River
Rouge plant for several hour to-
day.
The walkout began at 4:30 a. m.
when $500 men and women affiliat-
ed with United Automobile Workers
(CIO) quit work in protest against
the discharge of four shop COM
mitteemen.
Full production was resumed by
the day shift at 7:30 a. M, but 40
minutes later 524 employees in the
cylinder assembly division sat down
ar their benches.
However, these employees resumed
work at 9 a. m. and production was
back on schedule. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21

One light cruiser and two and
probably three destroyers were
blasted to the bottom and another
destroyer and transport were
damaged. The surviving vessels of
the 11-ship convoy fled northward
out of the range of American
bombers.
1t was the first time since the
start of the Allied offensive that
the Japanese have used transports
in their attempts to build up Villa,
on the southeastern coast of Kolom-
bangara island, to replace Munda
as their main base in the central
Solomons. The Garrison there al
ready numbers at least 5000 men.
MUNDA SURROUNDED
Munda. on New Georgia island
southeast of Villa. virtually has been
surrounded, Gen. Douglas Mac
A1thur's comnEniuue said, and its
capture is believed only matter
of time.
Tightening investment at Munda
now has rendered supply and rein
forcement to the enemy dangerous
and difficult" the communique said.
"SloW. but constant, deterioration
of his beleaguered Garrison can be
expected unless our blockading
ring can be broken"
Night-prowling American Cata-
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21

!. The official Soviet army organ
Red Star editorially predicted a
victorious end of the battle of Orel
in the near future. Other reports
said Adolf Hitler has ordered his
army to hold Orel at all costs, and
that the Germans were beginning
to suffer - r a shortage CT tanks
and troops.
Striking on southwark from cap
tuied Studenkovo, five miles above
tie Orel-Bryansk railway, the Rus
slams brought it within east gun
shot range and left the threatened
German Garrison to the east with
out feeder line, field dispatches
revealed.
STEP UP ATTACKS
The Red army stepped up its at
tacks along a 450-mile front rum
ming south from Orel consolidat-
ing and expanding new gains which
had carried spearheads across both
the Donets and Mus rivers.
(The German high command
acknowledged fierce defensive bat
ties in the Orel salient and along
the Donets and Mus rivers and
conceded Local Penetrations" by
powerful Soviet formations, but
claimed the wedges were "cordoned
off"
(The London radio reported that
Russian forces driving toward Orel
from the east were less than seven
miles from the city,
Soviet military reports said the
Red army was advancing in all key
sectors of the southern front wind
ing down from the preached Orel
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21

WASHINGTON, July 81 CUP)-
The Spanish ambassador has
strongly protested against a speech
in which the Mexican ambassador
DR.. Don Francisco Castillo Najera,
referred to Gneralissimo Francisco
Franco as a traitor and "puppet.
Spanish sources revealed today
The protest was delivered to the
state department yesterday by
Spanish Ambassador Don Juan
Francisco de Cardenas.
The speech in question was a
Bastille Day broadcast to France in
which Castillo Najera, former
Mexican minister to France, sought
to give hope to the oppressed
French people of better day to
come.
The speech was arranged ana
broadcast by the Office of War
Information in the belief that the
French people would welcome a
word of cheer from man for
whom they have the highest re-
gard.
Castillo Najera., however, speaking
in French, attacked both Benito
Mussolini and Franco.
1.-The wolf who gave milk to the
twins, sons of Rhea, has been chosed
out of Rome Dy an accomplice of
the barbarians and another traitor,
puppet of the Uhlans, has made
Spain fall into >the black era of
servitude," the Mexican ambassa-
dor said.
But in Italy, just as in Spain,
thousands and thousands of proud
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
hoItviI!e Man Is
Helena Survivor

Johnny Mabry, son of Mrs. Jack
Mabry of Holtville, survived the
disaster of the Helena and telc-
graphed home that he is "alive and
we'll" friends were informed We'd
nesday.
He enlisted in the United States
navy about year before the Japa-
nese attacked Pearl Harbor and
has seen action in the Solomons
and other war zones.
Friends and relatives were anxi-
Gus about Mabry and were greatly
relieved to learn that he survived
the disaster to his ship.
Mabry was graduated from the
Holtville Union High school and
before he enlisted was employed at
the Arrowhead plant in Ell Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
|. A. Bus, Street
Car Strike Threat
To War Production
Half Million Airplane,
War Industry, Workers
May Be Forced to Walk

LOS ANGELES, July 21-
UP) = Transportation de
partments of aircraft COM
panies, shipyards, and war
plants in the Los Angeles
area worked feverishly today to
Nline up emergency transportation
for half million workers faced
with 24-hour shutdown of street
cars and buses beginning at 3 am.
tomorrow.
Employees of the Los Angeles Rail-
way Los Angeles Motor Coach Com
pany and the Lang Transportation
system of Long Beach, Cal, will
walk off the job early tomorrow
morning unless the War Labor board
acts Immediately on a proposed wage
increase agreed upon by the COM
panies.
Douglas Aircraft company officials
said they we're mobilizing all avail
able trucks, buses. rigs. and trailers
to transport workers to their three
plants in the aea.
GOT TO WORK
During tie recent Long Beach bus
strike we got all our people to work
in the plant there" a spokesman
said. But this time we have three
plants to handle. I don't know how
we'll manage it,"
North American Aviation trans
portaton officials expected at least
one day of production handicapped
with high percentage of absentee
ism.
1T will be a terrific handicap"
one officials said. But there's no
way we can rearrange our produc-
ton to minimize the loss"
Employees of the California Ship
building corporation will be urged
to double their car pools if possible,
according to a Calship transporta-
ton official.
Announcement of the Walkout
Continued on Page 6, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
Marines Lease
Brawtey Airport

BRAWLEY, July 81. - BraWley
Municipal airport will be used as
an auxiliary by the United States
marine flying forces, it was decided
this week
Marine officers appeared before
the Brawley city council and said
that the BraWley airport was need
cd as an auxiliary field md that
arrangements could be made for
widening the runways and making
other improvements.
Councilmen granted permission.
Mel Carberry leased the field
from the city but agreed to the ar
rangements with the marines there
would be no interference with his
operations with duster planes used
to scatter poison used in killing
pests on vegetable crops in Imper-
ial Valley. "A.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
|. |. D. Directors in
Meeting Friday Will
Hear Deal Progress
Discussion Of Proposal
TO Buy Cal-Elec. Power
Properties Coming up

Imperial irrigation Dis
trict directors will meet Fri
day to hear a detailed report
on the progress of their plans
to purchase power properties
of the California Electric Power
company and discuss series of
contracts now being completed by
engineers and attorneys for both
concerns.
The meeting has been called for
the express purpose OF discussing
the deal, district officials said We'd
neSday.
Mimeographed copies of the con-
tracts are being made and will be
scrutinized by attorneys before
their presentation to the directors
District leaders said the drawing up
of the purchase contracts was made
extremely difficult because of ex-
listing wartime conditions. Most of
the time spent on the documents is
over phraseology, they said.
PROGRESS MADE
Great progress toward conclusion
of the contracts was made at a
meeting in Riverside last week be-
tween district officials and heads
of the California firm.
M. j. Dowd, the districts chief
consulting engineer, spent all last
week comforting with officers OF
the power company while Harry
Horton, the districts chief attorney
and Evan Hewes, district president
met in Riverside on the deal sew
eral days last week.
When directors of both concerns
approve the contracts, which Will
call for the purchase of the prop
critics by the district for approx
imately $49O,OOO,OOO, special cleo
ton will be called during which
approval of district voters will be
sought.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
a.V. Mon Loses Life in
Flying Accident in Blythe

BLYTHE, Calf, July 81 up
Instructor Rex Bennett, 80, and
Aviation Cadet Donald l.. Smith, 81,
were instantly killed when their
plane crashed on dry bed lake 55
miles northwest Of here, Morton
Air Academy officials announced
late today.
The accident occurred late YES
terday on a routine Cross-country
navigation trip. Officials were in
veStigating to determine the cause
of the crash.
Bennett, civilian assistant
flight commander, is survived by
his wife Betty Speak Bennett, and
a 7-year-old daughter, Sally, who
reside in Heber, Calf.
Smiths home town was Meek
lenberg, N. Y.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
County Won't Go
On 48-Hour Week

While the war-l-..1 4o-holT work
week was to be inaugurated in most
southern California counties Thurs
day there will be no change in work
schedules in Imperial Valley, Tom
Finney, county U. S. Employment
Service chief, said wednesday.
Finney said such work schedule
would be hardship on valley firms
who find it unnecessary to work
men a full 48 hours each week.
He said the plan might be used
in this county if it becomes nee
eSSary in the future.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21

Rex Bennett. 31-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. G. Bennett of the
Heber- -Holtville area, lost his life in
an airplane crash at Blythe Tues
day, officials revealed wednesday.
He was assistant flight command
er and civilian instructor for the
army at a flying academy at Blythe
where he had been working for l6
months. News of BENEFITS death
was telephoned to his family by
Roger Pryor, flight commander at
the academy.
Details of the accident we're not
revealed. Pryor explained that he
was not permitted to discuss the
tragedy.
The pilots parents and his former
business partner, Virgil Terrence
left TO Blythe as soon as news of the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21

communications of Enna and slug
ged furiously at Catania on the
east coast. =
Americans and Canadians con-
verged in pincers with the aid of
French Moroccan troops to capture
Emma and occupy approximately
one-half of Sicily's 10000 square
miles, cutting off Axis rear guards
and forcing the main enemy divi-
sions back toward the northeastern
peninsula opposite the toe of ItalyS
boot.
Eisenhower said "the enemy ap-
parently plans to make a stand
along line at the base of the
northeastern peninsula, including
Mount Etna." He predicted bitter
fighting and slow advances in the
final stages of the conquest of
Sicily
FROM ALL SIDES
(Radio Algiers said Catania was
being attacked from all sides and
might fall at any moment)
The fall of Emma, a town of 27.-
900 on a high horseshoe-shaped
III iiAo-OieiiJ, Ioo oii NfCiiidii
and Italian rear guard troops and
gave the Allies control of a net
work of roads leading 70 all corners
of the island. French Goumiers,
native Moroccan troops, participat-
ed in the Allied advance.
The Canadians closed in on Emma
from the southeast, breaking
through stubborn enemy resistance.
while the American 7th army reach
ed the road junction from the
southwest, after thanking opera
tions that carried some units far
ther northWard toward the coast.
The effect of the capture of Emma
was to split Sicily in half, with the
Allies controlling all territory south
Of a line running from Catania on
the east coast to Emma and thence
southwestward to a point beyond
A2rigento, where the Americans
were still advancing. Emma repre-
sented an advance of about 35 air
line miles from the nearest south
Continued on Page 6, Col. ID
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
Bund Troopers in
America Described

SAN FRANCISCO. July q tUP)
The German American bund
maintained its own elite storm
troopers, copied after Adolf Hit
lers Schutzstaffel, who were chosen
on qualifications of race, physical
condition and obedience to the
Nazi principles of leadership, the
government contended today at the
Bund's trial
Peter Gissible, 43, former member
of the Nszi party and fuehrer OF
the Chicago Bund, testified for the
government in federal district
court today that applicants for the
German American Schutzstaffel or
Crdnungs Dienst were placed on a
four to six weeks waiting list while
their references" were investi-
gated
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21


slaughtered.
Charles Sones. head of the meat
committee said his group met Tues
day and named a subcommittee
headed by B. A. Harrigan to devote
it's entire efforts toward getting an
additional allotment of beef for this
month.
PLANS APPEAL
The subcommittee plans an ap-
peal to the food distribution divi-
sion of the department of agri-
culture, Sones said.
Chester Fry and H. j. Lassalette
of the state war board attended
Tuesdays session and promised the
cooperation of their organization.
G. j. Ritter, manager of the
county's only slaughter house, which
is located at Imperial, said the
only meat available to consumers is
pork as butchers supplies of beef
had been depleted
Meat committees, such as that
headed by Sones, has power to
grant special allotments to small
slaughter houses which are not un-
der federal supervision when meat
supplies run exceedingly low. No
such action can be taken here,
however, as the slaughter house
operates under federal regulations.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
SpQniurd Protests
Mexicon's S Speech

spirits are with us, hoping for the
hour that will bring back human
dignity"
Mexico has no diplomatic rela-
tions with Spain, being the only
Latin American country which has
refused to recognize the Franco
regime. Mexico supported the
Spanish republican cause in the
Spanish civil war, and recently has
provided haven for Spanish re-
publican refugees.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21


death was received. They we're ex-
pected to return TO Imperial valley
sometime Wednesday. Funeral al
rangements we're not complete.
Bennett took flight instruction at
the Imperial airport and became so
interested in flying that he became
a civilian instructor for the army.
He was member of the Civilian Air
Patrol in Imperial county before
becoming an army instructor.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Betty Bennett, whose brother was
killed In an airplane crash In Phoe-
nix two months ago, 7-ycar-
old daughter. Sally 90, MS parents,
and two brothers, Grant OF Heber
and Douglas. in service with the
United States Navy.
Bennett was graduated from Cal
exico Union High school
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
Cattle Fatten on
Beet Tops Here

Most of the 10000 feeder cattle in
Imperial Valley now are being fat
tened on beet tops or in feed lots
preparatory to being shipped to
market, it was revealed Wednesday
This is the last phase of the fat
tention process and as soon as COM
pleted and the market is favorable.
the cattle will be shipped to the
market in Log Angeles.
Cattlemen still are undecided
concerning their plans for shipping
in cattle this fall. They usually
begin shipping cattle into the val
ley the middle of September, usual
ly getting most of them from Ari-
ZOna.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21

us lines already his year, and
,stimated another 100000 had come
IN by private automobile.
The report attributed current
increases largely to the development
of war industries in the state. par
ticularly aviation, which it called
lone of the most phenominal in
dustrial expansions in the history OF
the world"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
BASEBALL
BY UNITED PRESS
AMERICAN

ST. Louis .... 900 600 900
New York ........... 900 900 90
Sundra and Hayes Wensloff and
Dickey.
First game:
Chicago ......-......0l1 600 0OO-2 IL 0
Boston 100 900 03x-3 8 0
Dietrich and fresh: Hughson,
Brown and Conroy. Partee.
Second game:
Chicago .................--.....-......2 20
Boston ............... ................. 10
Grove and fresh; Judd and
artee
Cleveland .................1 100 2
Philadelphia ..............-000 0
Smith and Rosar' Flores and
Swift.
NATIONAL
New York - 600 600
ST. Louis ........ 020 600
Fischer, Adams and Lombardi;
Munger and W. Cooper.
First game:
Brooklyn ....... 900 1000 000-l 8 3
Cincinnati ......O2l 5l1 0lx--l1 13 0
Highly. Allen, Melton and Bra
gan; Riddle and Mueller.
bOStOIl .-.-..--.-......--.-.- ...------r-.o
Chicago .....-........--.....--....-.....0
Andrews and Kluttz, Bithorn and
Mccullough.
Philadelphia ..............--......00l
Pittsburgh ................-.........OUl
Conger and Livingston; Klinger
and Lopez.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21

the states now, having passed Ohio
and Illinois since the 1910 census,
and predicted that by 1860 it might
overtake and pass New York.
California's growth since 1910 was
estimated at about 100000 but the
commission warned that the state
must prepare for an even greater
migration invasion" after the war.
It is said that more than 100000
persons have entered the state by
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
AXIS RE|NF0RCES ISL AND
TROOPS FOR LAST Stand
Motorists to Get
License Stickers

SACRAMENTO, July 21..-
tUP)-CalifOrnia motorists will
get windshield stickers instead
of new license plates in 1914,
director of motor vehicles Cor
don II. Garland announced to-
day.
The stickers will occupy about
eight square inches and must be
displayed in the lower right
corner of windshields as evidence
of registration in addition to the
current plates.
They will be blue with small
gold seal of the state, and will
be almost impossible to counter
felt or remove, Garland said.
They will be made of a trans
lucent material that will prevent
injury to shatterproOf glass and
ABSORPTION of color.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
.Enno copitulotes
To Allied Forces.
SiciI.' Cut Two
United Nations Now Occupy Half of
Islands Territory; Ca+ania Still in
Hand of German Forces on East Coast

ALLIEL HEADQUARTERS, North Africa July Il
-(UP)-The Axis is bringing in reinforcemens for a
last ditch stand around volcanic Mount Etna on the north
eastern tip of Sicily Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower indicated
today Allied armies through the main enemv
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
4 More Worshi ps
Of Nips GO Down

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
July 21-(UP)-U. S. bombers sank three and probably
four warshps yesterday to smash the argestscae Jap
attempt yet to reinforce their base at Villa in the
central Solomons, cOmmunique announced today