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Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10
THE PRESIDENTS
MESSAGE

Taken at its face value, President
Roosevelt'S annual message to congress
was a masterpiece.
In it was a shining vision with which
most Americans are in hearty accord.
Lasting peace for the world after Unit
ed Nations victory, and lasting security
for Americans-that was the two-headed
keynote of his entire address. Those are
the things we all want; they are things
upon which all but the basest politicians
will agree.
The Presidents message was frankly
visionary. Therein lies the only criticism
possible, and therein also lies the pos
sible indication of new and better ad-
ministrative trend attuned to the results
OF the last election. Which possibility
will develop into actuality depends upon
events, and will be revealed only by the
future.
The President merely stated objectives.
AS has been true throughout ms entlre
administration, his objectlves-aS ne mas
told them to the nation-were excellent.
He did not tell how he proposed to reach
those objectiVeS 1t is his methods which
have failed or fallen short in the past;
this time he did not Cat the moment) IN
sist upon any method at all.
Two possible developments are ahead.
|. The President may reveal propos-
ed detailed plan to bring about univer--
sal social security from cradle to grave,
and he may disclose the methods by
which he wants to go about helping
greatly to save the world from future
war;
?. He may leave it UP to congress to
work out the details of the social security
program, and to decide this nations par,
ticipation in a postwar international
order
If it is the first alternative which ulti-
mately develops, the Presidents plans
will then have to be considered strictly
upon its merits; if it is the second, we
shall have seen the return of congress to
the power which is rightfully vested in
congress-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW. Jan. 9-CUP)-Rus-
sian armies. their momentum and
striking impact increasing steadily,
drove throughout the night toward
Rostov and Salsk and closed in
on the two key railroad centers in
the Caucasus, dispatches and tho
noon communique reported today.
In the area of the southern Don
bend and below it, the Russians
three towns and villages
during the night in fights to the
death against desperate resistance
and in the Caucasus they drove
through the Germans to storm and
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Editorials and Comment
WHAT IS
YOUR ALL?

(William Allen White)
The other day curious situation de-
veloped in my home town. Last summer
a man in a fairly good job was fired He
was Just over the draft age and for 10
days or two weeks he was scared to death,
looking for job, any old job. He tackled
the civil service and got connected up
with a pretty fair job at an air base two
or three hundred miles from here, got
more money than he ever had made. Well,
that's all right But at a dance the other
night. his wife was talking about how
they are giving their ALL TO the war eff
fort.
There are a lot Of folks giving their
all" As = matter of fact, anybody who
is at work six or eight or ten hours day
on any job III this total war lis giving his
all This Is total war.
And then mothers or wives whose sons
or husbands are in the service are Civ
ing their all" too. and if they are really
patriotic they are not Dragging much
about it, They are Just taking it as it
comes.
SO when you hear a man or woman
agonizing about giving his all. don't let
him get away with it. Call him down.
America is giving her all The whole free
world is giving its all. Unless we give it,
all Will be taken. 1t will be hard to
smile sometimes when the casualty lists
come III.
But it is part of the price of human
freedom. We are all giving our all. God
grant that "all' will be enough.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10
3O0-kiIe Upside
Down Flight Told

TWELFTH AIR FORCE HEAD
QUARTERS, North Africa, Jan. g.
tUP)-Lieut. w. J. Hoelle, San Ma
teo, Calf, struck a telephone pole
while on strafing mission. The
blow turned his P-38 fighter upside
down and he flew it that way for
800 miles before righting it and
rcturning unscratched so he could
tell his story today.
Noellc selected as his target a
number of Axis truck conveys de-
ployine eastward along the Tunis-
IAN n-Tripolitania frontier.
II dved at the trucks and set
one afirc. then banked to dodge
some telephone wires" he said. Il
failed. / struck the pole with my
right wing and the wing went down
"Thc blow Tipped me upside
down SO l flew that way at TOP
j speed. 1t lc.C iike by face. was
scr2ping dirt. l fought the plane
and finally it came halfway over
Later on it righted itself,
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SOCIAL SECURITY,
GOOD AND BAD

The proposed cradle to grave social
security program has the greatest poten-
tial influence upon our everyday lives
in the immediate future. 1t can be one
of the most historic forward steps in
present times, or it can be one of the
most vicious weapons of new, alien
inspired theory under which the govern
ment would become everything, the lndl-
vidual nothing.
If the President holds firmly to the OBJ
jective set forth by him in his message
to congress, and does not allow the intru-
sion Of attempts to gain greater power
over the freedom Of initiative by the IN
dividual, the program will be good
If, on the other hand, the social securl-
ty goal is used as a cloak for efforts to
create a sort of glorified WPA under
which a man lives comfortably whether
he works or not, under which there is no
reason for individual planning and effort
toward more comfortable living, then the
program would foreshadow collapse OF
everything we have ever respected.
Mankind developed civilization because
he had to work, in the first place, to live.
Men produce goods and materials because
they need goods and materials. There is
no way in which mass idlenesS can be
supported for any length period of time,
because mass idleness means lack Of pro-
duction.
That is why the methods of bringing
about the broader social security program
are so important. They may change the
nation entirely-or wreck it.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10
Pupnet Govt
Declares War

TOKYO, Jan. 9. - tJ7Oa""ee
broadcast recorded by UP at San
Francisco The japanese c0rtroll-
cd national government of China
at Nanking has formally declared a
state of war exists between the
national government and the Unit
Ell States and Great Britain, it was
announced today.
The state of war was declared
formally at 10 am. (Tokyo time
today BY President Wang Ching
Wei.
Shortly thereafter it was an
nounced the national government
would cooperate in prosecution Of
the war and that Japan had agreed
to return to China concessions now
held and relinquish all extra terri
torial rights.
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
1894
Y THE SUPERIOR COURT
THE CTATE M CATVEOR

1894
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
THE STATE OF CALIFOR
IN AND FOR THE COUN Z
IMPERIAL. -
Notice of Time and Place
pointed for Proving Will and Fl
ing Application for Letters Te
mentary. n
In the Matter of the Esesd
SARAH JANE DICKERMAN,
ceased.
Notice is hereby given that a
tition for probate Of the will
Sarah Jane Dickerinan, decea
and for the issuance to Ear.
Dickerman and Eunice Mae Bl
Of letters testamentary, has /
filed in this court, and that Fri
the 9th day of January, 1913,
200 O'clock pm, of said day,
the courtroom of Department
said court, at the Court House
the City of Ell Centre, Col Ivy
Imperial, State of California,
been set for the hearing of {
petition, when and where any I
son interested may appear av-f C
test the same, and show cause
any they have, why said petit
should not be granted.
Dated December 18th, 1912.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerl
BY DOROTHY S. REYNOLDs
Deputy Clerl
No. As --.-----.- d 30-J 10.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10
S',n.cial Battalion
Guards Hitler
BY UNITED IRE : )

The German army newspaper
Die Wchrmacht, describing the for
nation 81 years ago Of . very
sDecjsl battalion" of the German
army. consisting of picked men
ON ell branches. equipped With
the finest weapons, said, accord
ine to a British broadcast:
The very special job OF this
battalion is to guard from all dan
gers the most precious treasure the
German people possess"
The treasure, the paper said, is
AdOlDh Hitler. - o.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10
HITS REPORTED

One OF the fortresSts' targe
the Bizerte region was Ferry
at the southern end Of Lake
erte. The pilots reported man5
in the dock area.
Another force of fortl
struck at the Bizerte naval
but the results Of the bombing
not observed.
Maj. Gen. Spaatz, new comm
er of the Allied air forces in +
Africa, was given much credi
the stepped up bombing OF
positions. His appointment
announced by Lieut.. Gen.
D. Eisenhower. Spaatz, Alne
air commander in the Euro
thcatcr of operations. will
American, British and French
in his North African aix1
He will continue as commA.d
the American air force alth
Brig. Gen. Ira Eaker actually
have charge Of American opera
in Britain.
No flying fortrcsScS were u
the American planes lost III
terday's raids, it was said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10
BY DON CASWELL

GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, AUSTRALIA, Jan. 9
-CUP)-Allied planes attacked the
beaches at Lac today. starting fires
and killing many japanese, after
sinking the third of four trans
ports in Lae-bound japanese
convoy, damaging the fourth and
destroying or damaging 73 enemy
planes in a three-day battle.
Fighter and attack bomber planes
LED the beach-head attack against
the one crippled transport, two
cruisers and four destroyers which
had reached Lac after suffering
one of the biggest aerial attacks OF
the war.
such troop elements as were
landed By the enemy are believed
TO have been fragmentary,' Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's communique
said
VENGEANCE
Macarthur, returning to his
Australian headquarters after per-
onally directing the victorious Pa
puan campaign in New Guinea,
said: The dead of Bataan should
rest little easier tonight
He issued an order OF the day on
the campaign citing II high of1l-
GERS of his southwest Pacific cam
paign, six Americans and six Aus
tralians. for extraordinary cour-
age. marked efficiency and precise
execution of operations and "a
warding them the United States
army Distinguished Service Cross,
the highest decoration at my dis
/ pCsal.'
Macarthur cited also the United
| States 32nd and 4lst divisions
made up largely of men from Wis
consin, Michigan, Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho and Montana; the
sixth and seventh Australian div
isions. the sixth Australian Inde-
pendent commando unit, Other
Australian units and his Papuar
nG tive carriers.
BASIS OF CAMPAIGN
ITO the American fifth air force
and the Royal Australian air force
10 commendaiiC.l could be too
great" Macarthur said "Thei
outstanding efforts in combat, sup
ply and transportation over hoti
laHd and sea constituted the key
stone upon which the whole arcl
Of the campaign was erected"
The order revealed that Lieut.
Cen. Robert Eicholbergcr command
cd the United States ground force
in the campaign. He was unit
recently superintendent of the mil
itary academy at West Point.
MacArthur's communique report
ed increased patrol activities a
q round Sanananda FONT. 2i2 mile
from Buna on the north New Guin
ca coast. where the last tiny rem
!, nart of japanese army of 1900
picked men holds out. and sal
. that 30 enemy troops had bee
l,illcd yestcrdcs.
. ANOTHER TRANSPORT
lii the third day of attack o
the japanese convoy bound e
Lac, up the coast from Sananand
Point. Allied medium bombers san
tkt third of the -four enCn' troC
transports and heHvy borHbc,
scored two dircct hits on the fourt
tror5port's tern.
Then fighter and attack bomber
fCC,- I'D tie attack. rakiug tn
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| LONDON, Jan. 9. - (UPl-AllleQ
planes hammered the Axis armies
at both ends of the North African
battlefront today and penetrated
within 35 miles of the big German
base at Tripoli toward which the
remnants of the Afrika Korps are
retreating.
American pressure from the air
on Axis bases and communications
in Tunisia increased sharply. AL
lied headquarters announced that
eight enemy planes were Shot down
Yesterday against a loss OF five
American aircraft. Bizerte was raid
ed three times by the Americans
and a railroad in Eastern Tunisia
was bombed.
The British Eighth Army report
ed that its aerial raiders had ma
chine gunned retreating Axis forces
only 35 miles east of Tripoli. The
pilots said German and Italian We
hicles of all descriptions We're
strung out for As miles along the
Iibyan roads.
INTO TUNISIA
Eighth Army planes also ranged
over into TuniSia and attacked mil
itary installations at SfaX and
TuniS.
Marshal Erwin Rommel was at
tempting to get his supply units
into Tripoli but it was uncertain
whether he planned to make q
stand there.
Judging by the attempts of few
planes to attack Allied landing
fields in the Middle East, it APP
reared that Rommcl might have
intended to try to delay the adj
, vancine British Eighth Army
! which had chased him all the way
from Egypt. to give his forces time
to rest in Tripoll.
= TO JOIN FORCES
II was also believed that hi
might have left some land forces
: east of Tripoli to fight delayint
= actions. Rommcl was expected u
J Withdraw from Tripoli into Tu.
! nisia. and Join forces With Col
Cen. Hans Heinrich Won hrhhi
there.
italian broadcasts had suggested
hat the Axis would not try to holt
Trinoli Cne said Axis defcnses IL
Tunisia were much stronger ant
much easier to hold than Tripoli
The weather was improving IL
} JriDolitania. A delayed dispatci
S from United Press Staff Core
] sncndent Henry Gorrell, on TN
road between Sirte and Hisurata
S said the sun had come out Thurs
day fo- the first time in three DAYS
The weather had been miserable
he said First a sandStorm' 81
heavy visibility wss less than nv
feet. swept the desert. 1t was ici
lowed hv freezing winds, then
cold rain.
The Nazis' Radio Paris broadcaf
, Berlin dispatch that American
forces attacked Mateur, % mlIe'
southwest of Bizerte, yesterday ant
we're repulsed.
French headquarters reported
that Axis forces trying to enclrcit
French units around Fondouk, OF
the southern Turisian sector nae
J suffered heavy losses and severe
: setback The Germans and ltai'
ianS had tried to enciicle the
French with tanks.
French units all along the front
, were fiercely fighting. Earlier il
had been announced that tough
; desert warriors of the Frcach cam
el corps had cut a strong Italian
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10
Allies Blast Beaches i'm
Nonstop Raids on JaPs

Twenty cnemH fighters were shot
down. seven were so badly damag-
eo that they probably crashed and
IS were damaged. In addition two
eremy medium bombcrs and two
fighters were dest. Dyed in Strafing
attecks on Lac airdrome. The
japanese previously lost IL downcd,
five probably downed and four
damaged to make a grand total of
73 planes in three days against
relatively small Allied losses.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10

inhabited places before the Red
Amy men stormed them both, Kill
ling AGO sacrificed troops and cap
tured their objectives and import
ant spoils, the noon communique
IN the northern Caucasus the
enemy retreated and suffered heavy
loses" the noon communique said.
WEATHER MURKY
Dispatches said the Russians
were advancing through dense fog
and heavy slush.
Red Star, the army newspaper,
reported German resistance had
been broken on all important lines
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10
RommeI Fleeing
Into TripoIi

Unit to pieces a:ong the Tunisian-
Tripolitanian border.
A German TranS-Ocean Agency
dispatch, broadcast by Radio Ber-
lin. said Italian units were stub
bcrnly defending" positions 300 to
$50 miles south and southeast of
Tripoli against Brig. Gen. jacques
I.1clercs fighting French forces,
driving north from the Lake Chad
region. The dispatch admitted that
the French were steadily attacking
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10

landing beaches and installations
at Lac with their cannon and ma
chine gurs.
They saw fires start, explosions
burst, and fleeing troops drop un-
der their bombardment, and the
communique said enemy troop los
ses we're heavy.
Nine times yesterday, in forma-
tions of from 2 to 20, the Japan
ese Zero figters sought to inter-
cept the Allied attacking planes.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10
cap,ure n new inhabited place
a. rur>rf,yrES TAKEN

can, arc a new inhabited place,
40 TRENCHES TAKEN
Northwest of Stalingrad, in a
new flare-up of offensive opera
Tons. Red army assault troops cap
tured 40 German trenches in a
night fight and threw back
ccwlterattack b. COCO Germans
supported by 90 tanks, killing 500
enemy troops, disabling five tanks,
capturing 20 machine guns and
taking prisoners the noon COM
munique reported.
In the lower Don area there was
2 battle of many miles around the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10
American Bor,be
Dive Thru Clouds
To Blast German:
BY PHIL AULT

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
NORTH AFRICA. Jan. q
American bombing pilots. =,
cf their busiest day's OF the
sian campaign conducted
raids on Axis bases yesterday
shot down eight enems =
Five American planes are mis-
Striking through holes in
clouds, Boeing flying fort
raided the Bizerte region
times. Light and medium boz
struck at an Axis-coutrolled
road in the eastern edge Of
sia and bombed the airdron
KairOuan,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10
Reds Near Rail CenterSi

in the Georgievsk railroa'
are and the Germans Weratner'
back everywhere. leaving saio'
troons tn make stand ANUS
to attempt counterattacks Inc
Of slowing the Russian pakeeps
Driving into one north Qhere
town, the Russians captW thiS
tanks three armored cars. Id it's
Guns and ID trucks and nifty
the bodies of $50 German
the streets.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10
MURRAY CALLS FOR
NEW TAX MEASURE

WASHINGTON, Jan. gu
Philip Murray, president Of
Congress of Industrial Orgal
tions, today called on Congres
enact tax bill that will y
more deeply into big profits
inflated incomes" close pr
| loopholes and enforce the 81
net income level.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10

1t is rare thing on destroyer or
escort vessel for man to get more than
four hours sleep at stretch.-Rear .Ad
miral James l.. Kaufman.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10

We have a strong ring around him
(RommeD and our armor west Of Marble
Arch is giving him you-know-what.-R.
AT flyer in Africa.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-10
FLANK THREATENED

The Russians yesterday C;
Zimovniki, AZ miles southy
Kotelnikovski, SO miles no
or Salsk and l40 miles sol
of Stalingrad. 1t was the
est southwest the Russians /.
vanced in their drive and
area the Russians threatc'
envelop the German flank.
The midnight communiq
ported the capture of 10 tow
villages in the corridor bctWf
railroad running west from
grad and the southern arm
Don bend. and the Russian
freed as the result Were&
to strengthen the drive bcl'
Don.
Desperate German counter
were reported along the lowe
The Russians smashed G.
and continued to advance.
In the Caucasus the r
we're now IL miles southwest
Georgieysk railroad junctiC
miles southeast of RostoV, az
seven miles southeast Of
noysk.
At Georgievsk the main ca
railroad connects With thC
which goes to Duddcnno,
miles northeastWard.
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INFANTRY ROUTED

They routed a battalion !
German infantrymen iI .
sector and captured a lNS
of food which the enemy M
ed from the CIVILIAN popuid
On the central front. tl|
slams during the night cons
new gains and killed 200l
in repelling counterattao
Velikie Luki. The shot Go
German planes.
The noon communicate no,
in the Leningrad area snipel
in three days had killed "
Germans while .antiaircrai
shot down two fighter plan
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y into
stive-
direct
riIlci-
ntii,9,'
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-30

MO MATER WHERE YOU look on a globe
~ today, YOU won find a spot an)ubere
that can't be reached in 90 hours flying time
from your local airport!
Perhaps YOU hadn't realized thar the world
had actually become so small Many Amer
leans didn't. until it was almost TOO late.
They thought Of the earth in terms of vast
distances and natural protective barriers.
They believed that country isolated" by
two oceans thousands of miles wide, had
little TO fear.
But when we were suddenly forced into
gobal war, we learned thar many of our old
ideas about geography were wrong. And We
quickly learned tsh) they were wrong -.
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-30

We had made the mistake Of looking at
maps in terms of rouboaf geography. We
learned our mistake when the Axis took our
own invention, the airplane, and taught us
the grim fundamentals of ariation geography
- first over Britain, then at Crete, and finally
at Pearl Harbor.
Now We know that to win this globa war
and build lasting peace, We must revise
our geographical thinking
We are looking at our maps more ntelli-
gently, and We are drawing neu maps which
show US global geography more clearly.
These new maps have shadows on them,
cast by wings They show us the world as it
rcallyis, because Of the plane clustering
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-30
Try Find Spot thats than 90 Hours from Your Local Airport

of Ar-age nations which must forever more
be close friends or close enemies.
To survive as nation and to live in peace
in such a world we must completely under
stand the simple and important truths which
our new maps so plainly tell US.
This means We must restady geography,
for clear understanding of the new global
community in which we live.
For only then can we fully understand why
supremacy in the air is a must" for America,
both for winning the war and for securing
the peace that will follow.
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-30

No longer ea,, ae itjat Of Europe Rasia or
sren china a. remote bodic, Of land og "fbe ofber
side" of fbe tcoyld Ouy military flyer, airc1d,
Inou fbi, is 50, Ind thc1 uoyId tt,na,t bccomc
free again foy scyi1l y1re' nore Of ni can escape
fbf, simple gc2glbbua! tash
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-30

DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS or
PAY ont-sUbmorins plane
LlBERATOR EXPRESS. 4-engne tronspor
VALIANT -. bosie iroiner
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-30

One doy lost year, Lbeyato' bomber feu n
Io1don ~ 400 DiinniC5 On that day. fbe atlantic
tsr5 M longer an ocean, bnf nHboud FteD fbn
amazing record ra, beaten ycterai ueeks ago uben
another fibcyaior bobbed aerou the pond" ~
- DiinHieJi
Detroit evening times., 1943-06-30

Mote than 10000 ,uppliers and subcon-
tractors in cities all over the country are
teaming up with Consolidated Vultee,
building vital parts and sub-assemblies for
the Liberator.