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Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06

fronts and give footing to men and
machines.
The great summer offensive
which swept the German invaders
to the Dnieper line and the Brink
of disaster had slowed almost to a
Standsill for the time being. There
were indications that Marshal Josef
Stain would give his troops a re-
cess while preparing for the winter
campaign, at which the Russians
have proved themselves adept.
The Russians made slight ad-
vanceS toward Vitebsk at the north
ern end of the White Russian front,
but fighting on the middle and
lower reaches of the Dnieper river
had dwindled to intensive scout
ing operations and artillery duels.
The steady deterioration of the
weather, including falling tempera-
lures and heavy rains that turned
the roadless terrain to deep mud,
compelled the Red army to dimin-
ish the scale of it's attacks virtu-
ally within reach of their strategic
detectives in White Russia, Vitebsk
and Gomel.
WITHOUT RESPITE
TIL Russians have been battling
without respite for three months
and they apparently must be re
equipped and supply routes must
be blasted across now impossible
forests and marshlands before they
can resume their offensive.
1t also will be several weeks be-
fore the ground freezes sufficient
ly to facilitate the movement of
mechanical forces.
Russian troops, holding one of
the main lines before the Axis
bastion of Gomel, beat off mount
ing German counterattacks and
their comrades to the north over
ran 46 more villages yesterday in
a drive to within 29 miles of
Vitebsk.
German reinforcements were re-
ported pouring into both Vitebsk
and Gomel, whose capture would
throw open Minsk and all White
Russia to attack.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
70 Sunken Ships
I'm Naples F4orbor

action to President Roosevelt's
statement that the continued
deterioration of Japanese strength
in the Solomon islands and New
Guinea areas disproved the legend
of japanese invincibility. Some OBJ
servers believed that this statement
was designed to answer criticism OF
present Allied strategy in the south
west Pacific. Recent dispatches
from Australia have reported that
the strategy does not conform with
General Douglas MacArthur's views,
although he is carrying it out.
AMAZING ABILITY
Still others point out that various
authorities recently have disagreed
with the view that there is a serious
deterioration of Japanese strength.
For instance, Rear Admiral Dewitt
C. Ramsey, who came here from
the south Pacific to head the navy
bureau of aeronautics, reported that
the Japanese showed an amazing
ability to replace air losses. He
said further that japanese plane
production is greater than the TOO
per month maximum estimated
here.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
u. S.Free.Fcr.A!!
In Britain Told

LONDON, Oct. 6 CUP)-A free
for-all fight among American SOL
diers was disclosed today to have
occurred in a Wiltshire village on
Sept. 26, the same day on which
two military policemen were
wounded during an American
shooting affray in a town in Corn
wall.
A number Of soldiers were in
jured in the Wiltshire battle, sew
eral Of them seriously, when Negro
and white troops fought with
knives on the towns main street.
American troops have be EN-
barred from the town by U. S. mill
tary authorities pending an investi-
CATION of the incident. and military
police are patrolling the streets.
The Cornwall gun battle started
with a fist fight between two Am
erican soldiers attending a local
dance.
The following night. one group
o. Americans arrived at the town
square, each man Carrying a rifle
and so rounds of ammunition hid
den beneath his coat, and ambushed
another party leaving hotel. The
soldiers fought for 10 minutes be-
fore order was restored.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
President Opens
War Fund Drive

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. UP)-
President Roosevelt, opening the
national war fund campaign last
night, declared that the people OF
the United Nations as well as those
of conquered countries see in the
United States the brightest ray of
hope and the greatest power for
good in the world today"
Urging Americans TO contribute
"thoughtfully. and generously, and
proportionatel:'" in the drive to
raise SIPS. 100000 for war-created
needs here and abroad, the presi-
dent said that share in the ma
tional war fund is a share in win
ming the war.
He also declared that though we,
the people know now that ulti-
mate victory is certain" it is still
"a long way Off" and that for 1t
I'VE are paying and shall have to
pay great price"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
Heroes Of Z Wars
Working Together

SANTA ANA, Cal, Oct. Cup
Two American airmen who drop
ped the first bombs over Germany
"a years apart-one in World War L
and the other in World War II
today were working side by side
training bombardiers at the army
air forces west coast training CEN
ter.
Capt. Howard c.. Rath, San
Marino, Cal, now assigned to the
Deming, NJ M, bombardier school,
pulled the crude lever which re-
leased the first bomb on Germany
June II, 1918 His target was the
Dommary- -Baroncourat railhead in
the Brien Iron basin.
In June, l942, 1t. Bernard L..
Bell, Chicago, dropped the first
bomb on German held territory
from a Douglas Boston attack
bomber His target was the rail-
head at Hazelbrough, France.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
Sailor Confesses to
Rapinq, Killing Girl

SAN PEDRO, Cal, Oct. Cup
John Barton, 19-year-old sailor
from Goldman, Ore, today told
police he fatally choked and beat
pretty Gladys Virginia Pearcy, 18-
year-old telephone operator from
San Pedro, because she resisted his
advances
Police found the girls mutilated
body on a deserted school ground
last night after Barton gave him.
self up.
| The youth said he met Miss
Pearcy on San Pedro street
corner and offered to walk her
home. When she refused his adj
vances he said, he dragged her into
the playground, stripped off heI
clothing and raped her.
Then he beat her head against
the stone steps leading to the play
ground and choked her to death, ht
said
Il was drunk" Barton reported
ly told police. II guess I lost my
head.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
BY DANA ADAMS SCHMIDT

NAPLES oct. ?. - UP)-The
hulks of 20 sunken ships glut the
Naples harbor and the docks and
waterfront are an ugly mass of
charred, dynamited, and smolder-
ing wreckage.
Naples from the sea looks like a
dead thing, torn and mutilated by
terror.
! saw it today when I came in
aboard a PIT boat in the first
group of Allied vessels to land in
the harbor. We found an anchor
age while streaks of lightning
crashing thunder, and heavy rain
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
Nazi Troop Ship
Down Off N0rway

STOCKHOLM, CVz. 6 CUP)-Nor-
wegian sources said today that q
German troop transport was be-
lieved to have gone down off south
Norway Sept. 6, when "a great
number" of dead men and horses
washed ashore after a tremendous
explosion.
The blast shook houses and broke
windows along a big stretch of
coastline. German patrols occupied
the telephone and telegraph Of
fices at Kristiansand, isolating the
town for nearly three days.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06

aircraft at a loss of one of their
own. The pilot of the Allied fighter
was rescued
Allied warplanes ranged over
New Britain island and the sur
rounding waters, attacking enemy
shipping and shore installations
and destroying at least five barges.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
Sardinia Autonomy
Is Fascist Grant
= UNITED PRESS

Berlin radio Wednesday broad
cast a pronunciamento from Milan
in which a Mussolini functionary
granted Autonomy to Sardinia "in
the new order of Italy"
The dispatch said the gesture
stemmed from II Duce himself. It
said that the island would be al
lowed its own industrial, cultural
and social development.
The broadcast failed to mention
one vital factor--Sardinia is in Al
lied hands and outside the new
ORDER
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06

black trimmed windows OF battered
buildings Ragged curtains flutter-
ed from bomb-holes in hotels, and
from one a bedstead hung precar-
iously on the top floor.
CONTINUOUS FIRES
THE Germans destroyed Naples
in 20 days" the building superin-
tendent told me in broken French.
There were continuous fires and
explosions. The people barricaded
themselves in their houses
His voice rose to a Shrek as he
went on. crying out:
They started at on end of town
and went right across to the other
They destroyed every factory
I had to quiet him.
Earlier today I was on the isle
of Capri Last night l had dinner
at the gorgeous Villa OF Mrs. Har-
rison Williams and slept on an l8-
inch resort hotel mattress. Naples
isn't sure such things ever existed
But with the coming of the
British and Americans the Neapoli-
tans are coming back. Their row
boats and sail boats We're scattered
all along the route from Capri
where our vessels, among others
Lieut.. Henry Ringing North, a
member of the Circus family repre-
senting strategic services.
PUT OUT BUOYS
Standing off the harbor are a
half dozen minesweepers putting
out buoys to mark a channel that
has been swept clear.
The first of the boats to tie up
was the gunboat bearing British
senior officers. I was aboard a PIT
boat carrying Lieut.. Cmdr. Stanley
Barnes of Cambridge, Mass, COM
manding officer of the American
PIT boat squadron in the Mediter
ranean. We claimed first entry by
Americans from the sea into
Naples. Our boat captain was
Lieut.. q. g. Francis Young
Presley of due west, S. C.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
Few Changes on
Long Russ Front

MOSCOW, Oct. 6.-CUP)-The
Russian winter-Red army fighting
Weather-was creeping down from
the north today and the Soviet
command was regrouping its armies
for a new offensive, when freezes
harden the rain-soaked battle
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
DEATH FUNERAL
NOTICES

HORKH4y1SN,- Joseph, SO, died at
Vista, Tuesday, former resident
of Imperial Valley. Beloved hus-
band OF Mrs. Ethel Horkheimer.
Friends are respectfully invited
to attend services at Glennview
cemetery at Glendale at 2:3O pm.
Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
DEMANDS RAISE

WASHINGTON, Oct. Sup
o. A. Smith, president of the Pac-
ific Electric railway Co., said to-
day his company's passenger serv-
ice would suffer permanent i'm
pairment" unless its passenger en-
ployes received a wage increase
greater than the three cents an
hour authorized by economic stab
ilization director Fred M. Vinson.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
KNOCK DOWN NAZIS

A L L E D HEADQUARTERS
Algiers, Oct 6-UP)-Tech. Sgt.
Franklin w. Fitzgerald, of Heber,
Utah, and staff Sgt. Harold H.
Hausner, of Las Vegas, New, were
credited today with having knocked
down one Me-109 each during yes
terdays Flying Fortress raid on
Bologna.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
ENEMY BASES MENACED

ALLIED HEAD @ UAR T e Il S,
Southwest Pacific, oct 6. CUP)-
Australian infantrymen have brok-
EN- through japanese outposts at
the southern entrance to the Ramu
river valley in northeastern New
Guinea in a drive menacing the
few remaining enemy bases along
the island coast, a communique dis
closed today.
At the eastern flank of the 750-
mile south Pacific battle line,
American planes and warships were
reported battering enemy barge
concentrations in the central Solo
mons, where the japanese were
trying desperately to eXtricate their
cncircled troops frCm Kolomban-
CARA island.
CAPTURE VILLAGE
The veteran Australian troops
Stormed and captured Kaigulin vii
laee, at the headwaters of the Ramu
river, on Monday and drove on to
resume contact with the enemy near
Wankun, about 60 miles southwest
of Madang. The latter is a main
japanese supply center ITO miles
northwest of Finschhafen, which
fell to Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
forces last week.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06

GRANDFATHER REPORTS
INDEPENDENCE, Mo, Oct. 6
CUP) - John T Ames, a grand
father, was ordered to report for
induction into the army today. He
is 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
RECEPTION COMMITTEES

A dozen shivering, palefaced.
barefoot boys and few ragged old
men were our reception committee.
A buggy drawn by NANCY horse
clattered along near the sea. An
occasional jeep carrying Allied
soldiers sped along glistening as
phalt pavements Uttered with
broken slabs of marble and glass.
The director of buildings at the
University of Naples told US how
the last party of 1000 Germans
blew up or burned every hotel in
town, sank the ships to block the
harbor and rounded up and car
ried off all able bodied men for
NaZi labor corps.
On the waterfront the Royal
Palace lay mostly in ruins. Dying
embers still sent up smoke through
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06

provided a melancholy back-drop.
Our vessels included a British
motor gunboat and the chromium
plated private launch OF Crown
Prince Umberto of italy, which car
ried the British senior naval officer
in command.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06

WASHINGTON. Oct. 6 CUP -
The new Pacific offensive which
high American naval officers have
been planning may be aimed at the
Japanese held Gilbert islands.
naval experts believed today.
Admiral Ernest j. King, COM
mander- n-chief of the U. S. fleet,
conferred recently with his two top
commanders in the Pacific area
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz, COM
mander-i chief of the Pacific
fleet, and Admiral william F.
HalSey, commander-in-ch of the
south Pacific fleet, to discuss plans
for the Pacific campaign"
A number of recent developments
favored the view here that the
Gilbert islands would be the OBJ
jective of the next American drive.
The occupation by American troops
of Nanumea, northwe weSternmost of
The Ellice islands. was one of these.
Nanumea is only about 500 miles
| from Tarawa, chief Japanese base
in the GilbertS.
| VALUARL.s ISLAND
The navy also has reported
| American reconnaissance flights
over Nauru island, one of the most
valuable % the Gilberts to the
! Japanese because of extensive phos
phate deposits Last month, a
carrier task force gave both Tarawa
and Nauru a thorough pounding.
Experts believed that a drive to
occupy positions in the GilbertS
would be an important step in the
forging of an Allied ring around
Truk, Japan's major naval base
outside of the homeland. The
Solomons and New Guinea are part
of this ring 1t would also keep
the Japanese occupied in the
Pacific and thus help divert them
from efforts they might make to
interfere with preparations in India
for the Forthcoming Allied invasion
of Burma.
Meanwhile, there was varied re-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
E13;!IEKSIIIEzz
Do you have poor digestion? OO
DoyOu feel headachy after eating?OO
Do you get sour or upset easily? 90
Do YOU feel tired-IistIess? 7G

Now everyone knows that to get the good
out of the food you eat-you must digest
it properly. But what most people don't
know is that Nature must produce about
two pints of the digestive juice-liver
bile-each day to help digest your food.
If Nature fails-your food may remain
undigested-lie sour and heavy in your
digestive tract.
Thus, it is simple to see that one way
to aid digestion is to increase the flow of
liver bile. Now, Carter's Little Liver
Pills start to increase this flow quickly
for thousands-often in as little as thirty
minutes. When bile flow increases, your
digestion may improve. And, soon you're
on the road to feeling better-which is
what you're after.
Don't depend on artificial aids to coun-
teract indigestion-when Carters aid
digestion after Natures own order, when
taken as directed. Get Carter's Little
Liver Pills today-at any drugstore
only 25t. You will be glad you did.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-06
Naval Meet May Presose
Attock on Gilbert Islands

black trimmed windows of battered
buildings. Ragged curtains flutter-
ed from bomb-holes in hotels, and
from one a bedstead hung precar-
iously on the top floor.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-03-26
Gas Squeeze
To Continue

The squeeze on gasoline will con-
tiHue until November 81 AT the ear
lest. the Henderson Chamber oi
Commerce has learned. While pas"
five i he A" books must last from
March 22 10 July 81, page six must
IS; for equally long period, from
July % 10 November 81. according
70 amendment 81 to ration order 81.
Arthur II, Surprise, secretary q.
the local business organization, an
tlcIpatcs considerable confusion III
he communities near the dividing
point. where on one side Of linz
the A book coupon ) is good for
two months and for four months a..
ne other, where ~" book coupon q
viii be used from July To Nuvru.Dcl
while ncighbUrs viii have long ..ucc
used up coupu.S & and will have
new books. fortunately. the border
line is not near Henderson.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-03-26
SOME GAS STATIONS
DO mot UNDERSTAND
NEW "A REGULATION

Some service stations in Vance
county are delivering only one and
nd nne-half gallon of gasoline ON
each IA" coupon. il WAS stated today
al the office of the Vance war price
and ratiu"ing board.
This, is an incorrect Interpretation
of the recent ruling on gasoline ra-
tic INK. i, WAS stated. and crises
from misunderstanding Of the regula-
ton.
"A" coupons are still worth three
gallons each, il MAS pointed out. but
the moturiSt must make his IA cou
uuns last twice ms long as heretofore
The No. a. coupon is good dur
ing the rour-m NTH period from
March - To judy -. whereas early
"A" COUPONS hive each been gooc
caring u two-mun,h period.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-03-26
MARSHAL w. L. DOWD
DIES AT GREENSBORO

Greensboro. March 2G-(APy-Fu-
neral service iug United STATE, Mar
,hal W. I. Duwd. who died n; Wesley
Long Hospital here yesterday after
i prelJd of illness. were held today.
ln;erme.t followed in the mlUsJ-
lcum at Guilford Memorial Park.
High Point, in conjuntion with a
INIT ~ ceremony 10 be conducted
~ members of the American Legion.
Marshal Dowd had been critically
VI 4 the n Spi;al since last Friday.
He would have been Sc years Of are
July 20. having been born III 1887.
HIS death was attributed { ccrc-
DrO-mcningItI, believed To hayn de
Eciopcd from blows on the mead in
ihcicd by two youthful prise crS
whom In" m.rShal was transporting
'H~t Nov - from Albemarle 10
Washington. where they were 10 be
pniincd IN the National Industrial
Rciormatory.
Although his head injuries were
not believed to be Of lasting Sc
robustness al The time, il was said that
Marshal DOwd never fully rccov-
cred from the effects Of the blows.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-03-26

critics which are already under
the way Of adjustment and will
certainly get worse within the
next few months.
A lew years ago the medical
profession was sufficient in num-
Ders to 60 around to everybody.
There we're specialists of all kinds
IN fact, more than enough of
them. Today certain specialties
which must continuously be avail
able to men in the armed forces
are represented in our civilian
communities by less than a skcle-
ton force of practitioners.
This is particularly true of or
thopedic surgery, eye surgery and
general surgery. But the chief
problem in civilian work today is
to supply general medical cane.
The general practitioner, who did
the routine work, has been harder
hit than men i'll any other branch.
Shortage Serious
For compaT ative purposes cite
a report from Il certain Massa-
chusetts town which before the
war had 81 general practitioners
of whom 80 are now in military
service. Compare this to the num-
Der of general surgeons, 81 before
the war - of whom . went into
military service - and it will be
seen that the problem of general
medical care is a pressing one.
About SO per cent of the house
calls made before the war were
handled by the group that has
gone into service.
In view of the gasoline and rub
Der situations, it is evident that
there will have 10 be organized in
most communities some sort of
cooperative planning for medical
service. In this campaign the pa
tient must be as considerable as
the doctor; the doctors time must
De conserved and house calls kept
at minimum. The doctors day
s planned in the morning and
when possible, house calls should
,e received before s a. m.
Indications of Urgency
Such vague directions as "Do
lot call the doctor except when
necessary" often miss the mark.
Certain definite indications that
he situation is urgent should be
;nown to the public. For example
pain in the chest and bloody spu-
UNI are important; abnormal
bloody discharge from any part
# the body is urgent; abdominal
pain lasting more than Il few
tours is urgent.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-03-26
City Elections
Must Be Held
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY LYNN NISRET.

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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-03-26
Pritchard
Lauds Guard
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Nv LYNN INSECT

Raleigh. March 26.-lirandins us
unkind, unfair and dangerous Il story
appearing in an early edition of the
Raleigh News and Observer Thurs
day. clubbing State Guard officers
as old men who can't take IL"
Colonel William S. Pritchard. CON-
mander Of internal defense for North
Carolina. paid high tribut" to ne
tine showing made by the officers
~ lie Fort Bragg training school Just
completed.
The newspaper story referred 10
also raised the ire of 4 good many
Of the GuardSnCn. They admit they
axe not as tough "r as spsy as Ma
g!neS. but they deeply resent HeIns
cia>sed Is a bunch al drCucH!t old
men who. after two weeks training
were 81 worn out as 10 be of uu %uu,.
10! home defense.
The best answer to the !wpllC;.-
tiCrs ut the story is the record it.
sell said Colonel ',Ttch"rG. "Ehrrc
were 206 men enrolled III the train
inr school. Certificates of sItI,taC-
tuly completion q! III" course Wrrc
,wtgdtd t. 2U+ al them.
t.nrullceS III the school included
Commissioned r;iIccrS and rrrEtJui>
u the ~ state Guard companies
making up the two regiments ul the
Fast Infantry Brigade. The c"u.se
inCl.drd instruction IN tactics. ply
..,..i u%ininB and other requirements
Ton tome defense. Il also included
som" confidential information IUuu,
Il, importance of keeping alert 70
u:ngSr II invasion.
Colonel PrltciEard wa mus; COM
ELEMENTARY q! the attitude and lav-
.Iy.L fitness ul the m,n. amt 60! &c
i.Ct that Unl" two Uul ui Ia" whole
ntIInDtl failed 10 pass lhr required
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-03-26
20 REPEAT MUSICAL
CONTEST ON SUNDAY

T." r,NgC: which was sponsored
.y -. Alury's Methods, cn.Tch Al
E.t;,-ii last Sunday will be repeal
al ~ request this Sunday. Magcn
-. - he courthouse in HendegS n.
Music 10y The Mi. Calvary Female
singer o! Oxford. the Hickory Grove
quartet al Spring Hope, and others
VIII be featured. The program Will
begin n 3 o'clock. with the doors
opening al 80 \ small admission
fee will be charged.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-03-26

law schools at Cmoliaa. DuNe, and
Wake Forest would have merged Co.,
the duration, the UNIVERSITY ~,
North Carolina will continue IN ~
crate its Law School, Dean Rn;,n'.,
II. Wottaih announced today.
The announcement spiked u,,,.r.
that the Law School here wuu,,,
close on account OF failure OF 49,.
merger proposal.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1943-03-26
kIWANIS OFFICIAL
TO SPEAK TONIGHT

Ralph c. Barker. of Durham, is to
speak to the Henderson Kiwanis club
this evening on kiwuniS education.
Mr.. Barker is a member OF the ia
ternational board OF trustees ol XII
wants for the southeastern area. lie
has visited the Henderson club ur
other occasions and has always been
heard with interest by members