davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-04

cast by the Berlin said q Russian
tanks were destroyed N the repulse
of repeated Russian attacks near
Velizh. halfway between Velikie
Luki and SmolenSk on the central
front. The communique said 1857
Russian planes were destroyed over
the eastern front during May. while
German losses totalled only 143l
The Soviet high command gave
no details of the land fighting in
the Caucasus, merely reporting that
he battle continued on the Kuban
peninsula northeast Of NovoroSsisk
The Russians have been intensifying
pressure against the narrow German
bridgehead there, opposite the
Crimea.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-06-04
FIERCE BATTLES ON

The German radio said the Red
army was attacking the Axis bridge
head with the utmost stubborn
ness The fiercest fighting was re-
ported in the Moldavanskaya area
though the Soviets also we're said
TO be pressing a diyersiYe action
against Temryuk with the object
Of splitting the German forces. The
broadcast said the Germans were
confident" Of the outcome. though
the Red army was using tanks, ar
tillery ana artificial fog il a care
fully prepared offensive
Supporting the ground and air
forces, Soviet warships ii the Black
Sea sank an enemy submarine and
transport, the Russian Thursday
midnight communique reported.
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OVERWHELMING SUPERIORITY
Proves Significant in Crushing Japanese in New Guinea

ed losses in the Rabaul-Lae bat
tie have not been disclosed but
the communicates have spoken OF
them as small or negligible and
il seems safe TO assume that our
pro portion of -ctories may run
as high as ten 10 one or bet
ter. This due in part TO the
American Australian superior
ity in numbers and effectiveness
of planes. Just a roll call of
the types sent into battle indi-
Gates an edSe in this respect -
Flying Fortresses. Liberators.
Catalinas, Mitchells, Marauders,
Bostons, Lightnings, Kittyhawks,
Hudsons, in addition to Austral-
ian types. But the victory un-
doubtedly is due quite as much
to the superiority of the Amer
lean and Australian flier, man
for man. to hi foe.
VITAL FACTOR
This superiority is likely 10
prove a tremendous factor in
the future course of the Pacific
war. II would be dangerous to
See AIR POwER-Page .
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Married Men
FACE Early Call
State Logs Behind
in Filling Quotes

LANSING, Jan. 11-(R-The
state selective service head
quarters today ordered local
draft boards to start Inducing
married men with wives only
for army service.
The headquarters said that
Michigan had fallen short of
army quotas during the past few
months by more than 10000
men and that states surround.
ing Michigan already were in
Quoting married men.
In the past the only married
men eligible for draft were those
who were married in the face
of induction"
The order sent out TODAY to
local boards said: ITO fill each
call, you will first completely
exhaust all single registrants
classified in class la. Having
exhausted all single men, you
then will in order number Sc
quence induct enough married
men with wives only to fully
meet your call"
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which a Washington tally puts at
IS non-combat ships and l9
warships, in addition to 353 air.
planes. The Japanese shipyards,
although engaged in a program
of unprecedented size. can not
keep pace with such an expendi-
ture of tonnage.
But perhaps the most damag-
ing loss IS in first line pilots.
THE enemy's -ception was
weak" is the significant COM
ment of todsy's communique
from General MacArthur's head
quarters on the efforts of land
based Japanese planes, chiefly
Zeros. TO keep an umbrella over
the badly msuled onvo. 20 ii
fled back to Raba' |. Evidence
| growing that jar an has drawn
heavily on her none too ample
reservoir of traint experienced
combat filters. From several
points in the southwest Pacific
our filters have te.tified to an
apparent deterioration of the
quality of the enemy pilots. both
al tacticians and fighters. ALI
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Gambler Held
as Officers
Press Hunt

Papers that turned out to
be pistols, the Sureptitious visit
of one of the victims to a Ma
comb county hot-spot few
hours before he was killed and
the inexplicable caution of an
inmate of the Lucas county, O.,
Jail, today added a new con-
fusion to the already mystifying
gang slayings of Stephen Colby
ga and Leo Grombelski, both q,
of Hamtramck, whose bodies
were found stuffed in an aban-
doned car in Mount Clemens last
Tuesday.
HOLD GAMBLER
Highlighting today's develop
ment's in the investigation of the
case was the arrest of John Mi
ciuda. a., of 3165 Belmont
street, Hamtramck, who officers
believe spent New Years day
with one or both of the victims.
Miciuda is well known in Ma
comb county police circles. He
was last arrested here April 10,
1912, when sheriff's deputies
raided a gambling resort repu-
tedly operated by him in War
rem township. He is being held
for investigation in the Mount
Clemens city Jail.
At the same time officers,
concentrating upon the myster-
ious background of the two vic
Tins for trace of their probable
murderers, today were consid-
ering with some doubt reports
that Pete Licovalli, notorious
Detroit and Toledo mobster.
would voluntarily surrender to-
day for questioning in the case.
VISIT GAMING SPOT
In the midst of the investiga-
ton Sheriff Jacob F. Theut, who
has been quietly conducting an
independent probe of the STAY
ings, announced today that he is
utterly convinced that the ac-
See KILLINGS-Page 2
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and 1873 aircraft destroyed,
probably destroyed or damaged.
Some of these losses the en-
envy can i'll afford, particularly
the ships and the trained filters.
Although the monthly capacity
of Japan's airplane industry
probably is not more than one
tenth of our December output
of $500 planes, it can replace
the planes lost. The japanese
commands readiness TO risk
large numbers of its common
soldiery aboard packed trans
ports in waters where their
passage is almost suicidal indi-
Gates that the drain of man.
power will not be too serious. d,
SHIP SHORTAGE
But we know that Japan suf-
fers from a serious shortage of
the ships she needs to keep the
defenders Of her outposts rein
forced and supplied.
Her ship losses in this disas-
ter are only small part of those
for the whole campaign against
General MacArthurs command,
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By GLENN BABB

The. determination. Of. the
Japanese to cling to their dwind-
ling footholds on New Guinea
has set up one of the most sig
nificant Allied victories of the
war in the southwest Pacific.
Four days of air combat of a
ferocity unprecedented in that
area have given striking proof
of our air superiority.
The japanese command, ap-
parently having abandoned the
hopelessly encircled remnants
of its Buna-Gona army at San
amanda, attempted to run re-
Inducements and supplies over
the deadly 30O-mile course from
its base at Rabaul, New Britain.
to the Lae-Salamaua area. To
land at Lac troop elements de-
scribed by an Allied commune
que as fragmentary the Japa-
nese paid with the loss of at
least half the vessels of their
12-ship convoy sunk or dam
aged, including . troop jam
med l4,000-ton transport sunk,
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Wife a Suspect
War Workers Body
Found in CuIvert

PORT HURON, Mich, Jan. II
--(P-Mrs. Fred D. Simpson,
widow of Detroit war worker
whose body was found, appar.
emily slain, in culvert near
Emmett, and Fred r. Hagen, a
farm hand on the Simpson farm,
were being questioned today by
Sheriff Ferris E. Lucas, who
said he would ask warrants for
their arrest on charges of muir
der.
Lucas said Mrs. Simpson and
Hagen told him conflicting stor-
les of Simpsons death, each &C
cusing the other.
Simpson was killed at some
distance from the culvert where
he was found, officers believe.
His face and head were badly
battered, indicating he was
pounded to death with a ham,
mer. A Detroit war plant work
er, Simpson was in the habit
of going to his 160-acre farm
near Emmett each weekend.
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Yanks Advance
on CuadaIcanaI

WASHINGTON, Jan. IL - (P)
- The Navy announced today
that American forces on Quad
alcanal island had made small
advances into enemy territory
against weak resistance follow
ing an artillery barrage and aer-
ial bombing and strafing.
Communique No. PAT said:
South Pacific: Cali dates east
longitude)
Il. On January 10:
"(A) United States forces on
Guadalcanal island laid down
an artillery barrage on Japanese
positions.
"(B) Dauntless dive bombers
douglas SBD) AMI Airacobra
fighters BELL P-39- followed up
the Smelling by bombing and
strafing the enemy areas.
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Cleanup Squad
Strikes Twice
Sheriff Acts to
Curb SoIes to Minors

Striking twice over the week
end, Sheriff Jacob F. Theuts
clean up squad raided a Quinn
road blind pig and swooped
down on a Warren township ia
vern allegedly guilty of selling
drinks 10 minors.
Held in the county jail today
are six teen aged youths who,
Theut said. were drinking late
Saturday at the Roxy Riding
Academy on Chicago road be-
tween Ryan and Dequindre. AL
so held are four Negroes arrest
ed early Sunday when deputies
led by Undersheriff Harley En-
sign raided the Quinn road
place.
Theut and Prosecutor Held
announced that the six youths
will be prosecuted, probably as
disorderly persons. The drive
against drinking by minors will
continue, the sheriff and prose
cutor added, with violators fac
ing court arraignment in each
instance.
POINT OUT YOUTHS
A plain-elothes man planted
at the Riding Academy pointed
out six of 35 boys and girls
all under 81 save one-who were
drinking beer. Included in the
group was Max McGraw. 10. Of
3061 Chicago, the alleged bar
tender.
Others held are: John Chas-
lain. 10, 81 West Brockton
street, Royal Oak; and Lester
Wanamaker, 10, 1857 Lincoln
avenue, Wilfred Smith, l8, 664
Putnam avenue. Edwin Waddell,
II, 58ll Forsythe street and
Stanley Gavel, 10, 1927 Belmont
avenue. all Detroit.
Theut said the license on the
wall indicated the place is op-
Grated by Raul Pellerin. The
proprietor will be cited before
the liquor commission for SELL
ing to minors, the sheriff said.
See RAIDS-Page 2
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Young RoseviIIe
Soldier Killed
in South Pacific

ROSEVILLE - Pfc. Jess E..
Buckhannon, Jr., former Rose
vile High school student and
athlete, has been killed in action
somewhere in the South Pacific,
according to word sent his moth
er by the War Department. His
mother is Mrs. Grace Buckhan-
non, of 1741l Ivanhoe avenue,
Roseville.
Young Buckhannon's age was
not listed, but he was believed
to be about %, according to
Principal Harold c. Wilson of
Roseville High. Wilson said
Buckhannon was popular among
Roseville students when he at
tended high school here in 1897
and '38.
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Are Your Cans
and Papers
Ready?

Bundled newspapers and
magazines, placed on front
porches where they will be
visible to truck drivers,
will be picked up through.
out the city on Wednesday.
The Mount Clemens Sal.
wage Committee urges you
to have yours ready.
Tin cans must be deliver
ed to schools in the city by
the end Of the week 80 that
they may be collected on
Monday by city trucks.
Do your part. 8s sure you
send cans to the schools and
that no porch Ii devoid Of
neatly bundled papers and
magazines.
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incoming Officers
to Entertoin K Of P's

Members of Franz Kuhn
Lodge, Knights of Pythias, will
be the guests at a luncheon fur
nished by incoming officers fol-
lowing their regular meeting
this evening, L. Stanley Cady,
keeper-of- seals-and-records, an
nounced this morning.
During the meeting itself the
third rank will be administered
to q group Of candidates.
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White House
n Nominations
Go 10 Senate
Ex-Miehison Senator
Would Succeed
Leon Henderson

WASHINGTON, Jan. II Up
President Roosevelt sent to
Senate today the nominations of
Wiley B. Rutledge, associate
justice of the United State Court
OF Appeals for the District of
Columbia, to be an associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court, and
of Prentiss M. Brown, former
Michigan Senator, to be price
administrator.
The Chief Executive also NOM
mated Edward j. Flynn, chair
ran of the Democratic National
Committee, to be Minister %
Australia, succeeding Nelson
johnson, who is retiring from
the diplomatic service.
Josh Lee, former Senator from
Oklahoma was nominated to
membership on the Civil Aero
nautics Board.
The 48-year-old Rutledge for
mer dean of the law school at
the University of Iowa, will take
the place vacated on the Su-
preme Court Bench when James
F. Byrnes was appointed eco
ncrnie f*abiiizatien, dfxctofy
Brown will replace Leon Hen
derson, who announced several
weeks ago he was resigning be-
bause of Q back ailment and
poor eye-sight. Hende rs n
agreed to serve until his success
sor could take over.
Brown, q former House mem
Der from Michigan before going
to the Senate, was defeated for
reelection in November, as was
Lee.
Flynn, in addition to serving
as Minister to Australia, will be
the personal representative of
the President, with the rank of
ambassador in the southwest Pa
cific area. He has called a meet
ing Of the Democratic National
Committee for next Monday to
a t on his resignation and choose
Observation-Disclosures Gen.
eral Walker, who previously
was national chairman, is ex-
pected by some persons to get
the job.
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Jan. II - R)
- American bombers, sweeping
into Libya for the first time
from the west, have struck the
initial blow in an aerial squeeze
to smash field marshal Rommels
retreating troops before he can
escape the advancing British
Eighth army and join hands
with axis forces in Tunisia.
The blow was disclosed in an
allied communique yesterday an
nouncing that B-26 martin Ma
rauder- medium bombers had
blasted an axis airdrome 10
miles west of Tripoli, scoring
direct hits on hangers and other
military detectives.
The allied raiders, which were
escorted by LockheeC Lightning
P-38 fighters. all returned safe
ly after severely damaging
three German fighters which at
tempted to intercept them, the
communique said.
The B-26 raid, which was the
only major ct'vity on the part
of allied forces in Tunisia, took
on special significance in view
of reports that Rommeis army
once more was withdrawing
westward in the direction Of
the Tunisian frontier.
Most observers believed that
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LONDON, Jan. IL R -
United States Navy patrol
planes and Raj coastal COM
mand bombers were credited Of
ficially today with the "almost
certain" destruction Of two Axis
submarines while guarding an
important Allied convoy en-
route across the Atlantic to
Britain.
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Mount Clemens
Marine Back
from SOIOmOnS

Private Gordon w. Morgan,
of the U. S. Marine Corps, who
was wounded in action in the
Solomon Islands, has notified
his mother, Mrs. Roy Woolley.
of Route 7, Mount Clemens, that
he has arrived safely at the U.
S. Naval hospital at Oakland,
Cal.
Although wounded, Pvt. Cor
don is up and around, he told his
mother
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New M ysteries Developed
i'm Probe Of GanS-ki filings
He Carried
The Message
to Garcia
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. IL

DAN rRANNASNO, Jan. IL
(P) Major Andrew
Rowan, noted carrier of the
message to Garcia" in the
Spanish American war, died
yesterday at the army's let
terman hospital, the army an
n0unced today. He had. been
in i'll health for about two
years. The Message to Gar
cia" was immortalized in an
essay of that name written
by Ebert Hubbard in COM
memoration Of Major Row.
ans achievement in carrying
information from the war de-
partment through dangerous
jungles to the Cuban rebel
leader, General Calixte Gar
cha, on May /, 1898. The mes
sage notified Garcia that host
ilities were imminent.
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IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 11-(R)-
"A message Of congratulation OF
the successful outcome Of the
Papuan peninsula, New Guinea,
campaign has been received by
General Douglas Macarthur
tro mLieut. Gen. John L. De-
Witt, commander of the western
defense command of the u. s.
Army.
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LONDON, Jan. 11-tR-Rus.
sian troops In the North eau.
casus have dislodged the Ger
mans from an additional II
communities In the advance
along the oBaku-Restov railroad
which already b menacing the
important Railroad Junction Of
0eorgtevsk, the midday COM
munieue ~ broa6cast BY the
Moscow radio said today.
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WINDSOR, Ont, Jan. LIP
Some $500 workers who on
Saturday left their jobs at the
No. 3 plant Of the Chrysler Corp.
Of Canada went back to work to-
day as company officials met
with leaders of the CIO United
Auto Workers local TO discuss
the status Of = senior employe
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Emphasizing that his figures
meant weapons, not coins. and
that the Axis could not b
swamped by money, the Presi-
dent cautioned:
Victory cannot be bought
with any amount of money. how
ever large; victory Is achieved
by the blood of soldiers, tho
sweat of working men and wom-
en-, and the sacrifice Of oil Rso- !
pie"
To farmers he assigned IL
task of feeding the United M
tons. for food is Z primary
weapon of war" and he budo1e-
ed $837 900, 900 for lodoeol
farm aids csleulo1ods eqnQn0 -
or thinss, % dlyoC1 61ouo
acres from luxury II 80
triton esisntioh q, : 3 B. q
Besides taxeo
Bee SUBS r.
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LONDON, Jan. II = Up =
The Paris radio quoted a mes
sage from La Linea, Spain, to-
day as saying another concen-
trati0n of Allied shipping was
evident at Gibraltar. 1t reported
that 80 freighters and numerous
warships, including two aircraft
carriers, were anchored off the
British fortress.
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American BOmbers Sweep
Into Libya from the West
(NEA Telephoto)
Seen as First Blow in Aerial
Squeeze PIoy Against Rommel

the axis leaders nov are con-
WINGED that Tripoli is indefensi-
BILE and are concentrating on an
effort TO get Rommers forces
into southern Tunisia and turn
to their own advantage the Mar
eth d Tense line which the
French buolt along the Tripoli-
tanian border.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. l1-tR
The japanese have lost at
lease 353 planes, 10 warships
and IS merchantmen in the
course Of Gen. Douglas MacAr-
thurs victorious New Guinea
campaign.
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| Idfek X X
bulletins


NEW DELHI, Jan. 11-(P)-
British troops advancing toward
Akyab in Burma are maintain
ing their pressure against
japanese forces in Rathedaung,
Is miles north Of the Bay Of
Bengal Port. and fighting Is
continuing on both sides Of the
Mayu River, q British communi-
que said today.
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ALLIED H z A DQUARTERS
m NORTH AFRICA. Jan. sSl--
R-Allied bombers have struck
against possible junction points
for Marshal Rommel's Libyan
forces and the Axis army Of
Tpnisia, raiding Gabes, the vii
lage Of Kebili west Of that port,
and Kairouan, an African air
force spokesman announced to-
day
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 11-(R
United States filters are con-
tinuing their almost daily
pounding Of the camouflaged
Japanese airfield at Munda, in
the Solomon Islands.
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BUENOS AIKES, Jan. 1I-(P)
General Augustin p. Justo
president Of Argentina from
1882 to 1888 and mentioned fire.
quently as q likely candidate for
the office in this years election
on q platform of close collabo-
ration with the United Nations,
died suddenly early today. He
was Sc years old.
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100 Billions
Are Earn,arked
for Victory
President Sends
Sweeping Budget
Message to Congress
By IRVING PERLMETER

ny IN Inv ILRLNL En
WASHINGTON. Jan. 11-tR
Roosevelt laid be-
fore Congress today a 00,00O,-
war budget to speed the
day of victory, and 20 help raise
this record sum he asked for
Sl6 900, 100000 in addition taxes
or compulsory savings.
Altogether, MIR. Roosevelt es-
timated government spending in
the fiscal year beginning July
at 100000, 100000, and he said
in message TO the lawmakers.
This budget represents the
maximum program for waging
war"
The new tax program he sug-
gested included a SIS 900 limit
on the income of anyone after
payment of taxes, regardless Of
the source of his income.
The budget, which estimates
spending for the IL months be-
ginning July /, not only dwarf
ed anything in the history
books, it represented more than
the annual money expenditures
Of ali the other bel1igerents on
both sides of the war. put to-
gether.
1t was nearly three times
what Germany is spending, four
times England. and IA times
Japan.
In the current fiscal year,
Americas war cost was esti-
mated by Mr.. Roosevelt at about
SIT, 900 900 900. Add to that an
other SIG 100000, 900 spent be-
tween Pearl Harbor and the be-
ginning of the current year, and
the American war bill between
Dec. Z, 1941, and June 80, 1914.
will be s196. 900, 100000 - just
$1,000, 900, 900 short of all the
money spent by the treasury
from the day George Washing
ton was inaugurated in 1889 UNI
til the Japs attacked about q
year ago.
Some persons may believe
that such a program is fantas-
tic" commented the command
er-in-chief. If the nations man.
power and resources are fully
harnessed, l am confident that
the objective of this program
can be reached, but it requires
a complete recognition Of the
necessities of total war by Nil -
management, labor. farmers,
consumers, and public servants
- regardless of party"
GUARDS QUANTITIES
He did not translate his fin.
ancial estimates into planes and
tanks and ships - to do 30, he
said, would merely help the
enemy.
But he gave this breakdown
of the general war program:
Gin Billions of Dollars)
1S42-43 1854
Fiscal Fiscal
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Impertiel cevsress
OF All loeel News
The sub., 1943-10-07
Relationship Of Credit Unions
 To The Government dnd Country

your Credit Union to the National average, shows that the employees of the Electric Boat Company, who have taken advantage of the Op- portunities offered in Credit Union membership very heartily agree with the thoughts offered in this article.
 Our facilities are ample and nothing would give us greater sat isfaction than to be able to report 100% membership. After you have studied the financial state ment enclosed in your September 30th accounting, pass 1t to non- member with the suggestion that he take the step that may mean fi- nancial independence.