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Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Sweeping Drives
Peril jap Bases
BY UNITED PRESS

y. S. Marines, outnumber-
ed in at least one sector,
hurled tanks, artillery and
flame-throWers into a show
down battle for the Cape Gloucester
airdrome Thursday while swarms of
Allied planes battered the Japa-
neSe defenders and their supporting
bases throughout the Bismarck Ar
chipelago
Front reports from the north
west New Britain battle zone indi-
Gated that the western wing of
the marine invasion force had
reached the main enemy defenses
around Cape Gloucester's airfields
and were closing in on several
thousand well-entrenched enemy
troops.
Preparatory bombingS appeared
to have Knocked out all the enemy's
heavy artillery, but the japanese
troops fought back savagely with
machine gun and mortar fire from
camouflaged pillboXes.
Inc marines, less Jldn nile
from the air strip and we'll within
machine gun range of the enemy'S
defenseS, brought up flamethrowers
tanks, and heavy guns to reduce
the maze of pillboXes thanking the
fields.
A second marine force that came
ashore near the southeast coast of
Cape Gloucester was reported hold
ing fast under repeated counter
attacks by superior enemy forces.
Allied fighters raided the main
enemy stronghold at Ra5aul, 275
miles northeast OF Cape Gloucester,
and shot down l6 of go intercepting
enemy fighters at loss of one of
their own formation.
American heavy and medium
bombers simultaneously blasted Jap
aneSe airdromes at Cape Hoskins,
on the north SHORE OF New Britain,
and Gasmata on the south shore,
and hit the enemy field at Kavieng,
New Ireland, in an apparent at
Continued on page 6, col. g
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Rent-out
OfHeIp
Blasted
Congress Groups
Charge Big
Profi+eer Racket

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.
(UP) A congressional in
vestigating committee is Civ
ing close attention to a grow
ing type of profiteering in
which certain skilled workers are
farmed out to war contractors at
rates ranging as high as $50 a day,
it was revealed Thursday.
A special house military affairs
group has received information that
the practice is particularly wide
spread among small tool-making
firms which rent out" their work.
ers to aircraft companies holding
government contracts.
The profiteering has disturbed
many members of congress, repre-
sentative John Sparkman, Demo-
crat, Alabama, termed it "uncon-
scionable,' pointing out that under
the customary -plus-fixed-fee
government contract, the high $50
to $50 day wages were chargeable
to the taxpayers.
The committee has not ascertain
ed whether the toolmakers individ-
Continued on page 6, col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Officers Pick up
Escapee Trio

Charlene Thiesman, Ia, and Norma
Myer, Ia, who escaped from a de-
tention home in San Diego We'd
nesday were taken into custody
Thursday morning by local police at
the local Greyhound station where
they had purchased tickets to Holt
vile.
Taken with the girls was Leon
Pearson, Negro boy, who had also
escaped from the San Diego home
and who had been to Yuma and re-
turned here to meet them.
The two girls had hitch hiked
over the mountains Wednesday
night and wore flimsy cotton
dresses.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30

: paper DagenS Nyneter SAID IhurS-
day.
Most Allied sources have suggest
ed that the opening of a second
front is months, rather than weeks,
away, especially since only now is
the invasion command being set
up under General Dwight D. Eisen-
hover.
Dagens Nyheter quoted the Ger
man spokesman as saying that the
British press was so invasion con.
scious" that failure of the allies
to thrust across the English Chan
mel or North Sea within the next
fortnight would have a bad effect
on British morale.
German military authorities also
believe an Allied invasion is immi-
nent, the newspapers Berlin COR
respondent said, though they were
less specific regarding the actual
date. Military quarters were said
to regad the reported British COM
mando raids on the French coast
and the Channel islands as sympto-
matte of an early landing.
A London Daily Express dispatch
from Geneva said Adolf Hitler was
expected to announce formally in
a speech next week the appoint
ment of Marshal Erwin Rommel,
as anti-invasion commander in the
west. Hitler and Rommel have just
met, the dispatch said.
Most observers have regarded
Rommel's appointment to the post
foregone conclusion following his
recent inspection tour of invasion
defenses from France to Norway.
The Stockholm Nya Dagligt Al
lehanda said German supply and
troop trains have been pouring a
ceaSeless flow of reinforcements in
Continued on page 6, col. 3
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Drives
300 Planes Strike
In Vital Spots;
yanks Follow up

LONDON, Dec. 30. (UP)
American heavy bombers
attacked southwest Germany
Thursday a few hours after
the Royal air force dropped
2,240 tons Of explosives on
Berlin in a raid believed to
have completed the destruc-
ton of almost half the Nazi
capital.
While the smoke and flame
from hundreds of fires set
by a mighty British fleet
still lowered over Berlin, the
United States Eighth air
force swung the Allied Of
fensive to a new quarter with
daylight bombardment of
unidentified targets in south
west Germany.
American and British medium
hombers, escorted by Allied fighters,
dUCdChCu lHlllIdl ODJCCGiNCo Ill
north France in large scale sweep
across the channel which was COM
pared, by coastal observers, with
the 3,000-plane assault on the in
vasion coast Christmas Eve.
Fighter planes of the RAF joined
those of Lieutenant General Ira G..
Eaker in escorting the four-motored
bombers to the region of Germany
hit with relative infrequency by
the Americans.
The two-Way blast at Germany
put the aerial campaign back on
full scale basis. 1t was supple
mented by intense traffic across
the channel during the day, with
medium bombers joining in sorties
apparently directed at the French
invasion coast
HALF OF CITY GONE
The London Evening News said
flatly that it was estimated half
of Berlin has been dealt with"
The raid was probably the second
heaviest of the war on Berlin.
Upwards of 800 British four
Continued on page 6, col. q
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MOSCOW, Dec. 80. (UP)-Gen.
Nikolai F. Vatutin's army of the
Ukraine smashed into the outskirts
of Zhitomir Thursday in its pursuit
of routed and demoralized German
forces whose 100-mile defense front
showed every sign of imminent COL
lapse.
Delayed field dispatches said pow
erful Soviet mechanized forces have
swept through German fortifica-
tions only three miles from the
heart of zhitomir, the fall of which
would lay open the way to old Po-
land and the Balkans.
SWEEP WESTWARD
Other Russian forces were re-
ported sweeping westward from cap
tured Korosten, the second of the
twin rail functions. keying the posi-
tionS of the northwest Ukraine, less
than so miles from the prewar
Polish frontier.
Vatutins army famed out west
ward, southwark and southweStward
on an ever widening front already
curving through 100 miles of Uk-
raine flatlands, cracking one Ger
man strong point after another.
The Germans were described as
reeling back in great disorder"
their resistance weakening at all
points, and the frequency of their
rearguard counter-thrusts dwindling
steadily.
REACH OPEN AREAS
Red Star, Soviet army organ.
said Vatutin's infantry, cavalry and
armor already had broken through
the main forest belt of the upper
Ukraine and swarmed out into the
relatively open country. Reaping
the harvest of six weeks of bitter
fighting which drained off the
cream of the German strength
mased against the Kiev salient, the
Russians were striking deep into
new territory and threatening the
last strong points at which the
Nazis could hope to dig in.
At the same time Vatutin flung
his left wing southwark, occupying
Skvira, 20 miles south of the Kiev-
Vinnitsa railroad, posing direct
menace of encirclement against the
holdout German forces along the
middle Dnieper.
Red Star said series of swift,
Skillful pincer maneuverS had net
ted Korosten, Cherniakhov. and
scores of other strategic points with
a minimum of Soviet casualties in
contrast with debilitating German
losses.
The Germans were reported in
full flight be?ond the zhitomir-
Continued on page 6, col. 81
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Railway Workers
Await Final
Paw Settlement

Whof11NJlO Yin, OcC. OU. NOE) -
Vital war supplies moved without
interruption on the nations rail-
roads Thursday as late develop
ments in the troubled railway wage
picture brought complete cancella-
ton of the strike scheduled for 6
o'clock this morning.
The last three holdouts among 20
operating and incorporating rail
unions which had ordered strikes
of their 1,450OOO members can
celled the orders last night, re-
moving the last threat of a stop
page on the lines. But for 18 of
the 20 unions, the prolonged wage
dispute which brought the strike
threat and consequent government
seizure of the carriers still awaited
settlement.
The last cancellations were Or
dered by the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen and Enginemen,
the order of railway conductors,
and the sWitchmen's union in full
fillment of a promise made eight
hours earlier to 1t. Gen. Brehon B.
Somervell, government head Of the
railroads. The unions previously
sent members tentative instructions
not to strike if the government op-
Grated the roads, but those instruc-
tions required telegraphic con-
firmation.
Some railroad officials were un-
derstood to be worried over the
possibility of scattered stoppages
because the final instructions were
not dispatched until II hours be-
fore the strike deadline. David B.
Robertson, president of the firemen
and enginemen, said in radio ad-
dress last night that members who
had not received the orders in writ
ing were to construe his speech as
an official return to work order.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
He's Man Of the Year

NEW YORK, Dec. 30 CUP) =
General George C. Marshall, chief
of staff of the U. S. Army, has
been selected by the editors of
Time as the MAN of the Year
because of his work in transform
ing worse than disarmed U. S.
into the worlds most effective
military power the magazine an
nounced Thursday.
Readers submitted numerous
candidates including Marshall,
President Roosevelt, Prime Minis
ter Churchill, Premier Stain, and
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek.
The link between the biggest
military establishment in U. S.
history and the U. S. people,
George c. Marshall was at years
end the closest thing to the in
dispensable man." the magazine
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
POPE Wells Name
Of Bomb Pilot

screened behind the anonymity of
the pilot"
The Pope's statement, recorded
by U. S. government monitors, was
made in an address to the armed
corps of the pontifical state, ex-
pressing gratitude for their speed
in clearing damage caused by the
raid.
General Dwight d. Eisenhower
declared the day after the raid that
no Allied plane had flown within 40
miles of Rome November S.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Flu Decreases
In Valley Area

A survey of Imperial Valley
Thursday revealed that the mild flu
and cold epidemic appeared to be
on the decline this week, indicating
that valley residents are more for
tunate than those in many other
parts of the nation.
Doctors in all valley cities declar-
ed that there are fewer cases this
week than last and agreed that
while there are more cases of flu
and colds than usual at this time
of year, the ailments have not
reached serious epidemic propor-
tionS this year.
Most of the sufferers are i'll from
three to five days and then, if
they take proper care, are able to
go about their business as usual.
One physician said he noted there
were many sufferers from cold and
flu among the children of pre-
school age.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Military SEXES
Frozen Chickens

WASHINGTON, Dec. 80 CUP) -
Men in uniform Thursday were as
sured of plenty of Sunday chicken
dinners for the next six months as
result of government order
requisitioning all frozen chicken in
storage as of 1901 a. m. Thursday
morning.
The war food administration or
dered owners of frozen chickens to
report their stocks to designated
army quartermaster centers within
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30

many is defeated but as her defeat
seems near at hand.
When that power is shifted, the
main lines cf attack on Japan are
already determined and additionl
means will be used to implement
the general strategy for the defeat
of Japan"
King, putting on cigarette and
making references to large wall
map during his discussion of Allied
global strategy, expressed doubt
that the Japanese could undertake
any sustained offensive in the Pacif-
ic during the coming year, largely
because OF their great shipping
losses.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Admiral King Predicts Fall
Of Germans During 1914

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. CUP)-
Admiral Ernest j. King, commander
in chief of the U. S. fleet and a
member of the Allied high COM
mand. declared Thursday he ex-
poets Germany to be defeated in
1914.
King thus was in agreement with
General Dwight d. Eisenhower,
new commander of the second front
invasion forces, who has made a
similar prediction.
The admiral revealed studies
have been in progress for several
months looking to the shifting of
Allied power from the European
to the Pacific theater when Ger
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30

manys defeat appears close at
hand.
Il am hopeful and eXpectant that
Germany will be defeated during
1894" he told press association
naval correspondents in one of his
rare interviews. Il am expecting
that unremitting pressure on Japan
will be continued and increased.
Il don't know whether anyone
else has announced it but it would
be an obvious thing-that studies
have been under way for several
months looking to shift of power
from the European theater to the
Pacific theater, not only when Ger
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30

HAMMOND, Ind, Dec. 80 (UP)-
Doctors feared Thursday that
death may be near for Martha Jean
Mathews, l3. an invalid since birth
who has ben unable to eat because
her brother and faithful bedside
companion is in the army.
Martha's s mother, Mrs. Ann Mat
heWs, said the child was grief
stricken when her brother Denis,
18, left home to become an air
cadet at Sikeston, Mo.
Denis was always by her bed
side," Mrs. Mathews said. "She
couldn't dress her dolls herself, and
Denis did it for her. He kept her
cheerful and told her stories. She
doesn't understand about the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Six Prison Aids
Get Suspended

SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Dec. 80.
(UP) Warden Clinton Duffy
Thursday suspended six prison en-
ployes, including the captain of
the guard and assistant secretary,
for "laxity and negligence" which
he said was responsible for the
successful escape of four convicts
last Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Nazis Mass force
In Bulgaria

CAIRO, Dec, 80. (UP)-Germany
has sent 100000 troops into south
ern Bulgaria and is massing in
great strength along the Turkish
frontier, only 80 miles from the
strategic Dardanelles, reports reach
ing Cairo said Thursday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
WEATHER

Weather forecast for Imperial
Valley.
Fair Thursday night, and Friday
with little change In temperature.
Maximum temperature around 6S
degrees. Night temperatures all
above 32 degrees.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
BY UNITED PRESS

Pope Plus XII said Thursday that
the bombing Of the Vatican by an
unidentified plane November S was
intended to remain concealed
under veil of mystery" and to
arose "the horror and indignation
of the civilized world" the Vatican
radio reported
In his second reference TO the raid
,<within week, the Pontiff said the
raid had been deliberately planned
and dishonorably and successfully
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
vichy Leaders
Fear Revolt

LONDON, Dec. 30. (UP)-Pierrc
Laval, French chief of government.
today ordered shakeup in the vi
chy police administration to pre-
vent an outbreak of civil war which
is now threatening France" Radio
Vichy announced Thursday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Germans Predict
InvQSion in
Next Two Weeks

LONDON, Dec 30. (UP)-A German foreign office
spokesman told foreign correspondents last night that we'll
informed Naz circles expect Allied invasion of north
western Europe within two weeks the Stockholm
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
Frigid Weather
Slows Allies
On Italy Lines

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. AL
gierS, Dec. 30. CUP) Canadian
troops pushed up the Adriatic coast
a mile beyond the ruins of Ortona
while strong fleets of American
Flying Fortresses bombed the Ital-
ian transport centers of Rimini and
Ferrara, it was announced Thurs
day.
An unusually brief communique
indicating a showdown in the vio-
lent fighting which had flared all
across Italy said:
The eighth army advanced in
the Adriatic coastal sector and the
localized advanced by the fifth
army in the mountains continued.
Elsewhere on both fronts patrols
were active"
COLD, SNOW HINDER
Bitter cold, which followed a
snowstorm, and maze of German
mine fields delayed the British
eighth army drive along the Adri-
attic toward PeScara, terminus of
the tranS-peninsCla road to Rome.
The Canadians spearheading the
coastal advance had to pick their
way through desolate fields Uttered
with time bombs and. BOBBY traps
to make new contact with the Ger
mans a mile up the road from Or
tona.
Inland, the British Imperials
made another small advance, cap
turing a strategic feature northwest
of Villa Grande and tightening
their grip on the secondary road
to Tollo.
The immediate objective of the
Canadians was the Foro river,
Continued on page g. col. g.
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Reds >ear Strategic Zhitomor
Raiders Raze Half Of Berlin
Send Germans Keeling Back on
I8b-Mile Front in Ukraine;
Rou+ n of Enemy's Divisions

LONDON, Dec. 80 (UP)-The Red army has scored
great breakthrough in the northwest Ukraine sweeping
forward 81 to 81 miles 186mile front and routing %
German divisions in six days of violent fighting Premier
Josef Stain announced Thursday in special order of the
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-30
GET $500 PERMIT

A building permit was issued We'd
nesday to Maggie Brothers for con-
struction of 40x60-foot loading
platform at l46 Main street. Cost
of construction was estimated at
$500.
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THIRD CANTEEN
UNIT COMPLETES
TRAINING WORK

Women enrolled in the current
Canteen Glass, the third to be CIV
en- in Juneau, have completed their
full 20-hour course, Mrs. John t.
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Large turnout,
Moose Women
Roll Call Night

Women of the Moose, Juneau
Chapter No. 439, held their roll
call meeting Saturday night with
a splendid attendance. Following
the business meeting the Men OF
the Moose joined the meeting Tor
the entertainment which followed.
Provided by the Home Making
chairman, Anna Jackson and her
committee, Gertie Olsen and Iva
Lindgard, the evening proved most
enjoyable to those present. Also
furnished by the same committee
were lovely prizes awarded during
the evening, which went to Viola
Eskesen. first; Mrs. George Sheep
er. second; and mems prizes to
jeff Anderson, first; and Glen Al
len, second.
A tasty lunch served by Viola
Eskesen, chairman, and Belle
Campbell and Ruth Tate, ended the
affair
The next meeting of the Women
of the Moose will be held April II,
it is announced.
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ADVENTIST, END
CONVENTION HERE;
DELEGATES LEAVE
Plans Discussed for Estab-
Iishment Of Alaska
Industrial School

The annual church convention
at the Juneau Seventh-Day Adj
ventist church closed last night
after three days of advanced Bible
studies and carefully studied plans
for enlargement of all mission ac-
Invites in Alaska.
The insistant invitations from
several communities for the Alaska
Mission of Seventh-Day Advent
lists to establish an industrial school
for youth in Alaska similar to the
industrial schools operated by the
church in other countries was Civ
en- much study. Pastor H. l.. Wood
mission superintendent, gave re-
port of the requests and the pro-
gress thus far in studying the adj
aptability of several locations for
an industrial school.
i The m ission superintendent
pointed out the need of school
in Alaska that would provide man
ual training in a manner that
would enable students to produce
many things greatly needed in AL
aska that are not now produced
here He further stated that such
"a school would not only provide a
means whereby ambitious students
could earn most of their schooling
but would be much more useful
citizens after leaving school than
those who did not have to work at
least part of their way through
school
| Tuesday the mission workers will
leave for like meetings to be. held
in Wrangell and Ketchikan. They
will make the trip on the motor
boat Surprise owned by Thomas
Estelle who will do field work for
! the Alaska Bible House.
Those making the trip south or
! the Surprise besides Mr. Estelle are
| Pastor M l.. Miles, Miss Madgt
Muchmore, Bible House Secretary
and Pastor and Mrs. H. L. Wood
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Old ALASKAN IS
DEAD IN SEATTLE

SEATTLE, April 5.-Herbert E.
Wilson, II, who made a fortune in
the Tanana Valley gold rush and
lost much of it in Tacoma real
estate, died at his home here yes
terday.
He went to Dawson in 1898, made
one of the first strikes in the Fair
banks area and carried the news
of the Tanana strike to Circle. He
was a partner with Jack Ross and
Windy Jim Dawson in the 10 Be-
low strike and came back to Ia
coma in 1909.
One son, Lawrence, survives.
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NEJw YORK LI RI
INSURANCE COMPANY
81 ~ R g.AN
o8th Annual Statement to it's Policyholders

Through periods Of prosperity
and depression, epidemics, wars,
and inevitable postwar adjust
ments, the New York Life Insur-
ance Company has for the SO years
of its existence made safety its
first consideration. In doing 80 the
Company not only has successfully
protected its policyholders and
their beneficiaries but also has
been an important stabilizing fac
tor in the family and economic life
Of the nation. "a
A more complete report as of
December 81, 1912, containing
additional statistical and other in
formation of interest about the
Company, will be sent upon re-
quest. A list of bonds and preferred
and guaranteed stocks owned by
the Company is also available.
These booklets may be obtained
by writing to the New York Life
Insurance Company, 81 Madison
Avenue, New York, N. Y.
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Mclaughlin. practice supervisor,
announced today.
With the theory work of the
course taught by Mrs. Lydia Fohn-
Hansen of the University of Alas
ka Extension Division, and the com
pletion of the practice work under
the direction of Mrs. Mclaughlin,
the group may now become an or
ganized unit and may soon serve
antoher luncheon open to the pub
lie. which they will have prepared
without supervision.
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Greuning, Mrs. William Gulbran-
son. Mrs. Earl McGinty and MISS
Mabel Morgan.
The ten hour theory course was
also taken by Mrs. w. Q. Carlson
and Mrs. Henry Larson, who are
already members of organized can
teen units.
The group has already organized
as a canteen unit, to be known as
Unit 3. and has elected Mrs. Harry
Stonehouse chairman and Mrs. M
ID Williams assistant chairman.
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Four luncheons were recently
prepared and served by the group
as part of their training course so
that the women might learn to
work together with canteen equip
ment, as well as to gain experience
in cooking for larger than family
groups. Any slight profit made was
used to buy canteen equipment
Those Eligible
Those eligible for the 20-hour
certificates awarded by the Amer
lean Red Cross for completion OF