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Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
Correspondents
Killed by SheI|fire

LONDON, Sept. 30 UP)-Three
British war correspondents with
the Fifth army were killed by
Shellfire in the Nocera area below
Naples yesterday, it was announced
today
The correspondents were A. B.
Dustin of the London Daily Herald
Stewart Sale of the Reuters News
Agency. and William Munday of
the Sydney Morning Herald and
London News Chronicle.
Basil Gingell, correspondent for
the British Agency Exchange Tele-
graph, was with the three. He re-
ported they had left jeep to stand
on street corner and watch Allied
tanks assemble for an advance.
There was a binding flash and a
terrific explosion.
II was flung great distance
and buried by falling debris" he
said. when I was able to look
around I saw my companions
dead"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
Interest on Farm
MORTGAGES Goes up

WASHINGTON. Sept 80 (UP)-
The Farm Credit Administration
today announced an increase in in
terest rates on more than $2,O0O,-
900 900 in farm mortgages from 3k
to 4 per cent, effective June 30,
1914.
FCA Governor A. G. Black esti-
mated the increase would boost in
terest payments by farmers to the
IL federal land banks by $20,000.O00
year and effect corresponding
saving to the federal treasury.
Since 1885 the lending agencies
of the federal land banks have been
collecting 3h per cent from bor-
rowers and charging the treasury 4
per cent under a subsidy arrange
ment approved by congress.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30

"Once," he said, "our guns scor-
ed a direct hit on a Japanese chow
line. Our planes radioed back the
report, and we cheered like He'll.
Every day we got reports that we'd
hit ammunition dump, gun, or
destroyed some more of their
planes"
Corporal Boyer is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Wade M. Boyer, of Ell
Centre. He attended high school
and junior college in Ell Centre. He
enlisted in the Marine Corps on
October l, 1910. From December
3, 1912 until February 1943, he serv-
ed on Guadalcanal.
Editors note-Cpl. Boyer landed
In San Diego before the dispatch
from the south Pacific cleared
through naval public relations Of
fices. g..
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
0PA Men Warned
On Political Acts

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.-(UP)
Chester Bowles, general manager
of the office of price administration,
today warned local price and ra-
tioning officials against political
activity endangering the impartial
administration of OPA regulations. "
Bowles authorized district direc-
tors to determine the circumstances
under which their aides may seek
election to political office.
Among the $4,000 local board
members and the 1000 more volun-
teer workers, Bowles said, are many
persons occupying a public office.
"These people have been a tre-
mendous help in OPA," he said. I'VE
need them, but we can hardly ex-
pect them to give up elected public
offices to accept unpaid, temporary
war work.
"Yet at the same time we cannot
for moment allow anything to
weaken the integrity or the i'm
partiality of local boards"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30

from serving on the committee in
any capacity.
FEC chairman James L. Fly had
accused Cox of coducting the in
vestigation unfairly and of trying
to wreck" the commission.
FEC commissioner Clifford j.
Durr last May presented a petition
to the house asking Cox's removal
"becaCSe of bias and personal in
terest." The petition had not been
acted on when Cox resigned.
Cox's personal interest his critics
charged, stemmed from an accusa
ton by fly that he accepted $1,50C
from Station Walb of Albany, Ga.
in whose interests he had appeared
before the FEC in 1899.
Fly turned over to the justice de-
Continued on page 8, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30

Dispatches from the Reich capi-
tai to Stockholm said that the Ger
mans had given up Naples after
wrecking the harbor and trying to
quell revolt of Italians inside
the city who were preparing for
new Allied landing.
(Axis reports said that the Brit
ish fleet was bombarding Naples
and that Allied dive bombers had
intervened in the communist up
rising" in the city,
German units slowed the march
for Naples with extensive demoli-
tions and shell fire, holding up
the American and British troops
pushing across fiat country from
the south and southwest.
Coincidentally, other Stockholm
advices asserted the Russian Situa-
ton had become so bad for the
Germans that Adolf Hitler had
rushed to the front and ordered his
armies to stop their retreat at the
Dnieper river.
The Russians were battling to
spring across one of the last natural
OdiAACio CdoG Va UAlC Olu I-OllSLl OOI-
der.
GA late Russian communique said
s,that Red troops advancing south
west of Smolensk captured ITS more
towns and villages, including Kri-
chev on the west bank of the Sozh
river. In the Gomel sector, gains
of six or seven miles netted more
than SO localities.)
While the Fifth army advanced
in slow but sure investment of
Naples, Gen. Sir Bernard l.. Mont
gomerys Eighth army on the east
ern side of italy took a 22-mile
stride to capture Manfredonia, on
the east coast scarcely 100 miles
from the Dalmatian coast of the
Balkans.
Advancing five miles along lines
now showed deep into the Naples
plain, Fifth army troops were only
II miles outside Italy's third larg-
est city.
The ancient ruins of Pompeii, II
Continued on Page 3, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
Smoke Bomb Puts
Man in HOSPITAL

HOLTVILLE, Sept. 30-Horace
M. Atkins, Al, irrigation district
storekeeper at Holtville, was in a
Holtville hospital Thursday recover
ing from injuries suffered when he
experimental with an unexploded
smoke bomb he found on the desert.
He found the bomb on the desert
last weekend and decided to take
it apart and see what made it
tick. 1t exploded in his hands,
blowing off two fingers and mang-
ling one of his hands.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
So|ons DecryU.S
Lack Of Air Bases
IN Foreign Lands
Truman Committee Back
From Tour Says British
Should Help Supply Oil

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. -
(UP)-Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge,
jr., R., Mass, told the Senate to-
day that American access to
Soviet Pacific bases would change
"The whole character of the Pac-
ific war" and save many American
lives. #.>
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30
(UP)-Two members of the
senate Truman committee,
back from a tour of world
battlefronts, today prepared
special reports stating that the
United States has failed to acquire
postwar air bases and that. Per-
sian gulf oil fields could relieve
some of this nations petroleum
burden.
The two, Sen. James M. Mead
D.. N. Y, and Sen Ralph o. Brews-
ter, r., Me-, were part of a five
man senatorial globe-trotting con-
tinent who went aboard to find
out how American supplies and
money are being used.
Mead said he and Brewster as
members of the Truman committee,
would point out that, I'VE will have
no aviation base rights outside tho
western hemisphere six months af-
ter this war although we have built
up a $1,000 100000 aviation indus
try and have spent hundreds of
millions of dollars in building air.
ports around the world"
WANT POLICY
Sen. Richard B. Russell, D., Ga,
agreed with Mead and Brewster
that the administration should act
Immediately to obtain post war
rights for private commercial lines
in areas where the U. S. has built
airfields. The trio said congress
should outline a postwar aviation
policy for the United States.
Mead said they would also stress
the Importance of having Persian
gulf oil fields Qargely controlled by
British interests) take some of
Continued on Page 8, Col. q
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
Portisdns in Bold
Foroy into Reich

LONDON, Sept. 3O.-(UP)-Sev-
eral thousand Jugoslav partisan
troops are entrenched in the noun
tain passes along the old Austro-
Jugoslav border after a bold foray
into German territory during which
they damaged important Nazi rail-
way lines leading into Hungary and
Jugoslavia, a partisan spokesman
said today.
The raid into reich territory, first
reported by Swiss sources yesterday,
was confirmed in communique
issued by Gen. Josip (Tito) Brozo-
vich, partisan commander.
The partisans are carrying out
further attacks on the Germans
their new positions in the Austrian
alps, the communique said, adding
that they have been joined by Aus
tralian guerrillas.
Unconfirmed reports said the
partisans had wiped out a small
German garrison at one frontier
post
An earlier partisan communique
revealed that BroZovich'S forces had
evacuated the Dalmatian seaport of
Split to avoid encirclement by Ger
man troops. 1t said that the parti-
sans, after holding the port for Is
days, had removed all war material
from Split before evacuating the
city.
William Wilson, United Press cor
respondent in southern Italy, re-
ported in a dispatch that Jugoslav
officers who left Split few days
ago insisted the seaport could be
held for months with only little
help from the Allies"
I'VE need bombing raids on Ger
man airfields and the German fort
ress outside the city, which could
be captured in three days with air
support" one officer said. "A sin
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30

Among his experiences, is liv-
ing to tell how six japanese bombs
landed within Is feet of him on
Rendova Island and caused him
to be evacuated to a naval base
hospital out of the fighting zone,
suffering only a ruptured ear
drum, which apparently has not
affected his hearing.
Corporal Boyer was serving on an
anti-aircraft gun, and following his
injury saw his bUddies shoot down
the entire 18-plane attacking force.
II was glad they let me stay
around to see it," he said, ut was
quite a sight
Corporal Boyer reported that
marine guns shelling Munda Point
across the bay from Rendova,
where the Japanese built big ad-
vanced air base, was almost super
humanity accurate
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
D AMBllNe
l\Ep0RTER

Quick, The Needle
One of the things which spurred
Ell Centre on to bigger and better
things in the third war loan was
a certain crack made to Ell Centrans,
County Bond Chairman Herb Faw-
cett said. The crack was:
Have you bought your bonds yet
or do you live in FL Centro?"
Manana, Manana-
Dr. and Mrs. Forrest Kutz flew
to Mexico City for vacation and
had no intention of the vacation
becoming practically lifetime in
length.
But it is. They have been unable
to get priority on plane for the
trip home and have no hope of get
ting places for days and days.
Well, that's splendid opportuni-
ty to steep themselves in Mexican
language and tradition but Kutz
keeps thinking some of his patients
may have developed a toothache.
And That's A Fact
The scene was in the Ell Centre
hospital. The cast of characters in
cluded Mrs. j. v. Stewart of Holt
Vile, wife of a serviceman; a doc
tor; nurse. ,aass... tt.''
Mrs. Stewart, who was having a
baby, was supposed to be under an
esthetic.
oh" said the doctor, twins!
Two baby girls" There was q moan
from Mrs. Stewart.
oh, dear" she muttered, "now
we never will find place to live"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30

Mediterranean plus a few previous
ly unreported casualties from earlier
operations, Stimson reported.
From Dec. 7. 194l TO Sept. Is,
l943, army casualties in all theaters,
excluding Salerno, we're 1882 kill
ed. 26666 wounded, 23,743 missing
and 20,541 prisoners of war. OF the
wounded, 10975 have returned to'
duty or have been returned from
hospitals.
The war department on Satur-
day, reported that at Salerno up
to Sept. is a total of 3.497 Amcri-
cans were killed, wounded, or miss
ing. The first landings at Salerno
were on Sept. 8.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
President Under
Fire for Industry,
Milk Situations
Further Decline for
Milk Production During
December Is Forecast

WASHINGTON, Sept. 80,
(UP)-Charles w. Holman,
secretary of the Cooperative
Milk Producers Federation,
today predicted a six per
cent decline in December milk pro-
duction, criticized the proposed SUBJ
sidy and blamed President Roose-
velt's hold-the-line executive order
for present conditions in industry
Testifying before the food sub
committee of the senate agricul-
tural committee in opposition to
the administrations proposed $780,
100000 milk price subsidy for the
next three months, Holman denied
that it would increased produc-
ton.
NOT JUSTIFIED
1t would not overcome, he said,
the increase of 81 cents a hundred
weight in the cost of milk produc-
ton and would mean a reduction
of only one-half to one cent a
quart in the prices paid by consul
Continued on page 8, col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30

gle squadron of fighters could stop
dive bombing stuka attack on
Split"
The officers claimed the partisans
could be supplied with food and
medical supplies by way of the
guerrilla held Dalmatian islands.
The JugoSlav communique said
three German trains had been de-
rallied by guerrillas in Bosnia and
reported that partisan shock troops
were continuing their successful
fight in Trieste, inflicting heavy
casualties on the Germans.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
NATION OVER TOP

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Sept. 3d.
(UP) - Secretary of treasury
Henry Morgenthau, jr., announc-
ed today that the nation has
Oversubscribed its $1,000, 900, 900
third war loan quota and appeal
ed to the home front to purchase
even more bonds during the next
two days.
MOrgenthau made the an
nOuncement during broadcast
address at the launching of a
block-long invasion barge into the
Ohio river at the Evansville ship
yards before thousands of ship
yard workers.. The drive ends
Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30

American casualties in the battle
of Salerno have been fewer than
feared, the secretary said at his
press conference, adding that up
to Sept. Is they amounted to about
$500 War casualties will continue
to mount, however as Allied forces
move forward, Stimson warned.
From the landing on Sicily to the
beginning of the battle of Salerno,
American casualties in the North
African theater of operations, in
Guiding Sicily, were LASS killed,
5,2l3 wounded. and 1,736 missing
Most of these casualties occurred
in Sicily, although some were due
to air operations elsewhere in the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
Here's kazi With
Sense Of Humor

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
NORTH AFRICA Sept. 30.-(UP)
The Allied intelligence officer
asked the German who had been
captured on the SalernO front to
name his division.
"The Hermann Meyer" said the
German.
"The what?"
Did you not hear GOering's
broadcast statement, My name
will be Herman Meyer If any
British bombs fall on Germany'?"
replied the German.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30

fact that his district was the first
in the southern part of the state
to reach its quota. He urged valley
residents to continue buying bonds,
however, even though they have
topped their quota.
The third war loan was the first
major campaign directed by Faw-
cett since he was named county
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
GERMANS HAVE HALF AS
MUCH FOOD AS AMERICANS

LONDON, Sept. 80 (UPI-German
people face the fifth grim war
winter with prospects of about so
per cent less food and 25 per cent
longer working hours than those in
America will have, information
available to economic experts in
dicated today.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
&c. Marine Has
Many Close Calls

n SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC. Observation-Disclosures
Corps Corporal David W. Boyer of Ell Centre had many
close calls while serving in this region Sgt Jim Lucas
marine corps combat correspondent informed marine off
the mainland.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
NOT Justified
$4,000 Casualties
In Two Months

WASHINGTON, Sept. 80. (UP)-Amercan casualties
in the North African theaer including Sicily and Italy
from the original landings Sicily July 10 to Sept
Is have numbered slightly less than 900 killed. wounded
and missing Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
Heaviest Fertilizer Users
I'm Nv. i'm Past Now to Get
Least. Dealer Tells Firms
Estate War Board Takes Over Phosp phate
Industry Plan to Distribute Product. Is
Charge; Vegetable Men Get Little

In letter to firms supplying fertilizers to Imperial
Valley farmers Weller Noble general manager of the
Pacific Guano company, Thursday explained that lettuce
and cantaoupe growers in the p the heaviest of
phosphaes will get little this year because of state
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
Enemy Abandons
Strife-To orn City
Before yunkS
Hitler Reported on Russian Front in Try
To Bolster FaIterins Troops; Reds Make
New Advances, Taking Many Localities
By UNITED PRESS

Allied Fifth army troops fought forward Thursday in
pounding drive for Naples and indirect reports from
Berlin said German troops had fled the wrecked rebellion
torn city in fear of and land trap.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
WEATHER

Maximum Wednesday l01, minimum
Thurs. IL; am. Thurs. 73, humid
ity 46; noon Thurs. 102, humidity %;
pm. Wed. 81, humidity 36.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-30
BASEBALL

BY UNITED PRESS
AMERICAN
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-04-23
new YORK MAYOR
ACCUSES BIG STORES
OF SEEKING RETURN
OF SWEATSHOPS

New York City (ILNS) Speaking
at a big outdoor war bond rally,
Mayor La Guardia accused New York
department stores of trying to bring
back starvation wages and sweat
shops.
Declaring that while we are fight
ing this war we are not going to per-
nit labor standards to be brought
down" the Mayor advised the stores
"to look at their own payrolls and
give their employees better break"
81 wish some of these employers
who are trying to back sweatshops
and starvation wages, Macy's, Bloom
ingdale's and Abraham & Straus,
could come here and see this crowd"
he continued. Later he mentioned
Lord & Taylor when he urged stores
to "look at their own payrolls."
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-04-23
ITU Is Asked To Favor
Retaliation With AFL

Newark, N. j. - Newark Typo
graphical Union No. 103 has spon-
sored a resolution setting in motion
the legal procedure to initiate mem
bership referendum on the question
of reaffiliation of the International
Typographical Union with the Amer
lean Federation of Labor.
The resolution, which must be in
dorsed by $50 local unions, declares
that "the question of adjusting differ
ences between the ITU and AFL re-
garding observance of autonomous
rights of the ITU have never been
clearly presented for consideration by
the membership, having been con-
fused with partisan consideration
which should have no place in decid-
ing this ISSUE"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-04-23
Montgomery, Ward & Co., Sues Unions,
Asking $lO5, 200 Damages For Delay
In Donnelley- Printed Catalogue
Unions Have Broken Through the Outer Defenses of The
Anti-UniOn Concern; Hundred of Union Workers
Now Working In Plant From Cellar to Roof

Chicago (ILNS). - Launching a
new attack on organized labor, Mont
gomery Ward & Co., anti-union mail
order firm, filed suit here against
four international printing trades
unions and their Chicago locals.
The company is asking $105,200 as
damages for the delay in the produc-
tion and delivery of its winter cata-
logue, which R. R. Donnelley & Sons
Co. produces with the help of union
printing plants. Union enforcement of
Struck work" clause in their wage
agreements, under which members of
the union refused to handle any work
received from, or destined for, the
Donnelley plant, caused the delay. The
unions lifted their Struck work. ban
when the War Labor Board agreed to
take jurisdiction Of the case.
Donnelley Union Drive Pressed
Wards is suing the international
Typographical Union, International
Printing Pressmen's & Assistants
Union, international Brotherhood of
Bookbinders, and International Photo
Engravers' Union. These organiza-
tions are cooperating in the nation
wide drive to organize Donnelley's,
which locked out the various crafts,
one by one, between 1903 and 1907,
and since has maintained boycott of
union labor.
Commenting on Wards action, the
Organization Committee of Chicago
Printing Trades Union said that the
big mail order firm, "whose warfare
on the AFL and CIO has made it no.
torious from coast to coast, is only
one of the multi-million dollar corpo-
rations allied with the non union Dom
nelley company. Others are Time, Inc.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-04-23
Alternative To Labor Freeze Offered
Olander Plan Before VINO Provides
Voluntary Manpower Sterilization
Program To Discourage Hasty Quitting of Jobs; Ask
Union Labor to Consult Union Officials Before Making
Decision to Quit; Mont Union to Ask Churches, Etc

Chicago (ILNS) A voluntary pro-
gram for stabilizing man-power has
been presented by Victor A. Olander,
secretary treasurer of the Illinois
State Federation of Labor, in confer
ences between Olander and represent
atives of the War Manpower Commits
sion.
The program was presented as an
alternative to the WINGS job freeze
in the Chicago region, and is being
considered by labor and employer
committees appointed by Dean Will
liam H. Spencer, regional VINO di-
rector, to work out manpower plans.
The government representatives also
have it under consideration.
Consultation Stressed
The Olander stabilization plan pro-
vides for:
l. A call to all union workers to
report to representatives of their
unions, and to all non-union workers
to report to their churches, fraternal
societies or like organizations for
consultation and advice before quit
ting war production plant or when
laid off or discharged.
2. A call to all labor organizations
and churches or fraternal societies to
urge their members to act in accord
with this procedure, and to all en-
ployers to inform their employees of
it's details.
Absenteeism Study Asked
3. Cooperation in the operation of
the plan between the VINO and the
central organizations of the American
Federation of Labor, the Congress of
Industrial Organizations, the Railway
Transportation Brotherhoods, and the
central agencies of churches or fra
ternal societies.
4. Simple, but informative, reports
by these organizations and by the
employers to indicate the nature and
cause of the labor turnover.
5. Systematic efforts to ascertain
the extent, cause and cure of absen-
teeism, with a view of improving
work attendance; also, of course, con-
tinued efforts by unions and employ
ers to avoid strikes and lockouts.
g. Intensive attention by unions and
employers to "bottleneck" labor prob
lens.
7. A call to all war production
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-04-23
DUTCH WOMEN FACE SLAVERY

Washington, D. C. (ILNS).-A new
recruiting plan to send 100000 Dutch
women to Germany for compulsory
labor service has been drawn up by
Fritz Sauckel, labor gauletiter for
Occupied Europe, and Anton Mussert,
Nazi labor leader of the Netherlands,
says report received by the OWL.
In order to facilitate the ''trans-
fer" the report said, preference will
be given to those women whose hus-
bands are already serving" in Nazi
war industries.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-04-23
Washington Brewery
Workers Granted
So Weekly Raise

Washington, D. c. (ILNS).-Six
companies, employing 107 brewery
warehousemen and drivers in Wash
ington, are affected by a ruling of the
Regional War Labor Board granting
the men a So weekly salary increase.
The increase, retroactive to Jan. 1,
was agreed on previously at confer
ences between company representa-
tives and negotiators of the Brewery
Workers Union, Local 48, AFL Driv-
ers had received no increase in the
last six years while warehousemen
got their last raise in 1941 contract,
a 81 weekly increase.