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Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25
Nozis Give up
kubon Offensive

MOSCOW, April 24 CUP - The
Germans apparently have aban-
doned their offensive in the north
west Caucasus after having been
"bled white" by losses in futile at
tempts TO enlarge the Axis bridge
head, the SovietS announced today.
The midday communique re-
ported that the enemy launched
no further active operations" on
the Kuban front and said that his
nearly fortnight-long attacks had
cost him. heavily in both manpower
and equipment. Yesterday alone,
500 German soldiers were killed and
- tanks destroyed.
70 STEM DRIVE
Allied observers believed the Of
fenSiVe had been designed to stem
q Russian drive threatening to push
the Axis out of the Caucasus alto
gether, and to gain further ground
as a springboard for Axis summer
operations.
During the height of the battle.
the Germans hurled as many as g.
00C troops and scores of tanks
against the Soviet lines in a single
day. Hundreds of German planes
supported the ground forces and
touched off furious aerial combats.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25

in the last few days. Soviet pilots
have shot down 36 German planes
over the Kuban area.
REDS ACTIVE
Red air force bombcrS, SciHing
the initiative, bombed enemy air
dromeS today and started many
fires. Heavy explosions also were
observed, the midday COMMUNE
que said
On the SmOlcnSk front, 900
German infantrymcn attempted an
armed reconnaissance, but fell back
to their original positions after
losing 100 men in a brief skirmish
Russian troops in a night attack
penetrated enemy trenches south
OF BalaklCya, southeast Of khar-
kov, and killed at least 200 German
irfantrymen while Soviet bombcrS
made two raids on an important air
field in the area. destroyed 20
planes on the ground in one at
tack and started 25 fires and three
explosions in the other.
Thirty German tommy gunners
who penetrated Soviet positions in
the Belgorod area, north of Khar-
kov, we're enCircled and killed tn
the last man.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25
FIGHTING FEARS AND FABLES

(ChrlStan Science MOnltOr)
Fancy can spin delightful web, but
when superstition coarSens the thread,
and fear knots it, it no longer entertainS.
but enmeshes. Amusing at first were
tales of the emlinS-thoSe pranksters,
who. while suppose | Y hitchhiklng
through the clouds on airplane wings,
were charged with icing propellers,
drinking up petrol, blocking fuel lines,
tanning guns, and like mischief. Grad
ually, however, to some thoughts made
fertile by war and flying tension, the
heretofore purely fanciful gremlins have
become invisible, malevoent actualltleS.
An English paper relates the story of
five men in bomber returning from the
Ruhr over the North Sea through hail,
rain. and terrific winds, feeling help
lessly tossed about by unseen hands,
and sensing "malign presence inside
as we'll as outside the aircraft" Unac-
countably running out of gas, the fliers
baied out Later a fighter patrol was
sent to shoot down the ship to prevent
its getting into enemy hands, and the
pilot. despite the fact that the doomed
plane was empty. SwOre he got return
fire from the tail guns. Subsequently
four of the bomber crew were killed in
a crash. The fifth, enclosing the story
in his letter home, wrote
| don't absolutely believe in grem-
lns. but sometimes | wonder. Some
boys swear by them and it is no silly
dream to them when engines cut in
the air or guns are fired from an
empty turret You think
Thinking is Just what is needed =
clear thinking which exposes and dis
poses of the gremlin fancies, the fears
and superstitious such as rode the bomb
err to its doom. For the only real un-
seen hands and Presence are those of
which the Psalmist declared "If | as
cend up into heaven, Thou art there: if
| make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art
there If | take the wings of the morn
ing, and dwell in the uttermost parts of
the sea Even there shall Thy hand lead
me, and Thy right hand shall hold me-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25
ASSEMBLY EXPENSES

CLong Beach Press -Telegram)
Nothing is easier than to tear into
members of any legislative body with
ridcule and criticism when they vote
to raise their own pay, and often the
ridicule and criticism are warranted, but
there are two sides to the argument start
ed with the state aSSembly'S passage of
a bill allowing assemblymen $40 day
for expenses in addition to their salaries.
The vote was 65 to 0, but it would be very
different if the same proposal were put
to an organization of taxpayers.
California's legislators are meagerly
compensated for their time and work
under any circumstances, and 1t works
hardship and injustice when they are
held in Sacramento by prOtracted Ses-
sions. Their pay is $1,000 year. They
draw this pay when they are in regular
session at the rate of $12 a day. The con-
sequence is that legislators serve without
pay when they remain in session longer
than 100 days.
High cost of living is given as the JUS
tification for the move to provide more
money for the legislators, and the price
index supports the plea.
If the bill passed by the assembly be-
comes law legislators will draw the daily
SO for expenses whenever and as long as
they are in regular or special session.
An objection is that California does
not want to hold out an inducement for
long legislative sessions. Rather it
would pay a premium for shorter Ses-
sions. if somebody could work out sys-
tenn to accomplish that purpose.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25

an American naval task tof'
tackled japanese ships in the
and ncarbr Gilbert groups.
attack occurred in october a
suited in the sinking of two
japanese patrol vessels an
damaging Of a destroyer and
60 ship.
MINOR BASE
Knox described the cstabllS
on Funafuti rs a minor base
lie said it was as valuable
United States as all the 9th
lands along the line of comm
tiOnS.
Funafuu is SIS miles lon
700 yards wide at It's widGi
Because of it's flat surface, a
could be laid ont along its !
Its narrow width would pr
its development into a major
base, but its lagOOnS would b,
ful for scaplane operations.
Knox was asked whether
other Cf the Ellice islands,
extend for 800 miles in a
westerly and SOuthWc5,crly
tiOn. was III American hand;
THAT" he replied, Il W.
tell you
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25

important i'll determining the
length of the Axis stand.
Lieut.. Gen Kenneth A. N An
derSon'S British First army thrust
eastward along the whole length OF
the front from Medjez Ell Bah, 30
miles west southwest of Tunis. to
Bou Arada, 20 miles to the south
in the face of bitter resistance.
The Germans laShed out in
strong COunter-attacks east of Med
iez FL Bah. but they were thrown
back with heavy losses and all
newly-won Allied positions were
held securely
North of Sebket Ell Kour2la,
armored fighting took place. the
communique said. The enemy was
forced to withdraw and a number OF
his tanks were destroyed"
Some 45 miles south OF TuniS,
the British Eighth army sent
patrols out to test Axis defenSes IN
the next line of hills before the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25

Tunis coastal plain and beat off a
local enemy COuntCr-attaCk.
radio Algiers said the Eighth
army now had advanced II miles
along the east coast and was half
way between Enlidaville and Bou
FiCha)
In the air, medium and light
bombers and fighter bombcrs con-
tinued their nonstop attacks on
enemy ground positions and scored
hits on railway communications
and motor transport at Mateur 20
miles south of BiZerte.
Flying FortresseS attacked two
motor vessels off Sicily and left one
of them burning. on Thursday
night, light bOmbcrs raidcd enemy
communications, motor transport
and air fields in TuniSia.
Altogether eight enemy planes
were shot down yesterday and one
on Thursday night. Six Allied
planes were lost.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25

in Europe, it. was pointed out
United States and Britain cal
ford TO concentrate large ford
fOur-cngincd bombcrs in Chuld
should Russia finally be d
into the Pacific wars Siberia
full-scalc raids on Japan prof
SUPPLY FACTOR
The size of The forces prd
ably would be determined on
the supplies which could be d
ported to them, probably largd
air, at least in the initial stag
the offensive.
japan proper represents a
Siderably smaller target area
Europe and the concentrate
bombs consequently could be
greater Whereas there are s
of important industrial, mi
and naval target areas in the
eral million square miles con
ing Germany and occupied El
compact Japan offers only six
iOr target areas and all are v
500 square miles.
Most important in Osaka wi
iron and steel works, shipyard'
munitions works. Next in i'm
ancc come Tokyo itself, Ma
Nagasaki, YaWata and Nikko. ,
together produce most of ia
iron and steel, planes, arms. I
tionS, ships and electric poWe
WITHIN MESSAGE
Churchill'S pledge was dont
in a message of sympathy addl
to Gen. Henry II. Arnold, chi
the us. Army Air Corps, OF
execution by the japanese of
of the American airmen who
ed Japan last year.
II cannot resist sending yol
message to assure you that
Raj earnestly look forward {
day when they will he able
side by side with their Anne
comrades to attack Togo and
cr cities of Japan and strip
cruel and greedy nation of
power to molest the civilized W
Churchill said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25
US. Diplomats
Move From, E'inI al

WASHINGTON, April "a
An apparent turn for the
in FinniSh-American relation
day provoked speculation tina
Scandinavian peninsula may
an important part in Allied S
offensive plans.
The United States has move
most all of its legation staff
Helsinki to Stockholm. That
revealed to the world by the
lin radio, and confirmed late
the State Department only on
tioning.
Officials described the NOV
only IAN administrative meas
But Finnish circles were worri
The exact number of diplo
involved was not revealed, but
parently all military attaches.
prising the bulk of the leg;
staff, have moved. There were
military and naval attaches in
land.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25
WE
the Women
Ry RUTH MILLETT

Because the Navy wants to enlist
10000 women this yea. it has lifted
lis ban against WAVES, SPARS,
and Marine Reserves marrying in
their own branch of the service.
1t is ridiculous that such a rule
ever should have been laid down
Why should a woman who volun-
teerS to put on the uniform of her
country, so that she can relieve a
deSk-job service man for active
duty, he penalized for her patriot
ism by being told whom she may
or may not marry?
Well, the women have won again.
and the rule has been thrown
overheard. But the only reason
they won is because the Navy
needs them so badly it is afraid to
try to enforce such a ruling.
That is the only way women win
any of their fights for equality.
When their brains and their
ability are drug on the business
and industrial market, they get
paid less than men for doing the
same work.
When they are needed as deS-
pcratcly as they are today, they
arc paid for what they do, not for
what they are.
When girls who wanted to be
teachers were more numerous than
teaching Jobs, narrow minded
school boards over the country
fired them if they dared to exercise
citizens and human beings right
to marry.
GET THAT EQUALITY NOW
Not any more. Women teachers
are needed too badly today to be
treated in any such unjust, high
handed way as that.
And so it goes. Whenever women
win a fight, however small, for
equal rights with men, it is be-
cause men need their help too much
to risk opposing them. That is why,
in wartime. women should win all
the freedom and equality for them
selves that they can. For in war
time they are desperately needed.
And if you think there is any
thing wrong in that, remember that
we arc fighting this war for free
dom, justice and equality. Women
might as well see that they get
their proper share of it.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25
Federal, State
Mix on Schools

WASHINGTON. April "a UP,-
A Dill establishing a victory corps
In high schools-precedent- making
II passed-today raised the oues-
ton of whether and how far the
leceral government should extend
It's authority into state education
The bill would give the national
Office OF education supervisory pow
er over portions of the high school
currlcula which have tradtionaIlv
oeen the dominion of state gov
ernmentS.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25
Americans Join ir1
Tur1isia Offensive

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS North
Africa, April "a CUP) - American
troops, joining in the final all-out
drive to hurl the Axis out of Tuni-
sia, have surged many miles
across the hills west of Tunis while
the British First army blasted out
considerable advance" along a
20-mile front to the south. an Allied
communique announced today.
Can NBC correspondent broad
casting from Algiers said that the
2nd u. S. corps advanced four to
five miles in powerful attack
north and south of the road to
Mateur, 20 miles southwest of
Bizerte and 33 miles northwest of
Tunis. A German counter-attack
was repulsed A CHS broadcast said
several hills we're captured by the
Americans.
1ST ADVANCES
CThe British First army, NBC
said, advanced six to seven miles
below Medjez Ell Bah and destroyed
l6 more German tanks in an
armored clash)
The Americans captured more
than 100 prisoners in their sue
cessful attacks, which the conf
munique said occurred on the
northern sector" of the front.
1t was the first time that United
States forces have been reported
in action since they joined the
British Eighth army on the Gabes-
Gafsa road and again east of
MaknaSsy more than a fortnight
ago.
Violent fighting ranged all around
the Axis bridgehead in the coffin
corner of Tunisia and observers
said that, while the developments
of the next few hours may not
prove decisive, they at least will be
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

In the field of ideas as well as III the
war of physical disarmament the United
Nations must provide some temporary
supervision of education as assurance of
mental and moral disarmament, until
such time as the evil Nazi ideology of
force has been extirpated.-U. S. Educa-
ton Commissioner DR.. John w. Stude-
baker
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25
JAPAN'S SAFAGERY
REACHES A RECORD

Japan'S announcement that she had
murdered some of the American flyers
whose planes went down during the raid
of Gen. Doolittle, shocked this country's
public to the SoleS of its shoes.
1t was not that men were being killed
Soldiers and fliers have been killed since
the Pearl Harbor attack. That which
set us all aghast was the fact that Japan
would torture and murder ordinary pris-
onerS of war.
This is something unheard of in mod
ern civilization lnhuman as Hitler has
been, he never descended to such depths.
There is something civilized even In the
ruthless German heart.
What Japan did to our Americans was
as lowly as beasts of the forest. Prison
ers were prisoners, even thousands OF
years ago That Japan could fall so low,
revealed her to be utterly without shame.
All this anethema, however, cannot
correct nor change the situation.
We are face to face with madmen. Let
us not lower ourselves to fight them on
their own terms. Let us be warned that
now of all times every ounce of our high
civilization our perfected sciences and
our speeding production systems-yes,
our full 100 per cent Americanism spirit
of man and woman-all must be COM
bined to SO crush this dragon of the
East as to bury him once and for all
This is the effect of Japan's savagery
on the American spirit
Let us see that the fervent determina-
ton does not weaken with time.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25
England 70 Bomb
! eap CIV, with U.s..

LONDON, April "a - CUPl-
Prime Minister Winston Church
Ills promise that the Royal Air
Force will throw its full weight into
the eventual assault on Japan gave
promise today of one of the most
concentrated aerial offensives in
history.
Once the Axis mas been defeated
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25

mCnting on the occupation of tuna-
futi said, perhaps significantly
American forces working quietly
in the Pacific have accomplished
much during the past year. not all
Of which can publicl% be recorded
until it is definitely known that
the enemy is aware of it. However,
it can be said that some of these
developments may be real sur
Prise in the futurc.D
JAP THREAT
Experts pointed out today that
had the Japanese remained in con-
troll of the ElliCC group and devel-
opcd bases there. they could have
threatened the Samoan islands TO
tho southeast, the Fijis to the south
and the Phoenix islands to the
northeaSt-aIl Allied defense links.
Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox said that American forces
have been ON Funafuti for some
time. A navy spokesman said the
occupation was accomplished with
out opposition from the Japanese,
who had been reported in the Ellice
group during the early phases of
the Pacific war.
It was believed here that the is
lands we're occupied last fall after
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25
DESTROYS DIST PLANE

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North
Africa, April "a CUP) Squadron
Leader Lance Wade, of Tucson,
Ariz.. has destroyed a Messerschmitt
1G9 for his 21st confirmed victory,
it was announced today Wade
holds the Flying Cross with two
bars.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25
Editorials and Comment
A MONUMENT

In the minds of Americans today
there is a new. white, towering monument
upon which is inscribed these words
Some. or oil of these men endured
torture. snffering and crncuIrIon at
the hands of Japan, that America
nioM pm an end tc all SHch bdrbdr-
Hy.
End 1t. George Borr, Madison, Wis.
Ist It, William GiOUer Fdr7OW.
Washington, ID. c.
Ist 1t. Robert J. Hite, Earth, Tex.
Ist 1t. Robert J. Meder, LdkenOCod, o.
7sf 1t. Chase J. Nelson, HyIytni, u.
Tex.
Sat. Harold A. Spdtz. Lebo. Kan.
Corp Jacob ID. DeShdzer, Madras.
Sgt. William J. Dieter, Tute Lake,
Corp. Donald E. Fitsmaurice, Lin
coin, Neb.
These men, from the squadron of Cen
eral Doolittle, were known or presumed
to be prisoners of the JapS Some, uni
Identified by name, were tortured and
killed. contrary to the laws of civilized
man.
America must be warned by these
man. or such ones of them as the Japa-
nese have murdered, mutilated, or tor
tured, that those against whom we wage
war will stop at nothing, that they are
inhuman and unspeakably vile, and that
they and their philosophy must be COM
pletely eliminated from the face of this
earth.
Upon our minds their names and their
deeds must be permanently and deeply
engraved.
At the foot of the graves of those who
died must forever bloom the fervent
thanks of this great nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25
Base on EEEice
Protects Supple

WASHINGTON, April "a. UP)-T United ,
by establishing base Funafuh IN the FIllce Isl
has plugged thC biggest hole III It's chan 0i ocie"'e
tionS along the supnlv line to the South Pacific.
IA Innd PresS diSnaich from ICarl IIaInuI
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-25

| think that government should plan
to withdraw quickly after the war from
the operation Of all non-utility projects.
Sen. Harold Burton of Ohio.
Evening star., 1943-02-15
Two Safes Are Looted
Of S408 Over Week End

Safes in two business establish
ments were looted during the week
end, continuing two-month-o -old
wave Of safe robberies in which
similar technique has been used
The safe-crackers took s400 from
bookbinding company at 1850 Tay-
lor street NV. operated by George
A. Simonds. They entered the
building by forcing open a rear door,
Mr.. Simonds told the police
At the Television Engineering
Co., 1916 Sixth street NV, thieves
entered by prying iron bars from
window and removed SO from the
safe, according to Frank T. Francis,
manager
In both cases the thieves were
reported to have used an iron bar
to rip of the front of the safe.
In another week end robbery s28
was stolen from the cash register
of a filling station in the 1900 block
OF Wisconsin avenue NV, it was
reported to police.
Evening star., 1943-02-15
Posthumous Navy Cross
Awarded 10 D. T.. Ensiqn

Ensign Bunyan r, Cooner, %
U. S. N. R., son of Mrs. Inez I
Cooner, who formerly lived at 17Ol
Sixteenth street NV, has been
awarded the Navy Cross in a postum
nous ceremony the Navy an
nounced yesterday.
The action for which the cross
was awarded occurred during the
battle of Midway. Ten days later
the young officer was killed at Pearl
Harbor when his plane struck a
derrick in a take-off
In Ensign Cooner's first attack at
Midway he damaged a Jap cruiser
and later in the same day he scored
direct hit on carrier. Two days
later he again was given credit for
another hit on a carrier.
In addition to the extraordinary
heroism" mentioned in the citation,
Ensign Cooner also was lauded for
his gallant intrepidity and loyal
devotion to the accomplishment Of
vastly important objective"
Ensign Cooner, a graduate of the
University Of North Carolina. pre-
yiously had been injured In the Jap
anese attack on Pearl Harbor. He
entered the. Navy in 1910.
Evening star., 1943-02-15
Jewish Groups Urge
End Of Nazi-|nspired
Rule in North Africa
Anti-Semitic Laws
Still in Effect, Two
Congresses Hold
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Feb. 15.-The Amer
ican Jewish Congress and the Worlc
Jewish Congress charged in a state
ment yesterday that "the anti
Jewish legacy of the Nazis remain,
intact in North Africa" and that
$4,000 Jews there still are victims
of Nazi INSPIRED laws and DEGREES
Recalling that three months hac
elapsed since the military occupa,
ton OF North Africa by United Ma.
tions troops under American com
mand, the organizations stated thai
while "grudging concessions have
been made" no changes "of an i'm.
portant character have been made
in the political and economic stu
alton
Ask Immediate Action.
The organizations said they were
asking for immediate action to i'm.
plement the declaration of Presi.
dent Roosevelt calling for abro-
CATION of all laws and DEGREES in
spired by Nazi governments or Naz
ideologists.
The statement said the organi.
cations interpreted the implementa
ton of the Presidents declaration
as meaning action to insure tha
the four freedoms shall, withou
further delay, be declared as valie
for all the peoples in North Africa
which means the total abrogation oi
all anti-Semitic laws and DEGREES
and the release of those o1
whatever race or nationality who
are being detained because of THEN
support Of democracy and opposi-
ton to Nazi ideology."
In a memorandum accompanying
the statement, the groups said that
over two-year period the Vichy ad.
miinstration had withdrawn citizen
ship from Jews, ousted them from
economic positions, introduced forced
labor and established ghettos and
concentration camps.
They said they had remained silent
during the past months because they
understood the difficulties, military
and otherwise" OF the situation, and
wished to avoid saying anything