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Evening star., 1943-06-06

and we noticed that the nearer we
got to Lingayen, the slower it was
moving. Travelling fast, we over
took few jeeps and army trucks
and motorcycle riders. Some Of the
occupants were Americans.
Approaching the gulf at about five
in the afternoon We reached fork
in the road The left-hand road led
out of Da Mortis, four miles away
on Lingayen Gulf. The right-hand
one went to Baguio We could see
the waters of the gulf, but no ships.
The Japs were further over to the
west. An American soldier rode up
and stopped his motorcycle.
Those Japs are pretty smart" he
said. They made feint at landing
on the south shore of Lingayen,
where we have strong defenses. Then
they sent their main forces along the
eastern beach from De Mortis, over
here to Bauang. which is about 20
miles north. The 26th Cavalry is
fighting them couple of miles up
ClllS lClp-lldlld lpdd 11C dNloCu 10
to turn back and then rode on, slow
ly, toward the fighting. We had
about two hours of daylight left and
had to decide fast.
Juan wanted to take the soldiers
advice. Carlos was neutral. Lets
go on up to Baguio. where head
quarters for this area are located"
I said. "and find out what the score
is. I wanted to see Baguio, and this
might be my last chance. Well
have good sleep in the cool air and
get going in the morning"
Juan objected. But the Japs may
cut this road in the night"
said, Hell. amigo, they are fight
ing the American Army now and the
American Army will hold them on
the beach forever Hirohito's boys
will die right where they land"
(Copyrsht, 1913, by Clark Lee; the Vik-
ing Press.)
Continued tomorrow
Evening star., 1943-06-06
They Call 1t Pacific
by CLARK LEE:

and we have no news here up to
now"
We drove on, expecting momen-
tarily to come to our third lines. I
expected to see trenches like those
in France in World War I. But
there were no lines and only few
sentries. One of them stopped us
few miles north of Tarlac, and we
showed him our press cards and
went on, wondering now when We
would come to our second line
Cars from the north were speed
ing down the road. We saw one
that had stopped to repair a fiat
tire and went over to talk An
American woman, with baby in
her arms, was weeping. 1--WE went
up to Baguio when the war started"
she said, thinking we would be safe
But they have been bombing all
around us. Last night we heard the
noise of big guns over at Lingayen
Gulf. all night long. This morning
the Japs bombed Camp John Hay
at Baguio again. We seem to be
surrounded. What shall we do?" I
advised her husband to keep going
until he got to Manila.
Trucks were loaded with beds and
chairs and all the people who could
crowd aboard Filipino families told
us they had seen the Jap ships in
Lingayen Gulf that morning and the
planes had come over, and many
people had been killed in Lingayen
City and the other towns along the
south shore. We reassured them
Our Army is fighting them now.
Within short time you will be back
in your homes
Traffic to the north was sparse
Evening star., 1943-06-06

what cheaper than last week, excel
lent quality.
Plums green and red from
California, quality excellent and
price high.
Pineapples-Few Cubans on mar
ket, good quality, price high.
Oranges, grapefruit, lines and
lemons, all controlled by ceiling
prices, good quality-limes a little
cheaper.
Avocados-Good supply from Cali
fornia, excellent quality and high
price.
Don't lose hope It'll you've tried a
Star want Ad." MA. 5000.
Evening star., 1943-06-06

$3.50 pm: dance, 9 pm: YMCA
Sunday school hour on WINK, 1905
pm; the Rev. j. Lloyd Black,
speaker.
Boys Department.
MISUNDERSTANDING Club. 4 pm:
Gray, 4:30 pm; Leaders Club,
$50 pm.
Tuesday-Fencing Club, pm;
Girls Auxiliary, GAS pm.
Wednesday-Washington-I.ee Hi
Y, 8 am; Fencing Club, pm;
boys cabinet, pm; George Will
liams Hi-Y, $3.50 pm.
Friday-Movies, $50 pm: town
meeting, Central, Eastern, Western.
Evening star., 1943-06-06
F. O. Eagles

Aerie No. 125 on June IA will in.
stall the following officers: PreA.
dent, H. G. Brock; vice president,
John M. Regeon; chaplain. o. F.
Rehbein; secretary, r. w. Hanne-
mann; treasurer, G. A. Duphily:
conductor, Gray: inside guard, E. G.
Schaffer; outside guard, c. E. Lip
pold; trustee, s. c. Scheible and
E. H. Hart, and physician, DR.. Craw-
ford. There will be entertainment
and refreshments.
Evening star., 1943-06-06
YMCA News

Today-Java Club with servicemen
as guests at breakfast. 9:15 am;
baccalaureate service, Northminister
Presbyterian Church. Southeastern
University, II am; "at home" for
servicemen, pm.
Tomorrow-Oldtim dinner and
presentation new building, $50 pm.
Tuesday-Toastmasters' Club, 8
pm.
Wednesday-"Boy and Gal" sing,
8 pm; Checker Club; commence
ment, Southeastern University, Stat
Ter Hotel, pm.
Saturday-Games for servicemen,
Evening star., 1943-06-06

Wilson. Tech Hi-Y clubs, 7:30 pm:
Raggers Society, 8 pm.
Saturday - Movies, $50 am;
Junior Club, $3.50 am: intermediate
Club, woodshop, 1890 am: Stamp
Club, Prep Club. IL am; music hour
HIS am; movies, 1890 pm: cork
craft, art class, Future Business
mems Club, 1:30 pm: fun hour,
pm; Announcers' Club, 2::3O pm.:
movies. $3.50 pm; all members
swim, 4:30 pm.
Evening star., 1943-06-06

There are more than 70 conven-
lent branch offices for Star want
Ads located throughout the CITY,
Evening star., 1943-06-06

DISCARDED SILK AND NYLON
STOCKINGS are still needed BY
Uncle Sam! Deposit your washed,
worn-out stockings in our Patrt-
otto Barrel. Hosiery Dept, Street
Floor!
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28

observers predicted that prOduc-
ton would return to near-normal
before nightfall.
Full morning shifts were expected
to resume work in most of the big
plants, although in some cases it
may take two days before blast
furnaces, banked during the strike
of the United Steel Workers of
America CCIOo, are ready for nor
NAL production.
BRINGS RESPONSE
Murray's order brought prompt
response from union leaders. Re-
gional directors in Cleveland,
Youngstown and Canton, O., said
workers would obey the command,
and in Pittsburgh and other areas
workers announced they were pre-
pared to resume production. Small
crews reported at some plants at
midnight to prepare for full work
in the morning.
Murray, in a telegram to locals,
district directors, and staff repre-
sentatives, called off the strike
last night and ordered workers to
comply with war labor board dir
ective from Washington.
The board, reversing ruling
WHICH led to the walkout paralyz-
ing part of the nations steel indus
try, directed that the unionists stay
on the job with the understanding
that any wage adjustments in a
new contract would be retroactive
to the expiration of their old con-
tract Christmas eve.
Previously the WLB had refused
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
4.H Clubs Map
Winter Meet

Eucalyptus school will be the
scene of the annual winter get
together of senior All club men,
bers of Imperial county at 8 pm.
Thursday.
All present and former senior
members, former All Stars, parents
and leaders, and any of their
friends home for the holidays were
invited to attend, it was announc-
ed Tuesday by Colleen Shepard
president of the senior All club,
and Assistant Farm Advisor Lee
Landerman, in charge of the clubs
in Imperial county.
The party will be sports affair
with folk dancing, ballroom dane
ing, games, singing, and refresh.
ments planned for the evening.
Eucalyptus school is situated on
highway 30 three miles west of Ell
Centro, Landerman said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
Germany Bombed
From Altitude
Above the Clouds

LONDON, Dec. %. (UP)-United
States army headquarters an
nounced today that the eighth air
force had developed new day
bombing technique employing the
latest scientific devices and making
possible bombardment through a
solid cloud cover.
The new methods have been used
in bombing missions involving a
total of more than 5000 bombers
and fighters, the headquarters an
noUncement revealed.
The missions included attacks on
U-boat and shipping yards at Will
helmshaven and Kiel, as we'll as
targets at Bremen and Emden.
Accuracy is regarded as satisfac-
tory and gives promise of improve
ment," the announcement said,
adding that it was not yet equal
to that of attacking visible targets.
It was based on three months
tryout of the new technique. The
system was said to involve no basic
changes in the American concep-
>tion OF aerial bombardment but on
the contrary was described as a
logical outgrowth' Of 1t.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
MacArthur's S Men
Close in on
Jungle AirfieId
Expand Beachheads in
New Britain Areas;
Outmaneuver Defense

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Dec. %.
UP)-Jungle-wise U. S. marines,
expanding their main invasion
beachhead to a width of at least
two miles, were reported closing in
rapidly from two sides today on
twin Japanese airfields behind
Cape Gloucester at the northwest
ern tip of New Britain.
There was a possibility that the
Americans already had captured
the airfields, since late reports told
only of scattered opposition and
dispatches were trailing "a to 36
hours behind the action.
FOOL JAPS
Absence of strong opposition, it
may now be revealed, was due to
the perfectly timed diversionary in
vasion of the Arawe peninsula
nearly two weeks earlier. The feint
at Arawe drew Japanese attention
from the Cape Gloucester area, and
the enemy was believed rushing
reinforcements south to AraWe at
the exact moment the marines hit
Cape Gloucester.
Throwing tanks and artillery
into action, the marines captured
Target Hill, dominating the east
coast beaches on Cape Gloucester,
and began shelling the airfields
only few hours after they swarm
ed ashore from a vast invasion ar
mada early Sunday.
CA Japanese communique re-
ported fierce" fighting on Cape
Gloucester and claimed that Jap
anese planes had sunk two large
cruisers and two and probably five
large transports. Twenty to rs AL
lied planes were shot down, the
communique said, while Japanese
losses totaled II planes. Allied
authorities have disclosed that
American losses actually were one
ship sunk and three slightly DAM
aged, while 81 Japanese planes were
shot down against a loss of seven
Allied aircraft.)
PATROLS COVER GROUND
Patrols, schooled at Guadalcanal
Continued on page 6, col, g.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
Yankees
Moveup
In Italy
Consolidate Areas
Commanding Road
Leading to Goals
n IN mn HEADOIIAR "a R

ALLIE D HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Algiers, Dec. % (UP)
American troops have
completed the consolidation
of their positions on the a.
000-fOot SamucrO mountain
range commanding the ap-
proaches to the Rome plain,
it was announced today, and
on the Adriatic, the Canad-
ians scored new gains in the
bitter battle of Ortona.
(The Berlin radio reported that
German troops evacuated Ortona,
coastal anchor of their line across
Italy, last night after "a skillful
defense by a small unit, which has
gone over to a prepared position
Just northwest of the town.
Canadian units of the British
Eighth army were reported slug
ging their way house-by-house
through the last German toehold
in Ortona. The Germans waging
the little Stalingrad" stand in
defense of their Adriatic keystone
brought out flame throwers in the
town and to the west. They were
in the hands of small infantry
units, rather than operated from
tanks.
Entrenching themselves firmly
on the Sammucro range by the
seizure of two more strategic
heights, the Americans of the
Fifth army front won the last of
the dominating heights overlook
ing San Vittore, key to the vital
Casino junction six miles to the
northwest.
The United States vanguard push
ed down the Sammucro slopes and
sent patrols stabbing al the immed-
late defenses of San Vittore, where
the next big battle for another
section of the Rome road was shap-
ing UP.
Farther north, other American
units were battling for the lower
slopes of the towering 6,800-foot
Mainarde range. They captured Mt.
Marrone, two miles southwest of
Castel San Vincenzo, and bitter
fighting still was goinS on in that
sector.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28

caravan at Indio and trailed it to
Holtville. He telephoned Ell Centro
for help from the California High
way patrol and with the patrolmen
stopped the caravan three miles
cast of Holtville, Evans said Tues
day.
PROCEEDS TO TEXAS
The caravan was not detained at
Holtville because the sailors had
to report back for duty in the Fort
Worth area Tuesday night. Evans
telephoned the OPA office in Fort
Worth to meet the caravan there
and take over the case.
A. C. Juanquenot of 1922 Hous-
ton avenue, Fort Worth, was in
charge of three 1912 Buick sedans,
Evans said Two of them were
operated and driven by sailors, pre-
slmably to lessen the cost of their
transportation. Evans said Juan
quenot had an Office of Defense
Transportation permit which he
claimed was for the purpose of get
ting gasoline for the trips. Evans
said the ODT permit had not been
issued for any car operating in the
caravan. One of Juanquenot' S
cars had 1912 Texas license plate
No. 174896 and he claimed the per-
NIT was for that car. The permit
was issued on car with the num-
ber 55436, Evans said Tuesday.
HOW CARS OPERATE
In tie caravan was M. E. HaSha
of 1901 Main street, Brownwood,
Texas, owner and operator of used
car lot there. Evans said that
Hasha told him he used cars off
his lot for the trips and tires from
other cars there for the purpose of
the journeys with sailors. Evans
said Hasha had in his charge a
1912 Chevrolet sedan, a 1912 Ply
mouth sedan, and 1912 Plymouth
two-door sedan.
Also in the caravan was one 1912
Ford with a Texas license K80041
owned by L. o. Ripy, Evans said.
Continued on Page 6, Col. D
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
Officers Seek
AssaiIant of
Braw|ey Child

A nine-year-old Mexican girl
was in a critical condition Tues
day as result of an attack by an
unidentified Mexican man who in
vaded her home in Brawley Satur-
day night, investigating officers
said.
Home alone between $3.50 and 8
o'clock Saturday night, the child
was frightened when the lights in
her home went out and she heard
someone on the screen porch. She
ran outside but was caught in the
front yard and carried between her
home and neighbor's house where
she was viciously attacked, choked,
and beaten, the officers said, car
ried her back to the house and
viciously abused her second time.
When the child's brother came
home the attacker ran away. Her
mother came home a short time
after the brother arrived and the
little girl was taken to physician.
The girl is suffering from pos
sible skull fracture; blood was run
ming from one of her ears; her
eyes are so badly bruised and swol-
len that she can scarcely see; and
she is in critical condition be-
cause of terror and shock. Her
physician told officers that she had
been treated with viciousness. Her
condition is so critical that it is
impossible for officers to question
her
Investigation revealed that the
man had pulled the switch to ex-
tinguish the lights and entered the
house through a rear screen door.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
10000 Railmen
In Southwest
Hit by Seizure
Pacific Electric Lines
Included in Order;
Unions Reserve Comment

LOS ANGELES, Dec. %. (UP) -
Government seizure of the nation S
railroads affects nearly 10000 en-
ployes in the southern California
southern Nevada area, officials said
today.
President o. A. Smith of Pacific
Electric Railway said he had been
informed from Washington that his
company was included in the gov
ernment control order but had not
received details as to whether the
seizure affected only the PES large
freight operations or it's local and
interurban passenger traffic as
well.
The P. E. employs about 5000
persons, the Southern Pacific TO-
0O0, Santa F'e 5000 and Union Pa
cific 5000. Local officials referred
requests for comment to headquar-
terS offices. Union brotherhood
spokesmen declined to make state
mentS.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28

prior to the invasion of Russia.
His plans the captured officer,
Maj. Bernhard Bechler. was quoted
as saying. included a demand to
wipe out the whole Russian intelli-
gentsia. mayors, economic leaders,
engineers, officers and so forth by
the fighting troops themselves.
For this purpose, military courts
were to be abolished. He described
this permanent mass murder as
necessary for the destruction of
Bolshevism and for the Germaniza-
tion of the Sast."
Bechler said responsible generals
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
Cuts Loose
More Food

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. CUP)-
The War Food Administration ar
ranged today to provide more can
ned peaches, dry beans, and dry
peas for civilians next year.
The VIA directed Gamers to re-
lease 100000 cases of canned peach
es previously set aside from the
1943 pack for government pur-
chases. The peaches are expected
to reach retail stores within a few
weeks. Last month the VIA re-
leased 100000 cases of canned
peaches for civilian consumption.
The civilian ALLEGATION of dry
beans in 1914 was announced at
l,l5O,O00,0O0 pounds, so per cent of
the l943 crop. The VIA said that
would permit per capita consump-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28

declared today.
These statements were made at
news conference while three rail
unions still were standing, techni-
cally at least, on a strike call for
December 30.
1t was generally believed, how
ever, that the three holdout unions
ultimately will rescind the strike
call as II other rail unions already
have done.
Stimson and Somervell said their
sole objective was to keep the rail-
roads running so that the war would
not be interrupted. Somervell, COM
mander of the army service forces.
was placed in charge of the rail-
roads when the government took
them over last night
Wages and working conditions
that existed as of pm. last night
will be frozen for the duration of
the army's control, they said These
included awards of wages to the
Brotherhoods of Railway Train
men and Locomotive Engineers un-
der the presidents arbitration.
Stimson quoted from a letter
written by Gen. Henry H. Arnold,
commander of the army air forces,
which stated that the railroad strike
would have the effect of virtually
paralyzing the war effort of the
army air forces" He said the serl.
BUSINESS could not be exaggerated.
The strike would Immediately
stop the flow of army air force
technical supplies, the export
of drum gasoline, and exhaust
the supply of aviation fuel in the
United States in five days.
Each days interruption of rail-
road traffic from strikes, Arnold
said, would represent the equival-
ent of the loss of days produce
ton of about 300 airplanes which
could never be made up.
Somervell said Arnolds appraisal
of the effect on the air force would
apply equally to the ground and
Continued on Page 6, Col. %
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28

lTOIlUS.
A 50-mile break-t through by Gen.
Nikolai F. Vatutin's army of the
Ukraine had thrown the Germans
completely off balance, and in the
Zhitomir sector they were struggling
to disengage and reform their main
forces behind rear guard action
of feeble counterthruSts.
The onrushing vanguard of Vatu-
tins army was less than IL miles
from Zhitomir, most vital German
base between the Russians and the
pre-war Polish border. All signs
pointed to an early reconquest of
the strategic rail junction which
the Russians captured on Nov. II
and lost a. week later.
To the north 400-odd miles, Gen.
Ivan c. Bagramian's Siberian vet
erans were closing in on Vitebsk
from three sides and driving against
the railroad to Orsha, the last Ger
Continued on page 6, col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
Hot Machinequn
Kills Soldier

KINGMAN ARMY AIR FIELD,
Ariz., Dec. 28. (UP)-An overheat-
ed 80 caliber machinegun which
exploded when a bullet stuck in
the barrel yesterday killed Pfc.
Maurice E. Stephens, 20, gunnery
instructor, field officials announc-
ed today.
Stephens was instructing students
in Bit training plane over the
Yucca sub-base firing range, 30
miles south of Kingman, when the
accident occurred.
A board of officers has been ap-
pointed to investigate the accident,
officials said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28

ton of 89 pounds which is slightly
larger than this year and about
the same as the 1858 average.
The 200,OO0,0OO pounds of dried
peas allocated for civilians would
allow the largest per capita con-
sumption on record-16 pounds
VIA said The civilian share will
be % per cent of the l943 crop of
680,000,000 pounds.
Allies liberated areas and U. S.
territories were allocated 708,500,000
pounds of beans and 351 100000
pounds of peas for next year. Gov
ernment contingency reserves will
receive 8O,0O0,000 pounds of beans
and 78,800.0O0 pounds of peas The
armed services will receive 344, 100,-
900 pounds of beans and 30,O00,000
pounds of peas.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28

to promise the 100000 workers COW
cred by the old contracts, that wage
adjustments reached in negotia-
tions for the 17-cents-an-hour in
crease sought by the USWA would
be retroactive. AS a result, nearly
half of the workers refused to con-
tinue work.
Murray, also president of the
USWA, stressed the need for "un-
interrupted production of steel and
products essential to the war needs
of our nation" and told union men
that the WIB order came at the
direction of President Roosevelt
The president had urged contin-
ued production and promised thai
pay adjustments would be made re-
troactive.
IGNORED APPEAL
'~-Mr. Roosevelt'5 Sunday appeal,
however, appeared to have had lit
tie affect on the workers as more
and more locals went on strike
yesterday, cutting production of
the steel needed for warships tanks,
guns, and other war equipment, to
point where it was estimated op-
erations for the week would be only
81.3 per cent of capacity.
Last week, because of the Christ
mas holiday, production was SO per
cent of capacity. the American iron
and steel institute said. but the
week before it was 1913 per cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28

DR.. Miriam Hubbell, Imperial
county health officer, Tuesday
scheduled the next diagnostic clinic
for crippled children of Imperial
county at the court house in Ell
Centre from $3.50 a. m. to $3.50 p. m.
January II.
The orthopaedic surgeon will be
DR.. Samuel S. Mathews of Los
Angeles.
Children in the county who are
suffering from crippling defects,
conditions requiring plastic recon-
struction, or severe eye defects re-
quiring surgery for correction will
be examined at the clinic if their
parents are wholly or partly unable
to provide the necessary care
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. %. (UP)
More than 5000 cases of influen-
"a we're reported to the state de-
partment of public health by Phys
icians and clinics in California dur
ing the week ending Dec. 25, it was
announced today.
The total of 1919 represented an
increase of nearly 200 per cent over
1349 cases reported the previous
week
Reports from Monterey, Marin,
Orange and Santa Barbara counties
have not been received, the depart
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
Mass SIoyinss Ordered
BY Hitler. Says Nozi

at first opposed the program on
grounds 1t might impair the dis
cipline of German troops, but late'
the supreme command issued the
murder orders"
The broadcast said Bechler later
was witness when gestapo chief
Heinrich Himmler shouted at the
SIS leader of Bechler's army group
because he had not killed "suf-
ficient number Of Jews
Look at your colleague from the
army group north Bechlcr said
Himmler shouted. "He shoots five
times your numbers"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
wreckage Yields
BODY Of Filler

YUMA, Ariz., Dec. %. (UP)--Thc
body of Capt. Clarence Terry, who
has been missing since Dec. 18 when
he left Yuma Army air field flying
a light army bomber en- route to
San Diego, Cal, has been found in
the wreckage of the plane 35 miles
northwest of here, officials at the
Yuma field announced today.
Capt. Terry was chief Of the mod
ification division of the western
district, Los Angeles, and before
his enlistment in the air corps was
a municipal court judge in San
Diego. His widow and young daugh-
ter reside in the coast city.