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Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21

LA PAz, Bolivia, Dec. 81. CUP)-
The new revolutionary government
of Bolivia was pledged to full ad-
herence to the United Nations cause
Tuesday under a manifesto that
charged the deposed regime with
Fascist tendencies.
The manifesto, issued by the rev.
olutionary junta following it's ous-
ter of President Enrique Penaranda
and his government in swift mill
tary coup Monday, apparently was
calculated to allay Allied suspicious
that the revolution was pro-Axis
in nature.
1t proclaimed the governments in
tention of maintaining "constitu-
tional normalcy" and asserted that
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
WPB EASES MATERIALS
FOR DESERT COOLERS

Under new War Production
Board ruling that desert coolers
may be repaired, Imperial Valley
summer heat sufferers will get some
relief next year.
According to Charles Small, local
war board secretary, the provisions
of WPB-CMP Regulation ga, which
regulates the amount of materials
repairmen may obtain for use in
making essential repairs, will make
possible the repairing of the desert
coolers. The repair of coolers was
not specifically authorized last
summer under a restrictive order.
The order also permits repair
shops cf all kinds including farm
machinery, electrical, refrigeration
and radio, to obtain, under regula-
ton, certain amounts of carbon
and alloys and brass and foundry
products for repair uses.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
LEADERS SLATE RAIL STRIKE ORDERS
Americans Score
Gains Along
Route for Rome
Capture Main Peak in
Steady Advance;
Looks Down on Roads

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AL
giers, Dec 81. (UP) American
troops edging forward as much as
a mile and a half in the snow cap
ped mountains of Italy have cap
tured Mount Spinoccio, 2600-foot
peak looking down on the inland
road to Rome, it was announced
Tuesday.
Lieutenant General Mark w.
Clark swung the right wing of his
Fifth army slowly northwestward,
bringing it in line with the positions
on the coast and in the center
where the capture of San Pietro had
cracked the core of German resist
ance.
Across the peninsula the British
Eighth army tightened its hold on
the vital road between Ortona and
Orsonga, twin anchors of the Ger
man line which were under direct
threat
(The Cairo radio reported street
fighting in Orsonga, IL miles inland
from Ortona. AlgierS advices Satur-
day said the British had driven into
the outskirts of Orsonga)
Fifth army troops continued to
advance in some portions of the
mountainous country on the right
of the army 'front.'" General Dwight
D. EisenhoWer's communique said
AT one point we advanced a mile
and half, while elsewhere an i'm
portant hill was occupied. Patrols
were active in the coastal sector
The important hill was Mount
Spinuccio, four miles west of Filig-
nano and some eight miles north of
the San Pietro sector where the
Americans had won one of the Bit
te-est battles of the Italian cam
paign.
A spokesman said the advance
west of Filignano, near the previous
l. captured village of Lagone, was
"appreciable. Reports were lacking
on developments in the San Pietro-
San Vittore section.
The Germans stepped up theil
air activity somewhat. Twenty -one
fighter bombers attacked San Pie.
tro twice Monday. Antiaircraft gun
nerS shot down three and damaged
two more.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21

In another sector, the Soviets
wedged the German defenses and
seized several heavily fortified
strong points, killing 300 Germans
in the fighting for only one of
them. Twelve guns, 80 machine
guns and large supply column, in
addition to number of prisoners,
were captured.
The aim of the Soviet drive, first
of the promised winter offensives,
appeared to be to cut the Vitebsk-
Polotsk railroad and capture Wit
ebsk, perhaps in conjunction with
renewed assault from the east, for
an all-out drive toward the Baltic.
The Germans were counterattack-
ing heavily in the KoroSten area
west of Kiev and near Kirovograd
in the northern Dnieper bend in
desperate attempts to throw back
Soviet spearheads, poised for
thruSts toward Poland and Ruma-
mia.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
Yankees Shoot
Down u Jap
Planes in China
Toll Includes Six Big
BOmbers Making
Attack in Yunan Area

HEADQUARTERS, 14th U. S. Air
Force, China, Dec. 81. (UP)-Amer-
ican P-4O fighter pilots shot down
or damaged % enemy planes Sun
day when a flight of fighter-escort-
ed Japanese bombers attacked a
western Yunnan air base, COM
munique said Tuesday.
The preliminary total showed that
six bombers and three Zero fighters
were destroyed, two bombers and
five Zeros probably were downed
and five bombers and one Zero were
damaged when the Americans of the
Assam Dragon squadron defended
their base from direct attack fol-
the first time since arriving in
China.
Fighter escorted Mitchell bombers
retaliated with a raid on japanese
installations at Nanhsien and An
slang, in the Tunting Lake area
scoring hits in the target erea. AL
planes returned safely
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21

reached maturity and consistency
"and we feel that 1t does not need
against anyone, nor for it's defense,
a militia exclusively for its own"
1.-The unity of Spaniards is and
will be com plete," Franco said, in
announcing the party notifications
and declaring the need to impart
clarity, firmness and serenity" to
Spains policy.
Among the developments to be
carried out by the government,
Franco said, must be sanitation
and farming projects, increased
subsidies, home construction and
encouragement of credits.
THE longer the war;" Franco
said, "the less will be the will of
man to plan the future in those
countries which, like Spain, have
made social problems their prin-
cipal doctrine"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
Five Brotherhoods
Poise for WaIkout
faction Of Union Heads Follows
Failure Of Wage Hike Farley;
100000 Would Be Made Idle

WASHINGTON. Dec 2I-lUPEFor the third successive day
the White House announced that President Roosevelt and rep
esenafves OF 35o000 operating railway employees had been
unable to formula tuesday for averne strike sched
u|ed for December 30
Failure Of the third White House conference between Mr.
Roosevelt and the operating broheoods after
learned that representatives Of
employees also considering strike call for December 30
Mr. Roosevelt conferred with 81 representatives Of The opeat-
ing unions for 80 minutes Afteward White House Secretary
Stephen Early said The group probably would again
with the chief executive.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21

LONDON, Dec. 81. (UP)-Cairo
reports disclosed the formation of
a supreme Jugoslav government
by Partisan Marshal Josip (Tito)
BroZovich Tuesday as Jugoslav mon
archist circles here predicted that
King Peters provisional government
would be forced to resign shortly
because of internal dissension.
Unofficial Jugoslav quarters did
not comment on the Cairo reports
but admitted that the Bozhidar
Puritsch regime, set up by King
Peter last August, had reached "an
unsolvable crisis"
They said the situation had been
prccipitated by reports that GER
tain members of the provisional
government were plotting to replace
Puritsch with either Gen. Peter
zivkovic, assistant commander-in-
chief of the official Jugoslav army
or Bagoljub Jeftic, Jugoslav London
ambassador.
The Cairo reports said Brozovich
had announced the establishment
of Jugoslav committee of nation
al liberation "at the insistence OF
the Jugoslav peoples"
Thus Brozovich, in Egypt for
military discussions with Allied ar
my officers, confronted them with
"fait accompli," the reports said.
His announcement will force the
allies to make a definitive political
decision, London circles believed,
bringing to a showdown the parti-
sans rivalry with the Chetnik lead
er, Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch. Hith-
erto, the allies had been giving aid
to all groups fighting the Nazis,
regardless of their political affilia-
tions.
Political circles noted that Brozo-
vich, in bitter condemnation of
the "reactionary" provisional gov
ernment, did not repudiate King
Peter personally. 1t was believed
Brozovich did this in order to leave
the way open for the king to desert
Mikhailovitch and announce his
support of the partisan cause. This,
observers believed, would influence
the 100000 Serbs, now monarchist
sympathizers, to join forces with
Brozovich.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
WCTU SAYS DISTILLERS
WANT BLACK MART"

EVANSTON, ILL.,, Dec. 81 UP)-
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union charged Tuesday that whis-
key distillers themselves inspired =
a congressional investigation of the
liquor industry in vase plot" to
obtain government permission for
renewed production of liquor.
The temperance organization
charged that the distillers are with
holding stocks deliberately to make
black markets and high prices in
eyitable.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21

were moving northward. He told
his news conference that since the
enemy's forces are scattered it was
obvious that they would attempt
to concentrate to meet the expand
ing American threat in the Empress
Augusta bay area.
The area from which Knox said
the japanese appeared to be moving
Is around Buin-Faisi, where the
japanese have maintained elaborate
air establishments. However, Knox
said, American air forces have rem
dered unserviceable every enemy
flying field on Bougainville.
MOVE BY LAND
Knox said most of the evacua- :
ton apparently was taking place
by way of land but naval aide at
the conference said that some of
the Japanese appeared to be quit
ting by sea, using lots of barges."
Knox, emphasizing American aer-
ial supe ~iority in the Pacific, said
that during the week of Dec. 13-
20, army, navy and marine corps
planes in the Pacific carried out
II missions involving more than
1,500 light and heavy bombers with
fighter escort.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21

CHUNGxING, Dec. u. UP)-
Chinese troops have recaptured four
more towns along the northwest
shore of Tungting Lake and arc
continuing their pursuit of a Japa-
nese column fleeing northward to-
ward the Yangtze river, a COM
munique said Tuesday.
The communique said Chinese
units which drove the japanese
from Changteh more than a week
ago have advanced almost 40 miles
northeast of that town and had
retaken Lihsien, Tsingshih, Anhsi-
ang, and Nanhsien.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
oGueriIlos
Press Attacks

; LONDON, Dec. 81. tUP)-The
German DNB news agency report
ed Tuesday that guerilla units from
the Adriatic island of Brac at
tempted landing on the Dalmatian
coast near the town of Omis, south
east of Split, but were repulsed.
The London Evening Standard
described the incident as an Allied
landing attempt" but the broadcas.
DNB account made it clear that
it was a local operation by Jugo-
slav guerillaS.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
GROCERY BURGLARIZED

The Cavanah grocery in Calexico
was burglarized of $40 and the Of
flee of Judge w. H. Lorenz of q
camera, Sheriff Robert w. Ware
was informed by Calexico police
Entrance to the grocery store was
made through a skylight, the Of
ficerS said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
You Can't Keep
A Jeep Down

AN ADVANCE SOUTH PACIFIC
BASE, Dec. 81 tUP)-A freighter
here discharged its cargo and was
preparing to head for home. The
anchor came up with slime
covered jeep hooked to it. The
jeep was lost overheard several
months earlier.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
NOTED SCIENTIST DIES

NEW YORK, Dec. 81. (UP)-Dr.
James H. Kimball SO, famous me-
teorologist who prepared weather
maps for the pioneering trans-At-
lantic flights of Charles A. Lind
bergh and Admiral Richard Byrd,
died Tuesday at his home.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21

MOSCOW, Dec. 81. (UP)-The
Germans were reported officially
Tuesday to be abandoning large
quantities of arms and ammunition
in a precipitate retreat toward Wit
ebsk and Polotsk, KEY strongholds
on the MoscoW-Riga railway guard
ing the approaches to Latvia and
Lithuania.
The pursuing 1st Baltic army
plunged through a 50-mile gap in
the German defenses below Nevel
in an advance that already has
outflanked VitebSk and carried to
within 20 miles north of the city.
(The London News Chronicle said
the Russians had driven Is to 20
miles west of the Vitebsk- -Nevel
railroad, which if true would place
the Soviets only 40 miles northeast
of the old Polish borderD
Seventy more towns and villages
were swept up in the latest ad-
vance, boosting to $40 the number
liberated in the past six days. 1,500
Germans were killed when the rem
nants of several shattered enemy
units attempted stand before
the Soviet steamroller.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
Germans Retreat
7 Toward Lotviu

LONDON, Dec. 81. (UP)-The
Vichy radio reported Tuesday that
"the entire front is on the move"
in the Dnieper bend from Cher
kasi to NikOpOl, where the Rus
slams are throwing enormous"
numbers of men and machines
at the German lines.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
STEAL PURSE, SI25

Margaret Mendez, Ell Centre, re-
ported to police Monday afternoon
that her purse containing $125
and ration books was stolen from
her while shopping.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21

ADVANCED A l. L E d HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Dec. 81.
(UP-A record 414-ton American
raid that shattered japanese de-
lenses on Cape Gloucester touched
off speculation Tuesday that Gen.
Douglas Macarthur may be planning
Continued on page 8, COL -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
noxAnnounces
JupS Move Out
Of BougoinviIIe
Abandon Big Air Defense Areas
In Sudden Move on Isle;
yanks Hit New Guinea from Air

WASHINGTON Dec. 81 (UP)-Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox said Tuesday there indications that the
japanese evacuatng the southern part of Bouganve
island in the Solomons.
He said the forces in the southern part of the island
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
GUIDED BY FLARES

Guided By flares dropped by
Pathfinder planes which swept over
Frankfurt shortly before the main
attack, hundreds of Britain's big
gest bombers laid a pattern of
bombs, ranging from four-ton super
block busters to two pound incend-
iaries, across the city's sprawling
chemical and arms factories.
First reports indicate the bomb
ing was effective and large fires
were left burning" the air ministry
announced.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
TWO DIE IN CRASH

SAN MATEO, Cal, Dec. 81. CUPD
Two army lieutenants were killed
and four others injured when their
jeep crashed into a ditch near
mere late Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
u AMBlINe
EpoR1ER
Eventually, of Course

Eventually, of Course
During the board of supervisors
meeting Monday Chairman Hugh
Osborne had occasion to telephone
Mayor Bob Hatton.
"Give me $780," Osborne doomed
over the telephone.
Hello Osborne heard a mans
voice say after a few moments of
clicking.
"Is Mayor Hatton there" Osborne
asked.
Not yet" replied the voice. This
is Evergreen cemetery"
This Beats Us
A military office in San Francisco
a year ago ordered the Post-PresS
and asked to have bill sent.
The circulation department start
ed the paper and sent bill. There
was a long silence.
please send us the bill in dEpli-
cate" some officer then wrote the
circulation department This was
done. Another long silence.
"Please send us the bill in tripli-
cate" came another letter at last.
This was done. Another and still
a longer silence.
please send us the bill in quad
ruplicate," was the order in a let
ter received Tuesday.
"The rank of the officer in charge
must have something to do with
the number of bills they want"
"a. ,1,N A ut
Davis, that man has gone from a
captain to a major since we start
ed negotiating over the bill.
hope he never gets to be a -Four
Star general"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
Allied Bombers
Rake Targets
Across Germany
ArOund-the-ClOck Raids
Leave Many Big Fires;
Blast Northern France

LONDON. Dec 81. (UP)-Giant
British bomber fleets dropped more
than 1000 tons of explosives on
Frankfurt and simultaneously hit
Mannheim Ludwigshafen Monday
night in a smashing climax to Il
36-hour air offensive that ripped
seven key targets along 1900 mile
front across Axis Europe.
Other Allied bombers and fighters
carried the around-the-clock air
offensive into it's third day with
shuttle sweeps and raids in day
light today on northern France
Several squadrons of medium bomb
ers were observed crossing the Eng
liSh southeast coast.
HIT IN STRENGTH
The British four-engined night
raiders struck at southwest Ger
many in what was described Off
ciallT as very great" strength only
a few hours after American heavy
bombers again clamped an aerial
pincers on Axis Europe with an
assault from Britain on Bremen
and twin attacks from the Mediter-
ranean on the Bulgarian capital Of
Sofia and the Greek airfield al
Eleusis.
The main RAF force Monday
night concentrated a mighty block
buster assault on the chemical CEN
ter of Frankfurt, while a force only
slightly smaller hit Mannheim.
Ludwigshafen, second largest in
land port in Europe and perhaps
second only to Frankfurt in it's
production of chemicals.
Forty-tWo bombers were lost in
the two attacks, in subsidiary Mos
quito raids on western Germany
and Belgium and in mine laying
operations. 1t was the biggest loss
in a single night since "A bombers
failed to return from a raid on
Leipzig and other operations the
night of Oct. 20.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-21
WEATHER

Maximum Monday 20, minimum
Tuesday As; am. Tuesday So, hu-
midity "a; noon Tuesday Ga. humid
ity So; pm. Mon. IS, humidity "a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-05

Boston, oct. .. UP)--0ll Dodds Of
Boston. the gaIloplng theoloslan who
gained international attention for
llls cross=eounlry duels with the
Swedish mile king, 0under HAZE,
has been named the outstanding
flew England amateur athlele for
1913.
A result Of tho honor conferred
hy ilan New England A.A.u. - lls
annual neellpg laaf night. poads
name win ~ submitted " tie Ma
i'onoI AAh.u a. - GolnInal1a o.,
eaneenIlan Der. 4 Iaf faHfiHeFa llnn
f1F IAH NNl|'EnN a#AF m ''N
'H a# NHl NH Hi lEN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-05
MocWilIioms
Wrestling Coach

Charles M. MacWtlliamS viii be
the wrestling coach and instructor
at the Central Y.M.C.A. this year.
Each Tuesday night starting at 1850
Mac, as he is popularity known
vii lbe teaching the rudiments Of
this sport to young men and high
school boys interested in taking up
graphing.
MacWilliams Is q farmer American
Olympic team member who went to
Paris in 1924 to compete. He is also
the A.A.U. champion in the Niagara
Association In the l23 pound class.
He is also former captain Of the
Varsity Wrestling Team and College
Basketball Team Of Cornell Univer-
sity in 1924. During the years Of
l025-26 MAC" was an outstanding
basketball player on the YM.C.A.
team. He also won the Connecticut
Y.MC.A. Wrestling Championship
In 1880. He is well qualified 70 teach
from his training and experience.
Mr.. MacWilllams Is q Civil Engineer.
graduating from Cornell In 1924. His
home Is at Sl6 frost Road. Water
bury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-05
g u. P. Writers
To Cover Series

New York, October 5. - (UP) =
A six-man staff has been assigned
by the United Press to provide
streamlined coverage Of the l94S
World Series opening in New York
today.
The main day leads on the New
York games will be written by Oscar
Fraley Of the New York sports
staff. who will handle the play-by-
play detail from the ball park. Jack
Cuddy will write the main night
leads and cover feature angles for
his column, today's sport parade.
Richard G. Harris Of the New York
News staff. will write news feat
ures Of the New York games. Carl
Lundquist, Glen Perkins and Alfred
Jonas will cover other angles Of the
series.
Fraley and Cuddy will move to
st. Louis with the teams and write
them in leads there from the Card
inal park. They will be assisted in
st. Louis by George d. Crissey, st.
Louis Bureau manager, Paul Dix,
Vincent Thillen ard Walter Byers
Of the st. Louis staff.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-05

Fate plays tricks land some OF
them work out very well indeed for
all concerned.
In the summer Of 1919, Christy
Walsh, nationally known sports fig
ure, was employed as publicity d.
rector for the MAXWELL Chalmers
Motor Car Co., Detroit. Christy
was an energetic young fellow with
ideas buzzing around in his head.
He saw visions which he and other
men converted into reality as time
rolled on.
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker was
Just back from the European war
front, national toast.
He stopped off in Detroit on q
tour across the country where
Christy and Rick met.
A telegram from Walsh reached
Rick several days later:
WILL YOU COVER INDIANA.
POLLS RACE FOR NEwsPA-
PERS?"
Rick was to be referee of the day
July 4, 1919. Walsh said apolog-
etically he couldn't guarantee any
real money but Rick waived any
guarantee and took on the chore.
Out Of this meeting in Detroit big.
ger things grew. Walsh had been
playing around with the idea Of a
newspaper syndicate, based on
sports features, which he started
two years later. The success Of the
Rickenbacker stories on the In-
dianapolis race was the clincher
that convinced him Of the sound
ness Of a syndicate career.
The second important conse-
quence Of that meeting waited %
years for fruition. It's q motion
picture, one Of the biggest films
ever undertaken In Hollywood -
which means in the world. The
dramatized story Of Kicks courage
-as q venturesome boy In Collim-
bus, Ohio: as motor car salesman
and trouble shooter, racing driver,
war pilot, business man, aviation
executive-finally climaxed by his
hair-raising adventures as special
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-05
Doty Will Box
Cheotun1 Tonight

Hartford, Oct. 5-George Doty Is
making no promise but his mana
ger, Harry johnson, goes on record
in predicting the Hartford redhead
will knock out Willie Cheatum Of
Newark tonight at the auditorium
Both are willing mixers Doty hav-
ing proven it many times in past
performances. and Cheatum COM
ing here with a similar reputation.
A lively scrap is in prospect when
these welters tangle in the eight
round feature.
Unbeaten Johnny Cesario of Hart
ford goes after No. i6 in facing Sol
omoff Stewart of New York in the
semi final Of eight rounds. The pop
ular local junior lightweight has
scored ten knockouts in winning IS
fights. Stewart is former Golden
Gloves boxer.
Sammy HAWKS Of Newington and
Joe Pepeski Of New London, middle
weights, clash In q six-rounder. One
Of two fours pits lightweight Fred
die Polowitzer Of East Hartford
against Gus Boundes Of New Lon
don. WelteTs Sol Miller Of New Lon
don and Tommy Carr Of Hartford
open the show.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-05

West Springfield. Mass. Oct. ST.
Up)-Afiddieweleht George (sonnyl
Horne Of Miles, O.. held q i0-Found
decision today over Jerry Maloni Of
Springfield.
Horne, $50, sustained q cut ever
his left eye In the sixth round At the
Crescent Kennel club last night bat
finished fifffously 10 take the vlckoFy
over MaIonl. isl.
Despite the cut. Horne expected
70 be ready fgg hla bout ~ Boston
October Is with Jackie Campbell 81
AcAbury.
n 4 scheduled six-Fonnd semi
final, Chick Santos. ta1, o. Bridge
port. conn., knocked out Roa MloNn,
asa. NJ MeW York city II me open.
he round.
Inr fho# Nae tie last 10 b. held
os|6aN.F 81 lhe former Aoa Hae'H6
track GlN AlH NENH iH "a
M NH I'D H# HEAA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-05
jackie Wilson
Bows TO BoIyin

Providence, r. l., Oct. 5. (UP)-
War Worker Larry Bolvin Of Provi-
dence today held Questionable win
over former NBA worlds feather
weight Champion Jackie Wilson Of
Pittsburgh.
Bolvin, 128, won a split lO-round
decision last night over Wilson,
l25 "a, before 5000 fans at the
Rhode Island Auditorium although
he suffered cuts under both eyes.
Wilson started slowly but forced
the fighting most Of the way. He
was dropped for q one-count IN the
seventh-the only knockdown in the
match.
In an eight-round semi final,
Benny Miller, l43, Of New York city
knocked out Jimmy Morrison, las,
Of Newark, N. j., In the sixth round.
A six round bout saw George
Cimino. 1856. of Providence Knockout
Tony Jordan, $50, Of Boston in the
second. In four round matches
Danny Correra, 1877, Of Providence
decisioned Joe Celletti. 1874. Of East
Providence; and Emil Dumont, 20,
Of Woonsocket decisioned Johnny
Coe. 1873, Of Medford. Mass.